Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

@Pastellioli JJK, CSM, JOJO and SxF being your only proper exposure to JUMP IPs is a pretty unique combo, never seen that before.

If you need help getting properly into JUMP’s plethora of IPs, be sure to drop me a word.

Mashle is what i was thinking of, yes. Sadly I got a lot on my plate, not just Shonen JUMP, but even Shonen SUNDAY and Shonen MAGAZINE are on the table for me.

I can’t say Spy x Family was ever my thing, however I’m into a wide variety of JUMP series. I can confidently out of the vast library in Shueisha’s backlog, all the romcoms and the battle shonen I’ve read, I’ve not dislike not one single JUMP series…. well except one.

@Yousef- Oh yeah, forgot to say JJK and CSM were also some of the few animes I watched that were based on JUMP manga. I did want to watch One Piece one time when I had Netflix, but I did not, plus I think Netflix doesn’t have all the endless amounts of seasons and episodes. It would take me a while to catch up on the newest episodes, but sometimes I would randomly watch clips taken from the episodes on YouTube years ago. The JUMP animes I’ve watched are great, but I don’t read their mangas and I’ve not caught up on Spy x Family and JJK animes. It would probably take me a long time if I read any of the mangas, since JJK is a few chapters away from ending and JoJo has 9 parts! I don’t buy manga or really read any, I did have at least three, but they were all based on video games and weren’t JUMP mangas.

I am curious about JUMP’s IPs, I know super famous ones already, but are there a few ones that are critically acclaimed but not well known?

Oh yeah, I also do know several other Shōnen magazines out there too! I also think they carry other well-known manga series too.

I don’t think I’ve ever really heard of any JUMP mangas that are super hated or bad, but what is that one series you disliked a lot? I’m super curious about that too.

Trying out some new mecha.

Full Metal Panic! - This has been pretty good so far. Set in a pretty contemporary Japan (for the 2000's) except that militaries have mechs. Pretty much an independent military group sends our protagonists undercover in a Japanese high school to protect a girl who is being targeted by terrorists & foreign government agencies (as she has some sort of secret ability/knowledge that hasn't been fully explained yet), and she sort of gets caught up in their world/battles.

Patlabor: the Mobile Police - 7 episode OVA series from the 80's. Wasn't really long enough for any deep narratives, but the cast grew on me, and it was cool getting a police procedural in anime form (we need more police anime!). I'll be looking up the other entries in the franchise eventually.

Ok, after taking a too long break from JoJo, I’ve finished up episode 14 and 15. My gosh, super amazing episodes. The Pillar Men’s entrance in episode 14 just completely shocked me, and Joseph is so smart with his tricks and techniques. I’m on the episode where they introduce Lisa Lisa, but I need to get through an ad break first. Crunchyroll liters the episodes with so many annoying ads.

@Pastellioli I hope you’re ready to finding out Joseph’s secret technique.

I found that Hulu has one of my favorite anime series of all time available to stream, Ranma 1/2. It's been at least 15 years since I have seen it so I decided to start watching it.

@Tasuki, hope you enjoy rewatching it. Coincidentally I just finished revisiting it myself (though I bought the Blu-Rays) and it was a good time (though I think the earlier episodes are a bit better than most of the latter ones, though the OVAs are good too).

Literally just finished watching the second movie this morning, which was the last bit I had left to see (liked it quite a bit more than the first movie).

Are you planning on checking out the Netflix remake coming out in a month or so?

@RR529 It's been years since I saw it and I am still enjoying it. I agree with you where the early season were the best. I had alot of them on VHS years ago but got rid of them since I had no way of watching them. I also remember staying up late when I was a teenager every night to watch the Sci-Fi channel when they would run a block of anime from 12AM to 4am which one of them was Ranma 1/2 back when they were the only channel you can get Japanese Anime on in the US.

I do plan on checking out the Netflix remake hopefully it stays true to the original. I have suspicion that they will tone down the nudity but hopefully they don't change it too much.

Time to hop back into JoJo! I was a few minutes into the 20th episode I believe. I think I only have 6 left until I need to buy a sub to watch the rest of the seasons.

Finished episode 20 and gosh that was depressing. Caesar was so close to winning the fight against Wamuu and seeing that he lost and died after makes me so upset! He had all the UV lights on Wamuu and was so ready to finish him but accidentally forgot that jumping in front of him would temporarily block the lights on him, and then seeing Joseph and Lisa Lisa trying to deny that he died and then crying after seeing Caesar’s blood spill out from under the cross-shaped rock and accepting that he was dead was so sad. Probably the most impactful and sad death scene I’ve seen in an anime ever.

I fell asleep again but my phone stayed alive! Woke up and finished the entire first season of JoJo. I really liked it, and the final few episodes of the season were so awesome, and the battles in the final few episodes were very strong and interesting, especially the fights against Kars and Wamuu. The final battle was so great, and hearing the opening song from Phantom Blood play nearing the end of the final battle made me feel a bit sentimental. Jonathan and Joseph are now a few of my favorite anime/manga characters now

I need to move onto the second season adapting Stardust Crusaders now but I’ll wait for a bit till I get Crunchyroll’s higher sub tiers for it. Glad that the sub will remove ads cuz I kept getting this annoying as heck Honkai Star Rail ad that would play almost every single time there was an ad break. Gonna go back to bed since it’s the early morning here but I’ll be back later.

Y'know that Rick and Morty anime has been pretty hated, but as someone who lost interest in the main series after season 4...I did genuinely like the two episodes I saw. Subbed.

I kinda wonder if it has a bad dub which would be...bizarre for a series like this. Because I can't explain the strong negative reaction to it otherwise, especially since it has less of the things I got sick of from the regular RIck and Morty cartoon series.

@kkslider5552000, from what I understand it's less "Rick and Morty does Anime" & is more "Anime does Rick & Morty", if that makes sense, which might be part of the reception (given that many of the people watching it are probably R&M fans who don't typically watch anime).

IIRC much of the production pipeline is handled like pretty much any other anime, rather than an in house AS project (the dub doesn't use the same voice actors as the main series, and rather picks the usual names you see in the anime dubbing scene, for example).

The main series, while it does have overarching narrative, is much more episodic with more immediate comedic payoff. From what I've heard the anime is much more long from in that it's slowly building up to what it wants to do/say.

The animation, especially during action scenes, does look really choppy/extremely low frame rate. This is probably meant to be an homage to really classic anime like Speed Racer & the like, but it's certainly not doing the show any favors with any typical non-anime watchers who bash the medium as being badly animated who may be coming into it.

@RR529 I mean I guess that makes a degree of sense.

I want to rewatch the Yokai Watch anime so badly after seeing that Holy Horror Mansion trailer for the new game but Crunchyroll doesn’t even have it! Sucks when the streaming service I have doesn’t have what it is I want to watch but some other ones I don’t use actually have it…

Yesterday I finished watching "Princess Sara", a really great anime. If I had to describe it, it is like a more cheerful version of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tail, where the heroine does not have to die in the end, to be rewarded in heaven, for all the endured hardships. Be nice to your friends and enemies and learn to forgive, is a very important part of the anime and of life on earth in general.

Newest Additions:

Dallos - I've always liked 80's sci-fi OVAs, and apparently this is the first OVA ever (directed by the same guy who'd go on to direct Ghost in the Shell no less), so I'm looking forward to trying it.

Kite Integral Version - This comes with all 3 different versions (most censored to completely uncensored), and is another one I'm interested in trying out.

Monster Musume - Haven't seen. Expecting it to be nothing more than a guilty pleasure.

Nadia: Secret of Blue Water - This has been largely really good. Not quite up there with Gainax's best (Gunbuster, Evangelion, Gurren Lagaan), but that's a high bar to clear so I can't hold it against it. It was getting pretty slow in the second half, but it's hit the climax and has gotten really exciting so I'm looking forward to finishing it (two episodes left).

Riding Bean - Not amazing, but a really fun homage to classic American crime/cop action flicks in the vein of Dirty Harry & Lethal Weapon, but in OTT anime fashion. A brisk 45 minute long OVA film.

Tona-Gura! - Another harem show. Again, just expecting it to be a guilty pleasure.

@RR529 Heck yeah, Nadia! If I didn't have to worry about money and could just buy anime dvds regularly, it would be high on my list of ones to buy.

@kkslider5552000, it's been pretty fun (though I didn't care for the extended deserted island storyline), and I really love the OP song. Sometimes I'll just sit on the main menu for a few minutes once I'm done watching an episode or two since it plays on loop, lol.

@RR529 Oh yeah the island story is infamous. Apparently that entire section was given to other people while Anno was finishing up the final episodes so the series wouldn't need to go on hiatus and it turned out...the way it did.