Mugen Train is pretty damn good, aside from some somewhat ropy CG.
Demon Slayer is not entirely my thing, but man, is it well crafted. I can see why it’s so hugely popular.
This process may have already started. There are a few shows which were previously exclusive to Funimation that are available on Crunchyroll now. It’s possible it’s a coincidence and it’s just the new season/contracts expiring though.
No, they have definitely started migrating certain stuff. They’ve added Jiu Jitsu Kaisen to Funimation, and I think I saw the Demon Slayer movie show up on CR. I don’t know if that means the plan is to do it one show at a time, or if they just made a few hit shows a priority ahead of the bigger changes.
geewhiz
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I am looking forward to Komi-san Can’t Communicate which will appear on Netflix on 10/21.
It about a girl who has social anxiety and has a hard time speaking to anyone. The manga was well done and very cute but I feel as the author of the story treated the subject very well.
I’ve started watching Uma Musume/Pretty Derby because, well, life is stressful and sometimes you just want bubblegum and I don’t have to justify my decisions to you get out of my room I hate you you aren’t even my real dad.
It’s the show where there are horse girls (not centaurs, but just cat girls but with horse ears/tails instead of cat ones) who race like race horses and whoever wins the races gets to sing in a concert because they’re also idols and also race in full idol concert outfits and shoes with heels but also with horseshoes nailed to the front of their shoes and they seem to mostly eat carrots but also steak, and it appears to be based off a mobile gacha game? It’s aggressively moe and despite the inherent drama of racing, entirely frictionless. I probably should be watching K-on instead?
Anyways, I think it might be the new “thing I’d write a Modern Culture and Media Masters thesis on if I ever had to write a thesis” because there’s a lot to unpack there.
This is the actual weird part: the anime was made to promote the gacha game, but the game got delayed and came out three years later.
Ah, the reverse Ecks Vs Sever.
The horse girl game is pretty popular. Number 5 in app store despite not having an English release. I tried the first episode, it is soooooo weird.
My friend recommended this laid-back show yesterday, it is about fishing. I don’t know why Funimation is showing it in Spanish. Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
https://www.funimation.com/shows/diary-of-our-days-at-the-breakwater/?qid=
The weirdness kind of fades, and it’s mostly about racing and pleasant supportive friends times and what I assume are inside jokes about specific race horses. There is a sight gag at one point where a character picks up a landline phone and the receiver is extra long and it look like an animation mistake until you realize the ear part goes to the horse ears not the human ears, and it just raises way more questions than it answers.
It doesn’t have nearly as much of a shonen feel as it seems like it will at first, as although it’s about racing, it kind of isn’t about the races so much as the way they make the characters feel. Characters don’t have like special racing techniques, they barely even talk about turf or distances or other things that would determine how the race goes, and the races end pretty arbitrarily. The show eventually kind of turns into an extended exploration of how to cope with grief, as various characters are injured and fear they will be unable to race again. I’ve read some articles about idols and the performative emotional labor of crying, and there’s quite a bit if that.
It also has very strong opinions on the importance of rivals to the point that it feels like designating a rival must be an explicit mechanic in the game that they were told to call it out.
I want to compare it to Keijo and Girls Und Panzer, for a weird extremely-Japanese made-up girl-sports show genre, but they’re all pretty different. (Keijo is way more shonen and Panzer is almost entirely about the battles themselves).
Teiman
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Mushoku tensei episode 3 is soo great. The quality of all of it, the tempo, taking risk, rewarding the viewer. Wholesame all around. Risk factors. Power creep that feels well gained. Bittersweatiness.
Just woah. It pours quality.
You’re making me wish I hadn’t spoiled myself by reading the whole Light Novel already. :)
Teiman
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I found another good show.
https://randomc.net/2021/10/16/ousama-ranking-01/
Ousama Ranking. It had some kind and emotional texture that speaks of the love of his authors for the material.
Were there any Netflix-only (In the USA) animes that people here recommended? Since they erased my account and list and history since last time I subscribed, I can’t remember if I had any on there that I was planning on watching. I vaguely remember reading a couple of big recommendations here for Netflix ones but I can’t remember what they were anymore.
Godzilla Singular Point
The Great Pretenders
Eventually, Shaman King will be on Netflix. That should be worth it.
I haven’t seen all of these, but these are the ones I either have watched or recall discussion about:
- Carole and Tuesday
- Castlevania
- Beastars
- BNA
- Hi Score Girl
- Aggretsuko
The upcoming Komi Can’t Communicate has some buzz as well.
I believe that Netflix announced that they have acquire the streaming rights to Cowboy Bebop also.
Oh yes, I remember these two being mentioned very positively upthread.
CraigM
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Can confirm, it is on Netflix currently (USA)
geewhiz
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It is already on Netflix
Some Others on Netflix:
Blue Period (its about Art)
Saiki K (very funny anime)
Violet Evergarden
Silent Voice (movie)
The new version? Damn, well, I have some shit to do then
