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

[Zurvan]

KAGUYAAA
SHIROGANEEEEEEE

[Laserman]

The Promised Neverland Episode 8:

Spoiler:

Oh my god. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

[LegalLoliLover]

As you may or may not know, before he wrote Excel Saga, Rikudo Koshi wrote an H-doujin called Municipal Force Daitenzin. He later used the Municipal Force in Excel Saga. I once found a version of it that was censored with a "joke translation". You wouldn't happen to know where to find an uncensored version with the actual translation, do you?

[Deathhappens]

Started reading High Score Girl completely at random after a video of the anime showed up in my recs. Great manga, especially if you were there for the early fighting game boom (Street Fighter 2 is practically the 4th main character in the whole thing).

[arrowofsky]

Kingdom Manga, Shingeki no Kyojin Manga, Tower of God Manhwa.In all, main characters are not destined to win always so the story is relatively more interesting. I also liked Berserk but the mangaka seems not liking drawing it very much. And yeah, waiting for Fate/Strange Fake's fifth volume translation.

[ItsaRandomUsername]

FLCL Progressive being a sequel is expected.

FLCL Alternative being some kind of weirdo prequel-cum-alternate timeline was less-so.

I liked 'em. Progressive as a whole moreso than Alternative. Progressive is more standalone, and cryptic, while Alternative rocks that SOL charm and brings all the three seasons together.

[Deathhappens]

I caught up on HSG and holy duck, I did not expect this love letter to the 90's manga to actually have such an engaging romance. One of the characters has literally never spoken and yet perfectly showcases her emotions every time, despite the rough artstyle. I really need to thank Youtube for bringing this to my attention.

[Laserman]

I finished Yugioh Arc V.

I finally understand this tweet now.

They're just gone, they and the other dimensional counterparts didn't come back. My favorite character, Shay, just accepts that his sister, that he went searching across dimensions for is gone. And Leo got away with everything. That had to have been the worst ending in of all the Yugioh series. The show was fun, but things fell apart towards the end of the Fusion Arc. It had a lot of potential, but it was wasted.

One of the things that I like to do is just re-watch duels from the other shows and there aren't that many duels in Arc V that I would watch again. Most of the duels in the second half Arc V just consist of summoning monsters from the Extra Deck constantly, and Action Cards coming to the rescue. There's no build up of summoning monsters or strategizing, they just act instead considering their options.

I don't think I'll jump straight to Vrains. I'm probably going to re-watch Inuyasha and then watch Inuyasha the Final Act, or re-watch and finish the first season of Durarara and then other seasons of it. And if not, I might try watching Kill la Kill or something else.

[Historia]

lol, holy shit, the walking dead comic, they just

Spoiler:

killed off Rick just like that

I like it and it was kind of foreshadowed with the 'let's all work together' speech the previous chapter, but,

author has balls

[Laserman]

The Promised Neverland Episode 9:

Spoiler:

There's a cliff beyond the walls, what are they going to do? God, Norman looked so dejected. In the preview for the next episode, Isabella said she would kill Emma is kept causing trouble. Breaking her leg was one thing, but she's willing to kill her if it comes down to it...

[Laserman]

The Promised Neverland Episode 10:

Spoiler:

So Norman is gone now, I can't believe it. And now it's Ray's turn. I thought Norman and Ray were the masterminds of the three, I didn't think that Emma would be the one make up a plan in the end.

[Imperial]

I've been on a bit of a KyoAni binge lately.

It was funny watching Beyond the Boundary and Myriad Colors of the Phantom World back-to-back. Same basic premise -- supernatural high schoolers hunting the spirit of the week -- but run through a tonally different lens. Boundary generally played itself straighter with the dash of Akihito and Hiroomi's weird sense of humor to break things up whereas Phantom World was bound and determined to be as goofy as possible with a dip toward the serious in the last two episodes. It's hard to say which one entertained me more. Both casts had amazing chemistry.

I really liked how creative some of the powers were with Hiroomi's battle scarf, Mirai's blood blade, etc.

Mai's five element kenpo really stuck out to me as a T-M nerd. I love how ufotable handled its Fate adaptations, but I might have liked to see Rin's magecraft treated the same way. (Well, aside from the part where Mai feels herself up to channel her power) Water punches! Fire kicks! For an Average One, Rin doesn't really stretch those muscles.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for high production values, given that the next few things on my list are more KyoAni and ufotable shows like Hykouka and Tales of Zestiria the X.

[RoydGolden]

I've been on a bit of a KyoAni binge lately.

It was funny watching Beyond the Boundary and Myriad Colors of the Phantom World back-to-back. Same basic premise -- supernatural high schoolers hunting the spirit of the week -- but run through a tonally different lens. Boundary generally played itself straighter with the dash of Akihito and Hiroomi's weird sense of humor to break things up whereas Phantom World was bound and determined to be as goofy as possible with a dip toward the serious in the last two episodes. It's hard to say which one entertained me more. Both casts had amazing chemistry.

I really liked how creative some of the powers were with Hiroomi's battle scarf, Mirai's blood blade, etc.

Mai's five element kenpo really stuck out to me as a T-M nerd. I love how ufotable handled its Fate adaptations, but I might have liked to see Rin's magecraft treated the same way. (Well, aside from the part where Mai feels herself up to channel her power) Water punches! Fire kicks! For an Average One, Rin doesn't really stretch those muscles.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for high production values, given that the next few things on my list are more KyoAni and ufotable shows like Hykouka and Tales of Zestiria the X.

Glad to find another person who liked Phantom World. A lot of people say it was too generic and harem-y, but personally I found it really fun and entertaining. It's funny you mention enjoying the diversity of Mai's elemental attacks though, because of the things I remember being mildly annoyed by in the show was that she almost always just used water and fire, instead of branching out and using her powers more creatively.

Beyond The Boundary is another show I'd been meaning to watch for a while. With how many anime I've got on my watch-list though, I probably won't be getting to it for a while...

[Rafflesiac]

I remember Phantom World and poor Haruhiko, recipient of the worst first kiss of the year.

[Historia]

Evangelion on Netflix in 4 days bois.

Still no previews of the new dub. If there is one.

[Sandstorm77]

It’s great that kaguya and shirogane are together now. Everything else tho.....escalated quickly.

[Deathhappens]

I loved Kyoukai no Kanata, but I couldn't tolerate more than three episodes of Musaigen. I always thought it funny how the same company that showed you can do supernatural actiony romancey stuff right would then turn around in two years time and hit us with the biggest clichefest in the history of mankind. Like, I actually READ supernatural battle harem stuff for fun and I still found Musaigen intolerable.

[RoydGolden]

I loved Kyoukai no Kanata, but I couldn't tolerate more than three episodes of Musaigen. I always thought it funny how the same company that showed you can do supernatural actiony romancey stuff right would then turn around in two years time and hit us with the biggest clichefest in the history of mankind. Like, I actually READ supernatural battle harem stuff for fun and I still found Musaigen intolerable.

It was definitely cliche but I still enjoyed it. Well, I was going through a bit of a complicated period in my life at the time so maybe a simple, goofy and (mostly) light-hearted series with some great animation that I could watch without thinking too hard about was what I needed then. Also I found Haruhiko surprisingly relatable for a harem protagonist, as someone who also likes to blurt out random history and mythology facts to anyone who'll listen.

[Wandering Swordwoman]

Trying to catch up with Jojo

[weeblord]

Kyoukai no Kanata was pretty boring and Phantom Wolrd was bad but Mai was *air humping gesture*