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[SteelPlatedHeart]

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Denji may have just got his Poochi heart ripped out, but he went out spitting in the bitch’s face, thereby breaking free of his simpness.

 

[bot_for_hire]

Wait. Is Ubel Blatt done, or did the author go on hiatus? It was a pretty interesting manga, to be quite honest.

It kinda went shitty after a while. MC's thirst for revenge was the best part and when that was gone, the manga lost its appeal. It's completed.

 

[bigoogabaloogas]

It kinda went shitty after a while. MC's thirst for revenge was the best part and when that was gone, the manga lost its appeal. It's completed.

Did the MC actually kill the people he wanted revenge on? That sword-hand thing that the MC uses is an interesting concept

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

I'm not that into anime but on a whim watched Hellsing, and my main takeaway is that it has some of the worst attempts at British accents I've ever heard, to the point it becomes outright distracting. Plenty of the "as you are all aware...." type exposition as well

 

[Syaoran Li]

I'm not that into anime but on a whim watched Hellsing, and my main takeaway is that it has some of the worst attempts at British accents I've ever heard, to the point it becomes outright distracting. Plenty of the "as you are all aware...." type exposition as well

Ironically, several of the dub actors actually were British and most of the typical anime voice actors like Yuri Lowenthal and Crispin Freeman were voicing characters that are canonically not British

Stephen Lang (the guy who voiced Anderson) is actually Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots using his normal accent and I think Integra and Seras were both voiced by actual Brits.

Integra was voiced by Victoria Harwood, who's from Devon originally.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

So the latest episode of the 5th OVA of Tenchi Muyo is out and:

Spoiler

What are they insinuating here? Is this what I think it means? Does it have something to do with the selfish wish Tenchi had at the end of the last episode?

 

[bot_for_hire]

Did the MC actually kill the people he wanted revenge on? That sword-hand thing that the MC uses is an interesting concept

Spoiler: spoiler

Yes.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

So the latest episode of the 5th OVA of Tenchi Muyo is out and:

Spoiler

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What are they insinuating here? Is this what I think it means? Does it have something to do with the selfish wish Tenchi had at the end of the last episode?

I haven't been watching the OVAs but is (that?) Tenchi now married to all of them like he supposedly canonically does?

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

That's true, but the nonsense of

Spoiler: do not read if you want to enjoy the show

Fujiko fucking Zenigata for info and his adopted gay son drooling over his "daddy" was silly.

This is par for the course for Funimation and Crunchyroll when it comes to colloquialism/slang/idioms. Has anyone else read the shitty localizer's defense for this? It's a doozy. https://archive.ph/VbQDa She did a horrible job on Interspecies Reviewers as well.

She says she's an actual fan of Higurashi, but a true fan would've known better than to butcher "Nii-Nii" like that and then get all high-and-mighty over it.
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She's claiming she's an anon, which I guess would explain the 4chan collage she had made.
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https://archive.md/EuWD2

"Whore of the industry".
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https://archive.md/QpqDE

She looks exactly what you think she looks like.
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Jesus, those freckles look like blotches.

It's like, I can't get any single being who works in Funi not being a non-retarded sub-human

Big Brudder keeps taking me out of it, I can't help but read it in a Jamaican accent.

"Big Brudda! Help me, Oyashiro-sama is jamaican me crazy, mahn"

I unironically said it like Ugandan Knuckles when I saw it on screen at first. Now I'm reading it as Bushmaster too.

This feels like a meme sub.

 

[bocchan]

Anybody here check out Otoyomegatari? 10/10 beautiful manga.

 

[Truthboi]

Recently I watched Fate/Apocrypha and it is surprisingly a good anime. I went into it knowing that it was quite hated particularly for the bland main character and the romance of it. However, the show is pretty good with a lot of great characters, and some pretty amazing fight scenes (best is Chiron vs Achilles but the second best is Karna vs Sieg). I am amazed how well animated it is and a lot of the characters are surprisingly great. That said it does have some issues, but a lot of positives I want to point out:

Spoiler: Long winded talk about Apocrypha, ignore if you don't want to read

1. The romance is really dumb, and unnecessary. Sieg x Jeanne could've worked but it felt rushed and no proper time to develop them. I am usually against woke sort of stuff but Sieg x Astolfo would've worked better if they needed a romance because they had stronger chemistry together than the actual romantic couple. It is just Jeanne falling head over heels over this homunculus because he showed acts of bravery despite his condition which is fine but feels strange. It doesn't help all of her romantic scenes with Seig were the most cringeworthy moments of the show that I wanted to skip them. The romance really felt hamfisted and it tried to emulate the Shirou and Saber romance which was done much better and had more build up to it in comparison to Sieg and Jeanne.

2. The main villain, Amakusa Shirou, is terrible. His plan is really short-sighted and the show goes out of it's way to make you think the story is morally grey with this altruistic plan which in reality will halt human development. Honestly, Darnic, the main villain from the first half of the show, would've made a more interesting main villain given his degree of competency, planning, and being more intimidating with a more straightforward goal (at least for Fate anyway). Amakusa also was really boring as his calm and collected demeanor bordered on pretentious and was grating how he was not that interesting to watch. It didn't help none of the characters had good reasons to call him out to make his plan look good when in reality there were many arguments for why it was stupid that the show never bothered to use. The only thing I like about him is his relationship with his servant which even then felt kinda stretched.

3. The potential was kinda squandered. I could see why people didn't like this anime much given the premise of a team based grail war could be cool, but the Red team's set of masters has no characterization and are more of a plot device (besides two, one of which being the main villain and the other being a really cool character) while two members of the Black Team were pretty flat.

4. Astolfo's master is probably being the most incompetent and idiotic master in all of fate that they'd make Shinji from FSN look like the most competent master ever by treating her servant like a literal sex toy over actually trying to win in the grail war, barely even using him for battle (in fact all of his fights were done not because she ordered him to fight) and the only time she did was after using her last command seal to force him to kill Sieg because Astolfo is friendlier with Sieg than with her. Like Jesus Christ and this woman is supposedly a competent magus yet acts like /r9k/ personified if they were a busty woman.

5. While I personally find Sieg to be an okay character, he really shouldn't have been the central main character. It would've been fine if the story had no central main character given the huge cast, but Sieg was pretty generic and honestly felt pretty generic. It didn't help that the show talks about how cool and amazing he is despite being pretty standard as a guy beyond his homunculus status and his powers weren't really interesting as he was just given Siegfried's powers (which made sense in the context of the story so it worked) and Frankenstein's powers (though him having the latter's powers was a major stretch and it felt more like to give closure to the master of Frankenstein).

To talk about the great things I'll start with the characters. The characters were pretty cool and had varying degrees of depth to them. One in particular that was surprising was Gordes (Siegfried's master and a fat fuck) who could've easily been an irredeemable scumbag but he is a pretty cool guy who just has a bad attitude and is generally well meaning. The Red Saber Team was also great as Mordred and Kairi were really cool and had a lot of cool scenes together from being badasses to having some nice interactions that can be funny or rather touching. The other black team masters were great as well barring Avicebron's master and the dumb bitch I mentioned earlier with Fiore and her brother being good characters who had nice relationships with their servants, Darnic was an intimidating villain who was pretty smart but then went full batshit crazy which was fun, and Jack's master was a nice maternal figure to her servant and they were quite touching for a prostitute with a serial killer servant. Sieg was okay.

The servants really stole the spotlight as all were varying degrees of interesting with some making more interested in learning more about them (those being Astolfo, Jack the Ripper, Mordred though Arthurian Legends interested me prior, Karna, Chiron, Achilles, Atalanta, and Vlad the Impaler) and all were pretty entertaining with the exception of probably Amakusa. Shakespeare however stole the show and was perhaps the most entertaining character since he was just that one guy in the background eating popcorn while everything was going to shit.

The fights themselves varied, they were pretty meh at the start with the exception being Fiore and Chiron fighting Mordred and Kairi along with the fight against Dracula which was cool. I think the endgame fights starting with Jack the Ripper onward were really great but took a steep fall with the final fight of Amakusa fighting Sieg which was not really fun as it was quite rushed and neither character I was fully invested in given I knew Sieg would win and Amakusa was a shit villain. So the investment was low, and the ending was just pretty decent.

Overall, Fate/Apocrypha was a pretty good anime to watch even if it had some glaring issues with it. I wouldn't recommend this anime for people getting into Fate as it would be better recommended to start with Stay/Night, but if you are a Fate fan I'd recommend checking it out. I would give it about a 7/10 if I had to place a numerical score.

 

[Overcast]

Just started reading "A Trail of Blood". Made by the same guy who made "Aku No Hana."

I really love Oshimi Shuzo's artstyle. It's so detailed and haunting.

 

[Vapewizard]

Recently I watched Fate/Apocrypha and it is surprisingly a good anime. I went into it knowing that it was quite hated particularly for the bland main character and the romance of it.

Aside from this and the elements that were lifted from earlier Fate/ works, for me my biggest issue is that it has so many characters but most of them don't really have much characterisation or get to do anything relevant, such as Spartacus and Avicebron. Both characters had to be redeemed in the mobile game alongside most Apocrypha original characters. Hell, I imagine the whole reason why most of the masters on the red side were knocked out is because otherwise the writer would've had even more characters that wouldn't be able to get enough attention to be interesting.

 

[Truthboi]

Aside from this and the elements that were lifted from earlier Fate/ works, for me my biggest issue is that it has so many characters but most of them don't really have much characterisation or get to do anything relevant, such as Spartacus and Avicebron. Both characters had to be redeemed in the mobile game alongside most Apocrypha original characters. Hell, I imagine the whole reason why most of the masters on the red side were knocked out is because otherwise the writer would've had even more characters that wouldn't be able to get enough attention to be interesting.

Oh yeah I agree Spartacus and Avicebron were probably the weakest servant characters in Apocrypha. Though you bring up a good point with why they couldn’t use the master characters.

Quite honestly I’m looking into Fate/Strange Fake which seems to handle this sort of large scale holy grail war idea better probably because it’s creator has loads of experience writing stories with large casts so he knows what he’s doing.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

We've got a lurker and he's big mad that we're criticizing the subtitles.

https://archive.ph/2xUKL

The reason for ridicule is the fact that she's so full of herself, especially when she posts on her portfolio/website that she's "Preserving the unique color of your project’s message, whether it’s a character’s voice or a marketing slogan." Her rant about working on the show delves into nonsensical politics. What do the "evils of capitalism" have to do with anime characters and giving them an individual voice? https://archive.ph/H8Egl




She treated it like a dumb sex comedy, especially with the all the adult alliteration and stupid jokes/puns. Then there's the whole thing about Crim's gender, despite having both a penis and vagina. https://archive.ph/O41kE

Of course she worked on the Yakuza series. She had to run her ideas by the main localizer to see how much "flavor" she should add. Why would you do that? I sure as hell don't watch ketchup on top of my natto. https://archive.ph/k1QKm

The odd thing is that you complaint about these things as well. You catalog which Funimation releases were censored and poorly translated.

Were you okay with the English dub of "Is This a Zombie?" calling the main character a "tranny" and "faggot"? How about the "Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail" ova having Revy call a character a "spic"? That's cool, but criticizing shitty localizations isn't? Is it because people who post on the fruit forum all evil alt-right anime chuds? You're full of yourself, BIgOnAnime. Katrina is a big girl that obviously has no problems posting on 4chan, so she can handle the criticism without you defending her.

 

[Vapewizard]

Oh yeah I agree Spartacus and Avicebron were probably the weakest servant characters in Apocrypha. Though you bring up a good point with why they couldn’t use the master characters.

Quite honestly I’m looking into Fate/Strange Fake which seems to handle this sort of large scale holy grail war idea better probably because it’s creator has loads of experience writing stories with large casts so he knows what he’s doing.

Yeah I also heard that Strange fake does it better. I'd been thinking of checking out the novel fan translations but somehow I just kinda keep putting it off for later, same with the newer volumes of the Lord el melloi II case files novel. Though I guess with that my motivation lessened cause the train arc was actually in the anime so I already know it.

 

[R.A.E.L.]

We've got a lurker and he's big mad that we're criticizing the subtitles.

https://archive.ph/2xUKL

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The reason for ridicule is the fact that she's so full of herself, especially when she posts on her portfolio/website that she's "Preserving the unique color of your project’s message, whether it’s a character’s voice or a marketing slogan." Her rant about working on the show delves into nonsensical politics. What do the "evils of capitalism" have to do with anime characters and giving them an individual voice? https://archive.ph/H8Egl

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She treated it like a dumb sex comedy, especially with the all the adult alliteration and stupid jokes/puns. Then there's the whole thing about Crim's gender, despite having both a penis and vagina. https://archive.ph/O41kE

Of course she worked on the Yakuza series. She had to run her ideas by the main localizer to see how much "flavor" she should add. Why would you do that? I sure as hell don't watch ketchup on top of my natto. https://archive.ph/k1QKm

The odd thing is that you complaint about these things as well. You catalog which Funimation releases were censored and poorly translated.
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Were you okay with the English dub of "Is This a Zombie?" calling the main character a "tranny" and "faggot"? How about the "Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail" ova having Revy call a character a "spic"? That's cool, but criticizing shitty localizations isn't? Is it because people who post on the fruit forum all evil alt-right anime chuds? You're full of yourself, BIgOnAnime. Katrina is a big girl that obviously has no problems posting on 4chan, so she can handle the criticism without you defending her.

“That don’t know Japanese” Whatever helps you sleep at night, bucko.

I know enough to know her localizations suck dick. She’s getting ragged on for a reason and her superiority complex isn’t doing her any favors. Bitch made a threat (if you can call it that) on 4chan for criticizing her and I’m supposed to respect her? Lol no. Katrina’s subs are bad and she should feel bad.

 

[Big Bad Wart]

We've got a lurker and he's big mad that we're criticizing the subtitles.

https://archive.ph/2xUKL

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The reason for ridicule is the fact that she's so full of herself, especially when she posts on her portfolio/website that she's "Preserving the unique color of your project’s message, whether it’s a character’s voice or a marketing slogan." Her rant about working on the show delves into nonsensical politics. What do the "evils of capitalism" have to do with anime characters and giving them an individual voice? https://archive.ph/H8Egl

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She treated it like a dumb sex comedy, especially with the all the adult alliteration and stupid jokes/puns. Then there's the whole thing about Crim's gender, despite having both a penis and vagina. https://archive.ph/O41kE

Of course she worked on the Yakuza series. She had to run her ideas by the main localizer to see how much "flavor" she should add. Why would you do that? I sure as hell don't watch ketchup on top of my natto. https://archive.ph/k1QKm

The odd thing is that you complaint about these things as well. You catalog which Funimation releases were censored and poorly translated.
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Were you okay with the English dub of "Is This a Zombie?" calling the main character a "tranny" and "faggot"? How about the "Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail" ova having Revy call a character a "spic"? That's cool, but criticizing shitty localizations isn't? Is it because people who post on the fruit forum all evil alt-right anime chuds? You're full of yourself, BIgOnAnime. Katrina is a big girl that obviously has no problems posting on 4chan, so she can handle the criticism without you defending her.

>Fruit forum
Are you sure she is referring to kiwifarms? or I'm I being too optimistic hoping people know the difference between kiwifruits and kiwis.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

>Fruit forum
Are you sure she is referring to kiwifarms? or I'm I being too optimistic hoping people know the difference between kiwifruits and kiwis.
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It's definitely this site and he's still defending localized subs thate are just as bad as some fansubs were in the early days. Here's the screenshot:

 

[Desu Mountain]

It's worth it to learn Japanese just so you can avoid these shitty translations. Trust me, I know from experience. One year to get to the point where you can read/watch stuff raw reasonably comfortably, 3-4 years to fluency. Go for it.