The Anime Thread

[Reginald Fairfield]

Funimation subscribers that just paid for a subscription are understandably not happy, and their customer support is what you'd expect.

If you just paid for a year long Funimation subscription, you might get a 60 day free trial of Crunchyroll.

 

[LadyDestani]

I used to have both Crunchyroll and Funimation, but I ditched Funimation after a while. Their app was always laggy and crashing. It would take me an hour or more to watch a 23 minute episode because of all the pauses, skipping, and crashes. It was not an enjoyable way to watch anime at all. I'm so glad I stuck with Crunchyroll and I hope we get to keep all the benefits of Crunchyroll's service. I'll be happy if the anime library is the ONLY thing that moves over from Funimation.

I started watching Shadows House today. I've only watched the first episode so far, but it left a good impression. The concept is unique and interesting, the music is good, the art style is nice and I particularly love the backgrounds. I'm looking forward to watching more.

Spoiler: Summary

The Shadow family is a family of nobles that are lacking all types of features. They appear as solid black silhouettes. Each one has a Living Doll who shares their exact same silhouette. Their Living Doll serves them, cleans up the soot that they leave behind, and acts as the face of the family member they represent. Emilico is a brand new Living Doll who serves Kate, a young girl in the Shadow family. Emilico brings light-heartedness and humor to the show with her genki attitude and clumsiness, but there are definitely some mysteries to be solved. Who are the Shadow family and what are they? What are the Living Dolls? What secrets is this household hiding?

 

[NovariusHaze]

Baka & Test and Heaven’s Lost Property along with Sword Art Online, have my favourite Opening Themes from an anime.
Anyone else have a favourite Opening Theme?

 

[Corrie]

Baka & Test and Heaven’s Lost Property along with Sword Art Online, have my favourite Opening Themes from an anime.
Anyone else have a favourite Opening Theme?

Durarara OP 5 (Ketsu) is one of my fav openings. It's just so catchy!

 

[Midoriya]

Get ready to transform! Attack on Titan the final season part two episode nine is here.

Spoiler: for Attack on Titan episode 84

Mikasa, Armin, Gabi, Falco, Reiner, Annie, Hange Zoe, Levi, Commander Magath, Jean, the Cart Titan, and others band together to stop Eren. They reminisce about the past before heading on their way to the port, but then find out that it has been taken over by Jaegerists. Just how will they get past their old allies?

Next time on Attack on Titan the final season, episode 85. "Traitor." You won't want to miss it!

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Also finished season eight of Naruto Shippuden! As for my thoughts...

Flying Hinata goes BRRRRRRRR

Lmao, just joking. As for my serious thoughts, I thought the way Naruto settled things with Pain was amazing. They could have ended the show right there and it would have been fine, but sadly, they didn't. Looking forward to season nine (not really), which is mostly filler... -_-

 

[-Blue-]

@Midoriya They really should had ended Shippuden right then.

Spoiler

It dragged on unnecessarily with the War arc where a lot of it just honestly felt like filler. When I think back on the show I realize it had some good arcs, but the remainder of it from this point on was bad and made me kind of forget how amazing it was before.

 

[LadyDestani]

Baka & Test and Heaven’s Lost Property along with Sword Art Online, have my favourite Opening Themes from an anime.
Anyone else have a favourite Opening Theme?

These are some of my favorite opening and ending themes from anime.

Openings:
Guren no Yumiya by Linked Horizon
Anime: Attack on Titan

Exist by Raise A Suilen
Anime: Joran The Princess of Snow and Blood

Yakusoku wa Iranai by Maaya Sakamoto
Anime: Vision of Escaflowne

Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi by ON/Off
Anime: Vampire Knight

Howling by Abingdon Boys School
Anime: Darker than Black

Ichirin no Hana by High and Mighty Color
Anime: Bleach

Endings:
Magia by Kalafina
Anime: Madoka Magica

Still Doll by Kanon Wakeshima
Anime: Vampire Knight

Forever Love by X-Japan
Anime: X-1999

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Baka & Test and Heaven’s Lost Property along with Sword Art Online, have my favourite Opening Themes from an anime.
Anyone else have a favourite Opening Theme?

This has good music, love the art style. Half the show is eaten up by flashbacks that don't lead to anything.

 

[CrankyCupcake]

Baka & Test and Heaven’s Lost Property along with Sword Art Online, have my favourite Opening Themes from an anime.
Anyone else have a favourite Opening Theme?

The best anime OP theme for me is Gekkou by BUMP OF CHICKEN for Karakuri Circus. This band consistently produces great music and Gekkou made an impact on me the moment I heard it. It was instant love. My husband, who does not watch anime or understand any Japanese, enjoyed the song too, the first time I played it for him. He was tapping and nodding as he listened. A pretty rare thing for me to see.

The 36-episode anime series was highly enjoyable as well.

 

[TurnipBell20]

As a kid I thought I didn’t like anime, but then I realized that my favorite TV shows actually were animes (Heidi, Nils Holgersson etc.).

 

[Midoriya]

Baka & Test and Heaven’s Lost Property along with Sword Art Online, have my favourite Opening Themes from an anime.
Anyone else have a favourite Opening Theme?

Top three favorite opening themes:

Top three favorite ending themes:

Black Clover - Ending 13 | BEAUTIFUL

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[SinnerTheCat]

Recently I have caught up with My Dress-Up Darling and it's so incredibly adorable!! I wish there wasn't so much fanservice, because it did make me uncomfortable during the first few episodes, but honestly looking past that - the romance and cuteness make it all worth it. And it's about cosplaying which I find fun to watch

 

[nyx~]

I finally finished Your Lie in April after about 3 months of watching it extremely slowly lol, I started expecting the ending from towards the beginning but it was still depressing;;

After I finished that I binged Komi Can't Communicate (I don't like being in the middle of a lot of series) and loved it. Komi's character was very relatable to me and I thought the storyline was super cute, I'll probably read the manga in the future.

And then currently I'm watching Blue Period which has been interesting so far, I'm looking forward to see how it goes. I also bought tickets to see Jujutsu Kaisen 0 next week and I'm super excited^^

 

[Xeleron]

I recently finished watching Kaguya-sama: Love is War and it was better than I had originally thought, but unfortunately, I cannot find season 2 anywhere... and season 3 airs during spring x.x (next season!)

I wanted to rewatch Princess Jellyfish, but I also couldn't find it anywhere.... except for amazon... behind a pay wall. I already pay too much in streaming services so I'm not willing to fork over more money. Oh well, it has to live in my memory

Instead of rewatching Princess Jellyfish, an ONA on Netflix caught my eye, it's called 'Kotaro Lives Alone', I'm only 2 episodes in, but I'm really enjoying it so far. It's supposed to be a comedy, but I have a feeling some episodes may end up being tearjerkers depending on what route they decide to take. (It's kinda in the same realm of 'Barakamon', 'Poco's Udon World' & 'Sweetness & Lightning')

Edit: Removed a title because I found out that the source material has an absolutely horrible ending.

 

[Neb]

Funimation subscribers that just paid for a subscription are understandably not happy, and their customer support is what you'd expect.

If you just paid for a year long Funimation subscription, you might get a 60 day free trial of Crunchyroll.

Yeah, Crunchyroll and Funimation are not handling the merge well at all. I tried to cancel my VRV subscription, but it said I had to do it on my phone. I checked the subscription list and it’s not there. I haven’t heard back from customer service for several days. As a result I’ll still have to pay for VRV for the foreseeable future, even though I’m switching back to Crunchyroll.

 

[LadyDestani]

I recently finished watching Kaguya-sama: Love is War and it was better than I had originally thought, but unfortunately, I cannot find season 2 anywhere... and season 3 airs during spring x.x (next season!)

If you have Crunchyroll, I believe season 2 was literally just added there a few days ago. My husband had been anxiously looking for it too and I think it got moved over to Crunchyroll in the Crunchyroll/Funimation merger.

 

[Xeleron]

If you have Crunchyroll, I believe season 2 was literally just added there a few days ago. My husband had been anxiously looking for it too and I think it got moved over to Crunchyroll in the Crunchyroll/Funimation merger.

Oh, my goodness, THANK YOU!!! I did look there a while ago, but it was a day or two after the merger happened and I guess it hadn't been uploaded at the time. I seriously would've never checked again

I think I'm going to keep checking Crunchyroll every so often for other titles that I haven't been able to find recently. Especially now that I know there's a chance I can't find them because they're in merger limbo

 

[LadyDestani]

Oh, my goodness, THANK YOU!!! I did look there a while ago, but it was a day or two after the merger happened and I guess it hadn't been uploaded at the time. I seriously would've never checked again

I think I'm going to keep checking Crunchyroll every so often for other titles that I haven't been able to find recently. Especially now that I know there's a chance I can't find them because they're in merger limbo

Yeah, it seems like they've been adding things in gradually so it's worth checking back every so often for a while at least. Glad you finally found it!

 

[NovariusHaze]

Crazy how many shows I watched as a kid were anime. Didn’t realize until I was older. Tho I still like to categorize them separately from other anime. My first “true” anime that I watched was A Certain Scientific Railgun. Was a lot more mature than previous anime that I watched so it was an interesting experience. Eventually found anime that I really liked or at least feel special to me. Maybe someday I’ll find a new anime that I like again.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Yeah, Crunchyroll and Funimation are not handling the merge well at all. I tried to cancel my VRV subscription, but it said I had to do it on my phone. I checked the subscription list and it’s not there. I haven’t heard back from customer service for several days. As a result I’ll still have to pay for VRV for the foreseeable future, even though I’m switching back to Crunchyroll.

I wouldn't know what to suggest here, but here's another argument for physical media. I'm sorry you have to deal with this. I wonder if the bank can help, as a last resort.

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I recently finished watching Kaguya-sama: Love is War and it was better than I had originally thought, but unfortunately, I cannot find season 2 anywhere... and season 3 airs during spring x.x (next season!)

I wanted to rewatch Princess Jellyfish, but I also couldn't find it anywhere.... except for amazon... behind a pay wall. I already pay too much in streaming services so I'm not willing to fork over more money. Oh well, it has to live in my memory

Instead of rewatching Princess Jellyfish, an ONA on Netflix caught my eye, it's called 'Kotaro Lives Alone', I'm only 2 episodes in, but I'm really enjoying it so far. It's supposed to be a comedy, but I have a feeling some episodes may end up being tearjerkers depending on what route they decide to take. (It's kinda in the same realm of 'Usagi Drop', 'Barakamon', 'Poco's Udon World' & 'Sweetness & Lightning')

I've been meaning to pick up Princess Jellyfish. I'm going to take this as a "would recommend". Hopefully it isn't as expensive as the forgotten Gainax title "Petite Princess Yucie".

I've got a few things on dvd that I don't believe are being supported by anyone. One being Hare+Guu, and we didn't get the last season.

Another great intro.