I think it's one of those things where I have zero expectations when it comes to anime, particularly when it comes to representation of women.
It's why I still remember Say I Love You after all this time, because for a brief moment, it showed a girl with stretch marks on her stomach. We just had another shoujo show about a girl who lost an impossible amount of weight, and her body is just treated like a plot device. Now Say I Love You isn't the greatest slice of life romance drama ever made or anything, but in the realm of anime... you really don't have all that many choices.
I'm not saying I need girls to make tampon jokes in every anime, but when I can pretty much count the examples on my fingers it's kind of telling. Add to the fact that anime is not afraid at all about talking about and depicting male bodies (how many nosebleeds have there been in anime? Infinity?), and it just makes those few examples stand out even more.
It is. AniList even lets me display titles in Japanese. I had to compensate for a couple of listing anomalies after the import, but for a list of 600+ entries that's not bad. I prefer the size and location of profile elements to Kitsu's, and it has MAL graph's score distribution as standard.
When I tried Kitsu, I couldn't even find the option for a text-only list, without the poster images bloating each entry. AniList shows the poster off to the side when you hover the title, but not otherwise. Good design.
It is. AniList even lets me display titles in Japanese. I had to compensate for a couple of listing anomalies after the import, but for a list of 600+ entries that's not bad. I prefer the size and location of profile elements to Kitsu's, and it has MAL graph's score distribution as standard.
When I tried Kitsu, I couldn't even find the option for a text-only list, without the poster images bloating each entry. AniList shows the poster off to the side when you hover the title, but not otherwise. Good design.
So I know I'm a bit LTTP since Funimation updated their site and app about a week ago, bt holy shit everything looks like garbage now. The app is a pain to sort through on PS4, and and bunch of things I clicked on didn't even work on the main page.Also why the fuck is the page to pull up my own queue buried in the My Account tab, which itself isn't even labeled as such.
The end of episode kind of marred my impression of it with Harada breakdown that seemed a bit out of nowhere and him falling into the pond just being poorly depicted but whatevs, the somewhat unusual character dynamics warrant a bit more effort put into it.
After watching sports anime centered on Shogi and Baseball, I just might have enough tolerance for dull sports to handle Karuta. lol
The end of episode kind of marred my impression of it with Harada breakdown that seemed a bit out of nowhere and him falling into the pond just being poorly depicted but whatevs, the somewhat unusual character dynamics warrant a bit more effort put into it.
After watching sports anime centered on Shogi and Baseball, I just might have enough tolerance for dull sports to handle Karuta. lol
I'm really enjoying the gags so far and Hikari's face pulling is perfect but I'm finding it a bit awkward how all these schoolgirls are falling for their teacher. Poor succubus-sensei's competition is already ahead of her.
... I'll let myself out.
Gravity Rush 2
The game is great, 10/10, please buy, Kat best girl.
Gundam Tekketsu 40
Iok is going to end up high on the worst Gundam characters list by the end of this season, he is terrible in every field and personal aspect, I need to see Mikazuki literally eviscerate him by the end of the season.
Gotta pour one out for Naze and Amida, they didn't deserve to go out like that and to top it off Gjallahorn has to slaughter many of their unarmed family too.
Not sure how Akihiro and the others' plan was meant to go since they ended up in direct conflict with the Gjallahorn mobile suits, but maybe that tactical information didn't reach Iok in all his tactical brilliance.
The end of episode kind of marred my impression of it with Harada breakdown that seemed a bit out of nowhere and him falling into the pond just being poorly depicted but whatevs, the somewhat unusual character dynamics warrant a bit more effort put into it.
After watching sports anime centered on Shogi and Baseball, I just might have enough tolerance for dull sports to handle Karuta. lol
Gundam Tekketsu 40
Iok is going to end up high on the worst Gundam characters list by the end of this season, he is terrible in every field and personal aspect, I need to see Mikazuki literally eviscerate him by the end of the season.
Gotta pour one out for Naze and Amida, they didn't deserve to go out like that and to top it off Gjallahorn has to slaughter many of their unarmed family too.
Not sure how Akihiro and the others' plan was meant to go since they ended up in direct conflict with the Gjallahorn mobile suits, but maybe that tactical information didn't reach Iok in all his tactical brilliance.
They mention that their excuse is that they are field testing/something along those lines and just moving in to help save the transport vessels. They didn't plan on confronting them but Master Iok's genius plan was to focus attack on transport ships.
Iron Blooded Orphans S2 14-15
Well, fuck.
Did not expect that even though
14th episode had death flag written all over it.
I'm not looking forward to Iok getting killed by anyone but simply him being put to shame by the very people he looks up to.
Oh ? I think a flashback ep with some of that, at the beginning was where I left it off. Not really awful or anything but didn't make want to continue too much. + Karuta is such a bizzare game.
Then again, not like you'd drop a show out of quality concerns
Sensei's monster girl harem ep.3
The show continues to be a lot of fun, but it also continues to dance on that "why anime" line with style and grace; gotta give them probs for not having sensei cross the line or even appear tempted. Well, outside of succubus sensei, but that is the one I'm looking forward to, lol.
I bet Iok felt like a big man blowing up all those fleeing and defenseless women. Guess he's no longer the funny guy. Neither Julietta nor Amida disappoint in their battle.
Naze and Amida were always going to bite it, but they managed to go out swinging. And at least Lafter and Azee made it out. It's hard to say what sort of repercussions this will have on Tekkadan, but I'd hope to imagine even Gjallarhorn would disapprove of what Iok did if word gets out.
I bet Iok felt like a big man blowing up all those fleeing and defenseless women. Guess he's no longer the funny guy. Neither Julietta nor Amida disappoint in their battle.
Naze and Amida were always going to bite it, but they managed to go out swinging. And at least Lafter and Azee made it out. It's hard to say what sort of repercussions this will have on Tekkadan, but I'd hope to imagine even Gjallarhorn would disapprove of what Iok did if word gets out.
I feel like Iok's eventual downfall will be Rustal just giving up on him and possibly even eliminating him because he's become a liability because he's a fucking idiot
The true nature of the story was something I didn't get a grip of until much later. It's essentially about the common pitfalls of talented individuals, Chitose being one of them. She is very relateable in many ways albeit she is a bit of an exaggeration of those aspects.
While she continued to gloat in her obvious conceit, it wasn't until Nanami, a new girl who didn't necessarily have a talent so much as her will to work hard and make it big that Chitose began to see the value of hard work. Well, rather than the value of it the effects of it. It's perhaps because I've related to her a lot but I really liked Chitose, she poured in a lot of the charm of the show, there's no denying that her personality isn't exactly something someone would like. This bold display of a rotten or unsocial personality is something I suppose a Wataru Watari trademark. It's all fun until it becomes a serious hindrance to yourself or the others, at which point, the story tries to breakdown the personality. I find that interesting in general, it can flesh out the character in surprising ways and sometimes offer a fresher perspective towards yourself. The rest of the cast have their own contributions to the show's narrative but these last couple of episodes focused on Chitose.
The anime visually feels very reflective of Chitose's own personality and the narrative itself. Really pretty shots followed by really bland ones for when they don't have anything involving the central characters. Regardless of whether or not it is actually intentional, it's nice to entertain the idea that it is. Is the LN author in the show a surrogate of Wataru? we do find him justifying any problems of production to reassure himself regardless of it being true.
You might have watched some anime today. Or maybe you did something more worthwhile with your life and watched a white man TV series. Or a movie. Or maybe even Taiwanese puppets. You might think it was great. You might have been impressed with how good it seemed.
You are wrong. Whatever you watched, was probably not as good as Incendies.
You might have watched some anime today. Or maybe you did something more worthwhile with your life and watched a white man TV series. Or a movie. Or maybe even Taiwanese puppets. You might think it was great. You might have been impressed with how good it seemed.
You are wrong. Whatever you watched, was probably not as good as Incendies.
That fight scene, that Ufotable A-game animation. Holy crap.
We are not worthy.
Being Alisha is suffering as usual.
at least they didn't kill off that two mob members in the group, the short hair lass and the bow user...for now...kind of enjoyed how they were added to the story
Funimation have there simuldubs, that's there goal. To release an episode dubbed as early as 2 weeks(faster in some cases) after it aired in Japan. So yea it's faster.
I'll probably go with Bungo for the Igarashi connection. I didn't check it out at first because response to it seemed mixed, but if hosanna and Narag vouch for it that's good enough for me.