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Not too much up my alley this season, so I watched Shikanoko and Plus Sized Elf.

I have one episode left of Shikanoko. It was unique, and fun for what it is. The songs were great. I enjoyed the antagonism of the whole thing. Would I watch another season? Not sure, but I don’t regret watching this one.

Two episodes of Plus Sized Elf left, but I’ve read the manga. Read it and watched it mainly to see what they’d do with it. At first, it seemed like they were going to actually put more health and fitness stuff in it, but it really fell back to drawn out scenes of slapstick nudity. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but I feel they could have done more with it. Also, many potato puns weren’t translated, so most will miss out on half the jokes. The translation I read had them all, and they were one of my favorite parts.

I will say, I really enjoyed the cast though. They all made the characters as likeable as they were in my head reading the manga. If you’re checking it out more for the curiosity than the nudity, it really isn’t terrible.

Somewhat off topic, but this season being light for me had me repeatedly going back to Delicious in Dungeon even though I was not really enjoying it. The characters were likeable again, but it felt pointless to me watching people eat fake food, though some monsters were really creative. I kept hearing wait until they get back to the red dragon, so I persisted.

Holy heck, did this show flip a switch to awesomeness! The back half of the season was great and I was left wanting more. The plot twists and the surprising backgrounds of the characters and new characters really made things come alive and give a much deeper sense of urgency and delivered much more than the episodic snack of the week format was doing for me.

If I had anything else even remotely exciting, I would not have stuck it out that long.

Looking forward to see what they do with Uzumaki and Ranma. Also see they have a Gintama special movie thing of the Kintama arc coming out, so that should be fun as well.

I haven’t read the manga, which my understanding is what the reboot was following. I watched it now out of curiosity, due to the original anime being one of my main gateways to anime as a whole.

If I hadn’t seen the original multiple times, I probably would have been lost at multiple points in the reboot. Characters seemed to pop up out of nowhere for unknown reasons.

My girlfriend had never seen the original, and she originally wasn’t paying attention as I watched this on my own, but after a few episodes she got pulled into it as well, so it seemed to make enough sense to someone unfamiliar that they’d at least be curious.

I enjoyed it mainly because it got me to think so many new things about one of my early favorite anime universes. It filled in a few gaps I had, such as I liked how we got to spend more time with Project Seeds and learned more about the Plants species and Knives’ overall goals.

It made my list because it exceeded my expectations as I was not looking forward to CGI animation and I was concerned about them “ruining” the story I had in my head, but the animation was beautiful, VA was great, and I think about the universe of the story more than I have in years.

It’s totally subjective what anyone else will take away, but everything else on the list I went into blind, with no expectations. Trigun I came into very biased due to my love for the original, and expected eww to meh, but as a whole, it gave me a great time.

• Supercub
• Cestvs
• Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated
• Aharen Is Indecipherable
• The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting
• Do It Yourself
• Tomo-chan Is a Girl
• Trigun Stampede
• Insomniacs After School (read it but havent watched the anime)
• Love/Hate: Farming Life in Another World
  I’ll agree with OP on Summertime Render and Days at the Breakwater as well!

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If we’re counting continued in the 20s:

• Golden Kamuy
• Ancient Magus Bride . .

I’ve been using Kiwi for the last few years, as at the time Firefox didn’t do extensions on mobile. It’s Chromium based, and I’ve had no issues using it anywhere.

I saw you had all the Trigun stuff, but not the recent reboot, Trigun Stampede.

Aharen is Indecipherable and Tomo-chan is a Girl are fun RomCom shows.

Golden Kamuy isn’t on your list, but it’s one of my all time favorites that I’ll always recommend.

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Goodbye 9anime. We’ve had a lot of great times together.

I await the coming of 10anime.

This year feels especially brutal for media liberation. 😮‍💨

Finished up Isekai Suicide Squad. Overall, I’m glad I stuck it out with this show through my general malaise, as I don’t think I would have came back to it, but the last couple episodes were pretty great with a lot of cool fights and some hilarious surprises.

The big bad having shrimp cocktail horns was still a bit distracting, but we weren’t supposed to like her anyway. There was a big twist ending that sets up a season 2, and is check that out. The series as a whole may be worth a rewatch for me when I’m in a more receptive mood.

Gave the Rick and Morty Anime a go out of morbid curiosity. I have no idea what the hell I watched. It was just odd in general, and it felt like some kind of prank on the fans.

Rewatched a few more Gintama episodes, and those were still great. It was the handful were Kagura’s Dad came to try to take her back home, and the ones where Sadaharu got massive. Also the Dom Peri contest with the hostess club. Odd Jobs and friends can still get me laughing consistently!

I was happy to hear Sakamoto Days is getting a show. I felt they would get one due to having a similar vibe with SpyxFamily and a bit of MHA/JJK.

Oh cool, I was wondering if this was going to get its own anime.

I picked up the manga after seeing it on the popular reading list. At first it seemed like a Spy x Family clone, but it has become its own thing. It is more like someone had all the characters from SxF, but wanted to make a series more like MHA or JJK. There’s more emphasis on the fights and special superhuman skills of the assassins, there’s assassin school, all kinds of crazy weapons and gear, but still a good bit of silliness. There’s some solid characters, good and bad, and a few good family moments.

With a lot of familiar elements but its own twist on them, it seemed like a good time for this to be picked up.

Elf is better as half-length episodes

Agreed. It’s cute and goofy, but nothing really goes anywhere. It’s the classic sitcom formula where everything ends up back where it started every time, there’s no real plot, it’s just a bunch of jokes, and I just like watching everyone pick on each other.

Apothecary Diaries is on my list so I may have to check that out. The others sound like solid recommendations also.

My gf didn’t seem to get the humor of the old Trigun series. She did get interested in the new one after being in the room with me watching a few eps of that. I was very leary about the remake as the original is one of the first animes I got really into.

I’ve been watching some older 90s movies and revisiting early Gintama again a bit, and it’s been a nice break. I’ve played a bit with emulators recently too. I put Lemuroid on my phone and have been doing a little Tetris and Link’s Awakening. I figured out how to pair a PS4 controller, so maybe I should start bringing that with me. Being able to save anywhere takes out a lot of frustration for me.

I still look forward to the weekly check in here though. I’m surprised the anime scene here is as quiet as it is, so I like to participate to help keep what we do have going. I appreciate all the work you put in here!

Back to watching One Piece for the first time after being burnt out. Started the arc with the Minks.

I just read the whole manga over the last year, so I’m looking forward to the next arc where they must rescue their lost crewmate.

Was ready to drop Bakemonogatari, but I’m starting to get into the strangeness of it. The strange cuts, text flashes, colors, weird framing, are all starting to add to the experience rather than detracting like earlier.

I got a bit of some of the creepy parts I’ve heard about with Araragi’s interactions with Snail, and while it was unnecessary, I didn’t find it worse than some things from Evangelion, etc.

Otherwise, watched the new eps of Plus Size Elf and Nakotan which were both entertaining for what they are.

I’ve been feeling a little burnt out on manga and anime lately, I think because my schedule has changed recently and I’ve been throwing myself pretty hard into my music lessons, so I’m just too low on mental energy.

Was thinking about dropping this series, but just watched eps 8 and 9, and this is finally what I started watching this series for!

The world they’re in still isn’t exciting me too much, it seems rather plain for an isekai world. I’m here for the big, bad personalities and outrageous moments.

There was one part though that was too distracting for me to take seriously:

Looks nice! I sent a link to the gf who’s on iPhone. She’s always complaining about ads, and I never know what’s out there for her as I’m on android. I installed it too so I can give it a look.

After not looking at Reddit’s front page in a year, it’s a bit of a shock seeing an unfiltered feed! 😮

I always think it’s like episodes 8 when things “get real” in the show, which would still be a long time, but I looked it up and it is ep 12. It definitely does not meet the 3 episode rule for watching.

The anime just came out a month ago, and I just looked up the manga, and there’s only about one season’s worth of story out there, 37 chapters.

There should be another episode Sunday 11 AUG. I couldn’t find how many eps are in this season anywhere.

It’s a really oddball show. I saw it was tops on the weekly rankings so I gave it a look. To me it feels like the energy of Bobobo got shoved into Azumanga Daioh.

If you are not interested in it by the halfway point, I likely won’t be able to convince you otherwise, but with this being one of my all-time favorites, I feel you have made some unfair characterizations. I don’t want to spoil anything in case you decide to revisit it in the future or for anyone that hasn’t gotten to it, but without seeing the entire story, you aren’t getting the explanations for the things that are annoying you. The threads of the story that are dangling to keep you intrigued seem to be having the wrong effect on you.

I feel Steins;Gate is one of the classic the more you watch it, the more you love it things. There’s a good bit going on, from multiple POVs, and it’s coming to you out of order, especially on a first watch. So as it’s already annoyed you, I don’t think you should force yourself to watch it, but maybe start it over in a few months or something when you can give it more patience. I loved the story and all the characters, even before I got all the answers to everything, so it just may not be a thing for you, but I urge you to not cross this off your watch list for good.

Isekai Suicide Squad: Been struggling on this one. It looks good, VA is good, but it’s just not grabbing my attention. I thought the 2 live action movies were both fine in a B movie way, but this just isn’t doing anything for me.

Delicious in Dungeon: After all the excitement I’ve seen for this show, I’m not feeling this much either. I haven’t gotten much plot or character development, and the cooking is all about fake stuff I can’t try, so that doesn’t help. Some of the monsters are unique though, like the Living Armor, but I don’t know if I’ll do season 2 of this.

To Your Eternity: Finished season 1. Now this one was pretty good! None of the baddies feel very threatening, but the emotional damage makes up for it. Couldn’t go straight through this show, had to take breaks for happy stuff.

Bakemonogatari: Very strange, and after 3 episodes, I’m not sure what I’m watching. I feel like I started on season 2 or something. All the cuts and text is odd, and the female MC whole personality seems to have done a 180 in 2 episodes.

My Deer Friend: Heard this was very weird. Watched the trailer. Gf angrily left the room 2 minutes into it, she was not a fan. I don’t think it’s great by any means, but I can take ridiculous in small doses. Gives me modern Bobobo vibes.

Reincarnated as a Slime S3: Background noise for me mostly. Ahead of this in the manga, and I almost dropped the manga during this stretch. Manga has caught my interest again though, so we’ll stick with this.

Plus Size Elf: Enjoying this more than I expected. I probably wouldn’t watch it if it was censored. It’s not good enough to watch half the episode blurred out, plus having read the manga, I’ve seen it already. The nudity isn’t even my style, it’s wayyyyy too exaggerated for my taste. The voices of the characters are all super charming though, and that ramps up what fun is actually there for me. I feel they may have added in more actual fitness tips than I remember as well. The chemistry between the characters, especially the elf and dark elf is perfect. I’d be friends with all these characters, so I’m liking this one.

Also excited that Aharen is getting a S2. Was not aware of that before the other day. I watched S1 a while back along side Tomo-chan, and that was a fun combo.

Yay! I was just when I got the MAL notification this morning, as I had just been thinking about this show the other day.

After reading a few works, the art style itself is very important to the impact of things. I hear there have been poor adaptations in the past, and this keeping the original art style I think is a major good start.

It is very Lovecraftian, where the environment is as much or even more important than the actual plot. It creates that looming sense of danger and dread, even if the story is rather mundane in a scene. Just looking at an Ito manga panel now gets my brain primed for something disturbing.

I thought the Uzumaki story itself was ok (perhaps I’ve read too many derivative works without seeing the original first?) but seeing the art animated really has me pumped for this now in a way I didn’t expect.

I’m not caught up on the anime, but I looked quick where it’s at.

I almost dropped the manga at this point (where the anime currently is), but I let it go for a few chapters and then got caught up quickly, and it does get back into the interesting (to me) stuff.

I’m glad I just didn’t drop it during this part of the story, if that is any encouragement to you to stick it out through this part. Maybe letting a few episodes come out and then watching it in a bigger block can help you find it more interesting and easier to hold your attention through the slow parts like it did for me. It just wasn’t enough to hold my attention in little bites and I started to lose the plot myself.