So I’m a dirty pirate and I always thought that at the end of the episode during the “letters to home” gag, I just had a bad copy of S1 and S2 and they were unintentionally cut short. But even in this episode, the letter was cut off… so I guess that’s the way they are supposed to be?

Sylvia is underappreciated

Can someone sell me on the appeal of this anime?

I thought they were just paying someone to half assedly maintain MAL for the last few years, but it turns out they were paying someone to build a back end and create a browsable database so they can sell user’s information for their own profit.

I have only seen the first season. I went in knowing as much about the series as you, being aware that it is a popular franchise but knowing nothing else.

I had my expectations pretty low when I started the first episode. The turning point for me was at the end of the episode when one of the main characters says “Baka, baka” after something completely stupid and ridiculous happens, that’s when my brain went “Oh it is OK to laugh at this, they are just being silly in this show.”

Then the rest of the season was a goofy ride full of anime harem shenanigans. On a technical level, DAL isn’t really special, though the characters, character designs, absurdity of the setting and the OVA punch above their weight.

And the idol spin off series, Love Live

I liked when Summer said “Space Momma” because that was cute.

The animation actually looks good but I dislike the character designs and art style. I know they picked an action sequence to show off, but the real meat of R&M has always been the comedy - I wonder how that will translate with a Japanese production team at the helm.

Weird to think that R&M has been around for 10 years already. Maybe even as recently as 3 years ago I was still really hyped about this show and I would have been more excited, but now I am just sorta like “meh.”

I’m just here to provide the standard PSA saying that you are free to make up your own opinion about anime instead of having someone on Youtube tell you what to think. The amount of people who don’t seem to realize this is depressing.

As the viewer, you’re not required to like Makoto. As a character, I thought he was great. He felt extremely human as the kind of guy who let his dick make all of his decisions for him and tried too hard to please everyone at once.

Anyone else notice that MAL locked their forum discussion on this same topic for the reason of “Please refrain from posting thread topics which extend beyond the discussion of anime/manga as an entertainment medium.”

What kind of brain dead take is that? There was nothing controversial happening in that thread, then still locked anyway.

I’ve been holding out on JJK season 2 all this time. I finally watched 22 episodes over the last few days and am going to watch episode 23 after I have dinner tonight.

I’ve enjoyed it a lot despite knowing about the production issues behind the scenes. I guess I am just greedy, but while watching I have just been thinking, “OK, can’t wait til season 3 comes out.”

Kind of a “whoa dude” moment to realize we have gotten 45 episodes and a movie of top tier animation in just about 3 years. Remember how we all had to wait 3.5 years in between Attack On Titan seasons 1 and 2, and it was just for 12 episodes?