Look who’s back after his bitch fit.

BB868: "This thread sucks. I'm watching 87 shows this current season and 75 of them have never even been mentioned in this thread."

SC4eyes: "Maybe you could tell us some of the good anime we're not talking about so we could watch them too."

BB868: "Fuck you. I don't have time to waste dealing with weebs. I'm leaving. This thread sucks."

Today is my all time favorite fictional character's birthday. Say something nice about him.

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The thread was on page one of GD while I was on break, and looked, answered a question, and moved on, and by utter coincidence it was on page one when I got home while I was looking for a story (the almost fight in the senate), and added info to a question/make a point. The only thing I "added" was the Frieren vid. I knew it was a mistake when I did it, I'll never do that again.

You can go back to complaining about everything, not watching any shows, and posting stupid fucking memes. ( bonus points for old disnyland fight vids )

Knock it off or take it outside you two. We don't need to be fighting in here.

Sony is infesting anime subs with woke bullshit on Crunchyroll.

I notice on the show “faraway paladin” they refer to one of the goddesses as “they” rather than “she”.

I’ve noticed this in a number of other anime’s too.

Multiple times in this thread you have had meltdowns and ranted about how much you think this thread sucks, implied we aren’t “real” anime fans because we don’t watch as much anime as you, and how you’re leaving this shitty thread and not coming back.

Except you always DO come back.

You’re like one of those attention-whoring “celebrities” who rants about how a certain presidential candidate is so bad and claim if he wins then they are moving out of America…. except they never actually follow through.

If someone repeatedly trashes this thread as being shit, claims they are leaving and never coming back, and then they DO come back, they will get called on it.

I don’t think Goblin Slayer S2 is as good as S1, but it’s still enjoyable.  In this week’s episode it was pretty funny to hear Guild Girl say she didn’t want GS to see her without her makeup on as she looks exactly the same as she always does.

Very impressive harem GS has, unbeknownst to him, acquired.  He still needs to add Witch though.

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Kinda wondering how much lag there is between manga chapters being published in Japan, and English translations getting out, but the only publishing dates I found with a quick search were for the Yurucamp volumes, not the individual chapters.

From chapter 80:
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It's already back in production with another company - Grand Trunk - though with a reduced selection of colors.

Way back in the thread, there was some discussion of identifying the gear, and we seemed to have something of a consensus (for a while) that Rin's tent was likely a Timberline 2 from Eureka, but it turned out it was a Moonlight 2 tent from a Japanese manufacturer.  The Moonlight 2 is similar to the Timberline 2, but slightly smaller (packs noticeably smaller due to the pole sections being shorter) and with the vestibule being part of the rainfly, instead of an add-on option.  You'd think that might make it less expensive, but the Moonlight 2 seems to be quite a bit more expensive.  And now Eureka has announced that they will be shutting down their company, next year.

But more on topic for the thread, the next season of the anime is scheduled for Spring 2024.  Different studio, and the art style has changed (said they wanted to be closer to the manga), but they seem to be using the same voice actors and same music people.  Hopefully the change won't be too jarring.

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There's definitely more "build" to this season, but I like the direction it's heading.

In order for the mc to notice he has a harem all of the harem girls would have to change their name to "Goblin Slayer's Harem Girl".  And maybe tell the mc there is a tiny goblin in their cave of wonders and he needs to crush it with his dong. Because autism is his middle name!  Goblin "Autism" Slayer.

I just finished Blue Eye Samurai or at least what is out there today.

Not too many surprises after about the first 15 mins.  

The story line worked for me, but I could see some folks maybe not so much.

The sound tack - seem to be spot on when I noticed it.

That worm-thing in Suzume is really creepy.

Really, really creepy.

Have I mentioned that that worm-thing in Suzume is really, really creepy?

Not quite sure if this fits here or has been discussed, but what you guys think of The Amazing Digital Circus?

It reminds me of that one episode of Twilight Zone where a bunch of characters were trapped in a room having no idea who they are or how they got there, and toss in some of those Backrooms videos on YouTube.

And yes, memes are out and R34 are hard at work.

After getting caught up on One Piece, I found that a few of my favorites have new seasons out or started. So I have been bouncing between SPYxFAMILY, Goblin Slayer, Overlord, MF Ghost, Started and caught up on The Rising of Shield Hero, And How Not to Summon a Demon Lord.

Shield Hero is now in my top five, I really like the plot/writing style and the artwork. HNTSA Demon Lord was kinda trippy because I thought I had watched it because some scenes looked familiar, but then whole episodes would seem new to me. IDK if I binged it before while ill, or maybe just saw so many posts with out-takes that it looked familiar.
SPYxFAMILY I'm enjoying the second season just as much as the first. Sure it doesn't have that new anime smell, where all the characters are fresh and interesting. But the world and character development is going well, and I am caring more for the characters and see them drawing closer to each other. I hope season three starts with Anya spilling the beans about being an empath, and tells her parents each others secret plus Bonds ability.
Then they can start truly working together as an OP power-family.

Goblin Slayer still cracks me up with how oblivious he is to the female attention. I still haven't decided who is best girl, but am leaning toward the red-headed farm-girl.
Does anyone else think the dub voice actor sounds Clint Eastwoodish?
One that caught me by surprise, and that I don't recall anyone posting about is The Worlds Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat. MC is a world class hitman, double crossed after doing a job and killed by his employer. Reincarnated as a baby in a family of aristocrats who have a secret life as a clan of assassins.
I like both the way the plot is developing and the unique animation style. I'm only on S1E9 but I am betting this MC becomes one of my favorite characters. His mom definitely has "issues".

Then there is MF Ghost. OMG, a worthy successor to Initial D!  I wish, after every damn episode, that I had waited until the season was over to start watching it. The suspense/curiosity is killing me.
One thing I like, the way the cars are almost photorealistic renderings while the characters are drawn with less quality and detail. As a gearhead, I want the cars to be the stars, and the humans to be the supporting cast.


Although the angels could be drawn with more detail when they are at the track.

That one was talked about a lot when it came out, but that was two years ago so it’d be easy to forget/miss.

It was created by the same guy that created Redo of Healer.

A lot of anime nowadays, combines hand drawn art with CGI. Noticed that in Suzume, too.

I have to say, though, I'm not a fan of the stylistic choice of the hand-dran 'dirt' on the CGI cars. Yeah, yeah, it's supposed to be penned in 'shading', but it looks like dirt (especially on the white Porsches), and looks really crappy, IMO.

I prefer what they did for Initial D, where the car scenes were CGI, and the rest was hand drawn. I think they made the stylistic choice in MFG in an attempt to reduce the disparity between the hand drawn and CGI scenes, but I just think it looks like crap (because unlike everything else about the CG cars, the hand drawn dirt doesn't remain steady in reference to the car. It scintillates/vibrates).

I really enjoyed it, I like the vibe where on the face of if it’s basically family friendly but has that slight hint of dread that comes through

On the subject of YouTube Indy cartoons I really like Helluva boss which is a adults comedy with a pretty healthy dose of action/emotion

And there’s a pilot call Lackadaisy it’s in prohibition era America with a pretty big shoot out featured ….. even a cat-girl with a B.A.R! Lol

Lackadaisy is/was a webcomic prior. The art was very well done and location/style well researched (including the guns) and the story was fairly interesting too. The comic updates fell off quite a few years ago when the author started working on getting animation stuff done and probably other things. A bit disappointing, but understandable. The pilot was pretty decent as well.

https://lackadaisy.com/ (I couldn't get the site to pull up right now)

World's Greatest Assassin- if your party members claim they're afraid to sleep alone and insist on sleeping with you...
If your party members notice you suffer from nocturnal emissions and offer to empty your prostate to prevent it from happening again...
You should run off to a brothel and pay strangers to do it instead, because you know how to cure your own VD.  

In other news, a currently running anime series decided to skip the plot and give us a Thanksgiving week OVA episode. That anime's MC refuses to bang his own women too. At least he doesn't bang whores either.

If a big-ass dragon has a hankering for a chicken dinner, ain’t no hero gonna keep him from his chik-fil-a takeout meal, shield or not.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/classof09anime/class-of-09-anime-episode
I might have to kick in on this. Class of '09 is one of the funniest games made in a while. They made a proof of concept already.

oh shit

That was delightfully fscked up.

Glad this latest episode of MFG picked up the pace a bit.

MFG did another five manga chapters in episode 9, which is what they've been doing every week.
Went from ch 39 to ch 44.
Started ep 9 in sector 3 of a 3 sector final lap, and finished the race.

Kanata's race 2 qualifying lap is in ch 59, so that'll probably be episode 12.

I guess the change in the character style isn't as bad as I had been expecting.

Just finished Bocchi the Rock, surprised there's no Season 2.

This literally had me in tears last night:

Bocchi probably will get a season 2 eventually. It's great.

So, let me see if I have this correct.

In MF Ghost…

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Someone posted a FB reel of a lewd anime list and I checked out the first couples episode of Kiss x sis and Hybrid x Heart. I felt gross afterwards. I'm not going to look at the rest of the list.

eta: I did watch half of Why the hell are you here teacher!?. That at least had me laughing.

this video got me listening closer to the soundtrack. I didn't think too much of it while watching the show



The musicianship is shockingly great on all the songs

SickHack's tune is tight af



Cool breakdown of the song

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About Ren/Angel 7...
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So did all the MFG fans enjoy three weeks of
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Kingdom of Ruin doesn't pull any punches.

It has been remarkably intense right from the beginning, with epic levels of gratuitous and disturbing violence and cruelty.

The latest episode careened down the same demented path.

Clearly the writers are unhinged MFers…

Yeah, it's definitely not one of those, "...and just in the nick of time..." shows.

I dropped it. Should I re-evaluate?

Did you 'enjoy' watching Redo of Healer, more specifically the themes revolving around violence and revenge?

While there are differences between the two series in both the storylines and in their storytelling approaches, something that they share in common is that both revolve around unexpectedly intense depictions of violence and cruelty, leading to scenes filled with unrepentant but perhaps justifiable revenge.

Yeah, that last scene…

I just learned Naruto is getting a live action adaptation.

My reaction to this information:

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Feel like venting/commenting:

Dr. Stone (Season 3) - I'm out, can't do it after the finale.  What, they gonna make coconut husk space helmets?  Nah dog, I'm out.  

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End  -  Still fucking great.  Slow burn, but so good.  Hitting me in the feels.  Also, been rewatching fight scenes/parts of episodes to make sure I caught it all.  

Rising of the Shield Hero (Season 3) - After basically walking out of Season 2 unfinished, came back to see what Season 3 is all about.  Wow, good animation and a story?  Count me in.  Also, Raphtalia and Orca Tiddies.

Reincarnated as a Sword - What the hell, I'll give it a shot.  Not bad, silly, but good action and can't get mad at a catgirl protagonist.  

Wolf and Spice (Season 2) -  Yeah, a oldie.  I vaguely remember watching Season 1, so started Season 2.  I like it, getting blue balls waiting for homie to hookup with beastgirl hottie, but you know how that goes.

Anyone have any other suggestions?  I have HIDIVE on Amazon for this month, but cancelling it.  Crunchyroll of course.

Also, quick review of The Boy and the Heron (in theaters).  Beautiful (of course) but nonsensical story that (for me) was impossible to follow and care about.  

@RarestRX

For the currently airing:

I'm enjoying Shangri-la Frontier. It's a VRMMO type anime, a little over the top, but the animation and action are great.

Under Ninja is an interesting story, with a timeline like Pulp Fiction the way it plays out.

Goblin Slayer is well... Goblin Slayer. I enjoyed Season 1 and the movie more, but S2 is good nonetheless.

Berserk of Gluttony is interesting. Typically OP kind of MC, but an enjoyable concept.

My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer is on the sweet kind of side. Not overly sweet, and the daughter is kind of annoyingly a daddy's girls. I'm more interest in the background of the former adventurer father Belgrieve's background. Seems like a good due that just wants to help folk.

And for the older stuff, and still on the topic of long and specific titles:

Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside is good, and deserves another season in my opinion. It follows a former heroes party member just trying to do his own thing and stay out of the spot light.

Chillin' in My 30s After Getting Fired from the Demon King's Army is along the same vein. And the MC isn't some loser that's afraid of women. (Get some bro) not quite as good as the former above, but enjoyable.

Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life! Really needs a second season. It's another VRMMO type anime, but to me it tops all others in that genre, with Shangri-la Frontier topping it in action and animation. I enjoy it waaaaay more than SAO or .Hack


For any other recommendations, it would help to know your preferred genres. The list can get much longer

ETA: Frieren is my favorite this season. I went and got what I could of the manga because of how much I enjoy it. And it has been 100% accurate to the manga.

It keeps the slow burn going with some more spikes in excitement. It's a very enjoyable story.

ETA 2: Reincarnated as a Sword is one of my favorites as well. Also snagged some of the manga. Fran is best daughter, and I would definitely become a sword to guide her into becoming the strongest black cat to ever adventure if stuck in that same situation.

Common theme. I think it was maybe "the girl next door spoils me" or a show like that where I think she'd have to pull his pants down and do a flying clam attack into a 69 position while he was standing before he'd think maybe she was a little sweet on him.

I've noticed HiDive shows don't get much attention. Helck and Eminence in Shadow are two of my favorites this season.

I really enjoyed the latest episode of Shangri-La Frontier.

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It really is one of the best shows this season.

The song was a banger too

For an example of how NOT to portray forging custom weapons, see A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life.

Yeah, they are exact opposites in every aspect.

One is accidentally op at everything he does while not wanting to be in the spotlight, the other is an actually skilled player using his knowledge of broken games and game mechanics to his advantage.

The latter is also better animated and more exciting.

Every time I watch Shangri-La Frontier, the same pervasive thought always takes center stage and won't let go...

I want to see a crossover where Sunraku plays the game Kiwame Quest, from Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life!.