>>332 Yeah that would have been great. People still hold out hope that one day we'll get sequels adapting the Crossbones Gundam stuff after Hathaway's Flash.

I didn't exactly finish the show, but I'd say that I'm through with watching Gatchaman after watching 35 episodes, an exact third of the original series. Why? I just became disinterested in it. This isn't like when I dropped Dai Apolon because I just became bored with the direction of the show. In this case, with Gatchaman, it's look the show was heading in a direction for the first couple dozen episodes and then it just drops everything for a villain of the week premise. The plot of the series is that an evil terrorist group by the name of “Galactor” has been wreaking havoc across the globe. Why? Who knows, beyond them looking for ways to destroy any path towards equilibrium between man and nature, but the U.N. is looking for a way to stop them. In come Dr. Nambu with the solution of using his own special task force, the Science Ninja Team. And, so forth begins the endless battle between Galactor and the Science Ninja Team. And I emphasize the word endless. Like I said, the show started out with heading in a direction where it feels like it was setting up this grand conspiracy between uncovering who Galactor is. You find out that Galactor appears to be making android that pose as real people to integrate and subvert civilian life, then those androids manage to have children years ago so Galactor appears to be some Illuminati/Freemason group, then they also team up with a mad scientists who figures out who actually is Galactor's leader and dies just before he can reveal it. Then there's the fact that the leader of the SNT, Ken, lost his father to Galactor a decade prior, only for his father to not be dead and just disguising himself as a the leader of an counterpart civilian mercenary force to the SNT. It starts out being quite intriguing, and then it just goes nowhere with that. Or, at least, feels like it's going nowhere. I don't know about later in the series as I have decided to stop after episode 35 because it feels like there's just no goal to the show, other than the SNT being the maid to whatever mess Galactor creates. I'm sure someone is going to ask about other long flowing series that I've watched, and how I managed to watch those to the end, so I'm just going to give a short list. Gundam was about a bunch of kids whose goal was to survive while they are hunted down in the middle of a war. Future Boy Conan was about finding civilization in a post-apocalyptic waterworld. Genshi was about rescuing all of the Space-Time monsters that have been thrown across Earth's history. Bomberman Jetters was about finding out what happened to White Bomber's brother Mighty in addition to opposing the Hige-Hige and all the chaos they caused. Even Tatsunoko's own Tekkeman and Zillion are much more enjoyable. With the former being an almost similar formula in episode to Gatchaman, but there was still the end goal of escaping Earth to find a new home; and the latter series running on the clock of the evil faction trying to create a safe universe for their offspring. Meanwhile, with Gatchaman, there is no over-arching end goal to the series. It's just Galactor shows up, and the SNT must beat them. Moving onto the animation, it's actually incredibly well made. While it is obviously dated in the aspects that it reuses obvious repeated frames, practical effects in place of images, and camera tricks, the actually animation itself is very expressive and smooth. In some ways, I'd say it's actually better than some of the series I saw later in the 80's, that had “better art” but were far more limited in the animation shown. As for the audio, the music has a cheesy orchestral OST that are various different variations of the shows intro and ending theme, meanwhile the actually characters themselves feel like the recording studio was located in a closest as all the characters come across like they're shouting or can't control their volume of their voice. Overall, Gatchaman was an interesting series to experience what I did. Especially when one considers that the show was released during the same time as Western shows like Scooby Doo. However, the animation is really the star of the production, meanwhile the actual plot and audio itself is either boring or of low quality. If you like “villain of the week” shows, and that being the entire show's premise, you may enjoy it.

Finished off the show Ozuma, which was an interesting throwback to the 80's. It's a six part anime series that boils what is actually a 2 hour movie told in six parts. The premise is that the Earth's oceans have dried up. Why? No one knows, nor cares. However, society has continued to exist in some manner, with people becoming sand-sailers (Keep this in mind, this is important) to traverse the planet. Insert the story, where a girl who's the princess of the "last great human city" is fleeing from the army, only to be saved by Sam, one of the sand-sailors on the ship, the Barnabas. In doing so, it brings gets the rest of the crew involved due to the army wanting to reclaim the princess to pursue their own interests, however the princess is running away from them in order to search for the titular Ozuma, a gigantic mechanical sandworm that controls the fate of the planet. Be aware, if you're reading that and expecting Dune, it is not. To be quite honest, despite the planet being a gigantic desert, the anime actually turns out to be nothing more than the authors thinly veiled attempt to make a sci-fi anime about submarine warfare, as the sand-sailing ships can all dive navigate through the sand like it's any other body of water. On top of that, the story is closer to material like Disney's Atlantis, Titan A.E., and Freejack. It's predictable where the story is going (Especially if you've seen the like), but it's unique in how it executes. However, that's not to give it much praise. In fact, the show comes across as a bit rushed. It presents this unique premise for an environmentalist sci-fi story (While managing to avoid all the reasons WHY people hate environmentalist sci-fi), and then goes right into having the story unfold, one chapter at a time, like the show's afraid that people are going to get board quickly. It a real shame because I wanted to see more of the world that was built, the characters involved fleshed out, and just seeing how things have changed overall. As far as the animation, I loved it. It's EXACTLY what people ask for when they ramble endlessly on about how they want a return to the animation styles of the 80's. And, as for the audio, it's actually quite a silent anime, as the ambiance fits perfectly with the fact that the show is essentially about submarine warfare. Overall, I'm conflicted about Ozuma. On the one hand, it feels like the entire show went by far to fast as it should have been greatly expanded upon. However, on the other hand, the production comes across like it's one of the best anime that I have watched and would doubtlessly recommend to anyone who's interested in it.

So, I just finished off Straight Title Robot Anime. It's a little series that was shown back in the early 2010's made entirely in MMD. The premise for the show is that robots have been fighting for centuries, long after humanity has died, and three utility robots decide to search for laughter as a means on stopping the war. And, that's it. That's all there is to the plot. The rest of show is just about the three robots trying to find the meaning behind laughter, with each episode divided into three segments. The first about the three bots finding a method of humor and testing it out, the second is where they attempt a specific humor trope to the series' opening, and the third is literally the Whose Line game "props". When you get down to it, the series isn't really that funny outside of a couple of chuckles that are produced from the antics on display. However, despite this, the series is actually rather cute to watch as it's basically the equivalent of watching someone grabbing a bunch of items and attempting to figure out what they're used for without any idea of what the item actually is. Sometimes the voice actresses break character during the third segment of the show, and there is a lot of pop culture references on the Japanese side of the show. The animation is MMD with nothing overly special of extensive every really taking place. There's just not a lot to talk about the show because it's pretty cut and dry in it's content, which does give the viewer a chance to relax and enjoy the cuteness of it. However, the show then betrays that trust it's built up with that gut punch of an ending. Overall, I would recommend it if you're looking for something simply and relaxing.

Diebuster fucking sucked, it is not worth your time if you liked Gunbuster, unless you just have shit taste or something. I've noticed an inadvertent trend where, when I like something that was originally done by Anno (Gunbuster, Evangelion), Tsurumaki comes in and destroys what was good about the original work and everybody pretends like nothing happened (End of Evangelion, Diebuster). This happened twice; I didn't know he was the director before I watched the works, but I could tell something was grossly wrong, different, and awful without even checking that and finding out after the fact, and it happened here too. Fucking hell. I was very much looking forward to this too, and fully expected it to be better than Gunbuster with the decade and a half worth of experience they must've gained, but instead they regressed and made a literal pile of dogshit on a platter. Gunbuster was solid and a worthwhile watch despite many flaws, so I was hoping for something amazing with Diebuster, and instead it was just trash. This will be a full-on excoriation of this; I will try to use spoiler tags, but I might get so angry I can't hold myself back. The synopsis is basically: The giant aliens who want to destroy the world are back, this new world with a few superpowered retards (called the "Topless") is here to stop them, with a girl who has a suspiciously similar name to Noriko (Nono) showing up. Anyways, to start let's look at some of the biggest glaring flaws: >No music worth a damn (besides the OP) compared to the original Gunbuster This is insane. The OG gunbuster had some slick fucking tracks, and an OP and ED that were very nice too. The fight scene in episode 5 of Gunbuster (Which I consider the true final battle) was a fucking glorious piece of sakuga, and there were great, albeit brief, fights with very good music in episodes 1 and 2; probably something in 3 or 4 too, but not as memorable as those. A huge reason for that is the music was fucking outstanding and left a mark. This one, compared to the slick, high-speed, fast-paced OST of Gunbuster, had a fucking orchestral soundtrack, which fucking sucked. Orchestral soundtracks are already risky for action works, but this was a fucking joke. It felt like someone just threw a dart at some generic classical music shit on YT and slapped it unto this thing without any thought. There was also a lot of scenes with no music at all. They had a good OP, but they didn't use it anywhere either. >Not a single fight scene that felt like it had impact >Digital/computer-aided animation Music already pretty much kills these, but they also used some shitty digital animation, and generally this shit was very unimpressive and mediocre as fuck. It generally looks more like it was animated by Bones than Gainax, but it didn't have the good fight choreography that Bones does at times to compensate for their lack of detail and shading, so its just shit. Instead of a few crazy memorable action scenes, it had long, bland scenes of shit where its just like "whatever, who gives a shit". >Horrible, inconsistent, incoherent plot and writing >HORRIBLE characters in every way (design, dialogue, writing/actions) >Terrible and nonsensical themes that don't line up with the character's actions. These all tie together. Besides Nono (who is still flawed, but at least likable enough), every single one of these characters was a genuinely awful character from pretty much every standpoint. It tries to claim some bullshit about "friendship" when the main character besides Nono, is an arrogant princess who treats her like shit at so many times, and at other times like a disposable pet despite Nono admiring her so much, treating her so kindly the entire time, and inspiring the actual good morality out of her when she was otherwise a frigid bitch who didn't even care about fucking saving innocent lives over fighting and her own glory. The person who made this anime sounds like they never had a good friend in their life, which is fucking embarrassing. The few moments where this main character does something good, its usually because of chance/circumstance and a minor action, and outweighed immensely by the bad shit she has done, like saying she never needed Nono even once to her friends, being jealous of Nono for nearly being fucking raped and saying horrible things to her in the midst of said incident, generally trying to push her away, and acting, basically, like Griffith in Berserk did before the Eclipse, if anyone remembers that. This chick strongly reminds me of late-stage pre-Eclipse Griffith, and her actions are remarkably similar actually, but unlike Griffith at that point, this bitch is attempted to be portrayed by the work as some kind of friend to Nono. There was also not a single good fucking male character in this entire thing. The most prominent male character is the one who tried to rape Nono, and he was a lying, traitorous, disgusting fuck, and everyone else generally treats Nono like shit besides 1 loli character. Compare this to Gunbuster with Coach, who was a total badass who always believed in Noriko, what a fucking joke. >Retarded concept and terrible mecha designs Fucking "topless"? All these shitty mecha without thought for the basics of proportions and aesthetics? Gunbuster or a cool traditional mecha not showing up even once in the entire thing and instead its some kind of mecha OC cringe circlejerk with unlikable cunts? What a fucking waste. The results of this are a work with: >No impactful or high-intensity action scenes whatsoever >No poignancy or meaning to any of the work's writing >No cool factor for a mecha show, which is fatal >No music to remember or associate with (Anime is a medium with both visual and audio after all, missing one is usually a killer) >Inconsistent, incoherent, dribbling mess of pointless writing that served no purpose than to waste your time >Leave you pissed off that there wasn't a single character besides Nono worth a damn in this shit work >A complete waste of time If you want the TL;DR review, here it is: >Music fucking sucked (besides the OP, which was never used) >Action scenes were fucking protracted, mediocre, and bland as fuck, and hurt by the lack of good music, or even no music period >character designs besides Nono fucking sucked >Pretty much all the male characters of note were unlikable scum, the most prominent one was a guy who tried to rape Nono >The most prominent female character besides Nono was angry that she wasn't the one being raped by the above guy, and BLAMES NONO FOR IT because she's a vile, arrogant, insecure bitch

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>this bitch is supposed to be portrayed as the "best friend" to Nono, despite her treating Nono more like a disposable pet than a friend >where she has on numerous occasions treated Nono like complete fucking dogshit No joke, this fucking bitch, holy fuck. Imagine being jealous of your friend because she was about to be raped. and making that as the real problem, fucking infuriating. >Nothing fucking happens in the entire work largely, besides some random shit here and there that all felt stupid as fuck and somehow the world is in danger by the end of it >Its full of grotesque and retarded shit >The themes are fucking awful because the characters are fucking awful and can't demonstrate anything without being a gigantic joke >they even shat up Nono's mecha design by not giving it proper feet (as in, mecha greaves/boots or something, instead they gave her fucking pointy stumps for legs), leading to wasted potential >feel nothing by the end of it Fuck you Tsurumaki, you don't deserve to touch Anno's works or have him as a teacher you brain-addled fuck. Stick to drawing and leave the directing, writing and concept creation to people who actually have functioning brain cells. Post was too long so I had to cut some

Just finished off the original Bubblegum Crisis, and it's follow-up series Bubblegum Crash, and I can see why it has a lot of staying power with people, but it's such a shame that the story is unfinished. The premise of the series is that 11 years in the future (46 years when it first aired) Tokyo has become this huge metropolis (Megatokyo) that stretches out for miles and surrounds the headquarters of the Japanese multination company Genom, who supplies all of the world's technology, with their biggest addition being "Boomers", androids that are used for consumer and military purposes. However, despite already controlling the world, to the point that they even control the military and the politicians, it isn't enough for Genom, for whatever reason, so the company now spends their past time acting like dicks to the public by allowing their boomers to sometimes go a little nuts. The government's response was to form a special task force to combat these berserking units, called the A.D. Police, but they're rendered mostly useless due to the politicians not actually wanting them to do their jobs. Insert the Knight Sabers, a mercenary group of three of Megatokyo's ladies (Priss, an underground rock star, Nene, one of the desk job A.D. Police officers, and Linna, a fitness coach who later becomes an accountant), all lead by a "Super boomer" in disguise named Sylvia (This isn't a spoiler, it's literally shown in the first episode), who take it upon themselves to corral the rampaging boomers whenever the A.D. Police can't. And, that's the general gist of the series. It's a nice simple premise, with story beats hinting at much more nefarious hands at work, such as a rival "Super Boomer" looking to overthrow Genom's works, but it ultimately doesn't go anywhere and leaves a lot of unanswered questions. And, this is before the jump into Bubblegum Crash (Which was produced immediately afterwards, not years later like other OVA sequels), where inconsistencies begin to really surface. For example, aside from a Boomer incidents being quite common and Genom not exactly being discrete with their work, the city is actually rather clean and neat, that offers almost anything that one could ask for. In addition to that, space travel is already a thing, but it's never relevant to the show outside of just one singular episode. However, that's also skipping over the impression the show begins to create about how is it that Genom manages to retain so much power, and why Boomers are such a threat, when any random person can begin to build themselves a combat suit or a supercar with nothing more than the pocket change they find in the sofa. Despite the Knight Sabers having suits that are so advanced that even the military, that Genom provides with almost the latest tech (Because Genom has moved on from suits and androids onto "living" robots), asks for their help, yet experience difficulty fighting whatever beast a disgruntled employee put together inside his garage. This isn't to harp on the fact that the show is terrible with it's story, it's just that it's wildly inconsistent and throws up a lot of questions that the show either didn't think about or care at all to answer. Each episode is self-contained within itself, where something happens, and then it follows along with the investigation of seeing how it all comes to fruition in the finale of the episode. In some ways, it's a lot better structured than other shows I've watched, but that could also be due to each episode being 45 minutes long, so the story doesn't feel like it needs to rush itself. The animation for the show is also rather beautiful with a lot colors, with the first episode looking a little off, but the rest really pump up the production quality, especially towards the end of the show. However, when you skip over to Bubblegum Crash, it's a little jarring to see just how the animation quality drops. It's not bad, mind you, but it's disappointing compared to the previous eight episodes. Also, what's rather interesting is that each episode for Crash does start with a nice 3D render of the city, so I'm sort of left wondering why the team didn't use that as a way to help keep the animation for the characters up to speed while not needing to focus with animating the background entirely. Also a great aspect of the show is the rock and roll songs that play during each episode's opening and climax, which is another thing that Crash lacks. If it sounds like I'm being too hard on Crash, it's possible that I am, but much of it is due to how great Crisis was in comparison. It's still very well made in it's own right, but you know that it's a step down to what the team previously did. Overall, Bubblegum Crisis and Bubblegum Crash is at a crossroads for me. On the one hand, it's a beautifully made show with great music and a cast of characters that I really did like, however there's just so many questions I have the show's world and seeing none of them answered due both series getting canned before either could conclude makes this a hard recommendation for me. It's possible that the later remake of both the series, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, answers all of the questions that I have, but as of having yet to watch it myself, I don't know if it does. The only thing I would recommend is to download the official music videos for the series as that would likely offer the best experience.

>>1864 >second and third webms damn that's some pretty good music I wish more anime was ambitious enough in current year to be cell-animated when I see shit like that gory stuff from the 90s, I can understand why they don't anymore but it still irritates me when I see things like this Concept doesn't sound bad if you have a strong suspension of disbelief, but kinda "middle of the road" sounding and okay for a few random episodes or something, at least 45 minutes sounds meaty enough to not feel too bad about watching them. Episodic "serious" stories like these are weird to me since one usually expects a plot and connected storylines from concepts like this, its one of the reasons I did not like Cowboy Bebop personally, I guess its probably fine for some simple gritty cyberpunk-ish nighttime entertainment though if you don't expect too much from it from what it sounds like.

So, I just finished off Ko Century Beast 3 and rather enjoyed it. It's a seven episode OVA that takes place 12 thousand years in the future the where the Southern half the planet disappeared, resulting in America, Europe, and North Asia regressing to the point that humanity becomes primitive back-to-nature beastmen, meanwhile Australia enacts their authoritarian nightmare upon South American, Africa, and South Asia to turn the entire hemisphere into one big cyberpunk dystopia. Joking aside, Humans from the Southern hemisphere start attacking the beastmen on the Northern hemisphere in search of Gaia, and ancient computer that gives one power to control the fate of the entire world. And, to fight against these humans, three special beastmen (Wan, Bud, and Mei-Mer) gain the power to control powerful giant robots to fight them off so that they can find Gaia first. In regards to the story, it's mostly a fantasy type of affair, where you can replace the science with magic and not see the difference, where the characters are traveling across vast landscapes of what used to be civilization, with a simple "protect the planet" message at the end. Because, for some reason, writers seems to think that humanity will only ever destroy the planet or regress to hunter-gatherer societies, with balance inbetween ever being possible. But, the story isn't the reason why I like the series, the real reason that I do is because I just absolutely adore the artstyle of the show. For some reason, THIS is the kind of 90's anime art that gets me to bust a nut and drives me crazy with how much I love it. That's not to mention that the show is also very well animated with everything go on. Nothing much to say over the music. Overall, I feel like I can doubtlessly recommend the series as it's fun, well animated, and rather simple (Despite my issues with the story's direction).

>>181 I watched 86 and enjoyed it very much. I loved Lena's heroism and naivete. She's a very cute heroine and Shin is a badass protagonist. Also I love how it tells the story from 2 different pov's, the Alba who are safely tucked in their city and command the Colorata, and the Colorata who live and die on the battlefield. The concept was really good and I enjoyed it a lot.

Finished off the series Shamanic Princess, which is, most simply, a six episode OVA that amounts to a four part movie with a two part prequel The premise of the series is that Tiara, a girl with magical capabilities, comes from a parallel world, called the "Guardian World", to Earth in search of an object called the "Throne of Yord". In doing so, she crosses paths with her old friend Lena and he childhood love Kagetsu, also inhabitants from her world, and find out that Kagetsu stole the Throne, which is actually a painting, for the purposes of saving his sister. There isn't much more I can really tell about the story's plot without spoiling it because it isn't that deep of a show, and there's a reason why I referred to it as a "four part movie", as each episode of the series flows right into the next. It's a nice simple series to watch from that perspective, but I also felt like I wanted to see more of the shenanigans going on between the Guardian World and Earth. Granted, the last two episode, which essentially act as a two-part prequel, sort of fulfill this purpose, but it also comes across as a little hollow because we don't really learn or see anything new with the story and world of the series due to much of it already being explained in the previous four episodes. As for the animation of the series, I'd have to say it's fairly well done and well detailed. The only really complaint I had is that the female characters' faces looked a bit odd at times, but that's just me nitpicking. Also, don't be fooled by the show's OP and ED as the series is more along the lines of mystery or something rather like Hell Girl rather than the shoujo magical girls series it comes across as. The only other thing I can really talk about regarding the series is the omake produced afterwords, called Mahou Tsukai Tai! vs Shamanic Princess, which is just two three minute shorts poking fun at the Magic Users Club and Shamanic Princess. Overall, I would recommend Shamanic Princess if you're looking for a simple series that you can just sit back, relax, and enjoy.

>>2096 I watched this recently and liked it. Felt like a pretty decent ova, good animation nice music and interesting story. Felt like a much more modern show despite being from 92(i mean that in a positive light), that or others took some inspiration from it.

Been around a month or so since I watched it now but >Back Arrow This anime is fucking horrible What do you get when you combine Goro Taniguchi (Code Geass, Planetes, Infinite Ryvius, Scryed) with Kazuki Nakashima (TTGL, KLK, editor for Getter Robo) into an original anime involving mechas? Apparently, a total fucking shitshow. Its like they threw everything they could think of at the wall to stick. >general concept, story, execution They have an amnesiac OP dude with mysterious powers, dropped into a world which he knows almost nothing about, except that he has to "go beyond the walls" which apparently everyone in the world worships as a god, which causes trouble. This involves 2 entire nations so he gets in the middle of a war where his powers get used, and shit like a small village gets caught up in the mess and gets used and betrayed very frequently, to a literally laughable extent. It involves mechas which run based on the user's "conviction" which is unique to each person, but unfortunately its largely wasted, very vaguely defined, and feels completely arbitrary and mostly unimpactful. There is also a big secret and mystery of the world as to what the walls are and what lies beyond them, but the actual secret is disappointing as actual fuck and one of the worst, autistic twists I've seen in a long time. Completely brainless retardation. There is also a shit-ton of "fake" politics and tactics, by which I mean they establish certain political things and tactical situations, only to make them feel like a joke and arbitrarily defeated because "character smart". It tries to combine elements of Code Geass and TTGL, along with a bunch of other assorted shit into an anime, and those two do not mix at all, so it ends up a fucking disaster. The initial premise might not turn you off because out of so many things on the wall, a few interesting things seem like they'd be cool, like a princess with a split-personality between a Euphemia type "love is everything" overly nice person and a literal maniacal trash-talking sadistic serial killer, and her opponent is some extremely overpowered old guy who is leader of the other nation, only they're both being used by some other ugly retard bastard. The fights feel drawn out and tedious after a while, the themes get weaker, its just a disaster. Characters themselves mostly aren't bad per se, but they feel completely wasted and retarded. >animation, artstyle and aesthetic Overall "meh", nothing too impressive or anything. Some mechas look decent, but shit like the dreadnoughts and massive mechs and whatnot look like overdesigned children's toy abominations. Character designs look... "okay", but kinda schizophrenic and strange. Some look decent, some don't. Its all over the place, it wouldn't be so bad if the rest of the anime wasn't awful and they utilized them properly. For example the main character is a guy in a vest and sweatpants, who meets up a village full of village people, including a girl who dresses like a cowboy with a hat and all. Then they meet up with a traditional "romance of the three kingdoms" people, with a dude who dresses like a Japanese eunuch, a huge buff dude who is his best friend, a more contemporary kingdom with science shit, constructs and robots and mechas mixing into all that. They also took some inspiration from TTGL in terms of aesthetics for things like mechas, backgrounds and environments unfortunately, cheapening the whole thing and making it look like it would be better than it was. >Music, sound, etc. I don't remember much special, it was good enough for what it was though. It overall started out as a possible 7-8/10 before I knew what was going on and what it would turn into, and by the end it turned into a 4-5/10, if even that. I'd probably give it even lower like a 2-3/10. The twist is so ass-retarded its not even funny, it feels like a bad joke. I would recommend against this shit heavily, it deserves to be relegated into the dustbin of history. You simply can't "combine" elements of 2 completely different types of works like this, you end up with a foul-tasting abomination, and their attempts to make it "different" just made it very fucking cringy and brainless instead. Both Taniguchi and Nakashima need to be smacked hard for making this, I had very high hopes for it based on their reputations and legacies and the general premise, but instead it was all just a bad joke; I feel bad for anyone who watches this tripe with anything but the lowest expectations. I was stuck watching it after the first 2/3 due to sunk costs at that point, what a fucking waste of time.

Recently finished "Summer time rendering" and I have mixed feelings about it. First few episodes were very intriguing, felt very much like twin peaks. As the series goes on though it changes genre from being a mystery anime to being an action anime. I enjoyed it overall but it just felt like it was dragging things out by the end. The villain was really disappointing too.

The last series I finished was Overlord anime season 4. Truth be told, it was always marketed as the books are better, they can't create everything in the anime. But I'm glad they did and even with the extremely limited content compared to the novels, the world and characters presented are well worth the time.

>>2937 I don't know this anime but it really pisses me off when a series suddenly changes genre and loses focus. They need to plan out how every episode should play out at the very beginning of production.

>>2937 Bummer it didn't stay as consistently good, I'm interested in it because of swimsuit girl Hopefully I like it better than you did when I get around to it (eventually)

>>2942 >I'm interested in it because of swimsuit girl You're in luck then because she pretty much becomes the main character. Most of the plot revolves around her.

Finished off Chou Kousoku Galvion last night and it is an okay show. The premise that humanity finally achieved space travel towards the end of the 21st century with the help of extra-terrestrials. However, the very first thing we did after establishing ourselves among the stars is humanity going to war with itself. Horrified by these acts, the aliens push humanity back to Earth an then erect a barrier around the planet to prevent us from leaving. "Somehow", humanity and civilization has continued to thrive despite being restricted to our planet. But, there is a new cabal of industry elites, calling themselves "Shadow", who form and decide that their goal is to shape the direction of the world going forward. Opposing Shadow is a secret mercenary group working for the government called "Circus", who stumble upon Shadow's activities and make it their goal to bring Shadow down. This group is led by automobile industry heiress Rei Midoriyama, who hires two cons, Muu (An illegal street racer) and Maya (A hacker), with the deal that they will be released if they rack up enough points doing assignments for her group. Despite how "hard" the premise of the series might sound, it's actually rather lax with itself. It seems like there's not real rush to Circus trying to find out who Shadow is, with direct confrontation between the two almost happening by accident rather directly planned (At least, until the later episodes). In fact, much of the earlier episodes focus upon conflict between Circus and the newest member of Shadow, Henry McMillam, who sees to take over Shadow and the world for his own mysterious purposes. In same ways, it's one of the series that gets better the further into the show you get as you see the different parties all pursuing their own interests. However, despite all that being said, the show was also cancelled during it's 22nd episode (Also perhaps the weakest episode of the show), with a 30 second voice-over wrap up that explains where the show would have gone had it be given a chance to continue. So, the show just ends with multiple plot threads left up in the air and no real conclusion. Based on outside material such as art books and interviews given, it's possible to see the show's conclusion, but I sort of feel pleased that I didn't see it come to fruition when the ending the series would have mirror that of the far later Rage of Bahamut: Virigin Soul (Which, as far as I can tell, none of this series' staff was involved in). The art style of the series comes across as a little odd at first because all of the main characters essentially have "Pinocchio noses", but it takes some getting adjusted to. As to the animation, all of the human encounters come across as a little stilted or odd meanwhile the action scenes are all very well animated and well worth seeing in action. Overall, it feels like I cannot really recommend Chou Kousoku Galvion. It's not a bad series, but it really takes it's time getting started, it being cancelled with none of the loose ends ever resolved, and that there's little reason to watch it unless you want to see the action scenes.

Just finished watching this again after like 20 years. Surprised this gets slept on by those looking for cyberpunk astetic that has been lacking in anime untill very recently.

Finished off Zombieland Saga Revenge (Season Two), and it was okay, but it didn't seem to have the same charm as the first season. The premise is that, after the ending of the first season, the girls attempt to do a gig at a giant stadium and absolutely flop, and left with an enormous debt. Afterwards, leading up to the start of season two (Revenge), they work odd jobs around Saga in an attempt to pay off the debt while rebuilding their reputation. In same ways, I think part of the reason for it being more bland has to do with the fact that much of the content feels like a repeat of the previous season. However, there are a couple of highlight episodes, such as the SoL episode with best girl, and the two part "The Saga Incident", which actually do show the girls influencing the world around them. However, I do feel like the it has stinkers of an episode, such as one where they accidentally get an eighth member, and the final episode (Sadly enough). The animation of the show does show a budget increase as the dances in season one were entirely CGI, however these ones threw me for a loop because they did look entirely drawn. However, the rest of the show is okay as it looks pretty standard for everything else. Unlike the first season, all of the songs are JPOP, so be warned if you're not interested. Overall, I think I may have received the series better if it hadn't been so long since I watch the first season (Which was 2018 for context), but it's an okay addition. Also, wondering what the Hell that ending was about.

Just finished of the series [C]: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control, and I really liked the show. The story is centered around Yoga Kimimaro, a wannabe miser who's working two jobs and going to a financial university for the purposes of getting a government job so that he can have an "average" family with an "average" life, all supplied by an "average" and stable salary. However, disrupting that life of "average" pursuit, a Willy Wonka style character named Maskaki enters his apartment to give Yoga a magical pass to the "Financial District", a "parallel world" that exists in all of the world's largest financial centers. Anyone with the ability to enter this world is called an "Entrepreneur", and is paired with an "Asset" that represents that person's potential future. However, every "Entre" (As it's eventually shortened) and their Asset has to fight at least once a week with other Entres for the purposes of maintaining the financial district's "stock market", with an Entre and Asset's magical power tied directly to the financial capital in the Entre's bank account. And, if an Entre becomes broke, they lose their Asset, access to the Financial District, and the potential future that was traded collateral for their ability to access said parallel world in the first place. To sum it up in practice, it's basically Digimon with a lot of banking terms used for battles. However, don't take that to mean that the show takes what sounds like an interesting idea, and squanders it to be shallow attempt at sounding smart. The show actually does center itself on how important money is and operates in the world, which setups the overarching conflict of the show. One of the first characters Yoga meets in the Financial District is Mikuni Souichirou, a financier (And, the show's antagonist) who uses his acquired wealth for the purposes of dictating government and corporate policy and actions behind the scenes, all under the justification that he's "saving" people, and spends the show building up the Starling Guild for the purposes of "controlling" the Financial District. Yeah, I don't have to explain how well THAT goes down when the Financial District is essentially a magical international bank. Anyways, Mikuni desires to take Yoga under his wing because he sees a piece of himself in the kid, however Yoga is unsure about what it is that he actually wants. Seeing the possibilities the Financial District is offering, and the effects of it (Both positive, and especially negative) cause him to second guess if his aspirations and everything he thought he wanted out of life is really sound or just him being selfish and angry. In some ways, I found it quite relatable because he attitude at the start of the show comes across a very similar to the mindset a lot of modern people have. And, seeing his growth over the course of the show to actually fight for a future more grand than he ever thought does make you really want to root for him. The animation for the series is also really good, but does take some getting used to. First of all, the show does a lot of weird jump cuts between animations, which first comes across as animation errors when you're first watching the show, but soon see that said cuts are intentional for story purposes. Another oddity is that the show makes some occasional use of CGI, but never for the battle scenes. Instead, the CGI is used for some conversational scenes and I cannot explain why, especially when much grander scenes and battles are almost entirely traditionally animated (Very well, I must add). And, like always, I cannot such about the shows audio other than it's good and I love the OP and ED. However, I can say that it does have some of the best Engrish audio I have ever heard. Overall, I will doubtlessly recommend that you watch [C] if it sounds at all interesting. At the most basic level, it's just another take on Digimon (Which should sell you itself), however it is a much better show than that similarity may grant it.

Just dropped the show Gundou Musashi after 8 of it's 26 episodes as it is, unironically, the worst anime I have ever had the pleasure of watching. The premise of the series is sort-of an "alternate history" of Japan where Ishida Mitsunari won the Battle of Sekigahara, thereby creating a world where the Tokugawa era of Japan never occurred. However, because of this paradox, demons are released across the country essentially trying to correct the course of history. One of the ways this will be accomplished is through the kidnapping of Princess Kaguya so that she can marry Lord Ryougen. However, standing in the way of this plan is Miyamoto Musashi, an expert thief skilled in gun-dou, a martial arts specializing in the usage of a katana and a sword (Yes, like the protagonist from Red Steel 2), who is said to be capable of exorcising the demons from the land. However, over the course of the eight episode I watched, six of them were devoted to a single battle centered on Musashi being told by a gun-dou master that he will not train him, and learning about a magical gun called the "gun-ki" that is capable of shooting bullets harder than any regular gun, in addition to being the only gun capable of firing magical bullets that would destroy any other gun. And, these six episodes literally had the villain just standing there, watching, and making fun of the Musashi and his groups while they talked about different ways to defeat said villain. Keep in mind that the plot hasn't even started, and these are majority of the episodes in the first quarter of the series. That's on top of the dialogue being so bad that it's a once-in-a-life thing to see. Please don't, though. The animation of the series is even worse. You could almost think that the show was handed to a bunch of interns, but I feel like that's giving it too much praise due to how even interns are learning the skills for a paid job. All of the animations are recycled, the actual movements of characters do not connect with other characters they're interacting with, and the artist for each character literally changes every camera angle. Photos and vids attached should help explain this. That's on top of the fact that nearly ALL of the backgrounds are literally photographs with a filter applied to them. As for the audio, the characters sounded alright, but the sound effects are absent half of the time during the scenes, and leaving me wondering where the audio engineer was. This is such a terrible series that there is nothing I can I can praise it for. While other shows have deserved my ire because of the terrible story (RoB:VS, Nadesico, Orguss) or inconsistent quality (Aquarion), Gundou Musashi has managed to combine both problems and make a product that has ZERO redeeming quality. If anything, THIS is the kind of anime you see parodied here in the West as "Look at those funny Japanimations, and how much better superior Western animation is".

>>3579 I'm serious, you need to see the "expert quality" of this shit.

>>3578 >3rd webm I think they could've done a live action better than this animation.

>>3578 I dont think you could purposely make a worse show than this one.

Finished off the three-part OVA Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer, and it was an enjoyable series. More so for the animation than the story. The premise is that, at the turn of the century, Tokyo experiences a major earthquake that sinks majority of the city into the ocean. Fast forward 15 years, and the rebuilt city has become a battleground between slime-like monsters and anonymous heroes who have access to special games called "kaizer stones", that give their users special powers. At least, that's the setup for the series. The actual plot of it all is that Shigure Kyousuke, a former users of said Kaizer stone, has made it his life's goal to kill Ouzaki Shizuru, the guy who created and gave the Kaizer stones to their users, owns the company that bought up all ruined Tokyo and rebuilt it, and the current host of Satan. And, the show encompasses the various people that Kyousuke crosses paths with, who begin to share in his same goal. To be quite honest though, the story doesn't make much sense, nor does it try to explain itself well. I already mentioned the goo monsters (Who just show up when the script demands it), but apparently there's also this entire dimension that contains a still-ruined Tokyo that apparently the Kaizer stone holders have been having tournaments in but is never shown beyond the first episode. In addition, two of the three "main" female characters just exist in the story for "reasons", with outfits that extremely clash with the rest of the show. So, the plot isn't the reason to watch the show. The animation definitely is, though. Gowcaizer is one of the best animated shows that I have watched as all of the action on display is extremely smooth and a joy to see. It's the kind of animated content that I miss seeing in a lot of works. In addition, it sports my favorite anime art style. Although, for some reason, it seems like the character designer for the male characters was either a woman or a fag because of how gay they all look. Overall, Gowcaizer is something that I would probably put alongside Transformers: The Movie. You won't care about the story, but you'll be watching it for the quality animation.

>>3695 Okay, that explains a bit, this was all done to promote the fighting game of the same name: https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10347

Finished off the four episode series Tenamonya Voyagers, and I rather enjoyed it despite the cliffhanger of an ending. The premise of the series is that Miss Hanabishi, a ditzy teacher constantly looking for work and writing haikus, and Shichinomiya Wakana, a sports prodogy, have travelled to the other end of the galaxy to attend a prestigious school. However, when they arrive, they find out that the school went bankrupt on their trip over and are at a loss of what to do. While coming to the conlusion of returning home to Earth, a mecha crashes down and destroys the school, and out pops the pilot "Space Trash" Paraila, an organized crime head who is on the run from both how own gang and the police. She decides to accompany Miss Hanabishi and Wakana on their journey to Earth for the purposes of exploiting loophole in space law that results in one's criminal record being invalidated upon stepping on Earth. However, right on their tail is determined police officer Yokoyama Tatsue. And, that's pretty much it. All of the episodes are about the trio's exploits trying to get to Earth (Later with the addition of Paraila's underling Maako), and all the silliness that ensues along the way. Wakana and Paraila are constantly at each other's throats, meanwhile Miss Hanabishi and Maako either luck out or the source of constant humor. It all works and it's a very entertaining series. The only real shame is that episode four ends on a cliffhanger of never knowing if they ever got back home. However, where the show really shine is in it's animation. This is perhaps one of the smoothest cartoons I have watched in recent memory, and I cannot remember single poorly made scene out of the entire show. That's in addition to how it's all so colorful and vibrant that I would undoubtlyed recommend it on just THAT alone. That's also beside the point that it was one of the most unique and noticeable soundtracks I have heard. There's not a single bad thing that I can say about Tenamonya Voyagers. It's an absolutely excellent series, that will bring a smile to your face. Even if you frown at the prospect of it being a cliffhanger of an ending, still watch it as is one of the best animated shows I have ever watched. 'Tis a shame that I didn't care for some of the creators' later work as much, which include Noir and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

Finished off Iria: Zeiram The Animation, and had a fun time with it. The show focusses upon Iria, an apprentice and (Later) completely licensed "hunter". The show opens with her riding off with her brother (Glen) and another hunter (Bob) on an extremely dangerous mission to rescue people from a maroonned spaceship. Once they arrive, they find that the previous rescue teams were slaughter by a creature on board of the ship called a Zeiram, which is basically an almost indestructable xenomorph that looks like a samurai. In the process of trying to rescue the survivors, Bob is almost killed and later turned into an AI, Iria escapes the ship at the request of her brother, and Glen self-destructs the ship to destroy the Zeiram. However, the Zeiram survives, and the rest of the show is dedicated towards Iria trying to find a way to destroy the monster and uncover what happened to Glen. It's a very straight-forward plot that leaves little to be explained. The animation for the show is is rather well done. Not as good in quality as Tenamonya Voyagers, but it's very well made. I liked it. Struggling to find things to say because, despite being a good series, there's little to keep you attached. In some ways, the show is riding upon cliches, so there's little that you'll see that's actually unique or new, but it's constructed in such a way that you can just sit back and enjoy it.

Just finished Isekai Ojisan, i haven't enjoyed an anime this much in a while. >Synopsis: After a fatal encounter with a truck, Takafumi Takaoka's uncle, Yousuke "Ojisan" Shibazaki, lies comatose for 17 years. When he finally regains consciousness, Ojisan begins to ramble in a foreign tongue and reveals that he had been transported to a magical world. It's a lot like a guy telling fun stories from an mmo he used to play, every episode was funny, relaxing, but also had good action moments every now and then without losing it's relaxing tone. Last and most important for me is that i liked all the characters or at the very least i didn't dislike/was bothered any of them. Girls were cute too. I suck at expressing my thoughts and feelings.

>>3959 those files are from 2022 because i stopped watching back then and picked it up again a few days ago to finish it

Just finished watching two seasons of Rent-a-Girlfriend. Like all these types of anime the mc is super gay, cuck, you name it. He has two perfect girls (both in personality and looks), who are mad in love with him but no he wants to ignore them and keep paying for the escort because he admires how passionate she is about becoming an actress. I knew what to expect from this type of anime so i'm not too disappointed. There is a third season and i like to finish what i start but i don't think i'll watch it.

>>4027 bitch

So I downloaded Tenku Senki Shurato back in November, tried watching it over the next few agonizing months, before eventually dropping it back in March because of just how bored of the show I was, and have been kicking myself since about actually posting about it before I move onto something else. The short of the series is that's it's an isekai about two martial artists, Shurato and Gai, being brought to the world of Tenkuukai. It's a parallel world to that of Earth, where the peace in Tenkuukai allows our world to exist. However, the lead guardian of that world, Hyuuga, turns Lady Vishnu, the goddess of Tenkuukai, into stone for the purposes of bringing about some sort of doomsday. and he puts the blame for the act upon Shurato. On the run and trying to save Lady Vishnu, Shurato tries to survive traveling across Tenkuukai while being hunted by other guardians and a brainwashed Gai. This half of the plot eventually resolves itself by episode 25, with the remaining 13 episodes being about some sort of demon goddess that Hyuuga was preparing the way for, but I couldn't be asked to watch the rest because I was just so thoroughly bored. And it doesn't help that episode 11 firmly establishes that this show could be best summed up as an "idiot plot", where half of the shit that happens is because half the cast are idiots. To give context about that episode, Guardian Renge is absolutely in love with Hyuuga and will do anything for him. However the other guardians helping Shurato have figured out that Hyuuga is no longer a good guy and finally convince Renge that the man that she loves is no longer the same man. And how does she react? She doesn't fucking care! She declares that she will do anything Hyuuga demands of her because he makes her pussy just that moist and ends up dying (Until Lady Vishnu revives everyone in episode 25). This isn't the only instance of this type of bullshit happening, but it was the one that really stood out the most for me. And there were a few other things about the show that angered me to the point of not caring, but I forget what since it's been so long since I watched this series. The animation is good and audio is good, but I just did not like the show because of how stupid the story got.