What anime are you watching or manga are you reading?

sniper_samurai · 28-08-2019 3:42pm

Still one more season of the year to go with two of the most anticipated shows of the year starting, Ascendance of a Bookwork and Infinite Dendrobium. Can't be worse than the Arifureta adaptation or Index S3.

Arifureta has an extremely bad adaptation, everything is very shoddy and half assed. Only ln I can think of that got a worse anime is Master of Ragnorok which somehow squeezed 9 pretty long volumes into a 13 episode series.

Cotts72 · 28-08-2019 4:44pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Oh that does look pretty. It would want to be fair good to knock Demon Slayer though. I have Demon Slayer at the top of best looking Animes.

Looks wise it doesn't compare but the storyline more than makes up for it.apparently studio wit are delaying season 4 of AOT to focus on Vinland

sniper_samurai · 28-08-2019 4:55pm

Cotts72 wrote: »

Looks wise it doesn't compare but the storyline more than makes up for it.apparently studio wit are delaying season 4 of AOT to focus on Vinland

No, they are delaying season 4 of AoT until the manga is finished. The manga will probably be finished within the next 8 chapters at most.

Cotts72 · 30-09-2019 12:26am

Gutted that Season 1 of Demon Slayer has concluded. Cant wait to see how it all develops next season!

sniper_samurai · 30-09-2019 12:32am

Cotts72 wrote: »

Gutted that Season 1 of Demon Slayer has concluded. Cant wait to see how it all develops next season!

Movie next covering the Infinite Train arc. The arc has concluded in the English release, still a 70 chapter gap after it in the official release though.

Cotts72 · 30-09-2019 1:25am

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Movie next covering the Infinite Train arc. The arc has concluded in the English release, still a 70 chapter gap after it in the official release though.

There's a 70 chapter gap between the conclusion and train arc?

Yeah really looking forward to the movie, the anime is visually amazing can't wait to see it in the big screen edition

sniper_samurai · 30-09-2019 1:28am

Cotts72 wrote: »

There's a 70 chapter gap between the conclusion and train arc?

Yeah really looking forward to the movie, the anime is visually amazing can't wait to see it in the big screen edition

No, there is a 70 chapter gap between the end of the train arc, where the tankubons currently are, and the start of the simulpub in the official English release of the manga.

The train arc lasts for about 17 chapters.

Evade · 30-09-2019 11:53am

In case anyone else is interested, Crunchyroll have the Legend of the Galactic Heroes movies that are coming out over the rest of the year split into episode sized chunks this season. The first one is out already.

sniper_samurai · 30-09-2019 11:59am

Evade wrote: »

In case anyone else is interested, Crunchyroll have the Legend of the Galactic Heroes movies that are coming out over the rest of the year split into episode sized chunks this season. The first one is out already.

Hi-dive have all of the old ovas too.

Potential-Monke · 02-10-2019 5:42pm

Finished up Akame ga Kill last night. Great little short series, full of action and twists. A bit more violent than the rest, but not ott (if cutting people in half in 1 go is not ott, it's not Goblin Slayer gory). I recommend it.

Now to find something else to watch, Sword Art Online is not holding my interest. Any further recommendations? Mostly into Shounen, mainly fantasy/magic rather than guns, etc. So far have watched:

HxH
One Piece
Kimetsu no Yaiba
Black Clover
Naruto
Baki
That other fighter one on Netflix
Fairy Tail
TTIGRAAS
Assassination Classroom
AoT
My Hero Academia
The Rising of the Shield Hero
Goblin Slayer
Akame ga Kill
Mob Psycho 100
Blue Exorcist
Twin Star Exorcists
Dr. Stone
Is It Wrong To Try And Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon
Berserk
GATE
Hundred
Seven Deadly Sins
Some more on Netflix, can't remember right now.

(And all within the last year or so!).

Evade · 02-10-2019 8:02pm

No Guns(ish) fantasy:

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. Isekai and he's a slime.
Re: Zero. Iseakai and mild
he dies and it resets like reloading a game save
Konosuba. Iseaki and the rest of the party is very disfunctional.

Modern No Guns

Fate Stay/Night: Unlimited Blade Works. Summon ancient heroes and use them as pokemon in a battle for the holy grail. It's better than it sounds.

Modernish and Oh So Many Guns:

Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka. Magical girls, like Sailor Moon, recruited into special forces (this one is pretty grim at times).
Saga of Tanya the Evil. Isekai and he's a 12 year old blonde girl who joins the Imperial German army in the 1920s plus there's magic.

Thing I Recommend to Everyone

A Place Further than the Universe. Highschool girls go to Antarctica because anime.
Shiro Bako. Anime about making anime

Everything is on Crunchyroll except Fate, that's on Netflix

sniper_samurai · 02-10-2019 10:26pm

Evade wrote: »

No Guns(ish) fantasy:

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. Isekai and he's a slime.

Re: Zero. Iseakai and mild
he dies and it resets like reloading a game save

Konosuba. Iseaki and the rest of the party is very disfunctional.

Modern No Guns
Fate Stay/Night: Unlimited Blade Works. Summon ancient heroes and use them as pokemon in a battle for the holy grail. It's better than it sounds.

Modernish and Oh So Many Guns:

Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka. Magical girls, like Sailor Moon, recruited into special forces (this one is pretty grim at times).

Saga of Tanya the Evil. Isekai and he's a 12 year old blonde girl who joins the Imperial German army in the 1920s plus there's magic.

Thing I Recommend to Everyone
A Place Further than the Universe. Highschool girls go to Antarctica because anime.

Shiro Bako. Anime about making anime

Everything is on Crunchyroll except Fate, that's on Netflix

UBW is on Crunchyroll, it is just listed as Fate/Stay Night without its subtitle.

Evade · 02-10-2019 10:45pm

sniper_samurai wrote: »

UBW is on Crunchyroll, it is just listed as Fate/Stay Night without its subtitle.

So it is. It was the original Fate when I checked a few months ago.

Cotts72 · 02-10-2019 11:19pm

Binging hard on re :zero at the moment, can't wait to see how it all plays out

sniper_samurai · 02-10-2019 11:22pm

Cotts72 wrote: »

Binging hard on re :zero at the moment, can't wait to see how it all plays out

Second season next year too.

Sephiroth_dude · 05-10-2019 11:53am

Watching bleach again, on episode 140.

sniper_samurai · 05-10-2019 2:24pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Watching bleach again, on episode 140.

My condolences, it's trash after episode 64.

Sephiroth_dude · 06-10-2019 4:49pm

sniper_samurai wrote: »

My condolences, it's trash after episode 64.

Yes first 64 episodes were amazing, the bounts arc was weak but this current arc with the Espada, I'm finding it more interesting than the bounts, so will stick with it.

sniper_samurai · 06-10-2019 5:34pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Yes first 64 episodes were amazing, the bounts arc was weak but this current arc with the Espada, I'm finding it more interesting than the bounts, so will stick with it.

It had such a good start, then just drags. The manga is the same it gets dragged out worse than Dragon Ball, not surprised it eventually got cancelled.

Potential-Monke · 07-10-2019 10:48pm

I did notice it dragged a bit towards the end, but I still found it enjoyable. His powering up kept me going!

Started watching Ushio and Tora, about 19 episodes in, and it's a grand little show. Nothing new or spectacular. Reminds me of Naruto and his relationship with the 9 Tails, including the similarity between 9 Tails and Tora, but seeing as this was out before Naruto I think someone did a bit of robbing [story spoiler for Ushio and Tora]

especially considering the overall baddie in this also happens to have 9 tails...)

It will keep me going for a while anyway, at least until My Hero is back this week (October 12th).

Nody · 12-10-2019 3:10pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Now to find something else to watch, Sword Art Online is not holding my interest. Any further recommendations? Mostly into Shounen, mainly fantasy/magic rather than guns, etc. So far have watched:

DanMachi, Isekai Cheat Magician, One Punch Man, Hataage! Kemono Michi (if you don't mind furries), Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutstu (though I prefer less fan service and a more dark version in the highly recommend Overlord's three seasons), Shinchou Yuusha (the most cowardly hero ever!), Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari (basically someone get's called to a fantasy world and gets setup as a fall guy) and of course no recommended list is complete without Shokugegi no Soma; the series that should not work but simply do!

Cotts72 · 12-10-2019 5:43pm

Nody wrote: »

DanMachi, Isekai Cheat Magician, One Punch Man, Hataage! Kemono Michi (if you don't mind furries), Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutstu (though I prefer less fan service and a more dark version in the highly recommend Overlord's three seasons), Shinchou Yuusha (the most cowardly hero ever!), Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari (basically someone get's called to a fantasy world and gets setup as a fall guy) and of course no recommended list is complete without Shokugegi no Soma; the series that should not work but simply do!

Agree with most of those except for kemono michi that show is just weird... More creepy than anything especially that scene with the cerberus lol

On a side note Looking forward to watching the new my hero academia later!

CastorTroy · 12-10-2019 8:36pm

How is the My Hero Academia movie?

sniper_samurai · 12-10-2019 11:21pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

How is the My Hero Academia movie?

It's actually pretty good by SJ movie standards.

Cotts72 · 13-10-2019 2:38am

sniper_samurai wrote: »

It's actually pretty good by SJ movie standards.

Yeah it's a good watch! Plot is solid and features a deku+all might team up

Potential-Monke · 20-10-2019 7:10am

So, Ushio and Tora was quite good. Nice and short, good ending.

And in my want to find something else to watch, I've ended up starting HxH again. Only a few episodes in, but I remember why this is so good. Amazing work. Pity about Yoshihiro's health, hope he can get better and finish the story, but I did just read that he has passed on the intention to his wife in case he dies.

sniper_samurai · 20-10-2019 11:00am

Potential-Monke wrote: »

So, Ushio and Tora was quite good. Nice and short, good ending.

And in my want to find something else to watch, I've ended up starting HxH again. Only a few episodes in, but I remember why this is so good. Amazing work. Pity about Yoshihiro's health, hope he can get better and finish the story, but I did just read that he has passed on the intention to his wife in case he dies.

Have you watched the anime of his previous manga, Yu Yu Hakusho. There is a new ova episode of it out this year.

That would be pretty weird if his wife ended up finishing it considering she is the creator of Sailor Moon.

Potential-Monke · 20-10-2019 8:05pm

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Have you watched the anime of his previous manga, Yu Yu Hakusho. There is a new ova episode of it out this year.

That would be pretty weird if his wife ended up finishing it considering she is the creator of Sailor Moon.

I was going to have a look at that after watching HxH (which I found out while Googleing last night is pronounced Hunter Hunter!). Yeah, would be weird but at least there's a back up just in case. Fair play to him for thinking that far ahead, and she also helped him (before she became his wife) with some colouring of the manga, so she has some experience with it already.

ksceniaonegina · 24-10-2019 9:11am

Violet Evergarden

Potential-Monke · 09-11-2019 2:09am

So just realised (via reddit) that The Seven Deadly Sins has started airing again, but it's a different company and there's some censorship going on. Anyone seen the new episodes yet, can they confirm/deny this (white blood, etc)? Be a shame if it's changed.

sniper_samurai · 09-11-2019 3:45am

Potential-Monke wrote: »

So just realised (via reddit) that The Seven Deadly Sins has started airing again, but it's a different company and there's some censorship going on. Anyone seen the new episodes yet, can they confirm/deny this (white blood, etc)? Be a shame if it's changed.

Censorship for the broadcast version is not unusual,worst I've seen was Terraformars where over half the screen was regularly blacked out.

CastorTroy · 10-11-2019 3:03pm

Looked that up. Wow, it's bad

sniper_samurai · 10-11-2019 11:46pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

Looked that up. Wow, it's bad

Yeah. This particular bit of censorship got memed to death.
images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRoL_nIXEXA2KrRHSUhA09orShRbGu6-eHT0njVQqALbtRcmFPL

Potential-Monke · 11-11-2019 8:32pm

Wow. Shur that's not even watchable. Couldn't watch anything like that myself.

Gunmonkey · 14-11-2019 10:40am

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Yeah. This particular bit of censorship got memed to death.

Ah, Tyrone and his basketball. Good times.

Sephiroth_dude · 07-12-2019 11:13am

My first foray into the gundam series and I must I'm really enjoying it, up to episode 7.

Varik · 07-12-2019 11:16am

I've watch most gundam series with some uc blank spots, but Iron blooded orphans instantly became my favourite gundam.

Don't judge all gundam series by it, it a decent bit different.

sniper_samurai · 07-12-2019 11:25am

Varik wrote: »

I've watch most gundam series with some uc blank spots, but Iron blooded orphans instantly became my favourite gundam.

Don't judge all gundam series by it, it a decent bit different.

Just remember to ignore all currently released UC stuff set after Narrative. F91 is weird and V is awful. Still waiting on Crossbones to get animated.

Evade · 07-12-2019 11:33am

Anohana, it hit me right in the feelings.

Sephiroth_dude · 07-12-2019 11:39am

Varik wrote: »

I've watch most gundam series with some uc blank spots, but Iron blooded orphans instantly became my favourite gundam.

Don't judge all gundam series by it, it a decent bit different.

What other gundam series would you recommend? I remember trying to get into one back in 2003, it was on the cartoon network but I can't remember what one it was and I remember being really confused by the story line.

Evade · 07-12-2019 11:45am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

What other gundam series would you recommend? I remember trying to get into one back in 2003, it was on the cartoon network but I can't remember what one it was and I remember being really confused by the story line.

That was Gundam Wing.

It's a pretty unpopular opinion but I like SEED and even SEED Destiny (sequel series).

sniper_samurai · 07-12-2019 11:57am

Evade wrote: »

That was Gundam Wing.

It's a pretty unpopular opinion but I like SEED and even SEED Destiny (sequel series).

SEED is fine, SEED Destiny starts off fine before quickly devolving into a trainwreck. This happened due to a rewrite to give Kira and Athrun bigger parts as Shinn is an unlikable prick.

Evade · 07-12-2019 4:24pm

sniper_samurai wrote: »

SEED is fine, SEED Destiny starts off fine before quickly devolving into a trainwreck. This happened due to a rewrite to give Kira and Athrun bigger parts as Shinn is an unlikable prick.

You're not wrong. Out of curiousity did you watch Destiny subbed or dubbed? I watched the dub first and found Shin much less annoying in the sub.

Apparently there's a movie on the way and somehow Kira ranked in the 30 most popular male anime characters of the 2010s despite only being in a remaster.

sniper_samurai · 07-12-2019 4:33pm

Evade wrote: »

You're not wrong. Out of curiousity did you watch Destiny subbed or dubbed? I watched the dub first and found Shin much less annoying in the sub.

Apparently there's a movie on the way and somehow Kira ranked in the 30 most popular male anime characters of the 2010s despite only being in a remaster.

I don't watch dubs for the most part, I'm not against dubs as it allows more people to enjoy it. There are also some dubs that work better than the original like Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell and Big O(apart from mispronouncing megadeus as megadeuce).

Phoenix Wright · 07-12-2019 4:34pm

Started Stein's Gate yesterday, three episodes in and I like it a lot so far

Finished FMAB earlier in the week, amazing end to a great series. Probably just behind HxH as my favourite anime.

Bought HxH Volume 1 earlier this week - I still think it's shame the second anime didn't show the scene with Ging and Kite in the opening episodes, it would have improved the Chimera Ant arc imo

Sephiroth_dude · 07-12-2019 8:53pm

I see GunDam unicorn is up on netflix too, 7 episodes, any good?

sniper_samurai · 07-12-2019 9:29pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I see GunDam unicorn is up on netflix too, 7 episodes, any good?

Unicorn is great, near the end of the main UC stuff though. You'll have wanted to have seen Chars Counter Attack beforehand.

UC chronologically is

UC 0068-0079
The Origin

UC 0079
Gundam, 08th MS Team, Igloo, Thunderbolt

UC 0080
War in the Pocket

UC 0083
Stardust Memories

UC 0087
Zeta Gundam

UC 0088
Gundam ZZ(Double Zeta)

UC 0093
Chars Counter Attack

UC 0096
Gundam UC(Unicorn), Gundam: Twilight Axis

UC 0097
Gundam NT(Narrative)

UC 0105
Hathaway's Flash(not released yet)

UC 0123
Gundam F91

UC 0153
Victory Gundam

All the standard edition Gundam blurays are on sale today from http://www.alltheanime.com until 4pm tomorrow. Prices between £9.99 and £29.99 with free shipping.

There are a few Gundam series available on youtube for free legal streaming on the GundamInfo channel and pretty much all of the non UC stuff is on Crunchyroll.

Varik · 08-12-2019 8:18pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I see GunDam unicorn is up on netflix too, 7 episodes, any good?

To to add if it's not clear or you didn't know.

Most Gundam shows are either UC (universal century) or their own stand alone show like Final fantasy with recurring themes but mostly not connected.

There's always a Gundam and always some lad in a mask, what makes a gundam a gundam changes. Still no clue for UC, if it looks like a gundam it's a gundam.

I'd start off on the standalone stuff, before jumping into the decades of UC story-lines.

Most of them have a slightly different history for their earth, different countries and geography too. Gundam 00 is the one set in our own future, turns out the way to stop fighting in northern ireland is gaint robots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR7DRNz9t_0

Sephiroth_dude · 09-12-2019 11:26pm

Varik wrote: »

To to add if it's not clear or you didn't know.

Most Gundam shows are either UC (universal century) or their own stand alone show like Final fantasy with recurring themes but mostly not connected.

There's always a Gundam and always some lad in a mask, what makes a gundam a gundam changes. Still no clue for UC, if it looks like a gundam it's a gundam.

I'd start off on the standalone stuff, before jumping into the decades of UC story-lines.

Most of them have a slightly different history for their earth, different countries and geography too. Gundam 00 is the one set in our own future, turns out the way to stop fighting in northern ireland is gaint robots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR7DRNz9t_0

Is Iron blood orphans stand alone so? and Gundam Wing to?

sniper_samurai · 10-12-2019 12:12am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Is Iron blood orphans stand alone so? and Gundam Wing to?

Both series are Alternative Universe titles, very few have sequels and none are related to each other.

What anime are you watching or manga are you reading?

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