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[Zangi]

Do guest passes remove ads?  Cause holy snackbar, the amount of ads.

Either way, meh, nevermind about it.  I already have all my animu viewing wants fulfilled elsewhere, unless they got Game of Thrones.

[i2amroy]

I'm just impressed at the battery that thing has in it. I think they said he's been there months at least. Even with the time loops, and assuming that he keeps the thing off most of the time, that's not normal.

IIRC it is an old school nokia and if he put it into an airplane mode equivalent right away and kept it off the majority of the time it's hypothetically possible it could stretch power out to a month or so.

However in regards to Re: Zero, I agree that the show is equal parts 'Oh my god now that I'm out of the frustratingly depressing bit this is weirdly awesome' and 'Oh my god why do I feel like a new frustratingly depressing bit is going to happen'.

I made it around episode 16/17 before the feeling got bad enough that I broke my normal no spoilers rule and skimmed the plot of the rest of the released light novels to see when, if ever, it was going to move on to a part where we finally move past just throwing frustratingly depressing bits at the protagonist over and over again. I don't want to spoil anything for those people who enjoy watching shows like that, but I will say that said moments in the plot appeared few and far apart enough that I decided it wasn't worth it to keep watching the show.

Seriously, it's like the show was created by someone who got dared to see how long they could string viewers out with nothing more than a gender-flipped Break the Cutie trope.

[Tack]

I can live in hope that the anime diverges?

Because yeah, if it's just going to be a depressfest I may as well go watch Skins.

[Hawkfrost]

Re: Nerds, in which we discuss the problems with cell phone battery life in a setting with actual magic, temporal looping death curses, gods, fairies, and dragons.

Hey, even in a series with magic a world needs to stay consistent with it's own rules to stay believable.

[BFEL]

HOLY GOD DAMN

Started watching JoJo again after being turned off by the first Joestar's backstory, and Joseph Joestar is the best thing ever. He's actually a damn smart fighter, something you don't see in anime that often. He brings grenades to fistfights. I'm gonna be sad when the next protag takes over.

[Furtuka]

WE TOLD YOU

[Max™]

Grandpa Joseph was good fun in Stardust Crusaders, the missus enjoys those types of voice actors, Iskandar (Rider) from Fate/Zero being the other that pops up since we're watching that atm.

[BFEL]

Hmm, as smart as Joseph is, there are some parts where I still feel like yelling at him for being stupid. Right now him and Caesar are arguing about whether to go into a building with a bad guy in it. Thing is, bad guy can't go out in the sun. So I'm here wondering why the hell they don't just BLOW UP THE FUCKING BUILDING. Then the sun will shine in and kill him. Easy fucking peasy.

[RoguelikeRazuka]

I started reading the Clannad manga several days ago (haven't played the game or watched the anime, don't ask why), and honestly I dislike it for the most part. Probably I'm just too old for this stuff, but the story itself and the characters left me almost totally indifferent (maybe except Kotomi, what a beautiful name), I find them too unrealistic and not convincing to me. They seem not to behave like real people, not at least the kind of people I'm used to observe in my real life (that is not to say that I actually got to know that many people either).

Besides... How to put this... It is not like I don't take delight in watching pretty girls doing pretty things (you can believe I do), but why are there so few male characters taking part in the action? Why not include some handsome guys in the story alongside the girls? Those two are complete morons.

[Frumple]

It's fairly rare to have an unskewed gender balance on the doing pretty things front, unfortunately. Considering the clannad folks did standard VN porn beforehand, it leaning female is... unsurprising. They know their market, heh.

If you're looking for a more equitable balance on the pretty people, you might try something like shokugeki no soma, if you haven't already. It's refreshingly (if maybe not entirely) even in that area of design.

[Reelya]

Kanon, the first Key VN only had one sex scene per route accoring to wiki. I wouldn't call that "standard porn" compared to a typical eroge. Basically they put the bare minimum of sex scenes in there so that they can claim that it technically "delivers" as a dating sim. That sort of thing is basically on the same level as an action movie having a single sex scene in the span of the story.

There's way less sex-per-minute in any of the Key "eroges" than e.g. an episode of Game of Thrones.

[miauw62]

Yeah, Jonathan was sort of a bland protagonist, but I felt that having him be the goodiest two-shoes ever actually worked really well in the context.

Newest episode of DiU is also pretty gud :v

[Leafsnail]

I started reading the Clannad manga several days ago (haven't played the game or watched the anime, don't ask why), and honestly I dislike it for the most part. Probably I'm just too old for this stuff, but the story itself and the characters left me almost totally indifferent (maybe except Kotomi, what a beautiful name), I find them too unrealistic and not convincing to me. They seem not to behave like real people, not at least the kind of people I'm used to observe in my real life (that is not to say that I actually got to know that many people either).

Besides... How to put this... It is not like I don't take delight in watching pretty girls doing pretty things (you can believe I do), but why are there so few male characters taking part in the action? Why not include some handsome guys in the story alongside the girls? Those two are complete morons.

It's the base wish fulfilment of having a lot of girlfriends and it shows up in a lot of anime. I think Key is more on the moe/sad side but I can't being myself to read any of it so idk.

[JoshuaFH]

I just realized that the release date for Spirit of Justice is the 8th, I didn't even realize that the next AA was SO CLOSE! The hype train has been patiently waiting for me, and I'm all too obliged to get on.

[Reelya]

Yeah, the explanation of "why so few male characters" is because of the plot dynamics of a typical visual novel. Basically you have your hero (self insert), a side-kick, and a number of girls. The choices in the game involve which of the girls you interact with. Since you're seeing everything through the eyes of that one main guy, the format doesn't make sense for their to be independent other guys with their own independent plotlines going on. The male side-kick is generally comic relief and an info-dump type character, so he doesn't get his own storyline.

There are few dudes to talk to, because, frankly, that would be gay, and there are separate games for that

The other issue comes from how difficult it is to adapt a non-linear branching story into a single linear narrative. In e.g. Clannad, you can end up with any of the characters. But in the adaptation, that boils down to only one. So what they do is pick a girl to run with, then one by one skim over each other girl's back-story/life-problems, but minus the dating aspect, so they have to exclude a lot of the emotional material. They then finish with the main heroine's story arc. Which means the arc with the biggest impact comes last. Clannad is especially notable for this, since the last 8 or so episodes out of 50 is where 90% of the payoff is.