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keyblader1985 posted...

I was waiting for this episode of Tomodachi Game, when you finally start to see hints of Yuichi's true nature. Next episode will be even bigger.

I will say I enjoyed this episode the most so far. Focusing on the logic of the game makes the rest a lot more interesting. Gets the wheels turning a bit but it's hard to know how much I can think about things given how not logical things were in the beginning.

One thing that strikes me as odd is how they actually have so many groups. The only way to apply in the first place is to already know about the tomodachi game. The observer people act as if it's been going on for a long time. Wouldn't it make sense for the applicant in each or at least most groups to have already played a tomodachi game? Then again maybe they'll just handwave it and have the people running the game approach people they think would accept. Regardless, most games end in failure and some people end up in deeper and deeper debt making the idea of playing again more appealing. To lose you also have to have been betrayed so you'd probably be more likely to lose faith in friendships to begin with.

I wish the translator had retranslated all the rules of the current game when they showed them because I can't remember them from like 3 weeks ago. Just went back and looked and wow the game has a massive flaw in it. You can just farm the good spaces with blank cards and then lie to go back to the beginning over and over until you have zero debt. Assuming the net total of all tiles is zero, you just need to badmouth to skip over some early bad tiles and then chill with blanks. Even IF there is a traitor that just wants you to suffer, theres nothing they can do to stop you from lying and revealing it was a lie and going back to the beginning. Except I actually went back and rechecked this episode and it's different. Shitty translation I guess. In episode 2 when they introduce all the rules the penalty for getting caught lying is going back to the start (hardly a penalty at all) whereas in episode 5 it's translated as you move one space in front of the lead player. Very frustrating if I can't actually trust the rules are in fact the rules. That means the optimal strategy is to force all the 5s on one player and then everyone lie to get in front of them at the halfway point where favorable outcomes are more likely. You can also clear yourself of being the traitor at any point by writing your name and that you applied for tomodachi game and then having the lie revealed.

After thinking more, I'm less impressed but I'll probably give it the next episode as a final test to see if it can stay interesting to me.

zoro-1992 posted...

My goodness
Watching Platinum End (12 epi's in so far)
The MC has to be one of the most annoying I've seen in a long time
He's really getting under my skin >_<

I'm amazed you made it that far. I've definitely noticed that my tolerance for pathetic MCs has plummeted over time. Thinking of dropping cuckoos for the same reason. Dude wanted to say something urgently but couldn't for an entire episode and I just wanted to punch him in the face.

The_Viscount posted...

tbh, when I saw that, I thought it was Hero? I Quit That a Long Time Ago or whatever, which I know is getting an anime (or got an anime).

Considering how long the titles get, they really could afford some more unique names.

Skydiving seems terrifying.

I've watched a fair bit of anime.

Ya boy kongming was pretty good. I enjoyed shifting the focus to a new character somewhat to give it some variety.

Aharen-san is always funnier than I remember. Watching raidou get cheesed by a fear rattata in that fake pokemon game was hilarious. I feel like the show has really hit it's stride in the last couple episodes.

Executioner I feel is so close to being way better. Like the writing is almost there, but it's not. The world and the "pure concept" thing are both quite interesting but theres too much exposition and not enough experiencing when it comes to the world and the characters are pretty 1 note outside of mennou.

Demon girl next door is just consistently great. That show should be more popular. It's one of the funnier comedy anime and it's cute and theres actually interesting plot. A real hidden gem for now.

Summertime render still good. It feels like a lot happens each episode and the art is really nice. The mystery is still very engaging.

Skeleton knight is isekai comfort food. It's not anything amazing, but it's easy to watch and of passable quality.

I_Abibde posted...

You summoned me by saying "yuri fanservice", Youkai. I will go find it.

There's not all that much of it and what's there isn't much either although the story does become more yuri over time if source material readers are to be believed.

Kinda debating if I even want to bother with shield hero episode. It's not awful but I have no attachment to anything going on or any of the characters. Like, I guess it's been too long since season 1 considering how average it is.

agesboy posted...

Edit: in fact I don't remember Freida at all in the anime despite her having a pretty big arc. Or Johann (smaller arc but still, was pretty big)...

Freida was in season 1 and 2 quite a bit. Johann was in season 2 briefly but is getting a bit more focus in season 3. Didn't watch the recap episodes so no idea what is in those.

Finally finished up silver spoon. Sad that there likely won't be a season 3 but it's not the worst place for it to end. Overall it was quite good. I feel the first few episodes don't really suck you in but after that it stays pretty engaging all the way to the end.

Also been keeping up with weekly stuff. No real changes in opinion on anything except the kingdom is heating up faster than I thought it would this season. I guess bookworm also feels like it's zooming through stuff this latest episode.

And forgot that another anime was starting but watched episode one of cuckoos which was ok. It was mostly just setup though so I'll need to see episode 2 to figure out what the show will actually be like.

Not sure what else to watch.

Aharen was really funny this week. I was just starting to feel kind of bored with the show and then they bust out the rapping part and the spinner part. Funny stuff.

Executioner had more yuri fanservice this episode than I was expecting (although still not a lot). The world is more interesting than the characters but I don't think I'll end up dropping it.

Kaguya continues to be great but I've kind of realized that every single guy in this show has it rough. That other dude is almost on the school days route, he needs to be careful and escape both those psychopaths.

zoro-1992 posted...

So, I watched Orient trying to go into it not thinking things like "why can't we have Magi S3 instead"

I could barely stomach the first episode. It sort of blew my mind that it came from someone who I thought of as being decent.

I feel like thats happened a lot lately now that I think about it. Like, platinum end is just mega garbage but death note and bakuman are like top 10 of all time contenders. Then to a lesser degree combat agent 6 was a fair bit worse than konosuba although to be fair, he did start agent 6 sooner.

The platinum end one really gets me cause it's not like the authors just had lightning strike once or anything. They have multiple good things they did before this so I have to wonder what happened.

Enjoying today's seasonal anime. Summertime render especially has me hooked. Kongming and skeleton knight were fine. Haven't watched demon girl next door yet but I'm sure it'll be good (EDIT: it was great as expected).

In non seasonal anime I tried to watch altair:record of battles but it just isn't good. Episode 4 was the last straw when a 10 foot tall fire that was like 5 feet in diameter stopped an eagle from chasing someone down in the open desert. Made less than zero sense. It's also annoying how many terms there are for basically no reason. Every position has it's own hard to pronounce name, every character has like 3 names which may or may not include their position, and there hasn't been any damn battles yet. The villains are also cartoonishly evil so far which seems very out of place in what is trying to be a logical setting.

The main character will probably get better but so far is infuriatingly stupid. They make it out like his weakness is his poor ability to work with others but actually he sucks at everything. He loses every 1v1, he makes rash stupid decisions, and often he runs in with no plan. Might be fine for a normal 17 year old but this is supposed to be some military prodigy that got the rank of general at age 17. How? This dude is dumb as rocks and either gets carried by his eagle somehow defeating swordsmen or he just loses.

Kingdom is such an easy blueprint to follow and kingdom has plenty of room for improvement. Why is everyone so bad at copying successful things? I guess it's not surprising that the booms of the last like 20 years have been moe/slice of life which barely requires any writing ability, and isekai which can have a premise carry even the most incompetent writer. I'm salty. I want more good anime.

Maybe I should give vanitas another try. I think I just watched the first episode or maybe it was two but I didn't really enjoy it. Kinda figured it only had a high score for being fujo bait.

Also finished silver spoon season 1. It was pretty good aside from my earlier nitpick. I think it's fairly ingenious what they've done with the main character and the theme of the show. He has no idea what to do with his life but knows he doesn't want to do what his father had been pressuring him to do. That sets up a theme of finding meaning in your life and the setting plays to it perfectly. We have the people inheriting farms with big dreams and strong convictions that our main character feels jealous of but comes to understand and the animals whose life seems to be like his old life, entirely controlled by others with no freedom or purpose, that he struggles to find meaning in. It let's him see his own issue from so many different angles through the setting and people around him and really makes the setting a vital part of his character arc instead of just a cool or unusual place.

This season of shield hero feels pretty meh. Like, nothing is really wrong with it, but it's not exciting.

I've been going back season by season on MAL looking through everything to see if theres any good shows I still have left and fixing my list since this is my second account and I don't have access to the first one (which also wasn't completely accurate).

Man, it really hits me that I have watched a lot of anime. Up to 479 completed so I'm guessing it'll be right around 500 when I finish going back. Just over 176 days of anime. Dropped 110. I've completed at least one new show in every season all the way back to spring 2005, although I dropped speed grapher about half way through. I've watched just over 10,000 episodes of anime. That's actually insane. The most episodes I've seen of anime is code geass with like 350ish from how many times I've rewatched it. Longest show I've completed is dragon ball z at 291 episodes (and I've seen some of them more than once so it's possible I've seen more total than code geass).

Although also absurd to think about, I've played just the halo series of video games for about as many hours as I've watched anime even though I only played halo for like 6-7 years and I've watched anime for 25.

Watching through silver spoon now. It's pretty decent overall but I kind of hate the stance they take on farming. It focuses really heavily on how much the people care about the animals, rather than the life quality of the animals. As if it's fine to effectively torture your livestock as long as you still care about them. Especially at gigafarms or whatever it's called. Or even in the first episode when they see the chicken coop where the chickens are stuffed in tiny cages and don't even have enough room to turn around, one of the characters mentions how this style of farming has come under criticism from the west and the main guy says he can't see it as bad because it's so beautifully efficient. Idk, it feels like I'm getting mild propaganda here that isn't enough to ruin the show, but it just kinda pisses me off every now and then.

The show's actual themes of finding a purpose in life and contending with other's destructive expectations of yours are well executed so far and the comedy is pretty funny. The show also has a pretty good pacing of comedy and drama to keep me invested even though not enough where I need to watch the next episode right away.

I just disagree. Those aren't plausible. At the very least, if they are, the characters are incredibly stupid to the point it's hard to care what happens to them.

I refuse to believe that someone that would have a mental breakdown and burst into tears over what was revealed in episode 3 also would be totally fine being kidnapped into this situation. It's just not how people work.

And of course sawaragi's reasoning for not finding out the culprit is also very stupid. How would this whole situation not be enough to break your infatuation and make you think you were wrong about the person?

I'm hoping at least that there are more traitors. The guys reasoning for betrayal is pretty unsatisfying as far as a mystery goes. The only "clue" we get is seeing him spying angrily on the two at the end of the first game but that just feels boring. There was no inconsistencies in his story to trip him up and allow us to deduce anything. They act like the cut from the pen would be an important clue but they only give us this during the reveal that it was him in the first place. Every bit of reasoning on the part of the audience up to this point was fruitless making me hesitant to bother trying to think very much in the upcoming episodes. Kind of reminds me of starship operators where the solution was always some psuedoscience nonsense that couldn't possibly be come up with by the viewer..

keyblader1985 posted...

would you really trust that they'd let you walk out the door and never see you again

It's absolutely the option scared people would cling to and no one even brought the danger up. No one even appeared to be scared.

keyblader1985 posted...

then the person who arranged for this would be as good as dead; a little harsh even if they did betray you.

100% their own fault. They dragged me into a situation that could get me and my friends killed without even asking. Fuck them, I'd be tempted to kill them myself. Even if you can forgive them for putting you in danger, can you really forgive them for endangering your friends?

keyblader1985 posted...

but Sawaragi had her own reasons for not wanting to focus on that

A pitiful reason unless theres more that hasn't been revealed. Simply liking someone isn't reason to forgive them for this.

The two points are basically directly opposed. Either they aren't afraid of the situation, so they have no reason to play, or they are afraid of the situation and should never forgive the person who got them there, and also shouldn't play.

keyblader1985 posted...

They did get kidnapped and thrown into that situation; there's not much chance they could fight their way out on their own

Well yeah, but if you choose not to play they just let you go supposedly. If they choose to play, that just gives them higher chance of seeing stuff that would require the tomodachi game runners to kill them and at the very least you'd be in exactly the same situation afterwards. Regardless, escaping with your lives seems like it should be your top and only priority. Why would they even be able to enforce the debt once you leave?

The whole situation lacks fear. The contestants should by all rights be terrified. There's so much more at stake than their petty highschool relationships.

keyblader1985 posted...

Shibe was saying that he'd lend out the money in a hypothetical situation, if he was able to.

But it's not a hypothetical situation. They are directly in the situation. "Hypothetically, if you were in the debt that you are right now, I'd lend you the money no problem". That doesn't make any sense.

It's also illogical even from a friendship perspective. No real friend would risk the future and safety of his friends just to escape debt, especially without asking them. If there was a person with such a debt forcing them into the game, it should be obvious that they aren't really your friend and are in fact an awful person that you have no reason to help or put yourself on the line for. Like, even if you escape the game perfectly, the debt is cleared completely for all players, you'd still fuckin hate the piece of shit that forced you into this. The whole concept is full of holes which is weird because the author could have just as easily not given them a choice and closed that hole effortlessly. Their agreeing to participate doesn't really add anything to the narrative aside from them being confident in their friendship (despite obviously having an asshole friend willing to chance ruining their lives for personal gain) which could have just been established as their resolve to get through the games safely together.

I watched episode 2 and 3 of tomodachi game and I'm still not entirely on board with this show. I feel like they are accepting this game and it's credibility way too easily and they are irrationally concerned more about debt and friendship rather than safety. I feel like much of the drama falls flat as well because we saw them be friends for like 5 minutes before the game started. I don't really care if one is in love with another one or did something embarrassing before.

I'm also still caught up on why they played the game after rich boy said he could just pay the debt no problem for whoever had it.

Also watched the latest episode of quit hero. It's looking to continue at a watchable but not much better level. Probably end around a 7-7.1 on MAL.

Trapped in an otome game is still trash and I still want to know what happens next. I guess it truly is better to be bad than boring.

Wish there was more to watch on sunday.

Watched anime.

Spyxfamily is still great. I am eager to see where it goes now that the main cast is assembled.

Kingdom is also still great. I feel like 2 hours worth of things happened in this episode. The show is the master of time dilation. Sometimes it feels like the whole episode was 3 minutes long and sometimes like an hour. I wonder if xin is even going to be in this arc.

Shikimori was not as good. It already feels kinda one note and the main guy is just pathetic and annoying. Kinda disappointed. Really hoping the author lets off the misfortune angle. In fact, the similar misfortune curse in demon girl next door is probably the worst gag in that show too. It's just a bad gag when it's reoccurring. I need some more substance from this show somewhere. Probably my biggest drop in enjoyment from episode 1 to 2 this season.

Judgmenl posted...

It's a common trope, not a mystery but Barakamon was pretty good. MC gets sent to a remote island to get better at calligraphy.

Fairly certain I haven't seen that. It's really bugging me. I can just almost remember what it was, but I can't. I feel like there was something special about the island like some curse or some dark secret dating back a long time. I'm pretty sure the main character was a guy who grew up on the island but left at some point and had to go back for some reason even though he never wanted to. Pretty sure there was some dialogue asking him about the city and what he was doing. Ugh it's so close and yet I just can't quite remember.

EDIT: It may have been "Island" a relatively crap anime from 2018 based on a VN. Was really hard to figure out because it's name is so generic yet the show so unpopular that other stuff always came up first in search results.

There is more source for ousama ranking. I personally found the ending of the anime kinda ruined it for me. Made the whole thing feel pointless.

Watched episode 1 of summer time rendering and I like it a lot. It feels like someone really liked higurashi and wanted to make something kinda similar but different enough to be it's own thing. I LOVE mysteries where you are unsure if there is a supernatural element or just people going a bit crazy from some natural cause. The art is beautiful as well. I feel like I've heard the name of the show before so perhaps it's source is popular. I'm very invested so far. Looks like I've got a 4th show to watch on fridays. The friday+saturday block is stacked as hell for me this season.

Demon girl next door is so weird. It's a slice of life where nothing of consequence happens, but somehow theres actually a lot of plot, personal, and relationship advancement that actually sticks instead of just being reset at the end of each episode. It works so well that I wonder why more slice of life shows don't do this. It keeps things fresh while still being low tension/low stakes.

Episode 2 of quit hero is what episode 1 should have been. Show is ok. Not great, but watchable. At least so far.

Episode 3 of ya boy kongming was pretty good. I do feel like they might run out of tricks and end up either very repetitive or very contrived after a few more episodes.

Had a bit of a scare at the dentist today when they used some benzocane to numb my gums. My body did not like that but I managed to make it through. Watched episode 1 of ghost girl from this season and it's bad IMO. The little girl is supposed to be cute but she's just annoying and the anime seems to support the main woman being an overworked corporate slave.

I kind of hate how often I see aspects of japanese society that I hate in anime. Oh well.

I am now caught up on bookworm anime. I still don't know what I really like about it. I don't especially like myne even though she's fine. There aren't really any characters that I love and yet for some reason I'm super invested. I wish there was more but not enough to read the source.

I've watched 17 episodes of ascendance of bookworm today. I'm not even really sure what I like about it. I wish I could watch this much anime every day but it's already taken quite a toll on me.

I think I'm caught up on everything I'm watching this season now. Kaguya is the same very high quality as last season. Honestly this was one of the funniest episodes yet. The read receipt part was great (hayasaka continuing to be best girl) and the headphone unplugged part was also fantastic.

Trapped in Otome game might end up being my guilty pleasure this season. This show is bad. There was multiple times this episode where I was confused because of awful directing that made it difficult to understand what was going on in what should have been very simple scenes. I almost felt like scenes were missing or something. And yet, I'm still curious to know where it's gonna go. It also airs on a day where I don't have anything else to watch.

Oh wait, I still didn't watch ghost girl so I guess I have one more show.

Watched kunoichi and it was surprisingly bad. Half the dialogue in the episode was the same like 4 lines about men. I thought the show would be fairly yuri but it's like anti yuri. A yuri situation but the girl only wants to think about boys. All the characters are boring or annoying and the pacing of conversation is just so unbearably slow. Don't think I'll be continuing this one.

Watched some stuff. Kingdom S4 off to a fine start. Looking to be a training and politics arc kinda thing.

Shikimori was pretty enjoyable. Will keep watching it. Hoping they don't rely too much on the misfortune gimmick as the show goes on but they've already introduced some solid supporting characters so I think it'll be fine.

SpyxFamily I've been aware of for a few years and heard good things. The first episode honestly exceeded expectations. The brief action scenes were also pretty well done and Anya is adorable.

The season's first week was kinda crap but all the good shows started on week 2 and it's shaping up to be a very good season IMO. I think I've got more than 1 show per day total which is pretty good. Still have a few things to try out still. Also I was just talking about fantasy fatigue and we get a bunch of good shows set in modern times (and kingdom which isn't fantasy).

Unfortunately I've also been very sick the last 2 days. Worried I might have caught something going to the dentist office a few days ago but today seems better than yesterday so hopefully I'm recovering whatever it was.

Ended up watching the demon girl next door (season 1) since it has a season 2 airing now and I couldn't recognize the series. I loved this show, it was great, and even very slightly yuri. I think it aired when my illness was at it's worse and I was unable to watch anime. I should go back and check out those seasons to see what else I missed.

I also agree saturday is stacked but not for the shows listed above. We get spyxfamily, and kingdom S4. And shikimori and forehead ninja are a nice bonus but not the main attraction for me. I'm so glad kingdom s4 came so soon. Not sure if kaguya aired yesterday or today but nice that I get that as well.

Honestly I'm feeling a bit of fantasy burn out myself. It's not like super strong, but right now I'm preferring stuff set in modern times. Of course, I'll still take a masterpiece fantasy like mushoku tensei but I guess a lot of the isekai worlds end up feeling really shallow whereas even a poorly written modern story at least has the real world for setting depth.

Speaking of, watched ep 2 of ya boy kongming. Still enjoying it.

Just watched that. It was a lot more enjoyable than I expected. After a bunch of weak anime, it's nice to get something that was a pleasant surprise. Nothing super amazing but I had a good time. Arc's attitude about the whole thing is very light hearted and funny. About to go watch ya boy kongming since it's already been a week somehow.

I don't understand why they choose to play in first place. That one guy is like "we are all friends, I've got the money to cover the debt anyway" and I'm thinking cool, they figured out they don't need to play the game because theres literally no reason to risk anything. And then they all immediately agree to play and it's like wtf, you all deserve whats coming to you then. And why would they trust the game or even that anyone had a 20 million yen debt in the first place. That could very easily be a lie and more than debt, the idea that people have this insane compound and are carrying this shit out is way more concerning.

On top of that, I really don't understand any motive for betrayal because as far as they explain, you can't actually come out ahead. All you can do is clear the debt, which is where 4 of the 5 people started from. This logically ensures the only one who even has any motive to betray anyone would be the person with the debt, but they have no reason to doubt friends that chose to take on their debt for no personal gain. Idk, I feel like I'm gonna need some major reveal to end up liking this. A death game lives and dies on it's logical consistency IMO.

Watched some more of the new season.

Demon lord nobody feels pretty low tier. It's like misfit at demon academy without the over the top nonsense which was the whole point.

Tomodachi game feels edgy and and not very well written but I think I need one more episode to really get a grasp on it. All the characters act very illogically thus far.

Shield hero S2 is same as S1 so far. Seems fine.

Watched episode 1 of quit hero and it looks to be average isekai. I think it's honestly a pretty poor opening because it doesn't actually delve into the concept of show, which is rebuilding the demon army. It just shows how the main hero came to apply there and his application. Almost all the stuff covered in this episode could have been told to us later. Whether it's actually worth watching or not will have entirely to do with how they tackle the management aspect and comedy and it's just not present in the first episode. Poor choice IMO.

Unrelated to anime getting a root canal in about 3 hours. Hopefully that goes well. Dental shit is so expensive. I don't understand why dental stuff is separate from the normal medical industry.

Adam_Savage posted...

there's absolutely asset flip games at walmart in the very small pc section

Huh, I guess I haven't bee to walmart in several years.

Adam_Savage posted... that's...not true

They aren't just selling any random steam asset flip at walmart. There's like 10,000+ games released a year and how many sell at a legitimate retailer? Maybe 5%? Probably not even that many. It would be a huge amount of legitimacy for "your random point and click adventure". Yes it does not put it on par with mario, but it at least puts it on par with the weakest things being sold there which is a hell of a lot better than not hitting that level.

agesboy posted...

that's kinda like saying your point and click adventure game game being sold at walmart makes your game on par with mario

Your game being sold at walmart would give the game a lot of legitimacy though.

MechaKirby posted...

Is the AoT Final Seasons actually good?

I've been holding off until it finished, and this is the second time they extended the 'final season's

I ask because I think;

Season 1 was slower paced, but good
Season 2 was eh and I skipped/ missed episodes
Season 3 part 1 was fun/ decent
And I loved Season 3 part 2. It was short, sweet and amazing

I'd say so but there are some weaker parts. Overall for me it's probably around S3 part 1 with a few moments that rival season 3 part 2. The beginning of f1 is pretty wild and then the later parts of f2 are pretty great. Everything in the middle is weaker but theres still a lot of important questions being answered.

Couldn't tell you. I'm anime only, I've seen mention of people saying the manga ending is trash. I've heard some people say that it's just not fleshed out enough and feels like stuff comes out of nowhere and that additional time in the anime could give that context and make it fine but I've also heard it's already fine and that it's irredeemable and terrible so who knows.

I agree that S3 part 2 was probably the peak of the show but I think the last half of final part 2 is pretty solid as well. The action scene in episode 10-11 is top notch and the emotions around that fight are pretty impactful.

Just like the show with the ice zombies, the show is at it's best when it's people vs people with politics and backstabbing. Supernatural elements are IMO almost always less interesting than human ones, outside of a wonderous adventure context (like mushoku tensei, although it also has good character writing).

Eh, not quite. They've had:
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3 part 1
Season 3 part 2
Final Season part 1
Final Season part 2
Final Season: Conclusion arc (set to air next year).

Why they couldn't have just numbered that 1-7, or at worst 1-6 and then final, we will never know. Well actually we will, it's a shitty marketing ploy to get people to watch now while there is interest instead of waiting until the whole thing airs by tricking people into thinking this is the end.

We already knew this final season part 2 wouldn't conclude things but there was assumption that it would wrap up with a movie or two or at least a short season very soon. The fact that it's still a year away is pretty BS.

Whats presumably worse is that the portion that all the manga readers hate is going to take up like 90% of next season so it'll probably go out poorly after being dragged out this long. Oh well.

Wow, that's kinda bullshit. AoT final season: conclusion arc announced for 2023. This naming shit has gone too far and wtf we have to wait another year to see this conclude? Episode was fine but left on a cliffhanger as well which lame considering the wait.

Watched the first ep of trapped in an otome game. Feels like a very average isekai. Probably end at around a 7/10 on MAL. Watchable so far, but nothing special. Ugh, still a week until kingdom S4 starts. Although presumably this season will be a bit weaker than S3 and a potential S5 based on what manga readers say. Sort of the resting point between two big conflicts.

Should be able to finish up AoT final season 2 shortly which will mark the end of last season for me. Hope it has some kickass action like last episode.

Yeah devil is a part-timer was great. I can't wait for season 2 coming in summer. Maybe I should rewatch the original to remember it better although I think I remember just about everything that happened. Idk why my memory for anime and games is amazing but my memory for everything else is terrible.

Also finished up kaguya S2 so now I'm ready for S3 to start in a few days. People said it was just more of the same but IMO S2 was better than S1. I feel like the gimmick of making the other confess wore itself out after the first few episodes so it's better when it just focuses on interesting situational comedy involving the whole group or other members. Hayasaka best girl.

agesboy posted...

it's just an episode 1 thing, raidou has mutated superhearing now

Was very much hoping that was the case and glad to hear it. Damn, wish I could get super hearing after like idk, a week I guess?

Aharen is ok so far. I just really hope she doesn't talk inaudibly forever. Also one of those social problems that I feel like could be handled through logic and rules but not really the point I guess.

Virgin road's english title doesn't have that in it so I guess I'm just gonna call it executioner. Anyway, executioner first episode wasn't quite what I expected. People get summoned into this world and end up with a "pure concept" for a power. Like the example guy got the pure concept of null and he could delete matter. In the past there were at least 4 of these people that caused large scale catastrophes and so now they are kill on sight in this fantasy world and summoning itself is banned although clearly it still happens.

Something I didn't expect was that theres been a lot of technology and culture taken from the summoned people in the past before they were banned so the civilization is a mix of old and somewhat more modern. Like we see an old timey car in episode 1 and also a factory district with ether particles coming out of all the chimneys instead of smoke.

Episode 1 cut off at an annoying point right when the main girl met the summoned girl whom we know she can't manage to kill based on the synopsis. Looking forward to more episodes. The quality of animation seems average but passable at least.

I know a long time ago there was a site that would match you with other similar MAL users based on your scores and you could just look at what they rated highly to get recs but it never worked very well for me. Even people with similar scores for similar stuff rated them that way for different reasons.

Judgmenl posted...

Oh yikes Isekai.

Sort of but the main character isn't the one that was isekaid, at least going by the synopsis.

Judgmenl posted...

Is there some hidden yuri anime airing tomorrow I don't know about?

Virgin road is an action yuri (supposedly). People from japan periodically end up in this other world and always bring disaster. In this other world there is a group tasked with assassinating the japanese people that make it over to prevent said disaster. One female assassin meets a japanese girl she just can't manage to kill and thus yuri ensues. Supposedly the yuri aspect is fairly slow to progress in the source but is present.

Woohoo new anime season has officially started with ya boy kongming. The first episode was hilarious to me although it's just setting up the premise really. Zhuge liang of the romance of the 3 kingdoms reincarnates into modern japan (as an adult, so it's more like he aged backwards and time traveled I guess and magically understands and speaks japanese now) and is going to help an amateur singer make it big. I hope the show stays good cause I think it has a moderate chance to drop the ball once the novelty wears off. Production seems competent at least.

There's a ton of shows I'll be checking out this season and I hope at least like 1/3rd of em are decent. Also gave up looking for shin ikkitousen. It seems like it just doesn't exist anywhere. Tomorrow I get some yuri to watch and I think thats it.

Just read 3 days of happiness off of gigguk's latest video's recommendation. I'm not sure how much I like it. I feel like the ending is a metaphor for suicide to ease the burderns on those around you. That if you love someone, you should give up your life to make them happier. I strongly disagree with that message. And then the positives in the main characters life are either the result of fantasy or extraordinary talent. Becoming an amazing artist over night, being able to carry on like a madman in front of others, inexplicably having a cute girl that also feels so depressed about herself that being shown even minor kindness causes her to fall in love with you. I feel like it paints a far bleaker picture than it really gets credit for. Without all these exceptional things happening, the main guy would have died miserable and alone, just like presumably any depressed readers, but then it practically goes on to say that if you do get lucky and find someone, you should off yourself for their future happiness no matter what they say about just wanting to spend time with you right now..

And another show wraps up. Genius prince was quite a pleasant surprise and it stayed pretty good to the end. In this episode, it wasn't really the prince but the other king that was surprisingly smart. I mean, the prince still comes out ahead as always, but it's nice that some people can actually put pressure on him and make their own smart moves. I hope it gets a season 2.

Now just realist hero and AoT remain.

Also slowly watching my way through kaguya season 2. Might try and see if I can find that shin ikkitousen episode that got an advanced screening and thus should have aired by now but isn't up on the sites I use. Still wild to me that show is still going.