So in the last week, I watched all the episodes of Martian Successor Nadesico on Youtube. I was curious after someone mentioned it was free, but also because I have a Dojinshi about it I picked up decades ago by Dan Kanemitsu, who turns out to have been the translator for the anime.
At the end of it, YouTube presented me with other shows on the "Nozomient" channel. And since a certain Duck is very enamored of Aria, I figured I'd try that next.
It's funny when you watch something that old and realize the tropes you thought were old hat were new back then, and what was groundbreaking then is a well-plowed field. Like the MC who is against war but really good at it. (Actually, he seems to be only okay at it).
The MC has a bunch of girls who like him, but it's not really a harem.
Mostly it's a Farce, that varies between mild and over the top.
Nothing really stood out about it to me.
Posted by: Mauser at October 09, 2020 04:53 PM (Ix1l6)
I want to strangle circles who do this!
So this group releases a series I want to see, and I dutifully torrent new episodes every week, But then when the last episode comes out, instead of releasing it, they make it part of a batch.
Yes, I know I can tell BitTorrent to not download the other 11 episodes, and my system is littered with fractional files, and when I've had to rebuild the index, it insists some files are incomplete because the blocks span the file ends. It's a PITA.
Nadia
I've slowly been working my way through Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, a series that made quite a splash (sorry) in the anime community when it came out. I actually scored a copy Raw on VHS ages ago. Being Raw, I rarely made it more than a few episodes in. There was a commercial release, I think I have one or two tapes of that. And I found a torrent last year. I'm finally working my way through it. I'm not quite halfway through, and all I can think is "You know, Nadia's kind of a little bitch." Other than being a McGuffin for the first part, she doesn't contribute much other than scowling at everyone.
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I forget precisely where I left off in my original attempt to watch the series, but these days, all I have left are painful flashbacks of that damn song. Note that due to production issues, there's a lengthy stretch of filler episodes that many people skip to get back to the main story.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at September 05, 2020 07:11 PM (ZlYZd)
Juden-chan
Steven den Beste's rotating picture gizmo had a lot of images from an Anime called Juden-chan (Which has nothing to do with Nazis.) But since it was from 2009, there was no way to see the show.
Was.
Found it: https://tubitv.com/series/1963/juden_chan Thanks to someone telling me where I could find Aika, which apparently is a touchstone I missed. The site seems to have a lot of classics.
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Dropped after 4 episodes. The ecchi was dumb, violence was stupid and annoying. The writing seemed like a bash fanfic against Arresta, who was formulated as a dumb broad for no reason.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at August 21, 2020 03:17 PM (LZ7Bg)
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I finally got a chance to start, but the English voices pretty much kicked me out, and there was no option to go Japanese with subs.
Posted by: Mauser at August 23, 2020 11:02 AM (Ix1l6)
Peter Grill
No, it's not a feminist fantasy for what to do with the leftovers from all the men they want to castrate. It's a half-length, explicit-ish Harem comedy that isn't terribly funny, and really badly censored (But there ARE uncensored feeds out there, not that I care.)
So the Aforementioned Peter Grill lives in a fantasy world full of all manner of humanoid critters, and he's just won the Ultimate Warrior Gladiator Fight that prove he's the bestest in the world. And he's all Ataru-like "Now I can get married!" His fiancee, the daughter of the human warrior guild leader (Who doesn't like him one bit) is naive to the extreme - She thinks babies come from a couple praying together and the stork drops off a kid.
There are plenty of OTHER women though who know exactly where babies come from, and a little something about genetics, and winning the Strongest Warrior in the World tournament has painted a gigantic bull's eye right around his wing-wang.
So unlike a lot of other Harem comedies, at least there's an explanation for why the haremettes all want the lead. And also unlike a lot of Harem comedies, they all get what they're after too. So if getting laid thanks to blackmail, magical priapism curses, main force, etc. is your kind of thing, I suppose you might like this.
But find an uncensored feed, because the white glowy shit all over the screen is NOT our hero's seed.
I was not interested in this when I first read the description. Boy has the hots for a teacher. Boy also gets dragged off from a meet-up by flat aspect shy girl who takes his virginity and wants nothing more to do with him afterwards. Surprise, they're sisters, and when their mom marries his dad, they're his sisters now too.
I was fully expecting a typical harem/incest fetish/lousy comedy where Hijinks Ensue.
That was not the case. It's played straight, and the characters are a lot more dramatic than I expected. After sampling the first episode, I watched the first three straight through.
Of course, there's still time for it to go horribly wrong, but I will definitely be finding out soon.
Gleipnir
The description text on AnimeChart didn't really catch my interest too much. I mean, a guy turns into a giant mascot suit? There's a REASON I ditched Furry Fandom when it stopped being about Art and Comics.
But people I follow on Twitter raved about it, and I finally started checking it out. I'm 3 episodes in and it is tremendously mind-fucky. It's much more about poisoned wishes that cost you everything you held dear, and what a monster you become as a result, and our hero is the victim of someone else's wish.
And the episode 3 cliffhanger was so jaw-dropping, I had to post before I watched the next episode, because DAMN!
(Now if I could find a translation that includes the OP and ED. Why are so many circles falling down on this these days?)
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Episode 4 resolves the cliffhanger in a reasonable way. They find the cause of all the weirdness, and he gives a purely honest explanation that really sucks the mystery out of it all and gives it a REALLY Shonen goal (Except this is emphatically NOT a shonen show.) Hopefully episode 5 improves.
Posted by: Mauser at May 05, 2020 06:21 PM (Ix1l6)
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And by episode 5, the Shonen plot reveals itself. Wander the woods collecting Power McGuffins, collecting allies and fighting depraved bad guys. They already showed the first Boss.
What a shame.
Posted by: Mauser at May 06, 2020 03:31 AM (Ix1l6)
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Got to the "End" and while they managed to dodge the shonen plot (Mostly) what they replaced it with was neither very clearly worked out (lots of stuff with erased memories partially coming back and erased again) nor particularly satisfying. Was it left open for a second season? I guess. But the result is very, very incomplete to me.
Posted by: Mauser at June 28, 2020 07:45 PM (Ix1l6)
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at July 12, 2020 07:52 AM (5iiQK)
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Plus Radio Comics managed to fall so far behind the bell curve that they were producing more expensive, lower quality comics with no circulation and doomed themselves to extinction, kinda like being two technological levels behind the bots in a world conquest game. And Elin insisted any criticisms I'd made in the past were only to destroy her.
Seriously, $4.99 black and white comics on Newsprint, you're gonna need a REALLY dedicated audience for that, but the material she was running in her anthologies was bottom tier, even for the fandom. She had one guy doing massive 12-pagers for every issue of Genus that made you wonder if the guy had ever actually SEEN a woman. But she kept running it like Kim Thompson with Gnuff because he produced that volume on a regular basis. As if meeting Schedule was the ONLY thing that kept comics on the market. I mean, if your editorial policy kills a Furry Erotic comic, That's pretty bad.
Plus Furries are Cheap. They'll pirate their favorites into extinction. Even Anime fans at least buy the merch or DVDs of things they torrented.
And thanks for the links.
Posted by: Mauser at July 12, 2020 05:38 PM (Ix1l6)
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Pixy! The comment editor ate my blank lines between paragraphs!
Posted by: Mauser at July 12, 2020 05:38 PM (Ix1l6)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 13, 2020 09:34 AM (LZ7Bg)
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Blew my mind, actually. For at least the first week it stayed around #3000 overall on Amazon Kindle. And it's been tapering down only slowly, it didn't even drop below #10k until the 26th. And that's with 3 4HU books being released this past month (every other week!). As a co-author, I can see a sales rank graph, but not the actual sales numbers the publisher sees (I can see THAT on Kiwi - it's sad).
First payment, 5% of the royalties (which is a really good split for an anthology with 15 authors!) is due in September.
Posted by: Mauser at June 14, 2020 02:44 AM (Ix1l6)
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