You might want to check out Mother’s Basement on YouTube if you haven’t. He’s got a great series called Hottest Trash Anime which goes through all of the current seasons more baseless series. He goes over their strong points, and potential audience, and it’s all done in a pretty creative and entertaining format.
I will admit, I didn’t end up watching anything off of it last season, so maybe we are going through a bit of a drought.
Y’know I was genuinely surprised by it. Like the concept is certainly rather suspect, but then it turned out to actually be quite lewdly wholesome.
I haven’t read the manga yet, but I suppose I should. I might save it until I go up another grade level or two in my Japanese studies, though.
I find some of the stuff listed here is borderline not ecchi. I might risk some criticism here, but for me ecchi needs to have some aspect of sexuality as a core theme, not just coincidentally have thrown in a bit too much fan service.
If you want to try something a bit more adventurous, then Interspecies Reviewers is definitely one of the better ones. Also, Gushing Over Magical Girls was quite decent as well.
I’d keep going with GQuuux. This is my intro to the Gundam franchise as well, and there’s a lot of back story I’m missing, but if you can tough it out and just focus on Machu and Nyaan’s story, it’ll still be pretty worthwhile. (Disclaimer, I’m only up to ep 11)
Space Brothers had the first 20 something volumes turned into a fantastic 99 episode anime, but in 2014, they caught up to the source material so stopped. It totally deserves a continuation, as there’s another ~20 manga volumes out now.
The upshot of watching stuff perpetually late is that I only had to wait 4 years for a sequel instead of 15.
Cyberpunk Edgrunners is the only one I’ve really binged lately. Started with an episode thinking I’d watch one and go to sleep, next thing I knew it was 6AM and I was crying while finishing it up.
I can’t believe it’s actually happening. Someone pinch me, it seems like a dream; I’m still waiting for someone to tell me I just imagined the whole thing.
It’s been a while, but I recall it kinda felt the gameplay oscillated between high stress and boredom. And the stressful parts I didn’t find fun, just stressful. They almost reminded me of Amnesia, and I’m not much of a horror game fan. Not sure if that makes sense.
Man, death stranding was the game I really really wanted to enjoy, but just couldn’t. I was enamoured with the aesthetic and story, but was frustrated by the gameplay so much.
I’d honestly love to see an anime in that world.
🥖 My dude is on a Teto rampage! 🥖 Rock on. 🥖
As someone who picked this up on a whim with no idea what I was getting in to, I have to say I’m very pleasantly surprised. The romantic premise is quite fresh, but what really made these first few episodes great was the setting. It made me feel a deep sense of nostalgia for a place I’ve never been.
I’m still waiting for “I Spent My Rich Dad’s Money to Absolutely Destroy My Gacha Competition, and I Have No Remorse”.
They certainly won’t get the full amount they’re going for, but the sellers’ Amazon accounts will be locked and any funds currently in there will be frozen and recovered, so it’s not like they’re getting nothing either.
Interesting. Did a tiny bit of digging, and it seems the defendants were mostly “fake” merch companies and drop shippers from the likes of Temu and Amazon, probably selling stuff like bootleg T-shirts, posters, body pillows, etc.
This is the answer. One of the best anime soundtracks ever.
Nice! I thought makeine did a pretty decent job of tying things up at the end of the first season, so I wasn’t even expecting a 2nd, and now this is a very nice surprise to me!
Man, the adoption of corporate “owned” copyright/trademarks as mascots of anticapitalist backlash just makes me happy.
Mine would have to be Natsume’s Book of Friends.
I definitely get where you’re coming from. NieA_7 was my first thought, which is another yoshitoshi ABe work. There is something cozy about his work, even though it can be intensely emotional at times.