Manga and Anime

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean had a pretty decent start to the season and some good episodes here and there, but I'm on episode 36 right now and parts of this season have been outright bad, in my opinion. Feels like a really significant step down in quality from past seasons.

RealGunner wrote:

Stone Ocean

Took just 2 episodes for Jolyn to surpass Giorno. She is amazing. Great jojo so far. Love her already. However rest of the characters are shit. No good jobro other than weatherman who only came in the last ep. Still like it though and can't wait for rest of the episodes to hit. Dio's presence and even his name is larger than life. When that Dio music hits ffs :banderas:

speaking of which, why has Jotaro regressed so much? they have nerfed him down to unbelievably low length. My boy took on prime Dio and Kira only to jump by some absolute random stand gtfo.

How far did you get? I feel like it had a promising start that seemed like it was building up to something at first, but then it just started regressing in quality, Prison Break style  Like Jotaro's sudden cluelessness, a lot of these things just aren't explained, or have a really unlikely, nonsensical explanation. It's almost as if whoever's responsible for this adaption decided to bank on the viewers being too dumb to question why certain things happen the way they do lol. And maybe it's just me, but I don't appreciate all of the clichés in the latter part of the season.

RealGunner wrote:

Thimmy wrote:

RealGunner wrote:

Stone Ocean

Took just 2 episodes for Jolyn to surpass Giorno. She is amazing. Great jojo so far. Love her already. However rest of the characters are shit. No good jobro other than weatherman who only came in the last ep. Still like it though and can't wait for rest of the episodes to hit. Dio's presence and even his name is larger than life. When that Dio music hits ffs :banderas:

speaking of which, why has Jotaro regressed so much? they have nerfed him down to unbelievably low length. My boy took on prime Dio and Kira only to jump by some absolute random stand gtfo.

How far did you get? I feel like it had a promising start that seemed like it was building up to something at first, but then it just started regressing in quality, Prison Break style  Like Jotaro's sudden cluelessness, a lot of these things just aren't explained, or have a really unlikely, nonsensical explanation. It's almost as if whoever's responsible for this adaption decided to bank on the viewers being too dumb to question why certain things happen the way they do lol. And maybe it's just me, but I don't appreciate all of the clichés in the latter part of the season.

I have just started part 2 and it's miles better than part 1. Absolutely enjoying it so far. The events from 'fight club' in the max security ward to all the way to Pucci walking out of the prison. Unbelievable stuff

Yeah.. it's the outside of the prison part that made the show regress in quality, in my opinion. I could feel my interest gradually fading as soon as they got out of the prison and the focused plot became more unfocused and filler-like.

RealGunner wrote:I've carried on and I see your point. However it's still good imo. That plane crash episode was elite for example.

It's not bad, but the lack of focus derailed or deviated the story from what seemed like it was leading up to something interesting. It hit a peak in the prison, in my opinion. And then it mostly went downhill from there.

RealGunner wrote:

Thimmy wrote:

RealGunner wrote:I've carried on and I see your point. However it's still good imo. That plane crash episode was elite for example.

It's not bad, but the lack of focus derailed or deviated the story from what seemed like it was leading up to something interesting. It hit a peak in the prison, in my opinion. And then it mostly went downhill from there.

I think it's the case in every season. There are always 10-15 episodes in between the season which are pointless but just a way to show off creativity in stands

Sure, but it wasn't just stagnation. I thought it was anti-climactic. The high point of the story that I was waiting for, never came because the story went in the opposite direction and never pulled itself back up again (in my opinion). It could've been a great season/arc, but after the prison part, it was just writer's block leading up to the bad guy, final battle If they were attempting to show off creativity in the stands, then it was really poorly executed compared to how they did it inside of the prison. Everything dropped in quality outside of it.

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Been waiting for Attack on Titan for so long finally able to get it... not an expert on Anime at all, but is it really one of the best ever? The imdb rating is so high n I loved it, but not understanding how it lasted for so many yrs n that different studios did the end seasons? How does that work? Anyway just makes it a bit weird since I kinda watched from the start to finish in recent times instead of over all those yrs...

Then naturally moved on to Vinland Saga, love season 1, but just a bit into season 2 n its like completely different n shit now. Im guessing its similar to a lot of TV series where they gained the audience in the first season being good, n then drag it out over the next seasons to juice it so the series usually turns to shit? Am I right in thinking that animes are the same?

Phew, finally finished Vinland Saga S2... so glad I watched it all together since most of it was soooo dragggggg outtttt.... clearly typical of just another series stretched to numerous times than it had real material just to make more episode, ie. money lol.... Not bad overall still but nothing like the classic S1...

Read comments online n realized that some ppl love it, n I get it, some ppl like character development n slower pacing story telling, but I much prefer the S1 non stop action more...

Also read that S3 might only make it out in 2025, lol? Im not familiar but how are series taking forever to make these days? Geez...

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Firenze wrote:I don't have high hopes for any Berserk adaptation nowadays sadly, but I hope it's good

I gave the last one a chance, and I couldn't get through a single episode At least, this one has proper animation. The CGI in the other one made my eyes bleed. It looked like everyone was wearing buckets of korean skin products.