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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!
I'm very slowly watching through Taiyou no Kiba Dagram and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I've watched through episode 13 and have enjoyed it immensely. I've found there was a Reddit watch through a few years ago and I've gone and read some of the threads on it which has been interesting.
I did see in a review somewhere that one of the downsides is the lack of variety in the soundtrack. I completely agree, all the tracks are good and fit but you hear the same ones over and over again. I noticed it especially when I got the rare evening to myself and watched 3 episodes in a row.
I'm enjoying it and look forward to continuing my dive into older mecha anime at the glacier pace that is being a Dad with young kids and more than 1 hobby I enjoy.
Watched NieA_7 over the last week. It's likely the most obscure show I've seen yet, being notable only in that it's a distant cousin to the more widely known Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei.
(Some spoilers) NieA_7
What a fun little show. There really isn't much I can say about it that hasn't been said better by others. And yet, force myself to write I shall. This is not my best work.
"It's a funny thing to see, that moment when the extraordinary becomes ordinary."
You'd think a show about an alien living in someone's clost would be more... fantastical. Instead, this series shows a world that's almost indistinguishable from our own. They have strange customs, but are no stranger than any other human society.
The first few episodes set up a normal routine for the characters—Mayuko is a broke high school student barely scraping by even with multiple jobs, and NieA is her freeloading alien roommate who eats all her food. They live in an apartment above the bathhouse that Mayuko's family used to own. This routine is disrupted in the last few episodes, when NieA runs away from home, and the current owner of the bathhouse discusses potentially selling it.
Things change. Mayuko won't always live with NieA. The bathhouse won't stay around forever. The show doesn't end with NieA's disappearance, it doesn't end with the loss of the bathhouse. Only the understanding that these things won't last forever. That we should enjoy the time we have with the people and things we love while we can.
All that being said, the show isn't a masterpiece, and it has its flaws. Subjectively I wanna give it a 9, but objectively it's getting a 7/10.
Not the best review I've written, but I hate to see the weekly discussion thread sit empty for 12+ hours
My favorite review is DegenerateRegime's on reddit. This excerpt in particular describes the show more poetically than I could ever hope to:
One week pasted, many new animes arrived. What did I like from this, and will watch some new episodes:
Reboots:
New seasons or from the previous season: