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BeatNinja said:
Yoooooo.

Akame ga Kill? Who cares. BUT MICHIKO AND HATCHIN? YOOOOO.
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Michiko and Hatchin? Hell yeah! I was gonna jump back into that during the summer, but Toonami came in and saved the day.
 
Too bad the AGK anime went to shit about 3/4th in with the filler, skipping key scenes, etc. At least it's not a traditional shonen and quite violent if no censor. Rewatching the first few episodes should be fun though at least in dub depending on who they get. Nice to see Toonami getting more relatively new anime though especially some non Funi.
 
Wait, I completely missed Michiko also being part of that, rad!
What's the two anime we're losing?
It's Inuyasha at least, but...
Kill la Kills' rapidly approaching the end too...
 
speaking of KLK:

We all expected this episode would be subject to some editing, but i didn't expect so much cut they could fit in the entire second opening.

But that's ok since second opening's song is pretty good.
 
Yea I knew going in the bath scene was going to get heavily cut, just as the future bath scene in a few eps. is probably gonna get cut a lot as well. Not suprised. They let a lot run up until this point.
 
Crabcakes sweetheart, that teaser is a year old
 
Jutsei said:
The fuck's an Akame Ga Kill

Akame ga Kill? I hear that it's a shitty poor man's Berserk that plays out like it was written by a self-indulgent 14-year-old. I think people owe SAO an apology now.
 
I wish they could add Cowboy Bebop's less appreciated, but just as cool, brother, Outlaw Star, back on....
 
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LordTerminal said:
Akame ga Kill? I hear that it's a shitty poor man's Berserk that plays out like it was written by a self-indulgent 14-year-old. I think people owe SAO an apology now.

What? AKG isn't like Berserk at all unless by "being Berserk" you mean it has above average violence and rape face still frames which is a broad comparison to say the least.
 
Akame ga Kill is alright until it went anime original near the end. It's also too edgy.
 
One flaw of AGK is it kills off the key characters too fast which is even more blatant in the anime version where it skips/modifies stuff. I'm fine with them being killed off because it shatters the illusion that the 'good guys' are protected by plot armor ergo increased the plot predictability like what works like Fairy Tail has to deal with. The issue is that a lot of them didn't have enough character development for the average reader/viewer to care that much. The whole "two teigu users fight one dies" rule would have been fine if they were spaced out way more.

Second flaw was AKG later departs the actual assassination roots which was initially interesting since it required some planning/stealth/etc, but ever since teigu opponents appeared it pretty much near abandoned the assassination/stealth aspect [except a certain character that still acted like an assassin] and turned to straight up open direct battles. Sort of like how Bleach went from hollow of the week to generic battle manga with infinite power ups and Yu Yu Hakusho where it quickly left the detective aspect for open battles. This wouldn't be so bad if the power scaling/teigu balance wasn't so retarted which I'll bring up next.

Next AGK makes it point by showing how much certain characters/teigu are disgustingly more overpowered compared to others. That isn't a bad thing if that gap can be overcome in creative ways, but it usually involves either a plot power up, plot nerfs, etc at convenient moments that had little to no buildup/foreshadow.

Lastly the protagonist Tatsumi. I initially had a positive impression of him because he gave off the impression that despite him being naive due to being a your 'typical country hick that enters the big city' that he wasn't an idiot when it counts.
He doesn't hesitate to kill that little sick bitch that tortured/killed his friends and who knows how many others was respect points. He didn't do what other protagonists would have done like "your not worth killing", hesitate a lot, "there is still good in you", "your just a little girl", let the other assassins kill her to keep his hands clean, or be Batman and adopt a 'no kill' moral code.
It also helps that initially he wasn't a weakling [which means less tedious training arcs and being overeliant on teammates protecting him], but he wasn't some overpowered Gary Stu either [battles are less likely a quick stomp, teammates have greater relevence] so he was at the right equilibrium.

However ever since then his character growth has stagnated. He doesn't seem to know if he still wants to be cheerful pure guy as he kills people or a grizzled serious side since it is so inconsistent. His development currently in the manga is heading in a specific direction though, but that is irrelevant to anime Tatsumi that is deviating from the manga which is what is gonna be shown in the Toonami block.

That said there were a few good points of the anime. Music sets the atmosphere right, had good VA cast [don't know about the dub though], didn't heavily censor the presented violence compared to the manga [it did censor/skip any rape moments and skipped scenes that happened to have violence], and the animation quality [at least for the first half] was decent. Some of the characters were quite satisfying to watch too, but of course the whole being killed off fast kind of dampens that. Some of the fights were enjoyable too. Anime was a 6/10 for me while the manga currently is a 7.5/10

Didn't care too much that AGK was being brought over to Toonami, but I did care that this was the first anime that Toonami bothered to bring over that wasn't from Funi which will broaden the range of shows they can bring over now due to this presidence. Ratings wise the show should do decent depending on time slot [at least 3/4 in since that was before the criticized deviation] since it has violence, fanservice, and 'shock' moments which seems right at home for the current Toonami viewer demographic. It's also a relatively new anime so it is something fresh for the viewers too.
 
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neat.
hope they don't gotta censor the violence, even though they might.
 
Nice more relatively new anime and another one from Sentai.
 
if only we could somehow get the best anime Sentai Filmworks has.
@Number 13 know what I mean?
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Not in dub I don't. Already heard a sample of that in the movie and it just doesn't work. Not to mention they only have the rights to only like 50~ episodes last I checked.
 
I think that dub was intentionally shitty.
but if they could ever dub that series, then I would hope they'd make it work.
 
I was talking about Gintama.
it does have a dub but it is awful.
like, Sentai Filmworks has gotten better with their dub choices, but it sounded like a poorly thought out fandub.
except for Shinpachi.
his voice was alright.
I'm excited for Parasyte though.
I've skimmed through the first volume of the manga and it has some good gore.
 
Oh I own the first three volumes of Gintama


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eh.
 
it was just for the movie.
I can't really speak for it though, since I've only seen one clip.

okay, I found the movie and I can say shinpachi and Gin's voices are terrible.
 
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SanoBaron said:
neat.
hope they don't gotta censor the violence, even though they might.
If they can show Hellsing, I think it'll be ok.

I never seen Parasyte, but I the impressions I read say that the story starts out strong, but kinda gets not so good at the end.

And I heard that it gets preachy and *surprise* turns out the real monster is man.
 
It's a 90s manga, what do you expect?
 
I like Tatsumi's voice.
But the more I hear any English dub work, the more I hear the same set of voices/ranges. The same goes for Japanese dubs.
 
I like when there's that one really good jokey dub line that makes me just go
"I'd like this series more as a gag dub, or at the very least with more comedic dialogue"
 
Yeah, only a Crayon Shin-chan level of comedic dub would save my interest in watching Akame Ga Kill again. AGK is quite bland and simplistic. It isn't terrible (I managed to finish the season) but it isn't something I could recommend.

I was hoping Toonami would play Kill la Kill's episode 25 (OVA), but it looks like they are jumping right into AGK this Saturday.
Zazz said:
And I heard that it gets preachy and *surprise* turns out the real monster is man.
Ya heard wrong. Well, at least, that's not how I saw it. Parasyte -the maxim- is quite excellent from start too finish. No filler, just one concise story arc. Certainly much more worthwhile than tepid Akame Ga Kill or the meandering Sword Art Online.
 
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I actually like AGK...up until around episode 20 then everything started to kinda fall apart and you can tell they just rushed everything. It's not a bad show by any means, but yea the wheels come off towards the end.
 
Yeah the AgK anime adaption was mediocre especially at the last 1/4 [manga is better], but I'll rewatch this expecting a "it's so bad it's good" dub performance. It'll also be interesting to see Toonami viewer reactions to the first episode if they haven't watched it sub.
 
BallotBoxer said:
I was hoping Toonami would play Kill la Kill's episode 25 (OVA), but it looks like they are jumping right into AGK this Saturday.
KLK's dub turned out amazing from start to finish. So I'm a little saddened we'll miss out of episode 25. I kinda liked it as a wrap up and wanted to hear Cristina Vee's turn as Rei when she's the focus.
 
well AgK premiered last night and let me start with this: i have never seen this show before.

but watching this show felt like a time machine. back to last saturday. morning. on the sci-fi channel. 20 years ago.

it had all the hallmarks of those weird anime from that era and that time slot.
- really inconsistent/unintentionally hilarious dub
- bizarre tone shifts
- is that misato?! i didn't even know she still did dubs!
- ultra-violence!
 
Nah, just do what Legend of Korra did, use Uncle Iroh's understudy. Greg Baldwin covered for Mako there, he can do it here. Although, nothing will truly replace Mako!

It's kind of like the upcoming reboot of ReBoot (ReBoot: The Guardian Code). It won't be the same without the main villain's voices (Tony Jay as Megabyte).
 
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