The Anime Thread

[Monoriu]

So.
Attack on Titan series 3.

1: Worst opening song ever. So inappropriate.
2: No titans. Its...weird. Like a completely different anime.
     I can imagine many people are screaming bloody murder about this. Like Haruhi Suzumiya series 2.
    And yeah, I did love series 1. I'd love for more of the same.
    But....it does make sense that the plot is going this way. That the events of S1 would massively shake the foundations of their society rather than everything just going on as normal but with a new super weapon. Its not often you see such realism.

The ending song is fantastic though.  The group that did the opening song for the first two seasons did the ending song for season 3.

I am not worried about the lack of titans so far.  It is part of the natural progression of the story. 

What I am really worried about, is that the pace has picked up a lot.  There is still a lot of source material left to be animated, but at this pace they'll catch up with the manga. 

It is also odd to see the male protagonist barely doing anything for like 5 episodes now 

[Josquius]

Series 2's ending song was the best. I was surprised when I first heard it, its one of my favourite Japanese bands.
The first opening song of series 1 was absolutely awesome.

I have often been tempted to read the manga but resisted/ never found the time. From snippets i've seen though I get the impression we've some distance to go... Lets see.

[Monoriu]

Some numbers. 

Attack on Titan has, so far, 106 manga chapters.  Plus or minus a few depending on where you are. 

The anime has 42 episodes in three seasons.  The first two seasons, with 37 episodes, covered roughly 50 chapters of source material.  So each episode covers about 1.35 chapters.  The third season covered roughly 10 chapters in five episodes.  That's two chapters per episode, a much faster pace.  From what I have read, this was done at the request of the author because he had depression/writer's block or whatever when he drew that part of the manga.  He considered the pace too slow. 

So there are 46 chapters left.  At the current pace, they'll catch up with the manga in 23 episodes, roughly two seasons.  Keep in mind though, that Attack on Titan manga chapters are released on a monthly schedule, not weekly.  If they burn through two manga chapters in a week, that means with every passing week, the anime is catching up two month's of manga time.  That's super fast. 

As a comparison, the One Piece anime uses up one manga chapter per episode.  But One Piece manga is released on a weekly schedule.  So the anime keeps a safe and constant distance with the manga. 

[Monoriu]

Shows that I am going to watch from October to December 2018.



Sword Art Online – Alicization.  Sword Art Online is an international blockbuster about thousands of players trapped in an online game, where game death will result in death in real life.  Alicization is the latest long arc in the series.  The events seem to follow directly from the movie. 



Fairy Tail 2018.  Back in the 00s, the most popular shonen adventure/fight series in Japan were One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach, in that order.  Fairy Tail was the distant number four.  All except One Piece have ended.  This is likely the last anime adaptation of Fairy Tail that will finally put the series to end.  The latest arcs aren't that good.  But it isn't often that an anime has a proper ending, so I will follow it till the end.   



JoJo's Bizarre Adventures – Part 5 Golden Wind.  JoJo is a long-running, multi-generational epic about the unending fights between the Joestar family and the supernatural.  Each "Part" represents a different generation in the family and features a different cast and story.  It is all about manly fights and flamboyance.



A Certain Magical Index Season 3.  Ladies and gentlemen, the fact that this adventure series gets a sequel is nothing short of miraculous.  The "Index" series and the spin-offs is one of the most popular light novel series in Japan.  The powers that be made four seasons (including the Railgun spin-off) out of this.  Yet, the last time an anime adaption was made was five years ago.  People think this series will follow the footsteps of others and will quietly fade into the abyss.  Until now. 



That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. I am a sucker for "trapped in another world" anime, and I am interested in how a show can sustain itself with its protagonist being a slime.  I reserve the right to give up on this if this sucks too much.



Goblin Slayer. The only thing I know about this is, if Tim says it is good, then it must be good. 



Tokyo Ghoul Re: Season 2.  Tokyo Ghoul is a popular story about a teenager who was turned into a ghoul.  He was embroiled in a three-way struggle among the good ghouls, the bad ghouls, and the government.  "Re:" is the sequel to the original story, and "season 2" is the second part of the sequel.  To be honest, the quality of the show has declined somewhat.  There are far too many characters and the plot progresses so quickly that I have lost track of what is going on and who is who.  Still, I am going to try to follow this once more. 

[Josquius]

I recently watched a series called Wotaku ni koi ha muzukashi (love is hard for an otaku).
It was amusing.
And nicely represented geeks rather than just lazily showing those into anime and games as complete nerds.

[Syt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSVQtlQtxCs&feature=youtu.be&t=155

[Savonarola]

I saw the Netflix version of Aggretsuko about an anthropomorphic red panda accountant who hates her life and sings death metal karaoke.  It was okay.  I found that I had trouble identifying with the whole corporate culture aspect of the story; maybe it was too Japanese, or maybe I'm too old to care about office politics anymore.  I did think it was clever that the corporate secretary was a secretarybird.

Does anyone what the term "Out of Pocket Prince" refers to?  Is it a pun on something like "Out of pocket costs" that can't be translated?  (He's called "Space Cadet" in the English dub.)

[Monoriu]

Does anyone what the term "Out of Pocket Prince" refers to?  Is it a pun on something like "Out of pocket costs" that can't be translated?  (He's called "Space Cadet" in the English dub.)

I have never heard of that term elsewhere.  Maybe it is specific to that show? 

[Josquius]

I saw the Netflix version of Aggretsuko about an anthropomorphic red panda accountant who hates her life and sings death metal karaoke.  It was okay.  I found that I had trouble identifying with the whole corporate culture aspect of the story; maybe it was too Japanese, or maybe I'm too old to care about office politics anymore.  I did think it was clever that the corporate secretary was a secretarybird.

Does anyone what the term "Out of Pocket Prince" refers to?  Is it a pun on something like "Out of pocket costs" that can't be translated?  (He's called "Space Cadet" in the English dub.)

Just checked the introduction scene, doesn't seem to be a pun. Snake lady says since he lost his receipts he'll have to pay out of pocket (jibara). Fenneko says he's the jibara oji (prince).
I guess it's just like where in English we'll say someone is the Oversleeping King or that sort of thing. Oji has a nicer ring to it than oh, I'm sure I've heard people using the word prince like this before. Also fits nicely into the whole Etsuko is looking for her prince thing.

Though google translate gives me prince prince for jibara oji, so many there's some meaning to jibara I don't know?

[jimmy olsen]

I saw the Netflix version of Aggretsuko about an anthropomorphic red panda accountant who hates her life and sings death metal karaoke.  It was okay.  I found that I had trouble identifying with the whole corporate culture aspect of the story; maybe it was too Japanese, or maybe I'm too old to care about office politics anymore.  I did think it was clever that the corporate secretary was a secretarybird.

Does anyone what the term "Out of Pocket Prince" refers to?  Is it a pun on something like "Out of pocket costs" that can't be translated?  (He's called "Space Cadet" in the English dub.)

Just checked the introduction scene, doesn't seem to be a pun. Snake lady says since he lost his receipts he'll have to pay out of pocket (jibara). Fenneko says he's the jibara oji (prince).
I guess it's just like where in English we'll say someone is the Oversleeping King or that sort of thing. Oji has a nicer ring to it than oh, I'm sure I've heard people using the word prince like this before. Also fits nicely into the whole Etsuko is looking for her prince thing.

Though google translate gives me prince prince for jibara oji, so many there's some meaning to jibara I don't know?

Yeah, the word prince is used like that a lot. Ever watched a high school drama, the boy that all the girl's drool over is always called the _____ Prince or the Prince of _______.

[Savonarola]

Just checked the introduction scene, doesn't seem to be a pun. Snake lady says since he lost his receipts he'll have to pay out of pocket (jibara). Fenneko says he's the jibara oji (prince).
I guess it's just like where in English we'll say someone is the Oversleeping King or that sort of thing. Oji has a nicer ring to it than oh, I'm sure I've heard people using the word prince like this before. Also fits nicely into the whole Etsuko is looking for her prince thing.

Though google translate gives me prince prince for jibara oji, so many there's some meaning to jibara I don't know?

Ah, okay, thanks; I had forgotten about the lost receipt scene (and didn't know the Japanese used "Prince" that way.)

[Monoriu]

I am watching Goblin Slayer, where goblins are depicted as evil, cruel and disgusting creatures.  They raid peaceful villages, torture and gang rape victims, and kill adventurers in horrible fashion.  They are cunning and strong, and can easily defeat well-balanced parties. 

I am also watching That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.  The goblins in this show are smiling, cute and peaceful villagers who make a living by collecting fruit.  They valiantly defend themselves from aggressive dog raiders.   They can't handle the dogs and lose 10 goblins for every successful dog kill. 

I am not sure which side is fake news any more. 

[viper37]

Knights of Sidonia.
A mix between Battlestar Galactica and tentacle porn.

It had great reviews, decided to give it a shot.  It might be the first anime I see totally dedicated to an ADD generation.  Every sequence is quickly shot, fights are over almost immediatly, action jumps from, well, "action", to some dialogue inside the ship with the same characters in the space of a few seconds.  No explanation given, no conclusion to the plot lines.

Also, no conclusion on the saga.  But maybe they were expecting a 3rd season and it got cancelled, because it seems really weird.

I do not recommend this.  If you like mecha genre, stick with Gundams.

[Syt]

Netflix has a 2018 Korean live action version of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade.

[Monoriu]

Both Goblin Slayer and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime are good shows so far.  The two differ in tone a great deal.  Goblin Slayer can be very dark at times, with brutal rape and torture scenes, though the amount of gore actually shown on screen is very limited.  Good reality touches.  Showcases some of the problems in a typical fantasy setting, e.g. no adventurer is interested in taking up low-paying but essential jobs like getting rid of low-level goblins.  Slime is very much on the light-hearted side, but I enjoy the way the protagonist works its way up the ladder and build up a nation from scratch.

Tokyo Ghoul is very disappointing.  There are so many characters now, and the plot progresses so quickly that every time someone appears on screen my reaction is "who?"  The majority of the times, I have no clue.  It is fast approaching unwatchable territory.  At least have some onscreen who's who for heaven's sake. 

Good start to Sword Art Online: Alicization.  The producers seem to take it slow.  Nothing too major happens so far, but the plot is intriguing enough.

Nice to see Fairy Tail back.  It met my low expectations, and didn't exceed them. 

One Piece goes on in its snail pace.  There are some pretty good moments.  I am beginning to worry that some of the voice actors of major characters will die off after its 20 year run. 

Boruto is as boring as ever.  I only want to see what happens to the main characters of Naruto.  Otherwise it is painful to watch. 

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind is as great as ever.