My favorite parts is watching a 90s console war kid removed from time trying to cope with the current video game landscape. Those bits have occured less as the show goes on because they probably wouldn’t keep any sega support if they had to take a real look at that kind of thing. I kept hoping it would take some moment for Uncle to celebrate some of Sega’s current victories like the Yakuza series or a sonic movie but that was probably to far out from the manga.
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this OP showed up in my youtube recommendations and i have never read a more disappointing synopsis in my life
In 2008, otaku culture is eliminated in Japan; in 2011, the “Otaku Hero” and his three magical girls start a revolution to bring back otaku culture.
maybe it’s taking the piss but idk
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I’m ill-equipped to rate the imagery but the music is reeeal good
I saw the first episode. Not exactly sure where it’s trying to land. It certainly feels like its trying to appeal to the nerd victim complex but also it might be saying something about how a normie homogeneous society isn’t human either. Visually its very “we have trigger at home” energy with trying to be goofy but still cool. A reviewer on twitter pointed out the director is mostly has a history of doing commercials and this is their first foray into full length animation projects so that kinda informs the parts that feel weak about it.
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Doesnt even sustain 5 minutes never mind 25.
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tried watching it with a friend last night and we lasted about 4 minutes before switching to Uncle from Another World which is also not incredible but i definitely laughed a bunch
This season sucks but hypnosis mic is getting a second season which is good
Second ep of Magical Destroyers was a big jump in its imagery. Still not sure it’s good yet but this def hooked me enough to see where it goes for a few more eps.
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Wowee The Black Cauldron is a hot mess but boy are some of the visuals sumptuous. Gorgeous colors. Also so many flashing lights that even watching on my phone, I had to squint sometimes
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The Venture Bros movie managed to survive the WB/Discovery disaster and is coming out later this year
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So 3 eps into Magical Destroyers and all I really feel is that someone really misses the marginally insular days of internet fandom of the aughts. Alot of the gags feel born of the days of mid aughts anime that were mostly vehicles for nerd jokes and wacky spontaneous humor of 2ch/4chan posts. If I were to suggest watching it at all I’d just say watch ep2 and then wait and see if anyone posts anything interesting. In its defense, it does have a lot of fun punk imagery mixed into the otaku ephemera. I can only admit to watching out of curiosity and a little bit of nostalgia for some of those days of my youth.
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same show
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OH MY GOD
Cheat Skill is such a nothing show but it is oddly watchable. Shin Itagaki is a work horse of a director that knows how to get a show done. This is a flip on the isekai formula where 80% of the show is in regular world. It’s more of a Narnia set up where he can go back and forth freely. The first episode is more or less misery porn as we watch the world crush the big guy under multiple heels. After he discovers the magic door to fantasy world and killing a few monsters through a magic safety net he power levels in probably the most interesting way as a short body horror cut and then becomes anime pretty. Kind of a shame because it was fun watching them put a little effort into how they animated his big frame body using weapons as opposed to the usual noodle limb designs. After that every episode has been watching the MC discover some self worth or taking the power fantasy of isekai to the real world as he embarrasses delinquents and shitty male models. There’s not a lot going on but the eye designs are on another level. Every one has jewel like eyes that I want to just turn into merchandise. I’ll say it again. Nothing really interesting going on but weirdly competent direction.
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the funniest part of this cheat skill in all of it’s forms light novel, manga, and anime is the multiple times when dozens of people stop in public to go “HOLY SHIT A HOT PERSON! NOW THERES TWO HOT PEOPLE! I CAN’T BELIVE WE GET TO LOOK AT THEM” and it’s so much funnier with voice acting
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do you ever watch anything not irredeemably awful or do you just live in constant suffering?
I am up to the last third or so of Death Note (think I just hit episode 30) and I am getting close to assuming that the people behind the show realize the main guy is a terrible person (he more or less lead his dad to his death and in a recent ep heavily considered murdering his own sister) but I feel it has made me appreciate the Breaking Bad/Shield school of “flawed protagonists” a bit more. The potential issue I always saw with them was that their protagonists could be likable enough that too much of the audience would resist acknowledging their awful behaviors. Well the main guy in Death Note is incredibly unlikable and it just makes it harder to watch and get invested in while I assume too many viewers still don’t grasp that he’s a genocidal psychopath.
Oddly enough my enjoyment of the show picked up a good bit in the middle during an extended bit where the protagonist temporarily wiped his own memory to get suspicions off of him and was just like a normal if absurdly clever young adult.
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i have no idea what death note fandom is like, which would be the true signal of how well they made their awful character Actually Unlikeable, but I do think they are tremendously successful at this. i’m glad you persevered and i’ll be very interested in your take on the ending
