Oooo I like this, thank you

I’ve been so surprised by this show haha

Episode 1 was just twist after twist, and now there seems to be, what, a magical girl or something?

Why’s there so many different supernaturals intersecting? Is that going to be a major plot-point? Feels like a definite chekov’s gun.

As an aside, is that a traditionally animated dance scene in a pokemon show? I would not have expected such nice animation coming from pokemon.

Ya, Pokemon XY/XYZ had a whole bunch of really great animation, making great use of both traditional and CG animation. One particular change is that, while in Best Wishes, they used generic backdrops to indicate motion during attacks, like so:

Come XY/XYZ they used fully rendered 3D backdrops during attacks, with complex battle choreography and a consistent, full field of view as the Pokemon navigate the entire arena during attacks,. They also make a lot of use of depth and motion in the action sequences, and even 360 degree shots.

After XYZ, Pokemon Sun and Moon completely changed the art direction to be a much less modeled, restricted one. XY/XYZ was one last big hurrah for the traditional style of Ash Ketchum and Pokemon anime that we all grew up with, and the animators delivered quality in spades. It’s by far the best animated of that traditional style.

Also thanks for the note about the footnotes thing. I never use the apps, so didn’t know that they don’t handle the markdown properly.

IMO, CG’s great in backgrounds^[1], and in helping compose a shot by applying to non-human set-pieces^[2]. It can also be good for living things like kaiju and mechs^[3].

It’s generally bad form to apply to humans though unless heavily stylized for it^[4].

An exception to this is a show like Land of the Lustrous in which the people are made of minerals, and thus it makes sense for their bodies to appear more rigid and uncanny. It’s also the only reasonable way they could have gotten their hair to be consistently iradescent throughout the entire runtime of the series.^[5]

I think .ml’s fine for certain types of communities.

It’s simply that their perception of anime and sexualization therewithin is at odds with the anime community’s perception of sexualization. I think there’s some merit - the anime community is host to a lot of people and art that I’m morally opposed to myself, I simply believe that .ml’s looking at the benign and edgy and painting it with the same brush as the abhorrent and gross.

Just my 2 cents on the matter ^^

Turns out I’d forgotten to sub to this community, even after I’d added it to the sidebar of anime.ml. The two remaining moderators there are pretty inactive so it’s right of those admins to be looking for new volunteers. Sorry that this ends up impacting everyone else; I tried to stay out of the drama myself, but I wasn’t willing to moderate the way they wanted me to.

The fact that we can have a different community to use is one of the beautiful things about the fediverse, and why I personally believe so strongly in it. I

Anyways, I hope everyone finds this community just fine, and I look forward to many discussions and to talking about anime over here.

I will no longer be moderating this community. Please use [email protected].

So far, my list is looking like:

Sasaki and Peeps
Tis Time For “Torture,” Princess
Delicious in Dungeon
Solo Leveling
Gushing Over Magical Girls
Mr Villain’s Day Off
7th Time Loop
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
My Instant Death Ability Is Overpowered
Fluffy Paradise

I’ll probably also watch, at the minimum:

Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
Metallic Rouge
Urusei Yatsura S2
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
Tales of Wedding Rings
A Sign of Affection
The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil
Mashle: Magic and Muscles (just need to finish S1 first)

Oh ya, this was amazing tbh. It just kept climbing with all the elements it threw in. In particular, I love the idea of there being two “magic” systems that operate independently in fundamentally distinct ways.

Try Seven Mortal Sins.

Because I’d rather it be ruined quickly by low quality than ruined over the course of 3 years by a shit release schedule. I’m extremely pessimistic of the anime at this point because of how much they fucked up its ending by calling it Final Season and continuing to push “Final” more and more over 3 years.

At least PN2 was just a few episodes before I realized “oh I don’t really care about this”, rather than my disdain being pulled out of me by whatever idiot decided this was the way.

I literally would have preferred it to be a Promised Neverland Season 2 than this release schedule.

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I think the biggest mistake was naming it Final Season to be honest

This is it. They should not have named it final season. Once they named it final season, that was an expectation set, and they keep on changing the expectation in the most annoying way. I would have preferred them cram everything into a terrible final season than edging us like this for 3 years.

I dropped the series at ep 11 of final season when I learned it was gonna have a final season part 2. Maybe in a few years I’ll go back and finish it off, but fuck, this release schedule has really soured me on the series.

I really liked the little idol scene with Filo. I’d love to see more of that between seasons.

I like that the story mixes things up. It never really seems to lean too much into the laid-back chill, the emotional hits, or the action for very long, before proceeding to something else. I think it works really well for the series and continuing to be an increasingly engaging and interesting story.

I really really love about this show that there’s a scene with a slime and tentacles, but no ecchi fanservice in sight. I believe we’re roughly at the end of volume 1 now? I look forward to next week’s episode, when Claire starts showing some personal interest in our MC-chan.

We have only adapted 14.5 chapters so far in 7 episodes.

This is crazy, because it really feels like we’ve done way more than that. I guess because the pacing can take its time to really give an immersive feel to the world. Sounds like I’ll be reading the manga after the anime’s done though; this is def good enough to warrant it, even if I feel like the atmosphere of the anime is one of its strongest points.

GOD I CAN’T WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK. They really killed it with that cliffhanger. Frieren’s such a badass, even the way she let herself get taken down, but refused to take her eyes off her enemy. Also, to not tread on what others have said about this episode, it’s interesting that they mentioned other creatures that use human speech to trick us, and that human speech is what distinguishes demons from monsters.

The writing was really great too, with the demons using honeyed words that sound sympathetic, but they turn around and acknowledge they don’t really know what it means except that they get to live a while longer.