Anime |OT| Fall 2022 - I didn't think I'd find you perfect in so many ways.
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Romantic Killer 1
It's like this show was made exclusively for me. I will say the first chapter of the web comic was better structured and paced. I'll probably continue to read it as I watch this.
Romantic Killer 2
The multi-angle pan hit almost gave me a cramp I laughed so hard.
Romantic Killer 3
Aw man are we getting serious already?? No! Keep fighting, Anzu! Anyway the Childhood Friend showed up.
It's like this show was made exclusively for me. I will say the first chapter of the web comic was better structured and paced. I'll probably continue to read it as I watch this.
Romantic Killer 2
The multi-angle pan hit almost gave me a cramp I laughed so hard.
Romantic Killer 3
Aw man are we getting serious already?? No! Keep fighting, Anzu! Anyway the Childhood Friend showed up.
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I'm sure Persona 4 could have taken its idea of high school students hunting down a hidden supernatural evil in a small, quiet town after an inciting incident where a corpse is found hanging from power lines from absolutely anywhere.
Even outside the action, MAPPA went all the way. Hope those animators both key and in-between had reasonable hours/pay. Episode 4 was basically a movie.
Depends on what didn't grab you.
The biggest differences are that the anime is slower paced so far, and the voice and sound direction gives it a more serious tone overall.
But it might just not be your style, and that's fine too.
Does Denji get better at least? His initial motivations/charecterization isn't.... Exactly endearing himself to me.
Denji's whole thing is he's powered purely by id due to his circumstances and a lot of his development comes from him trying to learn how to be a normal person. Or at least a normal person in the Chainsaw Man world. Denji has a small and frankly sad dream because he's still stuck in the mindset that he doesn't deserve much more than what he's got.
I like Denji and what the story does with him a lot.
I get what they're generally going for themstically, but I still find the motivation really dumb and even kind of annoying.
Maybe the series just isn't for me. After a lot of the hype, I wasn't expecting a main character with their main initial motivation being to cop a feel though.
It's more than that though, I thought you had read 30ish chapters, you would have seen what happens?
He doesn't know jack-shit about living as a normal human in the start like a literal dog, this shifts to him finally understanding what living in a family feels like and that kind of affection. He is still a juvenile kid but the series goes places where this is a triviality to the life he will face.
Yes I have gotten to the point I think you're referring to
Where he cops a feel and is left disappointed is what I presume you're talking about?
I mean, I don't think his mentality doesn't make sense in the confines of the world. I just find it dumb as a character trait and it makes me dislike him a bit as a result. Maybe that's the point though and he'd endear himself to me later? Dunno. Even the additional insight so far doesn't really do it for me yet though.
If you don't understand from the first episode how shit his life was then i don't know what to tell you, this guy didn't have a crumb of happiness or a childhood. Denji wasn't gonna turn out balanced from that experience, he is a dipshit learning about the ways of the world and people aren't just looking at this series inspite of him. Once all of Part 1 is adapted anime onlys can maybe binge it like a lot of manga readers. CSM is a fast read which is why it got mega popular imo.
I do understand lol. Just because I understand how he got a certain way doesn't mean I have to like him or his stupid decisions/thoughts though?
Oh i have character arch-types i dislike, particulary super geniuses and master minds like Lelouch from Code Geas, but that alone isn't a judgment call on the series.
Denji is towering above the rapist of generic isekai protags, and future character arcs and reasons for being why he's like that exist.
I mean, I think Denji is supposed to be "understandable but a bit unlikeable" on purpose. He's literally starting at the bottom, in a number of ways, part of what makes Chainsaw Man so good is his growth as a human being. Things like (spoilers for like chapter 29 or whatever)
realizing that he might not be capable of mourning death, even thinking that if the object of his affection died he would be ok in like 2 days
is an interesting concept and not one you would find in a "shonen hero"
Yeah, I got to that point. It's definitely different, I suppose, but even that isn't something that particularly gets me into the character himself?
Sure, I didn't even mean to spark much debate about this character. Im just a bit lukewarm on the series in general, and yeah, Denji isn't a character I'm excited to follow at the moment and was the quickest thing to ask about.
I mostly brought it up in the first place because there are so many memes about how relatable the character/series is and I was worried that meme relatability was for some kinda dumb(imo) reason like his initial motivations being so horny.
The relatability part is less about horniness, but more like being disasters at life trying to survive the capitalist hellscape and keeping your sanity. Aki is a big fan favorite for being husband material who is good with kids, but also people will simp for whatever or whoever is attractive.
Well memes take base things and drive them into the ground, so I wouldn't take any stock on that.
Hell, episode four posts on reddit are like 80% "omg he gonna touch booba", pretty much ignoring all the -other- character work in the episode, like Aki's conversation with Denji (and them coming to an agreement).
Some of them even ignore that despite Denji being so close to fulfilling his dream, he's still not in control. Power has all the control in the situation. She makes the rules, she's in ownership of her (ok the corpse she's in) body. And that's the thing about Denji, he's never a molester type or anything, "consent" is actually something he waits for, despite probably not even knowing what the word is.
I think it might be good if you just blow through the rest of the Part 1 manga. If you're thirty-ish chapters in, you're already 1/3rd of the way there since there's 97 chapters and it's a pretty brisk read.
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i've said it a few times but for me CSM only really went complete batshit 'wow what the hell' around 3/4ths or 2/3rds of the way in, so around chapter 70 or so. I mean it's a good ride all the way there but that's when I went 'huh. this might be one of the greatest comic reading experiences I've ever had'.
Shadows House s2 ep 1 to 12 EngDub End
Kind of a downgrade over season because this season took so long to become a gram of as interesting as s1 was. Really felt like much of it was pointless until the whole veiled doll (Master Robe) mystery and lore dump occured which was great. I think it was also a step down in the main cast department. I liked the friendship gatherings with everyone involved, it becoming a Shuan John Kate and Emilico thing was a little dull. Patrick and Ricky felt like an afterthought and they were the highlights of season 1 for me.
Though, I will say, I liked s2 for the insights into the past. Young Edward was great and Anthrony, Olly were great too.
Hope an s3 is fast tracked for 2023.
Kind of a downgrade over season because this season took so long to become a gram of as interesting as s1 was. Really felt like much of it was pointless until the whole veiled doll (Master Robe) mystery and lore dump occured which was great. I think it was also a step down in the main cast department. I liked the friendship gatherings with everyone involved, it becoming a Shuan John Kate and Emilico thing was a little dull. Patrick and Ricky felt like an afterthought and they were the highlights of season 1 for me.
Though, I will say, I liked s2 for the insights into the past. Young Edward was great and Anthrony, Olly were great too.
Hope an s3 is fast tracked for 2023.
Well, I will say that I really like the series, but consider Denji to be the weakest of all major characters personally.
Even if I don't care too much about Denji, I still like the stories him and the rest of the cast are put through.
DIY 4-5
Not a fan of Jobko. She drags down the otherwise entertaining cast. And of course, leave it to the American to just barge into someones house and commandeer a part of it for themselves.
Yua Serufu is still the best thing about this show. Her beef tongue convo with her mom was hilarious and I love how enthusiastically she takes every opportunity to say "DIY!" lol.
Some great DIYing on episode 5 too. Happy shes making small progress and able to screw things in properly nowadays.
Not a fan of Jobko. She drags down the otherwise entertaining cast. And of course, leave it to the American to just barge into someones house and commandeer a part of it for themselves.
Yua Serufu is still the best thing about this show. Her beef tongue convo with her mom was hilarious and I love how enthusiastically she takes every opportunity to say "DIY!" lol.
Some great DIYing on episode 5 too. Happy shes making small progress and able to screw things in properly nowadays.
was trying my hardest to understand the final arc but being high didnt help lol show went to kingdom hearts levels of convoluted in a wonderful way by the end
Macross 2
Absolutely wild episode. First it was clown shoes as everyone on team Earth found a way to mess things up. The kid leaving the girl outside the plane to get shot at was hilarious but we then proceeded to have massive tonal whiplash when the kid encounters an alien. The aliens are actually giant men and then Focker kills the giant and the kid has a freak out. I thought this was gonna be diet Gundam but that was a pretty shocking moment, I'm impressed.
Absolutely wild episode. First it was clown shoes as everyone on team Earth found a way to mess things up. The kid leaving the girl outside the plane to get shot at was hilarious but we then proceeded to have massive tonal whiplash when the kid encounters an alien. The aliens are actually giant men and then Focker kills the giant and the kid has a freak out. I thought this was gonna be diet Gundam but that was a pretty shocking moment, I'm impressed.
They know exactly what they're doing with that finger gun at the end...
I don't know. Maybe it just due not having water cooler moments right now which...is really an audience problem than a show's.
I know this will make me sound like an absolute heathen, but I've never really cared for voice acting. I watched anime on mute for the longest time, in fact, though this was not necessarily voluntary. That said, for whatever reason I loved the exchange between chainsaw guy and the leech. It's interesting how they've given chainsaw guy a dog theme, and it's especially funny that a baddie compared him to a yapping lapdog to play on that theme, I suppose.
The most I've enjoyed a show in a long while.
The most I've enjoyed a show in a long while.
I've seen some negativity, which I don't quite get. It's slice of lifey at the moment and it works in my opinion.
I'm sure it's great. I'm waiting to binge it though personally. Ended up watching S2 that way and vastly preferred it.
Some negativity is to be expected in regards to CSM.
That's just the nature of the sheer amount of people tuning in. Stuff like JJK and Demon Slayer didn't start really blowing up in viewers until 7+ episodes because they didn't have anywhere near as much hype leading up to release so there wasn't as much variety of opinions at the start. It was a more narrow group of people jumping in and those series have wider appeal to begin with. There was a thread a year ago or so that fully expected some of the responses at the start. I think its turned out more successful than I personally expected though. The hype has been unreal (possibly to its detriment with all the discourse although who knows if any of that is actually penetrating the masses).
There's going to be people expecting all sorts of different things like the traditional formulaic SJ series but then get whiplash from the gore, pacing, and themes. There might be people expecting the whole mystery box/YA novel tropes aspect of AoT or a crazy action gag series like OPM. Then you have people who have watched enough anime to get completely turned off by pervert characters and bounce with the early Denji arc because they don't have faith or believe it would be anything but that archetype/trope (which is understandable).
There will be people who constantly try to fit square pegs into round holes with the characters thinking they'll be similar to what they've seen before from SJ series but that's really just a disguise that Fujimoto completely veered away from outside of the most superficial aspects and framework. Beyond his very first introduction, you can already see Aki is nothing like the rival character, he has drinks with his co-workers, cares about social responsibility, has domestic qualities from the get-go, is more adult or a caretaker in general, etc. Denji is a base human being that didn't turn out anywhere near as nice as a lot of tragic backstory heroes with poor upbringing do, the ones that are selfless and only have lofty, nigh unattainable, aspirations. He's a lot closer to how a semi-feral child would turn out. There will be those who really can't vibe with titular characters that have flaws like that but it can't be denied that many do find him relatable since his desires are as basic as they come.
Going to be interesting to see how opinions settle when the season is over.
That's just the nature of the sheer amount of people tuning in. Stuff like JJK and Demon Slayer didn't start really blowing up in viewers until 7+ episodes because they didn't have anywhere near as much hype leading up to release so there wasn't as much variety of opinions at the start. It was a more narrow group of people jumping in and those series have wider appeal to begin with. There was a thread a year ago or so that fully expected some of the responses at the start. I think its turned out more successful than I personally expected though. The hype has been unreal (possibly to its detriment with all the discourse although who knows if any of that is actually penetrating the masses).
There's going to be people expecting all sorts of different things like the traditional formulaic SJ series but then get whiplash from the gore, pacing, and themes. There might be people expecting the whole mystery box/YA novel tropes aspect of AoT or a crazy action gag series like OPM. Then you have people who have watched enough anime to get completely turned off by pervert characters and bounce with the early Denji arc because they don't have faith or believe it would be anything but that archetype/trope (which is understandable).
There will be people who constantly try to fit square pegs into round holes with the characters thinking they'll be similar to what they've seen before from SJ series but that's really just a disguise that Fujimoto completely veered away from outside of the most superficial aspects and framework. Beyond his very first introduction, you can already see Aki is nothing like the rival character, he has drinks with his co-workers, cares about social responsibility, has domestic qualities from the get-go, is more adult or a caretaker in general, etc. Denji is a base human being that didn't turn out anywhere near as nice as a lot of tragic backstory heroes with poor upbringing do, the ones that are selfless and only have lofty, nigh unattainable, aspirations. He's a lot closer to how a semi-feral child would turn out. There will be those who really can't vibe with titular characters that have flaws like that but it can't be denied that many do find him relatable since his desires are as basic as they come.
Going to be interesting to see how opinions settle when the season is over.
this looks really good. MAPPA really has been killing it, hopefully its not killing anyone else in process.
What the hell... Kancolle S2 turned into The Pacific. lol
I guess they decided to just move away from the anime girl aspect of it all with Fubuki as the lead and try to make it somewhat more serious. lol
Jesus, I just found out that this is a reboot which means like half the original girls are literally dead. lol
Oh my god, this is literally the Andor of anime. lol
I guess they decided to just move away from the anime girl aspect of it all with Fubuki as the lead and try to make it somewhat more serious. lol
Jesus, I just found out that this is a reboot which means like half the original girls are literally dead. lol
Oh my god, this is literally the Andor of anime. lol
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One of the few isekais I still follow so this should be a fun watch
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