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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The only theme music that’s currently sticking in my head is Stellar, the ED for Secret Saint. The others have thus far been in one ear and out the other. (As for the accompanying visuals, unless they’re unnecesarily sexualizing a character I usually don’t care much, and they’re not doing that here.)
My favorites, probably in this order:
- Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! ED
- The Apothecary Diaries S3 OP
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners S2 OP
- Firefly Wedding OP
- The Apothecary Diaries S3 ED
That’s just from the shows I follow this season. I haven’t seen OPs and EDs from stuff I don’t actively follow, so I might be missing something good here. Student Council Holes hasn’t released the proper OP yet, and given how show looks so far, there’s a chance it will join this list once it’s out.
I continue going through my unwatched movies stack. This week I watched Millennium Actress which turned out to be a film that places a great deal of emphasis on form, and since I’m not a huge fan of a highly artistic approach that tends to push the plot into the background, I didn’t enjoy watching it that much as I thought I would. Though, I will admit that the idea is interesting, and direction is truly excellent. There’s probably plenty of references to Japanese cinema in there, that went completely over my head, and me not being familiar with Japanese live-action cinematography contributed to my reduced enjoyment of the movie. So, objectively, I’m sure it’s a much better movie than my experience with it implies.
I also started watching False Memory – my leftover from the previous season that I overlooked, because it’s donghua, and I generally don’t watch many of these. I got used to Japanese language too much, and very often they don’t have Japanese dub, like in this case. I’m halfway through, and one thing I can say for sure is that they’re really flexing in the animation department. Visually it very much resembles FLCL, although I get the impression that in a way characteristic to Chinese studios, they’re trying to overwhelm the viewer with sakuga too much. I think more toned down approach would work better with this kind of story, and the visuals overshadow the message it’s trying to convey. That said, it’s still somewhat enjoyable. Maybe the ending will change my mind for the better. We’ll see.
