heh

fillers are anime-original, obviously

Sorry, she's taken by Gourry

Just finished Next.

Gourry has a really bad habit of getting brainwashed by the villains, he should really work on that.

In all seriousness though, shit was great 9/10.

Gourry's just such a huge bro. Definitely the biggest bro in the series.

Anyway: I think we can definitely agree that Next was better. The plot, the humour, the villains, the world building, the characters. Pretty much all of it. And the animation.

-Favorite villain
-Favorite filler-comedy episode
-Favorite episode
-Favorite party members?

"How long do you plan to protect me?"
"I don't know, the rest of my life?"

Gourry is a solid 10/10 dude.

And yea, the first season really doesn't have anything on Next.

I'm honestly not sure who the best villain was. I think I liked Gaav more than Phibrizzo, but Phibrizzo definitely raised the stakes higher.

Best comedy episode was the one where they raid that cursed tower dressed as animals. That was just great.

I really liked the episodes in the sand temple with the Claire Bible copy in it. Also seeing Gourry being a legend in the final episode made it pretty great.

Lina and Gourry a best.

Our opinions match it seems. Gaav was a better character, Phibrizzo was the best villain.

Did you expect Xellos to be who he really turned out to be?

That he wasn't human, yes. That he was working for Phibrizzo and all that, no.

What about the fact that he's like the 6th strongest being out there and after Phibrizzo and Gaav die, he's the 4th

Well he was fairly obviously above all the party members and considering monsters like Saygram or whatever his name was kinda freaked out when he saw Xellos there's fair reason to believe he's considerably powerful. It was only really made obvious that he was on the level he was when Gaav started acknowledging him too though.

Don't trust him, bro.

Anyway - I think the best filler/comedy episode was the one where they go fishing some dragon. That's about all the difference.

Next one is Try. I won't comment on whether it's better than First or Next or worse, but it has a bit more comedy AND is darker this time around.

That one was really funny too. The costumes just got to me though.

More comedy as in more filler episodes? I mean I like those episodes a lot but I feel like there's a good amount of them in each season and I don't know if I would like more.

m8, you started TRY yet?

3deep

Try was really good. Had some really nice moments in it. Though I didn't really like how they jumped into the second set of filler episodes without any real closure, felt kinda off. Filia was also a bit dull and annoying towards the beginning though she got some pretty good development later on.

So with this being anime original, how do the two newer seasons work with Gourry having lost the sword of light? Since that seems like a pretty significant plot point.

Also watched all the movies and such over the weekend. Most of them suffered from having too many enemies with none of them being very interesting or engaging. The ones that were more focused, like Great or Excellent were more entertaining as a result.

Try has a couple of problems, which makes it a bit unlikable to me
-Zelgadis acts way too friendly out out a sudden in this whole season
-Lina tries to use Giga Slave once, even though that makes fuck all sense, given the development in Next
-Valgaav is just a terrible villain. Not a terrible character, but a terrible villain. Ultimately, he convinces himself he should die in like less than a minute. Didn't even hear his proper reasoning for that. This makes the whole deal feel cheap. Just an enemy who could have killed them on spot but decides to let himself get killed out of nowhere

Among some other smaller problems and some worse fillers out there. The structure wasn't that good.

Ye, Gourry losing his sword is a significant plot point and they kind of address it in the new seasons, but don't expect TOO much. There is more focus on this in the LNs and it actually leads to a new plotline. Well, he was supposed to lose his sword back then when Phibrizzo stole it the first time (he sent it back to Dark Star at that time in the different universe)

Movies aren't great despite what many might want you to think. As I said - The Motion Picture is the only good one, because it's not anti-climatic and has some point to it. Rest are kind of fillers with anti-climatic endings.

Anyway..did you like the rape mode Xellos turned on in Try? He's kind of a dick and it shows in this season the most

I mean I guess Zelgadis is less moody but he didn't really seem too friendly. Maybe that's just me not caring about him and not paying much attention to how his character behaves though. I get what you're saying about the giga slave and Valgaav though.

I'll probably start reading the LNs after I finish the two new seasons. Do they suffer from the standard LN shit writing and endless prose or are they better than that? You seem to hold them in fairly high regard at least.

Honestly I was a bit surprised. Not that he double crossed Lina or anything that's understandable, but his dickness combined with a fair amount of childishness felt weird.

The LNs are better than most LNs out there. There's no standard shit writing it and god no, there's no endless prose.
The first volume is rather poorly written or poorly translated, but that's it.
Normally it's something like this
"The earth continued to rumble as black smoke rose from it steadily. A large crater of red earth had been carved out of the surface of the forest, a solitary red silhouette standing at its center. His demeanor calm, the man who claimed to be the Red Priest silently raised his head."

It's standard average writing, but above average LN level. It's also written from Lina's POV, so it reads like as if..Lina was telling the story. But not with poor vocabulary and such.

Don't want to over or under-sell it basically.

Ah that's good. LN writing really bothers me and usually makes me enjoy their anime adaptation much more with the only real exception being Kino.

ehh, I'd say the anime and the LN are about even for Slayers, but objectively speaking, I can nitpick more stuff from the anime than the LN. It's a more cursive and logically constructed story. And the characters have a bit of a more realistic approach.

The anime is more fun though

Eh I guess we'll see how I like it considering I'm not too sure if I would like my Slayers to be more serious.

it's okay, bro. It's from Lina's POV, so it has quite a lot of comedy regardless.

Yea, I like fun things cus they're fun.

Were the filler episodes and such anime original? Or are those in the LN too?

do it after you finished revolution-evolution-r, I got the LNs. I'll have to upload them

Will do, thanks.

About halfway through. Pretty good so far.

Also I'm travelling for the next week so I'm only gonna be checking internet about once a day. So if I don't respond that's why.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD8zk5eqLrM

Try has nothing to do with the original story written in the LNs. It's an original story written by JC Staff. It's okay though, I won't comment on how good or bad it was, I'll let you decide.
Next has like ~50 % of it correctly, out of which may be 5 % is truly faithful to the books.

One of the first arc of Next in Atlas City was way more different in the books. Man, there's just way too many differences in here.

For instance..
The Atlas City arc (with Halcyform, where Seigram appears for the first time) actually happens right after they defeat Shabranigdu and there's only Gourry and Lina in it. It's also pretty dark. This kanzaka.wikia.com/wiki/Raugnut_Rushavna
is what we see for the first time in Slayers in that book. Human experiments, a more creepy psychopathic Halcyform, Lina and Gourry getting drunk as fuck, some sexual tension between them, Gourry seriously fighting a swordsman and killing him in a duel.

After this arc comes the arc with Copy Rezo and Amelia isn't part of it. The arc with Copy Rezo is relatively faithful I'd say, but just the way things happen is different. There's no magical book that gives Copy Rezo Zanaffar powers for one. No library. Sylphiel is still there though.

In the last fight against Copy Rezo Lina doesn't actually attempt to use Giga Slave only to get almost killed after that. It's Gourry who takes the upper hand over Rezo, but tells him he'd spare his life if he stops now and doesn't follow them anymore, only to almost get killed by Copy Rezo. Lina and Zelgadis actually him him.

Another thing is: Seigram only appears in Atlas City arc, doesn't appear later on (or rather does, but I won't spoil). You get to actually know Gaav's "general" and "priest".

And there's no Gourry flying around to stop Lord of Nightmares and save Lina. Lord of Nightmares simply leaves Lina's body after she's done with Phibrizzo. In this regard, the anime was better. Though Phibrizzo is more menacing and smarter in the novels. There's also no Martina and Zangulus.

Amelia and Zelgadis don't get shipped at all too

Lina and Zelgadis actually kill him*

I mean you can justify your homosexuality however you want.

No homo, no homo

By the way, is the lewd looking daughter from episode one coming back. She's been in all the eyecatches and shit like she's a main character or something.

ye, she's a recurring joke character. Well, she sort of plays an actual small important role and that's it. That's later though

I'm sure, I'm sure.

First three episodes of Next were really fun though. Haven't enjoyed my time watching an anime this much in a good while.

I'm very glad you enjoy it

What episode is that? ~14-ish?

15.

Though I finished the first series earlier today.

how was it? did you like the first or the latter arc better?

Second one definitely. It was more fun, had more likable and varied characters, and was more interesting than the first. The joke episodes in the beginning of the second were fun too.

I was honestly pretty bored at some points in the first.

The first 10 episodes (till Shabranigdu dies) is, imo, the weakest 'canon' part of the series. That's literally the very first volume of the LNs and truth to be told - the most faithful.

Second part is definitely better in the anime, but even better in the LN. In the LN, Amelia's not even there at this point and when Lina was first kidnapped (when they first get the "wanted" posters), the guards tried to rape her, but Gourry helped her out.

It's very different. Copy Rezo also looks actually horrifying. Shows how fucked up Rezo really was - experimenting with people, mixing them with monsters and making them look really creepy.

Yea, the first one was pretty lame to be honest. Everything felt really transparent and the entire final fight was basically stand around and try things until something works. It was really dull to watch.

I kinda liked Amelia in that part. It was pretty funny.

Does Rezo show up any more? I was honestly a bit disappointed when I saw that he (Well not really him but you know what I mean)) was the antagonist again. At least the arc gave a bit more development to him though.

He doesn't. That was it

Alright then.

What do I do after Next? Because everything really seems to split off after that.

did you like Zelgadis/Amelia/Gourry btw?
did you dislike any of them?

Liked Gourry, he a cool dude. Amelia was pretty cute but was a little much sometimes. Zelgadis didn't really have too much going for him really. Didn't really care for him to much but I wouldn't say I dislike him.

Zelgadis gets more fleshing out in the last 2 seasons even though that's not canon. Well, it's still a good thing. He's kinda actually edgy in the novels. Nobody plays any funny trick on him or whatsoever

Ye, I like Gourry the most out of them, but some Amelia moments are 10/10

I could see Zelgadis being pretty edgy, even in the anime he had some broody moments.

Most of Amelia's moments arise from her whole hero of justice shtick. Sometimes it works well and other times it really doesn't.

so, did you start Next?

Yea, three episodes in.

So you finally saw the best Slayers character?

Yea, something like that.

Welcome to the club, my friend

So, do you have a thing for flamboyant men or something?

Nope, that's only Xellos, because that's not all there is to him. You'll get to know better

and well, you didn't even get to see the actual funniest character yet.

Next - > Try -> (OVAs - if you want) -> Revolution -> Evolution R

Are the OVAs any good?

they are funny, that's all really. There's only Lina and Naga in it and in one of them there's the entire party

Funny things tend to be fun.

Thanks.

Btw, if you liked the humour - get ready for a even funnier 2nd season, but also with more serious plot to it

Overall pretty fun. Lina a cute.

20th CB and 21st are directly and I mean directly connected.
So you definitely had to read that..

20CB gets worse with each timeskip in my opinion. Especially the last one.

Okay I just went ahead and finished 21st century boys, only 2 volumes anyways. Yeah it was definitely a good idea. This really was such a great story. It sort of was a coming of age story except told in a really unique way.

I didn't think the first time skip was that bad, but yeah the last timeskip was definitely the weakest arc.

It's a very good manga nevertheless, even with the last timeskip

Would have done much better without "second Friend" deal for sure.

Some must listen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCS1roq3Js

or from the mangaka himself
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ewHHiQoHfs

Watch the Anime.

I decided I will in a bit. Excited as hell that the manga is off hiatus too. I've never seen a lazier mangaka.

I meant that in terms of art

Watch the anime.

But it's like 3000000000 episodes~~~

It's only 123. Watching only one the weekends I caught up in 3 weeks.

My computer time is limited though because my stepfather is a cunt m8. I only have 5 hours during weekend days and 3 during weekdays. And I have online classes and shit so that takes away time.

That's why torrenting is so hard for me now. Also the reason I can't torrent 123 episodes.

You could just stream it on crunchyroll.

Eww streaming?

I have no choice though...

CR isn't that bad. Besides, you'd get to see this animation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkqVvb_QoYs

I guess. Is it free or no?

On a side note, Hisoka is a pretty cool guy.

You only have to pay to get new episodes early. They delay them if you don't.

Oh well I don't care about that. My life itself is a delay.

keep going. It only gets better

dont listen to yusay

Read the entire manga then watch the anime's 2nd, third and current (last) arc

perfect.

Ahahahah okay. Wait, what about the first arc?

well, it's fine, but it's better in the manga, so why bother, eh?

Well I guess so. yeah.

my body is not ready

What? Why is it not ready?

I'm pretty excited I guess.

it's not ready to contain the awesome

Oh god, I can already imagine the poses now! Plus, I can't wait to see Dio again. Hands down best villain for me. Cars was cool and all but Dio is a gentlemanly asshole.

Honestly, I like Kira the most.
Then there's Dio 2nd and Funny Valentine third.

Oh yeah Kira. I kind of forgot about him. Well I see what you mean, he was damn clever and was a legitimate villain who stuck it through to the end. Being able to act normal in front of others and not blow his cover until the end was good to. Plus the God Complex made him that much more evil. I just hate how Near found him out off some stupid mistake.

Ahahaha

I was referring to Jojo's Kira. ahahahaha, sorry but it's really funny. I was there with you until the "God Complex" and "Near" part. Then I lost it.

Kira is the main villain of Jojo's Part 4

otherwise, Jojo villains aren't even in my top 5 I think.

HAHAHA

Well that's kind of embarrassing. I think Kira from Death Note is a good villain honestly but I was confused because I thought you put him above Dio for a minute. I haven't gotten to part 4 so I don't know Kira, when you said Kira I just assumed you meant DN.

Yes, I realised you havent read part 4 and above.
Funny Valentine is another Jojo villain. Could have made the connection if you knew haha

Eh, I'm not a huge fan of Death Note and I've watched it ages ago anyway

Yeah I gave DN a 7 or so. It was good, just too overhyped by people who make it seem godly.

Have you seen the Spring 2014 list?

I've seen it.
I'm not sure if I'll actually follow all the shows, but for now my plan-to-watch list would look like this:

Jojo (absolutely)
Mushishi 2 (absolutely)
Atelier Escha (doubt)
Break Blade (likely)
Captain Earth (definitely)
Gokukoku no Brynhildr (likely)
Chaika (likely-definitely)
Kenzen Robo Daimidaler (doubt)
M3 ~Sono Kuroki Tetsu~ (doubt)
Mahouka (for trolling purposes)
Ping Pong (dno, waiting to see people's reactions first)
Sidonia no Kishi (definitely)
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii (doubt)

Is this the same one you have?


Jojo is an obvious yes
Gokukoku no Brynhilder (maybe, I got bored with the manga soo)
Hanamonogatari (yes)
Atlier Escha (yes)
Chaika (probably)
Isschukan (maybe)
Mahouka (yes same reason as you, it's another weird magic incest thing)
Mushishi 2 (yes, after I finish Mushishi 1)
Sidonia (yes)
Soredemo (I'll wait for others opinions first. Don't want another MMY)

yes, same chart

Mahouka will be plenty of fun and trolling all around

There's going to be so many people who think it's good and so many who hate it. It'll be an argument fest like good ol' times. I read the manga (have you?) and it's pretty shit.

Nope, I've read the premise and some stuff and it sounds really retarded

It will be the new SAO or Attack on Titan in a way

I haven't seen AoT. I read the manga and it got really boring.

Now I sound like a one of "THOSE" guys because I was about to say, only newfags like that kind of shit.....

AoT is just bad.

they force deaths on you in like every chapter and then they try to make it seem deep by talking for a whole fucking volume. I hated that. The only fun part was Eren going Titan, then it just changed to the fucking Oprah show with all the damn talking.

Btw, who was that guy on the board who was in love with the jojo series? He had several different profiles?

soulmyr
notsoulymyr
and whatnot

Yeah, him. Did he died?

he's alive. just not too active.
dno, he'll probably be really active while P3 airs

Oh man...its kinda sad that the whole board basically died. I miss the arguments and everyone. What happened to it?

well, not everyone. Majority of 'oldfags' still post, but rarely. So it's not like it died. It's just stale as fuck.

There is no real reason to argue for long anymore or anything like that.

Inactivity happened.

Oh, so LIFE happened. I see. That kind of sucks. It was around the time I wasn't on anymore that everyone started leaving. I remember coming back and being like "Woah, kotor and yeorgh are gone, so is tana and boyd and all of them.

yeorgh is alive and kicking. So is boyd.

Actually among the most active older regulars

Well I know Yeo is still on, I talk to him still. I haven't seen boyd though. I don't know, the staleness is just kind of boring now. I would try to liven it up but I don't think anyone would care aha.

boyd posts like once, twice a day almost every day
and that's still way more active than other older regulars hah

The staleness will probably stop during summer, when most people have holidays and whatnot

Damn I need to get to one of his posts then aha. Honestly I'm on less now to because I graduate soon and I need to keep my grades up. Plus I'm going to the Air Force and all.

And hopefully I'll be around during the summer. That's when life is going to hit me hard.

Air Force? woah.

Why the woah?

well, sounds pretty amazing.

Well I guess so. I'm only joining so they can pay for my education for law school (or forensics, haven't decided yet). I heard you get free on-base housing and all that, plus there are some veteran benefits, unlike what most people say. It's a start to life I guess.

Plus I'm my mothers only son so they can't deploy me without her consent.

0.05 mb/s?

that's like 50 kb/s.
Jesus. And how much do you pay?

I did the speed test again and got 1.9 MBPS. A little better.

and it's $24.99 a month....awesome right?

I havent had a 50kb/s dl speed since..earlier than 2008

The reality was that Ryner was still in prison, while what we saw (the whole fight) was Sion's dream.

He imagined how it would have gone if he killed Ryner.
Yes, the explanation is subtle and difficult to understand. It's been implied ever since those 2 pink-haired faggots noticed that Ryner's Alpha Stigma isn't normal.

It's something his father made: to make Ryner able to come back after rampaging, he made a contract with a monster (namely "Alpha") and Ryner's mom was taken as a "sacrifice" or hostage let's say. She's still alive, but not really. Inside a different dimension basically.

If Ryner eventually gets rid of Alpha inside him, he'll have achieved "Solver of the Formulas" status, where he can disintegrate an infinite amount of things, including existence.

Now, if Ryner achieved this Solver of the Formulas, he would go through plenty of suffering. I don't remember how it went - something about not being able to die or something related to his "fate". The fate was that the Mad Hero (Sion) will have to absorb him again.

To prevent that from happening, he decided to kill Ryner. But didn't have the guts to do so in the end.

The Weaver of all Formulas is Lucile, Ferris' brother. There is also Ryner's dad, who's in a whole new league.
It is revealed later that he invented the whole Roland magic and has access to ancient or divine magic, something Ryner can't decompose even as the Solver of all equations.

Ye, it's quite fucked up.

>second season
I fucking wish. This 24 episodes actually served as a "prologue" to the main story. Adapted 12 volumes. It's the first part 1 of the LN you could say. The LN is getting translated though.

how did ya like Ferris dere

about what happens next:

Ryner and Ferris run away and form their new small kingdom and Ryner's the king.
Sion keeps becoming worse and worse. Gastark fags are being worst kind of fags. A "world war" starts. Ryner sacrifices his mother, Alpha gets out from Ryner's "dimension in his eyes", appears in reality, starts killing thousands of soldiers. Ryner sees the situation is bad, sacrifices his mother and gets the power to destroy Alpha. Unfortunately, it sort of backfired and he killed both his Alpha and 1 million soldiers.
Ferris and her loli sister get cut into pieces by Miran in Roland. Lucile comes and heals both of them alive. Doesn't kill Miran, just cuts his arm off when Miran attacked him. Otherwise let's him go, because he doesn't care.

Tiir (the guy who protected the children) is ordered to assassinate Ryner's father.

though the "small kingdom" is really small. I think it was Ryner, Ferris, Kiefer, that other child with the alpha stigma and some other reinforcements. That's about it

Not even a kingdom, just an anti-roland coalition

Ah, that makes more sense. Maybe I was just too tired to put the pieces together.

Ferris I didn't really like much at first with all the pervert jokes about Ryner but in the last quarter episodes she got a lot better when she started admitting that she cared for him.

she's pretty well developed. Probably the most developed LOLH character

I've been watching about 20 or so shows from every season since Fall 2012. What was the last season you followed?

I left off in Summer 2013 I believe. I was watching Jojo and I got up to episode 25 of that. I remember wanting to watch Red Data Girl because it looked interesting to me. So yeah...I believe Summer 2013....

It's been a while. I don't know how long I'll have the interwebs so I want to make the most of it.

Summer had:
Kaminai myanimelist.net/anime/16009/Kamisama_no_Inai_Nichiyoubi
Servant x Service myanimelist.net/anime/18119/Servant_x_Service
Monogatari S2 myanimelist.net/anime/17074/Monogatari_Series:_Second_Season

Fall had:
Kyousogiga myanimelist.net/anime/19703/Kyousou_Giga_%28TV%29
Yozakura Quartet:Hana no Uta myanimelist.net/anime/18497/Yozakura_Quartet:_Hana_no_Uta
Nagi no Asukara myanimelist.net/anime/16067/Nagi_no_Asukara
Kill la Kill myanimelist.net/anime/18679/Kill_la_Kill
Mirai Fukuin myanimelist.net/anime/14807/Kara_no_Kyoukai:_Mirai_Fukuin

Winter has:
Noragami myanimelist.net/anime/20507/Noragami
Don't watch Red Data Girl, it's utter shit. Complete and utter shit. 1/10

Oh shit man, I didn't even see this until now. Thanks bro, this helps a lot. BTW which was your favorite? (curious)

Best from Summer was Monogatari S2, best from Fall was Nagi no Asukara. Yozakura Quartet was something that I just really liked too, don't know why. It's not exceptional in any sense but it was a ton of fun to watch.

Figured Monogatari would make the list. I guess I'll make those priorities then since you gave them best titles.

And RDG was really shit? WTF happened? It looked okay?

Monogatari S2 had some really good arcs, especially the last one. Even without action I liked it as much as Kizu.

Nagi no Asukara a lot of people have been loving, including me. Bout to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7SbShC4zHM

Yozakura Quartet's just like I said, really fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXiCQEdG3LQ

And RDG was terrible. There wasn't even a story. You know that saying give a thousand monkeys typewriters and eventually one will rewrite a Shakespeare play? This is what happens when they don't.

Nevermind. It loaded, and they fucked that guy up...damn

HAHAHAH the monkey and Shakespeare reference.... I like Shakespeare.

Anyway, yeah I love the Monogatari series as a whole so it'll be good for me.
Nagi No Asakura looks pretty good. But I just read a spoiler on accident on youtube. One of the characters is trying really hard to get a girl and one of his friends likes her too but his friend beats him in every catergory.....I hate shit like that. Though I suppose if everyone is loving it, it can't be bad.

Yozakura isn't loading but if it says fight scene, it's already good to me. As long as the fight isn't shit.

NagiAsu isn't exactly what you think. It is drama but...You'll see.

It's pretty well animated. Of the remake there's three series for a total of 19 episodes, 18 of which are out.

Well shiiieeeet, I guess. I don't like dramas because the whole feeling sad shit and then a character you actually like gets rejected and all that ish but ya know.

I'll watch it though, if everyone else thinks its good i have to see.

Like I said, it's drama, but probably not the drama you expect. EX: Episode 7 the main character's older sister gets banished from the underwater village because she loves a man on the shore, so he leaves with her.

Oh alright. I thought it was some bullshit love drama where the MC ends up alone or something cause the girl he wants leaves him for another guy.

Ill watch it though, just gotta finish Black Lagoon and ill get on it.

There is love drama, but it's not purely that. I'm not saying the rest of it because they're all pretty major spoilers.

Well alright, I'll watch it. If it does turn out to have a shitty end, I'll be pretty pissed though.

Btw I didnt like Black Lagoon all that much. I don't understand where the hype comes from. 6/10 at best.

It's not even over yet.

Haven't seen it.

Limited internet here, by the time I get to it, it will be.

Oh, well....yeah.

Still two weeks left.

Oh well then I can probably get about 10 episodes within 2 weeks....maybe.

That's great news!

I haven't followed an anime season for more than 1 year, so..
Next one is the first one I'll be watching again

You better ask yusay about that kind of stuff

You never really did follow current seasons. As far as I know I mean. I remember you only watched Jojo and R;N when I left.

nah, not really. I followed R;N, Jojo, SSY, Zetsuen, Magi, Ixion Saga, Psycho Pass, Chuuni, Sukitte, K.

I just dropped half of these

Ahaha damn half of them? I only liked Jojo really. Although I didn't see half of what you saw. I watched Jojo, R;N, Zetsuen, and Chuuni.

Oh and btw I read One Outs...being a baseball player myself I really liked that. I think you recommended that one to me.

I liked Jojo, ZnT, Psycho Pass, R;N, Ixion Saga DT and to some extent SSY. Especially Jojo and ZnT.

Good to know. Did you finish it? I only watched the anime and read some chapters, but haven't got back to it.

Is the manga on par or better than the anime?

Oh? I thought you didn't like Psycho Pass? Or was that someone else?

And yeah, I finished it. The ending didn't really do it for me but Tokuchi at least stayed true to his character. He didn't change throughout the whole series and never spouted shit about "dreams" and "winning with heart". Though some of the stuff he says seems over the top. Like a too evil type of thing. I gave it a 5/5 though because I really liked it. I wouldn't know about comparing the anime to the manga though because I haven't seen the anime.

Btw my internet is down again....Turns out my mobile hotspot thing on my phone is only good for sharing 2 gigs. After the 2 gigs it goes out and I have no internet on my computer.
I'm sick of this no internet shit though so I'm just gonna get some now. (hear that Yeorgh?)

I liked Psycho Pass. Not THAT much though

I see. I'll read the manga sooner than later. Yes, Tokuchi's pretty stoic.

Anyway, it's a pity that you have these internet problems. Hope you figure a way out pretty soon.

What was the gist of it? I never understood what it was about?

Yeah, he is. I think you'll like the ending though. I just felt it lacked something.

And yeah, like I said, I'm tired of it so I'll just get the internet and pay the bill. I didn't get it before because it's expensive in my area. One company monopolizes the net here so they jack up the rates.

It's a cyberpunk show about criminality and shit. Focuses on the social problems aspect and "fighting the system" shit. Nothing too special, but pretty good compared to other series.

Okay

That sucks. How expensive is the internet in your area? Just curious. I pay like 20 euros per month for 50 mb/s

Ohhhh true. I guess I'll give it a shot later.

The very cheapest package is like $50-$95 for only 20-50 mb/s. It's shit.

wow, 50 $-95 $? Are they crazy?

What country do you live in, mate

That's normal bud. We can only get packages here. we can't get just internet. That's why it costs 50-95 because it includes TV, phone, and internet. but you can get just TV or just TV and pone, but you can't get just internet.

I live in America btw. Florida to be specific.

That's fucked up. Monopoly just like you said. Taking advantage of shit.

I see. Yusay lives there too. Just confirmed. The fuck, dude, 50-95 $. I'm still sort of shocked

Yeah exactly, it's not even that fast either. Standard packages have pretty low mb/s, you want fast, you pay for fast. That's the same everywhere but the price here is....well yeah.

And yeah I know, it's pretty normal to us but to hear the price of your net is shocking to me ahaha.

I see. Well, you can't do much anyway. Just roll with it until you find some better opportunity.

yeah I'm probably just gonna get the cheapest package for now....it sucks but whatever.

but I did follow more stuff the seasons before that

You going to watch Mushishi as it airs?

ye, that's the perfect way of doing it, cause it requires slow as shit pacing. Maximum 1 episode per day

I still haven't even seen the special. I'm not sure if I'm even going to watch it.

why?

As it airs, I mean.

ahem, okay. No probs. But you're not planning to marathon it, are you

No, of course not. I've just really not been in the mood for any slow shows in the past few months and I don't want to not like watching it because of that.

I see. Anyway, only 2 days till HxH

and kotor.
Who wanna rewatch Ippo? I feel like it.

might do that too

especially since this time I'll notice all the references to Ashita no Joe

Would you give Slayers a try after all? I'm willing to rewatch it with you.

At least the Motion Picture movie. You can download that alone for now.

Dunno. I'm about to finish up Michiko to Hatchin and I was actually planning on watching either Monster, Erin or Code Geass next.

Haven't watched Erin, but Monster will bore you to death (that's why I recommend the manga instead) and Code Geass isn't good.

But as I said - it's just a ~1 hour movie. That shouldn't be a problem.

wait, I think I rushed to conclusions: Monster IS good actually.

From what I heard the first twenty episodes are boring and after that it picks up a lot, right?

I'm mostly just trying to get through my backlog. myanimelist.net/animelist/Watashii&status=6&order=0

>watashii
hehehehe
Anyway:
Spice and Wolf, Paranoia Agent, Monster, One Outs, Patlabor (only original stuff), Jin Roh, KAIJI (DEFINITELY), One Outs, Haibane Renmei, Gintama, LOGH, Full Metal Panic, Gankutsou, Aria (cant believe you of all people havent watched it) , Akira, Trigun, Akagi, Gunbuster/Diebuster, Birdy, Moriboto, Redline.

You've got plenty of good stuff.
You can definitely bet on me and jettom watching Kaiji/Akagi, FMP and Gun/Diebuster with you.

My anime backlog is so small at the moment. I think less than 15 shows
My manga backlog is like..300 titles though.

Nothin but.

Most of those I have downloaded, actually, I think. Now to see which to start first.
Why surprised I haven't seen Aria? It's been on my backlog for about 8 months.

You guys going to watch Jojo together too?

My manga backlog is about 100 titles, need to thin through that too, but I mostly need to clean through my anime one.

I'd easily join you for Spice and Wolf, One Outs, Monster, Kaiji, One Outs, Gintama, LOGH, Full metal Panic, Akagi, Trigun, Gunbuster and Redline.

Kotor only thinking I'd join for those others is a disgrace..

nigga, I said "Kaiji/Akagi, FMP and Gun/Diebuster"

READING COMPREHENSION!

I meant as in, you saying I'd ONLY join for those. Hell anything except Gankutsuou is fine for me. Fuck that fedora shit anime

I see. You worded it in a very confusing manner

You said One Outs twice.

Watashi is adorable.

If you tell jet that you have Kaiji in backlog, he'll make you watch it first. Heheheh, and he'll get me into that too. Not that I mind it at all.

Yes, we already watch KLK and HxH together. We used to watch other shit together too. I think I told you.

Manga backlog is always growing, no matter what I do. Even if I read 2 entire manga per day, it still grows

LN translations never. S2 never. OVA never. Movie never. Game never. Full sized figure never.

He's already tried.

Count me in, and maybe Kill la Kill tonight too. Jojo looks like the best thing from Spring, not counting Mushishi.

and I'm surprised about Aria, because it's arguably one of the best SoLs out there and has an excellent OST. I thought you were fan of such stuff, especially since you're a Kino fan

And Kino novels >>>>> Anime

never tried the novel, but I hear many people saying that.

I'm not a fan of LNs though. May be may be someday I will read whatever's translated. IMO Gosick is the best Light Novel ever, together with Guin Saga

Like, out of my top five chapters up to Volume 6 the only one adapted was the final episode.

owkay, yu say, okay. I will read it probably sooner than later

Did you even like the Shaft movie?

better question: did I even watch it?

Did you?

oh yeah, I think I read a bit of the LN though

Was it in the anime or LN only when Kino gives bread or meet to some poor people?

Don't remember. The Shaft movie was the one where she visits a country in a glass dome and there's a sick girl. It had a different art style.

But anyway, it was really weird for them to adapt that chapter instead of (IIRC) the chapter right before it, Land of Heroes, which was about Kino being hunted down in an abandoned city by a group of men then she starts to hunt them down instead.

Ye, Land of Heroes sounds much more interesting

Most of the LN chapters are a lot more interesting. And from what I heard there might be only one more volume then Sigsawa's done.

meat*

dno, dont remember

You haven't? Even from the first four novels the TV show didn't even adapt the good chapters. Well, a few good chapters but for the most part they left out the best ones.

I like Kino more for the adventure aspects rather than the SoL aspects.

oh okaaaay

The Shaft movie should've adapted Land of Heroes instead of A Country of Illness.

I'll say it beforehand though:
Monster manga >= its anime
Trigun manga >>>>> its anime
Akira manga >> the movie (the movie is still a must though)

I mean, I probably will give it a try eventually, I'm just not really in the mood for that kind of fantasy right now.

Fair enough. It's just that both you and I have a holiday, so it's a pretty good opportunity. But sure

Give me a link and we can watch it tomorrow night then. Nagi no Asukara, Golden Time and Kill la Kill come out tonight and I'm going to the gym tonight.

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Here. You just sort of choose to only download Motion Picture and that's all.
or if you prefer:
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Thanks.

No problem. Here's a trailer to go with
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc223b1rvBY

I don't know. You could go through the first two seasons of Slayers, if that's not asking too much.

It's plenty of fun, you know
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1-i069-vj0

I mean, it has the best FemMC of all time and all

Hmm, nah. I'm not really in the mood for anything classic. Plus I can't really download anything that big right now.

I don't know. Have you seen Legend of the Legendary heroes then?

Nope.

there you go, yusay-kun

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2XXe3esgE

Adventure + politics + magic and some edgy shit from time to time.

I'll see if I can start it tonight and finish it tomorrow then.

Enjoy the ride, I guess.

Episode 3 starts the awesomeness. But knowing how tolerant and adjusted you are, I don't think you'll have a problem with the first two episodes anyway.

Yes, that was a compliment.

Aaaand gym's closed.

It's downloading kind of slowly so I'll probably have to start it tomorrow.

These are the only things I have downloaded right now. inb4 LOGH, files are corrupted for some reason.

so, did you start it?

No, it's still downloading, 75%. I started Shiki so once I'm done with that tonight I'll start it afterwards.

cool. how long is this holiday of yours anyway?

I have classes again next Tuesday, so till then it's being lazy and sitting in the sun.

so you've got an entire free week. Just like me

Not entirely free. I have a report for Govt to work on a book to finish for an exam.

I see. Well, that's nothing. I used to write 40 pages long reports when I was 16-17

Thank god I don't have to do that. Longest I've ever had was 10 pages. Well, not including Engineering reports but those are pages of diagrams and shit.

no, they won't be >_<

anyway, I'm going to sleep. I'm following quite a regime for some time already and I don't wanna break it.

and my waifu

correction:

Slayers: the motion picture
Slayers (first season)
Slayers Next

that's about it, in this order exactly too

ah, sorry. Poor you. I'll just stick to "IttoRyu" instead of separating it I guess.

I don't mind really.. it's surprising how little I actually get mentioned. Any ways, I'm off to bed, enjoy that conversation I can't see

>people not fans of Street Fighter

what's wrong with those people

I bet you have Gon x killua suggestive fanart saved on your PC

None at all, unlike you.

What, you went through my folder and deleted everything?

I didn't even save it.

Bullshaito.

Not really. I dno why anybody would do that, when Killua x Gon is clearly the only possible way to go

have you started HxH or what?

Yeah, it's just tons of fun.

So.much.fun.

This fucking punch.

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2GS-PRsNhI&hd=1

Follow this shit in full glory without talking and shit

Pure animation

yes, it's amazing, isn't it?

That fight was great. When do they fight again?

what episode are you on?

I'm on episode 42 or 43.

You mean Hisoka vs Gon? Never from that point on.
But you'll get a lot of amazing fights later on.
Albeit this one is still one of my top 3 from HxH easily.

They don't? Damn, that sucks. I'm in Yorknew now, right? Who fights the character Ootsuka voices first?

They might fight much later on, but I don't know. At this point of the manga, Hisoka is kind of a non-factor. Well, he did appear in the last arc again, but eh..

You'll see at the end of Yorknew arc - Hisoka has another opponent he hunts. So Gon is out of question, at least for now.

As for who fights Uvogin? Plenty. But ye, I think you've got like ~2-3 episodes till that.

How far ahead of the anime is the manga, anyway?

Does Leorio ever become relevant again?

Looking forward to Uvogin's fights. I'll probably watch a good couple of episodes tomorrow night, see if I can reach episode 50.

Well, to give you an idea:
the current latest episode is 117. It will take another 20-30 to catch up with the manga. It's not that much left. ~350 chapters - ~150 episodes. That's what we're looking at.

Leorio? Relevant? Funny joke. He does, but you better not spoiler yourself HOW he becomes relevant.

Huh, I expected it to be a lot farther.

I'm not looking up any spoilers for it. www.funnyjunk.com/user/yusay/34707#34707

>that reply to jet

You tell him

>Not Sawashiro

Ye, started it a few hours ago then stopped and watched Paprika. I'm watching episode 6 now.

kwrapika a shit

at least in my opinion. You'll see. Oh, and I bet jettom is cheering like never before at this moment

Eh, none of them have had that much development at this point. I'll probably knock out some more episodes tonight after some more movies and a few airing shows, and then some more tomorrow night.

now quick - drop it. Make 'im suffer

I'm dropping Hokuto no Galactic Heroes

shhh, buddy. plz no, m8

He hasn't gotten on steam yet. You have to give him a shred of hope before yanking it away.

Good, good. Truly I can see the darkness flowing through you!

You been watching any airing shows other than Hunter?

I'm not even watching Hunter on a constant basis. I haven't watched an episode since summer I think. Though recently I marathoned like 10 of them with Jet.

But otherwise - Im watching KLK and I might re-take Space Dandyyy

Did you even watch anything from Fall?

Episode 5 of Dandy was pretty good, but I'm a sucker for that shit. If they did more serious episodes like that I might like the show more.

Isn't KLK from fall? That's the only shit I watched and even then - I marathoned with Jet.
I cba to see if there was anything else worth watching. Haven't been keeping up with anime for a year.

And yeah, KlK is from Fall.

Fall had Yozakura, Kyousogiga, Log Horizon and Nagi no Asukara, and right now Noragami (new Bones show, holy shit they're making a lot of shows this year) and Toaru Hikuushi are pretty good too.

Ah, I watched one episode of Log Horizon, didn't really stick with me, so..

Is it good? I know I have to watch Kyousogiga as well.

I don't even like MMOs and it's been pretty good for me. It's gradually picked up though.

All those I mentioned are pretty good. Yozakura was a lot of fun, Kyousogiga was pretty heartwarming although I did lose a little interest in the last few episodes, and Nagi no Asukara is probably gonna be my AOTY.

Noragami's got a great OP and soundtrack (dat Lotus Juice) plus Bones animation and it's still pretty interesting. Toaru Hikuushi's just decent and interesting. Fantasy pilot anime.

Ok, I'll keep this somewhere, after I finish like..50 manga and 5x100+ episodes old anime

Hehehe

Uhuh, yeah, totally.

Do you even read manga, faggit? You're missing out A LOT of shit if you don't.

Not really. I'm just too lazy to burn through chapters. and I already read enough.

>read enough

I take a Lit class and it makes me hate reading. I've got a large plan to read list. If I ever get to it.

>lit class
AWFUL
OH NO

why is your name of different colour btw?

No clue what you're talking about.

wut? it was orange or some shit 3 minutes ago

Am I hallucinating?

No, I turned it off.

wait, you haven't watched the first season? I thought you were a Mushishi fan or is my memory failing me

Right, I meant rewatch. Slight slip on my part. But yes, I'm a fan although how big a fan I am I don't actually know.

and kicking, thanks

I thought you'd left this place forever.

how you doing anyway?

I don't know what you're expecting. I don't go to the boards anymore but that's just me.

I'm doing okay, thanks. Been in practice with my teacher education for the past five weeks and now there's winter holidays and I don't know what to do aside from watching anime I've already watched. Weather's kind of bad so there's not much to do outside.

And you?

I'm not expecting anything good to be totally honest, so yeah.
I'm studying, going out and sometimes reading manga. Nothing special.

Pretty standard stuff then. What're you studying and reading?

Kamichu lately. But I've also got an eye on Mercenary Pierre, Arms Peddler and Sprite (the latter 3 never left a good impression on me, I just can't read manga with bad art anymore. Sprite apparently gets better art-wise later though)

And I'm studying business and german language (fuck it)

Do you ever watch anime anymore aside from airing stuff at all? I believe you said something like that in the past.

Cool. How far into it are you? Personally I couldn't stand German in high school.

Nope, I don't watch airing stuff. I think I tried only couple of KlK episodes and first episode of Space Dandy. KLK just kept going nowhere so I didn't like it. By far one of the weakest Trigger-team works I've seen.
And Space Dandy...well, I've already seen Cobra and it's a 100 % better show

Right, so you just stick to manga then, or is there something you actually watch?

How many languages do you speak again?

Nothing I actually watch, just stuff I'm planning to watch. Like HxH and HnK with jettom. I think I'm gonna finish many shows I started in the past and never got to finish (from airing seasons, not the ones I dropped just the ones I didnt keep up with, like Hataraku and Maoyu nd some others, shit I haven't even finished Jojo now that I think about it)

3, Russian German English and a bit of French, which I'm planning to learn better later

I still havn't seen more than 25 episodes of HxH. I probably started it at a bad time but I really liked what I saw. I hadn't, and still havn't aside from HxH, seen a battle shounen in a very long time so it was pretty refreshing. Didn't you say back when JoJo started that you knew it would be in your top 5 of all time?

Thought you knew a lot more. Bulgarian or some other slavic languages.

HxH's good, you probably should. Albeit all my hopes for the franchise are totally lost. The mangaka hasn't published a new chapter in like more than 2 years..
Lazy fuck, I hate him. The anime is still a very good adaptation. First time I see 100+ episodes series that kept the animation fluid for most of the part. Usually they just use stills and effects like that (likewise they did in Jojo and Jojo's only 2 cour too).

I guess it will make it in my top 5 once I damn finish it hahaha
I can speak a bit Ukranian that's all, but that's only because it's similar to Russian

I definitely did enjoy it but it's been like eight months since then so I just can't bother. I've considered getting back to the first arcs of Bleach (in some months at least) so that could be a good time to get back to it but Goooood I just don't have the mindset to watch long series that aren't Monster or Aria (which is why I've helt back LOGH so long).

You should. You excited for part 3? And Mushishi 2 for that matter.

Well, that's fair enough. Gives you business opportunities if that's what you're after.

Yes, I'm very excited for Mushishi especially. Because the second part of the manga is better

You've seen the special?

Nope? I only heard about Mushishi's 2nd season a while ago and I expected it anyway. I mean, it was announced like a year ago when I was still around here and I was the one who even posted the link back then haha

myanimelist.net/anime/21329/Mushishi_Special:_Hihamukage This one. Mushishi's second season was confirmed recently, I think what you posted was rumors of it, although that might as well be the same.

I'll watch it when the 2nd season starts so that I can enjoy more Mushi-shi

Fair enough. I've considered watching it too (the first season) but I'd have to find the time.

besides, if the third Jojo part doesn't suffer from the same animation problems, I think I'll like it more

I guess that's a yes then.

first time I see this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPxXvrjpxCk
looks awesome. Stands aren't CGI at least

as for German, I can't speak it fluently yet, but I'm close to it. And I fucking hate hate hate this language

planning to read Aria soon too

rather..learning German than studying it naturally

well, I'm still not 100 % back, but I'm getting bored and I might find some fun here

I'm back, bitch!

Hell yeah! Welcome back!

hell yeah!
Thanks

Damn it's been a while, how have you been?

nothin much.
been drinking, fucking, reading manga, watching ~1/2 anime per season and studying

you?

I got into Penn State University, so lots of studying and shit, but it's been a blast. Loving uni right now. But yeah, not much else has changed, still just chilling a lot and watching stuff that's airing. My friends got me into League of Legends a few weeks ago and we've been playing that.
Oh yeah, I recently rewatched Code Geass. Damn, it's so much better than I remembered.

Hah, so you did get where you wanted I'm glad to hear that.
They got you too? I remember when I was like..14 some friends got me into counter-strike and then warcraft and that was a pain in the ass addiction for a while.
Code Geass is amazing.

Thanks! It was awesome getting in. Are you in uni?
Haha yeah, they got me good and now I'm addicted. Might start being a pain in the ass.
Yeah I definitely underrated it the first time around. I still like the first season a little more than the second though haha.

Nah, I'm taking a break for half a year. Just reading books/business books/trying to work. I'm kinda of a NEET at the moment, though I'm mostly just..self-studying for a while. Will get to some courses starting from February.

I also like the 1st season better overall. 2nd has the annoying parts with Rolo and worse pacing. The ending is genius though

Ooh you're trying to get into business? Anywhere in particular you want to try to work at?

The ending is one of the main reasons why I liked season 1 only a little bit more than season 2.

banks and finance
if unsuccessful - economy/marketing

Alright, best of luck man.

by the way, if you ever feel like reading some really good shit (manga), I'm the man.

Haha well do, I never really got into manga, but if I want to start I'l come to you.

thanks, man.
You too