COME FOR A SCHWING: niichan nag thread

[Nuno]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Ending? I'm not talking about an ending. I'm talking about a regular OST.

 

[Nii]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

oh, I thought you meant this because of the duddudu part xD


Regular OST is cool too ofc

 

[Nuno]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

nah, ED 1 and 2 so much better to me

 

[Nii]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Well better yeah, but the best since then

Do you still love me Nuno? I do, very much!

 

[gnut]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

you 2 are hilarious.xD
plus,you guy's convos are so entertaining

 

[Nii]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

wow, is Nuno x niichan an official pairing now?

You actually read our wall of text?

 

[gnut]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

ofc....


ofc......

 

[Nii]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I'm not sure if I've ever seen a wall of text from you on MH (besides Mafia Game) xD

 

[gnut]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I'm not sure if I've ever seen a wall of text from you on MH (besides Mafia Game) xD

i use to on the discussion...but FF changed me

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you know...you hit a good point about me.
some things,very few i'm really knowledgeable with/in.
but,a lot of things i know a little of...hence not much to say

 

[Nuno]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

wtf that love confession from niichan!

 

[gnut]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

wtf that love confession from niichan!

hey...he's comfortable with himself

 

[Nuno]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Man I got to say the attack at the Palace is being kind of ruined to me. The pace is like DBZ/One Piece level, if not slower. Time flows unnaturally slow, the worst example being Knuckle and Shoot vs the red guy, where Shoot fights for minutes and only 10 seconds pass >.> That's just so bad IMO every time I see such things in manga and anime. It gets even worse in anime because they drag out scenes and thus make the time even more dumb. On top of that progression is very minimal in single episodes. You cut to Gon/Killua walking into the damn building like 3 times without anything happening. Just slow motion walking, and focus on Gon's "stern attitude" which we have been shown with complete overkill proportions. I get it, he's mad, he's decided what to do. I don't need to see it 100 times. Too much slow motion everywhere. Too much narration which ruins scenes to me. It's a really cheap storytelling method to make up for lack of storytelling from the characters themselves. I really don't get it because HxH has been SUPERB at this before this attack. Narration was used to a minimum, but used well, now the episodes are heavily filled with the Narrator explaining/talking, if not majority of the "talking" is narration. The vast majority of narration could be explained through the characters' thoughts (monologue), which is way more impactful, and is what HxH has been doing for the majority of the time up until now. The change is so weird to me. Like damn, I can interpret some things myself. I don't need to be spoonfed that wolf guy found it suspicious that "Flutter" came right after Killua killed two ant soldiers. All you need is a little "?!" by him and him thinking "he came too fast..." or something simple like that. Man this storytelling method in this attack and the pace, heavy slow motion usage and constant cutting between scenes without there being much progress, if not any at all is really killing it for me...

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OK back to normal with 116, I'm happy for that. Spectacular episode, the hype build up xD The previous attack episodes were not very good IMO besides the one that focused on Netero's arrival, that one was fucking badass and awesome.

 

[Nii]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Man I got to say the attack at the Palace is being kind of ruined to me. The pace is like DBZ/One Piece level, if not slower. Time flows unnaturally slow, the worst example being Knuckle and Shoot vs the red guy, where Shoot fights for minutes and only 10 seconds pass >.> That's just so bad IMO every time I see such things in manga and anime. It gets even worse in anime because they drag out scenes and thus make the time even more dumb. On top of that progression is very minimal in single episodes. You cut to Gon/Killua walking into the damn building like 3 times without anything happening. Just slow motion walking, and focus on Gon's "stern attitude" which we have been shown with complete overkill proportions. I get it, he's mad, he's decided what to do. I don't need to see it 100 times. Too much slow motion everywhere. Too much narration which ruins scenes to me. It's a really cheap storytelling method to make up for lack of storytelling from the characters themselves. I really don't get it because HxH has been SUPERB at this before this attack. Narration was used to a minimum, but used well, now the episodes are heavily filled with the Narrator explaining/talking, if not majority of the "talking" is narration. The vast majority of narration could be explained through the characters' thoughts (monologue), which is way more impactful, and is what HxH has been doing for the majority of the time up until now. The change is so weird to me. Like damn, I can interpret some things myself. I don't need to be spoonfed that wolf guy found it suspicious that "Flutter" came right after Killua killed two ant soldiers. All you need is a little "?!" by him and him thinking "he came too fast..." or something simple like that. Man this storytelling method in this attack and the pace, heavy slow motion usage and constant cutting between scenes without there being much progress, if not any at all is really killing it for me...

---------- Post added at 05:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:06 PM ----------

OK back to normal with 116, I'm happy for that. Spectacular episode, the hype build up xD The previous attack episodes were not very good IMO besides the one that focused on Netero's arrival, that one was fucking badass and awesome.

Hmm maybe it's a bit too obvious sometimes, but in general I would say it's actually the better storytelling and feels way more realistic. It just makes now sense about what characters think while fighting a battle to the death, especially if you could die any second or with one touch alone. You're only focused on the fight and surviving, feels more like we're way too spoiled by protagonists thinking of various things while fighting. The Narrator also helps about explaining things the character itself might not be aware of.
Granted though, it was better in the manga. All the Narrator stuff and whatnot is really hard to pull of in an anime (motion), people were speculating about how Madhouse would handle the heavy narrator talk. I would say they did the best they could, actually was better than what I expected and quite faithful to the manga. About the Gon thing... probably a bit overdone, yeah. Prolly seems worse if you watch all the episodes without a break, you notice way less when you have to wait a week for a new episode. I think the pace went down during Chimera Ant in general. Maybe because they wanted to give Togashi more time to produce chapters, or because it was the first arc not being animated beforehand. In any case, some episodes were a bit slow indeed, but overall I was quite pleased.

116 was great right? The showdown between Pitou and Gon was great, even without any fighting. I had goosebumps watching that episode.
Netero is badass and awesome, ofc

 

[Nuno]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I feel narration heavily kills off tension in a fight. I much prefer stories without a narrator AT ALL. I prefer stories being experienced through the characters, and not getting a "break" from what they are experiencing. Narration takes a "god perspective" which I dislike in general. I kind of side with GRRM here. He uses POVs and hates stories being told through an all-seeing teller. If the narrator can take a small "support role" like he had done prior to this attack in the entire HxH beforehand, then it's not really in the way for me. But in this case it was so heavily overused. You get a "break" everytime the narrator talks basically. It's different in manga like you said, because it's narration on top of still images. When you get the same break in motion form it becomes really stale IMO. Basically everytime the narrator talks it kills the tension the character(s) is experiencing to me, and it really hinders my enjoyment of the "thrill of the moment". It's hard to explain, but these last few episodes have been really halted. The pace overall had been slow for Chimera Arc, but still satisfactory IMO. I never had a problem with it until now, because of the heavy usage of narrator + slow motion. Constantly cutting between scenes without there being much or ANY progress in the scenes etc. It kind of went back to that in 117, with 116 being a break with full focus on Gon/Killua. Really hoping this tones down soon >.> I don't really get it when the story went from a super low support role narrator for what, almost 110 episodes, into making the narrator suddenly be the "main focus", or should I say main character. It's really weird to change the storytelling method so drastically in the middle of a story.

 

[Nii]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Yeah, it's hard to pull off in anime. I see your point about fights getting stale and whatnot. That was a problem for some others too, personally I didn't mind it too much. Felt a bit awkward at times no doubt, but oh well. Maybe it's because I already knew what to expect.

The point about the change is that there's only a very short amount of time and a lot happens during that. In the manga you even had a clock regularly brought up regularly or stuff like "Only one minute passed since...", a concept they didn't use in the anime. You should check the manga chapters for that, I think the change should be more clear then. If you're too lazy for that you can always look up SHINOBI-03's comparisons. He did that for each episode in the anime thread and compared them to the manga chapters. It probably was the most tricky part to adapt to anime. Anyway, from my memory it should calm down somewhere at your current point.

 

[Nuno]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

In the middle of Youpi vs Killua, the narrator spoils that "his change of heart will make him make an unbelievable choice. But that will happen later"..................................................... wow. DAT TENSION KILLER.

 

[Nii]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Yeah, that was totally unnecessary, had the same thought as you back then xD

 

[Nuno]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

That was so freaking dumb. It happened once earlier as well with a super spoilery narrator line...

 

[Nii]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I can only recall that one, but I think they handled it rather bady 2 or 3 times. How did you like Killua's Kamui? xD

 

[Nuno]

Re: :^) I just want to be your Kappa feat. xi0 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

uh, it was cool, but I knew about it already so.