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>>597
I'm in the same boat. I wanted to try some more mature manga and it seemed to fit. The exaggerated outbursts and super detailed close ups (especially the ones on punpun's uncle) have been highlights for me. I'll continue reading it for sure. The characterization of God is really bizarre and a little creepy, honestly.

Crime and punishment: a falsified romance is a pretty good adaption of crime and punishment, it's a good take on the story and just as dramatic. If i have to be honest i was hoping for maybe a bit of the storyline behind the sisters "husband" and maybe more shit about the "legal concubine" stuff that was in the original book but i think they just decided to say that the "husband" was just some well meaning narcissist, unlike the book. Maybe the author ran out of time or decided to ignore that plot thread.

I was reading the seinen manga adaption of the train man manga, it's pretty cute.

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Manga suggestion: All you need is kill
I found it while browsing one of those websites that hosts mangas, i had been browsing under the mature tag, and after spotting i was like "eh, why not?" thinking it would be some throwaway story, not realising that i had found a real classic. It's funny too because i didn't know that the light novel that had been adapted into this manga, was later used as a basis for the fucking movie with Tom cruse, Edge of tomorrow. But no doubt the manga is fucking good.

some stuff I have enjoyed to the point of finish them:
Boys on the Run
The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal
Rokudō no Akujo-tachi
Spider-Man / Itsuwari no Aka

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Mada Ikiteru

>>633

I'll bee honest, I've not heart of hotel dusk or prof. layton before. Trauma centre sounds very interesting, I'll have to check that one out too, I have a list of about 30 I need to download lol

Have you found any copies so far? I would've thought ebay would have some. Or at least there should be some obscure JP media website that has some for sale. Best of luck with searching anon!

>>641
There's an interesting japan only ds release of Higurashi that i heard was pretty good. (might be an english fan translation out there, who knows) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is also apparently good and i want to play it

Now back to finding copies, back when i checked the game was like 50 bucks but lo and behold the price was like 20 which isn't bad considering thats the price i payed for The World Ends With You DS, Also there's a wii port that was enhanced so actually there might be a higher chance of me getting a copy then i previously thought lol.

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If anyone wants to play some untranslated visual novels and does not want to learn Japanese here's some updated tools: https://github.com/HIllya51/LunaTranslator
LunaTranslator is very customizable and already has its own custom text hook that even allows you to select whether to include the speaker (if you can find the right game hook that is). Also has offline LLM support and here's a really good offline model I found that you could run with KoboldCPP: https://huggingface.co/Casual-Autopsy/vntl-llama3-8b-v2-imatrix-gguf

>>645
What's fun with the LLM is that you could for example go to the VNDB page and get all a list of all the characters and then tell the LLM in a custom system prompt who they are so you'd get more accurate translations.

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>>645

Ahhh . . you're such a lifesaver ! I've been looking all over for a good translator . I'll also look into those DS games as I've been feeling the need to root out my old one from the attic .

Thank you fren ! ^-^

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>>557
i hope this isn't too off topic
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but i was watching these the other day, and when i heard "disney" i thought maybe they where just making false connections or something bug i guess now you mention it the influences are undeniable.

another thing that may be offtopic is a subgenre of (what i would consider to be) art, anime women in real locations, rundown or otherwise, pic related.

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>>558
I've a whole folder of these of Lain (101 images). It's from a torrent of assorted Lain content but it's been a few years. Now I can't remember where I got it from. The name of the folder is "d1nzys Lainspotting."

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>>587
Found these while browsing the net, they give off some type of feeling to me, is it perhaps nostalga?

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this whole line of thinking can be resolved with one image:

I did a cursory study on anime girls and all I found is they're designed after cats. Look up cat face theory.

>>637
It only adds to the feeling of unreality, and a type of cuteness mixed with depth.

>>534
trigun and vampire hunter d have been on my need to watch list for a while, ninja scroll sounds cool because i really like historical settings. might start with trigun because 25 episodes don't sound as bad to watch vs like two hours of vampire hunter d although i heard there was cool genre mixing involved. might checkout the original manga for trigun because it was the original format and it might be interesting to watch the anime later and spot the diffrences, if any.

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In my opinion, the Trigun anime is better than the manga, because it has better pacing and the process by which the watcher learns more about Vash and the world is much more interesting.
Things that were big mysteries with little hints and foreshadowing placed in the show are just sort of dumped on the reader in the manga without any ceremony and it just felt kind of weird.

I also love Vampire Hunter D, and I think that both of the movies are absolutely spectacular watches with very good and interesting animation and a cool world, but Bloodlust is by far the better of the two and it makes me wish for more.

I'm 40 chapters in grappler baki and it's great.
The potrayal of movement and action is realistic, flowing and dynamic and it's incredible. The artstyle is perfect too, i get a retro feeling from it, it reminds me of an anime or manga i must have seen before. The story? They jump into the action with little to no details about the protagonist and it's what i needed. You don't know how many stories i've read where they give a long rambling history of the main character and for baki they did something diffrent. Hell, they introduce the father but they obscure his face and details of his body, and only hint at all the terrible shit he did, turning him into a horrible monster and a legend. I like how batshit moments in the story goes down and instead of taking it ironically they play it straight and pretend everything is normal, they also exaggerate various things and it leave you guessing if that thing is real like "was that move that guy used real?" "is that a real science fact? i need to google this"

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I saw Vampire Hunter D a few weeks ago. The narrative is simple. I'd call it disappointing, but that's thanks to preconceived notions. Fable-like is probably more appropriate. The main theme is kinda neat. The film asserts that the beauty/purpose of life is in its briefness. It keeps this from being trite by offering a protagonist that's been robbed of mortality. The movie slowly reveals his novel solution to this existential plight: he becomes an enforcer of death, hunting down those that try to cheat it (Carmella). He handles the hypocrisy of being immortal by leaning into the idea of radical change, that when the day comes that he succumbs to his corrupt vampire self there will be a hunter to strike him down. In short, he has made himself both a supporter and example of the absolute nature of time. His foil demonstrates a loophole: not everything that lasts forever is evil, namely love. Somehow I fell a little pic related about it though.
The main character has a Parasyte hand that was supremely annoying. His role was to say "woah D you are damn cool but this shit am pretty danger, you are going to die" and then D doesn't say anything and is cool and doesn't die. The nature of the Parasyte hand is never elaborated on. It seems like there are hints about every part of the world of Vampire Hunter D but the hand is literally just there to be a nerd. You could clip out all of its audio and screentime and the movie would be categorically improved. I'm aware that there's a manga that may clear up some confusion regarding worldbuilding but the film is pretty compelling as a standalone window into the home of a storied postapocalypse where remains are strewn through every nook and cranny. Sort of like Tolkien's fantasy, sometimes stuff happens that clearly plays a role in the history of the world but remains temptingly unexplained because it just isn't consequential to the hero's errand. Most of the meat is in the action and scenery, which is not a bad thing.
7/10

>>568
I don't really plan on going farther with baki, the ending of the original manga was a good send off in my opinion.
>>569
The thing with the hand sounds like the fat friend trope lol

>>555
To expand on my thoughts about the Nebraska fight, I believe it's hugely improved by having a good amount of buildup in my eyes.
Up until that point in the show, a viewer could excuse the fact that Vash doesn't kill out of a purposeful choice that is a core character trait of his; it is a "kids show" after all. It played on television aimed at younger boys in Japan and is catering to that audience.
The viewer could also be excused for assuming that Vash was just going to be silly and stupid for the entire show as well. He's only serious a few times in episodes 3 and 4 and otherwise acts like a complete retard-- admittedly it's something I dislike about those episodes but it's an intentional misdirection. Vash himself is a very serious character but he pretends not to be in order to protect the people around him. Episode 5 makes it very clear that while he might be "happy-go-lucky", he takes his responsibilities and capabilities deathly seriously.

Alongside the fact that it's not made extremely clear until that moment that Vash refuses to kill on purpose, it's an extremely cool fight that shows just how deep and how ironclad his beliefs are.
Cool moments like that that put on display a character's true nature deserve some buildup, and I think that having an episode or two before that moment would have been perfectly serviceable. It gives the viewer time to really learn and understand the character dynamics in a deeper way than the manga offered. Even all the way to Maximum 34, where I'm at, the Insurance Girls don't feel AT ALL as developed here as they are in the manga. They're important yes, but they don't feel as personal nor' do they feel like they're part of the "main cast". Once again; it's a flaw of the pacing.

4 episodes before the Nebraska fight is too much in my opinion but I've already stated pretty clearly in my previous posts that only the first two are "questionable" in their quality. Episodes 3 and 4 are directly ripped from the manga and 99% of the second half of the show is also ripped from the manga as well. Different, random parts of it are changed but the primary concepts are kept intact.

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I finished the manga last night. I'm sort of mixed on it. Expect a shitload of spoilers ahead so DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED BOTH THE SHOW AND THE MANGA.

I LOVE the art. I think the art rivals legendary mangas like Berserk on a regular basis. There's a shitload of Akira inspiration which means there's a lot of extremely high detail scenes of buildings getting destroyed and everything looks fucking amazing. I wish I took more screenshots because the sheer volume and quality of all of the two-page-spreads was fucking shocking and I want to show them off. The art alone is worth reading the manga, and it NEVER slows down or stops being good.
Unfortunately due to the extremely small panels this leads to a struggle to understand what's happening in certain scenes, and sometimes pages required a re-read from me because I just wasn't following the actions of the characters. Alongside that, the speech bubbles are oftentimes not pointed at any particular character which means that a lot of the time you have to use context clues to even have a chance to figure out who's speaking. Even then, sometimes I was just forced to guess because there was just dialog in bubbles and nothing else.
I feel like if the panels were bigger and the speech bubbles were handled better, the manga would be MUCH more readable. The lack of tails in particular made it a super bad chore to read at times.

The story is extremely good as well. I still feel like the anime handled the plot with much more grace and elegance, removing a lot of superfluous details and things that aren't exactly "necessary" to the experience while still maintaining the themes, messages, and core concepts of the plot. It ties everything together better, there's nothing stupid happening, nothing. It's nice, concise, and gets the job done.
However, the manga provides a much more "full" experience and includes a LOT of things and details that flesh out the characters and world much more. Despite that, I still consider them almost equal.

Wolfwood's arc is much more well done in the manga and I actually cried when he died, which is the first time ANY manga or comic has ever welled up any kind of emotion in me. I wasn't really a fan of Livio/ Razlo at first and I still think it's kind of... ehhhh in my eyes but I think that character was handled very well overall, and I liked how his story ended.

There's a lot of stuff in the manga that's kind of stupid. The whole "Wolfwood is actually several years younger than he appears to be" thing is kind of... meh? It's silly, unnecessary, and it doesn't fit his character in the slightest, but this plot point is used to such emotional effectiveness I can't help but feel like it deserves a pass.
Wolfwood and The Eyes of Michael all being basically superhuman teenagers that drink super-mega-ultra-giganigga-retard-powerful healing potions that make them so durable they can basically get shot as much as they want without dying is also fucking silly and retarded. It feels like some bullshit the author came up with to excuse Wolfwood getting the absolute shit rocked out of him in almost every fight and still surviving. I would have much preferred if the healing potions were something unique to Wolfwood, and that's what made him special in comparison to all of his peers.
I also think that the scene where Vash learns that Wolfwood is a Gung-Ho Gun was cut extremely short and it should have had more impact. It could have and should have been done in an extremely different order in order to bring more weight and context to Wolfwood's final scenes.
It's such a great idea for a perfectly good reveal that would be unfathomably amazing to read that felt like it was done as an "oh yeah there's this too" moment because the author literally forgot about it.

The biggest problem I have with the manga however is the ending; which was kind of a stinker all things considered. I don't like the "rest of humanity" showing up last second, because it feels like the stakes were just sort of fucked with for no reason, and the story wouldn't ACTUALLY be changed if that entire plot beat was removed entirely.
Not only that, but the asspull reveal that the rest of humanity has ALREADY SETTLED on other planets and that No Man's Land is just a backwater shithole that nobody really cares about made the whole experience just lame as shit. Not only that, but apparently Plants turning into basically normal people with magic powers is something that has already been extensively researched and figured out is ???????

Both of those things in combination with the setup of the ending being sort of stupid overall lead to a kind of weak baby fart experience that was only upheld by the sheer excitement and weight of Vash's personal ending. The stakes were fucking pummeled into the ground beyond comprehension when both of those things came to light and it almost retroactively ruined the entire manga for me-- fortunately it's extremely easy to ignore.

All of that being said, I still very much enjoyed the manga and it's going into my "recommend-to-everybody-I-meet" list but I think that the show is a much easier and more 'clean' viewing experience. Shit started to drag on at the end because the final battle is literally like two whole goddamn books which is kind of silly too.

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>>545
Started reading the manga because its faster to read something, and it's a pain in the ass to watch anime at an inconvenient time. Liked the opening of the manga a bit better, kinda more funny. Also some of the diffrence in art style tripped me up a tiny bit bit but it's all good.

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I just finished trigun, I think i agree with the whole "hard to make sense of what's going on" in some of the action sequences, i like how everything got darker, and more bizarre as the series continued, i mean there's major changes made between trigun and maximum and it was pretty good. I wish i took more screenshots because most of the panels are actual art. There are so many cool sequences.

I probably should go back to take screenshots but it seemed like the author at points played with western art styles, even borrowing from people like mike magnola, what i mean is that he was inking in a very specific way that stood out to me.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nyZPvtkuMv4 [Play]
WE WHERE BORN TO BE WILD

Kind of unrelated, but when I'm listening to music I'm feeling luke warm on, I tend to imagine it in the context of an anime op or ed and it usually helps to make me appreciate it more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPDWuip1k5o [Play]
This is probably my favorite op. It works for me since I mostly listen to instrumentals.

I like the full versions of these songs but I will keep them to their Anime OP / ED cuts for the sake of staying in-line with the thread.

>F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu OP - The Meaning of Truth
https://youtu.be/rKXIzkHARjo [Play]

>Rose of Versailles OP - Roses Fall in Beauty
https://youtu.be/eJIeJIqw-J0?t=7 [Play]
https://youtu.be/_yrC46t4Kc0 [Play]

>Rose of Versailles ED - You are the Light, I am the Shadow
https://youtu.be/LFHK2a0t6Gg [Play]

>Hunter x Hunter - Hunting for your Dream
https://youtu.be/tK-d2LJlaaQ [Play]

>Samurai Champloo ED - Shiki no Uta
https://youtu.be/mQAfG3DgG7M [Play]

Another anon posted about Pegasus Fantasy so I'll leave that be. Instead I will add...
>Hokuto no Ken OP - You wa Shock!
https://youtu.be/JKk6hHU0iUs [Play]

In the West, there are a lot of other series that were popularized during their runs on Cartoon Network / Adult Swim. Champloo is such an example, though others also include Full Metal Alchemist, Inuyasha, and others.

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Nothing beats the Excel Saga OP

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Got reintroduced to anime earlier this year by a good friend of mine. I'm unbelievably late to the game, but I can't stop playing this song on repeat.

Let Me Be With You - ROUND TABLE ft. Nino

Chobits op

>>440
Explanation of the visualizations reminds me of Bakemonogatari, where long stretches of dialogue are given flavor with visuals that complement the thoughts and intentions of the characters. Like, if it's two characters in constructive conversation, they'll start building an increasingly intricate playing card house. When someone says a non-sequitur or loses composure, the cards fall. Or else, one of the characters starts climbing a rock wall. That sort of thing, gives weight to what's being said and better conveys the feelings of the characters.

the visual flair is a nice touch. what i mean is the "camera effects" like fishbowl lens and so on that are used in soap operas for dramatic scenes, it was kinda funny when toshio kicked a wood plank in anger and the screen did the bollywood flash
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Taking a life is not justice. No matter what kind of noble cause you're fighting for, it's still murder. I have no taste for killing, whether the victim is human or something else.
i understand where Seishin is coming from and all and its his opinion but he's a bitch and i wouldn't be shocked if his blood will be sucked and when that happens he'd end up being a vampire and even more of a bitch since so many innocent people will end up suffering by the hand of actually evil people. speaking of bitches, Tohru is also a bitch for making a fake grave for his friend he converted to a shiki, all of the shit he did could have been avoided and he chose the easy path so fuck that guy lol.

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You know i was not expecting a chocolate juggling funeral home running willy wonka looking motherfucker in a god damn serious vampire anime, i approve.

If anyone plans on watching shiki, i wouldn' t miss out on the shiki special episodes, after episode 20, watch special 20.5, and so on.
the manga is actually pretty interesting although i spot no diffrences so far besides the artistic usage of realism on backgrounds, clothes, gloves and such.

Once you humanise a thing, and even if you showcase them more (thus losing the "mystery" behind them) It takes away from the "horror" aspect from the story. I'm not saying it's bad but it was a feeling that washed over me, i started off actually locking all my windows in my house after getting through a good chunk of the series, then the story pivoted and it stopped becoming a horror story and more of a melodrama. The shift was fine, infact i googled shiki and i realised that it was based after a novel it explained the writing, i personally tend to enjoy media adapted from books. This shift so to speak was roughly a little after halfway through the story so it was good timing. I still find myself thinking about this anime alot, i think the smart thing is for me to do a re-watch around halloween lol.
Anyhow, a shiki society although interesting due to the converted humans showing emotional range, is bound to fail, what would happen if all humans on earth where converted? drinking animal blood is literally a slow death, there's nothing to gain. You would basically have to have a seperate place to breed humans promised neverland style but there's no way you'll get a satisfacory amount of people to sustain th population besides a few chosen people. I think Toshio was right, i mean it doesn't mean you can't show shikis compassion, but i think shikis are cursed, there's no life in being one and all they'll do really is spread pain and suffering forever. >>442 it builds tension and gives weight to what the characters are saying, its a hell of a lot better then just having two characters talking with nothing going on.