Anime and Manga - I won’t allow your bones to stay on this planet. I will banish your evil soul.

[Sarex]

26 minutes ago, KP From Another World said:

The spoiler.

If this was the Fire Punch/Chainsaw Man mangaka it would be.

[majestic]

2 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

This is something that often bewilders and amuses me with shows/movies: having a character do something or fill a role that should really realistically be filled by someone that has not hitherto appeared, but instead they come up with some excuse for a character that we already know to do it instead because...reasons. The reasons probably vary from show to show and situation to situation (don't want to take the time to design and/or setup a new character, don't want to find an actor that can fill the role when we could just write someone we already know and like to do it instead, want to give an existing character the role because it might be funny or interesting or make them seem like they have more depth or something), but there are still times where it kind of breaks my suspension of disbelief in the way that it happens.

Bonus points when the relevant skill is only used once and never brought up again. Like Ami's ability to seal off a bubble of space time to lock away the bad guys in the manga.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Chainsaw Man 1-3

I tried watching this to fall asleep but ended up interested enough to stay up. Between watching this and Hellraiser last night I had a dream with body horror caused by some kind of liquid that mutated things into Eldritch Abominations, the end of which involved the remains of a man getting dipped into a pool of water with the liquid in it and coming back as a human torso with bloated tentacles and a disfigured smile. I am now convinced that this is the origin of Bruno.

Anyways Chainsaw Man was enjoyable. The protagonist is shonen as shonen can be, but it's played more fun than anything. I think the main girl is a Camellia-tier yandere but we'll just see how that goes. Next up is Narutaru.

[InsaneCommander]

Chainsaw Man 4

Hayakawa makes a deal with Denji, that starts to behave better. But then Makima sends Power to live with them. She brings her cat.

“Is there a reason you are sending me all these psychos, ma’am?”

Spoiler

She doesn’t bathe or flush.

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by InsaneCommander

[Sarex]

3 hours ago, KP From Another World said:

The protagonist is shonen as shonen can be, but it's played more fun than anything.

[Lexx]

Found out the new Dragon Prince season is out. I'm about 20 mins into the new episode and ... it's absolutely terrible so far. Jesus Christ, I'm cringing hard. Also was the art style always this bad? Gotta have to go back to an earlier episode and check...

/Edit: Episode 2 is full with fart jokes. Great writing, guys.

/Edit: Episode 3 and another fart joke.

Edited November 3, 2022 by Lexx

[majestic]

3 hours ago, Lexx said:

Also was the art style always this bad?

 

if (anime.productionDate > 2003) return true;

 

[Sarex]

25 minutes ago, majestic said:

if (anime.productionDate > 2003) return true;

But Evangelion 3.0+1.0 ending scenes were peak animation.

Spoiler

Search your heart majestic, you know it to be true.

Spoiler

 

 

[majestic]

Particularily that part in the negative universe that looked worse than ReBoot did in 1994.

[majestic]

Rewatched a couple of the early season one Cardcaptor Sakura episodes due to a colleague now watching the series. Episode seven remains a fantastic piece that showed how great the resolutions of the magical 'fights' can be and just how well everything is set up. Such an impeccable, low stakes show - at least, until the point where they tried their hand at being more epic near the end of the series and failed a little, even if the second arc / third 'season' contain the two strongest episodes of the series.

Spoiler

Sakura captures a card hiding in a painting whose only power is to enforce silence around it, and send people outside of a museum if they are too noisy. She eventually manages to capture it by using the Shadow Card to create a soundless shadowplay that extends her magical reach, an idea perfectly set up earlier to scare off a little unexpected interloper.

Watching Sakura being all infatuated with Yukito is actually worse the second time around when you already know the sort of heart-break this will lead to. It is quickly over when it comes because that's just the way she is, but hey... the series should get all the credit for actually going there, because I really thought they'd write this more indirectly, with Shaoran slowly replacing Yukito as focus point for Sakura's feelings.

Sailor Mercury is a hoot as Kero too. In the end, aside from having a unique approach to the fighting in magical girl shows, the series stays close to genre convetions and standard tropes, including an incredibly obvious future boyfriend setup, but it does trod off the beaten path every now and then, and it does everything so incredibly well it is barely believable at times, and it will only get better from this episode on, until the end of the first arc.

Edited November 3, 2022 by majestic

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

14 hours ago, majestic said:

 

if (anime.productionDate > 2003) return true;

 

[Sarex]

On a serious note The Garden of Words is a masterpiece in animation.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

18 minutes ago, Sarex said:

On a serious note The Garden of Words is a masterpiece in animation.

All of you stop growing my watchlist or I will spam this thread with capybaras.

 

[Bartimaeus]

5 hours ago, Sarex said:

On a serious note The Garden of Words is a masterpiece in animation.

5 hours ago, KP From Another World said:

All of you stop growing my watchlist or I will spam this thread with capybaras.

It's a soft piano drama. Seriously, read this synopsis:

Spoiler

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches...

How much more soft piano drama can you get? In fact, the first and most highly upvoted tag for every single movie made by the director/writer is "drama"...and if there were "soft piano drama" or "teenage melodrama" tags instead, I'm sure those would be at the top as well.

Edited November 4, 2022 by Bartimaeus

[Sarex]

15 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

It's a soft piano drama. Seriously, read this synopsis:

So? That makes it bad?

[Bartimaeus]

59 minutes ago, Sarex said:

So? That makes it bad?

The fifteen minutes of pure anime melodrama terror and pain that I sat through after you recommended it to me a couple of years ago says YES! ...No, wait, I mean no: "bad" is subjective. But would I blindly recommend it without giving some idea of what kind of film it is while just saying "it's a masterpiece of animation"? No, no I would not. Now while I know how you feel about these kinds of films, I don't think I've ever heard KP much mention them in either a positive or negative light, so I think the warning is apropos. If that's the kind of film one is in the mood for...well, that's fine.

Edited November 4, 2022 by Bartimaeus

[majestic]

I had no idea Tarantino makes animated films too.

[Lexx]

^ this anime was really weird. Didn't know what to think of it when it was over.

[Sarex]

19 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

The fifteen minutes of pure anime melodrama terror and pain that I sat through after you recommended it to me a couple of years ago says YES! ...No, wait, I mean no: "bad" is subjective. But would I blindly recommend it without giving some idea of what kind of film it is while just saying "it's a masterpiece of animation"? No, no I would not. Now while I know how you feel about these kinds of films, I don't think I've ever heard KP much mention them in either a positive or negative light, so I think the warning is apropos. If that's the kind of film one is in the mood for...well, that's fine.

Ah, so you tried it. Fair shake then. If you mentioned it before, I forgot, I'm sorry about that.

I like the story of it too, but I was aiming more at the animation itself, the art. But if we are on the topic of the story, Violet Evergarden was pretty much a drama too (although not a soft piano one) and people liked it well enough in this thread. That is the reason why I don't shy away from recommending those.

Again it was more of a push back towards what majestic said than me trying to recommend it to anyone, but that is not to say that I do not recommend it.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

1 hour ago, Bartimaeus said:

It's a soft piano drama.

Ok. I'm still going to check it out. In several weeks at best. First I have to watch Narutaru.

 

[Bartimaeus]

1 hour ago, Sarex said:

Ah, so you tried it. Fair shake then. If you mentioned it before, I forgot, I'm sorry about that.

I like the story of it too, but I was aiming more at the animation itself, the art. But if we are on the topic of the story, Violet Evergarden was pretty much a drama too (although not a soft piano one) and people liked it well enough in this thread. That is the reason why I don't shy away from recommending those.

Again it was more of a push back towards what majestic said than me trying to recommend it to anyone, but that is not to say that I do not recommend it.

Yeah, I don't remember much about its animation, so I can't really disagree or agree. I probably wasn't super keen on it, but that's more to do with the aesthetic, which is very related but not quite the same thing.

Edited November 4, 2022 by Bartimaeus

[majestic]

38 minutes ago, KP From Another World said:

First I have to watch Narutaru.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

11 minutes ago, majestic said:

Oh right, first I have to be watched by Narutaru, as it is an Eldritch Entity in the form of an anime series.

[majestic]

1 minute ago, KP From Another World said:

Oh right, first I have to be watched by Narutaru, as it is an Eldritch Entity in the form of an anime series.

Well, your mileage may vary, but I find it rather unnerving.

[InsaneCommander]

Spy x Family 18

Anya panics when she realizes that she won’t be able to cheat the exams. Yuri comes to instruct her. I think this is a good moment to remember she is 4 years old and pretending to be 6.

 

Spoiler

After getting a bad grade in a test (“Not eleganto.”), she decides to read Damian’s mind during the exam, but she has to abandon that plan when she finds out the exam will happen during the new moon and she loses her telepathy when it’s the new moon.

Anya has to study hard and Yuri comes to help. She quickly finds a way to manipulate Yuri using his love for Yor, but they end up studying the wrong subject and just wasting their time.

Loid is forced to invade the ultra security safe with the tests to guarantee that Anya will at least no fail. He is forced to deal with another agent sent to do something similar but in the end Anya avoided failing on her own.