Episode 2 is out did you like it?
Lazarus
Waiting for the proper JP audio/ subs
this, I'm not an animal
Muxanon here - I'm already done resyncing the audio. Waiting on Amazon/MAX FR to release English subtitles so that I can upload.
Shittier Cowboy BeBop, and Cowboy BeBop was already shit.
The premise is so shit its laughable
ts (this) shit is so ass
It just dropped. Expecting a rip in a few minutes.
[DeMarcoMustGo] Lazarus - S01E02 (WEB 1080p x264 AAC)
mega.nz
Sources:
Video, English audio, and SDH dubtitles via AMZN US (ToonsHub)
English subtitles via AMZN FR (Tsundere-Raws)
Japanese audio via VIDIO ID (ToonsHub)
Japanese audio retimed, subs restyled. Styling and audio have been fixed from the last release. Sub timing is still stock AMZN.
The streaming situation for Lazarus continues to be atrocious. The English/French versions of the show AMZN/MAX/AS have are unfinished. Japanese sources such as U-NEXT (+12h from broadcast) have retaken cuts, different eye catches, and remove ugly dimming in certain scenes. Despite this, U-NEXT is still worse overall due to lower quality video and MTL tier English subs. VIDIO were given the Japanese copy of the show. It's a shame their video stream is too low quality to use:
slow.pics
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The best WEB release of this show will be Commie v2 w/ DNSP JP video (3 day eta, their v1 is worse than source) unless someone decides to do a better encode. It is thought that the MAX US subtitles will be identical to AMZN/MAX FR as dialogue in Episode 1 matches a translated preview uploaded by AS 1:1:
slow.pics
youtube.com
Adult Swim, how do you fuck up this badly? How are official streams objectively the worst way to watch the show? Why are you punishing people who want to give you money? Why are you forcing them to watch HIDIVE tier encodes and listen to a dub? Why in the god given year of 2025 is a fan release the only decent way to watch a currently airing blockbuster show?
DEMARCO MUST GO
Anyone who has a Nyaa account would receive my eternal gratitude and a picture of a very large giraffe for uploading this.
Why not just make meme subs, maybe then it gets popular.
animal
Speaks in animal language
can’t understand audio without translations on bottom of screen
Lol, lmao even
Grim, but thanks anon
Thank you for your service.
Lautizm
Thanks for your service. DeMarco must go.
I made a thread of this 15 hours ago and ofc almost no one replied because only indonesians got to watch it
Repeating my request for an oh so benevolent Nyaa account holder to upload this so people don't have to wait another 10ish hours for herkz to rape the video and add grammatical mistakes to the script.
Honest question lad, is this show even worth the trouble? I don't just mean for watching it, I mean for putting these releases together. Don't shorten your life if the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
I don't think it even needs subtitles, it's just fight scenes
so far from what i've seen in these 2 episodes, not really. I only got to watch it because it's on my paid streaming website
It has some mystery and danger going for it. One of the 5 main characters may die in some form or fashion. The first episode just being Axel showing off was kinda boring but the second episode feels better.
I mean... kind of? It's not like any significant amount of effort goes into releasing this show. Retiming the audio and muxing everything together takes maybe 15 minutes all in all.
JP audio/ subs
proper
Suddenly people are big dub fans
The cartel wouldn't have closed registrations if they didn't want to force people to wait for their shit
Nah it was mid
Yeah i'll be waiting for the BD.
HEY GUYS LOOK PARKOUR SEE IT'S THE COWBOY BEEBOP YOU KNOW AND LOVE. LOOOOOOOK LOOOK JAZZ MUSIC. SEE JUST LIKE YOU REMEMBER. IGNORE THE SHIT DIALOGUE, GENERIC EXPOSITION, CRINGEY CHARACTERS, FLAT ART STYLE, CHOPPY ANIMATION AND CGI SLOP AND YOU HAVE COWBOY BEBOP OK?
I think it has promise. Action is obviously really good and weighty. The characters are so far tolerable/inoffensive, but that's probably a good sign because there is probably going to be an unwinding of the characters as the story progresses.
Biggest issue is how much it reminds of Cowboy Bebop, but the story structure does lend to it trying to stand on its own legs, so we'll see if something good is actually cooking. Basically, it gives an overall vibe that it's not trying too hard, which I think is promising.
His revolver turned into a semi-auto in the next frame
I thought the English dub was okay.
I saw a black person in the first minute of the first episode so I dropped it immediately
Dangerously based.
arigato
first episode
Ok, we know Watanabe likes to take the first episode slow
second episode
The show drops propaganda about climate change, economic disparity, justice system
The episode again is goofy with no plot progression
Characters suck ass
Watanabe really lost it huh. This is what happens when you collaborate with an American corporation.
He's been muttbrained for a long time now. Carole & Tuesday?
Man this cast sucks. At least Chris is kinda hot I guess
Don't shorten your life if the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
And your CPU's life, in this case. Astounding how much mine breeches 90 Celsius just downsizing JAVs.
downsizing JAVs
This on the other hand is worth the squeeze
That didn't work for Pon no Michi.
PnM would never be popular because the show is so shit to begin with. I haven’t watched the meme subs but they’ve been described as anything from neo-nazi, schizophrenic, unintelligible, zoomer, while other anons swear by them so YMMV.
Anyone else feel like the action scenes in this show lack impact?
Watanabe went to shit after Samurai Champloo, this show feels like a poor man's Bebop and it is kinda sad to see how hard he's trying to channel Bebop vibes with the Op, the chase scene, the music, even the promo art
I know Watanabe thinks Space Dandy is his biggest mistake, but at least it wasn't just "member Bebop?" (he peaked with Champloo IMO)
Boring westoid garbage.
I feels weird that everyone has guns but nobody gets shot.
Didn't Watanabe say making Dandy was the most fun he's had in his career and he could make it forever? I mean to me it's about equally as good as Bebop.
I did laugh on episode 1 when that doctor described the entire series premise. Was dumb af
oh shit I forgot to up this my bad
was the one that did last week, doing it now
he peaked with Baby Blue
FTFY
Dandy is the inverse of if you let an Anon Babble fag make an anime and all they do is make it apparent they hate their own skin and want to be Japanese, letting each episode be directed by some random nip who just throws shit on a wall and calls it a day because they aren't as autisticslly obsessed about the culture or vision that the main creative is gushing about nonstop.
nyaa.si
here
ANN
Thank you! Here is your promised giraffe.
Does Watanabe live in America? The premise of this anime would be seen as a problematic vaccine conspiracy theory.
No hope left for the show. Ep 2 confirmed all fears. Its just that bad as expectted after EP1.
You answered your own question. Real question is if the social media weebs will catch on.
Hope the second episode is better. Please no boring parkour anymore, I rather want them to spend the budget on cool fights.
Well they forgot the most important part of Bebop then, the setting and good characters.
just needs more parkour m8
I actually was eager to see Chad Stahelski combat choreography, 2nd episode had a lot of combat - but it was disappointing, nothing stood out really. Aint no John Wick.
Not yet. I´m waiting to see if people actually start calling it bebop 2 or if that´s just the marketing team selling point.
Carole & Tuesday?
Great.
Why won't Sentai hire a real voice director? Or at least stop hiring janitors.
Watch it in english like intended.
compromised Watanabe
studio MAPPA
Dropped before I even considered picking it up.
keep downloading eng dub by mistake, fucking hell.
I don't know how this could be the same guy that made Space Dandy, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo.
Like I could propose he had to pander to Adult Swim to be able to make this, but it still doesn't explain it being this bad
The episode again is goofy with no plot progression
Fuck I hate this. Goofiness is supposed to make characters more endearing, it cannot work for the sake of itself without any other likeable traits.
It suggests to me that Dai Sato is the one responsible of writing the scenario. Watanabe must have stopped caring about the script
Super Crooks scriptwriters
So bad. Are they actual westerners or just insane westaboos? It has that insufferable diversity gayness about it.
Ok I have some hope or cope to sell. Zankyou no Terror was 11 episodes and this is 13 episodes so the first two episodes may just be goofing around.
But I'm surprised, I just checked reddit, I was expecting comments about how they loved it, but even they hate it.
ep1
haha monkey jumps whole episode
ep2
zzZZZzzzz haha monkey jump twice ZZZzzzzzzzz
Yeah I genuinely feel like this as well. And I am not even an outspoken Watanabe fan, but the Mars Girl series felt like his work IMO despite that Anon Babble disliked it. This here though feels like a failed copy of his style. It reminds me of the latest FLCL sequels.
I didn't find any part of the episode particularity interesting
i downloaded english dub, and in both episodes they narrate as if they are completely uninterested and read some extremely boring text from documents
i know eng dubs are meh, but this almost seemed intentionally sabotaging. AI would have done a better job. SAGAFTRA strike?
I switched to the dub for Moonrise for a few minutes too out of interest and the female voice actors in particular were beyond terrible. Sounds like school kids reading a script, as you say. Dubs are basically always inferior to the original especially if the original has trainer VAs like anime, but it seems to me that this was way worse.
So you dropped Black Lagoon too?
I like it, its zoomer Cowboy Bebop. Sure its not as good, but its entertaining enough, I dont know why people hate it this much. In all honesty I rather watch this than isekai or waifu bait. Hell, just watching something that isnt isekai, waifu bait, highschool setting, or sucking up to japanese culture and food is a breath of fresh air.
Im starting to legitimately think I outgrew anime,.it just doesn't do it to me anymore
What about the loli?
2050: Hapna trials are over and it begins to be distributed.(maybe)
2051: The miracle painkiller "Hapna" is distributed all over the world, and world peace is achieved.(official)
2052: Dr. Skinner, the developer of Hapna, disappears.(official)
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2055: Dr. Skinner, who has been missing for three years, appears. (Ep.1)
and say "People who used Hapna die after three years!" (Ep.1)
This plot is clearly flawed.
If people who used Hapna die after three years, then there should have been deaths before Dr. Skinner disappeared.
Who?
this is 13 episodes
Says who? I expect this to be 10 or 12 episodes because of course it will.
This shoddy collage has permanently damaged my eyes.
Skinner is a terrifying terrorist.
This anime has shown that Director Watanabe is incompetent.
The previous works that were thought to be his work were actually the work of several female screenwriters.
Shouldn't there be a huge number of people that never took Hapna to begin with? I have never taken pain meds and I am almost 40 by now. Most people that take them are chronically ill like those that get migraines all the time. But those are minorities.
How do you find a guy that doesn't actually want to be found?
Let's see...
... it's the Cowboy Bebop of the 2020s.
... its writing is as good as Bebop, mature anime for adults, not like all the childish cartoons that you would be embarrassed by if your friends found out.
... the animation is unironically better, only the Bebop movie was better.
... incredible parkour scenes.
... main character is a sassy person of color (Latine man in Lazarus, Ashkenazi Jewish man in Bebop.
... the group is lead by a powerful older Jewish woman.
... the smartest guy, literally THE BRAIN of the operation is a Black guy. Massive props for Japan to recognize the smartness of Black people. No other anime would do this, even in the current year.
... the only white male in the group is a weak ass little boy and a thief white people know just how to steal shit.
... the frickin HACKER of the group is an Asian girl who is canon confirmed trans, by the way, spoilers. Assigned male at birth. We all know these folks are the best programmers and best hackers.
... the blonde girl is a deconstruction of Faye Valentine, which all anime experts agree was kind of a misogynistic stereotype in Bebop.
... the "main villain" is actually complicated, grey morality. A genius and he's Turkish, another person of color.
Sadly, it is the incredibly courageous casting that's the main reason why Anon Babble is seething about this anime. Whenever I see someone in this thread say "writing bad", "dialogue bad", "it's just bad!!" and other blatant lies like that it's just them saying "I am racist". If this anime came out like before 2010, all of Anon Babble would love it.
From what I understood, it also work as an antidepressant. It works on mental pain too from what I mustered, most people would take it at some point because of suffering. I would probably take it every day. Imagine an antidepressant that actually works instead of the shit we have
I kneel, Anon Babble oldchad
'ate niggers
'ate trannies
'ate Lazarus
Jus' dun loike em
You are in the minority.
There will always be a small number of people abusing recreational drugs like Hapna.
Hapna would probably never even be approved in countries like Japan, China, or South Korea.
He's also THE BRAIN if you needed a laugh
see you after a while crocodile
avengers name drop
im cringing so hard i feel physical pain while watching this
Imagine an antidepressant that actually works instead of the shit we have
Glad I am not the only one that thinks like this. I even trust normal meds and made only good experience with them, but legit believe that no psychotropics actually work. I also have adhd (despite being able to watch anime, but only that) and tried all meds and none of them had the slightest effect. Or at least no positive one. I almost believe that other people are just making shit up or that they're easy to influence and reacting to placebos.
this
I disagree, most people are hurting to a degree and would jump in a way to stop the pain, I mean thats what alcohol is all about, even muslim countries have it illegally. I think the vast majority of people would take it and treat it like alcohol/cigarettes/vape.
Hapna would probably never even be approved in countries like Japan, China, or South Korea.
They approved the covid gene therapy injection, they wouldn't have any qualms with a pain killer.
I almost believe that other people are just making shit up or that they're easy to influence and reacting to placebos.
I believe that, its all the power of suggestion and despair, people believe and buy into the whole therapy grift and meds because theyre desperate and really want to, also normalfags are lesser beings prone to believe in this type of fairy tail and fall for it. Sure, antidepressants can give you some energy, but thats the extent of it, it doesn't cure shit, it doesn't work, (((they))) even say suicide is a side effect because they damn well know it doesn't work and you might as well kys.
That being said, yeah imagine one that worked, I'd take it
ok i laughed
There are many different types of painkillers on the market to choose from.
There is no reason for them to certify Hapna.
So sorry,
How many episodes is this? If it's 24 episodes I can see this becoming kino. If it's only 12 it's dead in the water.
There should be, it still affects a lit of people.
Its not just a pain killer, we've been over this. Well, this isn't going anywhere, I'll just agree to disagree
Still not sure?
Hapna's psychoactive effects are definitely a reason for its disapproval.
A painkiller with such a strong psychoactive effect like Hapna would not be approved in at least Japan, China, or Korea. And probably in many other countries too.
13 episodes
covid gene therapy
Anon Babble turds never fail to amaze me with their stupidity.
There's a loli?
Who would enjoy this?
Is this joke funny to Japanese people?
Did Watanabe's brain cells get destroyed by Hapna?
It's a true mystery how this is rated above an 8 on mal.
I'm not watching anime to see colored people. Amerimutts are fucked in the head.
it's dead jim
a japanese person watched one episode of the craig ferguson talk show and thought he would be clever enough to weave an interview into this show
he failed pathetically
I really don't get this logic, this is Japan and most of the time they don't give a shit about the west and make likeable people of color. See Michiko to Hatchin, Black Lagoon, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Nick and Lever, Tiger & Bunny, among others.
That said Lazarus does suck ass, same with Carole & Tuesday by the same director, I don't know if he went of the deep-end or if it has something to do with Netflix.
So there's actually no cure and everyone is gonna die and come back after a while right?
noooooooo I already masturbated to the Asian "girl"
thugs speak Spanish
JP audio calls them chicanos
subs
lol
Sasuga AI translations
That's just your subs problem
The first episode was borderline cringe in how desperately, pathetically it wanted to make you feel like it was cool. You could feel the director begging you to find the MC a cool loose canon. It feels like a faded echo of what Bebop was.
dropped after 1.5 eps
Who is DeMarco and why must he go?
A Jewish Italian man who lives in Japan and produces mostly adult writing mature stories that filter Anon Babblechuds. He is everything Anon Babblenons wish they could be but will never be.
Really funny how his "biggest mistake" is the only good thing he made in 20 years
How far along are you on your transition journey?
I am a girl
you know the deal
post your titties
jiggle em around too
So you're under 18? I'll let the mods know.
you got me, i laughed
announcing your report
the funniest thing ever is about to happen
Oh no in the age of mobile data and ten thousand different mobile browsers what ever will I do?
This show is just so embarassing. I can't find a better word for it. Its trying so hard to be so many things, its trying to be cool, trying to be "important" with its messages, trying to be fun, trying to be western and it fails at everything. The constant stream of western and real life references in a pathetic attempt at giving it a vibe that it doesn't have, the energetic music accompaning a scene that has no weight at all to it, the completely unearned way that it treats its main character, like we all just thing he's so cool. These two first epsiodes have been a collection of cliches haphazardly strung together in an attempt to mimic something it isn't, its the equivalent of a guy cosplaying Spike and thinking that immediately makes him as cool as the character. I make a point of giving a chance to every original show, but this is actually difficult to watch .Even metallic rouge wasn't so obviously and blatantly terrible this early on
This. I have no issue with some brown dude and a lot of popular anime (popular on Anon Babble I mean) have black dudes or something. The issue with Lazarus is basically everything else so I don't get why anons latch onto this of all things when the writing makes it unsalvageable.
same with Carole & Tuesday
To be honest while I wouldn't rate it very well it at least had more soul than this. The MCs were a bit too lame but they felt natural. My main issue with Lazarus is that characters and dialogues feel so wooden. It's as if some Bebop fan copied the things he considered cool but without the necessary context and without understanding what's even making Bebop good. None of the characters are likeable IMO.
I liked Carole & Tuesday's OST at least
imagine if Bebop came out when Anon Babblecels like this could post on Anon Babble, s m h
that anon is trying too hard. this show has potential. need to see how it pans out to really give my opinion. i'm interested enough to keep watching though. it seems like it'll be a slow burn. i doubt it'll stick the landing in 13 episodes though
I want to see the problem is him since Lazarus was adult swim but they're just as bad if not worse than Netflix, look at Uzumaki where they fired the director after the first episode or the FLCL sequels
Adult Swim is indeed worse, Netflix has at least funded some good stuff but adult swim has yet to do something noteworthy. Disney+ Anime is better than both somehow, it's the shittiest platform but whoever is in charge for choosing what to adapt has a good eye for manga and gives them an appropriate budget, problem is that every anime that releases there is doomed to fail miserably because of how shit Disney's practices are.
where they fired the director after the first episode
that was justified, he said misogynistic/transphobic shit about on of the external indie animators who worked on episode 2
Triggered tranny, this is not your safe space.
Really? I've started to enjoy school settings even more as I get older. I was annoyed by school settings when I was a teenager in high school, but now that I'm in the latter half of my 20s and I'm a reclusive loser, watching anime about cute girls in school settings is like crack for me. It's a newfound appreciation. I even rewatch a lot of series now.
Also the jap culture dicksucking anime are pretty relaxing in their own ways. You need to watch them as if they're tourism ads. They're fun escapism and sometimes you learn stuff.
metallic rouge
At least had cute waifus.
This show is a ninja Kamui
the blondie is cute
From my understanding Disney+ doesn't actually produce anime, they just buy the rights of distribution, so they are quite literally dooming good anime to fail.
not with those lips
Not him but it's the same for me. I guess it depends on the person. The older I get the older I want the characters to be and the more I hate teens.
I assume it was used in place of stuff like aspirin as well.
There'd still be a fair bit of people who never took it given the short time it was available. I still have a bottle of Tylenol pills from like 6 years ago since I rarely use it.
Yeah I considered this. But to be honest I don't take aspirin either because I don't get headaches. Hard to tell how many have that, my father never had headaches either.
I'm guessing the show assumes that those people would die with 95% of humanity gone.
if youve ever taken tylenol youve taken pain meds
I don't even know what that is.
????????????
Holy kino. Now we're talking.
I haven't seen/heard that in like 15 years. I cannot even remember were it came from. Was it some 90s' hollywood movie?
You know what this show's missing? FUCKING KEIKO NOBUMOTO. Since Watanabe lost it, she was the only one who could have redeemed this piece of shit which truly feels like it was written by ChatGPT. God bless her soul.
It's one of those things that'd be hard to give an exact number but it'd probably be pretty high. The show mentions Hapna is super cheap so while it probably eclipsed aspirin and acetaminophen in over-the-counter drug sales, there'd still be inventory left over in the first few years that would get progressively cheaper as demand fell. There'd also likely be some Hapna skeptics that would want to keep buying what they were familiar with. Combine that with how short a time it was on the market and some people just not using painkillers often/at all, and I think saying it'd wipe out humanity would be a bit much. Society as we know it would probably collapse but humanity would survive. 95% of humanity seems high.
Did this guy make every single bad anime of the last couple of years?
Look at all that junk. Holy crap.
I'm not the only one getting pseud impressions from this right? Feels like it desperately tries to seem "mature" and "international".
set in the US, American talk shows, FDA, UN, whatever
references Avengers despite this being set in 2052 (surely they'd have something more relevant?)
for some reason they use Wikipedia to look up info on the scientist
Any one of these alone wouldn't be anything noticeable but all put together it feels like it's trying to appear as some sort of mature "not like those other anime" show (and looking stupid for it in a few cases).
thank you for your cervix
jesus fucking christ
Both the producer and director are talentless.
This fact perfectly explains Lazarus' boredum.
retarded story
horrible VA
shit animation
i don’t really the bad voice acting and animation.
but the story being so half assed is really making me want to drop this.
the asian girl
The black guy using Wikipedia to give them a lecture about their target is the most ridiculous shit I've seen in a "serious" show. Even the worst procedural copaganda would never do something as retarded. The whole show feels like it was written by a teenager or an AI.
Just watched it and I thought it was decent.
So was the guy in the bunker the missing Kobayashi or just some guy??
yes, it was Kobayashi, he was suicidal because of his debts
Action is obviously really good and weighty
Huh? Did we watch the same show?
pirouettes in the line of fire of 2 assault rifles without even getting grazed
casually jumps off a 5 meter ledge
runs up to two guys twice his size, breakdances a bit and they both go flying
The action is possibly the worst part of this, especially when it tries to ground itself continuously by referencing real life elements.
he frickin HACKER of the group is an Asian girl who is canon confirmed trans, by the way, spoilers. Assigned male at birth
Is this actually true?
me three
fellow ossans...i see the light now.
i understand why japanese otaku continually made the same fuwa fuwa kanpeki na seishun SOL high school stories.
i hated the fuck out of high school when i was in it, but these shows are a vision of what could have been
I said the opposite, anon. It's 2vs2 now. I never liked teens in fiction but I am incapable of watching anything with them now save for very rare very good non-school related adventures or sci-fis maybe.
Did the black guy already got blackmailed? You know, because he's black...
Damn right it is because Jet, you are black and you are male
same. I especially love romcoms in school settings. I eat that shit up every time.
I'm in a phase right now where I prefer more com than rom
If the romance is too pure then I start feeling like a voyeur intruding on a young couple's precious moments
craig ferguson
'see you later alligator' comes from a 90s movie
That's it. Straight to the retirement home for me.
Anon made a great repackaged tool for upscaling Hentai over at Anon Babble, so I used it for texhnolyze, I think it looks good, but it takes hours and I don't want to put GPU and CPU at full strain for all that time, I think I can limit the GPU temp with Nvidia inspector but I don't know about the CPU.
Can you link it?
here it is
thanks broski, not listening to that AI tier american voice acting
it is ok, just that (top tier voice cast though, too bad about no keiko nobumoto though). the streaming situation is horrible, but you can safely ignore the culture war schizoposting (did you know, before forced mainstreaming, trannies were welcome here?). like, the japanese don't understand 90% of that. if anything, the wonder drug/covid vax analogy would make you think the schizos would like this show.
TRANNYSHIT
No thanks
Just going to say it, this has soul.
Whatever this feels like, it doesn't feel AI generated like a lot of manga/LN plots do now.
it doesn't feel AI generated
covid schizos are easily led around and have the memories of goldfish with the reasoning powers to match. they forgot that we were all supposed to have died a year or two ago and are lost in the smokescreen of contemporary poltical discourse, obsessing over the latest nothingburger like they always do.
i expect more retrospective anime to come out concerning this period of time, but something makes me feel like there's no need to "process" the pandemic, as they did with a traumatic event like Tohoku earthquake
References mean it's AI generated? Not following guy. My idea of AI generated is more like
Japanese food is so amazing!
OMG elves love to eat top ramen!
and this passing the editorial review for an anime/manga/LN
I enjoyed the action this ep, yeah there was a little stormtrooper accuracy going on, but they dispatched the gunmen in a believable way, and the action had some weight behind it. It was also relatively funny, though I remember Watanabe doing the "multiple conflicting parties trying to find one guy" thing in Bebop and Champloo. This was a bit different at least.
Pretty accurate way to put it
the frickin HACKER of the group is an Asian girl who is canon confirmed trans, by the way, spoilers. Assigned male at birth.
You're a fucking retard. There's nothing natural sounding about the dialogue in this shit
Oh, so we judge anime by how natural the dialogue sounds now? LOL
Same
It's going to be 13 episodes.
I dropped Fena early but she was cute
The subs didn't show it fully but he said in "See you Later Alligator" was the name of the woman's album but the subs only said "See you Later".
So he was trying to play off that.
Yeah, mine didn't say that.
anime has black character
I will not be watching
t. animals
This shit is trying too hard to be DEEP
bebop was effortlessly cool
Eleina is not a tranny. People only think she is because early reviews of the show referred to transgender characters. Per AV Club, the only trannies in Lazarus live in a homeless encampment:
avclub.com
painfully mediocre show so far. I don't hate it, but there's not much to enjoy either. I like the music I guess.
I have not watched this show yet. Anon Babble said I'm not allowed to watch it.
he said the thing!
I'm dying of cringe
ceiling put on his career simply for being black
This is the opposite of what's been going on in western society for decades now, what the fuck is this bullshit.
Every single rewatch of Bebop I pick up on minute worldbuilding details. They really knew how to make a good slowburn when the episode needed it.
C&T is not Bebop in any way, and overall was an okay show, but if nothing else I loved seeing the Bebop world expanded, to learn more of life on Mars and all the rest.
I hope they'll do some other show in the Bebop universe, but don't try to make it another Bebop, because that'll never happen. Hell make it a romcom for all I care, that's fine, it'd just be cool to see more of the lore. Like maybe the astral gate indicent, or how they terraformed some of the moons, or whatever. That well thought-out universe has always been my favorite part
You’re welcome
This show is way more cringe than any moe show out there, how...
Lack of soul
What are we some kind of Suicide Squad?
I bet Skinner is lying. A retard who spouts climate change nonsense cant be smart enough to develop a drug that will kill someone in 3 years
But that show was actually good
i appreciate this post
Yeah I bet this all must be a play for something else or more likely someone forced him to say/do all that.
I didn’t hate it
He thinks marvel won't still be popular 30 years from now
It's like Blue Submarine no. 6 but way way shittier
The only retard here is you.
hideous cg
in the lord of our savior 2025
really crappa?
th-they're just saving the budget for later episodes, r-right?
holy based
this anime is painfully lacking conspiracy theorists
I would never take any "miracle drug" jews try to force on me
It was fun.
based white girl
nice list of anime to avoid
Same. I was expecting the main character to not have taken it, so I was very disappointed when he held up his hand. Stories like these need heavy schizos. It's playing it very safe and it feels like Dai Sato is "having fun" with it. Way to go, Watanabe, entrusting your script to the guy who wrote Ergo Proxy.
lazarus and moonrise both have criminal hackers
what did Japan mean by this?
horrible VA
why are you watching in English? do yo like ear cancer?
Just watched episode 1, why was no one freaking out when they found out they were all gonna die soon?
It was nice but why didn't they have ishowspeed as part of the dub cast?
forced soul
Yeah the population at large are taking it a bit too smoothly, there were some people praying and tons of people who seemingly think it’ll get solved.
They’ll likely show it deteriorating over time as it gets closer to the deadline down to the last second, but more panic should be happening already, it’d be a collapse of society for the survivors.
May as well give my opinion on the show since the thread is still up.
I'm incredibly disappointed all in all. There's been no real attempt at world building beyond a basic premise in the past two episodes. Action scenes are underwhelming and have no real sense of weight or impact. This entire episode felt like mid season filler.
Also, this story is going to end one of two ways. Either Hapna was never lethal or everyone other than Axel dies because he never actually took it. Screenshot this.
Axel raised his hand. pay attention anon
Axel was the last to raise his hand and the ED shows him as the last one alive among a pile of dead bodies.
Here are reviews from people who got to see the 1st 5 episodes early.
IGN: 5
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Screen rant gave it a 5/10 too
He wrote bebop too
so what? you think he's lying just to make the others feel better?
Where?
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
5/10 sounds about right. it's really just a complete nothing show so far. nothing bad enough for really scathing criticism, but nothing much to praise either.
IMO the visuals are half-assed. Sure, it looks good superficially; like an oldschool style. But, if you look deeper at the details, it's fucking lazy gap filler shit. This show is going to be popular, but only because most people can't appreciate good quality animation and will fall for this trap of crap.
I’m disappointed so far. This feels like a western zoomer who’s a fan of Cowboby bebop and anime wanted to make their own anime, it’s also tried too hard at being “mature” while being puddle deep, like it was made by the people who’ve just seen texhnolzyd and ergo proxy and feel like they just consumed a Brothers Karamazov in anime form or some shit.
I don’t hate it, but if you didn’t tell me the person behind samurai Champloo, cowboy bebop, space dandy made it, there’s be no reason to see it.
it looks like a 2000's anime, which were a steep decline from 90's anime
I think Skinner is lying and everyone is just going to lose consciousness for a minute.
Adult swim wanted this
Need to hump Motoko's butt
So essentially this is Cowboy Bebop if it was written by someone who liked the movie Don't Look Up
This will be another adult swim disaster. Even the most generic anime fan isn’t gonna be impressed by this series.
So essentially this is Cowboy Bebop if it was written by someone who liked the movie Don't Look Up
it's nothing like bebop desu. characters aren't bounty hunters, they are forced to work together.
I liked Cowboy bebop so much because it felt like a western show, with anime influence. This show feels like an anime with western influence (which is by default much much worse)
Western shows from back then are also inherently different from western shows now.
[laugh tracks]
I actually enjoyed the first episode more than the second one. It had more energy to it. The first episode sacrifices plot and character development for action and has pretty engaging action as a result, but the second cuts back on the action without making proportional gains in the other departments. I spent the whole meeting scene just wanting them to get up and do something, and it's not like I hate scenes where characters just talk as a matter of course.
The main characters are too cool to care. Did you see how cool the MC is? He does parkour. And he doesn't care about authority. Also he feels like he's invincible, he's so crazy and cool, did you see how he fought those guys? Wow, he's the coolest.
I would say 4/10 because of the simulcast fuckup.
This desu
Wasn't it more like he made it so everyone who took it will die in 1 month from his announcement
Effortful bait? In 2025¿
Anon Babble is recovering.
yes
The examples you gave are natural
This show is not
Breaking Bad cameo
Kek it's hank and his Mexican butt buddy
Watanabe is far from talentless, dude. Very, very far
just watched both eps in english with my cousin. we both saw bebop, champloo and dandy together as they aired - this was really fuckin lame. adhering to the 3 episode rule feels like mercy for a show this bad
Like reaaaally talentless? At least he can scam people well.
Anyone who is saying this show has potential is wearing clown make up. Watanabe never let his shows start this fucking poorly before. Bebop's first episode told you literally everything that you needed to know about Spike, Jet, the setting and the tone of the show. Champloo did the same in it's first episode, Dandy did the same, even Kids On The Slope (Which while not one of his best shows, certainly beats the living shit out of this). Watanabe shows generally have pretty good opening episodes as he's (normally) good at picking his fucking writers, especially in the beginning.
This show is 2 episodes in right now and there's still jack shit. All the characters are complete blank slates with no personality at all. I don't even know most of their names because their personality is so forgettable. I assume they will after this spend an episode for each one setting them up individually (This show is meant to go on for 13 episodes btw). So what will happen is that we will have to wait like 5 weeks before we finally get the equivalent info that we got from a single episode in every other fucking show this guy made. And even then, I can accept that because I know a director is not a writer. And I mainly respect Watanabe as a director. BUT THE DIRECTION IS FUCKING SHIT, like what the actual FUCK is this? The CGI is up the fucking ass and everything looks cheap, there is no creativity found anywhere on the visual level and it's unpolished as all hell. Watanabe shows usually had a lot of polish, that was one of the main reasons I respected his work so much. This doesn't at all feel like something he made, it feels like someone desperately mimicking his style sand failing hard.
My only hope is that the rumor (Calling it one because I have not seen any confirmation) of watanabe initially wanting to make something more Dandy-like and then being told "no" by gay american execs is true. Because that is the ONLY way a fall off THIS BAD happened here, and explains why the show feels like a hamfisted attempt to create something bebop-like.
Speaking of which, why the fuck is everything in the show Bebop themed? From all the promo material, to the intro, everything is trying to harken back to Bebop and I don't get why. Bebop wasn't the only good thing Watanabe made, it's not even my favorite thing watanabe made (Space Dandy is), why is this show pretending there was Bebop and then Watanabe was put into cryostasis until Adult Swim awoke him to do Lazarus?
Everything about this show feels like he was forced by american execs to make something THEY like rather than him doing his own thing. And it's genuinely depressing to watch. I will still watch to the end however. Hope his next show is going to be better in some way when he is allowed to do what he wants to do like he should have in the first place.
Watanabe shows generally have pretty good opening episodes as he's (normally) good at picking his fucking writers, especially in the beginning.
So what happened here ? Wasnt he supposed to have full control of this according to the producer ?
I don't know. I really don't know. I am blaming the american producers for now because Watanabe in Japan was able to even make a slice of life show into something interesting and well directed. There is no reason he couldn't have made something like this good unless he didn't care or was meddled with in some way
This anime is literally Bebop but better, minus the plagiarized music.
Based mahobro
Didn't watch ep2 yet.
Did they finally address whether anyone in the main cast took the killer drug?
Ive been waiting for the other shoe to drop since the first 5 minutes of ep1, but it's like the characters have no fucking stakes in this themselves.
No flashbacks. No hints. No nothing.
Except maybe the truant kid was too smart for his own good, but that feels like just part of the engineered coolness that infest Watanabe shows nowadays.
The doctor could be a villain of the week for all I care, the stakes are that shallow.
Give me actual characters dammit.
Did they finally address whether anyone in the main cast took the killer drug?
Everyone says they did. And yet they dont seem in a rush or bothered at all by their predicament.
You want to have me released so I can help save the world from a death sentence that I myself am living under?
nah, I'm just gonna run around from the cops 'n shit until you force me to do that shit
He's retarded. There's your main character's characterization.
Retarded and also able to make his enemies seem even more retarded for losing to him, an unfortunate combination.
it's an ok cowboy bebop clone. the title sequence is cool and i like the music. the story and va is about as good as any other anime
It's a show made for burgers for their burger channel. They didn't "drop the ball" on distribution, they are doing things deliberately because it's not a Japanese show for the Japanese domestic market
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ED is the best one this season. I'll give this show that, atleast. Though it's not up against much competition.
Absolutely not
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To add to this, advertising it as a Bebop 2 is retarded especially for the fact that most people watching anime now don't really give that much of a shit about Cowboy Bebop, it's mainly remembered by Gen X and Millennials. Even Space Dandy would have been a better pick to theme this show around.
Japs love them some puns if you haven't noticed.
(perhaps you haven't because they are usually not translated)
Nah, not as good.
ED of the season is Uchuujin MuuMuu.
lol holy shit
False
You're wrong faggot.
No you, gay
sonarr keeps picking up the english dub
not worth the effort to work out why
yeah i think i'm dropping this
fuck dubniggers btw
I was pretty excited for this show when j saw the trailer and then I forgot to actually watch it. Judging by the thread it's mediocre/bad but I'll probably pick it up tomorrow regardless just because it's fun to watch along
Everyone keeps saying "this show will be popular but it sucks" but I'm not seeing any proof it's popular.
4chanites always overestimate controversy only for the IRL reception to be lukewarm instead of divisive
Battle shounen would be more popular with the current western audience.
Anon Babble doesn't watch burger stuff so unless they keep up with burger news they don't know shit like this are flopping in burgerland
English dub
It falls under the same mimicking nostalgia farming slop as all those garbage sprite based indie games.
Good riddance Anon Babblescum
This is the result of the toonami producer still living in the 00s
it has sprites so its bad
The english dub is absolutely terrible. It's not an issue of inherent value of dub versions, it's an issue with this particular dubbing being awful.
I agree. I don't think it's amazing, but it's not bad in the same way a lot of anime are where they are just plain repetitive.
Talk shows aren't funny and have crappy jokes like this. This is 100% accurate.
Shittier Cowboy BeBop
That's the impression I got from the marketing for it. I've already seen Cowboy Bebop and if I want to watch it again I'll go back and watch it, I don't need to watch a shittier modern version of it.
I haven't watched it, what's the premise?
the setting and good characters.
Yeah, I think this is why I couldn't get into Space Dandy. The setting just never felt right to me, perhaps it was too inconsistent, I'm not entirely sure, I just know I wasn't into it. As for the characters I knew for sure I just didn't like them. I'm not a big fan of the whole mostly episodic story that occasionally progresses the overarching storyline and then kicks into 6th gear for the final few episodes thing that Watanabe does, but with Bebop and Champloo the settings and characters were enjoyable enough for me to want to continue watching despite the dumb pacing, Space Dandy just didn't have that same draw for me.
The story is about a miracle drug that the majority of the population took that will kill them in three years
even the Lazarus ED is everyone laying dead in the streets
this is what Anon Babble and Anon Babble have been saying is going to happen with people who took the Covid vaccination this whole time
Watanabe was always hack himself, Cowboy Bebop, Dandy and Champloo succeeded in SPITE of him but people keep crediting the cool action amazing soundtrack etc (he wasn’t responsible for any of this) to Watanabe lmao
I just hate the way new anime looks. The colors are always so oversaturated and the color choices are always absolutely garish. Also the constant use of the tranny flag pink and blue being forced into every other scene in every new anime now is not subtle at all.
I love it when you guys go full psychosis
Jesus christ...
Dandy
succeeded
Lmao
Yeah, I’m thinking based.
I'm noticing Adult Swim now has multiple shows where the main plot point is an argument against big pharma. Are they based again?
its not a real The Avengers until someone gets tied to the traintracks
Mid
Why does it look like a Cowboy Bebop ripoff?
because it's from the cowboy bebop director and set in the cowboy bebop universe
None of them succeed writing wise, but the music and art/animation is really good. Take that away (MAPPA studio + random western composers) + tryhard premise and you get Lazarus.
Housing Complex C
It could have done with being a few episodes longer. The first three episodes are pretty much all to set up the twist and then it's like the whole story gets flipped upside down in the last episode and then it's just over, it could have been 6 episodes, the first three staying the same and then the last 3 more slowly revealing everything that's going on in a little more detail.
Rick and Morty: The anime
Jesus christ I forgot about this. Adult Swim was so desperate to keep the cash cow Rick and Morty IP alive and I'm so glad it's over.
This probably feels even dumber when you know what Avengers is. I vaguely know it's something capeshit related but that's it.
Referencing Marvel movies in your mediocre anime retread story
It's like they're trying to tell the audience it sucks.
Lazarus threads are kino no cap
The lack of worldbuilding and logical consequences and conflicts is one of the main issues I have with this. Even ignoring healthy people that don't need it and tinfoil hats that rather die than take it it's hard to imagine that everybody had the chance to get that shit. It's probably expensive and in no way could they solve the logistical problem of distributing 8 billion bottles of that shit. Everywhere, into every country, even Somalian farmers.
It doesn't even seem to be popular. Correct me if I am wrong since I neither use tiktok, nor instashit or reddit. But I see more fans and fanart of Hero X, Gundam and even that girl band series than posts that are just merely mentioning Lazarus and none of my real life oldfag friends likes it. They prefer the Samurai anime, Kowloon and/or Gundam and I agree.
shit, the live action Bebop flopped and we can't re-run the show any longer because people are tired of it, what should we do
let's make our OWN Bebop that totally doesn't look like Bebop, except everything about it, even the marketing copying the famous opening, now we can do whatever we want without consequences!
I might be retarded but I can't take the premise seriously. The cheapness of the drug, its global availability, the fact that almost everybody took it, the lack of skeptics be it on the anti-drug side or the drug-side that doesn't believe in the doomsday, the fact that a drug can even do it and just kill you years later, all at once, on the same day, regardless of when and how often you took it, the reliance on a fucking thug as the last hope for humanity instead of a professional special OP team, cops and detectives, all of this sounds so damn stupid to me.
Also, the lack of civilians going out to search and hunt Skinner. It would be tolerable if this was a comedy show, but it's serious. And the lack of chemistry of the main team isn't helping. They are forced to work together and I feel like it's as annoying to me as it is for them.
Last but not least, the series is trying too hard to shill the MC as the cool, funny and likable Spike copy but he's shit. He's not Spike and he's not likable at all.
How the fuck is adult swim so bad when it comes to anime productions? It’s a shame the channel that was the gateway to anime for many westerners has been so garbage.
I can't take the premise seriously.
I'm half expecting a they'll rugpull the premise and it'll actually be about how everyone is a moron for believing ridiculous, unsubstantiated claims because someone people think is smart said it.
The characters remind me of US comic personalities which are one of the main reasons for why I consider their comics unreadable. Nobody has a personality, everybody is solely defined by the witty one-liners they spout out and the rest are infodumps or orders, no personal dialogues that reflect the personality or individual traits. Everybody is just their role.
I consider dialogues more important than action and music. And the dialogues are shit. Everything is so damn wooden and lifeless or forced. It's not just the Avengers line. Even when blond girl says "Maybe he was doing some evil stuff!" as a comment feels so fake. Who the fuck would say this about a person they just learned about? The Skinner infos Black guy was giving them aren't even that special. There are millions of people like him that donate and fight for the environment, it's not THAT weird and suspicious.
dialogues are shit. everything is so damn wooden and lifeless
This is something I see commonly in mediocre original anime and sometimes shit adaptions.
I fucking despise it.
I’m not sure if it has a term name but the second any scene that reflects in comes on I have no hope for a series
I unironically care more about the cop, the fat cat and Skinner (who is the alleged villain) than any of the relevant characters.
Shiraishi was the better Escape King
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Ending mogs the fuck out of the opening
why is Renamon(German) hanging out with the Bleach MC?
I don't even hate cartoons, hell I just marathoned one about a miracle drug last week because I enjoyed it so much, but this series feels like the bad types of cartoons.
I think so too. It's not possible to make a drug kill everybody at the same time regardless of when they have taken it, it's just pants on head retarded.
But since the government and every scientist in that world falls for this it might as well happen for real, hard to tell if the writing is that stupid.
Why is this anime so shit?
this post explains most of it. for everyone wondering why this show feels like someone is trying to rip off bebop, you have to remember this was ordered by the same corpos who thought multiple FLCL sequels were a good idea. its nostaliga pandering of the highest order, headed by someone who has made nothing but garbage made for an audience that doesn't exist. i'm gonna give it the 3 episode treatment but its really fucking bad so far - the animation is as bad as you would expect from Crappa, the voice acting is stiff as a board, the plot is retarded, and every second of this show is begging you to remember how cool Bebop was. Its honestly pretty pathetic
The ridiculous part is there's nothing on what mechanism it supposedly works, is it venom? Is it virus? How did it even circumvent all the checks and trials?
The writers just handwaved it as "genius."
Can't even be assed to figure it out.
It's like they lived in a vacuum and had never been questioned in real life to be able to write shit like this. And the result is that the world they write is room temperature IQ in its entirety.
It's the directing that's bad. Instead of starting with the apocalyptic news the first episode should have been a fun adventure that tells us about this future they're living in and the effect the drug has to make it (allegedly) more enjoyable. Make the MC be someone that never took it that meets an old friend again, experiences some fun shit in one of these futurist cities while being hunted by cops and later give in to try to drug because the friend is shilling it to him. Then you see the effect it has, shit gets more fun.
At the end of the episode they calm down and share a drink. You see the happy drugged people an the world. You know the setting and feel sympathy for the two MCs.
And then they witness the news.
This only one of many examples of how you can handle that premise. I would make me care about world and characters. I would root for MC and maybe dislike Skinner for luring him and everybody else into this trap.
Instead the show starts with nothing and I know nothing about the world and don't give a shit about the MCs and nobody seems to even care about the death sentence.
did you miss the part where they mentioned the singer's album is called "See You Later, Alligator"?
for a late night host "After a while, crocodile!" is a pretty realistic thing they'd say if they referenced the album earlier
The cat better be a recurring character.
It's not possible to make a drug kill everybody at the same time regardless of when they have taken it, it's just pants on head retarded.
I think you're trying too hard to find a reason to hate this show. Your standards for "realism" in anime are too high and I'm not sure if your favorite anime can withstand them. Do you like Cowboy Bebop? The space flight in Cowboy Bebop doesn't obey Newtonian Laws, they have artificial gravity and FTL (FTL = time travel). Space ships have windows and zero heat radiators. Swordfish somehow allowed to have military grade armament on board despite being civilian ship. Its plasma cannon is total unrealistic because plasma weapon can't exist even in hard sf (it's useless). This is just a tip of the iceberg. Everything is pants on head retarded and can't be taken seriously by high IQ anime enjoyers.
kill everybody at the same time regardless of when they have taken it
i was under the impression that it kills you x time after you first took it, rather than having it kill everyone all at once
Yeah this is definitely a better take. Tried but true.
Nah man, we need 10 straight minutes of the MC monke jumping - that will surely get the audience involved!
ZnT had jumping at the begging too as I remember.
Strangely I liked ZnT quite much at the beginning. Think it only became a trainwreck when the villain joined, but at least it was entertaining even then.
Yeah it was airport EP or something similar
I hope the next seven episodes aren't fruitless episodic searches for Skinner because that would be really boring. Episode 2 was already hard to watch for me.
nothing happened
total animation quality collapse
its over. i remember watanabe recounting the anecdote of how he convinced the cowboy beebop staff to crunch and kill themselves animating and producing that show by telling them how it will stand the test of time and be respected and remembered for generations to come. hes lost it. hes washed up. he took a paycheck and phoned it in.
You can't make mappa do good work, even under the threat of death. Its just not possible.
Danseur was pretty good, surprisingly. The theater episode in particular was one of the best episodes I have seen that year.
But of course they just picked it up to never continue it. Fuck them for grabbing all those big IPs instead of finishing their older projects.
If we “turn our brains off” to the retardededness of some of the plot elements, it’s really just not that enjoyable. Hopefully it picks up. Wouldn’t be the first time an anime started weak but managed to get better over time.
Even if we turned our brains off**
Just read the review anon linked. It sounds like literally nothing happens in the first five episodes and that's coming from a writer that praises the action.
The plot isn't an issue. Everything else is. Direction sucks.
Ninkoro better
Yeah but all that shit you said in Bebop was cool.
You're fucking gay for pushing westoid slop ending song over cute baseball girls, you retarded cocksucker.
posting in westoid slop language
on westoid slop board
Owari da...
American voice actors are awful, it's not a matter of "intention", even mexican and arabic dubs are better than american ones.
Mostly I think the premise is awful. The setting is good, but they've done nothing with it. The Lazarus team itself is the problem. It makes no sense, narratively. Why do we need this team of random people who go looking for Skinner? Even in this episode we see there are other organizations working on the problem. It make us it feel like they're a team just because we want to write a story about a team (like bebop!).
With the main object of the setting being a psychoactive drug, I kind of wonder if this WAS the setting Watanabe was initially going to use for the Space Dandy series he was envisioning. It'd be a perfect excuse to do some wacky stuff - drugs + end of the world.
I do think the first episode was awful and the second episode was an improvement. It had a GITS feel to it.
it's not even the right analogy. They are the suicide squad, a group of prisoners forced to save the world
it's cause the anime community now is completely different from the 2000's. there aren't a bunch of anime boomers looking for the next bebop. nobody watches cable tv anymore. if it's not on netflix or crunchyroll it doesn't matter
How the fuck is adult swim so bad when it comes to anime productions?
all they want is a million bebop clones. all of their anime have just been some kind of bebop clone
I feel like I'm watching reheated Suicide Squad.
Your wish is my command.
[HorribleSubs] Lazarus - 02 [1080p]
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Featuring an authentic 2011 Funimation encode @ CRF 27 complete with hardsubs and watermark. Script 100% guesslated by Anon Babbleacks.
Was Peter Daszak Right?: The Animation
honestly, could easily be the best thing he's done since space dandy if not better
Listeners was better than this.
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Pathetic antisemitic incels
would you
poofy hat
bobcut
choker
Of course.
canon trans character
So she can't get pregnant? Lucky.
It's the future. Maybe she can.
Why do we need this team of random people who go looking for Skinner
Well, between Skinner's speeches about how humanity is le bad and the little exchange about leveraging the cure for personal gain, I'm guessing there's supposed to be this idea that people could find the dude more easily if they all cooperated, but instead everyone's splintering into self-interested groups to try and find him first (or fuck around collecting concrete debt).
same thread for almost 2 days
someone is trying very hard to keep this thread alive
AOTY
They're clearly paying him more than the combined janny task force, so he must be doing something right.
She's cis.
This. This is my problem too. Not only are the MCs bad and lack any sort of dynamic the group itself makes no sense and the series adamantly refuses to explain anything or give things some context so I assume they're just chosen because assembling a team of ex-inmates sounds cool.
The existence of humanity itself is at stake but all they do is to send some untrustworthy thugs out, lean back and wait that they find Skinner. And somehow nobody else even cares and cops and the FBI rather proceed with their normal daily lives instead of moving heaven and hell to find this dude ASAP and raid homes and whole towns in order to find hints.
Gaaaaay.
I can't believe I am saying this, but so far I think that the SS anime was more enjoyable than this. It wasn't good IMO but the characters at least felt like people even if they're cartoony.
Tommy Walker did nothing wrong.
Seriously, the worst part about Listerners was the cringe on-the-nose rock references. The anime itself was enjoyable IMO albeit not perfect.
Getting paid to keep the thread alive but not to control the narrative so everyone in the thread is still shitting on Lazarus. That's at least more tolerable than Solo Leveling's attempt at astroturfing with the "fans" constantly repeating the most generic praise like bots.
It's a higher budget original anime by Watanabe. I wouldn't wonder if even oldfags that had long since left Anon Babble behind returned to say something about it. It will probably die down few weeks in unless it changes its course and gets better. Basically every single post from the last 20h was negative so I doubt it's a shill keeping it alive.
I even feel bad for shitting on it. I want to like it. But it's not easy for now. I will probably keep it on-hold and marathon the next three episodes when they're out. Maybe it's better if you watch it in a row.
I think they fucked up by introducing all of them at once. Imagine if Bebop had to introduce Faye and Ed in episode 1 alongside a fifth group member and a recurring boss character.
They're already riffing on Bebop, just have Ep 1 focus on Doug hunting down Axel so you can characterize the 2 of them better, and introduce Boobs, Hacker, and Child in later episodes that do the same for them.
I maintain that Listeners is a perfect one-shot that began and ended with the Einsturzende Neubauten episode. It won't make sense without context, but that's what makes it good.
The only thing you'll miss out on is the Kurt Kobain temple jack gag, but no one under 40 will appreciate that anyway.
A burned out Gen-X negrophile whose taste in anime hasn't changed one bit in like 25 years. He's Warner's designated "anime expert" and was given the keys to produce things. He's greenlit nothing but slop. What sane person says, "Yes, more FLCL."
Because no one with anything good is going to sell to them. Think about it for a second. Amazon, Disney and Netflix have "fuck you"-tier money to throw at things. Netflix in particular has the biggest global reach of anyone. Sony/Crunchyroll is literally a Japanese company and is the biggest dedicated anime distributor outside of Asia.
What does Adult Swim offer? No real presence in Japan. A declining linear audience in the U.S. and a few other countries. Distribution on a second-tier streaming service that isn't even a standalone offering in a lot of markets.
They should've started co-producing shows when the market wasn't anywhere near as fiercely competitive. Instead, they shat their pants after IGPX flopped and got involved when much bigger players had already cornered the market. Bleach was their flagship show for how many years? Yet they lost TYBW to Disney.
It's just so fucking boring despite being 80% action scenes. Even the average seasonal isekaislop has more appeal somehow. I usually give shows the 3 episode rule but I was so fucking bored by this I might just drop it.
There's just nothing to discuss, they gotta find the guy and they haven't found him yet. Next episode the main character will do some more acrobatics of no consequence.
it pisses me off that he said the first line in engrish but the second line in japanese
like, why, you completely ruin it
and it's IN a while not AFTER because it flows better
god
I pitched this idea while watching Toonami last night, but it would have been so much better if they'd found Skinner at the end of the second episode, and he was just dead. Like he died of an aneurysm, totally randomly. That's a fantastic premise. You get the gang together and they go and find the evil genius, and it turns out that he wasn't that much of a genius and he died little a moron without setting up any contingencies. And the rest of the series is them going around half-assedly pretending to do their jobs because of the slim hope that this moron wrote down the cure at a safe house somewhere, or got wasted one night and blabbed the cure to some hobo. But none of them actually have any hope, they all know they're going to die because this idiot strained too hard on the toilet.
It's so much more open-ended. The idea of the setting is great, but the direct plot of "find this guy" is so fucking stifling, there's no room to write stories. It's overly serial. Champloo has the exact same plot but it works better because it's more open-ended by nature of the setting.
My brother... you are ready for the yuripill...
even mexican dubs are better than american ones.
heh...if you compare it with 90's mexican dubs (even 00's), it's pretty shitty
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hell no, shows with all female casts have the worst threads
Get fucked Leno
Where is the porn?
want porn of these ugly ass characters
They really upped the DEI in the last episode.
same thread for almost 2 days
Haha wouldn't it be funny if it were longer than 2 days...
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