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- Comment on [DISC] Furumapura - Chapter 14 6 hours ago:
I just saw that a new chapter had gone up and came here to post this. I didn’t even consider the possibility that someone else would - I thought I was the only one. 😲
There was a period there, after the success of Ojojojo, when it seemed like Cool Kyoushinsha had a dozen different series all running simultaneously. This was one of my favorites of the lot of them.
I don’t remember a Shiori before in this one. She has the same character design as the MC of Komori-san wa Kotowarenai, who’s also Shiori, and I expected her to be the same character (IIRC he did a lot of crossovers between his various series). She seems to have a completely different personality though.
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- Comment on I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time • Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Tobatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu - Episode 4 discussion 1 day ago:
Yeah - there’s none of that “honor demands that a warrior seek out and defeat the strongest challenger” jazz. She’s just righteously pissed off and makes no secret of that fact.
- Comment on I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time • Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Tobatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu - Episode 4 discussion 1 day ago:
That was pretty damned awesome. There’s just something really gratifying about seeing Alina curbstomp an enemy. And even in the midst of all of that, I laughed when they thanked her and she went all tsundere.
And Jade, who could’ve been bogged down in cliche, is turning out to be a surprisingly interesting and amusing character. It’s great watching the way he and Alina interact.
And it looks like the next episode is going to focus on Lululee, and I’m looking forward to that.
This series is proving to be a gem.
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- Comment on [Discussion] Osananajimi Kanojo no Morahara ga Hidoin de Zetsuen Sengen shite Yatta - Ch. 31 2 days ago:
It feels like this is a shounen action series and they just introduced the boss villain for the mext arc.
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- Comment on ZENSHU • Zenshuu. - Episode 4 discussion 3 days ago:
I caught up on this series last night and absolutely loved it… right up until this episode.
It started off well enough, and it still shared one of the greatest strengths of the series - astonishing art. But the resolution of the crisis of the week wasn’t exciting or funny or even particularly interesting. It was just cheesy and forced and unsatisfying.
I do see a glimmer of hope though - with as self-aware and meta as this series has been, it’s possible that that cheesy solution is going to have consequences somewhere down the line - that it’s going to be recognized as an unsatisfying ass-pull in-universe, and have to be fixed or ret-conned or something like that.
Or I guess it’s possible that a series that had been notably good just face-planted for some reason…
- Comment on Honey Lemon Soda - Episode 4 discussion 3 days ago:
That moment when Ishimori caught herself standing there with her middle school album and suddenly realized what she was doing and started to think that there’s no way anyone could actually be interested in it, so just quietly slunk away - that especially spoke to me. I know exactly how that feels.
I think part of what impresses me about this is that it captures the reality of social anxiety in a way that more exaggerated and stylized depictions - like Bocchi the Rock - never can.
So I get caught up in all of her little victories. They are little, in the grand scheme of things, but they’re also huge in a way. Though even she hasn’t fully realized that yet.
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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 05] 5 days ago:
Started off last week with the rest of Scrapped Princess (2003), which was excellent. It has everything - an intriguing story, great characters, fascinating worldbuilding, humor, action, intrigue, drama, tragedy, redemption… And quality animation and music to boot. It was just a pleasure from start to finish.
And then, of all things, I followed it up with one that was even better, and from a somewhat unexpected quarter. Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na / Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (2020).
It was directed by Yuasa, which is a huge point in its favor IMO - he consistently impresses me. But at the same time, it’s an anime about anime, which is a niche genre that I find to be mostly tedious and self-absorbed, so even with Yuasa at the helm, I wasn’t expecting a whole lot. But I was so, so wrong. It’s glorious, and immediately jumped high onto my all-time favorites list…
One thing is that it mostly skips past the drudgery and workaday world of making anime - the part that most series focus on, IMO to their detriment. Instead, it gets all of that out of the way right off the bat by bringing together a main cast of three who are perfectly suited for their respective roles of director, animation lead and producer, then puts them in a wonderfully run down studio with every tool they might need just sitting there waiting for them. They do of course face problems, but they’re generally more abstract, with the biggest recurring one being that they just can’t stop creating - every idea leads to another idea, every one of which they want to draw.
And that really sets the tone for the anime - what it is is a celebration - a love letter to anime, and further to imagination and creativity and the thrill and fulfillment of visualizing something and striving to communicate it, then watching as an audience gets it, with all the impact you hoped for.
And a wonderful thing about it is that all the while that the characters are coming up with ideas and animating them, trying to capture movement and mood and interesting design, the anime itself, in the background so to speak, is casually throwing in its own wonderful animations. There’s a constant stream of just little riffs scattered here and there - a transitional scene or a bit of background movement or some camera work - that are astonishing, and apparently the same thing the anime is depicting - people creating interesting imagery just for the joy of it.
And even with all of that, the characters manage to be engaging, there’s a satisfying amount of growth and it’s even laugh out loud funny. What more could I want?
It was almost a relief to follow that up with something… not good.
Duan Nao / Die Now is Chinese, and… well … it shows. It’s very derivative and tropish. The biggest problem with it though is that it introduced what could’ve been an interesting story in spite of the tropishness, and dropped all sorts of hints to apparent multiple layers of mystery… then ended. With another… oh… 30 or 40 episodes, it could’ve been good. Maybe.
So after that I was in the mood for a sure thing, so I’m watching Megumin’s KonoSuba spin-off - An Explosion on This Wonderful World (2023) and laughing my ass off.
Oh, and along the way, and uncharacteristically, I’m following not one but two different current series - Honey Lemon Soda and I’m a Guild Receptionist. Honey Lemon Soda is okay - most notable so far for being pretty good in spite of being very tropish. Guild Receptionist is great though, and with the latest bit of character background, looks like it could turn out to be really special.
- Comment on I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time • Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Tobatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu - Episode 3 discussion 1 week ago:
First, I’ve been meaning to mention that the ED is just the cutest thing I’ve seen in months, so seeing it switched to the opening was kind of neat.
Ashita no Watashi ni Sachi Are
The episode was interesting. I wasn’t sure if this was even going to have a plot of any note - with the right cast, it likely could’ve worked as gag/slice of life and I would’ve been fine with that. But it’s looking like it is going to have a plot, and it could be interesting.
And the implications of that flashback also go some way toward explaining the other theme - what had been the OP - and the reason why the two were switched. All of that imagery of what appears to be Alina as a well-established adventurer, beautiful though it is, didn’t quite fit with the notion that all she ever wanted to be was a receptionist. With what we know now though…
Looking forward to the next episode.
- Comment on "Apocalypse Hotel" Original Anime New Key Visual, PV 1 week ago:
All right - I’m sold already, just on that synopsis and the factvthat it’s an original.
Just hoping western civilization doesn’t collapse first.
- Comment on [DISC] Asako - Vol. 5 Ch. 24 - MangaDex 1 week ago:
Yeah - I stumbled across it shortly after Daphie’s picked it up and have been following it ever since. I like it a lot, but it hasn’t (yet) generated much feedback.
It’s sort of scary, since there’s this constant background sense of melancholy and likely tragedy, but there’s an odd sort of hopefulness to it too. So even at this late date, and with all the flags that have gone up, I’m still not sure how it’s going to end. But I expect that however it does, it’s going to manage to be both satisfying in the narrow context of the characters and insightful in the broader context of the human condition.
- Comment on [Discussion] Renge to Naruto! - Ch. 23 1 week ago:
So what’s going to happen if sensei discovers that her version of the secret life of the librarian was only wrong in that she made her the M instead of the S?
I like what all of this does sort of backhandedly to Renge and Naruto. They were already cutely wholesome, but the more we get to know of the rest of the cast, the more wholesome they get by comparison.
- Comment on Honey Lemon Soda - Episode 3 discussion 1 week ago:
Still liking this, vanilla though it might be.
This episode faltered a bit, with too many people being too kind to her all at once, which seemed unnatural and forced just for plot purposes. But I’m interested to see how the cliffhanger is going to play out.
- Comment on [DISC] Mane Mane Nichi Nichi - Ch. 22 - Size - MangaDex 1 week ago:
Yeah - the instant that “Are you an M?” came out of his mouth, I started laughing. That was a great callback, and I didn’t see it coming at all.
And it got me to wondering about that particular sort of humor and what it is and how it works, since the most recent time I laughed that hard was the other day, watching the latest episode of Guild Receptionist, and specifically the moment when Alina is watching a giant boulder slowly settle into the remains of her house.
There’s just something about that anticipatory moment right after one character says or does something to another, and though they don’t know it, we the audience do know that the proverbial shit is just about to hit the proverbial fan.
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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 04] 1 week ago:
I’m up to episode 6, so still fairly early. I have some ideas about where it might be headed (it’s certainly the case that the world that Pacifica is prophesied to poison probably doesn’t actually deserve to survive anyway), but I’m mostly just reveling in the fact that it keeps surprising me, so that’s good news.
- Comment on I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time • Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Tobatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu - Episode 2 discussion 1 week ago:
Just got around to this one and I’m actually liking it quite a lot. It’s pretty much just stupid fun, but it’s at least a newish spin on an otherwise mostly unexplored corner of the genre, and it has some great lol moments. And I’m curious to see where it’s headed.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 04] 1 week ago:
Started the week off with the rest of Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita (Humanity Has Declined), which was great - alternately goofy, cozy and surreal.
Then I had the sort of odd experience of “discovering” a director I hadn’t realized I was already a fan of. I just happened on Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko: Everything Flows and it was wonderful - bittersweet and heartfelt and simply beaufiful, and I liked it so much I looked up the director, and only then discovered that he had also done Suzume and 5 cm per second and Kimi no Na wa, among others. I had completely failed to notice that three of my favorite anime movies were all from the same director.
So then I went on a sort of mini binge, and watched Tenki no Ko, Kotonoha no Niwa and Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo, all of which were good, though not quite as good as his certainly not coincidentally better known ones.
Then I just sort of wandered aimlessly before ending up at Tasogare Otome x Amnesia (Dusk Maiden of Amnesia). I read the manga back in the day and remembered liking it, but didn’t remember much other than bits and pieces of the plot. It was good all in all - an odd but actually plot-relevant mix of school life, ecchi rom-com with a dash of harem and full-on Junji Ito style horror.
Then, as a change of pace, I dipped back into my own past and watched Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. It’s one of the first anime I ever owned (on VHS), and I have no idea how many times I’ve watched it over the years, but I haven’t seen it since I last owned a VCR, which has to have been… at least 15 years ago. And it was just as much fun as I remembered.
And at the moment I’m watching an intriguing oddity called Scrapped Princess. At first glance, it appears to be a sort of cheesy swords and sorcery adventure story, but it’s been revealing surprising depth as it goes along and has really been quite good. Remains to be seen how it plays out…
- Comment on [Discussion] Akebi-chan's Sailor Uniform / Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku - Ch. 81 1 week ago:
Great chapter.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Ai-chan, so it’s great to see her being taken into their confidence and handling it well.
And ityt been a while since we’ve see Hiro really flex his skills like he did in that climbing out the window sequence.
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- Comment on Honey Lemon Soda - Episode 2 discussion 2 weeks ago:
“Gobou.”
Somehow this is still managing to be better than it seems like it has any reason to be. I suspect that it’s just particularly well structured and presented - that there’s enough attention to detail and to the way that the story’s unfolding that it’s satisfying in spite of being kind of ordinary. Sort of like surprisingly good vanilla ice cream.
- Comment on Honey Lemon Soda - Episode 1 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Huh… that was very cliched, but still managed to be pretty good. I’m at least curious to see if it can maintain whatever it is that’s making it better than it seems like it should be.
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