posted this on cohost earlier, but genuinely think that Mashle is one of the underrated animes of the season
If you’re in the mood for something that feels like a mid-00s shonen, I gotta shout out Sengoku Youko. I love Mizukami’s manga but he’s been cursed with mediocre-to-outright-shit anime adaptations; even Sengoku Youko is merely adequate (the pacing is still way too fast so it can fit into the limited runtime) because the president of White Fox is a huge fan and lobbied to make sure the story got a decent treatment.
I don’t even think Sengoku Youko is his best work either…
I’m going to have to check to see if this is dubbed because that sounds great.
I just started the third season of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes reboot and maaaan. I am going full “fuck you. Fuck you. You’re cool, fuck you, fuck you and fuck you” to the characters constantly.
Legend of Galactic Heroes an all-timer for sure
I caught up with Bravern… what a show.
I didn’t expect to be as captivated by it as I was yet here i am wanting more
It also uses a trope (time travel, time loop? in this case I think?) that i normally HATE but so far everything has been presented in a way that i’m like “HOLY SHIT NO WAY” when normally time stuff has me rolling my eyes… I’m really hoping it ends well omg
Bravern possibly the first mecha comedy show since… Xabungle…?
Started watching it today 'cause I’m in kind of an anime watching mood; about three episodes in
Definitely enjoying is a whole bunch!
Finished the new Planet of The Apes trilogy. Was pretty good. Watched Cairo Conspiracy which was pretty good. Argylle was interesting in how much it falls apart and shits itself for the last half. Watched Exists because I had heard that it was a found footage film about bigfoot by one of the Blair Witch peeps and it was… fine? Nothing to write home about imo. Need to get around to the Creed trilogy now
Anime/show wise, been keeping up with Mashle and ShangriLa which have been pretty solid. Waiting for Dungeon Meshi to finish before getting into it. Have Gravity Falls, Amphibia, and The Boys waiting on the backburner
i’m trying to start watching Record of Lodoss War. Dub.
Oh hell yeah. I went into it backwards via that very good metroidvania deadlit in wonderland. Great stuff. They don’t make hot mean elf ladies like that anymore (dungeon meshi excluded, a lot of aesthetic crossover there)
Finishing up Fall of the House of Usher with my partner while spending a night sleepless from pain, it’s been fun for me already having spoiled it for myself watching my partner put things together faster than I would have given that they’re more familiar with Poe’s body of work than I am
Just finished watching all thats been released of The Bear. Im such a sucker for chaotic tv amd movies, i love love love having way too much going on at all times. I adored the first season, very real feeling chaotic shitty kitchen job vibes. The second season is definitely weaker overall but has some fucking EPISODES: the flashback followed immediately by Richie episodes are genuinely incredible tv
I have started watching JJBA, after I petered off sometime in part 3? 4? a few years ago.
Satellite Girl and Milk Cow is an unusual cartoon. It has that distinctive feel of cretain kinds of independent animators’ works – there’s some Makoto Shinkai, and I found more than a fair bit reminding me of Sally Cruikshank, plus (yes) the classic low-budget expressiveness of Animation Magic – but it’s let down by some bizarre editing decisions. It’s built off premises that are already pretty goofy on paper, but the editing really serves it poorly, and it feels like almost no plot lines ever really get fully explored.
Lots of interesting ideas, pretty mediocre execution. I either completely failed to understand it or understood it too well to be healthy.
My wife got it on the presumption that it was “so bad it’s good” and…broadly, yes. It has that very specific charm that only earnest b-movies can provide. But I can’t help but feel like it’s “so bad it’s agonizing” because, while the animation would still be wonky, the editing seems deeply intent on fucking with the storytelling at basically every moment, and I can’t help but feel there was a longer, less disjointed cut out there that would do a better job of preserving its charm.
Caught up with mashle. My opinion remains largely unchanged, and I liked it a fair bit!
This is the last Frieren Friday, and weirdly a somewhat return to form. Its enough to make a satisfactory ending to the season, but it further highlights my issues with the entire second half - as well as reinforces my choice of dropping the manga at that point a few years ago.
I think overall this did a lot of good work, its making ripples in the audience and I love to see people reacting to the quality of the character interactions, the feelings of grief and growth, and overall feeling of choosing life, but I can’t help but feel disappointed at as a whole, and will not be picking up the manga or giving a second season a chance (if it does happen, given the frequent hiatus the manga has apparently gone through)
As for DunMeshi, its good to see where its going, I forgot that as a Netflix anime it’ll have a brazilian dub, so I think I’ll pick it up again from the beginning with that.
Have watched more Dungeon Meshi. it good.
I love the way the lore and world-building is so deeply thought-out and feels natural to the setting. Such good, very like.
Saw Love Lies Bleeding and really dug it. Gay as fuck and really gnarly at points. Now I wanna check out Rose Glass’s other movie, Saint Maud.
i know people pan the fourth season of the Boondocks but pretty boy flizzy is a hilarious episode, can’t believe they got Michael B. Jordan to VA in 2014 right after Fruitvale Station.
hey have you all heard about this hunter x hunter show? pretty darn good!!
