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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.
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Way back when I watched Last Exile, I put Blue Submarine No. 6 on my list, and I just watched it the other day.
Like Last Exile, the show doesn't waste any time introducing you to the world. Everything is flooded, humanity is fighting a war against ocean-dwelling Doctor Moreau animal people, and we're following the crew of Blue 6. Anything we can glean about the world is through dialogue and visuals, and they don't explain a whole lot
I really like a series that doesnt try to explain itself. Sometimes it's more interesting to speculate than it is to be told what's happening outright. This show leans a little too far in that direction, but there are shows that do it really well—Haibane Renmei, Serial Experiments Lain, Last Exile, to name a few.
My gut reaction to the CG was that it was bad, but I have an easy time settling in to an animation style. It's hard for me to judge, with the show being almost as old as I am—they couldn't have known how incredibly dated it would look decades after release. Besides, I love Range Murata's art style, so the 2d animation more than makes up for it.
I watched the dub, and I found the audio mixing made it really hard to understand what people were saying sometimes. Most of the English actors are somewhere between "okay" and "decent," but I loved Zorndyke's english voice. I can't believe he only acted in three shows.
7/10, and it's on the rewatch pile. It's only 4 episodes, not much of a time commitment.