You were not wrong about the pacing that is definitely @.@. Though I guess it's probably just they didn't want to spend more than one episode setting everything up so hopefully it'll be more reasonable from here on.
The way the magic looks and works reminds me unfortunately of Mahouka especially with MC designing a gun to magic from and ehhhhhh that association even though it's completely meaningless, made me a little less excited about the visual design of the magic stuff than I otherwise could have been probably. The robots are cool though and the designs of the monsters are sort of interesting kind of? And of course Ernesti is adorable and great and I'm just headcanon'ing that the entire thing about him actually being an adult computer programmer didn't happen because it is like 100% insignificant (like surely he could just be a prodigy/unusually motivated instead...).
Initially I was a little skeptical since the first few minutes have the kind of feeling like... they're trying a little too hard to make you take this LN anime seriously (or maybe I'm just skeptical of high-budget LN anime after being bored of Re:Zero) but after that it smoothed out and aside from the bad pacing I'm basically excited for more.
so TRIGGER announced three new shows at Anime Expo.
Promare (which has been in production since 2014) is the big one and the only one we have any visual for (check this shit out). Developed alongside a group called X-FLAG I don't know anything about.
Darling in the Frankxx is a collaboration with A-1 Pictures and is some kind of sci-fi thing we're getting a trailer for on the 5th.
GRIDMAN is apparently a fucking sequel to Ultraman.
in addition to that they showed an Inferno Cop short in which he went to New Jersey was shot by Donald Trump (who was depicted as having a loaf of bread for hair) and then saved by American!Lotte singing the national anthem and somehow nothing in this paragraph is a joke.
I watched the first episode of Fate/apocrypha and feel like I was lied to wrt it being understandable by people who don't know Fate. I had no idea what the fuck was going on for like 90% of that. Lot of proper nouns and exposition.
Still, it was an absolute treat to watch. Gorgeous, animation-wise. So I'll probably check back next week.
I really wonder how much I'd like F/Z on a second viewing. It feels deserving of that and I quite enjoy Urobutcher and the Nasuverse as a whole, but... so much anime. Would basically have to be with at least another person, as I think on it.
I kinda feel like Apocrypha would be the worst place to get into Fate outside of like, Hollow Ataraxia, since it's a parallel universe that assumes you know how the Grail War system actually works in the first place.
So I've started rewatching Baccano! except dubbed because I never fully experienced it dubbed, and it's still freaking great. Pretty certain I prefer the dub too, which admittedly feels a little weird to say, even if it is amazing.
I mean if any show is going to be better dubbed it's going to be the one that's set in the US and has the English VAs do appropriate regional accents, right?
Yeah, Baccano! has one of those dubs which the vast majority of people seem to consider an improvement on the original or at least its equal, along with Cowboy Bebop, YuYu Hakusho and Ergo Proxy.
I mean if any show is going to be better dubbed it's going to be the one that's set in the US and has the English VAs do appropriate regional accents, right?
I considered that implicit in it being amazing, but yeah.
Yeah, Baccano! has one of those dubs which the vast majority of people seem to consider an improvement on the original or at least its equal, along with Cowboy Bebop, YuYu Hakusho and Ergo Proxy.
That reminds me. I watched the first episode of Bebop in Japanese, and will now continue that way because inertia... but definitely expect to watch it again in English. YYH has been too long ago and my memory is too fuzzy for me to trust the positive memories. EP is, man, that was enjoyable.
Shinji, like the rest of the cast, is a victim. This is never denied - some of the most intense scenes in the show depict this in stark terms. He's gone through terrible things through no fault of his own and treated like crap by basically everyone until the start of the show.
But the show doesn't let him use that as an excuse to stay that way. His actions are his own, not his father's or SEELE's or Misato's. Every time he slides deeper into despondency, he is choosing to do so and can always act otherwise.
And I think that's a hugely important message for anyone who's had it rough to hear. That you are more than your bad life experiences. You can strive to be more.
best written show of the season and it's about moe` steampunk espionage girls in alternate history London that is in the middle of a cold war between the democratic socialist commonwealth and the old Kingdom in the west. There's a London Wall instead of a Berlin Wall.
also there's anti-gravity and did I mention it's incredibly written? Legitimately the best twists I've seen in years even at just two episodes in. Early AOTS candidate. Only Made In Abyss really even comes close.
On one hand I hope I really like it when I watch the first two episodes down the road, because enjoying stuff is fun and good... on the other I hope not, because goddamn, this backlog, and all the shows I have an interest in.
I'm on the third season of Utena again, and god, "Nanami's Egg" is so, so funny and yet also a little unnerving. I also love how charming Japanese oldies-station music seems to follow all of Nanami's most bizarre exploits.
I mean, the Manga is probably better and I guess I shouldn't expect GD to be Kobayashi #2 because they're completely different shows.
Finally watched Chuunbiyo (the one that had the meme girl Rikka in there) and got to say that show hits me in the Bad Shame spot of my brain every episode, it was delightful
The anime feels more dynamic from the scattered bits I've seen of the manga, which definitely works in its favor given how much of it is reliant on comedic direction and having a good sense of timing (which it generally has). But, yeah, I wouldn't compare it to Kobayashi at all.
Chu2 had been on my list or months before DYRE convinced me it basically wasn't worth my time some time back, but that sounds good at least.
I used to have a phase where I was a demon-summoning witch girl in grade school and the cringe is real and hilarious and relatable and all sorts of stuff
Honestly I just find shit like that wholly endearing, like, across the board. Embrace your inner child and all of that junk. So media that get at that goofiness in a compassionate way can easily work their way into my good books, at least in terms of premise.
I used to have a phase where I was a demon-summoning witch girl in grade school and the cringe is real and hilarious and relatable and all sorts of stuff
Was that when you had sex with an incubus and gave birth to a cerberus baby to get back at your goth rivals, or was that later
I used to have a phase where I was a demon-summoning witch girl in grade school and the cringe is real and hilarious and relatable and all sorts of stuff
Was that when you had sex with an incubus and gave birth to a cerberus baby to get back at your goth rivals, or was that later
OH GOD I JUST REMEMBERED THE WHOLE INCUBUNS THING. -/////////////////-
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The way the magic looks and works reminds me unfortunately of Mahouka especially with MC designing a gun to magic from and ehhhhhh that association even though it's completely meaningless, made me a little less excited about the visual design of the magic stuff than I otherwise could have been probably. The robots are cool though and the designs of the monsters are sort of interesting kind of? And of course Ernesti is adorable and great and I'm just headcanon'ing that the entire thing about him actually being an adult computer programmer didn't happen because it is like 100% insignificant (like surely he could just be a prodigy/unusually motivated instead...).
Initially I was a little skeptical since the first few minutes have the kind of feeling like... they're trying a little too hard to make you take this LN anime seriously (or maybe I'm just skeptical of high-budget LN anime after being bored of Re:Zero) but after that it smoothed out and aside from the bad pacing I'm basically excited for more.
the OP for the gay merman anime is so misleading it's hilarious
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B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜ 
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Predictable (I believe I know everything that is going to happen) but its nice.
I WATCHED THE FIRST EPISODE
GOD IS REAL
ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD
TRULY PERFECT ANIME DOES EXIST
https://myanimelist.net/blog/GlennMagusHarvey
There goes my first post.
"wiggidy wack?"
"nope, just regular type."
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B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜ 
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B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜ 
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Finally watched Chuunbiyo (the one that had the meme girl Rikka in there) and got to say that show hits me in the Bad Shame spot of my brain every episode, it was delightful
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B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜ 
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B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜ 
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