Author Topic: What Anime are you watching? (Read 684256 times)

B E C K · « **Reply #3360 on:** Apr 07, 2025, 03:36:03 PM »

I watched Gorilla girl anime. Not terrible but kind of boring. Main characters in shows like this need to have a goal and then work towards that goal. (Even if it's a flimsy-ass goal like being the bestest villainess ever but without any villainy.) This girl's all "I want a quiet life" so, like, what is she doing to get that? She's already a count's daughter so it's not like she's crawling out of poverty. It made no sense to me that she didn't keep the gorilla shit to herself instead of sharing with the snitch teacher. Once the credits started rolling, it felt like absolutely nothing happened. I like the scenes with the gorilla giving a thumbs up and stuff. I chuckled. But so far this girl's fucking boring and her guy friends left no impression so far.

B E C K · « **Reply #3361 on:** Apr 07, 2025, 03:38:04 PM »

Witch Watch was kind of funny but I don't like this type of female character. Something about her annoys me. I was all "fuck you" when she killed his cool vintage mug.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3362 on:** Apr 09, 2025, 12:43:40 PM »

The first episode of that new Gundam really grabbed me. I was glued to it from start to finish. The stylized humans go a long way for me, and the CG mobile suits aren't awful.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3363 on:** Apr 10, 2025, 02:24:07 PM »

Ninkoro wasn't on my radar, but the first episode was very charming and cleanly animated. I'll be watching more for sure for sure.

B E C K · « **Reply #3364 on:** Apr 10, 2025, 09:49:10 PM »

I couldn't get into either. I liked the designs and some of the animation was good but didn't care for either. I don't really have much of a critique like I did for some of the other stuff I watched. It's not like I thought either one was bad or anything.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3365 on:** Apr 10, 2025, 11:08:34 PM »

I'm just gonna go through my picks again and give a brief assessment:

Lazarus: Don't think I lasted five minutes. Nope.

My Hero Vigilantes: Mostly enjoyed this, but didn't like how the one female character was immediately relegated to damsel status. Maybe she was faking it for some reason to be revealed later?

Aharen: Still adorable.

Witch Watch: This was pretty good. Forgot what a derp Nico is early on. Her character definitely improves as the story moves forward.

Loser Ranger: Haven't watched yet.

Kowloon Generic Romance: So far, so good. Was honestly shocked by the amount of goon appeal, though.

GQuuuuuuX: Love.

How to become Ordinary: I hate how the protags are estranged, but I'm still enraptured by this show.

Rock Lady: Surprised by how ugly the animation was on this one. And then they switch to even uglier CG models anytime they play their instruments. No thanks.

Apocalypse Hotel: This one has big Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou vibes for me, but it might end up being a little twee for my tastes.

Anne don't call me Shirley: This was okay. I like how the backgrounds are all these dreamlike paintings.

Yaiba: The action in this one is way too fluid. I'm just waiting for it to fall off, because I can't see them maintaining that quality throughout the entire run.

Guilty Gear: Embarrassing trash. Fucking dogshit.

Dinner Table Detective: Another one that looks nice, but it's a damn detective show. Ugh. | Update: Dropped after E02

Mononoke Lecture Logs: Looks cheap. Gave up almost immediately.

Alien MuMu: As soon as the girl started explaining in detail how microwaves operate, I checked out.

Moonrise: First episode was okay. It's all there on Netflix, so I'll probably chell it out every now and then.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3366 on:** Apr 10, 2025, 11:19:20 PM »

I just remembered I tried the one where the chick removes her pantsu to rewind time. I get it. I mean, I understand what it's meant to be, but it's just too sanitized and safe to be erotic. I'll never understand the anime industry's preoccupation with this type of blue balls bullshit.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3367 on:** Apr 15, 2025, 07:53:38 PM »

Speaking of the smut, I also looked at the dark elf one and the android one. Dark elf: binned. Android: on the chopping block.

Just to elaborate on the dark elf show... the "male" protag is this androgynous child that she's drooling over... I just don't buy your premise. There is no eroticism to be had here.

B E C K · « **Reply #3368 on:** Apr 15, 2025, 09:22:54 PM »

I also watched part of that Dark Elf one a couple of weeks ago and it's like... I thought this was a yandere, not a pedo. Gross.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3369 on:** Apr 16, 2025, 11:54:21 AM »

Yeah, like what do they call the gender-swapped loli fetish stuff? Shota? That's was this is, right? She absolutely dwarfs him physically. It's like a mother and her son.

Begone.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3370 on:** Apr 20, 2025, 07:19:06 PM »

To Be Hero X.

Do you think they watched Arcane?

B E C K · « **Reply #3371 on:** Apr 21, 2025, 07:45:18 PM »

I've kinda given up on this season. Even stuff I haven't tried yet. It feels like a dud. The Too-Perfect Saint and Apothecary Diaries season two are all I'm sticking with and Too-Perfect Saint isn't exactly all that great. I've read the manga and like it okay enough to stick with it but I can't recommend the anime. It's kind of bland.

I did, however, finally finish Delicious in Dungeon. I actually stopped around ep 7 or so but restarted it completely and watched it with Merla over a couple of weekends. I'm glad I waited. What a fantastic show. I still thinks it starts off a bit meh. It's not bad but it didn't really hook me which is why I wasn't in any hurry to finish it. But by the end, I felt invested in this story's world. This type of story could've easily become boring with a generic fantasy world found in most isekai but this world manages to feel super unique.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #3372 on:** Apr 22, 2025, 10:00:57 PM »

After Delicious in Dungeon and Frieren last year, every season will suck in comparison from now on.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3373 on:** Apr 23, 2025, 12:01:23 PM »

I'm watching a lot, but I'm really not over the moon about most of it.

Summer's looking pretty stacked, though.

B E C K · « **Reply #3374 on:** May 10, 2025, 06:52:43 AM »

Rock is a Lady's Modesty may have been picked back up by me. I don't recall what caught my attention but I dipped back in to watch an episode and things are actually moving at a good pace. Funny enough, the strength of this show is having the characters play music out in the world. When they're actually playing music in public performances I'm much more interested, weird mo-cap and all. Yes, we need a story too and I understand that needs some measure of set up, but that's not the strong part of the show. Neither is watching mo-cap in a boring practice room.

I almost feel like this show should've started with episode four. I skipped episodes two and three and literally nothing of value was lost. Even episode one feels redundant. Some of that set-up could've been put in four and the rest skipped. If I continue to stick back with this show, maybe I'll rewatch it and change my mind.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #3375 on:** May 10, 2025, 12:22:06 PM »

From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman anime could have been pretty good based on the manga I've read of it, but they absolutely bombed the adaptation. Every fight thus far has been handwaved...there were three (bumpkin vs loli magic sensei, bumpkin and muscle student vs. flying cockatrice, bumpkin and loli magic sensei vs street gang necromancer boss) in the manga that lasted several chapters, and in the show lasts a couple minutes at most. It's a shame, as it had the makings of a unique and entertaining storyline, but the fights have to be there.

B E C K · « **Reply #3376 on:** May 11, 2025, 12:09:38 PM »

Yeah, they did that same shit with that Guild Receptionist anime last season: take the fights and make them nothing-burger.

Also, I heard that Apothecary Diaries is taking the week off.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3377 on:** May 11, 2025, 02:01:35 PM »

Bumpkin is alright, but the way characters move around during combat just looks absolutely fucked. And it's on full display right out of the gate in the intro. It's like trash-tier rotoscoping or something, and the director is incompetent at fight scenes. And that would explain why they've just been skimming over the big encounters.

Further to that, whether you're a fan of Demon Slayer or not, you can't deny the transition from manga to anime is nothing short of miraculous. Imagine Bumpkin in that team's hands, you know?

But that's probably all just beyond the scope of their production. Bumpkin seems very... obligatory. Like, no one's really expecting anything from it, so there's no extra effort being made. Just get it out there and move on to the next project.

Too much anime feels like that, honestly.

B E C K · « **Reply #3378 on:** May 14, 2025, 08:44:18 PM »

I'd go as far as to say most media is like that these days. Phone it in and move on to the next one. I feel like the terrible shit from thirty years ago or whatever was at least trying to have fun. But that could be rose-colored glasses.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3379 on:** May 14, 2025, 10:10:38 PM »

I will admit, despite the relatively crummy animation, I'm still watching it. It's oddly compelling.

I also started watching Lycoris Recoil, which I had completely passed over back when it initially aired. "Another girls with guns show? Bugger off."

But after checking out the new shortform series, I was like, "Damn! Did the original show look this nice?" And the answer is yes.

B E C K · « **Reply #3380 on:** May 16, 2025, 08:25:51 PM »

That's been on my list of stuff to watch but I never got to it.

Not anime, but Mangadex got DMCA'd big time. Super bummed because I loved reading stuff there. Especially both Apothecary Diaries mangas. One of the few manga sites that didn't throw a hundred titty ads in your face when trying to view a single page. The Maomao Notes manga doesn't even have an official English release for fuck's sake.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3381 on:** May 17, 2025, 11:39:40 PM »

Have you tried any of the official manga apps? If you're current on Apothecary, you could probably keep up with it on Manga Up! using their free daily points. That's how I've been reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You.

God do I hate how they subdivide chapters, though. What a racket.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3382 on:** May 18, 2025, 10:43:33 AM »

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B E C K · « **Reply #3383 on:** May 18, 2025, 04:23:48 PM »

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep them in mind.

Without a new episode and with Mangadex's issues, I decided to dip my toes into the Apothecary Diaries LNs. I was gonna do it legit but, holy fuck, $19 USD for a physical copy of volume one? Are you people out of your fuckin' minds? It's not even a "novel" novel, it's a light novel. Meanwhile, one of the author's other titles being published in English by another company is $13 USD. But $19? Absolute insanity. And I'm not buying shit on Kindle, Amazon. Not when you can go in and do whatever the fuck you want with the files I "buy".

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Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #3384 on:** May 20, 2025, 06:30:36 PM »

Quote from: B E C K on May 18, 2025, 04:23:48 PM

I decided to dip my toes into the Apothecary Diaries LNs. I was gonna do it legit but, holy fuck, $19 USD for a physical copy of volume one? Are you people out of your fuckin' minds? It's not even a "novel" novel, it's a light novel. Meanwhile, one of the author's other titles being published in English by another company is $13 USD. But $19? Absolute insanity. And I'm not buying shit on Kindle, Amazon. Not when you can go in and do whatever the fuck you want with the files I "buy".

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You have to go through all kinds of raging advertisement bullhell to get to the actual links, but it's free.

B E C K · « **Reply #3385 on:** May 26, 2025, 09:33:28 AM »

I watched the white pig nobleman fat rich child isekai reincarnation anime. I don't recall the name and don't care enough to look it up. But it's decent. It's not exciting or particularly pretty to look at. I guess you're supposed to find the children cute or something. They're okay. The show's okay. I couldn't sleep Saturday night and watching four episodes in a row was enough for me to relax. It's basically slice of life but there's enough of a plot to just manage to feel invested. I give it a B-.

B E C K · « **Reply #3386 on:** May 26, 2025, 09:47:04 AM »

In addition to the above, I watch the available episodes of Red Fox last week. It's Korean, based on a webtoon. The "animated" adaptation can barely be called that. The characters barely move.

You may as well read the webtoon. The animated version does that thing of rushing through the story just to adapt as much as possible. But that feels like a mistake because there's so many layers to this story and its characters.

The people who made this would've been better off telling various tales from within the webtoon's world itself. Unless the viewer already read the webtoon, the story feels disjointed.

Meh, I give this a D, I guess. Not complete garbage but not really worthy of anyone's time.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3387 on:** Jun 02, 2025, 07:52:39 PM »

The Summer Anime Bounty is nigh! Please forgive my absolute clutter:

B E C K · « **Reply #3388 on:** Jun 04, 2025, 07:29:02 PM »

I want to like Too-Perfect Saint more than I actually do but I can't: the bad guys are so fucking annoying. The shitty prince and the main character's shitty adoptive parents. Anytime they open their mouths, I lose brain cells. I hate the over-the-top moustache-twirling one-dimensional villains. The worst shit ever. Which sucks because the show has several characters I actually do like.

So Summer 2025...
I'm also sort of watching Anne Shirley, which continues into summer. It's moving at such a fast pace so I'm interested in how far they will adapt it. So that will be a 'yes.'

On the ones joe posted, I actually didn't finish Dandadan nor start Kaiji No. 8. I'm housesitting again so probably time to reactivate my Crunchyroll Premium so I can catch up on shit. I wish Call of the Night was on there. HiDive, pfft. Fuck off with HiDive. Yes, I know, yo ho ho. But it's not a priority show for me so it can wait.

Does The Summer Hikaru Died actually come out in summer? That's fun. My friend probably still has her shitty Netflix with ads so that'd have to wait until I come back home again.

Panty and Stocking. I don't know how interested I still am in that. I guess I'd still watch an episode or two and decide then.

City the Animation looks very nice. Who's picking it up in the US tho'?

Introduction to Mineralogy is in the Maybe pile.

The cat one looks like the first episode will be interesting/fun and then it'll get old super fast.

Takopi's Original Sin sounds fucking depressing. Maybe it's actually not but the premise of it on the off-set is a fucking bummer. Good Vibes Only.

Bullet Bullet is Maybe pile.

Don't really have an interest or any thoughts on the rest atm.

Other stuff on my list, some of these I've already posted:

Hell Teacher Nube

Secrets of the Silent Witch

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity

There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...
(Cute girl yuri)

April Showers Bring May Flowers
(Ugly girl x hot guy. I tried some of the manga and I think the story was kind of weak)

With You and the Rain
(Tanuki.)

Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter

See You Tomorrow at the Food Court
(Looks cute but only 6 eps per Live Chart?)

Betrothed to My Sister's Ex

With Vengeance, Sincerely, Your Broken Saintess
(No trailer. Allegedly supposed to come out this summer.)

The Water Magician
(This is a Dishonorable Mention one for the fact that the visual promoting it looks so cool and then the trailer utterly fails to sell this to me as something I need to watch. Now that's a niche talent if I ever saw one!)

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3389 on:** Jun 09, 2025, 11:35:44 PM »

I started watching Asobi Asobase. Not sure how I managed to dodge it all those years ago. Probably took one look at it and assumed it was some cutesy show about female friendship.

How wrong I was.