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It’s time for the seasonal OP/ED roundup! I want to hear about your favorite OPs and EDs for the season (alternatively, your least favorites!). If you are looking for a collection of them all for this season, you can find almost all of them at the link below:

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  • glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    22 days ago

    In non-OP/ED stuff:

    I realized late that I’d missed a few anime because (for whatever reason) I thought they were sequels/spinoffs that required prior knowledge:

    • Hero Aca Vigilantes - turned out pretty good and fun, but I got really frustrated with how the whole franchise continues to be weird about women (and also I liked Shinsetsu Man when he was just helping people in mundane ways)
    • Umamusume Cinderella Gray - It seemed like a decent sports girl anime, but I don’t really like sports girl anime lol
    • Gundam GQuuuuuuX - (I thought it started with a movie but later learned that was just the first few episodes bundled together or something) This is definitely stylish, but I feel like the lore is a little dense for beginners, even if veterans keep telling me it’s fine. There was way too much jargon I did not understand at all
    • To Be Hero X - Absolutely stunning visuals mixing 2d and 3d animation, and I’m hooked on the story, but I’m not confident it will be able to keep it up. It’s interesting that its premise is very similar to the central lore conceit of Hanako-kun (which was on my mind because the season just wrapped up)

    After a lot of deliberation and some unfortunate cuts, I trimmed my list to show my friends down to: Apocalypse Hotel, Catch Me at the Ballpark, Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl, Ninja and Assassin Under One Roof, To Be Hero X, and Too-Perfect Saint. And after a lot of deliberation and some unfortunate cuts, we ended up with an overloaded schedule with: Apothecary Diaries S2, Wind Breaker S2, Apocalypse Hotel, and To Be Hero X (we usually try to stick to 3 shows)

    This doesn’t really bode well for next season for us, since Dan Da Dan, Dress-Up Darling, Reborn as a Vending Machine, and Hanako-kun are all coming back, and To Be Hero X will be in its second cour.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      This is definitely stylish, but I feel like the lore is a little dense for beginners, even if veterans keep telling me it’s fine.

      Speaking as someone whose prior experience with Gundam has been limited to series not part of the main continuity (Wing, part of SEED and I think the first few episodes of X, none of it recently) and a summary or two I read back in the day . . . it is dense enough that I was having a bit of trouble with some terminology that was thrown around in the first episode. The second, ironically, was somewhat easier to follow despite being a lot more lore-steeped, because while it also dumped a fair amount of terminology without proper explanation, it was stuff related to the brief history/political summaries I’d read before, rather than the nuts and bolts of mecha combat. I haven’t gotten to the third ep. yet.

      Overall, I would rate it as more difficult for someone coming in cold to follow than Your Forma, despite the latter having been deliberately decapitated. I suspect that I would have dropped this if I hadn’t had those half-remembered old summaries of the Universal Century to fall back on.