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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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[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Finally got caught up on Rock is a Lady's Modesty (11/13 episodes) and I'm enjoying it well enough, but I'm not sold on it as a music anime. I think it's the same reason I didn't really enjoy Your Lie in April: it feels like a sports anime wearing a music anime's clothing. There's nothing wrong with sports anime—Chihayafuru is one of my all-time favorite shows—but music is really important to me, so if the show goes in-depth about how people engage with music and it feels inauthentic, it really takes me out of it. It's clear that effort has been put into authenticity in the music itself and the animation, since they did motion capture of Band-Maid actually playing the songs, but the writing feels off, especially when they're just throwing out jargon randomly. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who's actually played in rock/metal/punk bands, though.

There's plenty of shows I've enjoyed that have music as a theme but focus more on the interpersonal stuff that I've enjoyed, such as K-On!, Girls Band Cry, and Bocchi the Rock!. But as far as music shows go, I doubt anything will ever hold a candle to Hibike! Euphonium. Truly a love letter to band geeks the world over.

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