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I always look at pics like these and can't help but speculate that the artist had such a tough time with the Elden Soulsborne boss that they release their frustrations through pieces like this.

because there ain't no way that this generic ass elf mage who's from a generic Magic the Gathering/D&D/Isekai setting is defeating the literal god of the Elden Ring verse that easily.

there's literally a demigod who conquered the stars themselves just so he could keep all the horrors of the void at bay, and he is far beneath the Elden Beast.

before you go off, try to separate fixed gameplay mechanics from real combat, if there were a tv series of Elden Ring rest assured battles wouldn't just be contained in a small area blocked off by fog where a tarnished performs 50 roles per minute and his foe can be stun-locked to death.

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    winkywonker said:

    I always look at pics like these and can't help but speculate that the artist had such a tough time with the Elden Soulsborne boss that they release their frustrations through pieces like this.

    because there ain't no way that this generic ass elf mage who's from a generic Magic the Gathering/D&D/Isekai setting is defeating the literal god of the Elden Ring verse that easily.

    there's literally a demigod who conquered the stars themselves just so he could keep all the horrors of the void at bay, and he is far beneath the Elden Beast.

    before you go off, try to separate fixed gameplay mechanics from real combat, if there were a tv series of Elden Ring rest assured battles wouldn't just be contained in a small area blocked off by fog where a tarnished performs 50 roles per minute and his foe can be stun-locked to death.

    this guy just take crossover art way too seriously go learn to control your emo this is not even VS website

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    How to say you didn't watch Frieren without saying you didn't watch Frieren:

    winkywonker said:

    there ain't no way that this generic ass elf mage who's from a generic Magic the Gathering/D&D/Isekai setting is defeating the literal god of the Elden Ring verse that easily.

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    winkywonker said:

    because there ain't no way that this generic ass elf mage who's from a generic Magic the Gathering/D&D/Isekai setting is defeating the literal god of the Elden Ring verse that easily.

    If one of the strongest mages in that setting you clearly didn't watch can't do it, then who are you suggesting can? Keep in mind that the tarnished are themselves entirely mortal humans and devoid of any godly powers like Radahn, with their only real advantage being the ability to revive after dying, something only granted to them if they have the Guidance of Grace. "But the Elden Beast is an omniscient god!" Yeah and it was killed by a very stubborn human with infinite retries that could have had as little as a loincloth and a club.

    Ignoring game mechanics doesn't really change that the Protagonist has no known achievements prior to heeding the call of Grace and by all accounts is a complete nobody, but can still defeat the Elden Beast solo. But a powerful mage with 1000 years of experience can't do it?

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    bunkhead said:

    How to say you didn't watch Frieren without saying you didn't watch Frieren:

    it's about an emotionless depressed Mary Su of an elf mage with no familial lineage who finds her purpose in knowing, learning about & raising future generations of heroes to be more than just the best in their field by not just teaching them to raise their power level but also to teach them to be better people through lessons from her personal experiences from her prolonged life as an elf, at least that's what I gathered from watching the first ep.

    it's a bit depressing and not my cup of tea, it has stunning animation & story-wise it has a half-decent plot, but, like most anime serials, the show is very much generic as a whole.

    it's just another series where the hype mainly comes from its animation more than anything else like most anime these days.

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    But a powerful mage with 1000 years of experience can't do it?

    yes.

    revival is a hax power that even the all-powerful Frieren would lose against eventually, especially if the person who can revive can grind against endless hordes of enemies of all types until they are powerful enough to solo her, the same can be said for the Elden Beast or any boss in a elden soulsborne game.

    you forget to recognize that these gods, demigods, ethereal, magical, eldrich beasts that we face are by all means impossible for the naked man with a stick to beat without endless revival and constant grinding, two things that Frieren does not have, she ONLY has 1000 years of experience, and the last time I checked the shattering happened 5000 years before the events within the game take place, so I'll play nice & disregard the life they all had before the shattering and say 1000 years of exp in relative peace with some bouts in between vs 5000 years of constant warring and survival in a post-apocalyptic setting, you choose.

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    winkywonker said:

    it's about an emotionless depressed Mary Su

    Frieren isn't a Mary Sue. Mary Sues are perfect and flawless, but Frieren isn't - she's not a morning person, she has trouble understanding and empathizing with people, her sense of time is whack, she always falls for the mimic chest trap even when it's clear it's a mimic chest. She has at least twice as many flaws as she has strengths.
    Her favorite spell is a spell to create a flower field. She has a box full of useless knick-knacks (like a potion that only dissolves clothes). Her hobby is collecting weird super-niche spells - like a spell to make grapes sour or a spell to clean clothes.
    In short, she's a goofy goober.

    raise their power level

    You've been watching too many gamified isekais, there are no hard-coded power levels in Frieren. No HP bar, no stats, no skills, no nothing - this is the good old Tolkien shit!

    but also to teach them to be better people through lessons from her personal experiences from her prolonged life

    Other way around, Frieren learns to be more human-like, even if still stoic, from her friends.

    1000 years of exp in relative peace

    WRONG! "Relative peace" as you call it has only existed since the first scene of the first episode. Before that the world has been under constant threat by demons, who live by the creed of might makes right.
    Frieren has been training and preparing to fight and killing demons for almost all her life.

    like most anime serials, the show is very much generic as a whole.

    it's just another series where the hype mainly comes from its animation more than anything else like most anime these days.

    And this right here is why we have the three episode rule. You are just so utterly wrong.
    Like, how do you know that it's the same as all the rest when you haven't even watched it? Even from the first episode it's clear that it's different - the color palette and character designs are restrained, the usual "quest" to defeat the demon lord that is the whole point of the story is already over, there is no sense of urgency or even a hint of danger. Even despite the battles Frieren feels kind of like a iyashikei slice-of-life story.

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    Admiral_Shippai said:

    Pls dont guilt me just because she looks like a reused asset with a BB rigging edit. The character in itself isnt bad tho and many people who didnt like Anson pointed that out.

    Yes, the community agreed that the issue was not the art itself, but that she was given the KGV-class. We all hope she comes back as a submarine (HMS Sunfish or the battleship Centurion, which was disguised as Anson at one point.

    She was a cute design used by mistake for Anson

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    tremolo_measure said:

    I am not sure if the Tengu is Aya or Hatate.
    She has short hair like Aya, but she has a tie and holds a hair like Hatate, however, does not have pigtails.
    it may be an alternative hairstyle, but I'm not sure.

    I'm fairly sure this piece is supposed to be a bunch of male or at least more masculine depictions of various touhou characters, considering the shorter hairstyles (mostly) across the board and the way the faces are drawn, and a quick machine translation of the commentary seems to agree with me, for what that's worth. With that as well as the phone that they're holding in mind, I'm pretty confident it's Hatate.

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    RosettaSuper said:

    This is just mean man

    Considering how she tends to act to Rhodes employees, basically being an asshole knowing they can't really do anything since Kalt'sit's said they can't, this is basically just karma.

    Especially since, in this very comic, she starting off insulting Rhodes by saying it was too cheap to have Christmas parties.

    Maybe if she were a little nicer they'd invite her.

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    ...goku suzume has a real talent for making normal, innocuous panels look sort of ominous... just looking at this on the first pass not reading any of the words, i was like "is izuru... being brainwashed into total dependence on hajime? this is such an insane ass twist...!" and then i read it and i was like "oh... hajime is literally just saying, 'ah, someday you'll outgrow running to your older brother for help, so im glad i get to help you now :)'" like... THE TONE OF THIS PAGE.. THE LAST PANEL LOOKS SO MENACINGGGG

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    Shebadotfr said:

    ......I quit after this, I started Azur Lane around that time. Last I heard, the summer 2023 started in august 8th 2023 and ended in october 11th 2023 No, thanks, I'd rather bash my head against the Abyss floor 12 in Genshin, the MoC in Star Rail or try to kill the Train in Nikke.

    I always tell newbies they shouldnt force their way with hard difficulty since the main appeal of KC is collecting the shipgirls, specially if the equipment you get in the event appear again through quests like the two shinden kais we got last year.

    Most newcomers i heard actually like the fact events last minimum one month because they can plan their schedule according to the game, they have shown their dislike for how live service and gacha games are handle today, always spamming event after event without not rest or even leave enough time to digest the new content which sometimes is very poorly made, not wonder Genshin, HSR and Blue Archive are on the top since they focus more in quality over quantity.

    Also following what blindVigil said, the new blood pumped out thanks to the EN patch is giving the community kinda of a new take on KC as these people dont have any of the past memories from when KC was more "hardcore", "brutal" and "sanity" consuming.

    At this point the amount of new admirals is way bigger than the vets and the past is being rewriten by their current experiences. Is it fair to say that KC post covid have become not only more or less a different game but also the fanbase on EN have changed. Now is time for some people to move on for real and never look back if they really wish so.

    As a side note and as a funfact, people said during March the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park have gotten quite the number of visits than usual. Also maybe certain "Jojokaze" fan living in the state of Luisiana also maybe helped spread the interest to visit the Memorial Park.

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    SotW said:

    You know some of these days it would be nice if we were formally informed that we are dead. The EN kc kancolle community has supposedly died or fallen out of god's light like what, 6-7 times already?

    Parks had pretty much resuscitated Kancolle EN Fandom back to existence, there is also rumors that he is keeping in touch with zeco in a way to really bring Kancolle to the West. There are also those people that really stayed because of their passion of WW2 Naval History.

    KC's design philosophy is always focused on telling a story as shown with Drum's and Inagi's design while AL really wants to maximize to a larger and more profitable audience, explained why Anson looks like someone came from BA. I already lost interest from AL ever since they started making girls with gundams, it was clear I'm not the target audience anymore.

    KC did many fuckups during its height of its popularity not to mentions being only exclusive to Japan would really fan the anti-foreign, imperialist, warcrime-denyilist allegations, but having fall from grace they really pick themselves up and tried to make something that will really appeal to their real audiences. AL should have learned from KC's mistakes, but as I see now, it's a bit too late.

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    Admiral_Shippai said:

    I always tell newbies they shouldnt force their way with hard difficulty since the main appeal of KC is collecting the shipgirls, specially if the equipment you get in the event appear again through quests like the two shinden kais we got last year.

    Most newcomers i heard actually like the fact events last minimum one month because they can plan their schedule according to the game, they have shown their dislike for how live service and gacha games are handle today, always spamming event after event without not rest or even leave enough time to digest the new content which sometimes is very poorly made, not wonder Genshin, HSR and Blue Archive are on the top since they focus more in quality over quantity.

    Also following what blindVigil said, the new blood pumped out thanks to the EN patch is giving the community kinda of a new take on KC as these people dont have any of the past memories from when KC was more "hardcore", "brutal" and "sanity" consuming.

    At this point the amount of new admirals is way bigger than the vets and the past is being rewriten by their current experiences. Is it fair to say that KC post covid have become not only more or less a different game but also the fanbase on EN have changed. Now is time for some people to move on for real and never look back if they really wish so.

    As a side note and as a funfact, people said during March the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park have gotten quite the number of visits than usual. Also maybe certain "Jojokaze" fan living in the state of Luisiana also maybe helped spread the interest to visit the Memorial Park.

    With all due respect, I disagree with some of your views.
    First, how many people really like longer events (even last minimum a month)? At least from my perspective, the people around me and some of the online public opinion that I have observed prefer shorter events. It is true that the activity of AL is shorter, but there is no need to expand it to that long time in one go.
    Second, Genshin, HSR are fine, but I totally disagree with Blue Archive's so-called "top" - I've played it before and learned about it. To me, it is musically inferior to AL (even less than 《Kaiserhymnen》's elegant and《Le Chant du Départ》's rouse), only moderately artistically (although AL has indeed declined in quality recently, but it is still basically better), not even as good as a purely literary work in terms of plot and allegory, and even less to reach the peak of the glorious stories of historical illustrious figures. My attitude is more intense, but that's how I see it. Blue Archive is nothing more than a small bird that has been decorated with silver-gray paint as an "eagle".

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    SotW said:

    You know some of these days it would be nice if we were formally informed that we are dead. The EN kc kancolle community has supposedly died or fallen out of god's light like what, 6-7 times already?

    Wait, we aren't at double digits yet?

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    Kaktus_Lata said:

    It's especially disappointing since pretty much every American ship after Intrepid got a pretty good reception. Even Helena didn't get as big of a backlash.

    There...was actually a localized hate toward the artist (acea4) over Helena's art quality (and likely, her artist's nationality as well) to the point that the haters either did a redraw of her CG or commissioned(?) one that suited their standards and then used client-side asset modification to swap them.

    It took quite some time for the community to warm up to ZECO's style as well, which some considered "too Azur Lane-ish" which is a strange argument to make since the guy has been in ship personification business longer than either franchises and likely had influenced both of them in some ways.

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    Frawnkenstein said:

    There...was actually a localized hate toward the artist (acea4) over Helena's art quality (and likely, her artist's nationality as well) to the point that the haters either did a redraw of her CG or commissioned(?) one that suited their standards and then used client-side asset modification to swap them.

    It took quite some time for the community to warm up to ZECO's style as well, which some considered "too Azur Lane-ish" which is a strange argument to make since the guy has been in ship personification business longer than either franchises and likely had influenced both of them in some ways.

    With respect Acea, the controversy wasnt due to Helena, there were people who didnt like the artstyle and render used on her design but they admit it it was a proper design at the end(fanarts show it), most of the hate came from Acea being a very active political person on twitter, his stand on Taiwan's autonomy got him into trouble with the CN community and basically tried to harrass him, it got bad enough that even they started to replace Acea's artwork in the KC viewer they use "Ooi"

    Zeco's controversy is bizarre because AL in its early days have a lot of overlap with KC design philosophy, you can see the influence in artists like Saru when it comes to the characters and also could see Shibafu's influence in most rigging designs as well. So i can see how some people who havent been in touch with AL lately would see Zeco's designs and say it reminds them to AL(2017), just like there are people who still see KC like the game it was on 2013 and arent even aware that Nevada is in the game, i think the same happened when people saw Zeco's while being unaware of AL current design trends which indeed have nothing in common with KC today.

    There are also people saying that Scamp looks like an AL shipgirl because of her face expression and the accents of sky blue in her uniform being too saturated which is weird because KC isnt an stranger when using saturation, is just that unlike the several gacha games' artists who abuse it(because of the 5sec attention rule in marketing that influenced and turned gacha character design into what is today) KC artists understand an important concept called "point of interest"

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