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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!
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Noir
https://myanimelist.net/anime/272/Noir
I knew from the first second of the first episode that I would love Noir. I loved near everything about Noir. The voice acting, the accents, the soundtrack, the pacing, the aesthetic, the action choreography, the plot, the ending. It's so good.
I know I usually rate things 10/10, but I'm going to dock one point for one reason: the lack of blood somewhat breaks immersion. It gets to the point where a guy gets shot with a shotgun on screen and is visibly uninjured, despite the wall behind him being full of holes. It's kinda silly how little violence there is in a show about assassins shooting a comedic amount of henchmen.
Highly recommend, if you think it looks interesting
I've realized the one bad thing about turn-of-the-century anime: they rarely have present-day fanbases. I feel like an archaeologist digging up ancient relics when I find discussions about my favorite shows, and there is little hope of finding any new commentary on them.
The first Gurren Lagann movie is tonight, and I can't bloody wait. There are like 15 people seeing it tonight, according to the movie theater's website, so I'm not gonna be the only wierd 30 year old watching a shonen by himself in a theater!
If anyone in Wichita finds themselves in the West Warren on Wednesday the 24th, send me a message and I'll make you a core drill necklace
Still working on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_Successor_Nadesico
I was shocked to see a
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RecapEpisode
because I hadn’t seen one in a while, because I watch a lot of
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwelveEpisodeAnime
like Haruhi Suzumiya, Re: Zero, or Chaika that don’t have time for recap episodes unless management badly breaks down but the show must go on. You can say these are filler, but in anime like Urusei Yatsura, Card Captor Sakura, Gundam and Futari wa Precure the recap episode is used to buy time to make investments into improving the system and making better episodes in the future. That’s what is going on here.
I find it charming how anime’s reach sometimes exceeds its grasp, like the first time they fire the wave motion gun in Yamato with the most amazing sequence but they put the most important cel in backwards or how Evangelion ran out of time before it ran out of episodes. Reaching really far though leads to
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AwesomenessWithdrawal
Speaking of Gundam, I started on the first Gundam compilation movie, the pacing is really good and no recaps. It's more brutal than I expected, and they fleshed out a lot of the spaceship tech to give a touch of realism, same with how the untrained kid acts when put into the soldier role. I expected a kids' show but it feels mature
Does Pokemon Concierge count as an Anime? It's technically animated and Japanese...
What a cozy, cute short series! I really loved the portrayal of all the pokemon and really hope they have a follow up with more pokemon. Everything looked super cute and the stories are super cozy, I liked the no-stress feeling.
I like what I've seen of Pokemon Concierge, it feels like I was transported to their vacation island lol, so soothing, and funny too
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