also it keeps teasing an incest relationship, and my hot take is that you either gotta squash the incest asap or you gotta commit to it being an actual part of the plot and explore how fucked up that shit can be properly
If you've missed stuff for years, I might suggest, off the top of my head, Girls' Last Tour. You know, if you like your cute girls anime with a dose of melancholic existentialism and questioning the purpose of continuing living inbetween little mochi noises. Real neat stuff.
Oshi no Ko is probably why Kaguya-sama manga last 25% experienced quality drop from the author, so I will never forgive its existence, just by default (never read it, never watched it).
I think it's much more likely that the desire to wrap up ongoing plot lines without just making a rushed ending meant the last few volumes had to mostly be about that instead of daily life funny haha stories that were the high quality meat and potatoes of the earlier parts of the series. Starting planning Oshi No Ko was likely a symptom of interest and ideas in Kaguya-sama waning and needing to move on to the next project to keep paying rent, rather than the cause of Kaguya losing its steam.
Things that i have watched and enjoyed and just recommend:
Mob Psycho 100
Bocchi the Rock!
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Hell's Paradise is a solid gory action show
My Hero Academia is The Shonen that's been going on for awhile now - decent enough with some good highs but also has mineta
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill is a light-hearted isekai (with an adult protagonist!) that i enjoyed
Those are the ones I remember watching, anyway. A lot of my anime watching has been older stuff, like Nichijou, original Mobile Suit Gundam, watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes again, etc., or it didn't make an impact on me enough to remember.
edit: Pluto! And Vinland Saga. Can't believe I forgot those 2.
There are some fantastic bits in Kaguya-sama during the whole last arc+finale, so I always get a bit confused when people treat that whole bit like a slapped together ending. One of my favorite gags is towards the end of the big climactic arc
While all the big dramatic reveals are happening, Kaguya's still on house arrest, and Hayasaka and Fujiwara just took off on a big important quest... the whole chapter is spent on the rest of the student council arguing about how to prepare microwave yakisoba. Then there's one page at the end of the two trapped in an alley by thugs with Hayasaka pulling out a knife
@Lost Salient definitely make Frieren your next one after Apothecary Diaries if it’s available on something you can watch. Gorgeously animated, incredibly touching, funny when it’s trying to be, incredible action in smart doses. Absolutely deserving of every bit of praise it’s gotten.
Delicious in Dungeon is an incredibly slow roll at the start, so while I don't have any issue with someone not wanting to push through that, I do feel it is worth it.
Delicious in Dungeon was somehow even slower to grab me than Frieren.
It didn't become "appointment viewing" until like 6 episodes maybe? I always vaguely enjoyed it but it took a while for it to reach the point where i could see why everyone raved about the manga.
Realistically I've watched maybe two TV shows in full in the last year - oh wait three! and one was just the newest season of Queer Eye - so I've got... space for one new thing at a time hahaha
Gonna check out Apothecary Diaries and see how we go, thanks folks! (That Symphogear transformation sequence rules, but I don't have crunchyroll and given how little I watch TV at all it doesn't make sense to add it to my list of Dumb Subscriptions I Pay For)
I don't know if this is good news or bad news, but AD, Frieren, Witch from Mercury, and many other shows that were suggested to you are available on Crunchyroll. (I know those shows aren't on Canadian Netflix, last time I checked.)
Holy shit, idk if it’s universal but we picked frieren back up on crunchyroll and they added an English closed captioning subtitle option.
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Yeah, I'm not looking forward to how shitty generative AI and corporate greed are going to fuck with my ability to enjoy subbed anime in the future. Also kind of infuriating given that the none of the savings from that bullshit are being passed on to the consumer. If they are going to forgo having any human oversight over the crap their cheap ass garbage programs churn out, then they shouldn't be charging people fees, as if they had hired people to do the work.
Granted, I'd rather companies would end up in a situation where they have to give a shit about quality, instead of the whole enshittification and race to the bottom bullshit.
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So normally a franchise tying in the most popular villain to later stuff feels like they can't move on, but DIO's friendship with the Father and promises of Heaven is actually an interesting angle, so good work.
In a surprise announcement, Anime John Wick gets the nod as Sakamoto Days gets the Netflix green light.
Been wondering when this would get an adaption. I'm also curious how they're going to approach it, because early sakamoto days is kinda just okay - It's not till an arc or two in it really starts to find it's feet and pull out the absoloute insanity that makes it shine as just the most ridiclous action manga. My memory is it very much starts hard on the comedy side, and now it's just The Action Manga (the absolutely insane action manga)
That seems to be a common strategy gag manga are safer and if they stick you can add plot and such later when you have an audience
It's probably less a (intentional) strategy and more of a product of a newer trend where the following sequence happens: An artist/mangaka posts a series of funny gag comics on Twitter/Pixiv/Social Media, the comics get popular, the comics get the attention of a publisher and gets picked up, mangaka feels the urge/need to expand the series once the already pre-written funny gag parts are finished.
A fairly recent example would be Ruri Dragon, which had a long "pilot" one-shot chapter self-published on Twitter before it was picked up.
Gag might be too strong, but the Pilot of Ruri Dragon leaned harder on comedy and humor than the Slice of Life school stuff.
Late Edit: More broadly, the bigger point is a increasing number of series are being picked up off social media, possibly before the Author knows where they want to take the plot long term or even before they have a plot in mind.
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I think it's much more likely that the desire to wrap up ongoing plot lines without just making a rushed ending meant the last few volumes had to mostly be about that instead of daily life funny haha stories that were the high quality meat and potatoes of the earlier parts of the series. Starting planning Oshi No Ko was likely a symptom of interest and ideas in Kaguya-sama waning and needing to move on to the next project to keep paying rent, rather than the cause of Kaguya losing its steam.
there's been a lot
Things that i have watched and enjoyed and just recommend:
Mob Psycho 100
Bocchi the Rock!
OddTaxi
Summertime Rendering
Hell's Paradise is a solid gory action show
My Hero Academia is The Shonen that's been going on for awhile now - decent enough with some good highs but also has mineta
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill is a light-hearted isekai (with an adult protagonist!) that i enjoyed
Those are the ones I remember watching, anyway. A lot of my anime watching has been older stuff, like Nichijou, original Mobile Suit Gundam, watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes again, etc., or it didn't make an impact on me enough to remember.
edit: Pluto! And Vinland Saga. Can't believe I forgot those 2.
It didn't become "appointment viewing" until like 6 episodes maybe? I always vaguely enjoyed it but it took a while for it to reach the point where i could see why everyone raved about the manga.
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Highlights include Free Urine and the magic city of oysterfest
It varies country to country but Netflix should have most of the anime recommended
I don't know if this is good news or bad news, but AD, Frieren, Witch from Mercury, and many other shows that were suggested to you are available on Crunchyroll. (I know those shows aren't on Canadian Netflix, last time I checked.)
Yeah, I'm not looking forward to how shitty generative AI and corporate greed are going to fuck with my ability to enjoy subbed anime in the future. Also kind of infuriating given that the none of the savings from that bullshit are being passed on to the consumer. If they are going to forgo having any human oversight over the crap their cheap ass garbage programs churn out, then they shouldn't be charging people fees, as if they had hired people to do the work.
Granted, I'd rather companies would end up in a situation where they have to give a shit about quality, instead of the whole enshittification and race to the bottom bullshit.
No dont worry its not as bad as that thing tends to be
It lands the ending perfectly!
Don't worry, they manage to stick the landing every step of the way.
It has some of my favorite moments in the course of consuming fictional media in my entire life.
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Been wondering when this would get an adaption. I'm also curious how they're going to approach it, because early sakamoto days is kinda just okay - It's not till an arc or two in it really starts to find it's feet and pull out the absoloute insanity that makes it shine as just the most ridiclous action manga. My memory is it very much starts hard on the comedy side, and now it's just The Action Manga (the absolutely insane action manga)
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It's probably less a (intentional) strategy and more of a product of a newer trend where the following sequence happens: An artist/mangaka posts a series of funny gag comics on Twitter/Pixiv/Social Media, the comics get popular, the comics get the attention of a publisher and gets picked up, mangaka feels the urge/need to expand the series once the already pre-written funny gag parts are finished.
A fairly recent example would be Ruri Dragon, which had a long "pilot" one-shot chapter self-published on Twitter before it was picked up.
Late Edit: More broadly, the bigger point is a increasing number of series are being picked up off social media, possibly before the Author knows where they want to take the plot long term or even before they have a plot in mind.
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