It’s got to be Odd Taxi, though I can’t think of a lot of competition if I’m being honest. Besides, Odd Taxi is great. It’s got the lore-accurate gacha gamer and everything!

I think that might actually be Mobile Suit Gundam.

Not to mention all the nasty DRM keeping users from watching on their phones or laptops.

Thanks!

I’m assuming the first one isn’t because it felt like it was written by a different person, but I don’t actually know.

Where’s the Behind the Scenes footage? That sounds cool!

I’ve read it. They don’t do anything too gross (because the MC is very aware that he’s middle-aged at heart), but it also isn’t that good of a manga. Maybe “average” by Weekly Shonen Jump standards. With all the other great stuff airing this season I’m skipping it.

They had damned well better, because I’m still pissed.

Just keep in mind that you’ve only seen part of one side of the story there.

From any reasonable point of view, Gabby should be dead now - preferably torn in half and made to suffer as much as all of the innocents she just murdered.

Holy shit calm down.

But instead, she’s being treated like a child and carefully strapped onto a stretcher because poow widdle fing got shot by an arrow oh boo hoo.

You think it’s normal to have someone walk down a mountain after getting shot in the leg and shoulder by arrows?

It’s going to take a LOT of pretty smart and entirely unexpected plot twisting to turn that into anything other than a travesty.

I don’t think it really needs to be that smart or unexpected. The situation is supposed to be confusing, but it’s also supposed to make the audience (and Yuru) question why everyone is doing what they’re doing and whether anyone can be trusted at all.

I have a hard time imagining an anime really changing the way I live or think, but FMA:B and AoT were what really got me into anime so I guess those are as close as it gets.

I’m hoping it just got moved over to another episode for pacing reasons.

Sure! https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm38324654

The part I was talking about starts at 2:45 or so.

Finished Season 1 of Re:Zero. It capped the season off very nicely. One could argue Emilia was a little too quick to forgive, but that’s just kind of who she is. I followed that up with the first OVA, and uh wow. That was fun. It felt a little like the OVA’s writer(s) were calling out the original work on what it did to Rem’s character, which is very fair. Overall just a good time. Shame it (probably) isn’t canon.

I also watched a couple of episodes of the second season of Umamusume. I was deeply amused by the scene where a certain horse girl wouldn’t enter the gate. I looked it up, and sure enough it was based off of real-life events. There’s even a video out there that shows both side-by-side, because of course there is. My favorite parts of this show are usually bits like this where I’m reminded that the horse girls are based off of real horses. Fun stuff.

As for the current seasonals:

• Akane-banashi continues to be fun
• I really liked the latest Daemons of the Shadow Realms episode. I noticed some people had concerns, and all I can really say without spoilers is: watch and find out. This was written by a writer, and they know what they’re doing.
• I watched the first episode of Agents of the Four Seasons. It was good, but it didn’t really grab me. I think I would’ve liked it more if Hinagiku didn’t speak the way she does. Perhaps it has something to do with trauma from her past. If so, hopefully she’ll stop talking like that because it’s kind of annoying tbh.
• I still need to get caught up on the latest Snowball Earth episode. Hopefully it was good.

I think it would be a bit more than 1.5x as good, but I don’t think 10x the effort is an exaggeration so it’s understandable.

That would be a mistake to take away the spirit of experimentation and risk taking.

Just look at how many isekai get released every year. That spirit is already half-dead.

Another great episode. Incidentally, you know how you sometimes see people from the lower world (Dera and Hana in this case) using a word and Yuru not knowing the word? That’s because they’re using English loan words without realizing it and of course those haven’t circulated in a village that’s been cut off from the rest of the world for centuries. That’s why he didn’t know genre (English loan word) but he did know category (種類 in the original Japanese).

Almost no anime do this

I’ve seen many anime do this. Chihayafuru comes to mind.

It’s a deliberate choice of art style

I dunno about that. I think it’s just much easier to render the clothing that way.

Funny that it wound up being a tree. I often joke that they should let the animators outdoors more often so they know what plants look like. I’ve seen at least two anime now where trees growing on a slope are drawn growing perpendicular to that slope instead of parallel with earth’s gravitational pull. It looks dumb as hell to anyone who’s ever been in a forest before.

Sure one of those anime was an absolute joke anyways (Trails of Cold Steel) but the other one was Re:Zero!

I’ve read this one. It’s not as bad as some people say but it’s also (imo) not good enough to be worth our time with such a stacked season to content against.

I don’t watch a ton of movies, but Redline would be right at the top next to LOOK BACK; Tokyo Godfathers would probably be up there as well.