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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 finished Rurouni Kenshin - was surprised I liked it as much as I did! It’s very typical for the first 30ish chapters but in the opium/doctor/ninja arc it starts getting hyyype!
I was surprised because I read the artist's following work, Gun Blaze West, and it was…ehhh. Kenshin ends up being in my top-10 manga for sure tho.
I started new anime Heike Monogatari which looks very promising, letʼs look why:
Studio Science Saru worked with Masaaki Yuasa and give us good animes as Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! and Devilman: Crybaby. Well, one bad such as Nihon Chinbotsu 2020 too, but for me there problem was mostly only story, so other things were good.
Instead mentioned Yuasa there is another good director — Naoko Yamada — which famous by Kyoto Animations wors like K-On, Hibike! Euphonium, Eiga Koe no Katachi etc. And maybe that is why here drawing is not like _Yuasa_ʼs but still unique.
The anime based on one novel which not ranobe, if I did not mistake. So from first episode it remind me Dororo: a girl with boyish, old times and some mysteries; but, seems, it would be more accurate to history. I get a very good impression and wait for new episodes.
Science Saru was founded by Masaaki Yuasa (my favorite anime director!) He retired from leading it though (last I heard).
I don't have access to Heiki Monogatari yet but looking forward to it.