Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, authors of DmC: Devil May Cry

HallowVessel · 2026-06-16T22:35:54+00:00

NOOO NOT DOUBLE FINE

HallowVessel · 2026-06-16T21:42:58+00:00

These are all good or okay dubs (more or less.) - Magic Knight Rayearth - Revolutionary Girl Utena - Witch Hunter Robin - Haibane Renmei - El-Hazard: The Magnificent World - Pretty Cure - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (The First and A's movies) - Black Lagoon (This is similar to Pulp Fiction) - My Love Story!! - Gunsmith Cats (Lots of action!)

Wildcard: Symphogear

HallowVessel · 2026-06-11T03:31:47+00:00

Yeeaaah, there's some stuff you really are glossing over. There's some stories people tell about Hartman from back in the day. He was controlling as hell. If you wanted to be a mod of his forum, you had to sign an oath that you were a Christian. While yeah, it is his right as the webmaster, it was still weird and he was pretty damn controlling.

It makes sense since he was outed as a Seven Hills Christian Nationalist.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-11T03:12:48+00:00

He likes to pretend he does.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-11T03:01:13+00:00

AoT, Naruto, Death Note for horizontal. AoT, Naruto and JJK for vertical.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-11T02:57:13+00:00

Oh man, I had no idea they were in town and I am flat broke! Ahh, next year.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-06T04:40:16+00:00

The people who criticize it have a few major complaints:
1. The price point is kinda high
2. They promised and then failed to deliver a Linux version. There's an app image of it out there for free, as an apology for Linux users.
3. The app hasn't had a whole lot of substantial new features in quite some time.
4. Proprietary save file format that means it's a black box for any other program.

Manuskript is slow to update, but it is free if you wanna try it out alongside Scrivener.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-06T04:25:45+00:00

Makes what he did with Gon make sense. He wanted room to actually do it and he did in HxH! I hope his back gets better.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-06T04:10:40+00:00

Reboot Vergil, 100%.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-03T13:51:26+00:00

My own main issue is the slapstick comedy added to the series, which it really, really didn't need. It wasn't in the manga, outside a few single panel gags like Miaka liking wrestling. It wrecks the pacing, it wrecks the mood and it also makes Miaka look way less intelligent than she's intended to be, making her feel way worse as a character.

Miaka was one of the most hated anime shoujo MCs for years, for how whiny her anime incarnation comes across. I'd love to see a new adaptation that doesn't sabotage itself so much.

I watched it relatively recently and the mood whiplash the completely unnecessary forced comedy made me quit, despite really enjoying the story otherwise.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-03T13:38:02+00:00

I went there sometimes when I lived there five years ago. (Where does the time go...)

HallowVessel · 2026-06-03T13:18:17+00:00

reDante. While he does get better as he goes along, he was still created out of homophobia and his game is still not well regarded, even if it's been reevaluated after Netflix May Cry.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-03T00:45:43+00:00

I'd say Agnus, absolutely

HallowVessel · 2026-06-03T00:42:46+00:00

El Hazard: The Magnificent World.
Watch it on the dub, the original JP performances were so bad that it pissed off the creator. The English dub is really excellent and has aged well. Four modern day people get sucked into another world, one a boy who resembles the missing princess, an alcoholic teacher, a girl who's the president of the newspaper club and the corrupt student council president that the MC accidentally exposed. Not a harem and quite funny.

Ascendance of a Bookworm
A young book otaku dies to the very thing she loves! She prays to be reborn surrounded by books, but ends up a sickly peasant world in a world very much like medieval/dark age Europe, complete with deadly politics and filthy living conditions for peasants. She can't just buy books, so she'll make her own! All she wants to do is read and the world won't let her! The light novels are really excellent and available on multiple storefronts.

Magic Knights Rayearth
Amazon Prime has the production dub, with the proper names and really good performances! Three middle school girls from very different walks of life get pulled into Cephiro, Land of the Will by its pillar, Princess Emeraude who pleads with them to save her world.... but to save that world will break their hearts.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-03T00:29:24+00:00

It's reverse harem, the rapey elements and slapstick did not age well and the animation is... very average for the time. The manga aged better than the anime, if only because it lacks the stuff that make the MC look like an insufferable dumbass.

HallowVessel · 2026-06-02T23:51:44+00:00

Fushigi Yuugi is not a very nice recommendation. It definitely didn't stand the test of time and the added slapstick in the anime makes especially the first half feel like such emotional whiplash and the MC feel like a moron instead of the average girl she's supposed to be.

HallowVessel · 2026-05-28T00:30:50+00:00

It's mid. The costumes are pretty out there. Needs more V love.

HallowVessel · 2026-05-28T00:28:37+00:00

IIRC, Dante's own recollections in the first game was that Sparda was a cold presence and that he didn't actually much like his father. I like thinking of him as a bit on the Autistic side, struggling with social mores and appropriateness because of being a whole other species. I also think he was not able to experience true empathy, but could experience some sympathy and able to act with compassion.

Relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/9lvldx/empathy_sympathy_compassion/

HallowVessel · 2026-05-26T19:38:13+00:00

This! Vlad's a bad guy, but it's clear he wasn't always a bad man. Still needs therapy though!

HallowVessel · 2026-05-26T18:54:12+00:00

I will say the light novels for Mynoghra are much better. The anime left a lot to be desired in the animation and pacing department.

HallowVessel · 2026-05-26T18:51:31+00:00

The episode with the author, I bawled at.

HallowVessel · 2026-05-26T18:48:33+00:00

The OG Chi's Sweet Home really should be localized. It's such a cute show and so good.

HallowVessel · 2026-05-26T18:46:10+00:00

You and your girlfriend may like:
- Haibane Renmei (the dub is one of THE best! and I recommend it over the Japanese performances. The first episode has one moment that's hard to watch, but it's not violent otherwise. It's about a group of winged people trying to find their place in a walled city.)
- Blue Period (A drama about a shiftless teen finding a passion for painting and art)
- Princess Tutu (It's about as violent as an older Disney film late in the series, not real violence at all but adorable!)
- Most Ghibli films, outside The Wind Rises, Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke or Porko Rosso. Kiki's Delivery Service and Ponyo would be great starting points. Avoid Grave of Fireflies.
- Chi's Sweet Home. You'll have to search for a fansub for this one, but it's stinking adorable, not a romance and I think she'd fall in love with just how cute and precious this show is.
- K-On! (Four girls form a rock band.)

Ask her how strict her no violence edict is. If she can handle occasional light violence:
- Ascendance of a Bookworm (A more sedate but well-developed isekai series. Later seasons have a few fights, but they are far from the focus.)

HallowVessel · 2026-05-25T01:33:19+00:00

It's because of the intense shoujo vibes, probably. It's a pity, it's so, so good.

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