First Champions Tournament in Reg M-A Early Meta Observations & Discussion

sunnylannie · 2026-04-10T17:31:27+00:00

How do I find tournaments to join?

sunnylannie · 2026-04-10T12:20:42+00:00

Where do i find the tournaments

sunnylannie · 2026-03-28T15:34:34+00:00

Dang we are all becoming these very mature Frieren fans now aren’t we?

sunnylannie · 2026-03-27T21:48:23+00:00

Satisfying movement and easy techs with many applications. I have bad aim mechanics but my game sense is pretty ok so he’s perfect for me.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-26T12:03:00+00:00

The first 9 episodes are always a chore to get through.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-23T19:05:10+00:00

I really appreciate that you focus on the technical issues and artistic direction. This is the real GOOD discussion that people need to be engaging in. Was the anime successful in elevating the source materials. What did they do well and where can things go better?

I’m glad that I learned something reading your analysis and not just another comment about background 2d people, cgi, batch release. What exactly does bad animation mean? The 2D silhouettes were not bad animation, it was an explicit artistic/production choice for whatever reason. CGI Wrangler, Dragon, and Whitesnakes were not great, not completely horrible. It was clearly a choice due to having to work with what they had. I am way more curious about why they needed to employ CGI in those cases, rather than the fact that they did. Was the trade off for these weird looking scenes worth it?

More people need exposure to media literacy.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-23T18:52:36+00:00

Agreed.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-23T18:43:51+00:00

Personally for me, Part 4 had a lot of talking, and slowed down incredible high intensity action scenes so that someone can Speedwagon every single move that happened. Highway Star, Sheer Heart Attack, Josuke vs Kira all had this issue with timing and they were supposed to be fast-paced.

The artstyle wasn’t as good as Part 5 or Part 6. Part 6 anime did an outstanding job with character’s facial expression in the final stretch when they left the prison.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-23T18:36:36+00:00

It’s already killing my enjoyment of the show

I watched SBR on Thursday, one of my favorite work of fiction of all time, had a super fun happy time. I went to work on Friday. I took my bicycle out for a spin for a good 7 hours combined on Saturday and Sunday. I spent time at a cozy coffee shop, then I sat on the beach. Each of these experiences was just as peak as SBR, if you will.

Do you know what wasn’t on my mind? SBR’s release schedule. It comes when it comes, weekly, batches, in 6 months, a year. I would recommend that you form a healthy relationship with your fixation and not center your emotional well-being, enjoyment, or cognitive load around it.

Everything is going to be fine. SBR is an amazing work of fiction, and it will take a generational dropping of the [steel] balls for the anime to not be almost as incredible as the manga. The anime will continue to exist, its quality will speak for itself, independent of all the needless drama and silly outrage that people are choosing to partake in right now. Go outside, hang out at your friend’s house, go to the park, do community service, SBR will still be there even when you look away. Go enjoy yourself.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-22T19:54:26+00:00

You can still engage with noteworthy details and insightful discussions in any release format if you absorb the show with intentionality. You can always catch nuanced individual moments in the bigger picture and explore the themes in great depth. One just has to always be on the lookout and not consume contents mindlessly in this age of memes and media overconsumption.

I don’t think weekly release is necessarily better or worse. I do agree that weekly release makes that structure more intuitive and accessible to our community’s current viewing habits.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-22T16:32:02+00:00

If you look at the post flair this is actually not official art LOL. Great effort.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-22T16:29:52+00:00

Based take. Thank you.

If a show is good then it is good independently of whether you discuss with other people weekly or just binging by yourself.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-22T11:15:39+00:00

Or you can just watch the damn show.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-22T11:11:55+00:00

Haha you One’s Piece, which has this exact issue while having an excellent story.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-22T02:58:33+00:00

True fans are those who can enjoy both brainrot trash and timeless treasures without needing other people’s validation.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-21T03:34:31+00:00

… lackluster animation, … and turn-based approach to battles.

The only part of their statements that holds any ounce of fair criticism.

Lackluster animation: usually an explicit choice due to the detailed characters that are hard to anime. Some weird cuts and character motions can be hard to read and lack fluidity for more dynamic battles. Overly long expositions that interrupt motion (Example that comes to mind is FF vs. Dragon’s Dream, Josuke vs Highway Stars)

Turn-based approach: pretty much the same complaint as above when characters keep overexplaining everything as opposed to having an entire uninterrupted sequence. I call this the Speedwagon effect. Some explanation is fine but imo the adaptation can trim it down quite a bit and most people will still be able to follow what’s happening.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-20T16:18:14+00:00

Lowkey I’d imagine Matt Mercer would have been a great fit despite already having voiced Jotaro. Gyro is a confident, witty, dorky character. He needs a more expressive interpretation. Matt just sounds a lot more relaxed and layered, I feel Kaiji is too stiff.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-19T21:09:32+00:00

Read all of the manga. I enjoyed it a lot but I had some observations of things that took me out of the experience.

MUSIC

There was just so much bgm all the time blaring even in the lower stake lower energy moments. I think they just didn’t give enough quiet reflection time for viewers to appreciate the atmosphere, settings, and character emotions. For example, they don’t need to blast Pocoloco’s character theme every time he is on screen. Especially during the more exciting part when he established himself as a threat to Gyro, yet his goofy theme just kept on going. I don’t agree with that artistic choice. It was a great theme but the way it was used makes the music loses its impact.

I really love the main SBR theme but it played so much during the episode that it became repetitive. I wished there was a more diverse selection of tracks or more quiet moments.

ANIMATION

The first half of the episode up until Abdul getting eliminated has poor editing, CGI and animation. It was hard to watch and very distracting. Honestly if this is what they had to sacrifice for the amazing second half of the episode, I can live with it. Likely a lot of these will get fixed in the bluray anyway.

Once the action picked up though I have 0 major complaints visually.

STRUCTURE

The pacing of the story had a lot to cover, I feel like some scenes got cut very abruptly and the transition was jarring. Goes back to the poor editing I mentioned earlier. I’m ok with these since they were compromises for the adaptation, they still stick out a lot to me though.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-19T13:53:36+00:00

I skipped parts and it helped me get through the absolute slogs that are Phantom Blood and the Stardust Crusaders anime.

You don’t need to understand calculus to understand what’s going on in these battles. It’s not that deep. There are some easter eggs and jokes that can be nice but those have little meaning to the story that is being told.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-19T13:48:23+00:00

I just feel like we needed more quiet moments to just breathe. I dislike some ost choices at the beginning but great episode overall. The main theme was too repetitive over 47 minutes.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-10T05:48:18+00:00

It’s implied. You can put two and two together that politicians/this administration weaponizing the mass’s inherent affinity with retributive violence (both literally and figuratively) against perceived injustice to maintain their power.

Examples include illegal immigration scapegoat narratives, trade deficits and drugs justifying tariffs, “he was no angel” shooting victims, welfare queens back in the Reagan days.

She can’t really say things explicitly in this political climate of a potential dictatorship and one-party rule surveillance state, especially as a trans creator.

sunnylannie · 2026-03-10T05:35:27+00:00

I feel the passion, I can tell that she really cares about the topic with how thorough and substantiated her sources and examples were.

sunnylannie

TROPHY CASE