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Curious to hear more about what the controversy is. I have a soft spot for media about disability when done well, but when done poorly...

Chainsmoker Cat OP isn't just hands down the best OP of the season, it's a pretty strong contender for best OP of all time. I don't know what's more insane, this OP, or, uh, the rest of the show.

The longest battle in manga history is Akagi's mahjong match against Washizu, which took 20 years of serialization to complete. The match begins in chapter 70, published in 1997 and concludes in chapter 296, published in 2017. That's one match that spanned a total of 226 chapters.

So if you ever wondered why the 2005-2006 anime just cuts off partway through the match, that's because they'd caught up and were more than a decade away from actually being able to finish the arc. There is a live action adaptation that ran from 2015-2018, and does cover the whole thing start-to-finish.

Seconding Apocalypse Hotel, absolutely phenomenal.

I almost don't feel like 'good' is the appropriate type of adjective to use for a show like this. It's utterly horrific, but I mean that as a compliment.

If you think Light's intentions were ever good, I think you kinda missed the point of the show. His very first targets were only petty criminals, the fact that he didn't set his sights on real monsters showed that he always had a warped sense of justice even from the beginning.

Azumanga Daioh is forever the GOAT.

You might be surprised to hear that there's a lot of anime/manga about mahjong. I'm aiming to watch/read all of them (or at least what's available in English, there are even more manga series that are still untranslated).

Akagi is without a doubt the GOAT of this weird little subgenre.

It wasn't completely ignored, but I have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder that Apocalypse Hotel didn't get way more recognition than it got. Should've won all the awards.

Going back a little deeper, I can't pretend to be surprised that Akagi isn't mainstream, but Kaiji by the same mangaka deserves more popularity. It's a tragedy that the anime ends at part 2 when part 3 was the peak.

I really wish this hadn’t been turned into a SF6 ad.

Akagi. Can I also count Saki as a battle shoujo?