Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition

[Lexx]

Dunno, imo the last season was better again.

[Azdeus]

Watching spy x family, it's consistently hilarious so far

[Bartimaeus]

Don't think I'd ever even heard of the Venture Bros. before today, and now I've come across it twice in different places. Odd.

Edit: I decided to watch two episodes, worst show I've ever seen, but probably not worse than all the ones I haven't.

[InsaneCommander]

Spy x Family 28

A Yuri episode. The other characters barely appear, unless you count the short scenes in the end. We learn why telepaths don't go to public swimming pools.

Spoiler

Anya finally met Yuri and, apparently, he never thought anything bad that she could hear.

She also heard people thinking while they peed in the pool and got traumatised.

 

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

On 10/16/2023 at 11:11 PM, Bartimaeus said:

Don't think I'd ever even heard of the Venture Bros. before today, and now I've come across it twice in different places. Odd.

Edit: I decided to watch two episodes, worst show I've ever seen, but probably not worse than all the ones I haven't.

28 minutes ago, InsaneCommander said:

Spy x Family 28

A Yuri episode. The other characters barely appear, unless you count the short scenes in the end. We learn why telepaths don't go to public swimming pools.

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Anya finally met Yuri and, apparently, he never thought anything bad that she could hear.

She also heard people thinking while they peed in the pool and got traumatised.

 

I forgot this was back.....again. Didn't they make a movie or something?

[Gorth]

I started watching this...

https://myanimelist.net/anime/54362/Hametsu_no_Oukoku

 

It looked moderately interesting after the first 10 minutes, so I kept watching. 3 Episodes so far. No idea if I'll keep watching it, but kept me entertained enough until now.

 

Edit: Youtube trailer... i.e. sans the blood, gore and over the top brutality

Edit2: Reminded me a bit of Elfenlied for some reason. A revenge story, the young man's teacher got killed and in return he's going to destroy the world and wipe out humanity. After all, if somethings worth doing, it's worth doing properly

[InsaneCommander]

On 10/23/2023 at 8:49 PM, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

I forgot this was back.....again. Didn't they make a movie or something?

No movie. And you aren't really missing much. These first episodes are not the best.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Spy X Family s2 episodes 1-3: Return of the Anya face. It's ok, but forgettable. I probably wouldn't keep up with the show of this was the introduction.

1 hour ago, InsaneCommander said:

No movie. And you aren't really missing much. These first episodes are not the best.

I watched them last night. Looks like the movie drops later this year.

[Sarex]

Be warned that the manga takes a dip too. I'm pretty mild on the latest chapters.

[uuuhhii]

On 10/24/2023 at 11:21 AM, Gorth said:

I started watching this...

https://myanimelist.net/anime/54362/Hametsu_no_Oukoku

 

It looked moderately interesting after the first 10 minutes, so I kept watching. 3 Episodes so far. No idea if I'll keep watching it, but kept me entertained enough until now.

 

Edit: Youtube trailer... i.e. sans the blood, gore and over the top brutality

Edit2: Reminded me a bit of Elfenlied for some reason. A revenge story, the young man's teacher got killed and in return he's going to destroy the world and wipe out humanity. After all, if somethings worth doing, it's worth doing properly

manga have good visual

mediocre writing at most

manga have pretty low bar for writing these years

[Sarex]

16 minutes ago, uuuhhii said:

manga have pretty low bar for writing these years

Nah, there are quite a few bangers that have come out. Maybe there is more manga in general so there are more bad manga.

[InsaneCommander]

Spy x Family 29

Another "bad" episode, divided into two parts. In the first one, Anya and her friends play cards to decide who gets a special dessert.

Spoiler

Her telepathy helps so much that Damian actually suspects she can read minds, forcing her to play again and risk losing.

The second part is about Yor helping Franky find a cat.

At least we got something interesting in Anya's and Damian's relationship.

Also: @Bartimaeus's prophecy about shocked faces is fulfilled and they reach an entirely new level, with Anya going full super sayajin. Seriously, I'm not even exaggerating, all that was left was for her hair to turn blond:

Spoiler

 

[Sarex]

The new season of Goblin Slayer had such a drop in quality. Strange considering the popularity of the show.

[InsaneCommander]

On 10/29/2023 at 7:38 PM, Sarex said:

The new season of Goblin Slayer had such a drop in quality. Strange considering the popularity of the show.

Well, we have Frieren. It just keeps getting better. The last episodes were pretty good in animation, story and character development.

@Gorth have you watched the new episodes (OVA movie?) of Tensei Slime? I wonder if they are good or just filling.

[Sarex]

14 minutes ago, InsaneCommander said:

Well, we have Frieren. It just keeps getting better. The last episodes were pretty good in animation, story and character development.

Knock on wood, the manga is still awesome. Although at this point it's bi-weekly chapters with all the breaks the mangaka is taking. Was hoping once the anime was out it would go back to regular, but it doesn't seem like it will.

[Bartimaeus]

The Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Adventures of Unico (1981).

I had to check and make sure that Isao Takahata didn't have a writing credit for this, for multiple reasons. One reason is that it's a really quite good, very cute, and rather lovely children's movie, and the second reason is... I'm all for traumatizing children, but even I have my limits. Premise of the film is that Unico is a magical unicorn whose ability to inspire peace and friendship the gods (who it must be said appear rather Greek in both appearance and disposition) grow so envious of, they first exile and then hunt him wherever he goes. The film is animated by my guys at Madhouse, though I surprisingly did not know that before I watched it.

Spoiler

Like literally half the movie is setting up this adorable friendship and romance-ish between Unico and Chao, the cat pictured next to Unico above who is great but initially quite capricious and has a single-minded and selfish ambition of becoming a witch, and who the second half of the film is primarily focused on. After some tumult between them and some character growth, Chao then gets tricked, bewitched, boozed up, and then finally straight up drugged...

...(no, really) by the suddenly appearing baddie of the film. Unico goes and tries to rescue her, literally gets killed in the process, gets resurrected thanks to some nice setup and payoff (well, as far as magic friendship/love-fuelled resurrections go anyways), defeats the baddie, and then gets forever ripped away from Chao thanks to the machinations of the gods, the two of them to never be together ever again...the end, the credits literally start to roll on Unico's desolate face as the image starts to go all staticy for some reason. Man, that's what I call a rough night. I go look up comments about the movie, and they're largely "great film, but why that ending?". There's a 1983 sequel also released on blu-ray that I'll check out as well, but I've looked at the poster and I don't see Chao on it, so I'm assuming they got completely hosed.

Edited November 3, 2023 by Bartimaeus

[Gorth]

8 hours ago, InsaneCommander said:

Well, we have Frieren. It just keeps getting better. The last episodes were pretty good in animation, story and character development.

@Gorth have you watched the new episodes (OVA movie?) of Tensei Slime? I wonder if they are good or just filling.

I saw there was 3 new episodes out, but it looked more like the start of a third season? Haven't watched them yet

 

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Tokyo Ghoul s1

It's pretty good, sort of straddles the line between a shonen and a sienen. It's much better when it hews close to the latter and almost gets into Evangelion territory with the final episode, but it doesn't feel as embarrassing to watch as something like Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood's silly aspects.

[Bartimaeus]

40 minutes ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

Tokyo Ghoul s1

Do you mean Tokyo Ghoul?

Or Tokyo Ghoul:re?

Or Tokyo Ghoul: Jack?

Or Tokyo Ghoul: Pinto?

Or Tokyo Ghoul √A?

Just want to make sure I have the right Tokyo Ghoul anime before I go off and have a meltdown. All kidding aside, does anyone know why anime characters sometimes have specifically this kind of eye patch?

I am certain that I have seen at least a couple of other random anime characters that I wouldn't be able to name because I have no idea what they're from that have this particular eye patch, and I'm wondering if it's a medical eye patch specific to Japan, or if it really is just some kind of anime thing, because when I try to do cursory searches, I don't seem to see anything quite like it. It looks like a (presumably) poopy diaper with a local but very direct application to your eyeball, and I would have to think that I would much prefer to get just ye olde pirate eye patch instead.

Edited November 3, 2023 by Bartimaeus

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

36 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

Do you mean Tokyo Ghoul?

Or Tokyo Ghoul:re?

Or Tokyo Ghoul: Jack?

Or Tokyo Ghoul: Pinto?

Or Tokyo Ghoul √A?

Just want to make sure I have the right Tokyo Ghoul anime before I go off and have a meltdown.

So for the main story it's Tokyo Ghoul, with √A being s2 and re being s3-4. Jack is a prequel and pinto is a one-shot.

36 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

All kidding aside, does anyone know why anime characters sometimes have specifically this kind of eye patch?

I don't know, I've never seen any explanation within any anime or about anime from creators or community. It does look weird and within anime I think the black or decorated eye patches look better than the eye mask/diaper.

[Sarex]

4 hours ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

Tokyo Ghoul s1

It's pretty good, sort of straddles the line between a shonen and a sienen. It's much better when it hews close to the latter and almost gets into Evangelion territory with the final episode, but it doesn't feel as embarrassing to watch as something like Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood's silly aspects.

I did follow the manga along and it was fairly popular, but the art was a deal breaker for me. The story was convoluted and on top of that the manga had an art style bordering on the abstract. All of that contributed to you having to study every chapter like a nuclear physics book...

It's very much seinen.

4 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

All kidding aside, does anyone know why anime characters sometimes have specifically this kind of eye patch?

To hide their weeb eye.

Edited November 3, 2023 by Sarex

[Amentep]

Those are Medical Eye Patches as far as I know.  Yoshihiko Noda made a stir appearing with one covering a black eye in January 2012 when he was PM.  I've seen reference to them being prescribed for a variety of things, from detached retinas to styes.

[Sarex]

Frieren episode 9 was a treat, really impressed with how they did the battle and it's going to get so much better plot wise.

Also surprised to see they are doing 28 episodes. Means they will pretty much catch up to the manga.

[Sarex]

Damn, Dandadan is so good. The stories get you emotionally invested in so few chapters.

[Lexx]

Watched s2ep1 of the new Invincible. Multiverse stuff again I'm so tired of it. Multiverse is boring and predictable and just feels like lazy writing to me now.