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Captain Yesterday: We'll cross that river when we get there
The General: I think it's a bridge...
Captain Yesterday: If you want to use the bridge, go ahead, but I'm swinging over on a vine
The General: This is why I married you!
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So, you're a "big box" studio, you're handed one of the biggest anime hits of 2015, and you're asked to do Season 2. People are horrified that you're going to botch it.
Do you:
(1) Put your best people on it, do your best to match the style and flavor that made Season 1 such a hit, accept that some people are going to hate you just because you're different, but try to wow the rest, or...(2) ...just mail it in with a cheap, by-the-numbers job, since enough people are going to hate you anyway that there's really no point in trying.
JC Staff has obviously taken option (2) with One Punch Man Season 2, and it's depressing. One reviewer just put up a screenshot from Season 1 and a screenshot from Season 2, and said, "Compare the colors." Season 2 is grey and lifeless compared to Season 1.
Having read the story arc of Season 2 in the manga, I like it much better than the story arc of Season 1, because it addresses the elephant in the room: One man, no matter how godlike, cannot be everywhere at once, nor can he protect everyone
Yet so far, there is no life in the anime. Episode 2 was one of my favorite books, as Blizzard's emotional progression through the series is really something that resonates with me. The anime makes her a boring, one-dimensional, throwaway character. I don't care whether I ever see her again. Some of the brilliant translations in the manga ("You're gonna attack with rocks and pebbles? Oh please, no, don't.") get butchered in the anime ("You're attacking with stones? Hmm."). One of the most powerful scenes in the manga is in this book, and is just utterly failed in the anime.
In short, Book 9 of the manga includes a lot of lighthearted stuff that lets you see a bit of Saitama's humanity. Episode 2 of the anime tries to focus on the action, which is in the background in the manga.
Another episode of Season 2 down, another serious disappointment.
EDIT: And for those of you who are getting the original manga instead of the compiled versions I'm getting,...
hello, I would like to introduce you to Mobile Suit Gundam...
Captain Yesterday: We'll cross that river when we get there
The General: I think it's a bridge...
Captain Yesterday: If you want to us the bridge, go ahead, but I'm swinging over on a vine
The General: This is why I married you!
that's some vine.
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Captain Yesterday: We'll cross that river when we get there
The General: I think it's a bridge...
Captain Yesterday: If you want to us the bridge, go ahead, but I'm swinging over on a vine
The General: This is why I married you!
All of us can clearly see why she married you...
I had a lot of practice.
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So I'm kinda stunned at the moment. I have a neighbor upstairs above me who I think is a pretty cool guy, but a lot of people say he is inconsiderate, as he plays music super loud in the middle of the night and watches porn with the volume so high up you can here it outside etc.
I'm half deaf anyway so I never cared, as I also play my tv loud to hear it and he has never complained.
Anyway I got a knock on the door this morning and it was him and he cheerfully handed me an envelope of money. A year or two ago he asked if he could borrow $200 and I gave it to him but he never paid it back. He thanked me for being nice to him and never calling the cops on him for the noise or even asking for him to pay me back. I was like it's all good thanks for getting around to it.
I looked in the envelop and it was $2,000!!!
He said it was interest for being nice to him.
Holy crap, apparently being nice to people really does pay off sometimes.
I'm pleasantly surprised. Usually what happens in my case is I never see the money again, except I'm quite the nag because once we have an agreement I would want you to follow it through so I'd probably hound the poor sap day and night until he coughed up the dosh. I could not accept excess payment though, its part of my programming.
strange...I don't remember giving away 2000....So I'm kinda stunned at the moment. I have a neighbor upstairs above me who I think is a pretty cool guy, but a lot of people say he is inconsiderate, as he plays music super loud in the middle of the night and watches porn with the volume so high up you can here it outside etc.
I'm half deaf anyway so I never cared, as I also play my tv loud to hear it and he has never complained.
Anyway I got a knock on the door this morning and it was him and he cheerfully handed me an envelope of money. A year or two ago he asked if he could borrow $200 and I gave it to him but he never paid it back. He thanked me for being nice to him and never calling the cops on him for the noise or even asking for him to pay me back. I was like it's all good thanks for getting around to it.
I looked in the envelop and it was $2,000!!!
He said it was interest for being nice to him.
Holy crap, apparently being nice to people really does pay off sometimes.
Turn down the porn freehold we don't wanna know when your watching that!
Captain Yesterday: We'll cross that river when we get there
The General: I think it's a bridge...
Captain Yesterday: If you want to use the bridge, go ahead, but I'm swinging over on a vine
The General: This is why I married you!
must be a Tarzan fan... or maybe George of the jungle.
Clocking out. Good night, everyone.
Also tag out for John.
Eww sports joke.
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Eww sports joke.
At least he did not make a joke about jock itch. That would be a hard one to scratch out.
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*does what the name is*
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Eww sports joke.
No, it's a tennis joke.
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Like live action pong.
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Turn down the porn freehold we don't wanna know when your watching that!strange...I don't remember giving away 2000....So I'm kinda stunned at the moment. I have a neighbor upstairs above me who I think is a pretty cool guy, but a lot of people say he is inconsiderate, as he plays music super loud in the middle of the night and watches porn with the volume so high up you can here it outside etc.
I'm half deaf anyway so I never cared, as I also play my tv loud to hear it and he has never complained.
Anyway I got a knock on the door this morning and it was him and he cheerfully handed me an envelope of money. A year or two ago he asked if he could borrow $200 and I gave it to him but he never paid it back. He thanked me for being nice to him and never calling the cops on him for the noise or even asking for him to pay me back. I was like it's all good thanks for getting around to it.
I looked in the envelop and it was $2,000!!!
He said it was interest for being nice to him.
Holy crap, apparently being nice to people really does pay off sometimes.
WHAT? I cant hear you over all this porn!
Also as a side note, pornhub has put up a bunch of beesexual videos that literally are bees having sex. For every video watched they will donate to a bee charity. Because we need bees to, you know, live.
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That's and odd thing but I do support bees... Maybe I can just have it on in the background.
I blame Jerry Seinfeld.
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I am not sure if I beelieve you all.
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Just don't beelittle Freehold DM.
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I seem to bee in a beeligerant mood today.
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I think these jokes do not beelong here.
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I guess Sharoth is sharing all the buzz with us today.
It's almost a sport. More of one than golf or bowling anyways.Eww sports joke.No, it's a tennis joke.
Where does pool fall?
It's almost a sport. More of one than golf or bowling anyways.Eww sports joke.No, it's a tennis joke.
Almost only counts in horseshoes or hand grenades, both of which would be more entertaining to watch then golf, bowling, or tennis.
But is horseshoes a sport?
But is horseshoes a sport?No, but corn hole is.
No no no at best corn hole is an activity at worst a crime.
Corn hole was our best selling game at Toys R Us, even more popular then Flip cup, and we're in a college town.
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But is horseshoes a sport?No, but corn hole is.
I used to work with a professional corn holer, he was kind of an a**%&$@.
No no no at best corn hole is an activity at worst a crime.But is horseshoes a sport?No, but corn hole is.
I believe the National Corn Hole Championship is held in Wisconsin.
But is horseshoes a sport?
Beats me, do I look like hall of fame horseshoe pitcher Mildred Brouilette?
I used to work with a professional corn holer, he was kind of an a&*&@@%.But is horseshoes a sport?No, but corn hole is.
That really does make sense.
Now if only they could organize a National Milk Maid Championship then Freehold would probably move there immediately.I believe the National Corn Hole Championship is held in Wisconsin.No no no at best corn hole is an activity at worst a crime.But is horseshoes a sport?No, but corn hole is.
Every county holds a competition for this very thing every year to see who parades around for June dairy month and then the fairs the whole rest of the summer.
I forget that Wisconsin has even less going on then even TN.
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Less going on!?! Did you not hear about the cornholing, fairs, and milkmaids.
What else do you want?
You wanna throw some s#*!? We have the national cow chip throwing championship in Sauk City.
You want to eat mass produced pancakes and scrambled eggs in a barn with five hundred other people? Breakfast On The Farm!
Cheese your thing? We have Cheese Days for that!
Drunkenly shooting fruit off a kid's head? Visit any rural community on a Saturday night, or if you just want to see a historical recreation of one, then the William Tell festival in New Glarus is the place to go.