[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!
TRUE-but he did say he was out of practice...repeatedly.
It's paced at what you'd expect for a 26-episode anime, which would be fine except that it's a 4-episode anime.
Even 8 episodes for next season feels a little slim.
Even 8 episodes for next season feels a little slim.
They shoulda FLCL'd this, SIX solid episodes.
Japanese censors are weird, All Might straight up said "Holy Shit" in My Hero Academia, yet they'll black/blur out violence like nobody's business.
GasBandit
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That's not so wierd. You should hear how much profanity our spanish radio station gets away with.
Yeah its a damn good adaptation, loved the manga for years, back in the early days when the scanlators wrote "individuality" instead of quirk. Some clunky ass word balloons.
Another weird thing though, I just can't help laughing seeing the theme song band's name "Pornograffiti", which I've learned is a reference to a song by Extreme...whoever they are.
Another weird thing though, I just can't help laughing seeing the theme song band's name "Pornograffiti", which I've learned is a reference to a song by Extreme...whoever they are.
GasBandit
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It's the name of their second album. They're a soft rock band from the 90s that pretends to be a metal band and fools a lot of people into thinking that they are because their first efforts sounded a little glammy. Their most popular track is this saccharine snoozefest:
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Oh god, it sounds like one of those literal translations to a 1990s Janpanimated series end theme that you'd see from time to time.
Also in MHA, I continue to notice random Star Wars Easter eggs and that makes me smile.
Also in MHA, I continue to notice random Star Wars Easter eggs and that makes me smile.
Continuing to watch the show, not so much a gripe or a complaint, but more a "I wish they could've done more" in showing the other individual hero x villain matches with class 1A. I mean there's plenty of reasons why not, Bones probably didn't have that much of a budget for it, writing and scripting COMPLETELY new fight scenes takes more time than just adapting them, but cleh.
Visually the show is absolutely fantastic, akin to something like Jojo's bizarre adventure in terms of art style.
FINAL NOTE-the first thing to come up on google search after Present Mic is...x reader...we live in a STRANGE world.
FINAL FINAL NOTE-MALLUBUROS-that is funny for some reason.
Visually the show is absolutely fantastic, akin to something like Jojo's bizarre adventure in terms of art style.
FINAL NOTE-the first thing to come up on google search after Present Mic is...x reader...we live in a STRANGE world.
FINAL FINAL NOTE-MALLUBUROS-that is funny for some reason.
I find it funny how season 2 of BNHA's ending theme features all six girls of the class. Most of me knows its just a basic "Girls having fun" ending, but the cynical part of me thinks the execs were all "Oh crap, males outweigh the females in class 1-A 7 to 3! FEMALE-CENTRIC ENDING GO!"
ALSO-and this is a critique on the series as a whole, but anyone notice this is one of those stories where characters will randomly be focused on in character development and back story? You see it happen with large ensemble team stories, where the bulk of the time instead of focusing on the characters as a group it primarily focuses on the main characters. That's not saying the main characters aren't good, but you end up just constantly waiting to see more about the ones who haven't really said much yet. Like Yuga or Shoji, easily the two most mysterious characters in Class 1A, they barely get focused on as real characters, one's primarily just a joke, and the other is a walking action scene.
ALSO-and this is a critique on the series as a whole, but anyone notice this is one of those stories where characters will randomly be focused on in character development and back story? You see it happen with large ensemble team stories, where the bulk of the time instead of focusing on the characters as a group it primarily focuses on the main characters. That's not saying the main characters aren't good, but you end up just constantly waiting to see more about the ones who haven't really said much yet. Like Yuga or Shoji, easily the two most mysterious characters in Class 1A, they barely get focused on as real characters, one's primarily just a joke, and the other is a walking action scene.
Finished Castlevania season 1 tonight. That was a hell of a finale. Not a moment wasted from that amazing exchange at the beginning, through the big showdown, to the flourish of the climax ... It just sucks that there won't be any more until 2018.
Utena has aged wonderfully. It's been something like 15 years since I watched it, and it isn't disappointing me. The pacing is a bit too slow for my taste, but the other aspects make up for it. Wife doesn't like most shojo stuff, so it's been a great time-filler.
I have actually never sat down and watched Utena all the way through... I need to see about that...
ALL I CAN REMEMBER IS NAKED CARS
That'd be the movie.
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Now, to convince @CynicalKat to let me slap this on our car...
Yes, countries that think an expletive isn't that bad but horrible violence might be too much are weird. Next you'll tell me European censor allowed a boob while sensoring a decapitation and how weird that is
It's also one of the few series to do the theme well outside of Booster Gold. Tiger and Bunny came close...but the fact that it was both A.)A toy commercial and B.)Actually sponsored by real world companies, negated some points from it.
Most other stories that work with this theme also use the "all superheros are dickheads" trope which RARELY works.
The similarity between BHNAnime and the original manga is AMAZING, especially since its able to have good animation as well as a unique art style as a TV-show.
ALSO-how fucking anti-climactic did Mei and Iida's fight have to be for the people that were neither support companies nor classmates? They must've been all- "SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT YOU'RE DAMN CHOCKES ALL READY!"
On the subject of the sports festival, I REALLY hope the whole series covers Deku's 3 years as a hero student, and shows ALL three sports festivals.
ALSO-how fucking anti-climactic did Mei and Iida's fight have to be for the people that were neither support companies nor classmates? They must've been all- "SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT YOU'RE DAMN CHOCKES ALL READY!"
On the subject of the sports festival, I REALLY hope the whole series covers Deku's 3 years as a hero student, and shows ALL three sports festivals.
My Hero Academia Season 1
A shonen show with actual pacing? The hell you say, but no... this show somehow avoided falling into most of the shonen traps and delivered a great shonen show with only one annoying character (Fuck you Minoru)! As for the series itself, it's basically Western Comic Books (specifically X-Men) as seen through a Japanese eye: MC is a hero worshipping kid who gets thrust into the world of heroing under the wing of the Superman analog All-Might, while he attends Hero School at what is basically a mix between the Xavier mansion and a Japanese high school. Powers of the people on the show range from the normal (Super strength, explosions, elemental control) to the weird (extra limbs that can mimic sensory organs, engines in your legs for super speed) to the useless (sticky balls, belly button laser that gives you a stomach ache).
I'm actually fairly impressed.
A shonen show with actual pacing? The hell you say, but no... this show somehow avoided falling into most of the shonen traps and delivered a great shonen show with only one annoying character (Fuck you Minoru)! As for the series itself, it's basically Western Comic Books (specifically X-Men) as seen through a Japanese eye: MC is a hero worshipping kid who gets thrust into the world of heroing under the wing of the Superman analog All-Might, while he attends Hero School at what is basically a mix between the Xavier mansion and a Japanese high school. Powers of the people on the show range from the normal (Super strength, explosions, elemental control) to the weird (extra limbs that can mimic sensory organs, engines in your legs for super speed) to the useless (sticky balls, belly button laser that gives you a stomach ache).
I'm actually fairly impressed.
Agreed on the pacing, main reason I took a break from the One Piece show is because the scenes take WAY longer than how I feel they should go sometimes.
And fun fact about Mineta, the author meant to show a scene where he used his pop-off ability to to block the robo's guns and halt their movements-BUT-20 plus pages in a manga can't show everything. Kinda...wish they got around to showing that in the show, but they were payed to animate a certain plot so whatevs.
And fun fact about Mineta, the author meant to show a scene where he used his pop-off ability to to block the robo's guns and halt their movements-BUT-20 plus pages in a manga can't show everything. Kinda...wish they got around to showing that in the show, but they were payed to animate a certain plot so whatevs.
I like One Piece but yes, it's designed to put out a shit ton of episodes and do dramatic turns during every god damn fight, even when there really shouldn't be. MHA follows a more Western view, which is that the ONLY time a single fight lasts more than a single issue is if it's between a dozen different fighters or if the fighters are the top of their tier. It makes sense that All Might is going to trounce just about everyone in maybe 1-2 attacks, he's the fucking world's best, so there is no reason to slow those fights down. He hasn't face a real challenge the entire show and the show isn't afraid to show that.
Even the Rescue arc at the end of season one is only 3-4 episodes and that's mostly because everyone is Class 1-A is scattered around. Even then, most of those side stories not involving Deku are maybe 5 minutes each, tops.
I kinda got hooked on KDramas for a while, so I haven't been keeping up with anime much. That said, I finally got around to watching One-Punch Man. I loved it! Also started watching Kill la Kill, but I've only gotten to episode 5 so far.
In BHNA: 3 minutes is 3 minutes. In One Piece: 3 minutes equals half a freaking episode.
Granted the pacing DID get better after they changed directors in the Water 7 arc, but there's still SOME lingering problems, outside of the pacing being the continuous use of flash-backs AND recap episodes that actually aired in Japan on natural TV time. Meaning some kid was wandering what the fuck happened to Franky-FOR FIVE WEEKS! Granted there were fun little shorts at the end-BUT STILL!
Granted the pacing DID get better after they changed directors in the Water 7 arc, but there's still SOME lingering problems, outside of the pacing being the continuous use of flash-backs AND recap episodes that actually aired in Japan on natural TV time. Meaning some kid was wandering what the fuck happened to Franky-FOR FIVE WEEKS! Granted there were fun little shorts at the end-BUT STILL!
Persona 5 getting an anime adaption. No word of a Western release.