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PB is nearly unusable these days.

In no particular order:

• Sword Art Online S1 - It’s hard to beat the terrific setup, the stakes, and conclusion for the Clannad arc.
• Shangri-La Frontier - The writer really captured gamers’ mentality, and we even see the developers, yet the game itself still retains an air of mystery like a player experiences initially.
• Villainess Level 99 - Someone else who abused RPG mechanics, but a charming goofball for laughs.
• Solo Leveling - Power fantasy with RPG mechanics
• Log Horizon S1 - Competence porn for guilds

Death March to the Parallel Rhapsody

I’ve never heard of that, I’ll have to check it out!

Togashi “organizes” extra training for himself and wants to learn how Ashito’s vision works.

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The scenes of him “kidnapping” players to help him train were great.

The OP “Fortress Defense” is catchy!

Aw yisss!!!

The clue from Princess Emeraude was a little too much.

But it does make me question how the girls are being influenced.

If they’re trained into ruthless killers who won’t hesitate to destroy those precious to themselves…

None of them question Presea how she got there so quickly.

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She must be really high level and the mobs ignored her.

The OP has a retro 90s sound to it.

An transition episode between the last battle and whatever is coming next.

If this show has a weakness, it’s there are so many genres and characters flying around, there’s little room for showing depth of character.

Which to be fair is a problem with a lot of shows, but it really shows with neighbor girl, whose one trait is romantic obsession with Sasaki.

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I wonder what information Sasaki exchanged with Abaddon?

This had one of the more interesting OPs, both musically and visually. youtu.be/lYvi293Ok2U

Another season of it though?

Some Stands are so complicated, it makes you wonder how their users ever discovered them, much less how to master them for combat.

They’ll make a movie for just about anything these days.

I thought GBC was okay, and had a good OP, but as a show was not that great.

A good explainer episode without too much explanation explains why all these freaks are coming after Johnnie and Gyro.

Kuribayashi, the star player, comes on and changes the game in the best way possible: By making his teammates better.

Ashito has a flash of brilliance in starting a last minute counter, and coach gets to look evil.

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@rikka@ani.social

Again, shocking how they can say Ashito’s defending is not good enough when they haven’t coached any defending at all on screen.

It does seem like quite a cliffhanger, no?

The moment his healing spell sigil fades… *chefs kiss*

I suspect…

I’ve just caught up with this season.

The genre overload continues, and it’s great!

We get into the neighbor girl’s story, and it’s earnestly tragic, with a shonen battle twist that’s entirely worthy of it’s own manga.

The angels and demons don’t seem to have any different in moral codes, just seem to be aesthetically different.

Lovin’ this so far.

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@rikka@ani.social

That still doesn’t entirely explain why a horde of freaky assassins are coming after Gyro though.

If all that’s at stake is some kid’s life, that doesn’t really make sense.

I’m sure there’s more to be explained.

Also Cowboy Tim has disappeared since the middle of last episode.

Another great episode, with Ashito thrown in the deep end, but it gets sorted out.

A good manager has to have leverage over their players.

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@rikka@ani.social

I know it’s for dramatic effect here, but I’m shocked that a professional team wouldn’t teach their youth defensive formations.

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Not everyone gets a second chance John Spartan

The trapped positron vowed vengeance upon humanity and became Lore.

Most famous for the boxing manga “Ashita No Joe”

I have just noticed that this show’s name is so long, that the episode number is cut off in the post title.

Finally, an interesting PreCure concept!

The soundtrack is really good too, and is the first thing that comes to my mind when I think about the series.

I just caught up with the show.

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I love the way this character looks.

It’s been a few years, but the show jumps in pretty much where we left off, with our 4 B Teamers getting promoted to the U-18 A Team.

Our protagonist Ao Ashito, is managing to keep up, but his 3 friends…

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Ouch.

That’s kind of how the brutal world of professional youth development soccer works.

I love the contrast of this show’s sticking to feeling real, vs. Blue Lock’s soccer “death matches” and super powers.

This season, Ashito’s “crow vision” has been de-emphasized in favor of the honing of more conventional soccer instincts.

But it’s still a blast to watch.

Record Of Lodoss War OVA (1990), 13 chapters

It’s supposedly based on the writer’s fantasy role playing campaign

Confusingly, there’s a sequel TV series from 1998, but it’s not as good.

I’ve just caught up with this season’s episodes, and as always, the battles are a treat!

I thought it was stretching credulity to have spider webs (how’d he find those in the smoke?) attached to Johnny’s fingernail spinny things and not rip apart or end up in a tangled mess.

But it’s rewarding to see Oye’s face mangled like that.

At some level I believe it’s a Looney Toons style of violence as opposed to an accurate depiction of physical damage inflicted on him.

If we count movies, then Galaxyquest

I thought they were just marketing mascots like Hello Kitty.

It turns out there’s a relatable dystopian short manga/short form anime around the characters.

What time + timezone on Mondays?