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Been keeping up with the weekly anime but I've been thinking a lot about heavenly delusion. I have a theory for how a lot of things connect.

I think that the heaven segments are 18-19 years before the parts with maru and kiruko and that maru is tokio's son. I also don't think he can use "maru touch" on humans, but that both the girl from episode 8 and the king of hotels are from heaven and part maneater. I suspect Dr. Usami was from heaven (part of why he had advanced electronic know how AND generators and the coin with their logo.

I believe the collapse was caused by heaven trying to engineer humanlike lifeforms capable of surviving some disease or possibly just improving on humanity, since each one has different powers. One of them, ends up going haywire and creating many of the maneaters we see post collapse, including the fish with arms that the one kid drew. I'm still not sure exactly who will be the one to go out of control. It's possible it'll be the guy that drew them, tokio, the black organ left over from the sick kid, or mimihime. I'm kind of leaning towards mimihime. I suspect the AI running the facility wanted this outcome and caused it to happen. Then again, the humans in the facility refer to some destined time and all they do is for that time at which point they will no longer be able to help. Perhaps that time is the collapse.

I haven't put so much thought into a series in quite a while and it's great.

Interesting gundam witch episode, mostly just confirming the obvious suspicions. Eri died in the prologue but achieved such a high permet score, all of her consiousness was still within the permet network. Permet is some sort of resource that holds and shares data. Sulletta was a 'replichild" which seems self explanatory. What wasn't super obvious was that the gund bit controlling eris are also replichildren, so they are basically just eri's consciousness copied several times in the permet data storm stored within aerial. Everyone seems united in their cause of removing sulletta from all the plans around quiet zero for her own good which is frustrating to watch, because obviously she's going to get involved again, but perhaps as her own person.

I suspect Miorinne's plan won't go very well, since shadiq and dawn of fold are behind the riots, but who knows at this point.

Bro, the preview for next episode of birdie wing showed the next challenger doing a run up happy gilmore swing. This show is hilarious.

Been watching through season 1 of magus bride. It feels very shoujo but it's still been entertaining. It's kind of cool to see a show that has a semi historically accurate view on faeries rather than just saying faeries = pixies. Technically even yokai and cryptids are faeries as well as stuff like elves and dwarves.

dragon504 posted...

I watch my anime in a way that would make Luffy proud.

Same. So nice to have everything conveniently laid out in one place with no ads (if you use ublock origin), accounts, or buffering. Pretty sure even if I paid for streaming services, I'd still use these sites instead, because it's just a better experience.

Damn, this weeks heavenly delusion was on some Fear and Hunger shit. In a good way.

Hell's paradise finally gives us some info as well, which is appreciated. It ironically feels like Fear and Hunger 2.

Yeah, mildly annoying. They got hacked by same Lain fan that swapped every anime to Lain is Love or whatever it was in the show, which is at least funny, if you've seen that anime. MAL said everything should be fine and able to be restored and that passwords are safe but they are basically scrubbing for backdoors to make sure it's all safe before they put it back online.

Also, caught up on megumin spinoff which is good but not as good as konosuba. Skip and Loafer continues to be really feel good. Oshi no Ko is great. Honestly I'm surprised one of you hasn't found anything to latch onto this season, cause theres a lot of great shows from gundam S2, to vinland saga S2, to skip and loafer, to heavenly delusion, to hell's paradise, to oshi no ko, and demon slayer. And that's just like the S tier shows. This season is great.

Just caught up on heavenly delusion and damn this show is interesting. It feels so unique with the only thing I can think of feeling kind of similar are the heaven parts being similar to shin sekai yori. The way they just casually give us important information without pointing it out and the character interactions and the just general identity issues and like 10 background mysteries make this show hard to put down. I'm kind of surprised it's not ranked even higher. I feel like 10-15 years ago, this anime would have made a bigger splash but now the community is a lot more mainstream. This feels like something I would have seen on adult swim at like 1:30 am.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

god fucking dammit guel stop getting into robots it only ever ends badly for you

He's the anti shinji. Can't keep this man out of robots no matter the trauma.

First season baits you with episode 0 that it's awesome, and then baits you again with episodes 1-10 that it's actually lame. Then shit gets real. Episode 1 of season 2 also baits you into thinking season 2 might go back to disappointing, but it doesn't. I really advise sticking with it till at least the end of season 1. The school is context and character building so it is kind of necessary.

Damn, gundam witch has a new misery target it seems. I hate that they made these choices, but it makes sense. I can't remember how much miorinne knows about aerial but tearing the family apart along with betrayal from the two people she cares about. I'm interested to see how things develop but I wish I could watch it already. I was honestly rooting for aerial to win anyway somehow even though it was clear the writers were going for this angle instead and suletta does need some real character building.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

pikachu beat a rhyhorn in the original series with a thundershock

so this is kind of par for the course, or at least some throwback reference deepcut

Yeah thats the issue though. I don't want par for the course, I wanted better (and it WAS better for the first 4 episodes). So I'm disappointed and I feel like all the stakes just vanished in one episode.

agesboy posted...

half of pikachu's matchups were ABSOLUTE bullshit, yeah

Yeah but at least pikachu was special. I do remember it losing to a fresh snivy somehow after winning a pokemon league or something similar as the most ridiculous poor power scaling from the series. I just hoped that this reboot would do things differently and it had looked like it was. I had no real complaints with the bad guys or the pokemon in the first 4 episodes. Sprigatito fought that same rhydon and couldn't even tickle it with leafage so the main character had to run. That was great to see it. Meanwhile the stronger trainers pokemon were powerful enough to be causing significant collateral damage. It was awesome. Kind of feels like it's all out the window now though.

agesboy posted...

i think they even outright stated electric was ineffective against rock once which misled the shit out of me, even if it was somehow still colloquially accurate outside of like aerodactyl in gen 1

Same man.

Kind of annoyed at the latest pokemon episode. I know the original series didn't really care about strength and type matchups that much, but how the hell does a fuecoco beat a rhydon using ember? A rhydon that somehow took out a metagross with ease? And why is seemingly smart badguy using corviknight against charizard instead of his flash fire ceruledge (actually it was hurt by fire before, but it doesn't have weak armor either so whatever) and how did it tank a direct hit flamethrower?

In the first 4 episodes, the pokemon power mostly made sense. The main sprigatito was quite weak until it did some ash's pikachu super powered up leafage that was clearly something extraordinary and not what it could normally do. That didn't happen here though. Also we see girl explorer who has a skarmory (who has quad resist vs grass) use her golduck vs that sprigatito and lose without even using her second pokemon? The bad guy team was actually coming off as pretty competent before this episode. They have good strong pokemon and they are pretty tenacious. If you're unevolved starter that literally JUST learned ember can defeat a rhydon, where else is there to go?

Man I love how stupid birdie wing is. I think it's my 4th favorite sports anime (haikyuu>blue lock>ippo>birdie wing) but it's very different from the other 3 because it's absolutely absurd despite being golf of all things. Kinda gives me similar energy to keijo despite this not being ecchi.

dragon504 posted...

Hyouken no Majutsushi ga Sekai wo Suberu

I managed to finish that one. It wasn't great, but it had some amateur charm in parts of it for me. The ending isn't any better than the rest of it.

dragon504 posted...

Also, I watched the ecchi show where the dude gets turned into a dog, since I figured it could be funny/amusing, but it ended up deserving its poor mal rating. A lot of the time I feel like mal is a bit harsh on ecchi stuff, but this one was a wasted concept. Could've been fun, but instead it was really dumb. Glad they were only 12 min eps.

Yeah, I feel like I'm pretty degen but this show was a lot more uncomfortable than it was sexy. Worth watching the first short episode just for the shock value maybe, but theres no point after that. Kind of amazed they found enough people willing to animate this.

Judgmenl posted...

Latest episode of My Home Hero was fantastic. This is the jewel in the rough for this season. I will definitely read the manga when I get a chance.

It is pretty good. I feel like the main guy is getting a bit lucky. With how much surveillance they run on him, I'm amazed they don't have all the girls phones monitored. Then going to a bar and asking around about a regular seems awfully risky for someone in his position, but I guess he just doesn't have better options.

Aside from that, it's all pretty great. Wife is best girl, daughter is barely worth protecting. Hard as it would be. killing the orginization's boss guy is probably the best way out of this. Now he knows what the guy looks like and nobodies gonna be looking for his son after that. Granted, killing him is probably easier said than done, but so is everything else they are doing.

Judgmenl posted...

Season 1 was very eh.
Season 2 has been consistently solid.
Hopefully they just used the school for developing the characters.

My thoughts almost exactly. Episode 0 and episode 12 were really great, but the rest of season 1 was fairly disappointing. However, that just being used as the contrast and character building segment and then spiraling into a very bloody serious conflict with multiple somewhat fleshed out sides and motivations redeems the boring parts of the first season for me.

They ended up doing the 3 kingdoms start as I think of it, where they have what will eventually be the main competing factions all on the same side at the start of the story, so we can see a friendly cooperative side of them (in this case relatively friendly rivalry) and increase the emotional weight when they eventually have to betray and kill each other. Recently fire emblem 3 houses did the same thing as well and it's a story telling technique I quite like, it just requires the 2nd act to actually go hard and be good, something I felt 3 houses failed at, but am hoping gundam witch succeeds with.

Man, gundam witch is so good whenever school is not in session. If things progress well, this will easily be the best gundam of all time IMO. It's gonna be hard to choose a best anime of the season between vinland saga and gundam witch.

Man, birdie wing might be the most anime sports anime of all time.

Watched a lot of anime today (too sick for games). Watched all 4 eps of skip to loafer and it was quite nice. Somewhat horimiya vibes. Guess I have something to watch on tuesdays now.

Also watched eps 2 and 3 of heavenly delusion. I have some predictions. I bet that the doc is a good guy and the sister came to him specifically and asked to save her brother, giving up her own life to do it. I bet the people in the facility are some sort of dopplegangers made with DNA collected from man-eaters (they probably even made them). I expect the guy that lead the orphanage is actually the bad guy and was responsible for the disappearances instead of the doc. I wouldn't be especially surprised if it turns out the AI from "heaven" eradicated human society and built heaven as a way to fix humanity or something like that. Still, it's quite early on and I definitely didn't see main girl actually being a guy so I hope theres plenty more twists I won't see coming. Oh, I could also see heaven and the maneaters being a tool for curing that disease that might have been the real cause of the calamity.

The show is really good, although being a lot more serious, I feel like I'm often not in the mood for it.

I'm a little unsure of how I feel about dead mount death play. If I watched it totally blind I'd think it was a pretty solid reverse isekai but knowing it's from the author of durarara and baccano it's hard not to draw comparisons and it certainly doesn't capture my interest the way those did at first.

Thinking about it though, it might honestly be the production that is the difference. The music and presentation of durarara made a huge difference early on, before we were invested in all the characters and this show has nothing like that. The production here is just average. I'm definitely still gonna watch it, but I hope it improves soon and I think it might given how the last episode set things up.

dragon504 posted...

Watching the second season of Bofuri after having rewatched s1. Maple's weirdness is amusing still. I am kind of hoping they'll add a new guildmate, but I'm not gonna hold my breath though. I dream of games having this level of freedom.

I feel like I could watch 500 episodes of that show. It's chill without being boring and has such a positive fun vibe.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

can we stop shitting and abusing guell please

jesus fucking christ stop

he better get one fuck of a revenge arc

Just watched the latest episode. One of the best yet. Everything in gundam witch that takes place outside the school is a masterpiece. Guel has definitely been through some shit. It'll be very interesting to see what kind of person he ends up as and what role he will play in the story.

dragon504 posted...

Watching "Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement" and I was hopeful at the start, but it feels like the writer's lack of intelligence/imagination is severely holding it back. I'm ok with an imperfect mc and one that makes mistakes, but a lot of the choices made are baffling.

That was about how I felt. I thought some of the choices early on were quite reasonable, basically before she ends up at the nobles house. After that, I fairly quickly lost interest.

Been playing a lot of monster hunter sunbreak lately. This latest update has been fantastic for my main weapon although I'm certainly disappointed amatsu wasn't as hard as iceborne's fatalis. All sunbreak really lacks is some crazy difficult fight to use all these ridiculous sets we have now. I remember back in monster hunter freedom like 20 years ago being super stoked to put together my endgame set which had autotracker and sharpness+1. That's it. Now I have like 20 fully maxed out skills all of which are better than either of those. Also a nuisance that there is so much pointless grind in the anomaly hunts. I don't mind grinding in a lot of cases, but this grind is gating me from fighting the toughest fights. That's the kind I do mind. It's also very easy and repetitive but at least the new charms means constant minor upgrades and tweaks to my sets.

Vinland saga was good today, although next week is gonna be the real good one. Amazing that thorfinn's pacifism lasted until literally the first encounter since he decided to be pacifist. Still, him trying to be nonlethal here at least makes plenty of sense and is the best move even disregarding morality. All I need is for thorfinn to take a more realistic approach to pacifism that doesn't stop him from lethally defending people when necessary. However, I suspect the show will never force him to make that choice or live with the consequences.
Judgmenl posted...

The animation in My Home Hero is good enough to be enjoyable. Like I really enjoy the show's premise, and the more mature tone. It is different in a good way.

Yeah the first episode it bothered me but since then it's been fine and the story and characters are pretty great. Probably the smartest realistic style yakuza I've in anime too. That damn cliff hanger in the latest episode though. I mean, obviously main guy didn't get killed, but what happened to the other guy that's already been shot?

Watched the new pokemon anime since I was curious how it'd go and it was actually way better than I expected. The only thing that mildly infuriates me about it is that the subs don't use the english names for the pokemon, so we have them calling charizard "lizardon" and other stuff like that. Kind of a shame because I think the VAs actually do a really good job. Will probably just watch it anyway.

Although this annoyed me about the original series too. The damn trainers just randomly forget to recall pokemon with their pokeball when they are getting stolen. If you can see it, you can recall it to the pokeball.

Let's see though, I just caught up on too cute crisis which is still fun and stupid. Watched the latest birdie wing which continues to be the most anime sports show of all time. Think I'm dropping the hero is dead. In the middle of the third episode I just couldn't go on and stopped. I pretty much never do that mid episode. KamiKatsu is definitely the better of the two and it's getting fairly funny to me. Bertrand's poor fate just gets more pathetic and attractive. Think I'm dropping yuri is my job. I didn't even watch the latest episode but it's just too melodramatic and annoying. Oshi no Ko is still solid but the next episode it should really begin the main arc.

Oh yeah, bofuri finally ended. It had gotten delayed a bit. I love that show. It's hard to call it that good, but it's so pleasant and watchable. I feel like I could just actually watch infinite episodes of it. The actual lowest stakes adventure series possible with the vaguest hint of yuri undertones.

This season is very uneven with a ton to watch on weekends and almost nothing through the week. A lot of the shows I expected to be just ok are turning out to be barely watchable (or straight up not watchable). The top end of this season is fine, it's just the middle level shows that are disappointing.

Caught up with gundam witch and my man shaddiq being the MVP again. Making sure the story doesn't stay at boring school life and duels. Was a great episode. I will say one thing though, in their pilot suits there are way too many similar looking girls. The hair colors and eye colors become hard to see in the suit so they keep showing girls faces talking and I have no idea which one it is half the time. Fortunately sulletta is easy enough to tell apart.

Also interesting how many different mecha shows have some version of the instrumentality project from eva. Something to eliminate the barrier between all individuals. Eva has it of course, code geass has it, and this seems to be headed in a similar direction. I don't think this show has anything nearly as profound to say as eva but time will tell. Still kinda bummed they are going this way instead of into open war. Getting war cucked two gundam series in a row that both had fantastic build ups to one and then just fizzled out into something more minor.

agesboy posted...

the first arc is definitely a lot of stretches. i loved it but it was still convoluted and situational. but it was gr8 in the end imo

Given that Ai's stalker killed aqua and was still at large, you'd think they'd be worried about that guy and try to come up with some way to catch the guy so that Ai doesn't end up stabbed by a crazy fan, and yet, they didn't, and thats exactly what happened. Also somewhat surprising they didn't want to contact anyone from their first life. If I died suddenly tomorrow and was reborn, I'd have to tell my family that I came back and I'm doing ok. I guess neither had anyone.

I agree it was a good watch though and I'm excited to watch the rest of the season.

Ironically I just finished watching it. I predicted what would happen pretty early. The pacing and focus on getting the kids into acting and dancing respectively paint a pretty clear picture the story isn't going to be about the mom's idol career. Still, despite seeing everything coming, it was still quite good. I'm not sure if it quite deserves the ratings and hype the first episode is getting (probably a bit of author boost coming off of love is war), but I'm not too bothered since it is quite good. It's pretty absurd they never bothered to figure out who the other one was during the first life, but oh well, I'm sure it'll make the quite the dramatic twist down the line.

Man, I don't want to drop the only yuri show this season but "yuri is my job" is just so freakin bad. It's almost impressive how aggravating they've made the show in just two episodes. All the characters are so stupid and also mean, a terrible combination. Like an entire cast full of aho girl, except without the comedy. The situation is beyond contrived as well and a setting more cringy than a maid cafe is making this very hard to watch.

I feel like most of the new shows I'm watching have turned out to be mediocre. Actually, my home hero's second episode was a lot better than the first. In that way it sort of reminds me of ningen fushin from last season where it's first episode was poorly directed with weird cuts that made it flow terribly but the rest of the season was fine.

Vinland saga had a really good episode this week, and without much violence at that. I really appreciate the message that sometimes you get fucked over whether you act or not and there just was no right answer. Sometimes things are just out of our control and using a storm as a metaphor is perfect since it's a force of nature you literally can't stop. The show continues to be really good at fairly quickly developing characters into interesting people with depth.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

like jesus christ i feel so sad for him

The irony of saying this before the last episode of season 1 is funny.

A bit disappointed that S2 of gundam witch is back to school life and duels.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

hells paradise...is that the one where the prisoners to be executed go to some strange island with the whatever they're called government samurai people and it's just a bunch of organic flower crazy shit?

i read the manga before it finished

it was alright

Yes.

Hell's paradise has some nice fight animation. Or I guess I should say slaughter animation cause that wasn't much of a fight. The expedition idea seems very strange. As far as we can tell it's not like the people that went before died from a lack of combat prowess. if anything it seems like they died of a strange fungal infection. Then again, I guess that one guy was alive when he made it back so perhaps they have more info they haven't shared yet.

Also seems a bit counterintuitive to send your elite executioners if the whole idea was to use disposable criminals.

Also boo cafe terrace is censored and so I will wait for the BD release, just like last seasons ayakashi triangle.

Damn, theres so much anime airing on fridays.

Too cute crisis was a lot better than I expected. A pleasant surprise. The alien girl is more adorable than the cats.

Onee-san isekai was about what I expected. The sister is pretty hot though. Definitely prefer this flavor over the mom isekai. Next we'll have overpowered imouto isekai at this rate. Show is currently watchable but not great.

Mashle I'd heard about when it was a manga (and I think it got canceled) but had a pretty good opening episode. It's like one punch man goes to harry potter. The main guy kinda reminds me of mob from mob psycho. I do worry that the gimmick will wear itself out before too long so hopefully it sets up other stuff to keep it interesting (like one punch man did).

Lesbian golf is back with birdie wing S2 and it's as stupid and fun as the first season. Damn rock stopped us from getting a yuri kiss in episode 1 though.

Still have bad girls and cafe terrace to watch as well. Not sure if I will watch tonikawa S2 or not but it also came on today.

The hero is dead first episode was fine. Hasn't really stood out as good but hasn't proved to be awful yet either. Need the next episode to make a real deliberation on it's quality.

dragon504 posted...

but I was kind of hoping the ending would leave us with

Quite happy that it didn't.

Watched some more stuff.

Megumin spinoff is fun. The music sounds strange in the konosuba universe even though it's good. Sounds very yuki kajiura even though it's the same sound director and music as all the other konosuba. Maybe I just don't remember it's music since it's been a while. It's sad to know Yunyun just isn't going to be happy in this entire show because her character arc doesn't really start until konosuba proper. Very pretty explosion as well. I can see how that would captivate someone.

KamiKatsu was interesting. A very horny isekai even though somehow not very ecchi. Mitama reminds me of the demon eye loli from mushoku tensei. Definitely interested in watching more.

Then today I watched yuri is my job and with a title like that, it seems like something that would be hard for me to dislike, and yet I found a way. It's kind of annoying. The main character is obnoxious and uninteresting in this episode and the characters are acting unreasonably and not humorously. I'll probably keep watching it because yuri but like, god damn, can't I as a yuri fan get a W for once? I'm still pissed about magic revolution from last season.

Still got dr stone's new season to start and later the hero is dead, which I'm hoping is good. Kind of mixed on the season overall right now. A fair amount has been below my expectations and some of those I had low expectations of to begin with.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i have many questions about things i don't know was explained or not in this gundam anime

when does this even take place

why or how did gundams become something that kills their pilot by them just using it. it's like this is simultaneously before gundam and like way in the future? i don't understand

Nearly every gundam after like, idk, 2000, has been a standalone universe completely unrelated to all the other ones. The exception being unicorn. The gundams before that are part of the UC timeline and are all connected and include gundam, war in the pocket, zeta, victory, unicorn, char's counterattack, ms 8th team, etc.

After that though you have wing, seed, 00, age, iron blooded orphans, reconquista, and turn a. Probably some I forgot. They all exist in their own unrelated universes. Gundam witch is similarly standalone. There is an episode 0 if you didn't watch it which is a prequel to the story and useful and informative.

In gundam witch, there is a brain interface system called the GUND format. It uses an energy system mined from other planets like mercury called permet. Mobile suits that use the GUND format for control are called GUND-ARMs (often shortened to gundam) and offer better response and control but it's damaging to the nervous system of the pilot, effectively overloading their nervous system. It was banned and the company researching it attacked and obliterated about 15-20 years before episode 1.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

witch from mercury is really fun tho i am enjoying it

The last episode of that season is amazing. Can't wait for season 2 to start up in a few days.

It's gotta be light novel source based on the title. Just looked it up to confirm and yes it's light novel source.

Finally finished up last season with mou ippon. This ended up better than I expected and I'd really like a season 2 although I feel like it's unlikely. They really pulled out all the stops for the last match and made judo look really cool. It's a shame all the fights didn't have that level of sakuga.

Revelation34 posted...

Is that a light novel or a manga first?

Which show?

Yeah I wish there were more low stakes fantasy in general. You don't always need to go fight the demon king.

Watched my home hero and man it has some awful production. Like, I'm pretty sure nothing that wasn't a main character or directly interacting with a main character moved at all during the entire episode. Lot's of panning stills and questionable cuts. It's a shame too because the story is relatively interesting.

Also watched episode 1 of yamada level 999 and it was ok.

Finished up nagatoro S2 and it was pretty great. Hope we get a season 3 eventually.

Started off the new season with heaven and hell. Specifically heavenly delusion and hell's paradise. Heavenly delusion has a lot of mostly good cg but it's not up to studio orange's level. Everything is pretty well presented though. The world is interesting and mysterious and the characters are immediately likeable, especially the main girl.

Hell's paradise has a bit more hype behind it and the first episode was great. Mostly an introduction to the plot but it was entertaining and set the stage well. The brief bits of action we got were well animated and the plot is interesting. Reminds of sekiro in some ways and that game is GOATed.

Also finished off reincarnated exorcist which was slightly better than expected but still not that great. Like top of C tier isekai. Would probably watch a season 2.

Still have the last episode of nagatoro and the first episode of yamada level 999.

So far I'm pleasantly surprised by the first two shows I tried. Gonna be a pretty good season.

Yeah theres another that airs just one hour earlier than that as well and nothing that ended up airing yesterday in US timezones. Late night season it feels like. First episodes of the new season should be up at any moment. Hopefully it's a good one. Didn't see too many new anime that looked especially good so I'm gonna have to hope for a pleasant surprise. Lot's of solid sequels and vinland saga is still continuing from last season. Supposedly somebody working on demon slayer said this season is going to be on another level of animation thats beyond what they've done so far. Hopefully we don't get many delays this season.

In a far more positive note, tomo-chan is a girl just ended and it was great. One of the best romcoms out there. Not only were the characters all great, but it ended conclusively and satisfyingly. It doesn't top kaguya-sama, but this had a great romance in just 13 episodes without feeling rushed at all, and thats something to praise. Sad there won't be anymore (outside of a possible ova for the valentines episode) but it ended at the ideal place.

FellWolf posted...

How far back are you taking this?

Askaladd and his band would have done far less if they had been nearly obliterated by thors and thorfinn himself goes on to kill 100s all because of the situation. If thors had been in better form and willing to kill, he really might have taken askaladd down, which would have effectively avoided an entire war. And realistically it's very strange that thorfinn wasn't sold as a slave or killed right after that, given the lengths askaladd was willing to go to (plot armor effectively, no one else in the show after that was afforded such luck, even those that didn't fight back).

Of course, the issue with the pacifism is even more apparent if the situation is more reasonable. Imagine the archers hadn't been there. They all might have died just because thors wouldn't kill anyone. If you can't stop the violence from happening, then avoiding participation is just self satisfaction, you aren't actually contributing to making the world a better place. How are you gonna look at your dead family and think "oh wow, sure was a good thing I didn't protect them".

FellWolf posted...

Just watch another show. Or keep hate watching. Thorfinn isn't going anywhere.

I like the show quite a bit. Probably the best show airing this season. I just find that season 1 was all about askaladd (which was amazing) and season 2 is doing a great job giving us what would be a fantastic character arc about redemption but ruined by a foolish conclusion, which leaves us with a lack of action. You just can't be a pacifist in the world they live in. If his father hadn't been a pacifist, literal thousands of people wouldn't have died. There's a reason people at war kill people, and it's not because they are all monsters.

This weeks vinland saga finally started to heat up and give us some quality violence. This show would be better without thorfinn in it. Same as first season. We get askeladd in season 1 and thorgil in season 2.

Also reborn to master the blade ended and it was an incredibly weak show. Nothing especially wrong with it, just no strong points either. Characters were bland and one note, plot could maybe have some potential with a different cast, and the action was generic and nonsensical. A higher average quality than iceblade but without any of the quirks that made that one a bit more bearable.

Watching through more nagatoro, I feel like this show does what shikimori tried to do last season but way better. The moments when nagatoro comes to the rescue actually make her look cool and the guy is a bit of weak willed loser, but is an enjoyable character and interesting instead of the abomination of a main male character in shikimori. It's just a much better execution of strong girl saves her boyfriend (even if they aren't actually dating in nagatoro).

This show has my preferred blend of romance to comedy in a romantic comedy (similar to kaguya) and this show in particular is pretty good at hopping from one to the other and back again in a single scene. Wonder if it'll get a season 3.

That's a surprise. I feel the last half of Onimai was the best part. Handyman Saitou just wrapped up and it's my hidden gem of the season I guess. The final episode was such a feel good way to wrap up the season. Would be happy to watch another season but it's fine if it ends here as well.

There's still surprsingly a lot of anime that haven't ended yet. A lot of 13 episode shows and bofuri which wa delayed and then vinland saga thats 24 episodes.

More shows wrapping up. Finished off blue lock which was pretty great after the first several episodes. I think the 5v5 format works way better for how the show works. Hoping we get another season before long.

Onimai also ended and I really enjoyed after the intro. It's definitely something where you need to not think too hard about the premise but that aside it's pretty funny and wholesome. Plus they threw us a drunk yuri kiss with the sister and her friend so bonus points for that. The show is very yuri bait. It ended at a fine point but I still want to see another season or two.

Farming isekai was fun but I feel like I've had my fill. Wouldn't be sad if it never got another season and wouldn't be surprised if I drop half way through if it does.

Revengers was fine. I was initially disappointed because I thought it'd be a little more grounded and focused revenge tale whereas it's actually mostly misfit group of assassins get revenge for people that died (but had enough time to bite gold). It's no samurai champloo but it still ended up being decent and worth the watch. Would have preferred if it ended differently but it's fine.

Iceblade was right on that border of watchable and unwatchable but it had a few unique gags and quirks that kept me from dropping it. Most definitely is not a good anime but it's fine isekai filler trash.

Watching through nagatoro 2nd season now (at episode 6 currently). It's pretty good and sweeter than the first season.

Also have angel next door to finish and possibly beasts of ars if I decide to catch up. Overall this season has been one of the weaker seasons of late, but still not bad. Also heard mushoku tensei S2 is confirmed for summer which is awesome if true. As much as I enjoyed Bind's work on Onimai, it's no competition compared to mushoku tensei.

Wow, the juxtaposition of having both tomo and magic revolution on the same day hurts. Why couldn't the yuri have been the one to play out well? Regardless, tomo is great and I'm sad to see it end. Carol best girl and even tried to give me a little yuri in the last episode. Honestly though, every character is great, except the guy that likes misuzu. Wonder what next weeks episode is even gonna be though, because it feels like it could easily end here. I guess an epilogue of sorts.