Current Events > Anime/Other Stuff General V185: "Wesker's Words"

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I've started watching Beyond the Boundary. Not my usual kind of show, but I watched Chuunibyou so... Kyoani show. I heard there was a cute cat spirit. Needless to say though..

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...I have a few questions...
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Juhanor posted...

Hello From The Countries Of the World!
Symphogear
Granbelm
Dirty Pair
Betterman
Space Battleship Yamato
Full Metal Panic!
Shiki
Doamygar D
Kore ga UFO da! Soratobu Enban
Blue Flames

Adding in
Daiku Maryu Gaiking
Panzer World Galient
Martian Successor Nadesico
Giant Gorg (rewatch)

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Spidey5 posted...

Finished Episode 26 with the Legendary Great Maneuver (Just give it a real name already..). That was beautiful. Honestly it felt like the series could end with this episode the way it was presented. Still another 25 episodes though.

That episode was a fantastic ending to the first season. Also, just a heads up: episodes 27 and 28 are recap episodes so you can skip them.

Spidey5 posted...

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What episode number was this from again?
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Finished up the first season of Fire Force and Vinland Saga tonight.

Both those finales were great. Fire Force went in a direction I did not suspect, and Vinland Saga went the direction I thought it would.

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Yeah, the mid-way finale of Fire Force was great. Can't wait for season 2 next summer.
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Calwings posted...

That episode was a fantastic ending to the first season. Also, just a heads up: episodes 27 and 28 are recap episodes so you can skip them.

What episode number was this from again?

Same episode, 26. And yeah, the episode preview after 26 made it seem like recap. Two whole recap eps? Yeesh, noted.
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https://twitter.com/rib_anime/status/1211289544219414528

Three weeks until the next (last?) episode of cute school shooter girls. Delays suck.
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Cal, you might want to reword that.

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RIP Syd Mead

Sad times behind us and hopefully, happy ahead. Here's to 2020 friends

First ep of Kaleido Star season 2. Ugh,... two new insufferable characters introduced in one episode. This is rough.
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Finally finished Sabagebu, this show was wild. Now I need to find the OVA's to watch.

Spidey5 posted...

First ep of Kaleido Star season 2. Ugh,... two new insufferable characters introduced in one episode. This is rough.

I can't remember who the second character you're talking about is, but I know one of them is that bitchy rival May Wong. I hated her at first too, and she definitely takes a while to get used to.
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The other character was Oswald
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Spidey5 posted...

The other character was Oswald

*check MAL*

Oh right, Leon Oswald. That guy. He's harsh, but I didn't find him nearly as insufferable as May Wong.
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https://twitter.com/Crunchyroll/status/1212797251623542784?s=19

How on earth did Crunchyroll get the okay to upload this episode a week before the Japanese premiere? EDIT: I don't know how, but at least it's official.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/01/02-1/somali-and-the-forest-spirit-episode-1-debuts-on-crunchyroll-a-week-ahead-of-japan

I don't know if every episode will be on CR one week ahead of the Japanese broadcast or just this first one.
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I'm only really looking forward to about half a dozen new anime (EDIT : this season)

One of them, Somali and the Forest Spirit, is now available! I shall report soon with my findings.

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This anime is very striking visually. It is also adorable with a potentially sinister underbelly.

I LOVE IT!

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Finally watched the first episode of Somali myself, and it was great. As famous as he is, this is actually the very first time that I've ever watched a show with Daisuke Ono in a main role (all the others I either watched dubbed or haven't watch at all) and his voice is really impressive.
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The VA for the young girl has been pretty prolific the last few years too.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

The VA for the young girl has been pretty prolific the last few years too.

Yep, that's Inori Minase. I've heard her in several roles over the past few years, from calm and intelligent girl (Chito from Girls Last Tour) to energetic tomboy (Fuuka from ViVid Strike) to obsessive nerd (Mei from Endro) to supervillain hellbent on GENOCIDE and GENOCIDE (Carol from Symphogear) and she's always great.
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And of course Chino from Gochiusa and Yume from Katana Maidens.
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Juhanor posted...

RIP Syd Mead

Rip
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I'm going to watch new series as they air for the first time in a while. Gotta watch that Railgun T and Madoka spinoff.

Itachi157 posted...

I'm going to watch new series as they air for the first time in a while. Gotta watch that Railgun T and Madoka spinoff.

Great choices. Those are the two anime this season I'm most hyped for.

I'm going to wait for Funimation's simuldub for Railgun though, so I'll be a couple weeks behind the discussions there.
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My Top 10 Anime of 2019

10 - Dr. Stone
9 - Radiant S2
8 - Vinland Saga
7 - Kanata No Astra
6 - Beastars
5 - Fire Force
4 - Mob Psycho 100 S2
3 - Dororo
2 - MHA S4
1 - Promised Neverland

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Even though two of them are still unfinished (so their positions could still shift a bit) I may as well post my top ten from this past year as well.

10) Endro
9) Fire Force
8) Star Twinkle Precure
7) Demon Girl Next Door
6) Promised Neverland
5) BanG Dream season 2
4) Kemurikusa
3) Dr. Stone
2) Granbelm
1) Symphogear XV

Honorable mention to Black Clover, which I didn't include since it didn't start airing in 2019, but it's been running all year and it's been really good.
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Didn't watch much, so I might as well rank everything I've completed.
And If Shana 3 ends nicely I'll probably put it in the same spot as Granbelm.

14) Arifureta
----big score gap----
13) Takagi-san 2
12) Cautious Hero
11) Yokai Watch!
10) Doraemon Movie 39
9) Dumbbells
8) Yokai Watch Shadowside
8+) Shana Movie (older anime)
7) Yokai Watch Forever Friends
6) Dororo
5) Violet Evergarden Side Story
4) Granbelm
4+) Koe no Katachi (older anime)
3) Hello World
2) Boogiepop
1) Weathering With You

And a live action ranking for shits and giggles:

4) Deathflix
3) Nisekoi
2) Haganai
1) Cromartie

Thanks for reminding me I watched the live action Nisekoi with some of you guys. That was "fun."

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The live actions we watched, I dunno if I'm forgetting any of them

1. Nisekoi
2. Haganai
3. Deathflix
4. Gantz
5. Cromartie
6. Jojo Diamond Is Not Crash

Nisekoi was legitimately better than the source material, Haganai was so fucking out there that it was enjoyable, and sadly I had no history with Cromartie so I was a bit confused

Was there another? I feel like we watched more than 6

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legendarylemur posted...

The live actions we watched, I dunno if I'm forgetting any of them

1. Nisekoi
2. Haganai
3. Deathflix
4. Gantz
5. Cromartie
6. Jojo Diamond Is Not Crash
Nisekoi was legitimately better than the source material, Haganai was so fucking out there that it was enjoyable, and sadly I had no history with Cromartie so I was a bit confused

Was there another? I feel like we watched more than 6

You're probably thinking of A Silent Voice, which was animated or the ones we never ended up doing (FMA, FF, Dragon Ball Evolution ext) or even just the second Gantz film.

Didn't really keep track of my 2019 shows for the most part.

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...Oh, I forgot that I also watched Gantz live action. Gotta add that to the list.

6) Deathflix
5) Gantz 1
4) Gantz 2
3) Nisekoi
2) Haganai
1) Cromartie

conveniently I only watched 10 shows in 2019 I think so I already made a top10 list when everyone was just trying to remember everything they watched

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78206380/932160399

watching anime is somehow really low commitment and really high commitment at the same time I don't understand

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Asteroid is Love is off to an okay start.
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Wasn't expecting this to get a dub. Still going to watch it subbed because Kaede Hondo though.
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@Spidey5 Just a heads up: Anon fansubber is back from his holiday vacation, so episode 45 of Star Twinkle Precure is subbed now and 46 (coming this weekend since there wasn't an episode last weekend) will be on time.
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Sweet
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I'm officially caught up on all of the currently airing shows that I follow, plus I watched the Dr. Stone finale and the Sabagebu OVA's.

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Of all the crazy things they could have referenced in these OVA's, I did not expect Sasuke (Ninja Warrior) to be one of them.
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They even included the fact that the rolling log was a major ninja killer in it too.

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Caelthus posted...

They even included the fact that the rolling log was a major ninja killer in it too.

Which it really was in the early tournaments.

Man, I really wish the more recent Sasuke tournaments could be localized here in the US with subtitles like they used to be. There have been 37 tournaments total, but only the first 27 (the last of which was the one where the 4th ever Total Victory occurred) were localized here before the G4 channel went bankrupt and the original Ninja Warrior wasn't picked up again. American Ninja Warrior is cool and all, but it just isn't the same.
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Ugh, season 2 was a mistake. I hate everything about Leon and Mei. Why oh why do they keep trying to suck up to that jackass Leon. At least we got more Rosetta...
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Calwings posted...

Which it really was in the early tournaments.

Man, I really wish the more recent Sasuke tournaments could be localized here in the US with subtitles like they used to be. There have been 37 tournaments total, but only the first 27 (the last of which was the one where the 4th ever Total Victory occurred) were localized here before the G4 channel went bankrupt and the original Ninja Warrior wasn't picked up again. American Ninja Warrior is cool and all, but it just isn't the same.

Yeah, I agree with you there. I also enjoyed how the VA for kakashi(dave wittenburg) did the english audio for it too.

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Finished watching Beyond the Boundary. I started watching for Ai, but I liked the show as a whole. If Marth hasn't seen it yet, the main character is an avid Glasses lover as well.

Now then, it's Ai time.

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Cutest Youmu.
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Beyond the Boundary is one of KyoAni's best

The only show of theirs I haven't watched yet is Munto

Yeah, it was a fun show. My absolute favorite episode was the filler episode where they fought the fruit youmu that blasted them with stink liquid. That episode had me dying the whole time.
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... I was just thinking how Doki Doki Literature Club could make an excellent anime.

I really wish something like this existed.

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Irisu Syndrome anime first tho
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Episode 11 of MHA was... brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

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