Sharkopath posted:

For real though in case anybody is actually leery of Koi it's real strength to me is that it takes a concept a lot of series have taken as straight romances and instead turns it into a way more grounded coming of age tale.

The man is a really good hearted dude dealing with his own bad divorce and treats a schoolgirl crush like a schoolgirl crush but also genuinely enjoys spending time with Tachibana so they develop a friendship instead.

It's more messy and complex than that in the same way that life is more messy and complex but its good and not some trash thing that should be reviled.

Sharkopath posted:

For real though in case anybody is actually leery of Koi it's real strength to me is that it takes a concept a lot of series have taken as straight romances and instead turns it into a way more grounded coming of age tale.

The man is a really good hearted dude dealing with his own bad divorce and treats a schoolgirl crush like a schoolgirl crush but also genuinely enjoys spending time with Tachibana so they develop a friendship instead.

It's more messy and complex than that in the same way that life is more messy and complex but its good and not some trash thing that should be reviled.

Desuwa posted:

Before it actually started airing people expected another fanservice show like strike witches, which is probably where your impression came from. The OP of its original thread was written before the show started and actually turned some people off of the anime which is why it eventually got a new thread with a more accurate OP.

Mentioning GuP and stroke witches in the same breath is really weird though.

Cake Attack posted:

and you dont post a link

Sharkopath posted:

koi fuckin rules and ill cut anyone to ribbons in its name

dogsicle posted:

well if it wasn't the fingernails, it would've been the masturbation scene. or when yumeko beats a girl and gives her such a verbal beatdown that she pisses herself

jng2058 posted:

Thinking about it, the whole "Moe Military" thing is a good example of how an anime fad can appear and disappear in just a couple of years. It's like Strike Witches hit it reasonably big then all of a sudden BAM, girls using guns, girls who are guns, girls sailing ships, girls who are ships, girls who drive tanks...and then BOOM they're all one season and done, except Girls und Panzer which somehow squeaked out a a couple of movies, and Strike Witches which started the whole thing. It's like someone at Anime HQ said "Okay, we're done with that", flipped a switch and killed off the sub-genre.

Here's hoping they flip the switch on isekai next.

ViggyNash posted:

Wow apparently it's not even the sexual stuff that's gonna turn me off. The second episode features a girl whose fetish is ripping a fingernail off of ppl who lose to her to put in a collection. Then when the new girl wins she joyfully threatens to rip off all of her fingernails and toenails so she's be completely debilitated until they grow back.

Yeah... no.

jng2058 posted:

Thinking about it, the whole "Moe Military" thing is a good example of how an anime fad can appear and disappear in just a couple of years. It's like Strike Witches hit it reasonably big then all of a sudden BAM, girls using guns, girls who are guns, girls sailing ships, girls who are ships, girls who drive tanks...and then BOOM they're all one season and done, except Girls und Panzer which somehow squeaked out a a couple of movies, and Strike Witches which started the whole thing. It's like someone at Anime HQ said "Okay, we're done with that", flipped a switch and killed off the sub-genre.

Here's hoping they flip the switch on isekai next.

Eela6 posted:

I'm happily watching Killing Bites, dude.

I think that representing real, existing guns as anime teenagers is weird. Especially when they're the kind of guns that kill people every day here, and the audience is supposed to want to gently caress the teenagers. Then you add on top whatever the gently caress this is:
is weird as poo poo and gross, and not in the "haha we're being trashy but it's all in good fun" sense I get from Killing Bites. It's possible both to not be a prude and have a particular line where you say hell no.

Expect My Mom posted:

kakegurui is woke

DisDisDis posted:

All the after the rain enjoyers should read miss sunflower

Motto posted:

There's still new ones coming out. A Chinese boatgirls game just came along and ate KanColle's lunch.

e: and GuP still has some movies to go.

DisDisDis posted:

See, this is the kind of extreme fantasy violence that's good and entertaining

NotALizardman posted:

Man I despise Azur Lane's designs. Especially Washington and Sodak! How do you do South Dakota without doing some toku style Battleship X thing?! Auuuugh!!!!

Xinder posted:

It autoplayed a trailer on the netflix main page and I watched it because people talked about it here. I was interested until it got lewd and then I decided maybe not.

DisDisDis posted:

All action media with guns is actually voyeuristic and self insert sexual fantasy about the phallus as murder weapon. Whatever this is is completely baldfaced about it but one could argue by displacing that sexual desire onto 'soft' femininity its far less insidious than something like Die Hard

VostokProgram posted:

So when i shoot dudes in video games I'm actually killing them with my dick? That's pretty gay

VostokProgram posted:

So when i shoot dudes in video games I'm actually killing them with my dick? That's pretty gay

DisDisDis posted:

All action media with guns is actually voyeuristic and self insert sexual fantasy about the phallus as murder weapon. Whatever this is is completely baldfaced about it but one could argue by displacing that sexual desire onto 'soft' femininity its far less insidious than something like Die Hard

Wark Say posted: