The Anime Thread

[Bread Kennedys]

Decided to say screw it as well and picked up Mob Psycho 100. I'm currently watching through Season 1 now and I want to try to finish it within the next few days.

Spoiler: MS100 first impressions

Current first impressions: I think it's got a neat premise, and I like both Reigen and Kageyama/Mob, especially Reigen. He seems like a funny character and I think it's interesting that he's pretending to be this super powerful psychic and yet he's a complete fraud. I'm already enjoying it overall, and considering it's another ONE series, I have high expectations. I'll happily watch more of this.

I'll also check out the RWBY Volume 6 finale tomorrow, since I dunno if I mentioned it, but I have been watching Volume 6. I'll edit my thoughts in here then, or make a new post about it if someone else posts in here between now and then, I dunno.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

I quite like the look of Black Butler, but some clips are leading me to think it drifts a bit too far into the macabre for my liking. Rather hard to get ahold of anymore anyway.

 

[LadyDestani]

I quite like the look of Black Butler, but some clips are leading me to think it drifts a bit too far into the macabre for my liking. Rather hard to get ahold of anymore anyway.

I thoroughly enjoyed Season 1, but it should have ended there. It kind of went off the rails after that in my opinion. It is on the dark and macabre side, so if you don't care for that, it may not be for you.

 

[lowaltitude]

Is anyone here participating in the anime watching challenge on myanimelist this year? It's my first time trying and so far I've watched many new and great anime I otherwise probably wouldn't have seen! To name a few I've finished withing the past week(s): Inuyashiki, Bakemono no Ko, Natsume Yuuijinchou, and Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau
Compared to most other users on MAL, I haven't watched that many different anime in the first place, but I'm really enjoying this challenge so far!

 

[Snowesque]

Reginald Fairfield

Sort of feel that same way as well; the first season just felt better in general.
More sensible story and less fan service. (Nothing wrong with that of course, just isn't my cup of tea.)

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Reginald Fairfield

Sort of feel that same way as well; the first season just felt better in general.
More sensible story and less fan service. (Nothing wrong with that of course, just isn't my cup of tea.)

What kind of fan service? I have seen the corset scene.

 

[Snowesque]

Reginald Fairfield

Spoiler:

Just the usual yaoi undertones emphasized more in filler and other scenes.
I don't have a problem with it, it's just that I found myself waiting for direction at times.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Reginald Fairfield

Spoiler:

Just the usual yaoi undertones emphasized more in filler and other scenes.
I don't have a problem with it, it's just that I found myself waiting for direction at times.

Spoiler:

That is actually a selling point for me.

 

[LadyDestani]

Yes, I think Snowesque summed it up pretty well. The first season had a clear objective and I felt like that was accomplished. I actually thought the ending was perfect and couldn't figure out where they were going to take the story in season 2. I wish I had just stopped watching there because the story got unnecessarily convoluted and a lot of the characters just didn't have the same appeal.

 

[Midoriya]

BUMP.

Decided to watch gen:LOCK after all and have to say I am enjoying it so far. I also watched the most recent episode of Black Clover.

Black Clover episode 68:

Spoiler

So another filler, yet funny episode as Captain Yami of the Black Bull Magic Knights and Captain Jack The Ripper of the Preying Mantis Magic Knights faced off at the Magic Knights Star Festival in a multitude of events including a cooking battle, a thumb wars battle, some other challenges, and then an actual battle far away from the city, in order to try and “settle the score” with each other, lmao. Noelle just happened to be there the whole time and was wondering what was going on, as was Asta. At the end the two captains were going to unleash their new, powerful spells against each other, but the Wizard King had to step in and use a spell to pause everyone in time, otherwise Yami and Jack would have destroyed each other, quite literally. When they were unfrozen their pants came off and they laughed at each other, not wanting to fight anymore. The end of the episode featured one of the woman Magic Knights squad captains sitting in a chair at the Festival, as Asta tried to recall if he knew her or not. Looking forward to the coming episodes.

gen:LOCK episodes 1-3:

Spoiler

So 50 years into the future in 2068, ace pilot and soldier Julian Chase was having dinner with his family and girlfriend, soldier Miranda Worth, when they got called into battle by the oppressive Union forces that were approaching. A squadron of fighter pilots including Julian and Miranda went to meet the forces in New York and try to stop them, but Union was using new nanotechnology to battle. Eventually it was just Julian, Miranda, and a couple other people left as Julian used an EST weapon to buy the people some time and crashed with his plane into the ground below. Miranda and some of the others made it out safely. In episode two, four years later, Julian is shown to still be alive, albeit barely, in a tank with only his body, head, and an arm left. The resistance forces are in a bind trying to help refugees escape from a location being advanced on by Union forces when Julian shows up in a gundam-appearing robot and attacks the Union forces along with Yasamin in her gundam-appearing robot, and the resistance forces escape with the refugees. The gundam-appearing robots are later revealed to be called Holons, and Dr. Weller is the mind behind the new technology gen:LOCK, which allows compatible people to upload their brain to the computer mindframe and control the Holons from a safe distance. The way I think it’s best described is a combination of Ghost in the Shell and gundam-anime, where the soldiers are controlling gundams, but instead of being in them they control them with their mind from a safe distance. The other selected gen:LOCK participants, Valentina, Sinclair, Cammie, and Kazu arrive, but Sinclair is revealed to be a spy and threatens everyone with nanotechnology in order to try and connect to gen:LOCK. Unfortunately for him he isn’t compatible and thus dies in front of the group. The third episode, which came out today, reveals Julian Chase and Yasamin watching Cammie, Valentina, and Kazu connect to gen:LOCK for the first time and work on training and getting used to their new Holons. The pacing for the show so far is a bit slow, but it’s understandable as the concepts and everything has to be explained first before the action so that the show makes sense. It’s a really unique take on gundam anime in general and I’m looking forward to the coming episodes. Also, the opening for the first season is great and I’m pretty sure I’ve listened to it at least 20 times by now, lmao.

I’m also planning on binging the second season of HunterxHunter, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Once I finish it I’ll post my thoughts about it here.

 

[Snowesque]

This thread honestly reminded me to watch Book of Atlantis since I kept forgetting.
It was an enjoyable watch. There was a fair bit of CG and then out of no where came a scene that was fantastically drawn. A pretty good time overall.

 

[moonbyu]

Has anyone watched Boku No Hero Academia? If so, is it any good? I've never watched it. My friend keeps talking about it, and it's making me curious.

 

[Bcat]

Has anyone watched Boku No Hero Academia? If so, is it any good? I've never watched it. My friend keeps talking about it, and it's making me curious.

It’s a good show and definitely worth a watch!
But it’s the current anime craze right now so it is a little over-hyped.

 

[Midoriya]

Has anyone watched Boku No Hero Academia? If so, is it any good? I've never watched it. My friend keeps talking about it, and it's making me curious.

Yep, I’ve watched all three seasons of it and my thoughts about it and stuff can be found earlier in this thread. I’m pretty sure they’re still on break though before season four comes out, but when it does, I’ll be picking it up again.

 

[Bread Kennedys]

Finished RWBY Volume 6.

Spoiler: RWBY Volume 6 thoughts (spoilers, obviously)

I actually quite enjoyed it. It was probably the best volume we've gotten since 3. A lot of eventful stuff happened, like the reveal of Ospin's and Salem's true identities, Neo's return, Cinder surviving (although that much was kind of predictable), Adam's death at the end, the giant Grimm attack at the end, etc. Although I got some gripes. The major one being that we're 6 Volumes through, the pacing has barely improved and the series is still trying to be like a serious anime instead of what it was at the beginning, and there's only 12 or 13 episodes a Volume, and the average episode is about 15 or so minutes long. Please, Rooster Teeth, make longer episodes and make more episodes per Volume. You've got a far bigger budget for this than when you started, and I'm sure it wouldn't be an impossible task. Still a step up regardless.

Also finished Season 1 of Mob Psycho 100, and I plan to watch the first few episodes of Season 2 tomorrow.

Spoiler: MS100

Again, I really enjoy this anime. Master Dimple's and Teru's fights at the beginning were both great, those are both characters I really didn't expect to like as much as I do. Teru's development is great, he goes from being super self absorbed and thinking he's better than he is, then his fight with Mob makes him see the reality of it all. I also really like Ritsu as a character and his development as well. Finally, the final arc of the season is fantastic and I really enjoyed it. Also, Reigen is best boi. Overall, pretty great show and I'll be excited to start Season 2.

Has anyone watched Boku No Hero Academia? If so, is it any good? I've never watched it. My friend keeps talking about it, and it's making me curious.

MHA is a great show, I absolutely recommend it. One of the best shounen anime of the past few years, easily.

 

[LadyDestani]

Has anyone watched Boku No Hero Academia? If so, is it any good? I've never watched it. My friend keeps talking about it, and it's making me curious.

I've watched all of it that's available so far. It's a fun anime and definitely worth the watch. I really enjoy some of the characters and seeing all of the different powers that they come up with. So, if you're interested, I would say give it a chance.

 

[lowaltitude]

Has anyone watched Boku No Hero Academia? If so, is it any good? I've never watched it. My friend keeps talking about it, and it's making me curious.

I started watching it bc so many people were talking about it as well, but it hasn't really disappointed me so far! The pacing in season one feels a little awkward, but the story is so good that you either get used to it or it just doesn't matter at all. If you like the idea of BNHA then go for it!! There's plenty of content to consume!

 

[Bread Kennedys]

Caught up with Mob Psycho 100 Season 2.

Spoiler: MS100 S2

This season is so freaking good! Absolutely loved the latest episode, it really seemed like a movie almost! The fight to exorcise Keiji and save Minori was perhaps the best fight from this whole show so far. It even beats Shigeyo's fight with Teru, imo. And I'm loving that Shigeyo's getting more development it seems, I'm excited to see where they'll go with his growth and I'm excited to see where this show will go next.

I wanted to start watching Steins;Gate next, but I've got a few anime that I've been meaning to finish that I should probably finish first. I know I need to finish SSSS.Gridman, so I think I'll do that first.

 

[Lady Timpani]

Finished RWBY Volume 6.

Spoiler: RWBY Volume 6 thoughts (spoilers, obviously)

I actually quite enjoyed it. It was probably the best volume we've gotten since 3. A lot of eventful stuff happened, like the reveal of Ospin's and Salem's true identities, Neo's return, Cinder surviving (although that much was kind of predictable), Adam's death at the end, the giant Grimm attack at the end, etc. Although I got some gripes. The major one being that we're 6 Volumes through, the pacing has barely improved and the series is still trying to be like a serious anime instead of what it was at the beginning, and there's only 12 or 13 episodes a Volume, and the average episode is about 15 or so minutes long. Please, Rooster Teeth, make longer episodes and make more episodes per Volume. You've got a far bigger budget for this than when you started, and I'm sure it wouldn't be an impossible task. Still a step up regardless.

A lot of the reasons you cited are why I wound up dropping RWBY. I watched the first episode of V5 and just realized I couldn?t do it anymore. It really hadn?t felt the same to me since Monty passed, and I don?t know if that?s just because the show was moving in a new direction regardless or if it?s more something he brought to it.

I?m not watching anything right now but I?m thinking about rewatching either Utena or Gurren Lagann at some point.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Is this an example of what people call a yandere?