TV: General Anime Discussion (Part 3)

[RandV]

Oh wow they're doing Tower of God? I have no idea what goes on with these animation studios but with the Japanese manga->anime being a longstanding industry, and starting to see more Chinese manhwa(?) series getting animated (which I don't think has much appeal outside of the Chinese market), I've always wondered how long till you start seeing more Korean series get animated, which usually come in the form of 'webtoons'. Tower of God is kind of the Korean webtoon version of a Bleach/Naruto/One Piece... maybe the closest comparison would be something like a less complicated early version of Hunter x Hunter (pseudo-modern/futuristic, massive scale world, a focus on 'contests').

Really the point is though there's a lot of good Korean 'manga' stuff out there that just simply doesn't get consideration for animation because it's Korean, so I've always been interested in seeing that change. I guess there was that kind of Bleach-like vampire one a few years ago.

 

[Unholy]

Yeahhhhhhh. Crunchyroll is doing both Tower of God AND God of High School

https://www.crunchyroll.com/originals/en/index.html

 

[SecretOilersFan]

Series I will be watching seasonally:

Re Zero S2
Kaguya Sama S2
Brand New Animal

Will likely pick up at some point if the reviews are good/decent

Arte
Fugou Keiji
Appare-Ranman!
Yesterday wo Utatte
Listeners
Wave, Listen to Me!

Special Consideration

Kingdom (Anime adaption has been pretty bad for it but this one of the best arcs so curious to see how it will end up. Kingdom is one of my favourite manga)

 

[S E P H]

Watching One Week Friends, good show. Nothing truly amazing about it except just that it's solid.

 

[syz]

Sounds like Re Zero 2 production has been interrupted by Coronavirus and it's being pushed to summer.

Given how most anime production seems to work I would not be surprised if other shows see delays or interruptions.

 

[RobBrown4PM]

Half way through season 2 of One Punch Man.

I love everything about this show. I require it to be injected straight into my veins from now until the end of time.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Watched Beastars today on Netflix. Still like the manga more, but I still really enjoyed the anime version. I worried about the CGI, but they did pretty good. Looking forward to season 2.

 

[Oogie Boogie]

Finally decided to watch Shield Hero, and I thought it was pretty solid overall.

Spoiler

It was so damn satisfying when the Queen held a trial for her husband and daughter. Oh man I had to watch that particular scene a few times.

I've actually been in the mood to finally pick up a few other shows that I have neglected over the years, and with everything that is going on in the world right now this feels like a really good time to knock some shows out.

I'm thinking of finally watching Violet Evergarden next, and the only decent place that has it at the moment is Netflix it would appear. Guess I'll make a 30 day trial account to watch it

 

[S E P H]

Netflix it would appear. Guess I'll make a 30 day trial account to watch it

You can buy gift cards and just put calculate the amount for a couple of months. Netflix charges by the amount of streams people are able to view at one time, so it it's just you I recommend the lowest price package.

Also big news,
The Bleach Anime Is Coming Back Next Year

 

[Oogie Boogie]

You can buy gift cards and just put calculate the amount for a couple of months. Netflix charges by the amount of streams people are able to view at one time, so it it's just you I recommend the lowest price package.

Also big news,
The Bleach Anime Is Coming Back Next Year

If there appears to be quite a bit that I can't get anywhere else I maydo that.


To this day I still felt like Bleach should have ended with Aizen.
Not sure if I'll check this out or not but it's interesting to see that it's coming back.

 

[S E P H]

To this day I still felt like Bleach should have ended with Aizen.
Not sure if I'll check this out or not but it's interesting to see that it's coming back.

No doubt, I read and watched the series after the Aizen arc about the substitute soul reaper and it was terrible. Don't know anything else after that as I stopped watching as well, but nothing will ever be able to match Aizen. It had such a satisfying build up, battle, and ending that it wasn't replicable. I will most definitely watch The Thousand Year War arc simply because Bleach was my entire high-school life.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Fiiiiinally got my girlfriend into Death Note after trying for a couple years. Got her 3 episodes in and she's absolutely hooked.

We've been cranking out a steady 3 episodes per day and we're around episode 17. She's invested mentally and emotionally already.

Spoiler

We just got to the point where Light and Misa have been released from confinement. She absolutely HATES Light and Misa and really loves L. She's already getting to see where this is going, as she recently asked me if Light is going to kill L and told me she's going to quit watching if L dies... Let's see if she's bluffing, lmao.

 

[Very Stable Genius]

Binged Akame Ga Kill and 7Seeds S2, both decent time passers.

 

[qwerty]

Just peering into this thread, I can't believe all the shows available that I've never heard of. Wonder what happened to the classics like Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon and Pokemon. Definitely my go-to's back in the day, wonder if they still hold up today.

 

[sephirothwillprevail]

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[S E P H]

Just peering into this thread, I can't believe all the shows available that I've never heard of. Wonder what happened to the classics like Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon and Pokemon. Definitely my go-to's back in the day, wonder if they still hold up today.

You should cheque out Your Name or Your Lie in April if you have any interest heading back into it. I think it depends on the show; DBZ is pretty good for re-watches (still has a ton of starring, but it's quite manageable), Sailor Moon would be the best anime ever if they ever made a rated-R/TV-14 version in regards to violence (especially the dub is aimed towards overcoming difficulties for girls), and Pokemon is an absolute train-wreck of an anime to try and watch again (too many linear plots that do nothing to the overall storyline).

 

[sdf]

Oops

 

[S E P H]

Rewatching Toradora! and I must say that watching it again really doesn't do this show justice. Unbelievably fun to watch with unique characters and interesting plot twists even if none of them are major or original to the anime genre. Binge watched like 90% of it in the last two days and honestly have no regrets not drawing it out due to how entertained I was. My heart would kill for a second season, but my brain knows that there shouldn't be anything else as it would feel tasteless.

 

[Very Stable Genius]

Watched the first few episodes of the new Ghost in the Shell: SAC. An alright story ruined by mind-numbingly bad CG animation. I'll grudgingly finish it off, but I hope this CG-style goes away fast.

 

[S E P H]

Been able to watch more shows lately and finished Violet Evergarden. Really weird premise for a show when I started watching it, but holy smokes does it work. I thought the series was amazing, but tailed off towards the end where the last handful of episodes became boring. Nevertheless, was a brilliantly produced considering the synopsis seemed like it would turn out to be boring. It had one of the best episodes I've watched in any show in a very long time with the sick mother and the child being too immature to grasp the situation, so she pestered the hell out of them.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Did you watch the movie? It's so damn good.

 

[S E P H]

Did you watch the movie? It's so damn good.

No I did not, sounds like that is the next must go for me. Is it a sequel to the original anime storyline or is it a stand-alone complex?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

It basically is a sequel yeah. But goddamn does it tug on the heart strings.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Finished Death Note a while back, I watched it through twice before, but never finished it. I was not happy with the ending at all! Kinda wish I hadn't finished it, lol.

 

[RandV]

Been able to watch more shows lately and finished Violet Evergarden. Really weird premise for a show when I started watching it, but holy smokes does it work. I thought the series was amazing, but tailed off towards the end where the last handful of episodes became boring. Nevertheless, was a brilliantly produced considering the synopsis seemed like it would turn out to be boring. It had one of the best episodes I've watched in any show in a very long time with the sick mother and the child being too immature to grasp the situation, so she pestered the hell out of them.

I thought it was a good serious that was made a bit awkward from the 'because Japan' factor. Like the setting is a pretty grounded fictional universe based loosely on a post-WWI Europe, except rather than "The Great War" it was just a big war between two nations. And in that framework the story works really well... but where does a super elite child soldier/killing machine come from? And why does she have robot arms? We can't even make robot arms and this is set with technology from a hundred years ago.

Oh wait I know why, because Japan

So there's a bit of disconnect their between the lead character Violet Evergarden who would fit perfectly fine if this was something like a modernizing world of the Witcher where she could have Witcher mutations and the arms are magitech or something, and the actual setting which while it's a fictional world is completely grounded in Earthly realities. It was a good series but considering it was something you were supposed to take seriously that always kind of bugged me.