The year has flown by. With the 40 h work week, you’re speedrunning getting old!

Manga

I’m still only reading Great Teacher Onizuka and Shibuya Near Family - both of which are good.

Anime

Gundam SEED Destiny was a mess, and feels like a waste of time for what is 100 episodes of Gundam. And yet, there’s still the movie to go through. Fun. D+

Eureka Seven is a show I’ve started recently, and is quite competently made. Not much is original, it feels like, with the show’s themes (so far) being kinda obvious - a coming of age story. But I don’t dislike it, and studio Bones is pretty reliably good. B

Dragon Ball Z - The Frieza saga ended - 200-ish more episodes to go. But DBZ is reliably good, even if slow. A

Vision of Escaflowne is good, even if imo somewhat harmed by the comparisons to Evangelion. I liked it A-

Wasteful Days of High School Girls is something I picked up on a whim and surprised me. Another show from the Azumanga / Nichijou genre, it’s a fun one. I haven’t had out-loud laughs at an anime in a while, but maybe it speaks of me I enjoy the kind of silly nonsense this show is about. A

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    18 days ago

    I keep a document of every time my mom says an anime title slightly-to-very wrong, and one of the ones she gets wrong the most often is Asobi Asobase. So you writing “Asobe” instead of “Asobi” just reminded me of that.

    oooaaaaaaauhhh

    I feel like the first season was stronger than the second one in some ways, like the plot in the second season is more complicated than it really needs to be when it’s a parody show. But aside from that, Momo and Shamiko’s relationship is pretty cute, and it is a pretty entertaining work overall.

    I think this is kind of natural in any long-running work centered on genre parody. You can only make the same jokes so many times before you have to either end the series or start taking the world and plot more seriously. Same thing happened/is happening to One Punch Man.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      18 days ago

      You can only make the same jokes so many times before you have to either end the series or start taking the world and plot more seriously.

      I suppose so, but there are exceptions to this rule, too.