It's early, but yesterday was my last day at work for November, so I'll count it.
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GTO continues being basically the same as the anime thus far. It's fun and aged poorly at the same time. A-
Shibuya Near Family is still pretty good. If you like Kumeta's other works, this one will be enjoyable too. A
Wasteful Days of High School Girls is a very good slice of life nonsense manga I picked up after watching the anime... and one of those manga that got dropped by the translator with no warning several years ago. I find it funny how a MAL review I saw complained that the main characters are too realistic, too similar to annoying people they knew IRL. A
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Nan Hao Shang Feng is slapstick nonsense. It's alright. B
I've been interested in them lately, so does anyone have some recommendations of good Chinese comics? It seems a lot of them have โ chapters.
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Chio's School Road is very anime. 1/3 genuinely fun, 1/3 and 1/3 horny nonsense. Indeed, the author of the manga makes basically only hentai other than this work, which is a fairly common occurrence. B
Eureka Seven is a good mechanime. I'm at the halfway point and I am interested to see what Bones is cooking. A
A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof is honestly not too interesting so far, despite it being a Studio Shaft anime. It's alright though. C+
I have also finished Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory. It's a good season, though I feel that the show is at its best in season 1, which has the best balance of action and comedy. Or the all-in Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu!, because of just how entertaining it is. Shame it ends on a cliffhanger. Season 5 never? It would be a shame. B+
Speaking of... Black Lagoon is basically Full Metal Panic 2 if Melissa Mao was the LI (probably) instead of Chidori and the MCs were criminals instead of war criminals... and it has an industrial pop opening song (just my kind of slop). I can't comment on it much yet as I've only seen a few episodes, but I will definitely watch more.
Anime
Finished Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, as well as the second season. I think the first season works better because the episodes have a structure to go off of (hunting ghosts) rather than being freeform nonsense, but it's also way more mean-spirited in its edginess so I'd actually rate it lower. The english dub of the Poly Twinks in S2 also horrendous, with them constantly spouting zoomer/alpha slang. New Fly Away is a banger, though. C
Got like another 5 episodes into Log Horizon, I love how the way to "train" the new players (who are all children, obviously) is to just send them into a dungeon with vague advice. Apparently Shiroe is a gigabrain genius because he actually tried to explain concepts like aggro while nobody else knows about game mechanics seemingly at all. Rating withheld until I actually finish at least one season.
Manga
Caught up to Rooster Fighter and it's surprisingly good based on the premise of "what if a rooster was an 80s shonen battle protagonist". B
Up to chapter 700 of Kingdom, they do be conquering them kingdoms. It's getting pretty formulaic what with Shin constantly meeting some huge guy who's like the best general ever and then beating him, but the
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third duel with HoukenAlso up to date with Chainsaw Man, Kagurabachi, Bocchi the Rock, The Elden Ring Manga, One Piece, and a few others I forget.