Catchups for March 2020!
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Never watched it, but I can see why Arifureta would flop as an anime. It isn't the kind of story that works in a medium with 24 or 48 minute episodes. Same goes for Realist Hero. A story like Ascendance of a Bookworm might be possible, but even that would be a stretch.
Sadly, there is only one title on this month's list for me to pick up. I have either read or am not interested in everything else. But that's somtimes what you get from a semi-free grab bag, so oh well.
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@piisfun It can work, but only if they don't cut out critical parts of the story rushing ahead. Just 2 examples: the anime basically skipped almost an entire volume in ~3-4 minutes of non-voiced static scenes and it contains the worst CGI scenes I've ever seen (those really ruined it the most for me, even beyond the butchered story).
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Do Gear Drive and Me, A Genius? reach acceptable stopping points, since we might never get more volumes?
I realize it won't be an ending, but a good pause point is fine.
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@harmlessdave said in Catchups for March 2020!:
Do Gear Drive and Me, A Genius? reach acceptable stopping points, since we might never get more volumes?
I've read Genius. I wouldn't say that the story felt complete so not a great stopping point, but on the other hand it was relatively short and was a comedy rather than a mystery so it's not like a huge investment of time was betrayed or anything. I still enjoyed what I read would still recommend people check it out despite it ending prematurely.
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Gear Drive ends with a scene like “and now my journey begins”
But it was not very satisfying to me, It had such a great start and flowed so well till the end of the book.
It left me wanting more.
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@harmlessdave said in Catchups for March 2020!:
Do Gear Drive and Me, A Genius? reach acceptable stopping points, since we might never get more volumes?
I realize it won't be an ending, but a good pause point is fine.
For Me a Genius?, if you read it up until volume 2 it's kinda alright. But volume 3 ends with a cliffhanger and the author never wrote volume 4 (which was supposed to be the ending).
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Nobody's talking about Occultic;Nine.
I think I'll be reading that and ECHO.
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@shrike_al said in Catchups for March 2020!:
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Nobody's talking about Occultic;Nine.
I think I'll be reading that and ECHO.
I couldn't get through ECHO the first time but I too will probably try and read through Occultic Nine.
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@terabyte said in Catchups for March 2020!:
@harmlessdave said in Catchups for March 2020!:
Do Gear Drive and Me, A Genius? reach acceptable stopping points, since we might never get more volumes?
I realize it won't be an ending, but a good pause point is fine.
For Me a Genius?, if you read it up until volume 2 it's kinda alright. But volume 3 ends with a cliffhanger and the author never wrote volume 4 (which was supposed to be the ending).
I agree, sticking to the first two volumes would help minimise cliffhangers.
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@xdrfiredogx said in Catchups for March 2020!:
@shrike_al said in Catchups for March 2020!:
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Nobody's talking about Occultic;Nine.
I think I'll be reading that and ECHO.
I couldn't get through ECHO the first time but I too will probably try and read through Occultic Nine.
KAMERAD!!! *salutes in Russian
I think we're both the same in that case.
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Now that the volume 6 of Full Metal Panic will be released, will you guys make collector's edition 2?
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Hello & welcome to the forums!
As of right now there is no estimation on when FMP V2 Collectors Edition will be released.
As of this post V6 has not even been released yet, so it will still be a considerable amount of time before it releases.
Your patience is appreciated!
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@Rahul-Balaggan
Thanks, Just knowing that will be a volume 2 brings me a great relief...you can count on me buying it. -
Just a reminder that this is the last weekend for March catchups! April catchups will take over sometime on Wednesday, April 1, during US business hours.
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@myskaros I really appreciate the Catch-up's actually starting and ending with the month. It was hard before as sometimes I'd be torn whether to start a title or not around the end of the month not knowing if I had another day or another two weeks to read it.
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Just now finished catching up on Realist. Great read, thanks for the catch up! Made it just before the end of the month
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In case anyone isn't quite sure when exactly catchups are going to switch over, I'll do them first thing in the morning, which will be 12-13 hours from this post.
