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[Andrew J.]

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu 03

I might have liked more elaboration on what happened with Hatsutaro and the master in Manchuria during the war, but it probably wasn't strictly necessary. Show did a good job of making me feel Kikuhiko's loneliness, and when he was happy to see them finally return I was happy too.

 

[MikeHattsu]

But that already happened!

http://i.imgur.com/7QQf47e.png

How bout a crossover then

 

[names2hard4you]

http://blog-imgs-102.fc2.com/y/a/r/yarakan/C7ur4W0VMAU3_Sw.jpg

Fucking lmao. Tales of Zesty Axe isn't ending this Sunday. There's a 25th episode which they can't air because they ran out of slots. So... the series will end on April 29 instead, as a special broadcast.

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FUCKING HELL.

Seiren - 12

Overall this show wasn't very good. Did not live up to Amagami nor did it do anything particularly well. First 2 arcs were trash, 3rd one was generic but was actually the best of the 3. It was still a nice weekly comfort food watch, but those first 2 arcs were pretty bad.

 

[John Blade]

Man...that book have something powerful as it manage to get a boy to go nuts with Margaret. Also, found out a bit more of Margaret and her backstory of her past. Kinda sad she didn`t remember anything of what happen to her from the incident. Knowing Elenore who will protect her is interesting to see as she is very caring for her.

 

[Jarmel]

Now that I think about it, that totally explains everything.

I haven't finished the season but yea it totally does.

 

[PdotMichael]

It's crazy how two bad episodes (EP16&17) killed all ambitions to finish the series. But wow, the Hibiki was maybe the worst thing I have seen in the past years. Makes me wonder if I should dig into the old anime thread for some impressions back in the days.

But I must finish the show for Chihaya.

 

[MikeHattsu]

It's crazy how two bad episodes (EP16&17) killed all ambitions to finish the series. But wow, the Hibiki was maybe the worst thing I have seen in the past years. Makes me wonder if I should dig into the old anime thread for some impressions back in the days.

But I must finish the show for Chihaya.

Disliking Hibiki, smh.

Oh, and the worst episode is later on ;P

 

[PdotMichael]

I think the biggest letdown of the Idolmaster anime is how bad most of the songs are. Most of the insert songs don't even reach the barrel of the LL songs like After school Navigators. But I guess that's the difference between an arcade game and a from the go planned as multiformat media franchise.

 

[dickroach]

Any suggestions for a good <15 episode series on crunchyroll? everything I'm getting into/want to get into is a million episodes. I just want a nice little bite size show to breeze through in a few days

 

[John Blade]

Any suggestions for a good <15 episode series on crunchyroll? everything I'm getting into/want to get into is a million episodes. I just want a nice little bite size show to breeze through in a few days

Genre might be something we can start with.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Fate/Zero 18

Wow when did Angel from King of Fighters learn how to use a gun

 

[phaze]

Any suggestions for a good <15 episode series on crunchyroll? everything I'm getting into/want to get into is a million episodes. I just want a nice little bite size show to breeze through in a few days

Mononoke
Kyousougiga
House of Five Leaves
Madoka Magica if you are okay with magical girls and all that entails.

 

[dickroach]

Genre might be something we can start with.

doesn't matter, fine with slice of life, fine with some weird dark grimey battles, or anything in between

edit: mononoke looks sweet. thanks

 

[Qurupeke]

Any suggestions for a good <15 episode series on crunchyroll? everything I'm getting into/want to get into is a million episodes. I just want a nice little bite size show to breeze through in a few days

Ping Pong The Animation
Madoka Magica
Mob Psycho 100

 

[GoldCrusader]

Any suggestions for a good <15 episode series on crunchyroll? everything I'm getting into/want to get into is a million episodes. I just want a nice little bite size show to breeze through in a few days

My Hero Academia

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Any suggestions for a good <15 episode series on crunchyroll? everything I'm getting into/want to get into is a million episodes. I just want a nice little bite size show to breeze through in a few days

Ping Pong
Mob Psycho 100
Mononoke
Thunderbolt Fantasy
The Flowers of Evil
Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou
Humanity Has Declined

 

[Erigu]

[Sh&#333;wa Genroku Rakugo Shinj&#363;]

Just one scene that completely ruins how I think of the main character.

Spoiler

even if you ignore the obvious raised her as a kid and is basically adopted father/daughter shit the fucked up state of mind konatsu seemed to be in alone makes what he did super gross.

Still, for perspective:

Spoiler

Matsuda did 90% of the raising, it seems it was Konatsu's initiative, and she was in her late 20s / early 30s at the time

.

 

[Taruranto]

I like that Kiku

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didn't want to make Konatsu his apprentice or even help her break into the Rakugo World (Which caused her to have Shin, because she couldn't carry on her father's Rakugo), but apparent he was OK sleeping with her.

 

[John Blade]

Look like it`s getting interesting now, as we start to found out a bit of the picture book and how important it`s to the point people are getting kill for it. Also, it might be the point where the story will start to move from the slow pace early in this show. Hope it will get interesting.

 

[Cornbread78]

Any suggestions for a good <15 episode series on crunchyroll? everything I'm getting into/want to get into is a million episodes. I just want a nice little bite size show to breeze through in a few days

Barakamon
Anohana
Plastic Memories
Usagi Drop
Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon
Erased
Orange
Alderamin of the Sky
91 Days
Campione!
Angel Beats
Kiznaiver
New Game


*runs back to shopping*

 

[Tye The Czar]

Out of the blue perhaps but I've been seeing a lot of Kanna artwork and gifs from Maid Dragon lately, mostly things that show her as a cute innocent child analogous to Renge-chan from Non Non Biyori. The show's attempts in portraying that side of her are very neat at times but I really feel it's not really as compelling as it's supposed to be. During the first couple of episodes we see her go head to head against Tohru even if playfully, it was bloody intense and later on, she manages to outwit Saikawa by crying when she attempts to bully her - these moments(particularly the latter) give the impression that she can handle herself quite well and when she's suddenly shown as a helpless little child, I just can't buy it. Has anyone else felt the same?

I try to brush most of its logical fouls as part of the comedy and the source material. I find Kanna just fantastic because of how convincingly her character acting and voice acting are at making her the cutest, most adorable little sweetheart.

But honestly, I find Renge to be a far more well-rounded and unique character. She may not be as oh-my-god-my-heart-can't-take-this-cuteness as Kanna, but personality-wise, she wins hands-down.

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KyoAni would make the already excellent Non Non Biyori a legend and they should also adapt Yotsubato already.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

[Sh&#333;wa Genroku Rakugo Shinj&#363;]

Still, for perspective:

Spoiler

Matsuda did 90% of the raising, it seems it was Konatsu's initiative, and she was in her late 20s / early 30s at the time

.

So

Spoiler

when Yakumo tells Konatsu "I was too busy raising you to die," are we meant to believe that he was lying?

 

[duckroll]

For those interested you get for the Kid Icarus 5th anniversary the 3 anime made by I.G, Studio 4c and Shaft for 100 platinum point each on the My Nintendo reward.

https://my.nintendo.com/news/a9dfef48c058d5c5

Too bad it's only 3DS. HD on Switch and I would grab it instantly.

 

[PdotMichael]

Only the Shaft one is worth money. The rest is hot garbage.

 

[Grexeno]

KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! 2 09-10 END

I've finally got back to anime after I fell in a Zelda hole.

The face game was on fucking point. I don't know what it was about this season but I enjoyed it a lot more than the first.

 

[Valdfellgar]

So

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when Yakumo tells Konatsu "I was too busy raising you to die," are we meant to believe that he was lying?

Well, you could probably read it as

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him having a deluded interpretation of her childhood where he felt he did more than he really did. If you believe Matsuda did indeed do all the work. So not a lie but a skewed perspective.

 

[PdotMichael]

EP18 was again a better Idolmaster episode. And the next one is a Takane episode so that's mostlikely either the best episode or the worst one in the series.

 

[Turin Turambar]

[Sh&#333;wa Genroku Rakugo Shinj&#363;]

Still, for perspective:

Spoiler

Matsuda did 90% of the raising, it seems it was Konatsu's initiative, and she was in her late 20s / early 30s at the time

.

For me the problem more than the

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sex

it's how the reason seems to be, if you read between lines,

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Konatsu wanting to have a heir for Rakugo, for Sukeroku'sake, that way his lineage won't die, and Yakumo's sake too, so that way Yakumo couldn't take Rakugo to the tomb with him and the art could continue, though decades later she reflects and admit she surely had some romantic feeling she didn't know at the time.
But the entire concept of having a baby to keep 'lineages', or to save Rakugo is so unreal, so old-fasioned... and what if the 'heir' doesn't... *gasp!* like Rakugo. and you don't need Yakumo's son for that, his adn doesn't have magical properties for Rakugism, you could have made the same with any other young man if you wanted to keep the art.
It's a way of thinking that is more suited to a medieval historical melodrama than real people in the twentieth century. So it's a bit jarring, because otherwise you could believe the characters as real persons.
So in the end it's a twisted melodrama point that would be perfectly in place in a Rakugo story. In that regard it reminds me of the whole double suicide deal at the end of first season.

But even then, I was re-playing again parts of the episode before writing this, and it's truly a beautiful end episode for a beautiful series. What a good goodbye.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

I like that Kiku

Spoiler

didn't want to make Konatsu his apprentice or even help her break into the Rakugo World (Which caused her to have Shin, because she couldn't carry on her father's Rakugo), but apparent he was OK sleeping with her.

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"Will you teach me rakugo?"
"No. Also I want rakugo to die with me."
"Then will you let me have your baby so he can carry on the spirit and blood of your and Sukeroku's rakugo?"
"Sure, no problem."

Well, you could probably read it as

Spoiler

him having a deluded interpretation of her childhood where he felt he did more than he really did. If you believe Matsuda did indeed do all the work. So not a lie but a skewed perspective.

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Then we're supposed to assume that Konatsu also shares the same deluded interpretation when she says she caused so much suffering for him by forcing him to take her in? If we assume that Yakumo was actually absent for the entirety of Konatsu's childhood, it makes their reconciliation in episode 10, and indeed most of the scenes they share together, feel rather hallow.

 

[Valdfellgar]

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Then we're supposed to assume that Konatsu also shares the same deluded interpretation when she says she caused so much suffering for him by forcing him to take her in? If we assume that Yakumo was actually absent for the entirety of Konatsu's childhood, it makes their reconciliation in episode 10, and indeed most of the scenes they share together, feel rather hallow.

Spoiler

I didn't say absent. I simply said it would be possible to believe that Yakumo has an inflated sense of how much effort he put in. Even so, Yakumo taking her in, putting a roof over her head, and such could still be considered hugely important, even if the day to day fell to Matsuda most of the time.

I personally don't think we know enough, but I could understand someone like, Erigu, seeing it like that. I mean,

Spoiler

Yakumo is a busy guy, and has Matsuda around for a reason. He doesn't have time to make all the PB and Js she'd need for lunch at school.

 

[PshycoNinja]

Barakamon
Anohana
Plastic Memories
Usagi Drop
Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon
Erased
Orange
Alderamin of the Sky
91 Days
Campione!
Angel Beats
Kiznaiver
New Game


*runs back to shopping*

Good man.

 

[kewlmyc]

http://blog-imgs-102.fc2.com/y/a/r/yarakan/C7ur4W0VMAU3_Sw.jpg

Fucking lmao. Tales of Zesty Axe isn't ending this Sunday. There's a 25th episode which they can't air because they ran out of slots. So... the series will end on April 29 instead, as a special broadcast.

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Haven't been watching, but is it true that the pacing is all over the place? If so, they might need that last episode.

Regardless, I don't mind. Gives me time to watch the whole series. Plus it's not strictly a ufotable thing. Code Geass also did this and gave us one of the best S1 cliffhangers by doing so.

 

[GoldCrusader]

Haven't been watching, but is it true that the pacing is all over the place? If so, they might need that last episode.

Regardless, I don't mind. Gives me time to watch the whole series. Plus it's not strictly a ufotable thing. Code Geass also did this and gave us one of the best S1 cliffhangers by doing so.

The pacing is perfectly fine. Ufotable as been doing a great job.

Also one more episode just one month later is no big deal imo and if it stops the show from having a rushed end, then good.

 

[Thud]

Kaiba 1

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Is that you Astroboy?

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Tiger Mask W 24

Awesome episode. The first person shots in particular were super neat.

 

[jonjonaug]

I did it. I watched all of the Rewrite anime. What a trash adaptation.

Final episode: They cut out the part where Kotarou jumps off a building and goes splat, abridged the ED theme, kinda ruined conveying the thematic excellence of the finale completely, had worse voice direction than the VN (which didn't have particularly good voice direction to begin with), and wtf was that saccharine last ten seconds?

Seriously I wanted to see the bit where the protagonist jumps off a god damned skyscraper and just goes *splat* into the ground but they cut out that scene and the scene right after it...but now like the episode doesn't even make any sense? Kotarou just goes from "I gotta find Akane!" to having Akane right in front of him with no explanation of how she got there.

Any suggestions for a good <15 episode series on crunchyroll? everything I'm getting into/want to get into is a million episodes. I just want a nice little bite size show to breeze through in a few days

Madoka Magica

 

[names2hard4you]

Haven't been watching, but is it true that the pacing is all over the place? If so, they might need that last episode.

Haven't seen this criticism anywhere tbh. I think it's fine?

 

[qcf x2]

What ended up worth watching this season? I have a little free time at last. I'm not into sports anime or slice of life...

 

[names2hard4you]

What ended up worth watching this season? I have a little free time at last. I'm not into sports anime or slice of life...

Rakugo S2
Konosuba S2
Scum's Wish

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

What ended up worth watching this season? I have a little free time at last. I'm not into sports anime or slice of life...

Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Scum's Wish
Tiger Mask W
March Comes in Like a Lion

 

[jonjonaug]

What ended up worth watching this season? I have a little free time at last. I'm not into sports anime or slice of life...

Rakugo S2
Little Witch Academia
Kemono Friends (yes, really)
Kobayashi's Maid Dragon
Youjo Senki (kinda trash, but a fun kind of trash and better than it would sound from the description)

 

[Turin Turambar]

Don't ask why, but I was watching some old Ranma 1/2 ovas and films. Nostalgia trip I suppose.
A pair of comments

-Despite the author being a woman, this is really a straight shonen. The MC has a harem of 4 girls interested in him. The typical villain usually kidnaps Akane or another girl and Ranma has to rescue her. And god all the women here are hot as hell, it has a good ration of fanservice for the male audience.
-There is a weird theme with food and cooking going on, I had forgotten about it. It's kind of funny. Some of the haremettes are defined by her cooking (like Ukyo), others work in a restaurant (Shampoo), and some of the bad guys have themes or weapons related with food (like in the first film the bad guy is obsessed with prickled veggies and use sticks to fight.
-Despite being old-fashioned in the gender roles in lots of things, in others it's 'progressive', I liked how Ranma as a teenager male actually isn't inconvenienced, bothered or ashamed of her female self, most of the time he's chilling out, or doing sports or whatever being a girl without a problem.
-Mmm female Ranma maybe was the thing that initiated on me a preference for redheads as a child...

 

[Turin Turambar]

Rakugo S2
Konosuba S2
Scum's Wish

x2

 

[KraytarJ]

What ended up worth watching this season? I have a little free time at last. I'm not into sports anime or slice of life...

In order:
Konosuba S2
Scum's Wish
Rakugo S2
Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Ninja Girl and Samurai Master (a 2-cour short)

 

[Cornbread78]

Kaiba 1
...

Is that you Astroboy?

Kaiba was a pretty fun show, the art style was super unique a it has a good amount of mystery and mindfuck.

 

[MikeHattsu]

EP18 was again a better Idolmaster episode. And the next one is a Takane episode so that's mostlikely either the best episode or the worst one in the series.

Mysterious

 

[GoldCrusader]

What ended up worth watching this season? I have a little free time at last. I'm not into sports anime or slice of life...

Tales of Zestiria
élDLIVE
Twin star exorcist
Gundam Iron blooded orphans
Blue Exorcist
Konosuba

 

[L.O.R.D]

Tiger Mask W 24

holy shit,the animation on this episode was super,i guess they saved all the budget on this episode and for the next episode.

it will be only 25 episodes?

 

[qcf x2]

Thanks for the rec's all, gonna dive in shortly.

 

[SliceSabre]

I did it. I watched all of the Rewrite anime. What a trash adaptation.

Final episode: They cut out the part where Kotarou jumps off a building and goes splat, abridged the ED theme, kinda ruined conveying the thematic excellence of the finale completely, had worse voice direction than the VN (which didn't have particularly good voice direction to begin with), and wtf was that saccharine last ten seconds?

Seriously I wanted to see the bit where the protagonist jumps off a god damned skyscraper and just goes *splat* into the ground but they cut out that scene and the scene right after it...but now like the episode doesn't even make any sense? Kotarou just goes from "I gotta find Akane!" to having Akane right in front of him with no explanation of how she got there.

I've been low-key watching Rewrite this season and man, I did not enjoy these last few episodes. I had the distinct feeling the whole time shit was being skipped or cut out and it didn't help I didn't like the MC, his actions and the ending.

KEY fooled me once again. can't wait till I get fooled by another adaption of their's.