Nice! Just binged through the manga a few days ago and would love to see this animated. What a perfect coincidence.

I forgot how much of a lore dump the Miyuki - Yulong conversation is though, after checking the original chapters, I think the manga version just flows a bit better than what we got here (especially since there it’s a continuation of a longer discussion started at the doctor’s office). It felt a bit… forced/less natural in this version.

I guess we couldn’t really expect to escape a purely exposition focused episode considering the remaining runtime. At least it provided people with lots of info to mull over.

Huh, I completely forgot about flying cars. Guess it’s time for a proper reread.

It looks like we’re barrelling to catch up with the source material, as expected. I’m really curious how the show ends and what people not familiar with manga think about the story when that happens.

I really need to reread these early parts cause I don’t remember all of those hints and revelations being thrown around as quickly and as plainly as they are here (this isn’t a critique, I genuinely forgot a lot from these chapters).

I promise I won’t be comparing the show with manga every time (I really enjoy it as its own thing!) but man, I do think they dropped the ball with some of the missing scenes this time. We lost on some fun character interactions and pretty important developments/hints for characters, setting and the mystery itself.
I really hope they’ll come back to some of that stuff as few of the omissions hurt the show in my opinion.

Alright, rant over.

Another pretty episode and one with my girl Xiaohei too boot! I love her, especially in this voiced and animated version.
I forgot to mention it last week but I was surprised they decided to go with a wholly separate VA for Kujirai B. It makes the distinction between the two even stronger than it felt (for me) in the manga form. I wonder if this is a deliberate choice suggested by the author or something the studio came up with.
Either way, I don’t mind one bit.

It’s been a while since I watched an ongoing series so it’s nice to start with something I enjoy.

Yeah, the core parts are all there, thankfully. The skipped content consists of character moments or focuses on their life in Kowloon so not essential but still unfortunate stuff to miss as I do think it adds a lot. I understand why they’re doing it this way and I’m glad this series got adapted in the first place - it deserves a larger audience and I hope the show leaves people interested in the source material after we’re done.

The ending plan is about what I expected, now the question is whether it’ll be a full-on separate thing or if it’ll be connected to where manga version goes. Thanks for confirmation!

Welp, more skipped content, more changes and still going at the pace of one volume per episode - can’t say I’m a fan of that. It’s not terrible so far but it’s still a disappointing way to go about it. At least what did make it in is good so there’s that.

I’m curious what the plan for the whole season is - there’s not enough material if they intend to go this fast. I’m a bit worried.

That’s a pretty difficult question without examples or some details on what you’re looking or.

Do song covers in non-music anime count as unique? Soundtrack for The Rolling Girls contains covers of The Blue Hearts (including Stones with a great Shamisen solo).

Girls Last Tour has Song of Raindrops as an ED to one of its episodes - it consists of vocals, soft beat and sounds of dropping water.

It’s here! I love the manga so seeing it animated is great.

It looks like they’re going with scattered approach (episode ended in the same place as volume 1) so I’m a bit worried about what this means for the adaptation as a whole. I hope they’ll go back to skipped chapters and just used episode one as a hook.

Other than that it’s a pretty promising start. Can’t wait for more.

Oh, all the food in this episode made me hungry and there’s no Chinese cuisine nearby. Curse you anime food!

I can’t wait to see animated Chokki-chan in action (っ˘ω˘ς )

On one hand I’m really happy about this possibility, on the other, I’m not sure how well it’ll go considering how big part of the story revolves around real, popular music. I’m sure they’ll be able to come up with decent replacements for whatever tracks they won’t be able to license but still…

I guess we’ll see how it turns out.

Thought it might interest someone considering the prizes.

I knew this reminded me of something so I jumped into my bookmarks and found the original animation for this series posted by the studio 4 years ago. You can watch it here.

I love that they went with more of a 90’s looking art style, it looks great!

It has been a while since I watched it so I’m not really sure how well it holds up but I remember 91 Days being pretty dope. It’s a mafia story about MC infiltrating a group responsible for the death of his family, set during the prohibition era in the US. It’s a short watch (12 episodes or so) too.

YEYEYEEEEEEEEEEE!

For me it’s pretty much a cyclical thing. It happens regardless of circumstances so I just have to wait it out - I usually stick with manga & games until it swaps again.

Will do, just need to wait until I’m in a watching head space first (I’m having a bit of a hard time sitting down to watch anything at the moment). Thanks for recommendation though!

I’ve only seen the first two movies but this is exciting news. Please be good!

No problem. Mihon is pretty much Tachiyomi+ so if you ever decide to switch you should feel right at home and if not, Tachiyomi should still work fine unless there are some bigger extention changes. No need to worry about it for now, especially since you’re well prepared with your backlog.