Thread 279421888

I don't know if I'm forgetting details about the show or I'm just retarded, but I didn't understand that ending at all. Is Shou TM Revolution's time travelling son? I understand concluding he's a time traveler from the headpiece, but why specifically his son? How do you reach that conclusion, let alone that you should send him away right now?

Also, was the guy who took away the Emperor/Locust built up at all previously, or just a deux ex machina? Is he from Pili? I think I recognize the bug-eyed guy in his last scene in the other world.

>>279421888 (OP)
Shou is the child of the bards, yes. As for the rest....consider that they're friends with Ken, and Ken understood what was going on IMMEDIATELY when Shou asked his favor of him. He could presumably fill them in after that.

And the guy who took away Locus was Su Huan-Jen, who is one of the big Pili characters. He recently had an origin movie a few years ago that's on Nyaa, it's called Demigod.

>>279421953
>Su Huan-Jen
Yeah, I did watch War of Dragons so I remember the name, just didn't recognize him by looks.

Forgot to ask, what about that plot point from S4 about Azibelpher helping himself from the future so everything always went his way? I thought it was really interesting when brought up, did that really go nowhere or am I forgetting?

>>279422154
Oh yeah, they gave him a unique design and puppet specifically for TBF and TBF only for some reason.

>>279422154
The plot was clearly truncated, but I think the point is that basically, Rou needed to understand that suffering and pain of both himself and others is a natural part of life, and that he can't constantly run away and deny it while blaming himself, and essentially "cage" himself in novel ways, hoping that This Time It Will Work. By acknowledging that he has been hurt by others and by circumstance, he can accept it and move on with his life as a whole person. In other words, the phoenix needs to acknowledge its own death in order to be reborn.

Azibelpher took the opposite tack. He actually undid all the hardships of his life to the point where he completely and utterly destroyed himself.

>>279421888 (OP)
>Also, was the guy who took away the Emperor/Locust built up at all previously, or just a deux ex machina?
You remember when Shou and Bard were sent back in time in S3, and Shou met the guy who originated the swords? That was the same guy.

>>279422869
>you remember when Azibelpher literally made the plot happen because he's ludicrously irresponsible with his time travel
I think part of why I'm mostly fine with time travel in Thunderbolt Fantasy, despite usually disliking it, is that we've consistently seen the consequences of the time travel before being aware of the time travel itself, so it ends up feeling more natural.

>>279422154
>Azibelpher helping himself from the future so everything always went his way
That's not quite how it was described as working. There isn't a future Azibelpher that was always going back to help present or past Azibelpher. Rather, Azibelpher realized that he had previously gone back in time and changed things about his life--but, every time he did that, he forgot everything that changed and only remembered the current timeline. As there was no reason for that version of him to have gone back in time, it ceased to exist, and so only present Azibelpher remained. In doing this, he had eventually removed all major obstacles and made his life boring. Accordingly, he was willing to accept whatever fate might lie in store for him, as it was apparently what he had iteratively decided was best.

>>279421888 (OP)
>Also, was the guy who took away the Emperor/Locust built up at all previously, or just a deux ex machina?
As other anons have mentioned, he's Su Huan Jen and he already showed up in S3 so it's not like he came out of the blue. He's also the same guy who left the Wise Lotus Blade (the legendary sword Tan Hi was looking for in S4) for Shou after he met Shou and realized the Shinkai Makai in the Index would result in bloodshed amongst humans, he started regretting his creation of the Shinkai Makai until Shou talks him out of his regret and tells him that they also created salvation so he likely prepared the Wise Lotus Blade as a precaution if the Shinkai Makai ever get misused.

he had it coming

>>279424594
He did, especially for tricking Gunha

Did we ever get the reason why Scorpion joined the Divine Swarm?
>for Mantis it was martial arts
>for Gunha it was patriotism
>for Wasp it was being shunned for her strength as a woman
>for Spider it was because he was impressed by Locust seeing through his stealthiness and entrusting him with the secret of Locust's dual identity

>>279424594
I love this image so much. Locust spilling tears over some pity manju is such a great ending for him.

OH MY GOD, I CAN'T HOLD IT MUCH LONGER.
I'M GONNA GOOM GUYS, I CAN'T HELP IT BUT KGUY IS SO SEXY.
I CAN'T CONROL MYSELF BUT I NEED TO GOOM INSIDE KGUY'S SWEET DEMON PUSSY RIGHT NOW.
OH GOD I'M GONNA GOOM NOW. HOLY FUCK, I LOVE YOU KGUY. I LOVE YOU

>>279421888 (OP)
Yup. They sent him away as baby so that he could get stronger under the demon guitar so that'd he'd someday be able to send away problems too big for his parents to deal with and they needed to do it asap so he doesn't recognize them when he comes to save them in the past.

>THE FUCKING STICK never gained sentience like Ryoga
I guess quarter-demons are basically indistinguishable from regular humans.

final chapter? wtf I better go watch this, next you'll tell me madoka movie finally came out

Duet... never...

God I wish there were more translated Pili shows. I don't know what I'll do without more TBF to look forward to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB06sV6l0jk

>>279424851
Probably power or something. Her whole arc revolves around it.

>>279424851
I don't remember which episode she mentions it, but she is doing it to overthrow the government. She likes using poison because it's a tool that the weak can use to overthrow the strong

Sexy sword made to be snuffed.
Think about it.
Imagine a pristine, holy sword, given the greatest mission of the Weapons of Divine Teaching/Shinkai Makai/Shén Huì Mó Xiè - to actually actively hold back a slumbering Demon God. All the other blades, rusting away in shrines, could not hope to claim such glory, such honour.
But then, she's stolen away. Not by any ordinary thief, who wishes for gain, whether in power or gold. Instead, the Bones of Creation, in his hubris, believes only the finest blade may accompany his swordsmanship. He slaughters one of her guardians and sends the other on the run.
No, she begs, this is not what I was meant for. Return me to my rightful place.
And when the truth of her purpose is revealed, what happens? The man who took her laughs, a scumbag of a false hero ends up being the most heroic one there, imploring for her to be returned back to her rightful place. Only for 10guy and Kguy to make a deal, the former's ego putting mankind in peril.
In the end, it all ends in naught, as Rin Setsu A defeats 10guy, stealing his ethos as a swordsman.
And then 10Guy twists her beautiful form to pieces, metal screaming and distorting, and dies from the shrapnel. All just salve his ego after being humiliated by a duck.
Could you imagine the pain, the existential fear and desecration? Something, holy and pure, meant to stand above the petty squabbles of men, being dragged down and destroyed, out of a petty desire for revenge? Imagine...

>>279426095
I think it was more that Rou was just that warped of a person. Ryouga comes to being when he feels unable to voice his feelings on the abuse his mother heaps upon him, and as he starts to hate more and more of himself, Ryouga starts talking constantly, until Rou hates so much of himself, he turns into a whole ass person.

Best villainous breakdown in years.

>>279432816
>schizo'd a tulpa into reality

>>279426095
Rou had a lot more attachment to the instrument than Shou did to his stick which he would have regarded as a disposable tool

>>279432634
fucking a sword corpse
fucking a sword corpse
the lower half is all i need
the lower half is all i need

>>279424594
The ending Locust got is perfect, there is no more fitting end for a megalomaniac who wished for ever greater power and control despite having everything than being reduced to a hobo in a foreign land who gets pitied by commoners.

>>279424783
For me its the way he wrote off his minions. After seeing Wasp and Spider risk their lives for him and wishing to leave on good terms only to find out he didn't even care if they died sealed it for me.

>>279434638
He didnt really treat Scorpion, Mantis, or Gunha any better, Mantis was even mocked by Locust as a boring brute.

>>279424594
>>279432954
>>279434017
Do you feel it's really a bad ending for him? I've seen a few kung fu movies and it just seems like the start of his Benevolence Arc.

>>279435004
>benevolence

>>279435559
That baby almost lost him his best warrior

>>279435559
>throw your baby son on the ground
>he grows up to be a fat corrupt retard who destroys your legacy

>>279436556
Destroy your legacy by fucking up your succession, you say?

>>279435559
>>279436556
Kek it makes sense how the fans overlap. Im on the S1E10 of the Three Kingdoms, kino
Btw did Sho ever knew about the real power of Duck? Is not really a good scene that explains it. I think he suspected it, but at the end the attributed all of his wins to wits and cheating.
>>279430750
I tried but go filtered, didn't know who was talking because it was just one guy,

>>279432634
wait does TBF have a gacha? any interesting characters? i think the appeal is lost when there are no more puppets and there is no good dialog, and because I hat gachas

>>279437062
>Btw did Sho ever knew about the real power of Duck? Is not really a good scene that explains it. I think he suspected it, but at the end the attributed all of his wins to wits and cheating.
Yes, Shou explicitly calls out Duck for backing 10guy into a corner and getting the Sword of Divine Retribution destroyed, the only way Duck could manage that is to outmatch 10guy in battle. Shou also enlisted Duck's help against Monk + 7BD and he saw Duck fight powered up Kguy, and he mentions in the movie that he can't abide to let the Demon King run free since the Demon King was a threat that could even defeat Duck, so Shou definitely knows and thinks highly of Duck's prowess.

>>279437901
Who is actually stronger between the two?

>>279438732
We will never know. A short fight atop a sinking demon castle would have been cinematic, but Shou's too smart for that.

>>279438732
It's left ambiguous, but Duck has never really struggled in any fights we see him in, I think the Demon King was the only one that ever landed a hit on him (with a punch to the face). Shou has struggled in a number of fights, usually involving his opponents using magic of some kind, so Duck's probably the better warrior. Duck's also intended to be a cheat character of sorts, he's essentially mastered all fields from swordsmanship to thievery to magecraft.

>>279434922
This too. All his bugs were loyal to him to the end. Even when they wished to cut ties, they were still wanted to do so in a way that benefited him. Meikou had 5 loyal minions and he cast they away and spat on their graves.

>>279438732
realistically duck. even if shou is the better fighter (which is questionable), duck is capable of magic and tricks outside of combat that shou will have a hard time dealing with.

>>279438732
>>279439153
Didn't Shou consider Screaming Phoenix a fight better avoided whereas Duck dabbed on Mr. Bones who beat SPK?
>inb4 pacifism
Shou has no issue slaughtering the mooks who get in their way.

>>279441087
He literally tells SPK that he doesn't want to resort to violence as his first option which is why he has the night talk with SPK, to which SPK tells him such a roundabout way dulls his blade and is pointless, when he comes to conclusion that bloodshed can't be avoided he prepares to cut SPK down before Duck intervenes. There's also Shou wanting to remain unknown, if he is known as the guy who bested SPK in combat his reputation would be widely known, which is the opposite of what he desired since he wanted to avoid the Divine Swarm (Duck fucked this up anyway by attributing the fall of the Black Demon Sect to Shou). Shou held his own against Locust in the movie, SPK isn't even in the same league as Shou.
>mooks
Basically bloodshed can't be avoided, especially in the case of 10guy's mooks who are fanatics willing to give their lives for 10guy's cause.

>>279439873
He didn't even bat an eye when his own daughter was presumably dead as Shou and Bard exited the demonic castle.

>>279438732
Your favorite

can somebody post the half-god, half-saint, and half-immortal clip? thats the dude who took locust to the piliverse

>>279444252
Seconding this request. I forgot to save it last time I saw it

>>279444252
>>279444545

>>279444252
>>279444545
>>279444678
He may have meant this one from the main series. It's interesting how it's the same exact poem but the translations differ so much

how did ryoga feed an infant

Is the Demigod movie good?

>>279445886
With his massive fucking milkers

>>279444678
>>279444894
thanks anons! I wanted to know if the poem was the same or not. Seems somewhat similar.-

So... are we getting/ did we get a soundtrack for the movie? for some reason they added what felt like a dozen amazing tracks just for it.

Well, shit. My favourite thing in the world has just ended. It would have been cool to see Kassei Meiko fight again (puppet meiko, not final fantasy boss meiko), now we're never gonna see it, ah well

Guess I gotta learn taiwanese now cuz from the looks of it 1% of pili is translated :)

>>279446440
Really? I felt like all the tracks are from S1-S4 OSTs, I recognized they even used Tan Hi's theme.

Whatever happened to the guy fansubbing that non-Pili taiwanese puppet show? All I remember is they were fighting Japanese ninjas, the MC had some stupid bird nest hairdo and there was a super annoying guy called King of Feet who kept doing pop culture references.

I can't believe it's really Shouver

>>279446440
the only "new" track is su huang jen's song, which is just taken from pili's other series. and the credits song i suppose. some scenes might be using parts of osts that seldom get used but all of them were from previous seasons

>>279424966
Kguy deserved better than to run head first into her death in S4

>>279447953
shes kankou food now

>>279445949
It's a pretty good self-contained story that basically takes place before the rest of the Pili storyline. So it's accessible, easy to digest, and fairly good.

>>279447400
I looked into the Jingguang stuff a while back. They look abandoned as of a couple years ago, sadly. I think I remember seeing a txt file in the mediafire link that mentioned college.

>>279451505
Do the Qilin or Su's drunken master teacher ever show up again in the other Pili shows?

>>279451527
>>279447400
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTCoDpzl12c

That's too bad, I would really like to know the context behind Jingguang stuff like this

>>279437100
>wait does TBF have a gacha?
It did, but it EOSed a while back.
>any interesting characters?
It had all the ones from Season 1 and a bunch of anthropomorphised swords.

i wish i can dance like this

Truly, they were, a Thunderbolt Fantasy™

>>279452230
Shou became the Thunderbolt Fantasy™ back in S3

>>279453181
I'm kinda disappointed we never see Shou pull out a technique with the impressiveness of Duck's Lunar Crater Vapor or Tengai's Hellborn Rebellion.

>>279451617
They die over the course of the movie, so probably not, though I believe that Su's adoptive brother/fellow student show up.

>>279444894
Which one is the most correct/faithful poem translation, the Pili or the Thunderbolt one?

>>279455103
I'd put more stock into the Pili one, the recent subs for Crunchyroll for S4 and the movie are questionable especially since they translated the Wise Lotus Blade wrong in the movie.

bros, I gotta be real for a second...
I need more puppet kino in my life. Preferably with the same people I shared the tbf threads. This show, from season 2 onwards for me, was some of the most fun I had in threads, ever. SubtitleGODS coming together for season 4 was just the icing on the cake.
Any reccomendations that have a similar or better production value and story than tbf?
If I had to choose, I'd prefer the character writing quality to be on par. Me and my irl friends have NEVER so invested in fictional characters just talking. Shou and duck interactions might be my favorite ever. but everybody else was great too. Loved the constant clever banter.

>>279435004
>Do you feel it's really a bad ending for him? I've seen a few kung fu movies and it just seems like the start of his Benevolence Arc.
Yeah it must be awful. He has zero skills that would allow him to live as a peasant. His inflated ego wouldn't allow him to socialize with others so he'd be an outcast, and he probably has no abilities to earn food with. It's hard to imagine him turning a completely new leaf at that age.

>>279447431
Just the fact of Bard being Shou's father is enough to throw me through a loop. Their relationship was nothing like that.

Humiliation ritual

>tfw that final scene where the mook warrior went to the Swarm mook's son's grave to set his father's mask on the grave
Damn

>>279455660
If you have to be fair, unless Ryouga told him, Shou would never know, he was too young to remember.

>>279456287
Yeah it makes sense logically, but I just can't get over it. If anything, Shou was more like a father to Bard. Why the hell did Butcher write this in.

>>279456277
I actually had no idea what this scene was about, but you just reminded me, thanks.

>>279456264
I like the bit where it seems like his guard breaks but he just flips his sword into the air and guards with it again

>>279438732
My guess
>Shou
Stronger physically thanks to being a Monk, Duck has no showcase of knowing anything like that aside from being able to use Shinkai Makai with little preparation
Would probably beat Duck in most clashes if he used a real sword
Knows a fuckton of stuff that he's reluctant to pull out so he's most likely full of surprises
Seems to be really good at learning
>Duck
Likely has more skill, more potential to learn too
Swordsmanship is so good it inverts from generating heat to freezing shit
Tricky bastard, is not opposed to just involving things that have no business being in a fight like switcherooing himself with a random guard or casting illusions
If it came down to a pure sword clash I can imagine Shou winning if he was allowed to land a few connecting blows with an actual sword. Otherwise Duck will probably end up dancing around him by the end.

>>279451617
That's a big qilin

>>279432954
he got BTFO so badly

Shou > Duck

>>279424851
Does it matter?

holy shit.....

Need some sound webm so I can convince people to watch

>>279462084
He turned out to be pretty based after all.

>>279460456
BAN GUNHA
BAN GUNHA
BAN GUNHA

>>279421953
Are those other Pili shows worth it? I'm quite hooked on more puppet stuff.

>>279446087
Man his puppet is so goddamn handsome

S1 >>>>>>> S3 > S2 > Final Chapter > S4

>>279464493
Come to think of it, switch 3 and 2. I forgot all the funny moments with the swordphile monk in the latter.

>>279457241
Shou's is bigger but Duck has better technique.

>>279463942
Good luck finding them. There are some like cut-down seasons from the 00's on youtube with eng fansubs and recently someone ripped them and put them on Nyaa, but they're like from some SEA distributor who seemingly cuts out parts from episodes and packages them for distribution and from what I can tell SIGNFICANT talking parts have been removed.

The early 90's remakes, Pili Fantasy seems to have a season going right now? But nobody's ripping or translating these.

>>279464692
And how do you know this?

>>279465457
Oh for god's sake, sigh

>>279456338
>he forgot the mook bromance

Do we have any better subs than crunchy roll or am i going to have to relearn character's names after 4 seasons?

>>279467081
https://files.catbox.moe/kdgrmx.ass

>>279467265
Much appreciated, anon.

>>279421888 (OP)
Finished the movie. I still don't know what to feel about the twist. Also where did Duck fuck off to say the end?

>>279468430
Duck probably remained in the demon realm to fuck with demons as the demon king. He did talk about unleashing the demon gods so he could toy with them even better.

>>279468526
Yeah, probably he and Shou liberated the Demon kingdom from the tyranny of the demon gods, and then imposed Duck's tyranny.....which is actually how demon society SHOULD function.

They are a working society as long as a pecking order is established, so having a powerful, fearsome schemer at the top in a society of wicked strivers is probably the best thing for them.

If Duck knew about Locust's fate, it would have given him the biggest nut for his life next to fucking himself over.

>>279452192
I still wonder why she did this

>>279468989
She was just having a silly little time

>>279468526
>>279468796
he would totally figure out a way to duck both the demons who fear the demon gods and the demon gods themselves in one fell swoop

>>279432954
>season 7
WHAT?~! I just finished season 4, where the fuck... HOW?!

>>279469904

CR's silly naming scheme has the other two movies as their own separate seasons.

would the people really allow the minister of the former emperor to work for the new guy? even if they accept that he was not colluding with meikou, he was still complicit in denka's cruelty.

>>279470271
This isn't a democracy, are you really going to take up arms against your heavily armed liberators when you couldn't muster a resistance against anyone in the first place?

>>279468989
to be cute

>>279468834
He wasn't responsible for it so I don't think he would get that much satisfaction

>>279468834
He cant get off unless he had a hand in their ironic doe

>>279471801
Downfall*

>>279470473
Well, in exchange for the meal they put on for Anki he stated he'd reward them from the national treasury, so if the price was right then he effectively compensated them for their mercy. They probably didn't know the guy personally enough for their hatred of the previous rule to be enough for them to turn such away, especially considering they're residents of the same city the imperial palace lies, which is to say they valued the wealth they thought they could gain in the area over distaste for said government (else they would live away from it). Also worth noting that Seiyuu might not have been disolved by Anki even though their monarchy's gone, he probably made it into a suzerainity client state, in which case it could be interpreted as pseudo-exile, though obviously still not really classifying as a punishment.
TLDR; BENEVOLENCE

>>279471999
kyuchuilian deserved better. he wasn't even that bad of a dude.

>>279470271
>>279470473
That was a pretty retarded scene.
>You hate this guy for his work in the previous government? Don't worry, I'll get him what's pretty much his old job! Trust me, it'll be awful for him!
>Oh, okay...

>>279472087
I agree, he was just supporting his liege and rooting out renegades who wanted conflict amongst each other. Guy deserved a fight scene at least on the level of Kyarei or Fujirai instead of what we actually got with him jumping around and then getting killed in one zap.

>>279472196
He turns retardation into power. What a legend.

>>279454679
Oh, ok, I was wondering why they made so much Qilin merchandise if he was just a one off character.

>>279472281
The denka who WON

>>279472312
Denkafu also won in a psychotic womanly way. Staying as a mental scar in Red's mind is almost as good as ending up with him.

>>279472364
Thanks mentalscarfemalemindanon

>>279472364
>Rou plowing Tenmei
>Denka in the afterlife thinks she won
Never stick your dick in crazy

>>279472597
she hid one of her eggs on his dick or something trust me

>>279472804
>fukan's grandparents are albert loufa and calamity grasshopper

>>279472597
>"she has his dick but she will never have his heart!"

>>279472804
Damn heretical magic...

>>279424966
It's actually so fucking unfunny to me how badly she got shafted in S4.
Consistently one of the best written/funny characters in the show and Butcher just offs her halfheartedly.

He really should just fuck off and write BL.

>>279447431
>Shou's mom wanted his dick so bad she went blind

>>279472312
Such a shame that this nigga didn't get enough screen time, i really liked him
In a just world most of S4 would have been dedicated to political intrigues where Duck just fucks with with everyone on both sides and only the occasional fight.
S5 should have been solely demon real focused.
S6 should have been the movie but more fleshed out.

Sadly the world is fake and gay and we were robbed of funny Denka quotes.

>>279475357
when he was watching meikou absorb the swords he shouldve said something like "is that something can emperors do? where can i learn to do that?"

>>279474777
>Both Shou's mom and grandmother were blinded

That's... weirdly specific?

>>279475732
man I really wish this could be a fully voiced and puppeted "deleted" scene bonus now

>>279475776
It's funnier to think of it as every woman Rou cared for was blind

>>279475776
>Rou has an oedipus complex
At last i see butcher's vision.

>>279426095
Anon... Shou IS the stick.
It is nameless just like him.

>>279472231
Besides being a bit of a supremacist asshole, and maybe executing Anshart without understanding the full picture (he wasn't actually responsible for any of the killings), all his actions were perfectly reasonable.

>>279476504
Good on him for keeping one musically focused blinded-by-slashed-eyes loved one from accidentally running off a cliff.

50/50 ain’t bad

is the demon realm physically under the human realm or is a separate dimension with the chasm being a portal between the two. can a human dig deep enough and end up in the demon realm

>>279477930
>is a separate dimension with the chasm being a portal between the two
That one I'm pretty sure, because they end up in there via magic portals in season 3.

>>279478102
i mean you can still travel there via portals even if they are physically connected.

>>279477930
I think they can, but I don't think there's enough rope to make it to the ground without dying. Shou was flying for literally hours to get down.

>last movie uses the shitty Chinese names for everything
Boo!

>>279479382
all cr subs use these names.

>>279479382
>didn't you use /a/'s subs

How awkward would sex between Red bard and Blue bard like?

>>279480303
Once the clothes start coming off it's animal style until exhaustion. It's getting started that's the awkward part.

How come the Bards pumped out Shou while Tan Hi and Ken still stay childless? Was Ken shooting blanks?

>>279480702
He's not allowed till he masters the sword.

>>279481204
But the spear matters more in this matter and Ken is already good at handling his spear.

>>279432634
I need a gallery with all of the gacha's art

Duck should've been a woman so that Shou could fuck and impregnate her

>>279480702
only the strongest sperm can get past tanhi's goinshi womb barrier. ken still has a ways to go

>>279474661
It would've been hilarious if she survived and had to serve as Duck's right-hand demoness after he replaced the king. Such a waste.

>>279482349
>>279474661
Considering how Duck left the surface alone for three years time skip, Kguy was right on how Duck won't make HELL GREAT AGAIN.
Kguy going Sin Devil Trigger in my opinion was a great send off for her character though, since she spent three seasons scheming and ask for help from stronger fighters than her, but went out fighting against three heroes at once, two having weapons specially made to fuck up her kind and made Duck go serious mode.

Anyone made an updated powerlevel chart yet? including Kasei Meiko forma de gundam

>>279441087
shou wanted to hide his powerlevel

>>279468989
>>279452192
The STRONGEST!

i really like the way meikou moves his hands to cast magic. the smooth circular motions must be hard with the puppet

>>279437062
>Kek it makes sense how the fans overlap
Well, while RoTK is not strictly wuxia, it does nonetheless cover a lot of themes common in wuxia and chinese period drama
>RoTK is about trying to navigate and reign over chaotic times with the protagonists trying to combat corrupt forces oppressing the civilians
>wuxia is also often about the land between law and lawlessness because the rule of law is too inept or corrupted to administer justice
>both types of works tend to place emphasis on loyalty, sworn brotherhood etc
It's not strange for people for the fans to end up gravitating towards those pools of works.

Anyone wish Thunderbolt Fantasy had more puppet sex?

>>279455103
The two pili ones. Personally, I like this version >>279455355 the most. It captures the general essence better. This >>279444894 is much more literal. With the CR one, the
>at times
bugs me. It's not really 'at times'. He's all of those things at once.

>>279482408
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/279125684/#279174481

>>279482172
>tanhi's goinshi womb barrier.
Now I'm imaging Tan Hi with a (holy) womb tattoo

>>279476647
>maybe executing Anshart without understanding the full picture (he wasn't actually responsible for any of the killings)
Ansart wasn't really making a good case for himself with conspiring with the half demon that killed Kyrarei, and Ansart was still going against the Demon King's order by trying to get Wasp and Spider (and later Bard) to kill Azibelpher. Unfortunately for Ansart, he was basically Azibelpher's fall guy for Kyarei's death and also Uraina's and Hylarus's deaths also being blamed on him.

>>279481233
https://thunderboltfantasywiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_Fantasy_M
here you go

>>279481257
>fuck and impregnate her
First you have to put the bag over your head

>>279483671
We would have had puppet sex if Kguy's sidestory got a movie

>9 long years
Can't believe it's over.
Who was here from the start?
Report in.

>>279421888 (OP)
fuck, i forgot it came out for us plebs too
off to watch it right now

>>279485587
I only started watching with you guys by season 3.

>>279368351
>I might as well explain it now, but put simply, you are treated as a demon noble after you kill a hànjiǎo. Everyone weaker than a hànjiǎo is a commoner and whoever can kill one rises to the lowest level of nobility, that of a baron. It is not shown in the series, but from there on your rank is decided by your military achievements and proof of your power. That is why Làng Wū Yáo was not given a warm welcome in the demon realm, despite being a noble’s blood relative. But as soon as he demonstrated his power, Xíng Hài starts to abase herself. I think that is the kind of warped meritocracy the demon realm is.
Any ideas how Shou Kunrin managed to beat a Kankou? They don't seem like they'd be susceptible to charming.

>>279421888 (OP)
Watched the movie. I think it's good, but not great. Still feels rushed, but at least the ending is nice without any unresolved plot. Fukan using Gunha's move really stoked me. I was hoping for a last Duck and Fukan team up, but alas. And tossing the villain through a portal to another place is working like a charm as always.
>>279424966
Kek, I'm glad someone's still posting that webm I made back when.

Autosaged? Fucking niggerfaggots.

Wait, it's returned to normal? What the fuck?

so... what happened to duck? Whats your headcanon for what happened 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 month and 1 year and 10 years after the castle dropped?

I assume shou left immediatly after, probably beating up demons on his way out. Probably took him at least a few years to get out (not sure if we get a timeframe from the ferryman at the end) and duck probably left shou to fuck around in the demon realm for a while until he gets bored. I believe duck and shou met at least once more after the ending, just duck checking in on his most interesting "friend". Probably kept looking for villains in both countries, chasing the high that was his own alter ego and SPK.

>>279487633
Duck finally peace by tard wrangling the demons.
Shou travels to yet another new land: puppets in western style clothing.

>>279487691
>puppets in western style clothing.
Given the accent of the boat dude, wouldn't it be kansai puppets?

>>279421888 (OP)
I really liked the movie. I fucking loved the duck vs duck negro.
My only problem was the Azerbaijan fight but I think the writing was on the wall. Considering how he didn't like his own time-space sorcery we weren't going to see too cool of a fight, they tried to make up with the flying swords but it didn't hit me. Denka's powers on the other hand was really well handled imho. Adding how she could overcharge them stopped the power from feeling too disattached.
There is always the what could have been but it finished most, if not all, plot points competently so I can't really say I was disappointed.

aziphelphhehr jobbed
demon king jobbed
meiko jobbed

So is anybody going to get the BDs for S1, S2, S3, S4, the movies and subs with the Japanese names bunched up into one big torrent now?

>>279489315
>Evil lost
Who would have thought

Here's the thing I feel like I never understood. Why exactly did Locust allow his daughter to go about tormenting his kingdom with her own insanity and blood lust? Was it just to further empower his Locust persona and allow him to be both the Emperor and the Usurper since if things were just fine there would be no need for a usurper?

>>279489378
Duck won though

>>279489583
Yup. Shows how he wasn't evil.

>>279489315
But who jobbed the hardest?

>>279489660
azibelpher fighting abilities came off very lackluster, not being able to stop chou as he was straining against strings up until she reaches the cocoon before then deciding to toss lin is quite humiliating
demon king has the advantage of being mostly unknown so I can't say whether his inability to see through illusions is too questionable or his being about equal to duck in fighting, you'd think demon would be stronger but maybe he's been resting on his laurels, we don't know
meikou grabs swords and turns into an unga bunga retard except without the retard strength because he couldn't even pulverise shou with his sword mecha despite trading quite a few blows, didn't seem his style in the first place when he could grab the swords and fly off and make further plots but then we couldn't wrap everything up nice and quick
it's close between azi and meikou but meikou for sure

>>279486135
I really regret being late to the boat.

>>279482400
>Kguy going Sin Devil Trigger in my opinion was a great send off for her character though
I thought it was Lazy as fuck just throwing her at the MC and co in the last episode out of the blue.

Was it cool finally seeing her stand up for herself?
Yea, but it came with the caveat of it being on someone else behalf(the Demon King)
Plus her reasoning makes no sense, Duck even makes fun of her mid fight for being emotionally tilted, having a human moment, if you will, wish that had gotten explored more.

I also think it was wildly out of character for Duck to just kill her when she was in the state that she was.
Duck with preptime would have put her on the Throne just to fuck with her for all of eternity.

i miss kguy

>>279489378
yes, plot, but I still found myself hoping that the uro would butcher those expectations

Currently watching the series, on season 2, but the set I grabbed from nyaa uses different names from what I see in the thread. What's the approved subs?

>>279491502
>>279491555
Whacking it to best girl tonight to drown my sorrows.

>>279491644
we usually go with deepestblue or other /a/non subs.
The rest have their weird chinese-ified name.

>>279492039
The rest use all the character's weird chinese-ified names*

>>279491502
NTA but I disagree there.
>out of the blue.
The season, with all its cuts, put a significant amount of screentime on her re-exploring the changed demon realm and how she feels about those changes and the reasons behind them. When it was time to make a choose between the two ducks it was 50-50 for me as a viewer about who she would choose with how she changed in the journey.
>someone else behalf(the Demon King)
She did it for the demonkind's sake. She only agreed with the duck negro's vision of demonkind. In the end she conceded that demonkind as it is was incapable of conquering the surface and needed to change.

>>279491644
>Shami subs
>deepest blue for s3,
>7 Blashphemous subs for s4
>the .ass file posted here for the last volume

>>279492191
>The season, with all its cuts, put a significant amount of screentime on her re-exploring the changed demon realm and how she feels about those changes and the reasons behind them
Eh, definitely could have been have been laid out better imo but i get your point.
I just don't think what we got from the demon world building was satisfying, it was just "enough" imo for Kguy to have her pick a side.
>She did it for the demonkind's sake. She only agreed with the duck negro's vision of demonkind
Her pondering the nature of demons was cool and all but it was pretty clear to me as a viewer that her tsundereness for Duck took control of her brain in the last ep, which is admittedly funny and in-character for her, it just wasn't handled well imo.

Plus her being the creator of the scrying mirrors kinda lead to me believing that she had an actual chance for redemption(or becoming worse, Duck would have probably liked that better)
I just think she had a lotta wasted potential, but that could be said about most characters in S4 i guess.

>>279486647
Shou Kun Rin wasn't a noble I think, she was basically a high ranking court mage of sorts, but I could see her beating a kankou in a straight fight. Assuming the Gunha zombie was basically equivalent to an alive Gunha, which was able to kill kankous, Shou Kun Rin was beating Gunha in a duel without relying too much on her magic plus she can toss giant rocks with telekinesis magic.

>>279493646
Found the webm, she tosses a giant pillar at Shou.

>>279486647
She wasn't a noble, just someone with a high enough rank to have contact with them. Given her position as the number one sorceress taking down a Kankou isn't out of the question.

>>279477930
I think it's the latter, we know the Demon King can summon entities from another world (the demon gods) so it's not too far fetched he can open a portal to another world. Plus the Demon Spine Mountains (where the Void Junction is created) is noted to be a place that distorts space and time, and it's on the border of the Wasteland of Spirits (which was created by demonic miasma or magic to begin with).

>>279492665
NTA either but I disagree, I thought it was handled quite well.

>>279483994
Ansatt 100% had it coming for him. As Azi said he dug his own grave. Heck whatever he was doing with bard was execution worthy enough as it is. Kyuch did the right thing by killing him, just for the wrong reasons.

>>279487007
/a/'s catalog in general has been a bit slow on updating this recent week or so

>>279495155
I mean for a rushed season it was okay.
I'm still very disappointed that we didn't get more fleshed out worldbuilding with on both the human and demon side but i am aware that it wasn't possible to do that in just 12 EPs.

In my ideal world Kguy should have gotten a dedicated movie all to herself just like SPK for a real proper sendoff.

Again, i just think a lot of potential was wasted in S4 and not just for Kguy.

Also, she is sexo and therefore deserved to have half human babies as her final punishment.
Anything else is simply not ideal.

>>279495994
In hindsight Kguy's greater plot relevancy means her backstory would have probably been a better pick for a movie than SPK's. However, that movie was really good.

>>279489660
>>279490549
Demon Duck jobbed the hardest in my opinion, he's beaten by his younger and human counterpart plus he didn't get much of a good showing beforehand. Azibelpher at least was beating back both Ryouga and Chou Fuu, and Locust was basically untouchable in his new form with Shou's and co's attacks doing no damage to him whatsoever when he was obliterating both armies and injuring Shou.

>All of the best characters in the show died early
Why is he like this?

>>279499504
You shouldn't be that hard on a several hundered bucks worthy relic

>>279499567
huh?
Duck's alive and Kei gai died in the last few eps

Why is he called duck? I held off from watching for too long but "weed duck" always stuck with me.

>>279500487
the "ya" in his name "lin xue ya" was mistranslated to duck, when it shouldve been translated to crow.

>>279500487
old mistranslation stuck around as funny nickname

>>279500572
>lin xue ya

>>279500572
>>279501960
That's not as interesting as I would've imagined, but thanks. Now I can immerse myself into Thunderbolt Fantasy. Moving on to S3.

wait I just realized that Shou is a quarter demon. That's fucked up. It basically means the world was largely saved thanks to a bunch of half-breed bastards (except shou for that last part because he was presumably born after the bards married)

>>279467265
I'm using these subs but they're out of sync. They appear a bit too late. Is there another version of the movie they are adjusted to?

>>279502904
Shou never even knew he was a demon, or if Ryou or Tenmei were his parents. The guy just followed along where fate took him and where his old man Ryouga sent him basically.

>>279503023
You can adjust the time of the subs on your player?

>>279502904
Actually Rou is the only bastard among them and the only half breed too, Shou's a quarter if anything remains and Duck had fully human parents he knew about and presumably were married, he just had the soul of a demon. Rou also did the least in saving the world outside of making Shou, funny enough, even Bluebard brought him the sword that called the dues ex machina

>>279502597
Don't forget movie 2, it was created between S2 and S3 and goes over Bard's origins.

>>279502904
Demons are the cause of their own downfall. They lost the War of the Fading Dusk because the Demon King ordered them to retreat. Youjarei got sealed by a 1/4 demon. Demon Nobles basically killed each other. Demon King got taken out by himself.
SKR carried the demon side by corrupting Seiyu's rulers along with charming people, but all her efforts were basically undone by Azibelpher's grandkid.

>>279485587
I starting watching near the end of S2's airing, caught up by Christmas and the Christmas Fox tree

So what happened to the banjo who leaped through time after shou grew up? Did I forget something or was it never addressed? Is he still dicking around in the junction trying not to fuck up the timeline, did he die, or did he further establish the loop by possessing his original instrument body?

>>279504155
No idea, but judging on his comments on how he thought peaceful days in Touri were boring I assume he took a page out of Shou's book and became an adventure seeking wanderer in another world using one of the scrying mirrors.

>>279423322
The thing with time travel plots in a closed loop paradox, which this is, is when people morally grandstand. Because one of the only possible solutions to the paradox is that everything is predestined, which means characters can't actually do anything different from what we saw them do as a matter of physical law basically. Since characters don't particularly morally grandstand and the finale is not built on some "hero-san you must make a choice" the paradox works mostly fine and is more or less acceptable. Also similar to Terminator the paradox is kind of not the point so from that sense its also more forgivable.

>>279485587
I was. I was hooked from episode 1 when a dude decapitated himself to send his boss an email.

>>279490549
>azibelpher fighting abilities came off very lackluster
He said he wasn't that good. He had an easy life and no excuse to actually hone his abilities. His future selves toiled to essentially make him a pussy.

Did Hornet and Spider have anything in the ending? Really the only minor thing I don't think I noticed since almost everyone else got checked up on to show what they were doing. And I don't mean in the all cast ending credit thing, any suspiciously buff farmers in the background of some shot anywhere? Freaking nameless divine swarm goon got a complete story.

>>279505526
They just completely fucked off from the story in season 4.

>>279505586
I know they did, I just wanted a small nod to what they got up to in the epilogue bit. I was wondering if I missed anything even if it was small or if they really did just super fuck off.

>>279505659
Unfortunately there was nothing. They just super peaced out from the story.

>>279505659
No they didn't appear, too busy making babies and missed the call

>>279505738
Maybe Ken should've taken a page out of their book...

imagine kguy put a curse on ken's balls so all his offspring contains a piece of her soul haha. imagine tanhi giving birth to a kguy fetus haha. oh god i need to fap again

>>279464235
>>279446087
Just realized he's basically the singer for the main theme. Nepo shit, like Tom Hanks on the Space Jam movie
>>279456264
Damn was that any other choreography as good as that one? the closer ones i remember are Sho vs Bane, Duck vs Duck Negro, and Bane vs Sword Pussy

>>279491502
Kei Gai doing it on someone else's behalf is kind of the point, though. It's consistent with her character. She is, like Rou and Duck, an evolved demon with morality that has transcended demonkind. One might even argue that she's SPECIFICALLY the kind of demon that the Demon King wanted to foster.

She has always been someone who is only at her best when working for the sake of another.

I thought Kei Gai got a good sendoff, but it was a tragic one. She was a doomed heroine, the singular ONLY person who was in it for demonkind, and not for herself.

> BAN GUNHA gets charmed on the S3 opening
> Is one of the few ones that is straight up immune to the charm light due to the fire kamikaze sword
I got subverted, btw what's up with all the fake fights on the Openings? anime does the same shit, even fox had some earth power that was never addressed.

>>279507466
No idea, maybe it was an initial concept for Fox? Fox seemed like he could fight well despite being a bureaucrat. I think they did change a few things from before S2 and actual S2, so maybe the opening was created first before the actual season filming, I know that Scorpion's sword design and even a bit of her design was different from the initial preview teaser compared to the actual show

>>279508483
Scorpion's final design for comparison

>>279508932
we're in the sword ryona thread

>>279489350
We still don't have BD rips for Season 4, let alone the last movie.

>>279505867
Ken was busy trying to master meteor walking

>>279506692
I didn't know the writers of Batman Beyond watch puppet shows as well.

>>279509923
How dare you remind me of that stupid fucking plot

>>279489529
Locust very much feels like a ki cultivation, yin-yang harnessing, almost alchemist type of emperor, so he may have thought that letting his kingdom be devastated could be harnessed like a kind of putrefaction.

>>279495994
>I'm still very disappointed that we didn't get more fleshed out worldbuilding with on both the human and demon side but i am aware that it wasn't possible to do that in just 12 EPs.
Unfortunately losing S5 forced Urobuchi to cut the world building, it seems like from an interview that S4 was supposed to mainly be a world building season for the Demon Realm.
>Urobuchi: ...At the time I told him it would be possible if we planned up to Season 5, and conceived Seasons 3, 4 and 5 together. In Season 3 the Void Junction would be introduced, Season 4 would be about the Demon Realm, and Season 5…well, eventually it became a movie, but in it, all would come to an end, that was all decided back then.
https://thunderboltfantasytranslations.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/febri-magazine-thunderbolt-fantasy-season-4-urobuchi-gen-long-interview/

>Again, i just think a lot of potential was wasted in S4 and not just for Kguy.
Yeah we lost a whole Demon Bard and demon noble plotline due to S5 being cut.
>Urobuchi: I left the design of the demon nobles to Pili, but the diversity of the designs was really good. It’s a shame they could not play a bigger role. The decision to turn Season 5 into a movie was made after the designs were done, so I had to hastily cut their appearances short. With the premise of a whole season, I thought eight new characters would be enough for the story, but in hindsight I should not have introduced so many characters…is what I felt.
>Urobuchi: It’s a great design, so it’s really a shame how she exited the stage. Same for the demon nobles and Làng Wū Yáo’s demon form, I wanted to show them more often. So for them to only appear in the opening and one scene in the series, it really is a shame.

>>279495994
>In my ideal world Kguy should have gotten a dedicated movie all to herself just like SPK for a real proper sendoff.
I think Urobuchi said he in an old interview around S3's airing that he was interested in adapting her sidestory, but considering how S4 was cut short an episode and S5 cut entirely, it's not in the cards. According to Urobuchi, Kguy was never planned to be so involved with future plotlines, but it just happens that she was in a convenient position to jump start S3's Void Junction plot and join forces with the Divine Swarm, join Azibelpher to lead Bard into the Demon Realm, and then get involved with Duck's origins.
>Urobuchi: In Season 1 she was only meant to be the representative of the demons, but that also put her into a convenient position to fulfill a lot of roles during the later developments. She was like an assistant director during the story. As a reward for her taking on all kinds of dramaturgical functions, when there was nothing left for her to do, I sent her off honorably by making her into the final boss of Season 4. Instead of [quietly] leaving the stage, I asked her to create a sensation at the end of everything.

So any guide what i need to watch first if i want to delve into this thunderbolt fantasy world?

>>279511286
Release order

>>279511286
https://www.thunderboltfantasy.com/lineup/

in a way meikou and azi foiled each other's plans. meikou enabled chofu to break into the fortress and awaken bard. meanwhile azi sending shou back in time gave isekai man the idea to create the isekai sword as a failsafe against maniacs like meikou.

>>279511286
Release order as the other anons mentioned,
Season 1 > Movie 1 > Season 2 > Movie 2 > Season 3 > Season 4 > Movie 3/The Final Chapter
You can read the Kguy (the demoness necromancer) novel at any time if you want to learn about her backstory with Rin that get referenced a few times in S1 and S3, it released after S1 I think.

>>279511294
>>279511365
>>279511441
xie xie xiongdi men

>>279486647
Anon, at this point the Kankous reputation is in the gutter. Aside from the end war, I think the only character who faced one and didn't defeat one was the imperial commander who got whisked away by yours truly.

>>279495682
I see, I haven't been hanging around a lot lately.

>>279421888 (OP)
jesus spoilers newfag

>>279507466
>what's up with all the fake fights on the Openings? anime does the same shit
I vaguely recall it became a thing after a bunch of people complained about some anime I can't remember.

>>279502904
>there were a bunch of fans shipping Shou with his parents
Just realised, imagine getting rugpulled this hard lmao

>>279511165
>urobutcher considers the end of season 4 honorable and a reward for kguy

>>279499013
>Demon Duck jobbed the hardest in my opinion
well you're probably right he just wasn't shown off much before hand so I can tenuously accept him getting swept under the rug like this, though the more you think about it and with stuff like summoning demons gods >>279495048 he was done dirty
It's been a little while since I saw s4 but I recall azi acting like rou was below his feet in power back then, he does alright against the orbs but getting stringed took me out of it and then quickly jobs to power of love rou + lin (not that the attack they took him out with wasnt cool), with his showing here seems he could been taken out by rou in s4 with some luck, and rou + shou would be guaranteed victory
I saw some blood coming from shou's mouth and that was about it, if the strikes shou was parrying were a bit more cinematic and weighty, rather than camera + shou jumping around like crazy, and it seemed more of a desperate struggle rather than oh hey he's opening a portal and that dumb locust is none the wiser hoho, it might have been what I'd like for a final fight
>>279511071
and this explains everything, movie was like a pump and dump, quickly tying up everything and that's all folks, it wasn't bad but considering what could have been it's really quite a shame

>>279513671
>It's been a little while since I saw s4 but I recall azi acting like rou was below his feet in power back then
I think that was more Ansatt, Azibelpher only said that Rou wasn't worthy of his time until he killed a kankou, Ansatt claimed that Rou stood little chance against Azibelpher if he didn't hone his demonic magic and that Kyrarei was just a mere brute that shouldn't be compared to someone skilled in magic like Azibelpher. After everything that happened and Ansatt's fate, I think Ansatt's just a prideful magic user who looked down on warrior types like Kyarei.
>he does alright against the orbs
From how I saw it, Azibelpher wasn't even struggling against Chou Fuu and her magical constructs, he almost killed her until Ryouga intervened and even then it didn't really even the odds since it ended up with her getting mortally wounded.
>but getting stringed took me out of it and then quickly jobs to power of love rou + lin
Yeah Azibelpher getting stringed up was a bit off especially considering we're told he's a master of time and space (teleportation) magic, you'd think he could teleport himself out of bindings like that considering he can teleport to the surface. They could've had Chou Fuu maybe throw some kind of magic field on him before Ryouga strings him up.

>>279421888 (OP)
Personally, I thought Shou being the bards' son was dumb. Has he ever been hinted to have musical talent? He doesn't look like them, either. He might as well have been Ken and Tan Hi's son. That would have made more sense, even.
Azibelpher's time travel could have been explored more, but season 5 was cut, so I don't blame them for not doing that.
Locust's ending was supremely kino though, Byakuren ducked him harder than Duck himself could

I keep wondering, would Duck have been happier in Season 2 if his goal was to duck Scorpion?

>>279515110
Nope
bard having too much focus is a mistake

I can't believe Shou got to drink Tenmei's milk straight from her tits

>>279515456
For a short while sadly

>>279515456
>>279515498

>>279445886
>>279446087

>>279514862
seemed the type to throw gravity orbs and lightning around, which probably would've justified ansatt's hype, dunno if he did anything like that before think maybe the time vortex had lightning in it, didn't expect sword push magic but its a sword show, the combine and push big sword was cool enough
>not teleporting
is pretty dumb yeah
the deathblows dealt to him were good, though the fight leading up to it was too short, but this movie wraps up so much and it's not even a long movie so it feels unfair to lament its shortcomings, I'd like to visit the timeline where all these events were spread out over a cour or cour + movie, oh well

>>279509022
All the more reason to get them so a big series compilation can happen

>>279516757
Well, we'd probably also want to standardize the subs for seasons 1-4 and the movie, since I think S3 and S4 aren't technically in line with S1&2. Could be wrong, though.

>>279517961
I think they copied the typesetting from Shamisubs for /a/'s S4 subs so it's definitely doable.

>>279445886
what if kguy left behind a bunch of demonic breast milk in the void junction. that'd be convenient.

>>279520373
what if duck (ken) impregnated kguy during s3 and she started lactating and the breast milk left behind was fed to baby shou. kguy would have no idea the random man he met in s1 grew up drinking her future breastmilk

>>279489660
Maou was basically losing the entire movie. He has Azibelpher lying to his face, gets taunted by duck's illusions, then gets owned by duck. He spent most of his screen time losing his cool.

Pilli and GoodSmile hate money I just realize. They refuse to make and english or even spanish youtube official site that could bring the entire west money, they refuse to reprint their nendos and axe the 5th season of the only puppets show that become that famous.
Idk if they have the fear of changing the "tradition" too much or what.

>>279522425
God I fucking miss poems

>>279522567
yes it was fun wondering on s1 and s2 how the poem of a certain character would be, and it was usually better than expected. It was S3 and S4 that fumbled them.

>>279522567
Shou Kun Rin, Tenmei, Chou Fuu, and Locust all deserved poems

>>279522552
>No Kguy, Tan Hi, or Ken nendos despite being in basically every season since S1
>SPK Nendo years after he last showed up in TBF

>>279522552
>>279525318
They really should have done a rerun of duck nendos as the movie hit. Maybe add duck negro outfit as a special for preorders too.
It was too easy a money. How did they fuck it up?

>>279522567
We must cherish what we got.

>>279522552
I'd kill if it meant a final form Locust action figure.

>>279513437
Yeah... My demon waifu deserved better.

>>279515456
Technically he was in her for a while. We're all eskimo buddies with our dads when you think about it.

>no Duck vs Locust
>EVER

>>279528662
Duck would win because he's a cheat character that probably has some kind of anti-magic for Locust's invulnerability magic or just find the object that grants Locust the buff in the area.

>>279522567
They were super fun to typeset.

I'm gonna be honest with you, anons. I'm really disappointed with the movie. Everything felt really rushed and every plot thread was resolved way too easy.
Duck beat the Demon Lord way too easy. I was hoping that Duck would've finally met his intellectual and martial match, but Duck pretty much toyed with him until he was ready to kill him.
Rou Fou's father also went down way too easy. I just knew that when he "died" he was gonna cheat and use his time travel to change the outcome. But no, he really just died like a chump.
And Choumei? I feel like she broke Rou Fou out of the illusion way too easily. I was expecting her to have to travel through Rou's memories and his mindscape to understand him and help him move past his trauma. But literally all she did was run up to him and hug him while casting some vague magic. Super disappointing imo.
And Kasei Meiko? I was super disappointed with him. For how hyped up he was, he really just went down like a jobber. He absorbed the swords and he instantly forgot that he could use magic and telekinesis. Then Shou Fou Kan summoned a hero from another IP to beat the Meiko up and isekai him to another universe. Super lame. I was hoping that Shou would've teamed up with all of his allies, Duck included, to beat him after an epic duel.
Overall, I think the movie was a victim of the 5th season being cut. Maybe the plot threads could've been fleshed out better if Urobutchi had more time to explore the story he wanted to tell.

>>279530661
Well it was seven planned seasons condensed into four.

I thought the movie was really good. It did everything I wanted it to and felt like a nice sendoff.

>>279530868
>Seven seasons condensed into four
I will never not be mad at this

>>279530661
Im happy with it because despite everything it was still good and enjoyable, even just the duck vs duck Negro fight was kino. Like compare it to a regular budget cut from a series or anime and is almost a miracle that they managed to deliver that level of quality still

>>279530661
Everything past season 1 has always been more like a bonus round to me. Just extra bit of fanservice.

Season 4 and the movie are easily 9/10 for me

Are there any Spanish subtitles? or do i have to make ones myself? I want to watch S1 with my mom

How to deal with the emptiness, puppetbros?

>>279531511
Season 4 was by far the weakest, but duck getting cucked by the power of love is one of the best moments in the series. Right along with 10guy offing himself and fox not giving a shit about losing it all.

>>279498937
>>279498973
It still pleases me that in SPK's head Shou's sword is made of steel. Great little detail.

>>279531511
>Season 4
>9/10
Really? S4 was the weakest season.

>>279530661
I loved what Locust was fated to and the culmination of the oath kept between Shou and Byakuren but yeah the actual fight was disappointing, if they just took the swordgod design and kept it at puppet scale and had the puppet do more than swinging swordarms a bit without even moving from its standing position it would have been a lot better

>>279530491
Do we have a version of the movie's subs with properly typeset poems yet? The version I got from here has them all over the place.

>>279530661
>I just knew that when he "died" he was gonna cheat and use his time travel to change the outcome.
Then you weren't paying attention at all during Season 4, when he explicitly says that he won't do that exact thing.

>>279533009
It was still excellent in my opinion.

>>279533009
One of the seasons has to be the weakest one by definition. That season can still be high quality--that just means that the rest of the show is that much better.

>>279530868
>Well it was seven planned seasons condensed into four.
Now I'm really sad.

Just finished the movie cause I found out from this thread it came out already. Just wanted to mention that if Duck was the one to mind break Kasei Meiko, he would have been cumming for eons from how broken down he became.

>>279533009
The weakest season of Thunderbolt Fantasy still clears 90% of anime.

>>279535240
>clears
No cap ong fr fr!
The one silver lining of this series ending is now normalfags who don't even like anime can stop coming here.

>>279534994
If the Demon King wasn't a factor, I wonder how Duck would have gone after Kasei Meiko. Replacing all the swords in the index with forgeries?

Light Duck and Dark Duck confrontation was weak.

>>279535556
The actual attacks weren't as extreme as other fights in the series, but i felt the pre-fight trolling and the fighting in the dark and with the flames was really good.

>>279536337
the final fight on S1 set the bar too high imo. Duck wasnt really struggling but still looked like final fight of the entire series tier. In contrast to KGuy fight which Duck said he had to "get serious" but it didnt look like it.

>>279536479
Yeah, it's pretty hard to top explosions visible from orbit.

Also, they didn't really call out any moves in the movie, and the demon palace didn't have much dirt for the usual terrain explosions. Though I still think the flames and sparks looked really cool.

>>279533358
there are enough issues with s4 to make it not even close to 9/10

>>279536479
>the final fight on S1 set the bar too high imo.
I kinda agree, effect-wise at least. My theory on that is they seemed to have switch to more practical effects over CGI for future reasons (we even see this with the monsters, with S1's CGI monster versus guys in suits for the dragon, the mecha, and Locust's sword god form), I think a lot of 10guy's effects were CGI (like his attack to test Duck's strength shattering the ground around them or his ultimate technique that gets deflected into space) while the explosions that Azibelpher, Demon King, and Locust use were mainly practical effects.
https://youtu.be/uihu2ATLqOQ?si=7U8sbFvyLHPYSCYW
This video shows a lot of the explosive effects involved with the Azibelpher and Locust fight in the movie are practical effects generated with actual flames or hoses.
https://youtu.be/XHONeaGZrks?si=EqmJ5gkfOzz1NlOp
Same thing with S3's Locust fight, they use actual flames and water effects. The scene where Locust lifts all three of them into the air I think was done with water ports spurting out.
>Duck wasnt really struggling but still looked like final fight of the entire series tier. In contrast to KGuy fight which Duck said he had to "get serious" but it didnt look like it.
Aside from the effects of 10guy's attacks mainly being CGI vs future seasons being practical effects, story-wise Duck just matched 10guy blow for blow and even allowed 10guy to pull out his ultimate technique to show how outmatched 10guy was compared to him in swordsmanship. Against Kguy he basically went straight for the kill when he managed to corner her.

>>279530661
>Everything felt really rushed and every plot thread was resolved way too easy.
>Overall, I think the movie was a victim of the 5th season being cut.
Unfortunately S4 and the movie were rushed, Urobuchi was given 12 episodes + a 90 minute movie (basically around 4 episodes for a total of 16 episodes) vs 26 episodes that he planned for so we basically lost 10 full episodes that would've played things out more slowly and with more development.
>The original conception was to make up to Season 5, but we encountered numerous challenges while producing Season 3, so ultimately, we decided to condense the story into Season 4 and have a film serve as the final chapter. This was the hardest part since the content we originally planned had to be compressed, condensing the originally planned 26 episodes into 12 episodes plus a 90-minute film. This resulted in many characters’ screentime being reduced, without much room to appear—this is something I feel regretful about. But based on the results, the visuals of the film got a substantial upgrade, so you could say that’s one of the highlights of this film.
https://thunderboltfantasytranslations.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/gnn-special-interview-urobuchi-gen-and-nishikawa-takanori/
>Duck beat the Demon Lord way too easy. I was hoping that Duck would've finally met his intellectual and martial match, but Duck pretty much toyed with him until he was ready to kill him.
The Demon King got shafted the hardest, he only had like 3-4 episodes of screen time before losing to Duck, his younger and human counterpart. What made his showing worse was that he never got any other showing that displayed his prowess before facing Duck unlike the other final bosses such as 10guy (vs Tan Kou, SPK), Monk (vs Seal Guardians Bard, Dragon), Shou Kun Rin (vs Gunha), Azibelher (vs Chou Fuu), and Locust (vs Shou, Bard, and Tenmei).

>>279530661
>And Kasei Meiko? I was super disappointed with him. For how hyped up he was, he really just went down like a jobber. He absorbed the swords and he instantly forgot that he could use magic and telekinesis.
I'm kinda okay with how the Locust fight played out, yeah it could've used more flashy effects like 10guy's fight, but I don't think Locust really needed to use his magic or telekinesis at that point. Locust even muses to Shou that the Wise Lotus Blade was seemingly not too out of the ordinary for a Shinkai Makai that it wasn't even worthy of being incorporated into his new body which suggests he could've used telekinesis on it but didn't due to his hubris. Nothing Shou or anyone could throw on him did any damage, both armies were being torn apart by his attacks and in full rout, there was no need for him to use magic against what was essentially ants to him and he was probably just flexing his new powers.
>I was hoping that Shou would've teamed up with all of his allies
Yeah, this is one thing they could've added but I guess it was the 90 minute time compression. To display Locust's new godlike power they should've had both Bards perform a duet attack amped up by Tenkou Kishou plus Tan Hi + Ken and maybe the rest of the Seal Guardians doing some grand holy magic attack, only for it to either do little and only monetarily slow him down. They probably should've also thrown a demon god into the fight, having it pushed back by the Shinkai Makai but constantly regenerating or reforming, with Locust destroying its form easily when previously it took the combined efforts of multiple Seal Guardians with Shinkai Makai.

>>279530868
>>279531120
It was 5 seasons, and a number of sidestory movies Urobuchi floated the idea of making to explore backstories and the world.

.>>279535497
I assume it would've been to first dismantle Locust's status as "the scales" by exposing his dual identity to both Seiyuu and the Divine Swarm, so both sides would turn on Locust and maybe even informing the demons of Locust's planned treachery (since he had his own army reinforce Touri's and sent Chou Fuu to hijack the first demon god unleashed on the surface). After losing status and control, Locust would only have is his own personal strength through magic and aim to gain the Shinkai Makai to absorb to obtain the total power he sought, Duck could get him the Index with the actual Shinkai Makai but "poison" the swords somehow so when Locust absorbs them into his body he would essentially cripple himself and ruin his body, with Duck reversing the heretical magic Locust uses to absorb the swords in the first place to have Locust spew them all out (Duck shows that he can learn magic just by observing it once like with Kidatsu Tenkou's portal magic or the scrying mirrors).

>>279520373
>what if kguy left behind a bunch of demonic breast milk in the void junction
t. Ed Greenwood

I feel like Duck would be envious of how well Shou and Byakuren ended up Ducking Locust
>you completely shattered his inflated sense of self by returning the swords to their original world, rendering them and Kasei Meikou ordinary and powerless? god damn, I should have done that

>>279539584
He spent a whole season to undermine Locust only to get cucked by Shou.
This is the ultimate cuckoldry.

Just finished season 2. More interesting than season 1, but way less cool.

as of the end of the movie duck has:
>one of the last shinkai makai
>the night of mourning
>portal magic
>potentially the last demon seal
>control over the demon realm

>>279539911
He humiliated so many villains he ended up became one.

>>279539946
He was always a villain

Would you? She blinds you afterwards.

>>279540225
I don't have enough musical skill to train my kid into a super idol, so no.

>>279515110
BTW this is why music lessons are important. I guess Ryoga's curriculum for lil' Shou was mostly fighting.

need art of pregnant 10mei

>>279531511
Same

>>279540225
No, it's not worth giving up rewatching TF.

>>279539761
S1's reveals can't be topped

Realistically what’s to stop duck from stealing all of the demon swords once he gets bored in hell?

>>279549554
He doesn't know what they do so they probably don't interest him unlike the Night of Mourning, but other than that, nothing. If 10guy or Monk could barge into a Seal Guardian shrine and steal the sword(s), Duck could do it easily.

>>279549554
He wouldn't ever want to steal all of them--he'd want to specifically steal the sword being wielded by his prey. Taking them all away at once would mean there would be no challenge to get off on later, and sustainability is a serious concern when you're an immortal baitmaster.

>>279546811
>>279546836
>yfw Duck was sandbagging this whole fight

I love friendship so much bros. Couldn't even have imagined the guy who voiced fucking Dio could have that sweet of a tone while talking about friendship. This might even have overwritten his dio voice for me. The pili ost immediately cutting the fight music was funny too. I fucking love the scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgwyMo8MyH0
I am not sure if this was the version they played or if it was a slight remix.

>>279552612
based hope and friendship enjoyer

I think one thing the movie really dropped the ball on is the music. The used the main theme and darkest in way too many scenes. The part after meikou transforms is especially bad. The second half of the main theme kicked in way too early while he is still fucking shit up and it really ruins the mood of the scene. Same with duck revealing himself to negaduck to a lesser extent.

>>279552612
His poem basically just being a huge dump of chinese credentials is also funny. It was then doubled down with chin-hsie-chen (googly eyes) taking pity on kasei-hobou. Not only was it humorous but a befitting punishment targetting kasei meikous basis of self-worth.

More generally, I think urobuchi knew that the direction the series took as a result of an attempt to condense previous plans left it to be unsatisfying regardless so he made it slightly humorous at times to offset the fact he couldn't make it as climactic as he'd like. For instance I thought kichou just lounging on maous throne and shou just walking away from both of them fighting was also funny, then there was the SPK-kichou fujo bait at the end, when the gorilla mech came in to the fight vs the demons the way it crawled off screen made me laugh, though this one may not be intentional, and anki denka generally lightens things.

>>279558371
me on the left

>>279558371
>yfw you get ducked

Does anyone have a picture of duck wearing that silly jester hat?

>>279562054
Does this work?

>>279562136
Do you have another one? That's a bit out of focus

>>279562178
Thats all from me...

>>279562217
that'll do anon, thanks a lot

>>279421888 (OP)
Soooooo where is the chart from the correct watch order for the series!?

>>279562916
You dont need a chart, just watch production order

BLUE BARD'S TITS

>>279564673
you think bard is helping her wife with her excess breast milk?

>>279552612
Koyasu is a very versatile VA. Fans these days mainly think of Dio, but the guy has voiced a very huge range of characters, plenty that aren't over the top like Dio.

>>279564673>>279567053
Idk why blindfolded girls make me so horny.

>>279527378
Booo! Do a flip or something! Those tokufags can do it, why can't you?

>>279562916
>>279562954
There are so many, we need a chart

>>279557086
I noticed they reused Monk's and 10guy's themes for other things in S4. There's also Crescent Cutlass not having a clean duet version. Might be an issue in the music department or something, budget cut? Maybe copyright issue? Any words related to that from the recent interview?

>>279568652
they actually reused 10guy and scorpion's themes in s3. early s4 had some really strange music choices. there was one scene in ep2 that used the sad part of bard's theme when tanhi was talking with the advisor, which is one of the only times bard's theme was used that season. its not a rights issue as they use songs from all seasons still. i want to say its a lack of time so they slapped some random music on the scene.

>>279568764
>reused 10guy and scorpion's themes in s3
I forgot the music thing started from back then. I think it sounds sloppier too recently. I don't remember hearing any issue when Fuyou and or 10may fight using their instruments before S4. But 10may's sound attacks in S4 clashed with the music quite badly.

>>279569146
>10may's sound attacks in S4 clashed with the music quite badly
i don't understand why they chose to reuse the guzheng version of crescent cutlass for her attacks in s4 instead of generic instrument noises. it doesnt even make sense with what shes doing.

>>279451530
Don't know how I missed this when it was originally uploaded but thank you, I've been waiting all this time ;_;

WOAH-OH WO-O-OH WO-O-OH WO-OH

>>279421888 (OP)
Yes

>>279552612
Nice OST, but unfortunately is not the one that appeared in the movie. But it's too soon to be asking for it I'm afraid.

>>279571244
No!

>>279571535
Byakuren's theme in the movie isn't new, it's just Su Huan Jen's old theme.
https://youtu.be/8qZdf-deMGo?si=pTRQPseRmeD7AAEf

>>279568650
Somebody make the graphic or wait for me to do it later, I'm busy

Recommended Viewing Order:
Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 1 (2016) 13 episodes: shows the beginning of Sho Fukan's adventures in Tori and how he first met Rin Ssetsu.

[optional] Thunderbolt Fantasy novelization: Novelization of season 1, divided into 2 parts.

Thunderbolt Fantasy: the Sword of Life and Death (2017): the first movie, it has 2 parts, the first part is set before season 1 and focuses on Rin Ssetsu and Screaming Phoenix Killer, while the second part is set after season 1 and focuses on Sho Fukan.

[optional] Thunderbolt Fantasy Gaiden Novel: two prequel stories about Screaming Phoenix Killer (adapted into the first movie) and Kei Gai


Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 2 (2018) 13 episodes: The adventures in Tori continue, with Sho Fukan now pursued by enemies and allies from his native land of Seiyu.

Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West (2019): the second movie, shows the tragic origin story of the bard Ro Fuyo.

Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 3 (2021) 13 episodes : the demon witch Kei Gai, now conspiring with the Order of the Divine Swarm, returns with a deadly trap.

Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 4 (2024) 12 episodes : To rescue Ro Fuyo, the heroes must venture into the treacherous demon realm, where they discover the secrets of the demon king.

Thunderbolt Fantasy: the Final Chapter (2025): The third movie and series finale. The demon king begins his long awaited invasion of the human realm, while the leader of the Order of the Divine Swarm hatches his own plan. Will the heroes be able to save the world from these apocalyptic threats?

[optional] Thunderbolt Fantasy Side Story Short Stories: two short stories, one about Rin Ssetsu and Renki's first meeting, and another about young Sho Fukan.

>>279507049
In being the kind of demon the demon king wanted she showed that demons are incapable of beating humans at their own game.

>>279426095
>I guess quarter-demons are basically indistinguishable from regular humans.
Yeah nobody seems to detect any hint of demon in Shou

>>279430750
>God I wish there were more translated Pili shows. I don't know what I'll do without more TBF to look forward to
I pray we get a sequel series. Someday...

>>279446899
Was TBF a big hit? Maybe that'll be the hint to translate more Pili.

>>279456320
>>279456287
>>279447431
>>279474777
I didn't expect japanese taiwanese back to the future shit.

>>279513671
>>279511071
>>279495994
So why was Season 5 cancelled?

>>279575997
A mix of people in generally just having shit taste and literal, unironic, Taiwanese puppet shows being kinda niche.
I heard it TBF was well received among scholars like us and that was financially successful but that could mean anything from breaking even to just doing what the people who were backing it wanted it to do.

Plus even shows that are super popular eventually run out of budget.
Bleach was huge in the early 2010's but the last arc didn't get animated until recently.

>>279576701
I guess that is true. It's a damned shame we likely will never see anything like this available to the western market again.

I need my wuxia fix, man.

>>279575997
You didn't buy enough BDs and merch.

Thunderbolt Fantasy got me to read poorly MTLed online wuxia fiction...

>>279577683
How was it?

>>279578945
I mean, I liked it, but that's because I was the one who poorly MTLed it.

>>279575886
There's this wuxia writer called Huang Yi and he's known for infusing sci-fi elements including time travel in his works. Not as famous as Urobuchi's favorite author, Gu Long, but still prominent enough to have his work adapted into live action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Step_into_the_Past

Basically, time traveling wuxia is more likely than you think.

>>279577683
Which one? I'm pretty sure Jin Yong and Gu Long's works have english translations.

>>279579794
>Jin Yong and Gu Long
It was of a much lower pedigree my dude, it was literally on Pixiv.

>>279579844
Bro...

>>279579875
Is this the point where I put the jester hat on

>>279579894
You should at least read some Jin Yong.

>>279579914
I have been trying to read the Condor Heroes, but can never really muster the ability to get past the first bits.
Maybe that'll change soon.

>>279578962
Dangerously based.

>>279567053
Lucky bard/Shou

>>279575591
>>279568650
I made a Rozen Maiden guide some time ago, I have a Clip Studio Paint file for it here in case someone wants to grab that software off of RuTracker or something.
https://files.catbox.moe/6mi14s.clip

>>279582668
Or actually since I'm nice I guess I can just link CSP via this.
https://rutracker.org/forum/dl.php?t=6337996
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DA8AD62D9ABD0175B4FC03482EA6CD121A4EAC55&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet&dn=Clip%20Studio%20Paint%20EX%203.2.2%20x64%20%5B28-%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8F-2025%2C%20ENG%5D

I think you can actually export this to .PSD or .ORA which can still be edited. but it would lose some of the data properties. Hopefully this makes it easier to put together a TBF guide.

>>279579794
Is there any place to pirate them?

>>279582897
Funny how the viewing order is the release order.

>>279584721
feels like there are those who don't even want to look up or figure out release order when there's more than 3 entries and want something even further simplified like this

Fellow anons, I have this random-ass question regarding merch, is there perhaps keychains for the Shinkai Makai?

>>279584721
thats like 99% of media

>>279585082
they've sold some sword shaped goods before but i dont know if theyre still in stock

https://ec.pili.com.tw/product/search?search=thunderbolt%20fantasy

>>279575591
>>279582897
>>279584721
>>279584763
what about the extended universe?

>>279586078
>tfw no 7BD merch

>>279565905
That he is but his Dio voice was so iconic that it generally overwrites his other voices. This was the first time I though this character fit his voice better then Dio.

>>279577009
They don't want my money. I'll tell you what it is: Anti-latam discrimination

Not really an /a/ guy but damn this show was great and I'm sad to see it go. Should I check out Urobuchi's other stuff if I liked this?

>>279586655
theres a fork and usb containing some s2 episodes in the shape of the sex sword

>>279582897
We need the recommended subs in it too imho

>>279438732
I genuinely think they are evenly matched. Shou was ready to take down The Demon King under the assumption he killed Duck before he realized it was a ruse. One would argue that Duck could outsmart Shou, but he has shown time and time again that he can see through Duck's tricks.

>>279590591
Magic has always been Shou's bane, even though he has seen through Duck's trickery sometimes, Scorpion was able to deceive Shou with illusions.

>>279591725
How and why is magic different from chi?

>>279593623
Is it weird if I think 10mei is hotter without eyes? The blue blindfold looks so good on her. This just isn't the same.

>>279593922
it's like taking the visor off of 2b. it just ain't right

>>279594075
black souls lookin ahh bard

>>279594075
What is this fetish called?

>>279594388
In a different timeline Scorpion and Monk started a pilgrimage in order to achieve true happiness.

>>279582788
These are fan translations:
https://wuxiasociety.com/translations
https://www.lannyland.com/translations.shtml#gsc.tab=0

As for official translations, I'm not sure. Maybe some specialized trackers have them.

Thinking about it, I find it funny that Locust entrenched himself so deeply into heretical arts, yet in trying to fuse with the swords, he tied all of his worth into a kind of mandate of heaven that, once removed, left him with absolutely nothing. The man who eschewed and discarded all philosophies had no standards to the point where he went full circle and entrapped himself.

>>279593723
I'm guessing Shou is really skilled at internal chi control and channeling through objects he holds. While other forms of magic may involve external chi projection, or use enchanted objects or demonic power.

>>279586628
Couldn't figure out how to fit it nicely into the picture I made in PowerPoint. Anyways here's what I think is the order, somebody correct me if I'm wrong:

After Movie 1
LIGHT NOVEL: Thunderbolt Fantasy Toriken Yuki Gaiden Light Novel: two prequel stories about Screaming Phoenix Killer (adapted into the first movie) and Kei Gai and the origins of their enmity towards Rin Ssetsu

LIGHT NOVEL: Thunderbolt Fantasy novelization: 2 part novelization of season 1
MANGA: Thunderbolt Fantasy Anthology, Thunderbolt Fantasy: Otome Genyuuki, and Sanfaan~Tōriman Yūki: Non-canonical Manga based on season 1

After movie 2:
MANGA: Thunderbolt Fantasy Project Comic Anthology Utage (Banquet) : Non canonical food related Manga based on season 1-2


After movie 3:
SHORT STORIES: Thunderbolt Fantasy Gaiden Short Stories: two short story books given during the movie premiere in Japan, one about Rin Ssetsu and Renki's first meeting, and another about young Sho Fukan.

MOVIE: Demigod: The Legend Begins (素還真 Su Huan Jen) (2022): Mainline Piliverse movie showing the origin story of Su Huan Jen (Byakuren) from martial arts practitioner and doctor to half god half saint half immortal. Also featuring Qin Jia Xian (Tsîn Ké-sian) the bug-eyed guy from the ending of the Final Chapter.

>>279597231
His downfall is the best part of the movie. He has been a smug bastard for too long.

I wonder if they ever figure out that the Night of Mourning sealed in the Index is a forgery.

>>279600751
Not until they open it up, and I don't think they will for the foreseeable future.

>>279582897
>>279589418
Seconded, but nice job so far, anon!

>>279586628
https://novelbin.me/novel-book/dragon-king-with-seven-stars
It's by Gu Long, Urobuchi's favourite wuxia novelist. It's about a dude with a mysterious past who is suddenly chased by a bunch of other people. Dude also turned out to be ridiculously strong and very good at copying other people's technique

https://archive.org/details/eleventhsonnovel00gulo
Another prominent Gu Long work
It's about a mysterious and very notorious thief. There's also Chu Liuxiang (also a notorious thief in Gu Long's works), but I haven't found any translations for it yet.

>>279515119
Probably, he would lose interest in her when he discovers she turned a new leaf and call her boring like he did with Gunha but he wouldn't have been BTFO as hard as he did with Fox.

>>279575997
Probably some combination of sales and covid, I recall anons mentioning that the previous two movies just about breaking even in ticket sales and covid delayed S3 for around a year. I don't think Urobuchi or the Pili staff have really discussed why, Urobuchi just mentions running into challenges, here's his quotes from recent interviews about the matter:
>The original conception was to make up to Season 5, but we encountered numerous challenges while producing Season 3
>Initially, it was planned that Season 4 would dive into the past of the different characters and a fifth season would wrap up the story. However, the situation overseas changed, and Season 5 got cancelled. That’s why we decided to make a final movie instead of another season.
>I left the design of the demon nobles to Pili, but the diversity of the designs was really good. It’s a shame they could not play a bigger role. The decision to turn Season 5 into a movie was made after the designs were done, so I had to hastily cut their appearances short. With the premise of a whole season, I thought eight new characters would be enough for the story, but in hindsight I should not have introduced so many characters…is what I felt.

>>279600751
the night or mourning is more of a hostage weapon so unless theres another 7bd situation i cant see them pulling it out of the index

>>279557156
Is there some sort of structure ruling on how these poems should go. I kinda wanna take a crack at them.

>>279467265
i know it might be a big ask, but is it possible to have the ed song subbed too? the words are quite meaningful to the story and ending as a whole.

>>279579894
It fits so well.

>>279600751
>attempt to stab someone in the heart to see how it works
>they ducking die

>>279510946
yareyare daze

>>279527378
This got me curious, is there any action figure that ressembles this form? Perhaps a Sofubi or gashapon.

>>279606165
Go kitbash some kamen rider and garo figs

>>279531601
You live with it

>>279605753
Dohohohoho! What a silly little trick you've played, Enigmatic Gale!

>>279606165
What >>279607318 said

Maybe Kamen Rider Agito for the horns

Is there a season 5 or just a movie after s4?
Trying to get into this

s1
movie
s2, s3, s4…?

>>279609800
There are three movies
s1 > m1 > s2 > m2 > s3 > s4 > m3

>>279609800
S1 > Movie 1 (Sword of Life and Death) > S2 > Movie 2 (Bewitching Melody of the West) > S3 > S4 > Finale Movie

updated the chart to include the extras

>>279610381
What about this stuff?
>>279602062

>>279610381
https://limewire.com/d/cK8HX#b8gP0V1wbm
The file if someone wants to edit it

>>279610381
The first movie is honestly completely optional.

>>279610923
I think those are wuxia novels that might have inspired Urobochi. I'm not really an expert though, it's probably better to ask someone else.
It's not made by Pili or directly related to Thunderbolt Fantasy so it's beyond the scope of the chart.

>>279610986
I feel it's required to understand the Fat Shou jokes

>>279607318
>>279608708
Kamen Rider figures are mostly are SHFiguarts right?

>>279609859
>>279609865
>>279610381
Thanks anons. Appreciate you

>>279610381
I feel like there is more

>>279610986
the first movie has some of the best fights

>>279610381
Looks cool

>>279610381
Someone fix it to "Touri Kenyuuki", it can't be "travels of the Touri sword", it's "Touri sword travels" unless I've misunderstood something

>>279611544
You're welcome!

>>279611210
Sexyice2019 is your best bet, fingers crossed for them to release a Final Form Locust look alike

Is 7 Blasphemous Subs the best release right now for Season 4? Or should I go with the speedsubs?

>>279617977
Speedsubs is what 7BS is based on. Speedsubs are what anons in the thread put together during the season release and 7BS is the edited and corrected versions.

It was a good run, see you next time, puppetbros

>>279620153
Denka blowjob and gangbang art with undead Gunha and Mantis when?

>>279614542
>it's "Touri sword travels"
Yes. More specifically, it's something like 'Chronicles of Swords in Touri"

>>279617977
>>279619164
What happen to crunchy?

>>279614542
>>279621645
https://limewire.com/d/cK8HX#b8gP0V1wbm
Sorry I don't know how to Romaji, I just copied the names from the wiki. Feel free to edit the file.

>>279623528
They just released the episodes like three months later after airing. People didn't want to wait and made their own subs.

>>279623528
The enigm/a/tic g/a/le sabotaged the release

>>279611210
If you want something cute and cheap you can also try Blokees, they have a lot of Kamen Rider and Ultraman figures but a they're usually blind box gacha

>>279624078
Thanks for the tip

you think ken ever figured out that he was training shouta fu kan?

>>279624815
Maybe after they shipped baby Shou off.

I'm gonna miss these threads

>Ken gets to bang Tan Hi every night
>Rou gets to bang Tenmei every night
>Shou leaves Duck behind in hell
Evil lost

dolls ...

swords...

>>279610381
Add in the audio dramas, I know the SPK and Shou one is translated at least.

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