Anime and Manga v39

Don't forget the supposed arrival of Big Mom. This arc is leading to be Marineford levels of epic.
 
I wouldn’t.

BB vs Marco and crew was off paneled.

BB vs Revolutionary’s was off paneled.

Akainu vs Aokiji etc.

Fair point. Granted those happened over the Time-Skip except for BB vs Revolutionaries.
 
Don't forget the supposed arrival of Big Mom. This arc is leading to be Marineford levels of epic.

Given the sheer amount of WHAM that happened in that arc, that's gonna be a tough act to follow. But I can see it happening and I think this is where the Straw Hat Grand Fleet will come into play.
 
Has anyone seen the My Hero movie? Nearest theater to me that played it was a 3 hour drive and I and get to catch it. Opinions on it?
 
Makes sense in that context, but that just doesn't work when framed as a series outside of maybe parody or homage. This just veers into straight overt violence and porn. Like the author and/or artist wanted to make a hentai, but went this direction because they saw more money here which is not unheard of, there's been an influx of hentai manganka making more mainstream stuff in the last few years(Chio's School Road for starters amongst others).

Edit: Jesus Fuck. There's a guy on another forum I visit who treats Goblin Slayer like it's not just art, but the end all be all greatest manga of this generation and pretty much sees no problems or flaws with anything in the series.

But why are you segregating one form of violence (rape) as being simply "too vile" over the others? It's an adult/mature anime and the material should include things such as rape that has been traditionally been avoided. Have we not seen way worse in other mature anime such as torture? Torture alone is covered and glossed over in many violent anime but it is probably 10x way worse in real life and yet we don't bat an eye when it happens in anime.

I am just playing devil's advocate here. I've seen anime where they rip limbs, gouge eyes, blow up and/or mutilate people/bodies, choke the living shit out people but rape is "too violent"?
 
But why are you segregating one form of violence (rape) as being simply "too vile" over the others? It's an adult/mature anime and the material should include things such as rape that has been traditionally been avoided. Have we not seen way worse in other mature anime such as torture? Torture alone is covered and glossed over in many violent anime but it is probably 10x way worse in real life and yet we don't bat an eye when it happens in anime.

I am just playing devil's advocate here. I've seen anime where they rip limbs, gouge eyes, blow up and/or mutilate people/bodies, choke the living shit out people but rape is "too violent"?

Jim Sterling says better than I ever could, as do these two reviews.



https://apieceofanime.com/2018/10/0...-dark-stories-arent-the-same-as-good-stories/

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/in-which-i-review-new-anime-fall-2018.834641/page-4

Overall it's a complicated aspect of it being used not just constantly in the series, but often in a cheap and lazy way with the only attempt to try and tackle a survivors trauma being via a character that looks like she got ripped out of an eroge game along with having erect nipples and jiggle physics when talking to the MC about her past combined with murder and torture being universally accepted as horrid, no questions asked while rape is sometimes still treated as gray with victims at times being expected to shoulder some of the responsibility. Rape being used in fiction I see it as using dynamite, use with extreme caution and no more than you need to.

As an aside, one of the guys I talk to on MAL also says there POV rape scenes which is just an added level of disgusting and sleazy that just doesn't add anything. You could basically remove the rape aspect and the series wouldn't change much which is the problem as it means that it's there specifically for the shock value. Not to mention that the bulk, if not the straight up majority of the on screen violence happens to women and yeah it's pretty bad.

Edit: The way it's used in the series also smashes it right into the Thermian Argument which is another issue.

https://mxplx.com/meme/4363/ - Thermian Argument explanation.
 
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Does Steve Fox look like Michael Schtilvay?



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No idea what this is, but it looks absolutely badass.


Also a new arc for Slime anime started. :D
 
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Kengan Ashua is so over the top.

But I’m loving it.
 
Food Porn has gotten really, realllllllly bad recently. I think I may actually have to dump it. Yes, it's always been a bit over the top, but this arc has been reading like something out of Toriko. It's absurd and doesn't at all fit with the established tone of the series.
 
So Hajime No Ippo chpt 1245 spoiler speculation:
Taihei bully kid is totally Aoki's little brother, right?
 
So Hajime No Ippo chpt 1245 spoiler speculation:
Taihei bully kid is totally Aoki's little brother, right?
Maybe. There was a panel with a frog.

But is Aoki dumb enough not to realize it was his own brother? Hmmm....yeah Aoki fits the bill for being too daft to put things together.
 
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With this new season winding down, thoughts on the shows that came from it?
 
SO...... I just started rewatching Naruto from like episode 1 and am up to when he meet Jiraiya.

Given what we know of his heritage and such and WHO his parents were..... shouldn’t the rest of the village know too?

All signs kind of point in Shippuden Naruto was at least around Shikamaru, choji and Kiba as a kid and we know how high up the rank pole those families were....
 
SO...... I just started rewatching Naruto from like episode 1 and am up to when he meet Jiraiya.

Given what we know of his heritage and such and WHO his parents were..... shouldn’t the rest of the village know too?

All signs kind of point in Shippuden Naruto was at least around Shikamaru, choji and Kiba as a kid and we know how high up the rank pole those families were....
Fucking bs. I rewatched the whole series including shippuden earlier this year. Minus the filler episodes, they could remove at least 37 episodes more if they stop showing lonely naruto in the swing.

Sarutobi was soft. He should've adopted Naruto or let one of the bigger houses raised him as befits his honor as an emergency sacrificial jinchuuriki.
 
Fucking bs. I rewatched the whole series including shippuden earlier this year. Minus the filler episodes, they could remove at least 37 episodes more if they stop showing lonely naruto in the swing.

Sarutobi was soft. He should've adopted Naruto or let one of the bigger houses raised him as befits his honor as an emergency sacrificial jinchuuriki.
That’s the thing that sticks out the most. Naruto’s dad and mom both come from major houses and all the other jinchuuriki are treated with a modicum of respect.

Why Naruto wasn’t raised with like Kiba, Shikamaru, or him and Sasuke places together with Sarutobi as their father figure is beyond me.

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As a side note I’ll never understand Naruto’s infatuation with 5 Head Sakura..... just throwing that out there
 
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You guys are making me want to watch Goblin,Slime,etc . Although I usually only pick up anime nowadays only after the series is over .

I haven't watched Slime but I've been meaning to start with how much praise it's getting. Goblin is actually pretty good. It's not ground breaking or anything but for what it is I enjoy it.

Fucking bs. I rewatched the whole series including shippuden earlier this year. Minus the filler episodes, they could remove at least 37 episodes more if they stop showing lonely naruto in the swing.

Sarutobi was soft. He should've adopted Naruto or let one of the bigger houses raised him as befits his honor as an emergency sacrificial jinchuuriki.

Love the anime but man was it ruined by those fillers. I thought Black Clover was made by the same person (they are similar in way to many ways) but turns out it's not I guess.
 
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