What (anime) are you watching?

seitora

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Ah.

Anyways, I've watched episode 5 now.
 

seitora

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Episode 6 of SPY X FAMILY
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
I loved Anya's little "I'mma fuck this bitch up" moment. This is such a great series.
 

seitora

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Anya smugface is indeed great.

On another note, something I'm not going to be watching

Me a year ago: "Wow, this LN sucks. Don't bother reading it, it's a piece of crap even by LN standards. Total nonsensical story progression and zero-to-a-hundred pacing of power scaling."
Me today: "What the fuck do you mean they're making an anime out of this?!"
 

seitora

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Episode 7 of SPY X FAMILY

Also, episode 2 of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. Getting huge 'everyone's big sister' vibes from Yuna
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
binge watched the Genius Prince series the other day. Interesting, I liked it, not quite as much as realist hero, but it was quite humorous. I wonder whether it would have any more to it though, considering I don't often see Universal put out a anime series, even through Funimation.
 

seitora

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Episode 8 of SPY X FAMILY
 

seitora

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Finally getting to SXF episode 9
 

seitora

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Watched the first 6 episodes of High-Rise Invasion

Interesting premise, but I feel like it goes for long stretches of no action. If it was like a good horror film where it attempted to build up suspense and anticipation before the next kill-shot, it would be fine, but it doesn't. The dialogue gets stilted in parts. Also, the voice acting phoned it in, in both languages. There is almost no real emoting at all, and the English dub has at least one character with an annoying, grating voice.
 

seitora

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Episode 10 of SPY X FAMILY. I love just how over-the-top this whole episode is with the dodgeball plot.

It's been a while since I've actually watched an anime episode-by-episode as it was airing. I did that with Dress-Up Darling and Reincarnated Assassin this year, but before that, it's probably been quite some time.
 
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seitora

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Episode 11. For the first time, Anya shows the slightest bit of intelligence when she realises she shouldn't out herself to Loid by instantly saying somebody is drowning, and instead sets things up to make a 'discovery'. Low-key ouch at Becky going "I'm so proud of you for some reason!"

I like Anya. It's just...she seems very unique in a way? No, I don't mean autistic or anything. I'm thinking more...are there very many female characters who are allowed to be this outrageously dumb in fiction anymore? I feel like when you have a comic relief character whose primary attribute is being dumb as a sack of bricks, usually it's male. A female comic relief usually has that as a lesser character trait and not as her primary trait (well, being a mind reader is arguably Anya's primary trait, though I would put that secondary to her being a goddamn moron :p), so it's kind of surprising.

Lol @ Anya's voiceovers in all her dream sequences being in her own voice

Also, Damien is totally a male tsundere.
 

seitora

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Episode 12. Now to wait until October when the next season airs.
 
Never got the appeal of Overlord, so I'm more interested in Hataraku Maou-sama!!, Kuro no Shoukanshi, and Fuuto Tantei.
 

seitora

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Watched the first episode of Classroom of the Elite Season 2. These mind games seem overcomplicated for the sake of being overcomplicated.

Finished the last half of High Rise Invasion. This one seems all over the place. The story only concludes at a story arc, so it would definitely need a second anime season to wrap up the source material (or more? I've no idea). It just seems to have really strange pacing and mood swings, going from fast to slow, and hot to cold. There's numerous weird breaks in tension, too. The show's not afraid to use its premise and thin out the numbers of its cast from time to time with gory scenes, but the central premise doesn't otherwise get revealed. The whole bit with the Masks is similarly only explained a little bit, even as they move from being sinister and a threat to becoming kind of a third party in the power games between humans.

Yuri is a cute protagonist, but wow. It feels like just about every female in the cast is horny. Yuri is horny in general (and a bro-con as well), Mayuko is horny for Yuri, Kuon is horny for the Sniper Mask, and even some of the female Masks are horny (one of those humorous scenes is a Mask girl taking selfies of herself and passing them on when texting recon information to somebody). There's some fanservice, including multiple pantyshots. Something that I'm surprised the animators actually didn't cheap out on was clothing damage. Given the premise of the show has them in a sealed-away realm, new changes of clothing are rare. So when a girl has her clothing damaged in battle, the tears and rips actually continue to carry over into later episodes.

Anyways, do not recommend.

Been considering watching the Tokyo High Rise Invasion, but not sure if worth the time, anyone else ever watch that one? Opinions on it?
See above
 

MnemoD

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Isekai Meikyuu's uncensored episodes go up on Wednesdays, which is how you ought to watch it because ... I mean, porn. Let's be real.

The first episode was what I expected in general. Overlord's first episode of the new season was similarly quite amusing- if only to be a reprieve from what will be some absolutely dark shit.
 
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seitora

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Finally got around to watching all of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. It's an amazingly fun, amazingly light-hearted isekai about a girl and her fursuit, and the friends she makes and antics she gets into along the way. Yuna is truly best big sister. But by the same metric, she would also truly be a perfect wife (well, aside from the whole being 15 part. Seriously Japan, age your protagonists up a few years already).

Season 2 was announced to be in production though with no release date that I can see yet, so I'll be watching when it does.
 

MnemoD

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Started watching Yofukashi no Uta (Calling of the Night) because- as a huge vampire fan- a friend recommended it to me for how relatable I'd find it. It's... something. Wildly something.
 

seitora

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Catching up on Classroom of the Elite Season 2. Up to episode 6.
 

seitora

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Classroom of the Elite S2 episode 7
 

seitora

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Since it gets dropped from (Canadian) Netflix starting September, I decided to watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I think I only got up to episode...4?, way back when it first released. I know I didn't get to episode 5, because episode 5 has some stylistic choices that I would definitely have recalled. However, I have enough exposure to internet culture and spoilers to know the rough plot beats.

Kamina's role and death is definitely impactful. There's some build-up towards it, but still a huge punch in the gut. Of course, this was something I knew about long ago.

I'm glad that Simon's bouncing back from Kamina's death isn't done in a single episode. It really highlights just how hard he's taking it.

Yoko is...really a fun girl overall. She's really refreshing in a way that I find hard to describe. Maybe it's that she simply has no real hang-ups that I've seen so far, which is really rare in a main character. Plus, on the fanservice side, she's alright with being eyecandy, still has her feminine moments and is modest about being fetishised or being seen completely nude, but doesn't have a complex about it. I'm not quite a fan of the whole thing of Simon crushing on her and agonising him enough to indirectly cause Kamina's death, though.

Also, is it wrong that for some reason I'm thinking Ryuko x early Simon, with Ryuko being the wimpiness out of Simon?
 

seitora

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Finally finished the rest of Gurenn Lagann.

Adult Simon post-timeskip looks way too much like post-timeskip Sasuke Uchiha with that haircut and hair colour.

I appreciate the background animation in the last couple of episodes with lots of gorgeous space visuals.

Kamina technically doesn't have to die because they still would have captured their mobile Gunman, but...he really does have to, for Simon to come out of his shadow and be forced into the leadership role. Still. As I mentioned above, there is a certain stretch of pre-timeskip where Ryuko from Kill La Kill would make an excellent match-up for Simon.

I kinda was wondering if Boota was going to be relevant since he didn't grow at all during the timeskip, but to become some sort of humanoid thing with some sicc body tattoos is weird. Then they did nothing with it, except I guess to showcase the in-show lore of Spiral power and evolution, in an extreme case.

A more trivial detail that bothers me...is Nia's ring supposed to be cut out from the gem that Simon gave her pre-timeskip? The colour is identical, but nothing is ever said about the gem after he gives it to her.

Poor Yoko, though. Losing not one but two love interests. Especially since the episode with her as a schoolmarm made her out to be perfect mother material. The second-to-last episode has a brief scene where Yoko has a dream-within-a-dream sequence of her marrying Kitan, and said sequence is on a TV held by dream Kamina. So I guess Yoko at least subconsciously has freed up her feelings for Kamina to date again, even if Kitan already was dead by then? So theoretically, her and Simon could get together, since Simon has fully accepted Nia's death in the ending too and is willing to move on as well.

Finally, the topic that truly matters the most to us all...how the heck does Nia only have like a quarter the porn of Yoko? Is it because Yoko is a red-head? Busty? Fiery action girl? Fanservice girl? Or because she appears starting from the first episode, while Nia takes a quarter of the show to get introduced?
 

seitora

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Watched Gundam: The Witch from Mercury prologue that's up on YouTube. What a banger. I'll have to wait until October for the series proper to air, unfortunately. I need to check to see if they're doing simultaneous dubbing (or at least relatively quick with only a week's delay), and probably listen to the English dub as I usually have with Gundam series. Well, not that I've watched too many of them anyways.

Looking ahead to the fall 2022 anime season, stuff that I'm interesting in watching, in no particular order:

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (of course)
Chainsaw Man (the hype is real)
Spy X Family season 2
Cyberpunk: Edgerunner
Do It Yourself!
Urusei Yatsura
 

LORD_ARM

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The anime I am looking forward to:

Spy x Family Part 2
Mob Psycho 100 III
Mairimashita! Iruma-kun 3rd Season
Pop Team Epic 2nd Season
Urusei Yatsura (I am looking forward to it but I'm afraid it may end up like Sailor Moon Crystal. If you know anything about the original production of both anime, I think there is a good chance of it happening.)
Futoku no Guild
Chainsaw Man
4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku
 

seitora

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Watched the first (and only?) season of Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

Simply put, I cannot rave enough about how great it is, and highly recommend everyone who hasn't to watch it (Despite the marketing, the bunny girl suit only briefly comes in play, if you're worried about it being some ecchi thing).

A lot of stuff sells itself as being a coming-of-age story for teenagers, or delving deep into issues teens has. This actually fits that billing, instead of superficial analysis. I'm not sure if the plot McGuffin of 'Adolescence Syndrome' is merely meant to be a device for delivering commentary, or if it's actually building up to something in-series, but it's still an interesting way of moving the story along.

What's nice is...everyone actually cares for each other, and there's no inherent cynicism. Sakuta and Mai are refreshing in how they're written. They help talk other characters through their problems. Sometimes they have to show some tough love, and sometimes they have some compassion fatigue from the character of the arc being really difficult to get through to, but they never are anything but well-meaning. The two are probably a little too perfect at times, but it's not taken over the top. Since characters with Adolescence Syndrome cases keep falling into Sakuta's lap to deal with, and they're always girls, there's some cases where Mai can become envious, but it's also frustration at herself for not being able to help out more. The interactions between the two are really cute, too. Sakuta being open about his being a teenage boy with horny thoughts, Sakuta helping Mai out through her tough spots and giving her a cheer-up when she needs one, Mai encouraging Sakuta when he's feeling down, Mai tutoring him, Mai giving him mock scoldings and pinching his cheek or passive-aggressively stomping his foot. They're a really good couple, and there's no forced drama between the two.

There's not really a single bitchy or mean character in the entire cast. The only real exception are a couple of bit characters who are more just pushy or aggressive about a cause, not actually malicious. Heck, even the bit characters are genuinely nice. Sakuta's guy friend Kunimi is a likeable guy, able to read the room at a few points and help Futaba over her own problems.

It's also kind of interesting how the characters who are involved in syndrome cases stay relatively involved in the story, at least in the sense that now they know something is on the up. Tomoe Koga is the only one who really falls off to the side, with only a few brief scenes after.

Visuals are spot on. Animation is really gorgeous overall. There's always the obvious spots where they go cheap such as dialogue facing away from the screen or holding stills for long periods of time. But overall, there's lots of really gorgeous background shots over the course of the show. The character animation is reasonably good too, though sometimes it feels oddly a little desaturated compared to the backgrounds.

Also, goddamn. The ending theme song is extremely dope. I was not expecting it to be that good. Surprisingly, it's got 111 million views on YouTube.
 
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