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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Clip] Is That a Real Gun? - Heavenly Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goukon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi • How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get is why they can’t give Kohaku the extremely obvious tsundere archetype - sort of adjacent to the Ore-sama, but would probably come a lot more naturally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kekkon Suru tte, Hontou desu ka: 365 Days To The Wedding • 365 Days to the Wedding - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like Oohara has been too passive with all this

  It definitely feels like we’re setting things up for Honjoji to be the brains and Oohara to be the heart, and as things drift from scheme to genuine relationship, we’ll see him grow and start to be a bit more active. At least, that’s my prediction. For now I’m here to see him do his character development, but if they take too long it’ll definitely be frustrating to watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NegaPosi Angler • Negative Positive Angler - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We got a very different type of fishing this time, so I’m curious if we’ll end up seeing a bunch by the end. I remember someone in the first episode with a fly fishing reel so we might see some of that eventually, though our hero is by no means ready for that level of difficulty, lol.

  Cleaning fish isn’t something I’m really able to do (I’m pretty sensitive to gore and skinning a raw chicken is about my limit), but the casualness our little fishing club had was pretty true to life - most anglers I know think very little of the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acro Trip - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And so begins General Dante’s reign of terror, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youkai Gakkou no Sensei Hajimemashita! • A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything about this gave me Iruma vibes (very much a good thing), but it doesn’t live up to any of Iruma’s strengths and brings its own weird and bad elements to the table. The thing about Iruma as a character is that he’s a coward, but he’s good-hearted and compassionate, which makes him a flawed but likeable hero that you want to see grow. Sensei, on the other hand, has his cowardice balanced out by… a uniform fetish?? One that he claims is somehow not aimed at the students, even though he seems very focused on Zashiki wearing her uniform. Because of that, a lot of the comedy got tied up in him being creepy to his students (either on purpose or on accident), which felt way more uncomfortable than funny. The mandragoras were cute, though. 2/5.

  Go watch Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hoshi Furu Oukoku no Nina • Nina the Starry Bride - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, some slop for the shoujo fans. Even after just about every red flag possible, I’m worried that our heroine will end up falling in love with her terrible fake brother, but I’m ready for it to happen anyway. I’m hoping this has some tricks up its sleeves, especially with the flashforward at the beginning, but I’m ok if it turns out to be the kind of story where it’s no thoughts, just doki-doki. After so many “everyone thinks I’m weak, but what if I’m strong instead?” it’s nice to get some “what if I’m suddenly a princess?” even without the substance. I give the premiere a 3/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raise wa Tanin ga Ii • Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Going into this blind, I got a bit of whiplash, lol. I was expecting a bit of an “against all odds” romance where our leads fight for their relationship through yakuza power struggles, but instead we got more of a thriller where Yoshino has to learn to manipulate the men around her to survive, without getting herself on the wrong end of their violence. It has some strong josei smut vibes (though it’s apparently a seinen?) but hopefully it doesn’t try to redeem our unhinged leading man - if anything, I’d prefer to see Yoshino stoop down to his level and become a walking red flag herself. I’m definitely invested in the horrible mess this becomes, and give the premiere a 4/5.