Fast Anime V #101 - Film, Television and Music

You can argue it but you'd be wrong, there is nothing wrong with episode 1. It is not all fate jargon is in fact almost all character exposition, with some lore details required to understand the show. There's a lot of tension and build up to the servant summoning, and it sets the tone for the series, in no way is it unwatchable.

I have to say that even with it being my favorite anime, the first episode of Girls und Panzer is absolutely the weakest part of the series. I'd have a hard time disagreeing with anyone who only watched the first episode and was turned off because it is pretty much just school drama stuff in that episode. The second episode is better but still a bit weak, and the third episode is where the series starts to properly pick up.

I'm trying to come at it from the perspective of an outsider who knows nothing about Fate. I watched the first episode with a friend who asked to see the series and she fell asleep 75% of the way through.

I disagree. First episode made it feel like All is Quiet on the Western Front with some magical gimmicks. Episode 2 did a better job showing how the world developed around MC as MC grew up.

Thunderbolt Fantasy. Zombieland Saga.

. I think anybody who falls asleep maybe half an hour into something is just a jackass unwilling to pay attention or properly focus on something and that's not really a flaw of the show itself. I am reinforced in this by the fact that Fate Zero has a good first episode and isn't some sort of unwatchably boring mess in the first thirty minutes.

What kind of attitude is this? I understand that being uninterested or bored of something is personal taste but to accuse someone of being a jackass for not devoting their undivided attention to an episode of anime is a bit much.

Re: fantasy anime When are we going to get a "Dungeon Meshi" anime is the real question...

You could probably do an entire season just on the earlier chapters that went into detail about the cooking. The most recent chapters feel like they throw in the dish now out of requirement when the author just wants to focus on the story.

You just know at the end they're going to end up eating his sister

release the spyce (ninja girls who take drugs to go super saiyan) run with the wind (running anime) jojo (part 5) golden kamuy (2nd season) karakuri circus (ushio and tora, except with evil puppets) ssss.gridman (basically ultraman/gridman but in anime form) radiant (made by french people, then animated by japanese people)

Been working from 8am to 10pm-12am everyday and all I've done is finish overlord. I miss anime.

find some night work where you can chill and watch anime most of the time

So OPM S2 is not animated by Madhouse. Well, I hope it's going to be good then since S1's animation was pretty nice overall.

Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai Really gotta recommend this. I feel like a lot of people will judge it based on the mal pic and name but the bunny girl aspect of the show only shows up in the first half of ep 1 based on what I heard. It's a really great romcom so far with likable mainleads, and apparently it's fairly similar to the monogatari series (read the synopsis to see why).

It's alright so far but it's feeling a bit let down by the fact that the main girl really wants to be a watered down Senjougahara mixed with Oreimo's lead, except she's also an incredibly stereotypical tsundere doing the most stereotypical tsundere things and it really brings me out of it every time she does that. She's the type of character I'm kind of expecting to unironically say "it's not i like you or anything, b-baka" at some point. I'm hoping it'll go somewhere interesting.

Honestly, the one thing that has set me off with Goblin Slayer's anime adaptation is the CGI for the man himself. It doesn't suit at all, and I honestly appreciate those few frames where Slayer is drawn like the rest of the show. Maybe my critical sense for pacing and whatnot has dulled since I've read the manga, but otherwise I didn't find many faults. In regards to the controversial stuff, I was shocked when I first read the manga ages ago: the collective effects of both brutal deaths and rape had me quite surprised. However, it didn't disgust me, but rather set the grim tone for the series in very direct fashion. It gave similar vibes to Berserk, actually. I can see why people wouldn't like such elements of shock, but I hope said they understand why other people don't dislike such elements of shock - and other way around.

I don't think people were so much disgusted with rape as to find it pointless and honestly overly edgy in execution.

It's not so much offensive as it is offensively bad.

I know this is whataboutism or whatever but I've seen so much worse shit in anime that it really had no effect on me beyond "Oh, well that is kinda grim. *shrug*". I mean, would I have liked the episode more if it didn't have it? Yeah, but it didn't ruin it for me either.

Gobbybois was pretty horny. Felt like a tamed segment of KuroInu maybe. Kinda impressed with White Fox for baiting literally fucking everyone into watching mediocrity with the violence hook so well though. Couple of coworkers started talking about it the other day and heck that was a shock.

As much as I don't like that part of Berserk I wouldn't even remotely say that they're close to similar. Berserk is an actual attempt to make you feel for the established characters in the story whereas Goblin Slayer is a bunch of non-character whose only appearance is this scene alone. The setting of Goblin Slayer aren't even as dark or grim as it set to be in this scene in the Manga/Anime, it's just a cheap edgy throwaway with no depth or purpose in the setting. I don't like this not because 'they're dark', but rather it's terribly done. Nobody will hate the goblins more because of the rape, and nobody will have sympathy to those newbies either. If they were some unfortunate villagers kidnapped by the Goblins with no ability to fightback, sure, but they're a bunch of idiots who ignored all kinds of warning and walked themselves into a grinder. There's nothing sad or dark about it, just ridiculous.

My impression from watching the first two episodes of Goblin Slayer, and why I think people dislike it: To me it just felt voyeuristic rather than having any deeper purpose. It just sets the field for a black and white "LOOK HOW EVIL THESE BAD GUYS ARE" scenario; an 18+ version of every kid's show villain who kicks a puppy at the start of the episode to justify the protagonist whooping their ass. It's one-dimensional. That can be fine if your story is focused on different, more important things, but goblin slayer so far is exclusively about killing goblins, and if there's nothing deep or meaningful about that, then what is there to get out of it? This could change with more episodes though, I dunno.

It sounds exhausting to be sincerely angry about Goblin Slayer.

I'd say that Mad Bull 34 did a better job of showing rape, with the fact that the characters affected are both MC (in whom we already have investment) and a prostitute whom MC favors (and as such, the viewer favors as well, especially after we're shown that MC has heart of gold). Afterwards, the rape and death of the prostitute works out for an actual emotional setup. Might not be the best one (MB34 is not a good anime by most definitions and to most watchers), but it actually had a set up and gave the viewer a reason to dislike the antagonist for their actions. In fact, since "Gobbos are evil animals" approach is taken, it's kinda hard to hate them. They're just animals, doing animal things - the anime makes Gobbos less of a villains, because it's just what they do and they don't really have other choices by their nature. Honestly, a better way to have gone through the whole things is to include the beginning up to the group getting to the cave, then move onto a narration of why Gobbos are a huge problem, how they pillage, kidnap, kill, and rape, and how peasants suffer because all high level heroes don't care. Hell, you can even have it be a slideshow and have it still work both stylistically and economically. The slideshow could be interrupted by a scream from the Light Mage Girl, and we get a few quick shots of the two downedparty members (with quick flashbacks of them dying after failing to use sword/magic) and have the Fighter Girl get basically pulled into the depths of the darkness as her armor flies out. Get the Mage Girl grab the dying Wizard Girl, run into the depths followed by gobbos. Mage falls, drops friend, Gobbos switch attention to the dead friend making it obvious but not turning a scene of mortally wounded person into snuff ecchi. Cue MC coming in. Hell, you could even have the post-rape Fighter scene still be the same. In fact, it would be even more interesting, because all we have is implications of her getting raped, not a blunt confirmation. Also, more cheesy metal music. Honestly, the OST should have changed genres to that entirely per MC introduction.

Well he doesn't exclusively kill goblins I can tell you that right now. He does fight other creatures but he really doesn't want to and would avoid them if he had any choice in the matter.

I don't like Idol shows but Zombieland Saga is pretty good. Although good fucking lord that CGI use in episode 3 is horrendous. Are other Idol shows like that?

Isn't Mad Bull 34 that anime where one of the MC's ties like 10 grenades to his pubes? They're very clearly not simply animals since they have a kind of society and culture and are able to construct things and other such stuff. I really don't get why you have such a issue with GS putting that party member out of her misery. Like GS isn't the only show to have ever done it, it's a pretty common trope and it was literally a bog standard implementation of it. Character get mortally wounded -> Other characters try to save anyway but can't -> Wounded character begs them to kill them so that character doesn't suffer a painful horrible death I'm just trying to understand what was so horribly wrong with that particular scene because to me there was very little wrong with it.

Because honestly, I have no reason to care for that character. The entire point of mercy kill is the mercy part. It feels like part of someone's snuff fantasy. She gets stabbed, almost raped, and then killed by MC. And she doesn't even get characterization besides being an uppity mage. So she's only known for a negative trait that from storytelling view that doesn't go anywhere - it's not enough for us to hate her to see her stab/rape/death as karmic and it's never really improved over. But at the same time, they are entirely culturally isolated from every other race and are just kinda always chaotic evil. Manga goes deeped into that, I guess? MB34 is a fucking work of art. Also yes, that's episode 2.

I'm sorry but I just fundamentally disagree. I suck at putting my thoughts into words so I can't really think of a way to explain my view further than I already have, hope you understand. For me it was a fairly normal scene that worked for me, I didn't really care that I didn't know much about the party. We've been getting hints, yes.