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Edjwald
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Hold on, Blood, I'm watching more shows than you? People should save that kind of information for anime interventions! I guess you really are serious about an anime Slimfast kick. Alright, lemme seriously count here.
Solidly enjoying.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Endangered Species Duke of Death................................,,..Aristo w/ Appraisal Skills Go Go Loser Ranger.........................Chillin' in Other World Tsukimichi Moonlight..........................Gods Games We Play Spice and Wolf...................................Train to End of World Konosuba...........................................Unnamed Memory Bartender............................................Reincarnated as a Slime Salad Bowl of Nuts.............................Whisper Me a Love Song Wind Breaker Astro Note Kaijo 8 Tonari The Fable Yatagarasu The New Gate Jellyfish Can't Swim at Night Geez, If I count the ones I'm watching weekly retroactively (Sand Land, Maison Ikkoku, Natsume's Book of Friends), I'm actually watching 25 anime a week. This is a cry for help. Edited multiple times to try to get columns in some kind of shape. Apparently spaces don't work Last edited by Edjwald on Tue May 14, 2024 3:46 am; edited 3 times in total |
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Well in addition to my current 11, I'm picking away at Sand Land and Grimm's Variations. I don't count them in the official tally since all their episodes were available at once. I gotta say, I'm enjoying my reduced caloric intake. I like not feeling pressure to keep up with two dozen shows every week and I like the fact that I genuinely look forward to the shows I am watching.
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smurky turkey
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Good god, you say that it no longer feels like a job to watch anime? Jokes aside though, I am also cutting back on some shows this season. As the seasons get fuller and fuller it becomes an insane task to watch most of them every week and it looks like it is only going to get worse.
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I think Metallic Rouge kind of broke me. It was a show that had some stuff I liked at the beginning then it went south but by then for some bizarre reason I felt compelled to watch to the bitter end and experienced nothing but sweet, sweet relief when it was over. After that, I was determined never to get trapped again and at least for this season I've stuck with that mentality. So for me, it's not so much focussing in on a specific number per season it's more about genuinely liking anything I'm watching and looking forward to new episodes of it. Whatever that number ends up being is kind of beside the point. I just can't with "meh, this is okay, I guess" any more.
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smurky turkey
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Yeah, I get that feeling completely. I recently had it with The Banished Former Hero. The show is a trash isekai and although I have watched all of those in the past at some point you just have to wonder if it is worth it to keep doing so. The moment you are questioning why you are watching something you know that you took a wrong turn somewhere. Sunken cost fallacy and FOMO make for a deadly combo of wanting to see as much as possible and not give up once you have started, no matter how shitty something has become.
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Edjwald
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For me, ideally, I like to watch an anime or two after work with a cup of coffee and a light snack to kind of decompress, then watch whatever anime I enjoy that come on early Saturday morning, and then wallow in an anime fest Sunday morning watching all the late Saturday afternoon anime until Duke of Death comes on.
Which I'm sure was fascinating. My point being, my lifestyle or lack of a life style can fit about 16 to 20 anime in a week fairly comfortably. But I get what you mean about feeling like watching an anime being a chore. There are some anime that have a kind of twisted genius for being right on the cusp of enjoyable. Some take a great premise and then bland it up or trope it to death, and some plant moments of inspiration or enjoyment between long intervals of irritation and viewer exhaustion. Some brilliantly animate loud, muddled tedium, and some curse decent writing with horrible production values. I think it's that quality that's more tiring than the quantity in some cases. Anyway, I'll probably drop at least 5 anime that I've been teetering on this week. |
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smurky turkey
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Like with any media/hobby these days it is all about making choices. There is so much content of everything that even wanting to experience most of it is a fool's errand and carries the risk of burning you out. If you are watching an episode and simultaneously already thinking of what the next one in the list is...well, I know that feeling and it risks feeling like work.
Episode wise it was saying goodbye to starting town and setting off on a journey. There was a lot of information being leaked this week though. The receptionist seems to have a network to make use of and the bandits also knew more than they should have. |
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Edjwald
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Highly attuned, deep thinking, sensitive anime gourmand that I am, my big takeaway from this episode was "So Motorboating is a treatment for anger management issues? Somebody introduce this topic at a psychotherapy summit right now!
That said, I'm more curious about what Schnee is going to tell the royals at the castle and the shady clergyman than I am about the traitor. I do wonder if there's a big bad or huge conspiracy that's going to connect all the seeds this story has been planting. |
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Episode 6
I keep waiting for this show to go south on me and to my delight it continues to stay afloat. It probably helps that this is the only "non-dungeon generic medieval European setting fantasy" show I am watching this season. Not sure why Shin felt the need to take the Moon Sanctum with them, although doing so is cool. Also, not sure what cargo the merchant Nakk has. His wagon seems only big enough to carry his four guards (five if you count Yuzuha, I guess) inside and I didn't see any cargo stored anywhere. This show continues to tantalize me with brief scenes of top heavy ladies but so far hasn't given them prominent roles. Right now that's my main criticism... |
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Edjwald
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He's probably using it as a portable smithy. He doesn't really have any deep ties to any particular place, and he doesn't know what he's going to find or how long he might want to stay there, Also, why pay those pesky hotel fees?
Maybe the merchant rented the wagon for guards and was using storage magic to transport the goods? Or no, he was transporting some small, portable jewelry to exchange for weightier goods for the trip back? Or maybe the adventurers are the real cargo, and he's taking them to a den full of slavers.... (That book on how to serve human kind....it's a cookbook!) Edited to add another theory that occurred to me as soon as I hit the submit button. |
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smurky turkey
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Sigh, an anime episode can have lots of issues, one of the worst among them for me personally is having one with a good story and some hard hitting moments that do not resonate as much as they could due to wonky animation. Episode 8 was good but with some better animation it could have been a lot better.
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Edjwald
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That's been true of the whole season for me. My biggest complaint about this show is the production values. For example, the big fight scene was mostly clouds of smoke and pillars of light rising out of the tree tops to avoid a actually animating a fight, and when they did animate the fight, I could see why they did so. What's impressive is that this show has done as well as it has by me in spite of that. It's a decent story with some real heart, whereas most of the bargain bin isekai that get this kind of treatment are just cheap, irritating knock-offs, like those people who try to learn to dance by pasting paper footsteps on the floor and stepping on them in the right order. Kind of makes me want to read the source material, which I understand was a web novel?. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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Good to see I'm not the only one that sees the quality in this show but I'm not as bothered by it's shortcomings because the adaptation team is doing all the right things to get the essentials of the story across while building the characters with a fair level of finesse. Ep8 here especially, despite a lot of condensation they had enough character moments that spoke to critical elements and handled them with enough sensitivity that I was legitimately sad when Girart met his end. The impact of the story was preserved, from leadup to Schnee's touching afterward and it's impressive with what they did with 20 minutes. The show could be much better with more polish/finish but it's like a diamond in the faceting stage, you can see and appreciate what it is and what it can become...
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Episode 8
I did get the feels at the end but it wasn't bare bones animation that kept my emotion in check for most of the episode, it's the fact that Girart is somebody we only were aware of for about an episode so it was tough for me to get invested in his story. Plus, I have wearied of characters whose biggest kick in life is getting to fight somebody really strong. I just can't muster much engagement with the situation. |
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smurky turkey
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New Gate has a light novel with 22 volumes, so it seems there is plenty to read if you manage to get your hands on them. This week's episode was very much an in between one with most of the time spend on wrapping some things up and setting up the next hurdle. I like that most characters feel unique and manage to feel distinct even if they barely get any screen time. As for the thing at the end, I suppose it is indeed an assassination attempt?
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