Weekly Anime Post 183

Watching Wish Upon the Pleiades. An unironic magical girl power of friendship show, it's cute and fluffy. It gets bonus points for being a magical girl anime that doesn't do a weird naked shot of the girls as they transform. Aoi is really annoying to begin with because she's just irrationally against everything Subaru does for no real reasoning, but she gets over it quickly. The broomstick drive shaft making motorbike noises is pretty fun, and the alien is adorable. I like how they differentiate the girls' way of sitting on the broomstick drive shafts according to their personalities.

Still watching Heavy Object. The lads being pervs gets old fast. I'm not really a fan of shows where one of the MCs is basically an idiot and the other is super competent. Again, the sound design for this one is incredible. If you don't have good headphones or a surround sound system, you're gonna miss out.

I figured out why I like it so much, it's because it scratches the same itch 40k titans do - an oversized avatar of destruction piloted by a select few whose only natural predator is its peers, and whose weakness is its logistics chain. That's also why I don't care for the horny bits (on top of the distaste for anime being OTT with it generally) - it takes away from the giant robot fights.

Watched Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid which is still a good series but I feel like I forget half the plot points between movies so I end up watching half the previous one too for context.