The first half of the MMO anime Bofuri was very good fyi. I didn’t like the last half of the season as much though.
Yeah, it’s pretty widely considered to be a drop in quality. They changed studios from Madhouse to JC Staff, the former being generally better at action sequences. I believe they had a smaller budget for S2 as well.
Mob Psycho is great. But the payoff of the greatness is a bit in the latter half of episodes.
This was me, too. I didn’t really care as much about the rest, but that first half was pretty good.
It kinda genre hops between paranormal investigations / slice of life / shonen battles, with the latter being pretty loaded toward the latter half. If you got to the end of ep 5 though, you saw pretty much all the different modes it runs in.
Aside from it being ugly, my biggest problem with Mob Psycho 100 is that I never really liked Arataka. I like the concept of the character, but he’s a little too mean and his segments a little too one-note. It’s more a problem in the second season though. He’s mostly fine in the first season, and his involvement in the S1 finale battle is pretty inspired.
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I returned to shows I abandoned this season.
- 86: binge watching this is a better experience. Sad but good story.
- Vivy: irregular, very irregular, good stuff mixed with mediocre stuff. It made me think humans are nothing special, 2 lines of code… It made me cry by pressing the right buttons, we humans are simple.
Binge watching a tv show a sunday is about the best thing.
I’m still working on World Trigger but I don’t know how much longer I’ll last. The tropes are pretty crazy. (Minor spoilers in the clip)
There’s still some world building happening that I like but it’s having to carry an awful lot of weight.
Anime has gotten so much better in the last five years or so.
I recently noticed they added the rest of Hunter X Hunter dub on HBO Max for anyone interested in watching the end.
Ooooh, so I can finally see the chimera arc that people say is the reason to watch the whole show? That would be pretty great.
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I liked the chimera arch, but also watched everything before it, had his moments and help know each character.
I can’t tell you if the payoff is worth it, sadly. I can say that I enjoyed it, and the world building was big part of it.
If you have gotten past the invasion and the started on the Tournament arc, I think that pretty much the meat of the show. There are some good episodes, and some Interesting strats and tactics, but if that isn’t your cup of tea, maybe it’s time to bail.
I can only say that I enjoyed it, but I saw it several years ago, when I was sticking to Netflix/Hulu/Prime, and there wasn’t as much competition.
Sweet. I checked this morning after I read your post.
72 more episodes in English for me to watch!!! So cool. I started the Chimera arc this morning.
I am enjoying this little video.
With my free Funimation membership from Playstation about to run out, the only thing I really watched over those 3 months was the new season of My Hero Academia. The first section of the season was training exercises, and it was a good season, even though it was a retcon of the main characters’ abilities. The second arc has now started and it’s another summer internship.
What’s really bananas is that this is the second internship period in the series, and apparently all the students are still “first years”. Maybe the show takes place on a planet with really long yearly cycles? I think this is the fourth season or something, and they’re still “First Years”, which is so bizarre. The first four seasons of Food Wars comprised of a year in the school terms as well, but that one definitely took place on Earth, and the different weather seasons and semesters in each season of the show were very obvious.
Have you watch Jujutsu Kaisen? It’s a mix of Bleach and Naruto with few of the pitfalls of either. Only 1 season, so not sure where it will end up, but its a good first season (up there with the first season of Bleach, but it’s been a while since I saw it).
I really liked World Trigger, but I would see what @arrendek says about it before starting. Being an older season that just recently got a reboot, I may just have rose-tinted glasses where that series is concerned. Although the new season is good.
There is a new Inuyasha series that… exists. I watched it all, so, there is that. I’m pretty sure I just watched it because it was available on Hulu and low effort.
And, completely out of leftfield, I watched Kaguya-Sama: Love is War. It kept popping up on youtube, and it was humourous enough that I decided to just watch it while I had a subscription. It is kind of sweet. Not my usual cup of tea, so I doubt I’ll delve too much into the genre after this.
Yeah, I saw 3.5 episodes. My post from upthread about it.
I see… well you are a complex person with unique tastes @Rock8man.
This particular type of high school anime has the newspaper comic problem, where unless you’re an extremely serious serial, you can never age your characters in any way, including children and teenagers advancing in school. In both of the examples you gave, if the characters advance grades and eventually graduate, the writers are locked out of high school anime tropes forever, and those are a big part of why a lot of people watch these shows.
Weirdly, slice-of-life shows like Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star, and K-ON! actually do show the progression of time, even though they rely far more on high school anime tropes than an action series that’s set in a high school should. I guess the fact that those were all comedy series that weren’t written to run forever helped there.
It’s my understanding that Japanese high schools follow a trimester format: April-July is First Semester, July-August is Summer Break, September-December is Second Semester, December-January is Winter Break, and Third Semester is January-March.
The anime and manga just demonstrate that a lot of stuff has happened in a short amount of time. Based on a fan looking at both an official MHA guide and looking at the manga arcs, a rough unofficial timeline has stuff like: The first internship likely happened in May, All Might vs AFO likely happened in August, and all of season 4 (Yakuza and Gentle Criminal) likely happened within September to November. With the current season, the Joint Training happened in December as one of the episodes between Joint Training and the new internship shows them enjoying Christmas break.
Oh yes! Definitely emphasized Christmas break, I forgot about that.
Wow, a lot of stuff happened to these students in … 9 months so far I guess.
