Saaivas
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Has anyone here watched Noir yet?
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Here's a surreal one-shot from Mamoru Oshii, Twilight Q episode 2, "Mystery Case".
Twilight Q was supposed to be an ongoing anthology OVA series of weird, unconnected one shots from different creators but only two episodes were ever made. The other episode was "Time Knot: Reflection" directed by Tomomi Mochizuki about a camera found on the beach with a roll of film inside that's.a glimpse into the future. It's not on Youtube as far as I can find.
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Twilight Q is genuinely fantastic and more people need to talk about it. Time Knot: Relection isn't really all that good but Mystery Case was exactly what I needed after watching Beautiful Dreamer. A lot of Oshii's stuff is very out there while still being surface level enough that it won't filter people (hell Ghost In the Shell is one of the most popular anime to recommend for people who do not watch anime).
Also yeah watch Beautiful Dreamer.
You can't go wrong watching something like Rintaro's OVAs too (Take the X Train, Download: Devil's Circuit)
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Watched the final episode of Katsute Mahou Shoujo only to find the manga author died midrun.
God fucking damn it
God fucking damn it
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Same level as Texhnolyze IMO, it's got a cult following but nowhere near known among the current crowd. Anecdotally the ones who I know who've found it are the ones who've gone sufficiently down the Psycho-Pass/Serial Experiments Lain hole seeking out new material. Most of them stop at GITS or Vivy. Makes me appreciate it more because that sort of story is unlikely to be accepted and embraced by a production committee ever again.
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In no particular order some smaller low key ones I have enjoyed are:
- The Tatami Galaxy
- Shangri La
- Blassreiter
- Blue Gender
- Yukikaze
- Last Exile
- Skyland, Le Nouveau Monde (French but still a good one)
- Now and Then Here and There
- Area 88
- The Sky Crawlers
- Welcome to the NHK
- Sakura Diaries
- Kaiba
- Bobby's in Deep
- Golden Boy
- IGPX Immortal Grand Prix
- Rideback
- Jyu Oh Sei
- Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
- Dorohedoro
- 7 Seeds
- Drifting Dragons
- Suzuka
- A Town Where You Live
- Deca-Dence
- Back Arrow
- Planetes
- Akudama Drive
- FREEDOM OVA
- Xamd
- xxxHolic
- Dimension W
- Plastic Memories
- Land of the Lustrous
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Literally "the hell did I just watch and why wasn't this longer" the anime. Guilty Crown had to win that crown at the end of the year, though.
Legit, though, C is eerily precedent today with the current economic fuckery going on. It looked stupid on the surface but it's rather biting the longer it continued. It is too bad there weren't more Assets to see, but I guess having literal money fights with the market was going to get stupid/obnoxious eventually.
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My favorite anime of all time
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Watched the first episode of the Uzumaki anime and its pretty good
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I got around to reading Nagatoro after a long hiatus of reading up on manga (it’s been years). I didn’t think I was gonna like it but I’m already at Chapter 103 and I’m gonna be sad when I eventually make it to the end. I wouldn’t call it a great manga but I do wish I picked it up sooner. In fact I wish I picked up a lot of ongoing manga sooner (anyone else ever get that feeling?). But once I’m done with it I’ll move on to Sakamoto Days.
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The ending of C was genuinely interesting and made me respect it a lot more.
Saaivas
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Adaptation of Junji Ito's work and it's not bad? Nice, I might check it once we get all the episodes. I looked through MAL and anilist and it has surprisingly high scores in comparison to Gyo or Junji Ito Collection.
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Better be 25 episodes again.
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In other news finished up my seasonal run. It had its highs and its lows. Watched some filler that was pretty bad. The Vtuber anime sucked ass the worst out of them though.. Best anime this season was the Nier Automata anime. Loved the fucking ending. Spice and Wolf was pretty good, thought it met the highs of the OG pretty well while still being distinct. The Russian one was decent, wouldn't mind a second season. Everything else I watched I will completely forget about within a month lol.
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It is the birthday of this VA
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Never got into it. I knew of it on the sidelines, it seemed to rise to popularity ridiculously fast but didn't seem to me to have the actual quality to back it up. When character deaths were used as such a blunt instrument I just couldn't rationalize getting invested at all. I binged some of the anime fights on Iewtube, that's about it.
I'm just in it for Himmel and the world building...
And for a few fights against unabashedly irredeemable monsters. Which was one of the most refreshing things about the first season. Demons get genocided, end of story, no moralizing with literal monsters that eat people in some kind of Kalergi dream, you end them when you see them. That stance is basically the antithesis of post-modern (((western))) "entertainment", in which everything ugly and evil must be mandated and celebrated.
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Being an "expert" of EVA kind of defeats the pretentious and extremely autistic "point" of EVA, no?
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Jesus what a piece of shit ending to JJK! The series had been shit ever since the weird battle royale thing started but my god what a way to end a series on a wet fart. Boku No Hero was at least funny to take jabs at, JJK is a big pile of fucking nothing.
Jump is really losing series left and right though. Sakamoto and Dandadan seem like there is still content for a while (and both are awesome in their own way) and OP is there for at minimum 5 more years, but Undead Unluck is also ending (and my understanding is it had shit sales anyway) and I'm not aware of what are the "big sellers" right now outside of Kagurabachi (is it worth reading? the whole sensation that it got memed into popularity has kept me away, but as you may have noticed, I'll read any slop if it has a good hook anyway...).
Holy shit, had erased Tokyo Revengers from my brain, another wretched series that started strong and then went to sit, though bin JJK defense, Tokyo Revengers peaked much earlier.
Jump is really losing series left and right though. Sakamoto and Dandadan seem like there is still content for a while (and both are awesome in their own way) and OP is there for at minimum 5 more years, but Undead Unluck is also ending (and my understanding is it had shit sales anyway) and I'm not aware of what are the "big sellers" right now outside of Kagurabachi (is it worth reading? the whole sensation that it got memed into popularity has kept me away, but as you may have noticed, I'll read any slop if it has a good hook anyway...).
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It was refreshing seeing evil treated as evil. I think that above all else makes Frireren truly peak. And yes Himmell. The love that elf never realized until it was too late. Honestly beautiful.'m just in it for Himmel and the world building...
And for a few fights against unabashedly irredeemable monsters. Which was one of the most refreshing things about the first season. Demons get genocided, end of story, no moralizing with literal monsters that eat people in some kind of Kalergi dream, you end them when you see them. That stance is basically the antithesis of post-modern (((western))) "entertainment", in which everything ugly and evil must be mandated and celebrated