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demyxdancer · 7 months

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Anime Summer 2023

Overall I thought this was an enjoyable season with quite a few high quality shows in it and a few surprises.

Here's my thoughts on Summer 2023 anime, from most favorite to least.

Bungou Stray Dogs Season 5

How could anything else be at the top? While I think overall this was a little weaker than S4 for me -- I really like some of the character work in S4, particularly Ranpo and Yosano's pasts -- this was an absolute roller coaster ride from start to finish. I can't help but admire BSD's ability to throw absolutely ridiculous and over the top plot points one after another and still make it all work. It came to a reasonably satisfying conclusion as well. BSD in general has shot up to become one of my favorite anime of all time and this season didn't disappoint at all.

Highlights: Ranpo saving everyone's asses. Sigma just wants a home. Bram just wants tunes. Aya is the MVP. Chuuya and his Spirit Halloween vampire fangs. You can't kill Dazai in a way that matters.

Complaints: I can only hope we're getting some light novel movies or else we're going to be waiting a long time for more BSD.

My Happy Marriage

Romance in anime tends to be hit or miss, but this one was incredibly refreshing. Far too many romance stories just don't do a good job of showing how the leads are meant for each other, but this show was delightful whenever the leads were on screen. I loved how they were able to talk to each other sensibly and how gently Kiyouka treated Miyo's trauma. Plus, it was beautifully animated.

Highlights: Kiyouka burning the Saimori house the fuck down. Any time Miyo wore a new kimono. The exchange of the hair cord and the comb. Miyo finally getting to protect Kiyouko.

Complaints: The first arc was stronger than the second. The abrupt turnaround by the Usuba family was a little strained.

Jujutsu Kaisen

The art change has made JJK more beautiful than ever. The production values and the OP/EDs of this show don't miss. The Hidden Inventory arc was so intense and featured some stunning fights. While I think the last few eps have been a bit rocky, I'm looking forward to seeing what's going to be cooked up.

Highlights: Pulling on our heartstrings with the girl's sudden death. Gojo's revenge rampage. Geto tormented by the clapping of hands. Yuuji's friends teasing him about a girl.

Complaints: JJK's commitment to never slowing down means we never get to spend as much time in the character moments as I'd like. I think this hurts arcs like Hidden Inventory where Geto's turn to the dark side would be better done if they slowed down a bit.

Undead Murder Farce

This season's big surprise for me. This show was incredibly entertaining and had everything you could want. Vampires! Werewolves! A phantom thief! Sherlock Holmes! Lesbians! The supernatural creatures in an alternate history late 1800s Europe thing did a little bit to fill the Vanitas-shaped hole in my heart. I really appreciated how solid production values and creative visuals spiced up episodes that were really mostly just talking. There had better be another season of this. The story's just getting started!

Highlights: Phantom Thief Lupin and his dramatics. Literary characters showing up one after the other. Vampire murder mystery.

Complaints: The second arc was definitely the best one, and the following werewolf arc dragged a bit and couldn't quite compare.

Saint Cecilia and Paster Lawrence

This show just doesn't work as a romcom, which it ostensibly is trying to be. Lawrence is just too dense and the development is excruciatingly slow even by anime romcom standards. Thankfully, this show does work nicely as a charming slice of life. It's consistently cozy and heartwarming even if nothing ever actually happens. The village full of supportive townsfolk looking after these two reminds me almost of Stardew Valley.

Highlights: The trip to the city where we actually inched along the plot a bit. Cecilia's outfits -- she really does look cute in anything. The scene with Cecilia and Lawrence in the attic.

Complaints: Nothing ever happens. Ending on Lawrence confused about whether or not he thinks of Cecilia as family was kind of a downer.

Sunshine in the Mirror

I haven't watched Love Live! Sunshine (which this show is a spinoff of) but I did watch Superstar and it's not like it's difficult to follow a Love Live show. This one started out promising with a cute enough premise, but kind of fell apart halfway through. The cute slice of life content wasn't bad, but the plot itself was poorly done with unclear stakes. The magic badness engulfing the town was primarily shown as fog with a few angry deer in it. That's just New Hampshire, I'm not scared of that.

Highlights: While all idol music sounds a little samey to me, this one was on the higher end of enjoyability. Cute outfits and consistently colorful and fun to look at. Lailaps plot was cute enough.

Complaints: The overarching plot was really badly written, and that killed a lot of the momentum of the series.

Bang Dream! It's MyGo!

This show has one thing going for it compared to Love Live, and that is willingness to show actual teenage drama and teens being petty and selfish. I loved the lead singer character and her awkwardness and her bandaid collection and wished the show were more about her, but I guess not all shows can be Bocchi the Rock. While the writing had its good points, I ended up dropping this due to pointless drama overload and the fact that I couldn't tell the girls apart.

Highlights: Lead singer character was endearing when she got to be on screen.

Complaints: CGI animation was stiff and poor. Characters impossible to tell apart. Teen drama maybe a little too realistic and hard to watch as a result.

Zom 100

This had an outstanding first episode but quickly went down the tubes for me. I'm not a big fan of zombies in the first place, so bouncing off the show is probably on me. I dropped it after the first handful of episodes.

Highlights: First episode is well worth watching on its own. Colorful animation.

Complaints: Unfunny humor. Production quality drops significantly after the first episode. Treatment of female characters made me uncomfortable. Guilt over watching an anime about exploitative companies knowing how many production delays this has had and that the people making this are also being exploited.

Fall 2023

Fall 2023 is looking absolutely slammed! Dr. Stone and Spy x Family are back. Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, I'm in Love with the Villainess and Tearmoon Empire are high on my list of shows to try. And we'll have the second cour of Jujutsu Kaisen.

#bungou stray dogs #my happy marriage #jujutsu kaisen #undead murder farce #saint cecilia and pastor lawrence #sunshine in the mirror #bang dream #zom 100: bucket list of the dead #anime #anime fall 2023

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dracones24 · 2 years

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Hello so Idk if you still do match ups if you do please do this request i will really appreciate it. I wanted to ask for my bsd match up and for basic romantic and if possible nsfw that would make the really happy me😊

Appearance: I have dark brown(close to black) hair with dark brown eyes. I wear glasses and I am 5'6.

Mental issues: I have anxiety or call it trauma or whatever. Throughout my life I have been expected to live up to my parents and relatives expectations that I have forgot how my own personality was its like a facade now. I also have abandonment issues everyone I have ever given my best just used me and left me behind. I also lost my grandfather who was very close to me he die just after I left the house making me feel maybe If I was there i might have seen him for the last time. I also overthink a lot and it depends on the situations most of the times.

Personality: I'm quite the ambrivert I like to talk to people but only talks to the people I know most of the time or just go only to few new people. I an even temper person. I like adventures that will just make you scream fear though my parents rarely let me do them. I'm bisexual but prefer men more. I am bold and can control my emotions according to the situation. I love and absolutely adore murder mysteries and love weapons. I am goofy in nature or that is how friends describe me as. I care about those who are really close to me and I'm loyal to them as well. I love collecting black mail a out people and pranking them. I 'm also said to be a funny and dirty minded tease in my friend group. I'm very confident in what I can do and I remain calm in tough situations while thinking my plans through. My friends have told me that I am quite scary when I get mad which quite rare but they did said if I get mad all hell breaks lose. I'm also artistic. I'm am the chaotic mom in my friend group who does all the chaotic stuff and cares like a overprotective mom who will kill. I like to be alone when I'm sad but I love hanging out with my friends.

This one took lots of puzzling, but I am now resdy to pair you to..... Nikolai Gogol!

If youre an anime-only fan, my apologies, I'll do my best to keep manga spoilers to a minimum, but he's in the s4 trailer so if you don't know Nikolai, at least you'll meet him soon.

Gogol is a whirlwind of a man, his sense of adventure is unmatched, you'll never ever be bored with him

He isnt the sort to be caught up on any inconsistencies in your personality, he himself has many facades, you might be the only ome who starts to see the person underneath

Nikolai adores your boldness! He would also find it very hot if you took The Lead, but he hates to feel Caged, so what he does and doesnt like can seem random. Hes quite kinky and adventurous but anything that makes him feel restricted is a no-go, which oddly does not include physical restraints.

Your teases affect him A Lot, his pupils will blow wide, and if you're in public you should probably have an iron will or else he'll probably attempt to put on a Show, right there in public!

Your abandonment issues are probably yhe only Trouble in the relationship really, because Nikolai is flighty as fuck, but for the most part his solution is just to bring you everywhere he goes, since he finds everything more spectacular with you around

If your hair is long, Nikolai would braid it like he braids his, its one of his favorite ways to show affection

Being able to keep your head when times get tough is necessary, cuz Nikolai lands you in tough spots allll the time

Every day is an adventure with him, sometimes these adventures steal your breath with adrenaline, other times... he steals your breath with filthy kisses or unexpected tender romantic words.

Nikolai tries to make you laugh as much as you make him laugh but frankly? His jokes kind of suck, hopefully you're okay with laughing At him!

Blackmail doesnt really work on him but he dooooessss love to see you pull it on others

#bsd matchups #ask #ask games #nikolai

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applefelmier · 2 years

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bsd s4: my ramblings thoughts

note: please excuse me if my wording here doesn’t make sense or if i’m not expressing my thoughts well. i just woke up after getting three hours of sleep lol also grammar is not my best friend and manga spoiler warning in this post just in case

i finally processed the fact that we’re actually getting a new season(!!!!) of bsd and now i’m wondering how they’re going to animate all of the scenes in a potential 12-episodes season. since bones is known to also adapt light novels into the anime (more thoughts on that later), there will be no more than ten episodes that will adapt the latest arc that the manga is currently on and based on the visual art that we see, it looks like A LOT will be compacted in such a short season.

in the visual art that was posted on the bsd twitter account, it looks like the anime will adapt at least up to the “flying casino” mini-arc (apologies...i forgot what the actual arc was called and also, i consider this a “mini-arc” since it’s a part of the bigger arc (ada vs. hunting dogs) of the story that the anime will focus on). unless if they make this a two-cour anime (like they did before) or extend this season a little longer than what they typically do, it looks like bones will cut quite a few scenes from the manga...which is fine. they’ve done that in the past. i just hope that they execute it well and not omit important scenes that play a pivotal part in a character’s arc or in the overall story.

also, i’m curious as to where they would end the season. since the current arc is still technically going on with little to no resolution in sight in the manga, the season will potentially end in a cliffhanger or an “open-ended” ending of sorts that’s not a cliffhanger per se, but leaves you wanting more. tbh, i have no clue which scenes would be a good stopping point for the anime. i’m wondering how bones will tackle this.

as far as my thoughts of the light novel that will be adapted, my money’s on ‘the untold story of the detective agency.’ also, i wouldn’t be surprised if ‘55 minutes’ get adapted, but i think we’re going to get the backstory of how the agency was formed. to me, it makes sense to learn how and why the agency began and how those reasonings/principles conflict with how the agency is currently viewed in the present by the general public. so yeah, ‘untold story’ and ‘55 minutes’ are my predicted light novel adaptations, but watch them adapt ‘stormbringer’ instead lol. i mean...i’ll be excited to see it adapted, but that wouldn’t make sense at all to me.

all in all, however, i’m happy we’re getting a new season!!! it feels like it’s been ages since the anime last aired and it looks like it may get released next year (i hope), which also marks the 10-year anniversary of the manga! i’m excited to see how they will animate my favorite scenes from this arc, most notably the helicopter scene lol and we’re going to see the clown himself in animated form (gogol) as well as sigma and oguri. just so many new characters! regardless of how this new season will pan out, i’m just looking forward to watching this series again.

#if you read all of this thank you #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd s4

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ikizais · 3 years

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Thank you so much for the tag, Amina (@rubydragon16)!! 💕 A bit late but here I am ahahah

Tagging (feel free to ignore ofc!): @peachymoriarty, @nightrayv, @yuuki-ko, @space--cowboys, @roronoazooro, @haru-kaas, @levizs, @naoamaya, @alice-chan-chan, @tohaki, @leotsukinagas, @kiraime, @yonae, @suzouyas and whoever wants to do this! <3

Tag Game #01

Rules: MAKE A NEW POST, bold what applies to you and tag whoever you want to get to know better.

APPEARANCE

I’m an I-need-to-pull-the-driver-seat-all-the-way-in kind of a person // i wear glasses or contacts // i have blonde hair // i prefer loose clothing to tight clothing // i have one or more piercings // i have at least one tattoo // i have blue eyes // i have dyed or highlighted my hair // i have gotten plastic surgery // i have or had braces // i sunburn easily // i have freckles // i paint my nails // i wear makeup // i don’t often smile // i am pleased with how I look // I prefer nike to adidas // i wear baseball hats backward

HOBBIES & TALENTS

i play a sport (at least I did before Covid) // i can play an instrument // i am artistic // i know more than one language // i have won a trophy in some sort of competition // i can cook or bake without a recipe // i know how to swim // i enjoy writing // i can do origami // i prefer movies to tv shows // i can execute a perfect somersault // i enjoy singing // i could survive in the wild on my own // i have read a new book series this year // i enjoy spending time with friends // i travel during school or work breaks // i can do a handstand

RELATIONSHIPS

i am in a relationship // i have a crush // i have a best friend i have known for ten years // my parents are together // i have dated my best friend // i am adopted // my crush has confessed to me // i have a long-distance relationship // i am an only child // i give advice to my friends // i have made an online friend // i met up with someone i have met online

AESTHETIC

i have heard the ocean in a conch shell // i have watched the sunrise // i enjoy rainy days // i have slept under the stars // i meditate outside // the sound of chirping calms me // i enjoy the smell of the beach // i know what snow tastes like // i (sometimes) listen to music to fall asleep // i enjoy thunderstorms // i enjoy cloud watching // i have attended a bonfire // i pay close attention to colors // i find mystery in the ocean // i enjoy hiking on nature paths // autumn is my favourite season

MISC

i can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // i am the mom friend // i live by a certain quote // i like the smell of sharpies // i am involved in extracurricular activities // i enjoy mexican food // i can drive a stick-shift // i believe in true love // i make up scenarios to fall asleep // i sing in the shower // i wish i lived in a video game // i have a canopy above my bed // i am multiracial // i am a redhead // i own at least one dog // i have a cat

Tag Game #02

Nickname - Vitto / Zodiac Sign - Sagittarius / Height - around 5’1 / Hogwarts House - Hufflepuff / Last Thing I Googled - / Song Stuck in My Head - “Zitti e Buoni” by Måneskin / No. Of Followers - 3.3k+ / Amount of Sleep - 7- 8 hours / Lucky Number - 9 / Dream Job - Librarian / Wearing - simple black trousers and a white shirt / Fave Author or Mangaka - I don’t think I have a fav... But one I’m very attached to is Hino Matsuri.

Fave Instrument - Piano / Aesthetic - Sunset colors when it’s almost night? / Fave song - Too many ^^’ one of my recent favs is that “Zitti e Buoni” by Måneskin I mentioned before / Fave animal noise - probably cat purrs / Random - I’m planning on buying a professional camera because I love taking photos...

Tag Game #03

Five songs I've been listening to a lot: “Horns” by Bryce Fox, “Plastic Love” by Mariya Takeuchi, “Duemila Volte” by Marco Mengoni, “MORE” by K/DA, “Vent’Anni” by Måneskin.

Last movie: I don’t remember atm so I’ll say my last TV show: Good Omens!

Currently watching: SnK S4 and BSD Wan!

Currently reading: BSD manga and... I think that’s pretty much it, lately lmao

#vitto.speaks #tag game #thank you for the tag!! <3 #i haven't been very active on Tumblr so...#what's better than doing a tag meme to come back ahaha #long post

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