Something like 1100 or so I hesitate to check exactly how many because I am afraid I’ll see a major spoiler. I recently googled something banal about the manga and saw something that qualifies as a spoiler even in just a headline on the search engine.
The manga has been running since the late 90s and so has the anime as far as I know. So there’s been time for epic story to accumulate. I think that having only about 600+ episodes left is … not enough
It reminds me a lot of a typical somewhat insane RPG campaign with the focus on the central group and their adventures and it’s been slowly escalating in tension and then that ramps up more and more… sometimes it feels exactly what a GM would do to the story when pressed by players.
We’ve just passed a major plot-point and now I can’t wait to see more of the fall-out from that
Of course it is an anime and the physics and the plot adapt. We just had 20 episodes of the MC running towards something and being thrown back again and again so the other parts of the plot could unfold. It was frustrating and hilarious at the same time.
Netflix has said that in addition to the live action show they want to remake the anime with better pacing and without the filler content with half as many episodes. Well Netflix being Netflix I don’t think that is going to happen.
Finally got around to watching Thunderbolts*. I’m pretty much the exact target audience for superhero films, and I really enjoyed it. With that said, (1) I have been underwhelmed by some of Marvel’s more recent films and (2) my wife enjoyed it too, which means that it might actually be a good film!
Listening to the latest Ribbon of Memes I have had to confront that I had the 1981 film Condorman and the 1984 film Starman entirely conflated in my mind. Even to having an image in my head of Jeff Bridges on the Condorman Poster in the costume
Watched Nuremburg last night. A difficult watch at times. Performances from Russell Crowe and Rami Malek were excellent and Michael Shannon was his usual good self.
I did worry at one point they were going to humanise Goering so much that he would become a sympathetic character in the film, but I think they managed to show the scariest thing about people like the Nazis. Most were not moustache-twirling villains but ‘normal’ people who loved their family, had normal interests, but were somehow capable of doing these horrific things. And that’s scarier than the whole evil villain thing.
