I have had this happen, but not in the last few months. For a while it was nearly every time I turned it on.
Yes, happened a few weeks ago for about a week.
Happening again now last few nights. Super annoying.
Finished the first season of Brand New Animal tonight. Highly recommended for any fans of Studio Trigger. I prefer this show to Kill la Kill, Kiznaiver, Gurren Lagann, or the abomination that is Darling in the Franxx.
I started watching One Piece the other week. On Netflix with the Funimation dub, about 30 eps in and they have just defeated Arlong.
Holy crap, why did nobody ever tell me it was good!? I always wrote it off as more targeted to kids, but it seems that is not quite the case. Great characterisation and world building going on with some pretty great character design.
Two people recommended One Piece to me this last week but they told me it takes 100 episodes to get going.
Yeah, I enjoyed BNA. Really fun show.
I’d say 30 to get you into the groove. 40 and you’ll be pretty much on your way. Of course I can’t speak for anything past 50 at this stage, so don’t know how much more ‘get going’ it gets.
But they were pretty much the points that it had me intrigued. A few core characters are introduced, some interesting back stories are appearing and you begin to appreciate some of the character design, the art style has grown on you and the foundations of some of the lore are laid down (to be fair that would be closer to ep50ish).
I would say it has a slowish, but deliberate story-telling style. It does not mind taking a break from the main action to delve into a back-story or side-story for an episode or two, but you begin to appreciate that as it feeds directly into the characterisation and motivations that are driving the main action.
I watched a couple things!
I watched Land of the Lustrous, because apparently it won a bunch of awards the year it came out for its excellent 3D-anime presentation. It shows its age a bit there (characters still feel pretty weightless), but its undeniably pretty to look at. I also wanted to watch it because it’s (kinda sorta) Anime-Steven Universe. Only, it isn’t really at all. It has a bit of a Nier: Automata vibe. Tthe ending makes it pretty clear that it’s a long-running manga series with a lot more backstory and is kind of a cliffhanger (it literally introduces new questions about the nature of the world in the last episode, questions that clearly have answers in the manga, but that the anime has no intentions of answering.) That being said, it does a surprisingly good job of telling its own self-contained story about loss of innocence and the cost of growing up. While the story cut off feels kind of arbitrary, the next story arc is going to the moon (not really a spoiler: the main enemies are the Lunarians), so it was probably a good place to break.
I watched the first couple episodes of Eizoken, and while I can see very clearly why people like it, it didn’t really click with me. The animation flights of fancy, while charming and super inspired, kind of bogged down the forward progress of the story too much for my current mood.
I also watched BNA, since I wanted to watch (kinda sorta) Anime-Zootopia (Well, either this or Beastars). It’s great, and had me from the intro theme (the music in general is particularly good). I’m a fan of most of Trigger’s work , so that was hardly a surprise (the only thing of theirs I actively disliked was Darling in the Franxx, which I couldn’t force myself to sit through more than one episode of). People often joke about Disney’s Robin Hood being the movie that launched a thousand furries, and while Michiru is a generally a great character design, I can’t help but feel that it’s tailor-made for that as well. Then again, it’s 2020 and the internet exists now, so I suppose that ship sailed a long time ago.
Darling in the Franxx does get better and the ending is good Trigger stuff, imho, but I agree the first half is hard to watch.
Where are you guys watching BNA?
I just added BNA to my netflix queue. And, let me say as someone who definitely enjoys anime, but has only seen in the range of ~ 50 or so popular series, that this thread is a great resource for me to bookmark series to watch when I have time.
In other news, I finally watched season 2 and 3 of FLCL. 2 was ok, but it sometimes felt it was trying too hard. But it was fine.
Season 3 (FLCL alternative) was great. I really liked the story and characters, and the animation is amazing.
BNA is Netflix exclusive in the US, I’m not sure about internationally though.
It IS in Netflix here! Thanks. Now to figure out whether to watch this myself or wait for my wife to come back.
Couldn’t make it past second episode. My daughter says the show is a dumpster fire because it was a joint production with A-1.
The ending is pure trigger/gainax, and some of the animation is top notch. There the really bad concept/gimmick of sexualized “subtext” (not so sub) but it does abandon that halfway through the season.
I dunno, I enjoyed the second part of it a lot, and zero two scenes on the first half allowed me to make it that far. But I do understand people who dislike it.
Good to know it gets better, I guess. All the mech piloting stuff was just so terrible, not to mention done before. And at least Aquarian has music by Yoko Kanno.
Just got done watching GITS:SAC 2045 on Netflix…what there is of it. Only 12 episodes that are clearly half of a season, no matter what they call it. I enjoyed it, though I’m not a fan of many of the changes. The art style is fine for action scenes and general landscape, but when they get in close the facial expressions are largely wooden and the Major looks too anime-girl-standard for me. The new girl as well, and she’s annoying to boot. But those are fairly minor, since the general themes and plot are much what I’ve come to expect from SAC. I look forward to watching the rest of it, whenever they get around to making it.
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It was always supposed to be 24 episodes but I think COVID maybe to blame for only 12 at the moment.
This was one anime that I would watch in English and happy they used the same voice actors.
Well, my Hunter x Hunter viewing came to a pretty abrupt end right in the middle of the Phantom Troupe arc, which is where the dubbed episodes end on Hulu. They have 27 more episodes, but those are subtitled. I’ll just have to wait until I have Netflix to see if they have more dubs than Hulu. I looked on Crunchyroll, and they don’t seem to have any dubs at all for Hunter.
Oh well, I really liked the show before the Phantom Troupe arc, but I wasn’t enjoying this current arc as much anyway. Before this arc, the show did a really good job of not being gory and violent, and being more kid-friendly, which gave it air of pleasantness I haven’t felt in Animes for a while. But that went away with the Phantom Troupe arc. Hopefully it will come back once the Phantom Troupe arc is over.
Anyway, onward. Going back to @TurinTur’s recommendations, I found that Hulu has 6 episodes of FLCL, so I’ll probably try either that or the Volleyball themed Anime he recommended next. Unfortunately, FLCL is all subs, but for the volleyball one they have 50 episodes dubs and subs.
Netflix has more. The dubs there go through the greed island arc. Funimation has the show dubbed as well, to the same point as Netflix. Nobody has legal dubs past that point.
