These snails are fully animatronic! I definitely trust this team to do Chopper justice. Here's hoping season 1 is a success and we can get a season 2!
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RE: One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced
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RE: Chapter 1094: Five Elders, Godhead of Science & Defense, St. Jaygarcia Saturn
On the other hand, the actual impact frame looked really good to me. It's a bit of a stretch, but the Star Gun attack sequence reminds me of Katakuri's Zan Giri Mochi.
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RE: One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced
I feel almost privileged to be a dub-and sub-lover. Mayumi Tanaka is a perfect Luffy in my opinion, but I can enjoy Colleen's interpretation and other ones as well. (It doesn't hurt that there are some voices I think are slightly better in the dub) I'm pretty excited to really get a chance to see Inaki's interpretation in full.
@FatDogForMidTerms said in One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced:
For what it's worth, almost everyone in Reddit's OP community is decimating the trailer right now. They are not happy with it.
...admittedly those guys suck but it's fascinating to see such a huge volume dismissal.
That is not the impression I get from going on r/onepiece. All positive posts are upvoted and you have to sort by controversial to get the negative ones. They are there, but they aren't getting upvoted to the same degree and many have negative karma. The top 8 posts are positive about the live action and there isn't a negative one until the 9th.
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RE: One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced
I love the Den Den Mushi. They're accurate, they look realistic, and they're the precise initially-offputtingly weird that OP has been since day one. I can't imagine them being any better.
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RE: Episode 3 (Tell No Tales) - Discussion
I'm in the middle of this episode and I just want to point out that the music is fantastic. I love that Zoro got lost in Kaya's house.
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RE: My Hero Academia II - A true Hero
Only 7 pages. Weekly manga may be a thing of the past. Gotta protect the artists.
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RE: Chapter 1066: The Will of Ohara
@Daz said in Chapter 1066: The Will of Ohara:
reduces the tragedy of the flashback
This is fine. It reduces the tragedy of the flashback in the present, after Robin has already been through it for the last 20 years and has recovered through finding friends. This is an awesome example of catharsis that I don't think diminishes what Robin went through and how it affected her.
It's not about it making sense or being expected, I think it's effective and deserved after Robin embraced the demon inside for her friends at Wano.
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RE: Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
@ea77 In my mind this scene is solidifying Sanji's inability to hit women as a good trait because it comes from a good source and opening up the way for him to ask for his help (an even better trait) in WCI, which Captain M talked about. I know Sanji has a lot of haters, but I truly do feel that he is the character Oda is best at developing.
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RE: One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced
@zeltrax225 said in One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced:
I don't even know what the point of this post is and the circles I'm going but if this fails even if people genuinely can see the good in it, it is because the series has become way too big and the internet culture today of being cynical and bandwagoning, without even caring to form your own thoughts, will be insufferable to experience if and when it does come.
This, I 100% agree with. It's so obvious too because a lot of the critiques use the exact same words and wording. It is what it is. Everyone's critique is valid to them, but I do think negativity is IN right now and a lot of people just struggle to enjoy things or give them a chance, which I don't think is healthy. On the other hand, there are a lot of projects that have been mishandled.
This though? Whether it's A+ material or not, I think it's being handled with love and respect for the source material.
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RE: The Brandon Sanderson (Cosmere) and other Fantasy novels thread
Doing a "Sanderson" needs to be defined in the Dictionary.
Wish I had watched this earlier so I could have pledged earlier, but my new job does not allow for phone time very often.
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RE: DUNE (beware book spoilers)
My dad was really into Dune and got to watch part one before he passed. I don't like the cast, but I'll probably suck it up and watch the two when part 2 drops on streaming just for his memory's sake.
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RE: Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra
I'm going to watch, but I don't care all that much. Looks fine, but nothing I've seen, heard, or read has convinced me that it does anything to set itself apart from the OG. It doesn't have to do that to be a worthwhile venture, but it will need to in order to really catch my attention.
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RE: What are you excited to see in One Piece that isn't fighting/powerscaling?
- What the One Piece is. I really hope it's a reveal that shocks and awes the readers as much as it does the war.
- Oda has repeatedly talked about how the final war will be shocking in some way. I'm hoping that the format of it is something we've never seen in manga.
- The location of Laugh Tale and what Lodestar is like.
- Elbaf in all its glory.
- The truth of Shanks' involvement with the Celestial Dragons.
- The history of the world and the Void Century.
- Uranus
- What role Big Mom and Kaido play when they come back into the story.
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RE: Academy Awards
I haven't seen any of those, but I'm probably going to watch The Holdovers pretty soon. I've heard great things about it.
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RE: Marvel Movies Thread - Holy Shitballs
@Satsuki said in Marvel Movies Thread - Holy Shitballs:
Not gonna lie, though. I had to look up all the actors other than Pascal. Recognized Vanessa, but the other two . . . I know nothing.
They both have had pretty huge roles in the last couple of years. Joseph Quinn was Eddie in the latest season of Stranger Things and Eddie was by far the breakout character in the season, if not the first real breakout character since Max in season 2.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach played a memorable side character in Andor (Arvel) and is currently playing one of the main characters in one of the most popular and critically acclaimed shows on tv, The Bear (Richie). He is honestly a veteran and has probably been in something you've seen on tv or in theatres. I am not familiar with Vanessa Kirby.
Edit: Ebon won an emmy for his role in The Bear. As someone who has watched the show I think it was well deserved.
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RE: Chapter 1106: On Your Side
I just reread the chapter and freak, Dorry and Broggy reuniting with the Straw Hats is so hype!
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RE: What Are You Watching? (Live-Action Edition)
@Nobodyman said in What Are You Watching? (Live-Action Edition):
Been watching Twin Peaks and, yeah, the show holds up really well. Episodes 7 to 9 of Season 2 are peak (haha) television.
Twin Peaks is one of the greatest pieces of fiction ever crafted. There is nothing approaching The Return in the history of cinema.
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RE: What Are You Watching? (Live-Action Edition)
Just watched episode 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It was excellent.
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RE: Palworld
@zeltrax225 said in Palworld:
@andre Palworld is developed by a Japanese company and they've done good work in their marketing seeing how their EA is given a week before to the top streamers (Vtubers,Live reactors,etc) in the Japanese internet ecosystem. It has been gathering alot of audience and players over there. There are no stats per se seeing how we are still early but I'm sure you can find them like a month later.
I am interested in them for sure. If they can actually make a dent in Japan then that is a true accomplishment.
Regarding your other point on this being a threat to the Pokemon's game design. Yeah, I'll agree that if I have to say definitively whether it is a yes or no, it's a no. But my point is there's a chance this could grow and become big or inspire other developers to make more creature collecting(if you can even just call it that at this point) that can take away market share/interest/love from the Pokemon audience.
It's what I wish to happen and like you've said, it might as well be unrealistic and stupid but I would rather see the potential of it being a disruptor than waive it off entirely.
I Just don't see this happening. I'm pretty open to another game series taking off and being huge, but I think Pokemon has to fall off in a way that we can't imagine and truly turn off even the most casual of players for them not to ever care.
You also need to keep in mind that Digmon, at one point, was an actual competitor to the franchise.
Did it? The anime was popular, but there was never Digimania the same way there was Pokemania. The merch and games just didn't have the same appeal and there wasn't enough consistency and that's even with the digital monster toy. I'd love to find hard data about it, but I've been unsuccessful so far.
Temtem didn't blow up as Palworld has done (probably because it wasn't as "shocking" a game design as Palworld has).
This is true.
Pokemon did consider their competitors in development (such as Digimon and Yokai) and the games were at one point banking on Black and White/ BW 2 to succeed because of how bad things were. That's why BW tried to change up the formula. That didn't do well and it hurt them hard.
It was on a path to irrelevancy.
What blew the franchise up in terms of revenue and public interest, at least back then, was Pokemon GO.
And I fucking hate that shit but it serves the revenue and it kept the games going. GO carried their revenue so hard that it left every other series in the dust. But then there's an argument to be made that Digimon was already faring pretty badly so there's no one to be left in the dust.
Digimon had been in the dust for over a decade when Go came out, but yes, you're right that gen 5 was sort of a downturn for Pokemon. Still, the scale of it is interesting. Those games are considered failures because they didn't sell 20 million +, but their sales are not far from the 2 generations before them and every gen has sold as many copies as most digimon games combined. They are playing in different leagues.
The point with GO and now with Palworld is that you have people who don't own a pokemon game, or owned one before and stopped following, or simply don't care about the franchise come in and spend real money/time on it. Even if it doesn't damage the franchise by having Palworld around, it is still evidence that there is a whole market of players out there that they are not tapping in which is at least worth something.
I agree with you on this last point. I hope the game takes off and becomes more widely available.