MischievousMonkey

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O.K., so about Fire Force, 4 episodes in:

  • First off, on the fantastic artistic direction. The drawings are scrumptious. Each shot is delectable for real. The environments are very detailed with fineness, which makes the pretty long and numerous stills beautiful to look at. I wonder how much time it took to produce this and how many episodes they've already done, even if stills help in that regard.
The color palette used is often striking (characters' eyes, the bright blue fluo bands on their outfit popping out in the tern steampunk environment) and adds to the beauty of the shots.
Rhythm is also great and stands out from what I usually see in shonens. Sudden cuts to one scene to another, long sequences abruptly ended... I feel like the rhythm sometimes worked like film rolls. I love all of it. It contributes to giving the show a strong identity from the jump.

  • Atmosphere is off the chains. The settings are obviously very steampunk influenced but it's not overdone. You see clear touches of it, mixed with the traditional Japanese urban aesthetic that I'm accustomed to.

  • The animation is excellent. I fukking love how far we've come in terms of animation. It makes it even hard to go back to old animes like Naruto for example, because we're so spoiled right now :mjcry: How many times do I see a scene in Naruto first gen where I'm like ":beli: this would be so fire if it was animated like Sasuke vs Orochimaru or the Kages fight". I don't know the number of episodes produced yet like I said, but I already know it's not a lot with an animation and drawings like that :russ:

  • Opening and ending are great. Opening got the fire music, the animation and great fight scenes on lock. Action sequences and music also fit perfectly, and that's crucial to the rhythm and the hype of a good opening.
The ending is excellent! :wow: It's everything an ending should be: a melancholic contrast between a rather upbeat music and a retrospective of happy and sad events filled with trauma :wow: Judging by it, I guess that all the nuns of the convent burst into flames at the same time? :picard: This is lowkey scary. I noticed that the Captain of the 5th unit was also one of the nuns. She seemed close to the blonde girl from the 8th, so I wonder why their link changed.

  • Story is intriguing so far and I like some of the themes adressed, like how the firefighters can be considered murderers. In Episode 4, they chase a serial killer who calls them out on doing the same thing he does :leon: I wonder where they're going with this.
And once again, just like what I was talking about with Black Clover, the christian themes viewed by Japanese are always odd to watch. They must love the aesthetic and ritualistic aspects of Christianity. This time they even got an amen in "latum". They always strip the God element to only keep "fashionized" religious customs mixed with magic.

  • Fanservice... is way over done. At least it's short but it's also regular. Episode 3 actually made me laugh with how overboard they went with it. Dude got his hand under a girl bra for no fukking reason whatsoever :dead: why is she even a firefighter with her fireproof jacket opened straight on the tatas :dahell: This shyt was ridiculous. When she fell over his homie I was like lemme guess, he got his dikk in her by accident now :aicmon:

All in all, I like it a lot. Hope it doesn't lose its stride like Demon Slayer did for me. I quit watching in the middle of episode 21
when I saw it was going to be more fukking backstory on the trash ass vampire family. I don't care about them! :damn: What's the point?! :damn:

Edit: why did I write so much? :dahell:
 
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The 1st episode of this show is bigger budget than all of RE:Zero :dahell:
This show is Special FX eye candy to a whole new level
 

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High Score Girl is amazing. I just wish Ono wasn’t a silent protagonist type character. Hidaka makes up for it though. She learned how to play video games just to impress the main character.
 

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Greed strikes again. After the owners of manga rock implemented a subscription service for shyt they dont own. They are now shutting down

:mjcry:

It was the best app out there but they wanted more and took more risks

:mjcry:

I got 380 mangas in there

:damn:
 

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#We Are The Flash #DOOMSET #LukeCageSet #NEWLWO
Greed strikes again. After the owners of manga rock implemented a subscription service for shyt they dont own. They are now shutting down

:mjcry:

It was the best app out there but they wanted more and took more risks

:mjcry:

I got 380 mangas in there

:damn:

Wouldn’t affect you if you joined #noreadgang:mjlit:


Just come watch these anime’s with us:shaq:

Go in blindly not knowing that direction they will take and what the end games are:jawalrus:
 

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What's a good android app for reading manga? I use Manga Browser but it's a little outdated.
 

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Greed strikes again. After the owners of manga rock implemented a subscription service for shyt they dont own. They are now shutting down

:mjcry:

It was the best app out there but they wanted more and took more risks

:mjcry:

I got 380 mangas in there

:damn:
I guess this is a good incentive to start downloading all the manga I've bookmarked from them.
Edit: My unread Azumi chapters aren't downloading :damn:
 
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I guess this is a good incentive to start downloading all the manga I've bookmarked from them.
Edit: My unread Azumi chapters aren't downloading :damn:

People are in full panic mode on their reddit channel.

It is the cleanest and best looking manga reader for ios.

:mjcry:

Some users have 1k favourites :damn:
 
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