First three parts of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure are now on znetflix so no one has any excuse any more. Better watching that than some phoned in Netflix exclusive shit about a murderer who kills with bees or whatever.

Started my hero academia last night, am a bit sick (coughing fits courtesy of my children) so wanted something easy.

2 episodes in, am enjoying it! Not enjoying crunchy roll ads that all of sudden pop in at MAXIMUM VOLUME but I could always pay premium if it really annoyed me.

Finished Pluto Urasawa x Tezuka last night, that was really good. Thanks for recommending that years ago, @Tempy.

Such clean linework, loved it.

Yeah the way emotions were drawn was so good. I sometimes just stared for minutes at faces and expressions, wondering how such simple lines could contain so much emotion. In some panels you could just hear the silence, rage or laughter.

I was sad when I popped the last 4 issues into the library returns box yesterday, I think I need to buy them at some point. Such good designs in there.

I reckon you'r really like KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF EIZOUKEN too Nina. There's a manga, and a live action show, but I think the anime that's currently airing is the best way of experiencing it. Three school girls team up to make an Anime Club at their school, cos two of them love animation and one loves money. It's a mix of realistic and over the top, but frequently at it's best when the two girls who love animation imagine new ideas and the show represents them as the team exploring a sketched out world, with the sound effects replaced with the girls making the noises themselves - great touch for a great show.

It is yep. Crunchy Roll has a pretty good PS4 app. I watched a bunch of JoJo and HxH on there with Ev. Also a loooot of Haikyuu.

I think overall Crunchy Roll is better value then Netflix for me cos I'd rather get two or three decent shows per anime season on there than a wealth of shiiite on Netflix. Plus I can just use it to watch all of HxH again, which is invaluable.

Crunchy Roll has an issue with JoJo where it's the official licensed version, and because of that they can't say things like Bad Company so you get a stand being called WORSE COMPANY instead. It's kind of hilarious though, as the Japanese VAs don't have to worry about that, so you can hear them say the right names int he background. NOTORIOUS B.I.G in part 5 becomes Notorious Chase.

In fact Part 5 is so bad I sent a list of all the English translations to Reg once to see if he could guess them. Six Bullets, Zipper Man, Li'l Bomber, Thankful Dead, Fisher Man, Sanctuary, Green Tea... haha, wild stuff.

Up to the last 4 volumes of Dorohedoro. I'm gonna miss this bunch. Including the devil worshipers. And the devils.

The latest Viz translation of Diamond is Unbreakable came out and was devoured. Kira is foreshadowed towards the end and I'm told DiU really picks up once he gets going. Hopefully he can somewhat fill that Dio shaped hole.

Ah I didn't realise Dorohedoro only finished relatively recently a couple of years back. Kind of makes sense now why Chidaruma had a Ninty Switch on his bedroom floor.

I watched the first episode. It doesn't seem good so I probably won't bother watching any more.

The animation style is stinking and that also puts me off a lot. It reminds me of those terrible cartoons from the early 2000s that tried to be fully CGI but just looked rotten.

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I watched the first episode. It doesn't seem good so I probably won't bother watching any more.

The animation style is stinking and that also puts me off a lot. It reminds me of those terrible cartoons from the early 2000s that tried to be fully CGI but just looked rotten.

Yeah it’s like a game cutscene from ps2

I never read OP before, so i’m going chronologically - nearing the end of Skypiea. i’ve got a lot to go.

I think Oda genuinely enjoys making it, and could probably just carry on until he drops without ever regretting it, though given the state of the story at the moment it does feel like they are circling a conclusion of sorts. It does explain why the anime is absolute dross at times, Toei and the other two sponsors need it to run all year round to capitalise on the huge interest in the manga so the grunts never get a day off. It’s a shame because it’s benefit from better animation and tighter arc compression.

I think it works so well cos it avoids so many typical shonen pitfalls - it’s like a less cynical and introverted HxH in that it jumps from one plot beat to the next really naturally and there’s never a need to set the slate back to zero as they’re sailing around. Plus, like HxH and yer JoJo etc it’s stupidly inventive and all of it’s characters feel like they have twists on the cookie cutter stuff, even if One Piece’s are often just dumb stuff like an assassin who is deathly afraid of bread etc.

Anyway how do you feel about Oda naming the coolest crew member after you?

That was 10 years ago, that’s some grudge to bear

I've run out of episodes of the current arc of One Piece so Ive decided to start Haikyu which I think Tempy recommended. It's about high schoolers playing volleyball.

I've watched the first episode and it seems dope, there's already been some real nice slow mo jumping.

Anyone got any recommendations for some new series? Stuff that is in its first series?