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give-ginoza-some-bread-and-sleep · 7 months

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guys... i finally got around to learning how to make digital art to make my ocs... but it came at the cost of getting sucked back into my danganronpa phase from four years ago...

(but, as a bonus, my akudama drive obsession is as strong as ever!!)

#danganronpa #help #seriously though #but youve gotta admit that rui komatsuzaki's art slaps ngl #very talented #especially the designs for akudama drive #akudama drive #but actually please someone send help #character design

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sprintingowl · 4 months

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Picaresque Roman

I'm a fan of the Japanese ttrpg design scene. My first non-DnD game was Golden Sky Stories, and I really click with the prevalence of d6s and oneshot-oriented play.

However, my ability to speak/read Japanese is so immensely bad that it changed the trajectory of my life, so I generally have to keep my fingers crossed and hope for translations of the systems I'm excited about.

Hence, when Picaresque Roman came out in English, I scooped up a copy as fast as I could.

Picaresque Roman: A Requiem For Rogues is a competitive pvp tabletop rpg. Probably the closest equivalent to it is werewolf/mafia, but it's not that exactly.

The broad premise is that you're criminals in a hidden city and you're working together in an uneasy truce to take down a big juicy target. All of you are ultimately in it for yourselves, and one of you is a traitor---however there's no mechanic that lets you kill other characters.

Instead, you can gather information (everyone has info cards, which include things like their traitor status), forge truces (or force truces), and shake down each other (or the target) for cash or victory points.

It's a full-fledged rpg, with classes and skills and an action economy, but everything happens in little vignettes. You pick an action, you roll or talk, and that's your turn for the cycle.

It's tightly designed enough that you could play Picaresque Roman without any roleplaying at all and it would still be fun, or you could put a bit of flourish on every action you take and play out quick scenes when you make a truce or rob your target.

I think this might be one of those games where all it really needs is a box and a board and it'd cruise right past people's hesitation around roleplaying and become as popular as Gloomhaven. As is, I think it's a *good* rpg for introducing other people to rpgs, especially if they already vibe with gangster dramas, Guy Ritchie movies, the Yakuza series, or stuff like Black Lagoon or Akudama Drive.

#ttrpg #ttrpg homebrew #ttrpgs #ttrpg design #indie ttrpgs #rpg #indie ttrpg #tabletop #dnd #rpgs

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best-underrated-anime · 3 months

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Best Underrated Anime Group L Round 2: #L1 vs #L2

#L1: Normal Girl™ accidentally joins Kansai’s biggest criminals

#L2: Girl turns into a tanuki and learns about racism

Details and poll under the cut!

#L1: Akudama Drive

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Summary:

After the fall-out of a war between the Kanto and Kansai regions of Japan, citizens of Kansai now live in a dystopia. Criminals are bigger and badder than before, resulting in a specialized Execution Division rising to combat these ‘Akudama.’

An ordinary person accidentally wedges herself into the midst of a gang of the worst of the worst, and now she’s on the run with Kansai’s top Akudama to fulfill a cryptic mission. Her goal was to get back to her normal life, but one thing leads to another and she gets trapped, bound by her sense of morals to stick with her terrible team.

The team in question consists of a Brawler with a need to find the toughest opponent to fight, a Doctor who toys with lives, a Hacker who has run out of games to play, a Courier who always gets the job done, a Cutthroat with a kill count of 999 bodies, and a Hoodlum who was set for a prison sentence of 5 years. Joining them is the Black Cat, their mysterious recruiter, who promises great wealth to the Akudama.

Propaganda:

Akudama Drive is an anime produced by a video game company, and it’s amazingly a single standalone piece, unlike their other projects. The three people who lead the creation of the Danganronpa series (character designer, story writer, and music composer) came together and produced something so different from their usual pattern and it pays off.

The character designs are so fun, the music vibes hard, and the story is better than anything seen in DR before since (no offense meant) the cast all get fleshed out as individuals beyond a single trope. Everyone is depicted as morally grey, and it’s such a fun experience to watch the madness break out and root for the bad guys or the bad guys.

Every scene is so pretty, and you can see the color theory SLAPPING THE SCREEN, it’s so pleasing to look at. The voice acting is also top tier! The character evolution can literally be heard in the voices 🛐 The anime is a fun show with cool stunts and epic battles, but it’s still got some interesting social commentary if you’re the type that loves dissecting that madness. There’s a little something for everyone!

Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Graphic Depictions of Cruelty/Violence/Gore, Rape/Non-Con, Self-Harm, Constant Flashing Lights and Screaming

#L2: BNA: Brand New Animal

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Summary:

Throughout history, humans have been at odds with Beastmen—a species capable of changing shape due to their genetic "Beast Factor." Because of this conflict, Beastmen have been forced into hiding. Anima City serves as a safe haven for these oppressed individuals to live free from human interference.

During a festival celebrating the town's 10th anniversary, Michiru Kagemori, a human who suddenly turned into a tanuki, finds that Anima City is a far cry from paradise. After witnessing an explosion in the square, she is confronted by Shirou Ogami, a seemingly indestructible wolf and sworn protector of all Beastmen. As they pursue the criminals behind the bombing, the two discover that Michiru is anything but an ordinary Beastman, and look to investigate her mysterious past and uncanny abilities. Could she turn out to be the missing link between Humans and Beastmen?

Propaganda:

This is one of the first few anime I watched when I was getting into it, so I'm rather fond of it. Though the show is only one season, overall it's pretty solid and ties everything together at the end. I also really like how they utilize color in the animation (it especially makes fight scenes more interesting to watch). The worldbuilding they have with the beastmen is pretty neat as well. This anime is good if you're looking for something quick to watch.

Trigger Warnings: There is some violence, and since the characters are animals, that may fall under animal cruelty. There are a few parts in the show where the colors get pretty intense, so that could be considered flashing lights. There is racism, as the beastmen are discriminated against by humans.

When reblogging and adding your own propaganda, please tag me @best-underrated-anime so that I’ll be sure to see it.

If you want to criticize one of the shows above to give the one you’re rooting for an advantage, then do so constructively. I do not tolerate groundless hate or slander on this blog. If I catch you doing such a thing in the notes, be it in the tags or reblogs, I will block you.

Know one of the shows above and not satisfied with how it’s presented in this tournament? Just fill up this form, where you can submit revisions for taglines, propaganda, trigger warnings, and/or video.

#anime #best underrated anime #polls #poll tournament #tournament #anime tournament #animation #group stage #group stage round 2 #tournament polls #group l #akudama drive #bna: brand new animal #bna

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friedfriedchicken · 8 months

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HELLO QUESTION WHAT IS AKUDAMA DRIVE ABOUT I'm thinking of starting a new series and this one looks interesting!

YAHOOO I LOVE GETTING ASKS!! Okay- about Akudama Drive! I'll be doing this in two parts, one for behind the scenes because I love that stuff and a second paragraph for a spoiler free summary!

Akudama Drive a single season anime that has a complete story and two adaptations (a manga with two extra chapters after the anime's ending and a stage play that's very well done imo). It won Anime Trending's 7th yearly Anime Awards, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sci-Fi l, and Best Mystery/Psychological Anime in 2021 but somehow it's so so unknown despite that. It's made by some of the crew who worked on Danganronpa (games and animes) so there's lots of similar ideas, themes, designs, etc but I 100% feel like Akudama Drive executes many of these concepts better than DR did.

Plot-wise, Akudama Drive is about an Ordinary Person who accidentally gets wrapped up in a heist featuring some of the biggest criminals, also known as Akudama, in Kansai. The anime takes place in a cyberpunk dystopian future where criminals run so rampant that the government has a dedicated Execution Division for dealing with Akudama. This clearly isn't very fun for the Ordinary Person but she rolls with it because she's dead if she does and dead if she doesn't. Just like Danganronpa, Akudama Drive is gorey but in a less-cartoony way. There's two versions and the one that was aired puts in censor smears to cover up the blood & guts. If you're pirating then this'll be the one you'll probably find but if not then I think you might be good since you're a Transformers fan. The gore is a little lesser than what MTMTE had going on but instead of robots Akudama Drive has humans- telling you this since AD loves getting really violent. Also the uncensored version has extended scenes which I'm excited to start watching soon.

Anyways there's my ramble heehoo- I've been insane for this anime since last year and the brainrot strikes back 🛐 If you pick it up I hope you like Akudama Drive!

Another warning I remembered: Akudama Drive gets really bright and flashy during a whole ton of scenes, especially the opening and first few fight sequences. I'm not sure if you're sensitive or not to that sort of stuff but it's worth mentioning too.

#FriedResponse #FriedRamble #Akudama Drive #Akudrive

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hopeymchope · 3 years

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Akudama Drive

I feel like I should say something about Akudama Drive now that I’ve caught up on it. Kazutaka Kodaka (the creator/lead writer of the Danganronpa series) is credited as the “Scenario Writer” on this anime and Rui Komatsuzaki (the character designer on the whole Danganronpa franchise) designed all the characters here. Plus Kaihō Norimitsu, who adapted much of Danganronpa 3 into scripts from Kodaka’s written story, also collaborated with Kodaka to script this series. So all of that compelled me to check it out.

Just like a lot of things Kodaka has touched lately, the exact level of his involvement is unclear. Some sources say he came in after the anime was already in the works and just rewrote the characters. Others say the entire central concept and setup was his to begin with. There are certainly things that feel like Kodaka here — the overt influence of Western films, the collection of quirky weirdos that make up the cast (with one “ordinary person” at the center of things) — but I don’t know how much of that is really him. Maybe it was already there before he got involved. Or maybe not. Kodaka did say that regardless of what he wrote out or suggested or collaborated on with Norimitsu, the director (Tomohisa Taguchi, whose credits include two of the Persona 3 anime movies and the Persona 4 Golden anime) had final say. Which only muddies the waters of his involvement further.

Either way, I really enjoyed it. It didn’t ever turn into a “Oh my god I’M IN LOVE with this” kind of anime that I was obsessed over, but it was consistently, increasingly compelling as I went along. The basic setup is “team of eccentric, super-powered (?) criminals called ‘Akudama’ are brought together to pull a big job in a dystopian cyberpunk setting,” and the less you know beyond that, the better. It started out feeling kind of basic and generic, but the more I watched, the more I found myself sucked into it. It’s got a bangin’ OP and the visuals are pretty gorgeous. If you’re at least somewhat versed in the various movies that the episodes are named for — especially the more cynical, darker films cited — you can probably predict a lot of the twists and turns along the way. But even when I knew what was coming, I was interested in the characters and setting enough that it was worthwhile to see it play out. And they definitely still surprised me in a couple of ways.

Plus it’s always nice to see an anime about actual adults instead of high schoolers. That doesn’t come along too often.

If I have any gripes, it’s that the ending left me wondering too much about the how, and there’s one specific way that the world’s internal logic seems inconsistent. But those were pretty minor complaints.

This seems like a largely self-contained story, but I’d love to see them do another season where they expand further on the setting. There’s a really rich society with a lot of interesting implications set up in here, and only 12 episodes seems like selling it short. Since these characters had a satisfying wrap-up, I think each season could focus on all-new group of Akudama struggling to make their way. But I’m just fantasizing here; I think this is very likely to be one-and-done. And as a standalone 12-episode story, it’s pretty strong.

Oh, and Komatsuzaki created this Danganronpa/Akudama Drive crossover art for a magazine cover. Which is awesome.

#danganronpa #akudama drive #kazutaka kodaka #rui komatsuzaki #anime #tookyo games #danganronpa official art

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starbirdfinch · 3 years

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Welcome To My Tumblr!

★ Bio ★

Star ★ She/Her ★ 23 ★ Hetero-Ally

You can all just call me Star- I am an artist and writer. Mainly a comic artist, character designer, and currently practicing concept art and hopefully story boarding. I will post my artwork, will mainly would be random drawings or practice art, possibly even short stories- I hope you guys enjoy what I post and I appreciate any form of support!

I always wanted to create stories ever since I was a child; have been working bits and pieces of my art and stories almost everyday from doing small doodles to planning worlds & concepts. Part of me will feel like my stories might not be good enough but I’m enjoying the journey of improving my art, writing, and storytelling & hope I’d be able to finish one story. ^^

★ Media ★

Currently Working On!

Will add more soon!

★ Disclaimers ★

• If you want to draw my characters- you have my permission. All I ask is no ship art with anyone other than their love interest, no NSFW (ESPECIALLY my persona and animal characters), no genderbends, and no human forms of my animal characters.

• Please keep in mind that some of the things I post here that are related to stories may not be set in stone. This is just where I post my concept and ideas.

• My stories also contain dark content- mainly gore and death. I will put warnings of the dark contents my stories have and if they contain content that make you uncomfortable, I recommend not reading it.

• The short stories and comics I post about my characters will either be canon or not canon, some of them would be just for practice or fun. If Canon, the story will have ✩C✩ at the beginning of the story. If Non-Canon, the story will have a ✩NC ✩.

• I also may not post much as of right now as I want to try and focus on my mental health and straighten out my life- I will be posting artwork but stories may be a while.

★ Facts About Me ★

✩ I like playing Video Games- mainly Visual Novels and Story Interactive games. Some of my favorite games are- Dragon Age Series, What Remains of Edith Finch, Pyschonauts 1 & 2, Mass Effect Series, Andromeda Six, Red Embrace Series, The Errant Kingdom, When the Night Comes, Fatal Frame Series.

✩ I have too many stories and original characters. :,3

✩ I have two fluff demons aka kitties who are my little troublemakers. I had the first one since he was a tiny kitten, my mother owned his mama and the second one, I adopted her as a kitten we found meowing under our house one day. ❤️

✩ I don’t like coffee. I actually prefer tea. My favorite tea is French Vanilla black tea with milk and sugar.

✩ I watch several cartoons and anime. Some of my favorite shows are The Owl House, Akudama Drive, Rugrats, My Hero Academia, and Gravity Falls.

✩ I have ADHD, had it ever since I was a child. I also show symptoms of anxiety.

✩ I love reading webcomics- some of my favorites are Blades of Furry, Eaternal Nocturnal, Homesick, I Hope So, TRUE FUTURE, Litterbox Comics, Pixie and Brutus, No North, the Dog Star.

Have a Cookie! 🍪 😊

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devintrinidad · 3 years

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Hey there! Just wanted to let you know CAW White has had it's first 6 chapters translated by tumblr littlecookiecat. Also have you ever checked out the anime 86/Eighty Six? It's currently at 5 episodes of 2 cour show and based off a light novel series (10-ongoing). It's not like Akudama but for some reason I think you might like it. It's mystery dystopia scifi where the main character starts off naive and discovers how much more twisted the world is. But she keeps fighting to change things.

Oh my gosh! Hello, hello, hello! I read the first six chapters and my gosh, they were so incredibly well done! For the most part, the characterizations that were theorized and were part of fanon for so long actually hold up???

Like, I was so scared a couple years ago when I started characterizing and writing the WBC squad as my own that it would all fall apart if there was more interactions and dialogue from these characters, but so far??? I’m amazed??? geeze, the fandom was so young, but the headcanons everyone had really live up to the expectations and the reality of the manga.

Anyway, some observations I made:

(SPOILERISH???)

Band Cell is so adorable and cute! I thought that he was going to be some sort of tsundere, but he’s actually so earnest and kind! I really like how his innocence and naïveté mirrors that of AE-3803, which is pretty ironic given the fact that White definitely follows canon. It’s a good mirror of each other and while canon showcases AE-3803’s growth, I really want to see Band Cell grow as well.

Also, I love his uniform! You can tell that he’s a neutrophil because the design is almost identical to that of mature neutrophils, but the differences really add to the newness and innocence of the character. The short sleeves and those shoes??? Really adorable and heights the differences in both height and attitude.

Speaking of attitude, I find it hilarious that Band Cell is nowhere as bloodthirsty as his superiors—yet. It seems to be a culture shock for new cells everywhere to be concerned over immune cells (neutrophils especially) going bloodthirsty over perceived threats.

The chapter where there the WBC squad play tag is so cute!!! It makes me think of the training that the white blood cells undergo in the bone marrow. I think I’ve read in a fanfic somewhere that both white and red blood cells would share a few classes together because they both would be traversing the body for their own areas of work. Hehehe, I guess that’s disproven now given the fact that Band Cell really needs to work on his navigational skills.

ALSO! WBC Squad bribing Dendritic Cell??? Hehehe, called it! (Not really, but do I have a fanfic where U-2001 teams up with Dendritic Cell over blackmail, hahah!).

Speaking of U-2001… MAH BOI ISN’T HERE!!! I MEAN, THERE ARE HINTS OF ANOTHER CELL, BUT IT COULD EASILY BE ANY OTHER CELL, BUT MY HEART OF HEARTS KEEP TELLING ME IT’S HIM WHENEVER I SEE A NEUTROPHIL WITH A BUZZ CUT!!!

*coughs*

Justice for my boy 2001.

And, of course, the boys…

2626: My gosh, he’s so adorable! He’s more subdued than the others, but he’s just as mischievous as 4989. I love the fact that even though bacteria tastes bland no matter what you do, he still insists on cooking it. He’s also really nice and kind, a good balm towards 2048’s too cool/too suave for you nature, 4989’s chaotic feralness, and 1146’s dad energy. Definitely team mom if 2001/1146 aren’t taking up that role.

4989: Maybe it’s just me, but he hasn’t been improvising weapons? Like, that’s one of the signature things he does? I read the chapters once recently, so maybe I wasn’t paying too much attention, but I don’t think he’s been experimenting. I saw Band Cell throw a “caution” sign at a bacterium, but nothing more. Other than that, he’s very mischievous and the baby of the group if Band Cell wasn’t there. I like that tidbit where 1146 and him are the messy eaters, ahahah!

2048: Chubby baby boy who probably still is insecure over his appearance as an adult. He’s overcompensating, but he’s also cute and charming! Definitely one of those fanon characterizations that still somewhat hold up to this day. I also like the fact that his relationship with Band Cell kind of mirrors that of 1146 and 3803. The whole knowing each other when they were younger, that kind of thing. I love how 2048 is so tsundere towards Band Cell, but gives in eventually.

1146: Utter. Perfection. He’s there for his junior and he’s willing to support him and make sure that he’s safe at all times. Not once has he berated Band Cell for incompetence or for being too cowardly or slow. He’s so awesome and I really, really hope that 3803 comes into join because I bet she would be so proud of 1146 for being so supportive of Band Cell! I also love the whole bridal carry thing. Both cells aren’t embarrassed by it and honestly, I want more of that in media in general. That’s some good stuff. Platonic bridal carry.

Some other notes:

Naive and Band Cell need to be best friends. Or shipped. Whatever happens, happens.

I also think that Band Cell and AE-3803 would bond over being newbies together??? Please, add in AE-3803!!! It would be so great!

Platelets are forever cute and I found myself laughing when they accused the neutrophils of cheating in their game of tag.

The bacteria that attacked Band Cell before the bridal carry was startling similar to the bacterium that attacked 1146 and 3803 when they were kids… CINEMATIC PARALLELS!

And… hmmm… That’s about it, I guess. I’m really looking forward to new chapters and for more lore about the body!

In response to the rest of your message...

I actually heard of 86! I’m not sure if I’ll get around to watching it. Right now, I’m actually watching Shadows House (super creepy, super dark slice of life and definitely a dark horse this season). I plan on binging Mars Red and Odd Taxi once their episodes conclude, though. Is 86 any good? It’s been recommended by a couple of anitubers that I watch, but I haven’t found the appeal yet. Maybe I might watch it once the season is over, who knows...

Anyway, thanks for the message and I hope that you have a wonderful day! :D

EDIT: BY THE BY... IS IT JUST ME... OR IS BAND CELL REALLY SIMILAR IN APPEARANCE TO HACKER FROM AKUDAMA DRIVE??? PLEASE DON’T TELL ME IT’S JUST ME!

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empty-dream · 3 years

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Just watched Akudama Drive

Well the actual driving part is not the focus tho.

An ordinary girl gets pulled into doing a train heist mission with Kansai’s most dangerous Akudama (basically criminals) while the Executioners (basically elite police squad) hunt them down.

It’s pretty much Suicide Squad with cyberpunk aesthetic and the tension like the best parts of Mission Impossible.

I actually suspected this to be somewhat of a homage to action-thriller Hollywood movies, including the usually straightforward plot (unruly professionals gangs up to do the biggest impossible-st task ever). Especially with how each episode is titled after famous action/thriller western movies.

But then the plot gets quite… intriguingly bleak. I wasn’t expecting they’d go beyond the heist, moreover to have some serious stuff ahead. And even if I half-expected the Kanto-Kansai war history would be actually touched on instead of simply mentioned in each episode, I didn’t think they’d actually do it.

And also, the thing about bad-guys-assembles, especially in recent Hollywood movies, is that even if some of the members are blatantly on the hideous side of morality, they still don’t do much harm to the team and probably even end up being buddies with the most morally-decent ones. Here, not exactly.

It’s still light enough though that I don’t have to think hard when I watch this. The action scenes are amazing, tense and fun at the same time. You got motorcycle swinging between buildings, unkillable doctor, fights in theme parks, etc. It’s the same feeling I get when I watch those aforementioned movies, basically top-class action popcorn entertainment. Perfect for de-stressing.

After all, it managed to get me to watch the entire available episodes in ONE sitting. Me. Whose attention span is getting worse with each passing day. I’d say bravo.

THE COLORS OF THIS SHOW!! The chosen palette, the lighting, the highlight, neon everywhere. My god it’s pure ecstasy to my eyes. Like, 70% of the show looks like this. If the characters don’t have some weirdly aesthetic place to fight at, trust me they will find it.

And the character designs are so mwaaahh. The characters themselves are quite like the stereotypical of their ‘names’ -Everyone is called with their codenames, like “Hacker”, “Brawler” etc. but there are also mix and match of (both good and bad) human personalities in each of them, protagonists and antagonists alike.

If there is any complaint, it’s got the bad case of anime censoring. You know, the white beams and black-fog overlays. Tbh in this case imo it’s not a big deal cuz censored or not, fact still remains that the dude’s head is chopped off. It’s just that regardless of in what show it is used in, that censoring technique is so crude and just makes any scene ridiculous.

I don’t think the violence is just for cheap shock factors in Akudama Drive since that’s actually complimenting the nature of the show. Maybe when they release it in blu-ray the holy white and black beams will be gone?

The op song is a banger, and with the super aesthetic animation, it’s like one of the contenders for best 2020 OPs. I’m SO gonna make gifset out of this watch me. There are also several versions of the op with subtle changes according to the progress of the plot. And the ed credit is also cool, I like the calming and somber arts.

STUDIO PIERROT MADE THIS??? WHAT??? Tokyo Ghoul anime still disappoints me (and boy do Courier and Pupil remind me a lot of Ayato and Touka) but holy shit you do so good in here. Maybe Pierrot should just stick with original anime instead…

Tl;dr: Unless you want to be dragged into a fucked up ultimate heist, don’t assume just because technology is marching on now that every single food stall in the world has adopted an electronic payment method.

#akudama drive #random saying

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aseriesofunfortunatejan · 3 years

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I’ll say it. Some of the Tribe Nine-Danganronpa comparisons are obnoxious.

Some of them are absolutely valid. I myself pointed out that the one obese character is drawn the EXACT SAME WAY as the Imposter, and that to me is an issue with Komatsuzaki not knowing how to draw overweight and/or obese characters. I’ll also give you that the character with white hair has the same eye shape as Komaeda.

But about that - while I didn’t find Komatsuzaki’s art all too amazing back when he worked on Danganronpa, I have to give it to him that he does not, in fact, suffer from same-face syndrome. Even less so same-hair syndrome (which I just made up for the purposes of this post). He does sometimes, that’s for sure, but as someone who is AWARE of anime, I find it unfair to compare him to that issue.

(Btw I won’t tag this post because there are some posts making these claims in recent tags and I’m not aiming it at them.)

A lot of these comparisons are straight-up incorrect. You can see that both were drawn by the same artist, but... their skin and hair colours aren’t the same shade? They don’t have the same eye and/or head shape? Like okay they both have green hair or something? (random example) Of course making comparisons is not problematic and I won’t stop you, and might make some myself in the future, but I’ll still sometimes roll my eyes at them and feel like it’s a little unfair to the artist who has drawn so many different characters over the years.

tl;dr: actually comparisons to DR or Akudama Drive characters CAN be fun or interesting but it doesn’t mean that you can pick two characters at random and it’ll work

I actually think it’s interesting to look at how differently Komatsuzaki draws the eye shapes of different characters, especially male characters (can’t trust him to respect women /hj). Back when I forced myself to draw Danganronpa sprites, I wasn’t all too careful about using different shapes and ended up giving a lot of characters the same as Hinata or Komaeda, which I think is too bad. (I actually made this mistake a lot more when I started to become good at drawing those, so my earliest sprites/DR-styled designs have more diversity.)

#rui komatsuzaki #i think i can safely tag him

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joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh · 4 years

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What I’m Watching - Fall 2020

Oh it’s another one of these, woohoo.

Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club - Tops the list since I’m anticipating it the most.

Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? Bloom - Likewise, super excited for this.

Jujutsu Kaisen - See no reason to not watch the big probably massively overhyped new shounen I likely won’t care about.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (2020) - Apparently this is a re-adaptation so I can get away with watching it having never seen any of the other Higurashi anime. Good enough for me.

Tonikaku Kawaii - Girl looks cute and is voiced by Akari Kitou.

Noblesse - I watched the other two Crunchy manhwa.

Kamisama ni Natta hi - New Key thing, sure, that’s interesting enough. Girl’s cute and is Ayane Sakura too.

Majo no Tabitabi - I think this got announced quite a while back and I’ve been really anticipating it just because going off of everything we know about this so far it seems like something I’d adore.

Adachi to Shimamura - Yuri poggers.

Ikebukuro West Gate Park - Sounds pretty interesting, apparently this is a pretty well beloved Japanese novel, and also it’s Doga Kobo, you know the cute girl dudes, so I wanna see what they do with this crime drama thing.

Akudama Drive - Honestly it doesn’t sound especially interesting but I watched the PV and it looked really good so why not.

Assault Lily: Bouquet - Also one that got announced a while back and I’ve been really anticipating, love the character designs, really love the thighs, and they’re magical girls too, and also it’s Shaft. Pretty exciting.

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear - Cute girls.

Iwa Kakeru!: Sport Climbing Girls - Cute girls with actual muscle? Sounds perfect. Actually I’ve seen the PV and it kinda looked like dog shit, but, the girls are still cute I guess.

Maoujou de Oyasumi - Looks and sounds cute, Inori Minase, Doga Kobo.

Munou na Nana - I can see myself dropping this really early but main girl is cute and that’s enough for me.

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - Rhyme Anima - This is obviously some bishie boy fujo bait bullshit that I probably won’t be able to stand but the fact that they’re rapping has me interested.

Senyoku no Sigrdrifa - Girls look cute, I’ve not really explored the “cute girls in planes or other military vehicles” genre, why not start now.

Taiso Samurai - Sounds like it could be alright, there’s some cute girl on the key visual who I already love.

Ochikobore Fruit Tart - Cute idol girls, my fucking jam.

Rail Romanesque - Hence just Maitetsu, I’m watching this entirely because the character designs, specifically main girl, are fucking adorable. But also it’s got a fucking banging cast.

A3! Season Autumn & Winter - I’ve seen the rest of the show.

Maesetsu - Cute girls.

D4DJ: First Mix - I watch all the Bushimo multimedia shit.

Haha what the fuck this is too many anime.

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Best Underrated Anime Group L Round 3: #L3 vs #L1

#L3: Very sweet young man in a horny world quests to get stronger

#L1: Normal Girl™ accidentally joins Kansai’s biggest criminals

Details and poll under the cut!

#L3: Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka)

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Summary:

Life in the bustling city of Orario is never dull, especially for Bell Cranel, a naïve young man who hopes to become the greatest adventurer in the land. After a chance encounter with the lonely goddess, Hestia, his dreams become a little closer to reality. With her support, Bell embarks on a fantastic quest as he ventures deep within the city's monster-filled catacombs, known only as the "Dungeon." Death lurks around every corner in the cavernous depths of this terrifying labyrinth, and a mysterious power moves amidst the shadows.

Even on the surface, survival is a hard-earned privilege. Indeed, nothing is ever certain in a world where gods and humans live and work together, especially when they often struggle to get along. One thing is for sure, though: a myriad of blunders, triumphs and friendships awaits the dauntlessly optimistic protagonist of this Herculean tale.

Propaganda:

This DND-esque story centers on Bell Cranell, one of the goodest boys of all time. Not your typical white-haired anime boy, while Bell has known tragedy, he is far from hardened from it. Bell moved to the big city to become an adventurer to honor his late grandfather. Bell is earnest and kind and attracts quite the following of friends and supporters.

His very first supporter is the goddess Hestia, who is looked down on by many of the other gods. She granted him the power he needs to be an adventurer. She also has massive tits and is deeply obsessed with Bell. She’s not the only one. While the show is really touching at times, it’s also extremely horny. Many characters wear very little. I was not expecting such heartfelt story telling and beautiful animation when I watched the first episode as a joke.

Trigger Warnings: Not Stated.

#L1: Akudama Drive

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Propaganda:

Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Graphic Depictions of Cruelty/Violence/Gore, Rape/Non-Con, Self-Harm, Constant Flashing Lights and Screaming

When reblogging and adding your own propaganda, please tag me @best-underrated-anime so that I’ll be sure to see it.

#anime #best underrated anime #polls #poll tournament #tournament #anime tournament #animation #group stage #group stage round 3 #tournament polls #group l #is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon #dungeon ni deai o motomeru #akudama drive

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Bro im so tired of twitter

So the latest thing ive been seeing a lot of are things like 'jujutsu kaisen is just a copy of naruto' or 'do you likw jjk or bnha?' A whole lot of compering and arguing and belitteling one show to lift up the other

Here are my hot takes

1. Nothing exists in a vacuum, everything has been inspiered by something and Gege has been very open about his inspirations (which dont even include that much naruto)

2. You can, stay with me now, like more than one show

Like im so tired of ppl compering shit and tearing one show down because they like the other. Like i like both jjk n bnha. I like jjk more cuz its more suited to my tastes. But also i think bnha has been really good recently n has some of the horis strongest writing to date and im very excited to see what comes next. Just because i like one show over the other doesnt mean i suddenly hate the other or think its badly written. I can appriciate both their merits. N the comparisons with naruto are really annoying cuz like 🙄 who cares. Naruto is one of the big three, a lot of mangaka who work now read it as kids OF COURSE they'll be inspiered by it just like they'll be inspiered by bleach n one piece. News flash just because one show did something first doesnt mean its automatically better than any other show that does it. Saying 'jjk is good but it would be nothing without naruto' means NOTHING. Jjk has its own themes and character n ideas and sometimes there will be similarities with other media cuz of fucking course there will be, humans all have similar ideas, no one is 100% original, its the way different authors spin n retell those ideas that actually matter. Shonen jump is basically a brand of its own they are gonna push conent similar to content shonen jump readers like. The fun part is watching all the different authors taking pieces of those formulas n fitting them together in new and interesting ways.

Sorry for the rant im just really tired of 'the war between jjk n bnha fans' or 'jjk can never be as good as naruto' or whichever it is today. Idk i guess ppl are bitter that jjk became so massivly popular so fast but??? Who cares???? If you dont vibe with it just dont watch it and leave the fans alone??? I didnt like that akudama drive was so popular last season but i didnt go to its fans n rant about how their show isnt good as this other show, just let ppl enjoy things??? Nobody is forcing you to say jjk is the best thing ever, nobody is forcing you to watch it. Just go enjoy the show you do like??? N if u like jjk u can also like bnha n others???? You can like more thsn one thing??? Idk im just fuckin tired of dumbass bullshit like this n ppl making drama for no reason at all

Like imagine if this was how i talked about my fav shows 🙄 re creators is better then beastars because its female characters are more prominent and beastars is better then talentless nana because it has better world building, but talentless nana explores trauma n abuse better then re creators n re creators has way more to say about nature of story telling then beastars

WOW ITS ALMOST LIKE ALL SHOWS HAVE STRONG N WEAK POINTS N THEIR OWN THEMES AND STORIES TO TELL FUNNY THAT

If people don’t think Gege isn’t inspiring Hori too, then they really need to look at the character design for the sixth holder of OFA who looks like a re-coloured version of Inumaki <.< It’s a two way street when it comes to inspiration because surprise, surprise, both JJK and BNHA are two of the most popular manga and will also inspire writers :p

There has also been a lot of comparisons between characters in Naruto and JJK recently too, a popular one being Sakura and Nobara, and I can’t help but roll my eyes at most of those comparisons. Especially when Nobara’s story isn’t even finished yet compared to Sakura’s which is complete (unless you include Boruto but no one like Boruto). It’s such a moot thing to do. At least give Nobara a chance to develope before you declare her to being treated as bad as Sakura was T-T

I don’t know why people always feel so threatened when the see a new manga get popular, maybe because they don’t like to see the flaws in their favourite work become that bit more apparent because another writer did it better (and lets be honest here, Gege is much better at writing female characters so far and Hori’s females have always been a point of discussion because of how he writes them, it’s not like JJK is showing us something we haven’t already noticed).

As you said, there will be parts in Hori’s story that will be better then Gege’s and vice versa, but that doesn’t mean the whole of their works are bad and we should feel bad for liking them.

You know, I love to compare my favourite mangas personally. When I started watching BSD I noticed how many of the characters reminded me of DRRR ones and I wonder if it’s because Kafka was inspired by Narita. Being inspired isn’t a bad thing (as long as you don’t completely copy someone elses work) but you’d think it’s the worst sin in fandom with the way some talk about it.

#fandom

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I’ve been wanting to make this post for a while now... Here’s who I voted for the 2021 Crunchyroll Awards!

Best Comedy - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom

I’m not gonna explain why I picked Hamefura for all of its nominations, y’all should know by now how much I love this series.

Best Fantasy - Tower of God

Tower of God is the only one of the nominees that I even saw, and I really liked it. Re:Zero probably wins though.

Best Drama - Great Pretender

It’s so weird to think of Great Pretender as a drama but Wizard of the Far East definitely puts it in that category, and I do love how the relationship between Makoto and his father continues to be strained in spite of their truce. As balls-to-the-wall as the ending is, I loved it all the same.

Best Couple - Catarina and Maria (Hamefura)

Side note, Kazuya and Chizuru is one of the worst nominations I’ve ever seen for an award of any kind. As far as the anime goes, Kazuya and Ruka are WAY closer to being a genuine couple. As much as I liked Rent-a-Girlfriend, I hate the way some people have been projecting it and simping hardcore for Chizuru.

Best Fight Scene - Brawler vs Master (Akudama Drive)

The visuals and fight choreography in this fight are what cemented Akudama Drive as a truly special series in my eyes. It should be impossible to do a fight this perfectly, ESPECIALLY in an anime original.

Best Antagonist - Ryomen Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Another case of me not having watched a lot of the competition. Also fuck Rachel.

Best Protagonist - Catarina Claes

It’s gotta be Catarina Claes. In spite of her faults, she is the most unique, active and entertaining harem protagonist to EVER exist. She probably won’t win but I genuinely think she’s the nominee that deserves it the most.

Best Character Design - Great Pretender

Tower of God was in contention but then I remembered that Paracule exists.

Best Director - Sunghoo Park (Jujutsu Kaisen)

As much as I love Kaguya-sama, it’s not like the direction of anything aside from the comedy really wows me. Jujutsu Kaisen is the first shonen I’ve become legitimately invested in since watching JoJo’s, and it’s because every aspect of it is refined and directed perfectly. Yuasa would also be a great choice for this one though.

Best English VA Performance - Crispin Freeman

It’s Crispin Freeman.

Best Japanese VA Performance - Riho Sugiyama (Wave, Listen to Me!)

Jujutsu Kaisen is the only show in this set that I’ve caught up to, but if there’s one thing from Wave, Listen to Me that will ALWAYS stick with me, it’s how phenomenal Sugiyama’s performance vocal performance is. Minare Koda always speaks with such emotion and conviction, it’s a bone-chilling experience every time she gets in front of the microphone. As under the radar as this show went, I was so happy to see it get this incredibly well-deserved nomination.

Also say whatever you want about Redo of Healer, if Yuuya Hozumi doesn’t receive a nomination for his performance as Keyarga next year, there is no justice in this world.

Best Score - God of High School

God of High School definitely isn’t one of my favorite anime from last year, it’s probably not even top 15, but I can’t deny that the music is fantastic... except for the extremely unfitting ED but we’ll ignore that in favor of Contradiction and Seo Hallyang’s theme.

Also say whatever you want about Urasekai Picnic, if it’s not nominated for Best Score next year, there is no justice in this world.

Best Girl - Catarina Claes

Yuh.

Best Boy - Gojo Satoru (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Yuh.

Best Ending Sequence - LOST IN PARADISE

You have no idea how hard it was for me not to vote for Last Dance. I love so much about In/spectre and I just wasn’t able to vote for it in either category. Lost in Paradise is just an auditory and visual masterpiece though.

Best Opening Sequence - Daddy Daddy Do!

Well at least I could vote for Kaguya-sama in something. Masayuki Suzuki is just great at what he does and somehow he delivers an OP that’s even better than Love Dramatic from the show’s first season.

Best Animation - God of High School

As I’ve said before, God of High School is all flash, no substance, but the flash is pretty damn excellent.

God I voted for GoH more times than Kaguya-sama and In/spectre combined I hate myself.

Anime of the Year - Jujutsu Kaisen

Hamefura should have been in this category...

#crunchyroll #crunchyroll anime awards #crunchyroll awards #anime #anime awards #Seasonal anime

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HajiKo Anime: Fall 2020

Where was Summer at? We needed to have a line-up as lit as this one, but alas, this cold line-up was pretty refreshing!

Okay, I probably shouldn’t come up with these ridiculous puntastic introductions just for filler and for the sake of using the “Keep reading” tab because these posts are always lengthy, but there’s nothing else I can say, I can’t just simply put the “Keep reading” tab and that’s it!

Also, there were some details on my anticipated shows and I completely forgot about them so I’m going to write them down here because I’m not even gonna bother go editing my previous post and add the things I forgot to say and tell everyone about it, nobody reads my posts anyway.

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

Before I start this review, I want to say something and it’s probably not for the faint of heart depending on your prefered way of watching anime and mine may not be the absolute best if you’re a “purist,” but it’s very important. On October 1st, as soon as I published my previous Summer 2020 review the day prior and as soon as the Fall season began, HorribleSubs, the anime subs torrent site I’ve been using for a long time, has closed.

Torrenting anime is kind of a gray area for me to say this, but I’m not a shallow anime review site, so who cares? This is my personal blog and might as well say this. I’ve been torrenting anime for quite a few years now, and my go-to anime site to watch the latest shows ripped straight from big-shots like Crunchyroll, Funimation and HIDIVE, is HorribleSubs. I’ve been using random websites before but I moved to torrent anime because the torrent library site Nyaa offers a huge variety of high quality torrent anime, there are so many websites to watch anime illegally and they’re not even that good, the biggest one being KissAnime but on mid-2020, it appears that KissAnime has been closed, a lot of people who used the service are sad, meanwhile I’m laughing my ass off at them since I mainly torrent anime.

Ever wondered how I usually watch anime that aren’t licensed by Funimation, Sentai, etc.? Torrent, that’s why.

The closure of HorribleSubs is quite shocking considering I’ve been using the site for a while, but there’s other sites like Erai-Raws, although not as good as HorribleSubs as they can be very late, but they still get the job done. Sometimes I browse on Nyaa to look for any other sub groups that have the newly released anime I want to watch, but sometimes they can bring pretty awful quality.

I had briefly used Erai-Raws for a while, which was my alternative whenever HorribleSubs was slow, but even Erai-Raws can be very slow at times, so I switched to SubsPlease which at first I had seen torrents from them uploaded on Nyaa and they’re probably the first group to upload torrents of this season’s anime I watched, so I switched to SubsPlease and I gotta say, I’m really really impressed with SubsPlease, they truly are the best website, they really live up on being the better HorribleSubs and Erai-Raws.

Let me give you a quick rundown on why SubsPlease is absolutely better than HorribleSubs and Erai-Raws:

They have a schedule tab on the left page and they waste no time on uploading new seasonal anime, which they are rips from Crunchyroll and Funimation (I don’t know if they rip stuff from HIDIVE too and who knows if they’ll rip Netflix stuff too but we’ll see).

Although on November 19th, for some reason SubsPlease took so damn long on having the latest Guraburu episode, it only took a few hours, but seriously, I do not condone the tardiness and I hope they don’t make this same screw-up or be worse in the future. And then on November 27th, they also took too long with an episode of Assault Lily Bouquet, I don’t watch that series but the tardiness, come on...

The website automatically detects my timezone, even after the daylight saving time, which is really amazing.

And most importantly:

Dark theme! Well, Erai-Raws’ website is dark by default and there’s nothing wrong with it, but since I treat SubsPlease more like a successor of HorribleSubs, having a dark theme on their website is something HorribleSubs always lacked. Dark theme is the future! Not just it’s easier for my eyes, but dark theme is just cool.

I should also point out that on December 9th, Crunchyroll was actually bought by Funimation, this may or may not sound like a win-win situation, it sounds impressive and guess the tables have turned considering their previous team-up which didn’t last long and now they’re back, but I don’t have high hopes for this move overall, just as long as they don’t go too extreme with piracy DMCAs and worst-case-scenario nuking Nyaa or any subs sites like SubsPlease and Erai, I’m okay with it.

Anyways, enough talk with all the anime torrenting, but still, let’s press F to pay respect to HorribleSubs. HorribleSubs closing with the first episode of Higurashi (They were still uploading episodes of ongoing series for a little bit but we don’t count those) sounds like they definitely ended with a bang.

One more thing before I talk about my review for this Fall 2020 season as well as talking about my line-up for Winter 2021, let’s talk about my birthday. So, how was it? It was great, it’s always better when you happen to have friends who make lovely pictures for you, even if it’s usually a day early or some may not always deliver screenshots (Because most of my friends are Japanese and a Filipino who make Custom Order Maid 3D2 content) but at least I get something.

As for the actual day, well, it was alright, it started off quite stressful with reuploading my birthday picture with numerous fixes over and over and played some Among Us with friends, and then I did have fun just going out with my family and have lunch, so that was something.

But to be brutally honest, most of my fun was already taken away the day prior with all of my Japanese and Filipino friends sending me their COM3D2 pictures to me, that’s a big problem, their timezone is like way ahead of me and they lived on October 4th, so everyone pretty much celebrates my birthday so early and as much as I like it, it starts to lose the fun for what I’m supposed to be on my actual birthday.

My birthday should officially be October 5th in their timezones so I would tell everyone in my actual day that it is my birthday, and I should stop having this habit of telling everyone it’s my birthday, I say it’s pretentions but at the very moment I end up doing so anyways.

Actually, the most fun I would have had in my birthday was if Venom: Let There be Carnage hadn’t been delayed if only COVID didn’t exist, that seriously should have been the main thing that would have made my birthday but without it, my birthday has become shallow overall. But whatever, at least I did have a pretty good lunch, only to make my stomach hurt for a week.

So for the future of my birthday, I probably should stay quiet in telling Japanese people about my birthday being in October 4th in their timezone, at least some who don’t know, I’ll start going crazy about my birthday in my actual day. I really hope there’s something really exciting in my birthday and beyond, too bad there’s no movies to watch next year (Although I could wait to see Dune in my birthday since it comes out in October 1st, so it’s kinda close--And my birthday in 2021 is in Monday, lovely...).

Also, we do not talk about the day Travis Touchdown was announced in Super Smash Ultimate as a Mii fighter, the timing, which happened a day before my birthday, and the choice of making him a Mii fighter are the worst thing they’ve ever done and now I’ve 100% lost care for Smash, if I had any care to begin with, I’ll NEVER forgive you, Sakurai! 😡

That is until October 28th that the Switch ports of the first two No More Heroes games have been released! Aah, what a relief! I might have NMH3 next year, but having the first two games on Switch now is an absolute win and the most important thing right now! (SOMEONE GIVE ME A SWITCH!) Actually, now it seems like NMH1 and 2 will be coming out to PC as well, I GUESS I WON’T NEED A SWITCH AT THE MOMENT, THEN!

After I publish this post, please look forward to my New Year post in the next few days as well.

ANYWAYS, let’s start with the reviews!

Fall 2020 Review

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Akudama Drive: Call me biased since I’m a Danganronpa fan, but THIS! THIS IS IT! THE ANIME THAT SAVES 2020! THE ONE OF MANY TOOKYO GAMES PROJECT THAT HAS FIRST SOLD ME FINALLY RELEASED AND IT’S ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING I WANTED!

Ahem, sorry about that, but it’s true, I ABSOLUTELY loved this series.

It’s got really great characters and their designs are great, it’s got kick ass opening and ending themes (Although the OP theme is the most important highlight), the animation is very aesthetically pleasing too, and then... AT LAST WE GET TO SEE A PREVIEW OF THE DANGANRONPA COLLAB ART AND IT’S BEAUTIFUL! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY MY #1 AOTS!!! THEN ON DECEMBER 1ST, THE FULL ART IS SHOWN!!!

Another thing I like about the series are the titles of the episodes which they’re all movie titles, especially the episodes “Mission Impossible” and “The Shining,” especially The Shining because it definitely lives up to its name and goes all out with the most obvious references anyone would know.

As much as I love Akudama Drive, I have some complaints!

First off, in terms of the universe, I kinda wish the characters didn’t go by codenames and it would be nicer if they had real names or have them revealed at some point (Which they didn’t, sadly), this makes me feel like watching Goblin Slayer all over again. I mean, there are some things where I’m okay with the characters just having codenames for varying reasons (Hiding their identities or remain mysterious), but this one kind of doesn’t work a bit.

Another which I may take back is the lack of fan arts, somewhere like episode 4 or something, I thought I wouldn’t see fan art of Akudama Drive which I thought nobody watches the series, but one random person miraculously saved my life by giving this one fan art, not only it’s a good fan art, IT’S A CROSSOVER FAN ART WITH DANGANRONPA, ABSOLTUELY PREDATING THE REVEAL OF THE ACTUAL CROSSOVER ART!

Then I searched through Twitter and Pixiv and there’s quite a lot of decent fan arts! (Especially on Pixiv since it usually has god awful fan art, but not all the Akudama Drive fan arts were all that bad, not perfect, but it was something). Searching for Akudama Drive fan arts on Twitter would be extremely hard, especially when there can be way better fan art but without the Japanese hashtag, but even so, I can still find plenty of good fan arts with the hashtag. If anyone has more good Akudama Drive fan arts, please give them to me.

Well, these are nitpicks that are rather meaningless, the real complaint I have is the heavy censorship on any violent moment, like, the most hardcore bloody scenes or something. This is something I’m never going to understand with Japanese censorship, like, I’m okay with the censorship in porn, but the gore is something that hits close to home for me since I’ve always liked blood and gore but it just feels like whatever people like doing with violent video games, anime and manga, it just feels very limited. Not to mention there’s some weird inconsistency in some Japanese media that some can show gore uncensored and others censored, I’m so confused.

I also wish the ending was a little more satisfactory, even though I’m sad about all the Akudama dying, something about the ending is a little left to be desired and raises a lot of questions.

The healing factor kids are save now, but it came at the cost of our Akudama bros’ lives. 😭

By the way, there’s a manga adaptation that came out when the anime was supposed to come out back in July, it’s monthly and I would absolutely read it legit in this site called Renta and the chapters are quite cheap to rent or buy, which is really nice. I would like to read it but I’d like to buy the full volumes of it whenever they’re gonna come out.

Anyways, after the series ends, I hope we get to see new info in the Kazutaka Kodaka projects with Rui Komatsuzaki character designs soon, and I really hope Kodaka would make more original anime like Akudama Drive (As long as the characters are designed by Rui Komatsuzaki, I can’t look at anything Kodaka without Komatsuzaki character designs, no matter the concept).

Oh, by the way, even Osomatsu-san season 3 promoted Akudama Drive! (I mean, they’re both made by Pierrot, but to see something like this is just uncanny)

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni - Gou: First of all, the title is actually not “New,” the true title is actually “Gou,” which supposedly this is a brand new entry, this is interesting, the secrecy behind the series and how it was marketed certainly makes for a really great series, but since I’ve never experienced Higurashi in my life, I feel left out. I mean supposedly because from what I hear this isn’t even a remake but rather a new entry, but whatever site I heard that from is probably an unreliable nobody source that I know of, so I’m not entirely sure on that one.

Second of all, before I go into details on my impressions with the series, as someone who never grew up with the original anime nor the visual novels, there’s something I forgot to address in the previous post, Higurashi Gou is animated by Passione, which they impressed me with High School DxD Hero and Citrus. Although sometimes the character designs does throw me off a little, and I saw a comment on Nyaa within the HorribleSubs upload of the episode that the art style reminded of the commentor to Monogatari, which it does look Monogatari-ish and I can’t unsee that now.

Now for my impressions, since I pretty much know the nature of the Higurashi series, I didn’t have that much of high expectations, so there’s not much to say about it. Although even if I’m familiar with the messed up nature, I wasn’t really familiar with the characters and the story, so I guess this is my one way to go with it. As of late, YouTube has randomly been recommending me comparison videos of some moments from the series so far and I’m usually biased towards newer stuff that look cleaner, so I’m definitely take the 2020 side (Which leads me to believe this IS a remake of an adaptation or something).

One thing that did disappoint me, however, is that the Eiko Shimamiya opening theme from the original series was only used once at the end of the first episode, I was kinda sad this isn’t used for the rest of the series, but it was kind of expected to make new theme songs.

If I have the time and desire to do so, I wish I would watch the original Higurashi series and maybe rewatch Gou for like a side-to-side comparison visually and perhaps narratively as well. (And what about the VNs? Eh, I’ll probably never get the mental capacity and time to do so, sorry.)

D4DJ First Mix: Since this is already a new franchise beginning, I thought I would give this an A (just like other Sanzigen titles this year but for varying reasons), but as of the writing of this episode after episode 5 premiered, this series immediately went from A to S! This is my #2 Sanzigen anime of the year, #1 being of course Bandori season 3.

One thing I’d like to point out is that the background characters throughout the series are entirely CG! Looks like Sanzigen has finally delivered God’s work for once! Except there are times when MINOR characters, like the owners of Cafe Vynil and even the Happy Around girls when they were kids are still hand drawn. I don’t know why but I just realized I constantly talk about how much hand drawn characters I have to point out in literally everything Sanzigen makes, so apologies about that.

When I started watching the first episode, I literally got familiar vibes to that of Argonavis with the main character (or in this case, multiple main characters being Happy Around) going to a live concert, but it’s a little different. Instead of the main character being motivated to becoming a musician and go to the concert he went when he was a kid, instead the main character (Being Rinku) went to this concert and remembers WOW WAR TONIGHT, Maho, however, does have the desire of going to the same concert Rinku went when she was a kid.

That kinda sounds more like Argonavis but with more accessibility and well, something that appeals more to audiences because I’m still baffled that out of every Sanzigen title that came out this year, no company, and I mean, NO COMPANY, has officially licensed Argonavis at all! Leaving the series mainly being fansubbed. I think it may be for the better that Argonavis isn’t officially licensed because not everyone would like the series because not everyone is fond of the concept of a male equivalent of Bandori (If it works for Idolmaster, it wouldn’t for Bandori IMO).

Hopefully they’ll make just as many seasons and movies like Bandori if this is going to be Bushiroad’s next big franchise.

Osomatsu-san season 3: After 5 long years, Osomatsu-san continues to deliver some really good laughs and being bizarre.

Wait, it’s been 5 years, why hasn’t Osomatsu-san season 3 addressed a 5th anniversary of sorts? 5 years is an important milestone!

Girls’ Frontline Healing Chapter season 2: Sure, Osomatsu-san season 3 is definitely the better comedy of the season (Which forgot to mention it would top Girls’ Frontline Healing Chapter season 2 along with Uzaki-chan), but that doesn’t mean Healing Chapter season 2 wouldn’t give me a lot of laughs (Which I think it gives me more laughs than Osomatsu-san sometimes).

They definitely improved this season with a lot of things, new characters, extended runtime which they really listened, and G11 now speaks. The first season will always be iconic, but I definitely think this season is beyond better.

However, as much as I loved this season, that is until I watched episode 12 where right before watching it, I just realized we had come this far until the very end of the season, time went flying so fast I felt like this season ended way too soon. Even if the season had a longer runtime for episodes, but for some reason it kinda feels like it didn’t do anything to me. I was pretty confused with M16′s character throughout that episode as well.

Then there was this teaser with 6P62 in episode 8. Was this supposed to mean something or did they just randomly threw this scene out of nowhere?

This finale doesn’t ruin the season overall, like I said, it improves the first season and I had plenty of laughs, but I need to process this. Once I watch the Japanese, I’ll probably get a better impression of it, and yes, the Japanese dub is indeed happening. It is coming in Spring 2021 as well, I wish it would come out in January 2021, like how the first season in Chinese dub started in late July 2019 and then the Japanese dub came out in my birthday, October 4th, I actually saw this coming but I guess the Spring 2021 release is fine, I suppose.

Despite the somewhat weak ending, I repeat, I still think this is absolutely better than the first season.

With the trend of wasting new characters in comedy shows, I absolutely award Girls’ Frontline Healing Chapter season 2 as the one new comedy season that absolutely did not waste new characters like DEFY and Sangvis Ferri! 🏆

Surprisingly there was no surprise Madness Chapter season 2 or anything, which it’s for the best and I guess that’s just to show how that series wasn’t as popular as Healing Chapter, even though it’s supposed to be like an adaptation of the game’s 4koma, but the animation is so cheap and people prefer the more wholesome series like Healing Chapter, which is probably why it’s so popular.

(Although I kinda wish they picked Architect from the villain roster, I like Architect more than pretty much every Sangvis character. Although I guess Hunter, Executioner and Scarecrow are like the most popular characters or they’re important to the story? I don’t know, I just like Architect because she’s cuter)

Hoping for season 3 if the Healing Chapter series continues to grow popular and hopefully the 6P62 teaser can be paid off.

Burn the Witch: I’m still surprised how this adaptation came out shortly after the manga serialization was launched, which means it was on the work for some time, did Tite Kubo give the animators his drafts or early copies of the three chapters of the manga serialization early before it come out or something?!

Anyways, it was quite a great adaptation, I liked it, the animation was clean, I like the performances, etc. Although I do wish they should have adapted the one-shot instead since it’s pretty much the prologue of the story, although one-shots usually aren’t what the actual stories supposed to be, it’s kind of like a prototype of sorts, but this wasn’t a prototype at all, but oh well.

Golden Kamuy season 3: Around November 1st, I randomly read through all my previous Tumblr posts and even talking things out about my retrospective thoughts in stuff I reviewed (Some hold up, some don’t), with the first two seasons of Golden Kamuy, I gave it a B- overall because I was kinda spoiled with some of the hate around it and gratuitously CG animals, but retroactively, it’s still a very good series, the action, the worldbuilding, the characters and especially the bizarre humor are the best part.

Although to be honest, I like the storyline from the first two seasons better, but I’m glad things have turned out well in the end this season.

Munou na Nana: For a show that came out on my birthday, I guess this was alright overall, when I watched the first episode, I was quite surprised with the twist and that’s pretty much what the entire series is. Still, I wasn’t highly impressed, but it was alright at best. Like, I think it was best worth watching the premiere on my birthday, otherwise I wouldn’t be committed on watching the entire series because I usually drop anime that don’t convince me on my birthday.

At first I thought Rena from Higurashi and Nana would be a cute but deadly waifu combo, which they still are but I prefer Rena over Nana because I’m not pretty sure about her as a character before, she’s quite smart but I definitely wouldn’t cross paths with her ever, she at least had some hilarious faces throughout the series too. That is until the last few episodes is where I’m starting to like Nana now?

There’s another thing I liked about the series is that how earlier episodes were character focused, like dedicated to Nana’s victims before Nana kills them, later episodes have become more serialized or something.

Probably the worst thing I can come up with (And I seriously wish anyone else, especially anime journalist sites, the journalists themselves or normies would say this), is that Munou na Nana is basically Among Us the anime. Kyoya always sus’d Nana, and Nana was the Impostor all along. Pink is hella sus. (Yeah, this is stupid, moving on) But then, the final episode came out and... it ended... in quite a shocking fashion, and this is probably the best episode in the series.

If there’s one thing I have to complaint about this series, is that the official Funimation subtitles can be cringey and don’t make sense with what the characters actually say sometimes, what the hell were the official subbers thinking? I wouldn’t rewatch the series but I’m sure fansubbers would do a much better job with the writing in the Blu-Ray rips.

But then, the final episode came out and... it ended... in quite a shocking fashion, and in my opinion this is probably the best episode in the series, although even if I liked the episode very much now after watching it, there are some things I was pretty confused by, but whatever. Now this episode for sure makes me think about the series in retrospect, probably not the best anime to come out in my birthday, the first most of it was decent but this episode delivered quite a punch!

First the series started in a shocking fashion which I had no expectations for the series at the time, now the series ended in a shocking fashion. Who would have thought?

Danmachi season 3: Throughout the middle of the season, I thought this would be my least favorite storyline of the series ever, but I think it turned out pretty good in the end, I usually like beginnings than climaxes. I kinda felt similarly with Golden Kamuy as mentioned above, but both have solid climaxes.

Call me crazy, but I feel like Danmachi doesn’t feel as relevant as it used to be back when the first season came out and it was quite memed a lot, particularly with Hestia’s boob ribbon and the tooth brushing from the opening or something, those were the good old days.

Although I do admire how we’ve come this far with quite a lot of Danmachi anime over the last 5 years, from the first season in 2015, the Sword Oratoria spin-off in 2017, last year’s season 2 and now season 3. There’s this two year pattern but season 3 this year feels different.

Toji no Miko Tomishibi: On November 1st (Día de los Muertos), before watching the latest episode of Munou na Nana (or Talentless Nana as I called the series in the previous post), I knew I was definitely gonna forget about the first part of the OVA, so I watched the first part of the OVA after watching Munou na Nana and I guess it was okay, not really great but not bad either, but there was one thing I immediately noticed is that the character designs in the OVA look completely different than the TV series.

Before (TV series):

After (OVA):

The OVA character designs look a lot less like Yoshinori Shizuma’s art style like the TV series replicated. That is probably because the OVA was made by a different studio than the TV series. The TV series was made by Studio Gokumi and the OVA was made by Project No.9.

But even if they’re both made by different studios, part of the visuals kind of look similar in a way or something? I also noticed the Aradama aren’t CG in the OVA like in the TV series.

I was happy to see Kanami and Hiyori in the OVAs too, I always liked them better than pretty much everyone else, especially the characters from the mobile game which are the main stars here who are my least favorites, so I guess there are some characters I like in a series I’m otherwise lukewarm with.

The second part, however... It didn’t do much service to me, as the animation has gotten really horrible, the writing was terrible (And no, I’m talking about the subs, I’m talking about actual writing), and even if this served as the finale of the OVA, the pacing felt way fast for it being the last half of the OVA.

I’m not sure I should hope for more Toji no Miko anime in the future, I really hope this should be the last and never hear about Toji no Miko again.

Guraburu: This is probably the blandest Cygames adaptation yet. I mean, sure, you could say that it’s nowhere near bad (Same with Princess Connect Re:Dive), but for some reason this series wasn’t really that funny for me, definitely the worst comedy of the season when we have great ones like Osomatsu-san and Girls’ Frontline Healing Chapter. I think the Guranburu 4koma work best when they’re just still images, making an anime out of this just doesn’t work.

Then there’s the animation, I’m very conflicted with it. On one hand, it tries to replicate the art style of the 4koma very well, but when it comes to the motion, it just looks very cheap, almost as if it was animated on Flash, it’s kind of like Queen Bee tier animation. Even gacha 4koma adaptations like FGO’s Manga de Wakaru is does absolute justice to the art, it's hilarious and it's very pleasing to look at.

The subtitles writing can also be a little weird as well, though probably not as god awful as Munou na Nana can get, right? (No wonder people say dubs are usually better written, but I couldn’t care less about dubs in general)

As for the comedy, sometimes it was funny, but I wasn’t really impressed, I don’t think this is a case of “comedy is subjective” (or might be), if the animation were better, I would have laughed along with the jokes.

If you want better examples of anime adaptations based on gacha games’ 4koma, just watch FGO’s Manga de Wakaru instead, like I previously mentioned, and then the upcoming Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin (If you’re one of those people who hate Azur Lane: The Animation which I hope you’re not).

This was me throughout the series...

(Although this and Lyria’s “See? You just said something nonsensical.” are the only good moments I liked which these make for good reaction images from a series I find otherwise bland.)

I just realized I haven’t put any anime I didn’t like or hated in D or E, so this might as well be the first and ONLY anime of 2020 being D tier! Congratulations! We’ve finally found a bad anime of the year that’s D or E-tier worthy for once! I’m impressed, most of the anime I watched this year aren’t really all god awful compared to last year, all the anime I watched, even the ones that let me down and downright disliked weren’t all god awful, so this year turned out quite a blessing in disguise with my anime experience for an otherwise terrible year for literally everything.

Honorable mentions

Attack on Titan: The Final Season: As of the publishing of this post, we’re literally four episodes into the season and I’d hardly call this as an AOTS in 2020, as the tier on my TierMaker image suggests, this gonna be more like the Best Anime of 2021, there’s no way after four episodes, this season should immediately be AOTY material, or who knows.

There’s one thing I forgot to mention in the previous post and that is the surprising studio change from Studio WIT to MAPPA, at first when I saw the poster of the season, I was very skeptical and confused as to why did they change studios from WIT to MAPPA, before I even noticed the trailer was actually there when this was announced, I was very skeptical, then I saw the trailer and I thought I was impressed, it seemed on par with what WIT did, but upon watching the actual first episode in fullscreen this time, I think it looks alright but it’s got some good parts so far like the rotoscope animation. Some of the character designs look a bit different too, but I don’t know if it’s just me. I just hope it’s not a repeat of One Punch Man season 2 where JC Staff did a horrible job and ended up being my #2 worst AOTY 2019 just for the animation quality alone. That’s not to say I’m shitting on MAPPA just yet, let’s wait until the very end so I can get a better judge of what’s the animation to come.

And then in episode 2, there were flashbacks from the previous seasons with the WIT animation. I think I’ve come at a point where I really started to get fed up with this trend. It’s not just lazy copy and pasting scenes from previous seasons, but it’s just really heartbreaking seeing those clips of the previous seasons done by better studios compared to the actual season we’re watching done by another studio.

The OP and ED are absolute bangers too. As for the OP, it’s still not Linked Horizon but it sounds good, and I love how it has now being parodied to death with footage from World War and even one of 2020. The ED is pretty good too and that one’s actually released in full first, sometimes I listen either the OP or the ED quite a lot Oh, and I found out the band that did the OP made... This. Uh... Okay... (Before you complaint, I don’t think it’s a bad song, but the backstory behind it just makes me feel uncomfortable. Oh and they did the ED theme for season 2 which I didn’t even know and forgot about the song)

The most shocking part is, from what I heard, this season is going to be 16 episodes long. I mean, it sounds a little better than 13 episodes like season 2, but is that even going to be enough considering the manga is nearly about to end? It should end pretty soon but the final season of the anime is ending in March and who knows if by that time the manga would have ended and who knows if MAPPA will be able to catch up by adapting this season with JUST 16 episodes, or they would probably end up making movies that cover the manga’s finale, I DON’T KNOW!

So far MAPPA’s animation has been okay for me, it can be a bit of hit or miss but they’re doing an alright job, but of course, WIT will always be the best, althugh sometimes even seasons 2 and 3 can get a little stale, but WIT will always be better. They pretty much worked hard into the series and lately they’ve been working in a lot of projects, so it must have been very difficult if they were able to work on AoT The Final Season and everything else all at once. Thank you WIT.

Fire Force season 2: After two seasons, Fire Foce is one of the best and worst works David Production has ever done. My thoughts into the story and stuff goes the same if I were to read the manga, I like the story, the worldbuilding, etc. But my biggest criticism in the anime’s part is the animation, sometimes even in the second season can still be a bit slow and poorly paced, but at least it’s not as dreadful as the first season, but even so, there’s still some great sakuga moments.

With that being said about the animation, I hope this doesn’t affect David Productions in the future, such as the upcoming second seasons of Cells at Work and potentially the JoJo Stone Ocean anime. (And whatever else David Production makes but honestly I don’t give a shit)

Hmmm, I feel like I’m missing something, oh yeah, what about the Dragon’s Dogma anime? Well, I wasn’t interested on wanting to watch it. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear it would be shitty, even from hardcore Dragon’s Dogma players.

Arknights Holy Knight Light: This was quite the most surprising thing ever to come out of the 1st anniversary livestreams from the Japanese and English Arknights YouTube channels, the first time I started watching it, I couldn’t help but fanboy out of this with what was happening, this OVA is worth rewatching a billion times as a New Year movie!

Since I don’t have time or not planning to add this into my actual tier lists, might as well say that this is definitely S tier!

(This last honorable mentionis more like a last minute addition since I had planned to publish this post this Sunday, the 27th, which you’re probably reading now. This was written on the 26th.)

Anyways, let’s get into the most anticipated releases of Winter 2021!

Anticipated anime of Winter 2021

Note that I’m not talking about my anticipated anime of 2021 overall, as I’ll be discussing that in the next post which is my New Year 2020 review, so for now, let’s talk about the Winter 2021 releases!

Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin - January 11th: Over the course of this 2020 after the finale episodes came out, I became extremely bummed out and spoiled on the fact that a lot of people (Especially the Western Azur Lane community) absolutely HATE Azur Lane: The Animation. I mean, sure, the animation kinda got bad at times but that doesn’t make it automatically trash, and neither should the story (Which I think the animation is more troublesome than the story).

I of course had always known Azur Lane The Animation might be hated, at least from the Western community, from the day it was first broadcast, I’ve seen nothing but praise from the Japanese community, and it was going that way for the entire series, that’s what I always relied on and it has beared with me until I started talking to the official Discord server about it and it was quite a shitstorm.

I could go on and on with ranting about why Azur Lane The Animation isn’t garbage for billions of times, over and over, from the many references from the game to fan service at its absolute best. especially that they actually featured official Azur Lane nudity in the Blu-Rays, and speaking of the Blu-Rays, they offered very cool costumes. You might say having exclusive costumes in the Blu-Rays would scream ALTA being a cash grab, shut up, it’s not, people of course religiously buy the Blu-Rays for whatever purpose. Shit animation my ass! Shit characterization my ass! Shit story my ass! Identity crisis my ass! Fuck everyone whoever talks shit about Azur Lane The Animation and even if I were to forget about it for a while, I’m bound to come across someone who’s gonna be like “Azur Lane has an anime too but it’s shit,” and I’m gonna yell at their asses off!

After making animated trailers, not only for Azur Lane but even Arknights too, this is the first major TV series release from Yostar’s new animation studio, Yostar Pictures, but they won’t operate alone, so they’re collaboration with another studio known as CANDY BOX. which seems to be a relatively new studio, but this isn’t the first time Yostar Pictures is collaborating with another studio, they also work with Madhouse for some trailers, including trailer for the third anniversary as well as the Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation collab trailer. YOSTAR PICTURES COLLABORATING WITH MADHOUSE, HOW COOL IS THAT?! THAT’S A DREAM TEAM FROM STUDIOS I LIKE!

Imagine if Azur Lane The Animation would get a second season (Dear god, please do. I loved this season more than anything, fuck what people say) that is animated in the same style as these trailers, the series could recover and it would be redeemed for the Western community (I may jinx this one out since I said the same thing with the very first animated commercial made by Sunrise, and then ALTAS was animated by Bibury Animation Studio, I’m not really disappointed, though).

What if an Arknights series from Yostar Pictures x Madhouse too? That would be amazing and they even teased about it. Actually, around this Christmas when the first anniversary livestreams were happening, they actually released an OVA which is sort of New Year-themed at the end BUT IT’S SO COOL, I’M GOING TO BE REWATCHING THIS A BILLION TIMES!

Anyways, I’m sorry for going off topic with Azur Lane The Animation instead of what I was supposed to be talking about, Bisoku Zenshin.

It’s been like 2 years since I started following the series, mainly on the Japanese Azur Lane Twitter account and I can’t remember what were the first chapters even like, the only things I remember is this one chapter where Takao actually having animal ears. 2 years later, the English Azur Lane Twitter account is finally catching up with English translations of the 4koma, but the problem is that it’s 2 years and so many chapters behind from JP, going from the first chapter, it may or may not help me remember what were the first chapters like and hopefully they’ll be adapted in the series, I probably should pay attention.

Although from what I’ve seen in the trailers and the character reveals which so far they revealed Formidable, Baltimore, Spee, etc, I’m not really sure if this series is going to actually adapt the 4koma from the very beginning, well, I don’t remember what were the first chapters like, so hopefully once I start seeing the series and try to find the first few chapters, this can be a faithful adaptation. Although, honestly, I wouldn’t mind if this were an original story using the same foundation, I just want to watch more Azur Lane anime with whatever stories they can come up with.

Cells at Work! season 2 and Cells at Work! BLACK - January 9th: What’s better than having a second season of Cells at Work and have an adaptation of the spin-off, Cells at Work BLACK? HAVE BOTH OF THEM AIRED BACK-TO-BACK IN ONE HOUR! That is such a perfect way to celebrate the series with a new season and spin-off! It kinda reminds me of the good old days when I used to watch Danganronpa 3 Hope and Despair Arcs almost simultaneously, just with two days apart, but with Cells at Work and BLACK, we’re getting ONE HOUR!

As previously mentioned in Fire Force season 2, I really hope David Production can keep their shit together with the animation in future shows, most specifically Cells at Work season 2. I’m not animation expert but I’m sure it’ll be pretty much the exact same team of animators who did the first season, so I really hope the series won’t have a very deteriorating tone and direction like Fire Force suffered so badly in the first season last year.

With Cells at Work BLACK, if you haven’t guessed from the title, this is a darker spin-off of the vanilla Cells at Work series. The vanilla series is already violent but it keeps a light spirited tone, BLACK, however, is downright edgy. We’re having quite the Ying and Yang of two series. I’m surprised that David Production isn’t doing BLACK like the vanilla series, although I think it’s for the better because they’ve been working on other stuff like JoJo and Fire Force, and with this different studio doing BLACK, I’m impressed with how the visuals look so far.

And female White Blood Cell is cute.

Quintessential Quintuplets season 2 - January 7th: I’m surprised how long it has been for season 2 to come out, at first I thought it would come out this Winter 2020 but nothing came out of it and I was already thinking it would have been delayed, then a few months later we finally got some info but the most surprising thing is that they actually changed studios to Bibury Animation Studio.

Given that this is Bibury Animation Studio, the same one that did Azur Lane The Animation, like I previously mentioned in Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin, PLEASE GIVE BIBURY A CHANCE! THEY DID NOTHING WRONG!

When I looked at the visuals and looking at the character trailers, it actually looks quite promising, the first season wasn’t visually the best, so this has potential.

Project Scard: Scar on the Praeter - January 8th: Actually, this 2021, GoHands is going to release two TV series, this first one being an original anime series, and the second one which was supposed to be for April being Tokyo Babylon, an adaptation of CLAMP’s manga series of the same name. Tokyo Babylon was delayed until further notice because apparently costume designs were referenced without permission, that is such an outlandish reason. Besides, what kind of costume references? And permission from who or what? So vague. I could have gotten two GoHands shows in two seasons in a row!

Anyway, let’s first talk about Project Scard which that’s what it’s gonna come out first. I’m happy to see that GoHands is doing more original series, but there’s a problem: This one is apparently not related to Hand Shakers at all!

And no, this is not a case of misleading marketing with the trailers tricking me this could still be secretly a sequel of Hand Shakers like W’z did (Although I don’t think I payed attention to the W’z trailers at all until I started watching the series), I definitely see this series entirely standalone for once based on the characters and the setting, which I’m very disappointed that this isn’t a threequel to Hand Shakers. Everyone hated Hand Shakers and W’z was GoHands’ EXTREMELY worst selling anime, I really loved the series and I liked their stories, the world had so much potential!

Anyways, I may be sad this isn’t a new Hand Shakers entry, I should at least enjoy this series for what it is, not everyone’s going to like this one for sure since the animation is more akin to Hand Shakers, which would turn many people off.

With what I said about Bibury Animation Studio with Quintuplets S2, people should also give GoHands a chance! THEY DID NOTHING WRONG!!!

I’m honestly feeling more excited about Tokyo Bablyon than this, but we’ll get into more details in the New Year post.

Bungou Stray Dogs Wan! - January 12th: There may not be a new season of the main series as of late, but an adaptation of a chibi spin-off is quite surprising, since I really like Bungou Stray Dogs, I’m of course watching this!

(Now that I think about it, I don’t really think Bungou Stray Dogs a huge part of my life... 🤔)

Promised Neverland season 2 - January 7th: With the manga now ended a few months ago, should we expect future seasons so they would adapt the finale?

Beastars season 2 - January 5th: I always victimize Beastars when criticizing Sanzigen’s syndrome of having hand drawn background characters (Even D4DJ was so close on breaking the syndrome, it has CG background characters but there’s still some minor characters that are still hand drawn, the most baffling part is the main characters when they were kids), but that aside, it doesn’t really affect the story or anything, just ranting.

Yuru Camp season 2 - January 7th: I literally forgot the spin-off series, Heya Camp, existed, and since that one was a short series, I feel like it wasn’t enough, so it’s finally time for season 2 to come out!

I also forgot about the movie, so maybe once season 2 ends, there might be some info on it?

Re:Zero season 2 second cour - January 6th: It hasn’t been long but it still feels weird having to wait a while for the next part of the season, at least it’s not in production that would take forever like Magia Record.

Dr. Stone: Stone Wars - January 14th: A few months ago, I randomly watched a couple of episodes of Dr. Stone, but on the night of December 6th, I have decided to start binging the first season, then I finished it and... WHY DID I SLEEP ON IT IN 2019?! THIS IS GREAT! I was already impressed by the 3 episodes I randomly watched at some point, but after watching the series fully, I couldn’t be more impressed than ever, it’s making me feel like the time I binged Shield Hero and I was just as amazed (which lead to the disappointment of Isekai Quartet 2 wasting the Shield Hero characters hard).

That is it for my Fall 2020 review as well as my anticipated anime of 2021!

Final thoughts on 2020 in anime

I want to give my final thoughts on this overall year in anime: As previously mentioned, I was absolutely impressed that there was almost not a single anime I didn’t like that I would consider D or E, even for a year that has done me more harm than good, this year has delivered quite a lot of good anime, even if some of them disappointed me. BUT! Want to know what are my top anime of the year? You’ll have to find out in the New Year post to see what are my contenders!

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Boo! I didn’t know I’d be watching this censored! Fucking boo!

Yeah to be fair you can’t not do this shot.

Anyway, Akudama Drive episode 1 was honestly super fuckin cool! The character and world designs are god damn great and the artwork and especially the animation of it all really elevates it. It’s definitely a show that’s operating on cool factor, the characters don’t even have proper names and instead work under TF2-esque job descriptions as names, like Brawler and Doctor and Courier. It’s cool. And then we’ve got my fucking girl Tomoyo Kurosawa playing a normal girl to ground us a little bit, but getting wrapped up in the whole thing because she just wanted to help a cat. How cute. And then the cat’s actually like the one who organised this whole ordeal, that’s really sick! Links everything together in a really weird and comedic but very appealing way. I had fun with this show, I went into it thinking it’d just be fun to look at but not much else, but no I actually felt the excitement and I’m looking forward to seeing more.

#akudama drive #8.10.20

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