I have much stuff to do IRL, as opposed to just sitting around watching anime for hours every day.

I know which of those I’d rather be doing, but such is life.

I’ve just caught up for this season, and the animation quality has been rough. I’m seeing a lot of Chinese studio names in the credits, so I’m guessing JC Staff went with the lowest bidders

The directors and writers have taken many liberties to adapt the manga story to the TV show format, which I feel is completely understandable given pacing problems in the manga.

Here, Garou has pretty much destroyed the Monster Association on his own, which I don’t remember happening in the manga, so I’m not sure what they have in store for us.

Just be warned: The Monster Association Arc drags on for a loooong time in the manga, far longer than I felt was welcome…

You want to see the heroes and you will, but unless they skip through some side stories, like they did with Cat Demon in the Prison in s03e01, it’s going to be here for a while.

But will the characters be the original Korean, or will they get whitewashed?

How about hiring critically acclaimed science fiction writers to devise plotlines?

Not AI, not committees of Ivy League fresh graduates, but actual successful writers.

Put the science fiction back into Star Trek.

I remember there was this interview by daytime soap opera star, and they talked about this character on the show who went up into an attic, and then that character’s actor was let go, and the character was never mentioned again.

“As far as I know, (the character’s) still up there in that attic…”

That art is soo good! That would be good for a manga panel, let alone an animation frame.

The first thing that popped into my head was the classic shojo manga Rose Of Versailles/Versailles No Bara, which conveniently has a 2025 animated movie remake on Netflix

This story is from a manga from the 70s, there’s the 1979-80 anime TV show, a 1987 animated movie.

I’ve never watched it myself, but it’s one of the most famous bishojo stories out there, so there should be something good about it.

Another is Legend of Galactic Heroes, which features a space monarchy that resembles 19th century aristocracy, fighting space battles with Napoleonic era tactics. But a lot of the story is about the politics on both sides of the war. There is/was a recent TV remake: Die Neue These

I’m just catching up with a couple of shows.

Mushoku Eiyuu is pretty bad. The OP is decent though. The MC’s overpowered-ness, awful animation, sexist humorless writing. It’s a drop after 3 episodes.

Ganglion is very low key humor. More a straight rendition of Japanese office behavior and the absurdity of being an evil org minion than any attempt at being outrageously funny. The 3 minute episode format works against the storytelling. It’s probably best to “binge”.

It’s very low key humor, and very much sticks to its premise of “Live action hero-type evil org (think Kamen Rider’s Shocker org) as typical Japanese office corporation, with the masked minions/combatants as office drones”

The protagonist is very sympathetic. He’s got a loving family, this episode we even see that his neighbors are nice, despite him walking home with his evil minion mask and uniform every day.

The 3 minutes episodes (including OP and ED) work against the long story that I feel this is begging to tell.

It’s not LOL funny, more like “what would happen if this absurd situation happened”

I like it because I love this kind of riffing on live action heroes, and doubly so for evil orgs: See Miss Kuroitsu From The Monster Development Department

It appears to be very much the perspective of a salaryman with a family imposed on the absurdity of being a live action show-type combatant/minion who of course works for an evil organization.

I can empathize with this statement from episode 2, for example:

Okay, just catching up, these 3 minute episodes just seem to fly by.

The voice acting is pretty good, led by veteran seiyuu Youji Ueda, Tomozaki Sugita, Aoi Koga, and Fumiko Takichi

Very much the Live Action Show combatant-as-salaryman in the 15 minutes of footage so far.

In that, it is kind of working, by showing the boss-worker social dynamics.

And I do like that he has a loving family, with an overly doting wife

@rikka@ani.social

But the running gag of our nameless combatant eating food objects that are too hot aren’t landing.

I do think that this makes better viewing in a longer format, and is best watched “binging” multiple 3 minute episodes in a row.

It’s about 1/3 down the original paper, but there is a photo of the frozen specimen:

It’s a couple of centimetres long: It’s a prawn.

Tough fight to call:

Online evil corpos exploiting creators vs. Corporate media vampires.

I’m sure they’ll find some middle ground where they both get to suck the life out of creativity to raise corporate earnings by a few cents.

!anime@ani.social posted their reviews of the movies in this thread

I enjoyed it, but more for Denzi’s slow burn falling in love with Reze than the fights, which I thought were confusing and not-really-choreographed.

The ending, which I found predictable, but well done.

edit: I watched it Sunday evening, so I was too late to get any of the promos: The Pochita popcorn bucket, or the trading card set

“The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of America’s deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot Captain William ‘Buck’ Rogers are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support system and returns Buck Rogers to Earth five hundred years later.”

As long as they keep that, and all women wear tight spandex and other skimpy costumes 500 years in the future, then I’m good.

Overall, I enjoyed it. I found Denzi’s falling in love with Reze believable.

But the ending was somewhat predictable, even if it was somewhat shocking and effective, which is probably(?) true to the source material.

The fight scenes got too wild to keep track of exactly was going on.

I found little logic in the fight scenes.

They were nicely animated, but ultimately at what should have been the crescendo of the fights were just figures jumping around, devolving into meaningless squiggling lines, which strikes me as lazy storyboarding.

As opposed to having tense fight dynamics and choreography. But again, the source material may be to blame.

The Thing (1982) poster was genius!

NY Times gift article link

Archived version

I don’t think we’ve got such a flood of posts that I need to search by hashtag to find what I want to read.

But that might just be me.

Has anyone had any problems reading or finding desired content in this /c so that tagging posts would be useful?