geewhiz
5446
Yes, I have been watching it mainly because I like the MC a lot. The show is very dark and I would not recommend having any little ones watching the show.
I never watched Bluffly so I cannot compare the two story lines. I will say that the teacher in this show is a goofball (powerful goofball but there are peeks at him getting serious when he has to). I also think the goofiness/pain in the neck like humor is supposed to be a counter to the horror like elements. I like the show for the student characters.
You should just skip to the last episode of Buffy Season 1, and then move on to season 2 where they rebuilt the writing staff, upgraded the stunts and it started getting really good.
I should mention I finished Hunter X Hunter, including both movies. Really enjoyed the show overall. It’s not afraid to go on weird tangents, that’s for sure.
Right now I’m watching a ton of Gundam. I started listening to the Great Gundam Project podcast as I watched along with the original series after it showed up on Funimation. Now I’m 34 episodes into Zeta Gundam.
What are you watching and in what order?
Zeta is great, but if you haven’t I would strongly consider watching War in the pocket and The 8th MS team soonish, since they take place during the original series. War in the Pocket is the best work in the franchise for my money.
0083 and Gundam Origin should probably wait until you finish Char’s counterattack. But do see them after that. They are prequels to Zeta and the original series, but they are enjoyed more by knowing what will happen.
Everything else short of is a different story and can be watched later, imho. Unicorn (which I liked) and later stuff are the same continuity but really don’t follow the same characters, and Thunderbolt is very self contained.
I’m very curious about the upcoming Hathaway’s flash.
I’m kinda planning to watch it all. The Great Gundam Project is using release order, so that’s what I’m doing now, although I have seen a number of shows before like 08th MS Team, War in the Pocket, Unicorn and Iron Blooded Orphans. Stuff like Zeta, ZZ, Victory, and Stardust Memories is all new to me, though.
I got the Thunderbolt Blu-rays for Christmas, so I’m planning to watch those soon, as well.
Yeah, the trailer looks like it could be some cool spy stuff. Am I wrong, or is Hathaway Bright and Mirai’s son? I thought I remember that being his name…
Yep, he’s Bright’s son. Also it will feature the Xi and the Penelope Gundams, I believe.
Which also means they might release Master Grades of them…
Also, given what you’ve seen probably you should really jump into Origin after Char’s Counterattack. And skip Victory.
But Origin, once you’ve seen Char’s full arc, is great.
Ex-SWoo
5451
Yep - he features as character in Char’s Counterattack.
I’ve heard rumors that they’ll likely deviate from the source material to retcon stuff from Unicorn into core UC lore so I’m curious how the series will turn out. I wouldn’t mind a different ending from the novels, that’s the sure.
Ex-SWoo
5452
I personally think Victory is great - the animation blows though :| Then again, I’m very partial to the ‘Tomino’-style of mecha anime.
All my Gundam is anime based, so I don’t know novels or manga. Which I guess it means I don’t care about retcons.
Hell, Origin is quite a retcon.
I liked it, but it’s a different story. It’s relationship with the Amuro/Char saga is tenuous. I just think the whole Char saga is worth experiencing without huge breaks.
Ex-SWoo
5455
Yeah, that’s fair. Tomino’s post-Amuro/Char storylines never got fully animated aside from Victory and F-91 which is a real shame.
I would love to see a proper animated version of F91+Crossbone Gundam and Gaia Gear. In a way I feel the storylines are more relevant than ever given its themes.
Teiman
5456
I think I said it already, but the last season of Attack on titans is good
Ex-SWoo
5457
I had never heard of these guys before and listened to the first episode on a whim and…it’s quite good! Really thoughtful discussion on the series w/o much in the way of fanboyism makes for a good listen.
Quite a commitment to listen to the full thing though, haha.
Zylon
5458
The way you’re describing Buffy, it’s as if you’re genuinely unaware that it was one of the biggest, most highly-regarded shows in all of geekdom for years. Apparently the guy who ran it even went on to write and direct some successful movies.
90% chance he wrote that straight.
Come on guys. I said I own the whole show on DVD. Of course I wouldn’t have done that if I wasn’t aware. I was just boggled by how bad it was.
Okay, my mistake. I just thought your TV backlog was so long you were still catching up to the 90s.
FWIW, I had the same experience as @Rock8man. Struggled through to the end of Season 1 of Buffy and just cratered out after that. Couldn’t force myself to pretend I was interested any further than that.
I foolishly started My Hero Academia in search of more dumb comfort food anime. Uh, how far away from the main plot conclusion (presumably the end of 3 years at hero school) is the manga? And worse, how far behind the manga is the anime? Not looking forward to winding up like my HS friends who started reading Naruto in 2003, sure that they’d have a complete series to enjoy in fullness sooner than later, hah.
We live in a dark, dreary and strange and bizarre world where most animes are now isekai. A creatively bankrupt genre where usually some no life lose is transported/reincarnated to a fantasy world, and they use this second chance at life to do it much better/gain power/girls. Even worse, lots of times is a rpg-world, where the main character can see his stats and skills, because it’s what understand the public for them, it seems.
(As an aside, I haven’t seen any isekai where they actually explore how the hell they are in a videogame world, in the plot. Are aliens the culprit or what? It’s just omitted).
To show off this, a bit like a experiment, I watched yesterday a few episodes of two current series.
One of t hem is Kumo desu ga, Nani ka? or, ‘So I’m a Spider, So What?’.
The concept here, I imagined, is to make a humorous take on the concept of isekai, as the protagonist, instead of being reincarnated as a promising genius adventurer, is reincarnated as a lowly spider in some dangerous dungeon.
It’s fucking bizarre series as for five episodes straight it has been mostly like watching a streamer play a rpg.The RPG component here is super overt. XP here, skill there, talent and unlocks blahblah. That’s the feeling it has, it reminded more of Twitch than the feel of watching a fiction story. I mean, I’m slightly intrigued in where the build of the spider is going, as the seems to have some rare subclasses going on but…
read again that sentence. I’m intrigued by the fucking build. Not by the characterization or the plot points. That’s 2021 for you. Maybe there is more story later, but for now it’s going slow.
The other is Mushoku Tensei or, ‘Jobless Reincarnation: I Will Seriously Try If I Go to Another World’
Which is much more traditional isekai or a loser, bullied, jobless nerd which does much better (he is a magical genius!) in the new fantasy world. It gets several of the tropes of the genre, including the main hero being a pervert.
The bizarre thing here is that this shouldn’t deserve an anime adaption of this quality. It looks great, in both backgrounds and animation, the direction is very cinematographic and it takes the work more seriously and with more cares than one could suspect. Why does it look like high quality 90s cell film animation? I can’t understand it!
Yeah, we should make a rule, only start animes that are actually over. And all available in the U.S. in our language of choice on a streaming service.
Sounds a lot like the concept behind “The Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime”, although that pretty quickly gets less grounded and just becomes D&D memes.
