The Anime Thread

[Blonde Moment]

Pretty into Goblin Slayer and am about to dip into the The Record of Lodoss War

[KIRA]

You guys need to watch The Backstreet Girls so amazing

[Sepholio]

Pretty into Goblin Slayer and am about to dip into the The Record of Lodoss War

I literally just got done watching Record of the Lodoss War again yesterday. Was my first anime way back in the day and I love it dearly.

[Blonde Moment]

Heard about it on an old Adnd podcast and am rather curious how it translates

[Sepholio]

Uhg, found another one of those anime that is bad ass but gets cut short -_-

It was called Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign and was made by the same people as Attack on Titan. I personally find it to be about a million times better than the hype machine that is AoT.

Especially dug the art style. Kind of gritty, not as well drawn backgrounds, similar to Cowboy Bebop, but with super clean and well animated characters. Sounds like a weird mix but it looked really really good imo.

[Sepholio]

Heard about it on an old Adnd podcast and am rather curious how it translates

There is a short series of OVAs and then a longer series of episodic anime. Both are good but I found the anime series to be better. It has one of the most heart breaking moments in anime for me.

[A.J.K]

Episode 90 of One Piece right now.

[Helmsphere]

Still watching Goblin Slayer.

I mean Animation is sorta meh but I love the fact he only wants to kill Goblins and doesn't even have the slighest clue what any of the other races are outside of Humans and Goblins.

[Fignuts]

So my town isn't going to get the Broly movie, and I prefer subtitles anyway, so I just downloaded a cam version and watched it.

First impressions are this is the best Dragon Ball movie ever. It's a little over half the movie before any real fighting starts, but I was very entertained for all the set up. Lots of really cool flashbacks and insight into the saiyan empire and their relationship with Freiza. Some new characters introduced that I genuinely liked and enjoyed.

Broly is given a bit more of a personality. Not much, but the important thing is you're given more reason to care about him than the previous version.

Then the fight starts. And holy shit is it good. Forget about this being the best that Dragon Ball has ever looked, this is one of the best looking anime I've ever seen.

Fucking tremendous stuff.

[Helmsphere]

They added more showing in my town, so instead of a 7 and 9 pm showing, which cuts into sexy time, There is a 1:15 showing, so planning to go see that next thursday.

[Kalyx triaD]

Godzilla Anime 3 is out.

[Fignuts]

Started watching My Hero Acadamia. It's good. Very good even. But holy shit are there some serious parallels to Naruto. To the point where it feels like a straight reskin at times.

Incredible dub though. One of the few shows where I prefer it to the subtitled version.

[KIRA]

The promised Neverland is on Hulu you worthless bitches

[KIRA]

Godzilla Anime 3 is out.

They went all philosophical with this one and to be honest out of the three I think I like this one the most first one being a close second and the second one being last

[Kalyx triaD]

I found the Mecha Godzilla subversion deeply disappointing, but this version of Ghidorah was epic.

[Tom Guycott]

Started watching My Hero Acadamia. It's good. Very good even. But holy shit are there some serious parallels to Naruto. To the point where it feels like a straight reskin at times.

Incredible dub though. One of the few shows where I prefer it to the subtitled version.

To be fair, there is a lot of parallel with a lot of shounen anime.

MHA seems to have better supporting cast of classmates, though, and an emphasis on the reminder that they are just school age kids and will think and act like school age kids.

[Fignuts]

To be fair, there is a lot of parallel with a lot of shounen anime.

MHA seems to have better supporting cast of classmates, though, and an emphasis on the reminder that they are just school age kids and will think and act like school age kids.

Yeah, but here it's a bit ridiculous. Agree on the second point though.

[ClockShot]

Been a few years, but Psycho Pass is coming back for a 3rd season.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/03/08/psycho-pass-season-3-announced?abthid=5c82d7f5240107610b0006bd

[Emperor Smeat]

Next season of Dragon Ball Super currently rumored to be starting this July with an official announcement rumored to be made by late next month.

[Gray]

Yeah cannot wait for that.

It seems to be going one of two ways, they could do similar to the previous Super-movie releases (Battle of Gods and Frieza) and make them into story arcs with Broly.

But I think this whole shit with Vic Mignogna may have stopped that dead in its' tracks.

The manga/comic book version though seems to be about some wizard who grows more powerful by eating planets' energy. I did hope the Broly stuff would have come first, but last I read Vic seems to have been thrown under the bus.

[Kalyx triaD]

Why would a Japanese studio care about an American actor getting railroaded?

[Shadow]

Cause he's the voice of at least one of their characters? Honestly, I don't think Toriyama gives two shits who's voicing who as long as they emote right.

[Kalyx triaD]

He's just who Funimation hired. They have their voice actors to worry about. Vic will likely be replaced in the new saga if all the drama holds. Luckily it's not like this Broly was very talkative.

[Gray]

Indeed he was not. But I don't think he was that talkative in the first series of movies barring the whole "KAKAAAROTTTT!" stuff.

https://twitter.com/funimation/status/1095087396209770501

Funimation employed him for quite a few things, whether that Twitter is run by US or Japanese I am not sure. But without even being guilty of anything he was shafted by Funimation (US?) even though a lot of the information seems fabricated.

It is similar to how Sean Schemmel is Goku and Chris Sabat is Vegeta, they made the roles their own and became the characters. I am sure if they ended up having this levied on them there would have been a huge shitstorm.

Albeit Chris and Sean both nailed Vic as well showing him zero support, which I thought was pretty disgusting and my opinion of them did certainly change!

[Fignuts]

Rehashing the movies was one of the worst parts of super. Hope they don’t do it for Brody.

[Kalyx triaD]

Yeah I wasn't too crazy about how they just threw him under a bus based on dubious shit.

They'll understand when it comes for them but until then I hope Vic gets his job back.

[KIRA]

Indeed he was not. But I don't think he was that talkative in the first series of movies barring the whole "KAKAAAROTTTT!" stuff.

https://twitter.com/funimation/status/1095087396209770501

Funimation employed him for quite a few things, whether that Twitter is run by US or Japanese I am not sure. But without even being guilty of anything he was shafted by Funimation (US?) even though a lot of the information seems fabricated.

It is similar to how Sean Schemmel is Goku and Chris Sabat is Vegeta, they made the roles their own and became the characters. I am sure if they ended up having this levied on them there would have been a huge shitstorm.

Albeit Chris and Sean both nailed Vic as well showing him zero support, which I thought was pretty disgusting and my opinion of them did certainly change!

I don't know this Vic thing goes back all the way till at least 2011 there's a whole Tumblr for it with an archive

[Sepholio]

I actually won't mind them rehashing the movie into the series. You have to consider that in the first run of the anime that the show got well ahead of the manga. The manga has finally caught up and pressed on a little bit further than the series has, but it isn't really far enough yet. If they work the Broly stuff into the series it would give them probably another 3 months or so of leeway in terms of the manga getting further ahead, giving them more content to work with before they have to worry about catching up again.

[Shadow]

Yeah I wasn't too crazy about how they just threw him under a bus based on dubious shit.

They'll understand when it comes for them but until then I hope Vic gets his job back.

You're ok with a sexual predator getting his job back? Or are you just ignorant about why he lost his job?

[Kalyx triaD]

I read the accounts (from sources most likely to believe victim accounts so no 'anti-feminist dismissals' or anything like that).

Sexual Predator is a tad hysterical given these accounts, and that's if they're true/accurate being that a few set off my spidey-sense. The hotel room meeting in particular set off all sorts of red flags as the story went on.

[Gray]

It seems in the past day or two Vic has been reinvited (After being removed a few weeks ago due to this whole saga) to the Kami-Con.

This has stoked up a few and some of the other voice actors pulled out "for safety" :rofl:.

[Kalyx triaD]

Oh yeah the guy's a loose cannon.

[Fignuts]

Finished reading Ibitsu. They really need to animate it. Hell, it would even translate wellinto a western style horror movie.

[ClockShot]

Netflix has announced the cast for it's live-action Cowboy Bebop series.

John Cho - Spike Spiegel

Mustafa Shakir - Jet Black

Daniella Pineda - Faye Valentine

Alex Hassell - Vicious

[Fignuts]

All those characters could potentially be translated well to a live action series.

The real trouble is gonna be casting and portraying Ed. That character is much more “anime” than the rest of them.

[Emperor Smeat]

Wonder if the live action series will settle the question of what happened to Spike in the end. The original anime series kept his fate vague.

[Kalyx triaD]

I doubt it will even get thru the center of the original series run. And frankly I felt his fate was kinda clear.

[Shadow]

Wonder if the live action series will settle the question of what happened to Spike in the end. The original anime series kept his fate vague.

He's kinda...dead.

[Emperor Smeat]

Thought its only implied that likely happened but also one of those endings where its left to the viewer to decide like with Inception.

When I first saw the series, I thought he died but then read years later about the creator never set that ending in stone and isn't even sure of Spike's fate after that scene.

[Seanny One Ball]

Watching One Punch Man.

Glorious.

[Kalyx triaD]

One PUUUUUAAAAAAANCH

[Seanny One Ball]

I really love this show. I will be sad when I finish the series and have no access to further monster mashing.

[Sepholio]

Well at least season 2 has finally started. And if you like One Punch Man then you should give Mob Psycho 100 a chance next. Kinda similar type of set up.

[Seanny One Ball]

This is the only anime I have ever seen besides Pokemon when I was about 12. Bill Burr put me onto it.

[Seanny One Ball]

I like the bureaucracy of the superhero system and the moments where Saitama sacrifices his public image for the good of the cause. Mostly I just love how easy the fighting is and how hard his life seems to be. Great stuff.

[Sepholio]

Yeah the whole easy fighting, hard life thing is where it is similar to Mob. There's a bit of bureaucracy in the school leadership hierarchy but not to the extent of the super hero organization from One Punch Man.

[Seanny One Ball]

Well the only version on Netflix is live action and I can't be bothered with that so I might try Baki or something else.

[Seanny One Ball]

Baki was tough going. Too sincere.

Space Dandy now. May be too far in the other direction...

[Fignuts]

Baki was kind of ridiculous. The main character doesn't even do anything throughout the whole season.

[Tom Guycott]

Watching One Punch Man.

Glorious.

A man with impeccable taste. You should put a mustache and monacle on your avatar.

[Fignuts]

Watching the second season of One Punch Man. So good.

[Fignuts]

It's like someone read all of Triple A's posts and made an anime protagonist out of them.

[Seanny One Ball]

On Netflix?!

[Fignuts]

No. Watching it by "other means".

[Tom Guycott]

I finally got around to watching gen:LOCK. It's actually pretty fucking good, and eagerly await a second season. My only (admittedly nitpicky) complaints are:

a) While the lore isn't necessary, it would have done well with a tad more exposition into the world as to understand the situation they're in. If this were a video game, we could prob'ly go around reading terminals to glean why and how the world is as it is. Here, we're just kinda dropped into it. There is also something that feels like a plot conclusion that people jumped to halfway through, but I can't describe it without spoilers. It seems like if there were even one more episode in the season somewhere, both of those things could have been ironed out without dragging any pace. Granted, 9 episodes would have been a weird number, but they can do whatever they want with their own show.

b) The animation... it's a little... jerky. There is this "lag" that I remember from a show like Zoids. Best way I can describe what I mean is if you tried to watch an episode of Beast Wars, but instead of on TV, you printed all the CG onto cells for the whole episode, and printed them in a flip book. It looks nice, but it moves a little choppy. Given that it is a RoosterTeeth producion that is built as animation from the ground up (as opposed to running on an existing game engine and being maniupulated as they're famed for), it is a damn good first attempt, and hope they can polish that up in the future.

[Fignuts]

Couple episodes into Parasyte. Really good so far.

[ClockShot]

Zipped through all the seasons of Date A Live while I was on vacation last week. Not bad for being on hiatus for 5 years.

IGN had an article today about comparing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice to Dororo. Think I'll jump into that next.

[Destor]

Dororo is amazing. Its true to the source material and livesuo to the anime from the 60s. A+


As good as any of the all time great animes

[Fignuts]

Claymore

I tried watching this before, but the first episode just didn't hook me at all.

Decided to give it another chance and after the first few episodes it does start to pick up and get really good.

Fuck Rocky though. Mad annoying character.


Bummed Ophelia got offed so quickly. She was great.

[ClockShot]

Love Claymore.

Yeah Figs, you gotta get through the first couple episodes before it shifts over to Claire and really gets going. And yes, Raki sucks.

Soundtrack is one of the best.

[Blonde Moment]

It's one of those that just makes me wish there was more

[Tom Guycott]

Claymore is the shit! I think I'm going to go watch it again at some point this week. Hopefully.

[Seanny One Ball]

It's like someone read all of Triple A's posts and made an anime protagonist out of them.

lol

I bought One Punch Man on DVD and got 6 OA episodes. Dunno what OA is but I like it as a fun little extra.

This show is the business. I am constantly moving between laughing and silently emoting pure feels. Is season 2 as good so far?

[Seanny One Ball]

Anime is such a racket though. You want to see the prices of these DVD's and Blu Ray's. £20 for One Punch Man on DVD, £40 on Blu Ray.

[Destor]

OVAs are non canonical. Bonus eps.

[Seanny One Ball]

Oh yeah, it does say OVA.

That's Latin for eggs.
Spanish omelette for tea then.

[Destor]

"Original Animation Video" (they can be called OVA or OAV) basically its direct to DVD content. Cant stress that theyre 99% non-canonical though.

Steins;gate has an OVA that takes place after the series/source material that is completely contradicted by the follow up series.

The One Punch OVAs are good though. No canon implications really. Anthology misadventures. Good stuff.

[Fignuts]

Grew up on gundam so I always thought ova’s were canonical.

[Fignuts]

lol

I bought One Punch Man on DVD and got 6 OA episodes. Dunno what OA is but I like it as a fun little extra.

This show is the business. I am constantly moving between laughing and silently emoting pure feels. Is season 2 as good so far?

It's fucking great.

[ClockShot]

Kakegurui season 2 dropped on Netflix.

Watched the first episode and it's just as wacky and twisted as the first season.

[Destor]

I watched the series Eden of the East a few years back. 11 eps but a great show. Always stuck with me. It has great closure with the arcs told within and is self contained but theres a larger arc left unresolved that was tied up with 2 feature length films.


For whatever reason i never got around to them. Watched the first yesterday...nothing happens. At all. Nothing is progressed or revealed. Truly poorly written. This is from the guy who did ghost in the shell so bad writing is the last thing you expect.


Watching the 2nd film now. 20 min in and nothing has happened but im optinistic everything gets wrapped up...but its begining to feel like an OVA the same way the 1st film did...which is not what i was looking for...


Its possible the films were meant to wrap things up and a 2nd 11 ep run was meant to but never happened? I dunno...speculating.

[Destor]

After the 1st act the film gets back on track and becomes the poignant social commentary that the 1st film lacked.

[RP]

Never watched Anime, but i started watching Neon Genesis : Evangelion and i'm kinda hooked atm. I'm on episode 4. I'm gonna be pretty disappointed if Shinji doesnt get to fuck Misato.

[McLegend]

One punch season 2 is good. Fuck the haters

[RP]

Are all the good Anime dubbed with English and what are the good ones on Netflix?

[Seanny One Ball]

One Punch Man

You will not regret it.

[ClockShot]

Are all the good Anime dubbed with English and what are the good ones on Netflix?

Netflix lately has been churning out their own Anime. They have a selection of good stuff you might be familiar with (Fairy Tail, Attack of Titan to name a few), but Netflix hasn't added the remaining seasons.

Lately, it looks like they're getting back into adding some classic titles to their library. Code Geass and Evangelion are the 2 big ones I noticed.

[Sepholio]

You want a great anime on Netflix? Seven Deadly Sins. Season 4 supposed to come out later this year.

[Sepholio]

and while not all the good anime are dubbed into English, most of them are nowadays. I rather enjoy the trend of the simuldub, where we get the dubs at the same time or at least fairly fast after the native language broadcast.

[Sepholio]

Also if you like One Punch Man seriously give Mob Pyscho 100 a chance. Very similar but at the same time entirely different.

Also can't recommend Psycho Pass highly enough.

My favorites during the current season are The Rising of the Shield Hero and Bungo Stray Dogs.

[Destor]

You want a great anime on Netflix? Seven Deadly Sins. Season 4 supposed to come out later this year.
Not to be "that guy" but what they call s2 is the OVAs from s1 and I expect whats coming as s4 will be the OVAs from s2.



No clue why netflix labeled them they way they did.

[Destor]

Theyre creating ff3/ff6 confusion in terms though

[Sepholio]

Yeah, it was pretty weird how they did that. I'm under the impression that season 4 is a full season though.

[Destor]

I wont object. The show is great.

[Destor]

If a full season does drop itll only be s3 though

[Sepholio]

Yeah. I know that. You know that. It'll be listed as season 4 though so why confuse people over semantics?

[Destor]

because if you go to buy these you're going to get confused.

[Destor]

Its only netlfix that has these listed wrong. anywhere else you go to purchase (or illegally watch) these is going to have them correctly.

[Sepholio]

Just watched the latest One Punch Man. All these upgrades Genos gets every time he is defeated seem to finally be paying off. And he seems like he's getting "woke" within the context of the show, i.e. he is finally starting to understand the advice Saitama gives him.

[ClockShot]

:nono:

Can't believe Netflix fucked around with Evangelion.

Might have to just put the breaks on that and just watch through a website.

[Destor]

Removing the gay romance is pretty bad imo. You dont change the artists vision.

[ClockShot]

That, re-dubbing with their own guys, being to cheap to pay for Fly me to the Moon.

[Emperor Smeat]

A sequel to Dragon Ball Super: Broly reportedly is currently in production and could be released as early as late 2020.

https://screenrant.com/dragon-ball-super-broly-2-release-date-story/

[Destor]

That, re-dubbing with their own guys, being to cheap to pay for Fly me to the Moon.
I welcome the redub and i can youtube the closing credits whenever i want

[Kalyx triaD]

The script was also altered and I'm not too crazy about that since it's one of my fave western anime script translations ever.

I wanted exactly what I knew to get released again, never considered they'd actually redo the dubbing to that degree. That's a no deal.

[Destor]

Changing the narritive is any way is unacceptable. Art has to be authentic or its worthless

[RP]

:nono:

Can't believe Netflix fucked around with Evangelion.

Might have to just put the breaks on that and just watch through a website.

I'm in the middle of this on Netflix. What's not included?

[ClockShot]

I'm in the middle of this on Netflix. What's not included?


Removing the gay romance is pretty bad imo. You dont change the artists vision.


That, re-dubbing with their own guys, being to cheap to pay for Fly me to the Moon.

[RP]

gay romance? I hope its Misato.

[McLegend]

Garou is the man. I always love the bad guy who really isn’t that bad of a guy. It gets me every time.

And the last episode was the best. The beginning of The Bang and Garou confrontation was intense. The season has benefited from not having much Saitama overall.

I hope the show doesn’t go on hiatus for another 3.5 years after this season. Also excited to rewatch when the dub comes out... whenever that is.

[Fignuts]

Garou is fantastic. His relationship with the little hero fanboy is one of the best parts of the series.

[ClockShot]

Season 4 of Attack on Titan will be it's last.

[Fignuts]

Story took a turn in the manga, and not for the better

[McLegend]

Loved the One Punch finale. Strong 2nd season.

Hope it gets a 3rd season soon.

[ClockShot]

Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of Akira, has announced that a new series and movie is coming at the L.A. Anime Expo.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/07/05/new-akira-anime-series-announced-with-new-movie-from-akira-creator

[Seanny One Ball]

I caught One Punch Man season 2 in a dubbed, mangled YouTube format but it was still good. I loved Siuryu(?) the martial artist, his arc was hopefully the beginning of something special for next season. Garou was fucking great too, I honestly thought he had killed Mumen Rider. I was horrified.

One fair complaint would be the regression with Saitama. He's completely halted his quest for a challenge, now he's just playing video games. It lacked the comedy he usually provides, maybe that was a bad subtitle thing. Also WTF with the bad language and tits everywhere? I wonder if the first season had that but they chopped it out for Western tastes or something?

[Fignuts]

What tits?

You probably watched a fansub. Official release probably won't have the foul language.

I dunno I thought Saitama was pretty funny. This season was definitely more about Garou though. I could see the series building towards Garou getting stronger and stronger until he's the one who can finally battle Saitama toe to toe for the show's final battle.

As for his quest for a challenge, I mean yeah, he wants that for sure, but its not why he's a hero. So it didn't really bother me that he didn't focus on that this season.

[Seanny One Ball]

There were tits everywhere a female character showed up, then you'd see their jugs straining against their top mid fight.

Also he's a hero for fun but he's not having any fun because he can't find a challenge. Ennui isn't enough on its own, there has to be some optimism to make it palatable and it seems to me that he was far more negative this season. There was significantly less of him too.

It was a few points off the first impeccable season.

[Seanny One Ball]

Just watched the latest One Punch Man. All these upgrades Genos gets every time he is defeated seem to finally be paying off. And he seems like he's getting "woke" within the context of the show, i.e. he is finally starting to understand the advice Saitama gives him.



His entire advice has been "Be stronger" and Genos still keeps losing bigger fights only to be saved by a man who has great power but no enthusiasm or obvious motivation.
Genos is motivated by revenge, Saitama at this point is just drifting between passionless good deeds looking for a challenge he may never find, encountering skills he can easily defeat.

I dunno if the show is making a point about purpose or goals anymore, it's quite hard to see where it's going but I have to admit it still hits me right in the space between love and fear so I'll often find myself overpowered by laughter or empathy only to feel the terror of life's great unknowns following distantly behind.

It is brilliant, but it's so much more than just a funny cartoon.

I wish I was aware enough to totally understand it but maybe leaving me with questions is part of the appeal. All I know is that I watched the first season three times in a few months so hopefully the official English dub of season 2 comes out soon so I can feast my eyes properly and fill in whatever I missed with those odd YouTube cuts.

[Sepholio]

Seriously, watch Mob Psycho 100. It's the other show/manga the creator of One Punch Man pens.

[Seanny One Ball]

But where can I see that? Not on Netflix or Amazon Prime

[Destor]

7 seeds on netflix. Vwry early so it could fall apart buts its got some lord of the flies vibes with a sci-fi twist. Has potential.

[Destor]

But where can I see that? Not on Netflix or Amazon Primeits on the funimation app

[ClockShot]

Kyoto Animation is currently burning to the ground due to an arson attack. Death toll is up to 28 last I checked.

They're not known for much, but Violet Evergarden is their big hit right now over on Netflix.

:(

[Fignuts]

Jesus

[Destor]

33

[Kalyx triaD]

She Ra season 3 gets therapeutic on ya.

[Destor]

Dr. Stone


the premise is bizarre but it works. Everyone on earth is turned to stone. A brialliant scientist breaks free thousnads of years later and begins to reubuild from scratch.

[ClockShot]

Cop Craft.

Pretty much the "dimension/world appears near a city and the 2 races co-exist" premise mixed with the buddy cop plot line.

Kinda like Blood Blockade Battlefront. But it's not a team of super human ass kickers. Just a male human cop and a female alien knight thrown together due to circumstances.

[Destor]

Kinda hated blood blockade. Characters were all flat. World too.

[Destor]

Just caught cop craft. Def "if blockade was good"

[Sepholio]

Dr. Stone


the premise is bizarre but it works. Everyone on earth is turned to stone. A brialliant scientist breaks free thousnads of years later and begins to reubuild from scratch.

Love this show. Prob my favorite of the current season. Fire Force is also pretty cool.

[Destor]

Watched the 1st ep of mob psycho 100 on sephs recommendation. Bizarre and unhinged. Wonderful.

[Sepholio]

Yeah it's a very fun show. Wish it and OPM had longer seasons.

Started watching ASTRA LOST IN SPACE. Star Trek vibes for sure.

[Sepholio]

I decided to start Copcraft after seeing Destor mention it up there and needing something to watch. I really like it. The lore has me intrigued more than anything.

[Destor]

Not anime but Carnival Row has a lot of the same themes as Cop Craft. Slow start but its worth a watch.

[ClockShot]

Blasted through In Another World with my Smartphone.

Eh. I liked Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody better in terms of the transported to another world and slowly develop a harem of girls plotline. More serious.

[Sepholio]

DUDE. DUDE. BOTH OF YOU DUDES.

Destor: Already have Carnival Row queued up, didn't know exactly what it was about, but the trailers did enough for me.

Clockshot: Haven't watched In Another World yet, but holy shit. You know about Death March. I have mad love for that one and really want a second season. I know the odds are it'll never happened as its one of those anime designed as a gateway to the LN/Manga, but still. Kind of obsessed with the whole "transported to/stuck in a game world" animes of the last few years. Overlord and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime are my 2 favorite.

[Sepholio]

Turns out I had watched in another world with my smartphone before just didn't remember it until I started watching it last night. I love how this style of anime has ridiculous names, like Don't you love your mom and her two hit, multi-target attacks? lmao

[Sepholio]

So I need one of you guys to watch "The Promised Neverland" so we can discuss how it might be the best thing ever.

[Destor]

What streaming service is it on

[Sepholio]

I know Funi has it subbed, and I think Crunchyroll does as well. The thing is I know there is a dub because it ran on adult swim, I just can't find it anywhere legit....

[ClockShot]

Getting sick of how Netflix is handling their anime.

Messing around and saw their new Kabaneri movie is up. But, no series. Gotta watch that stuff on the Funimation app or one of the streaming sites. Just put up the extra cash and get it. :mad:

I wish they would go out and get the rest of Fairy Tail and Attack on Titan. Or just up and drop them.

[Sepholio]

The fall lineup for Funi is looking rather swell. Lot of stuff I'm down for. Fire Force, Dr. Stone and Black Clover all continuing. RADIANT getting a season 2. More FATE. Finishing up Fairy Gone. Couple new shows that seem pretty interesting.

Oh and some shit called My Hero Academia season 4, whatever that is. Looks alright I guess.

[Destor]

fuck im hyped for mha

[Destor]

Gotta plug it once more: amazon. Dororo. Must watch.

[Helmsphere]

Been watching Angels of Death while waiting for MHA. Girlfriend finally finished the original Dragon ball.

[Destor]

OG Dragon Ball is best Dragon Ball

[ClockShot]

Gotta plug it once more: amazon. Dororo. Must watch.

Got a few episodes in but got sidetracked.

Haven't forgotten.

[Kalyx triaD]

Kill la Kill is glorious.

[Destor]

Actually rewatching kill la kill currently. About half in. My first watch was in Japanese. Watching the dub now. Dub is solid but something this bizarre is better in a (any) foreign language

[Destor]

Adds to the insanity

[Fignuts]

https://i.imgur.com/iXdlr8P.png

[Destor]

Its very situational for me. I like to give both versions a few eps and see if i develop a preference. I started watch MHA in both. Now im 100% on dubbed. Attack on Titan the opposite.

[Fignuts]

https://i.imgur.com/MU9bhRb.png

[Kalyx triaD]

The ENG vo on Kill la Kill is just chock full of the actors having too much fun. It works for me. Then again I default to dubs anyway.

[Destor]

I typically prefer English for one very simple reason: inflection is a huge part of acting (let alone voice acting) and inflection cant be appreciated (not truly anyways) in a language you dont speak.



That said sometimes ENG casting directors just dont get the long term vision of the JPN director so over time castings can fall apart as what a character grows into no longer fits the range of the actor. I try to give both an opportunity to sell me though. But i lean ENG.

[Sepholio]

Just binged Terror in Resonance. Don't know how I haven't ever heard of that one before. Absolutely incredible. Being directed by Watanabe and scored by Kanno helps any anime though.

[ClockShot]

Finished up Happy Lesson. It was fun. But, Tenchi Muyo is better.

Gonna circle back and finish Darling in the Franxx. Then get back into Beatless and Dororo. By then Cop Craft should be done and I can blast through that.

Then, start Strike The Blood.

[Sepholio]

Cop Craft is done now as far as I know. Think the ep I watched a couple days ago was the finale.

I just went back and binged Heroic Age again. Love that series. Wish there would have been more somehow.

[Sepholio]

Hey Destor. Seven Deadly Sins Season 4 (;)) episode 1 is out.

[Sepholio]

PS Escanor is waifu no homo

[Destor]

Omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg img o omg omg omg om g omg

[Destor]

I was coming in here to say "How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift" is delightfully stupid but never mind IM OFF

[Destor]

Its the sub thats out...nvrmnd. itll prolly be 6 months before the dub drops. Oh well. Im sure itll be great when it comes out.

[Tom Guycott]

OG Dragon Ball is best Dragon Ball

I knew there was a reason why I liked you. :y:

[Tom Guycott]

I was coming in here to say "How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift" is delightfully stupid but never mind IM OFF

I just watched the fuck out of that, and was coming here to suggest as much, but you beat me to it.

[Fignuts]

OG Dragon Ball is best Dragon Ball

https://i.imgur.com/pSP55zg.png

[Sepholio]

DBZ Kai is best Dragon Ball.

[Sepholio]

My Hero season 4 ep 1 dub is up on funimation.

[Sepholio]

15 seconds in and my boner is already plus ultra WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Tom Guycott]

DBZ Kai is best Dragon Ball.

Abridged Kai would like to have a word with you.

[Sepholio]

How have I never watched Drifters before? Need season 2 now >_<

[Sepholio]

LMAO Kemono Michi: Rise Up. Professional wrestler gets teleported to another world during his retirement match to fight monsters at the request of a princess....who he promptly German suplexes lmao

[Sepholio]

lololol this show kills me.

[Destor]

Sign me up

[Shadow]

I can't really believe they made something like this.

And then again, knowing how much Japan loves wrestling an anime, surprised they haven't made something like this before. GIVE ME MY NEW JAPAN ANIME JAPAN!

[ClockShot]

HBO Max acquired the streaming rights to the Studio Ghibli films.

The entire catalog goes live Spring 2020.

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni62654970?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=b688335a-3266-4b15-ab7b-ab8edbc4b1c4&pf_rd_r=HBNNF6RB4JH7G70VMMD7&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_nw_tp3

[ClockShot]

Netflix puts the Girls Und Panzer movie up. But, no series.

If anyone hasn't watched the series, it's worth it. High school girls driving tanks for sport.

[ClockShot]

After more than a year of starting it, I finally finished Darling in the Franxx.

Damn, what a series.

[ClockShot]

Finished Dororo (2019).

Great stuff. Action was intense. Sorta lagged in the middle of the series but picked back up at the end.

Started vacation today, so I'll start Beatless back up from the beginning probably tomorrow. Also, watching One Punch Man season 2 on Adult Swim and Maid Sama on Netflix on the side.

[Destor]

Dororo is a masterpiece. Glad someone else watched it

[Helmsphere]

How did i not know a second MHA movie was coming?

[Helmsphere]

Girlfriend and I finally finished the Saiyan Saga in DBZ. Hope she is ready for the ride that is the Namek Saga

[Sepholio]

Girlfriend and I finally finished the Saiyan Saga in DBZ. Hope she is ready for the ride that is the Namek Saga

You watching the original version or the Kai version?

[Helmsphere]

Original

[Fignuts]

https://i.imgur.com/iFG94CF.png

[Destor]

Hard pass on abridged

[Shadow]

Destor how long has it been since you've had the simplest of joys?

[Helmsphere]

Motherfucking Super Saiyan Deku

[Fignuts]

https://i.imgur.com/84hOKjW.png

[Sepholio]

Motherfucking Super Saiyan Deku

Shiiiiiiiiiittt that was ultra instinct if you ask me.

[Sepholio]

https://i.imgur.com/84hOKjW.png

Yeah it was pretty bleak for sure.

[ClockShot]

Finished Beatless.

Not a bad series. Ya might get lost a bit with the technical mumbo jumbo.

Going back to finish Cop Craft now.

[Helmsphere]

The overhaul arc in MHA this season had been such a ride.

[Sepholio]

I wish MHA was a Netflix original so that I could get 26 or whatever episodes at one time lol such an awesome show.

[ClockShot]

Finished Maid Sama! on Netflix this morning.

Fun RomCom anchored by the wonderful dub work of Monica Rial and Dave Matranga.

[Destor]

Darwin's Game :y:

[Sepholio]

Yea Darwins Game is prob my fave of the current season.

[Sepholio]

The other one I'm really digging is Plunderer.

[Destor]

Plunderer has tons of potential. Also overly cautious hero or whatever its called

[ClockShot]

Finished Cop Craft.

Excellent.

[Sepholio]

Yeah I caught overly cautious hero in the fall season, also enjoyed it. Cop Craft too.

[ClockShot]

For those interested, Crunchyroll held their Anime awards. Demon Slayer won big.

Here's the list of winner from IGN.

Anime of the Year - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Best Animation - Mob Psycho 100 II
Best Opening Sequence - Mob Psycho 100 II, ♪ 99.9 - MOB CHOIR feat. sajou no hana
Best Ending Sequence - KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR, ♪ Chikatto Chika Chikaa♡ - Konomi Kohara
Best Boy - Tanjiro Kamado, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Best Girl - Raphtalia, The Rising of the Shield Hero
Best Score - Mocky, Carole & Tuesday
Best VA Performance (JP) - Yuichi Nakamura voices Bruno Bucciarati in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
Best VA Performance (EN) - Billy Kametz voices Naofumi in The Rising of the Shield Hero
Best Director - Tetsuro Araki, Chief Director and Masashi Koizuka, Director – Attack on Titan Season 3
Best Best Character Design - Satoshi Iwataki, Original Character Design by Hiroyuki Asada, Dororo
Best Protagonist - Senku, Dr. STONE
Best Antagonist - Isabella, The Promised Neverland
Best Fight Scene - Tanjiro & Nezuko vs. Rui, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Best Couple - Kaguya Shinomiya & Miyuki Shirogane, KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR
Best Drama - Vinland Saga, WIT STUDIO
Best Fantasy - The Promised Neverland, CloverWorks
Best Comedy - KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR, A-1 Pictures

[Sepholio]

Demon Slayer was awesome. Really like several of the other award winners too. Dr. Stone, The Promised Neverland, Mob Psycho 100, AoT, Shield Hero....all really good.

[Fignuts]

https://i.imgur.com/YKe82Zl.png

[Sepholio]

Plunderer for the fucking win.

[Sepholio]

o0o0o new season of Castlevania :D

[Sepholio]

SEASON 4 NAO. Could not stop watching season 3. Best one so far imo. Absolutely incredible.

[Emperor Smeat]

Yeah Season 3 was pretty great. Not as much action as the previous 2 seasons but the storytellng stuff was the best.

That ending went dark really fast.

[Sepholio]

For sure, season 3 is one of my fave seasons of any anime ever, easily. It was so damn perfect and set up what is coming so well.

[Destor]

Finally watched the back half of s3 attack on titan...woah. huge swerve

[Sepholio]

Bleach anime coming back. Can not explain how hype I am, love Bleach.

[Fignuts]

https://i.imgur.com/GbEKiJi.png

[Shadow]

Yeah they're finishing up the Manga and doing the Thousand Year War arc.

So...enjoy.

[Emperor Smeat]

I remember at the time being a bit upset the Bleach anime series ended right before that final arc starts because of all the cool stuff that happens in it.

Also remember that final manga arc being ridiculously long compared to the other arcs.

[Sepholio]

The manga arc is fairly long, but not nearly as long as they said it was going to be. Kubo started getting sidetracked and slowed down a bunch on it and then I guess the higher ups coerced him into rushing tf out of the final arc a bit. A lot of stuff planned got cut. Hoping the anime gives him another chance to finish it the way he intended.

[Sepholio]

Gonna be sweet finally seeing Yhwach in action though.

[Sepholio]

Cant help myself, started streaming from episode 1. Not like I don't have time lol

[ClockShot]

Finished season 1 of Strike the Blood.

Not bad. Gets a bit corny here and there at the back half of the season.

I'll keep going since it leaves some things unexplained that might get answered in the other seasons.

[ClockShot]

Finished season 1 of Strike the Blood.

Not bad. Gets a bit corny here and there at the back half of the season.

I'll keep going since it leaves some things unexplained that might get answered in the other seasons.


Got through season 2. Short, but it sets up what's probably going down for season 3. I've already started and it's hit or miss so far because the fanbase handled the subtitle work and it's really hit or miss.

Also, a bit of a heads up. For those of you who like to watch through thewatchcartoononline.tv, site traffic has picked up to the point where if it's busy, they want you to register to watch. Just refresh a couple times or watch later when it quiets down.

[Sepholio]

I'm like 200ish episodes into bleach now, still waiting for Funimation to start streaming the new season shows and continue the ones that were delayed due to the rona.

[Sepholio]

Just remembered that the Made in Abyss movie came out in the last few days too, gonna see if I can find that right now.

[ClockShot]

Finished all of Strike The Blood for now. Season 4 is currently underway now, but only the first 2 sub episodes are out. There's a delay due to 'rona.

Gonna track down something else to watch. Maybe give Demon Slayer another shot. Didn't jive with me when I watched.

[Sepholio]

Demon Slayer was really good once it got a few episodes in. I'm currently watching some older shows I never got around to since the rona delay is impacting anime pretty heavily. Watching Blue Exorcist right now. Seems pretty good and I think I'm at the point where things are about to take off.

[ClockShot]

Blasting through Demon Slayer. Gotta love Adult Swim On Demand.

Started out good. Went off the rails midway through. But looks like it's getting back on track for the home stretch.

Zeroing in on something new to jump into. Appare-Ranman! might be next. Looks like Wacky Races when we were growing up meets Anime.

[ClockShot]

Finished Demon Slayer. Now just gotta wait for the movie.

Ugh. When they introduced the Crybaby and Beast Boy, it almost took me out of it. Had to mute the tv 'cause of all the screaming.

[ClockShot]

Appare-Ranman! is good stuff. Slow build to the craziness that's bound to happen.

Also watching The 8th Son? You got to be kidding! Typical fantasy plot you've probably seen in other anime, but I'm giving it a whirl. Dub just started while the sub is about 5-6 episodes in.

[drave]

Watching through the Netflix Ghost in the Shell.


The animation style really blows. It seems like they used really old tech, or just maybe couldn't utilize it well. I wouldn't think they would leave it clunky looking "on purpose".


Trying to look past it. 3D can be done better in anime

[Destor]

3d is trash. Its used because its cheap.

[drave]

Indeed. Found myself going back to watch SAC instead of this stuff......




really trying because I love the Ghost In The Shell universe..... but it reminds me of Reboot from the 90s.

[Destor]

I wanna find a reasonably priced SAC to add it to my collection

[ClockShot]

Zipped through Food (Porn) Wars! A few other series I'm watching are delayed due to the virus.

Sweet concept, great animation. A literal feast for the eyes.

I hope season 2 gets some romance going. That's obviously on a slow burn.

[ClockShot]

The 8th Son... season 1 wrapped up. Started interesting. Ended dull. Felt like it was going to be a 24 episode run. But it was 12. Eh.

Also at the back end of season 3 of Food Wars. The dub stops there and goes to subs for season 4. Which, I got no problem with. But this is great. If anyone's looking to get in on it, Netflix just grabbed it and put season 1 up.

Some of the other stuff I've been watching are still on hold due to the pandemic. So, going to look around for something new.

[Seanny One Ball]

Somebody please watch "Dorohedoro" on Netflix and talk about it a bit so I understand it more in the context of modern anime.

The humour and style are just bonkers, it's very very cool. It sounds weirder than it is though.
I dunno how to describe it beyond - a guy with a lizard head kills sorcerer's for information regarding his transformation from man to lizard man. He puts their heads in his mouth and a man inside him judges them.
They all die.

His female sidekick is better at fighting than him and has big boobs. She is a chef.

It's the best thing since One Punch Man but not actually as good.

[Seanny One Ball]

Two burly sorcerer assassins are trying to defeat them. There are bigger enemies, sorcerer's with higher status etc.

It has a punk style. I like it.

[Fignuts]

Wait what they made an anime for Dorohedoro? I read the manga years ago. It’s batshit insane.

[Sepholio]

I'll give it a go once I'm done with the second series of Basilisk.

[Destor]

I watched the prologue. Its madness

[Fignuts]

I discovered it when looking specifically for something surreal to read. So yeah. Mission accomplished.

[Shadow]

I finished up Season 1 of "I don't want to get hurt so I'll Max my defense". It's such a cute little anime that leaves just enough for a season 2.

[Destor]

Bofuri was great. If you havent watched overly cautious hero yet its in the same vein.

[Shadow]

I might just because I kinda dug this type of anime a bit.

[Fignuts]

About 8 episodes into Dorohedoro. They did such a great job with this. Animation looks awesome. I normally prefer sub, but the dub in this is just too good. They nailed everyone perfectly.

I had forgotten how great Ebisu is.

Also, it's a small thing but I got really good chuckle from the gargoyle flying around and screaming what time of day it is.

[Seanny One Ball]

I like his excitement over food.
Dude loves dumplings.

[Shadow]

When dumplings are well made, hard not to get excited about 'em.

[Seanny One Ball]

I don't think I could eat one after that mad Bai Ling film.
Friggin gross...

[Seanny One Ball]

Bai Ling is hot though.

Conflicted...

[Sepholio]

So I started Dorohedoro. I have no idea wtf I am watching but I know it's the damn titties. The animation gives me serious Akira vibes and fits the series perfectly.

[Seanny One Ball]

It's great fun and also slightly unsettling.
I found a source for Mob Psycho btw so I will be watching that next.

[Seanny One Ball]

Dorohedoro "Your bully sandwich is ready!"

[Seanny One Ball]

When Nikaido killed that old man with a baseball I just about pissed myself

[Seanny One Ball]

Despite what I said earlier Dorohedoro was as good as One Punch Man, better in some ways but not much worse in others.

Top quality.

I am now a fan of two anime's and I'm off to try Mob Psycho 100 to see if I can get the hat trick.

[Fignuts]

Try Parasyte on netflix

[Shadow]

No I think Mob Psycho is more his speed.

[Seanny One Ball]

I'll try both tonight, why not.

[Seanny One Ball]

4minutes in and this kid is grabbing tits without consent.

I LOL'd

[Seanny One Ball]

So he has a weird parasite in his arm that loves to grab tits.
Has RP seen this yet?

[Seanny One Ball]

When I was a lad I couldn't tell my parents about what I got up to with my right hand either.
Is this some sort of on the nose puberty metaphor?

[Seanny One Ball]

He's negotiating with his hand and losing.

Pretty weird show.
I can dig it if he becomes a vigilante.