The Anime Thread

[Josquius]

Apparently the current season has a lot of very good shows.
I've started watching one which I think might be up some people here's alley, "From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman", which despite the name isn't some low budget isekai.

Its a normal no alternate world's involved fantasy show about a middle aged guy -Yes, an actual middle aged guy as an anime main character. No he's not in a child's body or anything like that. He's just a 40-something guy- who is the master at his village sword dojo. Seems to live a pretty chill quiet life teaching generation after generation of students, living with his parents who keep bugging him for grandkids.

One day a former student turns up who has risen to become captain of the country's knights to invite him to go teach in the capital. He encounters a few other former students who have also become successful and it turns out it isn't just memories from childhood playing tricks on them, he actually is the best swordsman any of them have ever met.

I've heard it likened to Friren and Mushoku Tensei. Only seen one episode so far but curious to see where they take it.


Edit - nope. First impressions failed. It's trash

[jimmy olsen]

It remains to be seen (pun intended), for those who grew up with the original anime.

I grew up with the original anime.

You grew up with a 1990's anime? 

We're all old here

[Duque de Bragança]

It remains to be seen (pun intended), for those who grew up with the original anime.

I grew up with the original anime.

You grew up with a 1990's anime? 

We're all old here

If we're all old here, nobody is really old.  Except Grumbler, of course. 

[Savonarola]

I watched a 2005 Anime movie called Mind Games.  The animation was interesting in that it's shot in a number of different styles.  The story is strange, a young man trapped in the friend zone with a girl is at a yakitori restaurant when Yakuza arrive and attempts to rape the girl.  He tries to intervene, only to be shot in the anus by a Yakuza.  He dies and goes to limbo, but is able to escape, arrive back to earth a moment before being shot, grabs the Yakuza's gun with his butt cheeks and kills him.  The Yakuza follow him, the girl and her sister, on a high speed chase.  The fly off a dock and into the belly of a whale, where they meet a crazed old man. 

It may have lost something in translation, or maybe the comic book made more sense, but I just felt like I was missing something.

[Josquius]

One punch man.

Season 1 came a decade ago. It is one of the best things ever.  On so many people's top anime lists.
Presents as a serious shonen anime about superheroes with these hyper powerful enemies showing up and giving lengthy exposition... Only to be beaten with an single punch by the depressed hero.
There's more to it. Very well animated fights happen involving lesser heroes before our guy shows up. As someone who had a fondness for dragonball as a kid. I get it.

Then 5 years later season 2 finally came. So exciting!
.... It was a noticeable drop in quality. Both writing and animation. The hero is purposefully removed from the action so minor heroes can see serious action. Some of them are fun. Like the gay daddy prisoner. But the animation quality noticeably drops.
Its not a favourite. But not quite terrible enough to kill the series. The next series will be great people who have read the manga say.
This arc is a bit slow. But just you wait.

Series 3 finally came this season. It's airing now. So...so... Excited.
....
I noticed right away.
I'm not the only one who noticed.



This is an actual scene from the show. Cropped but otherwise not edited in anyway. They actually thought this was good enough.
No he's not flying. He's meant to be just walking.

Episodes pass with flapping mouths talking about nonsense nobody cares about.
The big super hyped fight scene which in comics is said to be so good it is the sort of thing you'd teach in a university course about drawing comics. Hailed as some of the best pages of any comic ever. The one people hoped they were just saving the animation budget for...
.... Its not much of a step up on man slides across hill.

Sometimes it is better when shows are just not renewed.

[jimmy olsen]

The manga is great.

The producers of this anime should be blacklisted from the industry for ruining such an easy lay up.

[viper37]

My cousin insisted I watched Berserk.  I tried, I really tried.

This one is always ranting against wokes destroying Star Wars and Hollywood, and he sees non binaries.  He sees non binaries everywhere.  Ok, he's in downtown Montreal, so maybe he as a point about the last part.  Although he gets out of his place only to work in a manufacturing plant, then rush back home to play games, so I don't really know where he sees so many non binary people.  Go figure.  Montreal is such a weird place.  

So, Berserk.

The story about a butch lesbian trying to fit in a men's world, falling for a gay dude who spends his days training hard, who has a crush on an effeminate gay dude who was once the lover or minion to a pedophile lord.  This is more the story of a love triangle, where demons are inserted for good measure than anything else.  The gay subplot is kinda hard to miss.

Anyway.  Lots of violence, lots of gore, but poor story overall.  There's really nothing except some gay inuendo, some sex/nudity and lots of violence.  Military strategy is totally absent, they don't even pretend to try anything.  Armies clash together even worst than Braveheart and that's supposed to be good.

[Jacob]

This one is always ranting against wokes destroying Star Wars and Hollywood, and he sees non binaries.  He sees non binaries everywhere.  Ok, he's in downtown Montreal, so maybe he as a point about the last part.  Although he gets out of his place only to work in a manufacturing plant, then rush back home to play games, so I don't really know where he sees so many non binary people.  Go figure.  Montreal is such a weird place. 

Maybe he's interpreting modern (Montreal) fashion as being non-binary when really it's just people dressing in styles he thinks are weird?

[jimmy olsen]

My cousin insisted I watched Berserk.  I tried, I really tried.

This one is always ranting against wokes destroying Star Wars and Hollywood, and he sees non binaries.  He sees non binaries everywhere.  Ok, he's in downtown Montreal, so maybe he as a point about the last part.  Although he gets out of his place only to work in a manufacturing plant, then rush back home to play games, so I don't really know where he sees so many non binary people.  Go figure.  Montreal is such a weird place. 

So, Berserk.

The story about a butch lesbian trying to fit in a men's world, falling for a gay dude who spends his days training hard, who has a crush on an effeminate gay dude who was once the lover or minion to a pedophile lord.  This is more the story of a love triangle, where demons are inserted for good measure than anything else.  The gay subplot is kinda hard to miss.

Anyway.  Lots of violence, lots of gore, but poor story overall.  There's really nothing except some gay inuendo, some sex/nudity and lots of violence.  Military strategy is totally absent, they don't even pretend to try anything.  Armies clash together even worst than Braveheart and that's supposed to be good.

Which adaption did you watch? The terrible 2016 one or the classic 1997 one?

I haven't watched either, but I have read the manga and it's definitely one of the greatest manga of all time. Art and story are both incredible. Might be the greatest Dark Fantasy ever written.

Guts was sold as kid to men, but he's definitely not gay and neither is Casca.

[viper37]

This one is always ranting against wokes destroying Star Wars and Hollywood, and he sees non binaries.  He sees non binaries everywhere.  Ok, he's in downtown Montreal, so maybe he as a point about the last part.  Although he gets out of his place only to work in a manufacturing plant, then rush back home to play games, so I don't really know where he sees so many non binary people.  Go figure.  Montreal is such a weird place. 

Maybe he's interpreting modern (Montreal) fashion as being non-binary when really it's just people dressing in styles he thinks are weird?

It's possible.  I think it's more due to his online crowd, but it's possible.  He spends most of his time in gaming communities when not at work.  Gf is a foreigner and has no social network of her own, so it's not like he's seeing a lot of people.

I haven't been in Montreal a lot lately.  Just a quick drop one night and one morning last month.  Not enough to quantify the local fauna, so I wouldn't know if it changed that much.

[viper37]

My cousin insisted I watched Berserk.  I tried, I really tried.

This one is always ranting against wokes destroying Star Wars and Hollywood, and he sees non binaries.  He sees non binaries everywhere.  Ok, he's in downtown Montreal, so maybe he as a point about the last part.  Although he gets out of his place only to work in a manufacturing plant, then rush back home to play games, so I don't really know where he sees so many non binary people.  Go figure.  Montreal is such a weird place. 

So, Berserk.

The story about a butch lesbian trying to fit in a men's world, falling for a gay dude who spends his days training hard, who has a crush on an effeminate gay dude who was once the lover or minion to a pedophile lord.  This is more the story of a love triangle, where demons are inserted for good measure than anything else.  The gay subplot is kinda hard to miss.

Anyway.  Lots of violence, lots of gore, but poor story overall.  There's really nothing except some gay inuendo, some sex/nudity and lots of violence.  Military strategy is totally absent, they don't even pretend to try anything.  Armies clash together even worst than Braveheart and that's supposed to be good.

Which adaption did you watch? The terrible 2016 one or the classic 1997 one?

I haven't watched either, but I have read the manga and it's definitely one of the greatest manga of all time. Art and story are both incredible. Might be the greatest Dark Fantasy ever written.

Guts was sold as kid to men, but he's definitely not gay and neither is Casca.

Looking at the story, it seems to be 1997, but the images look a lot more recent than that.

Looking at Wikipedia, it seems the Blu rays were re-released in 2017-2018, so this is what he gave me. A 3 disc set.

It's apparently praised by critics, by I can't get into it.  I'm in the middle of the last disc, and I'm struggling to finish the story.