What anime are you watching now?

[giuls]

2 hours ago, Ohayotaku said:

Midway thru the season update

Committed To: Apothecary Diaries season 2 (behind though) • Fire Force season 3 • To Be Hero X • My Hero Academia: Vigilantes • Rock is a Lady’s Modesty • Umamusume: Cinderella Gray • Food for the Soul • Witch Watch • Anne Shirley

Check out when the season is winding down: Kowloon Generic Romance • Moonrise

Way too many others I’m not sure about finishing.

sighhh apothecary diaries is so good so far,,....jinshi my beloved!!!!!!!!!!! I get where ur coming from!!! AND WITCH WATCH!!! YAYYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAY NICO IS SO ME I AM NICO

[Moestub]

I'm currently rewatching Gintama, i'm at episode 74 and the trio is still as good as ever to watch

I'm also watching Ashita no nadja, it's interesting and happening close to the victorian era but it's a bit too focused on romance so far for me.

Next i'll probably rewatch konosuba in its entirety to see the season/movie i haven't seen yet, or find myself a nice mystery/psychological anime to binge.

[fluffybug]

i've been SUPER into apothecary diaries and i've been having fun going through a rewatch of love live (and hopefully watching through the rest of the sequel series since i never finished nijigasaki or superstars lol) i'm probably going to start asobi asobase sometime soon and maybe a rewatch of k-on or haruhi suzumiya?

[Ohayotaku]

On 5/13/2025 at 1:01 PM, Ohayotaku said:

Food for the Soul episode 5 - Kurea & Shinon get their divers’ licenses  & take everyone on an impromptu road trip. 

As someone who grew up in the country & learned to drive on rural roads I can relate to the first-time freak-out of realizing the lane you’re in will force you onto the interstate/freeway when you weren’t expecting it.

It’s no Yuru Camp, but I’ve grown rather fond of this series. Definitely my comfort anime of the season.

Adding the clip for this because it cracked me up

 

Edited May 19, 2025 by Ohayotaku

[Animedragon]

I've just finished watching Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, a 12 episode series based on a video game. It's a nice little Slice of Life series with some interesting characters, a decent storyline and quite nice artwork and animation quality. Overall, it's quite a nice little series that's enjoyable and good fun to watch.

[Wickett]

After catching up with MHA I watched the first two episodes of Witch Watch and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. I'm not really sure what it is about Witch Watch that has made it so popular but to be honest I found it incredibly uninteresting and not as funny as it tries to be. The girl was kind of annoying to me and the guy was bland (I get that those character traits are partly their shtick but still). Frieren on the other hand was a lot more gripping than I thought it would be. The passage of time being such a critical element to the story was a neat and I thought fairly originally concept. I'm looking forward to seeing where the story goes from here. 

[BoilerJacob]

I’m starting to check out Ojamajo Doremi.

I remember seeing ads for the dub “Magical Doremi” on the 4Kids TV website when I was In elementary school as well as ads for the toys from it.

 

[Bulletje76]

Just watched the latest episode of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows. Really love this serie

[Ohayotaku]

12 hours ago, Bulletje76 said:

Just watched the latest episode of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows. Really love this serie

Zenos: “You’re here, too, huh? Why exactly?”

Carmilla: 

it would seem i have developed a weakness for troublesome waifus  

Edited May 23, 2025 by Ohayotaku

[Bulletje76]

Just watched latest ep of From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman.

I cannot believe not everyone is watching this serie

@Ohayotaku what do you think of this seasons Teogonia ?? Very mixed reviews but i like it

[Ohayotaku]

53 minutes ago, Bulletje76 said:

@Ohayotaku what do you think of this seasons Teogonia ?? Very mixed reviews but i like

Haven’t watched any of it, not sure if I will. Apparently passed @efaardvark 3 ep evaluation, but I think he usually waits for the season to end to binge.

[Bulletje76]

7 minutes ago, Ohayotaku said:

Haven’t watched any of it, not sure if I wil

Why the doubt?

[fluffybug]

i couldnt help myself and started a rewatch of hibike euphonium lol i did all of season one in 2 days and im halfway through season 2

[Animedragon]

3 minutes ago, fluffybug said:

i couldnt help myself and started a rewatch of hibike euphonium lol i did all of season one in 2 days and im halfway through season 2

I like that series too and really need to rewatch it.

[efaardvark]

39 minutes ago, Ohayotaku said:

Apparently passed @efaardvark 3 ep evaluation

Yeah.  I haven't seen anything past that yet.  I'll have to see how it turns out.  It wouldn't be the first that made it past 3 only to be dropped by 9.  Endings are a big deal for me and can easily be a make or break thing for the season as a whole.

I have to say that nothing has really grabbed my attention this season or last.  Some of it's been entertaining (Aharen-san) but most of it is clearly aimed at younger and / or fantasy-phile audiences while I'm an older SF guy.  Can't remember the last time - what I consider - a good SF was released.   

[fluffybug]

39 minutes ago, Animedragon said:

I like that series too and really need to rewatch it.

i meant to watch it for years and finally did this december and it very quickly has become a comfort series for me lol it has me wanting to pull my flute out of storage to try and learn the duet from liz and the blue bird tbh

[Ohayotaku]

3 hours ago, Bulletje76 said:

Why the doubt?

For this season I’m currently watching 15 series, have 6 on hold that I might revisit & 2 I at least want to check out. Next season is looking even more packed than this one did. Plus I was hoping to watch more of the Macross  series this year now that they’re finally on Hulu. Plus I’ve been talking about finishing Fate Stay/Night & Unlimited Bladeworks since I joined this forum in 2018 . Can’t honestly see making time for a series that didn’t catch my attention to begin with & has mixed opinion online.

Edited May 24, 2025 by Ohayotaku

[efaardvark]

I tried previewing Kowloon Generic Romance  today.  Three episodes and I still have absolutely no idea what this one is about.    Can someone tell me if it's worth it to keep going?  Without spoilers of course.

[Animedragon]

10 hours ago, fluffybug said:

i meant to watch it for years and finally did this december and it very quickly has become a comfort series for me lol it has me wanting to pull my flute out of storage to try and learn the duet from liz and the blue bird tbh

Almost every time I watch a music based anime it makes me want to play some sort of instrument. The problem is that I have no sense of timing or rhythm. I did once try to learn to play the guitar but I could never quite get my fingers round the chords and for some reason I couldn't get my left hand to do the chords at the same time as my right hand strummed the strings. 

[Bulletje76]

Watching reign of the seven spellblades for the 2nd time. Love it. For me one of the best 'magic school anime'. Again a low score on CR and MAL.

I keep getting more annoyed by those scores. What scores well is things nerds in the world like and Japanese men. The first like romantic stuff since they cant get any, the second like girl with big breasts (none in Japan), lollipop and unnecessary sexual talk and also some normal slice of life.

I have seen great anime fall into weird romances and the scores go up. So annoying.

[Wickett]

1 hour ago, Bulletje76 said:

I keep getting more annoyed by those scores. What scores well is things nerds in the world like and Japanese men. The first like romantic stuff since they cant get any, the second like girl with big breasts (none in Japan), lollipop and unnecessary sexual talk and also some normal slice of life.

I realize this is simply a short blast of subjective frustration, which we're all entitled to indulge in occasionally, but I have to say I don't really agree with the takeaway here. You claim that nerds around the world are boosting the ratings of certain kinds of anime but, why exactly is that a bad thing, and, what exactly is a nerd? You're an IT manager. I would think that to some degree we're all nerds in a way. Also, a lot of Japanese women watch anime as well. Whether or not they're rating the anime on CR as much as the male viewership is I have no idea, but calling out two groups of people like that as deciding all of CR's rating system doesn't seem accurate to me. There are also large breast sizes in Japan, maybe not as many, but no one is out here actually looking like Rangiku and not experiencing some back pain. Manga/anime embellish this because large breasts are appealing, and not just to Japanese men.

Solo Leveling won CR's anime of the year, Frieren got a lot of attention, Demon Slayer, Ninja Kamui, Apothecary Diaries, none of which have anything anywhere near extreme (at least so far) in terms of strong sexual innuendo or busty character designs outside of perhaps certain women in Apothecary Diaries but that's for historical accuracy, and a couple of characters in Demon Slayer. Re:ZERO won best Isekai anime and compared to other Isekai it's quite tame on the sexual front. I think it's more likely that you tend to enjoy anime that doesn't usually resonate with other people, which is all good, but doesn't mean that everyone is just interested in weird stuff. 

And to keep this somewhat on topic, I watched the new episodes of Fire Force and Apothecary Diaries last night. Big things happening for both anime right now and I'm really enjoying both.

 

Edited May 26, 2025 by Wickett

[Kari]

Right now I am cycling between rewatching Cowboy Bebop, watching Jujutsu Kaisen, watching Vinland Sage and watching I'm The Evil Lord of an Intergalatic Empire!. I usually watch multiple animes at once because I see another I like too rather than binge watching all the way through one at a time. 

[Ohayotaku]

To Be Hero X taking more of a serious & psychological approach to the superhero concept with an emphasis of how the expectations of society can impact individuals & vice versa. Episode 8 was the beginning of a 3rd arc & one that obviously took place before the previous one. I’m curious to see to what extent it will all tie together (the current season is listed with 24 episodes, so will carry over into the summer). The shifts between animation/art styles can still be jarring but I’m coming to appreciate it more & reminds me somewhat of the Spiderverse movies

 

Edited May 27, 2025 by Ohayotaku

[Bulletje76]

On 5/26/2025 at 10:59 PM, Wickett said:

I realize this is simply a short blast of subjective frustration, which we're all entitled to indulge in occasionally, but I have to say I don't really agree with the takeaway here. You claim that nerds around the world are boosting the ratings of certain kinds of anime but, why exactly is that a bad thing, and, what exactly is a nerd? You're an IT manager. I would think that to some degree we're all nerds in a way. Also, a lot of Japanese women watch anime as well. Whether or not they're rating the anime on CR as much as the male viewership is I have no idea, but calling out two groups of people like that as deciding all of CR's rating system doesn't seem accurate to me. There are also large breast sizes in Japan, maybe not as many, but no one is out here actually looking like Rangiku and not experiencing some back pain. Manga/anime embellish this because large breasts are appealing, and not just to Japanese men.

Solo Leveling won CR's anime of the year, Frieren got a lot of attention, Demon Slayer, Ninja Kamui, Apothecary Diaries, none of which have anything anywhere near extreme (at least so far) in terms of strong sexual innuendo or busty character designs outside of perhaps certain women in Apothecary Diaries but that's for historical accuracy, and a couple of characters in Demon Slayer. Re:ZERO won best Isekai anime and compared to other Isekai it's quite tame on the sexual front. I think it's more likely that you tend to enjoy anime that doesn't usually resonate with other people, which is all good, but doesn't mean that everyone is just interested in weird stuff. 

And to keep this somewhat on topic, I watched the new episodes of Fire Force and Apothecary Diaries last night. Big things happening for both anime right now and I'm really enjoying both.

 

It was indeed a blast of frustration, perhaps also ignited by a difficult day at work and private. All though i mean the global thought behind it, i was way to harsh. i apologize. Perhaps this week later i will try to make my point in a more civilized manner

I just watched Alderamin on the Sky. I liked it, all though every episode got darker. To bad there never came a 2nd season 

[Rinji]

D-Frag right now and Tokyo Ravens lined up next.