Anime

[Daith]

Code Geass and Death Note actually aired on Toonami side by side, so it's interesting to see how you might feel as Light and Lelouch craft their plots.

But yeah, Geass has a way of not giving us a really happy ending with any series. Pretty much the consequences of using the power weighs on the user and such. And as you saw with Euphie, it doesn't take much to make things go sideways. I'll warn you that season 2 is a bit of a backstep at first and might feel like it's dragging at times until it reaches the endgame. But it is one of my favorites despite that. Should you look past the series the first three movies are a bit of an alternate continuity where much of the same happens but a few changes do occur. And every other Anime project spins off of this movie universe. Not that it matters too much if you watched either before jumping into the fourth movie as the one change I really notice doesn't effect much overall. But there is some timeline stuff.

Lelouch of the Rebellion Season 1
Akito the Exiled (Side story that barely crosses paths with the series)
Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (Season 2)
Movie 4 (Name is a bit of a spoiler. Lelouch of the Resurrection )
Roze of the Recappture

To be honest Akito is tough to get a hold of as I don't think it ever made it to streaming, and it really doesn't add much to anything. I'd recommend the fourth movie if you want more of the characters you know. Roze just finished on Hulu and it felt like Geass was aping the Star Wars sequel trilogy. So for me that is happy there is more, but it really needs to do something a bit different.

 

[Fero McPigletron]

Yeah, the incident with Euphie was terrible! It was almost contrived but still a horrible story thing to suddenly spring up on viewers.

 

[Blot]

Decided to back the Animeigo Dagger of Kamui bluray kickstarter as I like supporting the company in general, but watching the trailer actually makes me interested in it. Going to look forward to that down the line. Three days left for those who want in on this.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Yeah, the incident with Euphie was terrible! It was almost contrived but still a horrible story thing to suddenly spring up on viewers.

Yeah, but then the ending of the whole series was quite the surprise as it came out of nowhere!

 

[MEDdMI]

More seasons that ended:
Zozo Zombie-kun: Gag show about zombies. Pretty silly, and new chars pop in a lot. No overarching plot so nothing matters too much. Later on it switches to English-only. Though for some reason, on Crunchyroll the audio and captions stopped working at this point, until the last 2 eps. Not too big of a deal since I wasn't that invested.

Twilight Out of Focus: This one felt like reading a yaoi doujin, was probably based off one. Boys-only high school, the film club, and the couples that form. While it did feel a bit old school in assigning the uke/seme roles, there wasn't TOO much drama and it was warm and fuzzy overall.

Ramen Akaneko: Slice of life show about a ramen store run by cats, and the human who joins them. Switches b/t CG and drawn graphics a lot, but it's not too jarring. The story is silly, sweet, and sometimes tearful. Definitely want more. Krishna the tiger is so cute.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Watched the latest ep of Quality Assurance in Another World, earlier, and honestly, this series feels like what SAO should of been with the whole trapped in the game world thing, with SAO, I feel like they ended the whole SAO side far to quickly and felt unnatural, breaking the established rules, in general that series best arc, is the Gun Gale, the Alicezation arc and War of the Underworld, weren't that good if you ask me, espeically the War of the Underworld as it was clear the series was loosing sight of its actual story!

 

[Fero McPigletron]

OmPrimus, Rolo just killed Shirley?!? WtF?!?! I like Rolo but, ugh, it was just a misunderstanding, miscommunication thing! Geez!

Edit - Holy cow, Rolo just died too! Aw man! He was a killer but he still believed that Lelouch is his bro. Even though Lelouch kept trying to kill him, he died believing Lelouch was family. Geez.

Yes, I know Nunally got vaporized by the Fleijisomething but I liked Rolo more.

Edit 2 - wait, WHAT?!?

 

[Superomegaprime]

Watched the latest ep of: No Longer Allowed In Another World and honestly, it was a barrel of laughs, I really hope this series gets another season, its one of the most fun series around as you don't know what to really expect at times

 

[Dekafox]

The new Wataru anime looks very Minecraft:

The original for comparison(which had character design by Toriyama of DB fame):

Also waiting for this:

I've read most of the manga it actually is pretty fun - it was definitely made by someone who understands toku cliches and how to use them

 

[Dekafox]

Well, Grendizer U is over, and as someone not super familiar with Grendizer, I still feel like that last episode really dropped the ball...

Spoiler

First, Berserkdizer goes chasing after the evacuating enemies, then suddenly he's on Earth causing a super-hurricane? With no Vegans fleeing there or any reason TO go there?

Then after Duke regains his senses, Grandal is trying to colony drop the Vega fortress onto Earth... but we saw that exact same fortress already crash into the moon! And there was no indication of it being a second fortress, plus Grandal was the only one on it. It was also strangely intact eve assuming he somehow moved it form the lunar surface back into space.

Combined with all the scenes in the OP that never actually happened, it really feels like they wrote it out for 26 episodes, then cut it down to 13 after, and either the Berserkdizer scenes were a last minute addition, or they just took a unfinished 2-part finale and mushed the episodes together as best they could.

The whole series in general had some good moments, but as a whole I think I'm unsatisfied with it all.. there was potential there that got squandered, it feels like. The whole thing needed more room to breathe than it got, both for plot and for more giant robot fighting action. I wonder if it was a budget issue?

Also, what the heck was up with Kouji smiling in the ending face shots after Tirona bailed on his bestie? And being the only one smiling? Really felt un-Kouji-like.

It was based on a manga version which was very BAD END from what I understand (something about Berserkdizer wrecks the Earth and causes a new ice age, leaving Kouji and Sayaka as the last humans alive, while DUke and his sister go back to space?) so compared to that I suppose it is the happier ending that Fukuda said they were going for, but man...

Not to mention the sequel bait with the post-credits scene that I doubt will happen now. (And all the Dr Hell teasing for that matter! Though that does make sense world-building wise, so I'd give it a pass if not for everything else)

 

[Superomegaprime]

Watched the end of The Elusive Samurai, earlier, it was a ok series, while nicely animated, the characters are rather shallow and not that well developed

Also watched the end of Quality Assurance in Another World, I rather like this one, it takes what SAO was at the start and builds upon it, the series ended on a cliffhanger and I do want another season as its a intersting story

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

I came across this cover homage a while ago. Now that we're in October, it's time for sweater weather, spoopiness, and academic anxiety.

Behold the mashup of Doki Doki Literature Club! x Jujutsu Kaisen:
(Content Warning: No small amount of blood)

Spoiler: "Literary Domain Expansion...."

 

[Cybersnark]

Watched the end of The Elusive Samurai, earlier, it was a ok series, while nicely animated, the characters are rather shallow and not that well developed

I dunno, I think this (hopefully introductory) season did a good job of fleshing out most of the main cast (aside from the two girls, but that's an unfortunate tradition in shonen). The finale in particular was all about Kojiro, and his growth from bodyguard to potentially a general in his own right.

Also, this could totally have been a Transformers joke:

 

[Superomegaprime]

Just been watching the start of SAO Alternative: Gun Gale online 2, honestly, it was a riot of laughter for me, I rather like the cast in this series compared to the main one, as they partly roleplay but also kind of get into their roles, but the Squad Jam 3 is starting and, things are kind of funny (humour kind)

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

A little fan art for the season.


Remember, she's listening...
...she's always listening...

 

[MEDdMI]

Dear god that's horrifying!
(I love it! .....just as long as she stays away from me).

 

[Fero McPigletron]

Ranma 1 2 has two eps out. How are modern anime fans taking it?

Are they cutting out all the filler and following all the manga stories only? Like, I read about how the manga ends (still open ended) but that's not how the anime or the oavs ended it.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

The original anime ended around volume 20 of the manga's 32, but with enormous amounts of filler and padding because they kept catching up to it. (Of course, the manga also drifted into a lot of episodic adventures too, but.) Hopefully they can stick a bit closer since the source material is completed this time.

 

[Haywire]

Started watching the Patlabor TV series with Haywire3 recently; it's got action, it's got comedy, it's got large, awesome-looking robots, he's loving it! (I HATED the dub when I first watched this, still not my favorite, but it's growing on me...)

Only problem is, apparently his favorite character is Ota, so he has taken to randomly shouting "Let me shoot the gun!" at inopportune times. I'm...not looking forward to having to explain this to someone some time...

 

[Steevy Maximus]

The original anime ended around volume 20 of the manga's 32, but with enormous amounts of filler and padding because they kept catching up to it. (Of course, the manga also drifted into a lot of episodic adventures too, but.) Hopefully they can stick a bit closer since the source material is completed this time.

In other words, it got "DBZ'ed" but wasn't popular enough to finish the run

I watched a few episodes of the original a couple years back when it was on Hulu (my intro to anime was stuff like Robotech, Macross Plus, Blue Seed and other stuff on Starz! Action channel's Saturday night anime block back in the 90s). Just from what I remember, the first two seem on point to each other, though the censoring is baffling, yet amusing.
I assume it's on the production side (Netflix is running stuff FAR more graphic than a few titties), but I find it amusing that a 30 year old anime is allowed to show nipples, but the TVMA Netflix airing is only allowing "Barbie bods".