#looks like it's on funimation so i'll check it out on there

[misogynisticmediatournament]

I think the warrior cats and warriors in your submission list are the same thing,btw do you have reccomendations of like. anything that writes woman well

Ah, you might be right; I think I skimmed that entry's propaganda, and it was very specific to whatever series it was about without dropping the full series name, and I was like "Maybe this is Warrior Cats? I feel lazy, I'm not going to look heavily into it."

So, as a reminder: use the full but common name for the series! For example, Miraculous Ladybug (this seems to be the most common title despite being a shortened version), Warrior Cats, BBC Sherlock, etc. And check that you don't have a space after the title's entry, as that counts as a different entry than the title without the space when using the UNIQUE function in Google sheets (which is how I count the unique entries).

As for recommendations, this is hard because I watch a lot of trash, especially recently, but:

- You can never go wrong with Revolutionary Girl Utena. Note: this show (and start with the show, not the movie) has a lot of potentially triggering stuff, so check out those warnings before you start if you have any triggers at all. It uses the triggering stuff very well and to tell its story and explore its themes, not just for, like, titillation though. Indeed, it is, I would argue, necessary for the story and themes the show seeks to explore. It is legally free on Youtube in...I want to say 480p, and in better resolution on Crunchyroll and Funimation (yes, Funimation's site is still up; I find it superior to Crunchyroll's since it actually includes closed captions for dubs, although it doesn't include newer anime from after the two companies merged). Also, you want to watch the sub for this. I'm normally not one to say "the dub is bad" and stuff and be a purist about it—in fact I normally go to bat for dubs—but, uh... yeah, the dub is bad this time. Crispin Freeman and Dan Green are delightful in it though, I'll give it that.

- Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood uses its female characters well. Maybe it could be better, I've seen some people in these tournaments have beef with it, but it's a pretty perfectly told story, like solid A+, with a lot of really great female characters who I find very satisfying so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. This is on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and I believe Amazon Prime?

- Don't let the title fool you: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a fantastic show with great female characters who are complex and human, have compelling arcs, and are vital to the story. The relationship between Rebecca and Paula is central to the show and SO good, especially as the show goes on. The title is because it explores the trope of the crazy ex-girlfriend in a very humanizing way, and the title/opening song even mentions how the title is a sexist term, but it's a lot more nuanced than that. Also, it's a musical with very good original songs every episode. But check trigger warnings for this show too though. The show is streaming on Netflix last I checked.

- Uhh... maybe the first two seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic? It's a kid's show, but it's good. I haven't seen it in years and years though, so I don't know if I can still fully vouch for it. I believe it is streaming on Netflix?

- Revue Starlight? I haven't thought about it heavily, but I had no beef watching it. This is streaming on HiDive.

- I've heard good things about Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, but I can't vouch for it personally. It's streaming on Crunchyroll.

UPDATE: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury is also legally on youtube!

Honestly, I know more imperfect shows that I'm satisfied with, like I give it a B+ to A- at least, but that I haven't thought heavily about than stuff where I'm like, "Oh, yeah, definitely, definitely, nothing I'd pick out there as a problem." For example, Baccano! is probably imperfect (as well as not streaming legally anywhere), but I don't remember being, like, struck by a bunch of problems there. So, I'm not the best for recs that I can give a 100% guarantee for.

[blazehedgehog]

Thoughts on One Piece?

I've told this story, but since Tumblr search is so awful, I'll tell it again.

The short of it is: I really wanted to get into One Piece. When One Piece started, pirates weren't really a subject you saw a whole lot of in anime. I thought Oda's art style was fresh and cool, too.

I did not like dealing with fansubs. They were kind of difficult to acquire (relatively), and at the time, I had a router that would absolutely crap its pants if I left a torrent running (it would have a firmware crash and all internet traffic would die until you power cycled the device). So the Kaizoku stuff was right out for me from the start.

I forget which came first, the 4Kids dub or Viz launching American Shonen Jump with their version One Piece. I think the 4Kids dub was first, because I remember being angry at Viz for adopting "Zolo" instead of "Zoro." Either way, I was angry about the 4Kids dub, but I was lucky enough to pick up the entire first 12 months of Shonen Jump, and figured that's where I'd start with One Piece.

Didn't have the money to keep buying new Jumps past that first year, so I figured I'd have to slum it with scanlations at least. I believe I left off in the back half of Baratie, and the only scanlations I could find from that part of the manga were like, truly awful quality. I have described them as "third generation Yahoo Groups quality scans." They were dark, blurry, heavily compressed, and the dialog was barely a step above an automated machine translation. I almost wish I could find them again, because it was nasty.

Around this time I think Funimation announced they wrestled the rights to One Piece away from the decaying hands of 4Kids, so I was happy to wait for that. We subscribed to Netflix in those days, the original DVD-by-mail service, so I'd rent each new set as they came out. Got all the way up through Baratie, up through Arlong Park, up to where they visit and prepare to leave Loguetown.

I think by the time the DVDs hit the fifth set, I ran into a problem: physical rental locations like Blockbuster had hard rental deadlines. You had to bring the disc (or tape) back in a day or two. Netflix, famously, had no rental deadlines. Keep things as long as you like.

While I had no trouble getting 1-4, some clown got set 5 before I could, and sat on it. For over a year. I complained to Netflix, and Netflix just shrugged at me.

Within a year or two of that, Funimation officially launched a One Piece website, like my memory is saying it was onepiece.com or something (which it isn't, that's a clothing store), but the point was they were announcing they were going to simulcast subs of the anime, for free, on this site. They were also adding dub episodes to this site, again, to stream for free. Back then, this was pretty unprecedented. Hulu was only a few years old at this point.

I figured: wow! Now's my chance! Go to check the website and...

The free episodes ended at the exact same point I left off at with the Netflix DVDs. Episode 53. It went from Dub Episode 53 straight to Sub Episode 230, which is where the simulcast began. Looking at Funimation's current site, this is what they consider "Season 1."

So I earmarked it. "Maybe I can finish it some day."

Some day never came. One Piece is over 1000 chapters (100 volumes) and 1000 episodes. There is over 430 hours of One Piece available to watch. The manga is so big people have talked about it taking up an entire shelving unit. I even saw photos once of somebody who had their shelf break because their One Piece collection was so heavy.

It took me over a year to read 16 volumes of the original Dragon Ball. There are almost ten times as many volumes of One Piece.

I have given up. I will never read it. Never watch it. Never see it. It's great that it's this amazing thing, truly this long journey, but even at 500 chapters it would have been too much.

Even if I wanted to, it's grown to be such a thing that when something happens in the anime or the manga, there are instantly spoilers for it all over the entire internet. 107 volumes of that is pretty disheartening.

I know about One Pace. One Pace is still too long. Some of those videos are over 20 hours. For a single video. And One Pace still has gaps in their coverage anyway.

It's just not happening.

[why-its-kai]

Hate to be the party pooper but pretty sure this is fake.

Main giveaway is this weird coloring/paintbucket overflow under the arm:

Some coloring inconsistency on the legs with film, should be lighter grey on the bands on calves/above boot. also note the colors of the heels of the boots here don't even match:

Here's an actual settei from the film production materials:

Side view is a bit of a mishmash of the front and side view here. The arm comes from the front view and it looks very awkwardly shaped/too skinny as well, like the upper arm should be thicker and it looks thinner than the lower arm here? Also additional buckles drawn on the 2 upper arm belts that are not present on the actual model sheet:

Now for the heads it's even weirder. Fairly certain the front facing Vash is a trace from this exact 1998 anime model as seen in the artbook (among many other settei sheets):

Sideview head has Vash's chin way lower than it appears on the other Badlands settei, touching the coat collar. Coat collar size and shape is off as well:

Also with the lack of sunglasses as the fullbodies of Vash in the Badlands set materials show him wearing his sunglasses:

So many other things are inconsistent/off-model/confusing (the legs in the front facing model are different in thickness, the coat chest panels are much squarer/angular overall, the wear on the coat edges is mostly nonexistent, the hip belts on the side view seem really wack, where is the front panel of his coat in the back-facing model and why is the center slit so short?) and the fact this only appears to have appeared on the internet THIS YEAR despite the dvd being out since 2010 and other set materials being shared online has me very very very suspicious. BUT i do not own the Japanese dvd and there are no art gallery extras on the Funimation English release so I cannot check this for myself. I'll gladly take the shit if I am wrong.

[fart with reverb]

[thelourdelovesyou]

LOURDE | Junji Ito Collection Ep. 1 | Souichi's Convenient Curse / Hell Doll Funeral

☥ I love anime. I've been watching anime for at least 25 years now. Since the days of Dragon Ball VHS rentals and all that.

Now that that's out the way, I have a tendency to watch the same old retired 80's/90s anime shows over and over and over and over again.

- Not necessarily like I don't want to watch anything new from time to time but it's honestly hard to find things that are as mentally stimulating as a show like Detective Conan/Case Closed, Those Who Hunt Elves, Jyu Oh Sei, Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom etc etc.

I love a lot of other animes but those are ones that I frequent. (I'll drop a list soon)

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ANYWAY ANYWAY ANYWAY!

TO THE MUSHROOMS & POTATOES OF THE POST

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I Decided to try this anime on Funimation (I've been finding all the old stuff I like on here but also looking at some new ones. I watched a show called Case n221, pretty dope.)

This ones called Junji Ito Collection. I believe it is derived from a manga. A sixteen volume collection of horror stories that I can be read in any order. It's free on Funimation but the entire first episode is also on Youtube, which I linked up at the top.

☥ WHY & EXPECTATIONS

-- I was drawn to this anime because I really enjoy horror and I enjoy psychological things & these types of anime horror story shows tend to have both of those things in check. There's a show called Yami Shibai that I saw on Crunchy Roll once, that's what I was hoping for.

☥ OUTCOME | REVIEW

-- So, even though the entire episode is right at the top I didn't really expect you to watch it prior to reading this. Otherwise, I guess what's the point of reading this unless you wanted to know my opinion regardless lol. My point being, I don't intend on giving spoilers so I don't intend on giving a super detailed review of the episode itself rather than how I felt overall about the show.

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The show was definitely not what I expected, it was more quirky and weird than it was horror or psychological. The show doesn't lack either or but it's not as provoking as I'd hoped. I was hoping more for something Yami Shibai style like I said before BUT if I take that expectency away, I can definitely enjoy this show. I think that the first episode was kinda slow but it will pick up later on. I'm also not too keen on watching anime in english so that added to the situation. There's no Japanese version, at least on the free Funimation.

Souichi's character however is very interesting and relatable. He's clearly got a God Complex and wants to run everything. He's not very well thought out though and how old is he anyway? I can see his character development or at least his character being in a lot of sticky situations & causing chaos throughout the show just based off the first episode. He's pretty chaotic and unruly, thinks he's slick but isn't.

I'd watch this show again for sure but I can see myself getting bored of it based on the first episode. I don't want that to deter you from watching it, I'm just a crazy sick fuck who likes scary borderline psychotic stuff so *shrug*

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I hope you enjoy!

The Lourde Loves You

[momtaku]

The english dub for episode 1 of season 2 is streaming now on Funimation's website. Since you said you'd be checking it out, I'll just ask the obvious: what did you hate about it? Was there anything you liked about it?

 It’s hard to be critical now because after three years of frequent anime con attendance, I’ve met most of these people. Some of them several times. I have a better idea of the difficulties they face and also the effort they put into their job. I still side eye a lot of the word choices, but again, matching flaps is hard and requires some creative hand waving. They do the best they can. 

A few things I will say. Jessica Calvello was a good choice for crazy mad scientist Hange but I was anxious to hear how she’d do in the more serious season 2 role. She did fine. That said, there’s no way anyone could compare to the amazing Romi Park, so Jessica is at a huge disadvantage.

Josh Grelle’s as Armin screaming his way into Eren’s room made me laugh. He’s my favorite English VA for good reason. He’s consistently amazing.

Gelgar’s little lisp might grow on me. In fact, I think it’s growing on me as I type this.

J. Michael Tatum is one of the funniest men alive, so I cannot take him seriously as Erwin Smith. My favorite J Michael moment was when he was signing autographs sitting next at Matt Mercer (Levi). Someone in my group mentioned their crush on Matt and J Michael looked at them and said, “Good luck with that, honey. I’ve been barking up that tree for five years!”. It’s hard to hear them together on screen and not laugh thinking about that.

Thanks for your ask anon!

[grymmnox]

this post is from nearly a month ago so for all i know you've found it already bUUT in case you didn't

i use zoro.to for watching it, just. make sure to use a pop-up blocker and probably an anti-virus. animeow.me and animet.tv work as well but i find zoro.to's watchlist feature very handy (i do believe it's on crunchyroll and funimate, but those will need a subscription. it might also be on netflix if you use a vpn to change your location)

for reading it i'll look for translations and scans on tumblr or twitter (those are your best bet for newer chapters; you'll usually find a gdrive link on twitter pretty soon after it's released, and translators will be on it immediately lmao. i've seen a translation come out within a few hours of the chapter's inital release) or use something like mangareader.to (again, pop-up blocker and prob an anti-virus!! very important)

if you want to buy it, you can check out local book stores or a website like amazon or smth, OR get it directly from yenpress' website

for light novels i generally suggest checking out any translations you can find on twitter or tumblr, (some don't have official translations yet, like gaiden or the day i picked up dazai) or just buying it from yenpress/a book store. bsd-bibliophile's site is very helpful as well, it has links to unofficial translations and official ones, along with links to the works from the authors the characters are based off of

hopefully this helps!! bsd is fantastic and there's so much content to enjoy, fan-made and official :D

HELP ME so i haven’t ACTUALLY watched bsd 🙁 like i have a summary of it n shit but i wanna watch it/ read it and idk where 😭😭 can someone tell me where to watch it or where to read/buy it from 🙁🙁 the story is so interesting but idk it fully