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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Last post by B E C K on Apr 11, 2024, 09:20:50 PM »After being pretty spoiled the last couple of seasons, I'm not really excited about this season at all. The popular continuing shows are not things I was watching and a lot of new stuff looks garbo. I watched Unnamed Memory and it wasn't bad but there was something super dull about it. The same with A Condition Called Love. That one gives a bit more in terms of flaws for the leads but it's just not that exciting. I can't go from Skip to Loafer to this nor more than I can go from 7th Time Loop Villainess to Unnamed Memory. Again, they aren't bad. They just feel watered down and not exciting.
I'm a bit surprised by Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers. My YouTube casting is fucked up again so I just put that show on as a lark to kill some time and got invested in the thing. I jumped over to the manga and was pleasantly surprised. I poured through about 30+ chapters of it. This may very well be the only thing I watch this season. Unless one of you guys spring up a surprise recommendation.
I'm a bit surprised by Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers. My YouTube casting is fucked up again so I just put that show on as a lark to kill some time and got invested in the thing. I jumped over to the manga and was pleasantly surprised. I poured through about 30+ chapters of it. This may very well be the only thing I watch this season. Unless one of you guys spring up a surprise recommendation.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Last post by Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 06, 2024, 09:34:55 PM »A character featured (and a tandem feature, at that) in a single episode and an exceedingly minor role in a single arc is hardly a blip on the radar for my part. And it's all the more satisfying when she gets to the third test.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Last post by jonhammstein on Apr 05, 2024, 02:23:46 AM »One thing I've always applauded Frieren for is its sensibly dressed characters... and then Little Miss Teen Prossy shows up.
Well.
Well.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Last post by Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 04, 2024, 09:56:51 PM »I'm waiting for the last episode's English dub to finish out Frieren. I watched it week to week, and I was very happy with it.
Dangers of the Heart was a big surprise....I'm not much on school kid romances, but this has been an enjoyable, sweet show. I'd read that the first season was good, so I checked it out, and so I'm halfway through S2. Luckily I have a little more time to finish before Spring hits its stride.
I liked the Banished from the Hero's Party show. It's an actual non-isekai fantasy show about how a guy quit fighting the good fight but turned out to be the guy keeping the team working the whole time. A tired trope, but well-executed in this case. If it dies with S2, it's fine, but I wouldn't mind seeing it continue.
Delicious in Dungeon was entertaining and is still on-going. Another non-isekai fantasy show, this time involving how to survive in dungeons by turning monsters into Japanese staple meals. It's fun.
Spring has a bunch of continuations I'm interested in picking up...KonoSuba s3, Slime-kun s3, Demon King Academy S2P2, Irregular at Magic High School s3. I may even go back and hit S2 of Sound Euphonium seeing as s3 is coming up...it was one of those shows I enjoyed but had a hard time getting back into watching. But my backlog is so ponderous at this point that I'm hoping for a stinker season, as I have shows from last year I haven't put a dent in yet.
Dangers of the Heart was a big surprise....I'm not much on school kid romances, but this has been an enjoyable, sweet show. I'd read that the first season was good, so I checked it out, and so I'm halfway through S2. Luckily I have a little more time to finish before Spring hits its stride.
I liked the Banished from the Hero's Party show. It's an actual non-isekai fantasy show about how a guy quit fighting the good fight but turned out to be the guy keeping the team working the whole time. A tired trope, but well-executed in this case. If it dies with S2, it's fine, but I wouldn't mind seeing it continue.
Delicious in Dungeon was entertaining and is still on-going. Another non-isekai fantasy show, this time involving how to survive in dungeons by turning monsters into Japanese staple meals. It's fun.
Spring has a bunch of continuations I'm interested in picking up...KonoSuba s3, Slime-kun s3, Demon King Academy S2P2, Irregular at Magic High School s3. I may even go back and hit S2 of Sound Euphonium seeing as s3 is coming up...it was one of those shows I enjoyed but had a hard time getting back into watching. But my backlog is so ponderous at this point that I'm hoping for a stinker season, as I have shows from last year I haven't put a dent in yet.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Last post by B E C K on Apr 04, 2024, 09:35:53 PM »Yeah, I wasn't jazzed about the mage exam. I was pleasantly surprised by it in that it ends up overall well-executed even if some parts of it drag a bit. We get some good characters from it, too. But an exam arc in and of itself is about as worn-out and tired as a tourney arc. And this part of the show introduces the worst outfit in the series. This may as well be Julia Roberts' hooker outfit from Pretty Woman. And some peeps on Reddit were all "wut about Laufen tho?" What about Laufen? Laufen's outfit doesn't kill my immersion like this shit does.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Last post by jonhammstein on Apr 02, 2024, 09:01:08 PM »I'm a few episodes into the mage exam on Frieren, and I have to say this is the first time the show has started to lose my interest a little bit. I'm not here for this Naruto-tier shōnen tournament shit. Not to mention suddenly dumping all these new characters onto us all at once, and most of them are featured in the intro so I have to assume at least a few of them end up actually being important, but right now I don't give a fuck about any of them.
It's not enough to make me walk away or anything, I just hope it gets resolved sooner rather than later.
It's not enough to make me walk away or anything, I just hope it gets resolved sooner rather than later.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Last post by B E C K on Apr 01, 2024, 07:12:40 PM »The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases is fuckin' uggo-looking with some real wonk-ass animation. Damn, that's tragic. Or funny, depending on the reason you choose to watch this. 
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Last post by jonhammstein on Mar 29, 2024, 02:10:47 PM »Godzilla multiplied by Kong
It was fine. Much better than the previous one. So ridiculous, though. I was laughing at the absurdity of it.
Where do they even go from here, though? Aliens? And then the one after that they can send Godzilla and Kong into space to counterattack the alien planet. Or maybe they could do time travel. Backward or forward? Both?
It's all just so stupid.
Get Microsoft Copilot to write it.
It was fine. Much better than the previous one. So ridiculous, though. I was laughing at the absurdity of it.
Where do they even go from here, though? Aliens? And then the one after that they can send Godzilla and Kong into space to counterattack the alien planet. Or maybe they could do time travel. Backward or forward? Both?
It's all just so stupid.
Get Microsoft Copilot to write it.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
« Last post by B E C K on Mar 29, 2024, 01:53:54 PM »Hey, it is pretty good. I almost wish I was remotely interested in anything else on Disney+. This show's also rekindled my love of Rogue that was stomped on so mercilessly by Anna Paquin and the live action slop. (For the record, I like X1 and X2, but I hated Anna Paquin Rogue. I wanted a warm, feisty Southern belle with Peggy Bundy hair.)
I wasn't completely sold on the Cyclops VA. Ray Chase is super-talented but Cyke just sounds sorta extra douchey. But I like it now. I'm so confused about Forge though. Wasn't he in the old show? I guess he didn't meet Storm in it?
I wasn't completely sold on the Cyclops VA. Ray Chase is super-talented but Cyke just sounds sorta extra douchey. But I like it now. I'm so confused about Forge though. Wasn't he in the old show? I guess he didn't meet Storm in it?