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  1. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    The last volume of MobuSeka released two days ago. The main story and Marie Route stories are now complete.
  2. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    The Macross series, with the exception of Super Dimensional Fortress Macross and DYRL, will be streaming on Disney+ for Western audiences. .... Fuck. I can't man, I can't. Especially not with an empty stomach. Lemme go get something to eat.
  3. Pocky Balboa

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    I really didn't expect this level of effort with Nexus. Not saying they're bad, their previous works as an anime studio just didn't stand out to me audio- or visual-wise
  4. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    My dude, in the original web novel, Cid's "I am atomic" attack was literally named the Taepodong, because as a Japanese person that was the strongest and most frightening thing he knew of, LOL.
  5. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    *insert Black Tewi.jpg here* i.e. assume any and all fanworks are primarily the fanwork creator's headcanon, as per the nature of Touhou fandom.
  6. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    Dude, I actually lived and worked in Japan, as opposed to your nonsense.
  7. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    The average modern Japanese has a positive view of Christianity as a whole. If they were xenophobic about Christianity there wouldn't be a stereotype in Japan that Christian-run schools and colleges/universities are elite education locations and there wouldn't be the phrase "born Shinto, marry...
  8. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    Yeah, that would be correct. The combination of super sentai and magical girl really grabbed Japan hard.
  9. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    That's gonna be a nope on SM pioneering the genre. That honor goes to Sally the Witch back in 1966. Naoko Takeuchi took tropes and conceits from the old magical girl paradigm ( which was the "magical girl gets sent to Earth as a test/to further their education and growth/promote peace/insert...
  10. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    I think so. Case in point, I was more invested in RahXephon's story and characters when I played the SRW games where they featured than when I watched the original anime.
  11. Pocky Balboa

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    Whoops, sorry Agent23, I got distracted and forgot to include this in the previous post before hitting Post Reply: Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! (Mezametara Saikyou Soubi to Uchuusen Mochidattanode, Ikkodate Mezashite Youhei to Shite Jiyu ni Ikitai)...
  12. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    Yeah, I agree with you that Rahxephon was meh, but to be fair about this particular point, a lot of anime and manga were trying to be Evangelion in the mid 90s-early to early 00s, even the ones in genres that had no business trying to ape Eva.
  13. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    I've mentioned sci-fi ones before. That mercenary one, the comedy one where the MC tries to be an evil galactic overlord written by the writer of MobuSekai, the one where the MC reincarnates as the AI of a battleship, there's a mecha one that had multiple people get portaled, probably a couple...
  14. Pocky Balboa

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    Dereccing this one, at least by the time they reach the usual not!Japan area. I dropped the LN by that time as the the two other summoned heroes lived for far past the point in the plot where they would still be considered interesting antagonists, plus MC was developing to be real boring, as in...
  15. Pocky Balboa

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    And another of the old guard passes... Leiji Matsumoto, known for his work on Space Battleship Yamato and his creations Galaxy Express 999 and Captain Harlock, passed away from acute heart failure on Feb. 13, at the age of 85.
  16. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    Bruh, there'll be whining even if the MC has had experience with women. The gamer MC of that space mercenary isekai LN for example, dude's implied to have been a regular guy who'd been with women before pre-isekai and he's doing normal relationship shit with his haremettes and I still saw...
  17. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    And yet there's still whining when we do get teenage harem protagonists being horny like actual teenagers. "Hurr durr why teen MC be hornog in ecchi tiddy anime" I've seen far too many people bitch about the times when Issei is being editorially mandated to act like a kissless virgin while...
  18. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    They're all completely separate stories in the same universe with different MCs.
  19. Pocky Balboa

    Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

    This is an adaptation of the first of the Hikuushi LN series, all separate LN series set in the same universe. The Pilot's Love Song is the second one to get an adaptation, though this time its a full TV series. There's two other LN series, Nocturne of a Certain Pilot and Oath of a Certain Pilot.
  20. Pocky Balboa

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    Eh. Kadokawa decided to be dumbfucks and suck on the ESG dick, so I have no expectations for the woke shit disappearing from ANN.
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