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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2610 on: Aug 22, 2018, 02:45:10 PM »
I'm still enjoying Aggretsuko occasionally (as in, I haven't binged it but when I do watch it I mostly enjoy it).

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2611 on: Aug 22, 2018, 08:37:26 PM »
Hah, I binged it several times but seeing as the series is so short, I got my fill pretty quickly. The hippo's a hoot. No one wants to see a picture of your nephew.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2612 on: Aug 28, 2018, 10:23:46 PM »
I finally saw Mary and the Witch's Flower. Imagine Kiki's Delivery Service except Kiki's a completely unlikable brat and liar; she's raised by the old ladies except they have no personality; the town she settles in is barely an twentieth its actual size and looks completely barren and dead; the boy she interacts with barely has any lines and is cracker-bland; and the Jiji never spoke at all but has a gf. That is this movie.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2613 on: Aug 29, 2018, 03:56:57 AM »
I liked the colors and images in it, butyeah the movie wasn't good and it left a LOT of questions unsolved.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2614 on: Sep 22, 2018, 07:20:19 PM »
Oh my God JoJo Part 5 starts in two weeks nothing else matters!

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2615 on: Sep 22, 2018, 09:49:22 PM »
How Not To Summon a Demon Lord (or "Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu" if you're a relentless weeaboo) turned out to be far better than I expected. Sure, there's a bunch of ecchi harem hijinks, but it was paced really nicely, had some real characterization work (particularly the titular demon lord/neet), had a well-realized storyline, and was animated consistently. It's not going to go down as a watershed moment in anime history, but I enjoyed it over and above what I expected. It's next to Hanebado (which tapered off significantly...I hope the finale delivers) as the only two shows I watched that were worthwhile this season.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2616 on: Sep 27, 2018, 09:03:53 PM »
Netflix finally added the rest of Saiki (no dub yet). And some Dragon Pilot show's there too that I wanna try. I'll probably watch them both next week.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2617 on: Sep 30, 2018, 02:53:48 PM »
I just pulled a show called Natsume Yuujinchou (Natsume's Book of Friends) from something like 10 years ago. On the strength of the first half of the first season and a number of positive reviews I acquired the following four seasons.  15 year-old Natsume's sees spirits who often harrass and threaten him, and it's because his grandmother years before had dominated them by having them sign her book of friends that caused them to become her thralls. Now that he's inherited the book, he encounters spirits who want to be released from or to have the book for nefarious reasons. He accidentally frees a fortune cat spirit who promises to be his bodyguard in hopes of attaining the book at some point, and they form a partnership. It's a supernatural slice-of-life show that has an easy-going pace and tells cute stories. It's a relaxation show that is pleasing to me. No idea where it's going at this point, but so far so good.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2618 on: Oct 06, 2018, 07:44:13 PM »
You just reminded me I've been meaning to try that show.

I tried this show on Netflix called Piano in the Forrest, or something like that. Crappy CG, obvious production short cuts, over-the-top characters that don't fit in, and a weird-ass scene where a character has to show his junk to his bullies (these are kids, btw). Also, apparently story is missing with several chapters skipped over. Blech. No. Dropped immediately.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2619 on: Oct 06, 2018, 11:41:16 PM »
Downloaded Tiger & Bunny this past week...so far it's pretty entertaining. I figured I'd better watch that, as I'm pulling Double Decker! this season, which is apparently based in the same universe.

Now that the summer season is done (mostly), this is the time I crap on the shows I chose to watch:

Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san  (Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs) - this was the hallmark ecchi harem show of the season. However it wasn't very smutty aside from the predictably random (contradiction in terms? perhaps) boob flashes. However, the MC was a virtuous person who actually had it together for the most part, but he was pretty milquetoast. The girls were cute but vapid and undeveloped in general (well, some were but only in certain ways...). As for the show itself, if this was a romcom they frankly forgot the rom part in favor of the com which itself wasn't exemplary, and the production values were nothing to write home about. In other words, it's the latest rendition of a genre we've seen a million times already.

Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu (How Not to Summon a Demon Lord) - I already went into this one above...
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[It] turned out to be far better than I expected. Sure, there's a bunch of ecchi harem hijinks, but it was paced really nicely, had some real characterization work (particularly the titular demon lord/neet), had a well-realized storyline, and was animated consistently. It's not going to go down as a watershed moment in anime history, but I enjoyed it over and above what I expected. It's next to Hanebado (which tapered off significantly...I hope the finale delivers) as the only two shows I watched that were worthwhile this season.
And, yes, the finale delivered. Hopefully it'll deliver another season, as well. This was a fun show.

Island (just Island) - a dude goes back in time to save a girl on an island that has some special significance: basically that everyone seems to reincarnate somehow. There are 3 to choose from, and it feels like an adaptation of a dating sim because they spend time developing two of them to a degree before focusing on the third. It really takes a turn into left field about half- to 2/3rds of the way through, where it seems like they realized they spent a lot of time goofing off and finally jumped/flashed back to the predicating events of the series which have jack squat to do with the titular island. It looked decent to good, but the story never really coalesced until the very end, so it felt like a waste of time, particularly in how it panned out.

Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria (The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar) - guy gets magically teleported to a parallel world/the past in the middle of the Norse epics. With his solar-powered iPhone he keeps up with his girlfriend/cousin/whatever and picks the mind of Sun Tsu to become a great general of his adoptive clan and his crew of primitive babes with magic powers. The show looked like crap, the premise was ridiculous, the story didn't make much sense, and it was a slog to watch.

Grand Blue (Grand Blue Dreaming) - guy goes to college expecting to enjoy a life of light study, parties, and female companionship. But when he moves into his uncle's dive shop what he gets is forcible induction into a dive club populated by habitually naked jocks who force him to become a barely functional alcoholic. Here's his story of being introduced to the world of diving (which is honestly very little of this show) along with his hot cousin, otaku friend/rival/enemy, and a former makeup freak who just wants to belong. It's funny, but not as much as the manga, and the art slips between being great in the sea scenes to middling elsetime. I figure this is a single-season show, which is kind of sad because the book is still ongoing and much funnier, but this wasn't bad.

Hanebado! (The Badminton play of Ayano Hanesaki!) - I never realized badminton had an "n" in it until I started typing this. I always pronounce it, "bad-mitton", and don't remember ever actually writing or typing the actual word before. Weird. Anyway, the badminton scenes generally looked great, but the rest not so much. Hanesaki is the titular star, but she turns out to be a brain-damaged jerk despite being portrayed as a poor, maladjusted cutie pie in the early parts. As such, I was hoping for everyone to beat her out of the matches, even if she was pushed into becoming that way by her crappy mom who I wish would have been hit by a bullet train. The real stars in the show are the individual members of the club, from her friend who made her join to the captain who she crushed in the previous year's competition, who really was to me the real star of the show. I like how it panned out, and I enjoyed most of it, except the parts involving Hanesaki and the unhappy wenches who orbited her (primarily her external rivals). So I'm of two minds with this one; I still recommend it, but with the caveat that the main protagonist becomes a nearly unlikable jerk.

Satsuriku no Tenshi (Angels of Death) - this sucked, and I don't even know why I'm still watching it. I say "still" because there are four more episodes coming out after the season because they couldn't stink it up enough with just 12 eps. I'm not even going to bother synopsizing it...so you shouldn't bother with it, either. But I'll finish it, because I want to see how they explain why they're in the building, why they're being pursued, how they got there, how they're getting out, and who the heck they are to start with, which they didn't bother to do any of in the preceding 12.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2620 on: Oct 30, 2018, 08:01:37 AM »
Not watching but reading an Inuyasha doushinji (Sesshomaru- Kagome centered) and I LOVE IT.

Oh yes and I DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS A TEASER OF EVA 4.0. I WAS LIKE FREAKING OUT . Also while I was in a subway in Japan (came back last week) I saw a tvcommercial of Sapporo in which they interview Anno and they show Eva 01 walking in the back, pretty damn cool .

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2621 on: Oct 30, 2018, 07:57:33 PM »
That was a truly crummy teaser. It was more like a screen test for a rejected Eva and a sadly unrejected character.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2622 on: Oct 31, 2018, 06:59:16 AM »
Pls. It was obviously fan service thru and thru. Didn't you see Mari's big ass tittays?? I thought it was awesome tbh, and the music too.

Btw when I went to Nihon I went to the Eva store (as always) and all the Shinji+Kaworu merch was sold out. Japanese love their 'mos

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2623 on: Nov 13, 2018, 10:19:05 PM »
I watched some of Fairy Tail on YouTube. I don't know how I ended up there but I was curious about the outcome of the fight so I kept watching. I had to skip through a lot of it though because that shit was dragging on forever. Like five minutes of fighting for every fifty minutes of reactions, character wanking, and commentary.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2624 on: Nov 14, 2018, 03:33:30 AM »
I decided it was about time I got around to watching My Hero Academia, and I managed to binge 26 episodes over 48 hours, but over the past few days I've stalled out. Does it pick up again?

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2625 on: Jan 03, 2019, 01:43:02 PM »
I decided it was about time I got around to watching My Hero Academia, and I managed to binge 26 episodes over 48 hours, but over the past few days I've stalled out. Does it pick up again?

I know so many people that love this show but this description makes me uninterested. Are those first 26 episodes that good?
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2626 on: Jan 03, 2019, 05:23:03 PM »
I have to do an end-of-season commentary...except I still haven't even started one of the shows I DL'ed. But, in short, Reincarnated Slime was/is fun but slow, Bunny Girl Senpai was bueno excellente, Iroduku was really pretty, SSSS.Gridman was epic, Boarding School Juliet was derivative tripe, and I haven't watched Double Decker yet.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2627 on: Jan 03, 2019, 10:46:14 PM »
The websites I usually go to watch anime at are either overrun with ads to an annoying degree or shut down. So I haven't really gone out of my way to watch much lately. Not that anything has really interested me. I've finally watched Hunter x Hunter (2011) since I can stream it all on Tubi. I know it was on Netflix once upon a time but I found myself hella bored with the first episode. Even now, I've already gotten to the end and I'm struggling to actually go back and watch the beginning due to how damn boring it is.

I do like this... sort of. Taking it as a whole, it's got some dynamic characters (as it should considering there's about, like, 500 of them) and catchy music. But it's also got this weird tonal problem. I don't know how else to describe it. Some of my gripes...

False Group:
I feel like the promo art and the opening credits try to sell this as an adventure with a quartet a la Yu Yu Hakusho (I know it's by the same guy). Only Gon and Killua have a true chemistry together. They are an adorable pair and play off of each other well. Kurapika and Leorio feel tacked on in a lot of their scenes with the other two and a lot of the time I found myself wondering why I was supposed to care about them or why they were even there.

Odd Sympathies:
It kept trying to make us feel sorry for assholes. Not the only example by any means but the Phantom Troupe are dicks and the story at times throws us too much into their perspective. This group is all "murder for lols" and "le steals for keks" and then we're supposed to experience story from their perspective and feel bad these murdering pricks lost two of their friends. Hisoka's a dick but at least he's a selfish troll and owns it. Even Illumi owns his weirdness. Meanwhile, we get a whole ep about these sadistic eyeball thieves protecting their junkyard. Gag me.

Pedolicious:
Like, why do this? And there's all these people defending Hisoka but he's looking at little boy asses. Come on. And the fuck was Palm's deal? It was weird. And the thing is it wouldn't have mattered half as much if the protags had been aged up. But, no, let's keep Gon 11/12 and have a 22 year old woman and a 28 year old man harass him. It's just an weird story choice.

Shit Dad:
I don't get how he could care so much about this crappy man and not have two shits to rub together for his mother. And the way the dad arranged shit for his son before-hand like Greed Island... It relied on too many variables to match up. And the story is trying to get us to root for Gon to find his dad when he should've cut his losses because it makes no difference.

Again, overall I liked it. But I don't feel like I could actually recommend it to anyone.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2628 on: Jan 03, 2019, 11:20:09 PM »
Nyaa.si is the most important source for torrented anime...it has no ads. As for groups I generally stick with HorribleSubs since they're timely and do a decent job (ads but not intrusive ones). I keep tabs on a few other groups in case I'm looking for older stuff or better quality of a series not being released here within a reasonable span of time if ever, but as you've noticed they're getting fewer and farther between given the state of Japanese crackdowns on raws and the existence of things like CrunchyRoll.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2629 on: Mar 05, 2019, 08:28:24 PM »
I apologize if this has been mentioned/circulated here in the past, but it's worth mentioning again:

https://anichart.net/Spring-2019

I don't know how I've gone this long without knowing about this website. What a fucking resource! All upcoming anime with accompanying art and descriptions, and trailers more often than not.

I know that comes off as an advertisement, but it's really not. Someone linked to it on a blog post the other day, I clicked through out of curiosity and God damn, what a discovery. I love it!

Anyway, I finished Hunter × Hunter last night, and I don't really have as much to say about it as B E C K, but it made my eyes water in parts. I can't remember the last time I had that kind of emotional reaction to an anime. It's been a while.

Also, I binged that shit like crazy. An episode would end, and I'd be on to the next one over and over until I was too exhausted to continue.

Maybe my eyes were actually watering from overuse haha.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2630 on: Mar 06, 2019, 06:26:38 PM »
I gave My Hero Academia a chance. Besides being a typical generic shounen anime I actually found myself enjoying it. Enough to marathon the first season in a weekend.

What's up with grenade hands though? Dude's angry for no fucking reason like he has pinecone permanently wedged up his ass. I'm not exactly sure what's with this shounen trope where the main character always has to have this bitter rival that hates his guts (Vegeta, Sauske), but according to the fanfic fangirls probably secretly wants to fuck him. It's like it's not shounen unless that character exists. And at least in MHA, grenade hands really pisses me off.
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« Reply #2631 on: Mar 06, 2019, 10:03:08 PM »
I'm not exactly sure what's with this shounen trope where the main character always has to have this bitter rival that hates his guts (Vegeta, Sasuke)

Modern anime is a stagnant cesspool of regurgitated ideas.

Search your feelings; you know it to be true.

That reminds me, I have a few episodes of MHA left to watch before I'm caught up.

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« Reply #2632 on: Mar 08, 2019, 09:54:38 PM »
I apologize if this has been mentioned/circulated here in the past, but it's worth mentioning again:

https://anichart.net/Spring-2019

I don't know how I've gone this long without knowing about this website. What a fucking resource! All upcoming anime with accompanying art and descriptions, and trailers more often than not.

I know that comes off as an advertisement, but it's really not. Someone linked to it on a blog post the other day, I clicked through out of curiosity and God damn, what a discovery. I love it!

That's a neat site. I didn't realize there was going to be a Kabaneri movie.


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Anyway, I finished Hunter × Hunter last night, and I don't really have as much to say about it as B E C K, but it made my eyes water in parts. I can't remember the last time I had that kind of emotional reaction to an anime. It's been a while.

Also, I binged that shit like crazy. An episode would end, and I'd be on to the next one over and over until I was too exhausted to continue.

Maybe my eyes were actually watering from overuse haha.

It does do better on rewatches for some of the arcs. The Hunter exam is still pretty dull unfortunately. Greed Island is still a bit cringe. The Chimera Ant arc is almost art with some of the character development and dramatic beats. I still dislike Ging a lot. And I want Hisoka to ice the rest of the Phantom Troupe so badly. I want him to break Chrollo. I doubt it will happen because Chrollo is supposedly one of the author's favorite characters and heaven forbid we lose the boy-band edgy super-strong self-insert. But the show keeps you hooked once you dig into it, I'll give you that.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2633 on: Mar 08, 2019, 09:56:57 PM »
Modern anime is a stagnant cesspool of regurgitated ideas.

Pretty much.  Modern everything is sorta feeling that way.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2634 on: Mar 09, 2019, 04:15:58 AM »
Hehe. I was just quoting The D's signature. I don't feel as strongly about anime now as I did then. I've just accepted that most of it is going to be crap, and even if it isn't complete crap, it will probably still look like crap because of the meat grinder nature of the industry.

And honestly, anime has probably been that way since before I ever got into it. The difference is back in the day, everything we had access to had already been curated for us, and these days we have immediate access to pretty much all of it as it's released.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2635 on: Mar 09, 2019, 05:14:50 PM »
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai has been fun. A little different. That's really the only one I'm watching right now that's actually a good show, as the rest is middling.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2636 on: Mar 09, 2019, 11:29:59 PM »
Hehe. I was just quoting The D's signature. I don't feel as strongly about anime now as I did then. I've just accepted that most of it is going to be crap, and even if it isn't complete crap, it will probably still look like crap because of the meat grinder nature of the industry.

And honestly, anime has probably been that way since before I ever got into it. The difference is back in the day, everything we had access to had already been curated for us, and these days we have immediate access to pretty much all of it as it's released.

Also true. I have to keep reminding myself we have more available to us than ever and I have to curate for myself to find something new to watch.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2637 on: Mar 10, 2019, 04:46:06 AM »
I'm trudging through Dragon Ball Super right now. There's the tiniest glint of "something" there, but for the most part it's just been rough. And from the look of it the majority of the series seems to revolve around a tournament, so... yep. But I'm committed. And then I will be committed.

Also, revisiting Gintama. Wish I could remember where I left off, but it's been long enough that I probably won't be bored watching stuff I've already seen.

Trying out Reborn as well, because how did it last that long?! It's gotta have some kind of secret sauce in there somewhere. I'll find it.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2638 on: Mar 11, 2019, 02:57:25 PM »
I got sucked into My Hero Academia. Mostly I tried it because I was tired of seeing a LOT of cosplays that I didn't recognize at all. The most popular character of the cosplays apparently doesn't even show up until more than half-way through the second season.

Regardless, it's a kind of ridiculous fun. I forgot how much I fucking hate fan-service bullshit in anime. I suppose it's arguably worse in other series but I guess I'm just laser-focused on it here because I haven't really watched this sort of anime in awhile.
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« Reply #2639 on: Mar 19, 2019, 08:42:22 PM »
Finished MHA. Shit is really easy to binge so I didn't even realize I was at the end of a season. It was really anti-climactic ending as well. Just felt like they were setting up more stuff. Which, I guess they already knew it would continue but it didn't feel like the season ended in a satisfying way. That might have been true about the first two seasons as well but I didn't notice since I had more to watch, I guess.

Still need to watch the movie, so there's that at least.
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