DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Joy to the rescue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Just now, CorbeauKarasu said: DON'T TEASE ME LIKE THAT, COMMERCIAL!! WHY THE FUCK ISN'T JUJUTSU KAISEN ON TOONAMI ALREADY????? Yeah what was that ad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 did that punch shatter his guidebook???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Holy shit And now the voice too 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Yeah it's not going to go well after the UK gives Hong Kong back to China, Joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 No one knows what the future will be like under China. I GOT BAD NEWS KIDDO 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 STAY WITH HOTTIE!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Joy running this shit lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Ah, Hong Kong. A place I've heard a lot about, but maybe not for good reasons. The show has done a good job as portraying it as a smoggy metropolis filled with unknown assailants, with the occasional scenic getaway. The temple Ryo went to is quite beautiful, and I can almost smell the incense. Too bad he's stuck trying to knock the leaves off this tree, in what I figure was a lengthy quest in the video game. As a side note, that was quite a while before the break, which threw me off in starting this post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 aren't all massages "hand massages"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 it's blossoming. yes, it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Just now, DangerMouse said: Holy shit And now the voice too It makes you wonder haha. Although this game came out in like 2001, way before the One Piece timeskip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnimationFan14 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 does he just collect different styles of martial arts to use in the video games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Nice catch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 wong: ses ryo *oh shit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 "Get him boys!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Fuck Wong. I don't care if he is an orphan. Which was never said in the game, at least not as far as I've gotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 but all your money is gone. we gambled it away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Leaves covered the ground! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, ben0119 said: It makes you wonder haha. Although this game came out in like 2001, way before the One Piece timeskip. Yeah, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 YOU CAN SMIIIIIILE AGAIN!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saito34 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 The dude cant abide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 UH...HE DEFINITELY PUSHED THAT BIG GUY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Yu Suzuki seems unusual for a Japanese guy, having a fondness for China and Western culture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 she's so hot for you 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 QUEST COMPLETED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 MASTER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 She's the master?! Damn I didn't get that far yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Just now, CorbeauKarasu said: she's so hot for you yeah lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 oh lord, boy.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 If I wanted to kill you, you would already be dead! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 oh, i immediately like this guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Yes the chase was just like in the game with the Quick Time Event obstacles. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 "your hand is mine now." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Looks like a sparring match with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Well, the show does get a minus for not introducing Joy with an ass shot and hair metal song, but on the other hand, they did make her boobs bigger! By the way, the devs definitely knew what they were doing giving her that model of motorcycle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 (edited) Joy's theme from the game. Edited March 13, 2022 by ben0119 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 And now, a few more observations: I figured Joy looking like Nanami would be the obvious joke, but I was waiting to see if she was really voiced by Luci Christian to lock it down. Sure enough, she is. On the other hand, the young orphan boy not being voiced by Greg Ayres threw me off. The traditional Chinese lady shows up again and gets two words of dialogue. Nice. At least she didn't repeat that stupid poem again. Interesting how Ryo is now putting his fingers up to the bandage on his face. The first time, I thought he was going to take it off as an act of symbolism to mark reaching Hong Kong, but then he keeps gesturing to it. Maybe he's always done this and I never noticed? Nice action, which is to be expected. Turns out the best kind of pacifism is the one where you make your enemies beat each other. And the lady who runs the temple turns out to be wearing a China dress. Ooh la la. My preferences are traditional Japanese clothes, but I get the appeal of the cheongsam. Heck, the current Deresute gacha has a character wearing one, complete with double bun accessories. This show continues to be surprisingly delightful, even if it now feels odd to see the Crunchyroll logo on anything given that they're being dragged through the mud for wanting to pay translators less. At least Sentai's the one working on this show. Next week, the fighting continues. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted March 13, 2022 Author Share Posted March 13, 2022 (edited) Random thoughts - Welcome to Hong Kong Ryo. Watch out for pickpockets and wandering supporting characters. Yeah, he got his shit boosted at the start of the second game as well. You had to pawn off your gatcha toys and get a part time job to get money, everything from lifting stuff at a store to good old underground fight rings. Ah, the days before online booking and AirBNB. You got out kung-fued by an old dude at the park. Do you really think you can beat Lan Di? Suzuki's pacing for this series really works better for a passive medium like an anime than it did for a game. Look, your average Yakuza game has long cutscenes too, but they are also stuffed to the absolute freaking brim with gameplay, interactive elements, and other things that make the experience feel far more rewarding than Shenmue did. Which is part of why I'm so amazed with how the anime has taken the games' writing and refined it. Some of the dialogue remains stilted, which I think is trying to convey that Ryo is still learning Cantonese. It works when he's talking to people for whom Japanese isn't their first language. Joy is a pretty fun character so far, but the visual similarities to Nami are going to be rather...distracting. Honestly the old guy's Tai Chi speech just makes me want to watch Man of Tai Chi again. "The only way this backpack is worth any money is if a $3,000 hooker is wearing it!" Ok, jujutsu is the name for practically dozens of fighting arts, and considering that Yu Suzuki put in a lot of the moves Akira used in Virtua Fighter into it, it incorporates a fair amount of kung fu influence as well. So the name passes the smell test. Not to mention, this was before the popularity of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was a thing. And the master was the woman the whole time. Also there seems to be a recurring theme of people telling Ryo that pursuing revenge is pointless, but he charges forward anyway. The show continues to be pretty good even as we go into the Shenmue games I admittedly never played. Given the length of the series, I doubt we hit Shenmue III, but considering Shenmue III was a gigantic waste of time for everyone involved, maybe if this gets another season the writers can work their magic on that too, as well as the scripts for any hypothetical sequels, since no one is funding another Yu Suzuki Kickstarter. Or maybe Suzuki just makes that OutRun anime he said he wanted to do during the NYCC panel for Shenmue. (He said the idea was for couples to be in a Cannonball Run style race). Edited March 13, 2022 by Jman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 10 hours ago, DangerMouse said: Probably not Luci Christian (Nami) but actually kinda sound like her too? Is it her? 10 hours ago, CorbeauKarasu said: i'm pretty sure it was her. pretty unmistakeable inflection 10 hours ago, ben0119 said: That would be hilarious it it was her. Voice sounds deeper, though. So either Luci is lowering her voice to a level I've never heard before, or it's someone else. I know these are all honest questions and that they were asked during periods that weren't commercial breaks where a quick search could confirm it, but... Luci Christian was announced as Joy's VA as far back as when the anime first premiered, and the credit is right there on the show's ANN page. It's like everyone here is allergic to that site for some reason when it comes to looking up who voiced what character. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbeauKarasu Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 14 hours ago, ben0119 said: Yeah what was that ad? The Jujutsu Kaisen movie is coming to theaters in the states Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 On 3/13/2022 at 12:02 PM, PokeNirvash said: I know these are all honest questions and that they were asked during periods that weren't commercial breaks where a quick search could confirm it, but... Luci Christian was announced as Joy's VA as far back as when the anime first premiered, and the credit is right there on the show's ANN page. It's like everyone here is allergic to that site for some reason when it comes to looking up who voiced what character. Like you said, we were asking it right after hearing her voice in realtime, I know I missed the original announcement of who was voicing her, literally used ANN and wiki to look it up during the commercial break Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted March 16, 2022 Author Share Posted March 16, 2022 Something else I’m noticing is just how big the world is looking now and how not ready Ryo is for Lan Di. Ryo never beat up tigers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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