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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OKITSURA: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She's Saying • Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hougen Sugite Tsura Sugiru - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The title/premise didn’t inspire much hope in me, but I was really surprised at how cute and funny this ended up being! The teaching sections were sometimes a bit much, but I’m definitely invested in Teru and Kana’s romance. I’m a little bit worried about whether this is giving real information on Okinawan culture or if it’s dipping into stereotypes (I don’t really have the context to tell the difference), but for now I’d like to give the benefit of the doubt. Definitely the best of the season so far, IMO, and I give the premiere a 4/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!? • NEET Kunoichi to Naze ka Dousei Hajimemashita - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I only got through the first (12m) episode, because the pacing felt really off. Everything went by really quick and it seemed like they never took the time to slow down and establish the characters beyond their cardboard cutout archetypes. If the jokes land for people, I can see it being a decent time, but it wasn’t working for me, so I give the premiere a 1/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class • Class no Daikirai na Joshi to Kekkon Suru Koto ni Natta. - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winter 2025 Anime Season Kickoff and General Discussion Thread [2025, Week 01]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been very unimpressed with this season’s offerings so far, but there’s plenty of returning shows I’m excited for: Hanako-kun, which my friends and I just finished a rewatch of (since it’s been so long), Apothecary Diaries, and My Happy Marriage. While I enjoyed the first season of 100 Girlfriends, I took a peak at the new girls for the next season and have decided that it’s time for me to cut my losses and dip before the age gap stuff sours it for me. I also noticed that there was a very late addition: a single episode of Tamagawa-kun Wants to Be A Cat, which is a manga I follow and adore, though I can’t find much info on the adaptation. Hopefully it doesn’t end up a trainwreck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class • Class no Daikirai na Joshi to Kekkon Suru Koto ni Natta. - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sort of unfortunate that this anime has to follow up a much better anime about romance between tsunderes, one of whom is named Akane, because this one really doesn’t measure up.

  At first, it seemed like they were headed toward a deeper conflict between these two, like that Saito is a smart slacker and Akane thinks he’s wasting his potential, or that Saito feels like Akane is a busybody who acts better than everyone else - something that would actually make them fight about real things and lead them to believe they are genuinely incompatible people. Instead, they immediately drop that kind of argument and switch to Akane imagining things Saito could have said and yelling at him about them, which paints her as delusional and him as just a bullied nice guy.

  It also feels like they’re trying to build him a harem for no real reason other than audience wish fulfillment. He’s even got a cousin who seems to be into him, who acts like a child and calls him big brother (multiple layers of gross, and also yes “cousin” is better than “sister”, but it’s still not acceptable).

  It’s all very disappointing because I love an enemies-to-lovers arc, I love a forced-to-get-married plot, and I even often find charming most plot contrivances whose only purpose is to get a romantic comedy going. But this all felt kind of empty. Overall, I found it underwhelming and give the premiere a 3/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Momentary Lily - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, it seems studio GoHands is improving their animation, and they appear to have definitively exited their “so bad it’s good” era and entered “just regular bad”. I was hoping for wildly and unnecessarily swinging camera work, weird gradient filters, and incomprehensibly fast action scenes, but the anime ended up being tolerable. The GoHands touch is still there, but it’s not excessive the way it used to be. Without that peak awfulness going for it, all that’s left is some truly paper-thin characters and mediocre action. I give the premiere a 2/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective • Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t really impressed by this one. One of the things I love mystery shows for is their ability to show you clues and then piece them together in a way you didn’t think of, and in that way the two cardinal sins are 1) making the puzzle too easy and 2) not even giving you all the pieces. I believe this anime (in this mystery at least) does both.

  For the former, I was able to instantly guess the t-rex twist because it was the only large animal maw we’d been told about (though maybe also because Psych used it first). Similarly, when you’re only given one suspect to work with, finding out whodunit ultimately can’t be to surprising.

  For the latter, medical mysteries are always going to have some element of “the detective knows more than you” because the audience really can’t be expected to know the medical information they’re acting on, but this additionally had stuff like the info on the gangs, which was only introduced when it was immediately relevant to peeling back a layer of the mystery. (Maybe we got a flash of it as a news story on a screen at some point? I know I didn’t catch it, and it feels like there should be better ways to give the audience clues than making them pause and read seemingly-unimportant text)

  Ultimately, the mystery felt to me like an “along for the ride” kind of deal, where you have no hope of feeling clever yourself or being impressed by the characters’ cleverness, you just engage with the detectiving as if it’s a normal drama. Which can definitely work well if the characters and their interpersonal relationships have meat to them (IMO that’s how House worked well). But the characters here felt a little thin. Even the most fleshed out, Ameku MD herself, mostly just felt like a selfish and willful child who demands everyone around her do what she wants at all times.

  Maybe this will get better. Maybe the characters will get more depth and more interesting dynamics and the future mysteries will be more engaging. But as it is, I don’t really see a reason to stick around. Overall I give this two-part premiere a 3/5 - definitely watchable, but nothing special.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Clip] Is That a Real Gun? - Heavenly Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really loved this show but I do need to add a content warning for incest themes (siblings) and rape (mostly separately). It’s a fantastic show, but it can sometimes be hard to get through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raise wa Tanin ga Ii • Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And we finally have our complete love triangle! At least, I would guess as much based on the OP and ED. Their vibes are very different, but Shouma seems like he’s potentially just as dangerous as Kirishima and has a similar lack of common sense.

  Meanwhile things seem pretty tense among the leadership, and I imagine things are about to get very messy as soon as people start feeling like there might be opportunities to climb the hierarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 43]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I forgot to mention. I watched Blue Miburo, but it was bad in a pretty boring way, 1/5, but I got a little bit distracted while watching it and wanted to share.

  The main character’s voice sounded familiar, so I looked it up and found out he’s played by Umeda Shuuichirou, and there’s a reason I recognize his voice. He’s been around for a few years, but during the summer season he played the main (or one of two main) characters in three different shows: Sempai is an Otokonoko’s Makoto, Shoushimin’s Jougorou, and Makeine’s Kazuhiko. Then, this season the same: Loner Life’s Haruka, Puniru’s Kotarou, and Blue Miburo’s Nio. I’m not too familiar with voice acting, but that seems like a lot of work two season in a row?? lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 43]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My new season has sort of settled in. I think I’ve cut down to things I’m pretty likely to finish, and I’ve decided on the anime I’ll be showing to my friends (every season I pick out around 6 for them and they choose 3 of them to watch together). The tasting menu this time is 365 Days to the Wedding, Acro Trip, Dan Da Dan, How I Attended an All-Guys Mixer, Let This Grieving Soul Retire, and Yakuza Fiance, with a bonus option to rewatch Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun, since the new season (this winter) is coming out after five years and we don’t remember what happened, lol. I’ll also be recommending Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, which, like Chainsaw Man before it, would absolutely be on the agenda if I had the stomach for it, but I’m much too squeamish.

  I’m also personally following Nina the Starry Bride and The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor for some shoujo trash, and Ranma 1/2 for some tsundere nostalgia.

  Meanwhile, my friends and I finally finished our shows from last season! Here are my thoughts:

  Dahlia In Bloom - 3/10

  This one was rough animation-wise, but we stuck with it because it seemed like it’d be a cute little romance. Instead, we sat through episode upon episode of business meetings about foot fungus and hiring craftsman and splitting revenues and on and on. Every week we desperately pleaded for Dahlia and Wolf to go on a date or accidentally touch hands and then blush at each other or something, and by the end they each told the grave of a dead parent that the other was a really good friend. The whole season seemed pointless, like hours of setup for a plot that never arrived.

  Elusive Samurai - 9/10

  This was good solid fun the whole way through. The CGI was a little rough in some places, but ultimately that is more than forgiven because it’s clear they were spending that saved time wisely on the amazing sakuga moments. All the characters were fun to watch and it was great watching them grow in both skill and maturity. Strong recommend.

  Sempai is an Otokonoko - 10/10

  It feels so good to see a queer story that both revels in the joy of being oneself and doesn’t shy away from the fear and hurt that come from a hostile society. Our leads have legitimate worries, but they also have strong bonds with both each other and all the allies in their lives. The end of the season left a lot of loose ends, but I think it paused in a good place. I’m looking forward to the movie, and maybe a second season after that if they get it, and I’m still holding out hope for the polyamory ending (complete love triangle, let’s go!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ranma 1/2 (2024) • Ranma1/2 (2024) - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s clear why Takahashi was the queen of romcoms for so long. It’s easy to make a couple who bicker all the time but ultimately end up together anyway, but it’s a lot harder to nail that type of relationship where you can tell that they bicker because it’s an easy and comfortable dynamic that doesn’t require any emotional risk from either side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @wjs018@ani.social did rikka post this automatically? From the timing it looks like yes, which probably means there’s a bug in her manual-only posting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kekkon Suru tte, Hontou desu ka: 365 Days To The Wedding • 365 Days to the Wedding - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like this show plans to really dig into what marriage is and the different meanings people give to it. Is this more birthrate propaganda?

  The romance between our leads is progressing faster than I expected it to, which is weird to say when the premise is that they are already engaged, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goukon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi • How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We finally see our first glimpse (outside of the OP) of girlmode this time, but not for long, lol, as it seems Suo prefers to flirt as The Prince. I understand that the premise sort of requires it, but it’s hard not to read into the kings boymoding at every opportunity as them Doing Gender. For Kohaku, especially, the masculinity people expect from them seems so at odds with who they are and what they like, I would expect them to girlmode whenever possible if they don’t have some gender stuff going on.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NegaPosi Angler • Negative Positive Angler - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hana has the attitude you really need for fishing: happy to be there, happy when anything is happening, eager to eat whatever you happen to find. Fishing is not a hobby that goes well for sore losers, lol. Also, I’m curious what that setup the one loan shark was using to catch the crab - it sounds like it’s for catching shellfish, which I always find to be cool little guys whenever I happen across them.

  After 3 episodes, this one hasn’t really grabbed me, for whatever reason. At this point I could see the storytelling quality going either way (and as an original, no one has the answer to that yet), so I think this is where I depart, but I’ll probably poke my head back in later in the season to see if that’s a decision I will regret (though that kind of mistake is easily fixed, lol).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acro Trip - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How the hell did Grandpa get so strong?

  did you stick around for the after-credits scene?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 42]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the status is that the new bot (rikka) was set up here temporarily and then users decided it’d be better to keep discussions here than to try and migrate back. So technically yes, the episode discussion community is still broken, but the functionality is back, just over here instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acro Trip - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to be friends with the kuma kaijin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yarinaoshi Reijou wa Ryuutei Heika wo Kouryaku-chuu • The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird because it seems to me like they’re not doing the normal pandering stuff associated with the creepy age gap genre - she seems specifically dressed to make her appear a bit older, she never even attempts to act her age, and while Hadis remarks on her being young, he never treats her like a child. It almost feels to me like the adaptation is aware of how weird it is but for whatever reason are unable or unwilling to change the lore of the source material.

  Or maybe that’s wishful thinking…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yarinaoshi Reijou wa Ryuutei Heika wo Kouryaku-chuu • The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m liking this one so far, but it does take some willful ignoring of the age stuff. Knowing what I know about why the emperor’s wife’s age is important, I can see that they’re trying to build it up into a mystery that we will slowly unravel, but without that knowledge it definitely seems like just a running gag that one of our main protagonists is (or at least appears to be) a literal pedophile, which is not a great look. And like, they wouldn’t even have this problem if they’d picked a better age numbers all around…

  When putting the age stuff out of mind, though, I’m really able to get invested in our main couple. Hades is so affection starved and eager to please that it makes sense he’d latch himself onto someone willing to protect his happiness. Meanwhile, Jill seems to have the strength of will (and strength of strength, lol) to face down whatever the curse brings, and her characterization seems locked in on being written as her mental age, rather than falling back into treating her like a child like most of these “redo” stories do. I’m enjoying their dynamic so far and I look forward to them growing closer as they face their challenges together. (They also end up treating each other pretty much as equals, which is the most important piece of trying to ignore the age stuff)

  Also, for those who don’t know, “thieving cat” is the Japanese equivalent of “homewrecker” (which Sphere added “-chan” onto). The translators were in a bit of a bind because the visuals were so literal, so I don’t think it came across quite the way it would to a Japanese audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 42]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I feel a bit silly rambling into the empty threads, but I’m glad that my little reviews are being useful to someone!

  P.S. If you only watched the first ep of Ranma before bouncing off, I’d suggest taking a peak at ep 2, where I think MAPPA tried a bit more to make the anime their own. I felt sort of similarly about ep 1 (like, “oh, it’s just the manga but on screen”), but the ep 2 made a much better impression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 42]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re mixing up Wajutsushi / Talker with Nageki no Bourei / Grieving Soul, probably? There’s a lot of adventuring party anime, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Explores Shorter Anime for Shrinking Attention Spans in TikTok Generation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea of more diversity in length, especially since short clips would be a good way to bring new people into the anime world, and I’m hopeful that this means there will be more short-form anime that have decent budgets and some real animation talent behind them. I know that shorter anime can really shine when work is put into them (I’m going to take this moment to plug Kenka Banchou Otome, a favorite of mine that does a lot with its 8 minutes) but so many short-form anime are just a couple frames of character animation in front of a static background.

  Kenka Banchou Otome's elevator pitch

  Separated-at-birth twins are about to enter their respective single-gender schools when they find each other and decide to switch places. Our (afab) MC learns that the boy’s school is known for its fighting scene and is tasked with fighting to the top of the hierarchy, and along the way ends up making every handsome delinquent boy fall in love by punching them. It’s really really easy to read both twins as trans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raise wa Tanin ga Ii • Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep worrying they’re going to try to redeem this guy, but it seems less and less like that’s in the cards, lol. My prediction is that each and every person who appears “normal” will either become or be revealed to already be unhinged, and I am here for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hoshi Furu Oukoku no Nina • Nina the Starry Bride - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like Azure is two different people between last episode and this one with how fast they’re playing “no, really, he’s actually a nice person deep down!” card, lol. It seems like he’s got a lot of his own baggage, but it’s still some real quick turnaround after he was so scary last time. It’s also sort of funny to me that Nina had a moment of “sure, being a starving orphan isn’t great, but royalty has problems too” when like, no, the level of hardship is very much not comparable - you definitely would have died on the street if you hadn’t been kidnapped.

  I noticed this time that the storybook in the ED appears to have a page for every episode that they’re filling in with colors and details as we get through them. I think that’s really neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maou 2099 • Demon Lord 2099 - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya, if they’re not motivations, it makes them feel like their purpose is only to frame him as the “good” guy in the conflict without making him really earn it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ranma 1/2 (2024) • Ranma1/2 (2024) - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are moments when the story shows its age a bit, but the way they’re playing with style and color really brings a lot of new life to it as well. Last week felt a little too safe, but this week felt quite a bit more bold and I think it’s working out in the show’s favor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 42]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a couple more premiere reviews for the garbage pile:

  Haigakura

  A perfectly serviceable action romp about pokemon god trainers running around fighting things with their captured god buddies, but done in by its horrible budget. The central premise of the story is an art that lets you bind gods to your will using song and dance, but they appeared to not have the budget to give the main character a real song or dance to do, preferring panning stills and visual sound effects - like, what’s even the point of it being an anime if you’re going to cut those kinds of corners. In much better hands, it would have been decent, but as-is it was a 2/5.

  Tohai - Ura Rate Mahjong Tohai Roku

  I will give this one some credit: they did not do the boring thing and spend most of the first episode trying to teach the audience mahjong. They instead assume that if you’ve shown up to watch the edgy mahjong anime you are already familiar with the game of mahjong. Now, I am not familiar with the game of mahjong, which made it feel a bit like watching an early Yu-Gi-Oh episode, where the rules are made up on the fly based on whatever would make the most dramatic twist - not a terrible experience, but not really engaging either. I’m also not typically big on edge, and the edginess here is really quite a lot (the first little arc centers a crime group who keep sex slaves and make CP). If the description of “edgy mahjong anime” perked your ears up, honestly, you’d probably have a good time with this (you’d almost certainly be able to follow it better than I did, lol). For me, though, it’s a 2/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maou 2099 • Demon Lord 2099 - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems well-made, but I’m a little confused about what it’s going for beyond just “demon lord cool, cyberpunk cool, so what if both??”

  Like, cyberpunk by its nature almost always has strong anti-capitalist themes, and some elements of the setting do point in that direction. On the other side, though, our hero is a demon lord, a role that carries with it (mostly just implied so far) monarchy/feudalism and racial hierarchy. It just seems very odd to me that they seem to be framing him as an underdog hero (from the proliferation of magic abilities and from the genocide of immortals), when his (current) goals are not really a good counter to the world’s dominant ideology.

  I guess what I’m trying to say is that a see a lot of questionable paths the story can take from here, and if it treads carefully I think it could be a good story, but I don’t really have any reason to trust it yet. I have a friend who picked it up this season, so I think hearing about it secondhand will be enough to sate my curiosity, lol. I give the premiere a 3/5.