Just finished reading Re Marina
(which doesn't yet have a trope page).
I was on a sort of hiatus from manga as well as anime and books since late 2019 due to noise pollution in my living environment, but that's recently changed for the better. This was the first serial manga I read since then. I intend to get back into anime as well (I've missed it so much! 😭) but I want to nail down my audio setup first.
Honestly, Re Marina wasn't all that impressive. Even though it's the second-longest manga I've read (after AI Love You), I feel like not much actually happened across 49 chapters and I found myself not caring as much about the characters as I think the author intended. There was a fairly predictable soppy ending, which I feel was a little unearned given the relatively thin story leading up to it. The technical quality of the art was solid though. It was also ecchier than I was expecting, and anyone thinking of reading it should be warned that there is frequent nudity.
Join my forum game!If they do have the Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest English cast reprise their roles at least can they have a whole LA based like Erica Mendez too?
Edited by PokecaptorSean on Aug 4th 2024 at 8:13:05 AM
The Red Ranger Becomes An Adventurer In Another World anime announced.
Trailer.
Edited by Blueace on Aug 8th 2024 at 12:11:05 PM
Wake me up at your own risk.Re: Rules of Shonen Action Main character.
With what we know now, do the 'rules' still apply to all shonen manga?
"Fan, a Mega Man character."Well, I just checked out the trailer for Red Ranger in Another World.
Mixing Sentai / General Toku tropes with the Isekai genre will certainly make for a crazy series.
One Strip! One Strip!@Blueace
I love that manga. Animation looks pretty okay. Will keep looking into it and following.
Both series are pretty much Dead and Irrelevant here in the west, but Medalist, Magus of the Library, Witch and the Beast, Undead Adventurer, and Shikimori are solid reads and Mikadono Sisters recently got greenlit for an anime so that's something to maybe look forward to.
Just finished Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu.
Proist was a bitch right until the end. Gaiking the Great has a kicking theme song (I could have used a lot more Face Open for Great as well, but that's how it goes), I liked the design for End of Series Lulu and wish we could have seen a bit more of the older characters.
And Random Space Monster showing up as a threat was random.
I can't help but get the feeling the series was a bit rushed in the end what with being only 39 episodes. It wouldn't shock me if they were cut a bit short. Still, I liked it. Daiya wasn't a moron, and I'm grateful for that.
I'd be totally ok with another series picking up where this one left off, but considering we're about to hit twenty years since this series ended, that's highly unlikely.
Hell with it. Lets enjoy Gaiking the Great's theme together:
Ah right the vaguely racist fetish light novel that led to the funniest plot twist displaying half-assed author incompetence ever (that the girl's name is Latina, that he landed on this terrible name by using GPT search instead of basic ass babyname.com, and that he didn't know Latina was a term for a specific group of people not a name)
Edited by Mami on Aug 17th 2024 at 2:37:04 PM
I absolutely cannot help but adore handsome 2D boysFixed all the links and made subpages for The Little Mermaid (1975). :) One of my favorite anime as a kid and it still holds up today!
Edited by lalalei2001 on Aug 20th 2024 at 3:53:02 PM
The Protomen enhanced my life.Sad news Animes fans. Atsuko Tanaka, the voice actress for Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell has passed away at 61.
The news was announced by her son, Hikaru Tanaka, whose also a voice actor
.
Rip Major. Salute :(
Viz Media is doing digital only volumes for certain manga series which sucks since I can't seem to find volumes for ones that I want from a RL local library. I don't think I am able to read Nue's Exorcist legally then... Oh well.
Edited by leafsaber47 on Aug 28th 2024 at 8:15:38 AM
"You can't spell 'Wario' without 'war'."Just finished watching Taishou Baseball Girls.
As noted a few posts above, I'd been away from anime since the summer of 2019 due to noise pollution. My last report on finishing a show was almost exactly five years ago
and I didn't know at the time that I'd be waiting that long.
I deliberately selected Taishou Baseball Girls as my returning show in anticipation that it had the right combination of qualities, and I think overall it delivered. Maybe my appreciation is magnified by missing anime so much for so long, but I came away with the impression of a pretty solid little show. It was adorable as hell but didn't use any chibification; the animation was limited for its era (J.C. Staff was making Toaru Kagaku no Railgun around the same time) but didn't really feel patchy; and the characters felt genuine enough to be sympathetic without losing their moe value. (There's also some token implied yuri of the sort that was becoming common in female-focused anime by that time.) On the other hand, there wasn't as much baseball as one might expect from a baseball-themed show, or as much historical stuff as one might expect from a show set in 1925; and the cast was a little too large to really cover everyone's story properly in the span of 12 episodes, which is a common problem for anime of this sort. Ultimately it felt like about as good a show as it could be given the relatively simplistic pieces from which it was built, like it was happy to ascend to its own modest limits and stop there rather than turn into something overambitious and incomplete as so many animes do. I give it a tentative recommendation for folks who aren't too fussy about what the cute girls they're watching are doing and who are looking for something short and light to slip in between hardcore fantasy action shows...or who happen to be getting back into anime after five years, as the case may be.
Join my forum game!The Dark Brown Latin... WTF did I just see?...
Just finished A Sign of Affection (the anime), not sure why I feel the anime producers accelerated the final episode... like worrying that it will not have a second season, despite the manga is still published.
Starting Kaiju Number Eight, a very funny take on kaiju and action anime, while noticing that is using American music, seems that it wants to be more promoted outside Japan than other animes.
Double post by mistake. Ignore.
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Aug 29th 2024 at 10:54:33 AM
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.

Trapezium gets a one day release in North American Cinemas in September 18th.
Wake me up at your own risk.