I’ve been really enjoying Sousou no Frieren and by enjoying I mean feeling like I want to cry.

I’ll need to find something more upbeat next.

        • Cromalin [she/her]
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          31 year ago

          hell yeah that’s my favorite bit of the show. i wasn’t expecting it to turn into the prisoner for a bit, and it’s such a wild swing after space vietnam drags on for so long

          make sure you watch the ova’s once you’re done, brilliant shining heresy is really good

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          21 year ago

          Watch the OVAs (minus VOTOMS Finder, it kinda sucks and is a weird AU) and don’t forget the spin-off Armor Hunter Mellowlink - it’s a guy on a revenge quest fighting mechs while on foot!

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    71 year ago

    Like Cromalin, I’m watching Gundam 00 and BeruBara with GGP. Season 2 of 00 is alright, BeruBara is great 70s anime!

    I’m also slowly working my way through Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It’s such a long series that I’m just watching an episode or two of it a week, which feels like an appropriate pace. I’m pretty sure I would get sick of this if I was binging through it.

    Record of Lodoss War is alright. It’s very ADnD era by-the-books fantasy, but the animation is pretty great.

    I blasted through Brain Powerd when I was sick with COVID earlier this month. Great show - it’s extremely Tomino brained and the story has some wild twists. The only major downside is standard pre-Turn A bad gender takes from Tomino. I would probably put it behind Be Invoked in my favorite non-Gundam Tomino stuff.

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      31 year ago

      honestly rov is also in kind of a slump for me rn. gorgeous show but i kinda dread watching it every week

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        31 year ago

        The end of this Black Knight arc was kinda shit (assuming it concludes with e28). I’m getting increasingly antsy to see if shit pops off and Robespierre rolls out ol’ chipy-chopy. gui-better At this rate, it feels like there’s not enough show for it to happen outside of the last few episodes.

        I think I can wow-cool-robot with 70s anime aesthetics enough to enjoy rolling through to each episode, though.

        • Cromalin [she/her]
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          31 year ago

          i think i am just not a 70s anime sicko in the way the pod or a lot of its listeners are, though obviously i still appreciate just how good this looks

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              i like 70s anime! i think complaints that it looks too old are ridiculous, i just don’t think it’s the best anime has ever looked (which is the stated opinion of the podcast)

              i think the best anime has ever looked is late 90s cel animation

              also my specific thing with rose of versailles is that it’s spent a while dancing around the gui-better and i think i’ll be back on board once it’s back in that mode. andre sucks and once the show is back to politics i think it’ll be much better

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    41 year ago

    Right now I’m watching Cardcaptor Sakura and Maison Ikkoku by myself; Library Wars with my mom; and Samurai Champloo and Lupin III Part 2 with my mom and brother.

    I’m the type of person that mainly watches the “seasonal” anime, like, two years after airing. The last time I managed to keep up with an anime week by week was, like, 2021.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    141 year ago

    Just started Link Click this evening, really digging it. Also hooked on Freiren, Apothecary Diaries, Dungeon Meshi, and Hazbin Hotel. Basically binged all these and got caught up on them in the past week. 😅

    Also been watching Tis Time for Torture, Princess and still finding it quite cute 4 eps in.

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          21 year ago

          Just finished here and totally agree! Looking forward to seeing when S2 happens along with more Helluva Boss.

            • invo_rt [he/him]
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              21 year ago

              They’re both good, but I like Helluva more than Hazbin, personally. IMO, the pacing in Helluva is better and it doesn’t have an external motivator pushing the plot along like the execution in Hazbin. It’s a more character-focused story (so far), exploring the relationships between a bunch of characters who all have their own issues. The first few episodes are fine, but the animation quality improves significantly as the series goes on.

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                  21 year ago

                  I believe every episode has at least one song, but I wouldn’t call it a musical at the beginning. It becomes more of one as the show progresses to the point where the most recent episode has 4 great songs in about 30 minutes.

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    You only felt like you wanted to cry? I bawled my eyes out the entire like 10 hours. The Girl Who Leapt Through Space is pretty good, and fairly upbeat.

  • gramxi [they/them]
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    41 year ago

    Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy randomly got a second season after 3 years so I’ve been loading up on my year’s worth of generic isekai slop with that.

    Hazel’s video on Elfen Lied has psy-oped me into watching it again for the first time since high school

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    81 year ago

    Freiren, Apothecary Diaries, Dungeon Meshi weekly and Oddtaxi movie on my next day off of work

  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    31 year ago

    I recently caught up to the end of the Wano arc in One Piece and just gonna put it in cryo storage until the end since from my understanding Wano is the last relatively self contained arc and waiting week to week would be torture for me. I’ve felt listless since, but I’ve been chipping away at my backlog. Some good, some bad. I’ve had Shingeki no Kyojin in cryo for a while waiting for all the final seasons to actually be the final seasons and my god what whiplash going from a show back in 2011 that came out of nowhere to be one of my favorites to a show I’m sick of watching but with only like 14 episodes left I might as well finish it.

  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    111 year ago

    dungeon meshi is a very good adaptation of a very good manga

    im watching gundam 00 and rose of versailles, but i rewatched season 1 of ibo in between episodes of 00 and that’s not a comparison that puts 00 season 2 in a good light. ibo is about things! like, real things! workers rebellions and colonialism and the ways hegemony perpetuates itself! and it’s got lots of great characters! 00 season 1 was about real things, but season 2 on the other hand is about quantum brainwaves and the purpose of the innovades, and wants me to enjoy spending time with allelujah haptism

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      Yeah, that’s why 00 is one of my least favourite Gundams. Like, it was fine as a show when I was a kid but now as my politics have grown, I kinda realized that it came at the question “Was the American response to 9/11 justified in any way?” from the most contrarian and least dialectically materialistic direction possible, and then leaves no conclusions by just blaming everything on the Illuminati pulling the strings, and I dunno that just rubs me the wrong way rn

      Seed at least had boring “racism bad why can’t we all just get along” liberal politics, G and Wing were camp and entertaining if kinda politically incoherent, and IBO and WfM had more or less decent things to say about the state of the world.

      00 just has 9/11 brainworms the size of the sandworms from Dune

      Edit: the only thing that I still like from 00 is Op 1, “My wishes over their airspace” is one of the hardest lines in a Gundam op ever. (Only “Raise your Flag” and Turn A’s op is better imo)

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        yeah for sure. i think 00 touches on a lot of interesting stuff but i’m bummed by how it’s going here. though once i accepted that it’s just in anime nonsense land now i’m back to having a mostly good time (i just watched the episode where they introduce the 00 raiser and that’s good enough bullshit to keep me happy)

        but imo wfm goes down the same route of just not resolving anything, just in a less egregious way. i am not opposed to space magic, but you gotta also address the material concerns of the setting some. like, suletta just works together with kenanji in the last bit and the show totally forgets that he kills her dad. and guel goes through all that shit and just becomes the nice ceo, and i never got the feeling the show was really interrogating any of that stuff at all

        basically ibo is the only really good non-tomino gundam i’ve seen

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          I think I’d have liked 00 more if it was more thoughtful about the stuff it does. Unicorn and Hathaway kiiiinda cover similar thematic ground in that they are both very heavily post-9/11 shows (albeit with UC canon baggage) and succeed a lot better (but that’s probably because they are Tomino influenced and leverage the UC’s history into their themes)

          WfM

          Yeah, I think that’s fair criticism: for me “we need to use lesbian space magic to literally destroy the military industrial complex” is just doing so much heavy lifting that I definitely am willing to be more forgiving and overlook the show’s flaws even if it fails to justify it’s ending, whereas 00’s Illuminati and… other stuff just left me cold

          Edit: wait I just realised that 00’s contemporary to Macross Frontier, which is lib as fuck and can be summarized as “Ariana Grande hires Blackwater to try and stop the Iraq War” but that show absolutely had better politics lmao

          • Cromalin [she/her]
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            31 year ago

            that’s fair, i like lesbian spave magic. but i wish it was actually about fighting the mic and not evil milf space magic

              • Cromalin [she/her]
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                21 year ago

                also i think giving me 25 episodes to adjust to the fact that this isn’t going to really address the politics might end up making me feel better about it than wfm just shoving it all in at the last minute. i can just get into the groove of scifi anime bullshit that doesn’t mean anything, as opposed to expecting a resolution to any of the politics and not getting one. i’d still infinitely prefer something like ibo that actually just deals with the setting as presented, or even better an unjust depths where it does that, AND the scifi bullshit, AND is explicitly about communist revolutionaries who are unambiguously good

                but i can deal with scifi anime bullshit that has no meaning

                • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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                  21 year ago

                  See it’s the opposite for me, I really can’t deal with meaningless sci-fi anime bullshit nowadays. WfM for most of its runtime was about something, even if it didn’t stick the landing, which I’d prefer to 00’s kinda blah jumble of technobabble.

                  Of course IBO’s the best tho

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      91 year ago

      Even though it was very lib, I enjoyed the premise of Gundam 00 and Celestial Being. It’s a very cathartic concept, if not totally ignorant of how the world works. On brand for Gundam tho. IBO was 🔥.

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        i liked season 1 a lot. celestial being going into not!venezuela and bombing the city because them trying to exit the united states’ control counts as starting war is good stuff, it’s juicy and fucked up and interesting to think about. in season 2 they say “we’re antifa but not in an ideological sense” and only really seem interested in the innovades who are so boring. you wouldn’t think that a group where all the members were named shit like bring stabbity or healing care could be boring, but this show finds a way

        also i just hate allelujah so much, he sucks so bad. doesn’t even have the decency to be a FUN bad stereotype of plurality, he’s just miserable to be around and makes the show worse every time he’s on screen. “ohhhh marie… i can’t accept that maybe you aren’t exactly like you were when i knew you when we were 5 and i’m going to make it everyone else’s problem”

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          celestial being going into not!venezuela and bombing the city because them trying to exit the united states’ control counts as starting war is good stuff, it’s juicy and fucked up and interesting to think about.

          I thought so at the time too, but seeing libs response to Palestine’s uprising, I feel like there probably wasn’t a lot of people that thought about it too much. Especially nowadays when it seems like every other MCU content is successfully framing revolutionaries as terrorists. The western brainworms yearn for that negative peace and anyone who disrupts it must be the bad guy.

          also i just hate allelujah so much

          lmao, it’s been many years since I saw it when it first came out, but yeah he totally got way too much screen time. data-laughing 00 Raiser was cool though. Honestly, the plot of 00 and SEED are kinda blended in my head.

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            31 year ago

            Honestly, the plot of 00 and SEED are kinda blended in my head.

            Em from Great Gundam Project has been describing a lot of the mid-season 2 00 stuff as “SEED-coded” lmao

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            yeah it might just be that this was always what the show was, but it used to feel like it had space to be read in interesting ways. i was never expecting it to start advocating for revolution or anything, but season one felt like it at the very least was willing to explore stuff like that, and season two just isn’t

            also yeah a lot of this stuff is very seed coded

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              Unfortunately, Gundam kinda does that a lot where they’ll toe the line and then not really go anywhere with it. As per someone around here talking about it, I recently watched Dallos and found it pretty interesting. It’s full on about class struggle from the POV of space colonies. If you haven’t seen it, I’d recommend it. It’s older, but holds up.

              • Cromalin [she/her]
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                i’m like 90% certain the one talking about dallos was me lmao. it’s good!

                and yeah, gundam has a problem with this in general. i mentioned that i had a bigger problem with it here because i watched iron blooded orphans (which does not have this problem*) but i also think in general 00 is worse about it than say, any of the tomino uc stuff for example. it helps that the newtype stuff is connected to the politics in a way that the innovators just aren’t. it’s also that season 1 seemed really clear eyed about the political landscape and just drops all of it, which is worse than if it was a more gradual shift from politics to arguing about scifi concepts

                *ibo never advocates for revolution or anything, but it never loses sight of the actual things happening that matter. it doesn’t introduce the illuminati at the end of season 1 and then stop caring about gjallerhorn beyond how the illuminati is controlling gjallerhorn

                • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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                  lmao, my apologies, it totally was you. data-laughing chomsky-yes-honey

                  That all sounds like fair criticism, I’d say. Sadly, as I’ve given away, my memory is shit. And I watched all these series at much different places in my life, politically. I think I watched IBO as per someone recommending it on r/cth when it first came out. So at the time all these shows seemed radical, and now 7-20 years down the line I’m like, those fucking LIB s.

  • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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    51 year ago

    Gunna’ watch Run=Dim because I’m a freak. First episode was not good. The next 11 will not be good either. And yet, I must watch.

  • schlongjohnson [he/him]
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    71 year ago

    Never been that in on anime outside of ghibli stuff and akira, but recently started watching neon genesis evangelion. I’m around midway through it and enjoying it quite a bit. The series is a good length for me and has short episodes so it’s pretty easy to get through. I know there are a couple of movies and maybe other series, but I may just skip out on thoughts unless there’s more to be desired after the of. May watch cowboy bebop after

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      71 year ago

      The TV show is a pretty complete experience and a valid stopping point. You’re right, though, there’s a 90s movie recapping the TV show, a 90s sequel movie, a comic adaptation, and then the 4 new reboot/sequel movies.

      May watch cowboy bebop after

      Good choice! That’s a really fun show