Heheh. What a polite way to say you disagree! :)
Well, if you really love Jujutsu Kaisen and the show really goes places, I’m willing to dive back in one day once the show is farther along.
I got to be honest @Rock8man, I would not trust my opinion at this point. I’m sleep-deprived and stressing about the birth of my 3rd child. I would wait for a second opinion before diving into anything on my say so.
Heck, for all I know, I just wasted a few hours of @arrendek life in pursuit of an anime that just never came together.
I enjoyed this enough to get the manga so that I could see what happened after where they left it in the anime. Very twee but pretty funny, I’m tempted to say that despite the premise it ends up being a pretty typical romance anime. So, I liked it, bit I think I prefer my romance anime (I’ve watched all of two at this point, mind you) to go a little faster.
I got pretty far into it but they’re trying to take a visiting alien girl and her younger brother to Disneyland or something while they keep getting attacked by another alien and I don’t know if I’ll continue. I’m being purposely obtuse but it’s right in the middle of what had been a fun arc and just won’t fucking end.
It also suffers from the anime problem where everyone in every background (in this case literal alien backgrounds) all behave like Japanese people.
JJK has, well, “visually stunning” battle scenes and those battle scenes play around with the normal shonen tropes.
I didn’t bounce off the first few eps, but I do think the show’s takes on “here are classes fighting each other arc” and the like are both creative and some of the best actual animation work in a shonen right now to merit some more watching.
Yeah I couldn’t really get into this one either. It’s ranked really highly right now though so I might go back to it. I absolutely hate that they use bullying as a motivation again and again though.
Oh shit, that stuff is just filler. I’m not saying you need to bail, but I didn’t feel I got much from it.
It goes on to episode 63…
My biggest problem with it is actually that they have used this introduction to destroy all the earlier rules that they built up about what trion could and couldn’t do. Is it the standard anime issue where they don’t know where to go so they keep changing the rules to make everything more powerful? Or are they cleverly saying that these errant planets were able to stretch the technology further and further without the ideas managing to get to any other civilizations? Only time will tell, but my bet is on the former and moving forward everyone does this stuff.
Well, if you do slog through the Fugitive Arc, what I can say is that the new season starts right afterwards, and it goes relatively quick. You got an invasion, and right afterwards, payoff of everything that started right before the Fugitive Arc came up.
And I won’t say anymore, because I think I could easily over hype it. It was good though and I was happy to say that finally wrapped up after 5 years (of doing other things with my life).
Wait, the fugitive arc lasts until the end of the entire first season? Holy shit.
Episode 49 to 63 is what the website said. Unless you really need to see the shorty blast a giant hole in a giant monster, or Tamakoma First fight a bit at full force, I say bail on it and go directly to episode 64. You can always go back to the arc later. It’s filler, so I am not sure if any future episodes will ever reference it.
Uggghhh , ok yeah I’m skipping that.
Okay, so I was wrong. Not about the episodes, but about the seasons. Technically, episode 64 is still the first season, and the first season ends at episodes 73. So, you still have 10 episodes before the 2021 stuff starts.
Sorry about the mix up @arrendek
Thanks for letting me know, I figured you were exaggerating before about the whole season when you said episode 63 was where it ended since I remembered there were seventy something episodes.
It does make me wonder what’s in those last ten episodes that you apparently totally forgot. :)
Well… you have a few battles, and also, the characters practice some skills that might make them more effective as a team… which you don’t actually see in action until Season 2, 5 years later.
Honestly, I thought those episodes happened before the fugitive arc, not after. The Fugitive Arc makes zero sense to me. It just seems to happen in the middle of the season with no rhyme or reason.
Oh geez, so I went back to skip to the stuff after and was reading the episode synopses and this is hilarious:
a) I only made it halfway into episode 54 before I wanted to give up the whole thing (and there are still 9 episodes after that for this arc)
b) I was joking before about Disney land, but in a later episode they literally take the aliens to either an aquarium or the Japanese equivalent to sea world (not sure which, I’m not watching that thing)
What a dog shit arc. Definitely reminds me of a thing older shonen anime tend to do: just out of the blue go on a worthless tangent for 15 weeks of episodes.
Pour one out for those of us that actually watched it, thinking it would lead to something.
If that arc had anything good, you can find them on youtube.
So, Microsoft is doing a sale on Anime right now. If you spend 30 dollars you get 3,000 points in addition to the sale.
I’m just taking a look through it. I haven’t seen all of Scientific Railgun/Accelerator yet. Nor Magical Index for that matter.
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Some recent anime opinions:
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Sonny Boy. Stilish fresh, somewhat flavourless (or that what I get) watchable.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway. Great drawing, story, animation. Good script. Interesting characters and character dynamics.
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Fumetsu No Anata. Continue to be good, but less so, seems to be evolving to become one of these shows “monster of the week”.
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Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu. Your isekai show full of fan service and cliches. Confort food.
I don’t feel the need to watch Tokyo Revenger, I heard the story may be good but probably is a worth pick later on.
Was a bit surprised that they played it straight w/o major changes to the storyline. AFAIK there’s nothing in the movie that’s incompatible with the timeline from Beltorchika’s Children(vs Char’s Counterattack). Really curious how they’ll handle movie 2 and 3.
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Theres a lot of stuff to love in the show. I am not a gundam fan so I was lost, but found a lot of things to love.
I like when shows threat big machines like big machines, with newtownian physics and the unwanton destructiont that they would create in the world.
And I enjoyed the femme fatale in this show. A person that is not from my world, but because that is even more exotic and mysterious.
