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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Might be a fun way to kill a handful of hours for the local weebs, delighting in seeing some of the coolest killing shit in pop culture brought to life by skilled smiths.

If you haven't yet, definitely watch their video about the Kill la Kill Scissor blade. They're taking that one quite literally. i haven't watched a lot of em lately, but I personally think that their earlier seasons of stuff were more entertaining than the newer ones. At one point it was just "Plasma cut it out, grind it down, heat-treat and temper it, paint it, put some decoration on and done." I much prefer the ones where they're actually forging the blades themselves, but I can roughly estimate just how much more work that is.

Ilya is a fucking beast. We first saw him on Forged in Fire. We moved to That Works after he left Man At Arms.



We are all caught up but for the latest ep, Glamdring.

The really early man at arms was mostly cutting too. And post ilya reforged is too. I was so disappointed in their Amalur greatsword. So...yeah, ilya is the man.

I'll get the chance to watch Made in Abyss: Dawn of the deep soul in a cinema nearby next week. German dub, but for this series it actually seems really ok. Which is fairly surprising to me, since most German dubs are... not ideal to put it lightly. I've been waiting for that one for quite a while now... I just hope it's as good or even better than the rest of the series.

they have finally pulled the plug on horrible subs, so it looks like either subbing to crunchy/funnimation or waiting to see if a decent sub group picks up any of the new season anime

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lagwin1980 wrote:

they have finally pulled the plug on horrible subs, so it looks like either subbing to crunchy/funnimation or waiting to see if a decent sub group picks up any of the new season anime

Friend of mine's an official translator, so he had a small party when he read this news. Horriblesubs have done a lot of decent work over the years but their time has past, and their attitude towards the industry is...horribly contentious. Legal streaming is ridiculously affordable now and pretty much anything worth watching season-to-season gets some sort of global licensing. And a lot of shit not worth watching...GIBIATE FOR GOD'S SAKE.

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Burn The Witch was lovely. Very much looking forward to seeing what Tite Kubo's got cooking. This was our first official Colorido outing. Yep, still haven't even seen Penguin Highway.

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Okay, so I never caught the Higurashi train when it first rode, and I know Netflix don't have 'Kai', the all-important second season, so yeah, I totally gave Passione's reboot a try. You can tell it's from a VN a mile away. I'm not hooked but I will be watching week to week. It's well-animated and well-regarded. What can go wrong? I just hope it doesn't shit the bed the way Mirai Nikki did.

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We were going to skip Lily but upon learning it's Shaft, well, that's out of the question now.

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Finally got around to Goblin's Crown. Disappointing, really. Structurally it's what you'd expect: 25% or so recap, the rest original content. But we are so hungry for more Goblin Slayer that this was pretty much a tease of an effort. Amused that they got a top tier seiyuu for the incomprehensible bad guy though. Sasuga White Fox.

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Mr Love remains our sleeper of the season. Nothing amazing but MAPPA took that Chinese cash and made something very competent. That said, I want to go back and do Appare because it's been put on the same sleeper shelf as Granbelm and Planet With. Mighty words indeed.

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We'll also go back and do Fire Force s2, ReZero s2, and I suppose SNAFU s1-3, given we only got six eps in before being distracted.

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The news that 5brides will be finished production before it even airs is very promising indeed. A new slew of figures from goodsmile made clear that this one was coming back soon enough.

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Reddit and ANN seem to agree that Rent-A-Girlfriend was trash (with reddit loving that, and ANN crying about it), but we enjoyed it. Aoi Yuki was, as usual, the highlight.

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I have almost finished a super casual 'while I eat' FateGo: Babylonia rewatch. That show was just too much for a single viewing, week to week. It marathons beautifully.

Okay, already off to a good start!

As suspected, Lily is pretty much Symphogear+Starlight by way of Shaft. Easy keeper.

Elaina MIGHT be one of the best starts I've seen to a show, ever. Flying Witch, LWA, Mushishi...but with a stronger, more focused set-up than any of those. C2C have never really impressed me but this looked top tier.

Finally, Jujutsu Kaisen is exactly as good as the hype indicated. ANOTHER Mappa banger, with the director of the ill-fated God of High School doing what seems to be a mix of Fate, Kekkai Sensen, and I dunno what else. Clearly some Bleach influence, possibly a little Naruto. But mentioning either of those sidesteps how grisly and horrific the occult undertone really is. A lot of sakuga flex, but also a lot of humour and heart. This one's the Kimetsu no Yaiba of the season.

There's a bunch of other good sub groups, horrible subs were ok (not great not bad just ok). nyaa.si almost always has a anime ready to torrent in 1080p from a good sub group.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Okay, already off to a good start!

As suspected, Lily is pretty much Symphogear+Starlight by way of Shaft. Easy keeper.

Elaina MIGHT be one of the best starts I've seen to a show, ever. Flying Witch, LWA, Mushishi...but with a stronger, more focused set-up than any of those. C2C have never really impressed me but this looked top tier.

Finally, Jujutsu Kaisen is exactly as good as the hype indicated. ANOTHER Mappa banger, with the director of the ill-fated God of High School doing what seems to be a mix of Fate, Kekkai Sensen, and I dunno what else. Clearly some Bleach influence, possibly a little Naruto. But mentioning either of those sidesteps how grisly and horrific the occult undertone really is. A lot of sakuga flex, but also a lot of humour and heart. This one's the Kimetsu no Yaiba of the season.

Sounds like there's some really good stuff this season, I completely forgot that it's already started.
From what you said there, I will likely give all 3 of those a try. Damn, none of them had even been on my radar so far...

That said, I'm very much looking forward to the new Log Horizon season that's supposed to come out this season aswell, I just hope they don't fuck it up.



Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul was amazing. I got to see it on the big screen, which is absolutely what it was made for, but either way it's worth watching. No recap, no filler, just straight up continuation of the story. And my god what a story it is. I already knew what was going to happen from the manga, but seeing it animated (and more importantly, with sound added to it)? It was terrifying and disturbing to a whole new level.

Penkin's music definitely helped. He really outdid himself on this one.

Also, the German dub was surprisingly good for the movie. I honestly didn't expect that.


Also, if anyone saw made in abyss and thought it was interesting, but a little too gruesome at certain points, do NOT watch the movie. You've been warned.

We'll see MiA when we see it. Penkin's amazing but I feel bad for his having to work on that crater Tower of God. Composer's gotta eat I guess.

Log Horizon s3 still doesn't feel real. It's up there with Chiharafuru s3 with 'is this really happening?!'

Another great one I'd totally forgotten about is Maojou de Oyasumi. It's pretty funny and relaxing at the same time. I don't think they can really mess up in any significant way with this one.




Oh and regarding Log Horizon 3... apparently it got delayed until January. Oh well, what's 3 more months compared to the amount of time we've been waiting already.

Warlords of Sigrdifa wasn't really on our radar but A-1 doing a mix of Kotobuki, Tanya and Strike Witches is strangely enjoyable. Also, surprising amount of 2-D vehicles. And since it has at least some Kaguya staff on-board, the character animation is just flex after flex. Also, the trio of 'normal' pilots as the Valkyries' commentary source is so damn meta it's not funny. Well, it is funny, but also kind of not.

But the one show you can't miss this season, the one you probably wouldn't even notice, is Talentless Nana. I will say no more. Just watch the first episode.

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On a completely different page, the GF wanted to give Tsukuyomi MoonPhase another go. Apparently she tried to watch it when it came out, and was...unlearned in the ways of Shaft and of Shinbo. It's pretty Zetsubou but it definitely has Shinbo's fingerprints all over it. He was reluctant to be too heavy-handed, since it's Moe and he wasn't familiar with the genre (he cut his teeth animating the Dark Tournament Arc of Yu Yu Hakusho, and then Metal Fighter Miku) but the mangaka asked him to do so nonetheless. The shared lead seiyuu with a certain other big Shaft work is hard to miss:

Kamiya Hiroshi (Araragi)
Saito Chiwa (Senjougahara)
Sakurai Takahiro (Meme)

Pretty fun stuff, and definitely well animated for its time (2004). A pity pretty much everything made then was afflicted with this weird DVD-era soft filter.