Thanks to JesuOtaku, I guess I'll be watching Space Dandy for a while. At least for the next 7 days or so, while I wait until I can watch some of the new shows coming soon. I already rewatched the first episode. Hopefully this really is one of the lesser episodes in the series. It's funny, but also kinda tame for this style of comedy, like its holding back.
It's DEFINITELY holding back. I wasn't the biggest fan of it, but when the comedy works, it works extremely well.And episode 1 is probably the least memorable episode (though the pseudo-artsy episodes of season 2 kinda blend together for me)
I'll definitely try to continue with Dandy, but knowing I got a little ways to go before it improves seems to be holding me back a little. Not that the first episode was terrible, mind. I enjoyed it. It's just hard to set my expectations accordingly when I know it can and will be so much better eventually.
But I kinda gotta get at least the first season done by the next weekend, when I'll start watching some of the simulcasts. There are too many interesting ones I know no one else will watch, so I might actually stick with them for once.
Just for reference, I have 9 to watch:
World Trigger
Gundam Reconguista in G
Fate/Stay Night
Rage of Bahamut: Genesis
GARO: The Animation
Laughing Under the Clouds
When Supernatual Battles Became Commonplace
Denki-Gai
Gugure! Kokkuri-san
In order of interest, of course, with my most hopeful at the top.
Course, I'll probably wind up giving up after a couple episodes, like I always do, but I really gotta get into watching more shows at a slower pace, as I've been finding it incredibly difficult to marathon stuff these days, and now work's limiting my free time, so...I gotta get into a new rhythm at some point.
@CanisWolfred: I'm a little surprised to see those last three anime on your watch list. I haven't watched Denki-Gai or Gugure! Kokkuri-san yet, but I did try Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka (When Supernatual Battles Became Commonplace) yesterday. The first episode gave me the impression that the series is going to be like Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo? (and maybe even Medaka Box) but with slightly less exaggerated battles and a stronger focus on comedy.
Hmm. It's been a while since I watched an Anime. I got my eyes on Ao no Exorcist and Full Metal Alchemist, What shall I watch first?
Definitely Fullmetal Alchemist.
There's two series. Both of them are actually really good, but I think most would tell you to just watch FMA: Brotherhood because it's a reboot that follows the manga plotline. The original series follows the manga for the first 25 episodes, but it was made when the manga was still ongoing, so the last 30 episodes are all anime-original. Now, I think they did a great job with it, but others would disagree. The only thing I disliked was that the original series ends with a movie, The Conqueror of Shamballa, which tried to tie up all plot ends in 90 minutes. Felt rushed, but not horrible.
If you have the time, both are worth watching. It's just two different takes on the same material.
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@CanisWolfred: I'm a little surprised to see those last three anime on your watch list. I haven't watched Denki-Gai or Gugure! Kokkuri-san yet, but I did try Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka (When Supernatual Battles Became Commonplace) yesterday. The first episode gave me the impression that the series is going to be like Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo? (and maybe even Medaka Box) but with slightly less exaggerated battles and a stronger focus on comedy.
SupComm (what I prefer to call the battle one) is kind of a type of story I've always wanted to see - ordinary people get super powers, but have no evil villains to fight. What would they do?
I probably won't watch much of the comedies, even if I like them, but I figure they're worth trying since Denki-gai kinda struck a cord with me for some reason, and Gugure! looks more slapstick-y, so it might entertain me for a while.
Welp, World Trigger is definitely made by Toei. Mediocre pacing and animation here we come.
I hope that it will improve at least... I want it to be good.
Just started reading Ana Satsujin today. Caught up on the 40 chapters that are out so far. It's... not incredible, but a decent little horror/romance story. The English title is "Peephole," same as Nozoki Ana, and it starts pretty much the same as Nozoki Ana, but instead of seeing something sexual through the peephole, the main character witnesses a murder. That's when any similarities to Nozoki Ana end though. Where Nozoki was a surprisingly dramatic story filled with heart (and the breaking thereof), Satsujin is mostly just some twisted humour sprinkled around a cat-and-mouse story.
This is why I don't really like reading ongoing series though. This chapter a week, chapter a month, chapter a quarter stuff makes it hard to really get into a story.
So Anakin kneels before Monster Mash and pledges his loyalty to the graveyard smash.
I just watched the first episode of Denki-gai, as I finished Princess Jellyfish.
I wasn't overly impressed with it... It had it's moments, but I think I was expecting more Gekkan Shoujo out of it. Ill probably continue watching it though.
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It looks like the vanguard of the Stern Ritter made their first kill of the Zero Division, and even managed to lay waste to the spirit palace, but it was all a trap by the member of the Zero Division they thought they had killed.
The palace they were in was a fake, and now the remaining members of the Stern Ritter find themselves in a wooden cage that absorbs spirit energy (and being Quincy, they can't break it), in a fight with the full force of the Zero Division.
In other manga news, I've dropped Holyland. It's not that I liked Tenjo Tenge more, it's just that I got really behind on it since all those Royals playoff games that went into extra innings last week cut into the time I usually use to read it (and I don't like trying to read two manga at once when I can't keep them at the same pace).
As for Tenjo Tenge itself? Well, it has recently had a bunch of the most cringe/facepalm worthy moments I've ever seen in a manga (especially that moment that looked like it belonged in an episode of Black Dynamite rather than a manga... ugh), but I'm trying to endure it, because when they get around to it, the action is good, and they're coming up on a tournament arc, which I usually enjoy.
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It looks like the vanguard of the Stern Ritter made their first kill of the Zero Division, and even managed to lay waste to the spirit palace, but it was all a trap by the member of the Zero Division they thought they had killed.
The palace they were in was a fake, and now the remaining members of the Stern Ritter find themselves in a wooden cage that absorbs spirit energy (and being Quincy, they can't break it), in a fight with the full force of the Zero Division.
In other manga news, I've dropped Holyland. It's not that I liked Tenjo Tenge more, it's just that I got really behind on it since all those Royals playoff games that went into extra innings last week cut into the time I usually use to read it (and I don't like trying to read two manga at once when I can't keep them at the same pace).
As for Tenjo Tenge itself? Well, it has recently had a bunch of the most cringe/facepalm worthy moments I've ever seen in a manga (especially that moment that looked like it belonged in an episode of Black Dynamite rather than a manga... ugh), but I'm trying to endure it, because when they get around to it, the action is good, and they're coming up on a tournament arc, which I usually enjoy.
No, seriously, stop. Even the fights in Tenjo Tenge get bad after a while, and you're getting dangerously close to the downhill point...may as well quit while you're ahead before it gets seriously stupid. There are far better battle manga to read, man.
I just watched the first episode of Denki-gai, as I finished Princess Jellyfish.
I wasn't overly impressed with it... It had it's moments, but I think I was expecting more Gekkan Shoujo out of it. Ill probably continue watching it though.
What is Gekkan Shoujo? As far as I can tell, Denki-Gai's a slapstick comedy about people working in a bookstore in Akihabara. At least that's the impression this trailer gave me, I haven't actually watched it yet so you know more about it than I do...
EDIT: Meant this trailer, but that other one seems more indicative of what it actually is?
I've watched Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun near the end of the anime season. It's supposed to be a romantic comedy but it gave me the impression that it was slapstick that poked fun at mangaka and manga serialization. I was laughing pretty hard in this one; I didn't expect most of the humor to be concentrated around the guys instead of the girls, and the punch lines hardly got old.
The only complaint I have is that one of the main protagonists eventually got demoted to a side character near the end.
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