I've been watching Bakuon!! again
Hilarious anime about a high school girls in a school motorcycle club. About halfway through

Also I finally watched Spirited Away, although I think it's just alright. I think I liked Howl's Moving Castle or whatever that was called.

Looking for more Weapons-Grade Iyashikei (comfy slice of life). Got any recommendations?

At 8/25/17 11:08 PM, TheQuietGamer wrote: Anyone watch Netflix's Death Note movie?

going to watch it soooooon :p

At 8/25/17 11:08 PM, TheQuietGamer wrote: Anyone watch Netflix's Death Note movie?

Here's a 'review' I typed up if anyone wants to skim it:

Profoundly misses what made the anime and manga compelling, but at least this has gotten people interested in the better versions again. There's a few slivers of potential here, particularly in the dynamic between Light and Mi(s)a, but it's quickly squandered. From the deaths being needlessly over the top and physically impossible, almsot every creative choice here is thoroughly misguided.

This version of Light is a spineless, uncharismatic dipshit and this version of L is a reckless, obnoxious, aggressive and impulsive imbecile who never once demonstrates any wisdom or foresight. We never get the epic '3D chess' battle of wits from the show, it's just two clueless characters bumbling around. Rather than Light being an interesting, unpredictable and morally ambiguous character he's a good-natured dumbass and Misa is pure evil edgelord to balance it, because apparently two ultra-simple characters are better than one nuanced one. For some reason every change they've made is a seemingly purposeful step toward being more generic and stereotypical.

As an example there's a pointless and poorly executed scene where Light gets bullied by an archetypal highschool jock, because surely what one of the most interesting anime characters ever created really needed was to be exactly like every other highschool movie protagonist.

Willem Dafoe's voice is a highlight but Ryuk looks horrible visually (and clearly they knew as they hide him as much as possible), they butchered his character and he's rendered entirely pointless in the story. He has no reason to be there other than because he was in the original.

What could have been interesting, since the death note itself is already such an interesting device, is to just make an entirely alternate story where it drops in the US instead of Japan and has a whole new cast of characters around it. It's an insult to everyone watching to pretend these are the same characters as the anime and manga or that they're even comparable, so why not just use new characters altogether?

The one moment it starts to feel like Death Note is the very end, and even that moment is ridiculously contrived because they've altered the notebook's rules to be overpowered and plot convenient. It feels like they started with the ending and forcefully wrote the rest of the story to build up to it, regardless of how clumsy it got in the process. In the source material Light feels like a genius when he creatively uses the book's rules and limitations to his advantage, but that doesn't work when those rules are nonsensical and so obviously created to fit the exact scenario you've come up with in advance. Exceptionally lazy writing. If this were a theatrical release it would have bombed spectacularly.

Reading back over this I may sound like a fanboy, and I am a fan of the anime for sure, but I went into this with low expectations, simply hoping the new ideas and changes could be an interesting alternative to the other adaptations. I was still left thoroughly disappointed. I don't know if anyone behind this actually understood the strengths of the source material at all.

I also found this video where L's actor is in character for an interview... it's only two minutes but god damn it's so uncomfortable.

Finished marathon the hell out of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1 to 4. It was a fun ride and I'm glad that I watched it, with that said...while people really liked Part 3 the most but I actually liked Part 2 somewhat better. Maybe it's just me but the early part of the first half of the adventure of the buff men's crusade against a vampire didn't have the same excitement that would get me want to watch the next episode as much as Battle Tendency.

Maybe because the stand battles felt like watching Beyblade (despite Stardust Crusaders coming out first) and the characters weren't doing the fighting themselves this time. I didn't hate it since I still enjoyed the series but I liked it better once they got to Egypt. Still, Part 2 had Joseph engaging an air battle against Ultimate Kars with piranhas, Nazi Cyborg, volcano, and a blatant deus ex machina, what more do you want? Yeah, I kinda had more fun with Battle Tendency.

As for Part 4, Duwang is beautiful.

At 9/8/17 11:54 PM, TheQuietGamer wrote: It feels like he was trying way too hard to be funny.

I don't think he was going for funny, I got the impression he's attempting a Jared Leto Joker, "wow he's so dedicated to this bonkers character" sort of thing. I assume that made for some decent marketing for Suicide Squad and wouldn't be surprised if someone else behind the film put Keith up to it .

To be honest I thought he did fine as L right up until the writers decided to let him have a breakdown. I felt like his mannerisms were spot on.

Man I don't agree at all, I hated his portrayal the whole way through, everything from his voice to small things like spilling his M&Ms just felt totally wrong for L. Him going nuts at the end was just the nail in the coffin.

If we're talking positives about the film though, the slow-mo intro with Australian Crawl playing was beautiful, it felt like an edgy, melancholic take on John Hughes or something. and the visuals were really nice at several points, the part where L and Light meet would make a great wallpaper even if everything about the scene sucked.

The 80's inspired soundtrack was pretty good in its own right but another backward choice overall considering how distinctive the original's soundtrack is. With Death Note I imagine "thinking music" with faint horror and religious influence, not retro synth.

I'd have called that an interesting change but apparently all of Wingard's films have very similar soundtracks so he was just using his default style rather than thinking about what would suit best.

At 9/15/17 05:07 AM, NekoMika wrote: Seems Adam Wingard - the creator of the American Death Note live adaption deleted his twitter account after receiving a large amount of backlash and death threats for his version of Death Note which a lot of people expressing disgust and hatred for the way he redid the characters.

@TheQuietGamer @Jackho Thoughts?

I know I wasn't tagged here, but care if I join in?

Link in regards to the account deletion.

Yes, I thought it was a terrible rendition of the series that I loved to watch so much, but I can't imagine in any shape or form how it can be acceptable to threaten someone over something so trivial. It's crazy. I can be seeing upset, but hardly anything in this world is bad enough to react in such a manner.

I wish they would have made it a series. You simply can't force the plot and complexity of the series into a single movie, two movies, or maybe even three movies. If they tried again with the same characters and did a live action series with multiple episodes I think it would have been highly successful. I don't even care if they took it in a different direction.

At 9/15/17 05:07 AM, NekoMika wrote: Seems Adam Wingard - the creator of the American Death Note live adaption deleted his twitter account after receiving a large amount of backlash and death threats for his version of Death Note which a lot of people expressing disgust and hatred for the way he redid the characters.

Ridiculous. As much as I dislike the adaptation Wingard was just doing his job, there's no excuse for going after these people personally even if it;s just through social media.

Besides that, Adam Wingard's fault in this is minimal. This project sat in development hell for ages and the final film fits Wingard's style, so blame whoever was responsible for hiring him and thinking his style would fit. Wingard didn't write it either, it was Jeremy Slater whose resume includes such classics as Fant4stic and has literally never written a good movie yet. The whole production was a series of terrible decisions, to blame any single person (let alone harassing them over it) is short-sighted at best.

At 9/15/17 10:43 AM, Fro wrote: I wish they would have made it a series. You simply can't force the plot and complexity of the series into a single movie, two movies, or maybe even three movies.

I don't agree, I can say with confidence that a one-off Death Note movie could be done (because it already has) and one of the good ideas here was that they (to and extent) gave us a new story to fit the film format rather than strictly following the show. None of this film's issues arose because of the film format or that they couldn't fit enough stuff in... just that the stuff in there wasn't good.

There's already a japanese live action Death Note from 2006, I'm not a big fan of it personally but it's pretty well-received and successful, and the anime was also re-cut into a 2-hour TV movie which is pretty well received as well.

Here's links to every Death Note movie on imdb for comparison

Death Note (2006)
Death Note 2: The Last Name
Death Note: L Change the World (spinoff)
Death Note Rewrite: Visions of a God (anime)
Death Note Rewrite 2: L's Successors (anime)
Death Note: Light Up the New World
Death Note (2017)

The first live action film was actually released a couple months before the anime started airing.

At 9/15/17 01:41 PM, Jackho wrote:

Here's links to every Death Note movie on imdb for comparison

I think you helped me find some entertainment for awhile.

At 9/16/17 11:30 PM, TheQuietGamer wrote: I've started watching Naruto again on Netflix from the beginning.

If you enjoy watching Naruto, go for it. Are you going to check out the sequel?

inuyashiki is really good, its by the creator of Gantz and it has a very similar vibe with the alien technology, violence, and sociopathic characters.

At 10/7/16 10:18 PM, StaticSkull wrote: Anyone still play yugioh ?

I DO

At 11/7/17 05:51 PM, Megazrex wrote:

At 10/7/16 10:18 PM, StaticSkull wrote: Anyone still play yugioh ?

I DO

I'm trying to play at a locals, but it's kinda far. I enjoy playing the game as much as watching the show, even if I lose most of the time.

Toonami tonight is finally back to the normal schedule. The last two weeks were repeats.

At 1/6/18 05:50 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Toonami tonight is finally back to the normal schedule. The last two weeks were repeats.

trust me I'm tired of these marathon bullshit they do, especially when it's the same damn thing, personally Cowboy Bebop needs to be taken off for good seeing as Adult Swim long before Toonami just overplayed the living crap out of it

At 1/11/18 10:18 AM, NekoMika wrote: 5 animes finished so far this month. Angel Beats, Is This a Zombie, and Re:Zero are probably my favorite animes I have seen this year. Angel Beats kept hitting me over and over again right in the feels. :(

I haven't watched any anime in several millennia but Angel Beats was a solid one. I find myself still humming the soundtrack now and then.

Anybody here like Kill La Kill?

New Toonami tonight. Glad to be back and able to discuss Toonami with everybody again.

It was inevitable. I have become a Gunpla boy.

Probably gonna try a VOTOMs kit next, cause I love me some Scopedog.

Has anybody seen the Castlevania anime on Netflix? What did you think?

At 2/24/18 09:57 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: New Toonami tonight. Glad to be back and able to discuss Toonami with everybody again.

man we sure had some fucking unreal toonami conversations in here. can't wait

At 2/26/18 12:54 PM, Oolaph wrote: It was inevitable. I have become a Gunpla boy.

Probably gonna try a VOTOMs kit next, cause I love me some Scopedog.

OFFICIAL GUNPLABOY THREAD, ONLY GUNPLABOYS CAN POST

I've currently got two kits, an RX-78 and Eva unit 02 from Evangelion (specifically from the second rebuild film). They're real grade and high grade respectively, although fun fax the Eva is actually in a smaller scale than the gunboi, if they were the same scale then the Gundam should only barely reach the Eva's knee by most estimations. Evas r bigbois.

I'm more of a non-articulated scale or a not-dolls-they're-action-figures guy but I've been meaning to get a couple more model kits too, in particular a perfect grade evangelion which would be over a foot tall.

also nice turntable u dork hipster

New Toonami tonight. Am I the only one that still watches it?

At 3/17/18 01:39 PM, NextBestThing wrote: naruto is the best anime.

Do you know where you can watch Naruto tonight? On Toonami. It is another wonderful Saturday night with plenty of anime goodness.

Recently finished Yuru Camp, which was comfy. Waiting on Amanchu! Advance for scuba fix.

At 3/31/18 01:06 PM, NextBestThing wrote:

At 3/17/18 06:29 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:

At 3/17/18 01:39 PM, NextBestThing wrote: naruto is the best anime.

Do you know where you can watch Naruto tonight? On Toonami. It is another wonderful Saturday night with plenty of anime goodness.

naruto is the next best thing. you still watch toonami?

I might be the only person here on NewGrounds that still watches Toonami, but it is still on the air. New episode tonight.

Last week's April Fools Day prank was not funny at all. It is one to think to have Japanese voices and English subtitles, but another to show a two hour movie that makes the normal shows two hours later. That ruins all your effort to record them.

At 4/14/18 01:30 PM, NextBestThing wrote: Tonight is Naruto. Should show it all night.

Yes, they have done Naruto marathons in the past. Believe it.

I'm stoked for the 5th. Toonami is getting all 3 seasons of MHA! I'm thinking of watching the subs for S2 & 3. And really glad Naruto is back to canon, though I could just stream past the fillers... Also I might post a list of series past and present. People can tell me if these are worth watching.

At 4/20/18 01:52 PM, AnimeDrummer wrote: I'm stoked for the 5th. Toonami is getting all 3 seasons of MHA! I'm thinking of watching the subs for S2 & 3. And really glad Naruto is back to canon, though I could just stream past the fillers... Also I might post a list of series past and present. People can tell me if these are worth watching.

Toonami has been slowly getting good, but the 5th will be a big step forward for them. Are you going to watch it tonight?

At 4/21/18 04:09 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:

At 4/20/18 01:52 PM, AnimeDrummer wrote: I'm stoked for the 5th. Toonami is getting all 3 seasons of MHA! I'm thinking of watching the subs for S2 & 3. And really glad Naruto is back to canon, though I could just stream past the fillers... Also I might post a list of series past and present. People can tell me if these are worth watching.

Toonami has been slowly getting good, but the 5th will be a big step forward for them. Are you going to watch it tonight?

Yeah, may as well see most of it, though I need to catch up on DBS. I might stream Black Clover just to stay ahead of the curve. As for Naruto, when the fillers roll back in, that'll be my cue to stream past them. I gotta say though, still down about Toonami dropping One Piece.