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    A lot of those look pretty damn old. Does steam charge to continue keeping a game available on their servers? Seems fair to drop these if nobody even remembers they exist anymore. I should go play Super House of Dead Ninjas again sometime.. Hopefully at least some of these get preserved somewhere on the high seas.
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    Judging from the titles alone, it's fairly clear everything after this is just fluff, filler or not. I still say they just intentionally padded everything out to hit that big 500 number. One feeling that came through with this episode was.. wondering if there was any sort of sense of relief once these chapters had been written and put out. All the ups and down and years and years, build up and retcons and breadcrumbs, on and on leading up to the finale. I can't help but get the impression that there was a huge burden lifted knowing everything came together and it was all over.
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    An episode where literally nothing important happened. Completely forgot the first half, was expecting a mid-roll when the credits hit.
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    One thing I'm not enjoying so far is how they seem to be making the black characters sound... excessively exaggerated. Gotta make it super clear that they're totes ethnic and not just a diversity skin tone. And then I realized, yeah, that tracks for being produced by [as]/DeMarco. Seems like everything they've made has had that faint whiff of mid-tier fanfic by a shoddy writer. Can't wait to see how they fuck this one up in the end.
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    I will admit, back when I first watched this and the previous arc, I was also sorta disappointed in how little ground they truly cover. Both arcs kinda just amount to killing one demon, in a fairly static setting, with very little exposition or anything that truly forwards the overall plot. Sure, the fights might be visually pleasing, decently animated/choreographed, etc. But... end of the day it's a whole lot of eye candy to distract you from the fact that nothing else is really happening.
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    I only just noticed that the thread preview (when you hover over a thread title) has a weird very faint mis-aligned bubble around it. Has that always been a thing? Oh wait, it's actually two bubbles. There's the thread preview box, then right around the edges is a rounded border that's just a few shades darker than background, and around that is another larger rounded border that's closer to the background grey bit still just slightly off.
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    Ehhh... it comes off a little better if you just accept he was putting up a front from the start. Whole family is dead, and he knows his favorite brother did it, he knows the whole village gives him the side-eye as a potential traitor/usurper just because of his family, etc. It's not so incredibly unreasonable that he decides to push everyone away before they have a chance to turn their back on him. Sure, in fairness, he does get carried away with letting himself believe he's actually better than everyone and they're all beneath him. But that's kinda where Naruto comes in to prove him wrong. In his own way, he sees through the front, sees the whole "I'm better than everyone" act as a means of keeping everyone away, and he's determined to break through it. He sees it because he knows his own actions were a way of controlling how everyone shunned him. That's the whole dichotomy here, that they were both doing it, exerting whatever control they could to twist the glances and whispers into a narrative of their own choosing, rather than something out of their control. While I'm not explicitly opposed to the "romantic" memery, it's really only ever seemed to me like this is blatantly just a "two sides of the same coin" scenario. They both needed to work on accepting themselves. Y'know, a little self-love. Maybe with each other.
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    Totally called it being a flashback-heavy ep (I mean.. I guess you could flip a coin on that and it'll usually be right for this show......) But, it did kinda work with the structure of being a bunch of disjointed memories. Despite the flashbacks, the episode very clearly had to be laid out the way it did; there's no other way you could've gotten those final shots without setting up the whole episode for the reveal. With all the ways this has been going so well, it's really hard to imagine the final stretch of episodes being able to hold onto this level of quality.
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    This thread is also the first I'd noticed they're actually airing the sub version as well.. Was there, like.. a reason for that? Admittedly didn't really dig the Morris VA.. Should probably record an ep just to see the bumpers for it, if they're any different.
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    Finally all caught up with backlog. "Huh, this opening kinda reminds me of.. Oh hey! It is! Coldrain, who did the opening for Fire Force."
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    Weird that everyone is criticizing the extent of their "friendship," like.... that's half the damn point here. You can't judge their friendship on what you expect friends to actually be, because Sasuke is a bitch ass punk. A rival is the closest thing he understands to friends. Naruto's whole point, his entire character, is killing enemies and rivals with kindness. And a good beatdown is the only way Sasuke is going to understand the extent of their friendship. Just like with literally everyone else in the entire show, it's down to Naruto wearing him down. Honestly, it's just impressive that they kept this giant mecha chakra battle to just these two episodes. Respect for not dragging that out longer than it needed. ..I see after this there's a couple "mixed canon/filler episodes before one last batch of filler.. got a bad feeling "mixed canon" means "we'll replay the last bits of this fight before seguing into another pointless flashback."
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    Catching up, and.. I'll just say it, last week's episode was better than any episode of Naruto had any right to be. I mean.. maybe not Sasuke's whole monologuing bit.. other than that part, it felt pretty solid. The flashbacks, such as they were, actually contributed to the setting in a meaningful way. If you only showed someone one singular episode of this show, and it was that episode..... you'd be setting an awful high bar that none of the rest live up to.
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    Space Ghost the vtuber.
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    Could've.. uh.. maybe mentioned the article had spoilers for the finale.....
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    I really dislike these episodes where fuckall happens while we dedicate time to backstory of a character you'll forget about once the arc is over. There's gotta be a more elegant way to incorporate some of this while still progressing what's actually happening. Whole episode could've been designated as filler and skipped with nothing significant lost.
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    Yeah, jumping straight into a marathon day maybe didn't help, could've been eased in with some others. Cow and Chicken was always very much a "small doses" show for me.
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    Dumping this here because why not Looks like Cow and Chicken are getting worked in now as well. And unlike the starting lineup, this one hasn't aged so well... not that it was great to begin with.
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    This was a known quantity from the start. Kid with a god complex, thought he could "kill all titans" at the age of 12 or w/e. I knew this ending was coming, and it's even more satisfying to hear the admission that this was all really stupid. I regret not dropping this show completely years ago.
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    You ever see a thumbnail and just know you have to click it to find out if it lives up to the weird?
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    I began to wonder, watching last week, how much screentime Zoro would still have if you trimmed out all of the "you're going the wrong way" padding. Genuinely adds nothing at all but filling time.
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    Can't really refute any of that. I'm not so sure how much you were meant to be truly attached to any villagers, tho, as much as maybe just.. appreciating the village as a whole. An arc more about Irumyuui than anyone else. But, I mean, in the end, I enjoyed it, so naturally I'm gonna try to spin it for myself as getting something worthwhile out of it. Still, not wrong, in the long run, likely not really much importance to the story as a whole. I might also throw out, like.. it's definitely a funny series to get hung up on "attachment" to anything, really. Another thing the story does weird, the way Riko can just so casually toss everything aside and continue on deeper, knowing she'll never see any of these people again. There's a sadness in leaving and loss, but she's always able to look ahead with a smile. Knowing that, it's a bit of a feat that the show can manage to build up any attachment at all, flimsy as it may be.
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    Eh, I'm more on board with S2 for at least keeping on theme. I'm less invested in the adventure part, I see the story being more about finding the light of optimism amidst crushing despair, with a side helping of "sins of the past." But, the criticisms are definitely valid. Took a while for the threads to really start weaving together, and all told, pretty light on "progress." That's just, like... the whole show. =p But, is also some of its appeal. It's far from tame. Edgy, some would say. But, the story still tries to make some good come of it all. I'd say it's that juxtaposition, the gap between gruesome and wholesome, that works for drawing people in.
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    Personal conspiracy: They were approaching the end episode somewhere in the high 400s and decided "let's just fluff this up a bit with some garbage to hit a cool 500." Knowing everything had been written, and thus, nothing new would be contradicting filler back-lore, they were free to just make up whatever they liked.
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    Criticism: Air tanks. Not oxygen tanks. At no point did they separate hydrogen/oxygen from water, they were just pumping in straight air. Which is good, because pure oxygen would've been no help. (also, while I can buy cobbling together a tank to pressurize, big doubt on just throwing together a regulator with whatever's on hand..) Plus the three of them could've easily just shared regulators, splitting up the air, to not rely on believing a) he could actually get a gulp of air off someone trying to speak without also inhaling a load of seawater, and b) that he could swim back to the surface on that one gulp while also carrying half a statue. Seriously, Senku, really shoulda planned ahead on a strategy to actually lift stone up from the seabed. Extra ropes to haul from the surface, and/or lift bags to add air to for help from buoyancy. Sand art ending is pretty cool, tho.
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