Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

I tend to only watch 2 new anime per new season, and haven't decided on which ones yet. I'm certain Fire Force will be on Toonami someday, so that's off the list. Dr. Stone might as well, but I'd be more willing to watch it now. There's that space anime, there's some magical girl meets mecha anime and of course Vinland Saga. Hard to decide.

@kkslider5552000 I watched the magical girl mecha anime too. Seemed about exactly what you would expect from the description. What space anime are you talking about? I seem to have missed that one.

@Heavyarms55 Astra: Lost in Space. First episode was alright, for a space castaway story.

@CanisWolfred Don't know how I missed something like that. Maybe Crunchyroll doesn't have it. I'll have to double check later. Thanks for the tip!

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Hey guys, I have a question. I was watching a Gigguk video on YouTube when I saw a scene from...something. Start the clip around 6:53 and it ends probably around 6:57(?). Anyone know what it is?

@Knighty_IX Of course! Thanks!

I have recently been watching Fairy Tail from the start. I Recently got into Anime so the only ones I had seen were 90's Anime, Naruto and One Piece. I'm at Episode 30 and this does remind me of One Piece a lot!

I've been watching Fairy Tail, trying to get caught up. I just finished the Tartaros Arc, as well as Fairy Tail Zero, closing out the 2014 series. Everything seemed to come to a head at once. After the plodding pace One Piece tends to go at, my head was spinning trying to keep up with all of the plot developments. I mean everything - pretty much every subplot they established tied back into these two arcs, you can really tell they were trying to wrap this up. All that's left is the Final Season, though I think I'll wait until September to watch it, so we're closer to the end of it all. I also in danger of burning out, I need some time to let this all sink in...

It seems to be an exclusive on Funimation. I already pay for a subscription there, so that's how I watched it. I couldn't find it on Crunchyroll, at least, and I don't Stream much anime outside of those two sites.

Anyone read/watch Berserk? It's my new favorite.

@onilink86 OG Berserk anime and the manga is an all-time favorite of mine across any media. I've tried a little of nu-Berserk was wasn't thrilled by it (OG was just so damn good, it's hard to compare).

Really suprised to see no one mention the story of the arsonist who set Kyoto Animation on fire today (I saw an article a few hours ago on Yahoo while at work).

It's apparently the deadliest arson Japan has seen in nearly 20 years, with dozens dead & dozens more injured. I haven't seen many of their series (I think just Eureka Seven & Deadman Wonderland, of which the former is one of my favorite anime series), but this is a terrible tragedy, and I pray for everyone affected.

@RR529 We've been talking about it in the Chit-Chat thread.

um...those were not made by Kyoani... :/

I found Dumbell Nan Kiro was a Bodybuilding Anime i knew from Youtube just now.
Oh, gosh.... The muscular dudes there was too Photoshopped and i have no interest to see the girls inside that anime.
But, hey... Not bad for a Bodybuilding anime since that was a Very Rare genre for anime. I wish there will be more Chibi anime with Boxing / Bodybuilding theme in cute way.

@Tsurii Thanks, I didn't know about that! Well, now I know when I need to get caught up...

Just want to point out that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has gone from awesome to trash in the span of just a few episodes. It is actually remarkable how badly they drove this series into the ground. What started as an intense story with serious, characters a dark plot and honestly breathless action animation has devolved rapidly into just a generic shonen comedy routine. Two new characters who, if the intro is any indication, are main characters, are positively obnoxious. One is a muscle brained moron without enough sense to differentiate between his allies and enemies. And the other is a babbling, crying snot nosed coward who literally will hide behind children to save himself - whose introduction is as a slobbering idiot trying to force himself on a woman "before he dies". And both of these characters scream almost every line. It's such a stark contrast from how the show began and such a massive downgrade. It's like ordering a delicious meal at a restaurant, taking a couple bites, and then two idiots walk up and sneeze and cough all over it. Really don't want to keep eating!

I can't even think of another show that started off so cool and interesting only to go downhill so fast and so much!

On another note Dr. Stone and Is it wrong to pick up girls in a Dungeon 2 are proving to be very good this season. Much to my relief.

@Heavyarms55 I'd argue that Demon Slayer was racing through the setup just to get to the routine. It always felt like it was rushing to me. Shrugs I wasn't that invested in it, though.

Anyways, I'm most of the way through the Dragon Ball Super arc, and while I have some storytelling issues and weird retcons that feels more like the scriptwriters aren't actually all that familiar with Goku (he never kissed Chi-Chi? What?!), I'm enjoying it so far, and where its taking the story. The humor is also getting better, though maybe I just have a soft spot for time-travel-based confusion. Either way, it's been pretty fun so far, even as the stakes ramp up. Decent fights, too, even if the animation leaves something to be desired (I'm well aware of the production issues they've had).

@CanisWolfred I sat through about 30 episodes of Super before I concluded that my tastes have simply changed from when I was a kid.

To be fair: If they were the first 30 episodes? They were terrible. I just wound up skimming through them. They literally reanimated the movies while making them worse, mostly to buy time and set up the later arcs (but there were other ways they could've done it). It gets better. Not fantastic, but better.

@CanisWolfred, @Heavyarms55, I love the idea of Dragon Ball Super (especially using threats/fighters from other universes), but the execution has a lot to be desired.

• As Canis said, the first two arcs are just worse animated retreads of the two newest "Z" movies, with failed attempts to expand on them in any meaningful way. The new Frieza arc is especially bad at this, by adding a scene where Krillen was terrified of fighting even basic Frieza soldiers (even while freaking Master Roshi was kicking their butts right below him), bringing back Ginyu only to throw him away in the most anti-climactic way possible, and bringing in Gotenks (who wasn't in the film) only to have him de-fuse the moment he shows up, prompting me to say "what's the point?".
• I honestly don't have many problems with the Universe 6 arc. I would have reworked Hit's backstory a bit (so that instead of a 1,000 year old prodigy, he would have been as strong as he was BECAUSE he had 1,000 years to hone his craft, and Goku would have rekindled his love of fighting after a few centuries of being unmatched), but that's about it. Oh, and I thought Magetta's design was asinine.
• I liked the idea of the Goku Black arc, but I thought narratively it was a clustertruck, largely because of all the timeline stuff. Also they retconned their superhuman invulnerability to regular weaponry, which was most pravelent here. The villains were once driven away by a canister of tear gas, which is extra hilarious considering they have the power of gods now. Interestingly, the arc has some similarity to the doujin Dragon Ball AF (in which an evil Supreme Kai threatens the world with an evil Goku), which was written by Toriyama's protege before being hired on as the official artist for the Super manga, so I wonder if he had any input on this arc.
• I like the basic concept of the Tournament of Power arc, but I think the creation of 65 new fighters for it was way too much of a creative drain, as 95% of them come off looking like the kind of mooks that get knocked out in the preliminaries of Dragon Ball's tournament arcs (and to be fair, most of them ARE mooks that get knocked out early). Even the Universe 11 fighters (the main "antagonists" of the arc) have phoned in designs like "Cyborg G.I. Joe" & "Beerus hastily photoshopped into a rabbit". I don't dislike Jiren, but even he is just a muscled up varient of the "Grey" alien archetype at the end of the day.

Then there's the overall problem of them completely giving Buu the shaft, writing him out of every arc after the Battle of Gods arc (even the two tournament arcs with out of bounds rules where his healing factor wouldn't be a huge advantage).

I still watch it because it's Dragon Ball though, and absolutely LOVED the new Broly movie for what that's worth.