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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 47] 5 hours ago:
I am catching up on Dragonball Daima, and it’s pretty good!
The animation looks clean, but not overly CG, unlike the unlamented Sand Land.
I also intend to watch some Villainess In History since that seems to be a big hit this season.
- Comment on "Cat's Eye" Anime Remake Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 5 hours ago:
I really hope anime doesn’t fall into the same trap that Hollywood has in cranking out remakes of old IPs every couple of decades just to renew the copyrights.
It wastes scarce production resources i.e. animators, crowds out the market for new ideas, and even the geezers (like me) who watched this stuff in its time want to see something more relevant to the current times.
- Comment on Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 • Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 3rd Season - Episode 8 discussion 8 hours ago:
During that whole planning sequence, everyone seems to have forgotten about Gluttony.
The whole “let’s split up so we can cover more ground” thing doesn’t strike me as the smart thing to minimize casualties.
5 of them seemed to have a hard time tackling only Lust. How is splitting up into pairs going to work?
The wedding crashers scene was cool though.
- Comment on Acro Trip - Episode 9 discussion 9 hours ago:
- Comment on The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan • Saikyou no Shien-shoku [Wajutsushi] Dearu Ore wa Sekai Saikyou Clan wo Shitagaeru - Episode 8 discussion 1 day ago:
Listening to Finocchio’s/Roswaal’s VA steal scenes is a pleasure as always…
I think he gave up on making Noel join the family a little too easily.
I wonder what Noel traded for Koga’s ownership?
- Comment on Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii • Raise wa Tanin ga Ii - Episode 7 discussion 1 day ago:
- Comment on MF GHOST Season 2 • MF Ghost 2nd Season - Episode 7 discussion 3 days ago:
I remembered your words from last week the ENTIRE time. Bechdel Test Failure XD
To be fair, most shows fail the Bechdel test.
But this show’s treatment of women seems particularly noxious, but again, to be fair, women in RL motor racing are pretty much treated as car decorations.
- Comment on Tower of God Season 2 • Kami no Tou: Tower of God 2nd Season - Episode 20 discussion 3 days ago:
It’s still confusing, but at least the plot feels like it’s going somewhere.
A FUG trap to do what to Bam/Yoru/Jue Voile Grace?
Why even bother with green-and-black tracksuit guy, if FUG and Mad Dog hold all the cards? Maybe he was the only participant on their half of the island who wasn’t in cahoots with them?
- Comment on MF GHOST Season 2 • MF Ghost 2nd Season - Episode 7 discussion 3 days ago:
I thought this was an exciting episode.
The Ferrari slowly reeling in the 86 as conditions dry out.
That reminds me of a Formula 1 race where Michael Schumacher’s slower Ferrari was set up for the anticipated wet conditions better than the normally-faster McClaren or Renault of Fernando Alonso(?)
That was a thrilling race, and this episode captured that suspense well.
No, women don’t think of anything except how to please their men… :-/ 😒
- Comment on BLUE LOCK Season 2 • Blue Lock VS. U-20 JAPAN - Episode 7 discussion 4 days ago:
Blue Lock’s goal was pretty spectacular! It probably wouldn’t happen in real life, because physics, but let’s not worry about that.
Itoshi Sae’s not getting on with his teammates.
Maybe that’s something our protagonists will end up exploiting?
- Comment on Demon Lord 2099 • Maou 2099 - Episode 6 discussion 4 days ago:
This episode was predictable, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Gram’s straight face while facing off against nameless swordwoman was amusing. “Ho hum, been here, done that”.
Sales droids are everywhere…
- Comment on Trillion Game - Episode 8 discussion 5 days ago:
I don’t think that I should take this show seriously as lessons in business, but it’s interesting…
She’s right to be suspicious of them.
This guy will say anything to get a sale, and hope the team collectively bail him out…
- Comment on Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 • Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 3rd Season - Episode 7 discussion 5 days ago:
I thought they were going to bring in bard girl to sing and lift everyone’s spirits, but I thought this worked better.
What happened to “Don’t tell the Sin Archbishop your name?”
Maybe now is the right time?
- Comment on Acro Trip - Episode 8 discussion 5 days ago:
Mildly interesting: The subtitled version that I watched had a “mistranslation for clarity” for the benefit of the English reading audience.
The subtitles said:
Teacher Q: “Who knows what one plus one is?” All A: “Me!”
The verbal Japanese dialogue goes: Q: (implied What is…) “One and one?” “Ichi to ichi wa…?” A: “Ni!” (Japanese for two)
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 46] 5 days ago:
My midseason tierlist (after 6-7 episodes)
S Tier
- Raise wa Tanin ga Ii/Yakuza Fiance - Still good.
- Dan Da Dan - If this anime season had a 1st place champion, it would be this show.
A Tier
- Shangri-La Frontier - Sunraku’s attempts to cheeze the game mechanics are still fun to watch.
- Re Zero - I think this season is following the same pattern as last season where Subaru is falling into a seemingly insurmountable tangle of problems, and he’ll have to figure things out later somehow. This makes it really hard to watch right now. I can’t argue with the understated production values though.
- Blue Lock (+1 tier) - Okay, back to the action! Powerpoint animation and crazy exaggerated footballing powers go!
- MF Ghost (+1 tier) - It’s stupid unrealistic car racing, but it’s fun! Playing weekly new eurobeat soundtracks in the background helps.
B Tier
- Wajutsushi (-1 tier) - Annoying assassin bimbo sidekick isn’t working for me. Lead character not making enough morally questionable decisions. Leading me to question what is the point of this show…
- Maou 2099 (-1 tier) - The whipsawing between being a streamer, and combat. MC Veltol is making intelligent decisions, but the story feels predictable.
- Acro Trip - Hugh the “real” villain mastermind was fun, but I feel like they’re running out of ideas because things are getting somewhat random.
- Trillion Game - This is somewhat difficult to watch. The crazy MC’s antics to get ahead are borderline unethical, in fact, their team gets disqualified for cheating, but I do find myself wondering what he’s going to come up with next.
- Chi - Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite - Still hard to watch. The subject is very relevant and I want to keep watching this, but…
C Tier
- Tower Of God (-1 tier) - Incomprehensible story, poor animation are putting this series on the brink for me. I loved S1, and I feel like there’s a decent story in there somewhere, but this… I dunno. I don’t know whether it’s a problem that’s in the source manhwa, or a rushed production, or what, but the net result is not good.
F Tier (dropped)
- Magilumiere (-2 tiers) - Stopped watching this because of a busy schedule, and I don’t miss it
- Negaposi Angler - I actually did watch 2 episodes of this, but I’m not feeling compelled to continue.
- SAO GGO2
- Danmachi S5
- Ranma 1/2
I feel like I should be watching:
- Villainess Who Goes Down In History
Watching randomly:
- Kengan Ashura S2 - I hate Netflix bombing me with a whole season all at once.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 46] 5 days ago:
I think Re:Zero is following the same episode structure as last season, where Subaru is thrown down the pit of despair into a seemingly insurmountable problem, and then he’ll find some way to get out of it.
That’s why it’s really hard to watch right now, and honestly it’s about the same time when I quit watching last season. I haven’t even watched how that ended, but it looks like he survived the rabbits okay.
Yeah, maybe take a break from torturing yourself, then wait until all the episodes are out and find out how he survives this time…
- Comment on Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon's “Electric Soldier Porygon” 6 days ago:
To get around Macrovision, you had to have a gadget called a genlock or time base corrector that repaired the video’s frame signal so that a VCR could record it properly.
Genlocks and TBCs were also very helpful when dubbing unprotected anime tapes.
They didn’t entirely solve the video signal degradation to the copy, but they did make the copies much clearer.
- Comment on Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon's “Electric Soldier Porygon” 6 days ago:
What a great article!
I always thought the random dimming was some kind of copy protection scheme, like the old Macrovision from back in the days of VHS.
- Comment on Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii • Raise wa Tanin ga Ii - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
I don’t remember seeing Yoshino having girl talks with alleged BFF Tsubaki, so it’s good to see that here.
And once again we the audience see that Kirishima has multiple girlfriends on the side going waaaaay back, even though Yoshino suspects doesn’t really know that for sure.
So that casts into doubt what exactly he wants from Yoshino.
Is he being honest with her about his feelings for her, while he’s definitely committing the sin of omission about the rest of his social and sex life.
- Comment on The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan • Saikyou no Shien-shoku [Wajutsushi] Dearu Ore wa Sekai Saikyou Clan wo Shitagaeru - Episode 7 discussion 1 week ago:
It’s a subtle detail:
It would have been clearer to show the twirly toy in its intact form, and place this scene closer to episode 4 so that viewers’ memories are fresh, but I appreciate the writing not shoving the links to every little detail in my face.
If that kind of thing isn’t your bag, then that’s fine.
- Comment on The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan • Saikyou no Shien-shoku [Wajutsushi] Dearu Ore wa Sekai Saikyou Clan wo Shitagaeru - Episode 7 discussion 1 week ago:
In case you were wondering, like I was…
This was the twirly copter toy/bamboo dragonfly that Noel taught the mayor’s daughter to make, as explained back in episode 4
- Comment on Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 • Shangri-La Frontier 2nd Season - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
Can’t wait to see Bilac’s face when he shows up with the Gold Crystal Scorpion parts!
It does make me wonder. Usually in a game like this, loot shows up as small items with neat labels saying it’s loot, but we’ll have to stay tuned to find out if the game can actually do any crafting with random monster parts…
- Comment on Tower of God Season 2 • Kami no Tou: Tower of God 2nd Season - Episode 19 discussion 1 week ago:
Yet again, the pacing was terrible, and the story was confusing.
Far too long on the uninteresting, poorly animated, and worst of all, ultimately meaningless Anaak/Khun Ran fight that immediately abandons all the rules about not falling off the platform and dropping their boffers, not to mention the goal of planting their boffers in the 3 sockets in the middle of the platforms.
They’re fighting for some kind of tickets?
So 25th Bam/Yoru/Jue Voile Grace is a Living Weapon now?
Unexplained FUG Slayer candidate was bad enough.
I preferred weird undefined Irregular with an unknown potential high ceiling better.
And why is Sword/Pipe Telekinesis Guy wandering around the Archimedes?
Endorsi is in full glamor mode one moment, then being incognito the next?
I mean sure “show instead of tell” is better, but tell us a little to help us understand what’s going on…
I think I’ll have to catch up in the manhwa to figure things out.
- Comment on BLUE LOCK Season 2 • Blue Lock VS. U-20 JAPAN - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
Awrighty, the game is underway at last!
Here are the sides, with the U-20s fielding a 4-3-3 formation, and Blue Lock in a defensive 4-5-1
They answered the question of the Blue Lock substitutes, so here is BL’s bench, from which they can use 3 subs.
WTF is this mascot supposed to be? @rikka@ani.social
I hope he dances better than he looks…
Here’s a list of the U-20 lineup. We have no idea what their individual soccer super powers are
- Comment on Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii • Raise wa Tanin ga Ii - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
I love it! It’s romcom, through the woman’s POV, but warped through the lens of yakuza subculture.
The female romance protagonist’s constantly changing facial expressions, at the awkward and strange situations she finds herself in, are the key feature in the show for me.
Another fun feature is the visual dissonance of sparkly-eyed bishonen and bishojou characters engaging in shady yakuza crime and politics.
- Comment on Demon Lord 2099 • Maou 2099 - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
Veltol ranting about heroes not appreciating how much work it takes to make a dungeon was funny!
- Comment on The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan • Saikyou no Shien-shoku [Wajutsushi] Dearu Ore wa Sekai Saikyou Clan wo Shitagaeru - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
I think it establishes Koga as an honest man who follows the rules in a world that doesn’t reward that kind of behavior.
He has some interesting skills too.
The mayor getting his arm cut off was cool indeed.
Also, Noel wasn’t rewarded for letting the halfling go, instead of killing him and taking Koga for himself.
Once again demonstrating that the rules of this world don’t seem to reward good social tendencies like mercy.
- Comment on Trillion Game - Episode 7 discussion 1 week ago:
It does make sort of make sense to get the best out of your employees’ strengths…
But this guy is following Theranos’ path to madness.
But come to think of it, this is more or less exactly how many dotcoms worked back in the day.
I worked in a startup that was supposed to automate restaurant orders with food and other suppliers over the web to create a b2b market.
The software behind the market website was supposed to entirely automated, but it was just startup employees looking at incoming restaurant orders, and manually matching them to suppliers.
Needless to say, this startup folded quickly, because neither the restaurants or suppliers were willing to pay the startup a cut for the “convenience”.
- Comment on Acro Trip - Episode 7 discussion 1 week ago:
That was the usual strangeness, but it doesn’t make Mashirou look very good…
While it’s a trope in hero shows like Kamen Rider that the protagonist gets their powers from the Evil Organization, I can’t think of any examples that being the case in magical girl shows.
Except for Puella Magi Madoka,
spoiler
where the cute mascots are the Evil Masterminds, but that show’s a deconstruction of the genre.
Chrome does act more like a hero than an Evil Mastermind, and doesn’t even need Fossa Magna to do what he does…
- Comment on Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii • Raise wa Tanin ga Ii - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
Acting like a married couple already…
And we get introduced to Tsubaki, Yoshino’s cousin, BFF, and shady medical resource, who’s in the OP so we know she’s an important character.
And what a character she is!
So many good moments in this one…
Where to put yourself in a room for optimal safety in case of attack… Image
What a perfect specimen of a pretty “princess” type that Tsubaki is… Image
Tsubaki’s type is Boss Somei, Yoshino’s father Image
Swapping candid and embarassing snapshots with Kirishima… Image
