Anime/Manga Thread

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  1. Lyander

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    Starts off slow, really? I was crying at the end of episode two when [redacted] speaks with Deku and tells him
    that he can still be a hero despite having no Quirk
    . Then again, that's more my personal tastes speaking than anything else.

    HOLY CRAP.
     
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    Megalo box is pretty goddamn hype so far. Yes the writing is predictable, but it's lots of fun. The old school animation style has me pretty happy, too.

    Stein's gate 0 has me feeling all sorts of feels, too.

    My Hero Academia is a very solid series. Probs the best written Shounen series I've watched, which isn't enough praise for how good it actually is.
     
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    ALL MIGHT! -said in fan boy japanese accent lol.
     
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    I need to give a special shout out to two anime series that have literally changed my life (or at least what I do with parts of it):

    1. Yama no Susume (Encouragement of Climb) https://myanimelist.net/anime/14355/Yama_no_Susume
    After watching this super short anime about moe mountain hiking, my girlfriend and I decided to climb Mt Fuji together, which we successfully did for my 38th birthday a couple years ago.

    2. Yuru Camp https://myanimelist.net/anime/34798/Yuru_Camp△
    Finished up last season and we are now planning a trip back to Japan to do some camping around the Lake Kawaguchiko and Nagano areas, probably in 2020.

    Both of these anime helped bring the outdoors back into my life after far too many years of being in offices, classrooms, and sitting on my butt. Also brought my girlfriend and I even closer together. They are barely more than cutesy advertisements for hiking and camping, but they struck a chord and I am so glad I stumbled across them.
     
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    This came in a week ago. I am going to enjoy this.

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    Watching "One-Punch Man" (Netflix)

    OMG so funny!!! So awesome!!!

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    Speaking of One Punch Man, I got this print at Otafest in Calgary last week.

    Very hyped for season 2 this year (if it doesn't get delayed for the n'th time, at least). God it's just so f'ing good of a show!
     

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    I just watched the final episode of one of my favourite low-brow animes and feel a need to curl up with soft music or something funny/lighthearted. Darling in the FranXX was cringey as hell for a lot of its run but did some things well, and the fact that I teared up twice watching the finale (and multiple times across the show's run) is a testament to that.
     
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    Low-brow and cringey are definitely accurate for DitF, I just hope the manga ends soon so Yabuki's time is spent more on something worthy of his godly illustrations.
     
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    @chakku There's a manga adaptation? Huh, totally missed that. Might give it a shot if I'm really bored with nothing to read, but if it's 1:1 with the anime I might as well take a pass (that ending!). If nothing else, the OP was one of my faves in recent memory, and it gets decent playtime when I'm working out cuz it's pretty hype, haha. Kinda reminds me of Black Cat's Daia no Hana in that regard, man that song is good.
     
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    I'm waaaay saltier at how Tokyo Ghoul concluded (both the latest anime's season, and the manga's series finale), to the point where Darling was basically a palate cleanser.

    That show definitely had more potential than it ended up as being. It seems the director wanted it to be his magnum opus, and even said he basically called in every favour he could to get it to his vision.

    Maybe ambition outran talent on this one because there were more than a few turns that I feel should have been ironed out a bit better, especially pacing wise.

    Do agree that some scenes with zero two and Hiro tugged on the heart strings a bit, got flashbacks to Eureka7 for sure.


    For Tokyo ghoul the anime, season 3 was a pacing trainwreck if you hadn't already read the manga. You'd literally have no idea what was going on until halfway into the season, which is tough when the few highlights (studio production quality and the ballin soundtrack) are notably absent compared to last seasons. The only thing I really enjoyed this season was seeing how well they did justice to Eto Yoshimura's balls to the wall CRAZINESS.

    And man. What can I even say about the series final conclusion without spoilers? I didn't like it. It felt forced in some areas, and completely random in others. Even disregarding the DBZ tier power creep, it still didn't make any sense.
     
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    Oh lol! Tokyo Ghoul S3 actually pushed me to read the manga, which I've managed not to read up to now. I gave up on it episode 5 or so? That alone took sheer force of will because for however good the manga may be TG re: is a f'ing wreck.

    I mentally called a Eureka Seven ending myself, but the ending we actually got for FranXX was... Sadder. Not sure what I expected of Trigger/A1, but sweet fajitas I was pissed. Magnum opus material, it is not, but I do like the show all the same (sans the GTFO cringe innuendo). Also, Kiss of Death is a f'ing amazing song. Yes I'm aware I already mentioned that earlier, but I feel it bears repeating XD

    Might as well re-watch Eureka Seven. Or Last Exile (is Ginkyō no Fam any good? Haven't seen that one yet). Or Ergo Proxy. Man the noughties had some excellent shows, not like all the face-palm isekai harems nowadays.
     
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    Hear hear, it's gotten to the point where i worry the isekai genre is going to proliferate further, like vampires or zombies, into western mainstream media and tv series.
     
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    Tell me about it. I think that there've been like a dozen or more isekai shows in recent memory? That's not even counting all the dozens of manga and LNs out. Now I'll admit I've read/watched and enjoyed a few of them (and by "few" I mean far too many to comfortably admit) as a sort of "turn my brain off and laugh at the stupid jokes" type of guilty pleasure thing, but they're all largely forgettable. SAO (for its sheer popularity) and Log Horizon (because it actually is that good) aside, they all just sorta blend together, like the one about robots or the two (!!) with smartphone-wielding protagonists or the one about the Japanese Self Defence Force (well, the GATE manga was actually pretty enjoyable).

    Having said all that, I'm actually kinda glad that one upcoming anime was axed because the LN author apparently posted Sinophobic stuff on Twitter, though I feel for the people who're gonna have to look for new jobs.
     
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    The end of the world is nigh.

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    Anyone wanna spot me a few g's to buy an ultrawide? I have memes to make.

    (also @insidious meme my like on that image is actually a dislike that is just cleverly disguised because you don't deserve the dislike, whoever paid to animate that does)
     
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    Lol. That wasn't a straight "animated" shot. It's a motion capture which was animated later.

    If there's anyone to hate on, you can start here:

    https://twitter.com/matsuri_sama/status/917333978297679873

    And if there's any place to blame for it, it's SBAF's own backyard because she's from Los Angeles.
     
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    Not sure if it's the right place to ask, but recently I saw the Alita: Battle Angel trailer (with awesome Christoph Waltz, yay) and it looks the bomb. You folks here think it's something worth looking forward to?
     

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