Yeah, there wasn’t a whole lot of story in this episode per se, but it was super engaging. I totally see what you are talking about though. There was some dark shit in what little story we did get, and I wouldn’t put it past this story to just dive deeper and deeper into it.
This episode was fascinating. One of the most unique premieres I have seen in some time. I struggled to actually keep track of what you would call a plot. It was mainly a collection of scenes establishing the world and the characters with some really original direction. It really blurs the line between what is digital, what is real; bouncing between the two and having the two sides of this world seemingly interact with one another.
The vibes this is giving are dark. I wasn’t really sure what to expect going in, but this was a lot to take, even when there wasn’t really a lot of story that happened. I could easily see this just tumbling deeper and deeper into the abyss, but I hope that it manages to keep that from happening going forward.
Sorry for the slow response. Seems like the bot was right this time and it has released. The bot pulls its info from the AniList API, and that can often be wrong at the start of a new season.
It’s the year of the horse (and horse-girl) over on AniList this year with their recurring gag of replacing poster art for many shows. This year, its horses!
As for non-sequel anime, Witch Hat Atelier is probably the most anticipated show of the new season, with manga readers hyping it up similar to Frieren. I’ve heard lots of buzz for the show and it looks pretty nice.
Two weeks back, we had a season preview post where people talked about what they were interested in watching if you want to give it a once-over.
I am unreasonably excited for this.
OP has more than enough recommendations at this point and some of these discussion threads are wandering way off topic and getting nasty, so I will be locking this post.
To OP, feel free to make a new post when your kid is 7 if you need more recommendations! 😜
I can hear this comment!
After season 3, we are going to be almost exactly 3/4 the way through the manga, so you wouldn’t have much left and could probably knock it out super quick. I know the manga ending gets lots of shit from people, but I really don’t think it is half as bad as its reputation. When the final chapter came out, I wrote my thoughts about it at the time (spoiler warning).
That said, the anime has been an absolutely stellar adaptation; the kind that I could have only dreamed of. So, I don’t blame somebody for wanting to experience the anime blind, because it has been excellent from beginning to end.
I don’t remember any others this season.
Ah, you might be right about this. I hadn’t thought about them dropping support for the .ass sub format.
I think what is going on here is an anti-piracy measure. When subs are delivered in a separate stream in the browser, pirates with the proper tools can save them separately, making it easier to redistribute as a video file with a range of subtitle options. By hardcoding them, CR is basically making a prospective pirate’s redistribution life harder because they need to do a separate video for every sub language (or go to a different source).
I think the main thing that soft subs offers is that you can customize size/color options in the player. When they are hardsubs burned into the video, then you no longer have that ability.
Not as much as Campfire Cooking iirc. Extremely minor spoilers ahead:
A pattern that happens a lot in what I read is that Rin is doing cooking/chill things at the RV while her companions are off doing adventuring things, and then she has a big feast when they get back incorporating ingredients that they went and adventured for. There are some moments when she gets mixed up in things, but it often happens off the page in the manga version.
I have read some of the manga (until it stopped getting updates on MD). It’s a very chill series, similar to something like Campfire Cooking. The main difference in this case is that her companions are an adventuring party instead of monster familiars.
Youtube link if you don’t want to go to twitter. Also, the quality is better since it actually goes to 1080p.
Alright, here is the list of things I have my eye on for next season:
Just a reminder to folks not to link directly in this community. I don’t want to get ani.social in trouble. Feel free to check out !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com instead.
In a blink and you’ll miss it moment, they did a crazy foreshadow this episode that was anime-original. This isn’t the first time they’ve done this either. It really makes me wish the manga wasn’t on indefinite hiatus because the closer the anime gets to the manga, the less opportunity they will have to drop some awesome foreshadowing in.
This demon that studies humans was foreshadowing Solitar. Probably my favorite demon in all of Frieren.
Yeah…this was not a great adaptation if I am honest. The love meter gag, the whole point of the show, wasn’t even shown for some scenes (like when they are eating ice cream), and whole sequences from chapter 1 were cut. However, they made sure to insert an anime-original scene on the beach. I was really caught off guard when there was nudity in the show because it was not in the manga at all.
tl;dr - read the manga on this one. The art is better and the gags are funnier. Also, no forced fan service.