Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 04]
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It's time for a new general discussion thread! Hot takes, recommendations, questions, cautionary tales, all of it is welcome here.
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Started the week off with the rest of Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita (Humanity Has Declined), which was great - alternately goofy, cozy and surreal.
Then I had the sort of odd experience of "discovering" a director I hadn't realized I was already a fan of. I just happened on Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko: Everything Flows and it was wonderful - bittersweet and heartfelt and simply beaufiful, and I liked it so much I looked up the director, and only then discovered that he had also done Suzume and 5 cm per second and Kimi no Na wa, among others. I had completely failed to notice that three of my favorite anime movies were all from the same director.
So then I went on a sort of mini binge, and watched Tenki no Ko, Kotonoha no Niwa and Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo, all of which were good, though not quite as good as his certainly not coincidentally better known ones.
Then I just sort of wandered aimlessly before ending up at Tasogare Otome x Amnesia (Dusk Maiden of Amnesia). I read the manga back in the day and remembered liking it, but didn't remember much other than bits and pieces of the plot. It was good all in all - an odd but actually plot-relevant mix of school life, ecchi rom-com with a dash of harem and full-on Junji Ito style horror.
Then, as a change of pace, I dipped back into my own past and watched Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. It's one of the first anime I ever owned (on VHS), and I have no idea how many times I've watched it over the years, but I haven't seen it since I last owned a VCR, which has to have been... at least 15 years ago. And it was just as much fun as I remembered.
And at the moment I'm watching an intriguing oddity called Scrapped Princess. At first glance, it appears to be a sort of cheesy swords and sorcery adventure story, but it's been revealing surprising depth as it goes along and has really been quite good. Remains to be seen how it plays out...
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And at the moment I’m watching an intriguing oddity called Scrapped Princess. At first glance, it appears to be a sort of cheesy swords and sorcery adventure story, but it’s been revealing surprising depth as it goes along and has really been quite good. Remains to be seen how it plays out…
Let's just say that the ending is probably not what you're expecting if you're still in the earlier part of the show.
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I finally managed to watch at least one episode of everything I was interested in.
Dropped:
- Link Click (just didn't, er, click with me)
- Farmagia (too much game showing at the seams, not enough depth, protag is an idiot)
- Greatest Alchemist (not good enough to survive having slavery treated as acceptable)
- Fruit Master (just mediocre all over)
- I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons (denial of the main character's agency to an extent that's downright icky)
- Magic Maker (um, dude, I don't really care that she's your sister, but you appear to be macking on an oblivious prepubescent girl. No.)
- Momentary Lily (motion sickness-inducing).
Hanging by a thread:
- Aquarion: Myth of Emotions (really ugly artwork and isn't likely to be good enough in other categories to compensate)
- Promise of Wizard (first episode felt rather bland, haven't gotten to the second one yet)
- I'm a Noble on the Brink of Ruin etc. (just really bland so far, no black marks but not very interesting either)
I'll be picking one of those three to keep watching and dropping the other two.
By the way, does anyone know what's going on with Fate/Strange Fake? I wasn't anticipating it dropping off the schedule again after one episode.
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By the way, does anyone know what's going on with Fate/Strange Fake? I wasn't anticipating it dropping off the schedule again after one episode.
Same. Apparently, it was an advanced premiere or something. The full broadcast date isn't known yet AFAIK.
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Rewatched My Dress-Up Darling last week. It's still good, but hornier than I remembered. It feels more ecchi than the manga does too, even though the scenes are pretty much the same. Feels like they put more emphasis on it in the anime. The later volumes are less ecchi, which might explain why I misremembered.
Also pretty close to dropping Zenshu.
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I'm up to episode 6, so still fairly early. I have some ideas about where it might be headed (it's certainly the case that the world that Pacifica is prophesied to poison probably doesn't actually deserve to survive anyway), but I'm mostly just reveling in the fact that it keeps surprising me, so that's good news.
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That's bizarre, given that they'd already done one of those with Whispers of Dawn. It's as though they're trying to make this an old-style OAV series, with a new part emerging every few months, which would be okay if they'd just say so. The unwillingness to commit to any kind of date, even if it's next year, is frustrating.
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Man haven't watch anime for a while now. Currently watching Shang Gri La frontier s2, that cat isekai? and the old man ojousama isekai. I still have apothecary Diaries s2 yet to watch will soon.
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Maidnight Ravers
Yeah...that checks out.