The Anime and Manga Thread v48

[NoSmilez]

What do you mean? I stopped watching before the last episode. Did they made Shampoo black?

Nah it’s not bad. It’s just like kenshin remake. Nothing changed. I will go back to it later.

Oh yea nobody has nipples!!!

 

[HenryFlower]

Dan Da Dan 2nd season July 2025.

Okarun and Jiji singing 2 songs from Slamdunk was a total ween moment for me. Couldn't stop laughing.

love the quick turnaround

 

[NoSmilez]

Good luck pronouncing this.

 

[boingyman]

Can't wait for this one! Actually I can wait until the season is completed, but I'm glad it's coming out soon.


Meanwhile OPM S3

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Good luck pronouncing this.

I think you need to do a kawaii pose while reading the title.

Also, it looks like another Gundam series for modern audience. What as waste of animation.

 

[NoSmilez]

I think you need to do a kawaii pose while reading the title.

Also, it looks like another Gundam series for modern audience. What as waste of animation.

It’s a collab with the guys who did Eva movies. It’s honestly beautiful. It seems way too kiddie though.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

It’s a collab with the guys who did Eva movies. It’s honestly beautiful. It seems way too kiddie though.

Yeah. That's why I said waste of animation. Needs more dying children in space.

 

[franquito]

Thoughts on Berserk
I had never read any manga before, and had not watched any anime in many years. Did not watch much even back then.
Had learned the basic plot of Berserk, and heard that it was generally considered the best example of manga, so wanted to give it a try.
Over the past few months, read all of it, up to the last chapter completed by Miura.
I realize I am an ignorant n00b compared to everyone else in this thread, but would appreciate any feedback.

The Good:
-The Golden Age Arc is fantastic. Enjoyed almost every aspect. Very memorable, exciting, touching. Would highly recommend to others.
-The Black Swordsman Arc is a bit over-the-top in its edginess and horror elements, but still is fun

The Bad
-The other Arcs are not particularly good.
-Guts seems to become more myth than man. He is nearly unbeatable in combat, which detracts from the suspense. His character development is minimal, and even his dialogue is scant. His old comrades are dead, and he cannot meaningfully interact with Casca. The new companions meet view him as a mysterious powerful warrior, and after a while that is how the audience comes to see him.
-The The change in Puck to a comic shapeshifter feels forced and out of place
-The gratuitous violence and nudity reached a point of diminishing returns somewhere around the Conviction Arc and then started to have the opposite of the intended effect, becoming routine and tedious by the Fantasia Arc
-When Miura would return to focus on the three main characters, Guts, Griffith, and Casca, the series remained interesting, but this happened all too infrequently

Concerns:
-I worry that Miura did not truly have the entire plot mapped out for his team to complete, considering it took him so long to release the chapters that he did make
-I worry that he became uninterested in his original creation and his original intended direction
For the above reasons, not sure I will continue to read the series.

But I am very interested in the thoughts and experiences of others.

 

[JBSchroeds]

-I worry that Miura did not truly have the entire plot mapped out for his team to complete, considering it took him so long to release the chapters that he did make

I've written two novels (hobby, not published) so I can add some insight to this. There are, in general, two kinds of writers: pantsers, and planners. A pantser does what feels right in the moment and lets the story build organically, then they go back during editing to tighten up the story and reduce unwanted meandering or false-starts (this is dangerous for serial writers, like manga, because you can't go back after the fact). A planner gets as much as they can set from the outset, oftentimes creating detailed outlines before starting. Most people are a mix of both, but after 30 years of working on a project, no matter how much of a pantser a writer might be, you'll have the overall plot worked out, probably to some fair degree of detail. In my own projects I had some scenes planned out -- almost down to the sentence -- months before I got to the point in the story where I actually wrote it.

The precise plan may have drifted over the years, but certain plot points were almost assuredly laid out far in advance. And endings are usually one of the things an author works out pretty early in the process because it gives them a goal to work towards; when you know the ending in advance you can lay out themes and foreshadowing that add to the impact. One of Miura's close author friends said the ending had been shared with him a couple times, and that it didn't really change over the years.

 

[My Spot]

Over 25 years later and Viz still censors Dragon Ball.

 

[Lavitz]

Thoughts on Berserk
I had never read any manga before, and had not watched any anime in many years. Did not watch much even back then.
Had learned the basic plot of Berserk, and heard that it was generally considered the best example of manga, so wanted to give it a try.
Over the past few months, read all of it, up to the last chapter completed by Miura.
I realize I am an ignorant n00b compared to everyone else in this thread, but would appreciate any feedback.

The Good:
-The Golden Age Arc is fantastic. Enjoyed almost every aspect. Very memorable, exciting, touching. Would highly recommend to others.
-The Black Swordsman Arc is a bit over-the-top in its edginess and horror elements, but still is fun

The Bad
-The other Arcs are not particularly good.
-Guts seems to become more myth than man. He is nearly unbeatable in combat, which detracts from the suspense. His character development is minimal, and even his dialogue is scant. His old comrades are dead, and he cannot meaningfully interact with Casca. The new companions meet view him as a mysterious powerful warrior, and after a while that is how the audience comes to see him.
-The The change in Puck to a comic shapeshifter feels forced and out of place
-The gratuitous violence and nudity reached a point of diminishing returns somewhere around the Conviction Arc and then started to have the opposite of the intended effect, becoming routine and tedious by the Fantasia Arc
-When Miura would return to focus on the three main characters, Guts, Griffith, and Casca, the series remained interesting, but this happened all too infrequently

Concerns:
-I worry that Miura did not truly have the entire plot mapped out for his team to complete, considering it took him so long to release the chapters that he did make
-I worry that he became uninterested in his original creation and his original intended direction
For the above reasons, not sure I will continue to read the series.

But I am very interested in the thoughts and experiences of others.

Golden age, Conviction, and the Millennium Falcon are generally considered the great arcs of Berserk.

Fantasia and Black swordsman for the most part are on a lot of peoples lower end rankings.

Those working close with Miura, like mentioned above, have a direction and ending in mind.

After the eclipse Guts is at peak rage, hence all the violence in the Conviction arc. He is Berserk, ba dum tss.

I’ve enjoyed it and will continue to read it until its eventual conclusion. Struggle along with Guts. He is supposed to have a somewhat hopeful ending according to the late Miura.

 

[Cole train]

I actually liked black swordsman arc most after golden age

Psycho edgy guts was best lol

 

[My Spot]

Well it took over 30 years but we finally got SSJ3 Vegeta in canon.

 

[JBSchroeds]

It's the end of the year, so what were people's favorite series they read/watched this year? These are a few new series on Webtoon that I've enjoyed:

The Genius Murim Fitness Trainer

Ganghyeok is ruined. His gym business is failing and there's no way he can pay off his debts. But one night, while reading his favorite author's latest webnovel, he gets sucked into a world of martial arts fantasy and wakes up as a child monk in the Shaolin temple. There, he must apply his...

www.webtoons.com

The Stellar Swordmaster

The so-called “Lighthouse of the North,” the prosperous trading town of Schoarra, hides a dark underbelly: seedy slums ruled by five ruthless crime bosses. When streetwise orphan Vlad finds the brothel he works for decimated by a disgraced knight, he turns to the path of the blade, pledging...

www.webtoons.com

The Knight Only Lives Today

Is dying repeatedly a blessing? Enkrid's life-long dream of becoming a knight looked to be forever out of reach, until one day he died... and woke up at the beginning of that same day! Now that he has unlimited chances to train and engage in mortal combat, just how far can he go?

www.webtoons.com

For ongoing series I've continued to enjoy Eleceed, The Lazy Lord Masters the Sword, and Return of the Blossoming Blade.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Me trolling the missus:
Give Levi enough blades, gas and time and he would stop the rumbling in 2 days.

Wife: Mikasa too.

Me: Nah. Only Levi.

Wife: But they're practically the same.

Me: Levi is a man.

 

[Daverisimo]

I'm in the middle of a Jojo rewatch that I absolutely did not intend.

I only meant to rewatch part 4 (the best part and if you disagree you're just wrong and should feel bad), but then I had to rewatch part 2, then 3, now I'm in the middle of part 5, and I'm sure that after I'm done I'll rewatch parts 1 and six, then reread 7 and 8 and start on part 9.

In short, stay away from Jojo. It will consume your life.

 

[GhostZ06]

Mi favorite scene from di almost GOAT anime #BigManTings

 

[Slapjit]

Good lookin’ oot mi bredrin ting lit mi seh imma watch it right now was just hypin’ up mi yute Jamahill innah di heavies di 6ixdog mandem nuh see wut mi see so mi haffi educate dem pon di levels lol casuals smdh

 

[what-wut]

I'm in the middle of a Jojo rewatch that I absolutely did not intend.

I only meant to rewatch part 4 (the best part and if you disagree you're just wrong and should feel bad), but then I had to rewatch part 2, then 3, now I'm in the middle of part 5, and I'm sure that after I'm done I'll rewatch parts 1 and six, then reread 7 and 8 and start on part 9.

In short, stay away from Jojo. It will consume your life.

JoJo is too good I've been there bro.
I know it gets some hate but Stardust crusaders has a special place in my heart.

I really hate the ending of part 6.

I've not read the subsequent parts and can't wait till they get adopted.

 

[what-wut]

I can't get into the current stuff these past 2 seasons. I hate the new tower of God art style.

Frieren
Jobless reincarnation
Hell's paradise
Delicious in dungeon
Jujutsu Kaisen

These are the ongoing anime I'm currently into and it seems it's gonna be a while until they air.