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MrTerrorist
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 Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:33 am
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I haven't watch the anime but does the main character goes searching for sailors?
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Wyvern
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 10:17 am
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I love how they managed to preserve so much of the goofy charm of the games. The awkward dub (with many of the same actors!) the feel of wandering around town and doing sidequests (but without the tedium!) and Ryo's tendency to repeat everything that's just been said to him ("Repeat everything that's just been said to me?")
This show is easily the best of the recent crop of Toonami originals, because it knows exactly what it is and just has a good time with it. I'm kind of hoping they just decide to tell the stories of all the unproduced Shenmue games as seasons of this anime, because this is certainly a more enjoyable way of getting new content than Shenmue III was (also, Shenmue III sold terribly, so at this point the anime is probably their only shot at completing this story.)
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Thatguy3331
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 10:22 am
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Its a fun show to watch with a friend which is what I've been doing every week. I too wonder if they'll just use the anime as a means to do the whole story but seeing as how this show is only going to be 13 episodes and it's part of a franchise that's constantly on death's row...Iunno....
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Beatdigga
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 11:44 am
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It’s the first Crunchyroll Original I can actually call “good”. It has a few issues but the core kung fu revenge narrative works. The characters are elaborated on. The awkwardness feeds the plot instead of wishing for a redub.
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Shenl742
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 12:53 pm
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| Quote: | | Also for anyone new hoping to get those answers, uh...don't. Shenmue was planned as a horrifically ambitious SIXTEEN PART game series, and we've gotten a grand total of three in the last 20 years. So consider this the prologue to the prologue |
This is a misconception though. When the creator, Yu Suzuki, started writing and planning Shenmue, he said he wrote the story in 16 chapters, not that it would take 16 games to tell it all. Rather, each game would cover several chapters of his original outline.
Also, over development, several chapters ended up either being truncated or unused. One of them got adapted into a manga. In a 2015 interview Suzuki said that the story now consisted of 11 chapters, and the plan was always for the series to be 4 to 5 games total.
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NeverConvex
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:00 pm
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I'd never even heard of this, but the column on it was hilarious.
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Greed1914
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:10 pm
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I doubt if the anime would be used as a means of finishing the Shenmue story. Some people were pretty disappointed that Shenmue 3 wasn't a conclusion, especially considering the amount of time between games and what it took to get the third game makes it seem unlikely there will be a Shenmue 4. But, Yu Suzuki seems to at least want to make it, and I could see him deciding that having a known conclusion would mean less incentive to make a Shenmue 4.
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Top Gun
Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 2:33 pm
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Going into this I had very little familiarity with Shenmue other than random memes and a long-form review that eviscerated Shenmue 3, so I wasn't sure what I'd get out of the series, but I've been having a blast with it so far. I've never seen another video game adaptation that feels so much like playing through a game, to the point where you can practically see the side quest markers floating over characters' heads...and I mean that in the best way possible. It's refreshing to see an adaptation commit so wholly to portraying what the original game is like, instead of turning into something almost unrecognizable. I can't wait to watch more of Ryo punching goons and being completely oblivious to any and all romantic advances.
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Wyvern
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 3:17 pm
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| Top Gun wrote: | | I can't wait to watch more of Ryo punching goons and being completely oblivious to any and all romantic advances. |
The preview for the next episode shows Ryo meeting a new girl who is into him and who also practices Kung Fu, so maybe he will finally find someone who can understand him. All she has to do is challenge him to fights until they're married.
I agree, though, this show manages to feel like a game but without resorting to that post-modern "let's explicitly mention game mechanics" thing that so many isekai shows do. I knew this would be a clever adaption the moment I saw the synchronized forklifts in the intro sequence.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 5:49 am
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| Wyvern wrote: |
| Top Gun wrote: | |
I can't wait to watch more of Ryo punching goons and being completely oblivious to any and all romantic advances. |
The preview for the next episode shows Ryo meeting a new girl who is into him and who also practices Kung Fu, so maybe he will finally find someone who can understand him. All she has to do is challenge him to fights until they're married. |
He's no Goku
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sonryu
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2022 4:32 pm
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I've only watched the first episode so far, but when he works the forklift job, is he stuck repeating the third day unless he drives backwards?
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sonryu
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2022 4:35 pm
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| Top Gun wrote: | | I can't wait to watch more of Ryo punching goons and being completely oblivious to any and all romantic advances. |
Change Ryo to Ippo, and goons to boxing opponents, and now we're talking about Hajime no Ippo 
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EB01
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 7:02 pm
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| MrTerrorist wrote: | | I haven't watch the anime but does the main character goes searching for sailors? |
Yes. He goes around and asks for places where sailors hang out.
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