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Manga

Nothing for now. Finding manga worth to read is difficult, more so than Anime. The tropes are even more tired, and the classics more obscure. I still need to finish GTO and Inari Konkon, koi Iroha.

Anime

I'm 99 % done with the original Space Battleship Yamato, and my opinion from the last month stands. The remake is a net improvement, by being a faithful adaptation and only adding neat stuff.

I have reached Season 2 of You're Under Arrest!, after watching the OVA specials (like 90 % horny bullshit), the beach episode OVA (surprisingly good by virtue of them sticking to the title premise. Directing traffic at the beach. It was an unaired tv episode, rather than made-for-video) and the movie. It's still fun.

Starship Operators is an early 2000s sci-fi show, basically a mix of Dai-Guard, Nadesico and Space Battleship Yamato. It's pretty neat, but nothing special.

Super GALS! shows off gyaru culture as it was in its golden age (and delinquent adjacent), and before it became a design trope and character archetype for modern mediocre romcoms. It's fun, and stylish.

I'm still continuing going through Sailor Moon S, Cardcaptor Sakura and Dragon Ball Z. They're still very good, I don't have much else to say though. Mr. Satan sure is a character.

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[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

No new manga, finished Greatest Estate Developer. It definitely falls off in the later parts but whatever, it's fine.

Anime

Finished Katanagatari, which was okay but not great, and To Be Hero X which front-loaded its only good episodes and otherwise ranges from mediocre (Luo Li) to incomprehensible (Dragon Boy).

Witch Hat Atelier continues to be good with lovely art.

Ascendence of a Bookworm continues to have great worldbuilding.

Nippon Sangoku started strong but has been pretty mediocre the last few episodes. Like in last week's episode where a guy just aura farms so hard that

spoilerhe stops an invasion
which is frankly one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Feels extremely japanese with I'm sure many visual and historical references completely going over my head. It's also quite funny to look back at Legend of the Galactic Heroes now and see that no other anime is capable of its level of political storytelling despite all its problems. We're on episode 8 and the explanations for why the titular three warring nations exist at all are:

  1. I guess we have the legitimacy of the emperor?
  2. ???
  3. We might be republican?

Also giving off a lot of conservative political vibes with the portrayal of stuff like Ohga vs Ryuumon, or Yamato in general.

[-] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

Greatest estate developer was funny but I dunno, it got so serious near the end and I just was like "nah" and never came back to it

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

Yeah it doesn't ever recover. As seems to be usual for that sort of thing the scale of the conflicts just kinda get too big to be interesting.

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