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| Let's just hope that they only speedrun through the introductions and slow down later on. If not, this will only end up being another God of Highschool situation, this time without the bombastic animation. |
| Gintoki and Sugita's birthdays are 1 day apart. |
el3mel said: Should have showed how did Manta managed to borrow the sword as it felt really confusing. They had no reason to listen. Maybe the next episode will show or something. Even Manta kicked his ass. That's how. Encyclopedia knock. That's how it was in the manga too. |
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
el3mel said: CrimsonCW said: Even Manta kicked his ass. That's how. Encyclopedia knock. That's how it was in the manga too. I neither read the manga nor did I watch the original. He was getting beaten to pulp then suddenly the scene cuts to him having the sword. How did the kid manage to get the sword from the gang ? Should have been shown really. He didn't 'beat him to a pulp' so much as incapacitated him enough to swipe it and make off. And, that gang are literally just the most worthless lackeys, who just wait for orders. I'm sure after Yoh beat them up in episode 1, they just wait for orders from Ryu, and then after Manta took even him out, they were either confused or just "Whatever" and let him. Or were genuinely terrified, who knows. I mean, you take out the biggest dog to make yourself top dog, after all. The next episode will be about Ryu, so I'm sure there will be a line in there about why they let him. |
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
el3mel said: CrimsonCW said: He didn't 'beat him to a pulp' so much as incapacitated him enough to swipe it and make off. And, that gang are literally just the most worthless lackeys, who just wait for orders. I'm sure after Yoh beat them up in episode 1, they just wait for orders from Ryu, and then after Manta took even him out, they were either confused or just "Whatever" and let him. The next episode will be about Ryu, so I'm sure there will be a line in there about why they let him. The scene and his injuries all implied that they were kicking his ass. I don't know man. Anyway I hope the next episode will show it. Manta escaped then, despite it. Look at him, he's good at it, and he did it in the first episode too. |
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
| Not bad of an episode, and it was quite interesting. I forgot how mean Anna really is trying to train YoH to be the Shaman King. |
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| I'm really digging the characters' designs https://imgur.com/a/N1vC3dd As for the skipped chapters and pacing, I decided to just read those skipped chapters after each episode on a weekly basis. Probably the best way to enjoy both versions without going way ahead in arcs. |
| another epic episode with lots of action! we got introduced to more characters and we got to see more badass anna in action, this time manta wasn't as useless as always |
Takuto_Shindou said: junek50 said: It was a massive speedrun horseshit until it diverged, they even skipped Manga chapters because 2003 had already adapted it.lol that is just not true Not at all. It was pretty fast, but still watchable and nowhere near the dash you make it out to be. This just in, anime nerds like to over-exaggerate issues with series they have bias towards, the same way that so many fans are doing with this adaptation, even though it's a literal 90% adaptation of the manga. |
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
| I loved this one ngl. I'm getting used to the fast pace and the series is getting better and better for me. It seems like it's getting a "monster of the week" style feel to it which I don't mind at all. Tao Jun and Anna's bridge artstyle design look so amazing. |
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Takuto_Shindou said: Brotherhood wasn't good until episode 30 Until episode 11. The pacing was good once the first "big thing" happens in the series. Also the second arc of the series was quite literally perfection. -------------------------------------------------------------- Anna is just so cool, I love that she never holds back and is the complete opposite of Yoh. I loved the "You will be the Shaman King even if you die. After all, I deserve nothing less". What a girl. |
| Maaaaaaaaan, I totally forgot about Anna being such a damn creep. To put it mildly. Idk why everyone's up in arms about the pacing though. It might not be true to the source manga, but then which anime is? Especially when they're trying to squeeze so much into so little. If anything, I'd say it has a nice flow without any lulls during the episode. |
| Anna is pretty aggressive. LOL But she definitely cares about Yoh even tho she's so harsh on him. A new character is here as well, Tao Jun, another Shaman who wants to take Amidamaru. But thanks to Manta and Anna, we managed to defeat Pyron and Tao Jun. Good to see, Pyron got back to his senses. |
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| The pacing of this episode was horrible. I guess they are rushing through the early parts so they can adapt all of it in 52 episodes. |
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junek50 said: CrimsonCW said: Do you want me to count how many pages were cut? I don't know if it's gonna be even 60% adaptationNot at all. It was pretty fast, but still watchable and nowhere near the dash you make it out to be. This just in, anime nerds like to over-exaggerate issues with series they have bias towards, the same way that so many fans are doing with this adaptation, even though it's a literal 90% adaptation of the manga. People like you focus solely on numbers vs actual soul or heart of an adaptation. You can't appreciate a good adaptation that doesn't 100%, page by page, adapt the source material, vs cutting it down but retaining the same core or intent. It doesn't matter how much was cut. Because the core and experience of the FMA manga was still included, making it a solid adaptation. |
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
junek50 said: CrimsonCW said: I was talking about Shaman KingPeople like you focus solely on numbers vs actual soul or heart of an adaptation. You can't appreciate a good adaptation that doesn't 100%, page by page, adapt the source material, vs cutting it down but retaining the same core or intent. It doesn't matter how much was cut. Because the core and experience of the FMA manga was still included, making it a solid adaptation. I've been checking out the manga concurrently as well and I still firmly say 90%. I think you're comparing it to the first anime, to be honest. |
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
| I am not familiar with the previous shaman king anime or the manga but it doesn't seem bad to me, its quite enjoyable shounen and the pacing seemed completely fine to me. Not sure why so many haters, is it not faithful to manga? |
It's virtually identical to the original manga. The problem is so many people have the first anime adaptation so pounded into their heads, they're complaining that it's not as padded as that one. Which was extremely OVER padded with filler, before deviating from the source material entirely. |
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
| Wow, this is just awful. Every episode so far is like a bad compilation video or parody without a humour. I skimmed over the chapters from this episode (great idea shoving half of volume in one episode) and it was a really dumb story there as well but anime made even worse. It's so disjointed, character motivations appear to be utterly retarded. It has nothing to offer when it comes to visuals either. I'm not sure I'll bother with next episode. There's not a single ray of hope it will ever get any better. I'm just dumbfounded how they could produce such utter failure after all this buildup. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| I watched this episode with 2x speed. the pace is very boring! I can see that Anna is going to be an annoying B$. And why is it that women hitting men is normalized? Poor Manta, he didn’t do anything wrong! |
| Shit tier pacing. Mid tier animation. This show is lucky it has nostalgia going for it. |
junek50 said: CrimsonCW said: The thing is the old anime didn't follow manga entirely but still grabbed the essence of Shaman King, new anime speedruns manga events and make the adaptation as shallow as it's possible thanks to bad art that doesn't show any emotions and look very cheap + bad pacing with mass of cuts. It's funny how original anime became a cliche shounen which Takei didn't want his story to be and now with all the cuts it will become not that much of a cliche but just a bad one. If they decided to make such a whatever anime they should at least go with decent animation but well it's fucking Studio Bridge so it's not happening. If they continue to do things like that on next episodes (they will) I would call this a recap instead of actual adaptation and no it's not even a manga promotion because if I learned about SK from this I would definitely not check out the manga. Anyway that's where I end because further discussion with you doesn't make any sense, you clearly don't see the difference since you rate it 8/10 which is a joke rating even if you are really positive about this anime lolIt's virtually identical to the original manga. The problem is so many people have the first anime adaptation so pounded into their heads, they're complaining that it's not as padded as that one. Which was extremely OVER padded with filler, before deviating from the source material entirely. Here's a translation of all that: REEE, WHY DON'T YOU AGREE WITH MEEEEEE??? I don't really care what you think or that you disagree with what I feel about it or that I enjoy it, while also going through the manga on my end. You people have such a blind bias towards that shitty first anime or to your nostalgia for the brand in general, it's utterly pathetic. You'll find any reason you can to screech at this new version, how it's different, or find any reason to dislike it. And guess what? No one cares. Nor should you this much. Just drop it and find something else to do. |
CrimsonCWApr 17, 2021 3:10 PM
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
junek50 said: CrimsonCW said: I'm not even a fan of the old adaptation, it's you mentioning it in first place lol And why should I drop it, blind support for a bad anime is cool but reasonable criticism is aaaa Y'aLL wIlL FiNd aNy ReAsOn tO DiSliKe iT. There is a difference with enjoying something and writing ''it's virtually identical to the original manga" which is just not true xdHere's a translation of all that: REEE, WHY DON'T YOU AGREE WITH MEEEEEE??? I don't really care what you think or that you disagree with what I feel about it or that I enjoy it, while also going through the manga on my end. You people have such a blind bias towards that shitty first anime or to your nostalgia for the brand in general, it's utterly pathetic. You'll find any reason you can to screech at this new version, how it's different, or find any reason to dislike it. And guess what? No one cares. Nor should you this much. Just drop it and find something else to do. "Blind support", huh? Even though I've flat out listed the reasons why I'm enjoying it every topic about it. You would even see that in episode 1, I was actually feeling like you did, but I changed my mind with each subsequent episode. Maybe it'll get worse in time, or keep getting better? Who knows? But I'm okay in finding out. You really should do your research before posting, huh? But we all know that isn't the case. That's not what blind hatred is. You're barely offering any criticism yourself past IT'S TOO FAST AND NOT FOLLOWING THE MANGA, LOOK HOW MUCH IS CUT. I HAVE NUMBERS!11! Seems like you really hate it. I certainly don't waste my time on anime that infuriates me to this level; so what reason do you have to keep watching it? Literally nothing else to do, or do you simply like the attention? Which I'm also going to stop giving you following this post. Well, sorry we are having different viewpoints of it compared to the mangas we're reading. Don't know what version you're reading, but it's the same experience for me. Oh well. I don't care. Unlike you, I have better things to do. Have fun arguing with yourself from now on. |
CrimsonCWApr 17, 2021 3:44 PM
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
| the episode is really nice, i like how anna b*tch slap everyone xD but the pacing tho, compare to original, it is somehow so fast, i dunno but i feel like a slow or medium pace is more better when it comes to this anime. |
Piromysl said: What is exactly Manta's purpose in this show? you'll see, |
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| Eh, this was way too much material to put into a single episode. Should have been 2 episodes in my opinion, but obviously they were only given 52 episodes to animate so they had to be economical. I guess they only really skipped Jun Tao's introduction, but cramming so much into one episode just negatively affects the pacing. Once again, I gotta give props to the first anime. One could argue how much they messed up, when they steered away from the plot progression of the manga and there definitely are a few trivial filler episodes in there, but at the very least they did some excellent padding work when stretching out chapters into anime episode lenght. Manta's heroic moment was built up very nicely there and like I said it should have been 2 episodes, because Manta running for it only to be revealed he went off looking for Rio to borrow his sword is an essential character moment for him and a good cliffhanger to leave the episode on (even if the outcome is pretty predictable). Jun Tao's introduction was also botched by the pacing and skipping of manga material. First 5 minutes is Anna's introduction and how she's gonna train Yoh Cobra Kai no mercy style, minute 6 she's with him in the cinema. Yeah, the manga also just skipped straight to the cinema with no build-up, but that was the start of the chapter, not the 6th minute of the episode, lol. Jun Tao appears out of nowhere and is all I'm Ren's sister, btw, here's the star of the movie you just watched, he's coincidentally my zombie slave now. Eh, I can always patch together a head-canon were the cool moments from the first series also happened in this one and if they get the ending of the manga right I'll be happy, but I really wonder, how much this abridged approach to covering the manga material is bothering newcomers to the franchise. |
| I'm already liking Anna, she's brutal and amusing af. Woa Ren's older sister Jun came to take Amidamaru this time with Pyron no less. The fight was pretty cool and I'm glad Pyron decided to stay with Jun. Jun's a real beauty and I like her character. I hope she joins Yoh and Anna's team someday. Also Manta was brave in this episode. |
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| I actually like this episode. I don't remember where the 3rd episode of the og Shaman King ended or how many chapters this episode has animated but I didn't really mind the pacing. Glad to see Ryu back, can't wait for him to be of more importance because I used to love him. |
Come on man,where is that Noragami season 3 masterpiece.We want it, Bones! |
| Anna you can step on me, if I was into that. :) Ren sister, Jun is way stacked and got Bruce Lee as her fighter. I like her design, hope she convert to Yoh side. I'm sure its not important, but I wish they expand on Manta and Ryu scene. Manta is very brave. |
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