| New seasonal anime: Darwin's Game Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun Kyokou Suiri Plunderer Somali to Mori no Kamisama Also, Hello! I'm new to the group! Nice to meet you! |
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| @WampaStompa @eso-JAR Let me know how Darwin's Game and Kyokou Suiri turn out. I was strongly considering picking those up this season. |
| @Noraf46 Kyokoue Suiri has been a surprise for me. First episode was really strong! I've heard people mention that it has a Monogatari Series vibe to it, which even though I haven't seen Monogatari yet, is pretty high praise. Darwin's Game I've liked so far, but if you are tired of the isekai/video game world motif you may want to steer clear. |
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| @eso-JAR Yes! Gantz was the first thing that came to mind when I was watching Darwin's Game. |
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| Started ID: Invaded last night. The best way to describe that show is a cross between Inception and Criminal Minds, and it's plenty intriguing. |
 May the DESU be with you! Always! |
| Started a new show: Smile Down The Runway last night and liked it right away. |
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| @PhillyFlash What's it stream on? |
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| It's on Funimation. |
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| Thanks! I'm gonna check it out! |
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| It's that time again! Winter 2020 is upon us and so is my enormous list of seasonal watching... Ahiru no Sora Babylon Black Clover Boku no Hero Academia 4th Season Boku no Tonari ni Ankoku Hakaishin ga Imasu. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Chihayafuru 3 Darwin's Game Diamond no Ace: Act II Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia Haikyuu!!: To the Top Housekishou Richard-shi no Nazo Kantei ID:Invaded Infinite Dendrogram Kabukichou Sherlock Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden (TV) Mairimashita! Iruma-kun Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi Mugen no Juunin: Immortal number24 One Piece Pet Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle Plunderer Radiant 2nd Season Re:Zero-Starting Life in Another World- Director’s Cut Somali to Mori no Kamisama Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki Nisatsume Whew! |
| My love of anime is not an obsession. It's a need to have a content life. |
| Ahh, yes! Started Darwin's Game on Saturday and found it interesting. |
| May the DESU be with you! Always! |
Winter 2020 (temporary rating after 3 eps)
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| Started Plunderer last night. It was interesting. |
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| Started Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! last night. Wow! What a delightfully wacky show! |
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| Started Cagster of an Insect Cage last night. Plenty interesting! |
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| I did some early planning for Spring 2020, it seems to be the season of sequels and has some promising new shows as well. New series:
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| For everyone who remembers the trials and tribulations involved with getting to school on time as a teenager, Chio's School Road is for you! It's my newest goofy pleasure! |
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| @PhillyFlash Chio's School Road was a great time from start to finish. Manana is one of my favorite characters because of how hard she embraces her loser lifestyle and is quick to drag anyone she can down to her level. |
| Watched the first episode of Tower of God on Crunchyroll last night and found it most interesting. |
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PhillyFlash said: Watched the first episode of Tower of God on Crunchyroll last night and found it most interesting. I just caught up with the first 2 episodes of Tower of God. Agree, looks like this could be an interesting show this season. I'm also watching: Gal & Dino (first ep was a bit strange, will persevere, as strange can be fun) Honzuki S2 -go Maine! My Next Life As A Villainess Princess Connect Re Dive Shachibato Shironeko Tsugu Tsugumomo Just finished Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, absolutely loved it, especially the music! |
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| Watching Tower of God and Fruits Basket S2 of the current airing, otherwise I've recently started March Comes in like a Lion which I'm really enjoying! |
| Watched the first episodes of HameFura and Kakushigoto today. Will probably watch these two series through to the end. I'm hoping that the former doesn't go downhill like Netjuu no Susume(sic) did. The latter I suspect won't stumble given the show's DNA. |
| I originally planned to pick up a lot more, but many were delayed due to covid. Of the ones released, I've started watching: Appare-Ranman! BNA Gleipnir Kami no Tou Shironeko Project: Zero Chronicle From previous seasons I've got Black Clover and Plunderer, and from the backlog I've already gotten to the halfway mark of Kimetsu no Yaiba. |
| I'm also now rewatching DBZ to pass some time! |
| I guess these shows I started yesterday are seasonal: Arte Drifting Dragons |
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| What I'm currently watching along with some thoughts now we're half way through the Spring season: Appare-Ranman - really enjoying this historical comedy based on wacky racers, sad to see it on hold. Gal & Dino - quirky show with a super hot live action gyaru, Kaede, although the anime version is hotter. Not for everyone this show. Honzuki S2 - such a beautifully intricate look into the workings of a fantasy world. Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater - on hold atm Kaguya sama S2 - on par with the brilliant S1 Tower of God - loving this so far Wave, Listen to Me - Minare, the MC is one of those MC you instantly fall in love with OreYubi - interesting premise & story for a vanilla hentai My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! - this has been a surprise hit for me. The writing is superb. PriConne - much better than I ever expected, funny cgdct with a bumbling guy Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle! - it's ok, the standard isekai model anime Shironeko - nice animation & some flashy battles, nice to look at Tsugu Tsugumomo - following on from the astounding S1, I love Kiriha & Kazuya together, they match well |
23feanorMay 10, 2020 1:49 PM
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| Just when I thought I had my fill of isekai shows, I went and started a new one last night: The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me? |
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Summer 2020 looks pretty bleak with all the Corona fallout, here is what I plan to watch.
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| Here we go, the first Corona themed anime ... Hulaing Babies Aratame: Staying Babies: The girls formed a hula club but the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has halted further club activity. It will outline various preventative measures against the virus. |
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| A new season is finally underway, here's what I've picked up so far (including shows rolled over from last season that were suspended due to the virus): Appare Ranman (continued from Spring after being put on hold) Deca-Dence - this looks really interesting, great premise and interesting characters Dokyuu Hentai HxEros - simply ecchi with a plot and aliens Gal & Dino (continued from Spring after being put on hold) Houkago Teibou Nisshi/Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater (continued from Spring after being put on hold) The Misfit of Demon King Academy - fantasy school with OP protagonist Monster Girl Doctor - ecchi romance Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time - another ecchi romance, bordering on hentai. A guy becomes a fighting champion & wants to get married to his sexually innocent sweetheart, however he is now the target of many women after becoming champion. A story of how he deals with being tempted. Will he hold out for his sweetheart or will he succumb to temptation? Re: Zero 2nd Season SAO Alicization War of the Underworld S2 The God of Highschool - hype shounen battle tournament Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out - easy watching SoL series My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU S3: Oregairu Season 3 - the final installment in the Oregairu franchise. Expect lots of angsty teenage melodrama. Will Hachiman end up with a girlfriend, who will it be, Yukino or Yui (I'm for Yui)? A last minute addition: Lapis Re: Light - a cgdct fantasy magic show for some easy relaxed watching |
23feanorJul 12, 2020 4:53 AM
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| With the season fully underway, here's what I decided to pick up, including a few that are returning from pre-COVID (and one I stopped watching): Appare-Ranman! Black Clover Deca-dence Enen no Shouboutai: Ni No Shou Monster Musume no Oishasan Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 2nd season Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai! Dropped: Gibiate - I wanted to give it a fair try because I thought there could be some fun in a cheesy B movie plot with time-traveling samurai saving the modern world from a virus that turns people into bug-monsters and I wasn't as put off by the art style as others were, but there were too many problems here to overlook. First, regardless of artistic preference, the animation is just bad everywhere that counts. The bargain basement CG monsters that look like they were pulled from mid-90s cartoons are an assault to your eyes to begin with, but then they move so poorly that it's hard to be scared of them or see them as much of a threat. And then the traditionally animated characters barely move much better. Everything feels very wooden - people float or slide from one side of the screen to the other, with slow or even unmoving sword strikes that don't feel like there's any weight behind them yet are supposed to be able to slice with ease through creatures who aren't even fazed by bullets most of the time (yet succumb to them when the plot demands). It honestly feels like we're watching a slide show or stick puppet theater whenever there's an "action" scene. Combining the above with strange scene wipes and transitions to other characters in near-still shots killing monsters just makes it even worse. It's like someone discovered slide transitions in Powerpoint for the first time and wanted to make sure they used each one in their class presentation. Moving past the animation and art, the plot and characters don't do much to salvage anything. I'm not going to criticize the B-movie monster plot or that the heroes of the human race would be traditional Japanese warriors and martial artists from the past, because I was here for that. But I will criticize the facts that A) the heroes aren't entirely bothered by it nor are they all that amazed or interested in the modern world from a technological or cultural standpoint, B) everyone in the modern world both immediately believes and totally accepts that samurai from feudal Japan popped up in the midst of the apocalypse to help them, and C) the bugs are nigh-invulnerable to modern assault rifles and yet are effortlessly destroyed by swords, wires, and fists/clubs wielded by strong buddhist monks. The only exception to the "immune to bullets" aspect of the bugs seems to be Adam (or maybe it was Brian), who dual wields assault rifles, because everyone knows if something is immune to something else, you only need to have 2 of those things to override the immunity. Of course, the bugs are also occasionally not bulletproof, but this only seems to happen once the samurai shows up to signify that the tide has shifted and the good guys are winning. Maybe he has some kind of "bug-vulnerability aura"? Oh, also the bugs are incredibly weak to tazers, but only one person on Earth seems to use one and no one else said, "hey, that seems pretty useful, why don't we all use those instead of these useless guns?" I won't even get into the obvious bad guy plot twist I can see coming without even finishing the series. |
| Four shows I recently started (in alphabetical order): Monster Girl Doctor Rent-A-Girlfriend The God of High School The Misfit of Demon King Academy |
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After a meager summer season, Fall 2020 is approaching (far too) quickly, and it's packed with interesting shows - partly because of the corona delays from summer. Here's shows I intend to watch from day 1:
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inim said: After a meager summer season, Fall 2020 is approaching (far too) quickly, and it's packed with interesting shows - partly because of the corona delays from summer. Here's shows I intend to watch from day 1:
I'm also really looking forward to Fall 2020, partly due to the Covid crisis we're getting a backlog of shows from Spring finally being released. I don't think I've seen so many exciting shows coming up since I started watching seasonal shows in Spring 2019. Another couple of shows I'm interested in checking out this coming Fall season: Jujutsu Kaisen Majo no Tabitabi/The Journey of Elaina By the Grace of the Gods Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle Warlords of Sigrdrifa |
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| Fall 2020 shows I'm interested in watching (in alphabetical order): Attack On Titan, final season Burn The Witch Is The Order A Rabbit: Bloom Iwakakeru: Sport Climbing Girls Noblesse Strike Witches: Road To Berlin |
PhillyFlashOct 6, 2020 12:33 AM
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