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« on: Aug 29, 2024, 08:46:15 PM »
I'm watching it, but I couldn't tell you why as I don't really find it humorous.
I've caught myself enjoying Pseudo Harem despite the male lead senpai who comes across as incredibly dense (like that's never been a complaint in anime). Dude, it's painfully obvious that the main girl kohai is crushing on him. Then again, maybe he does realize it and is just keeping her at arm's length knowing he's about to graduate. In any case, contrary to the implications of "Harem" in the name it's a rather sweet show.
2.5 Dimensional Seduction is another show that's a bit deceptive. Sure, there's quite a lot of fan service, but the relationships therein are rather low-key. If anything it could afford to be a bit more romantic. It's really in the same vein as My Dress-up Darling, just not as good and without the MC closeness.
Talking about low-key reminds me of Days with My Step-Sister. The title is self-explanatory, with two classmates who suddenly become step siblings and are doing their best to set boundaries that you just know are going to come crashing down and hurt inside (like R3@1 Americans). This has been done before, and time will tell how much better it's been done, but one thing for sure is that this show is sloooooooooooooow. Not a good late-night watch, I've found.
I've historically enjoyed the Reincarnated as a Slime show, but this season I haven't really delved into. And it apparently has finished jumping the shark and has become a boardroom simulator. Frankly, I have enough of that boardroom bullshit at work and don't need to find it in my trashy big-titty harem isekai anime thank you very much.
Speaking of big-titty harems, I've low-ball enjoyed the The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses show. Dude has sufficiently irritated 60% of the girls under his roof into marrying him, and of the other 40% one is just barely not underage and the other is completely uninterested (who I imagine long-term will wind up being the one). Not only that, but they instigated another restaurant full of afore-mentioned goddesses of the melon grande variety who'll probably want to fuck him next. But there's enough story between the guy walking in on ten tens in various states of undress to string me along.
The Alya show has been enjoyable. It boils down to the guy being able to do whatever he wants but doesn't want to because of family angst. Golden Boy he is not, but the statuesque white-haired Russian sure fills him with want-to! Unfortunately like many anime involving student councils we get stuck with the plot being driven by student council crap. I get that it's the raison d'etre for the core cast to be brought together, but it drives everything...I've read the LN, and five volumes in it's still student council this and student council that. They really need to get out of that rut, because the Russian sisters and the MC and his sister (sorry, Nuri, but Yuki and her relationship with Masachika is one of the main reasons to watch this show; that shit's hilarious) are awesome as are some of the peripheral family members like Masa's chill Russia-loving grandpa and the classroom neighbors.
I haven't started watching Too Many Losing Heroines yet, nor Sengoku Youko, which are supposed to be good to fair, respectively. I started pulling Failure Frame, but reading the manga made me remember that I don't care for gore and/or depressing anime (the latter being why I no-sold Anohana after downloading the whole season some time back).
As for War of the Rohirrim, I don't consider it so much as anime as it is a peculiar melding of east and west styles à la Castlevania (and, good Lord, the set shots look freaking amazing!). The Rohirrim were my favorite people group from Middle-Earth, and the tale of Helm Hammerhand is one of my favorite backstory elements from the legendarium. Consequently, I'm very much looking forward to it; granted, there will be significant poetic license taken as it features the unnamed daughter of Helm as the main character, but that gave them quite a bit of freedom. I'm not going to elevate this to the level of the LOTR movies, but I fully expect it to be superior to the Hobbit movies and for damn sure Rings of Powet (of which I will be watching the first of the second season episodes tonight...against my better judgment). I'm expecting Nausicaa in Rohan which fills me with unmitigated glee.