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- Comment on In your opinion, which anime has the most badass villains? 6 hours ago:
Is Reinhard von Lohengramm from Legend Of The Galactic Heroes a villain or protagonist?
I think he winds up being more of a villain in the end.
- Comment on In your opinion, which anime has the most badass villains? 6 hours ago:
Char Aznable is a classic villain, but he’s so cool!
- Comment on xkcd #3072: Stargazing 4 15 hours ago:
Well those are true… from a certain point of view.
- Comment on Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho • Kijin Gentoushou - Episode 1 discussion 17 hours ago:
That was umm… interesting…
The start felt on the predictable side of things. There were twists, but they didn’t have much of an impact on me.
It didn’t “spark joy” in me, I’ll put it that way.
Then the whole scene changes, so we’ll have to watch the next episode to see how things pan out.
- Comment on The Beginning After the End Anime Begins With Power-Point Type Animation 1 day ago:
WTF? There was nothing in the first episode worth putting budget into sakuga.
It was a fine, functional first episode.
- Comment on Once Upon a Witch's Death • Aru Majo ga Shinu Made - Episode 1 discussion 2 days ago:
If your commitments are that resource restrained, I’d wait a couple of episodes and read comments to see how things are shaking out.
I feel like this is going to be like a shoujou anime from the 70s: Girl uses her magical powers every week to solve the problems of people she meets on her journeys, is rewarded with a little token that puts her that little bit closer to her goal. i.e. “The real gift was the friendships she made along the way”.
Except back then the goal was aspirational, e.g. becoming The Queen Of Whatever Kingdom, and in this one, the goal is surviving the Curse Of Doom Death.
How expectations have changed in Japan…
- Comment on The Beginning After the End • Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? - Episode 1 discussion 2 days ago:
Pretty much your standard “reincarnated, and getting a fast start to developing my magical powers” story.
This is being played straight.
The only twist is having his prior incarnation being a violent sociopathic conqueror from a somewhat modern technological world, but we’ll have to wait and see how that affects things.
- Comment on Once Upon a Witch's Death • Aru Majo ga Shinu Made - Episode 1 discussion 2 days ago:
This was competently directed, and didn’t feel slow at all.
The plot feels like it was stolen right out of a classic shojo manga, but the protagonist’s attitude is very modern.
- Comment on Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy 3 days ago:
That makes having a MAL account just feel icky now.
“Blockchain, AI”
This just screams of a company that’s out to exploit for maximum profit at the expense of their (L)users.
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 3 days ago:
Re:Zero - I didn’t even finish S2 before starting S3. It is kind of hard to watch because each season’s predicament seems so hopeless. Just gotta have faith that the writer makes it pay off, and it does!
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 3 days ago:
I was really busy IRL, so the list of shows that I could try out, much less follow, was pretty mimimal:
Finished:
- Re Zero - Good as usual. The writer is so good at "How does Subaru get out of this?"
- Shangri La Frontier - Sunraku’s such a great protagonist, and the supporting characters are so good.
- Bureaucrat to Villainess - I really enjoyed this the whole way through. Wholesome anime of the season.
- Solo Leveling - Action anime of the season. Some standard plot problems, like waiting until people start dying before he takes action, abandoned love interests, etc. but overall enjoyable.
- Zenshuu - Interesting concept, but it didn’t quite work for me. Animator/mangaka meta shows have been done better.
Dropped:
- Beheneko - Good fanservice but felt shallow
- Ameku Takao - I liked the idea, but direction needed to be better.
I Think I Missed Out:
- Apothecary Diaries - I really should watch this.
- Medalist - Sounds like a good show.
- Izure Saikyo no Renkinjutsushi - Started 1-2 episodes but got crowded out. I might check out a few more episodes before actually deciding what I think of this.
- Magic Maker - Again 1-2 eps, then got crowded out.
- Trillion Game - Crowded out. I have some time invested in this show, so I should finish it…
- Comment on 2010s Music relaunch! 5 days ago:
done!
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- Comment on Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- • Ore dake Level Up na Ken: Season 2 - Arise from the Shadow - Episode 13 discussion 6 days ago:
- Comment on Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- • Ore dake Level Up na Ken: Season 2 - Arise from the Shadow - Episode 13 discussion 6 days ago:
I think it’s great that the plot is simple, and that makes the production a lot easier to execute.
And they’ve done a good job of producing this, and it works.
The moment the writing tries to do anything remotely sophisticated is when the plot’s momentum flops.
- Comment on Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 • Shangri-La Frontier 2nd Season - Episode 25 discussion 6 days ago:
It would be weird to have a non-fighting games commentator on a big promotional event for a new fighting game.
If this happened in real life, it would look like a huge fuck up by the games developer.
I don’t know what Pencilgon was thinking: Even just exposing the bottom half of her face these days would lead to instant doxxing by viewers armed with screenshots and image searches.
- Comment on xkcd #3069: Terror Bird 1 week ago:
AI knows how they interacted with humans…
- Comment on Pikachu Becomes Viral Symbol of Resistance During Anti-Erdoğan Protest In Turkey 1 week ago:
Arch-Capitalist Kirby in a top hat, mustache, and a monocle?
- Comment on Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- • Ore dake Level Up na Ken: Season 2 - Arise from the Shadow - Episode 10 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Of course whenever people with superpowers get together, they have to fight each other, right?
I wasn’t too impressed with those fights, but
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overgrown karate gi guy half buried in concrete was a little funny
… and …
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…taking out the healer first was smart.
Special Ant is probably an Elite level.Someone’s played MMOs before.
Of course Jinwoo…
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…hid minions in 5 of the S-Rankers’ shadows, so he can exchange places with them, teleporting himself to the island the moment he figures out that he’s needed.
It’s all set up for the raiding party to get slaughtered next episode up until Jinwoo shows up to save the day.
Until then, it’s Lerooooooy Jenkins!
- Comment on "One Punch Man" Season 3 New Key Visual, PV, Reveals October Premiere 4 weeks ago:
Standard offensive magic
- Comment on "One Punch Man" Season 3 New Key Visual, PV, Reveals October Premiere 4 weeks ago:
It won’t be, because S3 is by JC Staff, same as S2.
While S2 was high quality for a JC Staff production, compared to their usual rush jobs.
S1 was by Madhouse.
- Comment on "Tojima Tanzaburo Wants To Be A Masked Rider" Anime Adaptation Announced with Illustration, PV 4 weeks ago:
Looks like it could be fun, but that artstyle though…
The manga’s been going for 6 years, so the story is probably decent enough?
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 4 weeks ago:
“Stars!” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!
A 4X game for Win95 that was set up for multi-player by email and ftp turbo.
Fantastically ergonomic use of early GUI features.
You could design your own alien race and ships.
- Comment on "Giant Ojou-sama" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual 4 weeks ago:
Culture at its finest…
- Comment on Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 • Shangri-La Frontier 2nd Season - Episode 21 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Sunraku wearing goofy masks seems to be a theme…
So it’s a series of matches in different games? I’m still not sure what the format is.
I’m not sure why Sunraku chose the old samurai hero. The speedster seems more his style.
- Comment on ZENSHU • Zenshuu. - Episode 9 discussion 4 weeks ago:
The recaps only last half the episode, then there’s some very relevant plot, so keep watching, folks.
Even if your eyes are bloodshot like Natsuko’s
- Comment on Anime song stations? 4 weeks ago:
That is bangin! Thanks!
- Comment on Anime song stations? 4 weeks ago:
This one? www.twitch.tv/mogra
Looks like the last live stream on Twitch was 4 years ago.
They have a website club-mogra.jp but this seems to be more for announcing their live DJ gigs
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 4 weeks ago:
I was specifically thinking of the parts where the girls “go into” their drawings to develop their ideas, as being different from your standard manga/anime narrative story.
IIRC, the town that they live in is strange too…
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 4 weeks ago:
Dorohedoro is fantastically weird but solid world building and funny as fuck too.
