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 NH Gunsmith wrote:

Anvildude wrote:


If you like that sort of story, though... Maybe One Piece, if you have the free time. It's another strongly character-driven series, where the story is less about what's happening, and more about how the characters are growing and changing and reacting to things. Maybe stuff like Full Metal Alchemist- another series with a definitive plotline. The thing about a lot of Anime is that they're set up as 'endless plots' so that they don't have to end if they turn into hits. Ones with long-term character development and actual overall plot resolution are relatively rare.

One Piece? No way.... Watch Gintama. I find Gintama far more enjoyable than the strangeness that One Piece became.

Became? One Piece started bizarre, and requires dropping more acid.
And is outpaced by most glaciers.

 BrookM wrote:
It's a great show, dodgy animation, horrible CGI animals and the fire effects aside.

The bears in the first few episodes were a little bad, but I think the regular animation is ok. Not sure what you mean about the fire effects as I haven't noticed anything odd about it.

They seem to have ditched the CGI entirely now.

Voss wrote:

 NH Gunsmith wrote:

Anvildude wrote:


If you like that sort of story, though... Maybe One Piece, if you have the free time. It's another strongly character-driven series, where the story is less about what's happening, and more about how the characters are growing and changing and reacting to things. Maybe stuff like Full Metal Alchemist- another series with a definitive plotline. The thing about a lot of Anime is that they're set up as 'endless plots' so that they don't have to end if they turn into hits. Ones with long-term character development and actual overall plot resolution are relatively rare.

One Piece? No way.... Watch Gintama. I find Gintama far more enjoyable than the strangeness that One Piece became.

Became? One Piece started bizarre, and requires dropping more acid.
And is outpaced by most glaciers.

True, but many anime shows are strange to begin with, I don't mind some strangeness in a show (ie. Gintama)... but there is a point where a show gets so strange that I just can't follow it, and is immersion breaking for me. One Piece was that way, after jumping back in I just stopped watching. Gintama though? Can never get enough of it.

So... the Broly movie is apparently the best thing since sliced bread. It aired for the first time in Japan and people are loving it. From what I've read spoiler-wise I can see why.

So, Goblin Slayer

And on the flipside, Bunny Grill Sempai:

Yeah, the bird eye thing went on for way too long and ruined what was a good scene before hand.
The action scene was good though. It was bloody and visceral, as it should be.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Yeah, the bird eye thing went on for way too long and ruined what was a good scene before hand.
The action scene was good though. It was bloody and visceral, as it should be.

It was bloody and visceral but what really happened? Not much. Compare it to the action scene from the first episode. The first episode was far more dynamic. Furthermore, why does Goblin Slayer, a guy who has dedicated his life to fighting Goblins (and thus has most likely fought Hobgoblins, Goblin Champions etc in the past) make the same idiot mistake of rushing the big lads (in awe of the size of that lad, absolute unit) only to be pasted against a wall. I could handwave against the Ogre, but to do it AGAIN? It makes no sense. Also, how did the bird even survive? The Dwarf clearly says the poison will harm them but not kill them, but a tiny bird like that (WHO IS ON THE FREAKING GROUND SURROUNDED BY POISON GAS) surely should have died or passed out. Also the damage done to the Priestess is inconsistent and I suspect (without checking) was more brutal in the Light Novel/Mango. It looks like the Champion either rips her arm off or at least takes a massive chunk out of her arm, but then suddenly it's only a light fleshwound (as confirmed by the Lizard Bro)?

Nah, she got bit in the arm there too. I don't remember him removing an entire chunk like that though.
Edit : I read it again. Yes, he did remove a chunk, but it wasn't that big and didn't look that deep. It was nasty, but it wasn't that brutal. The anime made it more graphic than it was in the manga.
As for GS rushing the champion - he tried attacking it from behind, and in the manga he was planning on killing it in one strike. The champion rolled a 3 for his grot shield though.

As an aside, they also skipped the village defense arc. Which is a pity, because that arc was badass.

That scene played out pretty much exactly like it was in the manga, but you are correct that they have skipped a big chunk of story. Granted, a large portion of the story they have skipped was stuff told from the Goblin's point view, including stuff that happened in this episode.

I think its pretty clear that while he has fought champions before, but they are exceptionally rare that his experience vs them is far less than vs other types of goblins. They are a challenge for him as they aren't of low skill and intelligence like other goblins.

So, Goblin Slayer, it turns out that overly long bird’s eye shot was Supposed to have the credits rolling over, but Crunchyroll screwed it up or something and left them off and then played the normal credits sequence after.

 AduroT wrote:
So, Goblin Slayer, it turns out that overly long bird’s eye shot was Supposed to have the credits rolling over, but Crunchyroll screwed it up or something and left them off and then played the normal credits sequence after.

That makes a lot more sense. I was wondering why they did something so stupid.

Still would have been bad.

Another week, another great Bunny Girl Sempai episode.

If you're looking for a Bakemonogatari style series that is actually comprehensible for once, I once again recommend this show.

Okay so I just saw an odd Youtube Video (NSFW warning). I mostly find this video to be a painful experience, but the actual subject roused my curiosity. I suggest not watching it. To save you the trouble, it notes that some google search results have been taken over by popular renditions of anime characters, namely Nero Claudius, Jack the Ripper, and Paul Bunyan. I checked and I don't know what google search the video maker was using because I didn't get any picks of the Fate version of Jack the Ripper or Paul Bunyan when searching.

I did however search some of the series other more well known characters and...

Nero Claudius, Mordred, Cu Chulainn, Okita Souji, Minamoto no Raikou, Shuten Douji, Kiyohime, Nitocris and that's about where I stopped because I ran out of characters to name off the top of my head. Oda Nobunaga, Atalanta, Lancelot, Gawain, Gilgamesh, Hassan i Sabah, and Karna were mostly non-anime images but did have the Fate characters visible without scrolling down on my screen. Hercules didn't have the Fate character, but it sure had a lot of images from the Disney movie. Ibaraki Doji was an anime or game character. I just don't know from where.

So while whoever made the video was a ranting loon, I'm wondering if maybe there was a broader point there about popular culture completely overshadowing the real thing XD

Otaku-Vs is very much parody/gakposting, don't take everyanything they say seriously.

As you say, the broader point of the popularized version of various characters are going to be higher profile than the original. Which is due to search engines in general sorting hits by popularity. I did once have to explain who Iskandar was in the Fate series because one of my friends didn't know what Alexander the Great's real name was.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Otaku-Vs is very much parody/gakposting, don't take everyanything they say seriously.

I was wondering cause I wasn't sure who would make that and think it wasn't pure cringe. Mostly I link only because that video is the only reason I bothered to go looking at all. It mostly seems to only hit figures/people who don't have a lot of images online, leaving just the anime/video game/whatever images to overtake the google search. That one Mordred image for example is the only "historic" image of the character I think I've ever seen.

Saber is for example easily the most popular fate character (more so than those others I linked) but a google search of King Arthur doesn't throw up any pictures of her.

 LordofHats wrote:


Saber is for example easily the most popular fate character (more so than those others I linked) but a google search of King Arthur doesn't throw up any pictures of her.

Which is probably because she really has nothing in common with the actual historical King Arthur, and King Arthur has such an extreme presence in media and mythology that there is enough material to drown out anything coming from the Fate anime series.

Oddly enough though, if you google Excalibur you get hits on the Fate series.

 Grey Templar wrote:

Oddly enough though, if you google Excalibur you get hits on the Fate series.

Somehow that doesn't surprise me... the meme's alone must include terabytes of data.

Also, search engines tend to sort by personal search history. So that suggests that the person who posted that video searches for a lot of Anime.

Anvildude wrote:
Also, search engines tend to sort by personal search history. So that suggests that the person who posted that video searches for a lot of Anime.

Self-fulfilling prophecy eh?

I’d say you don’t get much Saber on King Arthur searches simply because she’s seldom Called King Arthur by people, even if that’s who she is.

I mean, even when called by name, it's Arturia, not Arthur,so, yeah. MORDRED on the other hand...

Anvildude wrote:
I mean, even when called by name, it's Arturia, not Arthur,so, yeah. MORDRED on the other hand...

...Huh...

In my defense, I search for fanart a lot.

I am really not feeling this season, but that's personal preference. Although I'm just behind on Golden Kamuy, the best cooking anime ever.

So I know it's not exactly Anime, but has anyone been watching the new She-Ra?

It's just BONKERS. Like, I checked out an episode of the old one, and yeah, that was equally weird, but it had the 80's to excuse it. The new one's just good, but keeps all the strange from the 80's one.

It's fantastic, though.

And the Queen is literally a character from Robotech, but as a fairy queen. Or just Blue Diamond.

I watched it on a whim and my main objection would be the typical stuff stemming from it being mainly for, like, 7-10 year olds. There's really too little about the economic and sociopolitcal functions of Etheria and the Horde. Other than that it's a respectable first season with a couple of actually quite good characters. Catra is the most compelling by far, and Entrapta, Scorpia, Bow and Glimmer are very fun supporting cast.

The show is also anime as hell despite not being in Japanese so this is as good a place as any to discuss.


Anyway, I caught up on all eight episodes of Zombieland Saga so far and the show has a lot more ambition than just being a gag show even if it's firmly rooted in dark comedy. A pleasant surprise.

Anvildude wrote:
So I know it's not exactly Anime, but has anyone been watching the new She-Ra?

It's just BONKERS. Like, I checked out an episode of the old one, and yeah, that was equally weird, but it had the 80's to excuse it. The new one's just good, but keeps all the strange from the 80's one.

It's fantastic, though.

And the Queen is literally a character from Robotech, but as a fairy queen. Or just Blue Diamond.

If I wanted to watch ugly Calarts blobs with terrible personalities, I'd stick to Steven Universe.


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Rosebuddy wrote:
Anyway, I caught up on all eight episodes of Zombieland Saga so far and the show has a lot more ambition than just being a gag show even if it's firmly rooted in dark comedy. A pleasant surprise.

Interesting, I'll have to catch up on it.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
If I wanted to watch ugly Calarts blobs with terrible personalities, I'd stick to Steven Universe.

Let's recap, shall we


Steven Universe:




She-Ra:




Bad screencaps that I found after image searching for as many as multiple seconds aside, you don't even need to see full figures standing straight to know that the shows aren't visually interchangeable.

That's why they had to purge all the negative reviews from Rotten Tomatoes and give it the Black Panther treatement, right?

The shows clearly don't look the same, which is what you claimed.