@pcj Unfortunately, I have read all the LN, so I know where everyone is going to end up. While it does spoil the suspense, (I refuse to post any spoilers, even in tags.) it does make every flustered reaction that much sweeter.

We're only three episodes in, and I'm wondering how far we are going to get. Maybe thru volume 8? We'll see. Heck, it's been so long since I read those early volumes that I'm going "Oh, yeah. That's right." and chuckling a lot.

@killerrin My guess is that with the introduction of more streaming platforms competing for a piece of the anime pie, the overall licensing costs have gone up. After all, there's a limit to how many new shows come out each season, so it's not quite like the LN market where titles are coming out faster than any company would be able to grab them.

Might not really impact the censored shows so much, that could just be that they're unwilling to pay the likely additional costs to host the less censored stream. If it's not going to impact the number of viewers (or more importantly, paying subscribers) it might not make a lot of sense to pay extra.

@Folker46 said in Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road:

@pcj I looked it up on the fanwiki and it pretty much has the same answer, the "outsiders" will lose control of their powers eventually and the longer they are alive the stronger the effect. The logic of the story is they MUST be killed even though they have done nothing wrong and are innocent people. Yeah the MC feels bad about doing it but it's her job so...
I find this story idea repulsive and way to dark for me. That it got an anime amazes me when better stories don't.
Like SEKAINOHATE DE AIMASHOU, very funny and needs an anime.

You know nothing more than the barest surface of volume 1. Ever heard the saying don't judge a book by it's cover?

@poisonedbite said in Can’t find BRK Dawn Fall:

@tahu
nonsense. I've never seen it but everything needs more ecchi.

I meant it could be considered R-ish right now, so they should tone it down to PG13-ish. Also, the BRK character design from the previous series was waaaaayyy better. What made them go from BRK that %30 cute and %70 hard core to a BRK that’s %60 cute and %40 hard core?

Crossing my fingers JNC will print the LN or manga (preferably both).

OK, I've binge-watched season 1 several times now since it's release on BD. I have to say that the anime pace and what is included/left out gives me a different take on Catarina vs. Katarina.

The actions of Catarina are more like, "Oh yes, this is a death flag! I have to do something about it," but then she acts just like her original incarnation in Japan... Friendly towards everyone around her, not changing her (previous life's) behavior. Even falling on Keith had a precedent in falling out of a tree onto A-chan.

Maybe it's just how compressed things are in the anime. Guess I'll have to re-read the novels again at a similar pace.

Well, if it was not a 1 cour series I would have been extremely disappointed by that ending of season 1. An abrupt end which well left a lot of threads, many reveals and the most mellow climax.
The series is very slow paced, which matches the novel in a sense, but personally, I felt the pacing could have been a little faster.

so this deal is now final and in reading the news/press releases it looks like Funimation is looking forward to welcoming Crunchyroll's staff/IPs (hinting that CR is going away? Funimation will remain?) what this means for VRV and the Sony licensed titles on Hulu, I have no idea- I'm in wait and see mode before I start cancelling services (hoping for some promo benefit for 'active' subscribers when whatever change happens, happens)

my heart goes out to the folks at CR doing translation work/ subtitles- I'm guessing many of them will soon be out of a job (redundancies/'synergies' whatnot when mergers happen- I doubt Sony will let many of their own folks go)

I'm cynical by nature - I believe that this will lead to less quality in translations of 'subs' and more of the same mediocre 'dubs' and my costs not going down- Sony needs to make back $1.2B

On the 'bright' side maybe more translators available to bolster Kadokowa's direct LN plan or in the talent pool for other TL work ?

I finally signed up for Funimation and watched the anime.

That "maybe it's yuri" ending is out of left field for readers of the LNs. As of volume 6 which takes place after the anime, there is nothing like that in the LNs. Yuna sees Fina as a friend / little sister. No yuri, no loli harem.

The only hints of yuri are with adults

Ignoring the ending, it did a decent job of covering the highlights of the LNs, but anyone who enjoyed it really should read the LNs too. They left out a lot of fun content to cram 5 volumes into 12 episodes.

@pcj - it's definitely fun to see everyone animated and to watch some of the highlights from the LNs. Also, it's leaving out a lot but not actively changing things the way the Abilities Average anime did.

@father_v I believe that's because that movie adapts a story arc from roughly the middle of the manga without having any set up for the people who are unfamiliar with the series and have never read the original manga. I assume you have never read the manga so your experience of the movie was understandably middling; I as someone who has read up volume 15 would get a lot more out of it given I already know who all the characters are, their backstories and motivations etc.

I actually don't consider Mugen Train to be a movie per say, I think it's a half cour of the tv anime in movie format that has been broadcast in theaters. In other words, it's not a movie but season 1.5 of the show

As @Rahul-Balaggan said some Dubs are untouchable. Bear in mind, I'm a guy from Latin America, the lands that (mostly) do the best Dubbing Ever! (For example, the DB franchise)

Now, this was long before the old hags of the ENCHILO (Enemies of the damned Otaku Reader, in Spanish) came and did get Caritele canceled, prompting Telerisa to cut off the funding for its Anime offerings, the Great Dubs of Mazinger Z in the '80s and the three Big ones of the '90s (Saint Seiya, Knights of the Zodiac -with the Spanish adaptation of the french Opening-, Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z) are the DEFINITIVE Dubs, some Even surpassing the original Japanese Release IMHO.

There are many more shows that became Cemented with their Dubs (Captain Tsubasa --The Super Champions until the 2019 series-, Digimon -Up until Fusion, which Dubbing was made based on the INFERIOR English Dub-, Slayers -The avengers, Justicieros-, Utena --The Magical Ring- Nube, Goal FH -Scorers-) and many more are rather watched Dubbed while others (Evangelion, Fafner) are Subbed -I fondly remember staying up to Midnight to, in complete Darkness, watch both shows while everyone else was asleep- Finally, the English Dubbed ones from when our local Cable Provider had set up 'Murican Cartoon Network instead of LatAm Cartoon Network. Things like Trugun, G Gundam, The Big (ass, Badass) O and even Hamtaro! We're well liked by me.

And then there's the Jetix Age. Thanks to Jetix the Dubs of the Digimanz up to Savers, Shaman King, Megaman NT Warrior were enjoyed their best with the impressive Spanish (Latin american) Dubs.

Nowadays I watch most of the shows Subbed, with Some Exceptions (Youjo Senki, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Super Loli Nazi Is a show that I Downloaded Subbed, English Dubbed AND Spanish Dubbed).

I honestly couldn't get into the series, but I'll try it again.

@mystyk Same.

@paulnamida I recentley reread vol 1 to 10, on the spider chapters thou. And noticed that in the LN Kumoko said naiwa less often than I remembered. How it was used often in the WN making it iconic for me