Weekly Anime Post 180

Frog feet

wholesome sanny

VN not anime but I'm almost done with Fraternite.

replaying honey pop because I felt lonely

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best mecha show don't call yourself a fan if you don't even know

Finished The Fable which was breddy gud. I'm sad we didn't get to see the Christmas party - I'd have loved to get a bonus OVA of Youko and manager drinking together.

After watching the Daicon IV animation last week I got me aa hankerin' for some classic Gainax so I pulled out Gunbuster which still holds up - weird faces, Gainax bounces and all. It's only six normal-length episodes and it manages to tell an entire compelling story during that time, something most modern anime can't do.

The airliner from episode 1 is definitely inspired by the Fireflash from Thunderbirds, it's got basically the same design. The Excelion is clearly a star destroyer, too. Gainax's love of classic scifi is great to see.

Its also a really well-done depiction of the actual problems of relativistic space travel, like a traumatic event happening six months ago for most people, but only an hour ago for the main victim.

After watching Gunbuster I thought I'd strike whike the iron is hot and watched Diebuster which was... a show. It's nowhere near as good. The tone bounces around all over the place, things make way less sense, and the robots are less interesting. It makes a lot more sense when you remember that gainax was doing Gurren Lagann at the same time, it feels like that more than Gunbuster.

Watching Now and Then, Here and There. It's very weird starting out, and does that thing I hate when the bad guy is just insane and evil for no reason and it doesn't give you any reason why all the others follow him.

Also watched Vampire Hunter D which was standard 80s anime - lots of still frames with speed lines in lieu of actual action. Gonna watch Bloodlust later.

I've been watching Kaiju No. 8. It's pretty good for a shonen so far.

Watching Gundam SEED again. I love it

I'm almost done watching shika noko noko noko koshi tan tan with friends.

I recommend not being sober while watching it.

Watching apothecary diaries right now, it's pretty good. I'll be much less excited about it when Re: Zero starts back up on Wednesday

Cromartie High school. I'm not exactly fan of wacky weird humor it has, but I randomly got it recommended on YouTube, and kind of started watching it. It's extremely chaotic, and if I were to guess is based on a 4koma forma manga, or something similar with how rapidly it switches from situation to situation and explains nothing, often causing severe whiplash.

But, it has that 90s early 2000s feel which I find great. The dub is solid (I would recommend it just for 15:30 in the video I linked), leading to some actually funny scenes.

All in all, I won't really recommend it, but what I've seen so far I enjoyed. Especially the opening song.

Turn A Gundam got weird at the end, I can see why its popular, I just think it spent a lot of time with a middling middle. I would have trimmed out a few of the random boss of the next 3 episodes arcs.

Started Full Metal Panic, not a fan of the designs but I like the characters.

I hate anime so much it's unreal.