The Anime Thread

[Syt]

I quite liked the movie version.
The original anime.... I don't remember too much. The 5 minute vignette format doesn't do it for me generally. Saiki K is the only one I like.

Hetalia was also fun for a while.

[Josquius]

Hetalia was forever ruined by moving to Japan and meeting fujiyoshi.

[jimmy olsen]

I can't get past chapter 1.
The art is off putting.
But ja. It's crazy popular.

Same thing for me.

[Josquius]

The pick of this season gone - Ya Boy Kongming.

3 kingdoms general Kongming finds himself in modern Tokyo, where he meets a struggling musician and decides to become her tactician, applying romance of the 3 kingdoms strategms to the music scene.
It's fun.
And there aren't too many good music anime out there.
Worth a watch.

Also anyone else watched odd taxi? That was also fantastic.

[Josquius]

This thread has dropped to oblivion without Mono.
Still.
The current anime you should watch- Oshi no Ko. Saying much about it will be a spoiler. And if you're remotely open to anime watch it without spoilers. But it is just fantastic all round.  Kind of Perfect Blue vibes. Looks at various aspects of the Japanese entertainment industry from the POV of someone who isn't particularly interested in being part of it but reasons.
It took a lot of trustworthy sources saying it was worth watching to get me to give it a go as the blurb just didn't sound like my kind of thing. I don't like pop music and see idol culture as everything that is wrong with pop music. But the show agrees.

[viper37]

This thread has dropped to oblivion without Mono.

He left because we didn't support Xi Jinping, or he left because his public persona never really match his forum boasting and he disapeared never to be heard again?

[jimmy olsen]

This thread has dropped to oblivion without Mono.

He left because we didn't support Xi Jinping, or he left because his public persona never really match his forum boasting and he disapeared never to be heard again?

Did he really do much boasting?

[Josquius]

Iirc he went too over the line at one point cheering for protestors getting their heads smashed in and had a thread locked temporarily. Never banned.

[viper37]

Gundam Witch from Mercury.

Such a bizarre show.

It has high reviews, very high praise.  Promising a novel story, not a retelling of a another story, it got my curiosity piked.

Space lesbians.  Umh, ok.  Forced marriage.  Students fighting in mobile suit so they can determine who's gonna marry who.  Some weird love story.  A Gundam that isn't a Gundam but a very advanced mobile suit.  My guess is it will be destroyed later on the show and rebuilt as an even more powerful mobile suit


In short:  Teenage drama in a private school where they solve their disputes by duking it out in their Mobile Suits.  No signs yet of a giant arching conflict between Earth and its space colonies.  Not much in the terms of global politics, but lots of teenage angst.

Would be perfect for Mono.

[Jacob]

Iirc he went too over the line at one point cheering for protestors getting their heads smashed in and had a thread locked temporarily. Never banned.

That's right. He was gloating about a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators and I locked his thread for a few days. It was enough for him to stop posting.