General Anime Thread

What if punching power is the ONLY thing he has? Like, he has slow hands, or he can’t take a punch.

@Background Pony #869B
Then it’s no longer One Punch Man, innit? Means he’s always at a disadvantage and is be stuck with the worst gimmick. Slow hands and not being able to take a punch is the worst boxing build.

It’s really up to you to take an idea and use narrative techniques to build a story that vibes with the audience. A manga/anime doesn’t live or die on their initial premise alone.

You may have to come up with a pilot or a full one-shot to tell us what kinda story you going for, because using words like X Meets Y doesn’t say anything.

It’s like “from the producers of Nichijou, comes a slice of life that is Love Live! meets Fate series”

There are plenty of fighters who can end a fight with one punch but can’t take a punch. Like Julian Jackson.

So I’m finally trying out Dr Stone. It’s about as good as I imagined, but I hate the current antagonist even more than I thought I was going to.

Tomorrow I’m seeing “Kiki’s Delivery Service” at my theater.

I’ve been noticing recently that for the websites where I go to watch anime, a lot of them have instances where there’s text onscreen that, while not read out by any of the characters, is still meant to be important, but there isn’t a subtitle to provide a translation. Notably, it only seems to affect the dubbed version of the anime, and newer series in particular.

T’would seem “The Dangers of My Heart adjusts” had fixed some terrible subtitles that weren’t ever said, and made it more to the original.

That is a win in my book.

What are the major manga publications besides Shonen Jump?

@Background Pony #869B
Jump Square, Jump Square Rise, Saikyo Jump, V Jump, Weekly Young Jump, Ultra Jump, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Monthly Shonen Magazine, Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, Shonen Magazine R, Monthly Shonen Sirius, Weekly Young Magazine, Monthly Young Magazine, Weekly Morning, Monthly Afternoon, Weekly Shonen Sunday, Monthly Shonen Sunday, Shonen Sunday S, Big Comic Spirits, Monthly Big Comic Spirits, Monthly Sunday Gene-X, Weekly Shonen Champion, Monthly Shonen Champion, Young Champion, Champion Red, Young Animal, Ribon, Nayoshiki, Hana to Yume…

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What was I doing again?

As someone who loves romcom animes, really excited for Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses.

I gotta say, speaking as an anime only fan here, Kana from Oshi no Ko might be the best written character I’ve seen in quite some time.

Just the way Kana is written makes her feel very real and like an actual human being. Of the anime series the last couple years to be hugely popular, I’m talking worldwide popularity like Demon Slayer or Chainsaw Man, Kana might be the best written of all the characters. The closest I can think of in recent years to even come close to the level of sympathy I feel for Kana is probably Kaguya from Kaguya-sama and Rice Shower from Uma Musume, but I’d argue they don’t have the same level of worldwide popularity as Oshi no Ko does. Maybe Kaguya-sama does, but Kana might be a better written character than Kaguya.

I’m calling it right now, Kana is going to win the r/Anime best girl contest next year. It sucks as a Holo stan, but ain’t no way she’s winning against Kana. Kana has the recency bias behind her plus being the best written character in a phenomenal series. I have no idea what’s going on with her in the manga, as like I said I’m an anime only fan, but Kana is the highlight of an absolutely incredible series. She deserves all the happiness.

What will take over as Shonen Jump’s flagship series when MHA, JJK, OP and BC all end in the next couple of years?

Probably Dr Stone

Chainsaw Man doesnt really count because thats Shonen Jump+

@QuasarNova
Dr Stone ended last year, actually.

I had been thinking - is there an anime that has basically the same badass and drama levels as Metal Gear Rising, Devil May Cry and Yakuza, but it is cute girls as the main roles?

@DoubleX
Without even checking, I’m certain there are.

Yamada-kun is basically me. Though Ive never cared much for MMOs.

Can we please have a shojo romance with a neurodivergent gamer girl protagonist?

The animated series is an important part of the Devil May Cry timeline.

I kinda hope that Trish and Lady takes Patty under their wings and she becomes a badass demon hunter in her own right. She was playing around with Dante’s pool cue, so I bet she’d get into demon-slaying jodo or sojutsu.

Also, Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka and Izetta

Black Butler is getting a new season.

We’re also getting a Suicide Squad anime being written by the creator of Re:Zero.

DC Kai

@Holofan4life
Gonna be honest, that sounds terrible.

@Lord WyrmSpawN
I mean, Re:Zero is like the most critically acclaimed isekai of all time, so we’ll see.

Are we now? Aren’t Ciel and Sebastian both in hell now, or was that just the anime ending?

Well, the Suicide Squad anime cant be any worse than the movie….right?

Oh, and apparently TRIGGER is digging Panty And Stocking Plus Garterbelt out of the grave it’s been lying in for the past 12 years. What they’re going to do with it is anyone’s guess. As a!ways, another season is the hope, but it’s basically the Half-Life 3 of the anime fandom, so.don’t hold your breath.

@Random-Rambling
I think that’s how the anime-original second season concluded, but since the series is too successful to end, they opted to ignore it and continue adapting the manga instead (whenever there’s enough material to do so, of course).

The anime was trash but man that OH! DEE-ZI-AH!