The anime thread sequel (it's still not as good as the Manga though),

This weeks "attack on titan" episode is a massive....17 mins long.

It's baffling me how reading around the place this show is seemingly massively popular yet they have skipped an absolute ton of material with the time jump and seem to be trying to end it as soon as possible. If its supposedly so popular why's it look like they're trying to end it as fast as they can? :confused:
 
I know we're only 12 episodes in and the second half will probably be kicking off soon but Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? is probably one of my favourite new shows to come along in quite a while... I'm already a sucker for isekais but I really like how much focus they put on all her skills and levelling up and whatnot, it greatly appeals to my rpg-nerdiness...

So yeah I'd heavily recommend the show if you're up for a story about a girl being isekaied into a fantasy world as a spider and somehow remaining upbeat and light-hearted about it despite almost dying pretty much every week.

-Mushoku Tensei is another show that really worked for me, but again I'm a sucker for isekais, needed more Ghislaine though, haha... honestly probably as enjoyable and Kumo Desu ga, and as it's more serious probably appeals to more folks.
-Re:Zero, Log Horizon & Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken were exactly what you'd expect if you've seen them before, and I've got no complaints, a thoroughly good time.
-Jujutsu Kaisen was excellent, it's rare for shounen anime to hit home for me but this one was great.
-Yakusoku no Neverland ended very disappointingly for me, feels like they needed a 3rd season but just found out as they were making the last episode that they didn't get a greenlight for one or something.
-Urasekai Picnic was cool but I felt it was too restrained most of the time and I'd have liked it to be a lot weirder and creepier.
-Wonder Egg Priority has been pretty cool so far, I think there's only 1 episode left not sure how they'll wrap things up though.
-World Trigger has been good, a bit slow I feel like they're really drawing things out but it's better than the terrible end of season 1 where the show suddenly went to poop for me before.

That about wraps up my feelings on this season, there are other shows I've watched but the above are probably the ones worth mentioning... there's also Shingeki no Kyojin but I'm waiting for that to all be out before finishing it in one binge.
 
Nabeshogun said:
I know we're only 12 episodes in and the second half will probably be kicking off soon but Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? is probably one of my favourite new shows to come along in quite a while... I'm already a sucker for isekais but I really like how much focus they put on all her skills and levelling up and whatnot, it greatly appeals to my rpg-nerdiness...

So yeah I'd heavily recommend the show if you're up for a story about a girl being isekaied into a fantasy world as a spider and somehow remaining upbeat and light-hearted about it despite almost dying pretty much every week.

-Mushoku Tensei is another show that really worked for me, but again I'm a sucker for isekais, needed more Ghislaine though, haha... honestly probably as enjoyable and Kumo Desu ga, and as it's more serious probably appeals to more folks.
-Re:Zero, Log Horizon & Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken were exactly what you'd expect if you've seen them before, and I've got no complaints, a thoroughly good time.
-Jujutsu Kaisen was excellent, it's rare for shounen anime to hit home for me but this one was great.
-Yakusoku no Neverland ended very disappointingly for me, feels like they needed a 3rd season but just found out as they were making the last episode that they didn't get a greenlight for one or something.
-Urasekai Picnic was cool but I felt it was too restrained most of the time and I'd have liked it to be a lot weirder and creepier.
-Wonder Egg Priority has been pretty cool so far, I think there's only 1 episode left not sure how they'll wrap things up though.
-World Trigger has been good, a bit slow I feel like they're really drawing things out but it's better than the terrible end of season 1 where the show suddenly went to poop for me before.

That about wraps up my feelings on this season, there are other shows I've watched but the above are probably the ones worth mentioning... there's also Shingeki no Kyojin but I'm waiting for that to all be out before finishing it in one binge.
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Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? - I definitely want to check out the spider one I was just waiting for some more episodes to show. Looks like we're at 12/24 with the 2nd cour running from April 09 - June 25. I prefet to watch in batches so I'll probably just do first 12 then wait for the end to the 2nd half.
Mushoku Tensei - I have just finished Episode 7 yesterday. This is really well made so I'd agree it's worth checking out for anyone who likes isekai. I do have some issues with the MC being some sort of lolicon though, but I'll see how the rest plays out.
Re:Zero - Nice to see that this has finished Season 2 airing, I need to watch the 2nd cour of this one.
Log Horizon - Last ep of 1st cour of Season 3 is March 31st so I'll probably batch that and watch them when they've all been released.
Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken - last ep of 1st cour of Season 2 is March 30th so same for that.
Jujutsu Kaisen - I still need to start this one, it's on my list :)
Yakusoku no Neverland - I've not heard good things about Season 2. I haven't even seen Season 1 yet (was on my radar to try) but wondering if I should if Season 2 is crap and no Season 3? Is Season 1 by itself worth watching?
Urasekai Picnic - Don't think I've even heard of this one! Doesn't sound like I should prioritise it though.
Wonder Egg Priority - Similar for the others I was waiting for more episodes, think last one is soon so I intend to watch this near future.
World Trigger - Heard of but not seen, might be an eventual one for me to try.
Shingeki no Kyojin - Same here, not started Season 4. Episode 16 which is the last one I can see is March 28th. Apparently there might be more coming? I might watch until I've caught those up to date at least as to avoid spoilers.

I do have some general updates on my watching things, but I'll probably post them tomorrow after I finish MT.
 
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Urasekai Picnic - Don't think I've even heard of this one! Doesn't sound like I should prioritise it though.
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It's not bad, I enjoyed it... but I felt like if it really embraced its weirdness and went all out it could have been something much cooler ... bit of a light yuri vibe in places though, which isn't really my thing... I'd say it's worth watching, though if you've got tons of stuff to catch up on then maybe there's other things to prioritise... might be worth looking up the synopsis and other reviews on MAL or something before discounting it on my quick summary.
The shows that I watched and didn't think were any good at all I just didn't bother mentioning, haha.
 
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It's not bad, I enjoyed it... but I felt like if it really embraced its weirdness and went all out it could have been something much cooler ... bit of a light yuri vibe in places though, which isn't really my thing... I'd say it's worth watching, though if you've got tons of stuff to catch up on then maybe there's other things to prioritise... might be worth looking up the synopsis and other reviews on MAL or something before discounting it on my quick summary.
The shows that I watched and didn't think were any good at all I just didn't bother mentioning, haha.
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Have you watched Horimiya? I heard it was decent but not seen any of it.

What would you say about Promised Neverland? I was going to watch season 1 but season 2 sounds pretty bad. Should I bother?

Definitely backlog too big to go hunting too much, especially from most recent season, I will mainly focus on continuing what I've already seen season 1 parts of for now :)
 
HungryHippos said:
Have you watched Horimiya? I heard it was decent but not seen any of it.

What would you say about Promised Neverland? I was going to watch season 1 but season 2 sounds pretty bad. Should I bother?

Definitely backlog too big to go hunting too much, especially from most recent season, I will mainly focus on continuing what I've already seen season 1 parts of for now :)
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I'm watching Horimiya, it's alright, kinda classic kids in school stuff, there's occasional little funny things but it's not really my genre so I can't say how well it fares compared to similar offerings... if I'm watching a school one I want it to be hilarious, or have fantasy/supernatural/horror aspects... just having some kids go through day to day life doesn't fire me up all that much... but it's not an annoying one, and I've had no reason to drop it so I guess that's a point in it's favour?

Well as I was looking at comments on Neverland it seemed a lot of the dissatisfaction was from manga readers because a lot of stuff got skipped, as someone that only watches anime then I didn't notice that problem, I don't want to spoil anything so can't really talk about my beef with it, but it just ends rushed... if you're going to watch it then you might as well do both seasons, it'd be weird to leave the story unfinished when you could see what happens to them, just it's a shame there wasn't a third season as that'd solve my issues (and manga readers would probably want a 2.5th season so that whatever was missing in the middle could have been filled in - but like I said I didn't notice a gap there).
 
Cheers @Nabeshogun always useful having the extra opinion :)

Update on my progress time with finished things and next things. I have some stuff that has just appeared as my last update was a while ago.

Finished:
  • A Place Further Than the Universe - It was kind of alright but honestly I wasn't as blown away by it as everyone seemed to suggest I would be. Was middling decent but maybe not entirely my cup of tea.
  • Ascendance of a Bookworm - If they made this with the art work quality of something like MT it would be baller. The world building and stuff is pretty good, but the artwork quality really lets it down for me. Season 3 has been announced.
  • Land of the Lustrous - I am legitimately sad this doesn't have a season 2. This is my favourite thing I've seen recently.
  • Psycho Pass - Season 1 was good and interesting. Season 2 seems to have halted all of the little details we saw revealed along the way. I actually just dropped it a few episodes into Season as it felt uninspired.
  • Vinland Saga - On the whole I enjoyed this, but I also can't really say I'd go out of my way to recommend it to people. It was decent, but not amazing.
  • The Devil Is a Part-Timer! - Being a fish out of water type show I thought I'd enjoy it more than I did. It was good/fun but I preferred Miss Kobayashi over it.
  • Amagi Brilliant Park - I actually really liked this. The art quality was really good being KyoAni, the story was absolutely daft, but in the end I enjoyed what I saw. Sento is S tier waifu material.
  • Yamato 2199 - I really wanted to enjoy this more, but I feel this appears to Star Trek fans more, being a remake of the older Yamato space opera anime from the 70's. I did reasonably enjoy it, but the characters and plot weren't really that interesting, I didn't enjoy it enough to want to watch Yamato 2202.
  • Mushoku Tensei - This is a real can of worms anime. The animation quality top tier, action sequences amazing, world building fantastic, but the MC is a lolicon and it carries across into the isekai world as well. This makes some of the scenes very questionable. I enjoyed the anime anyway but I could see why some people would be put off by it.
Continuing:
  • School-Live! - 8/12 episodes done as part of a simulwatch. This gets really dark and I'm keen to see where it goes.
  • Gurren Lagann - 4/26 episodes done as part of a simulwatch. Class GL can't go wrong really. Seen this one before.
  • Clannad - 2/48 episodes done. I have had this on my list to try for a while, everyone keeps saying how good season 2 is. I'm not really feeling season 1 so far but it's really early. A lot of the characters seem mentally challenged/stupid? I think they are supposed to be "moe" but they just appear to be in high-school but acting like they're in middle-school to me so far. MC-kun seems bland.
  • The Misfit of Demon King Academy - 7/13 episodes done. This is better than I thought it would be. I was kind of expecting to be ecchi-harem trash but the MC is actually a bit of a gent, and the girls aren't tearing their clothes off as I thought they would. Nice art and things too, my only real complaints are the magic system they use is a bit convoluted and the MC is shown as being really OP so far.
  • Symphogear - 12/65 episodes done. I watched this on a bit of a whim after people on reddit kept recommending it. This definitely seems better than it should be. Girls fighting "The Noise" using songs, sounds like it would be quite bad, but somehow it isn't so far. I am only in season 1 though so will see.
Planning to watch (short list - roughly in order probably. Bold = starting imminently):
  • SSSS.GRIDMAN
  • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime S2 (continuing)
  • Great Pretender
  • Jormungand
  • Jujutsu Kaisen
  • Hyouka
  • GATE
  • Akudama Drive
  • Your Lie in April
As the pace of the first 2 of my current watches is only 1 ep a day, and Misfit is nearly done, I want to start next season of Slime soon. I'll also shift up what I watch next as I see fit tbh, depending on what I feel like :)
 
Well as mentioned a few weeks ago, Funimation/Sony are doing the 3.5 months instead of 2 weeks free trial for new signups right now (you basically download the app on your Playstation then over the next 24 hours they email you a promo code to the email affiliated with your PSN account, you use this to sign up and boom you get 3 months and 2 weeks, rather than just 2 weeks free trial).

Just signed up now after downloading the app yesterday (downloaded around lunch, email with the promo code arrived early this morning so around 18 hours delay; couldn't sign up until I had this).

Going to check out Rising of the Shield Hero soon whilst I can; anything else on there anyone can think of that 'I should be watching' (sorry bad joke, not sure if 'you should be watching' is thier motto anymore)? :)
I see people mentioning Crunchyroll is better; however genuinely not sure what Funi actually have these days, and which are the must watches, having had much less time to spend on this the last 5 or so years.
 
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The Funimation website seems to be kind of crap at listing what they have, but I noticed they have Fate/Zero and I'd definitely recommend checking that out if you've not seen it.

It works as a standalone series, it has a beginning/middle/end to the story, and you don't need to watch any other Fate series to understand it. It's also the most action packed Fate series they've done, and Ufotable animated it so the quality is great.
 
I hadn't seen it yet but it was waiting in my to-do pile, so will probably skip Fate/Zero and watch it down the line when I'm not trying to make sure I don't miss anything important on the subscription whilst I have it. I have watched Fate Stay/Night and Unlimited Blade Works though.

At the moment I've only really added Rising of the Shield Hero and Overlord (as I saw S1 a while back).
Not been able to watch so much the last 5 years or so, but for a number of years I watched a LOT of stuff, so I feel a bit old school now as a lot of the time when people mention a show I recognise, it turns out to be from ~2000-2012 :D

Haven't updated this for years, but should give you an idea of what I at least had seen by the time I stopped updating it!
tyranuus's Anime List - MyAnimeList.net


From the brief experience I have had with Crunchyroll, I can at least begin to see why people say that is the superior service; it feels like they have a lot more; albeit it may just be Funi is bad at showing you what they have.

Netflix and Crunchyroll both feel better at A) Showing you what they have and B) Showing you stuff they think you might like based on your watch history.

Edit: Just realised by pure luck they have Higurashi New (Gau) - that has DEFINATELY gone on the to watch list. Again perfect example how Funi isn't good at showing you what they have!

One thing that annoys me already is they have a 'show me what's popular' filter, but not show me highest rated etc? What's that about?! Seems a very strange omission, to not be able to sort/filter by rating!
 
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PPS Hungry - Clannad is definately a slow burner.
It definitely takes time to grow, but by the end though if you've taken the time to begin to care about the characters, it is pretty powerful, I remember that much 10 years on haha

I have to say I preferred Kanon though, very similar thing from the same team, but much more condensed. Clannad is better; but takes much longer.

If I was being more precise, I'd probably say to me Kanon soundly beats Clannad S1, BUT Clannad S1+2 together are a superior overall package, if you said to me which should you watch and it was Kanon 2006 v Clannad S1, I'd pick Kanon every time; but After Story really makes Clannad a better overall show, and most people tend to think of Clannad/Clannad After Story as essentially one long season.

Come back once you've finished the series and if you invested, I think you'll find its a bit of an emotional rollercoaster :)

And if you've not seen it, go watch Kanon 2006!

Aaaaand now I have the damned Dango ending tune in my head again. That has ALSO stuck for ~10 years it seems!!
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
PPS Hungry - Clannad is definately a slow burner.
It definitely takes time to grow, but by the end though if you've taken the time to begin to care about the characters, it is pretty powerful, I remember that much 10 years on haha

I have to say I preferred Kanon though, very similar thing from the same team, but much more condensed. Clannad is better; but takes much longer.

If I was being more precise, I'd probably say to me Kanon soundly beats Clannad S1, BUT Clannad S1+2 together are a superior overall package, if you said to me which should you watch and it was Kanon 2006 v Clannad S1, I'd pick Kanon every time; but After Story really makes Clannad a better overall show, and most people tend to think of Clannad/Clannad After Story as essentially one long season.

Come back once you've finished the series and if you invested, I think you'll find its a bit of an emotional rollercoaster :)

And if you've not seen it, go watch Kanon 2006!

Aaaaand now I have the damned Dango ending tune in my head again. That has ALSO stuck for ~10 years it seems!!
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Don't worry I haven't quit on it, I think I'm around 10 eps or so in now.

This is where I first heard the Dango song:

 
Oh no, what have you done! I'm going to have the Dango theme in my head for days now lol

Definately watch Kanon though :) It's better than Clannad S1 (IMO).
 
Yes, I watched that on Netflix early last year if I remember correctly, surprisingly good.
Looking forward to S2.

Also one of the few times I haven't felt CG has hurt an anime's visuals. (I don't like CG anime in most cases). Video games that are Anime-like tend to get around this by having really well done cutscenes and KNOWING HOW THE MEDIUM WORKS, or just flat out using standard animation for some of the videos. Tales games are good at this.

So many anime have really badly done or really badly meshed CG though and it just stands out and looks BAD.
 
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