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Scrapped Princess - 4/10 (Bad)

The first few episodes were fun. The show was made after the transistion to digital but the aesthetic was still good. Backgrounds and production quality was overall higher than most shows airing within the last 10 years. The show had that good adventure feel as the characters were travelling through a wide open and dangerous world. You felt there was a lot of possibility. If I were only rating those episodes then I'd give the show a 7/10. Then around episode 10, the protagonists get roped into a formulaic "save the world from the evil corrupt Church and their god-monsters" JRPG plot, and I started tuning out. The show also has some backwards monologues on how morals should dictate religion. The "good" Church guy fighting alongside the protagonists didn't even believe in the faith, so you're left with the impression that he only joined the Church as a machiavellian means to an end, and that was before the reveal. The speechifying how man's hope will overcome anything in the last episode was terrible. So overall I found the show to be bad. One thing I did find refreshing was how the antagonists were killed off. Within a couple seconds, they make a mistake, the heroes capitalize it. Boom, they're dead, just like that.

English dub was good.


Captain X said:
Oh, and then there’s the semi-incestuous attraction she has to her adoptive brother Shannon, but fortunately he insisted on telling her off every time she brought it up.
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Really? I thought that the "I love you big brother" whisper in the second episode was intended as a joke, as if she was trying to provoke a response since she was bored sitting on the wagon. Modern anime sure likes to play with incest attractions but I didn't get that from here. I thought that the show was leaning towards shipping her with the novice knight-errant.



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Sing Yesterday For Me - 6/10 (Fine)

The show spent more time showing the romance between the MC and the false lead than it did showing time between the MC and the girl who wins in the end. Very strange. The show didn't convince me that the MC loved the winning girl than he loved the childhood friend.

In one of the latter episodes, there is a scene where they go to the supermarket and talk, and the backgrounds are literally just pictures of a real life supermarket, not drawn at all. Production value failure.



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SSSS.Dynazenon - 7/10 (Good)

The characters reacting very nonchalantly was refreshing, though the little girl getting her own dragon to fly on but not being awed by that escapist fantasy was a stretch. Episode 10 annoyed me with how it tried to hard to be a serious, artsy psychological story. Overall good.

The mechas and kaiju are 3D CGI, which is a shame.
 
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Val the Moofia Boss said:
Really? I thought that the "I love you big brother" whisper in the second episode was intended as a joke, as if she was trying to provoke a response since she was bored sitting on the wagon. Modern anime sure likes to play with incest attractions but I didn't get that from here. I thought that the show was leaning towards shipping her with the novice knight-errant.
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You must've only been watching with it on in the background or something if you didn't notice it constantly being brought up, right through to the end. They shipped both of them with other people, too, but they were also constantly shipped through the whole series.
 
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Scrapped Princess - 4/10 (Bad)

The first few episodes were fun. The show was made after the transistion to digital but the aesthetic was still good. Backgrounds and production quality was overall higher than most shows airing within the last 10 years. The show had that good adventure feel as the characters were travelling through a wide open and dangerous world. You felt there was a lot of possibility. If I were only rating those episodes then I'd give the show a 7/10. Then around episode 10, the protagonists get roped into a formulaic "save the world from the evil corrupt Church and their god-monsters" JRPG plot, and I started tuning out. The show also has some backwards monologues on how morals should dictate religion. The "good" Church guy fighting alongside the protagonists didn't even believe in the faith, so you're left with the impression that he only joined the Church as a machiavellian means to an end, and that was before the reveal. The speechifying how man's hope will overcome anything in the last episode was terrible. So overall I found the show to be bad. One thing I did find refreshing was how the antagonists were killed off. Within a couple seconds, they make a mistake, the heroes capitalize it. Boom, they're dead, just like that.

English dub was good.




Really? I thought that the "I love you big brother" whisper in the second episode was intended as a joke, as if she was trying to provoke a response since she was bored sitting on the wagon. Modern anime sure likes to play with incest attractions but I didn't get that from here. I thought that the show was leaning towards shipping her with the novice knight-errant.



qpyaUTi.jpg


Sing Yesterday For Me - 6/10 (Fine)

The show spent more time showing the romance between the MC and the false lead than it did showing time between the MC and the girl who wins in the end. Very strange. The show didn't convince me that the MC loved the winning girl than he loved the childhood friend.

In one of the latter episodes, there is a scene where they go to the supermarket and talk, and the backgrounds are literally just pictures of a real life supermarket, not drawn at all. Production value failure.



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SSSS.Dynazenon - 7/10 (Good)

The characters reacting very nonchalantly was refreshing, though the little girl getting her own dragon to fly on but not being awed by that escapist fantasy was a stretch. Episode 10 annoyed me with how it tried to hard to be a serious, artsy psychological story. Overall good.

The mechas and kaiju are 3D CGI, which is a shame.
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"Church bad" was really not funny - but,i would still gave it 7/10.
Remember,that religion here is fake,so it could not be good.
 
Carrot of Truth said:
Had my girlfriend walk in on me watching Highschool DxD, She called me a degenerate. I couldn't even deny that because I totally felt like one while watching it.
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Next time call her as antisemite nazi racist who do not undarstandt modern times !
 
I'd like to recommend Urami Koi, Koi, Urami Koi.
Its from the fad of urban fantasy manga where characters with supernatural powers fight youkai in the modern day. It was completed years ago. The pacing is good and unlike what seems to be most other Japanese fiction in the last few decades, the love triangle subplot is not overdone. All of the characters have a distinct personality, and the male lead actually makes a choice at the end of the story.
 
*THASF* said:
Senshi is my favorite character in just about anything I've read lately. Just the idea of this dwarf who's like, a dungeon gourmand and lives in the dungeon like a happy murderhobo, autistically hyperfocused on cooking fine cuisine out of monster meat... it warms my cold, black heart. He's fucking adorable. Apparently, someone else felt the same way, since they modeled and rendered him in Blender:

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This is the guy you want in your party, no doubt about it. When you're all starving and the hardtack and jerky runs out, he comes in clutch.

There's also a friggin' STUDIO FRIGGIN' TRIGGER ADAPTATION on the way. I am hyped.

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@*THASF* I think if I ever have kids the cartoons they watch will be Food Wars and Delicious in Dungeon.
 
Allen Walker is the best shounen protagonist:



I think it may be because D.Gray Man is a shounen with elements of seinen. But basically, Allen is like an onion: he has layers. Person you meet at first is a polite young man that will sacrifice his own well being to save the damned souls. But as story follows him, one begins to see layers that are hidden underneath the polite mask and genuine niceness - and these layers cover up even deeper layers. Allen is kinda like a funhouse mirror. Politeness is not a lie, yet it is a mask that covers up the person underneath. He smiles to push away the genuine sadness and loss that basically underpin Allen's character and make him into who he is.
 
Aldarion said:
Come on, don't tell me you don't get it.
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You've enlightened me.

But nah, I've heard great things about the series, and It's always been cool to see female authors manga getting recognition, even if I'm more inclined towards western IPs myself.
 
Meanwhile I read the spoilers of the new digimon 02 movie

And I'm just like why the fuck does Toei hate adventure that much
 
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