Considering she’s meant to be King Arthur, it’d kinda be bad if she didn’t look right in a Romantic portrait. That is Romantic, right? Or is it Realist?

Indeed, I think its called a ‘three episode rule’ or something like that: most people have decide on ‘their shows’ for the season by the first three to five episodes of that season. I went from 12 shows to about 5 show by episode 3, and down to two by episode 5.

This is why shows tend not to put their ‘hook’ episode…

It was about disappointment. You can’t be disappointed if you already know going in its gonna be a shitty generic action harem anime

The first picture looks like a representation of what happens when you declare war on a renaissance era civ when you have information era tech in Civ 5 :P

I like stuff like that. Probably try to read them when I plan to do a complete run of all three games

I see, so like with Yennefer?

Manga adaptations do harden you to stuff like this. ‘Read the manga/book’ endings, filler arcs, massive deviations from the original story, etc. aren’t uncommon. However, they are never usually regarded as good things. They almost always are aggravating to fans, and similarly almost always inferior to the original…

Am I right in thinking the games happen after the (current) books?

Unfortunately. But hey, Full Metal Panic’s supposedly coming back after about 13 years, so there’s still hope. Sorta :P

Not kidding, kinda sad they changed the references to Spice and Wolf and A Certain Magical Index in the first season to ones from Irregular of Magic Highschool in x2 :P

Yeah, Isaac and Miria’s cameo. Also, the fact that some of the screens around Ikebukuro are playing scenes from Baccano!

Its nearly been a decade since the last series, so probably not :P

The creator of Durarara!! also has another series, Baccano!, and a line in episode of its anime adaptation probably sums up Durarara!! best: ‘Stories never begin, nor do they end. They are comprised of people living. An endless cycle of interacting, influencing each other, and parting ways.’

I agree it is a horrible act to depict, but so is murder and torture and yet the simulations of those are on widespread television and in gaming. Hell, one of the best selling games of all time is about drug dealing, planned robbery, murder and has an extended scene where you brutally torture a guy. Yet, rather than…

That would be a good rationale for it, I’d agree, but that also works for Pablo’s comment on Japan, as far as the ‘art filled with pedophilia’ is a simulation involving characters that don’t exist in real life, where as tattoos are most definitely real and have a connotation to them in varying cultures (hence why…

I have no idea, honestly, depends on the person I’d say. I was pointing out that weird moral standards aren’t an exclusively Japanese thing :P

The comment was more on the ‘No western country I know allows this kind of bullshit’ part of Pablo’s comments, not the ‘let’s protect and peddle art filled with pedophilia’ part

Actually, like most of these, its probably a relic law passed decades ago. Its why places here in Europe have ages of consent around the same ball park (14-16). Furthermore, its overruled in most areas but provincial law, where its usually 16 to 18, similar to how alcohol laws work by state in the USA. On top of that,…

Really?

Let’s show violence on daytime television!
YES! LET’S!

Let’s make sure we don’t show anything remotely sexual!
YES! LET’S!

/USA

I’d agree with that.

An example of good localisation is the anime Sgt. Frog, where the references are changed to better fit the Western audience.

An example of bad localisation is the infamous original translations of One Piece and Naruto, which dumbed down almost everything but some the comedy (guns, smoking, alcohol,…