In a similair vein...
[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!
GasBandit
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Boobs and butts and butts and boobs.
I always wondered why someone like Buggy isn't immune to it. He can manipulate his body parts independently from his body... that SOUNDS like something specifically designed to counter the Op-Op fruit.
The Op-Op fruit's limit is that expended use drains the user's stamina, that's why in Law's early appearance he was seen sitting down. Also its sight-based nature leaves open for opponents who can move at super fast speeds.
BAM-ya done BEAT son! Straight up Piece-main up in here.
BAM-ya done BEAT son! Straight up Piece-main up in here.
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Code Geass is getting a new season.
JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
What? Didn't they kill off the main character?
I mean, with everything the guy pulled off over the course of the series, who knows.
It's also subtitled "Revival of Lelouch" so until we get more info it could really mean anything.
GasBandit
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The last line of the second season has CC speaking to Lelouche the same way she spent the entire first 3/4ths of the show talking to Marianne... I mean, it's left deliberately ambiguous as if she's just talking at the sky, or even to the driver, but it definitely was a callback to all the times she was talking to Marianne who turned out not to be quite so dead after all, despite the entire show's events literally being set in motion by her death.
Odachi's law: Anyone who can have a sad back-story, WILL have a sad back-story.
How the hell is Dragon Ball Super up to 70 episodes already?
GasBandit
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Kill La Kill is to shonen anime what Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan is to super robot anime: a reconstructive take on the genre that points out the tropes and flaws of it's genre, but then rebuilds the show around those tropes to make them work better for a modern audience.
- Everyone acting hot blooded? Make hot blood the actual source of power: this explains why the strongest characters are the strongest despite their flaws.
- Over-arcing Plot is an excuse? Make it utterly ridiculous... and make it not the point of the show.
- Side characters become useless because of power level disparities? Give them their own battles to wage, key to the conflict but away from the powerhouses.
- All the girls are in scantily clad costumes? Now EVERYONE is... even the ones you don't want to look at. (This doesn't FIX the objectitifcation, but it does make a mockery of anime that solely rely on it.)
- Too much blood and violence? Make it SO ridiculously over the top that no one could mistake it for anything other than a comedy.
Kill La Kill is, frankly, too smart for it's own good.
- Everyone acting hot blooded? Make hot blood the actual source of power: this explains why the strongest characters are the strongest despite their flaws.
- Over-arcing Plot is an excuse? Make it utterly ridiculous... and make it not the point of the show.
- Side characters become useless because of power level disparities? Give them their own battles to wage, key to the conflict but away from the powerhouses.
- All the girls are in scantily clad costumes? Now EVERYONE is... even the ones you don't want to look at. (This doesn't FIX the objectitifcation, but it does make a mockery of anime that solely rely on it.)
- Too much blood and violence? Make it SO ridiculously over the top that no one could mistake it for anything other than a comedy.
Kill La Kill is, frankly, too smart for it's own good.
Just gonna copy and paste my Tumblr post from a while ago:
Stages of watching Kill La Kill
First episode: This is dumb and kinda skeezy, don’t know if I want to keep going.
A few episodes later: I can’t believe I’m getting emotionally invested in this stupid show.
Middle of the show: *humming* don’t lose your way *humhum* in your mind we have to be as one
A few more episodes: Sad tears. Happy tears. Sad tears. Happy tears.
Final episode: *standing on seat with fists in the air roar-singing at the top of your lungs* DON’T LOSE YOUR WAAAAAAAYYYYYY IN YOUR MIND WE HAVE TO BEEEEEEEEEEEEE AS ONE
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I understood that it was a deconstruction / parody, but it was still goofy[DOUBLEPOST=1480864546,1480864192][/DOUBLEPOST]
Nice try, but I'm not Jack on Facebook. I'm Buzzy Pomona.
That's not a but, that's an and.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO WAIT FOURTEEN SECONDS TO POST AGAIN well typing this should take up the waiting time
GasBandit
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... BUT WHO WAS PHONE?!
GasBandit
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So, I just finished re-watching Inuyasha.
Yes, all of it (well, not the movies).
So that I could finally get around to watching Inuyasha: The Final Act in-context.
Man, talk about whiplash. The main series was so diluted and spread thin, that when you watch episode one of The Final Act and more plot development happens/gets resolved in 23 minutes than in the previous 23 episodes... it really underscores the problems endemic to running a TV series concurrently with its in-progress source material (see also: Dragonball Z, Ranma 1/2, Game of Thrones). Even so, Final Act still managed to stick in a couple filler episodes, because it wouldn't be Inuyasha if there weren't at least 2 episodes in 20 that do absolutely nothing to advance the main plot in a way that couldn't have been done in 30 seconds, except that wouldn't allow them to introduce and immediately kill off yet another superfluous character.
Also, some of the voice cast changes were rather jarring as well - Kagome in particular, and to a somewhat lesser degree, Sesshomaru. Paul Dobson must have had something stuck in his throat for the first few episodes, but it gets worked out fairly quickly, and Naraku starts sounding as he should.
As for the story itself, I found it both true to form and yet irksome that the plot involved not one, but TWO new "techniques" for Tessaiga. This was somewhat countered by revisiting Inuyasha's demon blood transformation, which I had always felt like it had been "conveniently forgotten" about in the main series after the fight with Ryūkotsusei - it had been a major plot point up until then that if the Tessaiga was not in Inuyasha's possession, his demon half would reassert itself... and yet there were several occasions in the next 100 episodes where the sword was stolen/knocked away/unavailable in which there was no transformation, nor even any worry that it might occur.
There was also a great deal less of the whole "secondary characters standing around describing the play-by-play of the fight" in Final Act than in the main series, which was gratifying. It got to the point by the end of the main series that there was really nothing for Miroku or Shippo to do other than periodically say "Look! The wind scar didn't work!" when the wind scar didn't work. Followed, of course, by an internal monologue echo-ey "What? The wind scar didn't work?" thought bubble from Inuyasha, of course followed up with the requisite hand-clasped, worried "Inuyasha... please be careful!" from Kagome. You could practically make a bingo game from it. Ahem... but as I was saying... there was less of that. It wasn't GONE, mind you, but there was less.
Now for the more spoilery parts:
Anyway... while not necessarily being the most brilliant or coherent thing I've ever watched, it addressed my biggest gripe with the original run of Inuyasha, which was that nothing was resolved and everything was left dangling. Well, now everything's resolved as heck. Reasonably satisfyingly so, I guess. It's good to watch for closure, if you were an Inuyasha fan back in the day. And you don't necessarily have to rewatch the whole series to get back up to speed, it turns out... just the Goryomaru/Ascetics arc would be more than enough. Say, the last 10 eps or so.
Yes, all of it (well, not the movies).
So that I could finally get around to watching Inuyasha: The Final Act in-context.
Man, talk about whiplash. The main series was so diluted and spread thin, that when you watch episode one of The Final Act and more plot development happens/gets resolved in 23 minutes than in the previous 23 episodes... it really underscores the problems endemic to running a TV series concurrently with its in-progress source material (see also: Dragonball Z, Ranma 1/2, Game of Thrones). Even so, Final Act still managed to stick in a couple filler episodes, because it wouldn't be Inuyasha if there weren't at least 2 episodes in 20 that do absolutely nothing to advance the main plot in a way that couldn't have been done in 30 seconds, except that wouldn't allow them to introduce and immediately kill off yet another superfluous character.
Also, some of the voice cast changes were rather jarring as well - Kagome in particular, and to a somewhat lesser degree, Sesshomaru. Paul Dobson must have had something stuck in his throat for the first few episodes, but it gets worked out fairly quickly, and Naraku starts sounding as he should.
As for the story itself, I found it both true to form and yet irksome that the plot involved not one, but TWO new "techniques" for Tessaiga. This was somewhat countered by revisiting Inuyasha's demon blood transformation, which I had always felt like it had been "conveniently forgotten" about in the main series after the fight with Ryūkotsusei - it had been a major plot point up until then that if the Tessaiga was not in Inuyasha's possession, his demon half would reassert itself... and yet there were several occasions in the next 100 episodes where the sword was stolen/knocked away/unavailable in which there was no transformation, nor even any worry that it might occur.
There was also a great deal less of the whole "secondary characters standing around describing the play-by-play of the fight" in Final Act than in the main series, which was gratifying. It got to the point by the end of the main series that there was really nothing for Miroku or Shippo to do other than periodically say "Look! The wind scar didn't work!" when the wind scar didn't work. Followed, of course, by an internal monologue echo-ey "What? The wind scar didn't work?" thought bubble from Inuyasha, of course followed up with the requisite hand-clasped, worried "Inuyasha... please be careful!" from Kagome. You could practically make a bingo game from it. Ahem... but as I was saying... there was less of that. It wasn't GONE, mind you, but there was less.
Now for the more spoilery parts:
First of all, another irritating thing having to do with the swords was the whole "sword is broken by Naraku's incarnation, and new sword only becomes useful when you surpass your father" schtick is repeated for Sesshomaru. Moryomaru breaks Tokijin, Sesshomaru gets Bakusaiga and as a bonus regrows his missing left arm. Well, ok, it's a Rumiko Takahashi gig, there's bound to be repetition.
I suppose congratulations are in order that the plot finally actually allowed any recurring non-villain character to die, but it seemed only the barest bone thrown the audience to have the only casualty among the "heroes" be Kikyo. Plus, the fact that Kikyo had been "killed" in this series no less than 3 times previous, only to return, somewhat lessens the impact no matter how many long, slow, sad scenes they had of her finally expiring in Inuyasha's arms. The method by which Kohaku survives, then suddenly has his shard removed, then dies, then DOESN'T die, is so deus ex machina on top of deus ex machina that you can practically imagine that it was written by writers arguing with each other.
"Oh, Kohaku survived... so we're just not gonna have the jewel ever be completed, ever, huh? Well, I guess we can't have that, so, what if there was a tiny bit of Naraku left over on the ground and it shot straight through Kohaku's neck, taking the shard and killing him. Why didn't Naraku just do that any number of opportunities before now? Shut up, we're writing our way out of a corner here, we can't worry about that. Ok, but now Kohaku is dead... wait, we can't do that, we already killed off Kikyo, this show is for little kids for chrissakes. Ok.. uhhh... so what if when the shard was taken, the little bit of 'Kikyo's light' in the shard got left behind and THAT keeps Kohaku alive? Yeah, that doesn't make any sense, does it... Kikyo has never shown at any point to be able to bring the dead back to life, but maybe if we just explain it all really fast and move on, nobody will notice the bald-faced making-up-of-shit-as-we-go-along-here."
And then there was the fate of Naraku's incarnations. Kagura's final few days leading up to her death are so filled with "wait, what?" moments, inconsistencies, and the flat out destruction of suspension of disbelief that it feels like the aforementioned writers' boss had just handed down on high "oh, and make Kagura die within the next 2 episodes. I don't care how, just do it!" And then they as good as replaced her with a carbon copy in the form of Byakuya, who was basically exactly the same role in the story as Kagura, only with zero character depth or development - truly, even more a one-note character than Kanna. Speaking of, Kanna's demise was slightly less contrived, I suppose. I did have to laugh and almost clap with how quickly they killed off Hakudoshi - an irritating BS character if ever there was one. I don't really understand why the character of Moryomaru was necessary, his role could have been served by Naraku in person (the only thing Moryomaru did was basically absorb other beings to take their strength and characteristics, which is literally Naraku's whole thing - in fact doing exactly that with the demon tree thing is how Naraku defeated Moryomaru), or any one of a number of other incarnations. I was kind of hoping we'd get to see Muso/Onigumo again in that sort of role, actually, but I guess it wasn't to be. He wasn't around for very long, anyway.
And then, the very end.
Oh fucking boy.
Naraku's final dying act is to (have Byakuya) hit Kagome with a copied Meido Zangetsuha. Inuyasha, after a few moments to figure out WTF just happened, uses Meido Zangetsuha to go after her. Only, now for some reason, this technique now sends the both of them into the Shikon jewel instead of the underworld, with no explanation given. This, for some reason, causes the Bone Eater's well to disappear. The jewel is "revealed" to have a malevolent will of its own even apart from Magatsuhi (who has already been destroyed by this point). After much faffing about and a cursory nodding reference to the Midoriko origin story, Inuyasha manages to find his way to Kagome, deliver the "about fucking time" kiss, and Kagome wishes upon the Jewel for it to disappear forever.
Which.. makes the well appear again and puts the two of them back in modern Tokyo, and then (after granting Inuyasha a brief moment to look dumbstruck) for some reason throws Inuyasha back into the Feudal Era, and stops the well from working again. Kagome attends and graduates high school (and perplexingly experiences no physical changes at all from episode 1 despite aging from exactly 15 to 18+), at which time the Bone Eater's Well reactivates for no explained reason, and she decides to spend the rest of her life in the Feudal era. Well, ok. I mean, love (especially young love) makes you make decisions like that, I guess. She apprentices under Kaede and Jinenji to... I don't know, be a priestess? She's dressed in Kikyo's old duds, anyway.
Meanwhile, Miroku and Sango got married and had 3 kids in 3 years. Damn... that monk doesn't mess around when it comes to messing around - and remember, Sango would have been 17 at the birth of her first child. Sesshomaru, who has never listened to a human in his entire life is somehow convinced by the old priestess Kaede to leave Rin in the village so she can learn to live with humans, but he still comes buy to give her presents from time to time, which is another thing he has never done. Remember when he wouldn't even help her find anything to eat ("Rin, if you are hungry, you must fend for yourself.")? Dang.
Oh, and Koga? Yeah, we forgot he existed after he lost his jewel shards. Marry him off to that wolf girl from 80 episodes ago in a single sentence blurb in the "where are they now" epilogue. FUKKEN DONE, NEXT.
I suppose congratulations are in order that the plot finally actually allowed any recurring non-villain character to die, but it seemed only the barest bone thrown the audience to have the only casualty among the "heroes" be Kikyo. Plus, the fact that Kikyo had been "killed" in this series no less than 3 times previous, only to return, somewhat lessens the impact no matter how many long, slow, sad scenes they had of her finally expiring in Inuyasha's arms. The method by which Kohaku survives, then suddenly has his shard removed, then dies, then DOESN'T die, is so deus ex machina on top of deus ex machina that you can practically imagine that it was written by writers arguing with each other.
"Oh, Kohaku survived... so we're just not gonna have the jewel ever be completed, ever, huh? Well, I guess we can't have that, so, what if there was a tiny bit of Naraku left over on the ground and it shot straight through Kohaku's neck, taking the shard and killing him. Why didn't Naraku just do that any number of opportunities before now? Shut up, we're writing our way out of a corner here, we can't worry about that. Ok, but now Kohaku is dead... wait, we can't do that, we already killed off Kikyo, this show is for little kids for chrissakes. Ok.. uhhh... so what if when the shard was taken, the little bit of 'Kikyo's light' in the shard got left behind and THAT keeps Kohaku alive? Yeah, that doesn't make any sense, does it... Kikyo has never shown at any point to be able to bring the dead back to life, but maybe if we just explain it all really fast and move on, nobody will notice the bald-faced making-up-of-shit-as-we-go-along-here."
And then there was the fate of Naraku's incarnations. Kagura's final few days leading up to her death are so filled with "wait, what?" moments, inconsistencies, and the flat out destruction of suspension of disbelief that it feels like the aforementioned writers' boss had just handed down on high "oh, and make Kagura die within the next 2 episodes. I don't care how, just do it!" And then they as good as replaced her with a carbon copy in the form of Byakuya, who was basically exactly the same role in the story as Kagura, only with zero character depth or development - truly, even more a one-note character than Kanna. Speaking of, Kanna's demise was slightly less contrived, I suppose. I did have to laugh and almost clap with how quickly they killed off Hakudoshi - an irritating BS character if ever there was one. I don't really understand why the character of Moryomaru was necessary, his role could have been served by Naraku in person (the only thing Moryomaru did was basically absorb other beings to take their strength and characteristics, which is literally Naraku's whole thing - in fact doing exactly that with the demon tree thing is how Naraku defeated Moryomaru), or any one of a number of other incarnations. I was kind of hoping we'd get to see Muso/Onigumo again in that sort of role, actually, but I guess it wasn't to be. He wasn't around for very long, anyway.
And then, the very end.
Oh fucking boy.
Naraku's final dying act is to (have Byakuya) hit Kagome with a copied Meido Zangetsuha. Inuyasha, after a few moments to figure out WTF just happened, uses Meido Zangetsuha to go after her. Only, now for some reason, this technique now sends the both of them into the Shikon jewel instead of the underworld, with no explanation given. This, for some reason, causes the Bone Eater's well to disappear. The jewel is "revealed" to have a malevolent will of its own even apart from Magatsuhi (who has already been destroyed by this point). After much faffing about and a cursory nodding reference to the Midoriko origin story, Inuyasha manages to find his way to Kagome, deliver the "about fucking time" kiss, and Kagome wishes upon the Jewel for it to disappear forever.
Which.. makes the well appear again and puts the two of them back in modern Tokyo, and then (after granting Inuyasha a brief moment to look dumbstruck) for some reason throws Inuyasha back into the Feudal Era, and stops the well from working again. Kagome attends and graduates high school (and perplexingly experiences no physical changes at all from episode 1 despite aging from exactly 15 to 18+), at which time the Bone Eater's Well reactivates for no explained reason, and she decides to spend the rest of her life in the Feudal era. Well, ok. I mean, love (especially young love) makes you make decisions like that, I guess. She apprentices under Kaede and Jinenji to... I don't know, be a priestess? She's dressed in Kikyo's old duds, anyway.
Meanwhile, Miroku and Sango got married and had 3 kids in 3 years. Damn... that monk doesn't mess around when it comes to messing around - and remember, Sango would have been 17 at the birth of her first child. Sesshomaru, who has never listened to a human in his entire life is somehow convinced by the old priestess Kaede to leave Rin in the village so she can learn to live with humans, but he still comes buy to give her presents from time to time, which is another thing he has never done. Remember when he wouldn't even help her find anything to eat ("Rin, if you are hungry, you must fend for yourself.")? Dang.
Oh, and Koga? Yeah, we forgot he existed after he lost his jewel shards. Marry him off to that wolf girl from 80 episodes ago in a single sentence blurb in the "where are they now" epilogue. FUKKEN DONE, NEXT.
Anyway... while not necessarily being the most brilliant or coherent thing I've ever watched, it addressed my biggest gripe with the original run of Inuyasha, which was that nothing was resolved and everything was left dangling. Well, now everything's resolved as heck. Reasonably satisfyingly so, I guess. It's good to watch for closure, if you were an Inuyasha fan back in the day. And you don't necessarily have to rewatch the whole series to get back up to speed, it turns out... just the Goryomaru/Ascetics arc would be more than enough. Say, the last 10 eps or so.
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my god man ive been trying to watch it for years and im still only somewhere in season 5 i think. your a machine, i am impress, glad to know it wont all be a waste for final act!
GasBandit
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There is a LOT of filler in season 5, too. About half of it is unrelated to the primary plot arc. The climax of the Band of Seven arc is the first half, then there's two filler episodes (127 and 128, "dried up demons" and "the cultural festival") that you actually should watch because they're entertaining unlike most of the filler... but then you can safely skip to episode 141, which is early in season 6. Then there's only 26 more episodes until the end of the main run. They go pretty fast, given that they're each only about 23 minutes long.
Dragonball Super heading to Adultswim on January 7th. We're getting 26 episodes this season.
Honestly? I kind of wish that Kai did the Buu arc, because people who haven't seen it are going to wonder what the fuck is going on.
Honestly? I kind of wish that Kai did the Buu arc, because people who haven't seen it are going to wonder what the fuck is going on.
GasBandit
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The notification you tagged me got lost under 10 more JCMs. heh.
How is a mere mortal able to post so many pics, I do not know. I'd trade my next unborn child for your memes and gifs folders, anyday.
Not that I will have any, vasectomy and all.
