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    Yeah, friend showed this to me last month. I have never wanted a mob boss to win so much as I did in this movie.
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    Sounds about the right reaction. From what I've heard S2 is his redemption arc of sorts, which with the grave his dug himself that has to be one hell of a climb and explains why people are loving it now.
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    Welp that's another scene off the OP bingo card. If the hero shows up after this that will confirm the time displacement between the two plot lines.
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    Maybe, honestly the catgirl ones were what spurred me to start collecting. Might have only gotten one or two to make my pathfinder bard conversion and stopped instead of the half dozen I have now.
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    It's a one and done series. After this it leads in to the rest of phase 4. Not to say the Disney won't do other MCU series. They have plenty in the pipeline already.
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    Oh I know that already. Since Shield Hero I have a tendency to do a little bit of wiki research on series I have an interest in. I'm in a series for the journey, but if the destination is particularly bad then if after a few eps I'm not sold I get off the bus. (looking at you AoT). Found out the spider's fate rather quickly and I'm good.
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    Goldem Boy is short and bloody hilarious. Kintaro Oi was an inspiration.
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    Saw this over the weekend, glad to see they aren't skipping arcs whole sale. Was worried when season 2 was stated to be the Visitor arc. Once I fix my funk mood I need to catch up on season 2. Going to try the dubbed version to see how well they did. Also heard they are adapting Honor Student as well. I'm hoping they do it in the bishounen style like Sailor Moon or Fruits Basket as it would fit the manga. As part of the group watch: Dr. Stone - was disappointed that the tank didn't look like the one in the opening. Still waiting to see if Tsukasa just one shots it or if one of his side-kicks do. Still neat how Senku is Macguyvering all this future tech. So I'm a Spider, So What - Seems that one mystery from the opening is close to being solved. Hugo seems ready to go full barbarian king (at least that's how he looks in the opening) last episode. There is a theory in my watch group that we have a time distortion as so far all the classroom seemed to have been born at the same time but the human ones are all in their teens and the spider has only been around for at best a month. I'm guessing this is a nurture vs nature allegory at least if the opening is any hint at what is to come and it seems spoilertastic. Higurashi GOU- Well the torch got passed, just when we thought we were finally out of the loops someone brings us crashing in. At least now the lack of a closing animation made sense for the last few episodes as it spoils what happens in the most recent one. Log Horizon S3 - last two episodes were a side story of what happened to Crusty after the events of S2. It was weird but a little helpful that it was done in the form of a puppet show for the members of Log Horizon. Jobless Reincarnation - Story seems to be moving forward now. At least Rudeus is showing his smart enough to play politics once he has the information. His uncle is up to something, just doesn't want to pull the trigger until he has a fall guy. Eris is a full blown tsundere, but is warming up. While granted Rudeus was a leech in his past life, at least most have given his more uncouth behavior a passed based on genetics considering his parentage. Also, damn Ghislaine. You not only could bounce a quarter off her rear, you mint them. Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime - Been kind of meh, at least it looks like things are going to heat up as Tempest is gaining power and about to be a rival to a powerful human nation. Our group is a little behind, but I did see an image float on my feed that the human nation is not going to take a monster nation being better then them kindly. Also been going through What if a kid from the Last Dungeon moves to the Starter Town with a friend. Been a fun watch, if predictable. Favorite moment was when one of the early baddies declared himself a demon lord just before his ready to beat the second most veteran of the heroes and said hero goes on a tirade about why he didn't say that early while they bolt to get Llyod.
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    Agreed, but that is why missing his inner-dialog makes the anime a poor adaption. The LN is up front in the first volume that he screwed his entrance exam for his sister. He needed to pass enough to get into the same school, but fail enough to not out-shine her as he wants her to have a good high school experience. Plus there is his job as her Guardian, which yes I know there are times when that seems like his not doing it well in both version. Oh no, some know almost off the bat. It's why Mari fights to have him on the Public Moral Committee and Mayumi helps in getting him to positions that generally Blooms are assigned to. Hell Mayumi uses him as a political tool a few times to show that the Bloom/Weed system is borked. Just that no-one calls him out because it takes that long for them to look past their biases. Even Hanzo (the guy he defeats in Ep2) doesn't fully respect Tatsuya until after the Nine Schools Competition. But that is kind of the point of the series, that the class system is bad and biases can blind. To the world at large Tatsuya Shiba is a nobody, a low ranked bodyguard of a magic family's prize daughter. Hell even his dad holds him in contempt and he knows what the boy can do. The smart ones know Tatsuya is OP, just keeping that on the DL to tap into that power for their own means. In the end Tatsuya is a tool to those around him minus a few people, mostly supporting course 2 students and his sister. It's not really shown in the anime, though the LN lays it pretty bare and that is a shame. Heck the anime is even skipping a good backstory arc that would cover a lot of history for the siblings if done. In short, if you want to good version of [i]Irregular at Magic High School[/i] then read the LN, only thing you get out of the anime is visualization of the series world. The anime did it's job in it got me to buy and read the LN. Thinking on it I believe a good analogy to this would be if a newly hired janitor looked at a project you've been working on for months with no real progress, solves and improves it in a matter of minutes. Then goes back to sweeping floors. Said janitor has zero degrees in the project fields. How would you feel? How do you think your colleagues would feel?
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    Well considering he cheated to lower his test scores... Yeah I can see that. He does give an explanation in the LN but in the anime it's a throw away line during one of the basic tests. Mizuki notices that Tatsuya is trying too hard at the test (basically to hide his good) and he flinches at her notice. It's the same test they use to explain how some of the magic system works. Same goes with his engineering except that is when Azusa is looking at his custom CAD and slowly starts putting it together. It just doesn't click because it would be absurd that the great Silver would be a weed. It's not until the end of season one that some of the students call him out for hiding his abilities.
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    Not much of a spoiler, but there is a prevailing theory that by the end of this Wanda is going to be the new big bad for the current phase. So your feeling is justified to an extent if this is true.
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    Dude, that is seriously meta, didn't see that.
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    Seems that they might be making Chuck's fighter an actual RVF-31. Though thought one of the main design features of the 31s was the ordnance container that was supposed to be mission specific as opposed to having to make a mission specific fighter.. Also nice that they armoured the cockpit, don't need anymore pilots being sniped.
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    Saw this one earlier in the year. Cute and decent for a mobile game adaptation. Speaking of which it's supposed to hit western shores soon.
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    Now that is an interesting premise that I'd pay to see.
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    Just when I think I'm out, they keep pulling me back in. And using catgirls as bait is even worse (cause it's super effective).
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    On that note.... Still doesn't have the same feel of watching it with others in the room. To be honest I've done a few online viewings, heck I host an anime watch party twice a week, and it feels like I am on my own. I might as well be watching it on my own as I'm the only one in the room. For me the experience isn't the movie itself, but the gathering of friends and having that physical connection. Just old fashioned I guess.
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    I'm in the same boat, also before the plague several of my friend's circles would meet up for movies. Now I can fit like six max in my home theater (living room), but when all of us are together we start filling a row at a movie theater. I'll miss the large group viewing, but what WB is doing with HBOMax will help till the plague goes away and gives others an option in general.
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    Moriarty is one of the series my group is watching. Only complaint so far is that the cast is too pretty for his liking. Otherwise it's another class war over-arcing story with revenge plots as the main episode focus. The series is at least nice enough to give the audience the clues needed to reach the conclusions Moriarty does so that he doesn't look like a total know-it-all. We will most likely not get a Sherlock during this though unless there is a time jump. The guy pointing a gun at Moriarty in the opener is most likely either a new rival for the series or Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock's older brother).
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    I noticed it after the last forum update, but the spoiler BBC no longer works. Which is a shame since I tend to write long posts via notepad and just copy/paste.
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    My anime group has started back up, moved to the weekend so we added another series to the rotation since we have the time. Going thru Ascendancy of a Bookworm (season 2), By the Grace of the Gods, Higarshi, Molarity the Patriot, and Sleepy Princess in a Demon Castle. Of which only Ascendency and now Sleepy Princess has my attention. I'll definitely go thru Molarity again once they dub it. Nothing against the current voice cast, just I like watching a series in it's native tongue. (Need a Italian dub of Gunslinger Girls, please)
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    I actually prefer turn-based to RTS, which is why I like Deadlock more (played a far it since I made that post) then Battlefleet Gothic Armada. If I can get out of No Man Sky I should take another run at the campaign with the updates they have done in the past year.
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    So the thought came to me. What if Harmony Gold is holding onto Robotech so hard is not to make a profit, but a lose. That way they can use it as a tax dodge, something that has been show many other big businesses have been doing for a while. Guess it depends on how Harmony Gold's businesses are connected.
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    Honestly I hope anime never really tries for the 'wide appeal' angle, aim for the niche and strike hard and true and you'll get a decent series. Swing wide and you'll more often than not miss by a mile. Plus I like the different out-look, it's what makes foreign TV interesting.
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    S1 is great, S2 is a kick in the balls. Don't get too attached to anyone, like anyone in IBO.
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