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I remember when /a/ would do story time whenver a new manga chapter was released. Those were fun and interesting threads. I feel like editor-kun was able to keep the author's autism in check when the series wasn't as popular as it is now. And as a consequence, the whole story suffers from it. The organization using the orphanage system to raise child soldiers and then deploying them as cannon fodder was always in the background of this setting, but hinting darkness and outright showing abuse and gore are completely different hings. I think the anime has too much shock that it becomes less shocking. Shocking things are more impactful when you are wrapped up in the mc's naivety and positive attitude. You could forget the bad stuff while reading the manga, because chapters were months apart. But that isnt how anime releases work, so you just get bombarded with negative imagery with little chance to cooldown or recover.

>>814
>I think the anime has too much shock that it becomes less shocking
I disagree. I watched the anime (including dotds) before i read the manga and i found it to be quite tame in comparison to what''s actually shown in the manga. At some point in the manga during the ganja squad story there's a literal sex scene involving Pakkoyan and Vueko that's absent in the anime and a lot of the "shocking" stuff is cut.

I love art

>>779
>>787
well didn't he disappear after nichijou?

>>779
I have faith in whoever else they get

>>797
He's still releasing music what do you mean?

>>800
Furui Riho does the opening and TOMOO does the credits
I assume Piranhas are doing the soundtrack itself

>>803
my bad, I just assumed he had stopped.

Just a few months

Not my usual genre but I'm reading Kitchen no Ohimesama at the moment. Enjoying it well enough so far. Mostly just in it for the baking aspect (although the art is very cute).

Rewatching Princess Tutu, I loved it the first time around and wanted to experience it for a second time, though in all honesty I'm not ready to be sad again.

right now I'm watching Idol Precure and Princession

>>87
I was watching Futari wa but got distracted by watching VOTOMS. I love Nagisa.

>>89 I remember this manga! I read it at the local library when I was much younger and remember it being pretty decent. Does it still hold up?

Bumping since im here.

>>354
>>502
I don't know if this is much help. But there's this Youtuber called Johnny Joestar who worked on making remasters of some of Ishii's unreleased tracks for Hellsing (i.e. Golden Ball Heaven) and he even collaborated with Ishii to make some original tracks.
Anyhow a while back he did a comparison video of the old broadcast footage and the final version. And in a followup video he mentioned that the broadcast footage was on Japanese DVDs before the "Rescript" versions. And that a youtuber named Shockwave984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nvXEz2MXA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0X7bCwE9aE
However, unfortunately, some people in the comments mention that this DVD doesn't actually contain broadcast footage, and it only appears this way due to the fact that the promotional art of the DVD uses screencaps from the broadcast footage.
So unfortunately, the broadcast footage might be lost media. I definitely remember seeing the old footage used in some AMVs and it's how Johnny Joestar got a lot of his footage, but I don't know if we'll ever find the full uncut versions of every episode. You might have better luck with the Lost Media Wiki.

>>801

Thanks for the reply.
As you can see in >>502 for the rescript releases they came out right after the series ended its initial broadcast run. This is the earliest release out of all the domestic and foreign releases of Hellsing TV.
However, they definately dont contain the broadcast version.
All the broadcast episodes i found on Veoh by dead fansubbers right before it died so if there was any more there its gone now.
Such a shame really.

>>802
Then yeah, unfortunately it would seem that you'd have better luck going to the Lost Media Wiki and asking there given how good their track record is at finding stuff like this. There is a chance someone might have the episodes in their hard drive somewhere, I think it's the best/last shot for now.
Part of me wants to say that there's a chance that some obscure Hellsing fansite has it. But at the same time, I think Hellsing's popularity in the west only really got traction after the Rescript DVD already released, so that's the only thing that makes me think otherwise. But still worth a shot. Plus given we have documentation like AMVs and comparison images ( >>372 )
and whatnot, I think there's definitely SOME chance someone still has all the broadcast era episodes. I know it's pretty redundant to mention, but I think these are the only possible leads I can think of.
The other last (but unlikely) possibility is some of the foreign fansubs. Since I am fluent in Italian, I could also try looking into some Italian sites regarding the Knights fansub group mentioned before, but I doubt I'll find much. But I'll also try and see if I can find anything there, even if I think it'll probably be a dead-end.

>>804

When i looked into it i believe soldats was the only group that fansubbed all 13 episodes. The eastern european groups i found episodes of had soldats on them so they subbed over their rips.
I believe knights only did the first one and stopped.

sia is the perfect wife..

>>605
Anyone read it in Japanese? Is it easy?

>>734
it was one of my first japanese vns actually, not too difficult i'd say! i'd recommend it

>>722
Sia's route wasn't that interesting to me but I found her quite charming. Her and Kikyou were both pretty cute.

>>724
What the fuck are you talking about? Shows dealing with cyberpunk aesthetics and postmodernist malaise are by necessity going to be in conversation with Western ways of doing things. Their source material is overwhelmingly Western.

There was no conspiracy to shit up the cozy wap schema you have of Japan; the Y2K era had a strain of creators who were critical of the modern condition all around the world.

>>730
im sorry.

>>724
I strongly doubt it. Especially since there was a lot of dark stuff in the 80s with hyper violent OVAs that was reviled by a lot of westerners, especially internet critics of the 2000s. Hell look at Genocyber which was peak nihilism and postmodern critique. The same guy that did Genocyber went on to do the plot of FMA 2003 which was more nihilistic than the source material.
I think it's less to do with western influence and more a sub-sect of that Japanese generation at the time that grew disillusioned, I am not that good at Japanese Cold War history, but part of me thinks it has to do with all the wacky shit that was going on in the 60s-70s with those extreme leftist groups that were taking over schools and causing literal sieges (I think there was even one that was a literal self-hating anti-Japanese group?).
Also post-modern critique in Japan is nothing really new. So I don't really believe that either. It just so happens it more easily appeals to western tastes because westerners are a lot more cynical.

>>730
I wouldn't be so harsh, he heard it from another anon so I strongly doubt it's his own beliefs. But I can see why it would be easy to jump to that conclusion if you only looked at it superficially. If you look deeper it doesn't really add up that much honestly.

>>199
>It's as if Gonzo wanted to atone for how much they butchered Hellsing by taking a similar IP
Nah take that back. Hellsing 2001 was great.
I get it wasn't faithful, but I just found out more interesting than Hirano's original version (I like the tone, characters, writing, style and music more). Hirano's original manga felt too rushed since Hirano was just too lazy to actually write the damn story, which is part of the reason why the anime was mostly original instead of faithful.
I wish Hirano had more of an attitude like Arakawa when it came to unfaithful adaptations, I would've liked Hellsing 2001 to run for a bit longer before then having Ultimate come out much later so Hirano could've taken more time to actually finish the manga instead of rushing it in such a weird way. But nah, Hirano threw a hissy fit about 2001 and probably got any continuation shit-canned.

Since Ergo Proxy is being talked about, here is an old interview with the director.

>>610
I can understand finding the Sketchbook manga insufferable. It's largely anti-humor, but I like it because of that. The Hidarmari Sketch manga should be ending soon in terms of chapter count but it's been 9 months since the last chapter so that slows things down a lot.

Watching Hidamari in the middle of the night was the only way I could fall asleep while sick. This series is a gift from heaven.
>>610
Interesting, Hoshimitsu is my favorite season and the one I rewatch most often. I never finished Honeycomb cause I don't want it to end.

>>565
It's nice to have a situation where the most popular one is the best as well.
For Sketchbook I recall it being decent but all the cat parts being shit. For GA for reasons I can't recall it's one of my least favourite Kirara anime. I really don't know what it did wrong to make me consider it Aldnoah tier but aside from remembering a surrealist episode being decent I don't remember anything else so have to defer to a list I made 6 years ago.

For extra art girl anime if I count New Game and Stella no Mahou they'd only be behind Hidamari. If I include mangaka and potters a few extra series would join them.

Cute Kuga

>>792
Ooba is best girl

Whoops, one of those is not post-2000, but the recc still stands! All of Matsumoto Leiji's works, really.

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>>569
Kouya ni Kemono Doukokusu.
it's about a genespliced super soldier fighting furries.
it's got a monke lady and a multibreasted tiger lady.
Dorohedoro.
it's about a lizard guy fighting wizards.
it's got a muscle lady and a brain damaged goth girl.