Weekly Anime Post 126

Last week I finished Shakugan No Shana Season 1, so now I'm watching the second season this week. I'm really enjoying it!

im going to marry Chino!

Hi rDrama! I was previously on a long break from watching any anime, but over the last week I watched Kino's Journey. It's an episodic show about a moe girl with a talking motorcycle who travels to a wide variety of "countries" (city-states). Typically, each country has at least one bizarre or extreme custom which leads to some interesting conflict or discussion. I liked it, which is to be expected since I'm a sucker for anything vaguely contemplative as long as it's not awful. A lot of the stories are pretty abstract with characters that are obviously symbols, giving it the tone of a gloomier and more violent version of The Little Prince. In terms of anime, it could probably best be compared to Mushi-shi, out of things I've watched. The episodes are not strictly in chronological order and rather seem to be roughtly ordered by increasing absurdity of the settings. Overall, I'd give it a good 8/10, maybe 9 if I'm generous. The good episodes are really good - my favorites were 2 and 10 - but some of the stories don't really have room to breathe and are over almost as soon as the exposition finishes. On the other hand, the colosseum story took up 2 whole episodes and it wasn't very good.

In addition to the show, there are 2 movie shorts and an "episode 0" special. All of these can basically be treated as extra episodes and watched at any time. The first movie was ok but nothing special, and the second was pretty weak and had some awful 3d stuff in it. The episode 0 special was decent and fit well with the rest of the show. There is also a 2017 remake of the show, which I didn't watch.

I am so glad Solo Leveling is an anime and not an aniwhe or whatever the gays would call animated manwha. The only language more unpleasant to listen to than Korean might be Mandarin.

I am glad Tsukimichi decided to delay showing the other heroes to second season and focus S1 just on Makoto.

Shin no Nakama is starting to do that thing in slow life fantasy and isekai that annoy me, the MC has to start doing serious shit. I wanted a comfy show about Rit and Red doing random crap around town and being a cute couple.

Synduality: Noir comes with a twist that somehow that 200 years into the future, with an apocalypse of strange alien like creatures, Subaru still exists and is making vehicles still.

Dungeon Meshi either you already know and are watching or don't care.

Metallic Rouge had a very strong second season with a decent set of background info and spent time fleshing out Rouge and Naomi. It will either be the best thing this season or totally trash.

This season is solid for ecchi:

Mato Seihei no Slave for those who like femdom

Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari seems to be cuter ecchi so far and for those who like polyamory,

Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete for those who like applying bdsm and magical girls, its also really good.

Isekai Onsen Paradise is an isekai about a guy who just goes to onsen. Its short 5 minute or so episodes.

Beyond that I am continuing to watch the final season of Jashin and You're Under Arrest.

Kept watching the seasonal anime, they're still good:

• Solo Leveling is building up pretty well, and the adaptation of the manga is excellent

• Slow Life remains very comfy, and I like how the main couple actually do couple things instead of being extreme prudes

• Mashle S2 is good

• Firefighter Daigo's 2nd cour is still good

• Shangri-la Frontier is building up its 2nd cour for a big fight. Ganbare, Psyger-0!

• Dungeon Meshi remains excellent

• Ragna Crimson is slowly progressing through the big fight of Season 1. Very retro of them

• Synduality: Noir is moving the plot along nicely

• My Instant Death Ability is OP is pretty good. It's no KageJitsu but it's solid

• Tsukimichi remains pretty fun

• Watching The Fire Hunter S2. You can tell the budget has been reduced (or they're saving it) because of the use of paintings to fill gaps, but they're very pretty so I'll forgive it. S1 was good, so I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of S2

Non seasonal stuff:

• Finished Slayers. Felt very generic but I think that's because it's a very early anime that others have iterated on after. Also felt very like a D&D party. It was good, but I'm gonna watch any of the other seasons.

• Picked up The Apothecary Diaries and I'm enjoying it so far

• Gonna watch Genocyber tonight, it looks right up my alley

Finished naruto and am halfway through shippuden, pretty good

Oh I'm also rewatching dorohedoro cause season 2 just got announced, I fricking love dorohedoro.

I hate anime so much it's unreal.