I should have gone to Shiratorizawa.

[Jammin]

Really sorry for the late reply Jamms

Have been thinknig about it thouggh, and need to watch the latest episode (with some alcoholic drink in hand). I do think the music is spot on, not as much as the original Inuyasha's soundtrack that was fantastic, but like so say the OP/ED are great (especially the OP for me).

The modern era is alright, Sota being actually used is what made me happy, like you said, Kagome's family was kinda always forgotten by Takahashi, and used only for comedic and silce of life reasons instead of being more presented in Kagome and the plot. In fact, Sota's reaction to everything in the actual sequel is more realistic that how him, his mom and grandfather used to be with Kagome traveling in time.

And this is where you will disagree with he me probably, but I like Moroha. Yes the idea of her being abandoned is terrible and bad writting, but I feel that is a very good concept of Inuyasha's and Kagome's child. She really is their daugher, from the apparence to the personality, and is an actual fun and interesting character to watch just like her parents were. Of course she's not that great, but I feel that she's a victim of the terrible writing of the show, regardless of that she would be better in an old series of Takahashi. I also appreciate her like this because Towa is extremely boring to me for some reason, and Setsuna is fine but she feels like some sort of a less emo Kikyo. Dunno, this new cast doesn't feel like to have the same vibes and writing of the typical Inuyasha characters, and even the non-canon movies of Inuyasha had new characters that were actually great, very sad.


I will go get prepared...

Oh revs. This episode I was talking about is a Moroha episode. And... good lord.

I don't... *sigh*

I can't... *sigh*

It's just soooo... *groan*

 

[Kiki]

tagging @Nii too

 

[Jammin]

Well, good news of a sort Revs. Yashahime has stabilized.

Before it was getting worse and worse and worse. Now it seems to have hit rock bottom. It's not really getting better though. It's just hanging out down there. The writing at this point is so bad that it's hard for me to keep being angry at it. It's like a grandparent whose gone senile. It's actions aren't rational or coherent enough for me to even think about them in that way.

So in the grand scheme of things I don't think Yashahime is the worst anime I've ever seen. The music is, after all still quite enjoyable, It is absolutely top 5 though because the rest of it is an irredeemable mess.

 

[Marmalade]

Pandora Hearts Report!

I'm about 30 chapters in the series right now (ended up starting over after 20 chapters this weekend haha).
Really enjoying it so far, now that I start to understand what's going on, and you get to know the characters a bit more.

Must say, I really like how despite this being a fantasy story, Oz is actually relatable. His worries make him more human (and that's not something we see with every series). Often don't really like MCs that much, but he's proving to be an exception to the rule

Also, give Uncle Oscar a gold medal please. He knows what's up haha.

 

[revo]

still surprised he managed to beat Edward tbh lol

Me too...

Ah right, I'm forgetting that you're some years younger than me then I guess it only makes sense you started with other stuff, though I guess something like Naruto would be the more obvious pick compared to Higu
Oh you watched AND played Yugioh? Really liked the anime for a time when it aired, but besides buying a single deck I never really got into that
A good question, Digimon must've been among my first. Though at the time RTLII (basically the kids station) really aired a lot of anime, so almost everyone here was at least watching one during their kid years haha (without realizing ofc). Hard to say what was my very first, but I thiiink either Digimon, Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne or DoReMi... probably am forgetting something xD

Some used to think I'm 28 or so.

Started to watch Yu-gi-Oh after getting into the cards collecion, but I barely remember stuff from the series (except some memes of course).
Aaahh I never checked anything from Digimon, just like Pokemon ^^" these were around a lot on television here and popular in our schools but never got into it for some reason (also Ash's voice in spainish always annoyed me for some reason everytime I tried to watch). Alsoooo never knew about Kamikaze Kaito, DoReMi I do but never checked it, it does look very cute though.

True, you never had it easy getting games How come you never got a console or handheld or something? Could your family not afford it at the time? And I mean all Danganronpa games are on steam, so they're easy to get :3

Mmhm kinda that. For a while my mom couldn't afford any of that, after some time she totally could buy me some consoles and games I kinda wanted to try but she never did anyways (). With time I guess I kinda forgot about videogames in general, since playing one became happy and surprising events, and got used to just prefering reading mangas in general.

I'm also awful at most videogames too, it's both funny and sad.

Oh yeah, I realized :3 Crazy characters can be really entertaining for sure, but the ones who go totally huehuehue I'm CRAZY (like Fukawa and her being all manic with her long tongue lol) usually are hit or miss for me.

Hmm yeah I kinda agree, I mean I don't love every crazy character, depends how bordeline they are xD. Still they're more of my type, even more than tsunderes (you can notice I have a love-hate relationship with that type).

Some people consider Makima the "crazy" type, but I don't at all, same with Isabella. Being a female villan doesn't make you the yandere/insane type, at least to me.

Mhmm I get that There's some good stuff among all genres for sure, but I think I only managed to finish two Shojo ever... think it was tonari no kaibutsu-kun and ao haru ride thanks to the anime and a relatively short manga run for both.
Much more of a seinen and shounen guy, though surprisingly in the last few years I'm leaning more toward shounen xD

You liked Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun too?
It's one of my favorite shojos, more the manga than the anime. Dunno if you still are into it but glad it's one of the few you managed to read.

Funny though, Ao Haru Ride is the opposite, I could never finish it for some reason even if both MCs were likeable. I also liked that type of romance a lot and wanted to read one like that since Kimi ni Todoke became... disappointing to me lol. But still, for some reason I stopped reading ao haru.

And mmhm I get you, I find myself reading shonens mostly, even if sometimes if I think it well I prefer seinens as a genre.

oh there's a lot of different scenes and characters, so I wouldn't really worried. Almost all main Fate characters appear, think you'll like this one for sure
And for me Shirou x Sakura probably is number 1 for various reasons (like how they both ended up broken bc of their childhood, they deserve that happiness) but Shirou x Saber comes close for me. I'm the same that I'm not exactly the biggest Shirou x Rin fan, but Rin always has been my least favourite Fate heroine anyway.

Checked some Fate mangas as well as Sakura's routes and gotta say, I really like them too, and I like Sakura for real. Not sure if she's between my favorite female characters but she's the best heroine honestly (even if I still fave Saber because of bias). And same, I feel the same as you about Rin and her couple with Shirou, can I ask why she's your least fave? Though maybe there's not an specific reason xD.

Tbh I don't dislike Rin at all, I just half meme about her, and half find her too over-hyped even if I agree she's pretty cool, but definitely the least interesting heroine for me.

Maybe because of Sky haha, but I've only watched Conan once during our flight back XD think that was movie 18 or something? I have no idea lol, but it was quite fun after not having watched Conan since I was a teen.

Yeah, I keep confusing overall who follows Conan nowadays.
Especially because it's surprisingly popular in the site still, at least between some users.

And that movie was pretty cool! Though a bit confusing if you don't know some things going on in the manga hahahah. Still a bigger fan of the older movies, both in style and the cases though.

Here, let me help you~

It looks REALLY cool Nii!

Rewatched it sometimes, the first part really creeped me out a bit lol gave me some Higurashi vibes for a moment even without knowing what was even happening.

Also found some characters that are really hype, can see some there becoming faves already~.
Looks kinda like a mix of everything, and I appreciate the mystery if well done, can't wait to check it out.

I think the mansion is actually the St Lucia Academy, saw some comparisons with the VN and it seems to fit (but ofc we don't know for sure). Almost everyone's waiting for that Umineko connection I feel, but I try to keep my hopes low tbh I really hope it does though, next ep should give us a good idea where it's going :3

That could be too xD but still can't help but hype about Aurora's shadow
I can see them giving some random Umi hints for real, since it's more for VN fans more than for new ones.

Should have hopes low but can't help it, this can be the closest thing we will get of Umi in a good anime for now after all

--- Double Post Merged, Feb 10, 2021, Original Post Date: Feb 10, 2021 ---

Well, good news of a sort Revs. Yashahime has stabilized.

Before it was getting worse and worse and worse. Now it seems to have hit rock bottom. It's not really getting better though. It's just hanging out down there. The writing at this point is so bad that it's hard for me to keep being angry at it. It's like a grandparent whose gone senile. It's actions aren't rational or coherent enough for me to even think about them in that way.

So in the grand scheme of things I don't think Yashahime is the worst anime I've ever seen. The music is, after all still quite enjoyable, It is absolutely top 5 though because the rest of it is an irredeemable mess.

Gonna be honest with you Jamms, have been with troubles and barely had time to check the anime series I was following.
Managed to catch up with some last weekend, but focused on those that I knew that still are... kinda decent.

Will check Yashahime soon though! It became so terrible I watch it only to delete it from my head later, and because your words and the hatred on Twiter that wants to cancel the series hypes me in a way, yes, I do love some drama.

--- Double Post Merged, Feb 10, 2021 ---

Pandora Hearts Report!

I'm about 30 chapters in the series right now (ended up starting over after 20 chapters this weekend haha).
Really enjoying it so far, now that I start to understand what's going on, and you get to know the characters a bit more.

Must say, I really like how despite this being a fantasy story, Oz is actually relatable. His worries make him more human (and that's not something we see with every series). Often don't really like MCs that much, but he's proving to be an exception to the rule

Also, give Uncle Oscar a gold medal please. He knows what's up haha.

This is some great news Marms!

Glad you're enjoying it! The plot is really confusing sometimes, and it can get full of plot twists, but it's really interesting to follow the more you advance in the arcs and it gets darker too.

Any favorite so far? And yesss Oz is actually a pretty good MC, he's the kind and friendly type but he has his... interesting moments too lol, and he's not naive or boring at all, I think that both him and overall the three main characters are really likeble actually.

Oscar was amazing. You will find more hilarious momens of him so be glad hahahaa.

 

[Jammin]

Gonna be honest with you Jamms, have been with troubles and barely had time to check the anime series I was following.
Managed to catch up with some last weekend, but focused on those that I knew that still are... kinda decent.

Will check Yashahime soon though! It became so terrible I watch it only to delete it from my head later, and because your words and the hatred on Twiter that wants to cancel the series hypes me in a way, yes, I do love some drama.

It's pretty horrible. I don't see a point in cancelling since they already made this disaster. Might as well air the episodes and let the incompetence out there for the world to see as a cautionary tale. Whoever scripted this thing was really not up to the task at all or didn't take it seriously enough.

I know that they say Rumiko approved of these scripts but I honestly can't believe that she read them. There is just no way. Or if she did, she must have been too polite to saying anything because if somebody handed me this script for an Inuyasha sequel and asked for my thoughts. I'd have to tell them that there is so little usable material here they are better off trashing it and going back to the drawing board and I'm not sure how any professional editor, producer, or director didn't do the same thing.

Like you can focus on specific things that are wrong with it. The role of the previous generations characters. The basic character writing. The plot. And some of it is even foundational. Like Towa is simply a bad character. But all of that just falls under a larger umbrella of a script that never should have been greenlit.

 

[Copy Panda]

My pando senses picked up the scent of someone trash talking the good Rin chan name

 

[Nii]

Some used to think I'm 28 or so.

Started to watch Yu-gi-Oh after getting into the cards collecion, but I barely remember stuff from the series (except some memes of course).
Aaahh I never checked anything from Digimon, just like Pokemon ^^" these were around a lot on television here and popular in our schools but never got into it for some reason (also Ash's voice in spainish always annoyed me for some reason everytime I tried to watch). Alsoooo never knew about Kamikaze Kaito, DoReMi I do but never checked it, it does look very cute though.

Must be your maturity that shines through in your opinions and stuff

Same for me, don't remember much of YGO And well, Doremi and Kamikaze Kaito were clearly before your time, I'm not surprised haha. Every generation grows up with different shows in the end (though I've never heard anyone say Higu was their first anime xD).

Mmhm kinda that. For a while my mom couldn't afford any of that, after some time she totally could buy me some consoles and games I kinda wanted to try but she never did anyways (). With time I guess I kinda forgot about videogames in general, since playing one became happy and surprising events, and got used to just prefering reading mangas in general.

I'm also awful at most videogames too, it's both funny and sad.

Oh no But I get it. Don't wanna generalize, but women do tend to be less into videogames, so it's not all that surprising you moved on and focused on other stuff. And that's fine as well, too many hobbies can be pretty tiring in their own way xD btw, what do you prefer, anime or manga?

Both you and marms say you suck at videogames, I really wanna see you two play Ideally together, I'm sure that would be a sight to behold

Hmm yeah I kinda agree, I mean I don't love every crazy character, depends how bordeline they are xD. Still they're more of my type, even more than tsunderes (you can notice I have a love-hate relationship with that type).

Some people consider Makima the "crazy" type, but I don't at all, same with Isabella. Being a female villan doesn't make you the yandere/insane type, at least to me.

Oh you like tsundere? Usually don't like that type too much, but if it's done well they can be a looot of fun I must admit. Who are some you hate and some you love? Or is that you always feel both about them?

Hmm I get it, though Makima does strike me as a bit of the crazy type, she's been going after the Chainsaw Devil quite hard... Then again, almost everyone in this manga is at least a bit crazy lol. Though female villains obviously aren't crazy per se, I just don't think there are too many and making them a tad crazy isn't that unusual (though that goes for villains in general).

You liked Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun too?
It's one of my favorite shojos, more the manga than the anime. Dunno if you still are into it but glad it's one of the few you managed to read.

Funny though, Ao Haru Ride is the opposite, I could never finish it for some reason even if both MCs were likeable. I also liked that type of romance a lot and wanted to read one like that since Kimi ni Todoke became... disappointing to me lol. But still, for some reason I stopped reading ao haru.

And mmhm I get you, I find myself reading shonens mostly, even if sometimes if I think it well I prefer seinens as a genre.

Hmm yeah I liked it Definitely among my fav shojos too ofc, but I don't feel a strong passion for it tbh. I think I did at first, but for most shojos I just lose the passion/hype after some time, not sure why.

I mean I enjoyed Ao Haru Ride for what it was, but as is often the case I did get somewhat bored with it after a while, so as I said before it helps that it wasn't a long manga haha. Have yet to read a shojo that griped me all the way from beginning to end, so if you think there's one I might like feel free to recommend

Surprised to hear you prefer seinen

Checked some Fate mangas as well as Sakura's routes and gotta say, I really like them too, and I like Sakura for real. Not sure if she's between my favorite female characters but she's the best heroine honestly (even if I still fave Saber because of bias). And same, I feel the same as you about Rin and her couple with Shirou, can I ask why she's your least fave? Though maybe there's not an specific reason xD.

Tbh I don't dislike Rin at all, I just half meme about her, and half find her too over-hyped even if I agree she's pretty cool, but definitely the least interesting heroine for me.

Oh tbh I'm not a big fan of people checking out tidbits here and there, strikes me a bit as half-assed. Like, if you wanna get into something, just read/watch the thing No offense though, it's perfectly valid if you're just a bit curious and want to take a look. What I don't like is people who act like they know a series after checking out some chapters or reading some wiki entries, and going off spouting superficial knowledge. Doubt you'd ever do that haha.
Btw, what are you referring to with Sakuras route?

Saber just is the most interesting heroine because of her whole package and history What I prefer about Sakura is that she has the best chemistry with Shirou, them falling in love makes the most sense to me. And ofc her whole struggle with her dark side, even though she was just a kind girl forced into some real ugly stuff against her own will...
Rin is perfectly fine tbh, she's not bad at all. She simply pales in comparison to the other too, and I always felt like her and Shirou don't really fit together all that well. Archer/HSE with his cynical outlook (but still kind core) works much better for her xD (and yes, I never understood the many people hyping her either...)

And that movie was pretty cool! Though a bit confusing if you don't know some things going on in the manga hahahah. Still a bigger fan of the older movies, both in style and the cases though.

Now I'm curious, did you watch all the movies? I think there's quite a lot lol

It looks REALLY cool Nii!

Rewatched it sometimes, the first part really creeped me out a bit lol gave me some Higurashi vibes for a moment even without knowing what was even happening.

Also found some characters that are really hype, can see some there becoming faves already~.
Looks kinda like a mix of everything, and I appreciate the mystery if well done, can't wait to check it out.

Really happy to hear that
Comparing it to Higurashi isn't so off, Tsukihime has a lot more creepy and mystery aspects. There's actually not that many fights, but a lot of psychological stuff, so I feel it could be right up your alley (though there's a high chance the author rewrote some stuff, just dunno to what extent yet)

I hope you didn't spoil yourself about the characters too much, because they're involved with some of the biggest twists

That could be too xD but still can't help but hype about Aurora's shadow
I can see them giving some random Umi hints for real, since it's more for VN fans more than for new ones.

Should have hopes low but can't help it, this can be the closest thing we will get of Umi in a good anime for now after all

Well, it actually happened :3 No idea where it's going from here, but at least it looks like we could get even more Higu (or potentially Umi, let me dream) after the current season because there's an anime panel after the show ends.

 

[SirSamuel016]

Hi @revo how's it going? Thought I'd pop in here and say I loved the Demon Slayer movie! I need to see it again for Rengoku

 

[Nii]

Still waiting for that answer

In the meantime, have some pictures

Spoiler

As a little extra:


(basically ends at 2:14)

Maybe @MarmaladeSky and @Purity of Magi would like this too :3

 

[Purity of Magi]

(basically ends at 2:14)

Maybe @MarmaladeSky and @Purity of Magi would like this too :3

HAHAHA this is actually so fucking funny and all those meme quotes from Umi.

Legit that video is the work of Featherine while she is ultra drunk, meanwhile Bern sips her wine relaxed, Lambda eating too much candy saying Featherine's script sucks, Beato is somewhere having a huge party in the background while teasing Battler, and the ushiromiya just trying to figure out why there is a male Erika in their family.

No other explanation for it. Just pure genius.

 

[Jammin]

Well Revs, with one episode to go this is how I'm looking at Yashahime's plot.

 

[Copy Panda]

Excellent way of looking at things Im just sayin

 

[Jammin]

I gotta share this with you Revs. It's probably a spoiler for people but, frankly, there is zero possibly that you or anybody else cares.

So for those who don't know because, unlike me, they have good judgement and haven't been watching this crap one of the main elements of this show are 7 rainbow marbles (weaksauce sacred jewels essentially). Each of these girls has a marble. Bad demons want them mostly because they can make them stronger. Now there is this bishi guy. One of those obvious sneaky bad guy pretending, very poorly, to not be evil. He ends up having a conversation with Towa, our protagonist, that goes more or less like this..

Bishi "I'm scheming to get all those marbles... oops, shouldn't have said that."
Towa "You're going to try and steal ours then?"
Bishi "I mean... yeah."
Towa "Oh well, here take mine. But don't try and take my friends jewel okaaaaaay?
Bishi "......huh?"

Later on..

Moroha "WTF do you mean you gave your marble to a bishi?! What if he's evil? You know how bishis are!"
Towa "........ darn, didn't think of that. Mr. Bishi where did you go?! I changed my mind about that marble thing can I have it back?!!!"
Evil Bishi: *walks away*

Now you might think, "That's silly Jammin. You must be exaggerating." but I'm not. That's a thing that I witnessed with my eyeballs. That's the kind of anime Yashahime is.

 

[Kiki]

So cute

 

[Purity of Magi]

I gotta share this with you Revs. It's probably a spoiler for people but, frankly, there is zero possibly that you or anybody else cares. So for those who don't know because, unlike me, they have good judgement and haven't been watching this crap one of the main elements of this show are 7 rainbow marbles (weaksauce sacred jewels essentially). Each of these girls has a marble. Bad demons want them mostly because they can make them stronger. Now there is this bishi guy. One of those obvious sneaky bad guy pretending, very poorly, to not be evil. He ends up having a conversation with Towa, our protagonist, that goes more or less like this.. Bishi "I'm scheming to get all those marbles... oops, shouldn't have said that." Towa "You're going to try and steal ours then?" Bishi "I mean... yeah." Towa "Oh well, here take mine. But don't try and take my friends jewel okaaaaaay? Bishi "......huh?" Later on.. Moroha "WTF do you mean you gave your marble to a bishi?! What if he's evil? You know how bishis are!" Towa "........ darn, didn't think of that. Mr. Bishi where did you go?! I changed my mind about that marble thing can I have it back?!!!" Evil Bishi: *walks away* Now you might think, "That's silly Jammin. You must be exaggerating." but I'm not. That's a thing that I witnessed with my eyeballs. That's the kind of anime Yashahime is.

This. Like seriously. XD

Whats this garbage anime even? I watched it yesterday from episode 14 till 23 since a Sesshomaru fanart reminded me of it and in the end I did that in less than 2 hours. I skipped most parts which were like ultra nonesense. Not even sure why I watched it further? Probably in the hope to see Sesshomaru... and I did... and for what? For the most boring fight I have seen between him and Kirinmaru or whatever this demons name even is. The fighting itself was.... I dunno? Was it even a fight? Two mans using swords or I can better say slapping their sticks to each other while there is somehow thunder at the background without them even barely moving. Then they be like ''Yo, I still need ya for da plan'' and Sessho be like ''kk'' and they disappear. Like ok eksdeeeeeeeeee. Also the way Zero died and then came back.. like XD? This is more a comedy anime at this point.

However, most importantly: Whats this plot even? Why does it feel like I am watching three different arcs at the same time in one freaking episode without a proper storyline to it? Why are people giving this anime a score of 7 on MAL? Everyone is drunk it seems just like the author. They gotta grab that nice bottle of wine to go all out so they can make this ''amazing plot'' adaption. No other explanation can be made for this, really. Everyone is drunk. I guess thats what corona does with you these days.

At least Sessho is still handsome and classy, so I guess thats at least something positive about it, for me.

 

[Jammin]

I'm going to give you a gift Revs. The greatest gift I can give to a fellow Inuyasha fan. The gift of not watching Yashahime.

There is a poor bastard on Anime News Network that has broken down and reviewed each episode of this crap. And it's amaaazing. Read those reviews instead of watching the show. It's just a better way than what I'm doing with my life.

Here's a sample of what you can look forward to from his review of episode 21.

"I was naïve enough to hope that, after delivering an essentially tolerable half-hour last week, Yashahime might finally be on the upswing. Except I forgot: Yashahime is where hope goes to die. "

This. Like seriously. XD

Whats this garbage anime even? I watched it yesterday from episode 14 till 23 since a Sesshomaru fanart reminded me of it and in the end I did that in less than 2 hours. I skipped most parts which were like ultra nonesense. Not even sure why I watched it further? Probably in the hope to see Sesshomaru... and I did... and for what? For the most boring fight I have seen between him and Kirinmaru or whatever this demons name even is. The fighting itself was.... I dunno? Was it even a fight? Two mans using swords or I can better say slapping their sticks to each other while there is somehow thunder at the background without them even barely moving. Then they be like ''Yo, I still need ya for da plan'' and Sessho be like ''kk'' and they disappear. Like ok eksdeeeeeeeeee. Also the way Zero died and then came back.. like XD? This is more a comedy anime at this point.

However, most importantly: Whats this plot even? Why does it feel like I am watching three different arcs at the same time in one freaking episode without a proper storyline to it? Why are people giving this anime a score of 7 on MAL? Everyone is drunk it seems just like the author. They gotta grab that nice bottle of wine to go all out so they can make this ''amazing plot'' adaption. No other explanation can be made for this, really. Everyone is drunk. I guess thats what corona does with you these days.

At least Sessho is still handsome and classy, so I guess thats at least something positive about it, for me.

It's amazing isn't it Magi? I know that not everybody absorbs the information in a show like this and mentally processes it. But you really don't see this level of incompetence every day. It's so aggressively awful.

--- Double Post Merged, Mar 20, 2021, Original Post Date: Mar 15, 2021 ---

Let me set the approprate mood for this first Revs. You too Magi. Because I got some real bad news.



I think we all expected something like this down the darkest recesses of our souls but...

Spoiler: Brace yourself for some bullshit.

Why in the name of Neptune's funny looking fishwang would they give us more than two cours of this garbage?!

 

[Nii]

I said I could wait, but after 5 weeks I'm starting to get a bit sad

Though that won't stop me from the usual pics spam...

And one for Umineko in spoilers bc reasons

Spoiler

 

[Hardy]

If you had gone to Shiratorizawa you would had given up in yourself, your abilities and your ideals. No regrets.

 

[revo]

Oh no But I get it. Don't wanna generalize, but women do tend to be less into videogames, so it's not all that surprising you moved on and focused on other stuff. And that's fine as well, too many hobbies can be pretty tiring in their own way xD btw, what do you prefer, anime or manga?

Both you and marms say you suck at videogames, I really wanna see you two play Ideally together, I'm sure that would be a sight to behold

It does depends mostly but yeah, that can be the case too.
Now that I think well, very few people I know irl are really into videogames, or they were and just forgot about them.

And I prefer manga! (almost all the time at least).
I can be very picky and annoying with anime adaptations, and I honestly get more into the drawings on paper overall, more than in animations, there's also the thing that half of the series I like and follow are mangas, that are most likely never going to get an anime. I just feel that with mangas you get more content, and of the underrated one.

What about you, Kevin?

(Also don't let Marm fool you, she can be pretty good in videogames hahaha).

Oh you like tsundere? Usually don't like that type too much, but if it's done well they can be a looot of fun I must admit. Who are some you hate and some you love? Or is that you always feel both about them?

Hmm I get it, though Makima does strike me as a bit of the crazy type, she's been going after the Chainsaw Devil quite hard... Then again, almost everyone in this manga is at least a bit crazy lol. Though female villains obviously aren't crazy per se, I just don't think there are too many and making them a tad crazy isn't that unusual (though that goes for villains in general).

Hahaha, I mean I do like tsunderes with few exceptions only

Tbh I do enjoy the "trait", you know, when there are characters that have their 'tsundere' moments and that's it, but I dislike the characters where tsundere is 100% both their personality and their design (aka female characters with the pigtails or long hair, the skirt and the whole mean personality) .Maybe that's why I usually prefer that type more when it comes to male characters in anime, like Edward, who has his tsun-tsun moments but his personality goes beyond that too.

Tsundere girls that I'm not really into are Misaki from Kaichou-sama, Kyou from Clannad, or Erina from Shokugeki. Rin I'm mostly neutral and sometimes I do like her, and even if I'm not a fan at all of Nisekoi, I did like Chitoge honestly. What about you? Some you dislike and like? xD

Hmm yeah I liked it Definitely among my fav shojos too ofc, but I don't feel a strong passion for it tbh. I think I did at first, but for most shojos I just lose the passion/hype after some time, not sure why.

I mean I enjoyed Ao Haru Ride for what it was, but as is often the case I did get somewhat bored with it after a while, so as I said before it helps that it wasn't a long manga haha. Have yet to read a shojo that griped me all the way from beginning to end, so if you think there's one I might like feel free to recommend

Surprised to hear you prefer seinen

For a long time it was my most favorite shojo, mainly because I found most of the cast likeable and especially the main couple (pretty inusual in shojos). Nowadays I have other romance mangas as favorites but I still consider Tonari a very good mix of drama and romance.

And sure! I will try to think of some you may like, there are some cool ones that are neither shojo or slice of life.

"For most shojos I just lose the passion/hype after some time, not sure why." Hahaha that kinda happens with me when it comes to action genere in general xD I lose the hype and it comes back, then lose it again, then get into it, and so go on. Slices of life or shojos are something I'm always into (I sound very girly I know).

It funny that I read and follow most shonen series, yet I still find seinens better and kinda prefer them, I find that it doesn't have as many limits as shonen does, and not only when it comes to battle/action series. You like shonen more?

Oh tbh I'm not a big fan of people checking out tidbits here and there, strikes me a bit as half-assed. Like, if you wanna get into something, just read/watch the thing No offense though, it's perfectly valid if you're just a bit curious and want to take a look. What I don't like is people who act like they know a series after checking out some chapters or reading some wiki entries, and going off spouting superficial knowledge. Doubt you'd ever do that haha.
Btw, what are you referring to with Sakuras route?

Saber just is the most interesting heroine because of her whole package and history What I prefer about Sakura is that she has the best chemistry with Shirou, them falling in love makes the most sense to me. And ofc her whole struggle with her dark side, even though she was just a kind girl forced into some real ugly stuff against her own will...
Rin is perfectly fine tbh, she's not bad at all. She simply pales in comparison to the other too, and I always felt like her and Shirou don't really fit together all that well. Archer/HSE with his cynical outlook (but still kind core) works much better for her xD (and yes, I never understood the many people hyping her either...)

Hahahah I always make sure to let people know I only read or checked stuff of the topic, like Nier Automata even if I played it once at someone's else place lol. But I do get it too, though you can quickly notice how someone clearly didn't get into the whole thing and just checked spoilers or wiki or stuff.

And agreed I also like how Fate: Zero and UBW weren't the only adaptations to exploreher backstory, not to mention that King Arthur is a very interesting historic figure overall, and I feel that Artoria was just amazing. (I still love how Fate takes every single historical thing and makes them into a waifu). Sakura I would argue sometimes she's the most interesting not for backstory but for her complex side; before I got into Fate a lot of people told me she was the typical generic shy girl, but since I got into Zero first and saw her childhood... I knew she was gonna be something else (also these scenes of her almost made me pale).

I agree about her chemistry with Shirou! And I find their relationship more complete, even if I do like him with Saber a little bit more.

Rin is kinda more loved since people usually love the sassy female character type. They find Saber too bland and Sakura too shy or annoying (for some reason lol), so they love Rin for being the perfect middle of them, I guess (also tsunderes are always a hit).

Now I'm curious, did you watch all the movies? I think there's quite a lot lol

Yes, I did.

When I got fully into Conan I think the latest movie that was out was movie 17, in year 2013 ("Private Eye in the Distant Sea). I found the movies even more fun than the anime itself since it had many filler arcs and episodes, and I was already trying to get into the manga lol so I took my time and watched all 17 movies (it sounds crazy but it's nothing compared to when I tried to catch all of One Piece in one summer).

From there I became a fan, and then started to check all the new movies. also there are literally at least one or two movies per year, they're insane.

Really happy to hear that
Comparing it to Higurashi isn't so off, Tsukihime has a lot more creepy and mystery aspects. There's actually not that many fights, but a lot of psychological stuff, so I feel it could be right up your alley (though there's a high chance the author rewrote some stuff, just dunno to what extent yet)

I hope you didn't spoil yourself about the characters too much, because they're involved with some of the biggest twists

Looking forward to it ^^

And I love the fact that if focuses more in psychological aspects than action or battles or stuff, kinda the reason why I got so much into Higu/Umi (well, one of them). I have been avoiding lots of spoilers too, not even checking news even if I'm tempted, so don't worry xD especially because anime community sometimes doesn't care and just posts stuff out loud.

Hi @revo how's it going? Thought I'd pop in here and say I loved the Demon Slayer movie! I need to see it again for Rengoku

Hey Sams, we talked on slack and discord a lot but never about this topic for some reason, and I'm really curious!
Makes me glad you liked something outside of Mitsuri for once lol Rengoku is amazing too, a character I love very much even if he has a limited screentime.

What did you think of the movie overall? Do you plan to check the next animated arc or nah?

I gotta share this with you Revs. It's probably a spoiler for people but, frankly, there is zero possibly that you or anybody else cares.

So for those who don't know because, unlike me, they have good judgement and haven't been watching this crap one of the main elements of this show are 7 rainbow marbles (weaksauce sacred jewels essentially). Each of these girls has a marble. Bad demons want them mostly because they can make them stronger. Now there is this bishi guy. One of those obvious sneaky bad guy pretending, very poorly, to not be evil. He ends up having a conversation with Towa, our protagonist, that goes more or less like this..

Bishi "I'm scheming to get all those marbles... oops, shouldn't have said that."
Towa "You're going to try and steal ours then?"
Bishi "I mean... yeah."
Towa "Oh well, here take mine. But don't try and take my friends jewel okaaaaaay?
Bishi "......huh?"

Later on..

Moroha "WTF do you mean you gave your marble to a bishi?! What if he's evil? You know how bishis are!"
Towa "........ darn, didn't think of that. Mr. Bishi where did you go?! I changed my mind about that marble thing can I have it back?!!!"
Evil Bishi: *walks away*

Now you might think, "That's silly Jammin. You must be exaggerating." but I'm not. That's a thing that I witnessed with my eyeballs. That's the kind of anime Yashahime is.

I'm going to give you a gift Revs. The greatest gift I can give to a fellow Inuyasha fan. The gift of not watching Yashahime.

There is a poor bastard on Anime News Network that has broken down and reviewed each episode of this crap. And it's amaaazing. Read those reviews instead of watching the show. It's just a better way than what I'm doing with my life.

Here's a sample of what you can look forward to from his review of episode 21.

"I was naïve enough to hope that, after delivering an essentially tolerable half-hour last week, Yashahime might finally be on the upswing. Except I forgot: Yashahime is where hope goes to die. "

It's amazing isn't it Magi? I know that not everybody absorbs the information in a show like this and mentally processes it. But you really don't see this level of incompetence every day. It's so aggressively awful.

--- Double Post Merged, Mar 20, 2021, Original Post Date: Mar 15, 2021 ---

Let me set the approprate mood for this first Revs. You too Magi. Because I got some real bad news.



I think we all expected something like this down the darkest recesses of our souls but...

Spoiler: Brace yourself for some bullshit.

Why in the name of Neptune's funny looking fishwang would they give us more than two cours of this garbage?!

Using a spoiler box not because I care about people getting spoilers Jamms (I think we would be saving them if they managed to read a bit about this sequel), but so I don't make a massive wall of text with all of this post.

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I have this big feeling that most of this sequel thingy was mostly done for Sesshomaru and his messy family. This uncomfortable feeling grew more when I noticed that they spent more dedication on the whole shocking, awful, drama-TV-like plot twist of Rin being the mom aka his wife aka whatever. That was OoC for Sess's character overall, but they truly couldn't care less at taking care of the main four protagonists, not only that, but they gave them awful personalities that don't match at all how they are. Forever salty at Miroku being tossed to the side, Sango being a package wife, Inuyasha acting almost coward and with little participation, and Kagome's whole concept and development to the garbage.

This whole conflict is stupid too because... well, like I said before if I recall, the whole point of the jewel was that it no longer existed in the world, not in modern times neither in ancient Japan. That's where Inuyasha and Kagome's characters grew completely, hell, the Jewel was the main conflict of all the series, not Naraku or Kikyo's love drama, but the jewel. The series concluded completely because the main characters managed to finish the conflict of it, so of course when they tried to invent an excuse to bring it back it was stupid.

The current main characters are bad, boring, awful. Moroha was the only interesting part but her whole past is so weird??? And unncessary, honestly, very rushed even in the reveals. The twins I honestly couldn't care less, they're just kinda there. The rest of the guys I truly can't recall about them.

Another problem of this series were the antagonists, Rumiko Takahashi always tended to make dark characters who loved evil and want to see the world burn, but with a good reason at least. Naraku was the most complex character, almost as Kikyo was, there was a past of him and he had an identity crisis, basically a Muzan but a thousand times better.

This whole duo of the siblings made me yawn, why do I care? Why should I care if Kirinmaru will die? What makes him interesting? Literally only the mention of Inu and Sessh's father, but that's it, not more than that. Not even Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku or Sango or even Sesshomaru himself are directly relationed with the fate of this man, but their daughters, who are also new characters with little screentime so we care about them.

What I'm trying to say is: what was the point of this? What was needed? What did Rumiko want to complete or add to her world-building with this? Why add and make a whole new conflict if a) it ruins your entire long, old series b) your main characters, the guy who is the name of the title of the series, aren't even relevant and you will not even focus on them?

No one cares about new characters, no one cares about conflicts that barely have any relation with them. Kikyo's ghost idea was stupid, it ruined all the point of her death. Rin was a waste of animation and lacks a personality, her couple/relationship with Sesshomaru must be dull and even creepy.

The whole conclusion of this is that they were using nostalgia to get money, like most shonen's sequels exist for. If Rumiko Takahashi really wanted to show the lifes of these characters, she could have made a second manga omake, like the one she did years ago. Show Moroha, show the old MCs in a good life, no one wants drama or conflict, it's like FMA making a new sequel and making the Elric brothers suffer a second time. That would be awful writing and kinda an insult to the life you created for your characters (basically what happened to Inuyasha).

By the way I did check the episodes to see what you wrote here, and GOD Towa can be a suffer, I find her bland and boring but these sort of things did put me on my nerves.

You know what the worst thing is? I will watch the second part, or check spoilers, I could tell you now I will never do since I hate it but I just know I will. I'm that much of a masochist.

I said I could wait, but after 5 weeks I'm starting to get a bit sad

Though that won't stop me from the usual pics spam...

And one for Umineko in spoilers bc reasons

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Thank you!

This makes me want to check the CSM anime even more, can't wait, I'm also loving how many new content of Higurashi/Umineko we're getting.

If you had gone to Shiratorizawa you would had given up in yourself, your abilities and your ideals. No regrets.