Sounds interesting; I’m in
Sounds interesting; I’m in
My Wife Has No Emotion - The manga is great
My Deer Friend Nokotan - There’s a lot of hype around it, and it seems weird enough
Senpai Is An Otokonoko
Pretty much any of the generic isekai / harem / battle shonen shows
Good enough for me.
Only completed Konosuba and Dungeon Meshi for now.
Too busy to watch many shows anyway.
Just completed Dungeon Meshi.
I certainly wasn’t expecting such fantastic world-building for a cooking show. In fact, it’s my first one, since cooking shows usually don’t interest me, just like sports / music series.
The main cast of characters are likable too.
Overall, a solid 9/10 for now. Just like Heavenly Delusion, I’ve got to see more of it before settling on a final score. Glad to know that a season 2 has been announced.
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Thanks for the recommendations!
Can’t violate human rights if they are sub-human
Binged some masterpieces towards the end of the week.
Violet Evergarden
This has got to be the anime with the most number of touching / tear-inducing moments for me. The set-up for some these moments make them quite obvious, but the execution is so good. Plus, Evan Call’s music elevate these scenes so much.
I love the ending too. It provided closure, which is important to me.
Overall 10/10, and now one of my favourite series of all times.
Heavenly Delusion
Such a good post-apocalyptic series, reminding me of Last of Us and Fallout.
I especially liked how it slowly showed how the post-apocalyptic world came to be, like in Fallout.
However, unlike Fallout, it never got around to showing the rest of the apocalyptic event. It ended too early IMO. It could really use a second part or season.
I understand that there may be a lack of source material (manga?) at the time of airing, but that’s still no good for me. And unfortunately, it looks like the manga is far from complete based on the number of chapters published.
Overall 9/10, though I may bump the score up depending on any future seasons.
86
Other viewers have probably pointed it out already, but this is basically a Gundam series.
There are so many parallels to various Gundam series
The first part is basically Iron Blooded Orphans. The 86-ed / discarded child soldiers are human debris, and the way Shin pilots his Juggernaut is the same as Mika in Barbatos. Shin wields his pistol similarly to Mika, and is about as stoic too (though his stoicism reminds me more of Setsuna from 00).
Lena took on the princess role that is ever present in Gundam. She is pretty much Miorine from Witch from Mercury, and I liked her so much for it: she has the same righteous sense of justice, is feisty, and most importantly, is a go-getter, willing to put up a fight instead of just waiting to be rescued. And of course both of them have white hair.
In the second part, the specialisation of their mechs are similar to the Gundam meisters in 00, though it is not an exact match. Kurena’s role is one of obvious ones, being the sniper like Lockon in Dynames. Anju handles artillery / barrage attacks, which reminds me of Buster from SEED. Theo’s speedster mech and superior positioning is like Allelujah in Kyrios. Raiden’s unit seems to be a generic one, like the Duel from SEED. And finally Shin is the other obvious one, being the melee specialist like Setsuna in Exia.
Besides the usual “war bad” message that is typical of war series, there’s also an emphasis on moving forward like in Witch from Mercury (and recently for me, Violet Evergarden and Godzilla Minus One). Though, Lena took care of Shin’s survivor’s guild / PTSD in just a few minutes, something that Lacus struggled with for Kira across multiple episodes (which is more realistic TBH).
And lastly, we cannot ignore the class discrimination / racism / xenophobia, a mainstay of most Gundam series. There are probably more similarities that I can’t remember.
Anyway, it essentially combines all the good parts of Gundam series that I have watched into one; the grittiness of Iron Blooded Orphans, the all-out war like in Gundam SEED and finally the happy ending of Witch from Mercury. I love it so much.
The only things missing are humanoid mechs (which is a bit of pity due to the lack of opportunity for merch). Also, it has an easier way out of the conflict due to the common enemy for humans unlike in Gundam. These are just nitpicks really.
Other thoughts on 86:
There are so many moments I liked. Off the top of my head:
The most memorable moment for me has got to be the last 4 mins of the whole series. I thought it was going to blue-ball me in the previous episode, so thank goodness for this.
Also, I liked how even the side characters are not one-dimensional (e.g. some commanders appear to discriminate against them simply due to xenophobia, but it turns out they did so for other reasons).
To top it off, the attention to details (and references!) and the soundtracks are phenomenal.
Overall 10/10, another top series of all time for me. Unlike the previous two series, I did not have another good series planned after this, and I wanted to take a break from tragedy-themed shows, so I had post-anime depression / syndrome for a short while. It doesn’t help that the light novel is incomplete, because I prefer to binge all of it.
Luckily for me, I noticed that a recent mech movie is available.
Gundam SEED Freedom
Like others pointed out, this movie is much needed fan-service and closure for old SEED fans.
It’s really pretty much the Gundam SEED I enjoyed, but with better animations that do not get reused.
There’s a bit of unnecessary melodrama, with Kira regressing to being a whiny bitch who lost faith in Lacus, but that punch from Athrun makes up for it.
Also, it ended up focusing more on the romance aspect more than I expected, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing.
Like 86, I can’t name just one moment to be the best:
Overall 9/10, such a satisfying conclusion to the series as a whole.
Just binged Violet Evergarden, including the OVA; I’ve still got the movies to go through though.
As usual, war shows really bring out the feels, making it another instant 10/10.
I thought it is especially relevant in these times, given the geopolitical tensions around the world.
Edit
Having watched the movies, it is still one of my top series.
Binged odd taxi in one day
Now it’s top of my list - along with apothecary diaries - for mystery / crime anime
Frieren
They seem to have cut some parts out but it’s probably because otherwise the pacing would be off.
That’s quite a pity. I was looking forward to seeing Kazuma chaining his skills.
It was overkill, but I liked how Kazuma froze the water in the sword master’s nose and mouth after flooding them with water in the LN.
that OS turned me off unless it has substantially improved since then
That was my experience with Pop!_OS too. I tried switching to it after finding that Ubuntu has a lot of bloat.
In the end, I went back to Ubuntu, because it works right out of the box - even with my Nvidia graphics card! (only from 20.04 onwards; 18.04 and older versions were problematic)
When I reinstalled Ubuntu, I chose the custom / minimal installation option, and that cut out most of the bloat.
I tried Pop!_OS 3 times, and all 3 times, my computer crashed irrecoverably at some point.
I ended up replacing it.
Looks like downvoters don’t get the joke. I first seen it on the cover of Horrible History.
create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area
You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)
Smartphone with internet connection.
Same.
In my case, Gundam: Witch from Mercury was the one that single-handedly brought me back into anime after 4?+ years of not watching.