[D'rek]

Maark Abbott, on 28 January 2020 - 08:09 AM, said:

D, on 27 January 2020 - 02:19 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 27 January 2020 - 08:02 AM, said:

Anyway, ID Invaded up to ep5 is fucking well good.

fucking amen, I love this show.

Spoiler

Gravedigger girl was creepy as hell: "oh lemme just wipe the blood from your hole nonchalantly and stare at it" eww. I did not expect she would actually be the gravedigger, though. Way to figure it out Hondomachi (who is hilarious when she is trying and failing to play things cool).

Any theories as to who/what John Walker is? It's weird that whenever he shows up he's trying to kill the serial killer within their mind.

I think Hondomachi is definitely going to end up diving into a well at some point... hopefully not because gravedigger-and-boyfriend are about to stab her next episode or something.

Spoiler

No thoughts on John Walker so far but I'll report back.

Incidentally, D'rek. Interspecies Reviewers seems to be the currently highest rated anime of the season and I am interested in your take on this.

Wasn't on my radar and I know nothing about it, but I'll check it out just for you

[Maark Abbott]

D, on 28 January 2020 - 01:27 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 28 January 2020 - 08:09 AM, said:

D, on 27 January 2020 - 02:19 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 27 January 2020 - 08:02 AM, said:

Anyway, ID Invaded up to ep5 is fucking well good.

fucking amen, I love this show.

Spoiler

Gravedigger girl was creepy as hell: "oh lemme just wipe the blood from your hole nonchalantly and stare at it" eww. I did not expect she would actually be the gravedigger, though. Way to figure it out Hondomachi (who is hilarious when she is trying and failing to play things cool).

Any theories as to who/what John Walker is? It's weird that whenever he shows up he's trying to kill the serial killer within their mind.

I think Hondomachi is definitely going to end up diving into a well at some point... hopefully not because gravedigger-and-boyfriend are about to stab her next episode or something.

Spoiler

No thoughts on John Walker so far but I'll report back.

Incidentally, D'rek. Interspecies Reviewers seems to be the currently highest rated anime of the season and I am interested in your take on this.

Wasn't on my radar and I know nothing about it, but I'll check it out just for you

*has popcorn ready*

[QuickTidal]

So Netflix is making a live action ONE PIECE show!

[Maark Abbott]

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2020 - 11:29 AM, said:

So Netflix is making a live action ONE PIECE show!

Ehhhhhh. I got up to just before the water city arc of the anime and abandoned back in 2007. Never picked it back up.

[D'rek]

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2020 - 11:29 AM, said:

So Netflix is making a live action ONE PIECE show!

I can't imagine this turning out well.

[QuickTidal]

D, on 30 January 2020 - 03:26 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2020 - 11:29 AM, said:

So Netflix is making a live action ONE PIECE show!

I can't imagine this turning out well.

Honestly, OP has it in it to be a REALLY solid live action show from a story POV...and consider that Netflix is also doing Cowboy Bebop with Jon Cho, and a live action Last Airbender too....as long as they find a good way to translate the powers of the main cast, and avoid the unnecessary filler...I would be cautiously optimistic.

Plus Oda himself is apparently involved in overseeing...that's not bad.

[D'rek]

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2020 - 04:40 PM, said:

D, on 30 January 2020 - 03:26 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2020 - 11:29 AM, said:

So Netflix is making a live action ONE PIECE show!

I can't imagine this turning out well.

Honestly, OP has it in it to be a REALLY solid live action show from a story POV...and consider that Netflix is also doing Cowboy Bebop with Jon Cho, and a live action Last Airbender too....as long as they find a good way to translate the powers of the main cast, and avoid the unnecessary filler...I would be cautiously optimistic.

Plus Oda himself is apparently involved in overseeing...that's not bad.

I just can't see Netflix wanting to make a series anywhere close to as long as One Piece is. They're going to condense the story down a ton, and I don't think a significantly condensed narrative will be good for the story.

[Maark Abbott]

D, on 30 January 2020 - 08:04 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2020 - 04:40 PM, said:

D, on 30 January 2020 - 03:26 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2020 - 11:29 AM, said:

So Netflix is making a live action ONE PIECE show!

I can't imagine this turning out well.

Honestly, OP has it in it to be a REALLY solid live action show from a story POV...and consider that Netflix is also doing Cowboy Bebop with Jon Cho, and a live action Last Airbender too....as long as they find a good way to translate the powers of the main cast, and avoid the unnecessary filler...I would be cautiously optimistic.

Plus Oda himself is apparently involved in overseeing...that's not bad.

I just can't see Netflix wanting to make a series anywhere close to as long as One Piece is. They're going to condense the story down a ton, and I don't think a significantly condensed narrative will be good for the story.

I mean One Piece is like... 1000 episodes or more now? It's already overbloated and girthy as is

[QuickTidal]

D, on 30 January 2020 - 08:04 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2020 - 04:40 PM, said:

D, on 30 January 2020 - 03:26 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2020 - 11:29 AM, said:

So Netflix is making a live action ONE PIECE show!

I can't imagine this turning out well.

Honestly, OP has it in it to be a REALLY solid live action show from a story POV...and consider that Netflix is also doing Cowboy Bebop with Jon Cho, and a live action Last Airbender too....as long as they find a good way to translate the powers of the main cast, and avoid the unnecessary filler...I would be cautiously optimistic.

Plus Oda himself is apparently involved in overseeing...that's not bad.

I just can't see Netflix wanting to make a series anywhere close to as long as One Piece is. They're going to condense the story down a ton, and I don't think a significantly condensed narrative will be good for the story.

To be frank the major arcs of each section of OP can be condensed down and lose absolutely nothing. The arcs that are 4-6episodes can be one MAYBE two....and the longer arcs can be condensed too. The Skypeia arc alone is like 43 episodes I think...they could easily drop that down to a half season (5 eps). Not that I disliked the Skypeia arc...but while watching it I KNEW that so much fo it was "What will happen NOW?! Tune in next time to see!"...The filler that exists even in the best arcs of OP is overwhelming...excise it with a solid screenwriter and you've got a tidy episodic show for a number of years. Will they finish it? Nah, it's Netflix, it will run 3 or 4 seasons depending on popularity...but they will give it a solid go.

[Maark Abbott]

OK so Ishuzoku Reviewers made a different headline because Funimation decided to both drop the dub, and drop airing it at all after three episodes due to it 'not meeting [their] guidelines'.

Which begs the question, why did they license it at all? Did they not read the manga first? Even a brief synopsis of the premise would have told them it was not a kid friendly show...

[Maark Abbott]

Also, ID Invaded latest EP:

Spoiler

[D'rek called it on her going into a well. But now she's being described as not just a killer, but someone who could serial kill as well? John is creating serial killers? The three we have seen so far all have matching head holes, so what is going on there?

[D'rek]

Maark Abbott, on 03 February 2020 - 08:10 AM, said:

Also, ID Invaded latest EP:

Spoiler

[D'rek called it on her going into a well. But now she's being described as not just a killer, but someone who could serial kill as well? John is creating serial killers? The three we have seen so far all have matching head holes, so what is going on there?

Spoiler

Y'know, I was thinking throughout the first half of this episode that investiLoli was acting really weird. She stabs a guy and then immediately just ignores him bleeding out while she goes picks up her scanner thingy and is like "Got a good scan, nice!". Maybe it was the ultra campy bullet-goes-through-his-head-hole moment, but I was just thinking of her weird actions as being campy/badly written. But then Matsuoka dropping that "No girl, you've been acting really fucked up, especially since you got a hole in your head (but maybe even before, too)" bomb made it all click, and he's totally right. Damn.

John Walker is creating serial killers? -> Yup, sure seems like it. And spying on them once he creates them, too, it seems. Which is weird with how in the serial killers' subconsciouses we usually see Walker attacking them. And the analysis team theorizes he's using the dive technology to do it, either as a member of the organization acting in secret (suspicious Chief!) or else tied to that disappeared scientist that created the whole tech. Interesting to find out how that works, though... from what we've seen so far the Dive tech is entirely passive information gathering, it doesn't have any mental impact on the person who's cognition particles were read, only on the person doing the diving. So is John Walker finding people that could perhaps become serial killers, reading their cognition particles, diving into their wells to understand their psyche, and then talking them into it the way Sakaido talked that guy into killing himself?

The three we have seen so far all have matching head holes, so what is going on there? -> Well, that's just because one was the Perforator and the other two were victims of the Perforator. Plus Sakuza or whatever his name is wasn't an actual serial killer, just a minion of the Gravedigger. The Gravedigger didn't have a hole, nor did her copycat, nor the bomber guy. And the organization has caught a half-dozen other serial killers prior to the start of the show, some of whom must have been John Walker-related, too, for them to recognize him, and they never mentioned any of those having holes. So the holes is just a Perforator thing, and yes having holes in your head can make you pretty fucked up. And *maybe* there's an additional connection in that Walker knew the Gravedigger needed a minion and told the Perforator to drill and release her boytoy in order to give her that minion.

Damn I love this show.

[Maark Abbott]

New Game! recently had a dub go live. And whilst it's a bit stiff in the way of older shows that got dubbed, it's worth remembering how fucking great that show is. Plus, Sakura Skip is still a ludicrously blessed OP.

[D'rek]

Alright, I did it. I watched the entire first 2 episodes of Interspecies Reviewers, just for you Maark. And then because everyone was saying Funimation pulled it because of episode 3 I went and watched that episode, too, why not. That was certainly... a thing.

Ok, so in seriousness it was actually better than I thought it would be, I actually laughed at a fair few of the jokes like the age/mana-preference dichotomy. Even some of the obvious jokes (like Crim being too big - saw that coming a mile away) are still executed pretty well. Though I can't say any of the sex scenes did much for me.


So the good is:

> It's not trying to be something it's not. E.g. we get maybe 20 seconds of the main duo being adventurers per episode and that's it - no point wasting time on yet another isekai-esque fantasy fight scene that is irrelevant and would be done better in dozens of other shows.

> Avoids the stupider tropes that it could easily have gone with. E.g. I thought for sure Crim would be a puritan and nag them.

> Jokes are actually funny most of the time

> Actually delivers on its promise, mostly (as opposed to just the characters talking about the brothels but never actually showing them, or it being one of those shows where the sex-obsessed character nevertheless never actually gets any because of a differet slapstick misfortune happening every week)


And the bad is:

> The character designs are very boring

> The worldbuilding makes no sense. The world is already so harmoniously diverse, and already see plenty of evidence of lots of interspecies prostituion/sex happening. And yet most of the discussion/reviews these guys talk about/write are talking just about what it's like to sleep with so-and-so species... wouldn't that already be common knowledge? You would think the reviews they write would be more about the establishment/prostitute themselves, not about the species.

> The start of their reviews business is very lacklustre. They just sort of write one as a gag and then overnight become reviewers pseudo-accidentally, but the characters also never really reacted to or talked about becoming reviewers. Frankly, I think it would have been much more interesting if we saw them be surprised about the popularity of their one-off first review, decided to make it a publication, etc, and there was a sort of rising fame. Otherwise, nothing really connects - Bird Girl says they're selling copies, but everyone we see is just reading it off the wall, and why is a bar making paper copies anyways?

> There's some odd/non-woke opinions on sexual orientation here. Our MCs grew up in an extremely diverse society where hundreds of sentient species intermingle and intermarry, and they think it's not weird at all for a fully grown human to fuck a 6-inch-tall fairy... but heavens forbid someone try being bisexual for one night!

> Given the whole show is just fantasy softcore porn, isn't the "pay-off" kind of weak? They keep doing these little cut-away slideshow things where the prostitutes are displayed like a pin-up calendar instead of ever showing them actually interact together at all.

[Maark Abbott]

I am pleasantly surprised. I expected you to have the fan out and to be smacking me about the chops with it by now.

I continue watching purely because it's legitimately funny, i.e. "Well, fuck off then, you Piccolo wannabe". Howled.

[D'rek]

Maark Abbott, on 07 February 2020 - 08:12 AM, said:

I am pleasantly surprised. I expected you to have the fan out and to be smacking me about the chops with it by now.

I continue watching purely because it's legitimately funny, i.e. "Well, fuck off then, you Piccolo wannabe". Howled.

That and only that reason, of course

[Maark Abbott]

D, on 07 February 2020 - 05:18 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 07 February 2020 - 08:12 AM, said:

I am pleasantly surprised. I expected you to have the fan out and to be smacking me about the chops with it by now.

I continue watching purely because it's legitimately funny, i.e. "Well, fuck off then, you Piccolo wannabe". Howled.

That and only that reason, of course

I was actually a bit sceptical of the subject matter overall but... It's somehow even funnier when the OP and ED songs have subtitles and you see Stunk open the show with "I LOVE BEIN' A HORNY BASTARD!".

[Maark Abbott]

ID Invaded:

Spoiler

So Hanaloli is seemingly a much more astute detective than the MC... However John Walker didn't appear in his id well. And then the director of the project is arrested on suspicion of being John Walker. But why was the MC so bothered about the notion of John appearing in his well? Is HE John Walker?!

[D'rek]

Maark Abbott, on 10 February 2020 - 08:06 AM, said:

D, on 07 February 2020 - 05:18 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 07 February 2020 - 08:12 AM, said:

I am pleasantly surprised. I expected you to have the fan out and to be smacking me about the chops with it by now.

I continue watching purely because it's legitimately funny, i.e. "Well, fuck off then, you Piccolo wannabe". Howled.

That and only that reason, of course

I was actually a bit sceptical of the subject matter overall but... It's somehow even funnier when the OP and ED songs have subtitles and you see Stunk open the show with "I LOVE BEIN' A HORNY BASTARD!".

I forgot to mention in my points list but I really like the OP song. It's catchy. It's like YMCA for ecchi.

Maark Abbott, on 10 February 2020 - 08:52 AM, said:

ID Invaded:

Spoiler

So Hanaloli is seemingly a much more astute detective than the MC... However John Walker didn't appear in his id well. And then the director of the project is arrested on suspicion of being John Walker. But why was the MC so bothered about the notion of John appearing in his well? Is HE John Walker?!

Spoiler

What makes you think she's more astute? Figuring out the timing of the lightning and not striking the same place twice doesn't sound any harder than him figuring out the rotating sniper tower.

Her Sherlock hat and cape over short shorts, crop top and tights outfit is hilarious.

They noticed her acting "cold" to the people, but I wonder if that might be pretty normal for well diver detectives. Sakaido is just more compassionate because he's haunted by Muku's death.

If John Walker is a real person that's been meeting or even just secretly influencing the people that became serial killers, then I guess Sakaido-guy is worried that he was manipulated by Walker into doing what he did and more. Walker not showing up in his id well means he made his own choices. That's a relief, I guess.

Director being Walker is soooo definitely a frame, but dang is it an elaborate one. Someone even snuck in and buried the scientist on his property, jeez.

[Maark Abbott]

D, on 10 February 2020 - 02:40 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 10 February 2020 - 08:06 AM, said:

D, on 07 February 2020 - 05:18 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 07 February 2020 - 08:12 AM, said:

I am pleasantly surprised. I expected you to have the fan out and to be smacking me about the chops with it by now.

I continue watching purely because it's legitimately funny, i.e. "Well, fuck off then, you Piccolo wannabe". Howled.

That and only that reason, of course

I was actually a bit sceptical of the subject matter overall but... It's somehow even funnier when the OP and ED songs have subtitles and you see Stunk open the show with "I LOVE BEIN' A HORNY BASTARD!".

I forgot to mention in my points list but I really like the OP song. It's catchy. It's like YMCA for ecchi.

Maark Abbott, on 10 February 2020 - 08:52 AM, said:

ID Invaded:

Spoiler

So Hanaloli is seemingly a much more astute detective than the MC... However John Walker didn't appear in his id well. And then the director of the project is arrested on suspicion of being John Walker. But why was the MC so bothered about the notion of John appearing in his well? Is HE John Walker?!

Spoiler

What makes you think she's more astute? Figuring out the timing of the lightning and not striking the same place twice doesn't sound any harder than him figuring out the rotating sniper tower.

Her Sherlock hat and cape over short shorts, crop top and tights outfit is hilarious.

They noticed her acting "cold" to the people, but I wonder if that might be pretty normal for well diver detectives. Sakaido is just more compassionate because he's haunted by Muku's death.

If John Walker is a real person that's been meeting or even just secretly influencing the people that became serial killers, then I guess Sakaido-guy is worried that he was manipulated by Walker into doing what he did and more. Walker not showing up in his id well means he made his own choices. That's a relief, I guess.

Director being Walker is soooo definitely a frame, but dang is it an elaborate one. Someone even snuck in and buried the scientist on his property, jeez.

Let's go to paradiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiise~