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Dark Mac
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Since when? The first couple volumes of Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer are the most original parts, right from the first chapter! After that there's a lot more fighting, more like standard shonen manga (though executed better than most). The start of Sengoku Youko is uniquely boring among his creations, and doesn't even come close to deserving a 4/5. We'll see if the anime can do the later parts well. |
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ab2143
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ohhh, I had no idea Evan Call's composing the music for the series
I find it hilarious how Tama has both human and fox ears |
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Mikan-box Glasses-kun
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I'm definitely enjoying the series so far, and episode 2 is a nice step up in thematic complexity already. Really happy this is getting a much better adaptation than Biscuit Hammer got saddled with, especially since it reads to me as a very "keep a solid baseline and just go hard when needed"-style long form production. Which will be very necessary with a 37 episodes continuous run.
Spirit Circle, Planet With, and World End Solte, for all their quirkiness, all start with fairly simplistic beginnings, and all develop well past that afterwards (in varying degrees of speed). I do sorta agree with you about Biscuit Hammer in that regard, though I thought the themes presented in the last volume were really nicely done in a way I don't see from most shounen creators. |
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Lotus Viridis
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Well I actually liked Episode 1 so yippee.
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kgw
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I don't know where his fame comes from. From what I watched in Planet Within, Biscuit Hammer and now this, all his stories are quite similar: main characters fighting in the "wrong" side for a good cause (or something like that) charismatic girls with strong opinions and a peculiar sense of good and wrong. Villians who doesn't seem like that or think they're fighting for the right side..
Also the twists in this chapters were not exactly subtle; so many hints in the first episode. Last edited by kgw on Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:27 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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InNeedOfAName
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It's his great character writing tied in with the themes of his stories. Also how his stories get more crazy the further it gets along. |
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yuna49
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I'm not waiting for the "good stuff." These episodes were incredibly generic. Plus I hate shows with an MC who screams all the time.
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Gnarth
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I'm liking it. The start is undoubtedly very standard, but a bunch of tiny details are giving me the impression that there's a lot more to the story, and I look forward to it. I really hope the three cours are consecutive, I can't even remember the last time we had an anime that went on for nine months, outside of established long-running shows.
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MFrontier
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It's nice to see a Mizukami work adapted with good production values and proper care to the story. I'm so far really enjoying it and White Fox's addition to the story.
Jinka kind of like Kenshin (Soma Saito!) but more surly and supernatural. Also it's just nice to hear Ryohei Kimura in something. Kenjiro Tsuda in another Mizukami work! |
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Farhanawesome
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Kinda little bit disappointed that Crunchyroll not giving this an english dub/simuldub, is CR not expect this series was popular enough to get dubbed ?
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TarsTarkas
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Been watching more Crunchyroll subtitles lately, so perhaps I am late to the party, but what are they using for their subtitle translations; Google Translate or something. It's like the speech to text issues, when you are trying to tell the TV what you want and it is not getting it right.
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InNeedOfAName
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Maybe it's because the anime is 37 episodes long? Crunchyroll helped fund the third (or rather, first) cour so it'd be odd if they didn't dub it. They also dubbed Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer in multiple languages despite it being a poor adaptation. |
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InNeedOfAName
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Considering they're trying to adapt 6 volumes in 13 episodes, the pacing will probably stay the same or even speed up. They have been adding some new additions to the anime though.
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MFrontier
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Nice set up for our core cast and their conflicting issues/character drama to make things enticing.
A human who wants to become a "monster" because of his rejection of humanity because of how they treated things they don't understand. A fox girl who grew to love humans from her experience with them. A boy who is trying to become a samurai to make up for being powerless and grappling with what it means to be powerful while also being weak. A girl who sought power to make up for everything she didn't have in life only for it to have fatal consequences. Oh, and Kenjiro Tsuda is playing a bad guy. |
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InNeedOfAName
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spoiler[This still holds true, his newly debuted manga "Climax Necromance" also has a main character acting like a villain.] |
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