!nominate

I couldn’t decide which of GQuuuuuux’s amazing insert songs deserved the nomination, so in the end I had to nominate it for best soundtrack instead. It’s actually crazy just how many of them there were.

I’ll give another perspective then: If you’ve already seen another decent battle shounen you’ve already seen Demon Slayer. Sure Demon Slayer is mostly well-executed, but it’s far from perfect and nothing it does is really unique. You’re really not missing all that much. If you’re specifically interested in interesting stories over action or fun characters I’d recommend skipping it.

Edit: there are too many excellent shows out there to waste time on one you’re unlikely to love. Some of the other shows people are recommending are incredible. Why bother with Demon Slayer when Dungeon Meshi and LOOK BACK exist?

Ghost in the Shell - A staple of cyberpunk literature. Stands up there with Blade Runner. See also: Psychopass, Cyberpunk Edgerunners.

Probably should be more specific about whether you mean the movies, the existing TV shows, or the TV show that’ll be airing later this year. Honestly any of those three options are probably good, but my recommendation would go to Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. I’m open to having my mind changed by Science Saru though!

It’s a battle shounen and if that’s not your cup of tea then they’re all equally worthless

I wouldn’t go quite that far. Dan Da Dan is also a battle shounen, but it has other elements that made it worth watching even for my wife and I (even though we were kind of tired of battle shounen).

Man I would’ve been sweating bullets in Makio’s place there! For a moment I thought grandma or some other person was embezzling money and trying to make Makio take the fall for it! Thank goodness Asa fessed up right away. Speaking of which, it’s really funny to me that she decided joining a band club was so out-of-bounds that it wasn’t even worth asking but dropping 2 grand on a new laptop was okay. I wonder if that says anything about how her mother viewed spending money. Maybe this is a place where Asa actually had some freedom.

Meanwhile, are Asa and Emiri growing apart? I can’t imagine that, but at the moment, that’s sort of how it looks…

That’s just part of growing up though. I don’t think there’s anyone I was friends with in middle school that I’m still in contact with.

Based on what Emiri said in the last two episodes and her reactions in this one, I’m making a guess that she is a lesbian.

What did she say last episode? I must’ve missed it.

I’m so happy with Asa’s club choice. I want to hear her sing.

But what if she becomes a bassist?!

Yeah I’m taking a Learn to Skate classes right now and even just gliding forward on one foot is a challenge.

These are such minor differences I have no idea how that can bother you.

It’s also possible her sister did look down on her aspirations, and then grew up later.

I’m curious too. Sure a couple of lines were translated awkwardly, but “translated so badly I need to switch off subtitles because it’s like a completely different story” is basically libel as far as I can tell.

Good episode! I’m really curious to see how the skating looks though. Guess there’s nothing for it but to look forward to next week!

What? Crunchyroll’s dubs don’t use AI. It was Amazon Prime that was using AI dubs.

I have to imagine it would be difficult to get a competent voice actor to agree to that, but I suppose even a semi-competent beginner desperate to get work would yield better results than we saw a few weeks ago.

Them delisting it after a day doesn’t mean much. It’s possible they had so many AI bros frothing at the mouth to help mix some slop in with existing good media they had to close applications.

ALSO, while I was double-checking my facts, I saw that a new season is releasing this year.

Not only is a new season releasing, it’s being animated by Science Saru. Very exciting.

Dang. It takes a lot of work to make a cosplay, so being told at the last moment that it can’t be used would be devastating. I might refuse to show up in such a case, even if I had another costume I could use.

Yeah there’s no way I was going to be watching either of those shows in the first place.

It’s not that I disliked it for being dark or for being edgy or for being fantasy. I disliked it because it wasn’t very good.