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I'm glad. Even my Macross-Gundam-addicted friend over in Tokyo said it 'wasn't bad', so that's really saying something.

Anyway, we finished Devilman Crybaby (uh, yeah, uhm...) and it was her pick, so we're doing Utakoi for now. Since it's based around the 100 poems used in karuta and we fairly recently did Chihayafuru, we're getting a LOT of the references but it's still pretty much aimed at women with an interest in Heian-period romance. Lots of awesome seiyuu and humour keeps me into it -- as usual, Suwabe is in lecture mode. Sumanai.

Then it's going to be Gargantia.

My FApoc box is on the delivery truck. GAHHHHHHHHHH.

Ok, so apparently VE got quite a bit of hate aswell, that the characters aren't that well developed and such... well duh, it's the first episode... you know,where you establish the general setting and such.
Sometimes I just don't understand people.

Overhyping leads to crying.

Also omfg these Apoc BDs are shoiiiiny.

I watched both Miira no kaikata and Hakumei to Mikochi just now. Good stuff. Both slice of life, the former goes slightly towards comedy, while the latter has a more fantasy-ish setting. Both are really good imo, but I personally prefer Hakumei to Mikochi. It's yet another of those shows that has some ghibli vibes going on. Can totally recommend both.

I also watched Darling in the FranXX: Makes little sense so far, but barely enough to follow the story (which seems rather decent this time around), has some sort of post apocalyptic dystopian setting and WAY over the top action. Yep, it's trigger. Definitely, definitely trigger. And just like that I got my obligatory guilty pleasure show for this season. Well, this one and killing bites.
The soundtrack of Darling in the FranXX is pretty amazing though, I really like it. Gets you hyped as hell. Then again... trigger IS good at doing that.

Darling did it. It proved that Trigger's 2d sakuga-addiction and A-1's grounded 3D compositions is a marriage made in animation heaven. That first episode was just insane. It wasn't as batshit as Trigger's stuff like Kill la Kill and it wasn't as static as most A-1 productions. It was just the right blend of the two. That was delightful. Eva meets Pacific Rim meets KlK...or something. Will take more episodes to pin it down.

Sangatsu

Mango bride

Slow Start

I actually got to see Kimi no na wa in the movie theatre today, they showed it as some sort of special. NO idea why they just didn't release it the normal way here in germany... the run they had today was in japanese with subtitles (at sundays they always show something in the original language).
And (I know, BIG SURPRISE!!!!) it was well received overall so they will actually show it again next week. Who would've thought that the most successful anime film up until now would be... sucessful???

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went there and did it justice. No anime has so thoroughly explored the real issue of Japanese school bullying with such eager depth (Great Teacher Onizuka used it to show how cool Onizuka was with a hammer though) and Shaft did it justice. But damn am I glad it's over. It was...almost too much. And holy shit, that pseudo-Mayoi moment with the finger bite. No one does a crunchy finger bite like Shaft.

Oh, and I didn't pick Aoi Yuuki as Takagi (the sociopath bully). Damn!

The new teacher reminds me of my english teacher in 5th grade... he was without a doubt the best teacher I ever had. He just knew how the class worked and kept them in check (I tell you, no easy task with those classmates...). I don't think I've ever seen him angry... nobody even thought about letting it come to that though. We didn't dare. Not that he was intimidating. We simply had that much respect.
Enough derailing the thread for now.

Well, Gargantia lasted a whole afternoon and night. Wow, that was good. It was like Nadia done right. I only found out five eps in it was written by the Urobutcher. And the composer was the legendary Iwashiro Taro. There's a winning team. Quality stuff.

It was actually quite a lot like Now and then, here and there in reverse. Instead of genki shounen being sucked into a grimdark world, it's a grimdark soldier being sucked into a fluffy, happy, colourful world. And both had very high end composers: Iwasaki Taku for one, Iwashiro Taro for the other. At times, Iwashiro channeled a little of Iwasaki *and* Naoki Sato in this one.

BUT the result for both anime is surprisingly similar: that world shocks the stranger, forces him to mature, and then throws the full weight of its horrors at him. And both anime, incredibly deceptive on the surface, stretch the idea of 'humanity' to the very limits.

Because why not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5VLpVGJ1g0

As for this season i've enjoyed a surprising amount so far, a few i fell may get dropped but will give a chance.

Darling in the FranXX, first episode i enjoyed even if it needs a lot of filling in

Death March, nothing particularly bad about it yet, though it is pretty much done to death atm, hope it will pick up in a few episodes and make itself stand out.

Grancrest Senki, seems to be going full retard with the pacing atm...seems far to rushed and little to get you invested, it may change or it may just muddle through and not get any worse

Marchen Madchen, pretty standard so far, will see how the story develops(if it develops and not fall into copious fan service .

Mitsuboshi Colors, got a heavy ichigo marshmallow vibe from it, especially the art nothing ground breaking but will watch for possible lol's

Overlord II, since i've never read the manga this seems totally different to the original atm, though i get what Charan means about getting a bit confused a bit with log horizon (this type of anime seem to be VERY similar

Sora yori mo Tooi Basho, was one on my to watch list going by the brief descriptions before airing, it's different from what i expected but by no means bad...pretty fun so far actually.

Violet Evergarden, not sure what i was expecting going by the descriptions but it wasn't what was shown and surprisingly it was prety damn good for a first episode (though i don't get the comparisons to Gargantia

And Yuru Camp, which has been fairly placid so far but it's always enjoyable watching an anime when you have even a passing interest in what it is based on.