What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! is such a cute show. I am enjoying it.

[Seto Kaiba]

A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace has finally had an episode that supports the idea that it's a comedy, and it ain't bad.  Kinda makes you wonder why they spent the first two depicting the main character in abject misery the entire time.

A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai is still pretty darn generic to the point of being not really worth watching.  It did, however, finally do something reasonably novel.

My Awkward Senpai is finally attempting to do romance, though not well.  The comedy aspect is still missing.

 

[Scyla]

May I ask for one final Thing? had an awkward turn in the latest episode: 

Spoiler

In episode 4 we learn that we are actually in an Isekai story where the antagonist girl who got our heroine’s arranged engagement broken up is a goddess that came from another world.

I don’t know how I feel about it as I was enjoying the show this far without any Isekai elements. I guess all powerful goddesses need to come from somewhere. 

And I wasn’t expecting that.

Edited Friday at 08:26 AM by Scyla

[Duke Togo]

Out of the four shows I was watching this summer, I've dumped two. Done with Kaiju No.8 after two seasons. It just wasn't the show I thought it was going to be when I was first watching it. Also, I stopped watching Gachiakatu after 15 episodes. I hated the art style and the story wasn't going anywhere.

I'm still on board with Dan Da Dan and Clevatess. DDD really turned itself around after a slog of a start to the second season.

I think the new season of Ranma 1/2 just dropped on Netflix. So, need to watch that. Not sure what else I'd watch right now. I have trouble finding stuff that appeals to me in modern anime.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Duke Togo said:

I have trouble finding stuff that appeals to me in modern anime.

Yeah, the modern stuff is mostly trash. I miss being excited for anime, but I’m oddly finding more excitement for American animation these days. Can’t wait for more Invincible and curious if Black Knight gets a full series cause that teaser was awesome.

But I do feel curious about the upcoming Macross show, although I really know nothing about it

[Seto Kaiba]

31 minutes ago, Big s said:

Yeah, the modern stuff is mostly trash. I miss being excited for anime, but I’m oddly finding more excitement for American animation these days. Can’t wait for more Invincible and curious if Black Knight gets a full series cause that teaser was awesome.

To be fair, it was mostly trash back in the day too the same as American animation. 

What changed for Western audiences is simply that we are getting more of it and we are getting it faster. Back in the day, we were getting carefully curated collections of only the most popular and successful shows because they were going direct to video and it took like a year or more for them to come out in the west. Distributors weren't willing to risk it all for mediocre or bad shows with their razor thin margins, which is why so many older shows never got licensed at all.

Nowadays, streaming is giving us so much broader cross-section of what's available in anime and we're getting it within a few days of it coming out in Japan thanks to anime having adopted the simulcast model for streaming. We get a lot more variety, but as an inevitable result of that we get more of the mediocre to awful stuff that that has always been there that licensees of the past would previously have just ignored.

Even back in the '80s, for every Macross or Gundam the Mecha anime trend turned out there were probably half a dozen copycat shows that were borderline unwatchable like Southern Cross.

 

31 minutes ago, Big s said:

But I do feel curious about the upcoming Macross show, although I really know nothing about it

We'll get more information in time.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Even back in the '80s, for every Macross or Gundam the Mecha anime trend turned out there were probably half a dozen copycat shows that were borderline unwatchable like Southern Cross.

 

I’ll take Southern Cross easily over all this Tronime.

[Duke Togo]

I feel like I've been waiting for 15 years for the next Haruhi or Gurren Lagann, and it just hasn't come.

[Seto Kaiba]

35 minutes ago, Big s said:

I’ll take Southern Cross easily over all this Tronime.

That's just showing your age, bro. 😆 "The slop was so much better when I was a young'un, even if we did have to walk uphill both ways in the snow to school!"

The only thing separating it from the creatively bankrupt copycat isekai slop currently dominating the airwaves is its genre.

 

12 minutes ago, Duke Togo said:

I feel like I've been waiting for 15 years for the next Haruhi or Gurren Lagann, and it just hasn't come.

There's a lot of good stuff out there, it's just a matter of your individual tastes and having the patience to try shows until you find a winner.

There's a lot of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's DNA in Dan Da Dan IMO, though I usually hear the Monogatari series referenced as the closest thing to it in terms of its genre-bending.  I think their most recent title was a bit over a year ago?

[Seto Kaiba]

Had a good time with the latest Pass the Monster Meat, Milady.

Spoiler

It's very cute, but there's also some interesting stuff going on under the surface of the romance comedy when it comes to Marie's hobby being a continuation of her mother's research into processing monster meat for the sake of food security and her bad reputation being something her father cultivated to protect her from religious persecution as eating monster meat is a taboo to some faiths in the kingdom.

 

Mechanical Marie's new episode this week is pretty fun too, though in more of a cute-and-harmless sort of way.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

Mugen Gacha is actually good. Today's episode was interesting.   Gold and Nemumu are funny.  One thing bothered me is why when Nemumu kissed light's foot it was bare. But in the Light Novel he had a sock on. Why change it.

[Big s]

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

The only thing separating it from the creatively bankrupt copycat isekai slop currently dominating the airwaves is its genre.

 

I think it actually looked far better animation wise. The hand drawn look always appears better than the simplified cg almost AI look of the majority of modern anime 

[Seto Kaiba]

Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota is cute, but doesn't really seem to be going anywhere story-wise... which is a bit disappointing.

The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess feels like it's determined to take at least one shot at every overused otome character trope and plot device.  It's a bit predictable in that regard, though it definitely lands (mostly) in affectionate parody territory.  

[pengbuzz]

Going to be taking a look at May I Ask for One Final Thing? 

https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GW4HM7WQ5/may-i-ask-for-one-final-thing?srsltid=AfmBOorFGrSeWqs_grsG6MRShgOGdT340dPlESdqAv9RYyo07sEs9sRg

Looks to be at least moderately interesting, although with the premise, I suspect it'll get stale pretty fast.

[Seto Kaiba]

Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota remains cute but directionless in its fifth episode.

It has exactly one joke, and that is a deadpan reaction followed by serial escalation.

Spoiler

Given that Oota's attempts to get a reaction out of Kashiwada have already escalated to the point that he seems to almost entirely miss that he not only asked her out but took her on a day-long date I almost want to say the only acceptable ending is him getting at least all the way to the altar at the wedding before realizing he's been had.  

 

My Friend's Little Sister Has It In For Me has hit almost white noise levels of unremarkable.

Spoiler

Honestly, the only thing remarkable about this series is how incredibly convenient the protagonist's life is.  He wants to be a game developer, and his best/only friend who lives next door is a self-taught genius programmer with a younger sister who is a self-taught genius voice actress.  His homeroom teacher conveniently is a highly proficient digital artist, and the girl his future boss wants him to be fake-boyfriend to just transferred to his school and is secretly the award-winning light novel author who also writes all of his game scenarios for him.  They all conveniently live in adjacent apartments on the same floor in the same apartment building.