Wark Say posted:

• 2016: Konosuba Alcest's beautiful album-length remake of Mononoke Hime, Kodama
  

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

Is that really what it is? Alcest was easily one of my favorite bands like, 12 years ago and I liked this album but did not realize

Wark Say posted:

I feel like Attack on Titan can give SAO a run for their money as far as "anime repping the 2010's" goes.

Endorph posted:

it feels like sao's had more staying power + more actual like, growth/evolution

like its 2019 and sao is still v. popular and is bringing in new fans, attack on titan feels like most of its current fans are the same people who were super into s1

The 7th Guest posted:

what was the worst anime this decade. was it fractale

Endorph posted:

Davincie posted:

come on, all these shows that get the goon eye cause theyre normie popular or just strange dont compare to the various anime for pedophiles, the poo poo fetish anime, the barely disguised hentai, the production disasters releasing without animation and so on. dig deeper!

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Now that it's wrapping up I wanna make a big rec to Aikatsu Stars, sincerely and without bias. Aikatsu Stars is the second entry in the children's anime, Aikatsu, about a school for idols. The original series, Aikatsu, ran for five season and over 150 episodes, with a large cast change in the middle. It was a very mixed production, with the early episodes being pretty strong, the end of the first half being incredible, and then kind of trailing off into middling 'situation of the week' stuff as its cast ballooned to the point that it became impossible to give any of them a real arc or goal.

Aikatsu Stars is an entry with no real connections to the original and much more consistency. There are still some episodes where the central joke doesn't land or the drama is centered on a character who just doesn't really work at all in the context of the show (big ups to Subaru and all the other dudes, who average out to maybe 75% of a good character between the four of them) but by and large the show is legitimately sweet and incredibly funny.





While the first half is somewhat mixed (mostly, again, due to a few characters whose arcs just dont work) it's mostly a really solid, really enjoyable show with some great surreal humor and really likable characters. It's nice to have a comedy show where the characters also have clearly defined goals that they're working towards - it means that there's a lot of things the comedy can be centered around and also means that the show can shift into character work without having it feel too forced. I'd definitely rate the first half of Aikatsu Stars as a really good show, definitely one of my favorite comedies from the past couple of years.

Then, uh, the second half happened.



Elza Forte just rolls up in a boat, declares that she's an idol pirate and is gonna conquer the world, and from there the show just puts its foot to the pedal and never really stops. I've watched the entire second half and can name maybe one episode that didn't either make me laugh or make me care about the character's arcs - the humor is great in how absurd and surreal it's willing to get, it rarely stretches a gag on too long, and all the new characters introduced in the second half are both amazingly funny and legitimately likable, interesting characters. Week in and week out, it's quietly been one of the best anime running for the past year. Now that it's wrapping up its run, I feel like it deserves a shoutout and a high recommendation from me.

https://sakugabooru.com/data/324391cb25c53d0f5df7d95fdd5f1e93.mp4

I'm not gonna say it's perfect or will change how you view anime or anything, its a 100 episode long kids show. Like I said, it DOES have a few clunkers, and while I like some of the songs it still loves to reuse songs and even entire dance sequences, which is kind of the achilles heel - hinging the drama on a reused song is something that happens sometimes, and it can make stuff fall flat. If you're willing to work with it, I think the drama still works, and it leans way more into comedy than drama, but I can understand that obvious 'kids show'ness turning some people off. Not to mention, uh, it's 100 episodes long, and the show's best material starts at about episode 45. For a long running kids show that could have easily been cheap, there's some great character animation and direction in there, but there are also pretty obviously episodes that look super cheap. Also again, its a kids show, so expect lots of fairly simple morals - the show gets a little introspective in the second half, but the questions it raises are still pretty basic stuff that wouldn't go over a kids head, about on the level of your average sports shonen. What it means when you try your hardest and still fail, how to cope with friends moving past you, that sort of thing. Also, you know, it's an idol anime, and some people don't care about that, so totally fair.

https://sakugabooru.com/data/e58304d153a88ede9ac18bd7c316a069.webm

But ultimately, it's just a show I really, really like. It's a longrunning comedy that manages to only have less than a dozen episodes I'd call complete duds. I'm not sure if I've done a good job articulating why I like it so much, but nobody else on this entire subforum really talked about it for its entire two year run, and I've been watching it that whole time, so I guess I felt like it was on me.

https://sakugabooru.com/data/4360c59abcba39c0f9922350ee8842d5.mp4

Anyway, good show, give it a shot if you have, uh, 37 hours to kill. Kirara best Venus Ark, Ako best Four Star, Yuzu best S4.

Waffleman_ posted:

I would probably consider one of the two anime within the last two years that tore the forums apart to be the worst of the decade. You know, the slay one and the shield one.

Wark Say posted:

What's the closest the 2010's have gotten to like Musashi Gundoh levels of just a disaster on the production end of things?

Beato Believer posted:

Märchen Mädchen, perhaps. Giving up and not even making the last two episodes of a show until months later has got to be pretty bad, production wise.