Not necessarily too old, it’s just that industry (in general, not just gacha) changes in the way that many of us don’t really like. That’s the price of pushing their way into mainstream. All we can do is look in less obvious places and try more, sometimes not obvious, titles - there might be a diamond or two hidden somewhere if one’s lucky enough.

I don’t hence why I currently play 3 games: first GFL (mainstay, doing dailies and events), GFL2 (giving it a year to see if it’ll turn out into a sequel I’m interested in, it’s a bit more convoluted compared to the first game) and P5X (want to see if it’ll be fun in the long run, most likely won’t be a good fit for you). I’m afraid we’ll have to wait until someone comes up with a surprise hit again so companies have a new template to copy from.

The only things that come to mind right now are ones I’m not too familiar with so I might be completely off base. These would be:

• Limbus Company - what I did hear about it make it sound like a simpler game in terms of resource management.
• Snowbreak: Containment Zone - haven’t played this one since their pivot into 120% horny town but I remember it being pretty basic in regards to upgrades and items. Things may have changed since then so I can’t promise anything.

Is there any reason you’re focused on gacha with your search? Is this about a specific mechanic or just feeling of having a constantly updated game to enjoy?

That’s a pretty difficult question honestly. The easy answer would be to look for “normal” games instead but we’re in a gacha community so that’s obviously what you’re interested in. Based on your post it feels like you’re looking for a simple game with limited side content which kinda goes against the current trend of new releases.

I don’t play too many titles these days but here are short descriptions of what I’m sticking with at the moment. Hopefully this will help narrow down what exactly is or isn’t important for you.

Girls Frontline 2 doesn’t have tons of popups and dailies there can be done in 15 minutes or less for the most part. At the same time there’s A LOT of side content that, while not necessary, might count towards those things you don’t want in the game. There’s a few resources that could possibly count as currencies though I’m not sure what’s your definition on that.

Persona5: The Phantom X has pretty fun gameplay and lightning fast dailies but global servers are treated like crap (it’s SEGA after all). It also has a bunch of currencies/resources and the amount of popups can be annoying depending on where you are (I’ve read it differs by country, personally I’ve seen like 5 or so since launch).

If we’re talking about games with gacha mechanics in general there’s also Idol Manager - this is a “normal” buy to play title rather than a live service one. Gacha here comes in the form of idol scouting though it works more like randomised units in XCom than rolling for properly defined characters. Perhaps this could scratch that itch?

Last question: what do you mean by modern? How old are we talking about?

This definitely sucks but at least it seems like they had a good enough schedule to finish the season before airing. So… not a completely bad news?

I might be reading too much into this but I think they’re going for an anthology feel with the show and if there’s ever Cyberpunk Edgerunners 3 it would once again focus on yet another group of characters. That’s just how I interpreted Sztybor’s words though.

I think that to some extent this comes down to a simple fact that for many people, like yourself, Edgerunners was their first into the world of anime - depending on one’s media literacy and experience this might sway their opinion one way or another. Besides, that’s not just a problem with Edgerunners, you could say the same about folks for whom Cyberpunk 2077 was their first experience with cyberpunk as a genre.

While not perfect, it’s a solid show overall and if it serves as a gateway deeper into the rabbit hole then I’d say it’s worth the praise.

Writer was pretty clear about David’s fate in the article and mentioned wanting to tell more stories with “many interesting characters”. Besides, season 2 is described as a standalone story so more than likely.

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.