What anime are you watching now?

[Nicholas D. Wolfwood]

I am re-watching  Naruto

it's a  good anime

without commercials &

when  I am not fighting sleep 

 

 

[Animedragon]

I've now finished watching Yuru Camp series 3. This was produced by a different studio to the previous two series so there some slight changes to the character designs, overall the new designs are OK, but I'm still not quite used to the new look Rin, but having the same voice cast helped a lot.
While I enjoyed the whole series I liked the suspension bridge arc most. Rin and Nadeshiko are a great team, but I thought the addition of Nadeshiko's friend Ayano worked well as it gave Rin a biker friend to travel with.

Whoever would have thought that Nadeshiko would become interested in trains , she sounds like my kind of girl

 

Is it too much to ask for a fourth series, please.

[Animedragon]

I've just watched Train to the End of the World. I'll admit I only started it because it had a train in it, and to my mind anything with a train in it is worth checking out. So, what can I say about the series? The train is well represented, which is a plus in my book, but the story idea? I guess it's the sort of scenario you'd come up with if you're thinking about all the conspiracy theories surrounding 5G while smoking funny cigarettes!
Basically the plot revolves round the world being changed into something really weird as a result of the introduction of the 7G comms system. So Shizuru and three of her high school friends, plus a dog, set off aboard a train to find their friend Yoka.
Overall it's a fairly decent series and quite fun to watch as long as you don't take it seriously.

[efaardvark]

I thought I'd check out the first couple episodes of the latest season's lineup.  All these isekai are starting to blur together.  Getting deja vu all over again from "Failure Frame" for instance.  It wasn't so long ago that we had basically the same thing with Arifureta (etc etc) after all, and just last season we had Chillin' in another world.  Only two episodes in so there's still room for differentiation with "Failure".  I'm wondering if we really need another version of basically the same plot tho.  I'm a devotee of the 3-ep rule so there's one more to go but at this point I'm not likely to continue.

Edited July 12, 2024 by efaardvark

[Clayton]

On 6/26/2024 at 12:20 PM, Digimon_Sommelier said:

*Sigh* It's just not the same. What happened to anime?

What do you mean?

[Sasuke]

'From The New World'

[Animedragon]

I've now finished watching A Condition Called Love. It's a nice wholesome little high school Slice of Life series about two young people finding out about love for the first time. This series is never going to be popular because the female lead is a plain ordinary girl and definitely not the most popular girl in the school, while the male lead is fairly popular but he's also a rather anti-social loner who hasn't had a particularly good life, neither does he collapse into a dithering nervous wreck when his new girlfriend shows him any attention. The two young people are sometimes out-of-step with each other, but these situations are handled sensitively and not done for comedic effect or to get cheap laughs from the watcher.
Overall I thought that this was a good series and tackled a serious storyline in a sensitive way, but it's definitely not a series that everyone will like.

[efaardvark]

Took a quick peek at "Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary".  Based on the first couple episodes I'm getting a somewhat Hyouka vibe, though so far the two main characters aren't nearly as fun to watch as Oreki and Chi-chan were.   きになる

[Animedragon]

On 7/20/2024 at 7:15 AM, efaardvark said:

Took a quick peek at "Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary".  Based on the first couple episodes I'm getting a somewhat Hyouka vibe, though so far the two main characters aren't nearly as fun to watch as Oreki and Chi-chan were.   きになる

I've got this one on my watch list, I'm a binge watching animedragon, so I'll wait until it's finished 

Oreki and Chi-chan were certainly a great double-act.

[efaardvark]

9 hours ago, Animedragon said:

I'm a binge watching ..

I am as well.  This is the point in the season when the currently-airing shows release their 3rd episode so usually about now I binge the first few episodes of the season to decide what I want to add to my watchlist.  Then at the end of the season I’ll binge-watch the rest of the episodes of the shows that make the list.

[Wickett]

Ninja Kamui, so far so good. About what I expected, nice having Kenjiro Tsuda though. He's a favorite VA of mine.

[Animedragon]

Finished re-watching K-On, A fun, not-so-little, series. I always enjoy the interactions between the 5 members of HTT, their friends and their teacher.

[Animedragon]

I've been rewatching Sound of the Sky. An excellent, highly enjoyable but sadly under appreciated and under rated series.

[EnviousEnvy]

Currently watching Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation. About a perverted dude being unalived and coming back as a child in a whole new realm and timeframe. He has all of his memories from his past life and is still really perverted but he now has powers and is willing to learn, travel and fight. It’s a really good anime.

[Ohayotaku]

Binge watched the first 4 eps of Oshi no Ko season 2. Also started the 2nd cour of the Rurouni Kenshin remake (in preparation for the new season in October). And watching “Ippon” Again! to earn a badge on MAL.

Edited August 6, 2024 by Ohayotaku

[Digimon_Sommelier]

Various Digimon anime today. I mostly liked watching the Season 3 finale of Digimon Xros Wars. The fact that it doesn't have an English dub yet has been an ongoing crime!!

[efaardvark]

Recently checking out 魔導具師ダリヤはうつむかない , aka Dahlia in Bloom.  Seems a little slow so far - I've only gotten to the part where her fiancé dumps her and she starts her own company - but I'm hoping it picks up a bit based on its Japanese title.  (My translation would be something like "Magical toolmaker Dahlia won't give up" or "..won't look back".  I'm a bit uncertain of how to translate "うつむか" here but it definitely seems more interesting than just "bloom".)  Going to come back to this one at the end of the season.

[Animedragon]

Having now finished watching Series 3 of Sound! Euphonium I can say that it effectively demonstrates why I prefer to wait until a series is finished and then binge watch it. If I'd had to wait a whole week between each of the last 3 or 4 episodes I would probably gone crazy! As it's been 2 years since I watched the first two seasons I rewatched those first.
Kumiko and her friends in the Kitauji High School Concert Band are now in their 3rd year, and Kumiko is now club President. In the first series the focus was mainly on the various members of the band coming together and rehearsing and practising their instruments and leaning how to play together. Series 2 moved away a bit from the music towards the interactions between the various members of the band. The 3rd series continues this to the point where the actual band playing becomes the background to the interactions and conflicts between the concert band's members, this I think was a good thing as it stopped the series becoming a replay of the earlier ones.
Throughout the three series the Kitauji High School band has been striving to win Gold at the National High School Band competition, and as 3rd years this is Kumiko and her friends last chance to succeed. Did they make it?

Spoiler

Yes of course they did! The real surprise, although it shouldn't really have been one, was in the epilogue after the final episode's credits where several years later Kumiko enters the music room and introduces herself as the band's assistant advisor.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this series and would happily watch it again at some time.

Edited August 7, 2024 by Animedragon

[Wickett]

Started Battle Game in 5 Seconds last night, stronger start than I expected honestly, so I'm curious to see where it goes from here.

[Animedragon]

I've now finished watching Jellyfish Can't Swim In The Night, a curious title but then it's a curious series. I wouldn't say it's a bad series, but I didn't think it was a particularly a good one either. I found the first few episodes a bit slow and the story lacking in any sense of direction, although it did improve as the series continued and towards the end there was a definite sense of purpose to the story and the character's actions and the final episode did end on a positive note.
Overall I found it a fun series to watch but I'm not sure if I'd want to watch it again.

 

[Sakura]

I've picked back up watching Boruto where I left off today. 

[Rei878]

I did a watch-party of madoka magica with a couple of friends, ik, it's in 2024, but I'm seriously impressed over how well it has aged. After finishing the anime and heading over to rebellion I just accepted that I would never understand the plot lol. After watching countless analysis and theory videos on YouTube I think I'm starting to get it.

[Animedragon]

On 8/12/2024 at 8:19 AM, Rei878 said:

I did a watch-party of madoka magica with a couple of friends, ik, it's in 2024, but I'm seriously impressed over how well it has aged. After finishing the anime and heading over to rebellion I just accepted that I would never understand the plot lol. After watching countless analysis and theory videos on YouTube I think I'm starting to get it.

For a series 13 years old Madoka Magica has aged very well and is still an interesting and highly watchable series which I've watched several times. Rebellion is a strange film, the first time I watched it I didn't understand any of it. But, like you, after watching a load of YouTube videos about it I think I might understand some of it.

 

[Zeref]

Started to watch Moriarty the Patriot on Crunchy last night. 

[sid rob0t]

NHX ni Youkoso

Edited August 16, 2024 by Myouya
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