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There's a third season of Superstar coming in Fall.

I just started Nijigasaki today. Promising start.

Jail

Season 2 of Shy will also air in summer so it's a good time for it.

Summer's got some good adaptations, mostly continuations like Oshi no Ko and Sengoku Youko. In terms of originals, I'm not sure, I guess Na Nara Hana Nare is the most promising? Seems like a solid season. This season has been incredible though so anything would look a little less impressive in comparison.

Yeah they're cool. Rufus seemed kind of nonsense in CS2 but his backstory that comes up at the end of CS3 sure worked for me. Pretty messed up but I get it.

I didn't like KeA much. Do like Millium quite a bit, good character development.

She's Yukari Tamura who's an amazing VA so probably.

I rather like Vita. Her dynamic with Emma, with Crow, with Bleublanc, and even with Musse and Aurelia later are all pretty good.

Commander

Not sure why that thought came first. Good games though.

i welcome more games going to space to confront unimaginable cosmic horrors

Chair

I was pretty satisfied with Osborne in the end. It's hard to have a villain for such a long span of time and conclude their story gracefully but the final battle did pay off I think.

EDIT: However this is assuming that we're totally discounting the reincarnation twist because it is pointless and awful.

Shining Eyes
Astra walkthrough
Aeolic Guardian

Shop Demo
Farde Mal Diavolo -Destroy Evil, then Come-
Mario Kart 8

Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Rubia

Alternative Root
Badlands
Deserted - Younger Brother and Elder Sister and... (Stage3)

Some gacha ones (i forgot towerfierce isn't a boss theme though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPXSWK4xNww

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

This one too while we're on Trails.

Aurora's Theme
Speed of Light
Stage 3 - Voile, the Magic Library

Really dislike Elie, worst of the Crossbell team except for maybe KeA.

Burning, Churning Power Plant
Love Psalm
We Are The Lights (Phase 3-4)

2nd match was pretty good.

b10
Somnia Memorias
Tower of Memories

I used Wazy a fair bit in Reverie, his base craft is really nice. Don't remember much of Azure but I can see it being less good there.

Funky Dealer
Burning, Churning Power Plant
Spring Wind Skylark

Spring Wind Skylark honestly isn't my favorite Asano but it's plenty good enough.

Beryl is great, good ranking. I like Renne but did get a bit tired of her by Reverie (plus her EN VA changed for the worse).

Mutants over Broadway!
Moiety Theme
About That...

Surprised to be voting Mutants over Broadway but Rage was surprisingly docile.

14.3 Billion Years
b10
T11

In my case I'm on a music anime binge in general and Bang Dream was on the list. Got through Love Live SIP and Sunshine but needed a break before Nijigasaki. There are a few other shows on the radar afterward as well.

New Battle!!!
Main Title
Live & Learn ...Main Theme of "Sonic Adventure 2"

Second and third match not too hard, first match is tough.

Truly one of the scandals of all time.

I need to listen to some of these Bang Dreams songs more, but I do know Pastel Palettes did Luminous Once More which is amazing. I'd heard that one prior to watching any Bang Dream. MyGo is my favorite band though since I immediately downloaded the first album after finishing the anime.

Alisa's English VA has this weird petulant tone that never goes away even when she's supposedly a competent businesswoman, so I agree there are some problems there.

Alfin would be way better if she didn't keep insisting that Elise was the only one for Rean, to the point that she starts kicking up a fuss about it even if you romance her in CS4.

Mobilezoid posted...

Also curious what a MyGO fan thinks of Hello Happy World

I'll give you that one for free, they're pretty bad. I really disliked their songs and their episode in S2 was ostensibly about making people smile but mostly seemed to be about how it's easy to look impressive when you're loaded. I'll give you it was funny in its absurdity though.

I like Machias alright, in the middle of the Class 7 boys pretty much. I only object because I feel like you might have put Gaius higher, a character who spent two games being boring and had a big twist teased for CS3 only to somehow come out of it even more boring.

Time for Dudley and Dudley 2.0?

I found Aurelia entertaining enough to mostly make up for the power level nonsense with her. Agreed Victor is boring, and he should have gone down with the ship if it meant saving us the stupid brainwashing mask.

S1 seemed perfectly fine for me but S2 is quite a bit jankier.

I think it is less pronounced once she gets used to the other band members.

That I don't get. It's not like Ave Mujica is its own thing in isolation. It might not be MyGo season 2 but it's at least season 1.5.

One thing that's become obvious to me is a certain amateurness makes me like these band shows more. It feels more raw.

Dieter was fun in the Crossbell games, and him leaving the picture was basically the part where Azure became awful, so I also give him points for propping up the game. Wish he had a purpose in Reverie though.

I'm watching the original series and they are rather different in tone. Towards the end of S2. I don't like any of the bands here as much as MyGo, but Afterglow's pretty cool.

MacArrowny posted...

Does Utawarerumono have leveling mechanics?

Yes. It is very much a TRPG.

pyresword posted...

Also shout-out to the Utawarerumono games but that's probably more VN than JRPG and also not going to be to everyone's tastes

Mask of Truth would be on my list for sure if it counts as part of this generation.

I don't own a Switch but in terms of PS4...

1. Ys 8
2. Blue Reflection 2
3. Persona 5 Royal
4. Trails of Cold Steel 3
5. Caligula Effect 2
6. Atelier Lydie and Suelle
7. Trails into Reverie
8. NEO TWEWY
9. Tales of Berseria
10. Persona 5 Strikers

I think it looks something like that.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I mean it was the 5th anime in a series from the outside looking in, even ignoring all the specials and movies, so I didn't have any reason to give it a second glance at the time lol.

I imagine it's mostly self contained, though.

It is self contained, I'm going back to watch the previous seasons but watched MyGo blind. Specifically the first three seasonal anime revolve mostly around one band. Poppin' Party, and a few others feature and get more attention in OVAs and movies. Whereas MyGo is about an entirely new band and all of the others are alluded to but don't feature at all.

You haven't watched MyGo? Then yes do that too. The resemblance between the two is very obvious. Also it's great.

My phone doesn't seem to understand that its without an apostrophe is a legal word, so there's some work that needs to be done yet.

I didn't have too much interest in the setting or characters until Billy got involved and the series put some more attention on the Union's character dynamics. The world building showed promise but the characters didn't grab me until after that point, and that's the critical part.

MacArrowny posted...

Is this about the manga or the anime? The anime's definitely higher quality in its first half.

Just the manga, I haven't gotten around to the adaptation yet. But I know what it covers and at least plotwise it doesn't get to the stuff I like until the second cour.

swordz9 posted...

So I watched episode 1 of Undead Unluck and wow this show seems like its gonna be great.

If you like it that early I can only imagine you'll love it by the end. I genuinely did not like the beginning of UU but it improves by leaps and bounds.

There are so many manga available to read I get surprised when I run across something I'm interested in that doesn't have a translation. I recently started watching the Locodol anime and saw that it was based on a long running 4koma, but no one has ever translated it.