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11 Dec 2017, 6:35 pm

I enjoyed Yuri On Ice. It was novel, well paced and was realistic in its depiction of its characters. The animation, though inconsistent was mostly really good too.

Right now I'm currently watching The Ancient Magus' Bride. I'm enjoying it a lot, it has great animation and I love the setting based on European mythology. The best series I've seen and watched to completion this year have been My Hero Academia's second season and Miss Koyabashi's Dragon Maid. MyAnimeList 2017

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12 Dec 2017, 12:46 pm

I might try Yona of the Dawn again.

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12 Dec 2017, 6:35 pm

Watched the first few episodes of several series with a friend, so he could check out various genres. He prefers dubs, but I still like him.

I want to buy a copy of Gate. I may have to renew my Crunchyroll premium when they air season 3 in 2018.

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12 Dec 2017, 8:11 pm

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What didn't you find satisfying in the final? To me it ended the way it was meant to end.

I felt that the characters and society were unchanged as a result of the events of the series. The status quo was maintained, and if anyone learnt any lessons, this did not translate to meaningful action. Throughout the story the main character is built up to be the person who is going to shoulder the burden of guiding the ethical decisions of society. She reacts as you'd expect with horror to revelation after revelation about the history of her civilisation. But at the end after she has realised everything, she performs one small act of defiance against society in some attempt at atonement. That act of atonement is insignificant and if anything it makes the ending worse. Then everyone goes back to their regular life. A happy ending for a bunch of characters that don't really feel like they deserve it.

I think the ending would have been much better if in that final act of defiance the main character died. In her death she would have realised that she had finally recognised in that character their humanity, noting that they were not that different from one another, having both taken actions that valued individual worth over the collective. Only posthumously in the investigation of her death would people have realised the truth through genetic testing, though Satoru would have known the truth also 'in his heart', a truth that would then be disseminated among the populace and lead to civil unrest in support of equal rights.

The thing is that there is no simple and easy solution to reverse their world dystopian state; which is pretty much the point. One of the only thing they can do is to inspire kids for a better world, trust them with the future of society, and hope for the best.

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13 Dec 2017, 6:10 am

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Oh I understand that. I suppose it's a matter of expectations. Saki isn't some nobody in a position powerless to do anything. In that instance the ending would feel more acceptable. But she's billed as being really special, treated as such from an early age, and ends up in a privileged position where she's potentially able to make a difference and in the end it feels like that's squandered. I get that there's also no simple and easy solution... but there's also another way you could describe that situation. The writer wrote themself into a corner and couldn't figure a way to resolve it. You literally have scenes where the characters are talking about how they hope they can work out a way to make the world better, whilst raising new generations of Impure Cats. It's like watching a film about Nazis where at the end the officers are ordering soldiers to escort Jews into the gas chambers and saying out loud, I hope we can make the world a better place.

Regardless of my thoughts on the ending though, I still think it's a great show and well worth watching. It's up there with some of my favorite sci fi anime like Serial Experiments Lain and reminded me of works like Gattaca and The Demolished Man.

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13 Dec 2017, 2:03 pm

But what about Dagashi Kashi? I enjoyed it; it taught me a lot about Japanese candies and snacks.

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19 Dec 2017, 3:25 am

Anime-Gataris has now officially made itself the most meta anime of the season, and very well maybe even the year, even compared to Re:Creators. It has done its fair share of references to various anime, but I have never seen it in an anime where the fourth practically turned inside out like this, the closest is I think some indie games have done things.

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19 Dec 2017, 6:31 am

I've also been watching Shokugeki no Soma. Really liked the first two seasons, but so far I'm finding the third season's quality to be taking a real nosedive. Up till now it's been a lot of dumb fun. But now it's just dumb.

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19 Dec 2017, 6:50 am

i was a fan of Beyblade.every toy i had,i used every single night during every episode.my brother conned me out of my very first Engine Gear...on my 14th birthday

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23 Dec 2017, 2:37 am

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Are you talking about the Fourth Wall?

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23 Dec 2017, 2:38 am

I have watched two episodes of the new version of Mahōjin Guru Guru and am loving it. I love the way it's both an anime and an old 2d rpg game.

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23 Dec 2017, 8:27 am

thewrll wrote:

Are you talking about the Fourth Wall?

Yes.

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I have watched two episodes of the new version of Mahōjin Guru Guru and am loving it. I love the way it's both an anime and an old 2d rpg game.

I really love it. The last episode was just recently released, and was a really fun ride.

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24 Dec 2017, 1:59 am

Bradleigh wrote:

thewrll wrote:

Are you talking about the Fourth Wall?

Yes.

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I have watched two episodes of the new version of Mahōjin Guru Guru and am loving it. I love the way it's both an anime and an old 2d rpg game.

I really love it. The last episode was just recently released, and was a really fun ride.

When you talk about turning the fourth inside out, what exactly do you mean?

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24 Dec 2017, 2:57 am

It is kind of spoilers, but if you really want to know. The general show has played around well with things that fans of anime would talk about, the premise is a school anime club. And done things like in its third episode it talked about third episodes being used to grab attention of those doing the third episode rule with some twist, but actually without a twists despite third episode and description mentioning something.

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But towards the end things have started to escalate, until now the main character is noticing things that would otherwise just window dressing in a lot of other series in style, and they actually affect her. The recent episode had the sides of the screen start to close into the old style, and after some characters walked off screen she almost literally walked off the screen. Ran into “the next day” words, experienced passing of time montages like the audience, and characters had a discussion if they were suddenly jumping the shark with suddenly changing their tone.

Deadpool might be able to break the fourth wall, but this series I think went beyond that in something beyond that, while not actually quite starting out that way.

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24 Dec 2017, 4:37 pm

The anime that is legendary for breaking the fourth wall is Gintama.

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30 Dec 2017, 4:17 pm

I've had some different changes in anime recently, but I have been enjoying them over the past year.

I finished watching Samurai Champloo a while ago, and that is one of the best ones I have seen. Everything was amazing, from the characters to the episodes and especially the soundtrack, that was totally magnificent, especially done by great producers in the music market. It was a great watch and really memorable.

I am now watching Cowboy Bebop, which I am near the end, but that has been a great watch too, since bounty hunters adventures and jazz/blues music mix really well together and make a great effect. It has also been memorable to look into the backstories of the characters, it has been done really well

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