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I still have yet to watch Bubblegum Crisis in full, but I recommend for everyone to watch A.D. Police. Most of the themes and plot devices in this anime are very unique and interesting for its time, and some of the artwork in question is very good:

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Whats the deal with demon slayer season 2? Is it the movie split up into episodes or something?
 
SandyCat said:
Whats the deal with demon slayer season 2? Is it the movie split up into episodes or something?
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Season 2 starts in December, in the meantime time they decided to recut up the 2020 movie into a 7 episode tv series right before it starts.
There both exactly the same aside from episode 1 which is some new anime original content, so if you've already seen the movie there's no reason to watch it again unless you just want to rewatch it for the sake of it.
 
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Has anyone else been watching The Aquatope on White Sand? I've really been enjoying this dramatic slice of life series. At first I thought it would be a show about up and coming idols struggling to make their dreams come true, but it's about someone who gives up on chasing her dream of becoming an idol and runs away to find herself and something else to pursue. She goes to a Okinawa and finds a local aquarium and while looking around she has a weird, supernatural vision to stay and work alongside a girl who is struggling to keep the small town aquarium open. Lots of interesting characters and the drama isn't too heavy.
 
The Token Ethnic said:
Has anyone else been watching The Aquatope on White Sand? I've really been enjoying this dramatic slice of life series. At first I thought it would be a show about up and coming idols struggling to make their dreams come true, but it's about someone who gives up on chasing her dream of becoming an idol and runs away to find herself and something else to pursue. She goes to a Okinawa and finds a local aquarium and while looking around she has a weird, supernatural vision to stay and work alongside a girl who is struggling to keep the small town aquarium open. Lots of interesting characters and the drama isn't too heavy.
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I like it, but at the same time I'm also wondering where they're heading with season 2. Season 1 had a definitive endgoal and path for Kukuru's character arc, but now it seems to have turned into a general slice of life without any direction.
 
Demon Slayer is a paleteable anime; although I'm still weirded out by Tanjiro and Nezuko's dynamic - she's like his pokemon. She even has a container he lets her out of when they do battle.

It was kinda "meh" at the beginning but got interesting at episode 8.
 
All is Finite said:
Demon Slayer is a paleteable anime; although I'm still weirded out by Tanjiro and Nezuko's dynamic - she's like his pokemon. She even has a container he lets her out of when they do battle.

It was kinda "meh" at the beginning but got interesting at episode 8.
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lol, I thought it didn't really get good until the movie. In the first season, aside from the animation I literally didn't see a single thing I could point to and say, "Demon Slayer does this better than its competition". I particularly hated how they tried to retroactively paint some the demons as sympathetic in the most lazy and hamfisted way possible, despite them generally portrayed as gleefully evil and bloodthirsty with no conflicting emotions about what they're doing.

Even in the movie, I thought the fact that what's-his-name couldn't even devour a single human to just be kinda ridiculous. Like, the only way that's possible is if he wasn't even TRYING, because it is logistically impossible for four (five?) guys to defend an entire train.
 
Gar For Archer said:
I particularly hated how they tried to retroactively paint some the demons as sympathetic in the most lazy and hamfisted way possible
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This his how EVERY demon death is handled in the manga, the "dying breathe sympathetic flashback". Some of these backstories were good and if an attempt was made to weave these throughout the overarching plot it would've been less repetitive overall. Learning a character's motivation only as they die doesn't really retroactively make you appreciate the rest of their screentime if you do it every damn time.
 
GhostButt said:
This his how EVERY demon death is handled in the manga, the "dying breathe sympathetic flashback". Some of these backstories were good and if an attempt was made to weave these throughout the overarching plot it would've been less repetitive overall. Learning a character's motivation only as they die doesn't really retroactively make you appreciate the rest of their screentime if you do it every damn time.
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I haven't read the manga, so far the only good one we've gotten was the drum demon's, because his backstory is actually integral to his fight and how Tanjiro is able to defeat him.
 
GhostButt said:
This his how EVERY demon death is handled in the manga, the "dying breathe sympathetic flashback". Some of these backstories were good and if an attempt was made to weave these throughout the overarching plot it would've been less repetitive overall. Learning a character's motivation only as they die doesn't really retroactively make you appreciate the rest of their screentime if you do it every damn time.
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I wonder if there's a specific cultural/literary tradition this is drawing on, since the flashback-before-death pattern shows up in many series; for example, how the "truth" of the demons in Mononoke is revealed in order to destroy them. Maybe Buddhist parables having characters reflect on how their attachments led to their downfall? Or death haiku?
 
I've started watching Jormungand because I liked the avatar of a fellow Kiwi and did a reverse image search. Finished episode 6 last night and I'm finding it enjoyable, it's giving me Black Lagoon vibes.
 
Gar For Archer said:
lol, I thought it didn't really get good until the movie. In the first season, aside from the animation I literally didn't see a single thing I could point to and say, "Demon Slayer does this better than its competition". I particularly hated how they tried to retroactively paint some the demons as sympathetic in the most lazy and hamfisted way possible, despite them generally portrayed as gleefully evil and bloodthirsty with no conflicting emotions about what they're doing.

Even in the movie, I thought the fact that what's-his-name couldn't even devour a single human to just be kinda ridiculous. Like, the only way that's possible is if he wasn't even TRYING, because it is logistically impossible for four (five?) guys to defend an entire train.
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My thought on it was less trying to make them sympathetic and more that killing them basically purifies them and the flash back is basically them being hit with the weight of what they've done. I could be wrong though.
 
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