Japanese Niche Games Deals & Discussion Thread 4.0

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Welcome to the Japanese niche games deals and discussion thread!  Feel free to talk about local and import Japanese games here.  Our goal is to maintain a thread dedicated to active deals on niche games including RPGs, Visual Novels (VN), Shoot'em ups (Shmups), Musou, etc.  Also maintained are pre-orders for standard, limited and collector's edition games with key release dates provided.

I've wikified the thread to make it more friendly and open to others that can actively update with important information. You can find the wiki post directly below this one.

NOTE:  Please, leave the censorship discussion away from this thread.  It's common for japanese games to have questionable content outside of the country.  We want to keep discussions to the game itself and not about cultural/societal tolerance.

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There are lots of shows I like to rewatch. I do Fullmetal Alchemist pretty often, both 2003 and Brotherhood. It's fun to rewatch Conan while benefiting from knowing everything that's going on. And then there's comfort shows like slice of life/iyashikei.

You wind up seeing less new stuff, but it's not like you could ever watch every single thing you want to watch anyway. I just say time enjoyed is time not wasted.
 
Yeah, there are some great series that I like to rewatch. Some Anime I've finished and went right back to do a second watch it was so good. Especially when you learn stuff that maybe changes the story a bit. Your Lie In April was good for this. Run With The Wind, I couldn't stop thinking about it and had to watch it again.
 
I've seen stuff like Robocop so many times now and I still get a kick out of it every time. Some things just resonate with you and are fun to rewatch. Speaking of stuff not worth rewatching ever I decided to start watching I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class and it was just about every anime cliché about a guy and a girl not liking each other and forced to be in a relationship. The comedy didn't hit, I disliked the side characters, and by the end of the 4th episode I was bored and skipped to episode 12. It still sucked, but it had a whole lot more drama now! I often drop these series and look for another. I like some romance and comedy series, but this was nothing much other than decent animation with just some okay voice acting. A usual 5/10 anime where you can skip it if you've seen just about any other comedic anime. I enjoyed Kids on the Slope with its style, animation and music when I saw it a while ago. Story was not to my liking (started strong but got weaker as the series went on), which I don't remember anything about anymore, but the other parts were good for me. Please let us know if the story keeps going okay throughout the series, as my memories are old now.

My key to new anime seasons is to see what I may like and watch what I likely determine the worse anime first, as I give up on series all the time, and move on to the better looking things from there. Sometimes so many shows end up just making me bored though and it backfires a bit to start a season. I haven't really watched anime much for about a year, but this what I generally do. I also don't even bother with like 80% of isekai shows now, as most of those of them are just fluff, and I prefer my fluff in other things like bundled games and such.
 
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TheKbob said:
There's definitely shows, series, movies, etc. that benefit from a rewatch.
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Absolutely, sometime you don't catch everything in a single watch, but for me I would rather spend a few mins reading what I missed or not understand. Similar to those that beat a game with multiple endings once and go on youtube to watch the alt endings, rather than replaying the game.

To each their own, I also understand the need/want to revisit something you enjoy.
 
pjmomo said:
Absolutely, sometime you don't catch everything in a single watch, but for me I would rather spend a few mins reading what I missed or not understand. Similar to those that beat a game with multiple endings once and go on youtube to watch the alt endings, rather than replaying the game.

To each their own, I also understand the need/want to revisit something you enjoy.
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I suppose if it's like a simple title with multiple endings where there's like 3 options, I'd get that.

But games I've replayed multiple times include Divinity Original Sin 2 and Baldurs Gate 3. Not only are there different endings, I've seen new things every run.

I've got the 100% in BG3 and I learned of an area and encounter I've not seen!

Some games are meant to have multiple playthroughs. No shade on one and some, but things like CRPGs almost require it if you want to go from learning the game to mastering it or seeing different perspective.
 
Kids on the Slope - I finished it this morning with breakfast. That was just, fantastic. The time period of the late 60s. The music. The situations. The emotional impact. It skipped on a lot of the cliche's and I feel really satisfied by it.

I think at my age, I kind of want more new experiences than old, but I still enjoy rewatching specific moves and shows. And even stuff I thought was once and done, I've come back to because content tends to just show up. A good example of this was when I got my tablo dvr and I first looked at the RetroCrush channel and I saw Magic Knight Rayearth. I had only watched it once before on VHS thanks to my brother and so I dvr'd it and watched it again. It was what started me back down the path of watching anime again. Recently, I was looking at hulu for something to watch and stumbled on Boston Legal. I'm not watching it on the regular, but it was fun to check out as I hadn't watched it since it aired. It's kind of nice I've broken myself from the need to rewatch some things in order. I used to be pretty bad about that. That it was a commitment to start something and see it through. Now I can kind of sample certain thigns. I feel like some anime is going to be very sample friendly for me in the future while others I will want to rewatch. Kids on the Slope, I feel like I do want to experience it again. The low commitment of 12 episodes really helps. Meanwhile one of my favorite gaming experiences of all time, Xenoblade Chronicles 2... if I'm being honest, I don't see myself playing it again. Maybe loading up my save and exploring and calling it a nice visit, but not sure I can start fresh.
 
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