I thought they were just marketing mascots like Hello Kitty.

It turns out there’s a relatable dystopian short manga/short form anime around the characters.

I loved KOR back in the day! Back when we would huddle in dark rooms around the 4th generation VHS fansub.

What time + timezone on Mondays? Oh never mind it’s in the post pic: 6:40pm - 8:20pm PST Starting on Monday 9/12

I feel like Shangri-La Frontier was written by someone who has played a lot of MMORPGs, and captured the social magic of the players working together to solve the mysteries of the game, and/or exploit the hell out of it.

If someone was to take the story of a widely played MMO, say World Of Warcraft for example, take the plot seriously, study the lore of the guilds and players and things that happened between them, weird bugs, events like Leeroy Jenkins or the famous South Park “Make Love, Not WarCraft” episode, and work that into a story, that could be a decent anime.

If you smoke, you would also look like a Temu version of your younger self.

But that often happens with age anyway.

Yang Wen-li from Legend of Galactic Heroes.

Even though he’s a genius, the stupid politics, and backstabbing of his side stop him from winning.

Because dad bod in a plugsuit is…

Golgo 13, the soulless hitman.

Ataru Moroboshii from Urusei Yatsura.

Super lecher, everything he does is in the name of lechery and leering at girls.

IRL he’d probably be convicted of rape and chemically castrated.

Migi from Parasyte.

Not evil for evil’s sake, but his non-human perspective and survival instinct makes him suggest evil acts to his host, Shinichi, who of course overrules Migi.

Talentless Nana.

At the end of the day, she’s murdering her classmates.

AI de-aged Macaulay Culkin as Naruto

…if you’re American.

Ah-nee-may if you’re Japanese.

I’m not sure what Freiren flipping what looks like a giant hamburger patty has to do with the message.

The art definitely looks rougher.

The color palette doesn’t look very “cyberpunk” either.

They didn’t show much of the “cyber” part either.

Looking forward to… another episode?

This and Blue Lock were very different approaches to sports anime.

But they were both very good.

Lookin’ forward to watching this!

Someone must be watching it, buying blu-rays, etc.

Who knows what kind of depraved persons, but apparently they’re out there.

There seems to be recency bias, and classic anime , and Ghibli OPs over quality.

I’ll take Kiseki No Umi/Record Of Lodoss War OP

and

Heavenly Blue/Aldnoah.Zero OP1

and

Majokko Megu-chan

or any of those OPs by Creepy Nuts: Call Of The Night, Mashle, Dan Da Dan

That was some feat by the 200 guys who escorted the prisoner, to haul all of those junk cars to the top of the cliff above the road, and keep them concealed long enough for the trap to be sprung.

I’m sure the writer is just “analogizing” something that happened with rocks instead of junk cars.

That was a lot of exposition to set up the next season or cours.

As usual in samurai dramas, the greatest enemy to overcome is within.

Oddly enough they didn’t cover what happened to the Taira snot nosed brat.

I’d imagine that he’s going to hold a grudge against his father.

Anyway, it’s an obvious season ender.

I hope this gets S2 or a second cours, because the animation and setting are so good!

Haven’t we seen this before?