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Dragon Slayer
The Wildcard
BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War (English Dub) Episode 28
ARIFURETA: From Common Place to World's Strongest Season 3 Episode 5
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Season 2 Episode 18
ARIFURETA: From Common Place to World's Strongest Season 3 Episode 5
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Season 2 Episode 18
RadFemHedonist
Mad Scientist
More than halfway though Hyouka now and also started rewatching Fruits Basket 2019 (English dubbed) with a new person who I've met a few times who's rly nice (they will take the Friend E designation going forward and I think it will stick so maybe I will actually have a Friend F at some point in the future, who knows lol XD) 
Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World - Season 3 episode 57 Still fighting.
Sengoku Youko 2nd Season episode 29 Bloodied fist.
The Prince of Tennis: U-17 World Cup Semifinal episode 7 Grateful play.
Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo! episode 48, Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo! the Movie: Happy Birthday in the Sweets Kingdom (Film) (Complete. Both the series and film here were similarly solid like the preceding season.) 3.5/5, 3.5/5
07-Ghost episodes 1-14
Sengoku Youko 2nd Season episode 29 Bloodied fist.
The Prince of Tennis: U-17 World Cup Semifinal episode 7 Grateful play.
Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo! episode 48, Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo! the Movie: Happy Birthday in the Sweets Kingdom (Film) (Complete. Both the series and film here were similarly solid like the preceding season.) 3.5/5, 3.5/5
07-Ghost episodes 1-14
RadFemHedonist
Mad Scientist
Hyouka Episodes 1-23 COMPLETE (REWATCH, English dubbed) - I really appreciate how this series manages to make the seemingly mundane compelling, very good English dub as well
Now watching Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (English dubbed)
Now watching Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (English dubbed)
Gemsy-chan
Shrine Maiden
Eps 1-7 of Trigun Stampede ...so much better than original Trigun anime which i found incredibly boring and never finished.
Dragon Slayer
The Wildcard
365 Days to the Wedding Episode 7
Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V Episode 7
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 Episode 57
Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister Episode 7
Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V Episode 7
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 Episode 57
Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister Episode 7
DAN DA DAN episode 7 Far away.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V episode 7 Just a game.
Negative Postive Angler episode 7 Strategy.
Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- episode 31 Reversing cut.
Trillion Game episode 8 Recommendations.
07-Ghost episodes 19-25 (Complete. Not a bad watch but another title I’m unlikely to revisit in a hurry.) 3/5
18if episodes 1-13 (Complete. Despite some cool visuals and ideas I didn’t get too much out of this anime overall.) 3/5
22/7 episodes 1-7
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V episode 7 Just a game.
Negative Postive Angler episode 7 Strategy.
Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- episode 31 Reversing cut.
Trillion Game episode 8 Recommendations.
07-Ghost episodes 19-25 (Complete. Not a bad watch but another title I’m unlikely to revisit in a hurry.) 3/5
18if episodes 1-13 (Complete. Despite some cool visuals and ideas I didn’t get too much out of this anime overall.) 3/5
22/7 episodes 1-7
ayase
State Alchemist
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu: Episodes 12-15 (Complete)
Farewell then, all of Higurashi. A pleasing, coherant and mostly conclusive end, to this particular chapter at least. The direction of Sotsu continued to impress right up to the end, I'm going to look up whoever directed the last two episodes immediately after posting this to see if they've done anything else because they were better directed than a lot of feature films, anime or live action. In the end, I wouldn't be without any chapter of this story (even Umineko, disappointing as it was) but Gō and Sotsu did a very good job of living up to the original series and Kai, perhaps even surpassing them in some places. It was different to be sure (I never quite did get used to those cat mouths) and I can understand why it might not be every fan of the original series' cup of tea, but for my tastes the darker tone was pitch-perfect. I do hope there's more to the story eventually because while this does work fine as an ending (at least to the Hinamizawa storyline) there are clearly more mysteries to uncover, whether under the Higurashi banner or something else entirely. Only time will tell.
The fact "Eua" facilitated all of this suffering just to give herself an entertaining TV show to watch while lounging in bed was both outrageously flippant of her (as should be expected of witches at this point, really) and meta as hell, I love it. That's why Rika and Satoko's fights were being framed increasingly like straight-up homages to action scenes from a variety of anime genres. I did wonder about that at the beginning, whether Higurashi really needed to become a magical girl or shonen show, but it was precisely because that's what "Eua" wanted. As endings go, I'm never a big fan of deus ex machina solutions. There are probably exceptions (it's likely someone can point one out and call me a hypocrite here) but for the most part I find them lazy and uninspired and Hanyū's defeat of "Eua" by means of a magic sword falling through a crack in reality and into her hand was no exception. While still satisfying to see Hanyū come out on top, it wasn't quite the level of complex or clever storytelling I'd otherwise come to expect from Higurashi.
That particular itch was scratched in other ways though. Witches are even more complicated than I thought. The relationship between Hanyū and "Eua" is teased to all hell here but not clarified, so I remain in the dark about Hanyū's actual nature other than the revelation "Eua" had some hand in her existence. If that's true and it's also true she was once the physical being known as Oyashiro-sama that just makes things even more mindbending. Likewise the idea that witches can essentially posses their people of origin, which I suppose finally satisfies some of my confusion from Umineko as well as Rika's statement from Rei that she would "no longer be the witch Bernkastel". The latter had definitely been gnawing at me a bit because I felt certain they were supposed to be separate beings, but that would explain it.
It was nice to see Rika and Satoko survive the show with their characters intact, which was sometimes a bit of a concern for me. Though it does seem both of them were at times possessed by their witches, who I suppose are also part of them, just not a particularly nice part. That would account for any ooc behaviour (and has me wondering even more now about there being a possible link between that and Hinamizawa syndrome) since amoral sadism seems to be a witch's default setting. They've both grown and changed but the essence of their characters, their personalities and their love for each other endured through it all and was really quite touching. That's probably the biggest achievement of Gō/Sotsu in my eyes, to move me emotionally in ways the other series' never quite managed. Bravo.
Whether this was all planned out in advance or Ryukishi is just that good at cutting new jigsaw pieces to fit perfectly in the gaps he's left I don't know, either way it was very pleasing. Why couldn't the Umineko anime have been better (and finished) dammit?
Farewell then, all of Higurashi. A pleasing, coherant and mostly conclusive end, to this particular chapter at least. The direction of Sotsu continued to impress right up to the end, I'm going to look up whoever directed the last two episodes immediately after posting this to see if they've done anything else because they were better directed than a lot of feature films, anime or live action. In the end, I wouldn't be without any chapter of this story (even Umineko, disappointing as it was) but Gō and Sotsu did a very good job of living up to the original series and Kai, perhaps even surpassing them in some places. It was different to be sure (I never quite did get used to those cat mouths) and I can understand why it might not be every fan of the original series' cup of tea, but for my tastes the darker tone was pitch-perfect. I do hope there's more to the story eventually because while this does work fine as an ending (at least to the Hinamizawa storyline) there are clearly more mysteries to uncover, whether under the Higurashi banner or something else entirely. Only time will tell.
The fact "Eua" facilitated all of this suffering just to give herself an entertaining TV show to watch while lounging in bed was both outrageously flippant of her (as should be expected of witches at this point, really) and meta as hell, I love it. That's why Rika and Satoko's fights were being framed increasingly like straight-up homages to action scenes from a variety of anime genres. I did wonder about that at the beginning, whether Higurashi really needed to become a magical girl or shonen show, but it was precisely because that's what "Eua" wanted. As endings go, I'm never a big fan of deus ex machina solutions. There are probably exceptions (it's likely someone can point one out and call me a hypocrite here) but for the most part I find them lazy and uninspired and Hanyū's defeat of "Eua" by means of a magic sword falling through a crack in reality and into her hand was no exception. While still satisfying to see Hanyū come out on top, it wasn't quite the level of complex or clever storytelling I'd otherwise come to expect from Higurashi.
That particular itch was scratched in other ways though. Witches are even more complicated than I thought. The relationship between Hanyū and "Eua" is teased to all hell here but not clarified, so I remain in the dark about Hanyū's actual nature other than the revelation "Eua" had some hand in her existence. If that's true and it's also true she was once the physical being known as Oyashiro-sama that just makes things even more mindbending. Likewise the idea that witches can essentially posses their people of origin, which I suppose finally satisfies some of my confusion from Umineko as well as Rika's statement from Rei that she would "no longer be the witch Bernkastel". The latter had definitely been gnawing at me a bit because I felt certain they were supposed to be separate beings, but that would explain it.
It was nice to see Rika and Satoko survive the show with their characters intact, which was sometimes a bit of a concern for me. Though it does seem both of them were at times possessed by their witches, who I suppose are also part of them, just not a particularly nice part. That would account for any ooc behaviour (and has me wondering even more now about there being a possible link between that and Hinamizawa syndrome) since amoral sadism seems to be a witch's default setting. They've both grown and changed but the essence of their characters, their personalities and their love for each other endured through it all and was really quite touching. That's probably the biggest achievement of Gō/Sotsu in my eyes, to move me emotionally in ways the other series' never quite managed. Bravo.
Whether this was all planned out in advance or Ryukishi is just that good at cutting new jigsaw pieces to fit perfectly in the gaps he's left I don't know, either way it was very pleasing. Why couldn't the Umineko anime have been better (and finished) dammit?
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Otomo
Thousand Master
Congratulations.
I struggled after a couple of episodes of S2 and stopped.
The last scene of S1 will always be one of my favourite anime moments.
I bought and started
By the Grace of the Gods S1
Episodes 1-4
Funny, especially with the bodyguard Hughes. Nice and easy story.
Loving the jobby slime. Provided me with laughs.
kieran1
Kiznaiver
Kaiketsu Zorori eps 1-10
(non-anime)
Nakano School Collection (movies)
The School of Spies (1966) Director: Yasuzo Masumura
Assignment Cloud (1966) Director: Kazuo Mori
Assignment Dragon No. 3 (1967) Director: Tokuzo Tanaka
Secret Assignment (1967) Director: Akira Inoue
The Night before Pearl Harbor (1968) Director: Akira Inoue
Fantastic collection of movies,based upon the real Imperial japanese army nakano school which was the training center for military Intelligence during world war 2.The movies star Raizo Ichikawa as Shiro,the movies follow him from the harsh and brutal training at the school which sees him slowly lose his emotions and humanity as he is moulded into a deadly spy.I enjoyed each movie and each director done a fantastic job,if your a fan of Raizo Ichikawa and enjoyed him in the shinobi no mono movies you will find a lot to enjoy here and both franchises have a lot in common from brutal training,emotionally torn and believable characters,true to life techniques of spying and the lines of right and wrong get blurred all in the name of duty.Highly recommended.
(non-anime)
Nakano School Collection (movies)
The School of Spies (1966) Director: Yasuzo Masumura
Assignment Cloud (1966) Director: Kazuo Mori
Assignment Dragon No. 3 (1967) Director: Tokuzo Tanaka
Secret Assignment (1967) Director: Akira Inoue
The Night before Pearl Harbor (1968) Director: Akira Inoue
Fantastic collection of movies,based upon the real Imperial japanese army nakano school which was the training center for military Intelligence during world war 2.The movies star Raizo Ichikawa as Shiro,the movies follow him from the harsh and brutal training at the school which sees him slowly lose his emotions and humanity as he is moulded into a deadly spy.I enjoyed each movie and each director done a fantastic job,if your a fan of Raizo Ichikawa and enjoyed him in the shinobi no mono movies you will find a lot to enjoy here and both franchises have a lot in common from brutal training,emotionally torn and believable characters,true to life techniques of spying and the lines of right and wrong get blurred all in the name of duty.Highly recommended.
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Gemsy-chan
Shrine Maiden
Ep 6 of The Do-Over Damsel Conquers The Dragon Emperor
Ep 5 of A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School!
Ep 5 of A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School!
Dragon Ball Daima episode 6 Cow.
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II episode 7 Praise.
The iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors 2nd Season episode 19 Our home.
22/7 episodes 8-12 & special (Complete. An idol drama that while managing to be somewhat different from other idol franchises, also felt a bit boring in places.) 3/5
Aim for the Ace!: The Movie (Film) In lieu of watching the first season ahead of its sequels I instead skimmed through this summary movie and it worked decently enough. 3/5
Aim for the Ace!: Another Match OVAs 1-13 (Complete. This was quite a solid sequel anime, taking time to showcase Hiromi’s fall and rise as a tennis player as she deals with a major personal loss which shakes her confidence.) 3.5/5
Aim for the Ace!: Final Stage OVAs 1-4
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II episode 7 Praise.
The iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors 2nd Season episode 19 Our home.
22/7 episodes 8-12 & special (Complete. An idol drama that while managing to be somewhat different from other idol franchises, also felt a bit boring in places.) 3/5
Aim for the Ace!: The Movie (Film) In lieu of watching the first season ahead of its sequels I instead skimmed through this summary movie and it worked decently enough. 3/5
Aim for the Ace!: Another Match OVAs 1-13 (Complete. This was quite a solid sequel anime, taking time to showcase Hiromi’s fall and rise as a tennis player as she deals with a major personal loss which shakes her confidence.) 3.5/5
Aim for the Ace!: Final Stage OVAs 1-4
RadFemHedonist
Mad Scientist
Gundam Unicorn OVA Episodes 1-7 COMPLETE (English dubbed) - I wouldn't quite put this on a part with the Origin OVA series but I still got a lot out of watching it
Now watching Iroduku: The World in Colors (English dubbed)
Now watching Iroduku: The World in Colors (English dubbed)