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MacArrowny posted...

I'm talking about episode 5, when they're in her bedroom waiting for her mom to cook supper. A weird situation for the rapey stuff to come out!

I think that was episode four actually, but yeah it was kind of an odd line. Still, I saw it more as him still feeling guilty about what happened the last time they were alone together and not wanting either of them to risk letting it happen again. Ideally he'd believe in himself and his self-control enough to guarantee nothing would happen regardless, but it's still an improvement compared to episode two. Shows he's still being really careful about boundaries and wary of his feelings, imo.

MacArrowny posted...

I guess the difference is that Hotaru never confronts Hananoi about the creepy things he does. Like, when he implies he'll rape her if they're alone together, she should say "don't be a creep." When he says "I can only ever love one person," she should say "does that mean you'd never have children?" It'd be nice to have a bit more conflict in that department.

You're misrepresenting Hananoi there, imo. Part of what I really like about him is that he's realistically flawed and not an abusive caricature who would say something like that (as opposed to the My Little Monster guy who made that exact threat with no room for interpretation). Assuming you're talking about the end of episode two, that was when Hotaru asked him to pretend to kiss her so she could see how she feels about it. For her, hovering her face near someone else's is no big deal... but it's a huge deal for Hananoi to hover his face near hers. I read it more as him trying to get her to acknowledge the depth of his feelings, that he wants to do so much more than just pretend to kiss her. I didn't read it as an actual threat (plus it turns out he had the dreaded anime cold further scrambling his brain). He reacted badly, sure, but so did Hotaru by minimizing his feelings for her. Not sure if you've continued to episode three or not but they both realize they did bad there, apologize, and promise to do better. As for the only loving one person thing, Hananoi later clarifies that he only wants to care about his lover and his family, obviously kids would be included in that.

I suppose Hotaru could more actively conflict with Hananoi, but I think that wouldn't fit her character. The best part of the show for me is that both of them are flawed. Neither one of them knows what love really is. Hotaru is clearly bothered when Hananoi goes too far, and the story shows that, but she can't lecture him about something she doesn't understand herself. They're on a bumpy road coming from two different extremes, and hopefully they'll eventually meet in the healthy middle.

I'm really loving the story, but like I said, it isn't for everyone! You and I especially I don't think have ever agreed about an anime romance. I vastly prefer the problematic exploration of love in A Condition Called Love as opposed to, say, The Dangers in My Heart where the story pretended the main dude had issues for half an episode before going "just kidding those elements will never come up again, he's a perfect cinnamon bun who can do no wrong".

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I can only save LotGH and I like it more than Kaguya, plus it would cover duck's trade... but Martin is my trade partner for Kaguya and seems to prefer it surviving here (despite loving LotGH?) so I won't save. Someone else should end the round though

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Even if it isn't actually breaking PCs, I don't want a game launcher of all things having that much control over my computer.

Luckily I haven't played a Riot game in over a decade

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SockoressKnight posted...

I enjoy it for how awful everyone is, and the MC being so pathetic is kind of refreshing given all the power fantasies that release. That said, I wouldn't call it good, especially production-wise, and especially especially with Wind Breaker also airing. So far, it's a show about a loser losering his way into a not-YouTube "career". Spoilers for episode 3 he ends up "winning" a fight because his opponent injured his hands punching him in the face

Thanks! I think I'll probably stick with Wind Breaker in that case, I usually don't like shows where everyone us awful.

The way he won the fight is lol though. The old Homer Simpson "let them punch you until they cant fight anymore" strategy

All of BanG Dream is worth watching! I actually still haven't seen MyGO, but I doubt anything could be better than the Kasumi-focused first season.

SockoressKnight posted...

Faster drop was Oblivion Battery - one exclamation of "nipple hair" from one of the MCs was enough for me, and he did it twice.

You got out at a good time. In the latest episode, they turned his nipple hair joke (which he keeps doing) into a big dramatic moment somehow.

SockoressKnight posted...

Still watching... Viral Hit

How is this, by the way? I've ignored it so far but I was kind of curious after reading the premise.

Installing adblock on my phone and being pointed to another website let me read an actual good version of the Unnamed Memory manga. I'm done the first two volumes so far. It's pretty good! The characters are cool, their relationship is progressing, and there are lots of fun little moments the anime completely ignored.

I could tell just by watching that the anime was skipping stuff, but, yeesh. The second episode alone skipped past three arcs full of character development and worldbuilding. I still haven't caught up to where the second episode ended and I'm two volumes in!

BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!

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I like having the occasional crappy anime to fill out the lower parts of my ranking, though. Usually finishing them is just a waste of time, it isnt actively painful. There are only a handful of anime I outright regret watching, and Unnamed Memory feels like it would be one of those.

Besides, at least I took another baby step towards dropping things more freely!

I thinking I'm going to drop Unnamed Memory. Reading about episode 4 on the anime subreddit, it sounds like the rushed pacing and cut content is somehow even worse. Pretty much everyone agrees it's a butchered adaptation.

It still feels wrong to drop an anime, especially one that is objectively better than junk like Highspeed Etoile which I plan to stick with. I can usually grit my teeth and power through shows if they're merely bad. Unnamed Memory is something even worse than that. It's depressing to see a good story be told this poorly. I don't want to watch two seasons (I read this will be split cour) of a story I'd probably like getting butchered.

BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!

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BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!

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LOL at the second video. I don't usually mind CGI for monsters and such, like the dragon in Villainess Level 99 was fine. Those look terrible though. A badly drawn slideshow would be an improvement.

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Cool, thanks for the info! Hopefully the same thing happens with shows like Yozakura Family too.

It's extra annoying because Disney+ is one of the few streaming services I have access to through family, now I have to risk getting in trouble for pirating because their subs are so lazy.

At some point I'm going to have to see if I can pirate a version of Undead Unluck without close-captioned subtitles because I really want to watch it. Maybe it had normal English subs somewhere in the world or someone took the time to edit it for people like me. If only Disney+ didn't suck.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

I am curious where you actually sourced yours from to begin with since everyone pretty much uses the same site nowadays lol.

It was the cat one. I searched by series name and sorted by seeders mostly. I'm just very much a noob at it. I think those two shows had too many sequels or spinoffs or alternative versions. I couldn't pick a definitive one to download so I gave up

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Just realized you have Black Lagoon instead of Eureka Seven for Spring 2006.

Great show....Viable...I'm not sad....not that much....

I also couldn't find a good torrent for Eureka Seven, sadly. Same with Higurashi. I think those were the only two that people recommended that I didn't get when I was downloading everything.

I'm glad that Pilot Candidate is only twelve episodes based on what everyone is saying about it! At least I won't suffer long. There are probably better shows in some of those earlier seasons that I could've downloaded when I got everything else. When I originally planned this, though, I was only going to do 20 years starting in 2005. Thats why I downloaded something as random as Starship Operators, nothing else caught my eye in Winter 2005.

Mr_Crispy posted...

and yeah, Boogiepop Phantom is an anime original sequel arc to the first novel in the series, Boogiepop and Others (I guess because the live action movie adaptation of the novel was successful) while the new Boogiepop and Others series is an adaptation of the first few novels. Most of Phantom is episodic stories about new characters.

Thanks for the clarification! I probably will watch it in that case (whenever I finally finish Boogiepop and Others...)

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Boogiepop and Others is actually a prequel to Boogiepop Phantom!

Interesting, I remember seeing somewhere that it was in the category of "remake obsoletes original" like the new Fruit Baskets. Maybe I will watch it at some point, but it'll be separate from this season project

AriaOfBolo posted...

I'd like to keep playing Terraria, but I don't know if I'll have many more chances!

You could always play it in our monthly asyncs!

Thanks for the thoughts on my list so far, everyone. I'll reply to as much as I can.

-I haven't even heard of the Bee Train girls with guns trilogy, but the idea of it definitely appeals to me! I'll see how I feel about Noir first and then maybe look the other two up after.

-That Medabots season in Summer 2000 is a sequel season and therefore doesn't count (even if I wanted to watch Medabots, I usually avoid anything that seems too geared towards children). Summer 2000 simply doesn't have anything I can watch.

-Regarding Pilot Candidate, I don't have any other options that season so I'm stuck with it even if it sucks. I'd watch the original Boogiepop but the reboot of it is one of the anime I'm currently halfway through.

-I thought Rosario + Vampire looked fun, but I'm not exactly excited for it. Maybe I'll switch to True Tears, thanks Mac. Now I'm also curious about that Mnemosyne show I'll apparently hate, though!

-Two people warned me away from Familiar of Zero, so I guess I will swap in Welcome to the NHK. Thanks pyresword and Xeybozn.

-I picked Legend of the Black Heaven over Great Teacher Onizuka because Black Heaven had slice-of-life and sci-fi tags. I was hoping that would overpower my aversion to black metal music. Strife saying it was bleh and has adultery is turning me off from it, though. So I'll swap in... Magic User's Club for Summer 1999. Sorry GTO! You can't beat cute witches.

So I can't edit the spreadsheet until I get home but these are the changes:

-Summer 1999 is Magic User's Club instead of Legend of the Black Heaven
-Summer 2006 is Welcome to the NHK instead of The Familiar of Zero
-Winter 2008 is True Tears instead of Rosario + Vampire

The best anime ever, Engaged to the Unidentified, came out in 2014. That carries the year on its own!

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Same. There's no flow here at all, it just moves scene to scene, no establishing shots, awkward animation most of the time. It's very obvious something is off even without having read it. It's not completely incompetent or anything but it's clearly not great.

Just like Whisper Me a Love Song, it's a studio where it was assumed this would happen, but you always wanna give the benefit of the doubt. I really hope they don't screw up Medalist next year because I hear great things about that source material (I'll have read it myself long before the show airs I'm sure).

I'm actually not minding Whisper Me a Love Song so far. It definitely doesn't have impressive production values or anything, but it's taking its time and showing the development of the relationship between the characters. That's more than I can say for Unnamed Memory after ep3...

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