No.867461
What the fuck did I just watch?
No.867469
The new hot shit of this season. The thing that everyone except hardcore hipsters will talk about.
No.867470
We got spoiled on GGO with an actually competent writer for a change, but now we're back to the usual dunce.
>spend a full episode on some unrelated crap with no indication as to who or what anything is, or why we should care
>spend the next episode inexplicably back with the usual tryhards, squeeze in a few lines of truly retarded exposition for what the last episode even was at the end
>cap off with Gary getting stabbed by the LARPer in another stunning display of HEROISM (in case you forgot how cool Donut Steel was)
inb4 it turns out Asuna's yandere heart monitor ends up blocking the needle in the same way as last time.
No.867473
Trash, you watched trash.
No.867481
>>867469
But this isn't the Goblin Slayer thread.
No.867482
>>867473
Trash can be recycled. This is a thing that shouldn't be.
No.867484
I can't wait to inject this garbage directly into my eyeballs.
No.867592
>>867484
Hovercar-san will save us all once the budget inevitably drops to half a pizza when working overtime on weekends/episode.
Off topic question but why is it that Studios have only now started producing TV Anime in native 1080p? Prior to this season such things were usually reserved for BD releases judging by the average Erai/HS output.
No.867602
New episode of the abridged series just came out. Felt a tad weak on its own, but I can see how much it sets up for the next few episodes.
>>867461
I kinda wanted to watch the series out of a morbid fascination, to see just how bad it was. After watching the first episode, it seems like it'll just be too awful for me to stomach.
No.867665
>>867470
>inb4 heart monitor block needle
Yep. Exactly what I thought.
No.867695
>>867592
>Off topic question but why is it that Studios have only now started producing TV Anime in native 1080p? Prior to this season such things were usually reserved for BD releases judging by the average Erai/HS output.
Most studios don't produce in 1080p, SAO and Bakutsuri Bar Hunter are the only anime this season made in 1080p.
https://anibin.blogspot.com/2018/09/blog-post.html lists the master resolutions for this season.
>such things were usually reserved for BD releases
BD releases are very often a high quality upscale and not a remaster, remastering the anime just isn't worth the effort for most studios.
>judging by the average Erai/HS output
If you talk about the HS file sizes, then it's because CR killed their LQ stream, which was what Horrible Subs ripped.
Erai usually ripped the HQ stream, that's why their versions had bigger file sizes than the versions on HS.
For example CCS: Clear Card-hen episode 1:
Erai: 1.06GB/498.91MB (1080p/720p)
HS: 570MB/341MB (1080p/720p)
No.867701
>>867602
It's the exact kind of thing that is only enjoyable (to non-brainlets) when it's watched with friends around to mock it as a group, or at least with a bunch of anons on stream.
Speaking of which, SAO streaming marathon when?
No.867840
>>867695
>Most studios don't produce in 1080p
Why though? It's not like the hardware required for such things is an expensive rarity in CY+3, nor should encoding h.264 at 720p and 1080p/real-time downscaling of 1080p content to 720p be much of an issue.
Is it due to a lack of animators and/or background artists capable of finishing the desired quota of 1080p frames in the inhuman time constraints the industry is known for?
No.867867
>>867840
Because you need a human being to draw something on a much larger canvas to produce in 1080p.
No.867912
>>867867
Are you retarded? Look at the film size used for old stuff like Ghiblis, you just need to scan at a higher res.
No.868535
why is there a fart sound when Kirito swings his sword?
No.868554
>>868550
I did some digging and it seems that the lightsaber effect is copyrighted by Disney or some shit like that, they couldn't pay the rights so their second choice was a fart??
No.868564
>>868554
Maybe the sound designer browses /animu/.
No.868610
>>867470
>GGO
>good
Can someone explain how exactly? I couldn't even finish the first episode, though I was a bit drunk when I watched it.
No.868611
>>868554
No, it clearly sounds like electricity does sometimes, but it also sounds like flatulation.
No.868614
>>868610
I wouldn't call it good,but I enjoyed it .The characters carried it, and it has the same charm a trashy B movie or novel has.
Still the writing isn't any better than the writing in SAO, and people just ignore the bad writing because "cute loli MC!".
No.868636
>>868614
>Still the writing isn't any better than the writing in SAO.
I'd say that just by having likeable characters, GGO is already miles better than SAO.
No.868668
>>868636
>likeable characters
Like...?
No.868693
>>868673
Ah, that's won me over I think. Alright, I'll give her another go.
No.868752
>>867470
>We got spoiled on GGO with an actually competent writer for a change, but now we're back to the usual dunce.
You got that right.
No.868756
>>868673
I also liked the rest of the cast. Her slutfirend and M-san were enjoyable weirdos. I guess Pitohui might have been too annoying for some people but she was pretty much just a "1337 pro gamer" LARPing as a Black Lagoon character. The gamplay was handled better too. Sure, not everything made perfect sense but unlike SAO it actaully feels like the author knows how a game works.
Actual spoilers: Instead of a bad guy that can use cybermagic to hold his entire playerbase captive, the "villain" in this on just threatens to kill herself if she doesn't get what she wants. The ending was nice too. You'd never see it play out like that in SAO.
No.868769
>>868693
>ending a shitty incest story with a murder suicide
That would definitely make it more interesting.
No.869041
>>868610
You fucking heretic, you go watch that show NOW.
It's the fucking best shit that has happened to anime in a very long while.
>>868614
>I wouldn't call it good,but I enjoyed it .
I'll call it good. Given that's it's from the fucking SAO premise, it's a bloody miracle to manage to do something fun with it!
>>868614
>Still the writing isn't any better than the writing in SAO
You're drunk or something?
GGO has:
>relatable characters.
>fun situations.
>charm.
Sure the overall arc story is retarded (let's face it, it's still in SAO world so they're contractually obligated to tie it in the story. Which means it needs to be pointlessly edgy and depressing) but it's clearly just an excuse to get great animation, cool scenes and fun character interaction.
Jesus Christ on a stick, when was the last time you saw an anime from a big franchise that was just plain fun to watch?
FUN.
It's a fun anime that show clearly the creator of that show wanted people to have fun watching it and in fucking 2018 it doesn't get better than that.
No.869105
>>869041
Coming out of SAO, GGO is better than it needs to be. Battle Royale theme seems timely but I'm sure the LN was a little ahead before that craze even started. I also thought that one arc with the dying girl was good where they try to honor her memory in the game. The only real flaw was the terrible Asuna/ Mother drama resolution. Is it so hard to make a show about video games that is fun?
New series seems to want to try to tie up loose ends from the previous series (the last remaining laughing coffin member) and stuff that I guess was a loose end but didn't really need further explanation in my opinion (the reason behind the creator and the seed program to proliferate more MMOs). There also seems to be this forced references to Alice is Wonderland that it's going for which I think will be grating if there is more than just the company name, title of anime and girl in MMO dream world that is experienced through your soul that goes through a series of tubes. Looks like we're back to the original stupidity of SAO again.
No.869114
>>868554
>lightsaber effect is copyrighted by Disney
Copyright law was a mistake.
No.869371
>>869114
Ironically, supposedly, avoiding copyright law is the reason Hollywood exists.
No.869600
>>869371
Ironically the entire concept of copyright was created to prevent jews to shaft the public, authors, creators and inventors.
No.870664
>an entire episode of fucking about with irrelevant shit
I don't care. I so do not care.
There is a chance that the author might do something interesting here, but I'm seriously doubtful.
No.870686
>>869114
Disney is the premier entity abusing copyright law, lobbying hardcore to stop it from expiring and going public domain as it was always intended. Blaming the very concept of intellectual property just because Disney is abusing it is like saying you shouldn't be able to own a house because some asshole is bothering the neighborhood by playing Lady Gaga at full volume.
No.870693
>>869412
California's copyright or patent laws allowed people to produce movie cameras despite Edison's patent so a movie industry sprung up around the area where they were making bootleg cameras or something to that effect
No.871016
>>867470
>So this is the arc when Kirito dies two times.
>episode 1
>another exposition cafe.
>so this is how he gets almost killed the first time.
>episode 2
>oh, it opens with that virtual world again...
>...and it continues.
>enough! I want to see what is happening in the real world!
>episode ends.
Is not like I was expecting something but even with no expectations I got disappointed.
>>868535
Because Disney doesn't allow them to use the old lightsaber sounds like in the GGO arc.
No.871154
>I buy old stale bread because the bakery isn't running and has no fresh bread early in the morning
>our sprawling walled town is small so there isn't an inn, you will have to stay in the church
Whoever wrote this mango is several kinds of ignorant and stupid.
No.871164
No.871176
>>871154
Kawahara is a terrible writer.
No.871211
>>871154
>our sprawling walled town is small so there isn't an inn, you will have to stay in the church
With their personal job system there is literally no reason for the NPCs to travel out to this village near the outskirts of nothingness. The church is more than enough to accommodate the few people that might pass through every decade.
No.872515
Yet another episode where we don't see anything from the real world, is the whole arc like that?
No.872607
>>872515
I wouldn't mind seeing nothing from the real world
They'd need to make the game world interesting though
No.872609
>>872515
Yes, almost the whole arc takes place in this game world and if I remember correctly there are more books in this than the rest of the previous main stories combined so settle in.
No.872611
>>872607
>>872609
Eh, I'll skip it then.
No.872732
>>868554
The actual audio clips used in the films, games, etc would be copyrighted. You could make your own lightsaber sound effect which wouldn't be copyright by Disney, but then you run up against trademark, which Disney owns on the lightsaber noise, and Disney, being one of the most litigious companies on the face of the Earth, would sue you.
No.872740
>>870686
Copyright is inherently abusive, it prevents people from sharing the culture they've bought with their money and now own, to keep a monopoly racket going to prop up a business model that wouldn't work without it. This has had the effect in creating the modern normalfag, who is a mindless passive consumer of media, who spends his free time drowning the horrible diarrhea of soul destroying normalfag media, whose constant mass production is only incentivized by the copyright system. All so corporate executives can continue profiting off work someone else did two, ten, fifty years ago.
No.872778
Am I alone in the feeling of boredom? Holy shit I skipped almost the entirety of the thing.
No.872900
>>872740
You are not looking at this from the correct perspective. Copyright isn't meant to benefit the consumer, but to protect the creator. Without copyright, you can write a novel, and some asshole can take credit for it and sell it, and you have nothing to challenge him with. You do not own what you created. That situation is a hell of a lot more "inherently abusive" than your concerns about sharing.
Copyright is just meant to protect the intellectual property during the time the author can reasonably sell it. After his death, it should go to the public domain. And that is where Disney is abusing it, by endlessly postponing the fall into the public domain. That is where it stops being fair to the creator and is just preventing old shit to become part of the general culture distributed freely.
No.872906
>>872609
In other words, the cliffhanger the 1st episode ended on (Gary getting stabbed) will be left hanging right where it is for the entire season.
No.873118
unless this is going to be an extra long season I have no idea how they'll cover enough of this arc in the lightnovel for it to be worth it.
No.873128
>>872906
Not really, It's been a few years since I read it but from what I remember Kirito is in a coma and got picked up by the shady government company thing, brought him onto an oil platform or submarine, and shoved him into the game system. I think it was to save his life, but it doesn't really matter. There are going to be a few episodes of Asuna hunting down Kirito using the GPS thing on her phone where you get all of this.
>>873118
I thought I read something about it being two 24 episode seasons.
No.873155
>>872900
Without copyright, you can invent a cure for cancer and some asshole can steal it and start giving it to people for free.
No.873289
>>873155
>some asshole can steal it and start giving it to people for free
Then what's the fucking point of curing cancer?
So is this the SAO where Kirito fights the american government or army or whatever it is?
No.873604
>>871154
What exactly are you complaining about? Are you implying that a walled town must always have an inn or something dumb like that?
No.873606
>>869041
>GGO has:
>>relatable characters.
>>fun situations.
>>charm.
Sword Art has all of those and executes it better than GGO. Though, that is only my opinion and those terms are so vague that you can use it to say that any show is better than any other show.
One of the great things about Kirito is he is far closer to a human being compared to most other anime characters, and there has been a focus on his internal conflict. It seems like you guys are riding the hate wagon just like reddit.
No.873632
Reminder that ironic shitposting is still shitposting and that you shouldn't give out free (You)s.
No.873635
>>867470
Calling someone a Gary is nice and easy; it lets you show someone that you are knowledgeable about storytelling despite never having really studied it. You can use it to refer to every competent character-- even incompetent characters-- and it will seem like your complaints are substantial, even if they are empty. It's a real hit with the plebs on Youtube, and it works well in this case, because nobody questions anything said about Kirto, no matter how dumb, as long as it makes him look bad. That would out them as an outsider! But please, try to resist the urge to call every character you don't like a Gary. You know you're desperate when you're complaining that the hero is being heroic.
No.873745
>>873606
SAO legitimately has none of those. Nearly all the characters are completely unlikable and Kirito is a retarded mary sue, there is nothing human, relatable, or fun about him.
No.873802
>>873745
I've enjoyed Sword Art and Kirito.
1.) Wanting to help people and abandoning them to help yourself, is something I have personally experienced at his age, and allowed me to connect with him on the very first episode.
2.) The conflict about loving strangers and wanting to be alone. Solving this by un-personing yourself to one, keep the target away from other people and perform an act of love, two, to be left alone, and three, to punish yourself for prioritizing yourself over others, and worse doing it for something that might be petty. I experienced that too.
3.) The conflict between the realization that you have spent too much time on videogames, and need to get rid of it all to get your neet life back on track, and the following realization that you have experienced things that have made your life better, and that you have to be online less, but there is a need for balance much like Kirito's.
That's just Kirito. I might not have experienced falling in love with your brother like Sugu, but to me, unlike shows that come across as baiting a fetish, it was presented in a believable, tragic, and emotional way that had me wishing for her happiness. The cast is quite lovable.
And it shows you all this without beating you over the head, which might be why some people don't notice it, so please don't be so quick to blame the show when things don't make sense to you. In life, when we fail to understand someone, we consider that the fault lies with us, right? We don't assume that we understand everything, are infallible, and that it is always the other person's fault. At least, I hope most of us have the maturity to think this way, so please don't be so quick to blame other people for enjoying something you do not, and implying that there must be something wrong with them.
No.873807
The novel is way better. Still lots of plot holes, but you don't have to deal with the hellhole that is the anime.
No.873816
http://archive.is/3q7Bt
Looks like HorribleSubs opinions are in and saying this is a best show this season over Bunny Girl Senpai and Banana Fish. Calls Slime boring and Goblin Slayer cheap rape is shocking with bad animation.
All those shows mentioned had more things happen in it than what has happened within the first 3 episodes so far of Alicization. It certainly shows that it has more money put into it because of popularity but it has been a slog that doesn't have a clear destination yet or how far it will take. They wasted time trying to cut down a tree for 2 episodes for Christ's sake. Maybe something surprising will happen since they stepped into Goblin Slayer territory.
No.873822
>>867470
>spend a full episode on some unrelated crap with no indication as to who or what anything is, or why we should care
>spend the next episode inexplicably back with the usual tryhards
Keep watching the anime (or read the LN) and you will see you retarded cuckchan shitposter
No.873824
>>873816
The first Alice episodes aren't a waste of time. It's sad how you talk of HorribleSub opinions when the SAO hate-train is pretty Youtube-comment-tier. There is a fair chance when you look up clips of any show(like railgun), that there's someone on the recommended videos telling you how much sword art sucks for clicks.
You're creating a strawman about how sword art fans dislike Goblin Slayer. I like them both, though the goblin slayer anime is far worse than the manga, and even as a fan, I cannot deny that the animation is really bad (though not as bad as Overlord, another great story ruined by the anime). Hell, goblin slayer is being criticized of similar things to sword art: "Asuna being imprisoned promotes rape culture and is misogynistic to women". And by similar people, no less.
>>873822
Maybe we should try kindness.
No.873851
>>873824
>the SAO hate-train is pretty Youtube-comment-tier.
Youtube, reddit and the entirety of the internet besides /a/ loved SAO until Digibro a video about it where he just paroted the things /a/ had said about it for years. Then it suddenly became a "Youtube-comment-tier" opinion to give it anything but praise.
No.873899
>>873816
Aren't the people complaining about Goblin Slayer's rape e-celebs and their fans. Do you really believe that those people like Sword Art. Pic related. Read the names.
No.873916
>>873899
The Gigguk video about Goblin Slayer was ironic, he was mocking Digicunt and the others.
Not defending him, just saying
No.873925
>>873916
That's always the problem with merely pretending to be retarded, isn't it? You often end up being lumped in with the actual retards.
No.873987
>>873606
>>873802
>One of the great things about Kirito is he is far closer to a human being compared to most other anime characters
There is more to baiting than tossing a crate of hooks in the water.
No.874007
>>873987
It isn't bait just because it's different.
No.874822
>>872900
>Without copyright, you can write a novel, and some asshole can take credit for it and sell it, and you have nothing to challenge him with.
You obviously never studied how commercial publishing worked before copyright, spoiler: authors sold manuscripts to publishers under agreement to share profits off the first print run. This got the author money, and if he wanted to keep on making money off of writing, he'd have to write more. Not that I am a fan of commercial publishing at all, but please study the history of it (Europe and China both had commercial publishing industries for centuries without copyright.) I also am not aware of any historical examples of someone 'taking credit' for another's novel, how would that even happen unless you lent your manuscript to a friend and he stole it and tried to pass it off to a publisher as his own. In which case he would be a thief, we already have laws against theft.
Not that the creation of culture should be tied to consumer sales at all, that just incentivizes the mass printing of shit. People writing because they want to tell a story for the sake of telling a story, or else a system of patronage, whether from a crowd of from a wealthy donor, is superior in this regard, you get fewer works but better.
"The creator" wants to lounge around collecting royalties the rest of his life from work he did ages ago, meanwhile preventing people who bought, and now own, his story, from sharing it with people. Image someone who told you a joke he came up with getting mad because you told it to someone else and demanding you pay him 'damages'. You'd think he was petty and greedy, and you'd be right. This whole mindset that culture should automatically translate to income is rooted in avarice. The fruits of writing a book isn't money, it's a book, which is a pretty cool thing. And people sharing it freely doesn't net you more money, but it gets you something even more valuable: it gets you people. Their admiration, their love and loyalty. Fans of authors like them, it is only natural. They get famous, it wins them friends. Which is also used to make money, people will pay famous authors to come and give talks, among other things. (See also: patronage).
That's not enough for "creators" who want the fame, plus the ability to lazily profit from work they did decades ago. Which has the effect of turning normalfags from participants in the creation and propagation of culture, into mindless, passive consumers. All to protect a business model that "creators" don't even make much of a profit off of, it's the executives of big media companies. Very few published authors actually make a living off of writing, let alone get anywhere near as rich as their publishers. It's a bad system any way you cut it, except for the minority of people making money off of it.
No.875684
We got an Asuna episode? Are you autists happy now?
No.875780
>>875684
Well, yes, I am certainly not interested in the new adventures of Gary Stu in wonderland.
No.875792
>>867461
>want to watch the good one with the pink P90 loli
>autism forces me to watch all of the previous entries in the franchise first
>halfway through season 1
>they fucking win the game and everybody gets out
>wut there's 12 episodes left what the fuck
>Asuna is in a coma and some awful bullshit NTR plot kicks off
Fuck this shit I'm done.
No.875888
>>875780
> Gary Stu
Critique for retards.
No.875936
>>875888
OK, fine, Marty Stu.
No.875937
>>875792
The loli one is completely separate from the other SAO shit, aside from being set in the same universe.
No.875938
>>875780
Who let reddit in?
No.875945
>>867701
Finally, a fellow intellectual. We should meet up on a convention sometime and talk about how everyone else is a brainlet.
No.875951
>>869412
What he said basically, since copyright law wasn't federal yet, or if it was, it wasn't as we know it today. >>870693
Although there were people who had genuine interest in film, Jews and other undesirables would set up nickelodeons to show, among other things, pornography, and eventually fucked off to LA to avoid Edison. This is where Hollywood really started booming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company
>inb4 "hurr see? CA was always cancer!"
>Hollywood is all of California
No.875954
>>873925
This but it would help if the maker of the image watched the video instead of merely reading the title. Normalfags will do this with news headlines that are meant to catch one's attention, and get the idea that whatever was in the headline actually happened. In short, don't make a final judgement based solely on a book's cover.
>>873899
ThePedanticRomantic is a cross-dressing tranny, so that makes sense. Digibrony is a mentally-ill, pretentious twat, Gigguk is an "ironic" faggot who needs to get the fuck out of Britain because he's Southeast Asian and sides with destructive politics (which makes sense if you know nothing other than anime and manga), and Mother's Basement hates himself and they're all doing it for shekels (including PDR), so they make sense too.
>>875792
There's this redditfag YouTuber called DXF-something that raged about SAO, which was hilarious and I wish he'd do more anime series than the few he's done. Unfortunately, it seems like he's become a huge pretentious twat now, considering his newest uploads.
>>873851
This.
No.875961
>>875954
>>873851
Not quite. This is the timeline:
> 4chan loved the sword art light novel before the anime came out
> 4chan slowly starts to hate it after the anime
> plebs loved it
> youtube pushed people into hating it
> plebs hate it
> 8chan, and the plebs meet, they both hate it, and the reasoning and style is almost identical, but 4 and 8chan like to pretend they are different.
> Alicization out
> 8 chan hates it
> 4 chan hates it
> 4 chan... slowly starts to like it again? Consensus is split.
Personally, I've always liked it, and this little minigame about trying to fit in with what your group is supposed to believe is sad.
No.875967
>>875961
I don't have a problem with the order of your time line, just that it under states how long it was between
> plebs loved it
> youtube pushed people into hating it
> plebs hate it
There were years between each of these points.
No.875997
>>875961
>and this little minigame about trying to fit in with what your group is supposed to believe is sad.
Now you're making assumptions. You don't know me—I'm nothing more than a box with text in it.
>> 4chan loved the sword art light novel before the anime came out
It was a web novel first, wasn't it? Anyway, I can't imagine it would be that different from the anime. Care to make an argument for it?
No.876001
>>875997
Not him, but a lot of the problems with the anime, like pacing issues and plot holes, just didn't come up in the original novels. It actually isn't that bad when compared to the other trash the WN/LN readers are used to.
No.876004
>>875961
All of the autistic rage surrounding this show actually helped me to enjoy it somewhat. Just like Darlifra, knowing it shits the bed lets you go in with no expectations and just enjoy it for what it is. Still only about a 6/10 though.
No.876170
>>876004
I just hope its animation ends up tanking hard towards the end like it did with Franxx, seeing the absolute state of CY+3 2D anime production values this season compared to SAO is a cause of great despair on my end.
No.877151
>this fucking episode
I thought Kawahara's writing skills couldn't get any more absymal.
It appears I was wrong.
No.877199
So the nurse will be re-killing Kirito and leave him VR-brain dead at the end of this arc?
No.877223
>>872900
Why is it necessary to make money off culture to begin with? Do you think books wouldn't get written if authors didn't profit from it? fanfiction.net and so on would beg to differ, but beyond that as >>874822 noted they could in fact still get paid through a different system.
No.877230
>>877162
You already know that.
No.877237
No.877328
>>867469
>>867481
I haven't watched any mainstream shows for about the past 8 years
Have I missed anything?
No.877333
>>877328
No, everything's gone to shit.
No.877334
>>877328
Mainstream shows? Shit taste incoming. Below are things in the last 8 years that are mainstream that I would watch again.
Shin Sekai Yori
Cross Ange
Rokka no Yuusha
Konosuba
No.877740
>>874822
>>877223
Writing books or whatever art there is is work too and tends to be very time consuming to do. If you couldn't turn it into good money anymore and get by by praticing your art, there would be less of it in the end and also the quality will go down, like in music business.
No.877786
>>877740
Without copyright there's still Patreon, which already works just fine for many artists and musicians. If anything decent artists get paid more through that than they would under the copyright system. I continue to say that culture shouldn't be tied to money, but even if you insist it should be copyright still isn't needed for artists to get paid.
No.878608
>>868535
Sword Fart Online.
No.878757
They skipped the entire comfy adventure to the capital and best girls only got a single frame.
No.881473
No.884215
Did it end already or did everybody drop it?
No.884381
>>884215
I'm still watching but there isn't much to discuss.
No.885335
Crunchyroll cut out scenes from ep. 10. To no ones surprise.
No.885336
>>885335
Were we cheated out of a new glop scene?!
No.885337
>>885336
Attempted rape this time.
No.885405
>>885404
>tfw this is what got the massive budget while his halfway decent series has been left to rot
No.885646
>>885404
For some reason when all of the animation budget of SaO goes into the rape scenes I get filled with glee. Like the creators are aware of it and it's like some big joke.
No.885690
>>885405
They stopped right before a fun arc. Could've been great for a movie but instead they give us a halfassed 45 minute recap and only half an hour of original content.
No.885694
>>885404
Almost makes me want to watch this fucking garbage.
Almost.
No.885695
>>885404
Sasuga. Guess after GS we're going to have every rape scene in anything censored like this indefinitely. I didn't mind the disclaimer at the beginning of the episode, but this is a load of crap.
No.885696
>>885404
Imagine being so weak-minded that you need to censor an episode because you can't witness [bad thing].
No.885710
>>885696
To be fair, one scene can ruin an entire franchise. Just because it ruins the franchise doesn't mean it should be censored though.
No.885711
>>885710
You mean SAO was nor ruined since season 1?
No.885715
>>885711
No it was shit from the start, but these are the sorts of things that ruin it for normalfags.
No.885734
>>885404
This is so comically overdone. They even have dramatic lightning flashes when he goes down on her.
I wonder what she tasted like.
No.885735
>>885710
I have never seen SOA (except Gun Gale) but wasn't there a rape scene in the original as well?
No.885750
>>877740
>like in music business.
What?
The most profitable (i.e. popular) music tends to be utter shit. The music industry is a prime example of how copyright law attracts parasitic middle-men who ruin culture in pursuit of profit.
No.885759
>>885735
There was a licking scene.
No.885760
>>885695
>we
What a weird way to spell crunchyniggers.
No.885766
>>885715
It was 'okay' at the very start, had lots of promise, which is why people were so let down when after 12 episodes it completely and utterly jumped the shark and shat the bed over the moon.
No.885788
>>875997
> Now you're making assumptions. You don't know me—I'm nothing more than a box with text in it.
That's irrelevant if the box with text on it keeps talking about what the group is supposed to enjoy, and how fans of certain shows belong to other websites. No assumptions are even needed on this case, as he just named what the textbox is doing in plain sight.
The implication that you cannot know anything about the person you are talking to online because they are textboxes is silly. Every time we communicate, we reveal some part of ourselves. If the person you are chatting with is acting like an asshole, then he is an asshole, and not just some text without a personality.
>>884215
>>878757
Still watching and enjoying it whenever I'm not raging about how they didn't adapt certain parts.
No.885790
>>885735
There was some Griffith like scene, yes, but it didn't go all the way.
No.885826
>>885790
Isn't this the 3rd or 4th attempted rape in this series? You'd think people would learn.
No.885837
>>885826
Yeah there was one in season 2 with Sinoh, as well.
No.885915
>>885837
ASADA-SAN ASADA-SAN ASADA-SAN ASADA-SAN ASADA-SAN ASADA-SAN
No.885947
>>885695
I think the cut was more because of Sony/Aniplex, their western branches are knee deep in outrage culture.
No.885957
>>885760
We suffer too because the fansub scene is dead, so we're downstream from anything Crunchy shits up.
No.885960
No.885961
>>885957
Some anons have put CR subs on the BS11 broadcast, so there are still options out there. Reliance on CR is certainly going to bite everyone in the ass eventually though, I imagine it's only a matter of time before these streaming companies join the censorship bandwagon. Too bad the fansub scene is reduced to hysterical faggots like GJM that can't even handle valid criticism.
No.885964
>>885961
Our options at this point are shitty companies with shitty politics, or shitty fansubs that agree with the shitty company's politics.
Great.
No.885966
>>885964
Unfortunately. I'm glad I hoarded a fuckton of old backlog anime on HDDs before bakabt went private, there may be rough times ahead for anime in the current climate. At least I'll have something to watch until things get sorted out or I finally break down and learn Japanese.
No.885967
>>885966
>my BakaBT account got pruned for inactivity
No.885970
>>885957
>>885961
>>885964
>>885966
>current year ± 14541919810
>not knowing/learning Japanese
>not being part of the solution and making your own fansubs
No.885971
>>885970
I'm a wageslave and I'm kinda old, I would have to be crippled in an accident and live on NEETbux to have the free time to learn moon.
No.885972
>>885970
I've unironically considered it. Currently at N4 which isn't much, but it's something at least. I don't want to become Hatena 2.0 so I'll wait until I'm better to give it a shot.
No.885981
>>885966
I made an account when it was public thinking it was private. Now I get the last laugh. However BakaBT now has an issue of not hosting licensed stuff even though its private and could get away with it.
No.885989
>>885971
Even something as simple as watching Namasensei's videos to give yourself a grounding in the runes and grammar is sowing knowledge you can slowly build upon. Even if you can't actually produce a complete translation or really commit to serious study, knowing some of the language for yourself makes you that less reliant on trusting other people's interpretations and that much smugger when you pick up on things they get wrong until you realize they were actually sort of right and you just didn't now enough at the time to really figure out what they were trying to say but at least you'll be able to bully shitty subbers on Cambodian latte art imageboards when they fuck up and that's still better than nothing.
>>885972
Trying and failing is good way to make progress. Nobody says you have to release your shitty incomplete memesubs, but doing them in the first place is helpful. And you'll feel the good feel of progress when you go back and now you know that one thing that stumped you last time.
No.889994
How much exposition and shitty battle sequences can you fit into a single anime?