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- Comment on Kaijuu 8-gou • Kaiju No.8 - Episode 5 discussion 5 hours ago:
You’d think that some doctor would have noticed something odd about Kafka when they gave him X-rays to determine his bones were broken after the exam, unless kaiju powers of transformation are really that good.
Same goes, more or less, for Kaiju No. 9, masquerading as a cleaner.
Everything in the base is recorded, good thing they went off base to “Bonniys” to talk to Shinomiya to talk about his kaiju-ness.
Another good one for the “fake anime brands” file
- Comment on Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? • Train to the End of the World - Episode 7 discussion 6 hours ago:
There’s hilarity in the girls trying to masquerade as zombies…
Zombie queen was actually cool, and this turned out be a wholesome adventure, when it could have turned really bad.
So according to the map:
It looks like the girls just got through station #17.
I’m still not sure what the blank circles mean…
Just before this, they were in the land of giant vegetables, and after this they entered the land of random barber poles.
I’m sure that the animators gave themselves cameos in the zombie crowd…
This appears to be the key animator, Toshihiko Masuda, for example, in the top left
- Comment on Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? • Train to the End of the World - Episode 6 discussion 7 hours ago:
I think it’s weird that the other girls would accuse Shizuru of withholding information from them about her argument with Yoka just before 7G.
Maybe the other girls think they’re better friends with Shizuru than I think they should be?
The outstanding background art continues to amaze…
- Comment on The Fable - Episode 6 discussion 9 hours ago:
A whole bunch of eccentric and violent yakuza characters all thrown together somehow results in laughs.
Maybe this will all result in an explosion of violence?
A genuinely creepy stalker sequence was rotoscoped, and made me scared for the female being stalked…
- Comment on Ninja Kamui (2024) - From Very Good to Mediocre/Bad 10 hours ago:
The whole concept seemed half baked and rushed from the start, like they took one day to write the story and script and just decided to go with the first draft, instead of going back, editing, and developing the characters and story.
Even though you can tell there was a ton of money put into the production, the story just doesn’t work.
Even the action gets silly towards the end, especially with the badly designed mech suits (open toes?, limited battery life?) and bad and offensive villain concepts like gay sex predator dwarf, black fade poser guy, and I couldn’t watch anything past that.
The best part for me was the delivery guy fight in episode 2.
- Comment on Henjin no Salad Bowl • A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics - Episode 7 discussion 10 hours ago:
The Princess is on a track to get legal status in Japan easier than Livia…
Those horse names and double entendres…
- Comment on 'Does Everyone Hate Real World?': Ghost In The Shell: Arise Director Bemoans The Rise Of Isekai Anime 11 hours ago:
With regard to the MCs having game interfaces:
Maybe he’s been working hard in making anime for so long, bless him, that he doesn’t empathize with those who grew up playing MMORPGs, which is where that comes from.
Who knows, maybe in a few years we’ll have light novels/manga/anime based on mobile gaming tropes to pander to those who grow up playing those.
I mean we have Blue Archive, Touken Ranbu Kan, Mahjong Kan, which are all mobile game adaptations this season already
But those are direct adaptations instead of exploiting some trope that’s common in all mobile games, like “My Gacha Lootbox Ability Gives Me SSS Rare Girlfriends Every Time”
- Comment on WIND BREAKER - Episode 7 discussion 14 hours ago:
So we learn that the current “atmosphere” of the Shishitoren is definitely emanating from the top down, but the bullying middle school kids thing was more of a problem with certain individuals in the gang.
On the other hand, Shisitoren leader Choji, is made to be more of a psychotic than previously shown.
Sakura can take some hits. Geta stomps to the back of the head should be enough to KO just about anyone.
- Comment on Yuru Camp△ SEASON 3 • Laid-Back Camp Season 3 - Episode 7 discussion 15 hours ago:
Been there, done that with the “it looks like a short easy walk the map” thing.
What kind of psycho injects dogs who weren’t there into their hiking trip memories?!?
I wonder what she meant when one of the girls says that Chikuwa’s voice sounds familiar? The VA who says that is probably the one doing the dog’s voice too. Chikuwa’s voice doesn’t get mentioned in the credits.
I guess we’ll have to find out what “syoy sauce” means next episode!
- Comment on Kenka Dokugaku • Viral Hit - Episode 6 discussion 1 day ago:
On to a new opponent! An ex-pro taekwondo fighter who just happens to be a sadistic bully in the same school as our characters.
This guy looks both nasty and dangerous, and Hobin is seriously out of his league.
I continue loving the writing in this show. There’s always an element of doubt that Hobin can actually beat these opponents and get out of bad situations.
- Comment on Kami wa Game ni Ueteiru. • Gods' Games We Play - Episode 7 discussion 3 days ago:
Okay, an episode setting up another god’s game for real.
I can’t figure out the strategy for this one. The “filler” team’s abilities are unknown, and presumably useless for this game.
- Comment on Kami wa Game ni Ueteiru. • Gods' Games We Play - Episode 6 discussion 3 days ago:
Let’s play Yu-Gi-Oh without playing Yu-Gi-Oh!
“I play my bs, activating my bs, which gives me another turn, and I’m going to play more bs, which activates your bs trap, which I reflect back on you with my own bs trap, and I win!”
p.s. this is reflective of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime show, not the actual game.
- Comment on Re:Monster - Episode 7 discussion 4 days ago:
Once again, the female human captives, join the goblins’ side.
I believe this is the first episode where Gob-, I mean Ogrou, doesn’t make any progress.
He meets a quite bizarre enemy with weird powers, whom he fails to defeat. A member of the Braves, a group of 8 powerful hero-types, whom I’m guessing that Ogrou will be fighting.
I’m surprised that he didn’t take some of those bug parts and eat those to gain his powers, seeing as they were part of that Brave, it might just work.
Anyway, cute kobold.
- Comment on Sentai Daishikkaku • GO! GO! Loser Ranger! - Episode 5 discussion 4 days ago:
Good episode!
So Pink Ranger is Sakurama’s brocon older sister, there’s a psychotic female Fighter in his closet, what the hell was that guy doing?
The independent rangers have to go through an exam arc to be selected by one of the colored ranger groups.
I get the feeling that D is in way over his head, and will need serious luck to survive this.
- Comment on Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Geiko-hen • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc - Episode 1 discussion 4 days ago:
I question the intelligence of that first demon carrying the female captive. If they have this amazing portable hole escape hatch to demon HQ, why did they even bother stopping, get about 50 - 100 demons killed, and give up the captive?
Instead, they should have just run to the hole, closed the hatch, and mission accomplished. They would have captured someone for whatever it is that they wanted to do with them.
- Comment on Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Geiko-hen • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc - Episode 1 discussion 5 days ago:
If you want to save some time, just watch the last episode of S3.
That’s all you really need to know to get up to speed for S4.
- Comment on THE NEW GATE - Episode 5 discussion 5 days ago:
After a promising first 2 episodes as an alt-universe post-SAO story this show got… boring?
Both the male and female lead have generic personalities, and around them are typical hot headed guy, young cat girl… just nobody interesting.
Even the bad guys are just generic undead of various sizes.
The writing is dull too, resorting to awkward sex situations for “laughs”
Thinking about dropping this if things don’t improve next episode.
- Comment on Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Geiko-hen • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc - Episode 1 discussion 5 days ago:
That was the Red Light District Arc, S2
The Swordsmith Village Arc was the season after that, S3
Hashira Training Arc is the current season, S4
- Comment on Tonari no Youkai-san • Tonari no Yokai-san - Episode 6 discussion 6 days ago:
The alt-universe thing seems to have stopped for now.
Yuri, the fox, finally goes back to her home village to confront her past.
The characters talk about aging, and death, and how fleeting human life is.
Chill episode, as usual.
- Comment on Anime Discussion Thread - Favorite Openings and Endings of Spring Season Edition [Week 19] 6 days ago:
A clever concept like Jellyfish EDs definitely helps.
One of my favorites with a great concept is the 1985 Dirty Pair TV OP, which is a commercial for the titular characters’ WWWA (World Wide Welfare Association), a private-investigator/security type service, and has their phone number at the end.
- Comment on Anime Discussion Thread - Favorite Openings and Endings of Spring Season Edition [Week 19] 6 days ago:
After some reflection, Tonari No Yokai’s OP is definitely a case of positive association with the show on my part, but it is a perfect song to put the audience in the mood for this show.
- Comment on WIND BREAKER - Episode 6 discussion 6 days ago:
I have figured out why this series’ vote count is lower than I expected, given the high production quality:
Not enough cute anime girls.
If there was a Rule 63/gender swap version of this show, this would be a huge hit, #1 on all charts for the season.
- Comment on "Kakushite! Makina-san!!" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual 6 days ago:
Stump lovers, your anime has arrived!
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #05 - Spring 2024 (Anime Corner) 6 days ago:
TP Bon all the way at the bottom!
- Comment on Kenka Dokugaku • Viral Hit - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
After tearing down our protagonist Hobin, last episode, the first half of this episode is a teaser, showing how badly Snapper is getting beaten up, and betraying Hobin to get out of it.
Then, sweet revenge…
Of all the shows I’m watching this season, this one has the most interesting characters.
- Comment on WIND BREAKER - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
Hiragi’s fight against his former follower was certainly not as fluidly animated as last week’s Suo fight.
Neither of their fighting styles seemed to have any notable style: Both gave and took hits. Stepping through the frames, it seemed like HIragi took more shots than his opponent.
The Bofurin are doing well in this contest with 3 wins from 3 bouts so far.
Still it’s real stupidity to walk into your rival’s headquarters, sit there surrounded by all these goons, and not expect to be pinned down and beaten up by sheer numbers.
It was actually difficult to find a frame that I liked, even though there was a fight…
- Comment on Yuru Camp△ SEASON 3 • Laid-Back Camp Season 3 - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
Wow, just spending one night at a campsite seems like a waste of all that travel, and a chance to meet with old friends.
The journeys back home seemed to go so much faster.
- Comment on "Kakushite! Makina-san!!" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual 1 week ago:
“machina” is Latin for machine, e.g. “deus ex machina” and is pronounced essentially the same as the Japanese girls name Makina.
- Comment on Anime Discussion Thread - Favorite Openings and Endings of Spring Season Edition [Week 19] 1 week ago:
Like most OP/EDs, there’s an actual music video for the Odd Numbers song. That’s the version that I actually have bookmarked on my list.
If you watch long enough, you can see R-Shitei from Creepy Nuts dropping some bars.
- Comment on Anime Discussion Thread - Favorite Openings and Endings of Spring Season Edition [Week 19] 1 week ago:
How do you as an individual judge OP/EDs? Song? Visuals? Editing? Concept? How much you actually like the show?
It’s nice to have all factors working in favor of an OP/ED, but that’s very rare.
Like I said in my list of favorite OP/EDs this season, I tend to judge them by the music, but I have noticed that a good show makes me like their OP/ED more because of positive emotional associations.
For example, this season I would probably like the OP/EDs for Touken Ranbu Kai, Black Butler Public School Arc, and Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai if I actually watched the show, or liked the show.