It hits me square in the “students learning x together” genre. I love that genre!
(It helps when X is interesting, in this case, how to be a superhero).
I can understand not caring for the show. I can understand not caring for the art style. But I can not in any way understand the above statement. Not trying to argue for watching something that didn’t click with you, but…
Yup, you’re right. I should have said art style rather than animation. It’s great that you guys enjoy the show. It gets great reviews so it’s obviously doing something right. It just doesn’t do much for me.
Hooray, a fellow traveler! I felt much the same way in the few episodes I tried.
Which is totally fine. But I do love Studio Bones.
I really like the show, but it’s fairly typical shonen stuff (better than most for me, but still). I like it because it is entertaining, more than because the writing is incredible or anything. I guess I’d say it is a guilty pleasure sort of show for me.
Weird scenes like this is why I like World Trigger. They really try to give every team some sort of personality and character. They aren’t just faceless opponents, but characters that know each other and train together.
And of course, outside of the tournaments, depend on each other when Neighbors do invade. Those battles are kind of cool, as you see some teams working together, or different members working together.
I really feel like each character continues to exist when they aren’t on screen, and I really dig that.
That’s a cool scene. What is that anime about? Looks like a swimming team maybe?
Current humble bundle is a bunch of manga for current anime series:
I guess Reincarnated as a Slime and 7 Deadly Sins are the big draws? Haven’t really head of the rest of it.
I wish. It’s about small squad combat, with an emphasis on team tactics, and some cool abilities (because it’s anime).
I assume with the Shaman King Reboot after a decade, that would be a huge draw for some people.
And Eden Zero is coming out in Anime soon, from the creator of Fairy Tail.
Here is a quick scene from the next episode feature the main character realizing that he was no match for the opponents.
The nice thing about the show being team focused is that being weak doesn’t mean you can’t contribute.
To Your Eternity is really good. I had no idea they were coming out with an anime for it.
Megalobox 2: Nomad seems like it’s going to be tackling some heavier topics. First episode has Joe fighting addiction to pain killers, and losing
I have problems to find anything memorable on this season.
I have already watched a few episodes of many series and I have a hard time connecting with something I truly want to watch.
Like, I started to watch ViVy, but at some point I was like “why I am watching this?”, and had to fastforward the episode to see how it ended to see if was going somewhere.
Just watched “Fumetsu no anata” (To Your Eternity). I liked the story and style. Good stuff.
New season!
“86” is a very typical anime. I’m going to call it derivative. Let’s see: sci-fi, wartime, utopia that is really a dystopia, mech vehicles used in war (spiders, not bipedals, though), a bit of fanservice, and a setup for future rebellion against the government by our plucky group of soldiers. I don’t think I will continue with it.
Shadows House is a fantasy mystery series, although for now it has been slow, there isn’t a lot of hooks and instead it has been almost slice-of-lifeish. I guess that will change in future episodes. It deals with some kind of shadow people that live in a huge house and their servants, the ‘live puppets’ which for us, are just normal regular humans.
Vivy Fluorite Eye’s Song is a bit weird. It’s the new anime done by WIT, and it’s scifi work about AI robot designed as a singer (she worked in a amusement park or similar), which suddenly it’s mixed in the plot of the Terminator series. A AI drone coming from 100 years into the future comes to her to make it avoid a future where the robots arise against humanity, so he sends her to intervene in key moments of history. For now, it’s more average than anything, for example the last episode it had a standalone story about another AI robot and her twin which is supposed to be dramatic but it was pretty meh.
Fumetsu no Anata e, or depending on the translation ‘To You, Immortal’ or ‘To Your Eternity’, had an intriguing start, about some kind of alien lifeform or drone coming to Earth, and learning what life here is about, by shapeshifting to replicate another lifeform that he finds dead, and continuing with their lives. If the first episode is a hint of things to come, the series has going to have a tragic flair. Still, the first episode was more a prologue than anything.
Mars Red has an intriguing urban fantasy historical setting (think Japan in 1930s but with vampires!), following a military unit specialized in the capture or killing of vampires, and it has a nice layer artistic flair in the story and direction. For example, the first episode had an actress interpreting Salomé who turned crazy when converted to vampire, the second had a bit of tragic lovers story that I liked it.
Thunderbolt Fantasy is perhaps the best I’m watching right now. It’s pure fantasy entertainment, in a wuxia setting, done with puppets. It has a very nice mix of classic adventure feel but with a novel (for me) setting and with a very good work in the writing department: character motivations, banter, plotting, etc.
In addition, I’m watching Invincible (see other thread).
Sword of The Stranger
Sword of the Stranger | Anime-Planet
This is a simple yet well told samurai story with top quality music, animation and visuals. The fight scenes are really spectacular (and quite bloody - be warned). Well worth watching if you like samurai or action movies. The final battle is one of the best animated fight scenes I’ve seen 8.5/10.
The Ancient Magus Bride
The Ancient Magus' Bride | Anime-Planet
I’ve been dipping my toes into the romance genre and this has been one of my favorites. It’s a slice of life anime about an emotionally damaged slave girl who is sold to a magician. It’s a character study from the girl’s perspective as she learns to navigate her new environment and an exploration of the strange bond she begins to forge with her (entirely non-human) master. I found it rich, warm and quite delightful. 8.5/10.
Welcome to Demon School season 2 just started. I wasn’t even expecting a second season so soon.
Sword of the Stranger is one of my favorites!
That dog is the best.