Considering how hesitant people seem to be to make threads, this seems like a nice idea.

I like it.

Vlad Love is more interesting than I expected. To me there's a fine line between comedy and "random for the sake of being random" and Vlad Love handles that well.

With Urasekai I thought they rushed the pacing a little too much and that they should have retained an element of horror but at least Kozakura is cute.

>>35479
I like the old school feel it has about it.

This episode struck a chord somehow.

Re:Zero has the most bizarre presentation. Every single thing that happens is depicted in this massively grandiose fashion. Every single episode. Everything that happens is the most important fucking thing that has ever happened and all sorts of dramatic pop music starts blaring whenever someone says something vaguely emotional during a conversation. Can't they tone it down a little? It's hard to care about dramatic scenes when every other scene is dramatic.

This is a PSA to all shota: Please, be circumspect in matters of hygiene as there have been sightings of lolibaba preying upon the male youth. Thank you for your consideration.

Not surprised she has at least fujo-tendencies.

Between the last 3 episodes of Hataraku Saibou S2 they must have repeated the fact that there are good, bad, & opportunistic bacteria in the intestine at least a dozen times. Is there supposed to be some sort of joke behind that (e.g. that it's an over-taught fact in the Japanese school system, á la the role of the mitochondria in US school systems?)

Wasn't expecting such an old school expression. This week's episode was rather pensive as well, suppose the next two episode will delve into the remaining two characters' complexes and then the finale. On a side note, I was pleasantly surprised to hear Otsuka Hochu and Nakata Joji's voices in the series.

オッス

Behold, AGRICULTURE!

https://anichart.net/Spring-2021

Looking forward to anything next season? It's not like there were a lot of great animes airing this season but next season feels lackluster in comparison. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Shadows House and Super Cub but not much aside from that. Maybe the two SoLs about women's soccer and pottery, there's also what looks like a Lady Snowbloods's spiritual successor and Gokushufudo of which I've read a bit of the manga before. Also perhaps it's worth a mention but Nagatoro and Blue Reflection are also getting anime adaptations.

>>35556
In April 3 starts the third season of the best not-anime anime of the last years, Thunderbolt Fantasy, so I'm eager for that.
Besides that maybe Cestvs and not too much else.

>>35556
>not like there were a lot of great animes airing this season
I thought there were tons of good stuff this (winter 2021) season, especially if you're a fan of sol/cgdct: off my head we had yuru camp, azur lane shorts, hataraku saibou s2 (& black), non non biyori, urasekai, and uma musume s2. And two "wildcard" shows (wonder egg & vlad love); depending on where your tastes lie that's probably 4-5 watchable shows at least, which I think is not too shabby.

>>35564
I've been enjoying redo of healer myself....

>>35564
You are right, I'm actually watching at least 5-6 airing animes this season including most of what you've listed. A lot of those ended up being rather lukewarm however with the exception of NNB and Yurucamp. I suppose I was feeling a little let down when I made my post earlier, some of the animes I was watching sort of tapered off towards the end including the two wildcards you've mentioned.

>>35564
Vlad Love was awesome. It's strange and will easily go off on tangents that are hard to keep up with if you don't know what they're talking about, but that's the fun of it.

>>35569
It's enjoyable as long as you don't take it too seriously, the creators basically just did whatever they liked and that makes it great. There's a lot references and homages. My only gripe is that the first halves and the second halves were a little too contrasting and that might mislead some people.

>>35573
That episode felt like a fever dream. In fact everything from ~7+ is a vague blur except for the musical score and artwork which nonetheless take center-stage and are memorable. Maybe this is something like Finnegan's Wake where unless you're intimately familiar with all the references and tangents all you can do is sit back and watch the pretty pictures and laugh at the occasional joke.

>>35476
Hey op, do you have the artists name that draw those images?

>>35583
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/26626706
Saucenao is your friend.

>>35583
>__original_drawn_by_you_shimizu

This was a joy to watch. Nice artstyle, beautiful music, extremely slow and calm, a melancholic vibe, really atmospheric. Even the few humour moments were good. Only the CG felt off, as usual.
It almost makes me feel sorry because I doubt next episodes could improve it too much and most of the depressing but sweet mood will probably be lost.

>>35586
Beat me to it, funny how you almost took the words right out of my mouth word for word. It's very quaint and pensive although the CG can be a bit jarring, pretty much what you've said. I do wonder what direction it will take from here on out. There were some odd moments and recycled frames but it's still a nice watch. I don't know if it's normal but I find it odd how easily she gets it considering she didn't have prior experience or license. 10,000 yen is certainly cheap for a bike but I wonder if they will explain her backstory further.

>>35579
That was easily my favorite episode, as you've mentioned it's very aesthetically pleasing and it referenced one of the most iconic underground manga in its history. "Fever dream" is certainly a very fitting way to put it, I like animation sequences that exhibits a stream of consciousness quality. The regrettable aspect for me is that the humor was rather mild and failed to really engage me.

Mewkledreamy has finished airing, now it's time for Mewkledreamy Mix.
Wonder if this'll be like Precure and there'll just be a new anime every year. I wouldn't mind.

>>35597
I think Mewkledreamy is the de facto successor to Jewelpet so it might actually stick around for a few years.

These parts where they ask the audience to start cheering are slightly embarassing.

I'm quite envious, a quiet and peaceful solitary life is something I longed for. I like how succinctly they depict Koguma's awkwardness when greeting Reiko and how she subsequently begins to get accustomed to it. The occasional bits that feel like an advert still bugs me however and I'm still curious as to how she is able to afford her living expenses.

This isn't the usual anime that's talked here but I think it deserves to be mentioned. It's a contemporary noir story and in just 3 episodes it has showed incredibly good writing and dialogues contrasting with the simple but cute animal characters. It came from nowhere, a manga is being published at the same time so we don't know where the story is going on and the creator seems to be an absolute stranger with no previous experience in the industry.
Could disappoint at the end but after watching the first episodes I can at least say I haven't seen anything like it in really long time.

Got around to checking out Super Cub. First ep makes me wonder if they're not dropping subtle hints that this girl is depressed and suicidal. Her world seems pretty bleak the way she describes it, and it's hard not to notice the color use reflecting this as well.

肉すきだ～

don't know what it is about WEP, but it really resonated with me (at least the episodes released so far). the OST is also one of my favourites i've ever heard

Can't seem to post screenshots from Dragon, Ie wo Kau but it's quite enjoyable.

Interesting interpretation of the Tales of the Heike directed by Yamada Naoko in collaboration with screenwriter Yoshida Reiko. The art direction is engaging and novel, it retains faithfulness to aesthetics of the Heian era while simultaneously displaying Science Saru's distinctive style.

I haven't been in the mood to watch anime lately and have stopped keeping up with what's airing this season despite having the likes of Isekai Shokudou airing. The only one I'm actively watching is Ousama Ranking which I feel like I should give a shout-out to. I came across the manga probably about a year ago but there weren't too many chapters translated yet although it caught my attention as it was highly rated. This is one of those cases where the anime will likely surpass the source material, the manga itself is a web series iirc and the art isn't the greatest which is reminiscent of the likes of One-punch man and Kobayashi's MaidDragon. The anime has been really engaging thus far both in terms of execution and plot/world-building. I've been only reading/watching SoLs in recent years and it's the first time in a while that I'm immersed in an anime like this.

Post edited on 19th Nov 2021, 12:49pm

>>35945
>Ousama Ranking
Looks like it might be fun. Thanks for the suggestion.

Mieruko chan is a fun series

A fishing cgdct/SoL to fill Doga Kobo's recent void in the genre. It's more cgdct compared to Houkago Teibou Nishi's emphasis on SoL/iyashikei. The quality of the anime adaptation is very good so far, I would've thought it was a Doga Kobo anime if I hadn't known better.

There was a bit of discussion about it on the anime news thread but it's finally here. I was curious as to how the anime would approach the quaintness exemplified in the manga but they ended up taking a different direction from it albeit in a good way. Overall the anime's visual is decently stunning although in a different way from the manga, they also seemed to do away with the subtle ecchi-ness that was previously mentioned and opted for a more iyashikei approach which is a welcome move in my personal opinion. I also like how the art style of the manga translated into making the anime feel like it's from an older era and not something more recent. In conclusion, I would say that this is a series to watch and it has every bit the potential to be the anime of the season. CloverWorks have so far shown that they are exceptional when it comes to aesthetics and even though they have a tendency to take artistic liberties that deviate from the source material; in this instance, the direction they took have paid off.

HAG
LOSER

I haven't watched a Digimon anime since either Tamers or Frontier. Ghost Game is just fucking bizarre in its everything, and the fights are straight garbage. Nothing makes much sense, and the only reason to watch it is for Jellymon-sama.
Poor man's Gegege no Kitarou.

>>35998
I don't agree at all. I think it's cool.

>>35963
Getting started on this now, I already like the character design: it's got that kirara charm. Hopefully I'll like it better than teibou nishi.

Also I did a quick subs comparison between the Funi/LoopSubs/9volt.

From what I can tell LoopSubs is basically just Funi + honorifics and minor word changes "e.g. sister to oneesan." 9volt has a "localized" track that for some reason ruins a joke that even Funi TL'd decently. The 9volt "unlocalized" has some minor grammatical corrections on top of funi + honorifics.

Overall just skimming the transcripts I'd assume that all are fine, and this seems to be one of the more decent funi subs. That said I have not actually watched an episode yet so I'll update this if I feel the subs are flagrantly off like they were for gochiusa s3.

(Also honestly my personal preference is for subs without honorifics but translated as literally as possible attempting to match the JP word order, even if it means strictly non-grammatical English. It makes it easiest to follow along with the dialogue. Alas I think the only people to do this (perhaps by happy accident) are the Muse subs.)

>>36017
Yup, two episodes in and I love it. It's overflowing with warm, friendship, and affection, and has everything I'd expect from a Kirara.

Also turns out there actually is indo-subs from this (not from Muse though, from Billibi or however it's spelled). Here's a side-by-side sample of lines. I'll exclude loopsubs whenever it's the exact same as Funi modulo honorifics.

Funi
>Well, we're sisters, so I figured\Nwe'd be in different classes.
>How are you so calm?
>We're literally being torn apart!
>Wow, you're a handful, aren't you?

Billibi
>Well, we're siblings.
>I did think that they'd put us in different classes.
>How can you be so calm?
>We're going to be separated, you know!
>What a troublesome person...

9volt

>Well, we're sisters, so I figured\Nwe'd be in different classes.
>How are you so calm?
>We're literally being torn apart!
>You really are a handful, aren't you?

Original:

>Nande sonna reisei de irareru no?
>Watashitachi mo hanarebanare ni nacchau n'da yo
>Mendokusai hito da na...

---

Funi
>Uh, dude...
>From what I heard,
>apparently my father finally showed up to\Nthe hospital five hours after I was born.
>He happened to catch\Na giant koi fish then,
>so he tried to name me after the fish.
>But my mom tried to stop him\Nand at least changed the kanji.
>She really was named after the fish...
>The worst part about all of this...
>Is the fact that he's actually\Nproud of his perversion!

Billibi:

>No, um...
>In the end,
>he came to the hospital five hours after I was born.
>The fish that he caught that time was a big koi fish,
>so he wanted to name me "Koi",
>but Mom did her best and managed\Nto at least change the way it's written.
>So her name did come from the fish!
>But the most annoying thing is
>how proud he is being a weirdo like that!

9volt
>Uh, dude...
>From what I heard,
>apparently my father finally showed up\Nto the hospital five hours after I was born.
>He happened to catch a giant koi fish then,
>so he tried to name me after the fish.
>But my mom tried to stop him\Nand managed to change the kanji to "love."
>She really was named after the fish...
>The worst part about all of this...
>Is the fact that he's actually proud of his perversion!

----

Funi:
>Hey, is this "Yamahi" person\Nyou keep talking about Hiyori?
>Yup. That's the nickname I gave her.
>When we were in grade school,\Nthere were two Yamakawas in our class.
>So I decided to shorten Hiyori Yamakawa\Nand started calling her Yamahi.

Billibi
>Hey, you keep saying "Yamahi".\NIs that a nickname for Hiyori-chan?
>Yeah. I was the one who gave her that nickname.
>There were two Yamakawas
>in our elementary school class,
>so I abbreviated "Hiyori Yamakawa"
>to "Yamahi".
>In the end, it didn't catch on,

Original:
>Ne.. saki kara itteru "Yamahi"-tte, Hiyori-chan no koto?
>Sou sou.. watashi no tsuketa adana
>Shougakkou no toki "Yamakawa" no myoji futari ita kara
>"Yamakawa hiyori" wo ryaku-shite "Yamahi"-tte meimei shita no

----

All seem fine without any egregious things, although I don't like the occasional american colloquial-isms like "Uh dude" and "you're a handful" that find their way in the into the Funi & Funi-derived subs.

I'm ready.

>>36020
Also koi-chan's eyes are beautiful. That deep violet is very captivating.

>>36041
NO U

>>36045

The cutest vassal!

>>36047
The more I look at her, the more I like her.

>>36048
She's captivating.

This is a happy Wolf-kun.
He was later molested by a superior.
Thank you.

And it's finished! I'll be seeing best girl in the LNs.

>>36020
I take it back, the funi subs for this seem to be utter garbage, and the derivative loopsubs aren't honestly all that better. Do yourself and a favor and go with the billibi subs on this.

Original
> yūyake ni somatta sono kirei na machijikan wa totemo tanoshikute totemo anshin dekiru ibasho datta
Funi
>That time we spent together waiting colored in the sunset was so much fun, and we felt so safe.

Loopsubs
>It was a very pleasant and very relieving place to be during that lovely time in the sunset.

Billibi
>Bathed in beautiful sunset colors, that time we spent waiting together was both delightful and comfortable

This is the climax of the episode and the funi translation utterly butchers it. Forget any poetic sense, they don't even get the translation right. Loopsubs is better, but feels a bit plain and lacking emotion. Billbilili subs are the clear winner here, and they even have a bit of poetic flair which is surprising considering it's probably done by people who don't even speak english as their first language.

>>36054
>done by people who don't even speak english as their first language
Somewhat related, some of the best and poetic lyrics I've heard sung were (supposedly) originally written in German and then translated in English by the German writers. I wonder if being an ESL can be advantageous for this application.

>>36055
For _professional_ (read: not fly-by-night anime subs) translations I think being a native English speaker would confer an advantage since a native English speaker would have a better understanding of nuances, which combined with a good background in writing/literature/poetry would allow them to craft accurate-yet faithful translations.

But when it comes to mediocre minimum wage anime subs, I agree that the ESL people ironically end up putting out better translations. Perhaps they might be more likely to preserve elements of the original (JP) sentence such as word order that a native English speaker might find unnatural. Or to put it another way, most native English speakers (unless they specifically studied poetry or writing which the minimum wage translator surely has not) will have a standard mould for style/tone that they will edit sentences to fit into.

Taking the example in >>36054, if you do a word-for-word translation of the JP

> yūyake ni somatta sono kirei na machijikan wa totemo tanoshikute totemo anshin dekiru ibasho datta
> [[Dyed by sunset] [that beautiful time we spent idling]] was a [delightful and relaxing] haven(*)

(*) I think ibasho here has the nuance of not just place but "home" in the sense of belonging? Couldn't think of an equivalent English word but it seems proximal to haven/sanctuary which is what I could think of.

The Billibi translation follows that word order almost exactly. A native English speaker doing the translation might be tempted to reshuffle the "dyed by the sunset" clause to the end though because those constructions are more common, and you end up with something close to the Funi sub (modulo the word choice).

I also suspect a native English speaker doing the translation might feel a bit too overconfident in further editing once translated to English, or unintentionally slipping in colloquiol phrasing (e.g. "so much" as opposed to "quite").

So then she says, "I use emacs." What a loser, right?

>>36069
She's joking.

>>36070
One would hope so, but you can never know ．．．

I'm two ep into the currently airing Tomodachi Game.
I thought the concept sounded interesting. Everyone in a class saves up money for a school trip. It goes missing. Five friends get kidnapped and made to play children's games that test their trust in each other. One of them signed themselves up and the other four for the game, and most likely stole that class money as the entry fee. The game rewards/punishes the players by increasing or decreasing their share of a large debt owed by the person who signed them up.

It looks and sounds a lot like a shameless cash-in on the popularity of squid game, that much is obvious. I bet when that blew up, some suits searched high and low for any similar manga they could adapt.
'So far' it's not as edgy as I thought it might be. There hasn't been any violence yet but I half expect this won't end without a few deaths at least.
The setup which took up the first half of the first ep felt very cheesy and ham fisted. The writing came across so badly it felt like a parody. Things at least got a bit more interesting once the games started, even if the writing didn't improve much.
They kill some of the mystery by giving the people behind the scenes a ton screen time right in the first ep, who turn out to be cliche high school age girls that seem to get off on watching groups of friends play these games. I'd almost prefer rich old white guys in gold animal masks speaking bad English while placing bets...

What also ruins a lot of the mystery is how obvious it is from the first ep who the traitor of the group is. The second ep only seemed to reinforce who I thought it was. I mean I could be wrong but...
Cute moe innocent girls in dark edgy anime are generally only there for one of two reasons. To get killed/abused for shock value and easy audience gut punches OR that they aren't really as cute and inoccent as they seem~
In the first ep they make a very clear point of establishing that she gets bullied by her classmates, and that she's not very close to most of the friends in that group. She only seems to like the protag of the anime.
We then learn she 'really' likes the protag and in the second ep, she shows envy/resentment for the other girl in the group, this blue haired class rep like girl, who suddenly gets targeted in the second game and put at a huge disadvantage even though the three guys in the group wanna tap her ass. At this point it should have been obvious to them all what's going on, but they were too busy fighting over her to think about it I guess?
I think it fits too. moe girl has motivation in way of getting revenge on class that treated her like crap. Only real question is how she racked up so much debt. I'm guessing maybe it's her parent's debt passed onto her, but because they mention she likes anime, I'd die laughing if she racked up the debt buying anime figures.

I'll keep watching for a bit, mostly out of curiosity. I suppose if nothing else I think stories about people trapped in unusual situations and being forced to figure their way out while being tested, can be interesting. I'm also hoping I'm wrong about who the group traitor is. It'd be funny to see how they explain it being anyone else.

>>36061
Nice show. It wasn't RPG-esque at all like I initially worried (e.g. it's closer to Endro than it is to Bofuri, and it's even more of a pure SoL with less RPG elements than Endro was).

Also a quick subs comparison (I do these for myself on any show I watch as a sanity check, but may as well share the results). Seems like the 2 sources this time are FuniCR, and Billibii. Right off the very first line:

CR
>Hey, lady, your singing is great!
BB
>You're a great singer!

Despite the evidence that the monkeys at CRFuni are native English speakers (I can't imagine any other explanation for their preference for idioms), I don't think I've ever seen "Hey lady" used in a non-accusatory tone. BB has wisely chosen to elide the Onēchan in this case since it's implied by context and any other replacement would have been strictly worse.

Original
>oshiuri wa kekkō desu kara ne
CR
>P-Pretty?! Whatever you're selling, I'm not buying!
BB
>We do not condone aggressive haggling!

CR focused on the selling part of "oshiuri" while BB focused on the pressure part. I think the latter makes more sense here in context?

Also this is trivial but I found it interesting in how it might reveal the nationalities of the translators. CR translated the メラメラ of the tiny fuzzy things into "Mela mela" while BB chose "Mera mera." I guess neither is technically wrong since the alveolar tap(*) doesn't map exactly onto the canonical English "r" or "l" (**) but at the same time as a stylistic choice unless there's an otherwise clear translation (e.g. サリー -> Sally instead of "Sari") leaving it as the romanized form looks cleaner.

(*) At least that's what I think it is? But maybe I'm wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental_and_alveolar_taps_and_flaps and there's some controversy on the talk page for the inclusion of Japanese, but at the same time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_of_English_/r/_and_/l/_by_Japanese_speakers indicates that it is.

(**) Then again it doesn't seem like there's a "canonical" R sound in English since the sound changes based on the context anyway. Which is why it's weird that people make such a big deal about the pronunciation since unless you're _trying_ to sound like a stereotypical American you can probably get close enough that it's not going to be the bottleneck, and the sound also isn't unique to Japanese either.

Post edited on 17th Apr 2022, 5:47pm

Also one more translation shootout for Machikado S2. There are a few sources this time: HiDive, BB, "MAd le Zisel", and LoopSubs. Observations

* Mad le Zisel and LoopSubs are HiDive edits.
- No real difference in content between LoopSubs & HiDiff
- Ditto between Mad le Zisel & LoopSubs (Zisel probably has better typesetting though, if you care about that)
* LoopSubs & Zisel fixed the name order, but I don't give much credit to that given that you could probably do this with a sed one-liner
* HiDive is a bit liberal with the colloquialism , e.g."'Kay" instead of "Okay".

Cherrypicked diffs between HiDive/BB (Haven't watched the first episode yet so I can't include the original line in the comparison)

HiDive
>What the heck is up with your outfit?! I thought I told you to wear something easy to move in!
BB
>What the hell are you wearing? I thought I wrote that you should wear something easy to move around in.

HiDive
>What's with the gratitude?! Quit it, you're scaring me! Anyways, I've been so pumped up for this that I even did warm ups to get ready.
BB
>Why thank me? Please stop that. I'm afraid. Oh well. I have done my preparation exercises on anticipation of this moment.

So far not too bad except of HiDive's over-use of heck (it was used a few other times as well, and I'm assuming they can't say "hell" without offending some censors). Of course, then go ahead and use this line:

HiDive
>I'm just ashamed at myself for being such a... peachy keen jelly bean. What was even the point of this pigtail? Oh crap! Momo's descending into
BB
>uh? Momo, why did you look a little down? No, I'm just... I'm just kind of ashamed of myself for being frivolous.

Now maybe I'm being overpresumptuous since I haven't watched it yet but I'd still bet $10 that the actual dialogue doesn't have "peachy keen jelly bean". I'm surprised that neither of the HiDive edits corrected this either. In fact I'm a native speaker and I'm still not sure what "peachy keen jelly bean" or "pigtail" are supposed to mean in this context (I can infer that "pigtail" here means something proximal to dilemma/conflict given a pigtail's twisty nature, but I've never seen the word used like that, and seems like the dictionary backs me up on that. Interestingly LoopSubs used "cat's tail" instead of pigtail and that just makes me ever more confused). Similarly I'm not sure how "peachy keen jelly bean" fits in here since I've only seen that used as a non-serious childish reply.

The heart aches for perfection.

Saw the first ep of "Shachiku-san wa Youjo Yuurei ni Iyasaretai"
It's about an office worker who gets haunted by a little girl "baby" ghost (these subs suck). It looked and sounded fun and cute from the PV. It's certainly cute at least but it feels a bit lacking in just about every other way. I hate to say it but it's a bit dull, especially in the second half. The ep repeats the instigating events from multiple perspectives but that feels redundant and makes things a bit boring. It's like when a person who just told you a joke goes into detail explaining the joke and how they came up with it. The anime can be best summed up by ghost loli being cute and salaryworker-chan calling her cute, over and over and over...

Post edited on 24th Apr 2022, 8:26am

Fluffy ears~

>>36117
ep2 was a considerable step up. It's still nothing all that special, but at least it wasn't the sloppy mess that was ep1. I don't know but maybe the characters are growing on me a tad.

>>35482
i made a game out of watching this show: before each episode i would try to guess how many times the MC would spend a conversation shouting/screaming, how many times he would cry, and whether or not he would have an emotional break down which would end in him resting his head on some whore's lap.

i mean, i went into this show knowing it was trashy, but still, its gotten so absurd its hard to watch.

Genuinely horrific.

>>36138
The only thing worthwhile are the girls' designs. Crusch-chan is too cute.

>>36137
something about the writing in this anime feels borderline condescending. I'm not sure if it's made for kids, or retards. still, it's relaxing enough. I'll keep following it.

Do you have a show you go back to when you're feeling depressed?
I'm watching Doraemon again. It's a weird thing, I feel like watching it only when I'm feeling strong melancholy. I've been feeling I would end up going back to it again ever since I had a dream about it >>/so/27144. I've watched the first 400 eps or so of the new version, it's very good. I'll probably start with the newest one 704 and go backwards, let's see how far I get.

It feels good to know Doraemon is always airing, gives me an odd sense of relief.

>>36166
It's nice to have one like that. For me a series that makes me feel that way is Tamayura. I always watch an episode of it when I'm feeling down and it really lifts my spirits.

It's trashy and it has a bad rep but it's probably my favorite anime of the season.

Machine guns and cute girls go so well together.

>>36313
What genre is Lycoris Recoil? Is it more like upotte, GuP, rifle is beatiful, or sabagebu (i.e. is it closer to SoL/comedy or is it more action driven with "real gun action™". Or would knowing the genre itself be a spoiler (e.g. like Gakkougurashi).

Post edited on 3rd Jul 2022, 8:25pm

It's a shame that this show is flying so far under the radar so far because it has such a pleasant vibe to it. Adorable character designs, some good humor - Hell-san's horrified initial reactions to human food in last week's episode were quite clever - and an overall feeling of iyashikei. It's the only new show this season that's gotten my attention.

>>35998
I've been enjoying it a lot. GG is the first series I haven't either hated or barely tolerated since Savers. Jellymon and Kiyo have the best partner/tamer dynamic probably in the whole franchise, and it overshadows everything else to an extent, but Gammamon is adorable and the rest of the cast has their moments.
If the episodic pace isn't clicking with you, Toei just announced that the new slogan for the rest of the series is "The Mystery Accelerates," so I'd recommend hanging in there since it seems like the plot is going to start heating up soon.

>>36338
>Jellymon and Kiyo have the best partner/tamer dynamic probably in the whole franchise, and it overshadows everything else to an extent, but Gammamon is adorable and the rest of the cast has their moments.
Funnily enough, I don't disagree with you all that much. I'm still watching it, so it's not like it's terrible or anything. It's just that Ghost Game doesn't feel like a Digimon entry to me, and the initial complaints I made are still valid in my opinion, though I've lightened up a bit.

>If the episodic pace isn't clicking with you [...]
Monster of the week is fine by me, but thanks for mentioning there'll be a shakeup of sorts.

I hope this will have a tragic ending--certainly feels like it already.

I share ojisan's reaction to this travesty.

>>36344
>It's just that Ghost Game doesn't feel like a Digimon entry to me
When the recent entries have been dumpster fires like Hunters, Tri and Colon, that might not be such a bad thing!
To each their own, though, and I respect that some fans aren't enjoying the change of pace. Even as someone who's been on board with the episodic approach, I'm glad they're going to move it along with the plot now, since it seems like they're running out of ghost stories to tell. Last week's episode, while not offensively bad, was just a rehash of the Splashmon episode with a different status effect.
I can't wait for Gulus to start showing up again. It's been too long.

>>36347
>When the recent entries have been dumpster fires like Hunters, Tri and Colon, that might not be such a bad thing!
I never watched those, but yeah, I heard they were terrible. So perhaps you're right.
Thought of this just now, but I think part of what's lost in Ghost Game (and the previous entries?) is the coloring and style found in, say, Tamers that gives an air of mystique--something perfect for a concept centered around monsters from another world. The transition to digital and the concurrent use of a muted pallet certainly aided this goal. Whereas Ghost Game is just too clean.

>I can't wait for Gulus to start showing up again. It's been too long.
Edge is always welcome.

>>36348
>I never watched those, but yeah, I heard they were terrible. So perhaps you're right.
Believe me, you didn't miss much. It speaks volumes that Appmon was the cream of the crop by default from 2007-2021 just because it was mediocre instead of an atrocity. I used to hope and pray for Bandai to take the IP away from Toei and give it to Sunrise because I was losing all hope of ever seeing a good Digimon anime again.
>the coloring and style found in, say, Tamers that gives an air of mystique--something perfect for a concept centered around monsters from another world.
I've always liked Savers' artstyle the best out of all the anime. It captured that same kind of cheap-and-cheery wistful mystique as the previous seasons, but with better-designed characters.
It seems as though, like a lot of anime, that old aesthetic was a product of a pre-HD environment where animators were still getting used to digital animation. I'm doubtful it can ever come back now that refinement culture has kicked in, HDTV is the standard, animators now have decades of experience working digitally, etc. It is what it is.

>>36350
>Believe me, you didn't miss much.
What was so bad about them? I never really paid that much attention to Digimon.

>>36351
Brace yourself, because this will be a long rant.

Hunters was a mindless ripoff of Pokemon with no plot at all beyond beating and "catching" the MOTW, which was cobbled together at the last minute because Toei needed to hold the timeslot until Saint Seiya Omega was ready. It doesn't help matters that it was tacked on to the already-shitty Xros Wars, which had just dragged on for 54 dreadful episodes and was only propped up by toy sales. The only noteworthy part of Hunters was the ending, a three-part crossover event that brought back the main casts of every previous series. It was neat at the time, but we had no idea it was setting the stage for Toei to spend the next decade doing nothing but pandering to nostalgiafags whose sole connection to Digimon was watching Adventure and 02 on Fox Kids growing up - i.e. the particularly loathsome "fans" who dropped Tamers right away when they didn't see Tai and Agumon and never came back.

Tri and Colon were cash grabs made for that audience. Tri was a new Adventure sequel set between 02's ending and epilogue. It was written by people who had never actually watched Digimon before taking the job and had to binge-watch Adventure as fast as they could, and it shows. They did a half-assed attempt to retcon the 02 cast by having them go missing and somehow nobody thinks to look for them until the last movie. Gennai is somehow evil and creepy now. Most of the Adventure cast is even sidelined in favor of a new Mary Sue love interest for Tai and her DeviantArt OC partner. At one point, the whole Digital World gets rebooted with no consequences. Despite making a movie series instead of a traditional TV series, the bumbling writers didn't bother to use all that extra time to explain anything or write a compelling story that makes sense, so the whole thing moves at a glacial pace. The animation is also dogshit. The human characters all have extreme sameface, the Digimon look gross and wrinkly, and the CGI is PS2-level, complete with at least one glaring clipping error that nobody cared enough to fix.

Colon is an Evangelion-style "rebuild" of Adventure that completely misses the maturity and soul of the original. Everything is so much dumber and lazier. Tai hogs all the spotlight, all the time. Half the opposing Digimon don't even talk, just grunt. Omegamon shows up in the third fucking episode to do a rehash of Our War Game (I wish I was kidding). Most of the series is spent in bland, formulaic shonen battles. It got so repetitive that people complained, which is why Ghost Game has de-emphasized the fighting so much and relied more on talk no jutsu. About the only good thing that can be said is that there were some hardcore Digimon fanatics involved in the series who plucked a lot of obscure Digimon out of the reference book to make their anime debut. Supposedly Toei was trying to attract a younger audience to the Adventureverse with this series, but it didn't work out.

There's also a follow-up movie to Tri called Kizuna that I refuse to watch because I have Adventure fatigue at this point, but I heard it was terrible (shocker!) And 02 is getting its own sequel movie soon. The first footage of it premieres at DigiFes a week from tomorrow.