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Been watching Zeta Gundam after watching the original with a friend. Quite a bit different form the original in tone, but very good.

Zeta gets pretty dark compare to the original (and by extension Gundam Seed Destiny, which is essentially a remake of Zeta).

Zeta was an allright show, Double Zeta was...awful. I absolutely could not deal with it.

This is a big thread so im sorry if this has already been mentioned, but anyone JoJo here?

Also, I highly reccomend Samurai Flamenco. Its about a male model who really wants to be a hero, to the point of stopping people jaywalking and smoking in no smoke zones etc, but in classic anime fashion, things end up getting worse and worse crime and enemy-wise. Fun characters, interesting side stories, great Intro themes and it subverts or plays with toooons of classic anime tropes and pays homage all over the place

Also, Afro Samurai. One of my all time favorites, rewatched it again recently

Afro Samurai is awesome, love it.

Watched part of JoJo Diamond, but haven't finished it yet.

Castlevania anime funded by Netflix..

 Vaktathi wrote:
Afro Samurai is awesome, love it.

Watched part of JoJo Diamond, but haven't finished it yet.

DiU has some of the best intro songs of any JoJo arc, my personal favorite is Chase

Afro Samurai makes the best warhammer building/painting accompaniment. Action sounds, music by the RZA, and Justice just screams heretic inquisitor or something to me. I actually started writing a homebrew SM chapter that the chapter master bears a status symbol marking him as number one, and theres a number 2 that continually changes hands. Less murder each other for it, more, "I challenge you to X"

So everyone in the chapter is constantly striving to be the greatest, and it gives the chapter master a constant voice of dissent/ a foil

 Vaktathi wrote:
Zeta was an allright show, Double Zeta was...awful. I absolutely could not deal with it.

ZZ is okay if you skip the entire first half of the series and only start watching during the colony drop episodes. That's when they bring in the mentally-conditioned child soldiers, psychologically damaged cyber-newtypes, smack an asteroid into side 3, and cull the villain roster as if the show was still Zeta Gundam.

On an unrelated note, I've been watching Flying Witch (apologies if this has been mentioned before; I haven't been following this thread as closely as I perhaps could) for the last few weeks. It's a slice of life anime about a teenage girl in high school in a small town in Japan, and she happens to be a witch. Nothing much happens at all for 12 episodes, but I really, really like the show. It's very relaxed and super low-key. It's the anime equivalent of watching Bob Ross paint some happy trees. I can come home after a rough day at work, pop on an episode, and feel my stress just bleed away.

squidhills wrote:

On an unrelated note, I've been watching Flying Witch (apologies if this has been mentioned before; I haven't been following this thread as closely as I perhaps could) for the last few weeks. It's a slice of life anime about a teenage girl in high school in a small town in Japan, and she happens to be a witch. Nothing much happens at all for 12 episodes, but I really, really like the show. It's very relaxed and super low-key. It's the anime equivalent of watching Bob Ross paint some happy trees. I can come home after a rough day at work, pop on an episode, and feel my stress just bleed away.

Flying Witch is one of my cute happy anime that I rewatch every now and then, along with kiniro mosaic (kinmoza) k-on, yuyushki, and non non biyori.

I of course end up getting the manga of all those, too (except non non biyori -i don't like how renge was translated.)

Speaking of witches, Little Witch Academia is now on Netlifx, and it is adorable and colorful and totally Trigger.

Wait, the actual Little Witch Academia anime? Or are you talking about the two movies?

Anvildude wrote:
Wait, the actual Little Witch Academia anime? Or are you talking about the two movies?

The actual anime was made by nextflix and just released, but the two mini-movies were both awesome

Note the the series is not a direct continuation of the two movies, but rather a separate story line AU using the same characters.

Watched the first episode of Castlevania. So far I'm rooting for Dracula and feel he has valid a valid reason, though his response may be going a bit too far.

 Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

 Vaktathi wrote:
Afro Samurai is awesome, love it.

Watched part of JoJo Diamond, but haven't finished it yet.

DiU has some of the best intro songs of any JoJo arc, my personal favorite is Chase

Afro Samurai makes the best warhammer building/painting accompaniment. Action sounds, music by the RZA, and Justice just screams heretic inquisitor or something to me. I actually started writing a homebrew SM chapter that the chapter master bears a status symbol marking him as number one, and theres a number 2 that continually changes hands. Less murder each other for it, more, "I challenge you to X"

Isn't that more of a chaos thing?
Anyway, watched Isekai Shokudou. Good so far. Not sure where its going to go though, since its just a show about otherworldly critters coming to dine at a Western Styled Japanese restaurant.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

 Vaktathi wrote:
Afro Samurai is awesome, love it.

Watched part of JoJo Diamond, but haven't finished it yet.

DiU has some of the best intro songs of any JoJo arc, my personal favorite is Chase

Afro Samurai makes the best warhammer building/painting accompaniment. Action sounds, music by the RZA, and Justice just screams heretic inquisitor or something to me. I actually started writing a homebrew SM chapter that the chapter master bears a status symbol marking him as number one, and theres a number 2 that continually changes hands. Less murder each other for it, more, "I challenge you to X"

Isn't that more of a chaos thing?
Anyway, watched Isekai Shokudou. Good so far. Not sure where its going to go though, since its just a show about otherworldly critters coming to dine at a Western Styled Japanese restaurant.

Itd probably work better if their recruiting planet did that then, maybe

Yeah, probably. The whole intrachapter rivalry between members is something of a chaos thing, as warbands tend to have officers trying to one up each other in order to get to the top (hence the "aspiring" in aspiring champion.)
I think it would be very rare to see that sort of behavior in a loyalist successor chapter, as they tend to be more regulated. If it were some sort of tradition heralding from their recruitment world, then it might get a pass, as chapters do have some odd traditions here and there.
It could be that duels of honor in this chapter are commonplace, and whilst they don't end in death, it could end in demotion depending on how poorly one of them fights, the logic being that if said demotee is a poor fighter he isn't fit to lead.

The stuff done by Netflix so far is very consistent in animation quality. Nothing disappointing so far. Looking forward to seeing how Little Witch Academia goes.

 BrookM wrote:
The stuff done by Netflix so far is very consistent in animation quality. Nothing disappointing so far. Looking forward to seeing how Little Witch Academia goes.

Yeah, crunchyroll hardcore guys are bagging on Netflix for taking forever to give up the goods, but darn if it ain't worth the wait.

So... second cour when? Also Trigger is talking second season of Little Witch, to which (heh) I can say only: Yesssss.

Also blu-ray please, but that ain't happening.

Does anybody care to share what there early summer season simulcast watchlist is?

Just based on one episode these were the ones that standout to me

Knight's & Magic - For some reason I feel like I am watching the mirror of Tanya the Evil. Mind you not as good as that show, but still enough to it commit the at least the first 3 episodes
Restaurant to Another World - interesting premise but not much to sink teeth into yet and not sure where the plot is heading.
Fox Spirit Matchmaker - Looking very doubtful I will make it to the 3rd episode of the is comedy/romance/fantasy as the animation is mediocre and the plot seems a mess
Elegant Yokai Aparment Life - maybe my favorite so far
18if - accidental hero stuck in a fantasy (dream) land.....sounds familar for some reason
Katsugeki TOUKEN RANBU - premise of defending history seems interesting, but it looks like it's going to devolve into just a series of copy and past fight sequences
Tsuredure Children - high school angst / slice of life......not sure I have the patience for this

 Lord of Deeds wrote:
Does anybody care to share what there early summer season simulcast watchlist is?

Just based on one episode these were the ones that standout to me

Knight's & Magic - For some reason I feel like I am watching the mirror of Tanya the Evil. Mind you not as good as that show, but still enough to it commit the at least the first 3 episodes
Restaurant to Another World - interesting premise but not much to sink teeth into yet and not sure where the plot is heading.
Fox Spirit Matchmaker - Looking very doubtful I will make it to the 3rd episode of the is comedy/romance/fantasy as the animation is mediocre and the plot seems a mess
Elegant Yokai Aparment Life - maybe my favorite so far
18if - accidental hero stuck in a fantasy (dream) land.....sounds familar for some reason
Katsugeki TOUKEN RANBU - premise of defending history seems interesting, but it looks like it's going to devolve into just a series of copy and past fight sequences
Tsuredure Children - high school angst / slice of life......not sure I have the patience for this

Elegant Yokai... wait, this sounds similar to Raiders of the however you spell those tiny apartments...

Wait again, is the main character voiced by Shirou Emiya (who is apparently Erin in UBW...)?

I'm... intrigued. Also upset at how cheap apartments are in Japan.

So, Vatican Kiseki Chousakan is shaping up to be a disappointment.
The pacing is super messed up, it can't decide whether it wants to be slow or rapidly jump around.
All I wanted was a X Files style show where a couple of priests go around disproving miracles, but instead I get a rather poorly made show about a satanic murder mystery at a suspicious church.

Is there anything worth watching currently on in a more "dark" tone? Not necessarily as grimdark as Attack on Titan or Berserk, but something even in the Iron Blooded Orphans category?

Everything I've found so far currently airing has been...disappointing. Either including far too much cutesy stuff or just barely shy of being porn (and I don't need to actually follow and watch a whole series for that), and I just haven't found anything currently showing that's worth watching.

I'm excited for more AoT, Kabaneri, and Berserk next year...but what to watch in the meantime?

Kabaneri has been renewed for another season? Eesh..

 Vaktathi wrote:
Is there anything worth watching currently on in a more "dark" tone? Not necessarily as grimdark as Attack on Titan or Berserk, but something even in the Iron Blooded Orphans category?

Everything I've found so far currently airing has been...disappointing. Either including far too much cutesy stuff or just barely shy of being porn (and I don't need to actually follow and watch a whole series for that), and I just haven't found anything currently showing that's worth watching.

I'm excited for more AoT, Kabaneri, and Berserk next year...but what to watch in the meantime?

Maybe Re: Creators? That has a minimum of cutesy nonsense.
Katsugeki is a bit bloody as well, though the animation style is weird. Not sure I like Ufotable's character design. Reminds me too much of Clamp's. Gorgeous scenery though.
Yeah, I don't like the super ecchi stuff as well. Like, if you're going to make a hentai, make a hentai. Don't cop out and just barely skirt the line.


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 BrookM wrote:
Kabaneri has been renewed for another season? Eesh..

To be fair, it kind of needs it. The first season's ending felt really weak.

With an ending like that, it doesn't deserve another season. Hell, it started off so promising and went off the deep end so swiftly imho.

 BrookM wrote:
With an ending like that, it doesn't deserve another season. Hell, it started off so promising and went off the deep end so swiftly imho.

I really liked the world, but just found the plot lacking in so many ways, so I'm quite happy with another season, as long as it doesn't relate to the first season at all and has a plot that plays on the world, instead of a generic villain arc copied and pasted from any other show, with no real justification.

It really, really needs to step up though. How they handled the latter part of the story and the big bad was just so lame.

 Vaktathi wrote:
Is there anything worth watching currently on in a more "dark" tone? Not necessarily as grimdark as Attack on Titan or Berserk, but something even in the Iron Blooded Orphans category?

Everything I've found so far currently airing has been...disappointing. Either including far too much cutesy stuff or just barely shy of being porn (and I don't need to actually follow and watch a whole series for that), and I just haven't found anything currently showing that's worth watching.

I'm excited for more AoT, Kabaneri, and Berserk next year...but what to watch in the meantime?

Castlevania, the first season has only four episodes but on release got a deal for a second one of eight (I think).

Eight episodes in total, though the company is also working on an Assassin's Creed anime for Netflix.

I'll check out ReCreators and Castlevania.

Kabaneri absolutely had a weak ending and the whole Biba thing was awful, but the world and premise was cool, and the animation was gorgeous. I'm totally willing to give it another shot, albeit understanding that it is not going to be a narrative masterpiece.


Honestly, most Anime really do have crap endings, it's almost a tradition. Iron Blooded Orphans still bothers me somewhat, I'm sure AoT will have some dumb ending, Berserk will never get an ending, etc

 Vaktathi wrote:
ReCreators

It starts out a bit slow (there are many characters to introduce) but becomes really fun after that (if you have doubts, try to survive to episode 8) and has one of the best recap episodes.