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Hey man. Most things are the same, we got a new version of the forum software that made everything worse for the users but apparently better for the nerds behind the scenes, XYTWO unfortunately passed away about a year ago, and Guy had a sex change so please refer to them as a female from now on.

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It's also perfectly ok to like anime and hate the culture because your average anime fan is a braindead fucking idiot with no concept of quality. It also makes for good posting content, I stroke my dick to my own superior tastes all of the time man, try it. Hey, how're you doing. Welcome back.

And now I'm very happy to have started coming to this forum again. I recently got into toy collecting as well. Here's my collection so far. Going to try and pick up a chogokin going merry to replace that terrible bandai model soon.

Captain Hindsight! Thank God you're here!

I'm still here but slightly put off by your apparent aversion to "fake nerds"

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​Oh dear... I've actually started watching One Piece (Dear god it's the greatest show ever why did no one tell me?) but I'm still in this weird gray area of both loving and hating weabs and the "anime culture" in general. At least as far as it goes here in america. ​It's perfectly okay to like anime and hate the "culture" because there's some toxic shit in there. "Incest and pedophilia are awesome gimme some more of that in anime pls" But yeah One Piece is great. Moby is right and you should watch one Punch Man.

Hey dude, we're a meme community now. Make sure to check your fortune!

Is anyone still here? Is this forum still a thing that exists? EVERYTHING LOOKS DIFFERENT WHAT HAPPENED!?

​OH MY FUCKING GOD

new track oh my fucking god

​ I skimmed a few chapters of the manga and while it seems decent I'll wait until there's an english dub. I hate having to read subtitles. ​Thats a good way of putting it. It's really starting to ruin the convention scene. Hell just take a look at what happened to the san diego comic con. 8 years ago everything was fine and then Disney bought out marvel, moms and tweens flooded in to meet twilight the vampire, and the media took over. Now it's nothing but a $3000 trip you take to watch fucking commercials a week before everyone else sees them. Even Dragoncon is starting to see this happen and it is a completely fan run convention. Thursdays and Fridays are still almost as good as they always were but the second that fucking parade hits the streets of atlanta saturday morning every asshole touristy daywalker and their snot nosed kids flood the convention floors and make the convention so much worse. Even the parade itself is no longer a bunch of nerds showing off their cosplay. This year leading the parade was god damn medieval times and a slew of other bullshit goosestepping commercials. "Nerds" are now weirdly a minority in their own communities but any time anyone tries to speak up about it someone always pulls out the "Oh, you're just mad because of those so called fake geek girls you think are just wearing skimpy outfits for attention!" which is an entirely different (but also valid) argument. ​TBH being a "nerd" is nothing to be proud of. It's basically synonymous with being a social outcast. It's a good thing that people don't need to be afraid to say "I like this" for fear of being mocked mercilessly. If you need to deal with the influx of new people shitting up the place...so be it. It just means your favorite thing is now doing well financially.

DAE TBBT = Nerd blackface???? ;_;

​Well, still. Those awesome frame by frames are really hard to do in an anime with a budget. Still, they could have kept the sweet angles at least. On the bright side, they finally introduced the true hero of the series: Licenseless Rider, Hero of Justice.

can we autofilter the word "hatred" to "edge"

Not much has changed except I've finally and officially trademarked the letters K O and G and you owe me ten cents every time you use one of them. I'll let your OP slide since you're "new" but for the rest of this thread I'm gonna need to collect a sum of $10.40 (or equivalent value in Steam inventory items) by the first of November or I will be forced to consult my legal team. I can and will repossess $10 worth of your house if necessary. Usually it's just one brick or something but rest assured, I will make sure I take the most structurally important brick. This is your first and final notice.

​ It's a NECA figure so basically all those joints are glued shut with paint. The only thing I know to try is to soak the figure in some hot water for a few minutes to try and get things moving.

​ The soldier figure's joints is just wonky, accidentally snapped the leg off with mine.

I have a spare TV, PS4 and Xbox I recently acquired if you want to buy them out of the back of my van. I'm selling them cheap.

Today I managed to remove ufotable's expertly animated cock from my mouth just long enough for me to sit down and write this post without being too distracted. I can assure you however, that while you're reading this I am without a doubt fellating the Fate series' throbbing manhood once again. So here we go! Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (Which henceforth will be referred to as "UBW" in this post) is the 2nd attempt at an anime adaptation of the route of the same name contained within the visual novel "Fate/stay night". It started airing last year and finished airing this summer coming out at a total of 25 episodes and a 50 minute prologue. Production of UBW was handled entirely by the animation studio "ufotable" (Don't ask me how that is pronounced, I don't fucking know) who've also adapted a lot of other Type/Moon IP's such as "Kara no Kyoukai" and "Fate/Zero" not to mention basically every single "Tales of" anime adaptation ever. Now while not every single show ufotable has ever worked on is animated all that well, it seems to be a recurring theme that their Type/Moon adaptations are stunningly animated... Probably because Type/Moon have a metric fuckton of money available to throw at their animation studio, but hey, whatever works. UBW is no different in this aspect. The animation is the first thing that will strike most people if they were to sit down and watch it. While the stylistic choices of the character designs might throw some people off, there is no way of getting around the fact, that UBW's animation bleeds budget. Take this example video if you're curious. It contains no major spoilers to the actual anime. That being said, it's not all roses and there are times where you can tell they've skimped out on the animation by using CGI, but the animation is there when it matters. So what on earth is UBW about? A pretty broad question that would take me a long time to answer in complete detail, but the baseline is that UBW is one giant "Battle Royale". I don't really want to go into excruciating detail about things, as I would rather let the anime speak for itself, but suffice it to say that 7 "Masters" are chosen to summon 7 "Servants" and must fight to the death for a chance to get their wishes granted by the Holy Grail. The 7 servants are assigned to 7 different classes, all with different strengths and weaknesses. Archer, Assassin, Berserker, Caster, Lancer, Rider and Saber. The servants are made up of "Heroic Spirits", which are basically heroes from a different time. Alexander the Great is the Rider-class Servant in Fate/Zero for example. So now that you know the basics, I guess the big question here is: Is UBW worth watching? My answer is: Yes, it is worth watching (If you don't mind a bit of Tsundere) - but your experience with it might be vastly different from my own. I've very recently played through the route in the visual novel that UBW is adapting, I watched the anime with that experience fresh in mind and it was GREAT. Every episode I was clapping my hands and squealing in delight at seeing the book I'd just read spring to life in front of my eyes. ufotable really managed to get the adaptation right, as someone who read the VN, everything felt like it was on point. They did change a few minor things such as locations for certain scenes, but all the events of the visual novel remain intact with the anime adaptation. Truth be told it was fucking glorious. I can hardly contain my boner for this anime. BUT But there is always something and this is just my personal opinion. I kinda wish they'd taken some more liberties with the adaptation. As it stands, I think UBW is perfectly watchable, but they could easily have done a lot more to improve the understanding of the part of their audience which has NOT read the visual novel. There are parts of this anime where the characters just go on and on and fucking on about things that your average viewer either won't fully comprehend because they lack the background knowledge from the VN or because the absurd amount of exposition that sometimes takes place just doesn't belong in an anime. That sort of exposition is fine in the visual novel format, but it doesn't translate all that well into animation. It's such a shame too, because I think if ufotable had just gone with their guts a little bit more and made the adaptation a bit more viewer-friendly for the non-VN crowd, the anime would be a lot more celebrated than it currently is. It's not that you won't understand the anime if you haven't read the VN, but it just lacks a few things that makes the VN the great experience that it is. I think this image of Keanu Reeves with a Ferrari actually sums up my opinion quite well. UBW looks absolutely amazing and runs like a dream and while I can't be unhappy about it any way, I still can't help but be a little sad that they didn't go further with it. /blog EDIT: I can't believe I forgot the most important part, but the Fate series also has an ungodly amount of waifu for laifu candidates. I mean goddamn. GODDAMN.

I don't know how much you guys keep up with anime news, but it was recently revealed that the voice actress for a character called "Agiri" from an anime called "Kill me Baby" was arrested for drug possession (Which is a VERY big no-no in Japan, to the point where she will most likely never work in the acting industry ever again). Well there was a large thread about it on 4chan's Anime & Manga board and after a bit of snooping around, some anons discovered that her name had been removed from basically everything related to the anime. Then an anon posted this. And I was bored, so I complied.