The adaptation has been excellent…and that has definitely turned some people off through the series. I mean, there are definitely some problematic elements of the Rentarou family, but it sure is a hell of a lot of fun.
It’s been a busy week for me this past week. I have managed to keep up with the shows I have been watching, but haven’t really been able to post about them as much. So, here are some quick thoughts on this past week’s episodes:
Weekly ranking roundup:
Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma.
Re:Zero stormed back onto the charts this week to win both rankings. Let’s see how the rest of the season plays out now that it’s back.
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More news for you two. It came out yesterday, but I’ve just been busy. Sorry 😣
Well, this is not the first time that the story has been adapted to anime. The first time was all the way back in 1979. On that listing, there are at least two other adaptations listed under relations.
Such a fun episode. Who needs Sakamoto Days when you have 100GF delivering the gunfighting action.
I was not expecting a tease of the next maid girlfriend from the Hanazono house this soon. If memory serves, it will be quite some time before she joins.
The opening sequence of this episode was such a huge moment for Miyo. It is hard to imagine the Miyo from the beginning of this show inserting herself into the conversation of those random jerks. It’s great to see her go out of her way, calling out to them, to stand up for her friend. Honestly, I know I mentioned this in the previous episode’s thread, but this sexism in a supernatural setting like this feels so, so dumb. But, I guess some things never change.
Meanwhile, the conversation between Kiyoka and Miyo in the middle of the episode was nice, but really should have happened a while ago. We might have seen an example of Miyo’s growth earlier in the episode, but she is still extremely deferential when it comes to Kiyoka. She doesn’t even feel like she has the right to ask him any questions about himself. Hopefully we can get some progress on this front too. Meanwhile, the background art in this show continues to be stellar. @rikka@ani.social
I think we all know that these guards are not going to be able to save Miyo from this guy at the end. It’s time for Miyo to become a damsel in distress for Kiyoka to save. It happened last season, so why not again? That is how great stories are written, doing the same thing over and over, right? I hope I’m wrong and that the show surprises me.
I have been reading the Frieren manga since way before the anime was announced, and I think that both the anime and manga are excellent. The anime adaptation really helps elevate the manga source in several ways (OST, voice talent, gorgeous background art, extended and improved action sequences).
For a different perspective, I watched Frieren together with my wife (who had not read the manga). She enjoyed it so much that afterwards, she read the manga from the beginning and got caught up. When I asked her, she said that she felt that watching the anime and then continuing the manga from where the anime ended would have been fine.
Weekly ranking roundup:
Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma.
The AC chart this week is kind of wild. Chock full of romcoms with I Have a Crush at Work topping the list? What’s in the water over there at AC? Meanwhile, this week saw Solo Leveling pass Apothecary Diaries in karma to take the win. They better up their game for next week though since Re:Zero is coming back.
I picked out a handful of my favorite OPs and EDs and grouped them by shows that I am watching vs. shows that I am not watching. I also threw in a couple random mentions at the end for fun. These are in no particular order.
This is the discussion thread for when the movie got its international release.
My short opinion is that it’s very good. It’s also fairly short at just an hour long.
Maomao is there at #5, but she’s hiding her true power by being chibi.
She’s there at #5, just in chibi form.
I might be going out on a limb here, but I think AC might like romance shows…
It is nice to see Guild Receptionist and 100GF crack into the top 10. They’ve both been a lot of fun. At the same time, My Happy Marriage is hanging on. I think season 2 for the show has been a bit of a return to form after the questionable second half of season 1.
This is actually continuing the story past season 2. It was announced all the way back in 2021 but we haven’t really heard anything since then.
I don’t think this has gotten an international or digital release. So, it would only be in Japanese theaters right now. The bot uses the AniList api to schedule posts, so it isn’t terribly useful for movies (most of the time), due to the really long delay between Japanese release vs. international.
One thing that I have really enjoyed about this show is how much Kenzaburo’s previous life experience has mattered. So many isekai has somebody basically just experience a fantasy story and their past life experiences don’t really matter that much (maybe they make mayonnaise or something like that). This show keeps relating Grace’s actions to Kenzaburo’s life experiences, so much so that he is as much a lead as Grace is.
The mom and daughter were great this episode. I hope we get their segments more consistently going forward now that the coma angle is introduced. The setup reminds me of Endo and Kobayashi Live!. If you have enjoyed this show, then that one might be worth checking out as well. I really liked that one, as much as I have been enjoying this one.
So, I watched Evangelion but basically none of the others you mentioned. I feel like such a fraud as a moderator of !gundam@ani.social, but in any case, I can recommend at least one mecha series that I particularly enjoyed. It is more a parody of the genre, but sometimes its through parody that we realize the best that a genre has to offer. Specifically, Brave Bang Bravern!.
Is Bravern a comedy? Yes. Is Bravern a tragedy? Yes. Is Bravern a romance? Yes. Is Bravern kick ass? Hell yes. It’s hard to put it in a box since it will pull some new weapon out of nowhere and break out as soon as you try. At one point, the giant, sentient robot was building giant robot-sized gunpla, and this was just accepted as normal and never commented on by any of the characters. It’s an absurd take on the mecha genre that simultaneously shows an absolute love and dedication to what makes it great. The genre might be about big robots, but it is the human connection that makes us care about the story at the end of the day.
tl;dr - Watch Bravern