Anime

You can tell that dungeon food is made by a woman by the fact that female characters have more than 2 body types

Per @[email protected] recc in the anime across the decades post I watched keep your hands off eizouken this past week. Really enjoyed it. I'm totally about those "industry" behind the scenes/meta type shows. Also, it had some really entrancing scenes, would've been great if i was still smoking weed.

Hopefully gonna watch Space Dandy next, but I keep forgetting about it.

GOATED:

Dungeon Meshi - monumental feat of imaginative worldbuilding, on par with LotR or Dune.

Ok:

Frieren- I think we've talked about this show on here enough already. It's a mixed bag.

Apothecary Diaries- It's neat. Having the plot twist be that the literal personification of patriarchy actually be a victim of patriarchy was a choice, although I'm not sure how successful of a story beat it was as presented.

Bad:

Granblue Fantasy- I started watching it because of the game, but it's literally the middest of mid shows. S1 is at least kinda interesting for having all these baroque, incredibly hard to animate over-the-top over-designed JRPG character designs, that the animators somehow heroically tried to animate beautiful fight scenes for, but the story is mid as hell and then S2 simplifies all the designs and they just straight give up on trying to tell a story, so bleh.

Dungeon meshi is pretty enjoyable looking forward to the story continuing

Frieren was also pretty good although it peters off towards the end

Started metallic rouge but fell off. Conceptually it should be up my alley with a female centered cyberpunk / sailor senshi hybrid thing going on, but the plot really feels like it's gonna head towards liberalism and I'm not looking forward to it.

Despite all the suggestions earlier not to watch Fate, my partner saw it on a "list of strong female characters in anime" list and wanted to so we're doing that. It's fine. Can't complain but it's not earth shattering. It's enjoyable enough.

I still have to watch the last episode of Mashle s2. Honestly loving this dumbass show.

Otherwise I feel like I'm hitting a wall of "I've seen everything I'd enjoy" so it's getting tough to find new things

I don't think I've seen one of these threads in a minute

Damn, I've been neglecting c/anime. I was the one who's been doing those in the past 😔

So here's a few I'm far enough in to comment.

Completed:

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun (2014, Rewatch)

Still great, one of the funniest shows around with great and very foolish characters. This rewatch made me actually read the Manga, and it's also very good and entertaining. Unfortunately, it's still incomplete and very slow. Who knew? Girls' Monthly Nozaki-Kun is a monthly series.

Ongoing:

Dragon Ball (1986, 102/153 episodes)

Going through the original Dragon Ball, you're gonna get a very consistent quality good Shounen, and really, it's good enough for me. Especially since even master Roshi calmed down on the horny bullshit by now. Unhinged Gun Lady my beloved.

Nichijou (2011, 23/26)

Not as good as Azumanga Daioh, but it's still excellent and you WILL fall in love (platonically) with characters like Yukko or Nano. And of course everything about the show screams high effort. I wonder what Azumanga would have been like if late 2000s KyoAni was the company tasked with making it instead of J. C. Staff (not like that version is bad - the opposite in fact)

Ep. 1 of Train to the End of the World is good. Interesting premise, fun animation, and it's got trains and yuri in it. I'm hoping it will hold up for the rest of the season.

Dungeon Meshi and Metallic Rouge. First cour of Dungeon Meshi just ended (I think? But there's no break between it and the next so does that count?) and I liked it. Actually the first couple episodes I wasn't so sure about it, but I got hooked after that. As for Metallic Rouge, I watched the latest 12 episodes within the past couple days, and that's definitely the way to go. If I watched it weekly I'd probably be pretty confused lol. I'm going to have a lot to say about it and will probably make a post the next few days after the finale releases tomorrow. But here are my current thoughts that I posted on Mastodon. #ImWithJill #DownWithTheProtag

About 3/4 done with the Skypia arc in One Piece, gonna watch the older Berserk anime too.

I have been watching Monster and Dungeon Meshi, i try to watch monster last year but i had to focus on my classes that semester so i dropped it and right now im in episode 11 its pretty good i like dr tenma and i want to see whats going on with Johan, Dungeon Meshi i only started it because when it was comming out it had a latam dub so i though why not watch it and i really like it i also started the manga and i have already finished the first 3 volumes

GOOD: “King of the Hill” and “Ranma 1/2”. I watched some of the dungeon cooking show, but isekai always bores me after a while, I tell you hwat.

I've kinda put my anime watching on temporary pause, but I'm still in the middle of a few things. I'm midway through Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju, I started Violet Evergarden, I'm at halfway on Ghost in the Shell, and I'm nearly done with Flip Flappers. Thanks for the heads up about Cross Ange, it was on my "to watch" list ("mecha anime" + 7.1 imdb is more than enough to end up on that list).

Wow I didn't know anyone else had watched cross ange. Interesting truely is the only word to describe it.

I don't tend to watch nuch anime as most of it is slop, but I've been rewatching Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It's pretty lib but it's a great show

Finished:

Bang Brave Bang Bravern! - A mecha show. Anything I say about it would be a spoiler; I'd suggest pretty much anyone to watch the first episode. The theme absolutely slaps. Now that it's over I can say it commits to the bit 200%, sometimes to its detriment. Also the male leads are pretty fuckin' gay.

MagiRevo - A sort-of-isekai that doesn't really do much with the concept and becomes a pretty boring yuri about the difficulties of being nobility in a fantasy setting. Hexbear recommendation from last year let me down.

Shirobako - AKA the anime about making anime. It's pretty great if you're into that kind of thing, and makes you wonder how the fuck anything gets made if the industry is such a damn mess. Imo it could stand to be a bit more cynical because as-is the heroines solve most of their problems (which are themselves very realistic portrayals of burnout, not being able to find work, etc) simply by being anime girls and saying "ganbare". Still, very good. Weirdly hype.

Shirbako OVAs - In the mainline show the studio works on two separate anime, and the two OVAs are the first episodes of those fictional series. You have the idol/adventure/mystery anime original and the adaptation of Girls ~~und Panzer~~ and Planes. Both are utter fucking trash in just the right way that I'm not sure whether the creators are laughing along with me. At some point in the mainline series one of the anime girls says "All anime made today is trash", and these prove her correct.

Shirobako Movie - What if you made a movie about making an anime movie, that was also guilty of most of the tropes typical of anime movies? You get this beautiful mess. Just as good as the mainline show imo. Made me when Yano and Honda showed up. Somehow has a sick ninja action scene in the back half.

Also Frieren which is a fantastic 6 episodes followed by a very mid show that can't live up to itself.

Started:

Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex - Only watched one episode so hard to say anything. Bounced off the series back in the day but we'll see this time.

Watched madoka recently. Holy shit it is so incredibly lesbian.

Berserk is going to be on hiatus for years isn't it?

Alone anime are Stardust Telepath and Futari wa Pretty Cure, and I might continue ID: Invaded eventually but who knows. I've really been enjoying Stardust Telepath, many of the characters give autistic energy.

Anime w/ mom are Asobi Asobase, Library War, and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. I feel like I should mention that Asobi Asobase has some crude and problematic content.

Anime w/ the whole family are Lupin III Part 2 and Samurai Champloo, but it's been a while since we watched the latter.

what a coincidence, i also just finished rose of versailles and gundam 00!

i liked rose of versailles, but i didn't love it. the next dezaki i watch is probably going to be oniisama e because i need more drama than oscar was providing. really disappointed in 00, honestly the fall from the early episodes was massive enough that i really dreaded watching the last few episodes and the movie (which i also didn't like)

i also watched the patlabor early days ova. pretty fun, nothing incredible but a solid way to spend 7 episodes

e: also watching dungeon meshi so i know what's been covered and can talk about it without spoiling my friends, but that's not the same

Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 and the Fang of the Sun: Dougram pilot are the first anime I've watched in years. I fucking love mechs. Dougram fucks hard, I can just tell. 0079 is on and off but it's worth it for Char.

In the middle of Heavenly Delusion right now, some very interesting takes on the concept of sex/dysmorphia. Kinda interested to hear what other people thought of it, though I’m only on 8/13 I think.