Maark Abbott, on 06 April 2021 - 07:42 AM, said:
New season stuff I've picked up and thoughts:
Yeah I watched waaaaaaay too much anime over the Easter weekend, too. Good timing, that, with the new season starting.
New stuff:
Maark Abbott, on 06 April 2021 - 07:42 AM, said:
Fruits Basket Final: it's Fruits Basket, it's cutesy hopeful times undercut with mental anguish and abuse. You know what you get at this point tbh.
I'm still not caught up on the previous season. Seems like there is way too much stuff to watch this spring, but hopefully I can find time to catch up with this for the finale.
Dragon Goes Househunting: Has the potential to be shenanigans. Mostly filler at this point.
I liked the slimes scene more than any of the dragon scenes, honestly, but yeah I agree it has potential. The encounter with the reality TV hero squad was funnier than I thought it would be.
Higehiro: Premise seems inherently suspect. Actual content is wholesome. Seems focused on the message 'you are precious and should not undervalue yourself'.
Koikimo: Kind of creepy rom-com. Hoping that there's some more character development from the main dude and that his arc is losing the sleazebag ways.
Combatants Will Be Dispatched: Sci-Fi Konosuba. It's not even trying to hide it. Lacks the charm of Konosuba one episode in.
Seven Knights: generic fantasy tbh. Filler. Could be fun.
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Vivy - Fluorite Eyes' Song: time bullshit with a story based on AI agency which I'm a sucker for. First two episodes were pretty good.
Visually, this looks really impressive. Only seen some clips so far, but I will definitely watch this just for the visuals alone, and hopefully the story is good, too. This is by Studio Wit, isn't it? Be interesting to see them tackle an original again after Attack on Titan was killing them for the last few years. Probably won't be as amazing as Rolling Girls, 'cause nothing is, but might get close!
Saint's Magic is Omnipotent: initially seemed like just another iseki / hero summoning, except the main character turns out not to be the hero and instead goes into alchemical research. The first episode was good.
I didn't really like the first episode. No major gripes, just lots of little things, like shouting at an unconscious guy to drink the potion over and over instead of just pouring it into his mouth. And the worldbuilding annoys me... like why are the people who make potions treated as if they're emergency doctors when they don't show any other medical knowledge/skill? Surely anybody can pour a potion in a wounded person's mouth. And the main character girl did this huge gasp of surprise when she went into the room as if it was full of rotting corpses but it turned out to just be a some guys leaning against the wall with bruises and a bit of blood on their shirts. I dunno, the story wasn't necessarily bad, but everything just sort of feels "off" and/or lazy about it and it bugs me.
Also checked out:
Jouran: Princes of Snow and Blood -- Has a kinda cool aesthetic, mixing classic Japanese swordplay with umbrella-crossbows and half-animal monster people. Some small bits of the story were a little annoying but worth checking out/continuing to see where it goes. Might be a really solid revenge story after all.
Masahiro no Oto -- First episode was suuuuuper fast-paced but they pulled it off and I'm totally hooked. 99% sure already this'll be my favourite of the season, the theme and the music performance is just beautiful. And then they ended the episode on an amazing cliffhanger so I'm even more excited for next episode.
SSSS.Dynazenon -- Feels *exactly* like SSSS.Gridman, so I guess that's mostly good, and plus side no amnesia characters this time. I have no nostalgia for this franchise but it's trigger so what the heck.
Burning Kabbadi -- Seems like a pretty typical high school sports show, all the characters feel like they could be right out of Slam Dunk or Haikyu or Prince of Tennis or whatever. But Kabbadi is an interesting different sport to cover, and it wasn't bad per se, so I'll stick with it for now.
Shaman King remake -- I never watched the original, was it good? Why does no one ever button up their shirt in this anime?!
Yeesh and there's still like half a dozen more series I want to check out this spring, why is this season so ridiculously packed???!!!
ALSO I finished off these ones from last season this weekend:
Horimiya -- Binge-watched the last 5 episodes. You can tell it is adapting just a tiny piece of an enormous manga so characters and plot points are showing up and disappearing all over the place, but the individual parts of episodes are fun, and it looks gorgeous.
Re:Zero season 2 -- Y'know what, they actually ended the season pretty good. I was finding it a slog in the middle of the season when it was huge flashback after huge flashback and not much was happening, but when they finally wrapped it all up it brought back a lot of charm.
Sk8 the infinite -- Just like it started, it was a visually exciting climax with a death-defying skateboard race, but the characters definitely didn't get any more likeable and the the way it kept trying to reinforce that "skating is supposed to be fun!" while the racers are trying to murder each other didn't make a whole lot of sense.
Log Horizon season 3 -- Great final arc and final episode, and then they leave us on a tease for what comes next that will probably never actually get adapted (or it'll take 5 years until they do) those bastards!
Phew, that was a lot. We should have COVID-lockdown easter long weekends more often, I'd get through so much of my backlog!
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