Netorare is sort of its own subgenre, so I get why it's used, but "cuckolding" does describe the premise of that cliché fairly well. Kemonomimi, though, refers to the animal ear thing, which doesn't have a clean translation that I can think of. Like, kemono (literally, beasts) is basically just "animal-people," or "furry," in some contexts, but kemonomimi is at once immediately recognisable (catgirls, etc.) but very, very Japanese.
Interestingly, a number of accents/dialects in Hokkaido preserve the kw-/gw- from Chinese loanwords in day-to-day speech. Strictly speaking, the standard modern form is kaidan, but everyone knows the traditional pronunciation is kwaidan, so it shows up like that in more archaic or stylised contexts.
Other parts of the north preserve the distinction between normal long o and long o derived from au, which is closer to English aw in Classical Japanese. Also, Kansai-ben distinguishes the component vowels in ei.
My mom has prints of cels from Ghibli movies, so she's already pretty anime.
On a different note, I'm conflicted about watching Grimgar. On the one hand, the comedy and fanservice bits sound deeply irritating, and the high fantasy schtick bland, but on the other, the art is pretty and the animation itself, from what I've seen, has moments of truly stunning beauty. And it's all in little things, like the way a character's fingers move. Those little movements were amazing. On top of that, the more dramatic side of the show sounds very much my speed. So I'm slightly annoyed.
i watched a couple episodes but stopped, because there was like ten minutes of scenes of grieving for a character who had hardly been introduced, that didn't really add anything to the characters
Anyway, there are quite a few shows from last year and the beginning of this year that I haven't gotten to which seem interesting in one way or another, several confirmed as Pretty Darned Good but a few of which are more dubious.
Or are Konosuba, which is apparently in both categories.
By the way, the director of Death Note and the head writer of Code Geass are making a steampunk anime involving iron trains crossing zombie-infested wastelands. Which I guess is the logical product of such a meeting of minds.
Shows I will be checking out, or am at least curious about: JJBAPart 4 (naturally), Asterisk S2 (good filler), aforementioned Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (for precisely the reasons Vash mentioned), Sakamoto desu ga? (filler but humorous), F/SN Heaven's Feel and Fate/Extra: Last Encore (obvious), Uchuu Patrol Luco (if I hear good word from Section), ReLIFE, FLCL Second Season (also unsurprising). Also Kantai Collection: KanColle Zoku-hen should I watch the first series in time. I see there's another Madoka thing too, apparently, so...
Apparently Hiroshi Hamasaki of Shigurui/Texhnolyze/Steins;Gate notoriety is directing a romantic drama involving time travel entitled Orange, so I'm on that pre-emptively. As for other upcoming shows, aside from several you've already mentioned, I feel like Flying Witch and Mayoiga both have serious potential, although Deko Akao and Mari Okada are both... something. And while I feel like the plot of Flying Witch really plays to Akao's strong suits, at the very least, Mayoiga could be anywhere from amazing to a complete trainwreck.
I'm not, although the fan art can be cute. I was mainly talking about JJBA, Luluco, the second FLCL, maybe the next Fate series should I ever get around to the first two...
By the way, the director of Death Note and the head writer of Code Geass are making a steampunk anime involving iron trains crossing zombie-infested wastelands. Which I guess is the logical product of such a meeting of minds.
By the way, the director of Death Note and the head writer of Code Geass are making a steampunk anime involving iron trains crossing zombie-infested wastelands. Which I guess is the logical product of such a meeting of minds.
So, the last three episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion are remarkably frustrating and really should have been, like, nine episodes, about half of which should have provided the build up to the end of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", because Kaworu was great but everything that happened with him went way, way too fast and clearly happened over a time-scale that the rest of the show would have spent at least five episodes on.
That said, episodes 18-23 were pretty much perfect, particularly the flashback episode and that notorious thing with Asuka which... I knew it was going to happen, but holy fucking shit. But that only makes how rushed the end was more frustrating. Hell, 24 was non-stop great moments, but there was just so little breathing room.
By the way, the director of Death Note and the head writer of Code Geass are making a steampunk anime involving iron trains crossing zombie-infested wastelands. Which I guess is the logical product of such a meeting of minds.
By the way, the director of Death Note and the head writer of Code Geass are making a steampunk anime involving iron trains crossing zombie-infested wastelands. Which I guess is the logical product of such a meeting of minds.
Thought y'all should know.
0% chance I will not be watching this
It looks like an Attack on Titan ripoff...
It's being directed by the same guy and it honestly sound at least a few degrees more intriguing, if only because Okouchi is the show runner and he's way out there.
^^^^ OK, yeah, shit, I should watch this, too. I've heard it can be ham-fisted, but a lot of people I really respect loved it, so maybe I should stop being a scrub and see if it's worth it.
Yeah, Kaworu may see Shinji as The Human, but Shinji so blatantly wants Kaworu to jump his bones that it's just ridiculous. (And just you know with the way he interacts with Asuka that he is by no means the one doing the jumping.)
i started watching Ergo Proxy again, dubbed this time
the dub fixes literally everything I disliked about the subbed version, everything feels so much more nuanced and vibrant, I'm on episode 3 and I'm loving it!!!
thia partially due to the strong voice acting, but mainly due to the significantly better translation I think
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it's basically the whole premise of koyomimonogatari so i pick it out every time the subs say "ghost story" or "story about an oddity" or something
kwaidan kwaidan kwaidan
though it's actually kaidan
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#welp
which i'm going to call a pacing issue
that whole sequence is so... adjective
but like whate verrrrrrrrrr
the dub fixes literally everything I disliked about the subbed version, everything feels so much more nuanced and vibrant, I'm on episode 3 and I'm loving it!!!
thia partially due to the strong voice acting, but mainly due to the significantly better translation I think