Another week of the year is in the books which means we get a new general discussion thread. Feel free to use this thread to talk about what you have been watching lately, questions about a series you didn’t understand, recommendations for what to watch next, or any number of things. A couple examples to get your brain gears turning:
- What anime character this season has the best facial hair and why is it Denken?
- Konami is making their own anime? If you enter the code in the player, do you get the uncensored version?
- I saw that Maomao was on the cover of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare magazine. What do you think the next anime character used by the Japanese government will be? Perhaps Ai Hoshino for the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology?
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I snuck in an episode of Saikyou Tank after skipping last week, and… it’s still boring.
I started watching the apothecary diaries. It’s really fun and well animated. And last week I just finished Legend of the galactic heros. It’s insane, can’t recommend it enough.
Been busy, haven’t watched much. Only thing I really watched the last couple weeks is I finally finished Pluto. It was… fine. I was expecting more, based on the hype. There’s a lot I liked and a lot that should have been cut or changed from the source (in my opinion). The episodes are quite long, the pacing is all over the place, the story progression is flawed, and way too much happens to service the needs of the plot. Still, it was well produced. I liked the animation, style, music, characters, Japanese voice acting. I think it’s about as good as the source could allow. I think this opinion is kinda controversial, so hopefully not offending anybody too much.
I rewatched High School DxD S1. Been a long time since I last saw it. I expected to not really like it thay much anymore, but the opposite is true. And it’s not because “boobies”. I genuinely enjoyed the story and the characters. It’s certainly not haute cuisine or anything, but it certainly is a lot of fun and well executed for what it is.
Needless to say, I’ve bought the Blurays for S2 and 3 as well. Not sure about 4 yet, as I remember not really enjoying that one as much.
I think I tried watching that anime 2 times, I couldn’t. It’s been a while so I can’t exactly remember why but I really disliked it even ignoring all the ecchi stuff.
Yeah that’s fair
So I tried an episode of Snack Basue…
It’s a gag manga, this particular episode had 3 gag segments to it.
I think it’s trying to be like the Cheers TV sitcom.
The setting is a tiny bar, the titular Snack Basue, where the two perpetual girl bartenders, interact humorously with the rotating cast of weirdo customers.
I say try to be, because the main bartender girl, the blonde one, her voice acting, and especially her comedic timing are completely off.
And this is really unfortunate because all the skits feature her character.
That being said, the OP bangs!
I wonder what’s going on with that show that they can’t make the humor hit. The main VA is Rie Takahashi who is extremely prolific in all kinds of roles. She can definitely do comedy (Megumin, Tomo-chan, among many, many others).
It could be editing or voice direction.
Or this style of humor just isn’t my thing.
