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Finished Season 2 of Arrow, this show is a lot more violent than I thought it was going to be. They don't hold back with killing the gak out of people with sharp pointy objects.

On to Season 3.

Ubel Blatt

The anime adaptation of this manga famous for being a pretty good Berserk ripoff is... Bad. It's actually shockingly bad. First the animation is gak, which negates the manga's main thing of epic action scenes and artwork. But if that's not bad enough, the adaptation of the plot to screen is filled with jumps and skips that go unexplained on screen. The show will jump rapidly from chapter to chapter as if speed running and the end result is gak slips by so quickly the plot appears random at times.

Disappointing. The manga is mostly known for being a pretty good Berserk ripoff, but the adaptation is done like it was an obligation for the studio no one had much interest in so the whole thing comes off like a bad seasonal anime.

Just finished Pennyworth which I found very enjoyable. It's a shame it ended where it did, having a conclusion denied them by the instigation of the Gunniverse. The first two series where the strongest, particularly the second 'Casablana' series. (Can't go wrong copying Casablanca... or can you? See, or rather don't see Barb Wire).
I did try and spot some Batman references: Alfie's home street, Aziz's red phone in 10 Downing Street, American agents driving Lincolns....

Fun to watch, one of the babies (along with Cavil and Gadot) that got thrown out with the bathwater with the Gunnpurge. And Bannon should have had the chance to say "you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off..."

 LordofHats wrote:
Ubel Blatt

The anime adaptation of this manga famous for being a pretty good Berserk ripoff is... Bad. It's actually shockingly bad. First the animation is gak, which negates the manga's main thing of epic action scenes and artwork. But if that's not bad enough, the adaptation of the plot to screen is filled with jumps and skips that go unexplained on screen. The show will jump rapidly from chapter to chapter as if speed running and the end result is gak slips by so quickly the plot appears random at times.

Disappointing. The manga is mostly known for being a pretty good Berserk ripoff, but the adaptation is done like it was an obligation for the studio no one had much interest in so the whole thing comes off like a bad seasonal anime.

I tried watching that on Amazon - I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt like chunks of the story were missing or that things very conveniently happened or jumped into place by accident and so forth. Good to hear that the manga is more indepth.

I do hate it when TV Adaptations rush the story and pacing and jump ahead. They can kind of be ok if you've read the original material enough to fill in the blanks; but if you've not then either it appears lazy or haphazardlyrandom

 LordofHats wrote:
Ubel Blatt

The anime adaptation of this manga famous for being a pretty good Berserk ripoff is... Bad. It's actually shockingly bad. First the animation is gak, which negates the manga's main thing of epic action scenes and artwork. But if that's not bad enough, the adaptation of the plot to screen is filled with jumps and skips that go unexplained on screen. The show will jump rapidly from chapter to chapter as if speed running and the end result is gak slips by so quickly the plot appears random at times.

Disappointing. The manga is mostly known for being a pretty good Berserk ripoff, but the adaptation is done like it was an obligation for the studio no one had much interest in so the whole thing comes off like a bad seasonal anime.

Yeah, I think I stopped after episode 3.
Hilariously, Anime News Network did an interview with the director and even he states that the manga is much better.


Loki:- Season 2
Not quite as good as season 1.
It felt weirdly incomplete, like this was only half of what they had planned for the season but they ran out of episodes, so they just stuck the ending on.
Speaking of endings I wish

Overall I did enjoy it despite a few niggles.

 aku-chan wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Ubel Blatt

The anime adaptation of this manga famous for being a pretty good Berserk ripoff is... Bad. It's actually shockingly bad. First the animation is gak, which negates the manga's main thing of epic action scenes and artwork. But if that's not bad enough, the adaptation of the plot to screen is filled with jumps and skips that go unexplained on screen. The show will jump rapidly from chapter to chapter as if speed running and the end result is gak slips by so quickly the plot appears random at times.

Disappointing. The manga is mostly known for being a pretty good Berserk ripoff, but the adaptation is done like it was an obligation for the studio no one had much interest in so the whole thing comes off like a bad seasonal anime.

Yeah, I think I stopped after episode 3.
Hilariously, Anime News Network did an interview with the director and even he states that the manga is much better.


Loki:- Season 2
Not quite as good as season 1.
It felt weirdly incomplete, like this was only half of what they had planned for the season but they ran out of episodes, so they just stuck the ending on.
Speaking of endings I wish

Spoiler:

Loki himself had got a bit of a happier one, I think he deserved it by then.

Overall I did enjoy it despite a few niggles.

Given the final imagery is quite important to Secret Wars, I think there's still an opportunity for that.

Terraformars

This released awhile back and was infamous at the time for its insane over the top levels of censorship. The censor bars and circles have since been removed to reveal a typically violent anime series, and honestly? I think it was funnier and more entertaining with the ridiculous censorship of typical anime violence.

Without that gimmick to make the series kind of funny, all you have is Flashbacks the anime, where every action scene and sequences is interrupted by episode long flashbacks explaining every character's history before they got superhuman mutant powers so they could go fight mutant cockroaches on Mars. Yeah. This is a series about people with superhuman mutant powers fighting mutant cockroaches on Mars. Sounds like an anime to anime all animes, but you've gotta get through about thirteen episodes of flashbacks completely unrelated to that insane premise and then the first season ends.

And to make it worse, barely any of these characters are interesting aside from their ridiculous mutant cockroach fighting superhuman mutant powers. At least when iShura did the 'here's an anime series of cool characters and why they exist' thing they had actually interesting characters to do it with.

You can't even enjoy this series for the ludicrous action, or the ludicrous censorship!

Speaking of;

iShura

One of those anime's you'd hardly know exists because Disney/Hulu doesn't tell anyone they have it.

It's an odd series. Premised on the near cliche idea of a fantasy world with a demon king and a hero to defeat him, except with a legitimately interesting twist; the Demon King has been defeated by the Hero but no one knows how it happened, and all the superhuman heroes from other worlds and such are still running around causing problems. Basically an anime about what happens to a world filled with Isekai heroes after the big bad world ending threat is dead and what the feth do you do with all these utterly OP people/monsters running around now that there isn't a Demon King who needs defeating?

Most of the episodes for the series are kind of shorts/vignettes exploring a particular OP protagonist and their OP protagonist powers and backstory. And most of them are legitimately interesting! Any of them could be the hero of a story, but instead, they're all being driven against each other by circumstances that slowly build in the background of the first half of the series before becoming a free-for-all of superhuman OP powers madness in the second half. And the second half is honestly pretty decent. Very Fate/Stay Night Holy Grail War or Basilisk in how you just watch these characters go head to head and see who comes out on top. Who survives? Who doesn't? It's a rough first half, helped along mostly by each individual character being more than interesting enough to star in their own show with the second half slapping them together in a decent action extravaganza.

The worst parts of this series are that characters actually die in it and it asks a surprisingly poignant question about what the feth do you even do with superhuman monsters when they have nothing better to do but make problems? The setting has already won the war against evil. It's the peace it's in danger of losing and that's a borderline original setting concept for isekai anime!

Has a second season currently airing that goes back to being vignettes and I'm not sure if it'll repeat the first season yet in throwing all the characters it introduces at one another in another action extravaganza.

Finished Season 3 of Arrow. Seems like the show found a good ending.

But apparently there's more! Off to Season 4. Not sure what they have left to do.

Agatha All Along

We binged it in two days, and it was great.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Finished Season 2 of Arrow, this show is a lot more violent than I thought it was going to be. They don't hold back with killing the gak out of people with sharp pointy objects. .

It balances it out by having nobody ever actually stay dead...




I'm currently rewatching the Expanse.

Almost at the end of season 1... It's been long enough that I've forgotten a lot of the details, helped by the fact that the first time through I was watching it while working so wasn't paying as close attention as it deserved. It's still really good, though.

Still devouring Law & Order SVU.

I particularly enjoy the episodes where there’s a moral grey area, or something isn’t quite covered by an existing law.

Finished Season 4 of Arrow.

Really enjoying this show.

Reacher S3

Didn’t know this was coming, but here it is! First three episodes on Prime right now.

Late to the party, but about to finish the 1st series of Stranger Things. Turns out it's pretty good, you guys should watch it

Crispy78 wrote:
Late to the party, but about to finish the 1st series of Stranger Things. Turns out it's pretty good, you guys should watch it

Never seen it. I always meant to, but never got around to watching it.
What's it on? Netflix?

Seasons 1 and 2 are great. I lost the mojo on season 3 but 4 is supposed to be excellent again.

Watched the first few episodes of Delicious in Dungeon. It's weird. The familiar D&D vibes are comfortable and the characters are easy enough on the brain, but it's just weird. Not sure 8f I'll continue.

Yellow Jackets season 1

just finished it on Netflix, I would give it a 3 stars, it was just to here and there for me, it has the survivors in the woods for 30 seconds then shows their now lives for 30 minutes, I wanted more woods surviving and less civilian life. All the twists where either actually good or just to trying to get your attention to keep watching. The religious girl dies and everyone starts wanting to be cannibals. The beginning is what I expected to see faster and earlier, and I don't care about their lives' after all their trauma, I want to see the trauma. The season ending was great, I still want to know more, like if Tai is in the cult or her sleepwalking self is just her possessed by whatever evil is out there, what will happen with our addict, and will Shauna's daughter realise how bad of a mother she is and go to the cops. Shauna is a bad mom too, I don't want to hear any defense, she was trying to save her skin by manipulating her daughter into not teller her dad that her mom is cheating on him, the show did convince me that he was cheating, but in reality he's a good man, knew of the atrocities, knew of the dead baby, and still loved her, he even loved her after he found out about the cheating, if she cheats again or bad mouths him, her fate is sealed as the worst of them all.

The Pitt on HBO Max. Basically if Scrubs were serious instead of a comedy and in pseudo real time. The season takes place in an ER at a fictional teaching hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania over a fifteen hour period with each episode being one hour of the day: episode one is 7am to 8am, episode two is 8am to 9am, and so on. So far the medical situations aren't over the top but still interesting; the dynamics of the staff as well as the logistics of keeping a emergency department running are sprinkled about here and there; the drama never really goes into melodrama, at least as far as I have gotten into it. The medicine and procedures are apparently quite accurate going by doctors and nurses overall reactions I've stumbled across. Maybe it is just because I haven't watched a hospital series in a long long time but I have found it engaging.

Started Frieren on Netflix. I really like the art style, but most of all I appreciate that it doesn’t jump about like a crack addled squirrel. Nor is it super preachy and gritty.

Nice world building, nice character development, and every now and then something undeniably bad gets absolutely kerb stomped in an impressive manner No grittiness, no moral grey areas. Simple story. Gentle and enjoyable.

Frieren is pretty great for how wildly and effectively it subverts basically every cliche of its genre and turns what is far and away the trashiest corner of anime into a trashy corner with a true gem in it.

As an example of how trashy that corner is; I Left My A Rank Party to Help My Students Explore the Dungeon.

1) its title is its premise and sentence long so you automatically know the plot is dog gak.

2) there's a generic looking boy-guy on the cover surrounded by cute anime girls that are even blander than he is so you know the art is dog gak.

3) the opening scene of the show is Improbable Chick Magnet With No Personality, 114564th of his name, making a reasonable complaint and being rebuffed by people so unbelievably stupid you know they're only there to be punched in the face and die.

And that's where you quit the show, because there isn't a single original idea here, the art isn't worth looking at, and you can effectively guess the entire plot within the first minute of the show. This anime is trash.

Frieren is not trash. It subverts or reinvents almost every idea or cliche fantasy anime and has a unique tone and plot. Frieren good. Anime where the title is the premise deserve to burn.

Technically Frieren's premise is in its subtitle, but that's also technically an improvement.

The why of the synopsis thing is kind of funny. Basically, most of this stuff gets mined out of what is effectively a fanfic forum in Japan. They all read like clickbait because they basically start as clickbait to get noticed.

I just watched a 2 parter from the 1993 show: Power Rangers in Space where the Power Rangers fought and then teamed up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Why I didn't remember this bit of trivia has made me go home and rethink my life.

The Simpsons, Season 36

36 Seasons. Blimey.

And I’ve got to say? The opening episode is really solid! Dare I hope the rest of the season follows this genuine uptick in quality?

I mean, don’t get me wrong. Like Viz, it’s been a long time since it was as funny as it used to be. But also like Viz, I’ll still take it at its most mediocre as a still perfectly fine slice of telly.

I'm pretty sure I brought up Frieren before in this thread and got ignored.


https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/750/806646.page#11673392

Why the feth do I even post here ever?

trexmeyer wrote:
I'm pretty sure I brought up Frieren before in this thread and got ignored.


https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/750/806646.page#11673392

Why the feth do I even post here ever?

Same reason I do, the belief that some day, someone will respond and validate the hope that I haven't been placed on everyone's Ignore Lists.

I've never seen Frieren before. I might have to check it out. Is it a complete series, or ongoing?

Started watching Star Trek Discovery... I'm 5 episodes in to Season 1.

Is this an alternate universe show, maybe a sequel series to the Kelvin timeline?

Without spoiling anything, is there a reason why everyone on this show is an evil douchbag, with giant high-tech ships and strange "Klingons," that don't look or act like Klingons?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:


I've never seen Frieren before. I might have to check it out. Is it a complete series, or ongoing?

Season 1 covers the first 60 Chapters of the manga. The manga is currently up to Chapter 140, but is currently on hiatus.
Season 2 has been confirmed, but I don't recall if there is a release date yet.

So, it's ongoing and it doesn't feel particularly close to the finale in the manga. There's a good chance that it's never finished.

Frieren also isn't hugely dependent on finishing to be enjoyabole. The end goal is pretty vague which makes sense given the premise. It's a show about finding value in the journey and living in the now. I'm sure the ending will wrap things up nicely, but I don't think it's what makes the story resonate with people.

The 'end goal' has been explicitly stated. It's not vague.

You can watch Frieren and enjoy it now because it doesn't end on a cliffhanger and resolves the last story arc it introduces.
I'd skip the manga unless it comes back from hiatus because it's paused in the middle of a significant story arc.