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Oh man, guys, I think next week's episode of My Hero Academia is THE episode I've been waiting for ever since I've read the manga. I honestly can't wait! I don't think I've been this hyped for a show since I was a kid in the mid 90s, watching DBZ.

On 15/05/2018 at 02:18, Ruki said:

"In the name of the pro hero, Eraser Head, you are granted permission to engage in combat."

 

Fuck. That's awesome. 

MHA is really knocking them out of the park this season. Of course, the story they're adapting is amazing in its own right, but they're doing it justice and then some.

So, has anyone seen the latest MHA episode yet? So, so good you guys. This was one of the episodes I was anticipating the most and holy shit, it did not disappoint one bit. One of the best episodes this show has ever had, period!

4 hours ago, Lars Kuyt said:

Shit is about to get the real with the next MHA episode!

So next week I have Avengers on Friday and MHA on Saturday... I think I'll just hibernate this entire week away. Can't wait!

4 hours ago, Lars Kuyt said:

Going to read the Attack on Titan manga online somewhere, just can't wait to know more about the story.

Those volumes look great!

Thanks! I don't usually buy manga, but some series I just have to have. So far, the only ones I had (or was collecting) were Death Note (the all-in-one edition) and the original Dragon Ball (the 3-in-1 volumes; I'm up to the sixth right now, which makes 18 of the regular ones, I think), but I absolutely fell in love with MHA and had to have the books as well. I'll probably go to a store that has manga tomorrow, I may end up buying more (I have severe impulse control issues ).

The second episode of MHA's 3rd season was great! I was a bit disappointed by the first one as I'd hoped it started the story immediately instead of doing a recap, but this one was everything I'd hoped for (well, Mineta was still as annoying as ever, but I can live with that). Also, in anticipation of this season, I got this (spoiler'd for size):

On 04/04/2018 at 12:09, Lars Kuyt said:

Any news on the release date of Season 3 of Attack on Titan? DAMN, just watched episode 7 of season 2 and it's getting better and better.

I don't think there's a specific date yet, just that it's supposed to be in July.

Speaking of AoT, last Friday I went with a friend (who likes anime, but isn't that big of a fan) to a mall, and we stopped by a store that has manga. I picked up the first volume of AoT and told him the show was great. I talked a bit to him about the story and showed him the intro, and he said he was gonna check it out. Long story short, he saw the entire first season during the weekend, finished the second season yesterday, is now considering buying the manga, and is telling me to wake him up when June ends (since the third season is supposed to start in July and all that), all the while cursing me for introducing him to the show.

So, mission accomplished 

Now I'm going to get him started on My Hero Academia.

16 hours ago, =BK= said:

Roshi is touchy as fuck with Bulma. He never learns.

And Launch is an honest to God bandit when she's blonde, she's probably killed people with those guns. 

Not just Bulma. Didn't he grope at least on one occasion #18 and Videl as well, during DBZ? I mean, sure, Bulma's his favorite target, so to speak, but she's been there since the beginning, 18 and Videl were there for a cup of tea in comparison.

3 hours ago, =BK= said:

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Masako Nozawa will be Goku until she's in the ground and even then they'll probably have some Vocaloid kind of thing take over. They do need to cast a new Bulma though.

 

As for the finale,

18 hours ago, GhostMachine said:

Oh, and Marvel has ripped off Image. Can't remember the character's name, but they had a character pop up (in one of the Spider-Man titles, I believe) that looked waaay too much like Spawn.

Nightwatch was pretty bad, yeah. 

Also, apparently there's a rumour that Sony is interested in making a movie about him... with Spike Lee directing.

Just finished watching tonight's DB Super. What an episode! What a fight! Kudos to everyone involved in this episode!

Ryan Ottley's gonna be drawing the Amazing Spider-Man books.

On the one hand, I think it's great, because I love Ottley's art. On the other hand, it will be extremely weird to see his art on anything not related to Invincible. 

Now I wanna track down that Invincible/Spider-Man crossover (I know, I know, he wasn't the artist on that book, but still...)

Both FMAs, definitely. The first FMA has an anime-only ending and Brotherhood, which is a more faithful adaptation of the manga, can be somewhat redundant for the first few episodes, but they're both excellent and two of the best anime shows ever, IMO. Fate is... eh. If it was Fate/Zero I'd tell you to watch it, definitely, but for F/SN, maybe watch 2-3 episodes just to check it out. As for the rest, Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop are usually highly rated, but they weren't my cup of tea (Bebop is considered a classic), and while I enjoyed SAO, it's far from perfect and I can understand the criticism it get from a lot of people. The first season does go downhill for the second half, but I feel it picks up in the second season again. 

EDIT: Oh, and Code Geass is definitely worth watching as well, especially if both seasons are available. I never watched Bleach, so I can't talk about that one.

The first Ant-Man and The Wasp trailer is here!

Did I see it right? The villain is the Ghost? Looked like it, but I thought he was an Iron Man villain? (Now that I looked further, it seems it had already been confirmed... must've slipped my mind)

4 hours ago, =BK= said:

I've gotten so used to watching subbed Dragonball that I sometimes look away forgetting I can't understand it without seeing it.

DBS

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I do hope they explain why Frieza couldn't counter Hakai like he did before.

 

 

3 hours ago, Benji said:

Death Parade sounds interesting...

Anyone seen it? Worth checking out?

I  watched it a while ago, don't quite remember the story or its twists and turns, but I remember that I enjoyed it enough to buy it

I don't think he is, I read somewhere that the last Sith was Darth Vader.

Here it is, Andy Serkis confirmed he's not a Sith.

Only one issue of Invincible left.

I don't want it to end 

My Hero Academia season 3 teaser:

April can't come fast enough.

Also,

6 minutes ago, Ruki said:

I watched Your Name...I went in hyped, and I was not disappointed. The music, the visuals, the story...it was all beautiful to me. I actually cried a little bit, and I'm a relatively emotionless guy. 

DId you watch it in a cinema? If so, I can only imagine the spectacle it must've been, I really wish we got anime in cinemas over here, I would definitely have gone to watch it.

Last night I watched two movies back to back, blind bought as well.

First off, it was Your Name, it had arrived the day before. I had heard about this one a lot, like it was this great masterpiece, so I took the chance and purchased it. Now, I don't regret it one bit, as visually the movie is astonishing and the soundtrack is brilliant as well, but the story, though... I feel like it had potential to be so much more. I still loved it a lot, but after all the hype, I couldn't help but be just a tiny bit disappointed. I would have liked to see more of the characters as they lived their other lives, and I think that, at about 1h40m, it felt kind of short for the story it was trying to tell.

The second one was A Silent Voice. This one was actually my second viewing, as I had watched it for the first time exactly a week before. This one's case was a bit different than Your Name, as I hadn't ever heard about it, just saw that Anime Limited (my favorite UK company for physical releases) was selling it. I took a look at the synopsis and it sounded really interesting, and the blu-ray edition itself was beautiful. Damn, am I glad I bought this, I absolutely fell in love with the movie. It was funny, it was brutal, it was charming, it was painful, and at 2h10m, I almost wish it had been 3h10m. While visually impressive (Kyoto Animation at its best), it's not as good as Your Name (nor is its soundtrack), but to me, the story blew Your Name's away; I felt invested in the main characters in a way that I just couldn't with Your Name, and given that I didn't know anything at all about the story it's based of (I also ended up getting the manga after I watched it for the fist time, and I think the movie does a great job at cutting some unnecessary stuff, although it could have benefited to add some other things from the book, mainly how the male main character ends up being accepted by the female main character's family, and maybe some more stuff to make a couple of secondary characters more important in the movie - in they books they have fairly biggish roles, in the movie they're relegated to glorified cameos, but I digress), I felt real fear during certain events that happen near the end. Just a beautiful movie that, when all's said and done, I wholeheartedly recommend  to just about everybody.

Has anyone here seen these two?

I honestly didn't know whether I should post this here or in the Weinsten etc. thread, but...

Rurouni Kenshin's creator arrested on child pornography charges.

Fuck's sake.

7 hours ago, =BK= said:

http://moetron.news/post/167572708795/voice-actress-hiromi-tsuru-has-passed-away-at-the

I just found out about that and was about to post it. That is awful, 57 is way too young to go. I really liked her voice, and she voiced 2 of my favourite anime (Dragonball and Ranma, as well as Trigun), and it was a shock reading about this 

My only comment about this episode is .

Like, I knew what was coming, I read the comics, but I was hoping that would be one of the things they would change in the show itself. The way Ezekiel told that story about him and Shiva to Carol in the beginning, I immediately got this feeling of dread, and whenever he got surrounded by walkers, I felt uneasy; when Shiva showed up in practically the same exact situation as her comic book death, I started saying "no no no no no no no". Dammit, I never thought I'd feel so awful to watch a CGI tiger die, but here I am. One thing I am grateful though, is that they didn't make it as explicit as in the comics; IIRC, the comics were brutal. It was probably because the special effects required would be extremely expensive or something like that, but her death was effective enough as it is. Those sounds...