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[Cthulufaic]

Been watching Fist of the North Star.

It's barely animated and completely ridiculous but i cant stop.

That's because...

You are already hooked.

Yes.

Surprisingly, that was the first anime that gave me a case of the feels(although it was like 3am when it happened so my brain might've been particularly susceptible.)

[itisnotlogical]

The first season was simple, yet effective. I only watched it for a little bit after that though, because after Shin it's mostly just Kenshiro faffing about looking for something to do.

As far as I've seen, anyway. Maybe something interesting develops later, but I'm not interested in picking it back up again

[Cthulufaic]

The first season was simple, yet effective. I only watched it for a little bit after that though, because after Shin it's mostly just Kenshiro faffing about looking for something to do.

As far as I've seen, anyway. Maybe something interesting develops later, but I'm not interested in picking it back up again

Interesting things definitely happen, though the episodes become considerably less dense.
I'd say that if you have time for like an episode a day you'll find enough interesting parts to keep you going.

[JoshuaFH]

IIRC at around episode 70 or so, there's something like 10 (read it, ten) back-to-back flashback episodes. Feel free to skim through those with extreme prejudice.

But yeah, I watched All of HnK 1 and 2, it was a satisfying experience. Trust me when I say Ken's story isn't done with Shin.

[Rubidium]

It's Hetalia... combined with my FAVORITE video game!

I know who Luigi, Peach, Mario, and Wario are replaced with, but I don't know who Daisy is replaced with.

[Neonivek]

Hmm Fairytail seems to have forgotten that the sense of pain is linked to the sense of touch...

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Ohh Young Black Jack... please don't try to tackle race issues. You come from an incredibly racist period of Japan... I am not sure you will know how to handle it.

And I watched it and... it wasn't that bad... in that I thought it would be a train wreck of "doesn't get the point" but instead it was just a traffic jam of point-not-getting.

"Johnny stop fighting for human rights Johnny!" It is like the creator wasn't aware of the gravity of the situation. You don't just tell someone not to do it because it is risky, you tell them because you personally can't stand it (and then they do it anyway, but they appreciate you looking out for them).

Also it featured a Purple Puma proxy.

[JoshuaFH]

I started up Ring Ni Kakero. From the first second, characters are the most hotblooded I've seen since Buso Renkin or Mazinger Z. So hotblooded I'm surprised that they're not just constantly spurting out bloody steam from every orifice. It's a boxing anime that makes no pretense of any form of realism, the characters might as well be saiyans with gloves on.

I might have to see this one through to the end, if only to witness how absurd the superhuman feats become.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Ohh Young Black Jack... please don't try to tackle race issues. You come from an incredibly racist period of Japan... I am not sure you will know how to handle it.

I thought that the original manga handled race issues alright in the... one or two times it was brought up. The darkly coloured blotch/scar on Black Jack's face is from skin tissue donated one of his classmates who was (I believe half) black after Black Jack's house blew up with him in/near it. The manga makes a big point about the rest of Black Jack's classmates being too squeamish/controlled by their parents to donate part of their skin tissue, despite them being ethnically Japanese so that the donated tissue wouldn't be as obvious. And then of course after Jack Black grows up he eventually saves his classmate's life from some illness, as is to be expected for a manga about a rogue surgeon.

But then again that was just one story out of a couple hundred, so it's less that the manga handles race issues well and more like it barely handles them at all.

[i2amroy]

So started watching Durarara!! and am quite enjoying it (just finished the halfway point of the first season). I'm definitely seeing the influence of the fact that it has the same writer as Baccano!, it's a very similar storytelling style. Also I've found it very fun catching all the references to other anime throughout, though when Isaac and Miria showed up in their cameo in episode 11 I can't help but to say that I totally lost it. XD I must have been laughing for a good minute or two, which made everyone else around me look at me rather strangely, but it was just so hilarious that it was worth it.

[Leafsnail]

Hmm Fairytail seems to have forgotten that the sense of pain is linked to the sense of touch...

Not really.  We group quite a lot of senses that are entirely different under the label of "touch".  There are different receptors for pain and pressure, for instance.

[Orange Wizard]

And then there's itching, which is weird.

[Neonivek]

Hmm Fairytail seems to have forgotten that the sense of pain is linked to the sense of touch...

Not really.  We group quite a lot of senses that are entirely different under the label of "touch".  There are different receptors for pain and pressure, for instance.

Yeah but a lot of those are different categories of touch. In the same way that Smell is thousands of receptors.

[Orange Wizard]

Yeah, true. It's like trying to say that sweetness and bitterness aren't taste because they're different receptors (I think).

[Leafsnail]

We do lump them together for language purposes but scientifically they are regarded as distinct senses.  More to the point there are indeed conditions where you can lose some senses of "touch" but not others (losing your pain response is something that can happen).

[Reelya]

I'd also count nausea as a distinct sense (in terms of a distinct sensation), it doesn't really fit with "touch" or any of the other classic senses, and it's not really "pain" as such.

EDIT: Well I mentioned before that the new Hidan no Aria season had yuri undertones ... I take back any hint of "undertones". It's basically turned into Maria-sama ga Miteru, but with gun battles.