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My first anime experience was a show called Spider Riders that I saw as a kid. I'm not sure if it's an anime in the strictest sense, since it was made jointly by a Japanese animation studio and a Canadian animation studio, but every article about it refers to it as an anime, so I'm going to count it. It was one of my favourite shows: it had a very interesting and creative premise, good characters, and a very interesting twist near the end. After that show ended, I didn't see any anime until last year, when a YouTube channel I watch that reviews media recommended One-Punch Man, despite it not being an anime channel. I was intrigued by its premise, so I decided to watch it, and I absolutely loved it. Since then, most shows that I've tried for the first time have been anime, and I've seen the following anime in order: 1. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: I absolutely loved this one as well; easily one of my favourite shows. 2. Violet Evergarden: This show made me cry (in a good way); it's one of the saddest stories I've ever seen, and yet, at the same time, one of the most heartwarming. 3. Code Geass: This show had a lot of neat concepts, but the side characters were underutilized and the story was a massive trainwreck. I had to stop watching after an infamous scene in season 1 that I shall refer to as "The Euphemia Incident", as that moment killed my interest in the show. 4. Fairy Tail: Netflix only had season 1, but I would not watch season 2 even if it did become available. I liked the idea of a world of magic, and there were some things that I thought had potential (like Lucy being the viewpoint character instead of the more standard shonen protagonist Natsu), but the writing really wasn't very strong and the worldbuilding was rather surface-level. 5. Record of Grancrest War: Another show that I loved. It's honestly really underrated and I'm surprised that not many have seen it. 6. Naruto: This one took a month to binge-watch, and I even skipped a lot of the filler. While certainly flawed, particularly in later arcs, it was very enjoyable overall. I even watched The Last: Naruto the Movie and the post-shippuden episodes. 7. My Hero Academia: I watched this before going into Naruto's war arc to give myself a break. Another show that I really liked. I'm currently watching Boruto: Naruto Next Generations and Black Clover. I'm enjoying both; Black Clover more so than Boruto, but I think both are worth watching.

The last non-IS game I played on my own was the remake of Link's Awakening, so the developers are the team at Grezzo that make remakes for Nintendo. The next FE game would be a remake; almost certainly a remake of Geneology of the Holy War. Unlike Echoes, however, it knows what to preserve and what to update for the most part. It would thus more than likely be the best-received of all the FE remakes.

Interesting. Well, that theory's a bust. Still, it is hard to believe that, "less than 1% of players who did the survey liked the game for the story" claim when all I keep hearing from people who played Super Paper Mario is that the story of the game was the best part.

@Jave I recently came across a theory that might explain the survey and the discrepancy. As you said, you were awarded those Club Nintendo coins for filling in the survey. I wonder how many people who filled in the survey just wanted the coins and just rushed through the survey and just spammed whatever was the first answer.

For Honor. I got the PS4 version without knowing about PlayStation Plus or the fact that the entire game required being online; even the single-player story mode for some stupid reason. I was thankfully able to play the story mode, but every other part of the game required PlayStation Plus. So, I was able to play the game to its full extent for only three days (the length of PlayStation Plus's free trial) and then had to put it away. Fire Emblem Fates. It was the first time I was able to be hyped for a Fire Emblem game, as it was the first time I heard about a new Fire Emblem game before it released. The trailers made me think there was going to be fantastic gameplay and an exciting deep story. I got the special edition of the game so I didn't have to buy the three versions separately... and I was so disappointed.

The Wind Waker has the worst music I've ever heard in my life! It brings shame to video game soundtracks!

Will this ever end? 🤦‍♂️ Yes; I didn't know about the Worms series. All anime is amazing and the best form of media there is! Literature pales in comparison to anime!

I thought Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood was one of the "popular anime"; at the very least, I've seen people who discuss media on YouTube reference it all the time. Watch Brotherhood. The original FMA caught up to the manga too soon and had to write its own 2nd half. Brotherhood is a much more 1:1 adaptation of the manga, and it is far better than the original FMA. I say this as someone who doesn't even watch a lot of anime; FMA Brotherhood is absolutely fantastic. For some more really good anime, there's also season 1 of One-Punch Man, and Violet Evergarden.

That's another good answer, though I still think it would be interesting if its up special would be it being carried through the air by a Starly.

Jumping would be similar to Ivysaur. Recovery would be by having a Starly that lives in the tree on its back lift Torterra by the tree, since the Pokedex data for Torterra says that bird Pokemon like to build nests on Torterra's back. But, in any case, I wasn't being serious when I said Torterra would be a better choice than Decidueye or Sceptile.

I've been wanting either Decidueye or Sceptile in Smash Bros. for quite some time. When Incineroar was announced, I was really disappointed. Honestly, I'd be happy if either one ended up as a fighter, but I honestly doubt it's going to happen at this point. Besides, Torterra would be a far better choice than either of them (just kidding; as cool as I think it would be, I doubt Torterra as a Smash Bros. fighter would actually happen).

I can't really say, since I didn't get a Switch until months after Three Houses released, so my opinion of the game hasn't really had enough time to change since I'm still playing through it.

I agree completely with all of this: every medium has its own strengths and weaknesses that make it better for certain forms of storytelling than others. For instance, I could say that Ico is a video game with a great story. However, if one were to try to write an Ico novel (and someone actually did), it just wouldn't work as well, because the kind of story being told in Ico is one that plays to the strengths of a video game for storytelling, but not those of a novel. Even within mediums, different genres, art styles, etc., have different strengths and weaknesses. 2D animation has completely different strengths and weaknesses from 3D animation, and some of the best animated works of fiction combine the two in ways that have all the strengths and few-to-none of the weaknesses. This is true for western animation and for anime, but in different ways because of the very different art styles. The different strengths and weaknesses of the different mediums and how well they're utilized could be a great topic for discussion all on its own; trying to argue that one is inherently better than the other is just not true. Literature arguably has been more impactful than anime, sure, but that's because literature has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years, while anime is only 103 years old. The "classics" of literature like The Lord of the Rings and such have simply had more time to be more impactful than, say, Dragon Ball, and even there, different anime like Dragon Ball and Miyazaki's works have been able to be huge worldwide phenomenons with lasting impact even outside of other anime.

Wow; that is some good art, which reminds me of one actual shortcoming of anime that I think most would agree on: the difficulty in keeping up with the manga it's adapting without overtaking it. Naruto was stuffed full of filler to the point where over 40% of the show is non-canon just to keep from overtaking the manga, the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime did overtake the manga and ended up having to write its own second half (and I heard the same thing happened to some other anime called Akime ga Kill or something like that; I haven't seen it and I've barely heard of it). Of course, not all anime are adaptations of manga; Code Geass was completely original... though it's perhaps not the best example since it was a writing trainwreck, but that's beside the point. Oh, yeah; Kyoto Animation is really good at that. I haven't seen the show you used as an example, but I have seen Violet Evergarden, which was made by Kyoto Animation, and you're absolutely right. The amount of expression on the characters is amazing and it was used extremely well in Violet Evergarden since so much of the show's emotion depends on the characters, and it manages to make the show easily one of the saddest things I've ever seen (if a show can make you cry, this one definitely will). Here's the "full" opening of the show just to give an idea:

Interestingly, season 1 of One-Punch Man wasn't just animated by Madhouse; for many scenes including the Saitama vs Boros fight, the guy in charge of Madhouse called in favors from animators that work for other studios, including Studio Bones and Wit Studio, and those animators had to work on the show under aliases and go uncredited because they're part of studios that weren't officially attached to the show. A lot of people blame JC Staff for the drop in animation quality in season 2, but it's very likely that Madhouse wouldn't have been able to achieve the same level of animation if they had done season 2.

Yeah; one thing I do love about anime is that, unlike western animation, it didn't give up on 2D animation, so it's able to pull off stuff like that. The only 2D western animation left is low-budget kids cartoons, which, while they can be great (like the first three seasons of SpongeBob SquarePants), can't really push the envelope like anime can both because of limited budget and because they're "kids' stuff". as if, "meant for kids" is a valid excuse for limiting quality. Don't get me wrong; 3D animation can be great in its own ways and is perfect for making locations in animated media, but 2D animation allows the characters to be far more artistic. Here's another great bit of animation that helps with your point:

Every form of media has its own different advantages and shortcomings; are you actually wanting to talk about that, as the title would imply, or are you just wanting to say how you think anime is worse than western media, as the content of your thread implies?

Well, there it was. The moment I saw that it was called "Partner Showcase", I figured it wouldn't be showing anything I was particularly interested in. Cadence of Hyrule DLC looks neat. I haven't actually played the game, nor do I really intend to do so, but new Zelda content is always cool to see. And... that's all I really can say; I don't really have any opinion on any of the other games.

Huh. Thanks. I really would have to do more research as to the survey Nintendo did for Super Paper Mario. Well, after watching some playthroughs of Origami King, I think I'll pass on getting this game.

I can only really see it in terms of appearance, and even then, not really. As @omegaxis1 said, if anyone in Three Houses is like Lelouch, it's Edelgard.

Well, it's the seventeenth, the game has officially released, and day 1 reviews of it are... not reliable in the slightest because they're day 1 reviews. Sorry; I just always wanted to make that joke. In all seriousness, now that the game has released, how good is the game?

Sadly, that doesn't look like it's going to happen. Maybe if we ever get a Paper Zelda? Or, another idea I saw someone suggest: break the series in two: one series would be called Paper Mario and would be like the more recent games, while the other would be called Mario Story and would be like the older games.

Well, as I said, it was just speculation on my part, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the reason for the obvious discrepancy, given that the story was one of the most widely celebrated aspects of Super Paper Mario.

Pretty much no one I've seen talk about this thinks that the survey Nintendo did was any good for the very reasons you're mentioning. My best guess would be that the survey was done through some magazine, so most people who filled it in hadn't even played Super Paper Mario. I've seen that a number of times: people reference surveys that were put in magazines, only for it to be revealed that most of the people who filled it in didn't even consume the piece of media in question. Eh; he only said not to do any new characters. From everything I've seen, Tanabe is responsible for the removal of story and RPG elements, the shift from storybook to papercraft, the emphasis on paper gimmicks, etc.

I like Zelda, though I'm not a fan of hack & slash. Anyway, we should probably go back to talking about Paper Mario.