I resemble @Dan_Theman in this respect, so I also have started watching Iron-Blooded Orphans (on Hulu), about 10 eps so far. Very much what I expect from the giant robot fighting genre, which you’d expect since Gundam sorta defines the genre. There are certainly some bits I could do without…the guy with the space harem, for instance, and the inevitable kids-in-a-love-triangle…but overall I’m enjoying it. I don’t know much about the Gundam universe but I haven’t felt lost, as they’ve done a good job explaining the relevant bits of history as it goes along.
My son wanted to watch JoJo’s bizarre adventure because he saw it on Roblox or something… Anyway, it starts off really oddly but turns into a fantastically hilarious show to watch with your nine year old… It’s so over the top dramatic, and there’s always a narrator explaining what’s going on during a battle.
Oh. The odd hasn’t begun yet. It may also get rather uncomfortable to watch with your 9yo in season 2, depending.
Lol yes indeed we had to stop watching as it became more inapprop and graphically violent.
Ex-SWoo
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Is anyone else watching Beastars? It’s quite good
geewhiz
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I was but stopped about episode 7 I think. I may start it up again in the future. I think I read that the manga is better but I suppose that is often true for many stories.
I liked it. It’s a bit Zootopia x Riverdale. Heavy on the teen drama but in this weird animal world. Also thought it looked quite good, which is rare for these CGI anime shows IMO.
Eizouken finished and I’m sad it’s done, also doesn’t exactly sound like a season 2 is in the cards anytime soon. Loved it to pieces.
Finished up watching Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. If it wasn’t for the silly love triangle (and higher polygons) stuff, it would have been one of the best giant-robot-fighting anime series I’ve ever seen. Still really good even so! I may have shed a tear when Orga got shot, he was by far my favorite character in the whole series.
Yeah, I had favorite character die three different times I think.
I’ve started in on Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle on Hulu and have been pleasantly surprised. It’s fairly good! I went in with low expectations because it’s based on an MMO storyline, and I haven’t found that genre to be particularly good in the past. But this one seems to have done it right, at least through the first 10 eps. The characters are fairly interesting, the world concept of society-on-spaceships is nicely defined, there’s an intriguing mystery running through the plot, and the visuals range from competent to impressive. Kind of reminds me of Log Horizon in space, though without the “real world people stuck in game” bit.
I’m just going to say, I feel like quarantine is a perfect time to watch Cells at Work, since everybody is thinking about immune systems and germs and whatnot. It’s also very light and so a pleasant diversion.
I am assuming that the manga it’s based on is going to do a Covid edition at some point. It seems impossible that they wouldn’t.
Liking Tower of God so far.
Yes, it is very well done.
Been watching RWBY season 7. No significant difference from earlier seasons - nice fighting visuals, odd non-fighting visuals, weirdly short episodes, incredibly awkward handling of interpersonal relationships, and yet still cute and with some interesting world building. I like much of the way the story has progressed, always have, but it just takes so long to develop. What a normal show might cover in a 2-3 episode arc takes them an entire season. Still, I’m happy when another season finishes so I can sit down for a few hours and watch my way through it.
You know what is very frustrating? Amazon Prime has a huge library of anime, including a number of exclusive, new shows and it’s basically impossible to browse or find them. If I had licensed my show to Amazon I would be enormously pissed at their failure to make any of their anime content discoverable. Prime Video is a bad app on every platform, but it especially inept at showing you what anime is in the catalog, what is sub versus dub, etc. It’s an absolute joke.
I’m actually going to make time to watch this, since I haven’t seen a lot of no. UC stuff.
Ex-SWoo
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This video is really good - and one of the few callouts to Tomino’s non-Gundam works. I think his best work was actually done between the original Gundam series & Zeta Gundam (Ideon/Xabungle/Dunbine) and you can see his later series revisiting the ideas explored there.
Some of my daughter’s friends are apparently posed about inaccuracies in the accompanying chart.
Ex-SWoo
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Yeah - whoever the host is doesn’t know the material well enough to satisfy hardcore fans I’d imagine given all the pronunciation inaccuracies in the video. The core material is pretty solid though.
