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Watched a few more first episodes of new shows this season:

-A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai is an extraordinarily generic isekai. Given the title, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Man, some isekai don't even bother trying to be creative anymore. It opens with main dude sitting on a couch in his apartment and then he's instantly transported into a god's domain for the generic conversation of "yeah you died lol I'm going to make you super overpowered and send you to a fantasy land". I don't know how he died and even he doesn't seem to care. He makes the fantasy equivalent of a million dollars in the first episode so I'm not expecting any stakes in this show. Still, I like the idea of a dude wandering around gathering stuff to sell. I always find that calming in RPGs. I'll stick with it. It's inoffensive at worst.

-Let's Play is about a girl who made a video game in her spare time, released it, and then her favorite streamer trashed it. Then the streamer moved in next door for, presumably, rom-com shenanigans. I say presumably because the first episode was mostly about her getting sexually harassed at work. They don't call it that, but I have no other words to describe what happened to her in this episode. Ugh. It had so much potential in the opening moments and had a creative OP, but then it introduced her creepy manager and fell apart. She has a cute dog, and the Crunchyroll description literally says "Come for the plot, stay for the doggo". The doggo had maybe sixty seconds of screentime and did nothing special. The main girl's father was amazing though. He was in two scenes and actually made me laugh both times. I dunno, maybe it'll get better when it focuses on the streamer guy more. The ED made him seem like less of a jerk than his stream implied.

-Yano-kun's Ordinary Days is the highlight of the season so far. It's about a guy who is accident-prone and keeps getting injured, which catches the attention of his reliable seatmate. The main girl is amazing. She had A+ facial expressions and reactions for pretty much the whole episode. This is shaping up to be an adorable romantic comedy. I also enjoy this clumsy kind of humor (reminds me of Anne-Happy, another anime I loved about being accident-prone). I just hope it builds the relationship between the characters and isn't just comedy set-pieces of main dude getting injured. Still, I have high hopes.

-Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits is getting a surprise second season seven years later. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person here who enjoyed the first season (Mac gave it a 2/10 on MAL lol, guessing I won't see you coming back for this one). It was just a nice show to watch. Nice fantastical vibes, a main girl who wasn't a pushover, relaxing cooking scenes while she solves problems for people. I liked it when it aired and I liked it even more when I rewatched a few years later. Kakuriyo was the perfect binge show, but I'm also excited to get a weekly dose of it now. The first episode of season two was more of the same. Aoi cooked food and chatted with people and it was great.

Season Ranking So Far
-Yano-kun's Ordinary Days
-Kakuriyo S2
-A Wild Last Boss Appeared
-A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai
-Let's Play

It was funny for me to try and find something. You picked up most of the things I would have suggested already when you read my old anime ranking recently. But there were also a bunch that seemed like good kateee shows, but inevitably you'd already dropped them after one or two episodes, lol. Keijo seems like something you should enjoy, too, but even it got dropped after two episodes.

I guess I'll go with Dark Gathering for my nomination. I watched it after my ranking that you read, but it's my new #2 of all time.

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Scratchy

I didn't watch much anime after finishing Apocalypse Hotel because I played Silksong, but I figured I'd come back in earnest when the new season started. And now it has!

I watched the first episode of A Wild Last Boss Appeared. It's an isekai about a guy who gets pulled into the role of a character he played in a video game. Kind of a generic isekai so far, a typical power fantasy. Has shades of Overlord because it's set in the game's distant future and they're trying to figure out if anyone else got pulled into the game and whatnot. Still, at worst it was average. I'll stick with it.

The other anime that started today was The Fated Magical Princess but I'm not sure I want to watch that one until I hear more about how good it is. Romance anime are hit-or-miss for me.

Looking forward to more shows starting so I can get back into anime.

kateee posted...

(some days i listened on youtube where plays aren't tracked)

My Luna song is only on Youtube so nobody should use her for the challenge thing

I will listen to the songs again and vote for sure. This was a fun thing to participate in, thanks for doing it kateee

Smarf (Too Many Cooks)
Spot (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Hello Kitty
Timber

Cheetor (Beast Wars)
Smarf (Too Many Cooks)

Hello Kitty
Timber

kateee posted...

Submit 13 (THIRTEEN) total answers. For the first 6 (SIX), pick either ROCK, PAPER, or SCISSORS. If you beat your opponent for that #, you will get 1 point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SoKWLkmLU

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Combee deserved better and will win next year

Was a fun contest

Neat, Chaeix and I both got idols for 24. I'll probably hope for the best today and use my idol tomorrow

I've got a pretty good score already, but I'll play it on my phone at work tomorrow and see if I can do better.

I spent SO LONG looking for the two 2014 ones (5 and 9) but I never even considered to check those shows while skipping through seasons on MAL, lol. Oh well. It was a fun challenge.

You know, in Survivor, top seven is right around when eliminated contestants are added to the jury who decide the final tribal council! Now that everyone only has one song, that could be a fun thing to incorporate as we get knocked out. Not necessarily us deciding the winner between the final two but something maybe to keep people engaged as this winds down.

Oh I thought you meant you were going to change how hint points were allocated, turning them into half points (which for me would mean 6.5 or 7 depending on if we get three or four)

Well, now that I'm home and can more easily listen to songs, if you give me a bit of time I can find another song or two to make up for potential lost hint points

Me: I've watched over 400 anime I'll do okay
Video: Only one I recognize is the one that literally says its own name
Me: Oh no

I'll see how I can do with Youtube throughout the day though lol

Damn I missed Vincent and Cindy. I included all three male villains just because I knew two of them were there for sure. Plus I figured Celes instead of Cindy.

Curious to see what FF guesses I got wrong too!

Rowlet

I was glad that Hated By Life Itself grew on you as much as it did. It definitely has a bleak vibe but if you've ever been in that type of depressed headspace it's definitely relatable.

kateee posted...

i think easily the standout part of the song/vid is around 3:40 where the "just live" part is being written but it gets more frantic/scratchy echoing the desperate urging of the speaker

That's my favorite part of the song too. Really creative use of the visuals there.

Puck (Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World)
Timber (Diddy Kong Racing)

Hello Kitty
Scratchy (The Simpsons)

Oh it's two saves per

Snow (cat) (Final Fantasy XIII)

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Treecko

Trading for Combee, can't get Emolga. I can save a few seconds after 22:06

I don't see why Snake wouldn't use the idol, Roots effectively acts as an idol too in the same way. My only hope is Snake doesn't show up for twelve hours!

Hated By Life Itself had a good run though, I'm glad it almost made the top 10.

I think OP just means overpowered in this case but I haven't watched Survivor in over a decade so I dunno.

Spot (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Scratchy (The Simpsons)

Snow (cat) (Final Fantasy XIII)

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Jigglypuff

The Bailiff

ChatGPT got like 70% of those right on the first guess when I uploaded the image but I knew none of them personally. Following the honor system, I will respectfully PASS with both of my songs and hope for the best.

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Judge of the Old Bailey

Excelsius Winner

Juror 3 (Young Man)

Juror 6 (Elderly Man)

Juror 6 (Elderly Woman)

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I don't get option 1, if you generate a number between 1 and 100 that's huge odds of getting the max of 13. Ah well it doesn't apply to me.

Since I have two songs, I'll answer with option 2 twice. The first was my first playthrough as a dude, second was my next playthrough as a badass renegade lady.

HATED BY LIFE ITSELF
1. Male Shepard
2. Romanced Ashley, stayed loyal in ME2
3. Best race is the Geth
4. Mass Effect 2

AUTUMN'S GEOMETRY
1. Female Shepard
2. Romanced Garrus in ME2
3. Best race is the Geth
4. Mass Effect 2

kateee posted...

the youtube link has 911 views and i am 17 of them

Exactly! Very few of the songs on that channel even break 10k views, it's depressing. I'm glad Autumn's Geometry is getting a slight bump from this at least lol

My understanding is that Scowl went out since kateee gave FFD the option of sacrificing Monstarrr for it.

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I have not seen the movie either

28 means Snake got it, congrats Snake