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Quietly amazed that Kotaku, of all the publications, got Bastard!! completely.

https://kotaku.com/bastard-netflix-anime-harem-heavy-metal-trashy-ecchi-1849135990

There's still hope the hand-wringers at Anime News Network might fuck up and start moralising about it...

I think NO ONE who has actually seen the show would think it is any other thing than a parody. I mean come on^^
then again, outrage == clicks so maybe they will do it for the fun of it.

On other things: The season is starting and there are already multiple blasts from the past. engage kiss as well as lycoris recoil feel like things out of 2010.The later feels like hyouka and gunslinger girl had a baby wtf; while the former reminds me on shows like black bullet without the cringy lolicon factor. both profit from A-1 insane production quality. That studio is on a roll right now.

PSA re Bastard. There are two english sub tracks. The default is the CC dubtitles track. If you manually change it to just English subtitles, you get very accurate if a bit stiff subtitles.

I just watched the first half of episode 1 to confirm this. I do not know why Netflix put the dubtitles track as default for Japanese audio accompaniment. This seems a weird error on their behalf.

I plan to rewatch with the proper subs today.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Oh it'll get fansubbed for sure: a lot of weebs refuse to use Netflix for reasons cited, and because of their need to make things 'marathon' rather than weekly (for the most part).

But I'm hoping for a home release with better subs.

Also, Hagiwara has confirmed they're doing this series because he's never going to finish it, so I really am suspecting we'll get an anime-only ending that ties it all off before it gets really bonkers.

Omg the Assassin... LOL... Dang...

Watch the original Bastard!! OVA if you haven't. The netflix series is far more comprehensive but the OVA has a certain tightness to it that the new one can't match. It also does the spells WAY better. Better music. Better seiyuu. And higher spikes of animation quality, even though most of the time it's about on par with, say, the Lodoss OVA.

Warning though: episode 6 of the OVA (the last episode) covers material not yet touched in the Netflix series, and will almost certainly be handled by the first few episodes of cours 2.

Alright, soooo... I finally (seriously, I've been planning to do this for MONTHS now) watched the final Evangelion movie (yes, yes, I know, it's not the series proper). That was... something. Not exactly the ending I was expecting, especially how/with whom people ended up with. Also, a vast majority of the religious symbolism and whatnot probably went WAY over my head. Oh well, satisfying conclusion nonetheless.


On another note, my god is this current season stacked with great sequels. And I mean STACKED. Devil is a part timer (fucking finally), Danmachi, Made in Abyss, Classroom of the elite.... there's probably way more, these are just the ones I'm currently watching. And then there's also quite a few damn good new entries. I would heavily recommend Isekai Ojisan if you've seen at least some Isekai shows already. It's a parody of the genre in a vastly different way than Konosuba was, but no less hilarious.

Anyways, back to checking out more of the new stuff... and finish some of the older shows I still haven't.

Eva ended very well.

hmm i lked the orignial ending back in the days.
THis season both the noitama project as well as those two A-1 Productions are quite good. but as best newcomer, I would say lycoris recoil. at least for the amount of pretty. storywise its a hard season as made in abyss as well as shadows house have their sequels.

Also watching princess principal right now, god thats good shit. Especially as a drinking game xD

Princess Principal, right, I KNEW I had a show with a Kajiura soundtrack I still wanted to watch. I've been putting that one off for... quite some time now.

Haven't given Lycoris Recoil a try yet, but only heard good things so far.

In terms of overall quality, Engage Kiss is surprisingly well made, considering the premise (which is admittedly kinda... yeah. Then again, Fate/Kaleid's "Mana Transfer" was probably worse). Also a fair amount of backstory, character drama and consistency. I will probabyly keep watching it. Seems like it has potential. And if it crashes and burns to the ground, it'll be entertaining in it's own way.

yeah engage kiss is not as bad as first feared, the synopsis read itself like some strike the blood clone but especially the two female leads carry this show in terms of entertainment. the male lead isn't that far behind the priconne male lead is it stands right now.
Outside revenge angsting nothing much to on xD

Now, i will go back to the black lizard planet to lament that there is no 3rd movie yet :(