What Anime and Animation are you currently watching?

Dandadan. The unexpected partnership between a medium girl (who doesn’t believe in aliens) and a UFO otaku (who doesn’t believe in ghosts).

I read some 60 chapters of the manga. The adaptation by studio science Saru (Devilman Crybaby, Scott Pilgrim Take Off) is looking great. It was a great choice of studio.

The thing about Dandadan is that, albeit not being episodic per se, it doesn’t have a clear goal. Naruto wants to become the Hokage; and Luff wants to be the king of pirates. Whereas Dandadan is just a lot of weird stuff happening. And that’s good and bad at the same time.
 
The Legend of Vox Machina S3. The irreverent Amazon original is back where it left off with its goofy wisecracks and wild action. Recommended.
 
Blue Lock vs Japan U-20. Second season of Blue Lock, where they're preparing for a match against the Japanese U-20 national team.

Kind of a introductory episode, the season premiere was. And I am glad it was; too many players to remember of. And I'm glad it's still edgy and goofy.

Highly recommended.
 
Blue Lock: The Movie - Episode Nagi: A Recap of the events of the first season from Nagi’s perspective.

Very decent movie. It holds up as a standalone--and not just a recap--movie for the most of it. It has great character development. However, the ending is a letdown because it is, well, a recap, so they couldn’t invent anything new.
 
Barefoot Gen (1983). A boy and his pregnant mother struggle to survive in a post nuclear Hiroshima (the dialect is pretty distinct)

Beautifully done atom bomb movie. I thought I needn’t see anything on the topic after Grave of the Fireflies (1988), but stands side-by-side with it (with the bonus of being its senior). Also, things that came more recently, like In this Corner of the World (2016), can’t hold a candle to those two.

I knew about this anime film a long time ago--the scene when the bomb drops is a classic--but, for some reason, I’d never watched it. I’m glad I did it now.

It uses the strategy of making you care about the characters, so when the bomb drops, it’s very effective.

Highly recommended.
 

Wistoria: Wand and Sword is about this one boy, who cannot use magic. Many of the other boys loathe him, & want him expelled from the academy. Moreover, they torment him to no end. He does have both physical strength & prowess. ​


I am am currently watched e #8.
 
Look Back (2024). A coming-of-age story of a manga-drawing duo.

Finally, they adapted one of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shots. People often talk about his serialized work, but they forget how great his other one-shots are.

Also, Look Back is his most distinct work. There’s no X-rated content, and the story is heart-wrenching (I took this word from Amazon Prime Video). And it looks even better in animation. It’s flawlessly directed, and beautifully scored and animated.

Highly Recommended.
 
Quality Assurance in Another World new this summer. So there is this immersive game that these people are paid to find the bugs in it. They are stuck in the game world & unable to log out. It has been months, they should really be dead, dehydrated, starved, etc. :unsure: Anyway, there is just one guy who sticks to the job, while the others use invincible mode to rampage around killing the NPGs (Non-Player Characters).

Medieval D&D type.

Just starting #8.
 
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Jeffbert said:
Quality Assurance in Another World new this summer. So there is this immersive game that these people are paid to find the bugs in it. They are stuck in the game world & unable to log out. It has been months, they should really be dead, dehydrated, starved, etc. :unsure: Anyway, there is just one guy who sticks to the job, while the others use invincible mode to rampage around killing the NPGs (Non-Player Characters).

Medieval D&D type.

Just starting #8.
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Just finished the 13th & season 1. Am anticipating s2!
 
Just rewatched Madox: Metal Skin Panic on Prime. It's been at least three decades. I love this period of exceptional hand drawn animation from the 1980s. I have Megazone 23 up next in the que!
 
Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout is rather funny.
 
I don't know if I'll finish Megazone23. Pretty cheesy.

Haven't watched it in awhile, but listening to Daft Punk this week and highly recommend their throwback anime 'silent' film Interstella 5555:

 
Pantheon on Netflix. Current-set sci-fi involving "uploaded intelligences". About six hours long, and I found it mostly kept me hooked. The animation itself was functional rather than striking, but the writing and ideas were good.
 
The lord of the rings: the war of the rohirrim. after the murder of his father, a vassal to the King of Rohan assembles an army of savagemen for his revenge.

Disappointed with this one. Being LOTR and being an anime (made by a Japanese Studio), I had high hopes for it. But the animation is awkward and its protagonist suffers from not-like-other-gurls syndrome (c’mon, that’s so 2010’s!).

This movie is part of the LOTR franchise, and its story is canonical, but it’s definitely NOT fantasy and NOT LOTR. There isn’t a single drop of magic, and it doesn’t add anything significant to LOTR’s lore.

Not recommended.
 
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Disappointed with this one. Being LOTR and being an anime (made by a Japanese Studio)
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I find Japanese studios usually aren't very good at doing European historical elements, and for it to work for me, the Rohirrim would have to be convincingly as Tolkien conceived them, i.e. late first millennium Anglo-Saxon (plus horses). The Jackson films got this right, but nothing I saw about this looked likely to come within a hundred miles.
 
alexvss said:
The lord of the rings: the war of the rohirrim. after the murder of his father, a vassal to the King of Rohan assembles an army of savagemen for his revenge.

Disappointed with this one. Being LOTR and being an anime (made by a Japanese Studio), I had high hopes for it. But the animation is awkward and its protagonist suffers from not-like-other-gurls syndrome (c’mon, that’s so 2010’s!).

This movie is part of the LOTR franchise, and its story is canonical, but it’s definitely NOT fantasy and NOT LOTR. There isn’t a single drop of magic, and it doesn’t add anything significant to LOTR’s lore.

Not recommended.
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You should check out 1980 Return of the King and the earlier Hobbit. Animated by what would become Ghibli.
 
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