Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood

[X-Codes]

So happy that I found the SAO light novels translated online.

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The anime missed bits and pieces, but those pieces really impact the story...

Bits and pieces?  The Anime re-wrote almost the entire story.

[Gazzien]

So happy that I found the SAO light novels translated online.

...
The anime missed bits and pieces, but those pieces really impact the story...

Bits and pieces?  The Anime re-wrote almost the entire story.

Maybe I'm remembering it differently... seems like it all covered the same arcs and such. (Except the underground one in Alfheim, of course)

[brujon]

New drifters up!

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"So you planned a counter-ambush? Nice, I haven't got to kill anyone in, like, a whole day!"

And man, Rasputin's acting like a pussy. Wasn't he supposed to be the guy who dined in poison and had hot bullets for dessert?

As for Kill la Kill

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An ending that makes sense? What were they drinking? 

Seems like even the butler was wearing life fiber. That or Ryuuko just enjoys getting other people naked a bit too much.

Also, seems like the whole series was actually a ploy from Mako to get Ryuuko. Which would only happen if the pesky alien uniform vampire boyfriend got out of the way between the two.

Everything's better with lesbians.

WOW it has really taken off already. I stopped checking for updates around 37, now it's up to 41! Catching up on reading. NOW.

[X-Codes]

So happy that I found the SAO light novels translated online.

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The anime missed bits and pieces, but those pieces really impact the story...

Bits and pieces?  The Anime re-wrote almost the entire story.

Maybe I'm remembering it differently... seems like it all covered the same arcs and such. (Except the underground one in Alfheim, of course)

I haven't read them myself, but I hear that Kirito is actually really douchey in the novels, ESPECIALLY towards Asuna.

So, sure, setting is the same but it seems like the characters are way different.

[Gazzien]

So happy that I found the SAO light novels translated online.

...
The anime missed bits and pieces, but those pieces really impact the story...

Bits and pieces?  The Anime re-wrote almost the entire story.

Maybe I'm remembering it differently... seems like it all covered the same arcs and such. (Except the underground one in Alfheim, of course)

I haven't read them myself, but I hear that Kirito is actually really douchey in the novels, ESPECIALLY towards Asuna.

So, sure, setting is the same but it seems like the characters are way different.

Nn, not really (at least, not that I noticed). Asuna's characterization differs a bit though; you might have noticed in the anime that she says at one point she's afraid of ghosts, but at other times is dead-on fearless? It's because the anime picks things from volumes 1, 2, and... 8(? One of the later ones) for SAO, so some of the characters are written differently in the side stories as the author's style progressed. For the most part, though, they seem the same.

[oslecamo]

Luffy wants to become the pirate king.

However, there's now a pirate god!

[Sinfire Titan]

It seems the newest cast member of UQ Holder likes to rest at bonfires. I approve.

[oslecamo]

Speaking of which, UQ holder 37 is out.

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I'm not gonna lie, I enjoyed seeing team Immortal Mary Sues get their asses truly kicked for a change.

Fate still gets screwed over by loli save-load shenigans. Gotta admit she has balls to pull that kind of hard reset. Most certainly not the first time she has to do it.

And of course, in a matter of weeks the main character will have easily overcome all the years/decades of experience of Fate and beat the crap out of him.

Also I have to wonder wonder how there's still a planet standing if tech like those eye-lasers are common weapons on the setting's battlefields.

[Raineh Daze]

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Well, Fate was mostly built with this kind of knowledge, remember? >.>

Planets are surprisingly hard to break. >.>

[oslecamo]

My bad. I meant "civilization as we know it" instead of "planet".  UQ's setting looks awfully like modern times for a supposed magisci-fi story.

[Raineh Daze]

Er... and we've seen exactly how much of how most of civilisation lives? Some rural places, a slum, and the bottom of something that they started building in Negima.

[oslecamo]

So the super rich vampire queen just happens to love 21st century cars and clothing and boats? They're filthy rich. And they're all originary from diferent time periods. There's zero reasons for them to conditions like that and live in that kind of housing unless society has been frozen in time since Negima's ending.

[Raineh Daze]

And how enormously have limo exteriors changed in the past 60 years? Suits haven't changed hugely, and most of them are dressed in suits. The other one is pretty rural, so even if fashion has radically advanced, he's the least likely to match. And finally: of course boats. Why wouldn't you use a boat to cross water? That's common sense; anything else is flashy for the sake of it. The exterior of those won't change that much just because 'future', we know what designs work  for boats. >_>

Just because it's in the future doesn't mean everyone should be drawn in different clothes for the sake of it.

[Nytemare3701]

So...I have been watching No Game No Life lately. Favorite Anime this season BY FAR.

Second place is currently going to Mahouka (because I'm on this board, and the entire series revolves around magic being treated like technology)

[brujon]

Hmm interesting... I've been off of the anime scene for the past year or so... What should i watch that has been released in that time period?

[oslecamo]

Watch KILL LA KILL!

[brujon]

Does anyone here even bother with checking Berserk every now and again and/or have read the whole story?

I can not make sense of what is going on with Berserk right now. It dead-stopped for a year, now it updated twice this year. Griffith is portrayed straight up like a God amongst men, a beacon of hope, a shining light at the end of the horizon... I don't know where the story is going anymore.

I don't think the creator knows, either.

[Raineh Daze]

I'm waiting for either the author to die or the story to end rather than chaining myself to an unpredictable release schedule. Read up to the end of the Band of the Hawk, at least.

[oslecamo]

Does anyone here even bother with checking Berserk every now and again and/or have read the whole story?

I can not make sense of what is going on with Berserk right now. It dead-stopped for a year, now it updated twice this year. Griffith is portrayed straight up like a God amongst men, a beacon of hope, a shining light at the end of the horizon... I don't know where the story is going anymore.

I don't think the creator knows, either.

I'm keeping up with Berseker. Don't mind having to wait for chapters.

And Griffith wanting to become a god-kind was kinda his plan all along. Granted, first he wanted to just become a normal king (gain military and political prestige, seduce princess), but then he got crippled and gained demonic powers so he raised the stakes.

It's not like he became "shining beacon of hope" overnight. He had been doing it since at least volume 27 when he raised his army of demons disguised as knights and humies to openly challenge the sultan demon prince with his army of mass produced half-demons.

[brujon]

Yes, Griffith's plan all along was to be the "perfect" king and to make his "perfect vision" come true, and now he has the power to do so. What i don't get, is that Guts is still being haunted by the mark of sacrifice, Demons are still after him, but Griffith is maintaining most of them on a leash. Guts is now headed to some fantasy island of faeries and elves, and his motivation, to enact vengeance on Griffith, is on hold for a very long time... It's just spread out too thin in my opinion