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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!
We're nearing the end of another season, so I've been deciding on my picks for next season.
Re: Zero kara Hajmeru Isekai Seikatsu S4
Still can't quite put my finger on what I like about this show. There's nothing really special about the characters or the story (much of which has been done in other series). Maybe it's how bad decisions are frequently met with actual negative consequences (even if the protagonist usually ends up just rewinding back in time) and the good guys are often outmatched and lose fights. There's a 'dark fantasy' feel to it that makes it a little edgy, even if it is otherwise filled with tropes.
Yomi no Tsugai
BONES adaptation of the Full Metal Alchemist author Arakawa Hiromu's current serial. I've been putting off reading this in anticipation of seeing it animated so I have no idea what it's like, but I've enjoyed everything she's put out so far.
LIAR GAME
I've made a couple of attempts to get into the manga for this one but it hasn't clicked. However, I thought the Madhouse adaptation for Kaiji was fantastic and have high hopes they can do the same for this.
Honourable mentions for stuff I read the manga for:
Dorohedoro S2
Aggressively offbeat and weird heavy metal fantasy with a story to match. An oddly addictive read despite the incredibly messy art. The author's current serial Dai Dark is also every bit as bizarre and enjoyable.
Tongari Boushi no Atelier
Fantasy series with luscious art, beautiful outfits and great world building. It's kind of like if Harry Potter really dug down into the themes about the privilege of magic users over regular people and the extent to which magic that can, you know, kill people needs to be regulated even at the cost of not using it to save lives. The animation in the trailer looks excellent (by BUG FILMS which did the very nicely animated Zom 100 - first episode in particular is incredible), although it doesn't really capture the art style of the manga.
I bought WHAT IF…CARTER BURKE HAD LIVED? recently and I'm looking forward to reading it. Aliens is my all time favorite movie and I had no idea this comic existed.