They are celebrating Christmas with a Finnish flag...! Nice.

Oh, by the way, it seems the intro thing not necessarily had to do with pedobear, but who knows.

I've been meaning to watch this for over three years now. Looks cuter the longer time passes.
As for the man with the paper bag on his head, it's a reference to Guilty Gear.

This is one of my main shows that I put on my laptop when I go to sleep. It's incredibly comfy and cute.

I wanted to like this show when it aired and thought it was kind of cute, but it was hard to.
It brought up some issues with anime that made me and many others at the time feel very uncomfortable, but that we don't like to admit to being an issue.
Basically it's hard to enjoy a cute and moe anime when two of the main characters are dating. It can be sweet seeing love blossom and how they get together. On the other hand when they're already in a relationships it makes things awkward. Almost feels like being a third wheel. Besides, there's something off-putting about girls when you know they're already taken. It makes it weird to take them as a waifu or anything else really. There's a reason why girls are always single in moe anime.
"but this is a romcom!" you might say, and to that I say it doesn't feel very romantic when it's just a dating couple hanging out with a couple of their friends.

>>29136
This one, I like it.

Tricked.

>>29209

>>28915
The bullies can't just untie it?

>>28916
Nope. Most bullies are stupid.

That was a pretty big flag if I ever saw one.

Finally got around to finishing this. I must say, I feel kind of sorry for Kurumi. Things worked out fine for the other girls but she got stuck in that hedghog mode again for whatever reason. She didn't seem to complain but I couldn't imagine living like that.

>>28795
Or Akira knocked her up.

I stopped watching after Ep 6, where they introduce the Mary Sue purple-haired girl. Does it get better? It was cute at first but was starting to get repetitive.

>>29204
Yes, it really takes its sweet time, but it gets better. Plus, it sounds like they have some cool stuff planned for the second half of the show. Stick it out for a while longer.
Also, you best not be talking shit about Yukari.

>>29204
If you're new to precure, this isn't a good season to start on. Bibury is pretty great though, not enough to carry this season, but she does what she can.

This might possibly be the best anime op ever made.

This is my favorite OP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mArmkaZMU0
Haven't seen MADLAX is forever and don't remeber a thing about it, but it's got an op which is worth a mention.

I fucking loved this anime and I fucking love this OP. It's a perfect example of shounen anime done right! It's a tragedy no one remembers it outside of japan.

>>29100
Your description inspired me to watch it. I'll post my thoughts after I watch it.

>>29102
please stop disliking things that i like

ep2 also good

cool

objectively bad? Green Green. If you don't believe me, just try to watch it. It was bad at the time, and it aged worse than Love Hina.

something I absolutely despised? Rosario † Vampire adaptation. For the first chunk, the manga was a dopey romcom with fanservice, and it was fairly generic and rather underwhelming. Then it did a 90 degree genre shift and became more of a battle shonen thing that was done quite well. The anime crew wanted to continue the with the dopey romcom shit and do so while bringing in the newer characters introduced in the manga after the genre shift. The only problem was that the anime crew had no idea how to write or direct something new and without the manga providing them a storyboard for the plot, and all of the new characters had their personalities altered in an attempt to better fit in with the dopey, stereotypical highschool fanservice part. It was a bad, and the writers and director should be shot.

>>29192
the worst part is that I'm actually a fan of the 3 green green games but it at least had some stuff that was funny, stuff like girls bravo and boys be fits in there as well as crappy fanservice comedies that are just way too crude and often fail at just about every attempt at humor.
And on the note of stuff that didn't age well, sister princess really did not hold up even though I still enjoyed some of the dumb jokes.

The worst thing I've ever seen though was probably nekogami yaoyorozu (it only aired some years back, but it's just awful, in the art, sound, writing, voice acting) or infinite ryvius (the writing is just terrible).
Most the bad anime I've seen that's more than 20 years old was clearly made for kids so I'm able to forgive their issues on some level, but I'm sure of all the 90s and 80s OVAs out there, there are some really awful ones on par with musashi gundoh, md geist, and mars of destruction.

>>29206
>nekogami yaoyorozu
I really wanted to like that anime when it aired, but they sure didn't make it easy. Personally I liked the art and thought it was cute, I think it even had a decent first ep. That's about all the nice things I can say for that Touhou wannabe. Because then the author self inserted hard and dragged the whole series down with them. It was mind blowing how far the creator had their head up their own ass. Their insert character couldn't have been more out of place, yet a large amount of the second half was dedicated to themselves with other characters helping her create manga as if that'd be cute or funny. Maybe if it was a 4th wall breaking gag comedy that crap might fly, but for Nekogami is was just weird and distracting. It'd be like getting halfway into a touhou game before being stopped by a 2D version of Zun who puts the story on hold and makes you to help him program the rest of the game. Like what the fuck? Go make a webcomic for that shit, don't ruin your story with it.

>>28966
don't sweat cliffhangers & backstory in slices of life, nothing of consequence will ever happen, just relax & take is easy.

This never gets old.

i just finished watching Go and it was pretty good, though not as good as the previous seasons. i really wish they would show more reiko though or at least a backstory, i'm really interested to know how / when she died or how she lived her life (besides taking spirit's names)

>>29199
She gets a dedicated ep in season 6 as the mc, but yeah it's still amazing how little they've explored the character over six seasons. This show is nice and all, but it really moves at a snails pace.

>>25671
i'd prefer to be a high school harem MC, but being a girl in one of those shows where all they do is eat desserts and take baths would be pretty great lifestyle.

I believe dog days has one of the most idealistic settings I've ever seen in an anime. Besides being a world of where everyone is cute, with a beautiful landscape and cities, things are also incredibly peaceful too. It's a world in which the nations put aside their conflicts and learned how to peacefully coexist with Olympic style events taking place of wars and serious injury being next to impossible thanks to the protective spell cast over the land. Granted there have been a few conflicts that have arisen (gotta give the characters 'something' to do) but they weren't anything the heroes couldn't take care of, and worse case scenario the local tailors have some extra work coming their way.
Their economy for that matter seemed pretty decent too, hardly noticed any slums or any mention of the poor.

Cute baristas in a cafe

>>25680
>being a girl in one of those shows where all they do is eat desserts and take baths would be pretty great lifestyle.
That only lasts for a few years though. In those type of anime once people graduate highschool it's time to 'renew'.

>>25743

s c r o t u m f i e n d

>>25721
Mmm... 2D bishoujo

I'd just want all the Jojos past Part 2 to not be episodic. I miss 1 and 2's continuous story.

>>25777
Me too. It really went down hill after part 2

>>27719
Well so much for that.
Still, it's really nice so I don't mind one bit.

A cross over ep! Awesome!
I for one welcome the Kodomo-anime cinematic universe!

I knew this ep wasn't gonna end well, but dang...

This was really sweet, although I do question the human's complete lack of hesitation. It's a tad concerning.