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emmyboy162:Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood |
Mark23:In the anime's defence, Yuri did tell her navigator that she helped Bam because he had a cute face in the Webtoon. But from the way the scene was framed, I think viewers will be able to deduce that there's more to that. They're moving into the crown game now. The way they handle would help to determine the quality of this adaptation. |
Just finished episode 2 of Tower of God. Enjoyed seeing these characters brought to life. The anime seems to be trimming the fat from the source material to speed up the pacing. With the rate at which the plot is moving forward, and provided that this season has 24+ episodes, the finale will most likely coincide with the season finale of the webtoon. That would be a fantastic place to conclude and it will most likely generate hype for a second season. One minor gripe I have with this adaptation is the translation of names from Korean to Japanese and then to English. In my case, the subs show the original Korean name while the audio has the characters pronouncing the Japanese translation. So, you may end up seeing Bam or Baam in your subs while the characters are clearly saying Yoru. This is because Korean language characters (hangul) sometimes have a different pronunciation in Japanese and the Japanese just translate them directly when adapting to anime. Just to clarify for anime-only viewers, all these refer to the same people: Bam/Baam/Yoru Rachel/Rahel/Lahel Jahad/Zahard Androssi/Endorsi |
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nani667:Based. A very respectable opinion because this may be the most 'cultured' anime I've ever watched. Not only that but the comedy landed pretty well, the worldbuilding was better than expected, and the characters were likeable. Definitely one of favourites of the year so far. That said, Dorohedoro in my opinion knocked everything out of the water. The character interplay, the lack of clear-cut heros and villains, the casual gore, and the sheer unpredictability had me hooked throughout its entire run. As I've said many times before, 2020 is shaping up to be a good year for anime (barring all the stuff getting delayed because of the Wuhan flu). |
Mark23:Can't wait for them to give my boy Khun Aguero Agnis a proper introduction. |
fucc12:Animepahe KissAnime.ru (requires an account) Anidl.org (best used with a Mega.nz account + Megasync app although not required, allows batch downloading) Nyaa.si (anime torrent site, most useful for currently airing series) |
The Konosuba movie was nothing short of legendary. I don't know how this anime has continued to deliver laughs so consistently over the years. I know a lot guys have already talked about it in this forum but when an anime movie is so good that the writer of Pulp Fiction is praising it on Twitter you really can't oversell it. Easy 9/10 for me.
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Just watched episode 1 of Tower of God. I couldn't have asked for a more faithful adaptation of this manhua. The line work and color palette are very close to the original. I don't see how any fan of the manhua can be disappointed with this adaption in the visual department. I am very excited for the next episode. Between Dorohedoro, Beastars, Ishuzoku Reviewers, Psycho-Pass s3, Hands Off Eizouken, and now this, consider me hyped for what this year has to offer. |
dedghoul:Does that arc even deserve a good animation studio? The fights were all static hell with people standing around as stuff happened around them |
NoonMasamune:I actually wasn't aware of this, should we be expecting any cameos from Bleach characters? |
dedghoul:Probably true, Kubo really sh!t the bed with that final arc. |
jeff35:Akame ga Kill 07 ghost I think I just puked a little in my mouth. Please watch Hunter x Hunter and purify yourself. |
dedghoul:Burn the Witch isn't a Bleach spin-off AFAIK, it's an original creation by Bleach's writer, Tite Kubo. I'm excited to see where this one goes. |
teemy:I have mixed feelings about this one. The arc started off great but quickly took a nosedive, the ending was rushed and left a lot of plot threads unresolved. If they can fix these issues I'll happily watch it. If not, I'll probably still watch it but I'll be bitching about it the whole way through. |
nani667:Where did you get this movie? I've been trying to get all through the year and I can only find the CAM version. |
Kaycee7:Good |
fieryy:Spoken like a true Southerner! In northern Nigeria, which accounts for than half of the country's population, Islam is dominant, to the point that most of it's states practice Sharia law with some even having religious (read: Islamic) police. Now let's compare Sharia law to the law in Nigeria. While it is no secret that Nigeria is a deeply homophobic country and that homosexuality is punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment, Sharia states in Nigeria give the death penalty, i.e. death by stoning for a consensual act. The only people you'd see stoning people to death in the 21st century are Muslims. fieryy:I'm not saying it is as a result of Christianity. I'm saying that Christianity allowed it to happen because its teachings make concessions to the law of the land which later evolved into the separation of church if state. 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and give to the Lord what is the Lord's' Verses like that one lays the foundation for what helped to divorce the government from religion. fieryy:I'm specifically telling you how it was Christians ended slavery. I'm not saying it was because of Christianity or it was because of any biblical teaching but the truth is that people who identified as Christians were the ones who fought to end it. fieryy:Any time I argue with an Islamic apologist we always run into this particular roadblock. Yes, I know that Christians sucked throughout history and many still suck till today but the fact is that they generally don't suck as hard as they used to. Muslims, OTOH, have committed atrocities through history and are still committing atrocities till this very day. Modern Christianity is several orders of magnitude better than modern Islam. For example, you can tell me that both Christians and Muslims are homophobic but when we look at the facts we see the that the Christian doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding while the Muslim throws gays off buildings. At that point is it really honest to say they are just as bad as each other? fieryy:Hitler said a lot of things about God over the years but to imply that he was a Christian is quite a reach. He may have believed in God but there isn't much evidence that he was a Christian. fieryy:Ah sh*t, here we go again. All I am saying is that modern Christianity is the lesser (way way lesser) of the two evils when compared with modern Islam. fieryy:I agree with this but the reason such a change is difficult in Islam is due to the nature of the religious itself, Islam specifically dictates the culture of the people and the law of land, there is little wiggle room for reformation without both social and legal backlash which could be violent in nature. fieryy:When the Muslim population reaches a certain size relative to the local population, who will be the Europeans fighting against Sharia? fieryy:Yet, we still warn people about the dangers of smoking and drunk driving. The fact that western culture will evolve doesn't mean it has to be because of Islam. A few years back, Sweden released a weak, simpering PSA advising immigrants to stop having sexual relations with underage girls because it is against the law of the land. It really has me thinking, is this the standard they're going to hold the millions of immigrants who are coming in to? Because if it is Europe is screwed. fieryy:The answer is no. But it your definition of these terms is also important. Is it sexist to acknowledge the fact that since testosterone is linked to aggression and the average man has far more than the average woman, then men are, on average, more aggressive than women? Would it be sexist to acknowledge that since men have a wider IQ distribution than women, it may partially account for higher male prison population and likewise the higher population of make CEOs? Is it racist to acknowledge crime statistics by race? Like how black people are overrepresented in violent crime statistics in most western countries. Would it be racist to say African technology was more primitive than that of the Europeans and Asians during at the time Europe made first contact? Would it be racist to point out how Nigeria and South Korea gained their independence around the same time and had a similar GDP but since then South Korea has grown exponentially while Nigeria is...well...Nigeria? So before you call me Islamophobic you need to take the facts into account . |
Just watched the first episode of Dorohedoro and I'm feeling hyped. This anime is so edgy that you can cut yourself from just watching it. It's like a metal band decided to make an anime. The over-the-top premise, the grimy, rundown setting, the casual brutality are peak 80s manga quality. If you're into that sort of thing, this anime may be for you The opening sequence is also pretty damn amazing. I'm definitely giving this one a watch. Don't sleep on Dorohedoro. |
fieryy:It is natural for empires to rise and fall. It is also natural to push against cultures that opposition to your values. I don't want my offspring to live in a world where Islamic culture is dominant like I do in Nigeria. Modern western culture had created some of the best times to be alive in all history in terms of life expectancy, child mortality, and poverty rates and I don't want to see it replaced by Islam, rather I want Islam to reform like Christianity did. fieryy:All cultures throughout history, from the Egyptian empire, to the Roman empire, to the Byzantine empire, to the Ottomans, the Chinese, the Persians, the British, even the little kingdoms that make up Nigeria were expansionist warmongers. It was the west, the Greeks to be precise that came up with this little thing called democracy that was eventually adopted by the world. Before that, stronger kingdoms simply dominated weaker ones. It wasn't unique to any race or religion. Colonialism was simply what the strong did to the weak. Everyone sucked in the past, the issue is what they are doing today fieryy:It was horrible what the west did to the Africa but it was no different from what had been happening throughout history. Not even the Africans were innocent, it was African slaveowners that sold slaves to the whites. But slavery didn't start with white Christians, in fact it was the very same Christians that fought to end it. The Quakers, William Wilberforce and Abraham Lincoln are prime examples of that, these men went against their fellow countrymen to fight for the rights of aliens. The Arab slave trade however, that no one ever talks about (mostly because Muslims don't care) started in the 7th century and continues till today in some parts, while slavery was abolished in the West in the 19th century, it wasn't officially abolished in arab countries until the 1960s. So don't think it was only the whites that victimized Africans. Christianity, although fundamentally flawed, was able to grow and enter into the age of enlightenment. Today, the most extreme Christians may be hateful, but they aren't stoning people to death for fornication, which is actually codified into the law in Islamic countries and still practised today. The other day I read an article about a musician in Kano that insulted Mohammed in a song, so the religious police arrested his parents because they couldn't find him. That is 2020 Islam in action. fieryy:Yes, all this is true but has no bearing on the actions of modern-day Muslims. It would have made sense if Merkel was bringing in doctors and engineers instead of uneducated, and low-skilled liabilities to average taxpayer. fieryy:You keep trying to equate what Christians did centuries ago to what Muslims are doing today it is completely disingenuous. I'm well aware of all the atrocities committed in the name of Christianity (you can check my post history) but I don't ignore the fact that Christianity has reformed today. Thank you for bringing up separation of church and state. While this is a big reason for the reformation if Christianity it is unfortunately impossible for the same to happen where are Muslims in majority. That's because Islam has a political system embedded into its teachings. Under Sharia law there is no separation of 'mosque' and state. Yet, the majority of Muslims want Sharia law to become the law of the land. Do you see how this conflicts with western culture? fieryy:This is only true as long as the Muslim immigrants coming in are fully integrated and assimilated into the local culture, this has not been the case in Europe so far mainly because the numbers are far too high. fieryy:It won't 'go into oblivion', but it would change to something almost unrecognizable from before. You said it yourself when you talked about North America and Australia. You're literally so close to the answer but you bewilder me with your conclusion. Immigration and cultural change are natural but it is also natural to secure your borders and to have a sense of self-preservation. The fact that death is natural doesn't mean we should all commit suicide. So why do Europeans want their children to live in such an uncertain future? Why do leftists believe that people who want to protect the stability of their culture are the second coming of Hitler? I want to finish this by saying that I do not hate Muslims in any way. I have a lot of good people in my life that are Muslims. What I do have an issue with is Islam and anyone who takes it literally enough to commit or agree with the violence that it espouses. |
LordReed:Incredibly based thinking, Muslims are not afraid of using the freedom given to them by Western countries to subvert the culture of the land. A large percentage of Muslims see no problem with the institution of Sharia law as the law of the land. Now, when you look at the punishments that Sharia law prescribes for heinous crimes such as having premarital sex, being LGBT, or leaving Islam (all death of course), the real danger of mass immigration of Muslims should be clear. I'll post the stats below for everyone to see.
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budaatum:The UK has already started taking the right steps by parting ways with the EU but the problem has unfortunately already come to stay. Knife attacks are at an all time high, so high that they banned all knives in public, they even arrested a guy for carrying a potato peeler. Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan said that terrorist attacks are part and parcel of living in a big city. There have been Islamic child-rape gangs running in the country for decades that have systemically targeted poor white girls and the police tried to cover it up to prevent 'racial profiling'. At 5%, the population of Muslims is probably manageable, but if the government changes hands to a more leftist party, you can be sure that the borders will be opened once again to all the problems that Muslim refugees bring. |
fieryy:Call it racist or eurocentric, it doesn't change the fact that western culture is a successful one which is why so many Africans and middle easterners run from their failed states to find a better life in Europe. Nigeria is a good example of one of those failed states. fieryy:Thanks for bringing up North America, what exactly happened to the Native Americans when the Europeans came? What happened to the Aborigines when the Europeans came? They became minorities in their own land, their culture was decimated, the Europeans brought western values into the land, and those places became a part of the West. The same would happen in Europe, Muslims will bring in their Islamic culture and unless you're cool with living in Middle East-lite, you may have reservations. Islam does not tolerate dissent, it violently opposes gay rights, women's rights and is inherently antithetical to a lot of western values. fieryy:That is no reason to actively encourage the destruction your culture. Cultural integration occurs naturally between compatible cultures, this is an unnatural push by greedy globalists to import cheap labour at the expense of the little guy. Read up rape statistics in Sweden, read up on the Islamic child-rape gangs in the UK that specifically targeted poor white girls and was downplayed by the police. If things continue like this resentment is going to build up all over Europe. The pendulum always swings to the extreme before it settles down. |
budaatum:These laws and traditions are based on the countries' values. When the continent has a demographic change overnight, you suddenly get a bunch of adults who have no connection to these values. It would be very difficult to assimilate such a huge number of foreigners and get them to accept the culture of the land. |
fieryy:Muslim populations in Europe still have a higher fertility rate (2.6 births per woman) than the native population (1.6 births per woman). It is generally accepted that a population needs a fertility rate of at least 2.1 to naturally maintain it's number. At 1.6, the native pollution is actively getting smaller. This, coupled with mass immigration from Muslim-majority countries means that the EU has its work cut out for it to assimilate these people into their culture or else they can expect cultural change along with demographic change. And we all know how integration has gone so far. Also, I don't know why you brought Christianity into this. All religions are crap but the reality is that immigrants from Christian-majority countries don't drive trucks into innocent people or run child sex trafficking gangs specifically because they see the native women as whores. |
budaatum:It's as simple as the Muslims outbreeding the local population. The reality is that by 2050 Islam would be the most dominant religion in terms of population size. If a significant portion nightmare to Europe now like what is already happening then a significant portion of that 1 billion would be in Europe. Once in majority, the Muslims would institute draconian laws and make life a living hell for the minority religions like they do everywhere. |
With all the refugees they're importing from the Middle East they're going to be overrun by Islam. |
Baddestguyp:Castlevania is an American show, so it's in English. |
Sayotsuki:Patience is a virtue. It took them decades to adapt stuff like Vinland Saga and Dorohedoro. If the first wave of manhua adaptations (Noblesse, ToH, and GoH) is successful, I guarantee that Crunchyroll would move on to others like Solo Leveling. |
nani667:Man that High Guardian Spice is gonna suck harder than Riley Reid |
Kaycee7:Normally, yes but these are actually Crunchyroll originals, meaning that Crunchyroll actually has a hand in funding production of these shows, kind of like what Netflix did with Devilman Crybaby. |
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