What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0

[renegadeleader1]

Currently watching Ulysses: Jean D'arc and the Alchemist Knight... Six episodes in and it's not that bad. I expected so much worse from something the Anime New Network viewer called the worst series of 2018. 

[Seto Kaiba]

6 minutes ago, renegadeleader1 said:

Currently watching Ulysses: Jean D'arc and the Alchemist Knight... Six episodes in and it's not that bad. I expected so much worse from something the Anime New Network viewer called the worst series of 2018. 

Wait 'til you get to the end... it's utterly mediocre until then, when it doesn't so much jump the shark as pole vault every shark that has ever been and will ever be.

[Sanity is Optional]

1 hour ago, hachi said:

Ok, saw Gleipner eps 1-2 but it seems a bit too violent for watching out in the open (family members passing by). I'll just save it for later. Which rules out Tsugumomo...

So I went old school and am watching Yu Yu Hakusho

Oh yeah, I wouldn't watch either Gleipnir or Tsugumomo around family. Gleipnir I'd at least watch with friends though.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

I am watching Yuusha ni Narenakatta Ore wa Shibushibu Shuushoku wo Ketsui Shimashita it is a very silly show.

[Seto Kaiba]

My Wife is the Student Council President has been a real trip.  I'm not sure why they keep approving these half-season shows... but this one is trying to win some kind of award for brevity, being just eight minutes long per episode.  The lengths they went to to make it cheap are amazing in their own right, with occasional 2-3 minute long cutaways to stills with a text crawl over them.

It's a fairly generic romcom sort of show... it's just produced so badly that it's kind of remarkable in a way.  They say most of an anime's budget goes to drawing the eyes, but in this case I'd swear blind they spent most of the budget animating and highlighting cleavage... on the rare occasions it's onscreen, it's drawn at roughly ten times the detail level of the rest of the series.  (It's like every character is Makina Nakajima from Macross Delta...)

[spacemanoeuvres]

Watched Baki (netflix) on a lark.

I thought it was rather good for what it was; some of the fights were brutal 

[Focslain]

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

They say most of an anime's budget goes to drawing the eyes, but in this case I'd swear blind they spent most of the budget animating and highlighting cleavage... on the rare occasions it's onscreen, it's drawn at roughly ten times the detail level of the rest of the series. 

Reminds me of Maken-Ki, just replace cleavage with panties. Good lords those were lovingly drawn underwear.

[Seto Kaiba]

53 minutes ago, Focslain said:

Reminds me of Maken-Ki, just replace cleavage with panties. Good lords those were lovingly drawn underwear.

I am confused and slightly bewildered that Crunchyroll is now advertising an UNCENSORED version of My Wife is the Student Council President at me... apart from one or two bits, this show's fanservice was pretty tame.  WTF is there to uncensor about it?

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

My Wife is the Student Council President has been a real trip.  I'm not sure why they keep approving these half-season shows... but this one is trying to win some kind of award for brevity, being just eight minutes long per episode.  The lengths they went to to make it cheap are amazing in their own right, with occasional 2-3 minute long cutaways to stills with a text crawl over them.

It's a fairly generic romcom sort of show... it's just produced so badly that it's kind of remarkable in a way.  They say most of an anime's budget goes to drawing the eyes, but in this case I'd swear blind they spent most of the budget animating and highlighting cleavage... on the rare occasions it's onscreen, it's drawn at roughly ten times the detail level of the rest of the series.  (It's like every character is Makina Nakajima from Macross Delta...)

I thought this series and its sequel was just ridiculous.  I laughed all the time. Ui is crazy.

[Seto Kaiba]

2 hours ago, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

I thought this series and its sequel was just ridiculous.  I laughed all the time. Ui is crazy.

So... I found out what "uncensored" meant within about twenty seconds of starting the first "uncensored" episode.

Ui's talking about a VERY different kind of "liberating love" here... she's throwing condoms to the crowd during her speech.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

7 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

So... I found out what "uncensored" meant within about twenty seconds of starting the first "uncensored" episode.

Ui's talking about a VERY different kind of "liberating love" here... she's throwing condoms to the crowd during her speech.

It is a very strange thing to do at school. 

[Seto Kaiba]

2 minutes ago, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

It is a very strange thing to do at school. 

OK, that was just the tip of the iceberg... the uncensored version is basically softcore porn.  

Goin' back to the censored version.  It was more watchable.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

23 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

OK, that was just the tip of the iceberg... the uncensored version is basically softcore porn.  

Goin' back to the censored version.  It was more watchable.

I watched it uncensored and even I thought it was pushing it.  This coming from a High School DxD fan.

[Seto Kaiba]

1 minute ago, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

I watched it uncensored and even I thought it was pushing it.  This coming from a High School DxD fan.

... that bad, huh?

[renegadeleader1]

6 hours ago, Focslain said:

Reminds me of Maken-Ki, just replace cleavage with panties. Good lords those were lovingly drawn underwear.

I can respect Maken-Ki. It knew what it was doing and where it wanted to go and did it very well. Still if you want to see a studio's true dedication to panties you should track down Agent Aika or Najica Blitz Tactics.

 

15 minutes ago, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

I watched it uncensored and even I thought it was pushing it.  This coming from a High School DxD fan.

...(quietly adds uncensored version to watch list.) 

 

By the way since we are on the fanservice topic, anybody even know what happened to the US release of HxH Hybrid Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia? It seems like it got the Interspecies Reviewers treatment before Interspecies Reviewers were a thing.

[Focslain]

13 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

I can respect Maken-Ki. It knew what it was doing and where it wanted to go and did it very well. Still if you want to see a studio's true dedication to panties you should track down Agent Aika or Najica Blitz Tactics.

Agent Aika is on my radar for the same reason that Maken-ki is, Jlist flooding my twitter feed with gifs from the series. Will have to look up blitz tactics later.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

20 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

... that bad, huh?

Maybe it is just me but I found it uncomfortable in some places.

I have seen and read Shinmai maou no Testament and that pushes everything to the edge and over.

[Focslain]

Just now, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

Maybe it is just me but I found it uncomfortable in some places.

I have seen and read Shinmai maou no Testament and that pushes everything to the edge and over.

That series is way funnier censored. Mostly due to how they censor it. 

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

6 minutes ago, Focslain said:

That series is way funnier censored. Mostly due to how they censor it. 

I never thought Shinmai was supposed to be funny. 

[Seto Kaiba]

Honestly, My Wife is the Student Council President is definitely a lot more enjoyable censored... the uncensored version stops just short of being actual hentai.

It's like ToLoveRu in terms of blatantness, but instead of accidental gropings for mainly comedic effect it's mostly just "how can we make this as lewd as possible".

All told, it's definitely not a show I'd consider rewatching or recommend.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

18 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Honestly, My Wife is the Student Council President is definitely a lot more enjoyable censored... the uncensored version stops just short of being actual hentai.

It's like ToLoveRu in terms of blatantness, but instead of accidental gropings for mainly comedic effect it's mostly just "how can we make this as lewd as possible".

All told, it's definitely not a show I'd consider rewatching or recommend.

So true about it being nearly Hentai.  To love-ru has some good characters at least. 

[Seto Kaiba]

Finished My Wife is the Student Council President+ today... and honestly it's way better censored than non.  This could've actually been entertaining if they cut out the nudity and sexual content and just ran with the incredibly screwed up love story.  

My Crunchyroll queue is growing thin now, at least... I started Love Tyrant today over dinner.  So far, I'm thoroughly with Seiji given that his first reaction to supernatural bullsh*t was to slam the door in its face and his second reaction is to immediately accuse them of ripping off Death Note.  If he can keep up this "done with this sh*t" attitude I think this might be a lot better than the last few shows I've seen.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

I started Monster Musume no Oishasan  and it was really weird.  I liked Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou so i thought why not.  I do know they are not the same series. 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

Having just finished Utawarerumono Prelude to the fallen..  aka the 1st of the trilogy on the PS4.     I figured I would go back over the ADV release of Utawarerumono and see what the differences were.       The anime so far is mostly correct,  but it does leave out abit of detail that would make the story make more sense at the end.

 

Comparing this to MOD or False Faces..  they will need to retcon the ending because its radically different from the game events.    Especially if they are planning on animating MOT which was announced.

 

 

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

I watched the 1st episode of Season 3 of Oregairu and it was well worth the 5 year wait.

[bluemax151]

23 hours ago, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

I started Monster Musume no Oishasan  and it was really weird.  I liked Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou so i thought why not.  I do know they are not the same series. 

I've been reading the Light Novels and they were alright. Nothing exceptional but seemingly a new angle on the monster girl setting. Define weird. Is there an exceptional amount of fan service or something in the anime? I know the pacing is odd because being a Doctor there is some investigation involved in every arc.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

26 minutes ago, bluemax151 said:

I've been reading the Light Novels and they were alright. Nothing exceptional but seemingly a new angle on the monster girl setting. Define weird. Is there an exceptional amount of fan service or something in the anime? I know the pacing is odd because being a Doctor there is some investigation involved in every arc.

Maybe weird wasn't a good choice., I didn't mean it is bad.  It is not want I expected, I thought it would be a modern not Medieval setting.  There is a little fan service in the show.

[kajnrig]

Dunno how much if any of this is true, but $18 an episode sounds so frakking insane.

[Seto Kaiba]

5 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

Dunno how much if any of this is true, but $18 an episode sounds so frakking insane.

Eh... I sincerely doubt that that claim is true.

For starters, no translator with a brain is going to agree to work for a flat rate per episode.  Episode lengths vary anywhere from eight minutes to nearly an hour, and depending on the show and its writers you could end up with almost no dialog or you could be emptying entire dustbins of exposition into the horrified faces of the audience like Hideo Kojima.  They've got to be invoicing by the character or by the word, the same as any professional translator.  Otherwise they wouldn't even be making the federal minimum wage.  They could take the language proficiency they have any go to any of thousands of corporations and get exponentially superior pay.  

There's gotta be a zero or two missing there... the average rate for a professional translation of something like a novel can easily exceed $80 a page.  At my day job, I've had to have a number of technical documents translated from Japanese, Chinese, or French into English or vice versa, and that usually runs around $200 a page... but I've had jobs quoted as high as twice that for complex or time-sensitive work.

(On a lark, I had two different services I've done business with before write me quotes on what it'd cost to do a volume of Master File.  128 pages?  About $25,000 just for translation of the text... no typesetting or anything.  The translator's making around $35-$40/hr on that transaction once operating overhead is taken out.)

[DewPoint]

Is it $18 or $80 an episode?  I'm hearing $80.  Which is still way low..

[Seto Kaiba]

Love Tyrant is... well, it's certainly a thing that exists.

As a parody of the harem genre, it's fairly entertaining and there's some freaking weird cases of showing their work like Guri's boss being a Seraphim correctly drawn as a disembodied face with six wings, but I'm not sure I'm all that invested in the actual story, as there doesn't seem to really be a coherent plot thread.

[TangledThorns]

Watching DRIFTING DRAGONS on Netflix and OMFG... I'm not a vegan tree hugger but it really felt like this anime is a propaganda for Japan's whaling industry. Maybe I'm wrong but it almost made we want to become a vegetarian

[Seto Kaiba]

Well... that was a waste of time.

Love Tyrant tried to grow a plot in its last two episodes, and it's pretty much complete crap.  Easily one of the worst shows I've watched this year.  Guri just arbitrarily disappears for most of an episode and turns into a demon for some contrived reason the show forgets to actually explain, and somehow it's all Seiji's fault?  It comes out of nowhere, has virtually no impact on the characters, and even the main cast don't really seem all that invested in it as a plot device.  You can't even relate to the show's antagonist, who they literally devote a flashback to explaining has no actual motive for being evil... she's just like that.  Even the literal devil thinks she's pointlessly over-the-top.  There's not even any resistance when the characters go to hell to bring Guri back... they just walk right in and literally nobody attempts to stop them.  There's no drama, or intrigue, or even a bad joke to go out on... the whole thing is sorted out in the space of half an episode and that's it.

(I do appreciate that Hell in Love Tyrant is apparently an extradimensional metropolitan Tokyo office district full of burned out demon salarymen lamenting the constant long hours and late nights they're forced to work by their humorless, married-to-the-job, workaholic boss.)

Glad I'm done with it, and equally glad I'll never have to watch it again.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

SAO is finally back, it was such a great start.

[Seto Kaiba]

This season's new offerings don't seem to be off to a great start.

I started Monster Musume no Oisha-san over lunch today, and... y'know that "copy your homework" meme that goes "just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied"?

The best way I can sum up this show is "that, for Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou".

The protagonist, Glenn Leitbeit, is a young doctor who recently opened a clinic specializing in monster care... and while he doesn't look a thing like the main guy from Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou, he's basically the only one who doesn't look like they were lifted right out of Okayado's manga.  Six minutes into episode 1 and we've already got off-brand versions of several members of the MonMusu cast including the clingy jealous lamia girl (who is, in this case, Glenn's de facto nurse) and the blonde centaur princess-knight with the giant rack who immediately decides that the main character is her one-and-only because he's not a musclebound jerk.

It is, at least, somewhat less fanservice-heavy than Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou... though they still did manage to make shoeing a centaur sound creepy and sexual.

It's not bad per se, it's just painfully unoriginal.  Right now, 4/10... we'll see if it actually develops into something worth watching the way To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts did.

The next new offering I'm going to have a look at is The Misfit of Demon King Academy... which seems to by holding The Irregular at Magic High School down and stealing its lunch money.

Edited July 12, 2020 by Seto Kaiba