Watched quite a lot of stuff again this week:
'Im in love with the villainess': its okay, still waiting for the last episode, but so far it doesnt seem like anything really will be resolved by the end of the season. Id watch another season, but if they leave it at that its pretty meh. But well see, maybe the last episode surprises.
'Blue Drop: Tenshi-tachi no Gikyoku': only watched the very first episode and tbh can barely remember anything cause I was drunk when I watched it. Anyone got opinions on that show? Idk if I should restart it.
'The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior': was okay, nothing special though, and imo took itself too seriously sometimes.
'I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss': I liked this one, decent romcom. Would watch another season.
'Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion': I liked this one too, a bit surprising after I initially disliked the animation, but it was a nice romance. Would watch another season.
'Tomo-chan is a girl': was okay, good enough romcom if youre bored.
'The Dreaming Boy Is A Realist': only watched the first episode and it was weird and cringy, doubt Ill give it another chance.
'Masamune-kun no Revenge': I watched the first season years back and only recently noticed they made another season. Rewatched season 1, which is okay, though it definitly improved by getting another season with a real conclusion. I liked season 2 more, it concludes the show nicely, but (major spoiler)
I kinda hoped the blonde girl got with masamune in the end, not adagaki. It still was enjoyable though.'My Love Story With Yamada-kun At Level 999': Good romance, I liked it.
'In/Spectre': I rewatched season 1, havent seen season 2 yet. Season 1 is fine, good enough that I will watch the second season too.
'Tsundere Akuyaku Reijou Liselotte to Jikkyou no Endou-kun to Kaisetsu no Kobayashi-san': Im halfway through this one, its meh. I dont hate it, but its just not very interesting or anything. Imo it might have been better to remove the real life commentator stuff and just focus on the isekai romance. Yeah, that would have removed the animes 'unique' aspect, but still. Also idk if its just me, but the animation seems pretty bad imo. Ill probably finish it anyway since Im halfway through already and its not that bad, but I wouldnt recommend it.
Ill probably start 'I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness', sounds like it might be either exactly my type of shit or gigacringe.
@Merryvann pin pls
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Who TF has time to watch
all that shit. Anyway read frieren and daydream about impregnating Fern.
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Watched Attack on Titan, pretty solid
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I watched Overlord. Its not great, but its fun to watch the evil skeleton man being evil.
What games let you play as an evil skeleton lich? Literally the only thing that comes to mind is WC3's Lich hero, but that's not really what I had in mind.
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One player option in Wrath of the Righteous is becoming an evil lich
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I hate anime so much it's unreal.
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Hang him
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i like anime so much its unreal
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!followers !anime this marks one year of me commenting this every week
!jannies give me the fricking cool guy badge, I do more to fight anime than anyone else on this site.
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Enjoy the badge!
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shit award doesn't give a fricking badge, dingus
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I joined it because it's too big for me to ping to talk shit about on a fricking regular basis. Also I downmarsey others when they ping me with it.
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found the incel
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Caught up with Frieren and its great. Besides that, it's eminence in shadow, goblin slayer and magus bride carrying the season for me.
Not excited for next season tbh. Solo Leveling will be fun until it gets boring when hes too OP, COTE3 will be alright, the rest looks like shit. Onsen master isekai? Seihei no Slave? A gorillion new shitsekais? Kekon yubiwa monogatari for another shitsekai harem? Trash season.
I dont get how studios see the mediocre ratings for isekai but ignore the successes of true fantasy like Frieren that avoids video game system bullshit.
Uzumaki cannot release soon enough holy frick
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Uzumaki was shit. Omg that guy is turning into a snail
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Sorry to tell you that you are in fact incorrect. It will win AOTY on animation and style alone:
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Like all Junji Ito works, redditors will like the art and pretend the content isn't r-slurred. But no amount of ugly mfers and scratchy lines can turn my brain off. Omg the spooky shape is in my ear
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Previous adaptations have had shit art and animation and have been despised, this one actually seems great.
Its horror, its always r-slurred. Heck, if the characters werent r-slurred almost none of them would die and there would be no suspense or story. Hes overrated, but lets not pretend like modern shows do story well anymore. Its all mediocre except maybe 1 show a year.
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I watched every episode of the Ito Junji Collection as it aired and enjoyed it more than the like 20 some chapters of Uzumaki I made it through. And I gave that show a 4/10. Spirals aren't scary.
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Haven't heard of Frieren. What's it about?
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You've convinced me. I'll watch it. I'll prob cry but I need a good sad show to watch
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Standsrd fantasy. Starts after the heroes party killed the demon king and is splitting up. Follows elf mage who has a megalifespan and has no concept of time, so when she reuintes with the hero days before his death, she realizes she wasted a lot of time and an opportunity to really understand people close to her, so she basically goes on a pilgrimage, gets a new party and decides to actually give a shit and get to know them. Its more about personal growth and development, human connection and how we manage time than it is about fantasy. The depiction of demons as beasts who use language to prey on people is also kino. It's AOTS so if you missed it you're fricking up
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found the incel
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That sounds really good. Seems kinda similar to Maquia.
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It is good, its also going on into the winter 24 season as a 2 cour show so very much worth the watch
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Do vtuber chads count as anime?
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No but whatever
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Watched Scum's Wish in a single sitting and I don't think I'm ok
Also watched Love and Lies which was moderately decent, but didn't help me stop feeling things from the above.
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I watched scums wish years ago and remember hating it lol. Dont remember why exactly, I think the teacher character annoyed me. I was thinking about rewatching it cause I cant remember anything tho. Plus I liked the opening
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Got caught up on Goblin Slayer! Thanks again for cluing me into that
@birdenthusiast! Do you think his sister is dead? I thought it was implied but he makes contradictory statements at times
It's hilarious how in love the blind hero priestess and like every main woman on the show is like completely soaking over Goblin Slayer's prowess for goblin yeeting.
Also the way he can't stop obsessing about goblins remains r-slurredly kino lol
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His sister is 100% dead but I think he's in an arrested state of grief (obviously since he's still neurodivergentally obsessed with killing all goblins) He knows she's dead but doesn't want to think about it so he talks about her in that disassociated way to avoid thinking about her being gone. There are times when it does hit home (like when he cried after meeting the wizard kid) but I don't think he'll be able to talk about her death until he come to terms with what happened and moves past it.
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Move past it?
But then he'd move past goblin-killing! What is left of the Goblin Slayer without slaying goblins? A life without meaning.
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He can marry cow girl
and live happily, still killing goblins as an adventurer but not at the expense of his life and happiness. He could even teach aspiring adventurers the things he's learned since he's shown himself to be a good teacher when people give him a chance. He can have family, friends, and fulfillment. 
That would be the most ideal outcome. 
At least if he doesn't die first
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A great point, but alaa....
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zoz
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It was nice to have a romcom with an actual ending.
Next Season is coming up faster than I'd like, what are people looking forward too?
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Havent really checked out next season, but looking forward to classroom of the elite 3.
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There will also be season 2 of Banished from the Hero's party.
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Dont think Ive watched that one
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Looking over the seasonal chart for the first time, what I'm looking most forward to is Frieren cour 2. Wow, none of that looks appealing to me. There's a couple of sequels to shows I watched last year, so I guess I'll watch those and the continuing shows from this season. Hopefully something new has a good trailer, but it mostly looks like isekai shit and romance shit. The one about becoming a wizard's title made me laugh.
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trash, check the list
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Your list was exclusively shonen shit, wasnt it?
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Mushishi isn't shonen, nerd
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But it IS kino
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Yikes, not real anime.
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/r/gatekeeping
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They early thread last week messed up my posting schedule so brace yourselves...
First, Shogun. It was isekai. No seriously, straight up has all the hallmarks of a power fantasy isekai LN. Dude get reborn in another world. Uses his modern western knowledge to befriend the the local king. Then saves his life multiple times. Gets a noble title and accompanying land, women and servants. Mogs people with his tall statue and woes women with his big white peepee. Oh, and the best looking women are described as being barely five foot tall
. It can't get anymore japanese than that, neh?
It was a good book tho. If you plan to read it, it definitely helps to know the broad strokes and the important characters of the warring states period.Ofc, Toranaga/Tokugawa is the real MC all along.
Second. Ascendance of a Bookworm part 3 anime announcement. Very good. I really didn't think this would happen. I would have preferred if they had kept the same studio. After all, the quality issue were not due to the studio but the budget. Doubt Wit could have done better. And ultimately I prefer substance over style and the previous studio achieved that.
Third. MMy Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Vol 14 Final. It was good ending to a good series. Over all the I'd rate this series as one of my favorites. Don't forget the anime on January 5th!
Fourth. Magical Explorer vol 6... I read this between Shogun and Instant death and ugh, yeah. Not so good in comparison. It might be that I'm not reading the entire series in one go and so forget names and what characters look like. But, it might just be a bit on the bad side. Still have 25% left to read which I'm gonna go do right now.
Fifth. I hate villainess shows. Dropped Tearmoon Empire this season and the worst anime episodes I've ever watched was the first two of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!. Only time I've ever felt like my time was stolen. Not recommended.
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I read Shogun years ago and I still just think about it on occasion. I'd also recommend reading more Clavell. King Rat is another one that stuck with me.
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have you read Modern Villainess: It's Not Easy Building a Corporate Empire Before the Crash
its actually pretty good and has nothing to do with the villainess trope
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I've heard about it but not read it. Only 4 volumes and no new volume for almost a year in jp. Or maybe it's complete? I do like books with meetings and dealings more so than fighting. Shogun ended up being that too which was great.
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So did you watch the 1980 miniseries too? Or just read the novel? Both are extremely good IMO, even for a dated work.
I just saw the trailer for the remake and was very concerned until I heard them speaking in japanese like the original one. Looks a bit more dramatic and action packed than the source material but likely just mocked up as bait for the trailer though. The novel is truly well done and a great read with good enough in it's treatment of historical accuracy imo
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Just the book so far. Don't think I'll watch the old series, does not seem worth with the new one arriving so soon.
For being written before the internet I have to agree. The samurai honor stuff is apparently exaggerated and some of the japanese wrong. But that's not too bad. I mean, how many books on japanese history would an average '70s library have after all...
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Haha I hear you, but if you change your mind lmk what you think! It has John Rhys-Davies aka Gimli in it as one of the
priestscatholic anjinsand Richard Chamberlain KILLS it as Blackthorne along with a wizened
Its VERY close to the book as well, which I'm concerned the new netflix shit will frick up, what better way to compare and contrast!
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Yikes, incel 💅
I thought the anime already had three seasons
Anyway, I gotta rewatch that one too at some point.
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I still remember you dropping Bookworm halfway thru season 3 one year ago... Don't think I've forgiven you.
But the Light Novel is divided into five parts. The anime has so far adapted part one and two over 3 seasons. Part 1 being when she is poor and part 2 being when she joins the Temple. Part 3 is how she starts living like a noble as Aub Sylvester's adopted daughter and becomes high bishop in the temple. The story really opens up at this point, with magic and some travel and of course more book making and merchant meetings and more retainers. Hmm, as I'm writing this I get a desire to read the series all over again.
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I think theres a good chance Ill pick it up again soon, I watch a lot of stuff at the moment.
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I finished all of Naruto it was pretty good
What do we all think of the One Piece anime reboot?
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Have never watched one piece nor do I plan to ever, but I still think its hilarious that they reboot it, plus it will probably make shittons of money cause weebs are r-slurred.
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Now I'm wondering if other old shounen will get the treatment. Naruto for example has ended so it would make a little more sense. Then again OG Naruto is perfectly watchable.
It would make the most sense if they took old longrunning shit and touched up the animation while also condensing and streamlining the plot. The OG animation would still be there for anyone who wants the full 1000+ episode experiences.
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MHA sucks so hard now. I stopped watching after s4 but I read up on the story and lol. What happened?
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found the incel
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The MHA manga was always bad. It just got worse and worse until it became unreadable.
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I was hoping MHA would be more of a HxH or FMA than a Naruto.
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Do you watch exclusively isekai?
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No lol, but quite a few recently.
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Its been a while since i commented on one of those but ive started watching Pluto and its really good. Better than monster tbh. The author is great
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Tf is going on with anime titles lately?
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Light novels have really long names to increase their chance of getting read
. Tons of anime (especially isekai) are LN adaptations.
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It's all shit tier isekai, they've always been like this
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Not true, some of the OGs like Twelve Kingdoms are great
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Im eagerly awaiting when I need a whole DINA4 page to write down the title of a show.
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There's that one LN whose title is the book, it's 196 pages long
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Hello Dahncer_the_reindeer, or should I say r*pedeer? 8 letters, fitting huh. If this life were perfect you'd have known nothing but milk and cookies since you left your birthers c*nt. However, it's not- that's where I come in.
You have no say anymore, no freedom, no volition- I am Santa. You now worship my Christmas tree. You can call me Nicholas. A saint? No, but I come with more conviction.
Dahncer_the_reindeer you are my r*pe sleigh-ve now. And that's your greatest achievement- all you've ever amounted to, tugging and pulling my sleigh as we break the space time continuum together you complete fricking slut. I'll find you.
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