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It’s funny how before you are familiar with something, you can mentally place it in the same category as something it’s totally distinct from. Like if I ever heard of people talking about Love Live or idolM@ster, I kinda just placed all that information into the same box.

I had always put Prison School and High School of the Dead in the same box. Both some kind of trashy ecchi with a surface-level heavy theme. But actually, they are SO different.

Prison School is so creative, the stakes and tension feel so real. The silliness and seriousness blend together perfectly. It’s truly amazing and there’s nothing else like it. Also, the soundtrack is among the greatest of all time.

The anime and manga kinda suffer from their own problems. The anime is just a little too short to cover the parts of the manga that were truly jaw-dropping, like the room full of snakes or the futon scene. On the other hand, the manga suffers from the INFAMOUSLY long and boring and just awful “cavalry battle” arc which is just as bad or worse than its reputation would imply. Some people also really dislike the very end but I actually quite like how it ended and can’t really imagine there being a more sensible ending.

Trying to think of more objective ones rather than “Gamers! is really underrated” or “you should watch Galaxy Angel”…

• the first 5 stages of Initial D were done by a different studio every time
• Hideaki Anno, director of Evangelion, voices the main character in The Wind Rises
• Hideaki Anno also animated the god warrior scene from Nausicaa
• the story and characters of Hibike! Euphonium closely mirror Ace wo Nerae!
• Azumanga Daioh was the first in the “cute girls doing cute things” genre and is super influential
• Likewise, Urusei Yatsura was one of the most influential anime of all time

I will definitely check this out because I was not a fan of the vibe in the movie or SAC.

I don’t believe it actually bans “Pikachu” when spelled as 光宙 because ピカチュウ is actually a pretty reasonable reading, although maybe not the #1 most obvious one. Based on a random Japanese article I read about it (link), I really don’t think 光宙/Pikachu will be technically illegal, although all the English articles will say so because it’s click fodder.

The law bans: things that are not related to the kanji reading at all, things that add unexpected extra stuff on the end of the obvious reading, or things that mean the opposite of what the kanji means.

I don’t believe any of this applies to Pikachu, and the examples they cite are not really comparable.