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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
Finished Saiki K last week, and I’m beside myself craving more. Definitely in my top three all-time series so far.
This week, I’m just barely into the third season of Hunter x Hunter, and it’s definitely good but not great. Excellent world building and characters, run-of-the-mill plotline.
Following that, anyone have recs for series that have relatively grounded hand-to-hand combat instead of characters shooting balls of lightning and woo-woo magic at each other? The main rec I’m seeing from some cursory googling is Kenichi, which I’ll check out, but seems a bit tropey for my taste. Best examples I can think of for what I’m after would be the scenes in AoT that have throws/ankle picks/armbars, or a version of Cowboy Bebop with some realistic grappling thrown in the mix. I’m basically just thirsting for a bit more verisimilitude than the norm.
My fiancee and I are working our way through The Ancient Magus Bride and enjoying it!