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ah, i see. of those I've only seen the first season of Beast Wars and some random episodes of Transformers and Prime.

are you watching every tf show?

I mean I think all of the characters were handled wonderfully except for Wein. I think they understood which characters needed the most time and wrote appropriately. Sawa and Wakana were the two who had major arcs to go through so more time was given to them.

Reborn epitomizes everything that I take issue with in shonen manga. It supplants archetypes and tropes for real character exploration and is aware of this. It's all action and gimmick over substance. It's extremely formulaic; the majority of characters are archetypes with no interesting qualities, after a certain point every arc is structured like a tournament (you're not even trying at this point), it has the typical all-powerful shonen macguffin in rings and pacifiers, and to top it off has the extremely tired trope of 'my friends are my power.' What makes it so insulting is that it has interesting ideas that it could explore, but doesn't because doing so would be against proper shonen conventions. The dying will could have been an interesting concept and device had it been used right, but instead it's used to substitute growth, with which the character then learns nothing from afterwards. Raising an unwilling kid to be a mafia boss is a really neat and fun idea, but by the end of the series he is the exact same character as he was in the beginning. Tsuna is one of the worst protags in anything ever -- he not only refuses to grow, but has growth forced on him for the entire series and never learns from it, and never comes to a place where he is capable on his own. A character doesn't have to change when presented the opportunity, but there needs to be something to reinforce why they chose not to, something to show how they've learned from their experiences, but stand by their mentality or ideology or whatever it is they hold up. If by the end of the series Tsuna still did not want to be the boss, that's fine, in fact I think that's the way to go, but he needs to make this decision with some sort of confidence and reason to support it to have something to show for everything he's gone through. At the end he admits that he's totally incapable without Reborn and hasn't changed at all despite everything he's been through and this is somehow supposed to be charming. It even ends with "my friends are my power" or something to that effect and celebrates youth and childhood and all that typical ****. It's like the writer knows how awful his story is, yet thinks it's good because he's doing all the right shonen things.

i may not be articulating my issues very well but i think you get the idea. and i mean i don't want to insult you for liking it, i just don't think it's good at all.

Konatsu was my favorite. She's just too much fun. Though I think Sawa and Wakana are stronger characters, particularly Wakana. Which is not to say that Konatsu's a weak character though, she's not. I totally agree and given what the character represented he needed to be given more time than he was. I got the sense that they had more planned for him but ran out of time. That was the biggest shortcoming of the show imo.

Guys I'm seeing this tomorrow and I am so nervous for this movie. Guardians is one of the few things in Marvel that I actually care about and from what I've seen from the trailers I'm really on the fence about the portrayal of these characters and like I said earlier, this movie will define how these characters are viewed by the public, which could potentially be damaging depending on how well the movie handles them. And I also stand by not being a huge fan of the casting like I mentioned before. uugghh im so nervous and @Misty I was going to read your post but no I just can't lol

Anyone here like Hitman Reborn? Well you shouldn't. It is absolute garbage.
It is appalling to me that there is a standard where something like that is considered acceptable, much less good.

ouch. my feelings.
how could you i am the farthest thing from rude

why you gotta be startin drama and stuff

np. lmk if you need my help again.

nice. which character did you like best
im very curious

This is kind of my mentality regarding this. Sorta. A little.

Taking down Mangastream would make my Wednesday afternoons a little more complicated. for like two minutes.

I think they're fighting a losing battle, or rather one that they don't fully understand the ramifications of. What they need to realize is that piracy will never truly go away, and that people will continue to pirate as long as they are willing and able. That doesn't mean that people won't buy stuff. I don't know about other people, but I like to buy things that I like. Regardless of whether I've seen, heard, read, or played it already, if I like it and can afford it, I'll buy it. People don't have an endless amount of money to buy everything they're interested in instead of pirating it, especially when things are so freaking expensive. Pirating lets people find stuff they like. Tari Tari comes out on Blu-ray this November and were it not for pirating I wouldn't be buying it because I wouldn't know that it's worth buying. I know there are people who don't buy things they pirate, but what makes them think that these people would buy something they know nothing about? The people who buy something they know nothing about are the same people who don't pirate.

i imagine this is a problem i'll rarely encounter

if by speed up you mean make it an hour longer than it needs to be then sure

its safe for photos
and its made in the star-spangled usa. thats gotta count for something
and i bought some of it the other day and have yet to mortally wound myself. i give it my safety seal of approval