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[Anime] of 2024: More training arcs! (But with Ufotable money.)
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Here's a few current shows that everyone's talking about, watching and/or have entertaining spectacle:
(Season 2) [Crunchyroll]
(or: Initial D 2 - How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Drone) [Crunchyroll]
(Attack On Titan- The Final Season [Part 3] - The Final Chapter [Part 2]) [Crunchyroll]
(Frieren: Beyond Journey's End) [Crunchyroll]
(Jujutsu Kaisen: The Shibuya Incident) [Crunchyroll]
(The Ancient Magus Bride: Season 2) [Crunchyroll]
(I'm In Love With The Villainess) [Crunchyroll]
(Pluto) [Netflix]
(Bastard! Season 2) [Netflix]
(The Eminence in Shadow) [HiDive]
(Undead Unluck) [Hulu]
Other shows of note, which I'll update with as we're closer to release, but other suggestions also welcome:
https://www.livechart.me/winter-2024/tv
(Season 2) [Crunchyroll]
World peace is at stake and secret agent Twilight must undergo his most difficult mission yet—pretend to be a family man. Posing as a loving husband and father, he’ll infiltrate an elite school to get close to a high-profile politician. He has the perfect cover, except his wife’s a deadly assassin and neither knows each other’s identity. But someone does, his adopted daughter who’s a telepath!
(or: Initial D 2 - How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Drone) [Crunchyroll]
Japan adopts self-driving electric automobiles and renders most gas engines obsolete by 202X. The fastest cars find new life in the MFG, a racing circuit held on Japanese motorways. Drivers from around the world race for a shot at the title. Kanata Rivington returns from Britain to Japan for the MFG—and to find his father. Can he win the title and find answers? Buckle up and push it to the limit!
(Attack On Titan- The Final Season [Part 3] - The Final Chapter [Part 2]) [Crunchyroll]
Eren, as the Founding Titan, advances on Fort Salta with countless other Titans. Appearing before the refugees, who stand on the brink of despair, are Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Conny, Reiner, Pieck, and Levi, who narrowly escaped from the rumbling.
The battle between former comrades and childhood friends with Eren concludes here.
(Frieren: Beyond Journey's End) [Crunchyroll]
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends’ dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
(Jujutsu Kaisen: The Shibuya Incident) [Crunchyroll]
On October 31st, a veil is lowered over Shibuya and various sorcerer teams assemble around the area.
(The Ancient Magus Bride: Season 2) [Crunchyroll]
Hatori Chise has lived a life full of neglect and abuse, devoid of anything resembling love. Far from the warmth of family, she has had her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when all hope seems lost, a fateful encounter awaits her. When a man with the head of a beast, wielding strange powers, obtains her through a slave auction, Chise's life will never be the same again.
(I'm In Love With The Villainess) [Crunchyroll]
The world turns upside down when a corporate drone wakes up as Rae Taylor, the heroine in her favorite otome game, Revolution. Rae is elated at the opportunity to court Claire François, the game’s villainess and the object of her affection. Armed with her knowledge of the game and events to come, Rae sets out to make Claire fall for her. But how will the villainess take Rae’s romantic advances?
(Pluto) [Netflix]
When the world’s seven most advanced robots and their human allies are murdered one by one, Inspector Gesicht soon discovers that he's also in danger.
(Bastard! Season 2) [Netflix]
When evil forces threaten to resurrect Anthrasax, the God of Destruction, the Kingdom of Meta-llicana calls on a volatile dark wizard for help.
(The Eminence in Shadow) [HiDive]
When Cid is isekai’d to another world, he creates an underground organization to live out a fight against a made-up cult.
Little does he know the cult is real, and they’re not happy his power fantasy just impeded their plans!
(Undead Unluck) [Hulu]
Andy, a Negator with the ability "Undead," has been long in search for someone with the ability to give him a 'real death.' Fuko Izumo brings misfortune to those around her due to her ability "Unluck." The two decide to join the Union, an organization which aims to control and protect the world from unidentified phenomena. The two uncover the mystery of the world as they search for the "greatest death ever."
Other shows of note, which I'll update with as we're closer to release, but other suggestions also welcome:
https://www.livechart.me/winter-2024/tv
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Unbelievable gag comedy series.
Sheesh, at least proofread your trailers, CR...
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
On the other hand, it starts with a two minute recap, on episode 6, that completely skips multiple episodes. Which doesn't help the feeling that it lost its thread quite a bit.
I'm enjoying Shy, but boy, it really feels weird week to week in terms of where the show is going & what it wants to do here.
Onion-cutting ninjas stabbing me right in the heart. What a reconciliation.
A madman author going as hard as humanly possible!
Incredible paneling showing poignant emotion.
E: Also we're somehow now Mad Max Fury Road.
Really wish the anime rumors coalesce into an anime adaptation announcement, but it's going to need one hell of studio, and hopefully one that doesn't murder its animators.
They're just going back to their roots as a shitty fansub site. Before they became a shitty fansub site that stole from other fansubs.
Goddamn, Monster is such a great show.
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It's been a little disappointing to me so far, but that could definitely change if it re-focuses more on the superhero stuff, though from what I secondhand know about the manga, it flipflops between the two things pretty frequently, and unlike, say, Yozakura Quartet, the slice of life stuff never really adds much and is pretty banal.
I do have... opinions on how it handled the disability thing last week, and its budget is pretty unfortunately mediocre. Not bad, by any stretch, but episode 6's attempt at a fight that kept turning into stills with speedlines was definitely something that a better studio/one with more budget would've made into real eyecandy.
...I have no idea why they even bothered to make this an Iseaki, honestly! I'm guessing it's one of those "it's popular, so that's the hook". Because it so far has zero relevance. But as a fantasty story with a chosen one type hero, it's really good so far. Will's fun and interesting as a character, and his backgorund and the time spent to develop that was great. Interested to see where this goes, i'm certianly not regretting watching it currently. It's a nice show.
Though, mild episode 7 spoilers:
That's gonna haunt.
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Bee and how seriously she takes barding is great. Really nice take on the Bard/storyteller archtype.
maybe it's just me and my enjoyment of slow paced series, but this is great. Genuinely surprised it's flown under the radar so much. Probably the only unrealistic part is... everyone's so far a fundamentally decent person. Which you know what? Fuck it, it's nice to have something upbeat.
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It's still bad though.
Well, not every anime live-action adaptation can be as good as Fist of the North Star...
One thing that amuses me, as a Tolkien fan, is how blatantly the author just... uses names from Tolkien works that maybe the Japanese audience doesn't know, but you get a feeling he DOES know what they mean.
Will's best friend is Meneldor, who in Middle Earth is an eagle and brother of Gwaihir. The elf hero Telperion, who in Middle Earth is one of the Two Trees of Valinor. Valacirca, who, well, you'll see.
It never stops being amusing.
Also yes, Bee is the best.
Well, the god of undeath, specifically, isn't really evil. I remain unconvinced about the one responsible for demons.
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I couldn't stop thinking about that as well. It's too on the nose.
I think the only time him being isekai'd has actually mattered was that one time his inner monologue was about how he'd been a NEET who'd wasted his life and thus that's why he's so determined to make something out of his current one?
I'll say this, though: I feel like Faraway Paladin's isekai is still more relevant than that High Elf isekai manga. Which I still enjoy, mind you, it's just... I think the only time the isekai aspect has ever been remotely relevant, in a way that couldn't just have been explained by the MC being a weirdo among High Elves, is that one time he reinvented Japanese paper theater. Which was relevant for, like, a chapter.
Maybe the light novel had it come up more in the internal monologues, I dunno, but in the manga I feel like they could've just made it a Frieren thing and nothing would change.
Honestly bi-weekly is better. We only get bursts of multiple weeks in a row when he's feeling ambitious.
I was just thinking a little moment like this even would be really tough to animate without using some clunky CG
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I'm willing to wait if that will take karoshi off the board
I love how every scene involving the Valac family turns into a Von Trapp Family Singalong
The anime version does a great job with all of the music, particularly with the Valac family. There's also a bit during the amusement park arc where it turns into Synphogear for an episode.
Well, it's just Mad Max if it starred Bruce Lee. You'd have to try to fuck up a live adaptation of that.
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Clara is kind of A Best(tm). The competition for best girl in Iruma-kun is fairly stiff, but she wins it without effort, and the Valac family is excellent.