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[Hodor]

rereading The Five Star Stories after awhile. Probably my favorite manga, tbh. damn shame nobody's been able to pick up the license after the English TL stopped, or any major scanslation. It's one of the most interesting, well-crafted manga out there- Nagano's got such a lovingly autistic attention to detail that he does his damnedest to make Joker Galaxy feel like a real place. Absolute treat.

Hope Gothicmade comes out on BD sometime, though.

 

[American Lollinator Mace]

Started reading Tokyo Ghoul because Halloween. Also Monster Musume, less because Halloween and more because boobies. *hides Miia porn*

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Mother's Basement did a video on Black Clover and I have to say his beginning jabs on Asta's voice is funny.

Also have some of MAL's comments on the voice actor's page:

 

[Hui]

I find it weird that the people shitting on it have those avatars. Outside Nichijou ofc.

Started reading Tokyo Ghoul because Halloween. Also Monster Musume, less because Halloween and more because boobies. *hides Miia porn*

I want a S2 man.

 

[Hui]

Net-juu no Susume is about a woman that quits her job to play mmos. She's in her 30s or late 20s and is cute but lets herself go and meets a guy (she doesn't know it is a guy) that plays the mmo as a gurl. (Like the females here) It is pretty meh but I'm enjoying it so far because I am a sucker to almost anything with ROMANCE.

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[ForgedBlades]

Black Clover is kind of growing on me. I'm intrigued about what is coming next after Ep. 4, and I'm starting to find Asta's voice bearable and even somewhat charming.

 

[Stay safe]

I saw Shiki for Halloween. Is it weird that I felt like I missed a few episodes when it was over? There was a ton of potentially interesting characters introduced but the show never really did anything with them. I know at least some of that can be chalked up to cutting stuff out when adapting it from the novel but still.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Yeah, 22 episodes was a little too short for Shiki, though I think there probably should've also been a few more side-stories like the two specials we got (that were inserted chronologically into the FUNimation release, that was neat). It probably also would've helped if we saw just a little bit more into the lives of the shiki themselves so we'd have a much better understanding of their lifestyle and thus further drive home the point of "Who's the real monster here?" it was asking.

My brother's reasoning for why he didn't like it as much after the halfway point was because it was "boring" and "too slow". Like dude, that was the point. Gotta build it up little by little. I dunno, that's why I liked it, anyway, though I do wish the horror and mystery stayed around a little longer. But it's been a long time since I was last that engrossed in a horror anime, so I can't really complain (outside of wishing they kept "Kuchizuke" as the theme the entire way through).

 

[Florence]

I know Tokyopop gets shat on a lot for its dodgy translations, but this is fucking hilarious:

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

I know Tokyopop gets shat on a lot for its dodgy translations, but this is fucking hilarious:
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Is Tokyopop still around or is this pre-2016?

 

[Coster]

I know Tokyopop gets shat on a lot for its dodgy translations, but this is fucking hilarious:
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I always liked Tokyopop's translations when they were done right, it's just that they did it wrong so many times. The shoddiest translation I can think of by them were the .hack light novels, though Another Birth overall was great (other than totally fucking up the first scene where Kite and Blackrose meet by totally switching their personalities).

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Is Tokyopop still around or is this pre-2016?

They're barely even fucking relevant at this point, so I'm honestly wondering if that's even real. (I don't even know where that's from anyway, but I'm curious about it.)

 

[Halberd Sonichu]

From what i looked up they mostly publish Disney manga nowadays. beyond that the only real thing of interest is around 2009 they lost of their Kodansha stuff. now they just a relic from the 2000's anime boom.

 

[Florence]

They're barely even fucking relevant at this point, so I'm honestly wondering if that's even real. (I don't even know where that's from anyway, but I'm curious about it.)

It’s from their translation of the Battle Royale manga.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

It seems as if Netflix is doing pretty well, especially with its original programming. One would hope so, at least, because the streaming service’s new content budget is between $7 billion and $8 billion, and a healthy chunk of that is going to go toward the production of new anime.

Specifically, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says they’re putting some of that money toward producing 30 new anime series, all of which are planned for 2018. Joining those are plans for 80 new original films, so expect your queue to be pretty busy throughout next year.

The reason Netflix has started throwing money at anime is because they find it makes the money back for them when they air it, especially in a nice binge watchable format for the consumption of the wider world.

Netflix invested in Seven Deadly Sins first, alongside other companies, and made money back. They also invested into LWA's TV series and released it in two nice binge watchable chunks. Basically Netflix finds it can make money off of anime, so is now actively investing into the production process.

It's not outright paying for 30 new anime series, but investing to get the global streaming rights as they want to erode Amazon and Crunchyroll's dominance on this.

Maybe if they cut down on the amount of series airing concurrently per season, then everyone would be much happier. But that's not how real life works, so I expect even more of an influx before the industry just implodes and is forced to rebuild itself.

The issue is finding the money to do all of this, anime studios are stuck in a catch 22. There's really no ability for these studios to launch dominating series and shows which can get them a good income.

They don't have the time or operating budget any more to push for this. Really they should be looking for more ways to cut down, or improve computers to filling in between key frames.

Flash has been able to do this shit for years now, but because the anime industry is insanely stubborn if not outright lazy when it comes to developing or pushing 3D you wind up with potentially huge labour saving devices being lazily used for crowd scenes.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

The issue is finding the money to do all of this, anime studios are stuck in a catch 22. There's really no ability for these studios to launch dominating series and shows which can get them a good income.

They don't have the time or operating budget any more to push for this. Really they should be looking for more ways to cut down, or improve computers to filling in between key frames.

Flash has been able to do this shit for years now, but because the anime industry is insanely stubborn if not outright lazy when it comes to developing or pushing 3D you wind up with potentially huge labour saving devices being lazily used for crowd scenes.

Or for full series ala the recent Berserk series.

 

[Coster]

Flash has been able to do this shit for years now, but because the anime industry is insanely stubborn if not outright lazy when it comes to developing or pushing 3D you wind up with potentially huge labour saving devices being lazily used for crowd scenes.

Also because anime is an industry steeped in tradition. There are industry standards and practices that have been around since the original Astro Boy anime.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Or for full series ala the recent Berserk series.

Both Beserk and Kemono Friends show that they're being lazy or stubborn towards such CGI anime's though. RWBY is starting to actively piss all over them with a team of about 100 and rapidly increasing standards. Which is a relatively small team in comparison to others. Season 5's animation is stunning compared to Berserk.

Also because anime is an industry steeped in tradition. There are industry standards and practices that have been around since the original Astro Boy anime.

Which is a problem. I suspect it only needs one studio to lead the way, or a proper collapse of the industry will fix this endless adherence to those standards. I honestly don't know why they can't apply the standards with 3D. Or design something which would animate 2D far better.

 

[Alberto Balsalm]

I think the biggest issue right now is that CGI has been used poorly so often in anime that people just assume CGI is inherently worse than traditional animation. The success of Kemono Friends is sort of challenging this, but only in the sense that shows with bad CGI can be good, not that CGI itself can be good.

I've seen people write off Land of the Lustrous solely because of this, which is a shame, since it's easily the most visually attractive CGI-based anime I've ever seen:

 

[Hui]

@Ponderous Pillock RWBY is not anime

Has some few good points

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