I finished My villain Academia. It was kinda boring as I didn’t really care about the villains on that show, and I still don’t. But seeing them all level up was interesting. Their additional skills seem a lot more overpowered than the leveled up skills for our heroes in Class 1-A.
Looking forward to this showdown. I hope it happens soon.
Yurei Deco - A science fiction series from Science Saru, the creators of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! or Heike Monogatari (apart from Ping Pong). Alas, it’s notably weaker than those, and I’m dropping it. It’s one of those ‘future world where AR/VR is common place’, in some regards it’s almost an ad from Meta lol, but it’s a bit too kiddie for me in tone, the main characters are annoying, the main plot is still vague several eps in, and some things doesn’t make any damn sense.
Made in Abyss - I’m watching the second season and it’s good. It’s a fantasy series that really nails that fantasy vibe precisely because it’s unique and mysterious, about a group of delvers that explore a huge abyss with its own rules, ecosystem and dangers.
Sure, look at the trailer
(or don’t, it’s all spoilery)
Also, there is film to watch , that happens between the two seasons.
Sweet, thank you. Apparently, my daughter had told me the second season was in production, but I had totally forgotten.
I’ve been really enjoying this season of Devil Is a Part-Timer. Even as a weekly show.
Some “Made in Abyss” stuff just showed up on Hulu in my recommended list so I searched on Qt3 to see if it was worth watching. It sounds like it is!
Apparently what’s on Hulu is Journey’s Dawn, which is a movie that’s a compilation of the first 7 episodes, and then Wandering Twilight, which is a compilation of the rest of the first season, and then Dawn of the Deep Soul, which is the theatrical movie that follows the first season.
The last two episodes of Made in Abyss made me think about getting on hard liquor. Man…
Watched a few more things this summer:
Miss Kuroitsu From Monster Development: Basically anime Venture Bros, but for tokusatsu shows instead of Hanna Barbera. Mainly plays with the constrast between corporate life and bureaucracy vs hero combat. Even has a pair of hapless part-time job henchmen as B-stories. Not as consistently good as Venture Bros, but also not as mean. Has a couple of Very Good jokes / episodes (the design process for Cannon Thunderbird is quite good), and a bunch that are only ok.
I tried to watch Kiznaiver, and while I simply couldn’t force myself to watch more than a couple of episodes. It’s slow to the point of being tedious, and the characters weren’t appealing enough to hold my interest through it. I guess I’ll try SSSS.Gridman as my next Studio Trigger production, but I’m not super excited for it.
I saw some discussion of Rent-A-Girlfriend and how it’s kind of gross, which basically ended with: instead of that, watch any of these other shows which are just better, and settled on ToraDora, which I had never seen, and picked up as something light. Its cute and charming, and was just sort of generally pleasant. At some point, I’m probably going to watch Kaguya-sama, but I feel like that’s going to be a major time investment, so I’ll probably put it off for a while.
While looking for something else light and fluffy, I watched a bit of Princess Connect Re:Dive. Apparently a bunch of the team on it is the same as the team that did Konosuba, and it feels a lot like Konosuba, although kinder and also slower paced. Also, each episode is themed around a specific food! It seems like it would be my kind of thing (I like Konosuba but it feels a bit cruel to its characters at times), but its just a bit too slow for me. I don’t hate the experience of watching it like I did Kiznaiver, but I also don’t know if I’m interested enough to finish it. I haven’t played the game at all, so lots of the waifu fanservice is probably lost of me. I saw some preview images from Delicious In Dungeon, and maybe that will end up being closer to what I want.
It is! My comment above sounds lukewarm, but I mean pleasant in the best possible way. It’s charming and refreshingly sweet without being especially challenging, and I like that it has a clean beginning and end and doesnt really drag itself out. I don’t have all that much to say about it, because I imagine it’s a pretty known quantity at this point, but the characters are fun, while also having a decent amount of depth to them.
It is interesting to place it in the context of the recent wave of quiet boy/wild girl romances (e.g. Dress Up Darling, Uzaki-Chan, probably some others I haven’t seen).
I hope you enjoy Kaguya-sama when you eventually get round to it. I just finished the three seasons and have been obsessed with it since. I think it has been my favourite anime experience - the writing is propulsive and clever and thoughtful, the animation is imaginative, and the Japanese cast are without exception magnificent. I laughed, I cried, I fell in love again.
So I just deleted a post asking if anyone knew the name of a show that I heard described on a podcast but now can’t track down. Because I think the show is Toradora! So… thanks for mentioning it so recently!
geewhiz
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I mention this several times in this Thread but Silver Spoons is a very good Slice of Life anime too. Very different as it is about a boy who is a bit upset with his Dad and he decides to go to a Farming High School.
Thanks! That looks like something I’d enjoy too. Unfortunately, not on any of the streaming services I have at the moment.
I loved what I watched of Silver Spoons. Unfortunately, I was only able to see about four episodes on Crunchyroll and then it was removed and it hasn’t been back on any streaming service since, as far as I know. Apparently the show has two seasons. Hopefully it will come back at some point.
Both seasons are available on Funimation, so hopefully Crunchyroll continues to transfer the Funimation catalog over and this doesn’t slip through the cracks.
TurinTur
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You know, it would be funny if this ends up being better story than the one in the videogame.
Uh, I didn’t know Jojo 6 Part 2 leaves thing unfinished, it seems we have to wait a Part 3 for the end of the story.
