Manga

I’ve been reading Full Metal Panic: Sigma, while watching The Second Raid alongside it. It’s interesting, considering it has some differences from the anime. Some for good, others for worse. I prefer the Anime, but the Manga is good too.

The other two manga I’ve been following, The Lies of Sheriff Evans: Dead or Love and Shibuya Near Family are both still fun.

Anime:

I’ve recently watched Gundam 00 - I wrote more about that here.

Tokimeki Tonight is still a fun show when it comes to the wacky comedy and artsy backgrounds.

Ranma 1/2 (1989) - Rumiko Takahashi’s writing is consistently entertaining, and over a dozen episodes in, it keeps delivering. Will the show be able to keep up? I hope so!

Another entertaining show is You’re Under Arrest!. Is it copaganda? Yes. Has a certain aspect of the show aged poorly? Also yes. What the show excels in, are the villains of the week. Strike Man will be living in my head rent free for a bit, I suppose.

Dragon Ball Z is peak, over 60 episodes in.

**Western Animation & Live Action **

I’m still watching Gravity Falls, and it’s good, if formulaic. Apparently people dislike Mabel and like Dipper? Because so far it’s the exact opposite for me lol.

Also, I started Andor. I like it so far, but it’s clearly still cooking at this stage.

  • WizardOfLoneliness [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netBannedEnglish
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    1 month ago

    To Be Hero X: this one is amazing. It’s the first mostly-CGI anime I’ve ever looked at and thought “this actually looks pretty good and genuinely does not detract from its quality at all,” and it cuts away to absolutely gorgeous traditional artwork when it matters which it stylizes wonderfully in a way that’s just visually stunning. The soundtrack is also phenomenal, as expected of Hiroyuki Sawano. Even the writing seems pretty decent, kind of like BNHA with better themes and worldbuilding and conveys a much stronger message of “everything about the world in this setting sucks and is toxic, actually, and we’re going to show you exactly why it is bad and actively hurts everyone involved repeatedly and clearly” than BNHA is ever willing to do. Strongly recommend, absolutely top tier so far.

    and if you think about it the way powers work in this world means that if Joseph Stalin existed he probably canonically actually was The Man of Steel

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 month ago

      he probably canonically actually was The Man of Steel

      But in a fucked up, overly literal way that meant he had a very good reason for trying to resign repeatedly.