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It’s time for a new general discussion thread! Hot takes, recommendations, questions, cautionary tales, all of it is welcome here.

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  • wjs018@ani.socialOPMEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    Some quick thoughts on what I watched this past week:

    • Dan Da Dan - Continues to be the standout of the season. Lots of intense and unpredictable fun.
    • Orb - More amazing drama this past week. More people should watch this. Hopefully after getting lots of praise in the recent Gigguk Nutshell video, more Western audiences will check it out.
    • Tower of God - I am up through episode 18 and it has not been great, even after the start of the workshop battles. Maybe it will get better after the early rounds? Right? Right? Please…
    • Appraisal Isekai - I have continued to enjoy my time with this show. It has done enough to keep my attention though I wouldn’t call it a standout in any particular way.
    • Loner Isekai - This is my guilty pleasure for the season. It’s pretty dumb and super tropey, but if you turn your brain off, it is fun to laugh along with the stupidness.
    • NegaPosi Angler - Really great episode this past week. We seem to be just starting to scratch the surface of the more serious thematic elements of this show.
    • Villainess in History - Another stupid fun show. If you are able to either laugh at or look past the skeeviness of the prince courting a child, then this is a pretty humorous villainess series.

    Non-seasonals:

    • Look Back - A visually beautiful and touching movie that is worth checking out now that it is globally released. At only ~1 hour long, it isn’t too much of a commitment and it justifies every minute of its runtime with beautiful animation and an excellent soundtrack. The story might not connect with everybody, but I enjoyed my time with this movie.
    • Trigun (1998) - Just finished the series this past week with my wife. I haven’t read the manga, but based on the show, the end is…alright. Overall, the show is really kind of split into two parts. The first half of it is basically all goofy villain of the week episodes. Then, after we meet the character of Legato, the whole story transitions into a serious sci-fi story about humanity’s role and place as it explores the stars and the human will to survive (trying to avoid spoilers). The two parts of the show just felt disjointed.

    The last thing I wanted to write about this week is that there is a new community for sharing anime videos, !avid@ani.social, founded by @kiri@ani.social. There have been a couple videos posted already, so make sure to check them out and contribute if you have anything you want to share. I have added a link to the community in the sidebar of this community as well. In an effort to help out, I will be crossposting at least the next several clips that I make for this community over there as well.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      I haven’t read the manga, but based on the show, the end is…alright.

      The Trigun Maximum manga wasn’t finished at the time the series aired, so their endings are unrelated. The last 4-5 episodes of the anime are complete originals. (There were two different manga series, and I think the original Trigun manga had more of the goofy-villain-of-the-week stuff, while Maximum, which picked up where the first series left off, was more serious.)

      • wjs018@ani.socialOPMEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Things make so much more sense now. It all kind of lines up with where the shifts happened. Thanks for the explanation! Those old days where anime would blaze ahead of the source material were sure interesting sometimes.