toxicitizen Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Making you feel bad wasn't my intention, so please don't! Like I said, I only noticed the Parasyte one after the fact and I was able to avoid reading your post on JoJo once I saw where it was going, so no harm done. I was just asking you to be more careful in the future. The discovery is a big part of the fun for me in pretty much anything, so vague stuff like "wait until at least episode 5 to see if you like it" is fine but any kind of specific information tends to come across as something I wish I hadn't been told. I realize I'm more sensitive to that stuff than some people but I can't help it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) Season 2 confirmed! I have to say, I appreciate that they confirmed a second season right at the end of the first one, unlike Attack on Titan which took forever. Also, is it just me or is this an uncommon trend for anime? Most anime I saw always either did one season and then never adapted the manga any further (like Berserk) or they adapt the whole thing but never take breaks so there's a lot of filler to get through (like One Piece). I honestly feel like the more western style of doing a season, then taking a break to give the mangaka a chance to get new material out is the best way to do anime these days. While it does suck having to wait, it also means less need to pad episodes or do pointless filler. I've read the whole Boku no Hero Academia series so far and I can say that season one has basically no filler in it. What small changes or additions they did make was for the better, and as is there's easily enough manga material for three or four seasons right now. The only series I've seen that's had a more faithful manga-to-tv adaptation was Jojo, and that manga has been around for almost 30 years so there's no risk of filler anytime soon. I hope other studios take note of this. As much as I hate waiting for new episodes, it's better than slowing down the show's story to a snail's pace. Edited June 28, 2016 by Mister Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 I looked up a list of filler for One Piece recently because that was my main concern in starting it and I thought there was surprisingly little of it. Obviously there's some, but the biggest chunks are like 10 episodes and there didn't seem to be that many of them. Otherwise it's just a few episodes (like 2-3) here and there. That didn't seem like a lot to me. I mean, I still remember the original Naruto series that went on like 2 fucking years of filler before they got to the time skip. That was just painful and killed my interest in the series entirely. I switched to the manga and even then I didn't stick with it for very long. Bleach was a similar situation although I did eventually go back and watch everything (skipping all the filler) up to what felt like a reasonable end point. But yeah, I get what you mean about the speed of release. I was surprised by how far JoJo has gotten ever since I watched the first season. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago but there's already like 3 more seasons. From what I remember years ago, anime ususally doesn't get made that fast except for those ridiculously long shows that run almost continuously. I'm guessing it has to do with JoJo being very popular and having a lot of source material already available. I'm kind of hoping the new Berserk series will be produced on a similar schedule. It's fucking criminal that we're only just now getting the post-Golden Age material. Speaking of which, anyone else stoked for the premiere friday? I just finished rewatching the movies tonight. They're far from perfect but at this point I'm just glad we're finally getting more Berserk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 In One Piece's case it's true there aren't many filler episodes for a series of its length, but the issue cropping up recently is that the anime has gotten so dangerously close to catching up with the manga that the story is padded to hell and back, and for the most part entire episodes are devoted to covering a single manga chapter. Since the average One Piece chapter is around 20 pages, give or take, you can imagine how this results in a ton of unnecessary fluff that gets packed in to fill in the other half of the episode. I still watch the series and I still enjoy it thanks to the really great story and characters, but it's a definite problem that's impossible not to notice when comparing it to more recent animes like the aforementioned Boku no Hero and Jojo, which move the story along at a brisk pace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 Yeah, I figured that had to be the case. At some point, something has got to give. The anime started fairly soon after the manga, so it's pretty much inevitable without repeated breaks. What kind of padding is it, though? Is it what I like to call "DBZ syndrome" where the characters will just stand there and do nothing for entire episodes during fights? Or do they just constantly insert new but useless scenes that add nothing? Although, either way is far preferable to completely new story arcs not found in the manga, imho. In my experience, those are almost always complete garbage compared to the source material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) Finding any excuse to flash back to earlier scenes and a ton of crowd reactions, for the most part. Also, the opening is really long (now) and every episode starts with both a summation of the series' premise, which is totally unnecessary by episode 700, and a lengthy recap of the previous episode. This can take up to six or seven minutes per episode. Still a pretty good series, though. The manga is just way better with pacing. On the plus side, it does make catching up easier since each episode is really more like twenty minutes long seeing that you can skip all that crap. I got Little Pirate into the series a while back and it took maybe roughly six months to catch up from the beginning at four or five episodes a day. Edited June 28, 2016 by Mister Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 Yeah, okay. That seems fairly bearable. At least, as long as you're not up to date... Don't think I'll catch up that quickly, though. I'm already 20 eps in because that show is just so easy to binge watch, but I don't think I'm going to mainline it. I really don't want to watch nothing else for that long. Crunchyroll has the episodes conveniently broken down by major story arcs, so I think I'll watch one, then take a break and watch some other stuff before starting the next one and so on. I'm in no rush to catch up. That being said, I am kinda looking forward to finally seeing what happens after Alabasta. I had watched up to right after that story arc way back then. I remember hearing that the Water 7 arc is pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 The Water 7 arc is AMAZING. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted June 29, 2016 Report Share Posted June 29, 2016 I'm kinda butthurt that Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven is a digital-only game in the United States. Just released today, and while it includes all the DLC, I haven't had to pay full price in a long time. Amazon Prime discount only works on physical games, so while you can get a PSN download code, it's still full price. I know this is about a game rather than the show, but any type of Jojo love in the US is rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 29, 2016 Report Share Posted June 29, 2016 I went ahead and bought it, though that digital only crap does rub me the wrong way. It's either that or nothing, though, and any sort of Jojo merch is pretty rare as it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted July 1, 2016 Report Share Posted July 1, 2016 Hoooly shit, the first episode of the new Berserk series is... not great. Terrible art style, weird music that doesn't really fit the material and 3D that's somehow even worse than the movies. I'll keep watching because I love Berserk but seriously, why couldn't this be normal? Just do a normal fucking adaptation of Berserk. Is that so hard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted July 1, 2016 Report Share Posted July 1, 2016 There's a problem when a Musou game looks and moves better than your animation. Then of course there is no Lost Children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 1, 2016 Report Share Posted July 1, 2016 I feel your pain, man. I don't understand why they feel the need to use that crappy CG. We've gotten plenty of new anime recently without it that has done very well. Jojo, Boku No Hero Academia, One Punch Man...they're all very popular. Is this a budget thing or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted July 1, 2016 Report Share Posted July 1, 2016 (edited) It has to be. There's no way anyone with functioning eyeballs could look at this and actually think it's a good idea. I'm assuming with 3D they can reuse models or whatever else that makes production cheaper/easier. Edited July 1, 2016 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 1, 2016 Report Share Posted July 1, 2016 You'd think a legendary manga like Berserk wouldn't have any problems getting decent funding. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted July 1, 2016 Report Share Posted July 1, 2016 (edited) Or, you know, a talented studio to work on it. There's some corners that were cut here but it's also not very well put together overall. At this point we can only hope that it gets the definitive adaptation it deserves once Miura gets around to finishing it. Like I said, I'll keep watching and hope it gets better. But I think as soon as I get a job I'll just order a bunch of the manga volumes on Amazon and read them instead. I read quite a few chapters years ago but I barely remember anything past the Golden Age arc. Should be a better experience than relying solely on this new series. Edited July 1, 2016 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 (edited) If it helps soothe your hearts and smother the Idea of Evil, chapter 344 has been translated. Edit: If this wasn't Berserk, I just call this hilarious. Edited July 2, 2016 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted July 3, 2016 Report Share Posted July 3, 2016 (edited) Viz Media is releasing Jojo Part 1 and 2 on Blu-ray. Oh, and Part 3 is getting its English Dub finally having those test episodes for the last eternity. I would link, but I'm on mobile. Everything's coming up Jojo! (Edit for some mobile auto-correct.) Edited July 3, 2016 by Atomsk88 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 3, 2016 Report Share Posted July 3, 2016 Everything I'm reading says they're only releasing Phantom Blood. It's still better than nothing, but I'm hoping to see Battle Tendency and Stardust Crusaders get proper releases as well. That WB DVD set is dogshit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 I finished the first arc of One Piece a few days ago, so after like 60 eps I wanted to take a break and watch something else. Checked out a few things but nothing really clicked, so I said fuck it and restarted JoJo. Wrapped up Phantom Blood earlier tonight and it's still good. So good I almost watched the entire thing in one sitting last night but it was already 4AM and I didn't want to stay up too late. It also made me realize another reason why I initially liked it more than Battle Tendency. Dio is such a gigantic fucking asshole, it's actually kind of hilarious. It's basically impossible not to despise him. You just want to reach into your screen and fucking strangle that motherfucker. That's the best kind of villain! The pillar dudes or whatever they're called from Battle Tendency were just so boring compared to him. Anyway, I should be starting Battle Tendency soon, maybe later tonight. I really hope I'll like it more this time but if not, meh, it's not that long until I can finally start Stardust Crusaders, so whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 Joseph Joestar is possibly my favorite Jojo, so I believe that's what makes me enjoy Battle Tendency as much as I do. The Pillar Men are a different type of evil, the kind where they're simply elitist and the rest is the fear of how advanced/evolved they are compared to humans. Eventually, and I'll put this into Part 2 spoilers: Kars does turn into a despicable character with no honor or regard for his allies' wishes. Well, at least Wamuu's wish as he actually had a warrior's honor. The scene where he can't bring himself to kill a child, even though the child belongs to the Hamon tribe. Also where Wamuu respects Caesar's final act of courage by leaving the blood bubble alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 (edited) Alright, so I'm halfway through Battle Tendency. I'm definitely enjoying it a lot more than I did last time and I kinda want to say it's better than Phantom Blood (the last few eps were definitely better than anything in Phantom Blood), but I dunno, something still feels a bit off. It just doesn't have the same momentum, for some reason. It doesn't have that "oooh gotta put the next one on right away!" factor that most great animes have. Like I said the other day, I pretty much binge watched the entirety of Phantom Blood in a single night. And I'm pretty sure I watched like 10 episodes of One Piece in a single day at least twice. But after about a week I'm still only halfway through Battle Tendency. It's great but I usually end up watching no more than a couple eps every day. It's like a book that's a good read but that's way too easy to put down, if that makes any sense. I totally get the Joseph = favorite JoJo thing, though. I have no idea about future JoJos, obviously, but he's definitely a way more fun protagonist than Jonathan. Edited July 14, 2016 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Phantom Blood is the shortest part in the manga so it's definitely got a much quicker pace, which gives each cliffhanger more of a sense of urgency, in my opinion. That said, Joseph is definitely the best Jojo, and I'm counting all eight of them when I say that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 (edited) So after My Hero Academia ended (for now) I got pretty impatient having no anime to watch except for Jojo Friday, so I decided to check out Mob Psycho 100 and it's pretty damn cool. The original webcomic was created by the same guy who created One Punch Man, which was what got me curious in the first place, but it's every bit as good so far. The story is about an incredibly powerful psychic middle schooler nicknamed Mob who works as a part-time exorcist after school. This premise has been done before, but what's different here is that Mob's powers have alienated him to the point where he has stunted emotions and really poor social skills. Half of the series (so far) is about him fighting evil spirits while the other half is about him trying to figure out how to function like a normal person. It's only four episodes in as of this post, but it's good stuff. The art style is really cool, too. Just look at this opening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9-EdKLEuuA Edited August 11, 2016 by Mister Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 (edited) NSFW CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG I seriously love the CLANG. Edited August 11, 2016 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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