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Which anime are those?

got into reading Baby Steps on a whim. i'm enjoying it so far, and i find the main character quite entertaining.

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If you make it past 267, the translation stops and there is around 140 chapters of yet to be translated content.

A very awesome Mangafox user by the name of Vampire Cat, however, gives very detailed summaries of the Baby Steps chaps starting there, and you can read them alongside the raws. They recently compiled it on PDF format, and you can find it on the latest page of the raw thread of the Mangafox forums.

It's so great, though, isn't it? It's the standard sports manga structure made excellent thanks to incredible character writing. Ei-chan alone is a unique, lovable lead who you can't not root for.

edited 28th Jul '16 10:50:03 PM by mrsunshinesprinkles

yeah, i just finished chapter 35. i had no idea there was an anime until earlier today.

i figure by the time i'm caught up, the other chapters will be translated.

edited 28th Jul '16 10:52:28 PM by crimsonstorm15

On my queue it's Neuro, Rahxephon, Wixoss, Rumbling Hearts, and Strain. Hulu doesn't have a good way to see the expiration dates on stuff that isn't on your watchlist. A couple weeks ago nothing was set to expire until October.

Luckly all of mine are also on Funimation, except for Neuro, which is on Viz.

edited 29th Jul '16 7:17:10 AM by supermerlin100

Jun Maeda is diagnosed with a failing heart and is in need of a heart transplant!!

... Talk about irony. I hope he finds a good match soon.

Best of luck to him. That sounds awful.

@crimsonstorm: Most likely not. This isn't an exaggeration: they are 130+ chapters behind where things are now, and the scan team is spread thin, and updates around two times a month

Let's hope he doesn't die.

Baby Steps: the anime is great too, one of the best pure sports anime I've seen. It's sort of the exact opposite of Ping Pong, which took a fairly generic sports story and used great style and energy to make it special, in that it at first glimpse looks like the most boring, low budget series imaginable but overcomes that through its great characterisation, acting and plot. Ei-kun is great and Natsu's only flaw is that she's not featured more often.

Both are so great, and provide different flavors of the same thrill. Ping Pong is more cynical and brutally honest, Baby Steps is more slow-burn and idealistic but both are ultimately uplifting.

You are so right on the characters. That elevates both series from good to excellent. The main character and opposition are both so very well fleshed out and usually equally sympathetic. You understand how deeply in love they are with their sport, and how their environments and personalities shaped their play styles.

Both are so so good at this that even when the hero wins, it can be devastating to see how crushed his opponent is, during the fallout, or even uplifting seeing how their defeat turned into a valuable learning experience.

Also, just saying the last two episodes of Ping Pong are the greatest slices of animated storytelling of all time.

edited 30th Jul '16 4:32:23 AM by mrsunshinesprinkles

I was watching Death Note and I'm... surprised more people haven't noticed that Saruhiko Fushimi in K is the same voice as Light in Japanese and Lelouch in English. You know, since people are always comparing Light and Lelouch. And Fushimi has shades of them. (And Yata is Lelouch in Japanese, too).

I think he's the only one. (btw: Shinra in Durarara is the only one who shares voice actors with both Suzaku and Lelouch) I don't really think Light and Lelouch are all that similar... it's more that they were the two most popular things in 2006-2009ish, and people noticed their similarities because of that. Lelouch is a lot more similar to Ciel Phantomhive. (Fushimi seems to be full of the one thing none of those characters have a lot of, though - guilt/self-doubt/self-consciousness, something along those lines. He doesn't know what he wants, or he's afraid/ashamed to admit it. Maybe Lelouch has some of that - he'd want to be less ruthless but C.C. tells him it can't be done.)

Anyway, enough analysis, just observations.

Started Ushio And Tora, the new one.

Ten episodes in. I was pumped to binge on it, but I'm a bit underwhelmed so far. The action, Tora, and the pure 80s cheese is what's carrying me through it, but I'm not particularly impressed with any of the other characters, or the overarching plot just yet.

Some of the scene transitions also feel a bit too fast. In the demon painting one, for example, our hero and a one-shot smack each other in the face, and immediately after the former headbutts the latter, the one-shot totally opens up about his history with the villain-of-the-week. The oneshot was first seen to be a confrontational, impatient shithead, but after they punch each other like true otokos, he acts like an all-around kinder person.

Opening is pretty god tier, though.

edited 1st Aug '16 2:55:01 AM by mrsunshinesprinkles

So I checked out the new Shonen Jump Series The Promised Neverland and holy shit, it was not what I expected.

ICV2 has released a list of the top ten biggest selling manga in the US from Spring 2016

1 - Naruto

2 - Tokyo Ghoul

3 - Attack on Titan

4 - One Punch Man

5 - One Piece

6 - Fairy Tail

7 - Dragon Ball/DBZ

8 - Black Butler

9 - Death Note

10 - Sword Art Online

edited 1st Aug '16 6:57:02 AM by SebastianGray

I'm really surprised Death Note is on there. It's been over for a decade, without a remaster or sequel

I'm not. It's one of those really popular ones, like Naruto or Bleach.

SAO has at least three manga adaptations, the manga of that list is the Manga adaptation of Aincrad (with awful anatomy), the GGO adaptation (kinda considerated Better Than Canon, at least in r/swordartonline) or the SAO:Progressive adaptation drawed for a hentai artist with the epic reaction faces?

edited 1st Aug '16 7:05:42 PM by KazuyaProta

Godzilla-Anime.com registered by Toho yesterday.

Hmm..........

I'm honestly surprised it took this long

I could see Studio Bones dong it, since they are affiliated with Toho.

I learned in ANN that Ai Shimizu has married. Hope for a great start in her life.

But are enraged fans destroying anything she had a part in?

Who knows?

On another thing:

Some Pakistani and Indian folks want to ban Doraemon.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-08-04/resolution-to-ban-doraemon-anime-series-submitted-in-pakistan/.105034

What I say to them, is for the Pakistan politicians to do something else rather than that and for the Indian guy, who otherwise might be an honorable guy who was a whistleblower in an education scam, concentrate on the stuff you crusade, not Doraemon of all people. Now I know whistleblowers are not to be treated as sacred cows. Who knows, when it reaches Shinzo Abe's desk, foreign relations might be cut off.

Maybe that's why it was so heavily "censored" when it finally came to the US.