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Reelya

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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27495 on: May 05, 2016, 03:36:12 am »

Spice and Wolf I just finished binging this morning and it didn't have nearly as much medieval economics as I would have preferred. This show is ecchi in disguise, sold to me as hard historical fantasy, but turned out to be driven mostly by an intelligently written (the characters I felt were mostly excellent except for some personal gripes) love story
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You've passed Economics 101 with Professor Fluffytail; now it's time for Economics 201 with Professor Demontits.

I suppose there's also "World End Economica", a VN available on Steam. It promises a story chock full of dense Day Trader lingo, but I haven't tried it out myself.

There's also C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control. Though that ones not actually on my watch list. It sounds like Pokemon: Wall Street Edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(anime)#Terminology
Trainer = "Entrepeneur"
Battle Zone = "Financial District"
Monster Pet = "Asset"
Battle between trainers and their pets = "Deal"
Winnings = "Midas Money" which you bet on the "Deals". You can trade your life (future) for more of this money.
So you can see that they nailed it, in terms of how economics really works.

BTW I watched Dantalian no Shoka a while ago, it reminded me a lot of Spice and Wolf with the main characters' dialogue, except it was about cursed books instead of economics. It's almost entirely episodic however, so if you check it out it will be more enjoyable if you're watching it for the individual stories.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27496 on: May 05, 2016, 04:02:51 am »

To me C seemed like a show that could have been a really cool shonen-esque show but was kinda ruined by a lack of delving into the ideas behind the concepts and a vastly rushed pace due to the fact that there were only 11 episodes. I mean it was still definitely an okay anime, but the fact that they decided to go the "character-driven story route" rather than the "Pokemon: Wall Street Edition" route pretty much just meant that the very short number of episodes hit them for a double whammy.

In short, it was a nice time filler that I think could have really been a very cool character-driven show if they had of done 24 episodes or so, but with only 11 it isn't much more than just a time waster show to watch when you don't really have something better IMO.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27497 on: May 05, 2016, 04:18:21 am »

Spice and Wolf I just finished binging this morning and it didn't have nearly as much medieval economics as I would have preferred. This show is ecchi in disguise, sold to me as hard historical fantasy, but turned out to be driven mostly by an intelligently written (the characters I felt were mostly excellent except for some personal gripes) love story
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
You've passed Economics 101 with Professor Fluffytail; now it's time for Economics 201 with Professor Demontits.

I suppose there's also "World End Economica", a VN available on Steam. It promises a story chock full of dense Day Trader lingo, but I haven't tried it out myself.

There's also C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control. Though that ones not actually on my watch list. It sounds like Pokemon: Wall Street Edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(anime)#Terminology
Trainer = "Entrepeneur"
Battle Zone = "Financial District"
Monster Pet = "Asset"
Battle between trainers and their pets = "Deal"
Winnings = "Midas Money" which you bet on the "Deals". You can trade your life (future) for more of this money.
So you can see that they nailed it, in terms of how economics really works.

BTW I watched Dantalian no Shoka a while ago, it reminded me a lot of Spice and Wolf with the main characters' dialogue, except it was about cursed books instead of economics. It's almost entirely episodic however, so if you check it out it will be more enjoyable if you're watching it for the individual stories.

C is intentionally a bait and switch. If you get into it for the pokemon-esk aspect, your going to be disappointed.

The best way I can possibly put it is that it is a synopsis modern economics and... well... spoiler topics. Except played out in literal ways.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27498 on: May 05, 2016, 10:52:19 am »

things like Nekopara that are the essential equivalent of porn novels.
Nekopara is the literal equivalent of a porn novel. The steam version is censored :V
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27499 on: May 05, 2016, 11:19:31 am »

There's also C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control. Though that ones not actually on my watch list. It sounds like Pokemon: Wall Street Edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(anime)#Terminology
Trainer = "Entrepeneur"
Battle Zone = "Financial District"
Monster Pet = "Asset"
Battle between trainers and their pets = "Deal"
Winnings = "Midas Money" which you bet on the "Deals". You can trade your life (future) for more of this money.
So you can see that they nailed it, in terms of how economics really works.

BTW I watched Dantalian no Shoka a while ago, it reminded me a lot of Spice and Wolf with the main characters' dialogue, except it was about cursed books instead of economics. It's almost entirely episodic however, so if you check it out it will be more enjoyable if you're watching it for the individual stories.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27500 on: May 05, 2016, 11:20:29 am »

NEW TRAILER RELEASED

Also an anime prologue spinoff announced

EDIT: Apparently hacker girl's persona is Necronomicon O_O

Persona 5 stuff announced
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« Reply #27501 on: May 05, 2016, 01:28:23 pm »

It sounds like Pokemon: Wall Street Edition
When you say it like that it sounds awesome, though.

things like Nekopara that are the essential equivalent of porn novels.
Nekopara is the literal equivalent of a porn novel. The steam version is censored :V
The Steam version of everything is censored.
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« Reply #27502 on: May 05, 2016, 01:51:46 pm »

NEW TRAILER RELEASED

Also an anime prologue spinoff announced

EDIT: Apparently hacker girl's persona is Necronomicon O_O

Persona 5 stuff announced


Is it just me, or did Igor's voice get... A LOT deeper?
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27503 on: May 05, 2016, 02:08:02 pm »

NEW TRAILER RELEASED

Also an anime prologue spinoff announced

EDIT: Apparently hacker girl's persona is Necronomicon O_O

Persona 5 stuff announced


Is it just me, or did Igor's voice get... A LOT deeper?
It did. His old voice actor died. From how menacing the replacement is, it sounds like they might be working the voice change into the plot.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27504 on: May 05, 2016, 02:18:19 pm »

NEW TRAILER RELEASED

Also an anime prologue spinoff announced

EDIT: Apparently hacker girl's persona is Necronomicon O_O

Persona 5 stuff announced


Is it just me, or did Igor's voice get... A LOT deeper?
You are 100% correct.  I mean, maybe at 200 you hit a double-puberty and your voice drops another octave or something.
Also that girl with the short hair and red eyes reminds me a lot of the female protagonist from P3P, including that rad motorcycle .
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« Reply #27505 on: May 05, 2016, 03:07:45 pm »

Wow Boku No Hero Academia... actually has a good Dub...

On a side note I'd like to explain a bit more about the bully character and how he is such a big jerk that he somehow... can't be taken seriously as a Jerk.

Another aspect of it is the WAY he bullies the main character. The focus of his bullying is less put downs and ego attacks, though it is present, and more... threatening him to not even attempt to apply to the same school as him because it would interfere with his plans.

Which means that the bully character, though he hides it, is clearly threatened that our powerless protagonist through his sheer heroic heart could somehow get into an elite school for super heroes... And he keeps perpetually focusing on him.

Seriously what is his problem?
Personality leans towards dominance.  He has always been one of the biggerthe biggest fish.  Deku has always been smallest fish.  It probably rubs him in the wrong way to have the smallest fish save his much bigger tail fin, while still being smallest fish... then later
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« Reply #27506 on: May 05, 2016, 05:51:11 pm »

He acted that way before the spoiler happened though.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27507 on: May 05, 2016, 06:17:18 pm »

To me C seemed like a show that could have been a really cool shonen-esque show but was kinda ruined by a lack of delving into the ideas behind the concepts and a vastly rushed pace due to the fact that there were only 11 episodes. I mean it was still definitely an okay anime, but the fact that they decided to go the "character-driven story route" rather than the "Pokemon: Wall Street Edition" route pretty much just meant that the very short number of episodes hit them for a double whammy.

In short, it was a nice time filler that I think could have really been a very cool character-driven show if they had of done 24 episodes or so, but with only 11 it isn't much more than just a time waster show to watch when you don't really have something better IMO.

I quite liked C, but probably a bit in the same way that other people like Fate/stay Night; in that it's more about the concept than what it is actually about, plot-wise.

They clearly had a bigger idea of what they wanted to do than what they were given a budget for, and that shows.
But, it's still a cool idea to base an action series around the concept of money. Losing money when you are hit, spending money to do attacks, stealing money from your opponents to increase your own finances and savings, ect. The problem is, as you said, very little of the systems at play beyond the basics are ever explained to the viewer despite them clearly existing, and the show is half the length it should have been.

I first watched it because I saw a clip of it in a random AMV and thought, "Wait, that looked like Persona", and Persona is likely a better comparison than Pokemon to describe it.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #27508 on: May 05, 2016, 10:02:03 pm »

Watched episode 4 of Koutetsujou no Kabaneri. Fuck this show's good.
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« Reply #27509 on: May 05, 2016, 11:34:04 pm »

Watched episode 4 of Koutetsujou no Kabaneri. Fuck this show's good.

God... every episode is just so... badass
I love it.
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