/f/ - Fandom Generals

>>4528
Good description think the inital "san" had a seinen target audience like an adult swim show it's rather low-brow, plus it's a late night series and not aimed at kids. That being said they clearly recognize the female fanbase before the first season is even over and a lot of the merch seems targeted at women. >>4527 these were stickers you'd get if you bought one of six tie-in drinks, I can't imagine having the courage to actually order one though lol.

>>4528
>My assumption is that the target audience was intended to be people who grew up with the 80s show but women latched on cause the brothers are voiced by A-list male seiyuu.
I think it's both at the same time. Osomatsu-kun looks like the type of manga and anime that everyone grew up with at some point regardless of generation in Japan.

This season so far has been really hit or miss for me but this week's episode was fine. Though it makes me ask the question how they can afford to get drunk but not buy a secondhand fan. I know I shouldn't overthink it but I guess the implication would be that they get an allowance and they spend it all without saving anything.

What plot-heavy fics would you recommend?

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Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe Film Gets Stage Play in 2026

I came across a news post from one of the mobile games while on Xitter and I'm so fucking immature, I've been giggling about this anim for like five minutes now.

>>3573
ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard

>>4625

Fusion WAS included, but they didn't interact with it much since they liked the main persona and it was enough to power through the dungeon without issue. Igor was there as usual, but they said the person with him (possibly the attendant) was a young girl who had bolts ala Frankenstein and was wearing mostly black.

You gained new demons by arresting them post-battle, but they weren't very specific about it since they apparently ignored that too.

>>4626
>>4624
Forgot to mention MC fights with two swords, and has a hopping idle animation in battle that was 'kinda cute'. This could make it better or worse, but they compared him to Ryo from Devilman Crybaby in general appearance.

I'm trying to remember what else is important enough to mention without spamming the board. The most notable social link was another student who is trying to become an influencer to bring business to her grandmother's street food stand. The link involved them arguing over it, and the girl trying not to let online pressure get to her. She had a 'cute street style' and pink gradient hair.

The victim in the dungeon was regarded as a piano prodigy, and the persona-using boss throws him in because he's jealous over it. During the boss fight, he transforms into full Gene Simmons makeup. The playtest ended once he was defeated.

>>4628
>Igor was there as usual, but they said the person with him (possibly the attendant) was a young girl who had bolts ala Frankenstein and was wearing mostly black.
Not surprised, all the attendants and Igor himself, and even Viktor and Mary inthe Devil Summoner series are specifically named after Frankenstein characters. I wonder what will happen with Igor. It's so obvious that P5 was written around his Japanese voice actor's death that I assume the devs don't want to replace him no matter what with the fake Igor having his own voice actor and are willing to just reuse his previous lines. So I assume the attendant will have more lines in comparison. When is Philemon coming back?

>The victim in the dungeon was regarded as a piano prodigy, and the persona-using boss throws him in because he's jealous over it.
It's basically like in Tartarus and the Memento then. Same thing with the police actively being involved in what's going on, there are always police officers or detectives involved in the series since P2 at the very least. I haven't played P1 so maybe that's also true for this game. I get being disappointed or surprised if playtesters don't know Persona but I know some Persona fans will seethe.

>>4623
>Heavy occult vibes
I'm sold. I just hope Atlus won't take too much time releasing the game so I can get it on the PS5, I don't plan on getting more recent consoles for plenty of reasons after that.

>>4628
everything sounds like it could be real except for the part about the attendant wearing mostly black.
they're supposed to mostly wear blue.

It still blows my mind that there was never a proper official english translation of the series because of Glenn fucking Danzig of all people. The only real silver lining about him having the publishing rights for the series was that we got some nice Simon Bisley art out of it. Spoilered for 3dpd but I just find the fact that Danzig is such a huge fan of Devilman that he got a massive tramp stamp funny as hell

>Who tops? Or are they versatile?
They’re both bottoms who expect the other to assfuck them eventually (won’t happen)

No matter what everybody says, I really loved Zetsubou-hen and Mirai-hen. I hate Makoto so much for not losing anything of value, while Kyousuke lost the two most important people in his life.

>>4607
I actually watched 3 for the first time a few months back and it's so many mixed feelings. I kind of hated most of Future and thought the killing game was weak and up until The fake out with Juuzou, even after that it didn't feel like a mystery you could actually solve which burned me as I really thought Andou was the mastermind of it. That being said Despair was ok, bit fanservicey over plot but I liked Ryouta as a character and thought his contribution to the Biggest Most Despair Inducing Event was a neat way to explain how things came to be all over the world. Plus it was neat to just see Hope's Peak actually as a school.

I share it. Was not expecting to come away shipping something after watching it but they are just so good.

>>4409
I have had this in my backlog since forever. I love white man and middle eastern man pairings. Would love to see a fujobaity King Richard and Saladin movie.

The weirdest confirmed one I found is this old man having a poly set-up with two younger men, one a Chinese. This shit writes itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld

>>4585
I vaguely remember the fandom not liking the costuming/atmosphere shift (casual clothing instead of robes in many scenes) following the director swap after Chamber of Secrets. I agree that the first two movies have a better "vibe" but if you eyeball the length of the books the first two adaptations also have the advantage of shorter/tightly edited source material, so it's hard to say how much that lent itself to making a better movie.

>>4585
Maybe cause of a lot of miscellaneous things like omitting characters, leaving out or changing important plot stuff, (like in HBP the subplot being about Lavender and Rons relationship when that was barely a thing and wasting time on that instead of shedding more light on Regulus and Toms backstories, or cutting the scene of Dumbeldore meeting the Dursleys and replacing it with Harry flirting with some random waitress)
Also just some characterization changes, book Harry and movie Harry are completely different people

The movies still hold up and look just fine, but as usual the books will be better (this can be said for most adaptations)

>>4585
I only dislike some of them. I enjoyed the first 3 immensely, then they started to omit/rewrite more and more material as the books grew thicker. The atmosphere also changed, with a lot of magic and wonder being lost, so they were less immersive. The changed colour use to grimderp also weighed them down. I don't think the last two were well-directed at all.

>>4586
The third one may actually be my favourite, cause the atmosphere, the humour and the original content just vibed with me.

>>4589
>the subplot being about Lavender and Rons relationship when that was barely a thing and wasting time on that instead of shedding more light on Regulus and Toms backstories
Yeah, exactly. Focusing on the wrong stuff (as fanservice to who exactly?) while neglecting what people actually wanted to see (other characters getting screentime, action).

I was surprised to find out recently that KoiTsuki had become the most popular ship in the series. Not just because I remember for a long time TsukiKoi was more popular, but because I thought it was inevitable that an MC/antagonist couple like SugiO would always lead in popularity. I guess the end of the story might've had a big factor in that.

I have no idea why but I saw a big increase of TsuruSugi after the movie got screened in Japan. I guess I have to watch it anyway. I am curious as to whether it's just new fans shipping the main dudes of the movie (since Koito and such weren't relevant yet) or if it has some scenes that provided shipping fuel lel

I also feel like there is an increase of Henmi and TsuruOgata art the last years. I am glad that the live action version is popular as well.
>>4027
Yeah the end changes a lot and Koito is probably the character with the best slowburn development. And they stuck together till the end and afterwards. It's asking for happy end shipping and Koito being in a higher position than Tsukishima ads more fuel to it because many view the latter as an inherently loyal servant/soldier, so he doesn't work well as a seme but it was hard imagining Koito as the top at first. The ending changed that. This is why KoiTsuki gained so much steam.

Vasily/Ogata deserved better ;(

>>3493
Totally worth it. The last episodes of season 2 were the most intense of any anime i've ever seen. Plus anime kaiji is qt

Getting obsessed with big nosed men manga for the cuteness of a 70+ year old blood-draining tsundere villain was definitely not on my bingo card when I started Akagi in the late 00s but here we are.
I am glad that fkmt manga are popular enough to spawn spinoff series for the villains and that the fandoms for his big old hits are still alive, even 15 years later. Bless Fukumoto and his autism. That guy has a crazy talent for dramatic climaxes and infodumps that are actually interesting. Even the series that are solely about games never bore me for a second.

I admit I also find most of his characters very relatable, even though his series feel like they were written for middle aged men with midlife crises lmao

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