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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!
Chinese animation season continues.
Super Cube
Boy gets super powers from space cube and fights other dudes. Bog standard fighting show with a pinch of light novel progression fantasy (power levels, skills, levelling up stats and all that). Inoffensive stuff albeit rather bland.
The animation for the bulk of the show isn't anything to write home about, but in a couple of episodes, it goes super hard on the action scenes, at which times it genuinely looks amazing. It's a shame they didn't have the budget to make the rest of the show more on par with this level of quality.
This show also features a (possibily unintentionally) funny 'This is dangerous! Do not imitate!' disclaimer in every scene where the characters do anything remotely risky, like sitting on a ledge, hanging out over a railing or just doing an edgy pose. I still haven't worked out whether this is a serious warning or just a really tongue in cheek running gag, but it's great either way. To add to the comedy, it's completely random whether they bother to show the disclaimer during actual fight scenes where people are beating each other senseless.