What are you reading/watching? AKA Anime/Manga General

[Laserman]

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2 Episode 13:

Spoiler:

MIKA! Why?! Mikazuki just destroyed the mobile armor on his own by pushing the Barbatos Lupus to it's limits. He won the battle but he lost the use of his whole entire right side this time, damn it. Maybe in another Gundam series going inside a healing chamber would fix that, but not in this one.

Orga still intends go ahead with becoming the Sovereign of Mars; the Teiwaz boss gave him the okay, but others in the organization are already conspiring against him. Mikazuki told Orga he shouldn't apologize about what happened to him, that now because of his condition, the only thing he can do now is fight, that it makes things much simpler.

That made me start to tear up, he loses most of his sight in his right eye, his right arm and now his whole entire right side, but Mikazuki hasn't changed a bit. He still intends to do everything he can to help Orga, even if Orga isn't sure himself about what he wants for Tekkadan.

The opening is going to change after this episode. I hope it is as good as RAGE OF DUST is.

[Laserman]

Has anyone here seen the Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic movie?
There's a thread for the series but it hasn't been used in years, so I'm asking here.

[Imperial]

Rhinoceros Beetle is best girl

She's been pretty great so far.

Kamadouma is a hilarious take on the Vegeta type of character, and Dino is pretty clearly the final boss or the penultimate boss before Alice tackles the head honcho. Either way, I'm clearly in the home stretch of this trashterpiece.

Scorpion and Grasshopper amused me with how pragmatic they are. "Kill more assassins to drive up the bounty" and "just fucking leave the deathtrap of a school" are surprisingly sensible strategies to take in a series that runs on everyone acting like a mental patient.

Edit: And now I'm done with Arachnid.

Hell of an ending on that series. It's like the author decided he had to one-up himself every few pages in the last ten chapters. It was just one bizarre twist after another, most of which made not even a glimmer of sense. Was anyone expecting a goofy, shallow, cute-girls-and-fighting manga like that to end on such a surreal note?

[Skull]

Finished Season 1 of "March Comes in like a Lion".

I'm still half & half on the protagonist Rei. The Kyoto arc was my favourite, Shimada was a fascinating character. <3

[GundamFSN]

Shimada was a fascinating character. <3

He's definitely my favorite, yeah.

[Imperial]

I started reading the Arachnid spinoff, Caterpillar, but it looks like the translator stopped at the end of volume 3 and it's too obscure for anyone else to have bothered picking it up.

Lame

Maybe I should just break down and try Black Clover or Seven Deadly Sins.

[Rafflesiac]

Read My Hero Academia instead.

[RoydGolden]

Speaking of Seven Deadly Sins, hasn't the second season of the anime just come out? How come no one's talking about it?

[Marmadillo]

Speaking of UC, I did like how throughout its history, both sides of the conflict were depicted of being capable of both good and evil - With the Federation being the enemy in Zeta and HF, while the Sides other than 3 could be evil such as Zanscare and the Jovians.

Federation is not evil in Zeta, both Titans and AEUG are factions in Federation, or pretty much any other UC show. It is portrayed as either corrupt or ineffectual as suits the story.
You could argue that Federation is an enemy in a broader sense as an opponent to spacer self-determination, effectively acting as a colonial power with traces of supremacist ideology. But when their opponents are nazis, feudal dynasties or feudal nazi dynasties, they kind of always look okay by comparison.

[Laserman]

I just finished watching the Black Butler: Book of Murder OVAs. They were very good, but I bet it would have been better if I didn't read what happened in the manga before watching them.
I hope I'll get to the see Book of the Atlantic movie soon. The next part to be adapted would be the school arc; it wasn't that exciting in the beginning, but it's toward the end that things get really good. To be honest, it's the one after the school arc that I really want to see animated.

[Laserman]

The first two episodes of Season 4 of D.Gray Man are out and I just got finished watching Episode 78. It was a good fight, Kanda had the upper hand in the beginning with his speedbut with Skinn's ability to regenerate along with his other powers, he turned the tables on Kanda. By sacrificing his lifespan, Kanda managed to finally bring Skinn down and then said, "Noahs never die, huh. That is absurd.". A part of me thought that there's no way defeating a Noah would take one episode and right when I thought that, guess who's eyes showed signs of life. Cut straight through the middle, body crumbling, and he's still alive lol.

[Five_X]

The last two episodes of IBO season 1 messed me up, what a finale. I'm really glad to have made it the first Gundam series I made! It's also the first dub I've watched in a long, long time, and that was handled excellently all the same; I watched the first few episodes in Japanese and ended up liking the English voices more, but part of that's taste, I guess. Either way, I'm glad to at least know I'm still capable of enjoying dubs! I thought I'd been ruined by weebery and seasonal anime forever.

[Mattias]

IBO season 1 was really good. It got me interested in watching Gundam, but Thunderbolt (which first aired at the same time) was what really hooked me in, and convinced me to deep dive back to the beginning.

[bassgs435]

Speaking of Seven Deadly Sins, hasn't the second season of the anime just come out? How come no one's talking about it?

It has and I'm enjoying it. Problem is: Netflix. So gotta wait for fansubs. And decent ones that aren't shitty speedsubs for an illegal streaming site

[Laserman]

The last two episodes of IBO season 1 messed me up, what a finale. I'm really glad to have made it the first Gundam series I made! It's also the first dub I've watched in a long, long time, and that was handled excellently all the same; I watched the first few episodes in Japanese and ended up liking the English voices more, but part of that's taste, I guess. Either way, I'm glad to at least know I'm still capable of enjoying dubs! I thought I'd been ruined by weebery and seasonal anime forever.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Edit: D.Gray Man Episode 79: So the Noah aren't just born with their powers, they have to awaken to it. And it looks like age isn't a factor to when it happens either. Kanda, for sure this time, was able to kill Skinn. The Noah aren't immortal, they can die.
But, Kanda used Sangen-Style again, and the exit door fell apart along with the room with in it.
It has to be a mistake Miranda, he can't be...

It's nice that they put out two episodes of Season 4, it makes me more excited for it. One month to go.

[Cruor]

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2 Episode 13:

Spoiler:

MIKA! Why?! Mikazuki just destroyed the mobile armor on his own by pushing the Barbatos Lupus to it's limits. He won the battle but he lost the use of his whole entire right side this time, damn it. Maybe in another Gundam series going inside a healing chamber would fix that, but not in this one.

Orga still intends go ahead with becoming the Sovereign of Mars; the Teiwaz boss gave him the okay, but others in the organization are already conspiring against him. Mikazuki told Orga he shouldn't apologize about what happened to him, that now because of his condition, the only thing he can do now is fight, that it makes things much simpler.

That made me start to tear up, he loses most of his sight in his right eye, his right arm and now his whole entire right side, but Mikazuki hasn't changed a bit. He still intends to do everything he can to help Orga, even if Orga isn't sure himself about what he wants for Tekkadan.

The opening is going to change after this episode. I hope it is as good as RAGE OF DUST is.

Orga is an analogue to

spoilers for ibo

Napoleon

take that as you will

[R.Lock]

Wixoss has me shook. Need to find time for the second season.

[Mattias]

Orga is an analogue to

spoilers for ibo

Napoleon

take that as you will

Mind. Blown.

[Cruor]

Mind. Blown.

I've also heard a lot of people infer with the Orga thing that McGillis might be

Spoiler:

Robespierre because of his obsession to change the world and the ensuing dark turn for his end

But that ones a lot less fun and not sure if its as legit as the Orga one because that's rather clear cut with how ambitious and self destructive he slowly became

[Laserman]

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2 Episode 14:

Spoiler:

The new opening is awesome, KANA-BOON are so good. So Iok decided to frame the Turbans to get to Tekkadan. And Naze doesn't want any back up from Tekkadan either, knowing that this might be a trap for them. I also got to know how the Turbans were formed too. Can't wait to see what happens next.