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WhiteLens
04/27/24 10:31:09 AM
#101:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
It's a big company, if they gotta get Dimps on that shit they will.

It wouldnt even be the first time the Tales team developed an anime licensed game. They made a Sgt. Frog game for DS that played like a Tales as well.

https://youtu.be/aATGyqzRNy8?si=JC8_bfUedFi5rVdP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keroro_RPG:_Kishi_to_Musha_to_Densetsu_no_Kaizoku

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UshiromiyaEva
04/27/24 11:45:13 AM
#102:


Kagurabachi is very good.

Is this a hot take or are we all here yet?

The perfect mesh of actual quality, popularity, and hardcore mainstream appeal. Just one of those manga that makes it really obvious that 2-3 years from now it's gonna be obliterating the Anime Awards, for better or worse.

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SHINE_GET_64
04/27/24 1:00:41 PM
#103:


final MHA recap time for Shigaraki recap

Sad we didn't get opening 5 in any of these (Got 1, 2, 9 and 10)

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UshiromiyaEva
04/27/24 3:58:14 PM
#104:


I finally have it. The One Piece.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bd63a6ee.jpg

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Bane_Of_Despair
04/27/24 4:21:56 PM
#105:


The Steel Ball Run anime adaptation rumor mill is making the rounds again, the source is supposedly a deleted tweet from someone who worked on Stone Ocean. The loosest of grains of salt for a confirmation lol

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Maniac64
04/27/24 8:07:05 PM
#106:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
I finally have it. The One Piece.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bd63a6ee.jpg
Is it a comedy? Is that why Roger laughed?

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UshiromiyaEva
04/27/24 8:13:01 PM
#107:


He just really loved durians.

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UshiromiyaEva
04/27/24 11:07:28 PM
#108:


New gay icon just dropped.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/798609c3.jpg

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Robazoid
04/28/24 3:02:59 AM
#109:


We're far enough into the Spring season that I want to talk again about what I'm watching in the hopes of swaying others to watch/avoid them. I'm caught up on everything, which means three episodes minimum. This doesn't include sequels becuase, I mean, Laid-Back Camp and Duke of Death are great. Anyone who's seen their previous seasons already knows that. Since I'm watching twenty anime, I'll split it in half and do ten today, ten tomorrow. I'll try to keep my thoughts brief. Going from best to worst:

-A Condition Called Love is shaping up to be one of my favorite romances ever. Finally, an anime about the difficulties of dating. I love how the two leads are flawed in such realistic ways. The main guy Hananoi goes too far and has a lot of off-putting behaviors, but he's not an abusive asshole. The main girl Hotaru doesn't really know what love is, but she's not stupidly clueless. She's trying her best to understand their weird relationship. It's occasionally sweet, occasionally creepy, and always messy. I love it... but, obviously, this dynamic wouldn't work for everyone! I don't have to look very hard across the internet to see people going "main dude is a walking red flag" and I'm just like "that's the whole point of the show you morons". Then again, I really hated an anime like My Little Monster where the main dude regularly abused the main girl, and I bet fans of that show would say "that's the point" about it too. Different romances appeal to different people, I suppose.

-Tonbo has been a lot of fun so far. It was tough to pick my #2 between this and Jellyfish, but this is winning at the moment. As a sports anime, it's doing a great job at bringing me into the world of golf in ways that are fun and genuinely interesting. Still, my favorite thing about it is Tonbo herself. She's always so energetic and happy, but with some sadness in her past to give her depth. Her reluctant mentor/surrogate father relationship with Igaiga is also being handled super well.

-Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night is shaping up to be a really special anime. I love everyone in the main cast. They each have things from their past that they're struggling to overcome, and they have a fun group dynamic when they're together. The music aspect is being handled really well. More than anything, though, it's the storytelling and production values that are bringing it all together. Every episode so far has managed to enthrall me in ways that few other anime have.

-Tonari no Yokai-san has been such a pleasant experience. I'm a sucker for this kind of setting, a slice-of-life quiet mountain community with hints of the fantastic scattered all around. The worldbuilding has been consistently impressive at weaving the yokai into regular society. It's also doing a great job at sprinkling in darker or more serious elements without ever going too far with it.

-Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master is a great royal court political intrigue show. There are a lot of competing factions and people within those factions. After four episodes, though, I think I have a handle on all the major players. I'm excited to see where the succession crisis story goes... but I'm also enjoying the four ladies competing to become the next empress. Setting aside their role in the overall plot, it's fun watching them snipe at each other with backhanded comments.

-Wind Breaker isn't shaping up to be anything groundbreaking, but's doing a good job at being a delinquent fighting anime. I like the characters they've introduced so far, especially main dude Sakura. He's mostly your standard edgy tough guy, but I like the other half of him that gets flustered from kindness. The animation during the fights has been solid and kept them interesting to watch.

-Whisper Me a Love Song has the unfortunate luck of competing with A Conditon Called Love this season, but I'm still enjoying it. I've had significant issues with most of the other yuri romance anime I've seen, so I'm glad this seems to be avoiding the pitfalls those other shows fell into. Yori and Himari are good characters who are really cute together. I'm enjoying watching their relationship develop.

-The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio has had its ups and downs. I like the "frenemy" dynamic the two main characters have, and it's doing a good job at being realistic about the competitiveness of the industry. Some aspects have veered too far into melodrama for my tastes, though. I'm excited to see their relationship develop, but I'm also really worried about where some other plotlines might go. I feel like this could fall pretty far in my ranking if it goes a direction I don't like.

-Train to the End of the World has a lot of aspects that appeal to me, which makes me sad that I can't rank it higher. I like the weird setting and the dynamic between the four girls... at least most of the time. At other times they act like unbelievable morons. One recent story decision also infuriated me. I'm hoping they reverse it somehow because otherwise it'll ruin the entire story's tone. I guess I'm ranking this under the assumption that it'll improve in the future. The last two episodes kinda sucked.

-Mysterious Disappearances has been interesting so far. I'm a sucker for supernatural mysteries. I like the main girl, and I'm intrigued by the strange brother/sister duo she's teaming up with. Considering the amount of fanservice elements this show has, I've also been pleasantly surprised that it's handled kinda tastefully. I enjoyed the one mystery they've gone through. Whether it rises or falls in my ranking will depend on the quality of the future mysteries.

I'll talk about the bottom ten shows tomorrow just to avoid one gigantic post, but here's my overall season ranking at the moment.

AMAZING
A Condition Called Love
Tonbo!
Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night
Tonari no Yokai-san
Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master

GOOD
Wind Breaker
Whisper Me a Love Song
The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio
Train to the End of the World
Mysterious Disappearances

FINE
A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included
Astro Note
Kaiju No. 8
As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill etc

BAD
Unnamed Memory
Gods' Games We Play
Oblivion Battery
Grandma and Grandpa Turn Young Again
Highspeed Etoile

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Strife2
04/28/24 7:20:10 AM
#110:


Black Butler is back, and when in doubt, do a school setting.

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UshiromiyaEva
04/28/24 11:28:07 AM
#111:


I'm actually very surprised I'm your take with Train to the End of the World! I feel like the episodes just keep getting better and better, especially these last two. It seems like your problems with it are the reasons I like it, lol.

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UshiromiyaEva
04/28/24 11:29:37 AM
#112:


My mind lost the years long battle with my heart and I got caught up with the individual issues of How Do We Relationship instead of waiting patiently for the volumes like I've been doing.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3f76f13f.jpg

THIS WAS A MISTAAAAAAAAKE

THIS MANGA IS GOING TO KILL ME

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pjbasis
04/28/24 2:35:47 PM
#113:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
Kagurabachi is very good.

Is this a hot take or are we all here yet?

I keep waiting for it to stop being hype but it just doesn't

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UshiromiyaEva
04/28/24 4:02:22 PM
#114:


https://twitter.com/nolovelostlady/status/1784410291289153893?t=xLoMwVX9UrmHzfMGJoa5mA&s=19

It felt like this was being used artistically at first when the show started, but I no longer believe that lol.

Euphonium still killing it today, and despite still being at the school I am becoming more invested in the goings on of Mushoku Tensei.

I think the Aristocrat show's OP might be one of the biggest disparities in OP song quality vs visual quality since Air Gear. I always get engaged by those opening beats only for the entire OP to be a character slideshow.


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UshiromiyaEva
04/28/24 4:07:21 PM
#115:


pjbasis posted...
I keep waiting for it to stop being hype but it just doesn't

I still haven't gotten used to the mouths, but other than that there's really nothing I can complain about for this series. Even some of the meh art in a few early scenes was redone significantly for the volumes.

I guess I'd like to see more female characters, but all it takes is one look at JJK to know that that doesn't actually mean anything. At least Hokazono has openly joked around about how he's scared to draw women so he hasn't tried much yet, and one of the few he has added is an androgynous suit and tie wearing woman who I didn't even realize was one until recently lol.

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TheRainandFire
04/28/24 6:35:37 PM
#116:


Started The Greatest Estate Developer. Man Lloyd's starting skills are amazingly terrible.

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Robazoid
04/28/24 10:21:33 PM
#117:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
I'm actually very surprised I'm your take with Train to the End of the World! I feel like the episodes just keep getting better and better, especially these last two. It seems like your problems with it are the reasons I like it, lol.
I just really hate this mushroom subplot. Akira became my favorite character because she was the only one who wasn't an idiot in that episode, but then she immediately became my least favorite by turning into an even bigger idiot and hiding her own mushroom. And now she's brain damaged? That isn't a fun plot development. I hope she gets back to normal and they leave these awful mushrooms behind for the remainder of the show.

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Robazoid
04/28/24 11:23:15 PM
#118:


Ok here are my brief thoughts for the bottom ten shows I'm watching this season

-A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics has been growing on me quite a bit. While it isn't anywhere near as good of a comedy as Hinamatsuri, it has a similar vibe with magical weirdos bumbling around the modern day. A lot of its better moments are thanks to the knight Livia and her homeless misadventures. She's great, and she's been getting a lot more focus than I expected. The one episode where she wound up in a cult was some A+ goofball shenanigans. I'm enjoying the princess Sara being a detective too. Each episode feels better than the last, and I'm excited to see if that trend continues.

-Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included is a pretty generic harem comedy, but it has been improving with each episode too. The best decision it made was focusing less on the angel. Towa is the worst girl they've introduced so far. She's just there to fulfill the "sexy caretaker" fantasy, which is boring. The main guy's coworker is a lot more fun with her tendency to take everything to extremes. My favorite is still the regular school friend Tsumugi. She has a crush on the main dude but now she's competing with a literal angel. It's funny watching her struggle to wrap her head around that crazy situation and futilely try to convince herself that she still has a chance.

-Astro Note is way below the other two slice-of-life comedies, but it's not bad. All the characters having wildly different art styles is occasionally absurd enough to be funny on its own. I also like the talking dog who has to pretend to be a regular dog. Honestly, the worst aspect of this show is the two main leads. The chef guy's only character trait is that he likes Mira, and I don't know why because she barely feels like a character at all aside from her cluelessness. Maybe the whole sci-fi aspect will go somewhere eventually. I at least don't mind watching this one every week.

-Kaiju No. 8 is getting a lot of hype, which makes me think this anime just isn't for me. I liked the first episode because it focused on disposing of kaiju bodies. Once the main guy transformed, though, the whole thing suddenly turned super generic. Now he's in a testing arc that feels like the exact same thing as My Hero Academia's testing arc only with lamer characters and way more boring abilities. I don't like that the main guy's central motivation is impressing his judgmental childhood friend. The comedic moments aren't working for me at all either, it just makes him seem pathetic. I wouldn't call Kaiju No. 8 bad, but it definitely hasn't won me over yet.

-As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill etc is fine as far as isekai go, but that still puts it pretty low in the season overall. I like the premise of the main dude gathering talented individuals to carry him through an inevitable period of turmoil... but the actual recruitments have been pretty boring. I'm beginning to worry the entire season will be little more than a prologue to a much more interesting story that's never actually told. Overall, everything about this is fine. I like the characters well enough. I'm just disappointed at how long it's taking to get to anything interesting.

-Unnamed Memory is my biggest disappointment of the season. Episode one introduced a story with a lot of potential for the main couple to slowly grow closer. Episode two was already showing cracks in the quality of the adaptation as it skimmed past introducing its entire cast of secondary characters and jumped right into a fantasy monster fight I didn't care about because it had no buildup. Then the third episode happened and all my hopes for this adaptation evaporated. This anime is taking what's probably a good story and zooming through it so hard that everything about it is falling flat. The only nice thing I can say about it is that it at least isn't as bad as these next four.

-Gods' Games We Play gave me some hope in the first episode when the two main characters played an interesting variation of Memory, like it was a neat way to introduce them to each other. Then the second episode was a poorly animated game of hide-and-seek where there was no hiding or seeking, main dude just won with bullshit cheat powers. All my hopes for the show instantly disappeared, and the next two episodes were somehow even worse. This kind of high-stakes game story requires the author to be a clever, and very little so far has demonstrated that they're capable of that.

-Oblivion Battery is a baseball anime that, in my opinion, fails on every level. For the most part it tries to be a comedy... but the main comedic focus is on the most juvenile jokes imaginable. Lots of jokes about nipples, poop, and pornography. In the latest episode, the guys all met one character's mother and the big gag there was that she called them all loser virgins. Lady these kids are less than half your age. They're freshmen in high school, they're like fifteen. Calling them virgins isn't funny, it's just creepy and weird that your mind even went there. Oh, and there are bits about baseball too I guess. That aspect isn't handled well enough to be memorable next to the onslaught of bad jokes.

-Grandma and Grandpa Turn Young Again had an absolutely terrible first episode where half the jokes were about everyone in the family wanting to bang their sexy grandparents. Thankfully, the incest angle pretty much disappeared after... but that makes me wonder why the hell this series chose to introduce itself like that. A disappointing number of jokes still boil down to "grandma and grandpa are hot now", but at least their grandchildren don't want to have sex with them anymore. Instead, it's just turning into a mediocre comedy. It isn't offensive, but it doesn't have much going for it either.

-Highspeed Etoile is baffling. Like, after four episodes, I have no idea what this anime is even trying to be. The races are boring, just ugly CGI and cars driving in circles with absolutely no effort to try and make it exciting. A lot of the time it doesn't even focus on the races, though, and those parts are somehow even worse. Two of the four episodes were pretty much the exact same thing, the main girl Rin runs into one of the most famous racers ever and she's such a braindead moron that she doesn't recognize them so they just kind of hang out. This feels like a story that should be focusing on her as a prodigious talent. Someone who, despite her quirks, will come to dominate the world of racing. If that's where the story is actually going to go, I hope it starts soon because so far it just seems like Rin is a shitty racer. She's gotten dead last in every race and the racing season is half over. I hate her so much. This has a 4.84/10 on MAL and that still feels way too high.

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UshiromiyaEva
04/29/24 4:37:59 PM
#119:


https://twitter.com/meguliciousness/status/1785004745486201224

I am a Holofile.

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UshiromiyaEva
04/30/24 2:58:23 AM
#120:


I reread all of HDWR from the beginning in one sitting just now, after catching up a couple days ago. My eyes really hurt lol.

Just really difficult to express how much I love this series.

It feels weird to call it my favorite manga, but...it...might be?

I keep taking screenshots of emotionally devestating pages just to look back on later. That can't be healthy.

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Robazoid
04/30/24 4:23:49 AM
#121:


I was always scared of pirating things personally because I don't have a VPN or whatever and I'm paranoid about being the one in a million to get taken to court, but my "fuck Disney+ and their close-captioned subtitles" hatred finally overpowered my fear. Along with downloading Undead Unluck, I also got the first four episodes of Mission: Yozakura Family. I got caught up on that, because apparently I wasn't watching enough this season...

Yozakura Family is pretty good so far! In my current season ranking, I'm comfortably putting it in the "Amazing" section. I like the two main characters. Their relationship is cute. It has a decent cast of side characters too with the crazy family members. I'm enjoying the over-the-top spy training and all the shenanigans that come with it.

Then again, I'm a sucker for comedic spy stories like this. I think I was the only one here who even watched Spy Classroom, for example, and I loved that too. Add in some cute low-key romantic elements like Yozakura Family has, and this anime really appeals to me.

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Reg
04/30/24 8:00:37 AM
#122:


Robazoid posted...
I think I was the only one here who even watched Spy Classroom, for example, and I loved that too.
I mean, I didn't love it, but I did have enough fun watching to finish it.
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Mobilezoid
04/30/24 7:22:13 PM
#123:


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.

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UshiromiyaEva
04/30/24 7:29:17 PM
#124:


My dude you should be dropping anything you're not vibing with. You especially can't start saying things like "well but it's better than *this* and I'm not dropping *that*." You got to look at these things I'm a vacuum.

I've dropped 3 more anime this week, it's no big deal I'm still watching 13 ongoing shows. And if it ends up getting way better later you can just go back to it.

The anime can't defeat you.

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Mobilezoid
04/30/24 7:43:33 PM
#125:


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!

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UshiromiyaEva
04/30/24 7:49:11 PM
#126:


One step at a time!

The most important anime trailer has dropped.

https://youtu.be/U8Ihhvbr2aA?si=vdMPGYYxKhKeabmj

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UshiromiyaEva
04/30/24 11:35:37 PM
#127:


This that Disney money??

https://twitter.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1785509196722520283

I'm sure it's on purpose lol.

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Robazoid
05/01/24 12:22:20 AM
#128:


I tried reading the Unnamed Memory manga. In addition to some translations that are the exact opposite of what they should be (or so I assume, otherwise nothing about the premise makes any sense, at one point she actually says she can break the curse and just... no you can't???), I swear to god the uploader edited one panel in chapter two to insert a poorly drawn meme face. I'm starting to think Unnamed Memory is cursed! It's resisting my efforts to enjoy it in any format.

I'd consider buying the actual legal releases, but I already impulse bought the entire manga for A Condition Called Love today and should probably save my money.

EDIT: I refuse to believe this background face was in the original manga

https://imgur.com/a/jA7pB35

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UshiromiyaEva
05/01/24 12:37:50 AM
#129:


It isn't. A print manga wouldn't have the color for one.

I checked every source in my app, and "See" is the only Manga site that seems to have the non-trash scans that I can find.

https://i.ibb.co/2KHWWF6/Unnamed-Memory-Chapter-2-22.jpg

I don't see any official app publication for the manga, just physical. I assume these are direct scans from that, but I don't know for sure.

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Robazoid
05/01/24 12:45:48 AM
#130:


Thanks for checking around. I only really know of one website for manga so I'm kind of limited. Ah well, plenty of other stuff for me to read that doesn't have troll uploads. I read all of Engaged to the Unidentified on this website and it was fine

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UshiromiyaEva
05/01/24 12:51:20 AM
#131:


I'd recommend installing Tachiyomi, but I don't know how easy that is anymore if you don't already have it, if it can be done at all.

There are a few anime this season I would probably say to check out the anime for instead. Radio Girls is fine, but the manga is leagues above it (can't speak for the LNs yet). Whisper Me a Love Song might feel more animated in the manga than it does in the show at this point. I can't speak for this one personally, but I have been reliably informed that The Fable is actually a very good manga even though the show is ass.

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UshiromiyaEva
05/01/24 2:42:58 AM
#132:


https://twitter.com/Un4v5s8bgsVk9Xp/status/1785548977439752662?t=hCncf2FvLwTHNfvKisNhIQ&s=19

Togashi do not fucking toy with me.

I had just given up on HxH chapters.

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05/01/24 7:02:29 AM
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Watched the Netflix spinoff of Parasyte, called Parasyte - The Grey. It was...actually great? Are we in a Netflix adaptation Renaissance?

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SirChris
05/01/24 12:59:49 PM
#134:


Finally got around to finishing The Apothecary Diaries.

10/10 no notes.

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UshiromiyaEva
05/01/24 6:31:12 PM
#135:


Picked up Love Live Sunshine and the movie for the Amazon Animay sale.

Something tells me this Collector's Edition release of the movie for $32 must be Region B.....but it doesn't actually say that so I'm gambling.

Really just need to get a region B Blu-ray player one of these days.

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UshiromiyaEva
05/01/24 7:07:05 PM
#136:


MangaGamer bringing Ryukishi over for AX2024 is not news.

MangaGamer bringing Beatrice's VA with him, when there is no official US release of Umineko with VAs, is news.

Ohhhhhhh lord please let it happen.


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Mobilezoid
05/01/24 9:24:14 PM
#137:


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!

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UshiromiyaEva
05/01/24 9:27:38 PM
#138:


Pro: I'd get to read a more cohesive version of the sorry without having to go to the LN.

Con: The only reason I started watching in the first place was the blue underdye, so.....

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SockoressKnight
05/02/24 11:06:25 AM
#139:


Season's about half over, and I'm down to 5 shows. 6 if you count Tadaima, Okaeri, but I'm a couple episodes behind. My biggest issue with it is that the kid annoys me. The omegaverse stuff feels more like set dressing. It mentions type discrimination and male pregnancy, but I haven't seen any yet. I'm not counting Nijiyon S2, either, because it's just Love Live Nijigasaki shorts.

That's down from 14 shows I intended to watch this season. Girls Band Cry was not picked up, and I don't feel like searching for it. I did that for Rinkai and couldn't handle the awful subs. To be fair, Rinkai is just bad all around, especially the race CG. Ooi, Tonbo is apparently on Amazon, so I might look into it.

I dropped Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again after 8 minutes when both the granddaughter and daughter-in-law expressed wanting to have sex with the grandpa. Faster drop was Oblivion Battery - one exclamation of "nipple hair" from one of the MCs was enough for me, and he did it twice. I dropped Wind Breaker, because I bounced off the MC and his constant blushing from basic gratitude. Most recent drop was Train to the End of the World. I hated Akira in episode 4, and the resolution in episode 5 wasn't enough to keep me around.

Still watching Whisper Me a Love Song, Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio, Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night, Viral Hit, and Highspeed Etoile, with Etoile being the closest to being cut. It's awful, but...I want it to be good. I'd settle for mediocre, which would just be to go back to the boring races of the first two episodes.

Off-season, I finished the first two seasons of Yuru Camp. I liked it, but not so much that I feel the need to catch up to the current season. It's a comfy show about a camping club, and the vistas are really pretty. The characters range from great to okay, and I think I like it more when less of them are involved. More Nadeshiko and and Rin, less Aoi and Chiaki.

I also finished a rewatch of Akebi's Sailor Uniform. Still really love it. Episode 11 is really heartwarming, and the finale is just beautiful with the "duet"

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MacArrowny
05/02/24 11:16:08 AM
#140:


Chiaki is 100% the weakest Yuru Camp main character (other than the teacher). Her scenes in S3 have mostly been pretty good so far, but still weaker than the rest of the cast. Rin supremacy.

SockoressKnight posted...
Girls Band Cry was not picked up, and I don't feel like searching for it.
You'll be fine if you just use SobsPlease for every episode.

I actually watched the first two eps of that now, which were quite good. It's interesting, the show keeps not going in the directions I expect it to.

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UshiromiyaEva
05/02/24 11:23:18 AM
#141:


Excluding sequels, I still feel like GBC is probably what should be my favorite show this season. I keep waffling between it and Jellyfish but I think it could just be because of the A Place Further vibes worming into my brain, and maybe once I actually rewatch APFttU next week if it will effect how I feel.

I also need to actually watch all of the Girls Band Cry music videos they've been putting out over the last year, because apparently these actually matter, lol. Additionally, a very large amount of GBC fans seem to keep comparing it to Bang Dream MyGO, so maybe I'll look into that.

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Sceptilesolar
05/02/24 1:05:39 PM
#142:


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

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UshiromiyaEva
05/02/24 1:09:11 PM
#143:


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.

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UshiromiyaEva
05/02/24 1:20:21 PM
#144:


Been reading a few more manwha, and I'm noticing more and more how consistently the translation of manwha seems extremely stiff. Not sure why that is.....

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Mobilezoid
05/02/24 1:50:32 PM
#145:


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.

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Sceptilesolar
05/02/24 2:20:30 PM
#146:


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.

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SockoressKnight
05/02/24 2:53:17 PM
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Mobilezoid posted...
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.
I just wanted a cool baseball anime, man. So many bad sports anime this season

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

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Mobilezoid
05/02/24 3:42:42 PM
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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

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pjbasis
05/02/24 5:25:34 PM
#149:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
I had just given up on HxH chapters.

We're gonna finish this arc dammit (eventually)

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UshiromiyaEva
05/02/24 5:29:10 PM
#150:


pjbasis posted...
We're gonna finish this arc dammit (eventually)

https://twitter.com/Un4v5s8bgsVk9Xp/status/1785895428573319488?t=TDDbfWu806TGq_YrLYU-vg&s=19

Taking it one page at a time.

Really hope he can manage it. He started these posts with "Moon healing magic!", so I have to assume that means his health has improved.

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