Submitted 2 days ago by wjs018@ani.social to anime@ani.social
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Weekly ranking roundup:
Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma and /u/Nooble5 for the Anime Trending chart.
Sword of the Demon Hunter comes out of nowhere to top the chart on AC this week. This season continues to be a weak one in terms of the reddit karma with the total falling below 14k this week and only the top three entries having more than 1k karma. I have been more than satisfied this season, but I am just one person after all.
Sword of the Demon Hunter comes out of nowhere to top the chart on AC this week.
It was a pretty good episode both in content and visual direction.
I have been more than satisfied this season
Same.
I have just completed Beastars final season (part 1) and it is just as good as the previous seasons.
The antagonist, Melon, reminds me of the Joker. In fact, Legoshi gives me Batman vibes.
As with before, my nitpick has to do with the classification of animals. It still annoys me to see the anteater grouped together with herbivores whereas the hippo got lumped in with carnivores.
Also, omnivores as a category were ignored, with omnivorous animals getting thrown into one of the herbivore / carnivore faction for the sake of the narrative.
Otherwise, the characters, storytelling, fight scenes, etc are peak as usual, so it’s a 10 / 10.
Unfortunately, it seems that we don’t have a release date of part 2 just yet.
P.S. Juno is wasted on her love interests. I hope she won’t go down a losing heroine route.
I have been doing a lot of traveling this past week, so my ability to watch anime has been sporadic. Despite that, I managed to catch up on some shows:
I have fallen behind on two shows that I really want to keep up with. The first of which is Gundam GQuuuuuux. I have been managing to keep up with making the episode threads for !gundam@ani.social, but am now a couple episodes behind. The other show that I am really going to try to catch up on is Apocalypse Hotel. I have loved this show so far, but have yet to watch the most recent episode. If you haven’t checked it out yet, it has been just the right mix of silly and melancholy for me.
I continue on my quest to listen to bad Anime while I work; This week I listened to chaos;head and it was delightfully terrible. It was basically an audio novel, everything was expressed in dialog, I especially love the long pseudo science exposition dumps:
“we are putting a delusion in the blank spot on your mind!” I had to glance at my second screen from time to time to make sure that the otaku guy and his harem of psychic girls were battling… Dudes with back packs.
The final fight was also funny in how anticlimactic it was. I noticed it’s based on a visual novel or something and tried listening to chaos;child what seemed to be an adaptation of an alternative route but I could not do it a second time. Then tried Heavenly Delusion and that one seemed good, so I’m putting it on hold to watch while paying attention next.
Currently looking for another bad Anime to listen to
Shinesman, if you can find it, has an amusingly silly dub that you should be able to follow without paying too much attention to the visuals. They took an already rather silly sentai show parody and just let the English voice actors run away with it.
I Think I found it! and added it to the watchlist! thanks for the rec! =D
I’ve never seen anyone else looking for bad anime to listen to before! I have a few suggestions:
Garzey’s Wing is the stuff of legend. I have only seen clips, but it has a bit of a cult following in my area because it is a recurring feature in the Bad Anime, Bad! panel at my local con.
Thank you for the recommendations! Garzey’s wing and way of the husband sound just like I am looking for, I ended up being mesmerized by cipher simply because I have a soft spot for 80’s shojou aesthetics and 80’s music, the vibes are immaculate!
I think I just found crystal triangle on youtube so it’s added to my watchlist!
They’re not bad anime afaik (but maybe they are for you), but go try for an audio-only experience
Spirited Away
A Silent Voice
Spy x Family
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Howl’s Moving Castle
Cowboy Bebop
Death Note
One Piece
One Punch Man
Your Name
Chainsaw Man
I think I’ve seen a lot of these recommendations; and I have liked them a lot! I don’t think I could “just listen to them” in good conscience because a lot of these shows and movies have good visual language and engaging stories; I need to put Spy X Familly in my watch list because it sounds like a good show!
My platonic ideal for a “bad anime” to listen while working is something like “King’s game” (in fact I think that was the one that got me down this road.) It is so consistently bad that I don’t mind missing anything visually; It is so consistently outrageous and bat chist crazy that listening to it keeps me entertained, and it has that weird quality in scripting where everything is expressed verbally. I got so much stuff done that week; I don’t know why it makes me super productive.
Then there is another category I have; The “so outrageous it’s good” anime: I tried “just listening” to Baki son of ogre And I just couldn’t do it. The moment Baki took a child to his basement to watch him train against an imaginary giant mantis, I was all like “Ok; I can’t ignore this shit.” I ended up binging the series :,)
Just starting season three of the original Robotech. I watch one in the morning with breakfast. It’s pretty dated but it’s got some good storytelling.
Started off this week with the rest of Mekacucity Actors, which ended up being mediocre all in all (early on, I didn’t think it’d even manage that). In the later episodes, it mostly set aside the tedious Monogatari-style pop philosophy monologues set against geometric abstract liminal space backdrops and got down to some actual character development and exposition… It wasn’t particularly compelling or even coherent character development and exposition, but at least it was something.
Then, sort of wandering around aimlessly, I happened across a currently-airing series of a genre I’ve never bothered to watch before and what-the-hell gave it a watch, and that’s how I ended up catching up on and following Maebashi Witches. On the surface, it’s just cute and cheery, with pleasantly high quality animation and music and endearing characters and surprising emotional depth, and that might be all it ends up being, which’ll be fine. It’s surprisingly enjoyable just as that. But there’s also some room there for something else. Nothing is quite what it appears to be - they aren’t really “witches” in any recognizable sense, the mascot character who recruited them is revealing himself to be a smooth-talking and dishonest hustler and the deal they’ve made with him keeps getting more complex and its completion further out of reach. I don’t expect anything close to Madoka out of it, but there does seem to be a similar hidden agenda and while Keroppe is no Kyubey, he definitely isnt telling them the entire truth.
In any event, at worst, it’s cute and endearing and pleasant, and I’m enjoying it.
Then I sort of bulldozed my way through Sora no Otoshimono Forte, which I’ve been idly threatening to watch for years now, but I expected it to be similar to the first season, which is to say little bits of brilliance scattered here and there among lots of tedious and cringey trash, which is pretty much exactly what it was. Tomoki spent about 90% of the series super deformed and doing that “Kek kek kek” laugh while the rest of the cast just played their assigned one-note roles, but it wasn’t all bad, and the handful of serious moments were actually pretty good. So about what I expected.
Then I capped the week off with a real gem - Planetarian, which was absolutely glorious. It’s heart-warming and beautiful and tragic and uplifting and somber and deeply, deeply moving, and it made me smile and tear up at the same time and I loved it. I ended up watching both the series - Chiisana Hoshi no Yume and the movie/sequel - Hoshi no Hito, which tells a condensed version of the series plus some additional content after the events of the series. They’re both worth it.
And I already grabbed a Yumemi screenshot that’s my new wallpaper.
I’m really enjoying Lazarus rn, I think mostly because it’s a fresh take on Cowboy Bepop. It’s certainly not as good as CB, but the fight scenes and gun play are great.
At first I was a bit confused on how Hapna could kill everyone in a month, but it was later revealed that it’s not an exact date. Seems that the drug is never excreted, or at least partially stays in the body forever. Almost reminds me of how tylenol would never pass clinical trials these days because overdoses are so easy and deadly.
Also, Bonobo (/watch?v=4Kc_U7mruec) made all the music for it, which is amazing as always.
catalyst@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Continuing:
Started:
Grab bag:
Unboxious@ani.social 1 day ago
My first time watching Steins;Gate I dropped it right about where you are for mostly the same reasons. I gave it a second try years later and I’m glad I did! It really picks up around… episode 12. Yeah. 12. It takes way too long to get exciting, but when it did I found myself unable to put it down.
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Steins Gate is a notorious slow burn. Around eps 5-8 (it’s been a while, so I don’t exactly remember) it really got going. Please stick with it, it’s definitely worth it
e0qdk@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I don’t know if you’ll enjoy the ride overall, but the show’s a roller coaster with a long hill climb. It picks up later.