The Anime Thread

[Josquius]

Apparently the current season has a lot of very good shows.
I've started watching one which I think might be up some people here's alley, "From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman", which despite the name isn't some low budget isekai.

Its a normal no alternate world's involved fantasy show about a middle aged guy -Yes, an actual middle aged guy as an anime main character. No he's not in a child's body or anything like that. He's just a 40-something guy- who is the master at his village sword dojo. Seems to live a pretty chill quiet life teaching generation after generation of students, living with his parents who keep bugging him for grandkids.

One day a former student turns up who has risen to become captain of the country's knights to invite him to go teach in the capital. He encounters a few other former students who have also become successful and it turns out it isn't just memories from childhood playing tricks on them, he actually is the best swordsman any of them have ever met.

I've heard it likened to Friren and Mushoku Tensei. Only seen one episode so far but curious to see where they take it.


Edit - nope. First impressions failed. It's trash

[jimmy olsen]

It remains to be seen (pun intended), for those who grew up with the original anime.

I grew up with the original anime.

You grew up with a 1990's anime? 

We're all old here

[Duque de Bragança]

It remains to be seen (pun intended), for those who grew up with the original anime.

I grew up with the original anime.

You grew up with a 1990's anime? 

We're all old here

If we're all old here, nobody is really old.  Except Grumbler, of course. 

[Savonarola]

I watched a 2005 Anime movie called Mind Games.  The animation was interesting in that it's shot in a number of different styles.  The story is strange, a young man trapped in the friend zone with a girl is at a yakitori restaurant when Yakuza arrive and attempts to rape the girl.  He tries to intervene, only to be shot in the anus by a Yakuza.  He dies and goes to limbo, but is able to escape, arrive back to earth a moment before being shot, grabs the Yakuza's gun with his butt cheeks and kills him.  The Yakuza follow him, the girl and her sister, on a high speed chase.  The fly off a dock and into the belly of a whale, where they meet a crazed old man. 

It may have lost something in translation, or maybe the comic book made more sense, but I just felt like I was missing something.

[Josquius]

One punch man.

Season 1 came a decade ago. It is one of the best things ever.  On so many people's top anime lists.
Presents as a serious shonen anime about superheroes with these hyper powerful enemies showing up and giving lengthy exposition... Only to be beaten with an single punch by the depressed hero.
There's more to it. Very well animated fights happen involving lesser heroes before our guy shows up. As someone who had a fondness for dragonball as a kid. I get it.

Then 5 years later season 2 finally came. So exciting!
.... It was a noticeable drop in quality. Both writing and animation. The hero is purposefully removed from the action so minor heroes can see serious action. Some of them are fun. Like the gay daddy prisoner. But the animation quality noticeably drops.
Its not a favourite. But not quite terrible enough to kill the series. The next series will be great people who have read the manga say.
This arc is a bit slow. But just you wait.

Series 3 finally came this season. It's airing now. So...so... Excited.
....
I noticed right away.
I'm not the only one who noticed.



This is an actual scene from the show. Cropped but otherwise not edited in anyway. They actually thought this was good enough.
No he's not flying. He's meant to be just walking.

Episodes pass with flapping mouths talking about nonsense nobody cares about.
The big super hyped fight scene which in comics is said to be so good it is the sort of thing you'd teach in a university course about drawing comics. Hailed as some of the best pages of any comic ever. The one people hoped they were just saving the animation budget for...
.... Its not much of a step up on man slides across hill.

Sometimes it is better when shows are just not renewed.