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Apparently the production for Whisper Me a Love Song isn't going great. I'll link the post on the anime board where I read about it because I don't have a twitter account and can't read the twitter thread (the link is in there though)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/2000121-anime-and-manga-other-titles/80780461

I've been enjoying Whisper despite this, so I'm sad to hear its production is so rough. I guess its impressive that I wouldn't even call it the worst adaptation of the season. Animation-wise, the latest episode of A Condition Called Love was pretty ugly too (though, like with Whisper, I love the story and forgive its flaws). Writing-wise, the clear loser of the season is still Unnamed Memory lol.

And now for the thrilling continuation of me looking ahead at next season's anime

Sword of the Demon Hunter - this one has a kind of confusing MAL description, but it talks about a time traveling demon warrior and that's all I really needed to see. I'm sold. When they're done right, I love time travel stories.

The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human - an isekai guy needs to hide the fact that he's human from the demon army he works for. This sounds like the Iruma-kun anime only he's in an army instead of going to school. I guess I'll check it out, could have some funny hijinks if it's done right. Not super excited, though.

Too Many Losing Heroines - this is a comedy about girls who are losers in different ways. The MAL description is even written like a comedy routine, which makes it difficult to tell what it'll really be about. I'll still check it out, I mean it's about cute girls doing things even if they are losers. Not super excited about this either, though.

Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells - this is another isekai where main dude is weak and gets banished but omg he's actually the super strongest. This might honestly be my least favorite isekai subgenre. Definitely skipping this.

Koi wa Futago de Wari Kirenai - a romance between a guy and two sisters. The description reminded me of the Kyou/Ryou route in Clannad because it sounds like one sister is trying to step aside for the other. I enjoyed that Clannad route. Still, I'm going to wait and see what people think of this one. Romance anime are such a minefield. I need to know the drama levels and whether or not the main dude has a personality.

The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to be Archenemies - evil invaders vs magical girl, leaders start to fall in love. This could be cute, I mean I enjoyed Love After World Domination which had a similar premise. I hope this leans more into cuteness, though, and that they aren't just both tsundere for each other and refusing to admit their feelings.

My Deer Friend Nokotan - aw yeah, anime of the freaking year right here. Calling it now! An over-the-top comedy about an animal girl makes me think of Etotama or Dropkick on my Devil, and those are two of my favorite anime! The teasers for Nokotan make it look hilarious.

Wistoria's Wand and Sword - a guy at a magic academy can't cast magic so he gets by with sword skills. Hey, it's just Mashle except with a sword instead of punching. I guess I'll check it out, though. My biggest problem with Mashle was that he solved everything the same way and wasn't creative at all. Maybe sword dude will be a bit more interesting.

Why Nobody Remember's My World? - humanity won a five-way battle for the planet, but then the timeline was overwritten and their greatest hero never existed. Main dude is the only one who remains for some reason, so now he has to try and replace the great hero. Kind of a clumsy premise, but I'm still interested in it! I enjoy alternate timelines and whatnot.

Stuff I'll Check Out (in order of excitement)
-My Deer Friend Nokotan
-Sword of the Demon Hunter
-Why Nobody Remember's My World?
-Dungeon People
-Na Nare Hana Nare
-Dahliya in Bloom
-The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to be Archenemies
-My Wife Has No Emotion
-The Elusive Samurai
-A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring
-Too Many Losing Heroines
-The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human
-Wistoria's Wand and Sword

Summer's starting to look good! There's a pretty large gap in my excitement for Nokotan vs everything else, though. I'll be back for the last nine anime on Monday.

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Strife2 posted...

I just watched it and...well, fuck. The second to last episode is like the best pure "episode" I'd seen in a while. Frieren's first ep comes close at setting a tone, but let's just say "elevating a show" is not an exaggeration.

I definitely plan to finish AssClass someday. It, AKB0048, and K-On are the only three anime where I for some reason just stopped after S1. At this point it's been so long I'd probably have to rewatch the entire thing. I was glad to hear it had a good ending in your earlier comments, though!

Reg posted...

Same author as Neuro and Assassination Classroom

Oh, neat. I never finished Assassination Classroom S2, but my opinion of S1 was that it had a lot of wasted potential. Most of the characters felt really flat. Still, Elusive Samurai sounds like it could work with that style of writing a lot better. It'll probably have a smaller cast, at least. I'm more excited for it now!

Day two of me looking ahead at the Summer anime season.

Plus-Sized Elf - anime about a fat elf, easy skip. I absolutely hated Otaku Elf because it was 90% just about her eating snacks. An anime about a fat elf will probably snack even more.

Bye-Bye Earth - the only human on a world otherwise filled with animal people goes adventuring to discover where she's from. This reminds me of Somali and the Forest Spirit. In that one, though, humans were killed off and they hoped there might still be more out there somewhere. Here there's just only one human? How do they know what a human is, then? I'll probably check this out if it gets good reviews but right now I'm just confused.

A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring - another trash isekai with the premise in the title... but, fuck it, I'll watch this one. I really enjoyed Farming Life in Another World and it was also, essentially, about a guy creating a family in a spooky forest. Sometimes these slow-life isekai can be surprisingly good.

Quality Assurance in Another World - this one is apparently not an isekai, but the description is confusing so maybe I'm wrong about that. Dragons invade and a village girl meets a scholar but they both have secrets... what is this supposed to be? That sounds like a romance setup but it isnt tagged as such on MAL. Meh, I'll skip it for now.

Delico's Nursery - vampire aristocratics raise kids. After Buddy Daddies failed at mixing family stuff with spy stuff, I'm wary of any of these anime that try to mix action and family. Spy x Family did it right. I'm going to wait and see what people say about this vampire one.

VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream - despite making me think she got caught naked or something, the girl in this just got drunk. I'm not a VTuber fan at all, so this is an easy skip.

My Wife Has No Emotion - a guy starts to fall in love with his robot maid. I'm definitely going to give this a try, mostly to see if they can thread the needle and not have this be creepy. Is the robot sentient? If so, does she have the option to refuse him or is there a scummy power dynamic where he could shut her off? This could be a cute and interesting romance if they avoid that potential pitfall.

The Elusive Samurai - a samurai kid is really good at hide-and-seek, which comes in handy when his family is slaughtered and he needs to go on the run. This is tagged comedy, which is good because if it tried to be a moody revenge story I don't think I could take it seriously. I'll definitely check this one out!

Dahliya in Bloom - an isekai girl makes magical tools and has relationship woes before deciding to live for herself. This being an isekai is a minus, but I'm intrigued by the magical tool angle. I enjoyed that one Novice Alchemist anime. Something about crafting things deeply appeals to me. I just hope it doesn't have too much relationship melodrama.

Twilight Out of Focus - a boys love story about roommates who have a bunch of rules to avoid falling in love, but they start falling in love anyway. Man, someday I want to watch a BL just to say I have and to prove I'm not prejudiced, but it won't be this one. One of the two guys in this has a boyfriend and I don't want to watch a story where he contemplates cheating the whole time.

Stuff I'll Check Out (in order of excitement)
-Dungeon People
-Na Nare Hana Nare
-Dahliya in Bloom
-My Wife Has No Emotion
-The Elusive Samurai
-A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring

Much better ratio in this set of 10 but still nothing has truly grabbed me. Deer Girl will, of course, but I haven't gotten that far yet!

Rean being cool is the whole reason he has a harem. Elliot, for example, isn't cool and doesn't have a harem

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Leonhart4 posted...

Well, considering it's key-stiss, that's why you'd think otherwise...!

Wait, it is? So when someone calls her Quisty, they're saying Keysty? That sounds gross

Anyone who spends a buck for a random Magic card deserves to lose their money tbh.

There's more than one way to pronounce Yuffie? I didn't even realize people could get that wrong, it's just Yoo-fee

I play three mobile games that technically have login rewards and stuff, but I don't spend money on them and I wouldn't exactly be heartbroken if I missed a day or two.

Now I can read and understand some of these, too.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Mayonaka Punch looks amazing 10000% behind it, zero notes. Original PA Works anime, always some fear but when they hit they hit!

Sounds like I might've been too dismissive of this one, at least! I blame the MAL description saying literally nothing except that they are NewTubers. I'll still wait to see what people think of it once it starts, but I'm more likely to try it now.

I decided to do my look ahead at Summer a bit early too, why not. 38 non-sequel shows (good lord) so I'll do ten or so per weekday, finishing Monday. Starting with lowest members on MAL and I'm not reading anything except the MAL descriptions.

Tasuuketsu - in a world where most people have disappeared, five survivors are forced to play a game. They're asked if they want to live or die. Whichever answer gets majority, the people who picked it are killed. This is honestly kind of a neat premise for a short story or a movie or something, lots of potential for philosophical debate and questions of the meaning of life. As an anime series, though? I don't see this idea carrying a full TV show. I'll wait and see what kind of reception this gets.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin - a goddess on a demon-filled island works with some outcast humans to fight back while also cultivating rice. This is based on a video game, and I guessed even before checking because this sounds like the kind of RPG + farming fusion I see on Steam all the time in the wake of Stardew Valley. It sounds like it could be fun to play. I'm not sure it'd be fun to watch, though.

Grendizer U - an exiled prince flees the Fleed Planet (get it, flees Fleed) to Earth and then fights back with a mecha against the invaders who follow. This feels like a standard mecha anime. I'll probably skip it unless it starts getting good reviews.

Red Cat Ramen - cats who run a ramen shop hire a person who prefers dogs to look after them. Cats running a restaurant sounds adorable, but I'm afraid this will just be a boring food porn anime. Going to wait and see what people think about it.

Dungeon People - a thief searching for their missing father is hired to run a dungeon, including setting traps and hiring monsters and such. This makes me nostalgic for an old PC game called Dungeon Keeper. It also sounds like a fun premise, so I'll definitely check it out!

Mayonaka Punch - this is a comedy about two "NewTubers". I feel like this anime will be aimed more at the TikTok generation and I'm probably too old for it. Nothing infuriates me more than the idea if a show about kids doing stupid bullshit trying to go viral.

The Rookie Middle-Aged Adventurer Was Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party to Become Invincible - always nice when the title explains the premise. The only thing I want to add is that the main guy is named Rick Gladiator. Definitely skipping this generic power fantasy.

A Nobody's Way Up to an Exploration LV - a typical high-school student who... hunts slimes in dungeons in his spare time? That isn't typical! Anyway, he finds a rare item and uses it to summon a waifu. Definitely skipping this.

Na Nare Hana Nare - an anime about cheerleaders, cool. I was one of the few to really love Anima Yell, so I'm definitely going to give this one a shot!

I Parry Everything - in a world with a complex political situation that apparently doesn't matter, an adventurer wanders in with the ability to defensively parry everything but no offensive power whatsoever. I dunno, this premise honestly just sounds boring.

Stuff I'll Check Out (in order of excitement)
-Dungeon People
-Na Nare Hana Nare

Not off to a great start, Summer season!

I played quite a bit if FFTA back when it was new. The only two things I remember from it are the snowball fight at the beginning and there was a character named after Ritz crackers. I'm glad she's now the last one standing!

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LiquidOshawott posted...

I guess I auto for Ramza

For Mog IX

I was forced to use wireless back when my cat liked to chew cords, but I prefer wired. For my setup it doesn't really matter and I don't need to worry about lag or batteries.

I'm going to wait a week or two before doing my usual posts about upcoming Summer shows, but I'm really excited for that show with the deer girl.

If you like Pepesha, you might actually like Shy because Pepesha gets way more attention than you'd expect. I didn't like Pepesha though so I thought Shy was bad.

Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)

For research, you can just watch random youtube clips until you decide to stop. The channel Curb YourTube has what feels like most of the series broken into videos.

Of course H3 disappears the day I save first and somehow remain first in H2!

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swirIdude posted...

Is there any point to Star of the Day if you're going to pick the Dud as Star just because they won?

Honestly no, there is no point. I hate having to pick Star/Dud. It's easily the worst part of tallying the votes because everyone has an opinion about why I'm wrong even though, again, there are only eight possible choices and most of these matches are blowouts with similar margins. I inherited Star/Dud, though, so I felt obligated to keep doing them. I guess one way to avoid that is to just stop tallying, which I guess I'll do. Someone else can tally from now on.

Freezington Division
(39) Zebstrika/Excadrill v. Vanilluxe/Trumbeak (6)
(41) Shedinja/Meowscarada v. Grotle/Iron Boulder (4)
(23) Poliwhirl/Furret v. Orbeetle/Oricorio (22)
(31) Ho-oh/Latias v. Axew/Arboliva (14)

Star of the Day: Poliwhirl/Furret
They didn't dominate the competition like the left side often does, but theres still something impressive about narrowly managing to avoid an upset.

Dud of the Day: Grotle/Iron Boulder
No fancy reasoning, these two just got the lowest score of the day.

GenesisSaga posted...

But... there would still be 5 more hard boots...

We already had five moogles in. Not that I'd ever let Mog IX suffer such a fate, but there would've been one moogle per hardboot!

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Trading for Ktjn, auto

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Vanilluxe/Trumbeak
Grotle/Iron Boulder
Orbeetle/Oricorio
Axew/Arboliva

I haven't watched today's episode of Train, but I'm actually really glad to hear it's dull. After the absolute awful nonsense that was last week's episode, I needed them to dial it back about fifty notches.

Dewford Division
(43) Totodile/Articuno v. Qwilfish/Volcanion (4)
(32) Slowking/Honchkrow v. Fezandipiti/Ursaluna (15)
(36) Skarmory/Wailord v. Finizen/Tepig (11)
(37) Xerneas/Pinsir v. Crocalor/Geodude (10)

Star of the Day: Xerneas/Pinsir
A lot of today's results were similar, but I think it's impressive that these two managed to get the second-biggest blowout against a Gen 1 mon like Geodude.

Dud of the Day: Qwilfish/Volcanion
Even on a day where a lot of results were similar, these two were the clear losers.

MacArrowny posted...

It's been ages since I watched the show, but as I recall, the bullying isn't exactly severe, and isn't the plot of the whole show, either.

Oh that's good to know, thanks! Dear Brother is on Tubi too, so not difficult to watch, maybe I'll just give it a try.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Looking at 1991 and it's just so striking that so few shows used to air back then, and that half of them were Mecha.

I wouldnt even mind the number of mecha shows, but most of them are also seemingly for literal children, lol

UshiromiyaEva posted...

and yeah it was a mess, but people arguing about it being an all time worst manga adaptation contendor mess?

Sheesh, these people don't watch the true junk. I can think of several messier adaptations. Unnamed Memory springs immediately to mind as a worse adaptation just from this season! Whisper is, at worst, just kinda low budget and lazy. None of its problems ruin the tone or the story.

MartinFF7 posted...

Roba you know swordz was trading his noms for Yuffie and she already had enough support before you did that???

I got spooked by Lopen dropping Yuffie because she looked guaranteed. Plus I didn't realize Sonon got another nom right before I did that lol. Even if Sonon gets 8, Yuffie would also only have 8 and that would have me spooked for the entire last twelve hours of noms. Getting Yuffie in is vital. Getting Sonon in would've been fun because then I could make a fun FF cross-stitch of the two of them like I did for YRP that one year, but he isnt necessary.

Yeah, my favorite anime in Winter was 7th Time Loop. I loved it, it was great, but there are three anime this season I'd easily rank above it (Condition, Jellyfish, Tonbo).

I won't get to see GBC 8 for at least a week but I looked up the spoilers because I'm weak. Man, this season's girls music anime sure have a lot in common, don't they!

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Nidoking/Ninetales
Togekiss/Kilowattrel
Murkrow/Roserade
Rhydon/Tauros

Left side too strong

junk, you just need to nominate something else and have it stand-in as a proxy for FFX Bahamut. Might I suggest this, which I found on the FF wiki:

"A Bahamut-like summon called Gun Dragon appears in Final Fantasy: Unlimited."

All hail Gun Dragon

Alfornada Division
(42) Rotom/Lugia v. Shroomish/Ledyba (8)
(32) Groudon/Maushold v. Virizion/Kabuto (18)
(28) Chikorita/Butterfree v. Noibat/Fletchling (22)
(15) Wooloo/Slowpoke v. Politoed/Corvisquire (35)

Star of the Day: Politoed/Corvisquire
Another upset! Perhaps these two only won because Slowpoke's voters were too slow, but its still an accomplishment.

Dud of the Day: Noibat/Fletchling
I'm giving these two the dud because for awhile it looked like we might get a double upset today, but they faltered towards the end.

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