now having finished binge-watching Penguindrum (going ahead of the anime stream, lol), I can now say that I don't fully get people who praised Utena but snubbed Penguindrum and Yurikuma later on
I only found out about people not liking Penguindrum after reading a glowing review of it by a person whose opinions I generally trust, so I'm preconditioned to be sceptical on the "consensus" here.
And there are people who think Yurikuma perpetuates bad yuri stereotypes, which is pretty, well, LOL.
i'm only on episode 11 of penguindrum but i have to ask
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does ringo get better??? right now she's just really annoying to me and combines the worst aspects of the tsundere and yandere archetypes. she's like, a creepy stalker almost date rapist towards tabuki, and verbally and physically abusive to shouma. i like terrible female characters usually but this is too much for meeee i'm so annoyed by her presence
Hand Shakers goes beyond 'bad' into "how did this get to broadcast" territory.
I mean, the first episode is bad in a fascinatingly bizarre way, but nobody seems to have seen more than that one episode. And at least it's, well, ambitiously bad? There's a lot of stuff which is bafflingly lousy which has even less to say for it.
I'm pretty sure that's far from all of them. It is or was a weirdly common anime title formula in the way that [Adjective] [Noun] [Proper Noun] used to be.
Hand Shakers goes beyond 'bad' into "how did this get to broadcast" territory.
I mean, the first episode is bad in a fascinatingly bizarre way, but nobody seems to have seen more than that one episode. And at least it's, well, ambitiously bad? There's a lot of stuff which is bafflingly lousy which has even less to say for it.
It has some of the most garish CGI put to screen and some really wacky bondage imagery on top of a very cliché quasi-plot mostly lifted from Guilty Crown.
I'm sorely tempted to watch it just to say I have.
I'm very tired and stuff so like: How much of a Crystal show is this? I, somehow, have forgotten about this over the years and am surprisingly ignorant of it (I'm used to being at least kind of familiar with most works I look up).
I've tried to watch Neo Ranga a couple times and 1.) while the start is really good I've lost interest a quarterish through both times, and 2.) the official translation is really bad, to the point it makes following the plot difficult.
It's about three irascible Japanese girls who reluctantly inherit an Indonesian god-golem from their dead brother and use it to solve complex national problems. It was also the passion project of a writer who started out making schlocky, misanthropic OVAs and then went on to script the much-beloved first Fullmetal Alchemist series and Concrete Revolutio. (Aikawa also wrote the Vampire Princess Miyu OVAs and Martian Successor Nadesico a few years before this, so there is a progression of sorts.)
^ Not sure what translation I'm watching but it seems pretty comprehensible thus far? I am of course sticking with subtitles given the age of the dub, at least on the first watch.
It literally throws you into the middle of what seems like a Godzilla movie and these girls just seem weirdly non-plussed until the second episode explains what the hell is going on.
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Just saying. You should be watching it.
And there are people who think Yurikuma perpetuates bad yuri stereotypes, which is pretty, well, LOL.
Flip Flappers - reportedly good
Hand Shakers - reportedly bad
I'm sorely tempted to watch it just to say I have.
ANIME.
^ Not sure what translation I'm watching but it seems pretty comprehensible thus far? I am of course sticking with subtitles given the age of the dub, at least on the first watch.
Also, Joel and his pet axolotl-thing are A+.
And they're still doing the "weekly in Japan, batch worldwide" thing, presumably because they hate money.