Rating system: (this is based on enjoyment, but occasionally I inflate scores out of respect for ambition/execution/legacy)
I rate movies and shows separately since, hey, what chance does a standalone 2-hour film have if it's compared to an emotional connection to a ~26+ episode series?
10s are special. They typically had some sort of personal impact or appealed to me very strongly (the latter is often the case for movies/manga).
5 is the lowest I'll go for something I don't regret watching.
1-4 are varying levels of self-loathing for managing to watch to the end.
Gurren Lagann is actually an 11 and has little to no chance of ever being topped.
Anime "milestones" oh god someone help me why have I watched this much:
1st completed: Attack on Titan
200th completed: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
250th completed: Haikyuu!!
300th completed: Hunter x Hunter (2011)
350th completed: Sarazanmai
400th completed: Lupin III: The Woman Named Mine Fujiko
450th completed: Dr. Stone
500th completed: Psycho-Pass
100days reached: One Piece Film: Z
550th completed: Ping Pong the Animation
600th completed: The Tatami Galaxy
650th completed: Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season
700th completed: Mind Game
750th completed: Pompou the Cinephile
800th completed: Bocchi the Rock
One Piece manga catching up period: 08/13/2018-12/30/2020. Just in time for Chapter 1000, as I originally intended. What a fucking experience.
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BTW, how are you feeling about Sengoku Youko so far? Especially the protagonist switch
And yeah even in trainwreck you can often count on good music and voice acting, but even those sucked somehow!
Hell yeah finish SY and then get to Spirit Circle, Mizukami's masterpiece!
I still hope that Spirit Circlr gets an adaptation someday, but only if Mizukami refuses to sign off on anything that isn't up to par. Clearly here he was just desperate to get it adapted no matter what. Poor guy, cant say I blame him, but I doubt he'll make that mistake again.
Yeah the last chapter is honestly possibly my favorite last chapter of any manga I've read. Resolved everything perfectly into a nice little bow while still promising a hype sequel!
Honestly I hope it's 2 cours and not 3- CSM doesn't have a lot of dialogue and feels very "filmic" in its approach if that makes sense, with lots of spreads of either action or silent contemplation. There are stretches where you could even fit up to 7 chapters into an episode perfectly. IMO 3 cours would slow the pacing way too much and they'd have to add filler. With how airtight Fujimoto has made this story, I really don't want to that to happen.
On the topic of CG and MAPPA...yeah I'm not happy about that. They're turning into an anime factory recently with no concern for proper scheduling. Their workers are getting overworked and will probably try hard but have to cut a lot of corners. Cautiously optimistic.
Also the manga is a straight up 10/10 for me...the next arc could be an 11/10 if Reze shows up and flirts/dates with Denji in the high school arc.
I think we still might be in the endgame sadly, according to this: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-11-01/chainsaw-man-manga-enters-final-stage/.165798
I'm hoping by "final stage" that it means that we still have at least a couple dozen chapters left though.
And yeah I absolutely loved the paneling compositing and the callbacks to earlier chapters. Man Fujimoto is a god
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPB_J6Egi28&feature=youtu.be
Also the most recent CSM chapter is the best chapter in the entire goddamn manga IMO.
If you do update your update your 3x3s, I can't wait to see them! You have a way with picking good art and panels that can represent each series.
Out of my top 9 manga, the ones I definitely recommend most to you that you haven't started yet are:
"Destroy All Humans: They Can't Be Regenerated" - a beautiful and wholesome 90s romance about two kids who play Magic: the Gathering
"Onani Master Kurosawa" - starts out as Fap Note and then becomes a Silent Voice, you'll love this one
and "Sengoku Youko" - my favorite battle shounen of all time-pure distilled hype, great character development all around, no padding, and like Gurren Lagann, it just escalates and gets better and better the farther along it goes.
How are Haibane Renmei and Shigatsu?