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DAN DA DAN episode 8 Can’t fight this feeling.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V episode 8 Engrained.

Negative Postive Angler episode 8 Father to son.

Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- episode 32 Slayer.

Trillion Game episode 9 Shoe shine.

Basquash! episodes 6-26 (Complete. Though not the strongest of anime, I can’t fault Basquash in trying for a more unique aesthetic when approaching otherwise similar ideas and genres.) 3.5/5

Battle Girl High School episodes 1-3
 
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Lightspeed Electroid Albegas - Episodes 42 - 45 [Final]

The last few episodes of Albegas picked up a bit and it came to decent if rushed ending, as a whole it was an average series.

Dorima-chan: Hello, Dinosaur Kids!

Another entertaining Dorima-chan film, charming with that oh so Japanese edge to it.

Thunderbolt Fantasy: Sword Seekers 4 - Episodes 6 & 7

Ranma 1/2 (2024) - Episodes 5 - 7

I am quite liking this so far.

RadFemHedonist said:
Den-noh Coil COMPLETE (REWATCH, English dubbed)
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I have read so much good stuff about Den-noh Coil, I have it on blu-ray and must get round to it soon.

RadFemHedonist said:
Gundam Unicorn OVA Episodes 1-7 COMPLETE (English dubbed)
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It wasn't perfect but there was a lot I liked about Gundam Unicorn and is another OVA I need to re-watch.

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Aura Battler Dunbine episodes 43-49 & OVAs (Complete. Though not the strongest of watches, ABD’s blend of fantasy and mecha was fairly entertaining and was worth the cheap Sentai sale price.) 3/5, 3/5

A Wind Named Amnesia (Film) An intriguing post-apocalyptic story that would have made for a great tv series but as is makes for a film well-worth checking out. 4/5
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I've seen Dunbine a couple of times, some great ideas and cool looking mecha and generally I quite like it but it really does lose its way through the second half of the series, I did like the final episode though, very Tomino! I picked up the blu-ray for $25 on Amazon a couple of years ago. With L-Gaim finally getting a HD release and a Galient BD on the shelf, I feel a 80's Sunrise mecha re-watchathon coming on next year.

I agree about AWNA, it's a film I enjoy watching and had it on VHS 30 years ago and it has held up really well on recent re-watches.
 
By the Grace of the Gods S1
Episodes 5-12.
Well, it was nice.
A couple of wee fights would have been good.
The comedy from Hughes, the bodyguard was funny.
Minor fanservice from two Beastkin adventurers. A wolf and tiger, I think.
For the first time in ages, I let the ending song play out. Catchy tune.
Can't decide whether to bother with S2.
 
Dragon Ball Daima episode 7 Protector.

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II episode 8 A sinking desire.

The iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors 2nd Season episode 20 Game of opposites.

Battle Girl High School episodes 4-12 (Complete. This was mostly mediocre and one of the weaker anime I’ve watched lately.) 2.5/5

Beast Tamer episodes 1-13 (Complete. Though its storyline and concepts air on the side of familiarity, this was another fantasy outing that was a fairly easy watch, and I’d check out a sequel if it gets one.) 3/5

Beelzebub episodes 1-4
 
BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War (English Dub) Episode 30

BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War Episode 34

Ranma ½ (2024) Episode 8

The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest Episode 8

You Are Ms. Servant Episode 8
 
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Conflict episode 400 Nothing to fear.

Blue Exorcist -Beyond the Snow Saga- episode 8 Christmas decision.

Blue Lock Vs. U-20 Japan episode 32 Aiming for.

Demon Lord Retry! R episode 9 Barging in.

Ooi! Tonbo 2nd Season episode 21 Reading the wind.

Ranma 1/2 (2024) episode 8 On the ice.

Beelzebub episodes 5-10, 15-26, 29-32
 
Finished Super Sonico (12 Episodes, English dubbed), it was delightful, I also really enjoyed rewatching Batman: Year One, a very powerful piece of filmmaking and all the more impactful IMO for only being an hour long - it's like it's the exact right length for the story it is telling, neither overstuffed or sparse and dull - one of the best OVAs of all time lol :)

Now I'm watching Huntik: Secrets and Seekers (English dubbed), an Italian cartoon of note from the creators of Winx Club (which I have only the most passing familiarity with, but might try to properly watch at some point considering how good Huntik is so far) and I'm a bit over halfway through Season 1 :)
 
Gosick: Episodes 1-6

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"Ancient Spirits of Evil, etc."

You know a series is well-paced when you don't even realise 22 minutes have passed and find yourself surprised by the end credits kicking in. Not quite what I was expecting but then I don't really know what I was expecting. I just did a bit of a MAL wander from Higurashi since I fancied something in a similar vein and it came down to this, Shiki, Another and Ghost Hound (all of which I imagine I'll get around to in time since they all seem worth watching and should set me up nicely for Monogatari attempt two). So far it seems like a fairly solid, attention holding mystery of the week series with room for growth around emerging larger plot lines, which certainly have me intrigued. In terms of art direction it definitely feels quite "of its time" in both character designs and the subdued colour palette but all of that is appealing to me, it reminds me of other things I like.

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As for the characters, Kujo's a somewhat disappointingly generic schoolboy protagonist, elevated a bit by his fish-out-of-water status as a Japanese student in Europe, making him weird by virtue of being normal (which would have been particularly true in the 1920s when the show is set, I imagine). Victorique's Sherlock Holmes inspirations are not exactly subtle, but of all the ways they could have gone with a particularly intelligent and aloof young girl character it's nice they didn't just make her a total tsundere b*tch and gave her a bit more nuance and quiet frustration (and quite often it feels, having her consider whether it's even worth her while to react to something at all. I like that). I do wonder if they've perhaps made her a bit too clever for anything to ever present much of an obstacle, but I'm hopeful that might change as she has to face more personal challenges. Oh, and I hate Grevil's stupid hair that does not fit in with the art style at all.

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RadFemHedonist said:
Now I'm watching Huntik: Secrets and Seekers (English dubbed), an Italian cartoon of note from the creators of Winx Club (which I have only the most passing familiarity with, but might try to properly watch at some point considering how good Huntik is so far) and I'm a bit over halfway through Season 1 :)
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Replied to this over in the General Cartoons Thread (just trying to do my bit to keep the "Anime & Manga" section of the forum on-topic).
 
RadFemHedonist said:
Finished Super Sonico (12 Episodes, English dubbed), it was delightful, I also really enjoyed rewatching Batman: Year One, a very powerful piece of filmmaking and all the more impactful IMO for only being an hour long - it's like it's the exact right length for the story it is telling, neither overstuffed or sparse and dull - one of the best OVAs of all time lol :)
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Being a big softie sometimes, I particularly liked that the troubles that Happened with First Astronomical Velocity and their concert were solved by friendships and earlier good deeds. And Granny.
After reading a book on the Japanese Gravure and Porn Industry, the early episode where Sonico is pressured to go further than she wants is sadly true.
Fortunately, she has a quality manager.
 
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest episode 20 Source of distortion.

MF Ghost 2nd Season episode 20 Angel’s kiss.

Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 episode 32 Last step.

Tower of God Season 2 episode 21 Save.

TsumaSho episode 9 Devotion.

Beelzebub episodes 33-51, 58-60 & specials (Complete. It took me a few episodes to come around to this series, and though by the end I appreciated some aspects of the story this isn’t one I’m in a hurry to come back to.) 3/5
 
As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World 2nd Season Episode 8

Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Episode 20

My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1 Episode 1-12 (Rewatch) (Complete)
 
Ranma 1/2 (2024) ep3-5

I am warming to the Ranmake as it goes on, I just wish it was a bit more ambitious. The business of Ranma’s missing nipples seems to have ruffled a few feathers? Personally, I agree that nothing of value has been lost, but I do think it would be less distracting if they reframed the shots so that nudity is implied and not shown, rather than just omitting them altogether and making Ranma look like a shop mannequin. Hell, I think it’d be funnier if there was constantly something conveniently blocking the camera’s view.

Dan Da Dan ep7-8

Haven’t had much to say about it on an episode to episode basis, but I’ve enjoyed Dan Da Dan a lot so far. Ep7 was certainly a change of pace though, it felt like it wouldn’t have been out of place in Paranoia Agent.

Ghost Cat Anzu

A pleasant film about Garfield Anzu, the titular talking cat who cheated death, finding himself pushed into the role of surrogate parent to Karin, a young girl visiting her family’s Buddhist shrine, this is probably most notable for its extensive use of rotoscoping to create Anzu’s animation, making him surprisingly expressive for a big goofy orange cat. Unfortunately, I think the film suffers a little when he isn’t the focus of the action. It doesn’t strike me as the fun, heartwarming family outing some people are painting it as (I’m not alone in saying some story beats imply something far darker going on just outwith the characters’ immediate orbit) and it also shifts gears in the third act to introduce higher stakes I’m not convinced it really needed. The trip to the underworld in search of Karin’s dead mother allows for some interesting visuals, sure, but I feel like if they were going to do that, it would have been better to make that the focus of the film from the start. Honestly, I liked it better when Anzu was getting busted for traffic violations and losing all his money at pachinko. And why is Karin’s mother in hell anyway?

It’s possible I might enjoy it more on a second watch, now that I know better what to expect, but yeah, dunno.
 
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