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Kinda nice, but nothing brilliant. 6.5/10 Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX - Radiant Force (Picks up once at 1:00, and even more at 2:10)

RATE THE ANIME SOUNDTRACK ABOVE YOU! (If this should be in the games area instead, woops, but I mean... it IS anime related, I suppose.) The thread is simple! You just rate whatever music is the person before you posted, and then post your own! You can rate the music above you in any way you feel like! But of course, there are a few rules. ~~~ RULES: - Do not respond to the person that just responded to you. An example of a correct order of turns would be this: Person A Person B Person C Person A While an incorrect order of turns would be this: Person A Person B Person A Person B And a sad order of turns would be this: Person A Person A Person A Person A - Make sure to NOT simply embed your music via YouTube or whatever. Please hyperlink instead. This is to cut down on page load time, as so many videos, even in spoiler tags, can lag a page quite significantly. - And an obvious one, play nicely. Don't do anything that would otherwise break the rules of the forum. ~~~ I'll begin! The Beheading Cycle - Old Fashioned Fairy Tale

Edit: Man I hate spoiler tags, I always mess them up. Uh, just kinda, open every spoiler, they're kinda inside of one another. Mardock Scramble is a fantastic psychological thriller, and will absolutely have you on the edge of your seat for most of its runtime. Is a movie trilogy, so make sure you have about an hour and a half to spare before you hop into it. Also mentioning, the art is great, and the soundtrack is quite impressive. Warning ahead of time, quite a bit of nudity and gore, so if you have a weak stomach uh, prepare, I guess.

Bad voice acting. As obvious as it sounds, it's kinda that simple. Anything that you could apply to bad voice acting can be applied to make a dub bad. Hell, plenty of Japanese dub stuff also sounds pretty poor, but because most of us don't speak the language, we simply can't tell. It's probably easier to say what makes a dub good. So long as the voice suits the character that has it, as well as conveying emotions properly and whatnot, it should be fine. Look into the Chuunibyou dub for an example of a pretty bad dub, none of the voices suit the characters. It also helps when a dub suits the show's setting, for example. FMAB takes place in Germany. Sure, a German dub would be the best bet, but English is a lot more fitting than Japanese. Same sorta deal with Gosick, which was recently dubbed. I still prefer the sub, but the dub is very passable. The spoken language of the area the show takes place in is French, as shown in written documents in the show, so a french dub would be awesome, BUT, English is a hell of a lot closer than Japanese and it's easy to make it work. This also applies to settings that have no defined location to them. Think of Gurren Lagann, they're just kinda on Earth. I highly recommend the dub for that one btw, it was fantastic. So yeah overall, I suppose a bad dub would be comprised of a lack of proper emotions, voices that don't match the characters and their personalities, and maaaybe the setting that the show takes place in.

Cool thanks, I'll take a look! Ah I know of Mob Psycho 100 for sure, just been putting it off lol

Hohhhh, you seem to be the resident recommendation person o.o Guess I'll give ya a shot. I'm always in the market for ridiculously over-the-top hype action anime. Stuff like Symphogear, Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann, Yozakura Quartet, Diebuster, Nobunagun (some of it, anyways) and on and on. "over-the-top hype action" basically just means action that's just.... well....

Ah yes, CGI. The stuff that makes the 3D be the go. It's very clearly a hated thing amongst the anime community, as basically everyone would prefer that traditional 2D drawn anime look. Would you prefer this 3D? Or would you prefer this 2D? Now, if you say you'd prefer the 2D image there, I'm laughing since that one is also a fully CGI anime. My opinion on CGI is this: If the story is good enough, it doesn't matter, unless it's severely impacting the flow of the show. An action series for example would need to do some great things with its CGI in order to impress me, as the CGI has to look good to really hit the action home. Example, Garo: Divine Flame Note how the CGI is actually rather good. Clearly CGI, but the action is still awesome, and I daresay it's entirely on par, maybe even better, than the 2D portion of the clip. Moving on with my earlier point though, depending on the show, a simple drama anime could be fully CGI and not even be all that nice looking, but so long as the story is great, it doesn't matter to me at all, as it most likely wouldn't be directly impacting the show in any way. On top of that point though, I'm also always trying to get people to be of the opinion that not all CGI anime look terrible by ANY means. High Score Girl in the second screenshot there is one example, as is the armor in Garo: Divine Flame. A third example is Land of the Lustrous, as it was entirely a contender to be the prettiest anime of its season. Example. So, what do you think of CGI? Should it banned from the world, there's nothing it can do that 2D can't do better? Or do you not mind it at all? Perhaps even prefer it? Lemme know.

Senki Zesshou Symphogear has a 15 chapter manga. Though I highly recommend you watch the anime on top of the manga. The manga covers all of season 1, and considering season 1 of the anime is kinda ehh, you can jump straight into the really good seasons 2, 3, and 4. But that's just an additional thing. The manga itself is just a solid action manga, though I admit it feels slightly lacking as it revolves around the music genre as well. Kinda hard to listen to manga, not gonna lie. Another short one is Y-Ganma, but it is 20 chapters, which is 10 more than you were looking for. First chapter didn't hook me, but the second one did, so stick with it till at least then. Great read for if you're a fan of My Hero Academia and stuff. Kuro is an odd one, but a really good read. Odd in that, it has 22 chapters, but that basically means nothing since said chapters are split into chapters, and each of those chapters is only one page, so in reality, those 22 big chapters are super short. If I recall the whole thing only has around 150 pages or so? I dunno. Don't think the entire manga is a ton of one-page shorts either, some are, but when it kicks into story it reads as you would expect a manga to be read. Not to mention due to its short length, it's in full color! Which is nice. I guess I can also mention 2.5-jigen Kareshi. I didn't like it all that much really, generic shoujo to the max, but it is only like 8 chapters so, I'll mention it. I didn't HATE it by any means, it was just ehh. Knew how it'd end as soon as you pick it up. Edit: Oh. You said 10 volumes. Not 10 chapters. Woops.

Emotions can bring on the feelz yes. Though that doesn't necessarily mean I'll label a show that does so as a good show. Much like jump scares in the horror genre, there are lazy cheap shots to make you cry, and despite working, I can't help but feel as though they're devoid of meaning. "They killed off my favourite chararcter, but why? It just sort of happened." for example. BUT when the real feelz hit, the real feelz hit, and I can entirely give the anime props for it.

A favourite of mine is from Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero. I'm not a particularly massive fan of the show itself, it's more than passable for sure, but the cutesy aspects just threw me off too hard. But HOO LAWDY, the soundtrack. Here's some examples.

Hello Hello, I've been playing a ton of Pokemon lately and I do indeed happen to make a lot of competitive pokemon. So, in my boredom, I figure I could impart some of my knowledge to make the process that much easier for anyone that wants to do all that. Here we go. I'll be speaking about Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon primarily, as they're the newest mainline entries to the series. Where to Find Competitive Pokemon Sets The internet. Namely Smogon. IVs IVs are a stat that you can't see yourself until you beat the game and talk to a dude sitting by the battle tree on Poni Island. Hatch 20 eggs or so and talk to him and he'll give you the ability to check your own IVs. IVs are effectively a stat that can be anywhere from 0 to 31, and is applied to every stat of your pokemon. The higher the IV, the better in almost all cases. Who would want more free attack or defense or health or speed? These are randomized in almost all cases, but they can be bred to perfection via the Pokemon Nursery on Akala Island, more on that later. Do also note that legendary pokemon always have 3 random stats with a perfect 31 IVs, but they also can't be bred to perfect the rest of them, but that's easy to fix too. More on that late EVs EVs are more points that can make a pokemon's various stats stronger, and they can be raised by vitamins, or defeating particular pokemon, not to mention using Isle Evelup on Poke Pelago, which is a very precise but slow way of obtaining EVs. You can have a max of 510 EVs on any single pokemon, and these points can be spread among whatever stats you need to have a bit of a boost. Do also keep in mind however, that any single stat can only have 252 EVs put into it. This leaves you able to max out 2 stats, and put an extra 6 points into another stat of your choice. Every 4 EVs counts towards a single actual stat point increase in your pokemon's stats, so you have an extra 2 EVs that do absolutely nothing. More on how to get this part done quick later. Natures Natures add +10% to one stat, and -10% to another stat. That, or they don't do anything at all. These ones are very useless. Here's a useful chart. Make sure you can actually make the Pokemon first. Some pokemon are just straight-up impossible to get anymore without cheating them in, and some require so much effort it entirely isn't worth it. You want a competitive Aggron that knows avalanche? Well you'll have to go all the way back to HG/SS, breed the Aggron to perfection in that game (which is absolutely the worst thing, never do it, trust me) and then once you finally get the right nature and the IVs you want, you have to use a one-time-use avalanche move tutor on it. And then send it all the way up to a newer game that still has functioning servers where you can then use it. Which costs money btw. Pokebank is a pain. So before getting invested, fact check all your moves and whatnot, and make sure you're actually capable of acquiring them. Set Up a "Utilities" Box, and a "Natures" Box in your PC. I've never actually heard of anyone else going through the trouble of this, but I did it, and it's the best decision I've made. I'll go over the Natures Box first. What you need to do is catch yourself an Abra, or a Ralts that has the ability "Synchronize". Synchronize is an incredibly useful ability in that when you have it in the lead slot of your team, any pokemon you encounter has a 50% chance to be the same nature as it. So, take that Abra/Ralts, and breed them into oblivion, until you have one of every Nature in your Natures box. Don't bother getting the neutral natures though, refer to the chart up there. There's one other pokemon you'll need in this box though, and that's Ditto. What if you already have a pokemon but there's no way to catch a new one? You'll need to breed it, and you CAN breed it at random and hope you get the nature you need, 1 in 30 chance, but we're making this EASY! Now, you won't need another 20 Dittos, in fact you'll probably only need 4. Adamant, Modest, Timid, and Jolly. Other natures will pop up sometimes, but you'll find that in almost all cases, those are the 4 you'll need. If it makes you feel better, you could probably grab whatever others you find you happen to need. Now look! You have the ability to catch any wild pokemon and make it have whatever nature you need, and you have every ditto you'll need to breed any nature of pokemon you may need! Need a Ditto you don't have? Just use the Abra to get one! As a heads up, Abra can be found in Hau'oli and Route 2. Ditto can be found on Route 9, Konikoni City, and Mount Hokulani. Next, the Utilities box! First, move the Modest, Adamant, Timid, and Jolly Abras and Dittos over to this box. They'll be used a whole bunch, so you'll want them in an easy to find place. Next, get 2 high level pokemon that can learn False swipe, as well as a single target attack move or two. Or three. The higher the level, the easier your life will be. I'll explain why you need 2 of them later. Personally, I have a Garchomp and a Lurantis. I also highly recommend any high level pokemon that has a multi-hit move. Next up, a Magcargo with the ability magma armor or flame body, both will work fine. Toss Magcargo into your team when you're hatching eggs, and the eggs will hatch in half the time! Next up, a high level Butterfree! Teach it Thief and make sure it has the ability Compound Eyes. This is how you get Heart Scales, for relearning forgotten moves from the Move Reminder whom is located in the Pokemon Center on Mount Lanakila! The pokemon Luvdisc can be found by fishing at Route 9, Melemele Sea, and Hau'oli City. Compound Eyes (assuming Butterfree is in the lead of your party) raises the chance of a wild pokemon to be holding an item, and then simply use Thief! If the Luvdisc has a Heart Scale, its yours now. Just be sure to take the Heart Scale off of Butterfree before you continue to fish. Next up, grab a pokemon with the ability Illuminate. If a pokemon with Illuminate is leading your team, your chance of encountering a wild pokemon is increased by 100%. Just makes finding hard to find pokemon that much faster. Lastly, youère gonna want 5 pokemon with the ability Pickup. I have 5 Meowths. This is useful for 2 things. If you REALLY don't want to buy a Destiny Knot for BP, you can simply hope one of these guys will pick one up after a battle. The other option, is if you're trying to level just one pokemon, and you use that same pokemon in your lead to train it. May as well get random items while you're at it, for every rare candy you pick up after all, it's one less level you have to grind for if you so choose to use them that way! Check after every battle so as to clear their item slots if they did pick something up. You can get a variety of items, ranging from garbage, to nice stuff like rare candies. The higher the level of the Meowths, the better odds they'll have of finding rare items, here's a chart that explains it all. How to Breed Pokemon Simply leave a breeding Ditto, and whatever pokemon you wish to breed, in the nursery. Make sure the Magcargo you should have is the only pokemon on your team when you begin, to maximize egg production. You'll notice that, almost directly under the Nursery, there's some fences, and a small space you can run around in. Picture. Go in there and call in Tauros. Now hold sprint and run in a circle. It counts as running full tilt while keeping you in one spot so you can see when the egg lady gets an egg, signified by her crossing her arms. Her getting an egg is entirely dependent on number of steps, so keep running and you'll get eggs eventually. The only case where you won't get an egg is if you talk to her and she says something along the lines of "they prefer to play with the other Pokemon" THEN, you won't be getting any eggs. You can actually speed up the odds of her getting eggs if you acquire the Oval Charm, which I won't go over since it's a lengthy side quest sorta thing, but I will link a tutorial here. How to Breed the Nature You Want This part is stupidly easy. You simply make the non-ditto half of your pokemon in the daycare hold an Everstone. That's all you need to do. It'll 100% of the time pass down its nature to the child. How to Breed the Abilities You Want This part is entirely up to percentage-based luck. Not cruel odds though. When breeding a male pokemon, with a female of the same type of pokemon, the female will determine the ability 100% of the time. The male does not matter. If breeding with a Ditto, whatever is NOT the Ditto will always count as the female for all intents and purposes, this is why Dittos are so convenient. If the female pokemon has its hidden ability, it has a 60% chance to pass it down to the child, with a 40% chance for the other ability the pokemon may have, or a 20%/20% split if the pokemon has two non-hidden abilities. If the female pokemon does NOT have its hidden ability, there's a guaranteed chance the offspring will get its ability if the species only has one non-hidden ability, or if it has two non-hidden abilities, an 80% chance to pass down the one the parent has, with a 20% chance to pass down the other one. Notice that if you don't start with the pokemon's hidden ability, there's no chance at all that you'll get it via breeding, you HAVE to start with a parent that has the ability. This info I've simply gotten from a source, but speaking from experience, I've had MUCH more success having a female breed with the Ditto for hidden ability passing, rather than a male, so I do suggest that. How to Breed Egg Moves Egg moves are moves that a pokemon can only learn by inheriting them from another pokemon via breeding. This part can get messy, but I'll try to dumb it down as much as possible. Your breeding ditto is useless for this portion, so leave it in your Utilities box. You'll need a female pokemon of the species that you want to acquire an egg move, as the female is the one that determines the species of the offspring. The male parent must have the egg move(s) that you want to be sent to the child, as well as be in the same egg group as the pokemon you wish to breed. If they're in different egg groups, you simply can't breed them at all, so don't try that. You can easily check pokemon's egg moves on sites like this one. It should also display their egg groups, but you can do that much on the in-game pokedex. Assuming everything is set up correctly, when the two pokemon breed succesfully, the offspring will be the pokemon you want, with the egg moves that you want! You then want to turn that pokemon into a parent, and fix its nature with another offspring if it isn't already the right one! Then you're good to go, your pokemon has its egg moves, and it will forever send them down to offspring. You can now go back to using your Breeding Ditto. Going back a moment, I did mention that egg moves can get messy. What I meant by that, is that on some occasions, you'll need to breed an entirely different species with ANOTHER different species in order to get a parent that can have the egg moves that the pokemon you actually want needs. If you're able to use Smeargle for this, consider yourself very happy, as it makes this process a breeze since it can learn any move. How to Breed Perfect IVs Once you have the natures and utility boxes, it really isn't so bad. First up, get yourself a breeding Ditto, and make sure it has as many perfect IVs as possible. It's damn near impossible to get a 6 perfect IV Ditto, but if you're morally cool with getting hacked (but legal) pokemon, go for it. (On a side note, if you happen to want bonus shiny odds, make sure the Ditto is from a country other than your own, as well as being shiny itself.) Make sure that this Breeding Ditto is holding an item known as a Destiny Knot. This will guarantee that 5 random IVs are passed down from the parents to the child. See why a 6IV Ditto is nice? Anyways, always make sure that the Ditto is holding the destiny knot, and then just start collecting eggs! Whenever you collect and hatch 5 eggs into your inventory, take them to the PC and check their IVs. If the IVs are not listed as "Best" then they're no good, they aren't a perfect 31 IVs. That being said though, if you breed a pokemon that has better IVs than your parent in the nursery, swap them out! Don't forget to give the new parent the everstone for keeping its nature! Always remember this as well, not all pokemon NEED to have 6 perfect IVs to be competitive. If you have a pokemon that only uses special attacking moves, the attack stat is completely worthless, so there's no need to make it perfect. Getting 5 perfect IVs is easy, it's the 6th one that's a pain, so unless you have a mixed attacker or some other special cases, don't worry about whichever attack stat you won't be using. Once you have a 6IV Ditto and a 5IV parent in the nursery, you have great odds for getting the 5 IVs you need, and even the magical 6IVs if necessary. a 5IV Ditto will work too, just make sure that both of the parents are covering different stats with their perfect IVs, for example, don't have 2 parents that are both missing their perfect speed IVs. All you have to do now is make sure your pokemon has the ability you want before calling it a day! How to EV Train Your Newly Bred Pokemon This part isn't so bad, but MAKE SURE that you do not defeat any pokemon with your newly bred, EV-free pokemon on your team. The Exp share spread EVs as well as experience, so if you mess up what EVs the pokemon gets, it can be a pain. This can be fixed, but it's an annoying initial process, which I will touch on next. First however, you're going to need a few things. Get yourself one of every Power Item available from the Royal Battle Dome Shop at Royal Avenue. These items are the Power Anklet, Power Band, Power Lens, and so on. These give you 8 extra EVs to a specific stat every time you defeat a pokemon in battle, on top of the EVs given to you by that pokemon. Simply make your pokemon you wish to EV train hold the appropriate item, and go to town, though I'll describe more about what to go to town on later. Next, you're going to want to buy an absolute ton of Adrenaline Orbs, which can be purchased at any pokemart in a pokecenter. If you're lucky enough to have a pokemon afflicted with Pokerus, you're going to have a swell time with this. Spread the pokerus to your newly bred pokemon by putting the afflicted pokemon next to your newly bred pokemon in your team, and encounter a few wild pokemon, but DO NOT defeat them, simply run. Every time you run, check your newly bred pokemon's summary to see if it has pokerus. I'll say now, that if you bring your pokerus-inflicted pokemon to be healed at a pokecenter, it will heal the pokerus away, and you'll never be able to get it again on that pokemon, so be careful about that. It also heals itself after a certain number of battles, so keeping a few pokerus-ridden pokemon in your PC is always a good idea in case you ever need more. Pokerus doubles all EVs your pokemon receives upon defeating a pokemon. Speeds up the process a ton, obviously, but if you can't get pokerus, don't worry, it's not too bad still. So now that you have your items, gather those 2 high level false swipe pokemon I mentioned to put in the Utilities box. These will be how you S.O.S. chain your EVs onto your pokemon, and false swipe is key since you need to NOT kill a pokemon to do this, just get its health low. S.O.S. chaining is when a pokemon calls another pokemon in for help during a battle. The lower the health of the pokemon doing the calling, the higher the odds of them calling in another pokemon to aid it. This called in pokemon gives double the EVs that a normal pokemon would, and so long as you don't defeat the weakened pokemon, it will keep trying to call in more pokemon for you to beat up. Do note however, that an S.O.S. call isn't guaranteed. That's what the adrenaline orbs are for. Use one during the battle and it'll make it MUCH more likely for the opposing pokemon to start calling for help. You want two false swipe pokemon because in a LOT of cases, I find that the weak little pokemon you'll be punching for a while love to hit you with status effects and stat debuffs, which stack up. If your pokemon is ever too encumbered by lowered accuracy or gets confused and you don't want to mess around more than you have to, just swap pokemon to get a fresh start.If for whatever reason the intial pokemon does feint, as long as their another S.O.S. called pokemon of the exact same species in battle, you can false swipe it and continue like you were. Now all you have to do is defeat as many pokemon as you need to to max the EVs in the stat you needed! Now here's an absurdly useful tool. EV Calculator This allows you to type in how many EVs you need for a pokemon's stat, which stat you're EV training for, and whether you have pokerus and/or a power item. This will then tell you exactly how many S.O.S. called pokemon you need to defeat, and which pokemon to defeat to do so, as well as their locations. If you happen to choose to farm Magnemite, or another pokemon of your choosing that can have Sturdy as an ability, bring along your pokemon in your Utilities box that has a multi-hit move, and optionally false swipe to save you some swapping around. Because trust me, Sturdy is annoying. Ignoring it with multi-hit moves is the way to go. Now, the calculator does have one other section, and that is for the poke pelago's Isle Evelup. Get that to level 3 as fast as you can, but the calculator tells you the speeds at all levels, so don't worry about it too much. Use this only if you need specific EVs for a stat. For example, you need 40EVs in a stat. It'd be a pain to defeat the EXACT amount of pokemon while having to worry about going over what you need, and yeah, it'd be stressful. The calculator just tells you how many sessions to do to get the desired EVs. It's slow, but it's accurate. You can even get stuff to 252 EVs if you're sleeping or whatever, but manually S.O.S. chaining is a MUCH faster method. If you'd like to see what your pokemon's EVs look like, go to their summary page and hit Y. This will change their stat Graph on top to display EVs, signified by the yellow or blue graph marks. If a stat is sparkling, that means it is maxed out. If the entire graph turns a light blue, that means you've hit the maximum 510 EVs for that pokemon, and cannot gain any more. How to Remove EVs Removing EVs is only initially a painful process. You need to collect one of each EV berry, which are located at the base of the Berry Tree on route 10. You'll need to come back every day to try your luck getting all of them. These berries are as follows: Kelpsy Berry - Attack Tamato Berry - Speed Hondew Berry - Sp.Atk Pomeg Berry - HP Qualot Berry - Defense Grepa Berry - Sp.Def Each of these berries LOWERS a particular EV, each one lowering an EV by 10. So this means you're gonna need to get a LOT of these berries. No better way to do so, than Poke Pelago's Isle Aplenny. You'll want to get this to level 3 as quickly as possible, as not only does it give you more space to grow berries, it increases yield by a ton. Simply plant whichever EV berries you need more of here and wait for them to grow. At level 3 you'll be able to plant 18 berry bushes, each bush yielding 14 berries. That's a lotta berries. Spend a few days just growing your stock till oyu have around 200 of each berry, but don't stop there, keep going, you'll need them, trust me. These berries also happen to be an extremely efficient way to increase a pokemon's happiness. Just spam a berry on a pokemon that affects EVs the pokemon isn't using. You won't lose anything, but it'll raise your pokemon's happiness by a tiny bit for every berry, eventually maxing out and telling you the berry will have no effect! How to Level Up Your Newly Bred Pokemon This part is quite easy, you can just run around Poni island beating things up if you want, after all, the only level that matters is 50 for competitive battling, and that's a breeze to reach. But there's a better way. First, get your hands on a Lucky Egg, which can be acquired like so. On top of that, using a Roto-Exp power is a HUGE help, but unfortunately getting those is a lottery. Just talk to the RotomDex a lot, you might get some eventually. The buff lasts for 10 minutes, however the duration is infinite so long as you stay in battle, keep that in mind. It will simply run out the instant you leave the battle. Anyways, there's a bush on Poni island that has a 20% chance of throwing a Chansey at you when you get near it. Chanseys are absolutely fantastic for exp, and they can even S.O.S. summon a Blissy, which gives even MORE exp. Make sure you have a STRONG false swipe pokemon with you for this, as Chanseys and Blisseys are quite tough to beat up if you aren't absurdly overlevelled. Then all you need to do is start an S.O.S. chain with the Chansey, and go to town. If you're staying there for extended periods, be sure to switch which Chansey is doing the S.O.S. calling, else it'll run out of PP and feint. Just occasionally punch the low health one and then false swipe the other, repeat as necessary. (A note. Don't try to get smart and feint a Chansey after it calls in a Blissey with the intent of getting the Blissey to call in more Blissey. That Blissey won't call ANYTHING, so you'd be screwing yourself. You may also find that sometimes a pokemon won't call a pokemon and you'll be left standing there not sure what to do. You have a few viable options here. Refill on health or PP or whatever you need to if necessary, maybe switch pokemon or heal status effects. You could hit the pokemon with a second false swipe, which won't do anything. But the best choice when you truly have nothing to do, is use another Adrenaline Orb. If you've already used one, it'll simply fail, NOT consume an adrenaline orb, and end your turn. With these methods and a lot of Leppa Berries (which can be found on Route 3, Route 17, and Ula'ula Beach, use Isle Aplenny to get tons of them) you can get your pokemon to level 100 within... a day? It's not fast, but it is for certain, the fastest method in the game. How to Hyper Train This part is really easy, but also really painful. All you have to do, is beat the game, and get the pokemon you want to hyper train to level 100. Hyper training artificially sets a pokemon's IVs to perfect, permanently. This is great for making competitive legendary pokemon, or perhaps shiny pokemon with bad IVs. The hard part comes from the cost of hyper training. You need Bottle Caps to do this, and Bottle Caps are a massive pain to get, don't even get me started on Gold Bottle Caps (which max all IVs of a pokemon), those are nearly Event-Exclusive (though it is possible to get them in-game in a few badly farmable ways). There's a few ways to get Bottle Caps, and the first one most people come to is fishing. You can fish on any spot on Poni Island for a very small chance to get a bottle cap. Very small. Not exactly worth doing, but you could use your pickup squad of Meowths to get rare candies as you go at it, so you could make it worth your time. Your 2nd best bet would be Poke Pelago's Isle Aphun. You have 2 choices on this one, you can either take the MUCH slower but very safe route of the level 1 cave path to gather shards, You can trade in 30 shards of any one colour to a man in the Festival Plaza Castle and hell give you a bottle cap. You may also go for the level 3 cave path which has a larger reward pool, but less shards. However one of these rewards is a GOLD bottlecap, which is nice. The third and best option is to rank up your Festival Plaza to level 8. This allows you to buy facilities from the people that show up in your Plaza. Find someone that is offering a 2 star Treasure Hunt facility, make that person one of your VIPs, and then buy the facility. Make sure it's the ONLY facility of that kind that you have though, (different stars don't matter, just don't have 2 or more 2 star Treaure Hunt facilities.) and if you already have one, replace it after you've visited the old one at least once. So what's the trick? The first time you visit a brand new 2 star Treasure Hunt facility, they'll give you a bottle cap. So now that you've made that person that offers the facility a VIP, you can call them back at any time to buy the facility again for 200FC. How do you get FC? Just get good at the Type Matching and Type Inverse games, they reward 50/60 FC each respectively if there's enough people playing. You should never get more than 1 2 star treasure hunt facility because if you do that, it'll permanently raise the price of buying another one. How to get BP BP is obivously pretty important, as it's what you use to get moves from move tutors, as well as get a load of items that you'll be needing for competitive play. So how do you get it? Mantine Surfing. Here's a solid video guide with some tips, however it assumes that you'll have gotten to "Max Rank" in Mantine Surfing by getting the high score on every beach in the game and acquiring the surfing Pikachu. (This Pikachu also comes with a Gold Bottle Cap) Doing all of these things will get you all of the moves you'll need to max your score in Mantine Surf, and if you get good enough you can make around 50BP in not even 5 minutes.

I'll watch whatever is good, regardless of the time it came out. What defines "good" you may ask? Well, 2 things define good, but just know that overall, being "good" is when a show does what it wants to do, and does it well. A show that wants to be deep, and well written, with good characters, and all that jazz, can only be defined as good if it pulls those things off. Anime like ef: a tale of memories, 3-Gatsu no Lion, Kuzu no Honkai, and so on. If a show that primarily tries to do these things to be that kind of show, FAILS to do those things well, the show will most likely become a bad, unenjoyable show. A run of the mill harem for example. Sure, the purpose is to admire all the cute girls and self-insert over the boring main character, but almost all of these harems also introduce a plot that never gets anywhere near completion, which is near unforgivable in my books. BUT, I have no issue at all with the idea of harems. If a show were to pop up that happened to be a harem, but took itself seriously and actually had well thought out characters and they interacted well, among other things, I would absolutely without a shred of doubt toss it into this category. So what about the other side of the spectrum? The enjoyable shows. These are almost reversed in a way. Enjoyable shows can be classified as good so long as they're enjoyable. Doesn't matter how it does it, if it does what it's trying to do really well, good to go! Examples being Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann, Symphogear, and maybe Diebuster. Cross Ange is actually a great example of terribly made but fun to watch. Allow me to look at harems once again though. Most never try to be anything more than fanservice and cute girls, this is true. But even with such a simple premise, most shows manage to mess it up in any number of ways. Cliffhangers, boring characters, overused comedy, you name it, all of this amounts to an unenjoyable experience. I'd never look at a harem and judge it for its story or character complexity, but what it does try to do is simply done badly. Not to mention an almost guaranteed cliffhanger. Because you know, the best way to get enjoyment out of the story I've set out to experience is to not get the end of it! To simplify things a bit: Well Written Done well > Fun Time > Enjoyable Done Badly > Not a Fun Time> Unenjoyable Enjoyable Fun Time > Enjoyable (Regardless of how well it's written) Not a Fun Time > Unenjoyable (Regardless of how well it's written) A well written show becomes a fun, enjoyable piece of entertainment by properly having well written stuff within it, while an enjoyable show skips the quality check entirely and runs on sheer entertainmentfuel. Of course, while this method isn't exactly perfect, I'm not blind either. If a show is great but it just wasn't my cup of tea, I won't call it bad, I'll accept that I didn't like it and move on. That being said, I won't simply call a show "not my cup of tea" if it's actually terribly made. There are even rarer examples of anime that I absolutely respect 100%, and would recommend to anyone, but didn't actually enjoy. In This Corner of the World is one of these things. And as stated, I highly suggest you give it a watch. If it seems like I got off track there, no, I genuinely don't have a particular preference for when shows come out. Art is a bonus to me, and unless it's absolutely BRUTAL, I won't even pay attention to it. All that matters is the story.

The Pacific Rim people are actually working on a legit Gundam live action. Hype.

As a person that has known twig for a few years, there isn't a rude bone in their bodies lol. This is all a misunderstanding. People wonder why I use a ton if emotes, its so I don't confuse people with my tone ;D

Ah, insightful anime? Gotchu mah dood, lovely thing to start with. ef: a tale of memories. (No need to bother with the sequel, it's optional and not as good) Shinsekai Yori Tsuki ga Kirei Hourou Musuko Kyousou Giga (the 10 episode version. Skip episode 0 and every OVA.) Clannad (and Clannad After Story)

Enjoy ^.^

To clarify this further, I mean, what do you prefer your anime to come from? Be it manga, light novel, video games, cave etchings, you name it, what's your favourite. (Also do keep in mind, I'll be going on a tangent, and listing recommendations for my preference, you don't need to do that, but if you DO feel the need to, go for it.) Personally, I basically live by anime originals. Aka, no source material at all. Am I cheating my own topic? Maybe just a little, but the upsides are delicious. What makes anime originals so tempting? Well, the biggest thing is that, in order to make an anime original, the company behind it has to care, or they'll suffer pretty heavy consequences. Anime originals are absolutely not cheap to make, as the funding basically needs to ALL come from the studio itself, and for smaller studios, if they create an utter failure of an original, it could very well potentially destroy the company if they aren't careful. So this risk means that not a lot of anime originals get made, but.... it also means that the ones that DO get made, have a lot of care put into them. They also almost always have a proper ending. Even if the show DOES suck, it'll still probably have an ending because NOT ending the show is literally just too bad for sales. Nobody LIKES getting an incomplete story, and with originals, there's no excuse for an incomplete story unless they immediately announce a sequel of some sort. So overall, the ratio of good to bad looks quite nice. I find my biggest issue with adaptations from manga and light novels, is that they rarely wait for the source material to be complete before rushing out an anime. It's still possible for the anime to be great, don't get me wrong, just look at Spice and Wolf, but the VAST majority of anime that get sourced from manga or light novels simply don't end. Sasameki Koto is a favourite manga of mine, and the anime captures the manga perfectly.... except for the fact that it barely gets into the story at ALL because they made it WAY before the manga finished. Had they waited and made the anime when the manga had an ending, we'd certainly have one hell of a popular romance anime on our hands, in a subgenre that is SEVERELY lacking. BUT instead, we get no romantic conclusion at all, and simply end on the usual festival episode. I have very little tolerance when it comes to cliffhangers, so if a show cliffhangers and I still praise it, clearly it did something VERY VERY RIGHT. (Ex. Land of the Lustrous, Spice and Wolf, Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta) Anyways, back to originals. You'd be surprised to see what anime are originals. A LOT of them are extremely famous, solidifying more, the fact that caring about your product really pays off, rather than just dumping out a cash grab anime for the season. It's much more worth it to make a product that will make a lot of money, for a very, very long time, than it is to make an anime that will VERY briefly make a metric TON of money. May not get the money as fast, but it will absolutely pay off soon enough. Plus, the best form of advertisement is word of mouth. I'd much sooner listen to a friend tell me to watch a show than some youtube ad from crunchyroll. Some Original anime that, coincidentally, you should check out if you haven't: Gurren Lagann (I do recommend the dub) Kill la Kill Cowboy Bebop Samurai Champloo Madoka Magica ALMOST every Ghibli film. But not all. Anohana Code Geass Psycho-Pass Death Parade FLCL Angel Beats! Neon Genesis Evangelion Revolutionary Girl Utena (Seeing a popularity trend here?) -and for some lesser known but still great ones: Senki Zesshou Symphogear (though season 1 is iffy, the next THREE seasons are beyond dope. Yeah, 4 seasons. 5th on the way. Should say something.) Princess Principal Flip Flappers Noein: To Your Other Self Gunbuster/Diebuster (You can watch either of these in any order, or either of them alone. Just note that the plots take place 10,000 years apart, so if you don't like Gunbuster, try Diebuster.) Kyousou Giga (the 10 episode version. MAKE SURE to skip episode 0, and every single OVA.) Hanasaku Iroha Princess Tutu (particularly great show, don't be put off by the girly title, is one of the best fantasy anime around.) Nagi no Asukara Tamako Market (plus its film, Tamako Love Story) Space Patrol Luluco (I suggest having seen basically every other popular Trigger anime first however, as the references are through the roof. Yes, that includes Inferno Cop. Which is also an original, heh.)

Like, 4 or 5 years ago I'd say. First "official" anime, where I was entirely aware it was an anime, was Occult Academy. Not a bad show, actually. BUT my FIIIIIRST first anime would be Spirited Away, I think. Barely remembered it till I rewatched it a couple years ago though.

Nuff said.

OH, had no clue about the language thing, thanks for letting me know. I'll change that asap. Anyhoo, here ya go! YOU HAVE BEEN FORCED INTO: Flip Flappers (From the creators of Princess Principal)

Closest I could find. https://myanimelist.net/anime/15379/Kotoura-san

Garo: The Animation is a great one. It has a proper sequel movie if you didn't know, titled Garo: Divine Flame. There are two other Garo anime however, Crimson Moon and Vanishing Line, both of which are completely unrelated to the Garo you've seen. Crimson Moon is a complete dumpster fire. Vanishing Line is very passable from what I've heard, I still need to watch it myself. Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! is certainly up there in my list of favourite romances, especially since it JUST had its finale movie released, which gave us JUST what everyone wanted that the show's 2 seasons didn't deliver. Go Kyoto Animation, you haven't failed me yet. Except for Myriad Colors Phantom World. We don't talk about that one. Beyond the Boundary is also another great one by Kyoto Animation. Wonderful animation, good characters, I have very few complaints. ~~~ Danmachi is probably my most hated anime however. Thoughts here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ACf6Y-b9eq8UiDsPFIcd3x1xRL4KF8FDp5ZGwuaEsiU And You Thought There Is Never A Girl Online is the sole reason I fucking despise cliffhangers now. Before that show, I could stand them. But when I found this show, I asked around my old forum about it, and EVERYONE said "ah ye mate it's super good." and when I asked if the romance goes places they all said "ah ye mate that's good too." but NAH, that ending was as bullshit, bland, and boring as the 100s of other ecchi school romcom series floating around out there that exist solely to farm money for the studio but people love them to death anyways for some damnable reason. *inhale* *exhale* Seraph of the End pisses me off because its first episode or 2 were super good, with the setting and the idea of children hiding away and surviving in a city filled with vampires. There was risk, we rarely get children as main characters, and overall they could have done some really neat stuff with it. But NAH. They ditch that and instead go for the typical battle shounen style with whom is effectively a more spunky Eren from AoT as a main character. complete with a sword (of fukkin course) and an edgy colour palette. Cliches ensue for 2 seasons until the inevitable cliffhanger. As for your list as a whole, I'm fine with it, of course. You do you, watch what you like. It is however, incomplete, as you have not seen Senki Zesshou Symphogear yet.

(Oh look, post merging gave up) WAS HARDCORE NOT HARDCORE ENOUGH!? WELL THIS BETTER BE! SO WHAT'S UP WITH THIS MODE!? WHAT MAKES IT STAND OUT FROM THE REST? THIS ONE WILL MAKE YOU CRY. MUCH LIKE HARDCORE, YOU CAN'T DROP THE ANIME I GIVE YOU. YOU ALSO CAN'T WATCH ANOTHER ANIME ONCE YOU BEGIN. BUT HERE'S WHERE THE FUN STARTS! HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT? AS MANY HOURS AS THE SHOW HAS EPISODES. The challenge begins as soon as I send it. If you wish, tell me your timezone so that I can properly gauge when you'd actually be awake if I happen to not be around when you first ask. AND THE INFO YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR... WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU FAIL!? I'M NOT EXACTLY CREATIVE HERE, YOU'LL LOSE STARS! OR GAIN DEMERITS! LOTS OF STARS! PROBABLY MORE DEMERITS!! PROVE ME WRONG!!! LOSING HERE ALSO SCREWS OVER YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE! IF YOU COMPLETE A REGULAR CHALLENGE, YOU GET NO STARS FOR IT! IF YOU COMPLETE A HARDCORE, YOU GET REGULAR STARS! AND IF YOU "COMPLETE" "ANOTHER" INSANE, YOU'LL GET HARDCORE STARS!!! FUN RIGHT!? NO ESCAPING THE PAIN TRAIN THIS TIME. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!! YOU NEED TO POST A REVIEW OF THE ANIME YOU WATCHED! GOOGLE DOCS WORKS PERFECTLY, JUST LINK IT TO ME! THIS REVIEW MUST BE POSTED BEFORE THE WATCH TIMER WINDS DOWN. ONLY THEN, WILL YOU GET YOUR STARS. AKA, FOR EVERY ONE STAR YOU WOULD GAIN, YOU INSTEAD GAIN 4. ☆☆☆☆☆ Sandbox Mode The function of this mode, is quite literally to mix in an older thread of mine that died out. The Anime Dealer thread. Rest in pieces. So what is it? Just think... Nothin' to it You'll never gain stars with this mode, you'll also never lose stars! On top of that, I'll let you tell me what sort of thing you want to watch! Of course you're always welcome to let me do the choosing as well! Truly just for if you want an anime and that's it, there are no strings attached You hate it? Drop it! You love it? Yippee! There are absolutely no penalties to this mode, it's almost the same as making your own thread asking for an anime, except you'll let just me do the choosing for you! If you want! ☆☆☆☆☆ Events! This space is as empty as my relationship status on Facebook. Participants: 1. 2. 3. ☆☆☆☆☆ Consistent Event Rules: You are to give me a spoiler-free review when you finish. It can be in the thread, or DM'd to me. If you do give me spoilers... well I won't do much. You'll probably just upset me (._. ) You are allowed to drop your event challenge. Dropping your challenge will not reward you with your stars. Every challenge is worth roughly 5x that of a regular challenge. Easier than a regular, more stars than an insane? Cool. As a final note, anybody that is currently partaking in a regular or hardcore challenge is allowed to take a break to do the event. I think that's fair. But not insane though. BECAUSE INSANE. That and they don't last very long, so.