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The Yuru Camp movie was quite enjoyable. I didn't think it'd be two hours long, though. It's great to see the characters grow up, showing us their daily routine and giving them an opportunity to create something that they love. Some obstacles get in the way, but it never gets dark or depressing. One odd thing about the movie: Rin's co-worker. I know the manga creator goes by the pen name Afro... but is this some self-insert obsession like the creator of Rent A Girlfriend or just a mere coincidence?
 
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Involuntary Celebrity said:
I don't know why it tends to go under the radar while simultaneously being pretty popular? but the last Mob Psycho episode was definitely something
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That ending sequence was really something, like I said in its thread I'm just not feeling it in the new season. The previous season peaked Mob's character development and there's just not a lot to do from here.

Also Sword Reincarnation is alright, the battle against the Greater Demon was fucking brutal in some scenes and there was tension how they are going to beat him. Also the blue cat scene was delightfully edgy. It's nice they changed the OP for the next batch of villains.

Edit: Holy shit how the fuck they managed to recreate 80's anime in Pop Team Epic?
 
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Speaking of Mob, One came out with a new manga series, Versus.
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The premise seems pretty neat.
 
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Maybe the real Bocchi the Rock were the friends we made along the way
Scarlett Johansson said:
I got Nichijou!

I also got the entire Haruhi Suzumiya series on sale. (The show, the movie, and the Yuki show)

Years ago I had only the first two dvds of the first season so I didn't get the whole experience. I liked Asakura even though she died early and I never got to see internet meme queen Tsuruya. Haruhi was very.....rapey to Mikuru.....it was confusing to me when Kyon sees Mikuru in the white blouse and she's apparently aged up in that scene (?)

I'm told that you gotta watch it in a certain order? Am nervous about Endless Eight. I would have enjoyed seeing Nagato and Asakura interact more. I assume that's in the spin off.
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Suzumiya is such a funny phenomenon. In 2007/2008 the show was everywhere and when I went to an anime convention that year I ended up doing the Hare Hare Yukai with this group because inwas trying to smash some hapa pussy.. And yet it disappeared around the time endless happened. With her VA being found out to be a slut it's funny how fast it disappeared.
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Pic is me in 2007 minutes before getting lucky.
Kari Kamiya said:
Endless Eight was a master stroke of trolling the otakubase without compromising the theme of the series and breaking character, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
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Honestly only real weebs remember the butt hurt this caused. And the defenders who told the complainers they just didn't get it on an intellectual level
ZMOT said:
filler doesn't mean you gotta repeat the same shit 8 times to make a point, you can still get creative with that while doing with it. not even a different swimsuit each time could save it.

the most retarded part about endless eight is that there is absolutely NOTHING happening for almost 8 episodes. usually when you deal with a timeloop story, and what makes it interesting, is how people are gonna try breaking out of it - instead that fuckface kyon doesn't even try, and then you're back with another episode with the exact same reaction. THAT's why it's so fucking bad, not that they repeated the same episode almost exactly 8 times wasting everyone's time.
sure, you could say "well, know you know how yuki feels seeing that shit almost 16 thousand times", but I'm not a fucking anime character (otherwise I'd have smashed that tsundere cuntmuffin groundhog day style, end of the world or not).
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Yeah time travel is a good way to show how small choices affect the plot. Summertime Rendering was looking to do that until we find out the bad guys know and it just became a low stake survival show. Endless Eight was just pretentious.
SteelPlatedHeart said:
I want to die.
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zoomer Trigun deserves to die
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
That ending sequence was really something, like I said in its thread I'm just not feeling it in the new season. The previous season peaked Mob's character development and there's just not a lot to do from here.
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I've always had a weird/like relationship with it so if it can just be a weird show I'm in. You're basically right but character development isn't a necessity even though it was originally central (like One Punch Man has basically zero while also not having any tension that isn't a product of Saitama not having a bus pass, and it's great) so it's not critical if it can develop into a slightly different show.
This season is more about wrapping up arcs or developing side characters instead I guess, and there's plenty more limit break emotions he can have that are extrinsic relationship things rather than intrinsic mad/sad stuff. On the shounen side there's still the question of who the hell there is left to fight now that the big bad is wiped out and even the demon army turned out to be a joke; so I really thought the aliens showing up would be... different. I ain't read the comic but the author is good at those kinds of screwy rug-pull turns so I'm sure there's more in the barrel, and it'll be interesting how the rest of the season ramps up now since there aren't really any threads open I can think of.
 
Involuntary Celebrity said:
I've always had a weird/like relationship with it so if it can just be a weird show I'm in. You're basically right but character development isn't a necessity even though it was originally central (like One Punch Man has basically zero while also not having any tension that isn't a product of Saitama not having a bus pass, and it's great) so it's not critical if it can develop into a slightly different show.
This season is more about wrapping up arcs or developing side characters instead I guess, and there's plenty more limit break emotions he can have that are extrinsic relationship things rather than intrinsic mad/sad stuff. On the shounen side there's still the question of who the hell there is left to fight now that the big bad is wiped out and even the demon army turned out to be a joke; so I really thought the aliens showing up would be... different. I ain't read the comic but the author is good at those kinds of screwy rug-pull turns so I'm sure there's more in the barrel, and it'll be interesting how the rest of the season ramps up now since there aren't really any threads open I can think of.
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The slow pacing doesn't help, the Dimple arc ended up being too similar to the previous one where the base conflict is a villain who argues that Mob could have the easy life by just abusing his power and Mob eventually doing a friendship no jutsu. It would have been more interesting if they stuck to Dimple being just a bad presence and Mob would have needed to learn that some people are beyond help.
Ditto the Telepathy club was more of a gag than a presence in the previous seasons so I didn't get much invested.
 
I can't really disagree due to the fact that I agree with all of that.
Mob is a show that has always rubbed me the wrong way a bit due the the whole "mediocrity is the best; don't have pride in any talent you have" message, so it's something I've enjoyed in spite of myself and I guess that affords it a lot of latitude to do whatever the fuck it wants to do. The fact that I have no idea where it's going from here even though I can narratively analyse almost anything is enough for me.
 
Involuntary Celebrity said:
I can't really disagree due to the fact that I agree with all of that.
Mob is a show that has always rubbed me the wrong way a bit due the the whole "mediocrity is the best; don't have pride in any talent you have" message, so it's something I've enjoyed in spite of myself and I guess that affords it a lot of latitude to do whatever the fuck it wants to do. The fact that I have no idea where it's going from here even though I can narratively analyse almost anything is enough for me.
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That's not really my take away from Mob, it's more along the lines of "talent doesn't absolve you from the human condition and this is what's really all about. And you're standing on the shoulders of giants at all times so you'd better be more humble"
 
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