Anime Club - Heaven Society

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

Where has BONES gone? havent seen their products for yrs

(aside from code geass just now)

[TetraSky]

7 hours ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

Where has BONES gone? havent seen their products for yrs

(aside from code geass just now)

They've done a few anime in the last couple years, you've either missed them or didn't realize they were the ones doing an anime you've watched.

 

 

Mob Psycho 100	Tokyo MX	July 12, 2016	September 27, 2016	12	Based on the webcomic by One
Show by Rock 2!!	Tokyo MX	October 2, 2016	December 18, 2016	12	Sequel to Show by Rock!!
Bungo Stray Dogs 2	Tokyo MX	October 6, 2016	December 22, 2016	12	Sequel to Bungo Stray Dogs
My Hero Academia 2	NNS (ytv)	April 1, 2017	September 30, 2017	25	Sequel to My Hero Academia
Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond	MBS	October 7, 2017	December 23, 2017	12	Sequel to Blood Blockade Battlefront
My Hero Academia 3	NNS (ytv)	April 7, 2018	September 29, 2018	25	Season 3 of My Hero Academia
Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan	Tokyo MX	April 13, 2018	June 29, 2018	12	Original Work
Mob Psycho 100 II	Tokyo MX	January 7, 2019	TBA	13	Sequel to Mob Psycho 100
Carole & Tuesday	Fuji TV	April 10, 2019	TBA	TBA	Original Work
Bungo Stray Dogs 3	Tokyo MX	April 2019	TBA	TBA	Season 3 of Bungo Stray Dogs
My Hero Academia 4	TBA	October 2019	TBA	TBA	Season 4 of My Hero Academia

[Stefan Payne]

What was so good about Goblin Slayer?
Don't get me wrong, its not an awful Anime with some really bad writing like the three holy letters, its just OK, nothing special...

 

I find Drifters more interesting as rather funny for what it is.

[wasab]

On 4/3/2019 at 8:00 PM, Stefan Payne said:

What was so good about Goblin Slayer?
Don't get me wrong, its not an awful Anime with some really bad writing like the three holy letters, its just OK, nothing special...

 

I find Drifters more interesting as rather funny for what it is.

I watched it for the gore and to see characters suffer. Rape was distasteful but all the bloodshed was satisfying. 

[2FA]

2 minutes ago, wasab said:

I watched it for the gore and to see characters suffer. Rape was distasteful but all the bloodshed was satisfying. 

The anime imo overdid the fan service with some characters. Yeah the manga has it but not like how the anime does it. I didn't bother to keep watching after like the 3rd episode, just prefer the manga in this case (though it probably makes you even more of a degenerate).

[Stefan Payne]

54 minutes ago, wasab said:

I watched it for the gore and to see characters suffer. Rape was distasteful but all the bloodshed was satisfying. 

Even the Gore was shit...

Only a bit of Splatter here and there, not that Gory...

 

Drifters was better, more Gory...

Or the good old Fist of the North Star.

It wasn't even that gory and more focused about the development of the Main Character and his Partners. 

 

The Rape was only in the first episode, though mentioned in a couple others...

 

In the end it was kinda average. Decent watch, nothing you should have done...

 

In the Meantime I asked my Mom to watch an episode of my Roomate is on my Lap and sometimes on my Head and she liked it so far.

Lets see how she likes the other episodes.

We also have a Cat, so that helps a lot to make her interested in an Anime that is essentially about a Cat and his writer Owner...

[NineEyeRon]

Stupid Angel Beats making me have feels... 

 

Hi Score Girl art was well done IMO, just because it isn’t traditional doesn’t make it bad!

 

Also Dragon Pilot is in my top 10 anime!

[Lathlaer]

30 minutes ago, NineEyeRon said:

Hi Score Girl art was well done IMO, just because it isn’t traditional doesn’t make it bad!

The art aside, I find myself unable to watch this. There is no structure to the anime, it feels like it's a slideshow with hardly any plot and the most interactions are silent beatings and 80% inner screams (because you can't really call that monologue) of the boy.

 

Going through 1st episode was exhausting

[Drak3]

1 hour ago, Lathlaer said:

The art aside, I find myself unable to watch this. There is no structure to the anime, it feels like it's a slideshow with hardly any plot and the most interactions are silent beatings and 80% inner screams (because you can't really call that monologue) of the boy.

 

Going through 1st episode was exhausting

It gets better after the first few episodes.

[NineEyeRon]

3 hours ago, Lathlaer said:

The art aside, I find myself unable to watch this. There is no structure to the anime, it feels like it's a slideshow with hardly any plot and the most interactions are silent beatings and 80% inner screams (because you can't really call that monologue) of the boy.

 

Going through 1st episode was exhausting

 

I feel that’s the whole point, things don’t have structure, you create what little you can from the things that bind you to someone else. Even if they fail (spoiler?) or sort of suceed?

[RainColt]

Been a while since ive been on the site but im planning a trip to japan in July and was wondering if there are any recommendations on where to visit, what i should experience. Figured this thread might have a few ideas.

[Fred Castellum]

10 hours ago, RainColt said:

Been a while since ive been on the site but im planning a trip to japan in July and was wondering if there are any recommendations on where to visit, what i should experience. Figured this thread might have a few ideas.

A bunch of our club members did a group trip to Japan last year. You could ask them here or on discord.

[LAwLz]

14 hours ago, RainColt said:

Been a while since ive been on the site but im planning a trip to japan in July and was wondering if there are any recommendations on where to visit, what i should experience. Figured this thread might have a few ideas.

I went to Japan ~2 months ago. It was fantastic

 

Where will you be staying?

How long will you be staying?

What is your budget (trying to be as cheap as possible, or your average travel budget?)

What are your interests? I assume anime and manga because you're in this thread, but anything else such as some specific characters (let's say Moomin, or Gundam, some Japanese idol group, etc).

Do you know Japanese?

Have you decided that you're going in July or is that preliminary? Any reason for July specifically?

What physical condition are you in (how much walking will you manage in a day)?

[TheProfosist]

Well guys headed to ACEN 2019 tomorrow like every year. If any of you end up going hit me up. More likely to get me on Twitter or Instagram but I'll check back here. I really think @MyInnerFred@MyInnerFred should come up some time

[TheProfosist]

21 hours ago, RainColt said:

Been a while since ive been on the site but im planning a trip to japan in July and was wondering if there are any recommendations on where to visit, what i should experience. Figured this thread might have a few ideas.

Depends what you want to see and if your going for the history, pop culture, or what not. 

 

If your from the US get the fancy new drivers license and make sure your passport is good. I would also do TSA pre check to save time and hastle. Depending on how lo G you'll be there maybe look into an international drivers license before you go? 

[RainColt]

14 hours ago, LAwLz said:

I went to Japan ~2 months ago. It was fantastic

 

Where will you be staying?

How long will you be staying?

What is your budget (trying to be as cheap as possible, or your average travel budget?)

What are your interests? I assume anime and manga because you're in this thread, but anything else such as some specific characters (let's say Moomin, or Gundam, some Japanese idol group, etc).

Do you know Japanese?

Have you decided that you're going in July or is that preliminary? Any reason for July specifically?

What physical condition are you in (how much walking will you manage in a day)?

Im planning on landing in Osaka and working my way north to atleast Tokyo.

 

Im planning on staying for a month on a budget of 5000-10000$ depending on how cheap or how expensive it ends up being.

 

Im not really sure, like yeah, still got weeb blood flowing through my veins but i also want to go experience things that are super outside my comfort zone. Dont speak any Japanese so that kinda works. But its also just the only vacation ive ever taken and its the first time i can afford the time.

 

July is when im financially comfortable with leaving my job i could do August but then i go to school in September.

 

And im in great physical condition. 26years ,6'1 180lb gym for an hour a day every day. Nothing physical is off limits

[RainColt]

19 hours ago, MyInnerFred said:

A bunch of our club members did a group trip to Japan last year. You could ask them here or on discord.

Theres a discord? How do i join?

[Drak3]

4 minutes ago, RainColt said:

Theres a discord? How do i join?

You have to kill an existing member.

[TheProfosist]

2 hours ago, RainColt said:

Im planning on landing in Osaka and working my way north to atleast Tokyo.

 

Im planning on staying for a month on a budget of 5000-10000$ depending on how cheap or how expensive it ends up being.

 

Im not really sure, like yeah, still got weeb blood flowing through my veins but i also want to go experience things that are super outside my comfort zone. Dont speak any Japanese so that kinda works. But its also just the only vacation ive ever taken and its the first time i can afford the time.

 

July is when im financially comfortable with leaving my job i could do August but then i go to school in September.

 

And im in great physical condition. 26years ,6'1 180lb gym for an hour a day every day. Nothing physical is off limits

being there a month if your into any japanese music you have a decent chance of being able to get tickets

 

[wasab]

4 hours ago, RainColt said:

Im planning on landing in Osaka and working my way north to atleast Tokyo.

 

Im planning on staying for a month on a budget of 5000-10000$ depending on how cheap or how expensive it ends up being.

 

Im not really sure, like yeah, still got weeb blood flowing through my veins but i also want to go experience things that are super outside my comfort zone. Dont speak any Japanese so that kinda works. But its also just the only vacation ive ever taken and its the first time i can afford the time.

 

July is when im financially comfortable with leaving my job i could do August but then i go to school in September.

 

And im in great physical condition. 26years ,6'1 180lb gym for an hour a day every day. Nothing physical is off limits

Go visit mount fiji. You can travel by japanese bullet train. You dont need to keep flying from one place to another. 

[LAwLz]

12 hours ago, RainColt said:

Im planning on landing in Osaka and working my way north to atleast Tokyo.

Then I highly recommend you get a JR Rail pass. Going on the bullet train (Shinkansen) is expensive as balls (around 100 dollars per ticket), but included in the rail pass. If you're going to ride the Shinkansen multiple times, you will save money with the JR Pass.

 

12 hours ago, RainColt said:

Im planning on staying for a month on a budget of 5000-10000$ depending on how cheap or how expensive it ends up being.

Damn that's a long time, but I am sure you'll be able to fill every single day with stuff to do.

Depends on how you want to live, but 5000 should be fine.

 

I stayed a little over 2 weeks and managed to get by with:

1100 in pocket money

The flight was around 800

Hotels for around 600 USD.

1 week JR Pass for 250 dollars.

Plus some smaller stuff like WiFi rental (maybe 50 dollars in total).

 

With that money we lived on pretty good hotels (although a bit away from central Tokyo and Kyoto).

We bought pretty big breakfasts from the convenience stores nearby.

Ate lunch and dinner at restaurants every day.

Visited at least one, but sometimes two, cafes a day and ate things like cake and ice cream.

 

 

12 hours ago, RainColt said:

Im not really sure, like yeah, still got weeb blood flowing through my veins but i also want to go experience things that are super outside my comfort zone. Dont speak any Japanese so that kinda works. But its also just the only vacation ive ever taken and its the first time i can afford the time. 

What I found is that it was best to plan as little as possible. What we did was we picked out all the stuff we wanted to see (Monkey park in Kyoto, Nishiki market, Tokyo sky tree, Tokyo government building, etc) and star marked them in Google maps. Then we could see what was close to each other and visited that area one day.

So for example we went "okay, on monday we visit Tokyo Sky tree. Near the skytree we also have the Moonmin cafe we want to visit, and not too far away form there we got a food market". Then we didn't really do much more planning that than for the day. We just went to the area, visited the stuff we wanted, and then strolled around a lot. It was really nice to not have a strict schedule to follow, and we were super busy just looking at things and going into stores we passed by on our way to places.

I can write a list of the places I visited and what I thought of them if you want.

 

 

12 hours ago, RainColt said:

July is when im financially comfortable with leaving my job i could do August but then i go to school in September.

I see. The reason why I ask is because I believe spring is the best time to visit. I went in late march, early April. The weather was really good (although a bit rainy from day to day) and the cheery trees were in full bloom. Japan gets really hot and humid during the summer so people often report that they get sweaty from simply standing still outside.

In July the average temperature is 25 degrees in Tokyo with humidily being able to reach ~80% (aka, it feels like a rain forest).

The good thing about July is that there are quite a bit of local festivals around.

I recommend you read this site: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2273.html

 

12 hours ago, RainColt said:

And im in great physical condition. 26years ,6'1 180lb gym for an hour a day every day. Nothing physical is off limits

That's good.

 

 

 

 

 

General tips:

Spoiler

Buy a little handkerchief. Some public toilets expect YOU to bring something to dry your hands with after washing them. Don't worry though, you're never far from a souvenir shop or 7-11 which sell them.

 

Bring a backpack, and in that a little plastic bag (like the one you get from 7-11). There are very, very few garbage bins. If you find one, they will probably be near vending machines, but often times they are for cans only. You will need something to put your trash in and either bring your garbage with you home, or empty it whenever you find one of those rare trash bins.

The backpack is just all-around good to have to keep stuff in.

 

Buy a pair of really comfortable shoes. You will walk, a lot. I think we averaged somewhere around 19 kilometers a day (for comparison, the average in the US is around 4km a day). Your feet will be killing you unless you got really good shoes, and even then they will probably hurt at the end of the day.

 

RENT A PORTABLE WIFI!!!!!!

This is really, really important. Using Google maps to figure out how to travel, using public transport, is pretty much mandatory and will save you a ton of time. I went with Japan Wireless and it worked flawlessly but I've heard there are several good rental services. It's also really good for using Google translate.

 

Learn some Japanese. At least Katakana. You don't even need to learn much. But quite a lot of signs, at least on store buildings, are not written in English. Being able to read some of them are very useful. Don't get me wrong, you can quite easily be in Japan a month and be fine using only English, but being able to tell that a restaurant is a Ramen shop without having to go in and ask is very handy.

Also, most things like signs at train stations, inside trains and restaurant menus are in both Japanese and English so you don't have to worry about that. However, the Japanese natives are in general terrible at English. Do not expect to be able to talk to someone using English.

There are some phrases you should learn though, such as "eigo o hanashimasu ka" which means "do you speak English", "hai" which means "yes", and "iee" which means no.

 

Get a Suica card. It's a card you load up with money and then you use it for trains and buses. Buying individual tickets every time you're going on a train or bus is very time consuming and annoying. Just get a Suica card (or PASMO, or ICOCO, they are more or less the same).

 

Bring cash, and be prepared to use it. Only a handful of places will accept card payment. In Japan, cash is king. It's best to bring your card with you though so that you can withdraw more cash if you need (can be done at post offices or 7-11). A lot of ATMs do not accept foreign cards, but those at post office sand 7-11 do.

Also, be prepared to carry around lots and lots of coins. Japanese coins range from 1 yen (0.1 US cent) to 500 yen (4.5 dollar).

 

DO NOT TIP. Japanese people do not like being tipped. If you try to leave tip on for example a restaurant then staff might actually run after you out from the restaurant to give it back to you.

 

Try and be respectful. Tourists have gotten a bad rep in Japan and I am not surprised. All the Japanese native me met were extremely friendly, kind, social and helpful. A lot of the tourists, especially Chinese tourists, were very rude and loud.

 

Convenience stores like 7-11 are really, really good. You can buy anything you need from there, including things like fried chicken. Whenever you buy food there you get disposable eating utensils for the things you bought, a wet paper towel and if you buy something that will need heating, they will offer to do it for you in the store so you can eat it right away.

 

Don't be a smoker. If you have to smoke, you need to do it at a designated smoking area (which are mostly in office buildings or places like bars and restaurants). If you are caught smoking while for example walking on a street, you will be fine, and quite heftily too.

 

If you have tattoos, try to cover them. Tattoos in Japan are heavily associated with gang and criminals. Some places like gyms and spas won't even allow you in if you do not cover your tattoos.

 

[RainColt]

7 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Then I highly recommend you get a JR Rail pass. Going on the bullet train (Shinkansen) is expensive as balls (around 100 dollars per ticket), but included in the rail pass. If you're going to ride the Shinkansen multiple times, you will save money with the JR Pass.

 

Damn that's a long time, but I am sure you'll be able to fill every single day with stuff to do.

Depends on how you want to live, but 5000 should be fine.

 

I stayed a little over 2 weeks and managed to get by with:

1100 in pocket money

The flight was around 800

Hotels for around 600 USD.

1 week JR Pass for 250 dollars.

Plus some smaller stuff like WiFi rental (maybe 50 dollars in total).

 

With that money we lived on pretty good hotels (although a bit away from central Tokyo and Kyoto).

We bought pretty big breakfasts from the convenience stores nearby.

Ate lunch and dinner at restaurants every day.

Visited at least one, but sometimes two, cafes a day and ate things like cake and ice cream.

 

 

What I found is that it was best to plan as little as possible. What we did was we picked out all the stuff we wanted to see (Monkey park in Kyoto, Nishiki market, Tokyo sky tree, Tokyo government building, etc) and star marked them in Google maps. Then we could see what was close to each other and visited that area one day.

So for example we went "okay, on monday we visit Tokyo Sky tree. Near the skytree we also have the Moonmin cafe we want to visit, and not too far away form there we got a food market". Then we didn't really do much more planning that than for the day. We just went to the area, visited the stuff we wanted, and then strolled around a lot. It was really nice to not have a strict schedule to follow, and we were super busy just looking at things and going into stores we passed by on our way to places.

I can write a list of the places I visited and what I thought of them if you want.

 

 

I see. The reason why I ask is because I believe spring is the best time to visit. I went in late march, early April. The weather was really good (although a bit rainy from day to day) and the cheery trees were in full bloom. Japan gets really hot and humid during the summer so people often report that they get sweaty from simply standing still outside.

In July the average temperature is 25 degrees in Tokyo with humidily being able to reach ~80% (aka, it feels like a rain forest).

The good thing about July is that there are quite a bit of local festivals around.

I recommend you read this site: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2273.html

 

That's good.

 

 

 

 

 

General tips:

  Hide contents

Buy a little handkerchief. Some public toilets expect YOU to bring something to dry your hands with after washing them. Don't worry though, you're never far from a souvenir shop or 7-11 which sell them.

 

Bring a backpack, and in that a little plastic bag (like the one you get from 7-11). There are very, very few garbage bins. If you find one, they will probably be near vending machines, but often times they are for cans only. You will need something to put your trash in and either bring your garbage with you home, or empty it whenever you find one of those rare trash bins.

The backpack is just all-around good to have to keep stuff in.

 

Buy a pair of really comfortable shoes. You will walk, a lot. I think we averaged somewhere around 19 kilometers a day (for comparison, the average in the US is around 4km a day). Your feet will be killing you unless you got really good shoes, and even then they will probably hurt at the end of the day.

 

RENT A PORTABLE WIFI!!!!!!

This is really, really important. Using Google maps to figure out how to travel, using public transport, is pretty much mandatory and will save you a ton of time. I went with Japan Wireless and it worked flawlessly but I've heard there are several good rental services. It's also really good for using Google translate.

 

Learn some Japanese. At least Katakana. You don't even need to learn much. But quite a lot of signs, at least on store buildings, are not written in English. Being able to read some of them are very useful. Don't get me wrong, you can quite easily be in Japan a month and be fine using only English, but being able to tell that a restaurant is a Ramen shop without having to go in and ask is very handy.

Also, most things like signs at train stations, inside trains and restaurant menus are in both Japanese and English so you don't have to worry about that. However, the Japanese natives are in general terrible at English. Do not expect to be able to talk to someone using English.

There are some phrases you should learn though, such as "eigo o hanashimasu ka" which means "do you speak English", "hai" which means "yes", and "iee" which means no.

 

Get a Suica card. It's a card you load up with money and then you use it for trains and buses. Buying individual tickets every time you're going on a train or bus is very time consuming and annoying. Just get a Suica card (or PASMO, or ICOCO, they are more or less the same).

 

Bring cash, and be prepared to use it. Only a handful of places will accept card payment. In Japan, cash is king. It's best to bring your card with you though so that you can withdraw more cash if you need (can be done at post offices or 7-11). A lot of ATMs do not accept foreign cards, but those at post office sand 7-11 do.

Also, be prepared to carry around lots and lots of coins. Japanese coins range from 1 yen (0.1 US cent) to 500 yen (4.5 dollar).

 

DO NOT TIP. Japanese people do not like being tipped. If you try to leave tip on for example a restaurant then staff might actually run after you out from the restaurant to give it back to you.

 

Try and be respectful. Tourists have gotten a bad rep in Japan and I am not surprised. All the Japanese native me met were extremely friendly, kind, social and helpful. A lot of the tourists, especially Chinese tourists, were very rude and loud.

 

Convenience stores like 7-11 are really, really good. You can buy anything you need from there, including things like fried chicken. Whenever you buy food there you get disposable eating utensils for the things you bought, a wet paper towel and if you buy something that will need heating, they will offer to do it for you in the store so you can eat it right away.

 

Don't be a smoker. If you have to smoke, you need to do it at a designated smoking area (which are mostly in office buildings or places like bars and restaurants). If you are caught smoking while for example walking on a street, you will be fine, and quite heftily too.

 

If you have tattoos, try to cover them. Tattoos in Japan are heavily associated with gang and criminals. Some places like gyms and spas won't even allow you in if you do not cover your tattoos.

 

Omg your general tips, thanks a million i'll definitely have to look into the portable wifi.

 

I learnt hiragana a few years ago i can sound things out but dont know it.

[wasab]

Don't forget to call people by their last names. It is dispectful to refer to people you just met on  first names basis in japan. 

 

One of my professor used to be an engineer at IBM. He traveled to Japan once for conference and call a CEO of a Japanese company as Mr. follow by his first name and everyone in the conference room stared at him thinking who the hell he thinks he is. It was really awakard lol. 

 

[LAwLz]

10 hours ago, RainColt said:

Omg your general tips, thanks a million i'll definitely have to look into the portable wifi.

 

I learnt hiragana a few years ago i can sound things out but dont know it. 

There are also SIM cards you can rent and use for 4G. But keep in mind that Japan may not have the same frequency bands as your home country, and as a result your phone might have terrible reception while in Japan. If you order a "pocket WiFi" you will get good reception, and can share it with other people (if you travel with someone).

 

 

10 hours ago, RainColt said:

I learnt hiragana a few years ago i can sound things out but dont know it. 

That's good enough, although I would recommend Katakana too (not too hard if you already know Hiragana).

Just being able to read things phonetically will help tremendously because you can quickly read it and then type it into Google translate. And a lot of stuff is quite obvious when you read it out loud.

 

 

10 hours ago, wasab said:

Don't forget to call people by their last names. It is dispectful to refer to people you just met on  first names basis in japan. 

 

One of my professor used to be an engineer at IBM. He traveled to Japan once for conference and call a CEO of a Japanese company as Mr. follow by his first name and everyone in the conference room stared at him thinking who the hell he thinks he is. It was really awakard lol.

Japan has quite a few mannerism things which seem strange to us. For example it is rude to blow your nose. You should not put your chopsticks into the rice (or spear food in general). Waking and eating is very rude. When you are on a crowded train you should put your backpack on your stomach, not on your back. You do NOT speak on the cellphone while on public transport. The list goes on and on.

But Japan are used to tourists and in general have lower expectations, and more understanding that people from abroad do not know about their manners. So if you're just a tourist, not talking to the CEO of a company, then you should be fine. Just try to be respectful and follow along with others as best as you can and you'll be fine.

[Loote]

Is the idea from the first post completely gone, or modified?

I think this turned into anime-related general thread? If so, I'm actually quite happy, there's no way I'd have time to watch whole series every week and even if it's not required by rules, I drop only the worse and don't simultaneously watch multiple titles.

 

That being said, do you agree that the way people watch anime has changed? I've seen this mentioned on several YouTube channels and it fits what I see, that is:

Newcomers to anime world used to get a list of classics, out of which you'd have to watch some before you're considered a proper fan. Nowadays people grab whatever's most popular out of the airing show and start with that. There are two things I don't like about it: 1. They miss out the timeless titles, which makes whatever is the best series they saw their ceiling, usually something that's only good; 2. I don't watch ongoing stuff and feel left out.

 

Any thoughts on that?