My list. Ranma is almost certainly getting dropped after an episode or two. I never started Dedede, so there's a good chance I never start Dandadan. Thunderbolt with the group is a lock.
I'm betting I'll stick with at least one of the three magical girl shows.
How I Attended a All Guys Mixer is this season, and looks like a cute rom com.
E: I don't know why I'm looking for new shows, I have stuff from this season, last season, and I think the season before that I haven't even started yet. Somehow despite having a staycation this past August, my backlog of shows to watch and manga to read got even longer.
The impression I got from glancing briefly at the manga that it was "trans-panic is HILARIOUS." The three girls work at a host club but ID as girls, introduce themselves immediately as such, and just act like the standard predatory yaoi stereotypes, which makes the cis dudes panic and blush because they're supposed to be into feminine and demure girls, not assertive and masculine ones.
It's a ton of 'gags' like this.
I read a decent way into the series, and the characters outgrow that kind of stuff a lot over time.
Like one of the boys has a minor personal crisis because he realizes he thinks the girl he's pursuing is very attractive in both boy mode and girl mode and the other characters basically just tell him to get over it, and he does.
That "Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Become Magicians" one? There's not much promo stuff about it, so I looked up the webnovel. And...
(Very early thing about the premise)
Girl: "All my scores are perfect. Why can't I become a wizard?"
Principal: "You're too perfect. Using magic makes you sterile, so it's the duty of all especially talented people to have babies instead."
Girl: "Oh. Oh no. But... but my feelings for booooys."
Though I also jumped a couple hundred pages ahead at random because my thought was "Really, Japan? REALLY?" and it was (actual spoiler... I think? I dunno, I'm inured to this stuff)
An old dude with some kind of clone lab trying to sell her on joining his body-jacking homunculi scheme to become immortal and get around the no-babies rules through clone pregnancy or something. So they... really stick with the no-babies schtick and it certainly, uh... goes places.
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Dandadan isn't really a crude series at all, it's sort of weirdly fixated on phallic jokes for the first few chapters and then pretty much drops it altogether.
Dandadan isn't really a crude series at all, it's sort of weirdly fixated on phallic jokes for the first few chapters and then pretty much drops it altogether.
Yeah but everyone is still nuts, trying to keep their eyes on the ball
Dandadan isn't really a crude series at all, it's sort of weirdly fixated on phallic jokes for the first few chapters and then pretty much drops it altogether.
Yeah but everyone is still nuts, trying to keep their eyes on the ball
Honestly to be fair to the genre, there are good isekai, Magic Knight Rayearth, easily comes to mind. The issue is the sub genre of really vile wish fulfillment isekai. That's the shit I'd like to be rid of because it is very cookie cutter, often pushes some really shitty ideas (slavery and capitalism can fix everything, being two big ones that piss me off) and is also very fucking shallow. You pretty much know both how many of them will end and essentially how they'll get there. You can have stuff where they tell you the ending and it's still a fun trip because the journey there is the real point of interest.
I can even accept some wish fulfillment, I don't really mind fluff existing.
Like, I read Sponger's Life. That one is absolutely wish fulfillment too. It's just the wish fulfillment involved is "luck out into a marriage with a beautiful queen where both of you love each other madly and support each other through all the political bullshit to always come out on top", rather than "I have a harem of slave women and I kill all the jocks and I have power level of three million". It's insubstantial as fuck fluff, but I can live with insubstantial fluff every now and then, it's the other stuff that's become associated with the genre that bothers me.
The other thing with Sponger's Life is that it seems to hit differently than some of the wish fulfillment isekai. I suspect some of that is that it does dive right into the MC getting a harem of women that inexplicable love him (worse when it's a slave harem), is automatically the most powerful person and you pretty much know how every arc will roughly play out. One big point I'll give it, is that the MC doesn't really want a harem and is only taking on his first concubine because of political crap. It also has a few arcs where you don't know at the start how exactly things will play out. Sure none of the resolutions are out of nowhere, but you actually have to get a decent ways into the arc before you even have an idea.
One thing I'm trying to figure out, is if the quantity of low tier slop has expanded or if it only seems that way to me know that I'm older and more discerning in what I spend my precious time watching. Also does help that it seems like the vast majority of the slop aims for the very same setup, which actually make sit more unbearable. I'd argue that some of the trash at least has a shot at being endearing, when it's not trying to absolutely copy the same damn thing that everything else is doing. I'll fully admit that Hyper Police is a trashy anime, but it has a charm that makes me want to watch it again because it has some personality and setup that makes it interesting because it set out to do it's own thing, instead of being a low effort cash grab.
they almost always write that shit as "the protagonist doesn't really want a harem but these women really really want to be his slaves cause he's such a nice guy or whatever"
My Senpai is an Otokonoko is kind of shockingly wholesome? I was expecting at best a problematic-but-subtextually-progressive show and instead it's just like a kind-hearted explicitly queer coming of age story with a gender fluid love triangle.
Actually speaking of gay anime, Girls Band Cry is... very weird?
There's a bunch of romantic tension and then one girl kisses another on the cheek and immediately gets an o shit i fucked up expression and runs. Like it's not treated as cutesy, she's freaking out that she messed up their friendship.
And then... nothing ever really comes of it? They sorta awkwardly just avoid talking about it for the rest of the show?
It feels less like queerbaiting and more just that the back half of the show had way too many balls in the air and they had to abandon some plot lines to finish the show at all?
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Last episode of Nier Automata, and they did a good job of adapting E.
Alternative [E]den is new though, I think? Though I'd really have to go watch the in-game sequence again to pick out details.
Edit: Yep, there's some additions to justify it.
2B and 9S wake up.
A2 isn't in the window, instead it's... I think that's Rose's gun? Instead we get an additional extra scene and A2 is on a collapsed bridge, I don't recognize the other character in it.
Last episode of Nier Automata, and they did a good job of adapting E.
Alternative [E]den is new though, I think? Though I'd really have to go watch the in-game sequence again to pick out details.
Edit: Yep, there's some additions to justify it.
2B and 9S wake up.
A2 isn't in the window, instead it's... I think that's Rose's gun? Instead we get an additional extra scene and A2 is on a collapsed bridge, I don't recognize the other character in it.
Accord from Drakengard 3, and the flower felt like a reference to Zero.
Last episode of Nier Automata, and they did a good job of adapting E.
Alternative [E]den is new though, I think? Though I'd really have to go watch the in-game sequence again to pick out details.
Edit: Yep, there's some additions to justify it.
2B and 9S wake up.
A2 isn't in the window, instead it's... I think that's Rose's gun? Instead we get an additional extra scene and A2 is on a collapsed bridge, I don't recognize the other character in it.
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The other character is Accord, of Drakengard 3 fame. The show has name dropped them several times before now, they essentially represent the concept of the DrakenNier multiverse.
Ok I'm just over 2/3 of the way through DeDeDeDe now and I think it might have already overtaken The Apothecary Diaries as my favourite anime of the year.
My Senpai is an Otokonoko is kind of shockingly wholesome? I was expecting at best a problematic-but-subtextually-progressive show and instead it's just like a kind-hearted explicitly queer coming of age story with a gender fluid love triangle.
Actually speaking of gay anime, Girls Band Cry is... very weird?
There's a bunch of romantic tension and then one girl kisses another on the cheek and immediately gets an o shit i fucked up expression and runs. Like it's not treated as cutesy, she's freaking out that she messed up their friendship.
And then... nothing ever really comes of it? They sorta awkwardly just avoid talking about it for the rest of the show?
It feels less like queerbaiting and more just that the back half of the show had way too many balls in the air and they had to abandon some plot lines to finish the show at all?
GBC
It's sort of there if you squint really hard at the subtext, but never goes further. My theory is that they didn't want people bothering the VAs about any kind of inter-band relationships, given that they had already releases a statement about how the fictional band did not in any way represent the real band, and that Nina's VA is still a minor.
I guess even if we skipped to the final battle already, at least we are not skipping Master Rules fights, so it will hopefully not be as rushed as I was worrying week ago?
Still, it is a shame that we will not see Andy getting to know new versions of Union members, or Backs backstory, or Kurusu being even remotely integrated into the cast, or Remember being used or not (because I cannot really see it being used mid-battle).
Still a lot of fun, but I hope it doesn’t keep veering into gender essentialism like it did with the boots. We haven’t reached “Ichi is awesome because he’s a MAN with magic powers instead of a wimpy woman” territory yet, but we’re drifting closer.
Ok I'm just over 2/3 of the way through DeDeDeDe now and I think it might have already overtaken The Apothecary Diaries as my favourite anime of the year.
And finished. Utterly enthralling, horrific, and adorable the whole way through. An absolutely fantastic show.
I'm very excited that an entire generation of anime fans that are going to get to experience Ranma for the first time. It's one of those things where you know people have heard about it, but never watched it. Woo!
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JJK ended.
Yep.
Of all the series that have ended, it's certainly one of them.
Of all the series that have ended, it's certainly one of them.
Last chapter:
It almost reads like a manga that was cancelled out of nowhere and the creator only had time to make a few new pages for a finale. Like, I'm genuinely confused why this is the last chapter. The last few weeks it's just been meandering aimlessly and then it abruptly stops without fanfare. And I don't even understand the final scene at all.
I'm very excited that an entire generation of anime fans that are going to get to experience Ranma for the first time. It's one of those things where you know people have heard about it, but never watched it. Woo!
Yep, this is one of the core series of my youth, up there with the likes of Project A-ko, Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Universe and the Slayers. Really excited.
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I think Gege's main problem is wanted to make cool characters and have them do cool things and get into cool fights, but he underestimated how much people get attached to those cool characters, so when you snap those pieces in half just to add a bunch of new ones without any buildup, people kind of get annoyed.
Conversely, Fujimoto's been doing the same with CSM, but those characters feel developed and interesting, even the ones that come and go in literally a few panels.
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My list. Ranma is almost certainly getting dropped after an episode or two. I never started Dedede, so there's a good chance I never start Dandadan. Thunderbolt with the group is a lock.
I'm betting I'll stick with at least one of the three magical girl shows.
Hoho ni abita ame wa
Ta ga nahgori ka arashi wo yonda
For what it's worth, it mostly moves away from genital jokes after the first five or six chapters.
I read a decent way into the series, and the characters outgrow that kind of stuff a lot over time.
Like one of the boys has a minor personal crisis because he realizes he thinks the girl he's pursuing is very attractive in both boy mode and girl mode and the other characters basically just tell him to get over it, and he does.
(Very early thing about the premise)
Principal: "You're too perfect. Using magic makes you sterile, so it's the duty of all especially talented people to have babies instead."
Girl: "Oh. Oh no. But... but my feelings for booooys."
Though I also jumped a couple hundred pages ahead at random because my thought was "Really, Japan? REALLY?" and it was (actual spoiler... I think? I dunno, I'm inured to this stuff)
(she's posted a couple more recent videos but only this one has english subs)
Yeah but everyone is still nuts, trying to keep their eyes on the ball
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Of course, that's how you hit a home-run.
The other thing with Sponger's Life is that it seems to hit differently than some of the wish fulfillment isekai. I suspect some of that is that it does dive right into the MC getting a harem of women that inexplicable love him (worse when it's a slave harem), is automatically the most powerful person and you pretty much know how every arc will roughly play out. One big point I'll give it, is that the MC doesn't really want a harem and is only taking on his first concubine because of political crap. It also has a few arcs where you don't know at the start how exactly things will play out. Sure none of the resolutions are out of nowhere, but you actually have to get a decent ways into the arc before you even have an idea.
One thing I'm trying to figure out, is if the quantity of low tier slop has expanded or if it only seems that way to me know that I'm older and more discerning in what I spend my precious time watching. Also does help that it seems like the vast majority of the slop aims for the very same setup, which actually make sit more unbearable. I'd argue that some of the trash at least has a shot at being endearing, when it's not trying to absolutely copy the same damn thing that everything else is doing. I'll fully admit that Hyper Police is a trashy anime, but it has a charm that makes me want to watch it again because it has some personality and setup that makes it interesting because it set out to do it's own thing, instead of being a low effort cash grab.
Actually speaking of gay anime, Girls Band Cry is... very weird?
And then... nothing ever really comes of it? They sorta awkwardly just avoid talking about it for the rest of the show?
It feels less like queerbaiting and more just that the back half of the show had way too many balls in the air and they had to abandon some plot lines to finish the show at all?
Edit: Yep, there's some additions to justify it.
A2 isn't in the window, instead it's... I think that's Rose's gun? Instead we get an additional extra scene and A2 is on a collapsed bridge, I don't recognize the other character in it.
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GOD I hope we get a Drakengard 3 anime now.
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GBC
Still, it is a shame that we will not see Andy getting to know new versions of Union members, or Backs backstory, or Kurusu being even remotely integrated into the cast, or Remember being used or not (because I cannot really see it being used mid-battle).
And finished. Utterly enthralling, horrific, and adorable the whole way through. An absolutely fantastic show.
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Also Grand Blue, the series about drinking diving is apparently getting a second season of the anime.
I'm very excited that an entire generation of anime fans that are going to get to experience Ranma for the first time. It's one of those things where you know people have heard about it, but never watched it. Woo!
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Yep.
Of all the series that have ended, it's certainly one of them.
Last chapter:
If this chapter gets animated I am going to die of laughter.
Undead unluck, yozakura, kagurabachi, blue box, akanebanashi, all great.
Also Shinobi Undercover is fun and cute so far
Yep, this is one of the core series of my youth, up there with the likes of Project A-ko, Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Universe and the Slayers. Really excited.
Rom coms coming back in Jump.
I like how the last panel is
It was meant to be a bookend to the series start...but the books just fell off the shelf.
Conversely, Fujimoto's been doing the same with CSM, but those characters feel developed and interesting, even the ones that come and go in literally a few panels.