Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 51]
wjs018@ani.social 3 days agoI’m sort of craving something that’ll let me just switch off my brain and coast…
My go-to for this state of mind is Nichijou and, more recently, City The Animation. I often pop on a random episode here and there. Scrolling through my library for some other ideas, I found a couple others I have watched that are in the same vein of a SOL I don’t need to pay too much attention to, but are still good shows:
- Azumanga Daioh (a classic if you haven’t seen it)
- Bartender (I’ve just seen the remake)
- Dungeon People (a great SOL that flew under the radar I think)
- How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift?
- I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years
- Negative Positive Angler (some story in this one, but mostly just fishing vibes)
Rottcodd@ani.social 3 days ago
Yeah - Nichijou is one of my go-tos too, but I just rewatched the entire run a few months ago.
I really want to like Azumanga Daioh, but I just don’t much. The manga was a simple school/slice of life comedy with only a few surreal bits (mostly Osaka’s dreams). For whatever reason though, the adaptation leaned heavily into the surrealism and ended up injecting it pretty much everywhere, and with every character. And IMO it just didn’t work - it ended up burying a lot of the comedy that made the manga great (and I suspect that that’s Kiyohiko Azuma’s opinion too, and that’s most of the reason that he flatly refuses to let Yotsuba! be adapted).
I haven’t seen any of the rest of those, but they’re all on my radar, other than Dungeon People, which is new to me but looks especially promising.
I ended up rewatching a goofy satire called Robot Girls Z. It makes fun of pretty much every super robot trope in existence, and a good number of magical girl tropes to boot, and it’s a short and simple watch.
Then I cast about for a bit before I suddenly remembered that I still hadn’t watched the most recent season of Konosuba, so that was the obvious next choice, and what I’m in the middle of right now, and enjoying Darkness getting the focus.