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.

Had to take a break from my RE:Zero rewatch because Subaru was being too cringe. Holy cow can he be hard to watch sometimes.

Anyways, besides that I’ve started on a few of this season’s new offerings:

• Akane-banashi - Really fun adaptation of a good story, only brought down by Netflix’s shitty subtitles. They are translating little to none of the text in the background, even when that text is extremely relevant. Even when they do translate it they don’t bother with typesetting so it’s a terrible experience. Hopefully a fansub group fixes this at some point but very few people ever seek that sort of thing out these days so who knows.
• Daemons of the Shadow Realm - A great adaptation of a great story, and this time no reservations on how it was translated.
• Snowball Earth - So far the story feels very whimsical. Fun first episode with excellent CGI animation. It’s hard to say what I think of the quality of the writing at this point; I think I’m gonna have to give it a couple more episodes first.

I haven’t started on The Ramparts of Ice because as a Netflix show I’m kinda expecting it to have the same issues as Akane-banashi. I dunno, maybe it’ll be fine.

Well I’ll take fewer high-quality episodes over more low-quality episodes any day. It’s not like I’m remotely short on things to watch!

Didn’t realize this was gonna be a Netflix show. For something that’s primarily people talking I’d prefer better subtitles than that. I guess I’ll just wait.

Fun stuff! I was kinda hoping it would get past the end of the first chapter but I guess if an anime leaves you wanting more that’s probably a good thing.

I can’t say I didn’t feel a little ripped off when I finished the final episode of “Golden Kamuy Final Season” and then another season was announced. But hey, at least that means we get more Golden Kamuy!

Was a fun first episode. It’s competing in a crazy season, but I’ll definitely give the next episode a view as well. Impossible to tell at this point whether it’ll be good or not.

That’s a bummer. I might just wait until some fansubbers get their hands on it then. It’s a popular enough show that I think it stands decent odds of seeing that sort of attention.

I’d say Witch Hat Atelier, Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Re:Zero, and Akane-banashi are all pretty big tent pole shows though!

I was wondering how they were going to wrap things up in one episode. Turns out they weren’t. I feel ripped off.

That said, a train hijacking arc definitely feels like a fitting conclusion to the series. Also, I’m betting Mr. Hood returns. We didn’t see a body, and this isn’t a show that hesitates to show us a body.

RE:Zero is great, but it’s hard to watch. The main character is one of the biggest losers I’ve ever seen in an anime. The show’s saving grace is that the writer actually knows this.

That might be the only isekai I’ve seen, but I don’t think the genre appeals to me.

Most isekai are really bad so you’re not missing much tbh. RE:Zero is good. Konosuba is good. Vision of Escaflowne is good (and very different). There’s so much good stuff airing right now there’s no reason to worry that you’re missing out though.

Wjs018 mentioned Witch Hat Atelier, and I completely agree that that show is going to be incredible. Since you mentioned you liked Fullmetal Alchemist I also want to bring up Daemons of the Shadow Realm. It was written by the same person who wrote FMA and it’s also being animated by the same studio that animated FMA. I’ve read ahead in the manga and it seems really good.

At least it means the dubs probably aren’t being rushed.