For anyone that's not in the know, a friend basically described it as a more adventurous and less SOL style Flying Witch. This girl who dealt with a lot of Suffering, Chise Hatori, suddenly becomes an apprentice-bride to this dorky and emotionally underdeveloped magus named Elias who looks like a humanoid with a skull for a face. It's sweet, and this anime will probably be very sad and cute, so I'm looking forward to probably binging all three parts. I would recommend the manga too.
The best characters in Cat Planet Cuties are JACK and Antonia because they are cuties and their melodramatic and overly dramatic (Antonia being the most visually expressive of the cast), respectively, mannerisms work best with this show's unintentional dorky camp. Eris is still surprisingly cute, and I don't expect that to change. Also Googles Sara, Antonia's maid, who is also cute. Melwin is very huggable. Listening to "Aoi" be pronounced as "Owwy" never gets old. It's pretty much like if some otaku who really liked their fetish for catgirls and action girls decided to make a story also filled with other standard geeky interests (ALIENS, fighting maids, so on), make a reasonably coherent if still very goofy story out of it, and just ran with it which is entertaining in its own way. Main character whose name I keep forgetting and never care about is a negative.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
The thing I like about Food Wars is that it's not so much that the protagonist Soma is invincible as much as his very presence illuminates the moral shortcomings and perspective blindness of his opponents.
Eh. One advantage of convolution is that if you watch it "out of order" you won't really be much more confused. Probably. At least after Bake which introduces most of the characters.
Hana is chronologically latest and has several things that still don't make sense, like Algae being Gackt.
That's not inexplicable. He just grew out his hair when he got older. And dresses more interestingly, because this is a Shinbo anime and design choices happen.
well yeah it's just a bit of a shock. i mean, that collar.
also notable as being practically the only time i've seen an anime character under the age of thirty driving a car all normal like.
there are actual discontinuities, a character death and also ougi being really fucking scary, but i didn't mention those because they're sort of actual spoilers.
Also, maybe I should be more uncomfortable with Artsy's interactions with Mayoi... but that whole sequence was hilarious. Until it was poignant. *sad "Kaerimichi" pianos*
Her running up a telephone pole like a scared cat was great, but then the imaginary courtroom bit rolled around and I was in stitches. "The courage to be a lazy bum."
That scene just did not personally work with me, even if it was incredibly entertaining, up until the courage part saved and made me retroactively (have the courage to) love it.
I finished the "Karen Bee" arc and, uh, well, I'm hooked. No turning back now.
For what it's worth, I think I can actually recommend Nisemonogatari pretty highly to people who can stand weird sex stuff. Because while there is certainly a pretty big fanservice element to it, it's really *about* the weird sex stuff far more than it contains it, although it takes a while for the reason why to click. And if you can stomach the way that the metaphor plays out, the creativity of the visuals becomes hypnotic regardless of what you're actually seeing. It's really a psychedelic whorl of ideas.
I wish I had articulated it beyond what was floating around in my head but I said Nise was rad shit in general. Slash had been able to articulate. Whatever, words.
Kaiki was kind of hilarious in his own right. Just putting that out there. Guy dresses like a vampire and advertises himself as a Ghostbuster but really he's just a dick and he's entirely transparent about that fact when he's confronted on it. Fucking brilliant.
Kaiki was kind of hilarious in his own right. Just putting that out there. Guy dresses like a vampire and advertises himself as a Ghostbuster but really he's just a dick and he's entirely transparent about that fact when he's confronted on it. Fucking brilliant.
I think I can actually recommend Nisemonogatari pretty highly to people who can stand weird sex stuff. Because while there is certainly a pretty big fanservice element to it, it's really *about* the weird sex stuff far more than it contains it, although it takes a while for the reason why to click.
what do you mean? My understanding of guitar sex stops at stomaching.
I think I can actually recommend Nisemonogatari pretty highly to people who can stand weird sex stuff. Because while there is certainly a pretty big fanservice element to it, it's really *about* the weird sex stuff far more than it contains it, although it takes a while for the reason why to click.
what do you mean? My understanding of guitar sex stops at stomaching.
Thoughts:
Spoiler:
Thus far, Nisemonogatari seems to be about Araragi coming to terms with several loosely connected facts: That his sisters are independent people with their own agency who are growing up fast just as he is, and that he can no longer pretend that they are just silly children; that with this comes sexual agency, about which he is anxious both because he fears for him and he is jealous of no longer being the most important guy in their lives; that all the strong women around him (even poor, awkward Nadeko) have their own sexual agency as an extension of their agency as people independent of his role in helping them save themselves, which messes with his saviour complex; and, above all, that he really wants to get it on with Senjougahara, but that decision is 100% up to her, not least because of the horrible experiences that she had when she was younger which she needs to work past before she can open up to him on that level... and because the power dynamics of their relationship clearly have her as the dominant party, so being pushy ain't gonna fly.
I haven't seen the second arc so I've only seen That Scene out of context. I'll judge when I see it.
Also, kudos to Crystal for being right about this series actually being really interesting, because I feel like a lot of people who've seen it got hung up on the "what the fuck is this" factor and missed some of the really important subtext, at least with "Karen Bee". I will be watching "Tsukihi Phoenix" shortly so, well, I'll be able to speak to that one too in a bit.
Aaaaaah Tsukihi aaaaaa. I am quite eager to see what you say, that was one of my favorite arcs up until I took a break for various reasons, and how... she exists both within the narrative and as a person are so incredibly my thing.
In one of the blink-and-you-miss-it text intros in the "Karen Bee" arc, Arrghi talks about how Tsukihi still takes pride in the scars she has on her legs after leaping off the school roof to break up a fight Karen was in and landing on a truck like something out of a kung fu movie.
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Most vexing.
Hana is chronologically latest and has several things that still don't make sense, like Algae being Gackt.
not a spoiler per se, but
also notable as being practically the only time i've seen an anime character under the age of thirty driving a car all normal like.
there are actual discontinuities, a character death and also ougi being really fucking scary, but i didn't mention those because they're sort of actual spoilers.
The visual direction on "Tsubasa Cat" was extraordinary, and "Karen Bee" is shaping up to be very pretty.
I finished the "Karen Bee" arc and, uh, well, I'm hooked. No turning back now.
For what it's worth, I think I can actually recommend Nisemonogatari pretty highly to people who can stand weird sex stuff. Because while there is certainly a pretty big fanservice element to it, it's really *about* the weird sex stuff far more than it contains it, although it takes a while for the reason why to click. And if you can stomach the way that the metaphor plays out, the creativity of the visuals becomes hypnotic regardless of what you're actually seeing. It's really a psychedelic whorl of ideas.
Also, kudos to Crystal for being right about this series actually being really interesting, because I feel like a lot of people who've seen it got hung up on the "what the fuck is this" factor and missed some of the really important subtext, at least with "Karen Bee". I will be watching "Tsukihi Phoenix" shortly so, well, I'll be able to speak to that one too in a bit.
I love guitar but I can't fight my current direction, hah.
Girl is kind of scary already.
Always pause for scary girl facts.