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 BrookM wrote:
Kabaneri turned to gak way too fast in the end, pity really as it had a decent setting and great visuals.

Indeed, it started to become a trainwreck halfway through the series, just about when that villain guy showed up, and they started making it more like AoT with the giant monster zombies.

Hinako Note is officially my "cute girls doing cute things" anime of the season. I was a bit worried because I didn't have one yet (I was about to start a rewatch of Is the Order a Rabbit again) but now I'm on board. Scarecrows, ahoy!

Not Re Zero is growing on me. Its actually a pretty charming little show.
Reminds me a bit of Slayers, but with better characters.

Ooh, that sounds fun then.

Speaking of Slayers- anybody use the Funimation video player? It changed recently, and I was in the middle of watching Slayers on their site, but now the vids don't work. The player loads (they're not behind a paywall as far as I can tell) but nothing plays.

Not really getting a Slayers vibe off of Grimoire at all myself. It's completely lacking a loud sassy Lina character. Zero is much too chill to be her, and Mercenary is way too smart to be a Gourry.

Ok, so the spring season for me has been meh however that is not to say that I am not following anything. My watchlist has coalasced around the following;

Alice & Zoroku
The Royal Tutor
Akashic Records of Bastard magical Instructor
Boruto
Sakura Quest
Eromanga Sensei
Clockwork Planet
WorldEnd or aka that show with the longest title evar!
Natusme Yujin-cho season 6
The Silver Guardian
Kenka Bancho Otome
Granblue Fantasy
Love Tyrant

Can't say I have a paticular favorite of the group as they all feel like something to watch to pass the time, but if I was going to pick my "top 3" at the moment I would have to say Eromanga Sensei, Sakura Quest, and WorldEnd with The Royal Tutor and Alice & Zoroku not too far behind.

Clockwork Planet is the most likely to fall of that list. Boruto may also fall off the regular watch list as well to binge on later.

As for the two most anticipated sequals, Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia... AoT just doesn't interest me and after watching the first season of My Hero Academia (which I really enjoyed), I am now stuck on the manga and so my interest in the anime has waned.

Does anyone have some suggestion for an Anime like Evangelion? I loved the subject matter of this anime, all of the religious undertones on top of giant mecha... I dont think I could find another anime that fits me that well. the whiney kids were a turnoff couldve used more giant mecha action, but that's to be expected in most animes. Is there anything similar?

Eureka 7. The original, not the new one.

It's like if you mixed Code Geass with Ghost in the Shell, told from the perspective of Shinji-with-balls.

Anvildude wrote:
Eureka 7. The original, not the new one.

Although I would say it has less religious undertones (it's more like "unknown") but has eco movement / counterculture / surfer culture themes. I still think ray=out was a nod to Ray Gun.

 supreme overlord wrote:
Does anyone have some suggestion for an Anime like Evangelion? I loved the subject matter of this anime, all of the religious undertones on top of giant mecha... I dont think I could find another anime that fits me that well. the whiney kids were a turnoff couldve used more giant mecha action, but that's to be expected in most animes. Is there anything similar?

Gurren Lagann comes to mind. Its like a tribute to every mecha anime every, NGE included.
Anyway, watching WorldEnd, aka that one anime with the absurdly long title.
Its a bit charming, actually. However, I do find it odd how Ctholly looks like Nagisa from AssClass.
Seriously, its...uncanny.

Nah, Gurren Lagann is too over-the-top. I think Supreme Overlord is looking more for a pacing and theme feel, rather than the 'giant mech akshun' thing.

Check out RahXephon. Pretty similar in feel to Eva.

Also Gurren Lagaan. Sure it's a lot more epic in feel than Eva, but it's quite incredible. Definitely one of my most very favorite animes.

So, saw some of that Sin show that's out this season.
Its another one of those shows that should really drop the pretext and go full hentai. Like, seriously, the uncensored version is risque and the censored version is pointless because of the jarring censorship inserts.
Interesting concept overall I guess, obviously the ecchi crap show of the season, just alt-tab to porn when someone comes into your room. It'll be about the same but easier to explain.
I know that joke pops up a lot concerning anime, but its actually applicable in this case.
The OP and ED is alright though, so there's that. Probably the best thing of the show.

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 AduroT wrote:
Not really getting a Slayers vibe off of Grimoire at all myself. It's completely lacking a loud sassy Lina character. Zero is much too chill to be her, and Mercenary is way too smart to be a Gourry.

And that's why I like it
I found the characters in Slayers to be obnoxious, especially once you factor in Lina's power levels. That's some DBZ gak going on right there.

Slayers was a 15th level DnD group playing a 4th level campaign.


I mean, seriously, a Gestalt Sorcerer/Fighter, a Paladin with a very high level Smite, and a half Golem with, what, 5/- DR +5 Natural Armour Wizard? And those are just the first couple people in the party.

Catching up on Re Creators.
Its a good show. I wonder if the series creator read Number of the Beast by Heinlein.
I think my favorite character might be that boss guy with the sword. He's basically Kamina with stand powers. Which is pretty rad.

Some questions though -

What impact does Fanfic have on their worlds?
On a scale of 1-10, how fethed would they be if Great Cthulhu were to show up?
What would happen if the creations were to discover the massive amounts of R34 of them, which, as they are popular fictional characters within this setting, there would no doubt be?

Anvildude wrote:Nah, Gurren Lagann is too over-the-top. I think Supreme Overlord is looking more for a pacing and theme feel, rather than the 'giant mech akshun' thing.

AduroT wrote:Check out RahXephon. Pretty similar in feel to Eva.

Also Gurren Lagaan. Sure it's a lot more epic in feel than Eva, but it's quite incredible. Definitely one of my most very favorite animes.

I'll check out Raxephon and Gurren Lagen. I loved the dark feel of Evangelion (along with giant fighting mechs). When I watched GL it seemed light, bright, not much of a deep or dark story, I could be wrong as I only watched 2 episodes. I've never seen Raxephon but know it has something to do with singing robots? Was also told about 5 star stories.... anything on that?

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

What impact does Fanfic have on their worlds?
On a scale of 1-10, how fethed would they be if Great Cthulhu were to show up?
What would happen if the creations were to discover the massive amounts of R34 of them, which, as they are popular fictional characters within this setting, there would no doubt be?

Writing a Fanfic would probably cause an additional new world to be born. Hell, maybe the reason the guy who wrote to book trying to make changes to her didn't work was because she's based on the anime, given she's apparently using its timeline instead of the books which is further along.

Also with Gurren Lagaan, it does get much deeper and darker as they go along. Very good.

Yeah, it gets much much darker pretty early on in the series. You have to watch more than 2 episodes, but it'll make you question existence.

I'd suggest Utena if you were interested in the dealing with being a teenager/angsty part of Evangelion, but there's no giant robots, just lesbians dueling with swords.

Dat Attack on Titan tho...

I've never seen such a dog turd of an episode plot delivered so compellingly, or with such amazing visual splendor, as to make me care 0% about how fundamentally dumb it was.

That was beautifully awesome.

Oh Berserk.. not one, but two really, really badass quotes:

It was jank, but it was still a badass episode.
Because Berserk is fething awesome.

Boku No Hero was pretty good this week. It was nice seeing the other powers in action. The support lady's fight was funny.

Watching Beezlebub. Its ok, but I really don't like how OP Aoi is.
Like, lady, if you can intimidate a god, and wreck buildings with a wooden sword, that's apparently made of magic thanks to all of the pretty pink light, then you don't have to worry about fighting demons. I swear, she's much stronger than Oga, and he's hopped up on demon juice, because mah secret long winded techniques. It's...aggravating.
Also Furuichi being a pathetic punching bag gets old. Apparently he becomes a badass in the manga, but that doesn't appear to be showing anytime soon, so I guess I have to watch the same joke every episode.

They put out a Blame! today, by Netflix. It's CGI, but damned good looking. Never read the manga before, but I may now after having seen about thirty minutes of the movie. So damned good on the visuals and atmosphere.

I love Skull Knight so much. He's like a grimdark Mr.Rodgers/fairy godmother turned up to 11, it's hilarious. All he does is show up and look intensely intimidating while he drops profound wisdom to help people help themselves, and occasionally does something insanely badass to rescue people when they done goofed.

The scene where he showed up in the old Witch's house was fething hilarious.

I think that's because she was channeling the spirit of darkness. I don't think that smirk was her's.
But yes, Skullknight is a badass.

Whenever Skull Knight shows up, you know something awesome is going to happen.

But creating a dimension cutting sword out of behelits he took from slain Apostles? He had to slay a lot of the fethers to make it that powerful.

It was also cool that the old witch referred to him as "your majesty", which is another step closer to confirming that he is Gaiseric, creator of the first empire.

Yeah, the whole "I made a sword that cuts through spacetime from the bits and pieces of my defeated enemies, lets see if it works" bit was great.

Slan also referred to him as King as well, so not much doubt he's Gaiseric at this point.

Are you all talking about Blame!, or Berserk?

We were talking about Berserk, but the Blame! movie by Netflix is also damned good:




Especially digging the design of the "Electrofishers" who wear some sort of power armour and use spear guns of some sort:

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