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Man, all the ingredients are there for Magia Record except for me actually caring. Hopefully it gets there...

Just looked up that Uchiwakamaru vs Tiamat fight because of gh Crunchy vote, and maybe I do need to go back and watch this show.

I mean you have pretty much only watched the low tier stuff so far, lol. Which services do you have again, just FUNi? If so, would check out Bofuri, Runway, and 22/7. Somali should have it's episode 1 unlocked on Crunchyroll from last week.

That took a while to finish because I'm having power surges from a storm, but...woah.

I certainly wasn't expecting THAT. There's definitely a lot of things this show is gonna wanna say, and it's using quite the fantastical setup to do so. What a tone to start on. Not to mention that the cast seems VERY strong at first blush.

I'm gonna be prioritizing 22/7 a lot. Might even be battling it out with Eizouken for the season.

swordz9 posted...

Its an idol show

Well yeah, but the opening makes it look like it's...possibly...CRITICAL of some aspects of the idol industry?

Watching now, though I'm sure my hoped will be dashed.

I have no effing idea what 22/7 is, but with an OP like this I'm running to watch it ASAP

https://youtu.be/J9JQrg1ugsk

After a half decade fall from grace, it looks like Brains Base is FINALLY back in great form with In/Spectre. Great first episode!

Oh hey Crunchy put out the bug rape hentai anime OVA.

That....that sure is a thing they put out.

Having to go to FUNi to check out much more than usual, it's really hitting more than ever how terrible their app is. Not to mention they just refuse to sub any on screen text, which is a big issue for assume scenes.

Just don't watch it with family <_<

A very awkward theater experience.

...not because family was there, just in general.

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

I ended up finally getting around to watching Heaven's Feel Part 1

Boy they really make sure to let you know that this should NOT be the first Fate thing you're watching, they BREEZE by all that first stuff. This being the Sakura route, was kind of hoping Sakura would be doing more but there's still 2 more parts to go so we'll see. Shinji is still a little bitch.

I can barely even remember Heaven's Feel Part 1 other than a few key scenes. Part 2 is pretty overwhelming, lol. The street chase to swamp stands out the most in my mind.

We got a couple left to go, but gonna rank so far.

Eizouken
Railgun
Somali
Runway
Madoka
ID: Invaded
Bofuri
Science Fell in Love
Budokan
Asteroid
Darwins Game
Orphen

Anything not listed is a drop, other than Re:Zero DC of course.

Eizouken is just incredible. Cant imagine a world where this fails to be an AotY frontrunner already. Railgun is a triumphant return, hopefully it doesnt fall apart Like Ive been told Accelerator and Index 3 did. Somali is a huge surprise, just a joy to take in, but the biggest surprise is Runway. Not only did I have no expectations, I actively loathed it for the first few minutes! But damn if it didnt come together in a big way.

Madoka is a tough one to pin down. It was a completely fine episode, though not exactly an explosive opening, and it would be nigh IMPOSSIBLE to live up to its name, but I want to give it a fair shake. Invaded has a ton of potential, but it started out pretty damn messy. Bofuri and Science Fell in Love are both easy fun shows that surprised me, and theyre not gonna be blowing any socks off but I dont see myself dropping them unless they just lose all steam.

This is where we get the iffy stuff. I enjoyed Budokan, guiltily. Its not actually good, though. One wrong move and its getting tossed. Asteroid seemedike a lot of fun as an opener for the season, but with the rest of Winter 2020 playing its hand I dont think its gonna have a place. Darwins Game is definitely gonna be trash, but the kind that Ill probably keep watching for a while out of morbid curiosity. Orphen is a personal last place, supremely dissapointing to me as an anime that was on my.2018 most anticipated list, and is only not a drop out of desperation that itll turn around.

SockoressKnight posted...

Seems like this season of Railgun isn't wasting any time.

Damn right. Fingers crossed that those are actually 24 episodes and not "12 real episodes and 12 fake episodes you don't want to watch" like the other two seasons. I guess LN fans would have a better idea.

swordz9 posted...

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun ep1 - the visuals are surprisingly nice, but kinda wasted on the show. Episode was ok, but really only the visuals stand out.

Plunderer ep1 - uhh wow. The description sounded kinda interesting, but this episode was pretty bad. Theres no real explanation of the number system the world works by (like how they got the 1 specific thing their Counts go up/down by) and aside from that the main girl spends a fair amount of the episode being constantly groped by two different dudes. Yikes.

Toilet does actually look good! But yeah, the show is super whatever.

Plunderer is trash. "Our numbers are placed on parts of our bodies that are meaningful to our beliefs and personality". Which just happens to be tits and inner thighs for the girls. It's embarrassing.

The first 5 minutes of Smile Down the Runway were a huge turnoff to the point where I almost....turned it off, but I ended up quite enjoying it after that!

After yesterday's garbage dump of new shows, today is pretty great!

Based on the first 10 minutes of Science Fell in Love, I didn't think a minimal romance pool is gonna be an issue for the 2020 AotY Awards.

This is great.

A couple of Railgun things I seemed to have missed out on in the other seasons, don't know why Shirai is injured, IIRC Kongou didn't like Misaka, obviously some characters I don't know, but hell YEAAAAAAH Railgun is BACK.

JC Staff sure can pull it together when they actually care. Also I watched the first two seasons dubbed, which was great, but these VAs are SO GOOD??

Yesssssss dropping Only My Railgun at the beginning of the episode.

As much as I wish it weren't the case, Historia x Ymir being there is a joke for a variety of reasons.

I enjoyed it a lot. Got the +2 in my AotY ballot!

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Oh my god King Crimson vs Metallica for Best Fight, I'm SO HAPPY that's on there. Like fuck is it gonna win but god damn I wish it would.

Honestly I may end up changing my vote to it.

A fight between my brain and my heart.

Changed it. Imgur had basically stopped working half the time. With Imgtc gone, really wish there was another image site where direct linking worked properly.

New Railgun OP BAYBEEEEEEEEE

https://youtu.be/uteB5C5722E

Time to jump into this show without watching any of the other shit I'm supposed to watch, Trails of Cold Steel 3 style.

Oh hey, Crunchy is puting out both of the Haikyuu OVAs that came out after the last season tomorrow alongside S4E1.

Forgot last week was an early release for Somali, no episode today ;_;

MAN a lot of trash dropped today. Even the show I liked, Budokan, is a...it's a problem. I guess I should give Dendogram a shot since BOFURI was a surprise.

Truly ashamed that there are definitely people here who are going to watch Nekopara.

Well shit.

Always wierd when the meme LN novels names get an an anime announcement.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2020-01-09/so-im-a-spider-so-what-tv-anime-listed-with-2020-premiere/.155170

Only a matter of time before Pizza Shop Isekai and Prostitute Isekai.

Orphe is half the length of the original too? Ooof.

Reg posted...

Ahiru no Sora is 4 cour iirc

It's also solid. Not great, but decently entertaining.

I got a few episodes in to this one, it was fine...with Haikyu back in a day there's basically no chance of me going back.

SockoressKnight posted...

As long as it doesn't take itself seriously, BOFURI looks like it will be enjoyable.

Doesn't look like HiDive has much this season. The only exclusive is BanG Dream S3, also added Magia Record and Darwin's Game, and Ahiru no Sora is continuing...

I'm wondering if them charging such a lower price (people grandfathered in like me are $2.99) is coming to bite them...

What the hell BOFURI is good.

Just realized that all the anime HiDive got this season that weren't leftover from the last are on a 7-30 day delay.

That's uhhhh...not a good sign, right?

That strikes me the same as people who don't like how Mob looks.

You know, people who aren't human.

I think I do remember that, but blocked it out of my mind in despair.

Fuck. Fucking fuck.

I'm so God damn angry right now.

Don't you fucking lie to me.

I guess Drifting Dragons is the show that's in jail this season. Wasn't exactly chomping at the bit for a new Polygon Pictures joint, but a shame for anyone who was interested.

What. Who in the world is saying that? I've seen nothing but universal praise for this show. The character designs are a huge part of that.

https://i.imgur.com/POPliM0.jpg

Beauty and grace.

Orphen is...yeah, can't recommend this at all. It's worse in basically every way to the original. It's not terrible or anything, but it feels lazy and dated. It feels like a 90's show but without any of the nostalgia it needs to stand out now.

https://youtu.be/LlcME7IPQ5Q

The presentation of the Bloody August in particular is a damn shame, bit visually and directorially. The magic is super dull, too. I'm stick with the classic.

https://youtu.be/PT0DKWaQW80

Are we safe to post our own ballots now, then?

I know, but if it were I'd be cool with that. Kind of hoping it is. I never got into any of those extra series they put out.

Higurashi returns.

https://twitter.com/AIR_News01/status/1214110464168230912?s=19

I will gladly watch a remake of this, not that I didn't love the original. Looks like the character design is pretty different, too.

https://twitter.com/AIR_News01/status/1214111184154054656?s=19

There is no worldline where the OP is as good.

Madoka 2 watched. Was a little worried at first but it came together. Mainly the visuals seems a little stilted in the first half by Madoka standards, but that seems possibly intentional considering the second half. I cannot BELEIVE this isn't Yuki Kajura on the OST, it's basically indistinguishable from their work.

Also watched AI: The Somnium Files....I mean ID: Invaded. Or perhaps not, because this is just The Somnium Files. Seems pretty cool, ED is rockin', I'm always gonna give EI Aoki a shot.

Thinking on it...might be less obvious than I thought.

KyoSaya is strong within me.

There is a stark difference between not voting for something because you disagree with it's inclusion versus the vice versa <_<

Yeah, that is gonna be HEAVILY dependant on how the turn of the decade gets categorized.

I'm not going to say anything specific about Eizouken. It just doesn't get much better than this. Watch this show or be left in the dust.

No, it's any pairing.

Now in full.

https://youtu.be/ZX3N4TFseIQ

Please be subbed by lunch break.

EASY BREEZY