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Yuukoku no Moriarty

During the late 19th century, Great Britain has become the greatest empire the world has ever known. Hidden within its success, the nation's rigid economic hierarchy dictates the value of one's life solely on status and wealth. To no surprise, the system favors the aristocracy at the top and...

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A friend has been incessantly bugging me to watch this... so here I go.

I started watching this 2 days ago. Feels like a more believable Death Note. For that reason, the first season for me is very good. Unfortunately, I read that they skipped a lot of story / side character development from the manga in both seasons.

 

[GateofD]

Japan really loves Moriarty..

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

This Christmas season I have read:

Bloom into you
Citrus
Citrus+ *
How I lose bets to my sadistic gifted childhood friend and she steals all my firsts *
I married my best friend to shut my parents up

The * are still ongoing so for now I'm up to date rather than finished.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

New Oku manga dropped.

 

[PonyStation4]

Juujika no Rokunin is now completed with chapter 232. The entire manga was an emotional roller coaster of making me angry or sad. Not one of the best I've read, but probably the most memorable

https://myanimelist.net/manga/125076/Juujika_no_Rokunin

 

[silentstorm]

KyotoAni announced new anime adaptation for RuriDragon:

So, after Kobayashi Maid Dragon, they go back to dragon girls, though this one is way more in the lines of "Stuff you can show to non-anime fans that absolutely hate fanservice and old characters that look young! category.

The setting is more of a Masquerade one of sorts, there is the supernatural like dragons, but they all stick to themselves and avoid humans to a point where most humans don't even know dragons exist, and then Ruri, a young lazy girl with only one friend who can't be bothered to learn the names of her classmates or really care about interacting with more than one person suddenly grows horns one day and learns her father who she has never seen in all her life is a dragon.

She has to now grow as a half-human half-dragon hybrid as she develops some powers like spewing fire, adapting to that alongside the people in her school.

There are more serious chapters and moments, but it's not a dark sad slice of life series, and like i said, not one with fanservice, or anyone with impossible proportions, or wearing maid outfits, unless the anime adaptation changes a lot, which i doubt from Kyoto Animation, like i said, this will be just a nice fun slice of life series that should be one of those series that non anime fans can stand.

Also, i think this it the first time Kyoto Animation makes an anime adaptation of a Shonen Jump series.

 

[The_hunter]

KyotoAni announced new anime adaptation for RuriDragon:

So, after Kobayashi Maid Dragon, they go back to dragon girls, though this one is way more in the lines of "Stuff you can show to non-anime fans that absolutely hate fanservice and old characters that look young! category.

The setting is more of a Masquerade one of sorts, there is the supernatural like dragons, but they all stick to themselves and avoid humans to a point where most humans don't even know dragons exist, and then Ruri, a young lazy girl with only one friend who can't be bothered to learn the names of her classmates or really care about interacting with more than one person suddenly grows horns one day and learns her father who she has never seen in all her life is a dragon.

She has to now grow as a half-human half-dragon hybrid as she develops some powers like spewing fire, adapting to that alongside the people in her school.

There are more serious chapters and moments, but it's not a dark sad slice of life series, and like i said, not one with fanservice, or anyone with impossible proportions, or wearing maid outfits, unless the anime adaptation changes a lot, which i doubt from Kyoto Animation, like i said, this will be just a nice fun slice of life series that should be one of those series that non anime fans can stand.

Also, i think this it the first time Kyoto Animation makes an anime adaptation of a Shonen Jump series.

That's an awesome fit for KyoAni, I will definitely watch it.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I just started reading Hunter X Hunter and I'm already 26 Chapters into this manga. It is fantastic so far

 

[Sand Dan Glokta]

I started watching this 2 days ago. Feels like a more believable Death Note. For that reason, the first season for me is very good. Unfortunately, I read that they skipped a lot of story / side character development from the manga in both seasons.

Finished watching it. It was fine. Nothing spectacular though.

 

[silentstorm]

Got into Dream Jumbo Girl

No anime yet, it's from the same guy behind Aho Girl, one of those series where the main claim was that the main character guy would also hit women and the titular girl was just stupid and obnoxious as fuck.

This time it's a Yuri manga following a duo of girls, one who spent her entire life studying to go to Tokyo University and get a great job and life, a smart dedicated worker...and her dumb kinda obnoxious friend who at least is way better than the one from Aho Girl and is actually revealed to be talented in some stuff and learns her lessons in less than 30 chapters...even if the road to learning the lessons makes you wish the smart girl was like the guy from Aho Girl and that she would slap, punch and suplex the other at points.

Anyways, dumb girl spends her money on lottery tickets...and actually wins the 1st prize and wants to split or give the money to her best friend, and sadly, the main character is smart...but gets really stressed and thinking about stupid stuff at times so at the time of the final exams she starts thinking so much about what to do with the money, how to invest it, how to better keep it safe and grow it...that she goes to the exams so exhausted she passes out, sleeps and writes nothing, so her dreams of college are dashed forever...because apparently you can't just retake exams in Japan or try again next year, and no one cares that a student that had amazing grades all her life just failed at this exam due to absolutely clear exhaustion, seriously, everyone treats it as no more college forever and it just feels a bit extreme.

Anyways, the series becomes about the girls now living together and while they aren't dating...oh boy, it's clear there are yuri tones here, the dumb girl is absolutely in love with the other, and also now them trying to invest their money, try to make a business...and try to avoid spending money on dumb expensive shit because while lottery money is a lot, it's not infinite, sadly, like i said, one girl is just dumb...and this is a dumb girl from the guy who wrote Aho Girl, so keeping the money around is harder than it should be.

...Not that the main character is perfect either, she is usually great at avoiding spending money, and only wanting to invest and work, but unlike the main guy from Aho Girl, being years around someone extremely dumb didn't erase her sense of empathy so she is liable to give a lot of money to charitable cases...which somehow leads to more girls being into her, at this point she has a full blown harem including an adult woman who wants to be her gold digger lover...seriously, she calls herself a gold digger who promises she won't work unless it's sleeping with her since she has money...i guess she is at least honest about it?

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

Just finished reading A Room For Two and really enjoyed it. It's a gentle slice of life that follows 2 girls that meet for the first time when they're paired up as room mates when they start at a boarding highschool. Over the course of the manga they graduate highschool, move on to college together, and finally start working at the same company, all while moving from apartment to apartment together. There's not really any drama, no love triangles, no will they won't they, no cold feet/reconciling, just the girls and their daily lives. My only complaint would be that it ends a couple of chapters(or a couple of hundred for my tastes) or so too soon as, while their relationship hasn't really changed since the first time they met, they never really take that final step to cement it. Kasumi seems to be thinking about their relationship and, while she's sure she'll spend the rest of her life with Sakurako, she wonders how they should define it as they aren't even officially dating. There's a couple of parts where one or the other is talking to a friend and they think about what the other means to them and how they see the relationship but they don't act on it. Even just a few more panels showing them in a jewellery shop buying each other rings would have been good enough for me.

10/10, one of my favourite reads as far as manga goes.

 

[The_hunter]

Historie is getting an anime. Manga about ancient Greece

 

[coinhook]

Historie is getting an anime. Manga about ancient Greece

Probably a short 13 episode intro series to attract more manga readers.

 

[LuchaGirl]

KyotoAni announced new anime adaptation for RuriDragon:

Kyoani + Dragons =

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Historie is getting an anime. Manga about ancient Greece

Fucking hell I read this when I was like 17/18 and never went back to it once I caught up. Insane it's getting an anime now.

It's about Alexander the Great's secretary and General. Might have to re-read it and read all the chapters I never did since.

Watched 100 Meters and finished Gachiakuta today. 100 Meters was pretty good, I own all of Orb but still haven't read it.

 

[GateofD]

new anime season of the year.

starting off with Yuusha Party ep1 which is another guy gets kicked out of party but is actually OP setting. A ton of them lately in the past year. A Jack of All Trades guy. I don't know, I would love to be a jack of all trades. Sounds useful

and also Majutsushi Kunon, which is a water magician story, but he's blind. Not sure if I keep up with it though, I read a bit the manga, but it cops out really early. He's blind, so its like oh maybe that be interesting, but he just uses magic to let him see anyway...so what's the point

 

[SJRB]

This is a banger. Incredible animation too, movie quality production.

 

[GateofD]

How edgy is it

 

[Alexios]

I recently watched Lazarus (by the Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo/etc. director), it was pretty good and only a single 13 episode season. Apparently they'll only ever make another if they feel they can top the finished story and otherwise it's done, that's cool (or sad).

I can only deduce the folks hating it are nuts who don't know anything about anything, it's Stand Alone Complex tier stuff, deliberate, inventive, depressing and wholesome.

For more tropey and ongoing action based/edgy stuff, Chainsaw Man and Kaiju No. 8 are great.

For oldies I'm watching City Hunter. Rad.

 

[silentstorm]

So, i was thinking, as a guy who reads a lot of manga, i noticed there wasn't a lot of Shonen Jump manga from 2025 that i could remember, so i checked on Wikipedia what came out and holy shit, 2025 must be their worst year ever, the biggest hit is maybe Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo, but that is a sequel to a popular series and a limited series that won't last for a 100 chapters.

Everything else flopped and is already over or the last few chapters indicate it's going to be over pretty soon like Otr or Harukaze Mound, which i don't think will get anime adaptations ever, last series is a kinda generic Demon Lord is actually not that bad and he and the heroine decide to live together kind of deal which...seems meh in terms of reception.

What the hell, it's a really big magazine, they get a ton of artists just begging to join their magazine, how the hell did they only pick series that lasted less than one year and the one big hit being a sequel to an already popular series!?

...Okay, there is one exception:

A slice of life manga about two kids who really like a comedy radio show and send jokes to it which...against all odds, is doing really damn well in Japan, like, absolutely a certain hit, in a matter of weeks, the kind of manga that got reception indicating a very bright future unless things change, the kind of manga that Shueisha will make an anime adaptation of, though less big in the west and in some parts, not talked about as much due to the fact that series only really blow up mainstream wise when they get an anime.

But kinda odd that Shonen Jump of all magazines, spent a whole year where only one Jujutsu Kaisen series and one single series about kids listening to the radio are hits that will get an anime adaptation...i mean, there are no news about Someone Hertz having one, but considering what i have read about how popular it's being in Japan, it seems all but certain, i guess at least they made one absolute hit of a series in 2025 that isn't JJK related.

 

[The_hunter]

So, i was thinking, as a guy who reads a lot of manga, i noticed there wasn't a lot of Shonen Jump manga from 2025 that i could remember, so i checked on Wikipedia what came out and holy shit, 2025 must be their worst year ever, the biggest hit is maybe Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo, but that is a sequel to a popular series and a limited series that won't last for a 100 chapters.

Everything else flopped and is already over or the last few chapters indicate it's going to be over pretty soon like Otr or Harukaze Mound, which i don't think will get anime adaptations ever, last series is a kinda generic Demon Lord is actually not that bad and he and the heroine decide to live together kind of deal which...seems meh in terms of reception.

What the hell, it's a really big magazine, they get a ton of artists just begging to join their magazine, how the hell did they only pick series that lasted less than one year and the one big hit being a sequel to an already popular series!?

...Okay, there is one exception:

A slice of life manga about two kids who really like a comedy radio show and send jokes to it which...against all odds, is doing really damn well in Japan, like, absolutely a certain hit, in a matter of weeks, the kind of manga that got reception indicating a very bright future unless things change, the kind of manga that Shueisha will make an anime adaptation of, though less big in the west and in some parts, not talked about as much due to the fact that series only really blow up mainstream wise when they get an anime.

But kinda odd that Shonen Jump of all magazines, spent a whole year where only one Jujutsu Kaisen series and one single series about kids listening to the radio are hits that will get an anime adaptation...i mean, there are no news about Someone Hertz having one, but considering what i have read about how popular it's being in Japan, it seems all but certain, i guess at least they made one absolute hit of a series in 2025 that isn't JJK related.

Ichi the witch is popular in jump at the moment

 

[silentstorm]

Ichi the witch is popular in jump at the moment

Yep, it started in 2024 though, i meant that, of series startednin 2025, all but a JJK sequel and one slice of life series flopped, almost all of them have been cancelled already or recent chapters are speedrunning things to a clear ending already.

So, it was a bad year where they were kept going by older series, one sequel that was almost certain would always be a hit...and only one clear hit that was genuinely new.

Not the best year for Shonen Jump when it comes to putting new series on the magazine.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Arknights
1. Predude to Dawn
2. Perish in Frost
3. Rise from Ember

The 3 seasons of the Arknights anime adapt the first major story arc of the game, Act 1, commonly referred to as the "Reunion Arc". For those who don't know, Arknights is a tower defense mobile game created by Shanghai-based studio Hypergryph. The founders of Hypergryph are mostly people who left Mica Team, the creators of the mobile game Girls' Frontline

What's notable about Arknights (and Girls' Frontline) are the extremely dense stories, extensive worldbuilding, vast lore and history, and on a fundamental level the extremely serious storylines which are unusual for mobile games. If you're used to Hoyoslop games, you'll probably be taken aback by just how much effort and passion has gone into the world of Arknights, and to the extent it was possible, the animation team that made this show have tried to adapt as best they could the game's story to anime

The anime is presented in an unusual 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratio, and if you're watching the Blu-rays you also get a 5.1 surround mix for the sound. The animation is very good in this show, reflecting the presumably unlimited budget that Yostar, the Shanghai-based publisher of multiple mobile games including Arknights and Blue Archive, gave to their internal animation studio Yostar Pictures. The script was written under the supervision of Hypergryph and while pacing in animes is often kind of unpredictable and this show in its third season jumps to light speed to cover all the material in Act 1 and actually manages to, though pacing is so breathless in some episodes that anime-only watchers will need to literally read the Arknights Wiki to understand what just happened

What I'm saying is this anime is mostly intended for people who've played Arknights and that's perfectly fine. The story itself stands alone even if you don't know who half the people are or their motivations, because it's that good a story, but having prior knowledge of what's happening helps a lot. It's about as unfriendly to anime-only watchers as Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia for people who have seen that one

If you're willing to go in with an open mind, you'll find this is a surprisingly fantastic adaptation of the game story despite some poor pacing and warp speed rushing to cover the material. The animation is great and does justice to the world Hypergryph created. Just don't expect everything to be happy and shiny because Arknights is about love and peace suffering and despair and the ruined world it's set in is about as bleak as possible without straight up being Warhammer 40k

Final Rating: 9/10

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

The guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all.

Pretty good manga about a girl that has a crush on the guy that works in the local music shop, only the guy is actually the plain girl with glasses from her class.

Bocchi the rock.

Got pretty much up to date with this, now I'm hankering after season 2 of the anime.

Can't defy the lonely girl.

A girl is promised a recommendation letter to college as long as she can get her classmate to go to school. Her classmate finds out and threatens to grass her up unless she agrees to one request a day.

Akuma no riddle.

A secret Black Class in a school, 13 of the students are assassins and the last student, Haru, is the target. Luckily for Haru, her room mate Tokaku switches sides and becomes a protector.

 

[GateofD]

well damn.
first anime of the season for me to go "well damn" at the end of ep1
'Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table'

I'm kind of sour on the death game series in anime, since they're kind of slop and people act so stupid in them. But this anime has good style. and has a good air of mystery to everything.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

60 Chapters into Hunter X Hunter and Nen has to be one of my favorite power systems in shounen

 

[GateofD]

Nen, spirit/demon energy, ninja stuff. Guy a master of shonen systems