Anime and Manga v37

Tbf, i'm happy there wasn't some Fairy Tail-esque "power of friendship" moment where they all win.
 


I just started watching 2 days ago & finished 20 episodes. I'm a sucker for shounen/power of friendship theme. LOL!
 
A pretty good chapter from One Piece this week. So the question becomes, who was Lola supposed to marry? A Giant I would assume?
 
GSP4tw said:
A pretty good chapter from One Piece this week. So the question becomes, who was Lola supposed to marry? A Giant I would assume?
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Dunno about a giant. but it was apparently a HUGE political move it seems. Either way, the crew is really fucked it seems since that Vivre Card was the best gamble they had other than the bomb inside the Fishman Box.
 
The Counterattack begins with Brook , some ridiculous battles coming up , Plus the Straw Hats are spread so Thin especially with Zoro in Wano.
 
so I don't watch much anime or read much manga anymore
but I just watched through Tokyo Ghoul and One Punch man this week
Great series
 
I've been trying a bunch of different series in the last month or two and for whatever reason a bunch of them turned out to be Chinese action shounens. It's almost disturbing how similar many of them are. To the point it makes me question if there's some classic story in their culture all these things are being lifted from. But besides the story similarities they also share a glaring weakness: poor power-up progressions. The main characters get extremely powerful very quickly and often it comes from some outside influence. This makes me really appreciate how well some series do this kind of thing. For all its issues (especially later in the series), one of the things Naruto excelled at was showing characters learning, growing, and building on previous abilities and experiences. Like with the Rasengan, we see each part of the technique having to be learned in sequence and the difficulties overcome in creative ways using older skills. In these Chinese series a person reads a magic scroll and in the next panel starts blowing shit up.

I'm hesitant to call out an entire country for being creatively bankrupt ripoff artists only able to imitate but not innovate...but if the shoe fits...
 
JBSchroeds said:
I've been trying a bunch of different series in the last month or two and for whatever reason a bunch of them turned out to be Chinese action shounens. It's almost disturbing how similar many of them are. To the point it makes me question if there's some classic story in their culture all these things are being lifted from. But besides the story similarities they also share a glaring weakness: poor power-up progressions. The main characters get extremely powerful very quickly and often it comes from some outside influence. This makes me really appreciate how well some series do this kind of thing. For all its issues (especially later in the series), one of the things Naruto excelled at was showing characters learning, growing, and building on previous abilities and experiences. Like with the Rasengan, we see each part of the technique having to be learned in sequence and the difficulties overcome in creative ways using older skills. In these Chinese series a person reads a magic scroll and in the next panel starts blowing shit up.

I'm hesitant to call out an entire country for being creatively bankrupt ripoff artists only able to imitate but not innovate...but if the shoe fits...
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Lol, i've noticed this too. I've read a few, Tales of Demons and Gods, Doulou Dalu, Shen Yin Wang Zuo, Coiling Dragon and they all feel very similar with ridiculous power growth + an occasional obsession with sculpting.
 
MardyBum said:
Lol, i've noticed this too. I've read a few, Tales of Demons and Gods, Doulou Dalu, Shen Yin Wang Zuo, Coiling Dragon and they all feel very similar with ridiculous power growth + an occasional obsession with sculpting.
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Ugh, Coiling Dragon/Panlong is soooooooooooooo bad in that respect.

Add Battle Through the Heavens, Star Martial God Technique, Wu Dong Qian Kun, and Zui Wu Dao to the list and I think that's all of the ones that I've read. It really is astounding how close some of these examples are to one another.
 
rumor going around that they just announced a code geass sequel
 
phunky said:
Is One Piece worth watching?
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If you're not opposed to reading manga, I'd do that instead. Unless you have thousands of hours to sit through all those episodes and the abundant amount of filler. For a while they were dragging it so bad that one episode was covering one chapter of the manga.
 
GSP4tw said:
If you're not opposed to reading manga, I'd do that instead. Unless you have thousands of hours to sit through all those episodes and the abundant amount of filler. For a while they were dragging it so bad that one episode was covering one chapter of the manga.
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Overall still great. Even the filler episodes. Some other series filler though, is really bad...
 
GSP4tw said:
If you're not opposed to reading manga, I'd do that instead. Unless you have thousands of hours to sit through all those episodes and the abundant amount of filler. For a while they were dragging it so bad that one episode was covering one chapter of the manga.
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Manga all day, mostly because I can power through some of my favorite arcs when I feel like it .
 
I finished 2 seasons of Owamushi Pedal in less than a week. Is it the greatest sports/shonen anime? That would be Slam Dunk, but damn, Pedal was addictive as hell.
 
started watching that volleyball anime, the one with the short dude who wants to become the ace. 8 episodes in, not too bad
 
phunky said:
Is One Piece worth watching?
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Yes. I recommended the manga though since it's much easier to power through it and it's in color now. You can find it at Eatmanga if I remember correctly.
 
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