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The Cockpit might be of interest (if you can find it—I’m not sure there’s any current streaming license). Zipang, too. There are probably others I’m forgetting about.

Also funny is that Elm sets a condition that should he win

Actually, he never said “win”. He said “come to respect my strength” or something along those lines, which is somewhat weaker—all he has to do is convince Isaac that Heavy Knight isn’t actually a trash class. A draw would be sufficient for that. (Of course, he’ll win anyway, I’m sure.)

I’d forgotten just how many times he’d died by evisceration or by jumping/falling off of stuff.

So . . . kind of the Japanese equivalent of bronies? 😅

For real fun, consider Saiyuki, which moved from a shounen magazine in its initial run to a josei magazine for later material. So which is it, really?

The manga is serialized in Weekly Shounen Sunday, apparently, so it qualifies even by the most technical definition of shounen.

Ferdinand has long since figured out that the easiest way to deal with a teary Myne is to make her mad . . .

In addition to what everyone else has already said: because unless you’re making an Initial D sequel, the cars are usually not all that important. Studios want to save their budget for the important stuff, so they aim for “barely adequate” on the cars and move on. (Honestly? I notice the horses more.)

So they finally made it out of that dungeon. Took them long enough.

Also, Kami no Shizuku/Drops of God has now been to the Matterhorn, California’s Napa Valley, Adelaide in Australia (with a brief labeled shot of Ayers Rock for extra), and what I think was Uyghur territory in China.

A couple of very random locations otherwise unmarked:

The early episodes of Vinland Saga take place in Iceland, making it, I think, the only anime set there to date. I can’t remember whether they ever give a town name or not.

While most of the series takes place in London, England, one of the Moriarty the Patriot OAVs is set in Bath.

The sheer number of individual anime where the characters have visited (and usually trashed—it was almost a running joke back in the 1990s) the Tokyo Tower boggles the mind, so you should probably mark it with a large star.

I didn’t finish watching it, but there was another trash isekai about a guy becoming an evil boss from a video game he played (A Wild Last Boss Appears) and there was a bit of that going on with the personality of the real character he’s inhabiting slowly overtaking his own. Although at least for what I saw, they didn’t really do much more with that either.

Things in that one aren’t quite as they seem, from what I understand, with a few things being revealed toward the end of the first season (second one starts in October), and I think I also read some relevant spoilers dropped here. Maou-sama, Retry! is another one with pretty much the same plotline, where it’s also pretty clear that there’s Something Going On in the background.

There’s been no indication of that kind of thing so far in Overlord, though, as far as I know. There seems to be no reason for Ains being dumped into his game persona, and no sign of anyone who might be responsible.

I’m hard-dropping that one after the last couple of episodes. Killing innocents on purpose and without remorse to get revenge on a third party is just Not Acceptable.

I find Overlord a lot less disturbing, possibly because Ains himself isn’t directly responsible for a lot of the most heinous stuff (his servants tend to be a lot nastier than he is, and seldom tell him exactly what they’re doing), and possibly because most of the people he ends up killing aren’t total innocents and are usually given a chance to fight back. (Plus, we have no idea what being stuck in a lich’s body does to the human psyche, so he has at least that much excuse for the evil he does do outright and knowingly.) And it was obvious from the beginning that Overlord wasn’t taking place in a nice world.

Buchigire Reijou, on the other hand, started out in a much lighter register, as typical villainness stuff where most of the nastiness is social and political and what combat there is doesn’t get particularly gory, and then the protagonist suddenly went full Kingdoms of Ruin on everyone’s asses without even nearly enough buildup to justify it. It just doesn’t work.

Really? More than “Paranoid Android”? Or does Spotify not have the rights to stream that one? (Or I suppose that it’s possible that bôa has a massive non-anime fandom that I’ve never heard about.)

Lodoss has also been done twice. The second one was less good, in my opinion.

Berserk has two anime incarnations already. It shouldn’t be touched again until the manga either ends or stops. Pick something that’s complete in the source material but not the anime instead.

The manga showed Moss growing his ear back which was missing here. OTOH the anime contains some stuff I don’t remember from the manga too.

Pretty sure that the light novel is the original and the anime and manga are separate adaptations. You’d have to compare all three to tease out whether there are any anime- or manga-original bits.

That . . . is a lot more effort and emotion than I would expend on what I vaguely remember as being a mediocre mecha show. I just dumped it in the same mental category as Valvrave, Majestic Prince, and a bunch of other shows so undistinguished I don’t even remember what they were called, and largely forgot about it.

Normally I’m all for preserving rare media, but from what I’ve heard, that dub is one of those rare things that deserves to be lost.

Well, our nutcase’s connection of the wedding with the remark that “his body was completed just recently” or something along those lines paints a picture. I hope he was just referring to the organ player steambot with that . . . but I’m not betting on it.

It’s been, I think, four years since my last rewatch, so it’s hardly surprising that my memory is fuzzy. I made a quick check of Wikipedia in an attempt to restore some details to my sieve-like brain.

question regarding From the New World

I always had the impression that it was the adults.

A note about other versions/source material: The proper source material, which is a novel, has never been officially translated as far as I know. The manga, which I think is a separate adaptation of the novel, had a reputation for leaning too heavily into the “bonobos” aspect, if you know what I mean.

I get the impression it’s still running, having resumed a couple of years ago. Monthly Shounen Magazine does seem to list it as part of their current lineup, although my Japanese isn’t good enough to decipher much else from their site. The last tankoubon published was #24.

I thought there was a lot of truth in the dragon’s “Don’t leave me behind!” right at the end. It wasn’t just the hunting expedition he was talking about—more like his whole life.

Pumpkin Scissors. Almost entirely forgotten, possibly due to it having a case of Unfinished Manga Syndrome, but it’s an entertaining, off-beat, not-exactly-a-war-story set in a world with WWI-level tech.

Not good enough to keep me from dropping it after a couple of episodes. Maybe the light novels are popular or something.

At least they didn’t attempt to claim that the reboot of Magical Girl Raising Project was in any way notable.

There’s a lot of stuff missing from the lists in the original article (compared to livechart.me, which is what I normally use), probably because whoever holds the streaming rights doesn’t consider them worth announcing in advance.

It’s been a long time, but I seem to remember that some of the characters in Mirai Nikki appear superficially sane until you get a better look at them. (The others are nuts from the get-go.) In general, any deadly-game type anime has a decent chance of containing a character who seems sane until they turn on the protagonist.

A lot of yandere types would also qualify.

It’s been at least five years since I last watched the series, so no, I don’t remember what he looked like before.

Still, the set of people who think that he and the girls and the disembodied seifuku (who are certainly characters in their own right) are all hot must be vanishingly small. And that’s ignoring the kid and the dog, whom I certainly hope people don’t find hot. (Mind you, of all the characters, the dog seemed to be the most likely to keep its clothes on, which I’m sure was conscious irony on someone’s part.)

Idk, there’s a lot you could discuss about this show beyond “all the characters are hot” but nobody ever really does

People think the middle-aged doctor whose house the MC is living at is hot? Must be a definition of the word that I haven’t come across before. 🤔