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Eris pads her chest!

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
Eris pads her chest!

I can't remember how many people brought it up when it was new but I wanted to take a moment to talk about Quán Zhí Gāo Shǒu aka The King's Avatar. A lot of people have compared the series to Sword Art Online (which makes zero sense to me cause they have literally nothing in common). I was impressed with the animated series and ended up reading a fan translation of the original Web Novel.

I cannot recommend it enough. While the writing isn't the best (the author is incredibly repetitive and often long winded when they don't need to be) the story itself is quite good. I was disappointed after the fact with how the animated series glosses over the more wacky elements of the main characters mind games and schemes, as well as how it compresses events. If you can read a book while navigating past the parts you don't want to read I think it's well worth the effort. The series has ups and downs (its 1700 chapters long thus far) but the its ups are really up and I appreciate the series for avoiding a lot of melodramatic cliches and focusing primarily on the narrative.

Darling in the FranXX first few episodes started with a lot of sexual/puberty innuendo (is innuendo even an useful word here?) but after that they also slowly started exploring the characters and the world. The latest episode did actually shift more into that explore the world part and was really interesting/fun. Tiny vague spoiler, more generic and not about the episode directly:

 LordofHats wrote:
I can't remember how many people brought it up when it was new but I wanted to take a moment to talk about Quán Zhí Gāo Shǒu aka The King's Avatar. A lot of people have compared the series to Sword Art Online (which makes zero sense to me cause they have literally nothing in common). I was impressed with the animated series and ended up reading a fan translation of the original Web Novel.

I cannot recommend it enough. While the writing isn't the best (the author is incredibly repetitive and often long winded when they don't need to be) the story itself is quite good. I was disappointed after the fact with how the animated series glosses over the more wacky elements of the main characters mind games and schemes, as well as how it compresses events. If you can read a book while navigating past the parts you don't want to read I think it's well worth the effort. The series has ups and downs (its 1700 chapters long thus far) but the its ups are really up and I appreciate the series for avoiding a lot of melodramatic cliches and focusing primarily on the narrative.

Many thanks for the recommendation, I'm reading it now over at mangahere and so far, I am really liking it and its premises.

So, Overlord then.

Sebas was a boss and then there was this murderous munchkin..

Yup that was cool. And Ainz is epically trolling someone right now..,

He's playing the long con, or he's just making things up as he goes along, again.

Or it could be that he sees Deimiurg is about to flat out murder some really important adventures, which may complicate his plans later on. So he decided to intervene as Darkness and get some fame in the process.

I’m betting him and Demi have it preplanned to bouy his reputation further.

It will be fun seeing him trying to be a credible swordsman again, hopelessly flailing around without any skill or finesse.

But it was fun to see Sebas go off against a couple of mooks who had some build up (but this result shouldn't come as a surprise) and Entoma finally getting some extended screen time and well.. PUT YOUR FACE BACK ON PLEASE!

Sebas doing his thing was entirely expected because that’s how every fight vs the minions of Naz goes. Build up the enemy as some kind of bad arse credible threat, only for them to be instantly obliterated. I don’t fall for it anymore. Except bug lady. Bug lady had the unfortunate luck to go up against probably the one person who could fight her due to that specific anti-bug spell, and even then she really made them work for it.

So, any picks for the next season?

I'm surprised there's a FLCL sequel on the way, not sure why.

Mostly looking forward to Golden Kamuy (have been reading the manga and love it) and Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu -Die Neue These- Kaikou, which is a watered down Legends of Galactic Empires.

I remember hearing that FLCL had a couple of 'episodes' or OVAs that continued the story a little, that never got aired in the US. I wonder if that's what it is?

Watched EPs 6-11 of everyone's (current) favorite pseudo-incestuous yuri soap opera, Citrus.

Always remember the first rule of anime drama: if the plot is naturally moving toward resolution of emotional conflict, stop that from happening at any cost. Literally do anything else, including nothing at all.

Having two characters fully cease to communicate with one another works, right? Even if they share a room and even sleep in the same bed? Right?

Then insert, out of nowhere, completely random characters to create love triangles. Can't go wrong with love triangles, right? Guys?

Citrus really skirts the edge of verisimilitude, even considering its bizarre premise. When you start with something so provocative, you need to ground it in (at least some) rationale behavior. I think Citrus is frustrated at not having some fantastical gimmick to distract from its core idea, the blurry line between sexual tension and love. At one point, one of the [insert character to solve lack of plot] characters even flat-out remarks that her involvement in the story is the result of an unbelievable heap of coincidences.

Citrus needs more focus on the main character's purely platonic relationship (see left two characters in image below) rather than the outlandish erotic relationships she has with only-in-anime style weirdos (two characters on the right). That way, there is something the audience can meaningfully care about, rather than just be constantly distracted by roller coaster "twists" where someone runs hot and then, inexplicably, cold, or vice versa.

Well, A Place Further Than The Universe is over and it's already a serious contender for show of the year.

So I was wrong about Overlord last week.

Mario wrote:
Well, A Place Further Than The Universe is over and it's already a serious contender for show of the year.

It's a good third for me with this season, with Violet Evergarden and Yuru Camp taking the first and second places. I did find the main girl highly annoying, but the other three made up for it with their own little arcs and quirks.

As for Overlord, I still need to properly watch the episode, but fight between Sebas and Zero aside (with an awesome bit of bs from Sebas post fight no less! ), it wasn't all that great.

 AduroT wrote:
So I was wrong about Overlord last week.

Yah, I’m really confused now.

I think Deimiurg might be doing his own thing as some sort of plot to expand Ainz's influence.
Something like "There's this demon lord burning everything. Better join the lich king then, at least he only kills you if he has a good reason"

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I think Deimiurg might be doing his own thing as some sort of plot to expand Ainz's influence.
Something like "There's this demon lord burning everything. Better join the lich king then, at least he only kills you if he has a good reason"

Nah, I think he's just grabbing an item to further the might of Nazzarik. I don't think he's running a false flag operation to make joining Ainz look good, since its now clear he didn't recognize Ainz disguised as Momon(which seems silly. You'd think Ainz would have told everyone of his alter ego adventurer guize). I think Ainz will turn it into something like that.

Others of the court do know about him being an adventurer though. This is all a long con, though Demiurg is pretty loose in choosing how to act upon the orders given to him, as long as they serve his lord and the Great Tomb.

So I just watched the first episode of Sora uori mo Tooi Basho. Pretty adorable and I hope the rest of it stays good. It's an intresting premise for a Cute Girls do Cute Things anime

 BaconCatBug wrote:
So I just watched the first episode of Sora uori mo Tooi Basho. Pretty adorable and I hope the rest of it stays good. It's an intresting premise for a Cute Girls do Cute Things anime

After reading your post, I went and watched the first episode, too. Wow! I was immediately sucked it. So much for the three episode rule.

 Manchu wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
So I just watched the first episode of Sora uori mo Tooi Basho. Pretty adorable and I hope the rest of it stays good. It's an intresting premise for a Cute Girls do Cute Things anime

After reading your post, I went and watched the first episode, too. Wow! I was immediately sucked it. So much for the three episode rule.

Have fun with the show and report back once you've finished it. BrookM may have a different order but this one, Violet Evergarden, and Yuru Camp are all great series in their own way. For me Sora yori mo Tooi Basho is/was the best of this season.

I'll check in here as I watch the show, no worries. I watched Citrus in two big chunks (although still have no watched Ep 12) so I am aiming to watch this more slowly.

All your cutsie slice of life stuff... bah! I need action. I need adventure!

 AduroT wrote:
All your cutsie slice of life stuff... bah! I need action. I need adventure!

Lies, Cute Girls Doing Cute Things is the superior Genre. If you want Cute Girls doing action things, you can have Gunbuster and Read or Die


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 Manchu wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
So I just watched the first episode of Sora uori mo Tooi Basho. Pretty adorable and I hope the rest of it stays good. It's an intresting premise for a Cute Girls do Cute Things anime

After reading your post, I went and watched the first episode, too. Wow! I was immediately sucked it. So much for the three episode rule.

I know, right? I immediately binged half the season and am going to watch the other half today.

AduroT wrote:All your cutsie slice of life stuff... bah! I need action. I need adventure!

Action adventure, betrayal? Try K-On!, it has one of the biggest betrayals in history (all in one episode, actually it's just one scene). Look at this thief, who else would dare to do such a thing?

Mario wrote:

AduroT wrote:All your cutsie slice of life stuff... bah! I need action. I need adventure!

Action adventure, betrayal? Try K-On!, it has one of the biggest betrayals in history (all in one episode, actually it's just one scene). Look at this thief, who else would dare to do such a thing?

Spoiler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ3Rte6ATpU

GRIFFITH!