What are you reading/watching? AKA Anime/Manga General

**Mattias** · May 25th, 2021, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Skull

Nope, Mika is not in fact Grave's kid. The whole gray hair on Grave was something that only happened post-transformation into a Deadman also.

Wow, anime genetics have finally failed me.

**bassgs435** · May 26th, 2021, 07:51 PM

Princess Principal Crown Handler 1 done. Good movie. Fun action scenes. Lots of mindgames. Bishop was an interesting character and there's a hook for the next movies. Looking foward to them

**Mattias** · May 26th, 2021, 10:03 PM

Oh it's out? Nice. Is it still have a bopping OST?

**bassgs435** · May 27th, 2021, 07:17 AM

OST's still great. That said, Ange's seiyuu changed to Aoi Koga since her TV seiyuu (Imamura Ayaka) retired due to health issues making her unable to focus on seiyuu job. I think Aoi Koga does well as a replacement, though. Still something that needs to be said

**Laserman** · May 31st, 2021, 01:12 AM

I watched Digimon:Revenge of Diaboromon after I finished the second season, but I never talked about it.

Spoiler:

I also watched the first Digimon Tri movie last Sunday and it was amazing.

Spoiler:

2 years have passed since 02 and their Digimon returned to digital world. Infected Digimon have begun to come into the real world somehow, and the DigiDestined and their Digimon are the only ones who can stop it.
The first team anyway, something got the 02 kids somehow at the very beginning.

I love the CGI digivolutions and the attacks, they're all so cool and the music was so good.

I think the whole thing going on with Izzy and Mimi is just so funny. They were with each other a few times in the original show, so I can see them being together I guess. And the idea of Joe having a girlfriend is even more funny, I still can't believe it.

When Tai was like, "It's not like when we were kids.", it showed how much more aware he is of the damage the Digimon could and do cause in the real world when they fight compared to before. Matt not's having any of that though, he yells at him for his indecisiveness and the two are mad at each other for the entire movie. Some things change, but some things stay the same.

Gennai said that he and the people like him were keeping like world governments from finding out about the digital world near the end of the second series, but it turns out he's been giving them information about it and the DigiDestined. I guess he sort of changed his mind, but he's still holding some stuff back. Because of that now the government is aware of them and their Digimon and were actually tracking them down. The 02 kids are all listed as missing too...

When Alphamon appeared I was so excited, like I've been thinking about that thing ever since I first saw it in the trailer for the movie.

And of course, Tai finally made up his mind to fight when he saw how strong that thing was, and Agumon and Gabumon became Omnimon to fight it in thebig climax of the movie. Omnimon had him until Alphamon ran away and he turned back into Tsunamon and Koromon.
How will Meiko and her Digimon, Meicoomon, affect what's happening though?

Joe and Gomamon didn't fight in this movie though, but the second movie looks like it will about him and Mimi so that makes up for it.

It turns out this is my 9000th post, how about that.

**bassgs435** · June 2nd, 2021, 07:17 AM

Simoun done. Great show. Love the characters, how their relationships and mindsets change and how the tragedy of war affects them. The plot is good and it was a very pretty show. The world is also unique and very well done. Great OST, too

**Skull** · June 4th, 2021, 02:52 PM

I heard a rumour that Yugioh Arc-V might be coming to Duel Links soon so I binged season one of the anime so I wouldn't be immediately spoiled if true. I've heard some divisive opinions on Arc-V overall and just from the first season I found it to have a rocky start with only GX's first season being particularly weaker.

Long Ramble

Where to start? I guess with the main character. I do like Yuya Sakaki, he's a good middle ground between the goofy Jaden and the serious Yusei. Reiji is my favourite Kaiba-clone so far between his D/D/D monsters and his morally dubious "all part of the plan" scheme to overthrow the Fusion Dimension. Yuzu and Gogenzaka I'm less keen on, someone on this forum recently mentioned how achieving one's goals does not automatically count as "character development" and I think that applies here. They both failed to defeat the LDS students in the turf war and so they had a semi-off-screen training arc to improve themselves but like, they were never lacking anything as people so they didn't change as a result, all that happened was they acquired stronger cards to overcome the inevitable rematches. In tremendous contrast we have Sawatari the school bully who the script demands he jobs in every duel he participates in against a named character and so they instead had to resort to showing his growth as a redemption arc which made him easily one of the best characters in season 1 because of that.

In regards to the actual plot, I enjoyed it but it really suffered from trying to have the cake and eat it. It was seriously bogged down by trying to balance the "everyday school life" whilst trying to also set up the dimensional war coming later on and it hampered the pacing. The qualifiers for the Junior Youth Tournament was the biggest offender by far, a mini-arc of eight episodes featuring four duels against mostly minor characters, each duel being a two-parter. It really need trimmed down to half the length since by the time we finally got to the Fusion warriors invading it was less than ten episodes left of the season and so felt extremely rushed.

As for the generational gimmick, I actually really like Pendulum Summoning as it doesn't feel like it's replacing previous gimmicks but rather tries to support them with stuff like Pendulum-Fusion, Pendulum-Synchro and so on being the upgraded form of the gimmick. Action Duels were also an entertaining switch-up to the traditional duelling format though as I mentioned earlier, it worked better in single episode format with the only Action Duels I thought genuinely needing to be two-parters were the Yuya/Reiji duel and the Yuya/Sawatari rematch.

Side note, Crunchyroll using the Dub Terms for the cards was cool but somewhat confusingly they in contrast used the JPN names for characters - including the JPN's wonky romanizations. "Yusyo" for Yusho is fine and I'll even accept "Hugo" for "Yugo", but no way in hell could I wrap my head around "Ute" when the characters are clearly saying Yuto.

Side-Side Note, I normally supress the feeling of advertisement when I'm watching Yugioh but I couldn't help but feel that Sawatari drew the short stick in having to promote cards since in one season alone he goes through four complete deck changes in order to show off four different archetypes of cards - making him second only to Chazz from GX who holds the record at five different decks. It's a real shame as I adore his Yosenju archetype and knowing that he only uses it for a single duel pains me so much.

**Laserman** · June 18th, 2021, 11:18 PM

I watched My Hero Academia the Movie: Heroes Rising before watching episode 10 of the new season and it was so amazing!

I really liked the first movie, but this one had some really amazing animation and fights and everyone in Class 1-A got their chance to shine in this movie. I wish I could have seen it in theaters when it came out, but the plague was just starting right about then, before everything got shutdown, and I didn't want to risk it. Though this is another case of the people behind the anime apparently not caring about the sequence of events of the main story. Like this had stuff like Recipro Turbo, Endeavor's scar and Tokoyami's ability to fly in it when those were thing that just were show this season. It's Naruto using his Rasengan in the first movie before it showed up in the actual anime all over again. But it was really good, I would definitely watch this is if you're a fan of the show/manga.

**Laserman** · June 29th, 2021, 12:53 AM

I read volumes 12-15 of Blue Exorcist.

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**Nikiri** · July 1st, 2021, 04:04 PM

Watching NANA right now (ep11), and it's so far a pretty simple yet satisfying shoujo drama with nice songs

feels a lil bit like the annoying Nana is just a supporting character and the cool Nana is the actual main character

**GarlandGreene** · July 2nd, 2021, 12:46 AM

Went on to binge the Chainsaw Man manga in two days after the PV piqued my interest. What a wild ride, pretty darn good. What really stood out to me are how good the creature/devil designs are, some of the best in manga since maybe even Berserk. The frantic pacing and unhinged story developments are reminiscent of Devilman (Crybaby) but I thought some of the characters in CSM are a little more fleshed out which is great (Loved Himeno and Aki's arcs despite their limited roles). The few nitpicks I have about it are that the action can be confusing to follow at times, the statuses of a few characters aren't always clear due to the nature of their powers and the final antagonist got taken care of a bit too easily imho. Other than that, I would totally recommend the manga to anyone who's looking for a bit more 'spice' in their shounen jump buffet. Hopefully the mangaka can keep his vision intact for the sequel without suffering from the eventual burnout that's known to hit long running works.

**Mattias** · July 3rd, 2021, 01:43 AM

Finally sat down to watch the Demon Slayer movie so here's some thoughts as I go through:

Spoiler:

Pretty Fun. Wish I could have seen it a theatre though. Better than the MHA movies since it's actually canon, but not as fun as the Konosuba movie, or any of the stand alone anime movies I've seen in theatre for the last few years.

**Deathhappens** · July 3rd, 2021, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Mattias

Finally sat down to watch the Demon Slayer movie so here's some thoughts as I go through:

Spoiler:

Pretty Fun. Wish I could have seen it a theatre though. Better than the MHA movies since it's actually canon, but not as fun as the Konosuba movie, or any of the stand alone anime movies I've seen in theatre for the last few years.

Spoiler:

**SirGauoftheSquareTable** · July 10th, 2021, 01:08 AM

Yeah, one of my main gripes with Demon Slayer is the extremely rushed pacing and the fact that character development and exposition tend to happen right before a character dies. Also, I get that the job of a Demon Slayer carries a high risk of death, but I honestly think the manga overglorifies the valor of a heroic sacrifice and seems to uncritically believe that people who want to redeem themselves through death are actually in the right. For the demons, that's more understandable, but not human characters IMO.

Also, I've been reading Fire Force, and while the most recent fight was pretty good, I honestly don't like how Ohkubo seemingly pushed some neoliberal/capitalist realist propaganda through the mouthpiece of Victor Licht and seems to unironically believe that only the establishments feelings and actions really matter in the grand scheme of things.

**~~LegalLoliLover~~** · July 11th, 2021, 11:11 AM

In UQ Holder, we finally have sex and nipples. Also, Kirie is upset about losing her immortality, but Akamatsu seems to often forget that his vampire characters are vampires. Embracing time.

Originally Posted by SirGauoftheSquareTable

Yeah, one of my main gripes with Demon Slayer is the extremely rushed pacing and the fact that character development and exposition tend to happen right before a character dies. Also, I get that the job of a Demon Slayer carries a high risk of death, but I honestly think the manga overglorifies the valor of a heroic sacrifice and seems to uncritically believe that people who want to redeem themselves through death are actually in the right. For the demons, that's more understandable, but not human characters IMO.

Like I said, paladin compassion is worthless. They can only save people, spiritually. Through death. Of course, on the flip side, there is no guilt, then, to kill as many Hunters as you can. Let me put it this way. I feel nothing about the Demon Slayers dying. In my eyes, these 2 people look the same: https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnfeld_Bach https://kimetsu-no-yaiba.fandom.com/wiki/Shinobu_Kocho Basically, the "they're the same picture" meme.

**RoydGolden** · July 11th, 2021, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by LegalLoliLover

Like I said, paladin compassion is worthless. They can only save people, spiritually. Through death. Of course, on the flip side, there is no guilt, then, to kill as many Hunters as you can. Let me put it this way. I feel nothing about the Demon Slayers dying. In my eyes, these 2 people look the same: https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnfeld_Bach https://kimetsu-no-yaiba.fandom.com/wiki/Shinobu_Kocho Basically, the "they're the same picture" meme.

Uh, they also save quite a few people from demons, actually.

**SirGauoftheSquareTable** · July 11th, 2021, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by LegalLoliLover

In UQ Holder, we finally have sex and nipples. Also, Kirie is upset about losing her immortality, but Akamatsu seems to often forget that his vampire characters are vampires. Embracing time.

Like I said, paladin compassion is worthless. They can only save people, spiritually. Through death. Of course, on the flip side, there is no guilt, then, to kill as many Hunters as you can. Let me put it this way. I feel nothing about the Demon Slayers dying. In my eyes, these 2 people look the same: https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnfeld_Bach https://kimetsu-no-yaiba.fandom.com/wiki/Shinobu_Kocho Basically, the "they're the same picture" meme.

That was literally not what I was trying to say, but whatever.

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Originally Posted by RoydGolden

Uh, they also save quite a few people from demons, actually.

They absolutely do, though I guess the side stories make that clearer than the main manga. The real problem in my mind is that they all generally have martyr complexes at best and are outright suicidal at worst, and the narrative doesn't do enough to criticize that mindset IMO.

**~~LegalLoliLover~~** · July 11th, 2021, 02:39 PM

Like I said, just as most western Hunters have roots in Christianity, the far eastern ones are rooted in Buddhism. Isn't one of the Demon Slayer founders or advisers a monk or something? In either case, if your organization has strong roots in religion, they are going to all about that salvation stuff. The spiritual type. Most efficiently obtained through death.

**Deathhappens** · July 11th, 2021, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by LegalLoliLover

In UQ Holder, we finally have sex and nipples. Also, Kirie is upset about losing her immortality, but Akamatsu seems to often forget that his vampire characters are vampires. Embracing time.

Like I said, paladin compassion is worthless. They can only save people, spiritually. Through death. Of course, on the flip side, there is no guilt, then, to kill as many Hunters as you can. Let me put it this way. I feel nothing about the Demon Slayers dying. In my eyes, these 2 people look the same: https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnfeld_Bach https://kimetsu-no-yaiba.fandom.com/wiki/Shinobu_Kocho Basically, the "they're the same picture" meme.

Leaving your usual 'moralism bad' schtick aside, the Demon Hunters are very clearly not paladins. Heck, most of them aren't even Good, let alone Lawful. They're also clearly not religious (Buddha man aside).

**~~LegalLoliLover~~** · July 11th, 2021, 03:11 PM

I also clarified that I was not referring to each individual member when I was talking about the religious aspect just that one individual involved in its founding, who was a literal priest. And a lot of their overall philosophy sounds very spiritual, even if it can't pin it to any one religion...

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