Apparently the Pluto adaptation is slated for 2020 and will be made up of 8 long episodes, one for each volume of the manga. Urasawa is supervising and some staff from Monster and Keaton are involved.
That feeling when you realise you've either watched or aren't in the mood for literally every genuinely good or potentially good series on Hulu and Netflix and you don't have a Crunchyroll subscription.
First two episodes of Beast Player Erin were supremely charming, and then the third mugged me with feels. Still great, highly invested, knew this was coming, but I still feel sad.
First two episodes of Beast Player Erin were supremely charming, and then the third mugged me with feels. Still great, highly invested, knew this was coming, but I still feel sad.
I've not jumped on board with this because it has 50 episodes -_-
Apparently one of the design consultants on RahXephon was a legit science writer with an interest in giant arthropods, as well as an animation director on Gene Diver, a show apparently quite popular with Japanese proto-furries back in the '90s.
centaur holy shit! i totally missed that was getting an anime, awesome. finally liberal fascists will have representation in anime (this is facetious, it's a good comic)
clione no akari sounds cool from the description
dive!! is like, straight up free!, right? i mean.
i don't do fate but man "Yggdmillennia family"
made in abyss, well, obviously. every time a chapter comes out i suppress the urge to post spoilers here
fuuuuuckin owarimonogatari
princess principle sounds... like it could be interesting? or at least violent
tsurezure children is A Good Comic. what do you mean the format, just lots of stories?
actually if people haven't heard of centaur: it's "monster girls" and "cute girls doing cute things" but instead of porn it's (in large part) about racial politics, all metaphor-like. which is pretty weird for anything japanese.
this isn't a typical page, but it demonstrates that much
My brother basically sat me down in front of our Fire Stick and made me watch Twin Star Exorcists. It's pretty much your standard shonen stuff, but I think it's done pretty well from the bits I've seen of it (first four episodes or so)
also, I'm considering starting Nichijou just because I watched a YouTube video about its sense of humor and it seems like something I'd enjoy
My brother basically sat me down in front of our Fire Stick and made me watch Twin Star Exorcists. It's pretty much your standard shonen stuff, but I think it's done pretty well from the bits I've seen of it (first four episodes or so)
This show made me irrationally angry and I still haven't watched the last two episodes.
It's probably not actually completely terrible, just, yeah, standard shonen stuff, but it's definitely a mess for various reasons. Anime stops adapting the manga like halfway through and everything from then on is very inconsistent in quality (some of it is good, but also lots of it is not) and no particular effort is made to make the anime original stuff fit in with anything from the first 20ish episodes.
Though what I've heard about the manga also sounds pretty unappealing to me so something.
I always feel like there must be something deeply wrong with me, because I watched a whole load of clips of Nichijou a while back and none of them did anything for me at all. They just weren't funny.
I guess it's been long enough that maybe I'd feel differently now, idk.
Anyway as for the animes: Ballroom e Yousoko because I read and enjoyed some of the manga, and am a sucker for the drams. Same character designer as DRRR!! too.
Centaur because obviously. I'll read the manga after the anime in this case.
I will probably check out an episode of Gamers! because of that cute girl on the cover. I will probably also check out S4E1 of Hell Girl because.
Will be watching Kakegurui. Like the manga, anime looks good, looks to be maybe at least halfway capturing the manga's feel too, and I like the script writer.
Made in Abyss is a lock, naturally. New Game!! a potential lock. NTR is currently wavering between "definitely a lock" and "not at all a lock" purely due to it being a short, so I might just marathon it later. I will definitely be checking out Mary to Majo no Anne and Kimi no Koe wo Todoketai, and of course the Pokemon movie. Black General, I'll catch that later.
... man, was All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku like anything other than a late 90s meme show? I was reminded of it today, and I swear, back then I only ever heard people joke about it, inside and outside of the fandom. Only ever met one non-critic person who has so much as noted its existence, too.
Reminder that Hajimete no Gal is premiering in 11 days, for 10 episodes and an OVA, for those who care (which I guess are just Cerise and Jane probably?). Forget where it's streaming though.
Incredibly goofy. You know that one tumblr comic that's a Yugioh parody but with Uno? That's this, except it's various trad. card and board games (in the premiere episode they play card roshambo) and a 'Guitary level of weird implied eroticism. Also there are a ton of grotesque closeup face shots. It's a strange combination. Also all of the characters are impossible to sympathize with because they're a bunch of spoiled rich children, so I don't think it'll really be something you watch for the characters in that way. It's pretty damn over the top, is what I'm getting at. Odd little show, curious to see where it goes though if the wait between episodes gets too much at some point I might end up just reading the manga instead.
Knight's & Magic! Oooh this is an interesting little beast.
First of all yeah it's an isekai. It's a played-out genre I know and even in this case I kinda feel like that particular element is tacked on (it's mostly used to justify the main character's absurd overcompetence) but the rest of the show I'm honestly pretty impressed. I went in with very low expectations, and while I was spot on with some things (it's a fantasy mecha show in the same vein as The Vision of Escaflowne (or the double-fictional Vogelchevalier from re:CREATORS, and the mechs the fantastical demon creatures they fight are both CGI.), others really surprised me (it's a little stiff but surprisingly well done for the most part. Time will tell if that holds up as the show goes on). The visual design in general is just really nice, especially when it comes to magic which is presented as this sort of nebulous color-wash of geometric abstract power, often with little glyphs and runes actually *flying off of* the attacks as they're unleashed. It's a small touch but I like it.
Our main character is Ernie, who was a programmer from our world in a past life and also a mecha otaku. Somehow this makes him really great at magic (this show is not the sort that prioritizes logical explanations), he is a total femboy and is the most huggable character I've encountered so far this season. The isekai elements make him a little harder to fully love than I'd like because there is, in the back of my mind at least, that little niggling "this kid is actually an adult in a teenager's body", but so far it's been presented more as him having kind of a lingering memory of his mecha and programming obsessions more than anything else. It's a fairly typical set up for the genre but it's not overemphasized here I don't think and depending on how they play it I might even come to like it.
My main complaints so far is that the pacing even within just the first episode is odd. Quite a lot of ground is covered and we're introduced to over a dozen characters, so aside from Ernie himself (and his two love interests if my anime romance radar is working, they're sisters by the way) it's a bit hard to follow.
It's definitely not a terribly highbrow show but if you're looking for action and general cheesiness I think you could do a lot worse than this. I'm excited to see where it goes from here. This is a definite follow for me.
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I'mma go to bed now.
I was expecting worse with Fred Luo but I actually wasn't particularly taken aback. Aisha is good, though.
This should probably go in the internet critic thread but whatever. It's just a nice little piece about loving a work of art.
also, I'm considering starting Nichijou just because I watched a YouTube video about its sense of humor and it seems like something I'd enjoy
It's probably not actually completely terrible, just, yeah, standard shonen stuff, but it's definitely a mess for various reasons. Anime stops adapting the manga like halfway through and everything from then on is very inconsistent in quality (some of it is good, but also lots of it is not) and no particular effort is made to make the anime original stuff fit in with anything from the first 20ish episodes.
Though what I've heard about the manga also sounds pretty unappealing to me so something.
It is great, though. I'm not disputing that. Easily one of the funniest shows I know. It's just a bit much in large quantities.
I guess it's been long enough that maybe I'd feel differently now, idk.
> symphogear has a fourth season wtf
> two series named isekai something lol
> fashion plutocracy school?
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The results were worth it in my opinion.