>>423
Consider the book club way, set a reasonable amount of pages, or chapters and a amount of days to read them. like, "let's read up to page 20 of dragon head and then talk about it"

>>424
I like being able to comment on events happening as they happen, though ;-;

>>423
connect your laptop to a projector, or a tv

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So what did Miyazaki mean by this? Did he really imply that every Lupin iteration that he did not work on was an impostor? Or is that a misinterpretation

>>411
Did pt. 2 start better than pt.1, or did it end up better?

>>416
It kind of depends on what you mean by "better." Part 1 is undeniably more consistent throughout its entire runtime in terms of overall quality, and Part 2 is a lot more inconsistent; some absolute stinkers can be followed by the best episodes in the show. What Part 2 has going for it is that its good episodes are extremely good.

But it also depends on whether you mean "better" in terms of writing or in terms of quality of animation or direction. As far as well-written goes, there are good episodes all throughout the show. In terms of animation, it's a little harder to explain.
The episodes directed by Miyazaki himself are the most acclaimed episodes of the show from an animation perspective, but they're not the only well-animated episodes in the show and far from the only ones with notable animation. The studio that animated the Miyazaki episodes (Telecom) worked on the movie Castle of Cagliostro and animated 11 episodes of Part 2. For pre-Cagliostro episodes, there are 72, 77, 82, 84, 99, and 105, and for post-Cagliostro episodes, there are 143, 145, 151, 153, and 155.

Besides Episodes 145 and 155, Miyazaki did not have any involvement in the episodes, but Yasuo Otsuka did, who was a legendary animator and a great influence on Miyazaki, not to mention working on the series since Part 1. I find it sad that most people attribute the higher animation quality of those episodes to Miyazaki, because I feel like the Telecom episodes are much more of an accomplishment for Otsuka. He had to work with a bunch of newbie animators who were horrid at their jobs; their work on Episode 72 was apparently so laughably terrible that he had to fire a good chunk of the studio, then animate nearly the entirety of the episode by himself. The rest of the early telecom episodes were about the team trying to find its footing; the best animated out of all of them, I'd say, is probably Episode 99, which happens to be the very first anime to ever be aired in stereo.
After Castle of Cagliostro, the studio's episodes had a significant increase in quality; 143 and after are all really well animated and fun episodes. 143 is one of my personal favorites due to it being storyboarded by Yuzo Aoki, a great animator who has a really unique style (he was the lead animation director on Mystery of Mamo). It's cool to see his storyboards, which normally get adapted in his own style of limited animation to Telecom's high quality standard, leading to one of the most visually detailed and charming episodes of the show from a visual perspective.

But I could go on forever about the show. Part 2: What it lacks in consistency makes up for it in artistic variety. I didn't even talk that much about Yuzo Aoki and his fantastic work on the show or the Oh Pro episodes. 
I feel like it also kind of boils down to there being no real proper categorization in official home releases (because it's not standard), and the home video releases were either random episodes or the full chronological set. I feel like it'd be way more useful had they categorized episodes by who worked on them rather than their numbers. A good resource for knowing who worked on what is on this page is:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201111180048/http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php/lupin-iii-part-2-credits

This guy did a great job.

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>>416
Also, my excuses if my post felt a little rambley. I'm a little tired due to it being morning.

>>402
It was always lame and gay, but I know what you mean. RWBY is a posterchild for failed potential: it maybe could have been SO COOL if they didn't do X and Y and Z in the later seasons and also A-V in the early seasons. RWBY has been incredibly valuable to me if only as a showcase of what you should never ever ever EVER even dream of doing with your story.
The chief sin of RWBY was giving it a plot. The Red trailer is my perfect vision of RWBY: no dialogue, no real directions for plot, just stylized action with neat costumes and other setpieces. Could've been neat for a season or two. Unfortunately we got the worlbuilding clusterfuck that is Remnant and the bassackwards characterizations and tone of s3 forwards.
Season 1 and arguably 2 are watchable because they have the underdog charm. Clearly a small team just doing this shit for fun. Helps that everything was freely available on YT. After that the series got some real popularity and budget and wham, no more underdog effect. I don't mind s3 so much because it does an almost passable job balancing intrigue and wacky character moments, even if the finale was the death knell for any remaining quality in the series. I have nothing good to say about s4 onwards aside from one or two characters that are sort of neat in a vacuum even if they got screwed over by an incompetent and disorganized writing staff. I have kept up with the series as a case study of sorts despite my abysmal opinion of it. So, RWBY is shit. Realistically, there's no way it couldn't have been shit. It was shit practically from day 1 with no visible path out of the shit. Maybe a decent writer could have made something engaging, but then it wouldn't be recognizable as RWBY. What went wrong? Too much to list. What frustrates me the most?
>played quick and loose introducing new characters
>cheap deaths that just feel like a middle finger, see above
>Characters treated like a game of hot potato
>Awkward comedic relief
Early seasons get the pass because they're awkward in general but later seasons get really bad with this, remembering "oh yeah we used to try and be funny sometimes" and then slaughtering an attempt at drama with it.
>Retarded worlbuilding
>Retarded magic system
>Tonal bait-and-switch (audience betrayal variety, not clever subversion)
>pandered
I've spent far too much time on this series. I've been watching since season 2 I believe. It's SHIT and there was never any other option. I might recommend the first two seasons, maybe, as a homework project for someone who wants to know about creative processes and common pitfalls. That's it.

Isn't it "Anime rip off" by westerners then actual anime?

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Q. How generous do you think the sizing is on Niniba's collection of cat pillows?

The more I watch Dokkan, the more I realize how mediocre the entire show has become. Remember in season 1 when they needed seeds to replenish their Porons? Well, now the Ojamajos can use as much magic as they want without any consequences, unlike in Season 1 where this was always a problem for them. Now, we see them wasting magical stage on the most stupid bullshit imaginable, whereas in the early seasons it was used for more complex situations. It makes me wonder why they need magical stage in the first place if each of them has a lot more magical power than they did in the earlier seasons (just imagine the conversion rate of their current seeds used to replenish their porons compared to the ones in the first season).
You know what annoys the fuck out of me? Majo Rika screaming about being in debt constantly throughout every episode, needing the girls to achieve high sales figures, but we're never told how much debt Majo Rika actually is in. We just have to assume that it's a high number, BUT WE'RE NOT EVEN TOLD IN WHAT TYPE OF CURRENCY SHE'S IN DEBT IN! We're not even allowed to know, despite the Maho Dou being shown in every single episode, how much money the store is earning for Majo Rika to be 24/7 in debt. I remember when they showed the new magical cash register in season 1, and I instantly assumed they were going to let us immerse ourselves in the details of the store. Like, I instantly thought back to that game Recettear and thought it was going to be like that game almost, but no, the magical cash register is just there. It's just standing there in every episode, and nothing happens with it. So the question I ask is, what was the point of making an episode about getting it if it's just some background prop? Why do they assume the viewer is so stupid to understand any of these details if they showed them?
Clearly, not a single person at that studio gives a single flying shit about the small details, of which there are NONE. I feel like I could go on and on about what is wrong with this series, but just fucking know that the writers really like to set a bunch of rules at first just so later they could completely forget about them.

>>392
I was too busy crying my eyes out to care about any of that.

>>399
Reminds me of watching any Kyoani Anime where they will forcibly make you bawl your eyes out so you can forget about how stupid everything else is actually.

keep in mind i only made it to episode 6
I had gotten interested in this anime because of john titor himself. I grew up listening to episodes of Coast to Coast AM and i had heard re-runs of old episodes with titor being a subject and with titor himself. I had read all of his posts online on the Coast to Coast AM BBS and the time travelers forum.
links related
https://archive.org/details/completetitor/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/JohnTitorTimeMachineManual/page/n1/mode/2up
Needless to say, I'm a bit of a fan so when I heard about him being mentioned in a anime that was easily accessible to me i bit the bait. At first i was hooked, CERN? Check, One world totalitarian socialist government? Check, Titor?, Check. I especially like the labcoat guy.
>editing is obnoxious
Maybe i'm the retard but i think it has to do with time dilation
I liked the anime at first but the second they introduced the tranny i kind of zonked out. At first the sex jokes where witty but then it became an annoyance but that's just a nit-pick Maybe I should push forward anyway and see if it gets better and focuses on titor more? i think that annoyed me the most, that the focus was on stupid shit instead of saving the damn world or details on how or why shit is happening like that satellite crashing and whatever Or perhaps i should skip it and just read the VN?
>>92
How does the VN and anime differ besides the editing?
>flanderized
What does that mean?

>I liked the anime at first but the second they introduced the tranny i kind of zonked out.
Thats something the anime fucks up, specifically the dub but the Japanese version as well to a degree. Lukako in the VN is not a tranny, even if it might initially appear otherwise.
>Or perhaps i should skip it and just read the VN?
Yep, the VN is at least 10 times better than the anime. Go for the Steam translation and just push through the slice of life segments, you wont regret it. Also important to note: The sex jokes and retarded gags are mainly the anime's doing, the VN has a lot less of them.

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Meant for
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>>92
currently watching it with some people who have seen it before, and apparently its more enjoyable the on the second watch when you notice all the clues and detail you missed.

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I like the usage of humor, Its not distracting at all from the story. I like the mystery behind the main character, How they tease Kenshin's history with some characters and his place in history with the ushering of the meiji era of japan. He's lone wanderer type but quite compassionate. It's nice.

It seems like a common theme for the three chapters i've is for past actions, well intended or otherwise to come back and haunt you.
Kenshin was right in a way that kamiya should have payed attention to the people that was being taught and to watch for retards who might use what they learned for terrible reasons, Even people who seem honest take advantage of her like the old man who wanted to sell the dojo.
It was interesting to see discussions of swords like if they where modern day guns insofar you can't even carry one without getting arrested even though you are kind of safer with one, then without.
I'm assuming eventually someone from kenshins past is going to raise some hell or someone is going to come for kenshin assuming that with his death, the old era will close finally so that a new one can be ushered in but there hasn't been any hints of that yet.

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The scene where they were Lina, Guorry, and Amelia pretended to be actors was great. It had all the qualities of a good play. There were special effects, audience participation, and they were acting convincing. Lina tries to hide her identity from the theater manager.

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>>97
Yeah, the theater episode was pretty fun overall. One scene I liked a lot was Lina pushing Sylphiel out of the way and taking the shot for her. The small delay before her blood comes out and the way her body rolls around on the ground from the hit were great. I could really feel the impact

>>97
The Slayers ended very well with its last six episodes with Copy Rezo. When Copy Rezo was more effective, I was shocked. Rezo 1 seemed to go down relatively easily. The only big challenge with real Rezo was reuniting the crew. With Copy Rezo, it felt like they were helpless. The Fishman part with Guorry and Syphiel made whatever the goal of the story hopeless. It felt like torture when it seemed like it was going to be a while before they were going to get out of this issue, and it did take the rest of the season. The chicken in episode 22 was funny when it transformed. It seemed they didn't take them seriously, even after he became bigger. Copy Rezo seems eviler based on how he killed Eris. The final battle was good because of the unexpected things that happened, such as Lina getting shot. Overall the ending to it was satisfying and I am looking forward to the second season.

>>75
started reading the manga and the first chapter alone is pretty damn great for both the character introduction and setting. kinda funny that lina basically steals shit from people on the regular and is overally pretty edgy and guorry makes an excellent sidekick because he's basically a straight and narrow swordfighter. the interaction with the basically a never-ending round of brothers who kept avenging the previous brother over and over was pretty funny. the first four chapters are pretty quality shit. i'm wondering if there's going to be any backstory on how lina became a powerful sorcerer.

>>266
Guorry is basically along for the ride, and I'm not sure why he's friends with Lina. Lina is self-centered and kind of dumb at points, but Guorry is worse

Yukito goes to the archery class? well damn why the fuck don't they have that shit in America? I'd literally kill to do some archery.
I think it's cute that Tomoyo makes outfits for sakura to wear. Although I doubt this will ever be addressed I am curious if tomoyo's recordings will go into the wrong hands since it pretty much proves that magic is real.

>>261
As a camper, I remember trying archery and having trouble gaining confidence that you could control the bow. It would be awesome if America had stuff like that because we need more things to feel better about ourselves.

>my mother was 16 when she married my father, he was 25
Geez, that's a large age gap there.
Anyhow I'm at chapter 5 so far and when Sakura takes a plunge into the lake and almost drowns, i wonder why Tomyo didn't take her to a hospital? it would have protected her identity and having to explain the costume and how she fell in the lake in the first place. Another thing is the manga states that there's 19 cards, does the anime have the same amount?

they say the flower card is useless but you know what, if your in a bind then you'd hardly be seen by a flurry of petals.

>>259
it turns out i got rused, there's lgblt sandwich shit in the manga and it's a constant theme lol, in the dub and in the anime its apparently censored so i'm better off watching the anime.