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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!
I’m on episode 52 of One Piece, binging hard. I’d say it’s cool and definitely above average, but far from memorable. It’s just nice to have something that long to watch right now, I don’t wanna decide what to watch every time.
I wish things advanced faster but you don’t get to 900 episodes by being concise.
Hey I'm also binging One Piece! Not as far as you but I'm having a good time with it. You're right about the pacing -- there's a lot of, for the lack of a better word, space in the episodes. I'm okay with it though -- like you said, it's easy not having to decide every time, and it's nice to have on while I crochet.
I'm on episode 70 something, and I'm sad to say that during my very intense binging I got sick of the purposefully slowing things down. I don't care about fillers (I don't even know if I saw one) and detours. I also don't know if this is exclusive to the anime. But it's just too much. So much repetition and reused frames. So many flashbacks -- including to scenes in the same episode. They use all tricks in the book to stretch the content. I feel fooled.
So I started watching Demon Slayer and remembered what a well-paced anime looks like. I may come back to One Piece, but IDK. They put too much water in the soup.
This was my exact problem too! I remember there was one community who removed empty fillers and blank stares from episodes, there had revised few arcs to make it tolerable. But I don't seem to find it anymore.
It's called One Pace.
Many thanks! I might give OP a go after all.
I've never checked it out, but I heard it's better for a rewatch. Sometimes the music won't match, etc. It's meant to follow the manga panel for panel.
Hm, fair. I've started doing other things while it's on, like crocheting, etc. So I might lose interest as well....
I'll have to look for the manga though.
I really might just be watching it for the theme song, lol. Such a bop.
End of the season is coming up fast. And overall for the shows i'm watching, it is a pretty mixed bag again. The few currently airing shows I'm watching aren't doing much for me at all. Meanwhile the old stuff isn't doing an amazing job holding my attention always. I wonder mostly with the old stuff, if I am running into the issue of not rewatching things. I already watched the really good stuff I wanted to see, so the stuff I'm finding now is more dredging up the bottom and hoping to stumble upon that hidden gem I missed. And as you would expect, that method is real hit and miss.
2020 Summer Week 8
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! Ep 8
So, this was the recollection about the past and how they first started to get along episode. Don’t have much to say about this show episode to episode. I don’t feel like it really is a show I can dig into and question things or make comments on. Because at its heart it is such a simple old premise and is doing a decent job at it.
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax! Ep 8
I just noticed this season has 12 episodes, and I just want to be done with this show already. All the pointless and draw out drama was perfectly fine when I was watching this show the first-time 5+ years ago. But at this point it just feels like things are being drawn out for the sake of making it longer and string everyone along. This has got to be the longest running love triangle at this point, and I’m not even confident it will be solved by the end of this season. The worst part by far, is I don’t get the idea that the relationship that forms in the end will be long lasting. More of a short high-school relationship that drifts apart once they all head off to various colleges and all this drama will be all that more pointless in an unwritten sequel.
I wonder ever episode, if I would have even made it through the first season if I started re-watching this show. And I’m pretty confident in saying I wouldn’t. The characters and relationship and drama all feel real and deep and full of meaning when your watching in highschool, but they have taken so long to finish the story I’m long out of highschool. I feel like if your doing a story in this style, that is relaying on your audience to largely be able to relate directly to the events occurring. You need to push out that content fast, and make sure that your target audience stays close enough age wise to the events occurring to still feel like they could be vaguely relevant.
The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED Ep 3
This was an amazing episode, and I think has made me decide to keep watching it. It worked so well to build the characters, show the reason behind some of their actions, and work to grow the characters. So yeah, I’m going to stick with this show for a while longer and see how it plays out.
2010 Summer Week 8
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan Ep 7
Looks like maybe we are getting some serious plot movement and development between the humans and the yokai. Feels like it has taken forever to get to this point though, and I’m glad it is finally happening.
Amagami SS Ep 7
Yea this played out pretty much as I expected. Girl gets upset about the mom dating and not wanting to have a new father. Guy swoops in and takes her off her feet, brings her spirits back up, and helps solve her family issues somewhat. But still I feel like it is moving way too quick. I was expecting each of these arcs to last a bit longer than they seem to be doing so.
Cat Planet Cuties Ep 7
Such an odd show. I honestly don’t know what it wants to be at all. And I seriously don’t understand who the various factions are. Sometimes it feels like going the love triangle route with the various girls going for Kio, but other times it wants to be a silly action show. And somewhere in here is a story they are trying to tell. In general, I think would be a better show if it was more focused, as it is it isn’t horrible but it isn’t amazing ether.
Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail Ep 4
Building on my comments last episode about the best parts of this show being the planning, this episode did what I wanted. Well for the most part that is. The superhuman maid is still crazy and I still hate her. But watching a plan come together, and slowly develop over the course of various episodes is such a great experience. Meanwhile they still have plenty of time to keep growing the characters, which isn’t something I really expected in this OVA.
I’ve never mentioned it before since I didn’t do a review on the original show. But I love how much Rock has changed over the course of the original show and this OVA. He has kept this clueless exterior mostly, but on the inside, he is one of the most dangerous players in the whole city by this point. Just look at this OVA, over the course of a couple days he managed to convince and arrange every major player in the city to move in the way that worked best for his plan and executed it without any trouble. I don’t know how the Manga plays out, but I would love to see what the end-goal for his character is.
After finishing Berserk for the umpteenth time, I'm now reading something strange called Prison School. It's actually hilarious and I'm quite enjoying it.