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Gintama The Very Final due today. Man. Got rhe tissues ready. For all the reasons.

Solomon hits CR tomorrow.

We decided to pause Dennou Coil. Somehow Nflix only has a dvd transfer and their subs suck. So I hit up Rightstuf and grabbed the blu.

Unfortunately the GF was like shipping is a bitch so add other things.

I sorted by price low to high and 700 bucks later...

You can see a little Covid strain on the fonale's production values but I think it's foolish to expect Ufotable or MAPPA wuality from Gintama of all things. Be forever yorozuya is a better movie BUT this was an excellent conclusion to the silver soul arc and Gintama in general.

I think of it as a high prod value series of eps and in that way it works.

So halfway through princess connect s1 and its funny, and yes the MC doesn't get any screentime anyway but i don't have problems with cgdct :>

Also nier:automata the anime...
I kinda hyped, but i don't really think this will work beyond being eyecandy.

My big haul arrived just now. Included cat for scale, heh.

Gintama The Very Final was a very Gintama Final. Nowhere near the sakuga of most movies but enough to rock, and a fitting conclusion to where the series left us.

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Watched the Revue Starlight recap movie (rondo rondo rondo) and actual sequel movie. The recap has new versions of all the songs and I believe rerecorded dialogue, and some new cuts...and an entirely new ending with a hell of a cliffhanger, of course, because why else would we watch a recap?

The new movie though? Holy fuckballs. Sakuga. Sakuga for days. Didn't have the heights of Fate Grand/Order Camelot 2 but Camelot 2 was really emssy; Revue Starlight the movie was so consistently impressive balancing incredible action and fucking crazy aesthetics. Anyone who's seen Utena will know pretty much what to expect given this is by Utena's director's protege, and he REALLY has a thing for trains. I'd go so far as to call Revue Starlight's movie about as close to perfect as it could be. 2 solid hours in which no girl is short-changed -- and one who was done a bit dirty by the series gets her moment, finally.

I think Gosick is one of the worst animes I've ever seen. And it's beautifully animated by Bones with a pretty stellar cast led by Aoi Yuki with support by Sawashiro Miyuki and Hayami Show.

What a trainwreck.

really? its not really a mystery show and you may have to like the whole loli spiel but i don't really remember anything really trainwrecky about it.

Also, as always, japanese writers have strange ideas about any period in middle european history xD

anyth new worthy to see?

The next season is STACKED.

but anything new depends on your likes i guess.


for my part on the watchlist is:
kaguya-sama s3
spyXfamily
honzuki s3
machikado s2
mahoutsukai reimeiki

plus others, depending on the the 3 episode rule.
then again, may taste may be strange ;)

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tsunamikun wrote:

really? its not really a mystery show and you may have to like the whole loli spiel but i don't really remember anything really trainwrecky about it.

Also, as always, japanese writers have strange ideas about any period in middle european history xD

Really. The mc kun is incessantly shrill and supposedly smart enough to be in this elite European school despite not having five braincells between his ears, the 'mysteries' are basically solved by Aoi Yuki reading the script, the most interesting part of the whole thing is told in the background, the teacher is a godawful moron, the action is well-animated but often makes no real sense, EVERY FUCKING CHARACTER HAS A DOUBLE which is something you only get away with very sparsely or done very well (eg The Prestige), and it suffers from the usual issue of LN adaptations: uneven pacing, weird compression of time and terrible balance between 'episodic' and 'arc'.

It's just shit. Bones' nadir and no doubt.

As for 'have to like the whole loli spiel', please. I didn't feel this offended by Illya (in fact, plan to watch Oath Under Snow on bluray finally in a bit) and that's WAY more fanservicy. This has almost nothing to do with the MC being a loli. If anything, I found that irrelevant to how much is just straight up bad about that show.

HEY, you asked.

My poor partner really enjoyed what little she saw of it when it aired but even she had to admit it went to shit not long into it. And we're both huge Aoi Yuki/Sawashiro fans. Huge.

Glad it was only 20 bucks. Jeeze I'd feel bad paying full price for that show.

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We know we're truly behind when the next season of LOGH:DNT comes out. Haha.

hmm ok, don't remember too much about the series but i thought is was quite on the level of other things back that time. hmm 2011... i think the worst story/character was deadman wonderland back then... or kamisama no memochou gods^^
Anyway thanks for clarifying. I always thought they just liked letting mc kun speak her name over and over again because they liked the sound. And i don't even remembered the teacher!
And with the loli spiel i meant the strange fixation of every character in the show constantly reminding the viewer how cute/dolllike/awesome victorica looks.
I think what most annoyed me back then was that any and all conflict mc kun had was reseolved in the first or second episode. after that he was there to call her name and to get into trouble.

Anyway, i thought quite normal for the early 10s in case of romance anime. They seldomly made sense, support characters where mainly there for comedy or deus ex machina and the male MC had "please insert yourself" written all over him.