it doesn't seem like her plan was super well thought out, given that (a) even with the distraction she was probably gonna get petrified (b) she decided to attack a huge toxin monster five minutes before school started
This first episode spent like a quarter of its time going through all of the shitty stuff Kazuma did last season being brought to literal court and nearly facing execution (which would be like his fourth death I think?), with an aside about how the town speaks of him as "Crapuma" and "Kazutrash," as the gang handled things as awfully as ever. It was great.
Watching the Patlabor:Early days OVA (AKA The movie timeline instead of the TV show timeline AKA The ones that are directed by Mamoru Oshii) and it's pretty interesting. Kinda dated in some ways, but it's still one of the more interesting Mecha series I've watched and definitely one of the more unique takes on the Mecha genre.
This week's KonoSuba had some good Useless Goddess Action. Unfortunately there was a tasteless bit near the end, and a continuing, distinct lack of Darkness. But still pretty good. I love the chucklebutts.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I like how, even completely devoid of context, that single screencap tells you everything you need to know about the dynamic between these two characters.
Interviews with Monster Girls does not seem like my thing, particularly, but I just want to put out there that the Dullahan girl is remarkably endearing and has the best hair.
I've heard iffy things about where it seems to be going, definitely just in the third episode, but Dullachan is good and Hikari really steals the show. Still up in the air for me whether or not I'll just end up watching it for her (alongside the other decent or better Demi), though.
Kobayashi's Maid Dragon is great and also wonderful.
I'm listening to a podcast discussing this anime season and I'm hearing its praises. I've seen people lauding it on Tumblr. Several people here seem to be digging it. And yet, for the longest time, I was going to skip it. But the more information I receive about the kind of show it is, and how it plays with assumed comedy and romance dynamics, and how endearing the characters are... fuck it, maybe I'll watch these two dorks fall for one another. It sounds genuinely fun.
On the less fun side of things, Kuzu no Honkai sounds utterly emotionally brutal and I'm always game for that.
fuck it, maybe I'll watch these two dorks fall for one another.
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it's pretty much just a comedy
I've heard it gets a *biiiiit* gay as it goes on. Not expecting it to be an actual romance but the dynamic sounded amusing. Much about the show sounds amusing.
^ Yeah, as I said. It seems like the kind of thing where it could go there, but it doesn't necessarily have to.
Kobayashi's Maid Dragon is great and also wonderful.
I'm listening to a podcast discussing this anime season and I'm hearing its praises. I've seen people lauding it on Tumblr. Several people here seem to be digging it. And yet, for the longest time, I was going to skip it. But the more information I receive about the kind of show it is, and how it plays with assumed comedy and romance dynamics, and how endearing the characters are... fuck it, maybe I'll watch these two dorks fall for one another. It sounds genuinely fun.
On the less fun side of things, Kuzu no Honkai sounds utterly emotionally brutal and I'm always game for that.
If it's the podcast I think it is, I was also going to watch it, but just wasn't in the mood. Klinotze covered what I was going to say, though it's definitely an engaging and super gay comedy. Aces in my book. Scum's Wish I watched precisely half of before pulling me. That said, it's definitely my thing and I enjoy the directing, plus the characters are actually sympathetic in their messiness so it's all good by me. Just not right now. Shrug
So after two Darknessless episodes I was hoping that episode 4 would more than make up for it. It more than made up for it, these friggin' dorks never stop being dorks and Darkness is the best.
* you can definitely tell it's the Lain team, including the sound designer, which makes for some jarring moments (like a faux-dramatic comedic musical cue that had that heavy flanger sound)
I understand that Digibro is fairly divisive here, but this vlog on the light novel magazine Faust is pretty fun if you share the nerdy love for the subject matter on display, which I definitely do. I'm putting it here because it's not so much a critic thing as an enthusiast thing, although really this would be more appropriate in a light novel thread... which I don't think there's much demand for. >~>;
It'd be nice if more LNs were even remotely appealing to me, be it in pandering or more cerebral ways. I was going to say more but the more I read that sentence, the more I feel it's a fairly effective encapsulation of my thoughts on LNs.
Also I'm realizing I definitely prefer Digibro's standard videos to his vlogs. But one of the few or only vlogs I actually like are vlogbros, so, heh.
Actually, this gets me to a point that I don't think I've ever articulated here: I have come to realise that Bakemonogatari is very clearly influenced by Ayn Rand on a philosophical level, but that it manages to avoid the pitfalls that make nearly all other Objectivist works of fiction utterly loathsome by sticking to an engagement with the philosophical and moral implications of the framework rather than its political ideology, showing an increasing level of emotionally mature intellectual self-criticism over the course of the series that Rand herself tended to lack, and overall just *not missing the point.*
A while back the beau was explaining how most people tend to misinterpret things like Rand's writing style and, more importantly, her views on and definitions of "selfishness" and "altruism," and at some point when I was watching Second Season it clicked for me that Araragi, Karen and Hanekawa's character arcs are all about this, as are Oshino's maxim and Ougi's inversion of it. Furthermore, Kaiki's assertion about fakes and his own attitude towards himself cleaves even closer to Objectivist notions of what it means to do the right thing—albeit with a certain degree of postmodernist criticism mixed in, because NisiOisin is nothing if not a reveller in layers of irony to sincere ends. There's also his overarching preoccupation with heroic genius and the freedom of or denial of choice, which is a very Randian fixation.
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my theory: lotta is with the CIA
political spy drama type thing
Frustrating.
Interviews with Monster Girls does not seem like my thing, particularly, but I just want to put out there that the Dullahan girl is remarkably endearing and has the best hair.
On the less fun side of things, Kuzu no Honkai sounds utterly emotionally brutal and I'm always game for that.
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it's pretty much just a comedy
^ Yeah, as I said. It seems like the kind of thing where it could go there, but it doesn't necessarily have to. One day, one day...
it is pretty much summarized by that cap up there that central said summarized it
I'm... tired and dumb, I suppose? Yes.
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* it's funny
* gay
* you can definitely tell it's the Lain team, including the sound designer, which makes for some jarring moments (like a faux-dramatic comedic musical cue that had that heavy flanger sound)
I really think I need this in my life.