Chatterbox - Anime & Manga

I think the norm is high budget openings but average budget anime.

Well nothing beats the masterpiece that is this.

@Karlak: Between Kimetsu no Yaiba, My Hero Academia, Dr Stone and The Promised Neverland, it's possible the next decade will see Shonen Jump once again dominating the market.

Which I'm, personally, am all for, if only because it might mean Psyren finally being adapted.

Some O Ps have really nice fights that sadly never got to be in the main story.

Like kenshin's first op(the animation of the chain was beeautiful) and full metal brotherhood (the one were wrath fight practically everyoone else)

On another note: I was watching kill bill the other day, the anime part really looked similar to the animation of blood spray of goemon ishikawa (a lupin movie).

Episode 4 of Slayers Revolution:

....nothing important happened really, except for Amelia being Amelia, and Lina once again reminding us why she was so easy to frame in the first place.

I just finished the second season of Yuki Yuna is a Hero (but don't feel like reviving the thread). Despite being huge into the fandom circa 2014, I didn't even know it had one... It's still one of the best Magical Girl anime of the decade and I did like the season, but I didn't like how final the ending was. It feels like the series can only go backwards, timeline-wise.

I don't know how most Magical Girl anime end since I've never seen many from start-to-end. I've heard many end with the protagonist giving up their powers to become ordinary women, but I've never seen that sort of ending. The ones I've seen end on an And the Adventure Continues end or just have an open end.

Speaking of Magical Girl endings, I still don't understand the ending to Nurse Angel Ririka SOS.

Characters giving up their powers and moving on is common in the magical girl shows ive watched (because once the myth arc ends they usually no longer need their powers). That was the case in shugo chara, princess tutu, go princess precure,etc.

In a way, that's common in all fiction aimed at children: in Digimon they need to abadon the pets, in Narnia they can't go back to the kingdom, in Peter Pan they must abadon Neverland, and so on.

It's part of the whole maturing process of life that we must leave our childish fantasies behind, sooner or later, and in children's fantasy, for a long time, that took the form of the child literally leaving behind the world of wonder and stepping into the ordinary world of adulthood.

That, of course, carries the implication that adult life is completely lacking in any kind of joy or happiness, which is why, I imagine, children's fantasy circa Harry Potter have instead chosen to simply make the fantasy world as flawed and unfair as "our" ordinary, real world is, and the child simply growing up to notice that.

But I ain't no anthropologist or whoever studies these things, so I won't go much further into it.

That trope strikes me as non-intuitive, since in real life adults can accomplish many things that kids can't.

If anything I could argue it would make people fear adulthood. There’s plenty to be said about not making kids grow up too fast but the opposite is just as unhealthy.

Also most stories are written by adults.

5 and 6 of Revolution down. I forgot to mention it.

We finally get to the plot....and then the heroes get distracted by rolling a ball.

That's Slayers man. That's Slayers.

Symphogear only has 2 episodes left.

I still can't believe it, and hope for a Nanoha Strikers styled next generation sequel someday.

It doesn’t have a thread but I saw Cannon Busters and well...I don’t think the show had a single original idea. I ended up starting GUN×SWORD afterward and I feel like that show is trying to do what Cannon Busters did, except it’s good. If I have an implicit bias, I would like to address it, but the Space Western with mecha feels way better with Gun X Sword. Not to mention the designs are better in that show as well. That and, Vaan’s just a better character IMO.

Edited by Beatman1 on Sep 16th 2019 at 9:40:22 AM

In what way is originality still relevant in 2019?

It’s one thing to copy motifs, Super Robot, Space Western, etc. It’s another IMO to copy specific shows, a swordsman from Berserk, weapons from Trigun, etc.

So no difference then.

It’s like I said, if I’m biased, I want to acknowledge that. But the show felt so...meh compared to GUN×SWORD. Just bland.

Edited by Beatman1 on Sep 16th 2019 at 9:55:19 AM

I don't know about bland, having not watched either shows you can easily tell one's Japanese & the others African American.

Edited by slimcoder on Sep 16th 2019 at 6:59:07 AM

I have heard a lot of crazy news about Vic Mignogna. And I'm confused a bit if he's really a bad person now or not or in-between. I may not know this guy, but I need clarifications about him (in general, and tell me the long stories as short and helpful as possible). I just hope that this is the right place to ask this and that I don't derail the thread.

Help... I am lost...

Edited by Andrei_Bondoc on Sep 17th 2019 at 2:50:18 PM

Dunno what to say, other than allegations were made and the legal cases are mostly still ongoing.

Legal cases that he’s already badly losing thanks to that crook of a lawyer of his........

Sure he deserves it but Goddamn is it humiliating.

Edited by slimcoder on Sep 17th 2019 at 5:44:09 AM

&Thank you!

Trust me, it takes something way worse than what Vic did for someone to deserve a crook for a lawyer.

And what Vic did was already plenty terrible.

I've heard about what he did. Although I don't know him and his roles well, I feel mad for what he did.