The State of Anime Today

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by MasterOfMagic

Holy shit its real how did I not hear about Berserk continuing until literally the day before.

talk about a rock holy fuck beans

They're also making a Berserk musou game (dynasty warriors style game).

[phil_]

Not phone posting now, so time to be like Hell yeah I'm watching Berserk! I'm not sure how much they can get away with on TV vs. what's in the comics, but I'm psyched to see, like, Lost Children arc and the crazy priest dude smashing heads with a bible. I'm sure they won't get to the Rakshasa and stuff, but, man, this is just something I never thought would happen. And I thought there was already a musou Berserk game for PS1 or 2 or something.

I'll probably watch Mob Psycho, too, because ONE.

Also, _mike wants to watch New Game for reasons I don't understand, so that's on the menu.

[RobinStarwing]

So who saw the season finale for Sailor Moon Crystal Season III Infinity Arc?

Sailor Saturn...that is all you need to know.

[BB]

Originally Posted by phil_

The CG in the Aquarium video was a big step ahead of any in the franchise before, so at very least we should get some pretty dancing. As far as sameness, there's enough going on with the girls that's different, and even the similar characters aren't that similar. Mari seems like a very different gaijin character than Eli, even if they're both tall, blonde, hafus. Mari's way more outwardly goofy, whereas Eli's dorky enthusiasm is more of her hidden side.

Oh yeah nah lemme clarify, I don't have an issue with any of the girls except possibly Ruby might be a little generic but she just needs time. I mean, "our school is closing, hey this other school has idols, we should do that too, but Student Prez says NO!!!!" is identical and I worry it's not doing enough to set itself apart as its own thing. It needs to firmly establish an identity of its own rather than always being Love Live 1.5. The more removed from mu's the better (at least until the inevitable joint-concert that will hopefully not even be thought about until a few years have passed).

Along those lines, the emotional whammy at the end of the mu's anime was only possible thanks to the girls being long-established and the project coming to a close in real life. Sunshine certainly can't have anything along those lines- they can't graduate one year into it, they're just getting started!

[phil_]

So Berserk was metal. Kinda doing its own thing and skipping stuff, but the first episode hit the important beats of Puck, dead child, skeleton army, so I'm still excited to see where it goes from here. I know other places on the interbutts are not happy about the CG, but that's dumb because it looked really good. It's commendable that they're trying to reproduce Miura's art in a TV anime and succeeding as well as they are.

I also finally watched Kono Suba per Snake's suggestion. More boobs than I was expecting, but it did a good job of hitting the same old issekai notes in an way that was funny to me and inconvenient/horrible for the "hero." I like that his broken Luck stat (because issekai heroes have to have something like that) was definitely not good luck, but "the most unlikely thing to happen will happen, for good or ill, largely ill," and it stayed that way to the very end. Waiting warmly for the second season.

[BB]

Originally Posted by BB

Sunshine

Well I'm not allowed to watch it until tomorrow because my fiancée has to go to stupid work and we couldn't figure out how to watch it in time, but initial impressions among fans seem generally positive, with some surprises in the mix. Will update with my own thoughts once the stars align just right that I can watch it, but it seems my fears are mostly allayed.

[phil_]

It's good, man. It is Love Live and it is good. Various forms of public transportation, lots of very good CG dancing (and some bad CG dancing from the first season). It doesn't pretend to be the real world and introduces our dramatis personae rather bluntly, but that's Love Live and, as I said, it is good.

[BB]

Okay, yeah. I liked it. I worry, I worry because I'm english and worrying is our national pastime, but I liked it. We both did. Yohane is everything.

Something odd, though, is that the word µ's wasn't spoken once. It was always "those guys" or similar. It's not like they're trying to be subtle about the references, so I wonder why that was.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by BB

Something odd, though, is that the word µ's wasn't spoken once. It was always "those guys" or similar. It's not like they're trying to be subtle about the references, so I wonder why that was.

Oh no, µ's have become zombies and thus fall under the "don't say zombie" rule. At least this twist should discourage the people who insist that Sunshine is a carbon copy of the first season, once the living dead start emerging from the sea. It should make for a unique insert song.

[BB]

Dia being not only a closet fan, but an actual gatekeeper, sold me. She's fave.