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Since this miracle got us a second season of ReZero - maybe I can try again?

I hope we get a second season of nogame-nolife

Please somebody reply with “today they is aired today” and be true

5266

The Zero movie is probably the closest thing you will get for a very long time, if not ever.

5267

Okay… it was always the hope of a snowball in summer anyway

5268

I finished the Season 3 dub of the Volleyball anime. Unfortunately, this 3rd season felt a little hollow to me compared to the first two seasons. They had 10 episodes to flesh out this one match by introducing us to the opposing team members and to give us more background on more of Kurasano’s team members. They kind of did that, but they only explored two players from the opposing team, and not much of Kurasano.

I thought the huge amount of research that Yachi did on the opposing team would factor in this season for sure, but it was never mentioned again after the first episode, which was very disappointing.

On the positive side, there were some unique volleyball concepts explored in the 3rd season that hadn’t been brought up before, which is always appreciated, but obviously not much since it was a shortened season.

So yeah, overall, I was left wanting more. If this had been the end of the series, it would have been a poor way to end it. So I’m glad that four years later, they are finally out with the first half of Season 4, and the second half will air later this year. I’ll check it out once they do an English dub. It has a lot of potential. I hope that unlike Season 3, it ends up exploring more than a couple of players and concentrates more on Kurasano players again too.

5269

I finished Season 3 of Food Wars. (I couldn’t take switching to English Dub. The voices are fine, but I’m so used to the Japanese cast by this point). The second half of the season (the Train Arc) was nowhere near as cool as the first half (where they setup their own shops at the festival). But it did start the group Shokugeki. In Season 3 it’s disappointingly just like a regular Shokugeki, even though they said the groups are allowed to help each other. Hopefully in Season 4 that will change. Otherwise, why introduce new rules for Group Shokugekis in the first place?

I started FLCL on Hulu. Watched the first episode. This is so nuts. I might have found a show that’s trippier than Legion.

5270

Have you seen Paprika? I used to have a 100’ inch projection screen in my living room and would invite friends over to watch various media (mostly korean films and anime), and we were watching this one night when my soon to be wife walked into the room. She looked at the screen, and silently plunked down next to me on the couch to watch. She’s not a big anime person (though she loved death note), but the visuals are something else.

5271

Late 90s anime (well FLCL is 2000) is the best in the weird shit department. They don’t make it like that anymore.

Serial Experiments Lain and Excel Saga are also both worth a watch if you want trippy, and they are trippy in different ways (the former is actually an excellent cyberpunk story).

For some batshit crazy storytelling (the show is on the surface more “normal” until it builds up) Saikano: My girlfriend, the Ultimate Weapon is, imho, a masterpiece.

The early 2000s was a great time to be an anime fan.

5273

I liked Paprika, but it’s my least favorite of Satoshi Kon’s films.

Tokyo Godfathers (or “Frank Capra makes anime”) > Millenium Actress > Perfect Blue > Paprika

5274

Is this a rewarding anime, long term? I watched the first 8 episodes during the last week. It was okay. Nothing as compelling as Konosuba. Does it get better as it goes, or does it stay at approximately this level?

5275

Agreed. Paprika is an audio-visual delight (Parade is an inescapably haunting earworm), but the actual film is fairly incoherent. While all of Satoshi Kon’s films had similar themes (save Tokyo Godfathers as an outlier), Paprika cribbed directly from Perfect Blue in ways that were not improvements.

I think Perfect Blue is his best work though, and very nearly a perfect film. It also says things about idol culture, in particular, which are still eerily relevant. Paprika’s weird mishmash of film and dream doesn’t have the same resonance to me.

5276

I stopped watching it long time ago, it become too cliche ridden. But maybe I was to quick to judge.

5277

I love Paprika now, but the first time I saw it I was pretty meh on it. It throws a lot at you for a 90 minute movie. You have all the dream stuff with the DC Mini you are trying to figure out, and It’s like whenever the characters tell you what’s going on and what the rules are, it immediately changes. There’s the mystery of who stole the DC Mini and why. How Atsuko and Paprika relate to one another. Atsuko’s relationship with Tokita which threw me off the first time I watched it. Detective Konakawa has his own storyline and dream stuff. Then you got all the bizarre visuals and weird shit going on in the dreams.

This one grew on me with each rewatch. I think it is better watched dubbed as well.

5278

Slime and Konosuba aren’t even remotely comparable. Konosuba is a silly adventure comedy series. Slime is about a guy thrust into playing a real-world game of Civilization.

5279

More Age of Wonders IMHO.

5280

Oh god. Such a great episode of Re:zero. Made me cry, then watched it again, cry again.

5281

You’re making it harder for me to wait until the season is finished before I dive in.

After I read your post yesterday, I decided to watch the first episode of the first season again, just to remind myself of the characters for a few minutes. Man, I got sucked in hard. That first episode is almost 50 minutes long and it’s so good. I love how they handle the change in tone. The show is a carefree, happy-go-lucky type of show, when all of a sudden they get to the inn and he steps in blood and sees the bodies. So brilliant. And this time I watched the dub, and it’s surprisingly really good!

5282

Food Wars - 4th plate. I got to Episode 7. After watching it, I have to say I’m really happy with this season. So many of the little mysterious hints they dropped and relationships that were undeveloped or incomplete finally get resolved in the fourth season. The show has always felt like other than the actual food battles it was building towards something nebulous that it couldn’t quite reach, but now that all these teases have been resolved, it feels like they can finally move forward and end this show, if the pacing is right.

What’s weird is that in the show’s universe, all the characters we’re following are still in their first year, even after four seasons. The in-show universe moves at a glacially slow pace. But I’m okay with that because it’s my favorite genre of fiction: Students at an institution learning together. My Hero Academia suffers from the same problem, where it’s all moving so slowly. But since it’s my favorite genre, I say keep it going as long as you can, but don’t lose focus on a bigger picture that you hinted at when these students first started.

Btw, if anyone knows of any other animes in the “students learning together” genre, please let me know. I might enjoy it even if it’s not great. I’ve got Silver Spoon queued up next, I’m hoping the summer camp there feels like this same genre.

5283

the season is kind of weak, but is getting better and better

5284

Food Wars - 4th Plate nicely wraps up all the loose threads throughout the first 3 seasons and brings it to a nice satisfying ending. It even has an epilogue to make it extra satisfying to show what the characters are up to.

Very nice. I’d recommend the first 4 seasons as a complete story.

So I notice there’s a fifth season that’s putting out new episodes right now. I’m not sure if I want to watch that after they finished all the main narrative threads so nicely. I guess it’s a sequel. I’ll wait until they’re done with that sequel before checking it out. Maybe another 4 seasons?

5285

Hoo boy. If you don’t know anything about what else happens, you might not actually want to know, but the fifth season will undoubtedly be the final one. If you’re happy with what you’ve seen so far, just stop, since the series is infamous for having a pretty stupid ending.

The basic concept is that there is another mega-tournament between the normal chefs you’re familiar with, as well as the Chefs of the Underworld who use evil, forbidden techniques that nobody else will. Their leader is competing in the tournament solely because he will be able to marry Erina if he wins. The entirety of this mega-tournament is being crammed into a single season and it’s a rushed mess, but it supposedly isn’t any better than that in the source material.