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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!
Just wrapped up the Kaguya Sama: Love is War manga! It was a great rom-com, with a good emphasis on the comedy. It went a little off the rails towards the end, but still tied up nicely. Highly recommend, and a great example of a romance story that I don't have to give any warnings about.
I've just come off watching the newly released episodes of the anime. The original TV series is one of my favourite comedy/romances of all time - writing, direction, animation, music and performances, the whole package - and I thought the ending for the TV series and the movie were both great ways to wrap up the series.
These new episodes, on the other hand... the whole time, I was just thinking 'I didn't need to see this.' I would have much preferred to see a conclusion to the Ishigami plotline, which appears completely MIA.
Hopefully the manga didn't drag it out as much as the anime seems to be doing!
Read all three volumes of The Hunters Guild: Red Hood. A fun adventure based on fairy tales, with a werewolf hunter who got turned into a child, a fire witch named Cinderella, and a plot twist that I never would have seen coming.
Also read A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation. The way Lizel treated everything as a casual outing, even when they were fighting a dragon. Gil's annoyance with all the random people who decide to join Lizel is hilarious.
Have you read the latest work by the author of Red Hood? It's called Otr of the Flame, currently serialized in weekly jump. Feels like it's got more lore and runtime than Red Hood while keeping the author's narrative style, though it's still far from a long-running series.
I've been in the mood for horror lately and reading Utsuranain desu. It runs in Weekly Sunday and is about a boy who attracts ghosts meeting a girl who repels them.
It has very clean art and a dry sense of humour which I quite like, and the weekly horror dynamic reminds me a little of Shibito no Koe wo kiku ga yoi which I also liked, although this is much less gory.
It isn't earth shattering stuff, but it is cute with likeable characters and given the serial, I wouldn't be surprised to see it animated soon.
A movie Hyaku m.
A classic spokon as possible, the only notable difference from average that this covers more career, because most spokons are limited to school. About 100-meter run race. Heavely rely on rotoscopy, and in some cases where it for sure not intended itʼs very notable, thus kinda bad, but not to critical level.
TV Special with two episodes: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Otona e no Kaidan
Nothing to say, basically it's the same, as previous seasons: slice-comedy, but here in style of an afterword. And the second episode brings really something interesting, heh.
«TV Special» with five episodes, if to be more precise, just a missed arc about Kaho from the [previous] first season: Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Nai jan, Muri Muri! (*Muri ja Nakatta!?): Next Shine! Mai for me is still the best, heh.
About the new winter season Iʼll write in the next threads, when most the first episodes of new titles will be released (it usually takes around two-three weeks).