General Anime Thread

@Holofan4life  
Me too. I only recently started to appreciate the human segments even if they lack humor and charm and everybody’s so deathly serious the entire time but this episode was just a slap in the face.
 
Edit: Pleaaase give me some comic relief or a joke or cynicism or irony or references PLEASE. Shun-kun come on, bro! Fei was the best part of the whole thing, really. She kept that sass and made it bearable. Everybody else needs to develop a sense of humor.

I’ve gotta say, So I’m a Spider So What is the first anime I’ve ever seen where the CGI is amazing and the 2D animation is terrible. Given anime and their tendency to have horrible looking CGI, this is especially weird.

@tehwatever  
I find it hard to call it a slap in the face when the spider segments are still excellent. The first half of the episode was legitimately amazing, especially the whole freak out scene.

@Holofan4life
 
We got confirmation that Kumoko did in fact eat those people, and her spazzing and dances aren’t just in her imagination.
 
Seeing her freak out from the human perspective was hilarious.

@Holofan4life  
I meant the second half, because it be the human part. the first half I loved, because Kumoko does her usual Kumoko routine, complete with self-deprecation and millennial humor. Also I agree. Most of Kumoko is 3DCG and I barely mind it. The SHUN part is…alright. The colors, the anatomy, artstyle, art consistency between scenes, costume design etc is nothing offensive, if unimpressive. Serviceable, really.
 
IMO 3DCG works when you’re animating your 3D model. Kumoko and every other 3DCG creatures in So I’m a Spider is good but not amazing. Animated however, complete with her chaotic insane personality, Kumoko somehow managed to make her 3DCG self look less weird.

The dub had one job and it did it.
 
“No habla Isekai. Donde esta la biblioteca?”

@Holofan4life  
But alot of 3D in this (only title protagonist being freee of this) is not good

@tehwatever
 
I was kinda hoping they’d go meta and speak Japanese in the English dub.

So now I’m watching “Been killing slimes for 300 yrs and maxed out my level” just because of Aoi Yuki.  
Apparently hearing her frustrated has awakened something in me.

@Dustcan  
I keep thinking of that joke and I swear someone did it once.

@tehwatever  
I honestly dropped that manga/light novel after the spirit of dead slimes join together to enact revenge, only to become their killer’s daughter because love and why the fuck not.

@Scrabbleman  
See, that’s the kind of spoiler that keeps me from wasting my time.

@WyrmSpawN  
Is that a good thing or did I ruin it for you?

@Scrabbleman  
I’m grateful to know ahead of time, but i wasn’t that close to interested in the first place.

@Scrabbleman  
I don’t mind it, tbh. I’m past the point of taking it even slightly seriously. Wasn’t even laughing at the anime considering it wasnt funny. It’s chill, tho.
 
I prolly will just drop it because frankly it’s kinda slow and boring (that’s kind of the point) and binge it later after two months or so.

@tehwatever  
Slow and boring. Yeah sounds about right.
 
A witch that just wants to live alone.

@Scrabbleman  
Wow. Just… wow.
 
That is honestly Last of Us 2 levels of insulting.

@Scrabbleman  
Sound like you misunderstood what kind of story is this
 
@Penguin Dragneel  
Not really at all

@tehwatever  

 
Why is “Where is the library?” such a meme in Spanish? I’m pretty sure Deadpool wasn’t where it originated….

@Random-Rambling
 
Community

@tehwatever  
Slow and boring… Yeah, that fits. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to read that. Even high school slice-of-life is at least somewhat exciting.

Walrus is maybe right. Capoiera ain’t gonna cut it, imho. You want kickboxing, judo and bjj if you want to do a street fights. Actually why not try combat Sambo, which is the closest you get to MMA rules, which is closer to unarmed street fights.
 
Oh and that llama girl is very cute.

@tehwatever
 
If you want to defend yourself just do boxing and catch wrestling for enclosed spaces
 
Kicks are useless and sans very rare exceptions, one strike to the jaw and the nose are enough to end a fight

@QuasarNova  
kicks aren’t useless. in fact it’s because of this default “kicks don’t work” mindset that makes kicks a sneaky fight-ender. It’s those very devastating shin kicks, calf kicks, oblique kicks and shots to the knee that really freaking hurt. Personal experience? When under pressure, you almost always default to boxing (even in sparring) so brutal low kicks are rarely in you or your opponent’s mind. rarely do ppl think you’re serious enough to launch a kick, much less at their legs or knee, where ppl don’t pay attention to.
 
but you’re right. most fights end when the other draws blood or are shocked enough to regain their senses. Once a person realizes it’s not worth it, they’ll quit.

Ah, Iruma S2 is out. Neat.