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Tamba posted:Some really rough animation this week though Yeah, it felt like I was watching something from the early 90's.
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Remind me again why that work of Inio Asano gets adapted yet Goodnight Punpun can't?
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because dededede is much better but also the usual stuff of: anime generally exists to promote the source material & dededede just ended while punpun ended 9 years ago lih fucked around with this message at 08:47 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/asano_inio/status/1506405446122614788?t=X1abYaeE3b1n4nrvA6nUpg&s=19
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Finished up "World of Leadale" just now. It was... average. Nothing to jump up and down about, but nothing that made me feel uneasy either. It will be forgotten by Summer and I doubt anyone involved had higher expectations.
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Doodles posted:Finished up "World of Leadale" just now. It was... average. Nothing to jump up and down about, but nothing that made me feel uneasy either. It will be forgotten by Summer and I doubt anyone involved had higher expectations. Well I wish she didn''t treat her sons so condescendingly and with such violence. Other than I'll probably be going Word of Leadale, is that a kind of cake?
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i didn't even watch it but i'll probably remember it as a show that looked ugly and cheap from the second they showed a key visual my curse
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Doodles posted:Finished up "World of Leadale" just now. It was... average. Nothing to jump up and down about, but nothing that made me feel uneasy either. It will be forgotten by Summer and I doubt anyone involved had higher expectations. Yeah it really felt like everyone involved just put in the bare minimum work required and were just going through the motions and the end result was bland and forgettable. I still watched the entire thing though because I can't pass up bland isekais.
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I've been watching Tribe Nine and enjoying myself cuz I really like the ost but the story itself feels like I'm watching one of those anime adaptations that just speeds through it's source material and nothing gets fleshed out or has a chance to breathe so it's just going through the motions with no substance to it. Breaking the top of a tower off with a homerun and a dude who lights his pitches on fire with gasoline are fun visuals at least.
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Julias posted:New season thread just dropped thread title too tame! sad!
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/asano_inio/status/1506405446122614788?t=X1abYaeE3b1n4nrvA6nUpg&s=19 wow, is this the first Asano work to get an anime?
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"Slow Loop" finished up pleasantly enough. Another series that will be quickly forgotten, but still worth the time watching. Come for the fishing, stay for the family.
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Rudoku posted:Speaking of quickly forgotten, how about that Platinum End ending? Surprisingly, electing god from among a group of suicidal people might not have been the best idea. e: I wonder if the very end was influenced by FF14: Endwalker, because that had a similar plot point and came out around the same time the manga ended Tamba fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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Watched the final episode of "My Dress-Up Darling" just now. It ended at the point in the manga I expected it to, and if they don't do a second season of the series I shall be most peevish. Since it's only been out a short while, I won't spoil anything for folks who haven't read the manga, but the ending is sweet as a kiss.
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Doodles posted:Watched the final episode of "My Dress-Up Darling" just now. It ended at the point in the manga I expected it to, and if they don't do a second season of the series I shall be most peevish. Since it's only been out a short while, I won't spoil anything for folks who haven't read the manga, but the ending is sweet as a kiss. It was such a gorgeous episode, even for a series that was already at a high bar. I really need a second season like yesterday.
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I don't even really watch anime much and I dunno why I checked out My Dress-Up Darling. Glad I did though, it was adorable. I hope S2 happens, otherwise I'm gonna miss Gojo and Marin.
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Between Akebi, Dress up, Priconne, Final Season Two, and Ranking this was my favorite season like ever.
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serious gaylord posted:What chapter did the show end on? The show covered up through chapter 39. It left some bits out (usually more detailed stuff about cosplay creation) but covered everything major.
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feel free to start with like volume 4 or something if you're reading the manga since that's where some content gets cut like several chapters of shopping for materials. or don't if you're a wuss
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Space Flower posted:feel free to start with like volume 4 or something if you're reading the manga since that's where some content gets cut like several chapters of shopping for materials. or don't if you're a wuss I do enjoy how material research and shopping serve the same structural place in a MDUD arc as training to master a new move in a shonen action series.
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Genius Prince also had a good ending. I liked that, unlike some similar shows, the brilliant MC does legitimately mess up and gets owned semi-frequently (mostly by women) leading to a perfect call back to him basically ending up exactly where the show started, but now with even more problems.
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Nemo2342 posted:Miss Kuroitsu's ending was absolutely delightful and a perfect way to end things. I loved it. This show was a real nice bit to the Winter season. It was great how the temps finally landed a decent job. Now they're evil executive assistants!
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Nemo2342 posted:Miss Kuroitsu's ending was absolutely delightful and a perfect way to end things. Having to fight off a hostile takeover by Amazon was a stroke of genius.
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All right! Time to do retrospectives on all the shows I watched this season even if only for myself! Rust-Eater Bisco: The show kind of ruled. It's hard to get across the weird energy this show has, but to try it's a surprisingly gritty post-apocalyptic invertebrate-punk wild action travelogue series. Despite being a brightly colored apocalypse full of wild weirdos and giant monsters and crazy vehicles and mushroom superpowers the show also has a surprisingly nasty edge to some of its violence. People get injured and actually are and remain injured and get messed up and thrown around and hurt real bad. At the same time it's also stylish with a lot of wide-eyed action. It's a weird mix. The secret of its success (in so far as it succeeded), is in how it uses its panda faced doctor protagonist. Despite Bisco being the title character, Dr. Milo is very explicitly and definitely the show's lead instead of him, and the show actually takes a pretty canny tact with him. Normally in the usual kind of brains-and-brawn odd couple team up the story feels the need to take the brainy character down a peg, or to force them to recognize their limitations so they gain a greater appreciation for their working class, blue collar, uncouth, salt-of-the-earth partner. That's not really what happens here. The show opens with Bisco doing crazy cool action stuff, and since everyone including the people in the show take all that as writ what the show ACTUALLY does with its first couple of episodes after the introduction is go out of its way to put Milo over. The show works to immediately start framing him as a legitimate action star in his own right whose knowledge and skills and abilities and personality make him really cool in his own right. The show wants to make you think that all of its main characters are really cool, and it does a lot to justify that perspective. And it actually all makes sense when the show moves into its final arc and does some wild stuff with its protagonists, before ending on yet another big action blowout to reaffirm that yeah, these people rock. And hats off to them, I can get behind a show that wants to make its characters look cool and do cool things. And credit also for deciding bisexual polyamory is the best way to resolve a love triangle. Great OST incidentally. The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out Of Debt: A fairly standard observation is that it is hard for a person to write someone who's smarter than themselves. Occasionally you get a series that actually manage the task of making a genius look like a genius (shoutouts to Gash Bell) but more often than not someone being super smart is solely an informed attribute, or worse yet their genius is portrayed as being so ridiculous and all-encompassing and unrealistic it becomes less that they are brilliant and more that the writer is flagrantly scripting things so it turns out their favor. Thankfully the genius prince in Genius Prince actually manages to seem believable. He's a super talented polymath, not some kind of reality bending hyper wizard who can see the future. The show does a lot to give his perspective and clearly demonstrate how his thought process works in a way so you can actually understand what he's thinking and doing and why, and in so doing you actually appreciate that yes, this guy is generally the smartest guy in the room and he knows his stuff. Making him grounded actually makes him seem SMARTER. He's also kind of a dork, his internal monologue and constant panic over his successes and failures do a lot to make him more relatable, he screws up and has to rush around to try and salvage things, we explicitly see he can't do everything and relies a lot on his family and assistance and support staff, he has a couple of tactics that he clearly likes to rely on whenever he gets the chance just to make things easier on him, and his personal feelings undercut a lot of what he does in a relatable way. Honestly, humanizing him in this way actually make it more impactful when he starts in on the smart person talk and it makes his triumphs seem more impressive than some budget Light Yagami who omnisciently planned for everything in advance including the stuff he couldn't have planned for. Overall, fun show. Not particular deep or weighty, but it manages to be a fun show about a smart guy outwitting the bad guys and saving the day. Bonus points for deciding the correct response to callous, dehumanizing racism is regicide. Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout: In the bustling, oversaturated field of isekai (which is now so frontloaded that taking the piss is a default assumption of the genre) you need something to stand out, and I suppose "Genderqueer Romantic Comedy" does that pretty well. So to take it apart, is it genderqueer? Oh yeah. And not just in the main couple, when the show introduced a new guy to be a third wheel in the relationship he was a very clearly, very unsubtly only interested in the male lead. Similarly, when the show gestured towards introducing a new girl she only ever showed interest in the other female lead, that being the title character guy who got turned into a really attractive woman. Do we got some romance? Yep, and it's actually pretty good romance. Both leads have really strong chemistry and an actually admirable relationship, to the point where it becomes clear when the audience are mostly waiting for the two of them to just get over themselves and tie the knot already. The original authors being a husband and wife team really shines through in the show's dynamic. And comedy? This show made me crack up. Comedy is subjective, sure, but it totally worked for me. The cast and the gags and the setups and the punchlines basically all worked from my perspective, and that's really all I'm asking for in a comedy. Tokyo 24th Ward: We've still got an episode left of this but I'm pretty content to call it as a jumbled, overwrought mess of a show. For a show with as many things that are hypothetically supposed to be plot twists, it's impressive how weirdly predictable the show actually was. Special shoutouts must be given to the flashback episode that aired immediately after the clip show episode which mostly revealed plot points that either weren't important or were fairly obvious. And, in the tried-and-true style of other message shows full of overcooked nonsense, Tokyo 24th Ward has tons of topical subjects and very little to say about them. In the 11 episodes that aired so far (including the clip show that kept it from being over this week) it has touched on the philosophical dilemma of the trolley problem, class disparity, the rembrance of history, tragedy and how people react to it and grieve, the drive for control, gentrification, the role of art in shaping society, the forms art takes, the limitations of friendship, why cops are bastards, great and small corruption, crime, terrorism, and the motivations behind both, the dangers of automation, the march of progress, transhumanism, the surveillance state, Minority Report-style precognition, the limitations and weaknesses of democracy, targeted marketing, the need to accept death and uncertainty, the sacrifices people make as they grow up, the nature of heroism, the challenges and future of small businesses, divided loyalties and conflicts of interest, neurodivergence, and why you shouldn't try to commit electrical sabotage in the middle of a hurricane wearing a ridiculous jester costume. Why no, it doesn't really hold together, but thanks for asking. Shaman King: A couple more episodes of this are left as well, but I doubt they'll change my mind having seen the 49 episodes the show has put out to date. My opinion of the new, more faithful adaptation (roughly, they cut a few early chapters and in the final stretch they shaved some stuff down) of Shaman King is similar to my opinion of Sailor Moon Crystal: I'm glad it exists but its faithfulness strongly highlights the weaknesses of the original story. Shaman King starts as a weird series, shifts into a more conventional action series, and then shifts into a weird unconventional action series that doesn't quite satisfy. It's an interesting series, actually a really interesting series, but what comes across to me is the idea that Shaman King is just in the wrong genre, or rather where the story went eventually stopped wanting to be an action series entirely. It still has the trappings of an action battle manga series, but as time goes on the manga spent less and less time focusing on people fighting people and more time talking about relationships and idealism and belief and the anime followed suit. The most recent episode ended a pair of fight scenes without actually showing the finishing blows connecting, and that's not even the first time it's happened. Heck, I'd say it's par for the course at this point. It's also fairly apparent this paucity of choreography was used to justify slashing the budget. It isn't even that far into the series before it starts to look cheap. Watching the anime makes it very clear why the manga series got canceled in the first place, why it managed be revived for a proper ending as a cult classic, why it got a sequel, why that sequel got canceled, why that sequel came back, and why there are about a half dozen side stories to Shaman King. Honestly, the one thing the whole show needs more than anything was moments of actual catharsis, but a lack of that has always like a weakness of the author in general. Ranking of Kings: Even with the rather offputting decision made in episode 22 at the very tail end of the series this show is still incredible. It's gorgeous, it has a cast of incredible characters, a fantastical world, very strong writing, and when the show calls for it incredibly good action. It's a show about kings, but more than that it is a show about loyalty. With each and every character the show takes great pains to examine them through the lens of who it is or what it is that motivates them. Who or what do they swear fealty to and why? Who did they follow in their past that led to this moment? What is it that drives them? What happened to them because of these beliefs and where are they going? The character sketches that the show provides makes the whole thing sing. I am REALLY hoping we get another season of this down the line. The show will almost certainly be in my end of the year best list. Slow Loop: Another classic entry in the time-honored anime genre of "high school girls with hobbies". Today's hobby of choice is fishing, with a side order of the Brady Bunch. It's a gentle, funny, easy watch. The cast go fishing, talk about how to fish effectively, and start cooking and we get some nice food porn. It is neither a revolutionary show, nor is it trying to be a revolutionary show. The obvious point of comparison is probably Yurucamp, but fishing and if Nadesico and Rin were stepsisters, but honestly the show it reminded me the most of was actually Sweetness and Lightning, remember that one? Chances are the answer is "not until this moment" if you've watched it, which is sort of my point. I've seen all of Slow Loop and it doesn't really stand out to me. A couple of times in the later episodes I would realize I actually didn't know the name of some of these characters, so when someone referred to someone else it took me a moment to figure out who or what they were talking about. Something about the show just doesn't stick in the brain, and just like Sweetness and Lightning the show occasionally gestures at having subjects with more meat on the bone but doesn't really follow through on them. And that's the show, fun, but not memorable. Yashahime: So this finally wrapped, and on the other side of Yashahime my feeling is that I wish the show had figured out what it finally ended up being sooner, like "early in season one" sooner because the late period of Yashahime was actually pretty darn good. Heck, I'd say it had a late period that was much stronger than Inuyasha's. In fact, the show on the whole managed to avoid many of the flaws of Inuyasha, but the funny thing is that even though it had many fewer flaws than that show I'm not sure I would call Yashahime definitely the better series. I would tentatively say it is the better show, and much more positively state that I liked it better than its predecessor, but still. If nothing else, there weren't any main characters who I actively hated and the action was generally better so yeah, points to Yashahime. And as a bonus, when it finally got around to reintroducing the old characters Yashahime did a really good job utilizing the returning cast. Lupin III part VI: I said this in the thread for it, but you wouldn't think the season billed as Lupin III versus Sherlock Holmes where both of them are investigating some secret historical conspiracy was going to be the meta-fictional, self-contextualizing, conscientiously literary focused season of Lupin where part of the point seems to have been to reflect on the idea that, by this point, Lupin III is functionally a "classic". And so we got a show that seemed to deliberately wink and nod at the history of the character, revive the unfinished film pitch that Mamoru Oshii fielded back in the eighties, leaned really hard into literary references and the connections characters have to them, and even seemed in its back half to start being self aggrandizing about the immortality of Lupin as a franchise and as a character with how it introduces and then ejects a retconned character in a seemingly deliberate, metaphor bearing action. And it did so in a way that was roundly inferior to part V. Oh well. The show still had a decent number of good to very good episodes, and if nothing else two of the episodes are highly insane Mamoru Oshii fever dreams, and the second one of them has to be seen to be loving believed. Man alive that episode would've almost justified the entire season on its own, but only almost. Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department: This show rules. It has a lot of the same energy as The Venture Brothers in that it's a show about making the ridiculous seem mundane and grounded. What if we took a show about a tokusatsu supervillain organization with the monsters and everything but made it a workplace comedy? And it's golden. My position is that a good deconstructionist take on a genre needs to come from a place of love, and Miss Kuroitsu is clearly a series that absolutely adores transforming superhero shows, tokusatsu or otherwise. Besides the obvious callbacks you've also got the dozens of cameos by the real life UHF versions of tokusatsu heroes, the temp agency that provides mooks for bad guys, a retired villain bar, and the way it plays around with things like transformations and giant robots and monster designs and magical girl tropes and so on. It's also both very funny and home to a very strong cast of characters. And, in a move that I personally appreciate, it makes the bad guys the heroes, but it doesn't necessarily villainize the transforming heroes. It's not the best looking show, but man was it a blast. Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens: God, how long has it been since Yu-Gi-Oh! has been good? It was, what? Five years until Sevens started airing? Maybe even six depending on when you think Arc-V jumped the shark? Man oh man have I missed the high points of this franchise. Sevens basically has the stuff that made Yu-Gi-Oh! good, good and fun and likable characters having cool duels with each other and various bad guys. You have a cast of characters, they have wacky decks, the show contrives reasons for them to duel each other, there's a lot of passion and energy behind everyone, rinse and repeat until the storyline completes. For some reason the two previous series lost that shine along the way and just couldn't muster the energy anymore. Still, Sevens isn't my number one Yu-Gi-Oh season in large part because it is a little bit odd when viewed from the big picture. It's a wonky show, not the least because it cycles through no less than five separate possible main antagonists before deciding that the true villain of the show will be none of the above with the reveal happening basically as the final match begins. It's put together in a weird way is what I'm saying. The overall story of Sevens and the way it conducts itself makes it stand out from the crowd in a way that is both refreshing and a little bit frustrating sometimes. 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Re: Miss KuroitsuI Am Fowl posted:I loved it. This show was a real nice bit to the Winter season. It was great how the temps finally landed a decent job. Now they're evil executive assistants! And it was also great that all the horrible lovely battles they'd previously suffered through turned out to be massively beneficial in the end since their contacts with all those other evil organisations ended up saving the day
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I finished Miss Kuroitsu tonight and it was fun. I hope there's a second season for more romcom stuff with the couples that are being set up, since the manga is apparently still ongoing (though not licensed or scanned really anywhere), but that was a nice enough episode to end on. Not always the best looking show, but frankly needing high production values in your shows is for cowards.
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Xelkelvos posted:One interesting thing about the temps sub plot is that it's anime original but it fits into the world extremely well It definitely fooled me. The only hint was how little they interacted with Agastia, but they fit the world flawlessly.
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Omnicrom posted:It definitely fooled me. The only hint was how little they interacted with Agastia, but they fit the world flawlessly. Yeah I would not have pegged them as being anime original at all. The whole thing with them working through the various other companies partially as a way to show off local heroes felt entirely in line with everything else.
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