September 28, 2024
Blast from the past
From a thread on X:
Posted by: Mauser at
03:45 PM
| No Comments
| Add Comment
Post contains 9 words, total size 1 kb.
September 26, 2024
Second season my ass
Feh, just finished two shows in a row that seemed to end early, with their stories halfway finished. And you know how that goes, IF there is a second season, which is almost never guaranteed, it will be years off and you'll have forgotten the series by then. (AnimeChart CAN alert you to a next season, if they haven't renamed it too differently.)
"No Longer Allowed in Another World" crapped out with 5 of the 8 major opponents still kicking, and no clear plan, and this goofy coffin-car that makes it hard to take seriously. Also annoying to me is that with the addition of the kid sidekick, Tama has been demoted to pairing off with him all the time, and made sillier. It was fun at the start, but somehow it lost that. Although it still was good in that each defeated villain went a different way.
"Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells" also ran out of track halfway to the destination. They made it to the dark elf witch who would be able to translate the ancient spells needed to finish off the evil goddess, and that's where it ended. Not a bad looking dark elf witch either, for the whole minute she was on screen. It turned out to be a fairly average example of the genre, and free from the protagonist rules-lawyering his powers into something greater than they were.
While I'm at it.
"Bye Bye Earth" got nowhere except setting up a potential pairing for Belle.
"The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible" was pure Shonen trash, complete with tournament arc and obtaining the first Dragon Ball expy. The dark elf girl was wallpaper.
"My wife has no expressions" ended up kind of trite. With very little in the way of challenges to the relationship, and not a lot of thought or introspection on Takuma's part. Plus way too much of the annoying baby robot.
Ririsa is still going. I stopped watching Suicide Squad halfway though. I pulled down the new Monogatari series and added that to the huge unwatched Monogatari folder. NieR Automata is also stalled. So I can't say how badly any of those ended yet.
Posted by: Mauser at
04:35 PM
| Comments (2)
| Add Comment
Post contains 380 words, total size 2 kb.
September 22, 2024
Fall 2024
As this season slowly grinds to a halt (what with some series ending early, and others running long) I discovered something I should have been watching. That is Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! - "Too Many Losing Heroines". I blame a meme I saw on X of Lemon. I'm going to see how much of it I can power through this weekend. Although I'm not even finished episode 1 at this writing. I have to take it in small doses, but it's funny. Our protagonist is a straight man for a gaggle of girls slowly swirling around him who all seem to be stereotypes of the girls who lose out in romance stories. Just the opening scene lays it out, where he's reading a romance story and witnesses a scene right out of one of those novels involving his classmates.
As for next season....
There are three returning/continuing series. Re:Zero (Which I admit I've fallen way behind on), DanMachi (Likewise) and 2.5-jigen no Ririsa (Which I have not).
Everything else is kind of iffy, largely chosen for a possible cute looking character. That didn't work out too well this past season, as Reanette from "Mid-life Adventuring Crisis" was an absolute cypher who did virtually nothing for the entire show.
Party kara Tsuihou sareta Sono Chiyushi, Jitsu wa Saikyou ni Tsuki - "The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest". Just taking a flyer on this one. I can't remember why I marked it on LiveChart.
Kimi wa Meido-sama - "You are Ms. Servant" This should be silly. Guy gets a talented, yet clumsy maid who was also an assassin.
Sayonara Ryuusei, Konnichiwa Jinsei - "Goodbye, Dragon Life" Guy is a reincarnated dragon, trying to live the simple life in a Fantasy world, when a Lamia girl comes along and gets him to take up adventuring, and drive the demons out of the forest. (The 2nd and 3rd PVs give very different impressions of what's coming up).
Saikyou no Shienshoku "Wajutsushi" de Aru Ore wa Sekai Saikyou Clan wo Shitagaeru - "The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan". Not gonna lie, this looks like shit, but it's got a white haired chick in it. I bet I don't last two episodes. The hero isn't skilled in anything but giving tactical orders to others.
Kabushikigaisha Magi-Lumière - "Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc." This looks nicely absurd. In the present day, there's a huge need for magical girls to fight monsters, with over 500 Magical Girl companies in operation. Our heroine, however, has been striking out at every interview, until a monster attacks while she's at her 16th interview. She helps out, and lands the job at a particularly small agency.
Acro Trip - "Acro Trip" Think "Gushing over Magical Girls" without the kink. A girl who is a big fan of her local magical girl is getting disappointed with her lackluster performance, and ends up joining evil just to challenge her and bring her back up to snuff.
Lemmie know what you think. What are you watching?
Posted by: Mauser at
01:57 AM
| No Comments
| Add Comment
Post contains 512 words, total size 6 kb.
September 17, 2024
Kind of obvious... Bye Bye Earth - Ep. 10
Took ten episodes to deliver on the setup. Belle's sword is Erehwon, and Adonis' new sword is its opposite, Nowhere. And here I was thinking it was a misspelled literary reference to Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Looks like they're steering these two to become some kind of cosmic Yin/Yang.
Hang on, that's the last episode? Seriously?
Posted by: Mauser at
04:41 PM
| No Comments
| Add Comment
Post contains 64 words, total size 1 kb.
September 16, 2024
WT(actual)F?
It's the kitty slippers that really make the scene....
Posted by: Mauser at
12:36 PM
| No Comments
| Add Comment
Post contains 15 words, total size 1 kb.
September 05, 2024
Okay.... Actually, Ok, I kinda like that.
Although I swear, Dark Elves are getting lighter and lighter. It's like they're not getting enough sun....
Posted by: Mauser at
06:27 PM
| Comments (2)
| Add Comment
Post contains 25 words, total size 1 kb.
September 01, 2024
Bye Bye Earth - Ep. 08
I think I've figured it out. It's basically applying the Rule of Cool to virtually EVERYTHING on the screen.
But when everything is "Cool" nothing is.
Even applies to injuries, so when Belle gets slit from shoulder to wrist, it only bleeds a little rather than having her take the low blood pressure challenge in under 30 seconds.
Even applies to injuries, so when Belle gets slit from shoulder to wrist, it only bleeds a little rather than having her take the low blood pressure challenge in under 30 seconds.
Posted by: Mauser at
05:48 PM
| No Comments
| Add Comment
Post contains 64 words, total size 1 kb.
<< Page 1 of 1 >>
35kb generated in CPU 0.0121, elapsed 0.042 seconds.
33 queries taking 0.034 seconds, 215 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
33 queries taking 0.034 seconds, 215 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
