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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Jinshi’s expression when he realizes what Maomao is getting at, right at the end, is priceless. 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! • Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  She was going so fast that I couldn’t identify all the works that she mentioned past the weaksauce trademark protection . . . 😅 Not surprising, I guess, given that some of them were pretty obscure. (Aura Battler Dunbine? Seriously?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective • Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The odd thing about the world’s dumbest firebomber is, why did he do it? There’s no obvious profit to him in shoring up the curse, since he doesn’t seem to want to charge admission to the cave or anything.

  I wouldn’t be surprised if we discovered he was a mook working for someone else. Even then, the ultimate motivation of the person responsible is just as mysterious as why the only modern “spontaneous combustion” case mentioned by the good doctor was the one in which the coroner seems to have been tripping balls. (Well, okay, that isn’t so mysterious—most other cases have been investigated and found to boil down to “cigarette or other obvious ignition source + drugged, drunk, disabled or predeceased victim who couldn’t escape the fire”.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 05]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a lot of bad reviews, though, so maybe it is supposed to be taken seriously and I’m the only one laughing at seeing a man pray to the virgin Mary for the souls of the people who he just killed with a sheet of gold leaf.
  

  I can’t remember whether or not this is the one that got seriously into the opium trade towards the end or whether I’m confusing it with some other semi-historical series set in around that time period, but yeah, I think it was intended to be more serious despite some of the loopier aspects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 05]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The opening theme music is just a new cover of the first OP from the first Aquarion series of twenty years ago, though. In general, I find the soundtrack is weaker than Yoko Kanno’s work on the first two series in the franchise. They do seem to be trying valiantly, but they have a lot to live up to in that department.

  (90% certain I’m dropping this in favour of Promise of Wizard.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Premium Login Details Leaked; Users At High Risk⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people feel that getting their entertainment material from the high seas is immoral or just more work than they want to do. That leaves them stuck with whichever monopolist has the rights to whatever it is they want to watch. Doesn’t matter whether the company is any good or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective • Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least this one wasn’t so obvious that I was able to solve it before the opening credits ran, although “spores, molds, and fungus” was the first thing that came to mind when they finally gave us a proper look at the tomb’s interior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 04]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s bizarre, given that they’d already done one of those with Whispers of Dawn. It’s as though they’re trying to make this an old-style OAV series, with a new part emerging every few months, which would be okay if they’d just say so. The unwillingness to commit to any kind of date, even if it’s next year, is frustrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 04]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally managed to watch at least one episode of everything I was interested in.

  Dropped:

  • Link Click (just didn’t, er, click with me)
  • Farmagia (too much game showing at the seams, not enough depth, protag is an idiot)
  • Greatest Alchemist (not good enough to survive having slavery treated as acceptable)
  • Fruit Master (just mediocre all over)
  • I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons (denial of the main character’s agency to an extent that’s downright icky)
  • Magic Maker (um, dude, I don’t really care that she’s your sister, but you appear to be macking on an oblivious prepubescent girl. No.)
  • Momentary Lily (motion sickness-inducing).

  Hanging by a thread:

  • Aquarion: Myth of Emotions (really ugly artwork and isn’t likely to be good enough in other categories to compensate)
  • Promise of Wizard (first episode felt rather bland, haven’t gotten to the second one yet)
  • I’m a Noble on the Brink of Ruin etc. (just really bland so far, no black marks but not very interesting either)

  I’ll be picking one of those three to keep watching and dropping the other two.

  By the way, does anyone know what’s going on with Fate/Strange Fake? I wasn’t anticipating it dropping off the schedule again after one episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 04]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And at the moment I’m watching an intriguing oddity called Scrapped Princess. At first glance, it appears to be a sort of cheesy swords and sorcery adventure story, but it’s been revealing surprising depth as it goes along and has really been quite good. Remains to be seen how it plays out…

  Let’s just say that the ending is probably not what you’re expecting if you’re still in the earlier part of the show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 • Shangri-La Frontier 2nd Season - Episode 15 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow I knew he was going to draw the Fool. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons • Kisaki Kyouiku kara Nigetai Watashi - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It passed through my mind at one point that unless the prince is even more clueless than he seems, he is one cruel bastard. “I won’t let anyone but you be the mother of my heirs . . . so you have to marry me or else you might cause a civil war.” That is entrapment, and absolutely Not Funny. I could tolerate the stage-play-like exposition, but the repetition of the flashback footage from the ball was beyond tedious. If this doesn’t improve a lot in the next episode, I may be dropping it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you consider the saddest anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Distant-future apocalypse with child soldiers and a scenery-chewing madman (not of the fun type) in charge. The adjective that comes to mind for me is “grim”, but “sad” works too—no one escapes the story unscathed. I have the original DVDs around here somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you consider the saddest anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Four, but I remember almost nothing about it beyond the fact I watched it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you consider the saddest anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been more than 25 years for me. That movie is like a punch to the gut. And I don’t even like kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you consider the saddest anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it was Totoro (or so I recall from a really old Usenet post). Makes you wonder about the thought process involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can just hear Maomao reading that book aloud to the other girls . . . in her totally deadpan inner-narration voice 🤣 . It’s nice to have her back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 10 Anime of the Week #01 - Winter 2025 (Anime Corner)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how well received it was here, Zenshu being down at 25th was probably the biggest.

  The truncated description showing up on several major sites probably didn’t help it any—I’d bet that a lot of people who might have been interested simply didn’t find it, and some of the people who did watch it weren’t looking for the genre it turned out to be.

  The surprising thing for me, though, is that Ameku MD got onto the chart. I mean, it’s an okay series, but the mystery side of the plotting has been kind of weak so far. In a season where the premieres of the good shows were more evenly spread out, I think it would have gotten outcompeted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AQUARION: Myth of Emotions • Sousei no Aquarion: Myth of Emotions - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the Aquarion franchise has always been kind of uneven, but this looks like the worst yet. Things that went through my head as I was watching this:

  • That’s the ugliest artwork I’ve seen in a while.
  • You’re trying to tell me that these are supposed to be teens?! They look like preschoolers.
  • I wonder if he’s the reincarnation of the dog again.
  • The soundtrack might be good if it didn’t feel like it was trying too hard.

  I don’t know whether I’ll be continuing with this or not. Depends on how awful the series yet to premiere are, probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The Water Magician" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual, PV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The light novels are not-especially-inspired isekai, although the protagonist (as of where I dropped out) wasn’t romancing any severely underage girls or making any effort to acquire a harem, so there is that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! • Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but I just can’t really get over how much of the episode was devoted to the lives and backstories of the otome game characters. Either make the characters interesting and unique or let them be just tropes and let us already be familiar with them because they are tropes; don’t waste time explaining the backstory of the copypasted commoner protagonist with rare magic powers going to a school for nobility as if we’ve never heard of that before.

  I think that was part of showing the protagonist’s level of familiarity with otome games (a genre your average 50-something male Japanese bureaucrat isn’t likely to care about) in general and the game he’s stuck in in particular. They did spend more time than was perhaps strictly necessary on ramming that point home, but given how much of what’s premiered so far this season has been trash, this show is still looking pretty good by comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it just me, or is the crop of isekai/light fantasy anime this season even worse than usual? I think I’ve watched ten premiers so far and gotten one good one (Zenshu), three mediocre-but-might-improve, one so-bad-it’s-kinda-fun-to-poke-fun-at, and five that were just dire. I’m almost afraid to check out the other four or five I’d intended to take a look at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective • Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the photo-epilepsy angle was pretty obvious to anyone old enough to remember the incident with the seizure-inducing Pokémon episode, or at least that’s what clued me in (I also had it figured out very early). Which makes me wonder why the psychiatrist didn’t think to consider possible neurological effects of the video. She seems to have a massive blind spot about the feedback loop between body and mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. That looks to me like two of those copied in incomplete blurb from the third (I would guess that Crunchyroll made the initial error, since they’re the one with the commercial interest). Livechart says “[Source: MAPPA]” at the very bottom, so they went back to the original studio for their information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you drink from this cup?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignore the handle and hold it between your hands to get it at a usable angle, surreptitiously cooling the tea with an ice spell to avoid burning your fingers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Momentary Lily presented a (very thin) backstory about what happened to the world further on in the episode. It doesn’t make it any more worth watching. The hook at the end is the venerable “amnesiac character has MEGA POWERZ, but why?”, which doesn’t even really count as a twist these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The English blurb for this show lies by omission. It cuts off the ending of the Japanese blurb!

  Depends on where you read it, I guess. Livechart’s blurb was complete as of yesterday, when I last reloaded the page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys have just reminded me why I no longer try to do any kind of website work. 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m confused: just how did the MC manage to roll around on top of smith-girl’s bust without falling off? She has a figure that’s almost possible in the real world, not a massive prow like the elf. Law of Selective Ecchi Gravity in action, I suppose.

  (The fan service in this is sufficiently far over the top that one cannot take it at all seriously.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. Thought they did. Maybe I’m wrong—it isn’t my distro of choice, after all.