I’ve been watching more anime lately and am out of stuff that I’ve pirated and am looking for more recs
Eizouken was wonderful, definitely one of my all favorites now. And I feel like the additional insight into the production of anime helps me appreciate other shows better, I love that feeling
So I’m a Spider So What was fun when it was about the spider, I fast forwarded though many parts about the humans. Weird that it brought up a bunch of stuff about the admins etc and then resolved exactly nothing about them. And I guess the bad guys were the good guys the whole time? Except the bad guys still did a whole bunch of bad stuff? Needed more spider. Should I assume the rest of the genre is trash?
Super Cub was cute and a very effective Honda advertisement. I am a huge sucker for slice of life kinda stuff. I feel like I watched part of another motorcycle adventure anime, except the world was more fantastic and the motorcycle could talk? It was more melancholy too
Ranking of Kings is not about high schoolers and so my partner is actually willing to watch it with me. I’m getting the bluray rips as they come out so I’m only halfway through but dang these backgrounds are pretty.
I’ve been watching Den-noh Coil on Netflix. It’s some of the best, most original cyberpunk I’ve ever seen. In the near future, augmented reality glasses are extremely popular with the younger generations, and this new, weird, spatialized version of the internet is just starting to become integrated into city life. Gangs of 5th grade script kiddies are fighting each other across their school and the suburbs, using programs they bought at the local hacker mart. Urban legends abound, and these kids keep venturing into abandoned buildings and disused parking lots to find “obsolete spaces” where they can farm junk data they think can summon a ghost in the machine.
Mothra posted some recommendations above. Personally I liked Bookworm and Log Horizon more than I’m a Spider, at least from the early episodes I dipped into. They’re all certainly a lot better than other isekais I checked out at random like Mushoku Tensei (trash, do not watch).
Hoping Isekai Uncle gets an anime adaptation somehow
Log Horizon is the most realistic representation of MMO players ever made
a head of one of the guilds who ostensibly represents low-level or otherwise disenfranchised players tries to sow chaos by suggesting to the other guilds at the round table to help support those players
the other guilds, who are high end/trading/raid guilds, go “lol no”
did I mention the author of the LN the show is based on was busted for tax evasion
(I feel the need to point out that the same author also wrote Maoyuu, which is Spice and Wolf except instead of being about commodities trading, it’s about the creation of a post-medieval society and the destruction of serfdoms
even if that comparison was off-base, the Maoyuu anime was literally directed by the S&W anime director and stars the same leads)
Speaking of kid shows, I’m partway through Magic Knight Rayearth season 2 now. I enjoyed season 1 for the silly lightheartedness and JRPG tropes, despite it being pretty wafer thin in the plot department.
Season 2 has gone all serious without much extra going on in the plot, and so it kinda feels like a drag so far. I’m hoping it picks up as it goes, but I’m guessing probably not.
Season 1 made me go “hey my nieces would probably love this” (last time I saw them they were designing their own Sailor Moon characters), but Season 2 would probably just cause them to go outside and go jump on the trampoline or something.
I also got the MegaZone 23 Blu ray, so I watched Part III for the first time. I’d heard it was best avoided, and while it’s not great I didn’t think it was a complete disaster. Turning Yahagi Shogo into a Phantasy Star villain was an unexpected and completely ridiculous twist.
I think my TV must be spying on what I watch because now Youtube keeps recommending the
Saki Takaoka music videos to me
My wife and I binged through it in 2020. I think the horniness gets a little subdued. I mean, only in comparison to itself. In comparison to anything else besides porn, it is very overt. The reason we stayed was that the show actually does succeed in crafting drama out of cooking competition and the characters are pretty fun. I’m not sure we would’ve watched it unless we were both unemployed.
