ReluctantZen
@ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
- Comment on New Visual for Mamoru Hosoda's "Scarlet" 2 days ago:
Saw the trailers and tbh, the janky 3D animation and sometimes models really put me off
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47] 4 days ago:
True, but the reason for the vitriol is because most mediocre anime aren’t nearly as popular as SAO.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47] 4 days ago:
I think there’s a 50% chance we went to the same theater, because I also went to see The Colors Within yesterday
Haha, yeah, quite likely.
slight plot hole
Hm, maybe, but they were quite lenient with other things in the ends so…
Still a weird experience to go to the mainstream cinema and see an anime film in a packed house, though. That would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
Hmm, I don’t know. It wasnt in any cinemas near me, so it depends on where you are I guess. Bigger cities generally have a wider variety of audiences.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47] 4 days ago:
I tried Code Geass as my 1st anime and dropped it 1st episode haha. I didn’t like the OP and the artstyle. Apparently that was enough at the time.
Then I tried SAO (I know), and here I am, 12-13 years later: weeb and still haven’t watched Code Geass.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47] 5 days ago:
Haven’t really had the brain space to pick up anything from this season yet, but I did watch two anime films yesterday in the theater: Chainsaw Man: Reze’s Arc and The Colors Within.
CSM: I didn’t like S1 much.I thought it was okay at best. But this film was incredible. Denji is a much more human here and Reze is just incredible. She really stole the show. Visually it’s a big upgrade too imo. More vibrant and better movement. And man, that soundtrack was so good. Kensuke Ushio doesn’t fail to deliver.
The Colors Within: the theater I went to ocassionally has anime film showings outside of the release schedule, and they showed this one this time. Great movie as expected of Naoko Yamada, also with a great soundtrack by Kensuke Ushio. Bit of a tonal whiplash to see it right after CSM though haha.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 46] 1 week ago:
Ah right, personal preference is fair.
I do think that explosive/hype music would’ve been out of place though, looking at the more introspective and mysterious themes of the show.
- Comment on ‘5 Centimeters Per Second’ to get live-action film adaptation | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis 1 week ago:
Hmm, but one of the biggest reasons for its success is the art. You’d need to replicate that somehow in live action, otherwise it’s just pointless tbh
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 46] 1 week ago:
IMO it’s rather lackluster in the music department though. I barely noticed any soundtrack, and when I do, they don’t seem to fit the scene.
What makes you find it lackluster or not fitting?
- Comment on [Discussion] Which anime has the most mysterious atmosphere? 2 weeks ago:
I think Apothecary Diaries does a stellar job
- Comment on [REVIEW] Sohachi Hagimoto - That's My Atypical Girl 2 weeks ago:
Nice, I’ll give it a read then.
- Comment on [REVIEW] Sohachi Hagimoto - That's My Atypical Girl 2 weeks ago:
Sounds interesting. Is it painful or depressing to read the entire way through or is there space to breathe as well? I’d like to give it a read, but I don’t deal well with fiction that is depressing all the time.
- Comment on [Chapter] Slime Saint - Ch. 46 2 weeks ago:
Leon is partly to blame for running away and then acting as a distraction
Yeah, I thought they were going to do this and that probably is the case, but instead they chose for Leon to believe something a bit more unlikely.
- Comment on [Chapter] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 147 2 weeks ago:
If they can’t figure out where to go, I hope they do. Would be a waste to turn something good into something bad just to keep it going, but that is unfortunately how things tend to go.
- Comment on [Chapter] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 147 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, same. I don’t think the mangaka knows either. Hopefully they settle soon or simply end it
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 & Movie Teaser Visual 4 weeks ago:
Hmm, yeah. Better than the usual 6 or more months though
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 & Movie Teaser Visual 4 weeks ago:
Wasn’t the recent HeroAca a simul-release?
- Comment on One Punch Man S3 Director Shinpei Nagai deletes his twitter account due to the pressure, calls out people who took his tweets out of context/exploited the staff's struggles for "rage-baiting" 4 weeks ago:
Why do people so often blame the actual people that worked on this? It’s so dumb
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 & Movie Teaser Visual 4 weeks ago:
I do hope the movie will be released worldwide at the same time
- Comment on [Chapter] I Want to Make Black-Knight Fall In Love With Me! - Ch. 17 [END] 4 weeks ago:
That’s rough. It feels really unfinished, but I guess it got the axe
- Comment on One Piece animator defends studio behind fellow anime show One-Punch Man, following backlash over season 3's lackluster animation 4 weeks ago:
It’s almost always the production committee. At the same time, J.C. Staff leadership is not blameless. The studio doesn’t have a particularly good track record. They keep taking on projects that result in lackluster to poor animation. Often many at the same time too (and I’m guessing for bottom prices).
Of course, blaming the actual animators is dumb and stupid.
- Comment on [News] Original “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End” Manga Goes on Hiatus to Allow Authors to Recover; Serialization Pace and Format to Be Adjusted 5 weeks ago:
Frieren has gone through so many hiatuses at this point. I’m assuming this won’t be too long either, like the previous ones
- Comment on [News] All New Weekly Young Jump Series to Be Translated into English and Released Worldwide Simultaneously — New Arc “BUNGO -unreal-” Begins [JP] 1 month ago:
I fear for the use of AI translation. That’s how they’re doing the one-shots.
- Comment on [DISC] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All - Chapter 144 1 month ago:
No, I don’t think there was
- Comment on [Meta] Proposal regarding post tags for c/anime and c/manga 1 month ago:
I personally think the current ones are fine as they are, though I do like your suggestion “Recommendation” instead of “RT/WT”. Maybe shorten it to “Rec” though, so it doesn’t take up so much space. “DISC” covers most use cases pretty well. By specifying it to “Episode”/“Chapter”, you exclude things like films, one-shots and specials. I suppose you could fine-grain it more, but I don’t really see the point tbh, unless we know it’s confusing people.
- Comment on “Hell’s Paradise” Season 2 Character Visuals 1 month ago:
Finally!
- Comment on [Discussion] The Meals Of A Single Woman (26) At Her Limit - Ch. 26 [END] 1 month ago:
Sad it got the axe, but I enjoyed it while it lasted. An-san was a joy
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread 1 month ago:
This season I watched:
- Dr. Stone: ended up being disappointed in this. It built further on an already shaky foundation and didn’t really deliver on it. Felt more like filler in the end.
- Dandadan: up until the Evil Eye arc it was great, but the episodes after were kinda boring and introduced a character I really didn’t like. Still fun though.
- Silent Witch: this was a fun one. Nothing special, but I liked it a lot.
- Sakamoto Days: same as last season. Pretty fun, though I’m not so much into the supernatural aspects, which I feel got upped this season.
- Gachiakuta: like it a lot, particularly the setting. Banger OP.
- With You And The Rain: delightfully relaxing. Loved every episode. Amazing OP.
- My Dress-Up Darling: good stuff, just like last season.
- Betrothed to my Sister’s Ex: nice comfort watch. Was a bit rushed near the end though.
- Clevatess: good fantasy anime. It’s building an interesting world that I’d like to see more of. It’s more than just a default fantasy rpg setting. Banger OP
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread 1 month ago:
Yeah, you can definitely tell Shiro’s an early 2000s VN protagonist. Unfortunate to see it be a dealbreaker for you in the end, but fair. I think ufotable did what they could if you compare it to the Deen adaptation. If the world interested you, maybe Fate/Zero is a good one for you. That was my gateway into Fate.
- Comment on [DISC] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All - Chapter 143 1 month ago:
Roommate?
- Comment on [Episode] Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2 • Dr. STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE Part 2 - Episode 12 discussion 1 month ago:
I didn’t like this ep. This whole season felt like filler. There’s hardly been any progression. We’re at pretty much the same spot as before this season, just with some more petrified people. The non-chalance of just reviving Xeno, who didn’t mind all of them being ruthlessly murdered because reasons, is wild to me. Xeno et all are irredeemable.
The whole “chased by soulless soldiers that are aching to kill bunch of teens” thing was completely unnecessary and over the top. It didn’t really add much to the story as a whole and the whole vibe of it felt really out of place.
I also disliked that part because the basis for it was so shaky already. My issue with the previous season was already the completely unjustified animosity towards Senku and co. Not in a “I dont like the justification” way, but in a “this is barely explained at all” way. Xeno and co attacked immediately in that season because… reasons. That’s the basis in Science Future p1 and that’s still the basis for the chase of p2, even though that’s not the goal of p2.
While watching p2, I just accepted that the basis for it was shaky, and took it for what it was. It was decent because of that, but this episode made me reconsider the whole thing again.