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I watched BELLE in my local movie theatre on a half-whim. It was a positive surprise! It made me laugh, it made me cry, what more can one wish from a movie? It's so pretty too.
 
That tweet says "completely new anime" so do they mean a reboot? I mean, either is fine I guess
 
It's been 13 years since the last season of Spice and Wolf?

If an anime series can come back after that long, maybe there's still hope that Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (autumn 2008 so also just over 13 years ago) can still get a season 2?


Probably not at this point but the manga went for 12 volumes and the first season only adapted the first three.
 
sasazuka said:
It's been 13 years since the last season of Spice and Wolf?

If an anime series can come back after that long, maybe there's still hope that Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (autumn 2008 so also just over 13 years ago) can still get a season 2?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fE4VxVwnlvU

Probably not at this point but the manga went for 12 volumes and the first season only adapted the first three.
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Kannagi in my honest opinion was one of the best magical girl anime(s) I’ve seen last year. If anything, it should be in the Seinen category. The fact that it blended that and comedy together was great.


 
albert the programmer said:
Kannagi in my honest opinion was one of the best magical girl anime(s) I’ve seen last year. If anything, it should be in the Seinen category. The fact that it blended that and comedy together was great.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nwnHuYAg6_g
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7OW8JSdqNo0
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Kannagi is a weird hybrid between a magical girlfriend story and a high school art club slice-of-life show. When it was airing, I was a little confused why the show seemed to abandon what I assumed was the "main story" after about the third episode and instead focused on the club but I was mentally comparing it to Ah My Goddess! where Keiichi is in a college motorcycle club whose other members show up from time to time but they're not exactly a huge focus but the Kannagi opening theme animation does feature all of the club members (acting as managers, choreographers, and directors to Kannagi's idol act, which isn't something that happens in the actual story but I think it is supposed to be symbolic of each club member's overall role in the story) indicating that they're all important to the overall story, such as it is.

The main story about the mystery of Nagi/Kannagi does get more serious later on in the manga, it's one of those manga where the early chapters are a bit more laid-back and the anime only adapted the first part of the story so the pacing is more lackadaisical than the following seasons would have been if they had been made. But it is still at least partially a comedy throughout so it's not like it ever gets too serious save for the climax.
 
Aw sweet, I found the Project A-ko U.S. Manga Corps DVD at a thrift store today, and I overlooked that it comes with the soundtrack. Did Discotek Media ever release the soundtrack alongside their Blu-Rays?

Yeah, that's what I thought.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Aw sweet, I found the Project A-ko U.S. Manga Corps DVD at a thrift store today, and I overlooked that it comes with the soundtrack. Did Discotek Media ever release the soundtrack alongside their Blu-Rays?

Yeah, that's what I thought.
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I have that release but CPM/USMC published the Project A-Ko soundtrack as a standalone CD release before that and the bonus CD with the DVD was either just old stock or just a new reprint from their existing CD manufacturer.

As someone who still pretty much only listens to music on compact disc (save for sometimes listening to music on Youtube), I'd love it if current anime Blu-Rays came with the CD soundtrack but the market for anime on physical media in general is so diminished compared to almost two decades ago that it's probably just too expensive for publishers to even contemplate having a CD as a bonus item, especially considering that I don't think any anime distributors in North America still have their own CD label.

I'm still going to buy the Discotek Blu-Ray for the new transfer directly from film instead of remastering video from an old Laserdisc which is the best source material CPM had.
 
Is it worth hoping for a new Watamote series, or does the manga start sucking?
 
Finished reading Ajin, the first 98% was really good but honestly I found the ending kinda underwhelming. After everything they went through, the bad guy gets defeated by getting tackled into a river? Like on one hand I kinda get what he was going for, but on the other hand I think the story would’ve ended a lot more satisfying if their final plan to trap Sato had just worked. Also lol, the military’s plan to keep Sato cryogenically frozen is fucking retarded, if you want to contain him indefinitely, literally just seal him in concrete, he can’t do anything to counter that. Also, based on how hard they were hyped up, I was expecting the Anti-Demi Special Forces to be more than just a group of hyper-competent faceless commandos. I guess this is more of just a Japanese cultural thing that doesn’t make sense to an American.

If the ending didn’t feel so meh it would be an easy 10/10, as is I feel like it’s a high 8-9.

Going back and rereading the first couple chapters (which were written by a different guy, the artist started writing the story from Volume 2 onwards) there’s definitely a lot of early-installment weirdness (like some inconsistencies with Kei’s characterization, and Sato being retconned into an old man), but after that it feels surprisingly consistent and well-planned for a story that was mostly written on the fly.

The best part is definitely the power system, it’s rare for me to see a power system being explained scientifically and not roll my eyes but it actually works REALLY well here. The fights are heavily focused on strategically using the power within its limitations and revolves around clever applications of a relatively small base power set, which is a breath of fresh air in a genre where pulling new abilities out of your ass is the bread and butter.
 
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sasazuka said:
how much Tomoko herself has progressed socially
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which is not explained at all, when it's brought up specifically it's just dismissed as the others now choosing to ignore her or laugh at her when she does something inappropriate rather than be repelled, which to me speaks to THEIR growth and/or corruption not hers. tomoko's friend circle is seemingly in at least the 20's, which for someone as smegma-obsessed as our heroine is quite the task, and it isn't really helpful to the story telling since it's just the different interactions of all these, i'm assuming, yuri romance archetypes, and personifying them as dyke-not-dyke teenage girls with unlikable personalities so your gender swapped self-insert can make phimosis jokes at them while they have petty teen drama at eachother.
And while I wouldn't request it, it seems weird they haven't done a romance plot outside of vagueing about lesbos
I seem salty, but i'm really not, there are still funny moments, it's just not in the quite the same genre as it seemed to be going in the start so i'm not feeling it anymore.
 
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