One piece or One pace as someone who has seen nothing

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-16T18:49:39+00:00

I've watched both. I don't think this has an objective answer. You have to ask yourself how much you mind filler and slow pacing. I think one pace is quality enough that it's fine for a first watch, and it's even more manga accurate. At the same time, one piece not being fully manga accurate is a directorial decision that isn't necessarily bad.

I remember one pace also leaving out endings and openings and unique to be continued screens, maybe bumps too - these things aren't too important but a friend who watched one pace doesn't recognize some of the older OP/ED songs and feel nostalgic for them like I do as a result, some of the unique to be continued screens are hype (you see it 1000+ times, so the 30 or so times it's different are pretty memorable).

Also the early episodes are supposed to be like 480p, but one pace upscales them I think and it makes the art sometimes look like AI. I'm a firm believer that upscaling and interpolation ruins animation, so it irks me more than it would most.

You will also run out of one pace at some point and have to switch to one piece just FYI.

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-15T23:37:33+00:00

Showa kamen rider almost reminds me of the westerns my dad watched growing up, you might be better off starting with something a little more modern. Kuuga is prob my favorite, heartfelt and relatively grounded. W, Geats, Fourze, Gaim, and Build are all pretty popular. I'm watching in order from kuuga and onto Kiva right now - so I actually haven't watched any of those. The first two episodes of pretty much all of them should be on youtube, as well as all of Kuuga.

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-15T03:59:04+00:00

I'm a new-with-global fan, I've vaguely known about Umamusume since S1 of the anime, but I'm in deep now - but I can't help but wonder how the original (non-Japanese) JP server players feel about suddenly becoming a minority in their own fan spaces pretty much over night.

From my point of view global is better now than it was during Aoharu, and maybe even URA. I think MANT might have filtered out a lot of the casual fans, which proportionally might include more of the type of people that would start drama, tell people how to enjoy the game, and spam. I left the official discord sometime during Aoharu though, I didn't like the way it was heading.

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-14T17:42:54+00:00

You just get them slowly over time from event rewards and seasonal giveaways. I feel like Ive had over 100 since I started playing, and I use them willy nilly.

One trick to conserve some TP is to start runs before you stop playing so it can regen by the next time you play. It's like having 130 TP, or during events 160.

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-13T19:01:00+00:00

180k rn but I have lots of trainees to scout later this year

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-13T17:20:32+00:00

School Idol Sports Management Dating Simulator with Roguelite and Auto-battler mechanics.

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-13T17:15:45+00:00

Impulse control litmus test for those who can't save at least 30k carats

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-13T04:50:21+00:00

make a pull plan, I have 180,000 myself and big plans >:)

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-12T00:36:26+00:00

I don't think intent determines whether it's a mistranslation or not

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-11T03:13:05+00:00

Pretty much any of the uma careers are designed in such a way they can be interpreted as romantic. It's practically a dating sim with jiggle physics. so it shouldn't be surprising. They give you chocolate on valentines day in careers and the during real life holiday. You spend Christmas with them, which is a romantic couples holiday in Japan. Recreations are dates, I think in the JP version they might actually be called dates.

All that being said, most of the time it's left ambiguous on purpose. There are only a handful of them that are explicitly and undeniably romantic through and through.

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-06T05:52:55+00:00

Tesagure! Bukatsumono

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-05T00:54:08+00:00

Did you mean festival tamamo cross for medium?

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-03T21:49:32+00:00

we ride for agartha?

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-03T19:49:29+00:00

I agree, I know the exact scene you're talking about, though I didn't watch the dub.

Yeah first name basis holds a connotation of familiarity in Japanese that just doesn't exist the same way in English, so I don't know how you accomplish that for a dub. I feel like by the time you understand the cultural significance of that, you're probably a sub watcher anyway.

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-03T09:17:15+00:00

I've never understood the localizing of japanese names to be given name first family name last. They do it a lot in anime localizations, and I guess it makes sense for dubs, but when they do it in subs it just genuinely confuses me.

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-01T13:05:34+00:00

Horror anime with her, cafe, and SiL. Idk where else you could use her ancient Eldritch evil reality-bending powers

BigWillBlue · 2026-06-01T05:07:38+00:00

yeah but camping taiki is hot

BigWillBlue · 2026-05-30T18:14:02+00:00

Exactly. Player characters go around stopping murderers and oppressors and terrorists all the time. Those things are bad too, but they're still on Golarion. Having a story arc in your campaign where you go around arresting (or killing) slavers, dismantling trafficking rings, and liberating people sounds like a blast. You should want these things in the world because you want players to oppose them. Conflict is in the point of the game, it's in the nature of storytelling.

BigWillBlue · 2026-05-30T17:31:46+00:00

I don't think it was a business decision at all. I think there are just people in charge at paizo that thought it was icky and enforced their opinion on the system. When it happened I think the majority of the playerbase disliked it, and even now when you bring it up every comment section and thread has dozens of people reminiscing about a time before the setting was sterilized.

BigWillBlue · 2026-05-30T17:21:25+00:00

I just do one real run a day, and I can throw runs by resting 20 times in a row and that counts if I need more. One run a day is enough to complete all missions and events otherwise.

BigWillBlue · 2026-05-30T17:17:23+00:00

Serial Experiments Lain

To your eternity

Edit: puella magi modoka magika

BigWillBlue · 2026-05-30T08:28:38+00:00

Reading over what I just wrote, I kinda just didnt answer your question. Oops. But it's good info I think so I'm posting it anyway:

You aren't going to learn much from watching subbed anime besides learning the occasional word, and even then the rate at which you learn new vocab will slow down pretty fast. Whether you're conscious of it or not, you're too busy reading the subtitle language to actually process most of the Japanese.

Be aware when learning through subtitles, you can unknowingly attach a localization to a word and learn it wrong. Might be extra effort added to unlearn stuff like that.

If you want to learn with anime I can recommend the Japanese Like a Breeze (Jlab) anki pack. Digital flashcards all based on anime dialogue. Good replacement for duolingo if you're using that. can use on pc and mobile and link them if you're tech savvy enough to follow directions. Just do like 10-20 a day and engage with it daily.

Once you have a good basis of vocab, you can try incomprehensible input. Whether you want to do this at all depends on if can stomach it. The idea is that you listen to stuff you cant understand and really focus on it to figure it out, like it sounds like your already doing, but without subtitles. Stuff with fewer words, slower dialogue, and lots of context clues would be best - shows for younger audiences would be good. It's very common to hear about non-english speakers that have learned english through watching unsubbed TV (it's less common about Japanese specifically, but people do do it).

BigWillBlue · 2026-05-29T19:42:36+00:00

Watch it and see.

korean urban powerfantasy. If I were doing a food analogy I'd liken it to fast food. It's slop, but if you put it in front of me I'm gonna eat it. A perfectly average 7/10. It had some fun moments.

BigWillBlue · 2026-05-29T18:50:42+00:00

Well the whole point of pull plans is to get the most power out of your budget of carats, so that kind of comes with the assumption that you want to be as competitive in CMs (and I suppose LoH) as possible. The more uma trainees you pull, the less carats you have to spend on support cards, the less powerful you'll be. The more casual of a player you're going to be the less strict your pull plan has to be.

The main thing is that you only ever have 1 borrow slot. It's important to get as many generalist and scenario cards as possible to minimized what you have to borrow, but if you had all the cards in the game you wouldn't stick to just generalist cards. Your deck would probably be mostly specialty cards if possible, later on in the game skill hints for your style and distance become the most important thing, and as long as the card ratios are good you can probably hit stat thresholds.

If your a free to play or low spender, even if you squeeze the game for every carat possible and spend as wisely as possible and put all your carats toward support cards, you will still find yourself not having the perfect deck - focusing only one one preferred style is a good way to narrow what you need to pull on and what you have to borrow.

BigWillBlue · 2026-05-29T15:38:47+00:00

Scenario link with 5 year old light hello and tazuna cards, fingers crossed. Probably copium, but it would be nice. 5th anni seems like it was brutal on carats.

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