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Manga

I've been reading Full Metal Panic: Sigma, while watching The Second Raid alongside it. It's interesting, considering it has some differences from the anime. Some for good, others for worse. I prefer the Anime, but the Manga is good too.

The other two manga I've been following, The Lies of Sheriff Evans: Dead or Love and Shibuya Near Family are both still fun.

Anime:

I've recently watched Gundam 00 - I wrote more about that here.

Tokimeki Tonight is still a fun show when it comes to the wacky comedy and artsy backgrounds.

Ranma 1/2 (1989) - Rumiko Takahashi's writing is consistently entertaining, and over a dozen episodes in, it keeps delivering. Will the show be able to keep up? I hope so!

Another entertaining show is You're Under Arrest!. Is it copaganda? Yes. Has a certain aspect of the show aged poorly? Also yes. What the show excels in, are the villains of the week. Strike Man will be living in my head rent free for a bit, I suppose.

Dragon Ball Z is peak, over 60 episodes in.

**Western Animation & Live Action **

I'm still watching Gravity Falls, and it's good, if formulaic. Apparently people dislike Mabel and like Dipper? Because so far it's the exact opposite for me lol.

Also, I started Andor. I like it so far, but it's clearly still cooking at this stage.

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[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

Things that are actually good:

To Be Hero X: this one is amazing. It's the first mostly-CGI anime I've ever looked at and thought "this actually looks pretty good and genuinely does not detract from its quality at all," and it cuts away to absolutely gorgeous traditional artwork when it matters which it stylizes wonderfully in a way that's just visually stunning. The soundtrack is also phenomenal, as expected of Hiroyuki Sawano. Even the writing seems pretty decent, kind of like BNHA with better themes and worldbuilding and conveys a much stronger message of "everything about the world in this setting sucks and is toxic, actually, and we're going to show you exactly why it is bad and actively hurts everyone involved repeatedly and clearly" than BNHA is ever willing to do. Strongly recommend, absolutely top tier so far.

The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World: this is a very silly, self-aware shitpost of a concept, with an already-superpowered protagonist getting isekaid from one cliched genre to another in a way that textually clashes and confuses everyone involved. The animation is mostly ok but doesn't do anything that stands out, and its CGI is bad but not as bad as CGI can be. The writing is a pretty good parody of both genres it's riffing on and it's delivered with a shiteating grin that you can almost feel. It's dumb, light fun that seems to have a decent core to it and is full of lines like this:

A Ninja and an Assassin Living Together: did I mention this last month? I can't remember. Either way, it's a very cute and extremely tonally dissonant series that manages to blend lighthearted silly yuri with absolutely harrowing plot points and scenes. Very enjoyable.

Garbage I found that I just have to rant about:

Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!!: I don't even know how I found or wound up watching this absolute garbage. I mean I like trash, I like piling up a big pile of trash and going "yim yum, look at all this trash", but this is just a baffling level of garbage that somehow manages to be extremely problematic and incoherent nonsense without falling to the level of shit like Highschool of the Dead. It's a gender-bending magical girl/sentai show that literally revolves around twin-tailed hairstyles and weird otaku aliens with weird hyperfixated but mild fetishes who just sort of show up somewhere to leer and go on creepy rants about their particular fixation before dying. The translation is also bizarre enough that I genuinely don't know how much of it is accurate to the source material (oh right, this is an adaptation of a LN series with 21 fucking volumes somehow, which fortunately/unfortunately have never been translated and only four of which were adapted into the anime) and what's "artistic" interpretation, but holy fuck is it incoherent, baffling, and awful to the point that I'd assume it was a channer fansub if not for the fact that it also has a dub and so seems to have official subtitles. Despite how completely awful it was I kind of wish the LNs were translated because I'm morbidly curious about this absolute fever dream of a story now. There is absolutely nothing to recommend about this: it's a confusing pile of uncomfortable garbage that's too incoherent to even hate watch, and it also just sort of ends with the villains -- and I am not exaggerating even a little -- just sort of going "we have other things to do, so we're leaving now" and leaving.

[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

To Be Hero X: this one is amazing. It's the first mostly-CGI anime I've ever looked at and thought "this actually looks pretty good and genuinely does not detract from its quality at all," and it cuts away to absolutely gorgeous traditional artwork when it matters which it stylizes wonderfully in a way that's just visually stunning. The soundtrack is also phenomenal, as expected of Hiroyuki Sawano. Even the writing seems pretty decent, kind of like BNHA with better themes and worldbuilding and conveys a much stronger message of "everything about the world in this setting sucks and is toxic, actually, and we're going to show you exactly why it is bad and actively hurts everyone involved repeatedly and clearly" than BNHA is ever willing to do. Strongly recommend, absolutely top tier so far.

and if you think about it the way powers work in this world means that if Joseph Stalin existed he probably canonically actually was The Man of Steel

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

he probably canonically actually was The Man of Steel

But in a fucked up, overly literal way that meant he had a very good reason for trying to resign repeatedly.

[-] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

I barely watch anime nowadays and I guess I still don't because I'm really enjoying To Be Hero x. I was very pleasantly surprised by how good it is. I just need more. Very bingeable show.

I also binged kagurabacchi. Very good manga. Where jujutsu kaisen disappointed and chainsaw man seems to be dropping the ball, this one may succeed. A dark but tight story. Maybe I just want another blame

[-] machinya@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

the red ranger [...]

as a fan of toku, i really enjoy this one. jokes are very self concious and they tend to hit very good. i really wanted to like it more but sadly the story itself is very uninteresting so i'm watching it one ep per month or something (just one ep pending)

[...] twin-tail [...]

this one has been on my pending list but the synopsis made me put it away for long. reading your review it is closely to what i expected so i'm not sure if i can stomach it, but curiosity is still strong. i also tried watching nyaruko-san, because of the toku references, but i ended up droping it because it was quite boring

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

reading your review it is closely to what i expected so i'm not sure if i can stomach it, but curiosity is still strong.

I will say it's mostly the dialogue that's the glaring issue. It's not like seasonal softcore ecchi slop nor is it quite as skincrawlingly bad in the way that even "mainstream" series often are, it's just kind of bizarre and uncomfortable and the characters will randomly say just abhorrent things off the cuff. I personally kind of found it too much of a fever dream to ever actually be offended by any of it, but I'm not joking when I say that I'd think the translation was like a 4chan fansub or something if not for the lack of slurs and the presence of an official dub that shared the same awful bullshit, and the fact that I can pick out enough words here and there to validate at least parts of the subtitles.

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