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Aw... Sounds like music to my ears.

Starting catching up on Anime i should have watched along time ago
My Hero Academia is on the list now

I'm liking Akashic Records a lot this season. Granted the school uniforms are ridiculous, but the characterization is a lot more nuanced than you'd expect from such a show.

Its an ok show. I'm enjoying it.
I agree the uniforms look odd. Dat mid rift.

Oh bother, Berserk is delayed by several hours around here.

 BrookM wrote:
Oh bother, Berserk is delayed by several hours around here.

Don't worry. The episode is on a boat crossing the Atlantic this very moment

About to watch Berserk now.


As a massive fan of the manga, I hope they can do the berserker armour justice.

I hope.


Really hope.

Please.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

Spoiler:

It's pretty cool. I can see where Artorias's moveset came from

I enjoyed it, but the animation is still choppy. Gotta wait for the blu Ray.

RRRAAGRG! Why is Fate/Zero so gooood!? And then Fate/Stay Night (both of them) are just... average. So far, anyways.

Anyone, does Unlimited Blade Works get more philosophical at any point? More serious? Less high-school rom-com? I mean, Zero had kings discussing the meaning of kingship, and Masters willing to do literally the most heinous acts to secure their victories, but so far UBW is just... Tsundere and Determinators and high-school hijinks. And an inexplicably evil Ilya.

Anvildude wrote:
RRRAAGRG! Why is Fate/Zero so gooood!? And then Fate/Stay Night (both of them) are just... average. So far, anyways.

Anyone, does Unlimited Blade Works get more philosophical at any point? More serious? Less high-school rom-com? I mean, Zero had kings discussing the meaning of kingship, and Masters willing to do literally the most heinous acts to secure their victories, but so far UBW is just... Tsundere and Determinators and high-school hijinks. And an inexplicably evil Ilya.

I will defend the DEEN anime. I am in a minority on this.

You don't sound very far into UBW, but things get serious near the end of the first cour, but then again I'm a massive Fate fan so my opinion comes with a grain of salt (and a set of Black Keys.)

Oh jesus that Berserk animation...I mean the show isn't pretty, but that looked like an after school CGI project. Massive visual clipping errors, offtempo movements, and editing that looked panicked, I wonder what on earth this studio is spending its budget on...

 welshhoppo wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

Spoiler:

It's pretty cool. I can see where Artorias's moveset came from

Spoiler:

Didnt you know that Berserk was the influence for Dark Souls and that Artorias is based off guts? With the dodgy arm, massive sword and a wolffish personality.

I enjoyed it, but the animation is still choppy. Gotta wait for the blu Ray.

Yeah, it's no secret that Miyazaki is a Berserk fan boy. And it only got more obvious over time.
The animation still isn't great. There were some pretty derpy looking character designs too.

"Hide and prepare, for the storm the hawk will bring."

Oh feth yes.

Oh yeah, the DEEN isn't bad. Interesting how the focus is different between the two of them, certainly.

So Re-Creators...

Why did no one just say Look, we're all heroes of our stories, we wouldn't have killed a kid. Stop believing the person you already know is an evil liar. She's just annoyingly obtuse at this point.

Actually they all aren't heroes of their story. The guy with the ghost is his game's antagonist, Magane is her novel's antagonist and Blitz is an anti hero.
We know Selesia and Meteora are heroes, but Alice doesn't. Like a good soldier she is she believes everything Altair told her, and she clearly believes that her world is suffering for our enjoyment, when its much more complex than that. I thought that scene with her and Sota was a nice touch.

That, and Alicetaria doesn't seem to be the thinking sort. All honor no brains, you know the type. They do seem to be turning her into a tragic hero though, which could be interesting.

MURDER.

DESTROY.

SHATTER.

Oh Berserk.

 BrookM wrote:
MURDER.

DESTROY.

SHATTER.

Oh Berserk.

I have to say, despite the shoddy animation they did capture the transformation sequence and the fall to madness pretty well.

Except.

WHERE IS THE BLOODY MOON CHILD. I DEMAND ANSWERS!

Yeah, wasn't he supposed to show up? That was odd

'Dat AoT tho...


*hnnnggg*

Season 3 confirmed 2018.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Yeah, wasn't he supposed to show up? That was odd

Yeah.

I recently watched Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) and A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi), both very good — with tiny pacing issues but otherwise wonderful — movies that stick to your brain like an octopus helmet (in a good way).

So Hinako Note ended, and while it was my cute show for the season, it just didn't click for some reason. Not sure why.

Not sure about the new season, although I'm hoping for Fate to end up on Crunchyroll, and Little Witch Academia is gonna be on Netflix starting June 30! Huzzah!

Blue Exorcist is turning out to be more entertaining and interesting that In originally thought. A classic Shounen plot, but with enough original stuff to keep it fresh.

Something I like about Blue Exorcist is also something I liked from Helsing; it's bizarrely entertaining watching Japanese creators try to represent the Christianity in fiction XD It's like they can take a lot of misconceptions I recognize but take them to odd new places

Yeah, its great. They some how make it more entertaining to watch than when the US tries to do it.
After a while, Supernatural got boring. :(

Though that said, there isn't really much about Blue Exorcist that's christian. A lot of it is more about Eastern lore, such as from Onmyoudou, Buddhism and Shintoism.
The only reals biblical elements are the names of demons and the fact they use the old testament / Judaic word for hell, Gehenna. Other than that, not much christian lore.
Like, the exorcists are supposed to be a Christian themed group, but you can't really tell.

D Grey Man is closer to the mark, as they make it very clear that the weapons they use come from some heavenly element, they take orders from the Vatican, and the Exorcist uniform has a cross on it.
But they also take a lot of liberties with christian lore.

Anyway, I watched the last episode of Shuumatsu nani...WorldEnd / Suka Suka. Wtf is with light novel titles I swear.



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Also, I read the new Berserk chapter.
This sums it up

Been watching Granblue Fantasy. They had their obligatory fan service beach episode this past week. Sure, whatever, that's a thing I guess. Where it got weird was they retconned the story to make the main male protagonist a different female version for it, as well as having had all the different female characters they'd met had joined the team. Like it was this weird pointless AU episode in the middle of the story.