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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!
The first week of the new season had been gone.
Not so much I liked, but for now I keep:
Anne Shirley
Remake. I didnʼt any other version nor read original writing.
Lazarus
For now looks like full-action in very good quality where story-telling isnʼt so much important.
Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de
Comedy-detective.
Summer Pockets
Based on VN from Key. I didnʼt play this, but design, music, cameras resemble to Canon even we have other studio here.
Rock wa Lady no Tashinami Deshite
About rock music and a school for rich persons. Sadly, music action is different style, 3cg if to be more specific.
Witch Watch
Romcom + SoL with supernatural elements. I liked OP, recommend to watch this whichʼs pretty cute or sweet.
Zatsu Tabi
Well, yeah, turism ads, but iyashikei for now.
Shoushimin Series
Well, I liked the first cour, so Iʼll watch this too. Again, I recommend to watch OP, in this case itʼs more specific.
Just notes by myself but skipped because of my taste. But I still recognize them as good animes — at least based on the first episodes (the same is for previous list).
Aru Majo ga Shinu Made
If someone loves tear-squeezing.
ED from Ballpark de Tsukamaete! You love dances, yeah?
Kowloon Generic Romance
I guess, mystery with SoL elements. Pretty good animation and some easy-ecchi.
My wife and I are continuing our vintage binge and we decided to go and experience Gundam 0079 in all of it's 1979 glory. My wife and I wanted to watch something that we always knew was a pivotal change in the anime landscape but never got around to watching it ourselves... well, I kinda did, back when it was on Cartoon Network, but it was disjointed because if you missed a couple days for some reason then you were really out of the loop and nothing made sense. My wife only had experience with the recent, but great, Witch from Mercury series which is what spurred this decision. I had partial 0079, 08th MS and Wing under my belt as well so I was relatively primed for this.
Watching it coherently was great, because I got to really piece together why this show was so special. For it's time, it had great animation and top tier story telling. The characters themselves are deep and never static. They falter, they change and they grow. You really do get the feeling of "War is hell" and neither side is that great, but god damn do you want to root for the crew of White Base and everyone on it. The story holds up incredibly well, even nearly 50 years later as well, with some plot points being a relic of the period of which this was made but also many more just being a great representation of humanity and the challenges of war.
The other major point that I noticed is all of the references that later anime pulled from this show. Of course other subsequent Gundam shows continually referenced this, but seeing where Macross, Code Geass, Eureka Seven, Evangelion and countless others got inspiration from was well worth the price of the admission.
Amusingly, Geoff over at Mothers Basement provided a better summary than I just did literally 2 days after we finished the series. Go and give that a watch, he goes into more detail into why this was such a big hit.
As for us, we're taking a dose of slice of life for a bit before we dive back into the "war is hell" of exploring the rest of the Gundam franchise. I'm thinking we'll finish up the side stories around the one year war and then move on to Zeta to progress the main plot. It'll be interesting to see the interpretations of the characters throughout the era as we shift between animation styles.