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as long as your name isn't Hoshijiro it should be fine

I saw this big damn mulberry hawkmoth outside my room and I told it "you better not wander into my room and then fly around all night rattling against my blinds and shit" well guess who apparently doesn't speak English.

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it's been a while since I have seen anything new that caught my eye. I really enjoyed Spy X Family, but other than that, seems like almost everything I've been digging on this year has been sequels. And some of those were only moderately tolerable at best (lookin' at you, here, Hataraku Maou-sama! Serious weaksauce compared to original)

So, imagine my surprise when I finally watch two new shows and I already want to snuggle with both after just the first episode...

Shinobi no Ittoki

Animation? Top-notch. Writing? Top-notch. Kousetsu? Top-notch.

verdict:

Chainsaw Man

How long have I been saying that nothing viceral and dark is celebrated in anime anymore? I don't think this one is going to have much in the way of depth or psychology like these used to, but hells yeah I'm all-in on this one. Have been since I heard about it, was not disappointed with the first showing. Hoping that trend continues.

verdict:

#shinobi no ittoki #chainsaw man #anime

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so much outstanding

#Youtube

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calling Isekai Meikyuu de Harem wo (Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World) degrading to women is an insult to things like internet porn and 1950's advertisements that actually are degrading to women. Debasing might be a better word.

What was the working title of this one, 'I Bought You So Now You're Going to F--- Me'??! I couldn't even make it past that episode. It just got too creepy and too vile for me.

The light novel series it's based upon ran in circulation for most of a decade so am hoping this is all on Passione - a studio I already have issues with - but yeah, this is not a good show. Not at all.

#isekai meikyuu de harem wo #harem in the labyrinth of another world #holy shit is this reprehensible #this guy makes itou makoto look like Bono #anime

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Ains Ooal Gown:

Me:

#overlord #ainz ooal gown #albedo #demiurge #BRUH #season 4 #anime

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What the hell did I just start watching LOL

#sentouin hakenshimasu! #combatants will be dispatched #damn gina #this show is zany asf #anime

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Can you follow Tengoku no Tobira, the Cowboy Bebop movie, having never seen the series? You probably can. It won't make nearly as much sense, but it could happen. Can you understand Fate/Stay Night having never seen Fate/Zero? All of us did, since Fate/Zero came out after so yeah - I would never suggest it now, but you'd fare just fine if you did.

And you may think that the pre-series episodes to The Ancient Magus' Bride would fall into the same category, and you may be right, but there is no way feasible to get the same experience out of the series without the shellshock and wide-open wounds of the 'Those Awaiting a Star' OVA. The irony, of course, is that the OVA starts in an already established story and might feel foreign, like you're jumping into the middle of something, but it is a flashback that is borderline required imo. I cannot believe CR took these down and only has the series now. It is a totally different vibe without the George Foreman-level punch in the jaw of those three episodes.

I'm sure you can watch the series without seeing the OVA first and it makes sense, but you're literally robbing the best part of the relationship between Chise and Ainsworth if you don't understand the absolutely crushing misery and desolation that came before. It wholly changes everything.

I just went back to rewatch the series again for the first time since it came out and even only a few episodes in it's nowhere near the same. It's so very not fair to the story.

#the ancient magus bride #mahoutsukai no yome #cowboy bebop #fate stay night #fate zero #crunchyroll #chise hatori #elias ainsworth #I mean yeah but why would you #my $.02 at least #anime

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Man, I got SUPER excited when I saw this today at Best Buy. Immediately hopped online to read the reviews, and sure enough - is the new dub/soundtrack/gentrified version.

If I can ever find the original series for a non-absurd price, I am •dying• to watch it again, has been too long. I just can't do the edited-for-snowflakes version that is out now.

#neon genesis evangelion #evangelion #best buy #can't do it #anime

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#engage kiss #this scene had me rolling #anime

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I kept scrolling past Engage Kiss in the simulcasts because to be completely honest, the title sounded dumb. I assumed it was another of these trope-y, horribly unoriginal romcoms with no personality at all. Then I happened to read the intro while I was looking for something new to watch, and decided to give it a shot since it sounded interesting.

I'm not going to say that it's anything overly great, it is trope-y as all get out, but it's got some good writing to it, and manages to intertwine some pretty heavy personal tragedy in with the slapstick. I did not expect layers when I first started it. There are parts that go a little overboard, especially with the over-cliched triangle that's going on, but even that has begun to take on dimension and breadth. I've been pleasantly surprised at how many times I've been surprised by something I originally assumed was horribly formulaic - most of the time it happens just like you think it will, but then those few times it doesn't has been what has kept my attention.

All in all, the first few episodes are all that's up so far, but it has been a pretty good time. Yet another title added to my watchlist.

#kiss engage #ok this is better than I gave it credit for #it's plenty creative and the comedic timing is great #fun stuff #anime

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Me trying to scroll past the video I just watched

Tumblr:

#tumblr #oye vey

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Overlord Spoiler

#overlord #yup #can't wait! #happy farms #anime

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#overlord #albedo #philip dayton l'eyre montserrat #remember that noise #muwahahahaha #anime

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#overlord #albedo #anime

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#lycoris recoil #nishikigi chisato #inoue takina #HAHAHA #so passive aggressive #anime

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#lycoris recoil #guess who's back #back again #anime

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OK, so I've known about this new season of Hataraku Maou-sama! for a while now, and have kept my mouth shut about it because I wasn't sure which way it was going to go. When I first started seeing the art releases from 3Hz I got defensive because it's so watered down and Sims4 compared to the amazing characters White Fox gave us. That, and it's been almost an entire decade now, and seeing how the sequels with even a few years between them have been going lately, I was petrified of what it was going to be like given how much I have grown attached to the original.

Tonight I finally swallowed my apprehensions and started it.

And, for the most part, a lot of those fears were not unfounded - the characters are oversimplified artistically. Without a doubt the best thing about the original series was the multitude of different faces everyone made. Emi was far dryer and infinitely more fixated. Sasaki was more frenetic. Suzuno was more skeptical of everything that anyone did. And their faces showed it, most often hilariously. I applaud 3Hz for trying, some have been shark jumps but there have been some well done moments, too - but it's nowhere close. It's far less snark, far more warm 'n fuzzy. The art style and the overall execution is just a little too shallow so far. For me, at least.

But it's not bad. Having gone back and read the light novels (the first season ends in Vol5 btw - there's now 18!) I kind of know what happens next so am almost more curious how well they stick to it than anything, because I'm already a pretty big fan of the lovable, highly dysfunctional synergy that goes on between this ensemble the vast majority of the time.

So, this new season doesn't really pull me in like the original did right from the beginning, and I do feel like a few of the characters have been glossed over a little too much, but it's not like it's bad. It's been fun so far and I do want to see how this new studio does.

#the devil is a part timer #hataraku maou sama! #season 2 #anime