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Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana seem to be in a continual battle about which state can be the shittiest state in America, with Santis continually going "That place is rightfully Floridas!"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Most series in Shonen Jump don't last 6 months. Getting serialized is the easy part. This has always be how the magazine has been run. I would not get invested in a series until it hits chapter 50 or so.
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Kaiju No. 8: Simple but fun, in all ways. Great music, animation, VA, everything. Recommended if you like meat and potatoes shonen battle stuff. In fact, the things it does better than competing series are by subtraction. No designated sex offender on the cast to be "funnee", no girl character whose main role is to lose their clothes, no villain who proves their villainy mainly by targeting women in sexually charged ways, etc.
Spicy Wolf Reboot: Incredibly similar to the first version, to the point where it seems like kind of a waste, so far. When this adapts something new, it will prove its value better, but for now it's a good watch in exactly the same ways the first version was.
Delicious in Dungeon: Exactly as good as I ever would have hoped it was. If you're a super manga purist, there's probably minor things you could quibble about... but you are making yourself unhappy, I'd recommend not. Trigger should eat off this for the rest of their existence, here's to an S2 ASAP.
Konosuba: The highs and lows of Konosuba the franchise on full display. We open with a blast of trans and homophobia in the first episode, then transition into extremely funny, well paced, and well realized scenarios. The VAs are some of the best in the business (one of the funniest running gags is simply a character saying their own name)... and then we get a joke about "I guess that friend of ours is about to get date raped, how awkward, lel." With some more re-editing from the adaptation, this could be a timeless comedy classic. As is, it's a series you want to recommend, but there's HEAVY caveats.
Something I watched out of season:
KamiErabi GOD.app: Bizarre, in a word. Prompted by trademark Yoko Taro edginess (which is why I checked it out), with 3D animation which doesn't impress but also mostly doesn't embarrass. The first half of the season kept my interest, but the second half went full on next season/cliffhanger bait. Apparently they ARE getting that second season, so I'll give it a chance assuming that also turns up over in the West.
X-Men '97: The best Disney+ show since Andor, and I'm not exaggerating. A perfect distillation of the Saturday morning style of the original cartoon while taking advantage of the fact that modern action cartoons are MUCH better in every way. I'm not very far into it yet, but will be catching up rapidly since very few of my shows are still running at this point.
First two episodes already got me thinking about my own mortality and what it means to be human so that's a good start.
This show is gonna be so good, you guys.
Also
Really looking forward to this
Not as of today, sadly.
Movie adaptation?! Sure! Sounds awesome!
This week's chapter:
It's two biggest new hits are Kagurabachi, which rules, and Nue's exorcist, which slotted into its fanservice action series slot.
I completely forgot they were making that
AIM FOR THE DEER
It's getting a premiere at a film festival in two weeks, at least: Link.
E: When I saw it was a film festival my eyes glazed over that it was hopeless to attend, but tickets were available on their website?! Damn, I should have paid more attention. Of course tickets are sold out already. Blargh.
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Nobody got you the way I do~
When you been punched by Kaiju No. 2~
Also on the last few episodes
While it clearly hits a lot of familiar themes from across Miyazaki's ouevre, it feels like the closest point of comparison is Spirited Away, but substituting the crushing indifference of the working world with the more directed malevolence of...I can't put my finger on the metaphor yet. Should look for more critical discussion.
Gonna watch the English dub this weekend because I have to know what Robert Pattinson's heron voice sounds like.
The slightly more creative one was Mayonaka Punch, with a double length opening about
The second was titled "The Demon Lord's Strongest Wizard is Actually a Human" and it is exactly as you'd expect.
It's based on a (still?) on going webnovel series, and a currently running manga (that's a good chunk further along than where teh anime go to - it's up to something like vol.. 18? and the anime finished up around volume... 7? 8? I want to say).
The good news is it was such a hit the anime is back... in October. No, I'm not kidding, they're doing a really fast turn around here.
re: Jump and what the follow up is, i've honestly got no idea. They've got some good stuff - Undead Unluck, Akane Banashi, Sakomoto Days, but none of those are mega hits ()I think AKane Banashi is the closest to big hit, and is doing very well, but doesn't seem to have huge penetration in the west). and none of those also want to be long term epics either, i trhink. (Which is in my opinion good, I'm very tired of One Piece)
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The video in question is a meme edit but I wanna find the original
The first tweet machine translates to "I'm happy to start playing with morse code" but I don't know what that means
version with subtitles for the lyrics: https://youtu.be/iSnxcYHYeC0
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but she's just a side character, the real story is:
anyway it's pretty cute so far.
Leaving next time is _Set It And Forget It_, which to be fair never felt like it was aiming for a thousand chapters or anything, but I feel like there's more recipes they could have done, too.
There's just so much going on with the creation of this series. Has civilization, itself, jumped the shark?
Wading into the trenches watching every first episode this season again? /salute your service.
It's not all that interesting a season to be honest. There is a relative lack of shounen with an unusual spike of 'romance' shows, most of which are either just ultra trashy fanservice or soap opera melodrama, including two straight up Chobits knockoffs doing the "can you love a clumsy not quite human" robot schtick, but 75% melodrama. All the melodrama ones looks pretty cringey to me. Still like 6 separate isekai reincarnation with cheat power things, and a bunch more that take place in RPG worlds with cheat powers but no reincarnation, including the Sakuna adapation which is a straight up RPG. Aside from the one mentioned above, there's two other separate ones about a dude at zero power level going off to train in the wilderness to grind for a year or two and now he has maximum stats but he/everybody else never updated his official guild ranking so they think he's weak. Truly peak comedy. One of those is titled something like "The Old Man Rookie Adventurer Was Trained to Death By the Strongest Party And Is Now Invincible." How old is he? 32.
There's a few sequels of note. Oshi no Ko, though I dislike it myself. Nier will be back assuming it doesn't have massive production issues again. Shy and Last Crusade, which were watchable, but ultimately rather mediocre. Deer Friend I expect to be pretty good. If you liked Hyouka, there's basically the same show by the same author but different characters. Grendizer reboot might be interesting. Bye, Bye Earth has baffling promos, and is from a short novel from 20 years ago (same dude as Mardock Scramble). Basically just standard fantasy fighting with magic swords... except the baddie group is a marching band. A CGI marching band. That's just... there... while cat people leap around with giant swords. Pseudo Harem, despite the title, looks to be the most innocuous and sappy of the various not-romance shows. Awkward dude and his platonic girl friend who pretends to be various cliches to help him talk to people. Entire manga is just them riffing and they do get together in relatively short order, but may not have legs since it is just kind of two people flirting.
Dumbest cheat power premise: The one about the dude summoned with "shitty status" as his special power, so everybody's like "ha ha, you're terrible" and throw him in a level 99 dungeon to die, but his power is actually cheat level debuffing, so he effortlessly kills things, hits max stats, gets OP equipment, pet slime and elf in bikini, becomes demon lord, etc. All in the promo, even.
Nah. Same as Tomo-chan or a zillion 4-koma things. They'll likely just do the latter.