The Anime/manga thread (+ recommendations!)

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Jun 27, 2015 2:20 PM #1376764
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He specifically asked for non moe recs


action moe?

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yay :>

Also.. Apparently hachiman became batman.

Bachiman - no spoilers (Click to Show)


I am disturbed by this... in a good sense


so this is fucking why commie took so long omg in memes we trust

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Both those shows aren't worth all those episodes in the first place imo


You talking shit about Nisekoi behind my back, bruh?

But yeah Nisekoi was retarded. None of what happened was any fun and Harunodera wasn't even an interesting addition to the group. All I got was frustrating "development" between best girl Chitoge and her Mom and a bunch of nothings glittered with head tilts.

If there's ever any continuation tho I'll prolly still watch it.
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Jun 27, 2015 2:28 PM #1376770
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If there's ever any continuation tho I'll prolly still watch it.


What I did right after I said SAO isn't that good.
[spoiler=]The Mother's Rosario arc was boring as fuck though.[/spoiler]

I finished the 4 ongoing series now! I feel so empty... Yet accomplished...


Welp, time to watch Assasination Classroom and Shokugeki no Soma then... Those are probably the only two I haven't watched in this season.


I'll be expecting those sweet first episodes in the first week of July though.
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Jun 27, 2015 4:51 PM #1376803
No one spoil shit about SNAFU, I'm busy and behind on this season.
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Jun 27, 2015 5:19 PM #1376807
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elaborate on the concept of cosmic oneness or elaborate on why the ending didn't do it justice?

actually, i thought you were referring to psychoanalytic/dynamic. but I'm still interested. the second thing, please.
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Jun 27, 2015 6:09 PM #1376814
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No one spoil shit about SNAFU, I'm busy and behind on this season.


Spoiler alert about the latest episode: commie delayed its release to have time to add based dank maymays
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Jun 28, 2015 9:31 AM #1377072
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actually, i thought you were referring to psychoanalytic/dynamic. but I'm still interested. the second thing, please.


all life on the planet united as one being with no sense of separation and turned into orange soup just seems like a gross misinterpretation to me. tearing down the sense of separation is something that should have happened on the level of consciousness, not the level of physical form, and should be portrayed as something to strive for. evangelion made it look like some kind of natural disaster.

probably the series had no intention to portray what i'm thinking of, but it's similar enough that it still irks me.
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Jun 28, 2015 11:08 AM #1377100
I forgot to leave my feelings for SNAFU too! and I kind of want to do it

Honestly, I feel like my understanding of the anime as a whole severely lacked. I managed to follow what was happening, but there are lots of times where I failed to understand why things were happening or how they were happening. The character interaction is definitely the strongest point of this show, but it's also the most confusing one for me since there's a lot of telepathic communication, unspoken feelings expressed through vague facial cues, unexplained interpretations of what some characters say, and all that. I just sometimes get confused because statements like "I'm not as nice as you think I am" while looking down at the ground and smiling really requires me to pause and think what all of that means, and often I just keep watching anyway because if I stopped and pondered everytime it happens then I'd end up spending more than 30 mins in every episode. Sometimes I eventually get what they mean, but I feel like a lot of it went over my head and because they went over my head, I can't recall them.

All that said, this isn't really that big of a complaint from me, if anything it just adds rewatch value. I just wish that it wasn't like super subtle about a lot of things. I mean, it's either that or I have social skills deficiency, and I don't want it to be the latter.

The last episode, however, was brilliant for me. I really did take the time to comprehend everything that was happening, and this confirms that I might be wrong who best girl in the anime is.

"ep 13 spoilers" (Click to Show)
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Jun 28, 2015 1:22 PM #1377126
To adress the thing about the anime ever finishing in your spoiler,
I think it's highly unlikely that the anime ever finishes, or at the very least, there is almost definitely not going to be another season. Reason being, is that the anime has actually caught up entirely with it's source material at this point, and that is quickly drawing to an end itself. There just won't be enough content for an entire season, and Feel never does movies, so it's possible that it just doesn't get adapted. Of course they could also do like ovas with the rest of the content, but there's really no way to know. Basically, don't get your hopes up
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Jun 28, 2015 2:17 PM #1377136
In that case I'll just accept the obvious true ending: 8man x Yui's mom.
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Jun 28, 2015 5:01 PM #1377152
You mean saika x Hachiman right?
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Jun 28, 2015 5:18 PM #1377158
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You mean saika x Hachiman right?


This is the otp
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Jun 30, 2015 5:03 PM #1377705
8man's looking for genuine people, guys.


So he wants a genuine girl.


Like Yui's mom.
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Jun 30, 2015 11:27 PM #1377786
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8man's looking for genuine people, guys.


So he wants a genuine girl.


Like Yui's mom.


If he's looking for a genuine milf he should go for sensei then
She's prime real estate, no one's even crossed the threshold yet.

Anyway, I really want to watch Yojouhan shinwa taikei, but like I watched the first episode and...
I'm pretty confident in my reading speed, and I can keep up with most things, but fuck is it hard to appreciate something while running a marathon with your eyes.
Anyone seen it? Does it ever get... slower?
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Jul 6, 2015 10:22 AM #1379929
You ladyboys watch Gatchaman Crowds? What was up with that ending tho?

I didn't really expect much from it since if you've read my post on The Chat Thread I just watched it cos I liked Hajime Ichinose's character design, but in the end i guess it was alright. My biggest complain about it is that there's so much unexplained things in it. My next biggest complaint is that the characters were a letdown. It wasn't only that a lot of their backstories were just mentioned as a passing thought, but I kind of grew annoyed by their "quirks." Saying "I feel gloomy" everytime someone talks to you isn't fucking endearing; it's whiny and is really annoying. Hajime, although shown to be someone who has a method to her madness, also became annoying to me. It's as if she's supposed to be deeper than what she looks like, but I don't really understand how she's deep. None of what she did makes any sense to me, because she could have also done a billion other things and achieved an even better result. I guess this really just boils down to the fact that I don't know her. I don't know her motivations, or what she was trying to accomplish because she wasn't elaborated as a character, so I couldn't understand why she just HAS to break the rules to go anywhere. And as I said earlier, no backstory for many of them. The Gatchaman (especially JJ, OD, and Paipai), Rui, and Berg Katze weren't explained as much as I hoped. There would have been so much story to be told about their backstories, but they were just shown to be as they are. Like, we don't know why they're like that, why they believe what they do, or anything. Sure some were mentioned, but that was it. They were just mentioned. And the MESS were just "lolwuts".

I really thought that the strong points of this show would be its characters, since it's cast is relatively diverse and seemed to have been interesting, but in the end I couldn't relate to them and their development didn't give me any satisfaction. What I think the show did really well, however, is how it depicted humanity. It wasn't like the typical way where the show would just make every civilian be jerks who always talk shit about the "heroes" that can't even do shit right, but it presented a more realistic humanity where there are still good people out there that are as willing to serve the world as much as the heroes do. I guess the point of the anime was to show that heroes don't exactly have to be alone or that they don't need to become stronger to protect the world, but rather the world itself needs to become stronger so that everyone can become heroes. I mean, that's what I took from the anime, and I give them props for that.

And there's that ending. What was that about.

Overall, I'm lukewarm about it.
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Jul 6, 2015 11:00 AM #1379939
Any thoughts on Charlotte's first episode yesterday? Sweet shit, man.

For those who haven't seen the first episode of Charlotte, I recommend you watch it now.


TBH it's like Inoue Battle but with a plot.