Was glad last weekend to see a few of us get talking last weekend in the One Piece thread. Lemmy is way too dead when it comes to anime and manga talk. So let’s see what we need to be talking about.
What have you been watching, what is it, and why do you think it’s worth watching?
I’ve been rewatching the Fate series, as well as Hibike Euphonium. Seasonally, I’m watching JJK, Zom100 and Undead Murder Farce and dropped 7 Spellblades.
JJK has been a bit underwhelming so far to be honest.
Zom100 is lots of fun, though a shame of all the delays.
Undead Murder Farce was a surprise for me. Enjoying it a lot.
7 spellblades was just boring and imo not that great.
Zom has been such a huge hit for me. I have been taking it kinda personal. I’m losing my job at the end of the month, and after 3 years of working from home and having so much if my life back under my control, the thought of even 3 days in office, let alone 5, is crushing me on to of all the other bad news I’ve been getting lately. I really feel for what the MC is going through.
I had watched S1 of JJK, and I read a decent bit ahead in the manga, but MHA and CSM gave me what I liked from JJK and did it better, so I dropped it completely.
Just checked out the trailer for Murder Farce since some others mentioned that too. That looks pretty interesting to say the least. This thread has gotten me so many new things to watch
Im watching Psycho pass S2 right now. I watched it before, but forgot everything. But as I’m watching it now I remember seeing it more and more. That’s alright though, since I wanted to continue after s2 with all the new stuff. It’s good, but it’s very difficult remembering all the names of so many people.
Zom 100 is such a unique zombie show. He stays so positive in spite of everything. The show is both brutal and funny from the beginning, and there are a lot of moments I haven’t seen before in other zombie shows and movies.
Aww, I tried to keep it really vague in case anyone hadn’t seen it. Most of what I said is set up in the first episode though. This show doesn’t hold back in the savage parts though, even though so far it’s mainly about him trying to have fun. There is a good bit of stuff you probably haven’t seen before to look forward to!
Yes, the color effects instead of outright gore I think are more dramatic. My brain is expecting the red, but the bright bold colors add a bit of surprise to the moment. It’s a very creative show and has been a positive surprise for me when I want exciting much from many shows this season.
I feel like that symbolism to show like ironically the apocalypse is his salvation. They use all dark and less saturated colors when he’s living the office life and the zombies are the only way he can find any other colors on the world, it’s amazing. Tho I wish they were kinda subtle with the symbolisms they’re pretty obvious.
Other than the seasonal anime airing right now I have a couple older shows I have recently finished.
Lycoris Recoil: Loved this show. Really struck a great balance between action set pieces and some fluffy SOL stuff. Definitely a bit of suspension of disbelief on aspects of the show and some plot point around the Allen Institute aren’t super clear, but overall really great show.
Shimoneta: Really fun, silly, horny show. This show takes everything to 11. The translators must have had a hell of a time translating all the filthy, horny Japanese puns. If you are looking for a madcap, over-the-top comedy that is desperately horny, then you can’t do much better than this one.
The Vision of Escaflowne: Felt like checking out some 90’s vintage anime and saw this one recommended a couple times. Overall it was enjoyable, but the story definitely feels a bit dated. I was initially intrigued by the combination of a fantasy setting with the mecha genre, but the fantasy aspects never really factor into things and it is pretty much just straight mecha. I loved the animation in this series…yes, the character models (especially the noses) are kinda weird, but the mecha animation and fight choreography was great. Also, props to the animators for animating a girl running like a human being rather than the way moe girls are often animated these days when they run.
Recently watched Urusei Yatsura (2022), and so now I’m back watching the 1981 anime series. It’s funny how directly To-Love Ru took several of its premises, only to turn them into borderline hentai.
Dang, another I’ve been meaning to check out. Looks like it’s from the Ranma 1/2 people. I didn’t know there was a new one. Did you like the new it is one better?
To-love Ru I watched this year after all the Gintama references to it.
I do like the new one better. The old one was a 213 “segment”^[The first 54 episodes may contain multiple segments per episode, akin to something like spongebob] adaptation of a 34 volume manga. Still, the old one uses traditional animation styles which gives its its own charm, and it’s more cartoony and looney than the new one is. The new one has better pacing, better animation quality^[From a “standard” modern perspective], and the OP and ED are both phenomenal.
Apparently the manga has more plot progression though, which sorta makes me curious to check that out. Being completely episodic is kinda frustrating when I do actually want to see the main character change.
That said, I like the series, I like and feel for Lum, but I’m not much a fan of the MC - you’re not supposed to be tbh. At best he’s an asshole, and at worst, he’s unfortunate due in part to his own foolhardy assholish decisions.
I recently finished Spy Family, which I really loved, and then I started another rewatch of Hunter X Hunter and I only have about 20 episodes left. I realized at some point that the guy who wrote it also wrote YuYu Hakusho, another favorite of mine, so I started a rewatch of that too.
My One Piece first watch has been on pause for a bit. I did a hard grind all the way to Dressrosa but I haven’t started the arc yet because I was getting burned out
I didn’t know the HxH guy was the YYH guy. I’ll have to watch YYH all the way through sometime then. I caught pieces on Cartoon Network in the day, but never saw it all the way through.
Spy Family has been a lot of fun, though it’s gotten kinda serious at the present point of the manga. If you read manga, Sakamoto Days has a similar but slightly more serious feel.
Yeah I was surprised as well. Watching YYH again, the similarities are amusing. I like trying to guess the Nen types of the YYH characters. Yusuke has gotta be an emitter. I like to think Koenma showed him the spirit gun just to save him wasting time trying to figure out his own type. Kuwabara might be a transmuter or a conjuror depending on how his sword works. The show isn’t 100% consistent on whether he can drop it or not so who knows. Kurama is a manipulator for sure since he controls plants. Hiei might be an enhancer
Yeah the 2011 version with the Greed Island, Chimera Ants, and Hunter Association Election arcs. I’ve never seen the older one. I love the old school animations but it only goes up to Yorknew City and the Underground Auction arc so I’ve never actually taken the time to see how different it is even though this is probably my 5th watch of the 2011 version
Oh yeah, also just finished Farming Life in Another World. More light fanservice than any actual farming, but I loved the spider! I didn’t find any of the harem annoying and there wasn’t anything outright pervy, so it was fine. It does bother me a bit how emotionally unattached the MC is, especially to his kid.
Also watching Helck, which I went into blind. So far, nothing at all like I expected. Very silly in a good way. The demons are the good guys and the humans bad. Lots of cool powers, and some really cute side characters. In the midst recent episode, some dark things were hinted at, so we will see some serious moments ahead. Really fun so far though, and I look forward to it each week.
I also appreciate that the harem in Farming Life is so matter of fact, but it does mean the MC comes off as cold or distant a lot of the time. Agree that Makuro (spider) is great and everybody from the world is low-key terrified of Makuro. I also love the wolves Kuro and Yuki.
Helck has been interesting. It has had a very slow start, but it feels like it is doing a lot of work in establishing things. I mentioned in the last episode thread that the slow, unspoken worldbuilding they are doing in Helck reminds me a bit of Adventure Time. A pretty silly cast of characters that is set in a world harboring a very dark past.
I just actually read that Helck thread. It seems I haven’t been seeing them because I have bots blocked. I’m torn turning it off, but there’s so many posts with no talking.
I had expected Helck to be like I Quit Heroing, but it started more like the arena scene from Thor: Ragnarok. Even the fights so far have been relatively comedic with things like the shield guy that needs constant snacks and people calling Vermilion cutesy things and she gets all mad. The last episodes finally started hinting at dark things though. I’d like the plot to get deeper, but I really like a lot of the fun interactions. I also love Piwi, especially when he plays dumb like he was a regular bird.
The reactions to the spiders and wolves are one of my favorite gags in Farming Life. I like when the spider just waves hello to the people cowering in fear and then she just goes off and eats potatoes. The drunken slime is also fun. I’d party with that guy.
I read a bit of the wiki and it seems MC just guess around knocking everyone up, so I’m torn continuing watching the show. I like all the girls and animals, MC is just so bland though. He doesn’t have any struggles. He doesn’t seem to care much for anyone in particular. He didn’t even sweat fighting any monsters so far. If they ditched him and just had fantasy Yuru Camp in the forest, I think I’d prefer that.
I am up to date on the Farming Life manga (not read the LNs) and it doesn’t really change in those regards. I would consider it an Iyashikei series (even though MAL just has it as SOL), so by design it is mostly just chill vibes and character-driven gags occasionally. I do think that the MC and supporting cast could be more dynamic though. It sometimes feels like the author just wants to nerd out about some topic of the week related to farming/village construction rather than character writing. There are other examples on that MAL page of Iyashikei series that have very interesting characters (including my favorite show of all time, Mushishi) and Farming Life is just so bland in comparison.
Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts. Im honestly still surprised they didnt coward out and make all the beasts humans with animal ears (with exactly one exception). I’m also surprised they got the “will they wont they” part out of the way fast. Its one of the freshest romance animes ive ever seen.
Not quite anime, but I’ve been watching the one piece live action. Context for the review: I’m up to date on both the manga and the anime. The live action is actually really good. It might even be as good as the anime. It’s a bit more realistic and darker, because of more actual deaths happening on screen, but it still has the one piece vibe imo.
The no power fight scenes (zoro, early story nami, etc.) actually look better. But I will concede that the powers and fishmen look worse.
Buggy has had his personality fused with Joker and it’s working out surprisingly well. He’s become more psychopathic.
I keep hearing so much good stuff about this. I watched the trailer and it looked better than I would have thought, except like you said, the powers look a bit odd.
Read a NYT interview with Oda rm the other day and it seems like he had a lot of say in it. I’m sure that makes a big difference. I’ll have to check it out, but I’m already reading the manga and watching the anime, so I don’t want to just One Piece 24/7!
It’s 8 episodes (1 hour each). Looks like it ends at the end of arlong park. If you want to pace yourself, I recommend one episode a day or week. They don’t really end on cliffhangers, especially if you already know the story.
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