Weekly Anime Post 182

Finished Shiki. They get past the slow intro and into the meat of the series remarkably well, and by episode 10 everything is building up nicely leaving a full 12 episodes for the tension to work itself out. It's really good and doesn't shirk from showing the consequences of extreme situations. The only annoying things are Seishun being such an absolute failure of a man and trying to make you empathize with the vampires when they're unrepentant monsters. Apparently the manga includes a lot more info about backstories and includes things the anime only glossed over, and it's only 41 chapters so should be quick.

Finished Armor Hunter Mellowlink. If you enjoyed VOTOMS, it's a spinoff so it's more of the same. Though it doesn't cross over with VOTOMS, some of the locations will be familiar which is nice.

Watched Kill la Kill which is breddy gud. Absolutely insane, but you can tell Trigger were having fun animating it. It absolutely oozes style which is good because there's zero substance, which is fine because that's not why you're watching it. Some parts are great, like Nui interacting with the name cards and Mataro breaking the fourth wall, and some bits (like the no-lates day) overstay their welcome slightly but overall it's not worth complaining about. The sheer number of references to other anime Trigger put in it is fantastic. I'm just disappointed that Takarada doesn't sound like this in the show:

Started watching the TV series of Wish Upon the Pleiades. As good as the 4-episode OVA was, giving the story more room to breathe is nice, and we get to see more of Best Girl Nanako which is always good.

Started watching Heavy Object too. The sound design is fantastic, even if the premise is kind of a ripoff of Robot Jox. Now I wanna watch Robot Jox again.