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Thermae Romae Novae has been streaming on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/81264354 since March 28. IMO, an overlooked series (11 episodes). Time travelling man from ancient Rome + bathhouse comedy is a great combination.

PhantomStranger

I'm going through The God of High School currently. Korean anime about high school students entering a brawling contest to determine the toughest fighter in the country. The vibe is vaguely like Food Wars. Besides the Korean names, the big difference is how each human character gets animated. Normal character designs, but all noses and ears have a little color applied which just doesn't look right to my eyes. I think it's intended to signify each character is Korean but the aesthetic doesn't really work.

Hecatomb

I tried watching Jojo part 6, but its kind of meh. The characters are pretty lame. So im just going to watch Baki The Grappler again.

PhantomStranger

I enjoyed Cop Craft, a show from 2019. A gate opens which brings aliens (more fantasy than sci-fi types) and humans together in a new city. But it's really a gritty procedural crime thriller with a gruff human detective teaming up with a younger female warrior from the other dimension hunting down criminals. Noticeable Western influence and an excellent blend of magic weaponry with regular guns and swords.

Not sure if a second season will ever come.

Eric F

Interesting. I like these types of show- I watched GATE recently which I found was decent enough provided you could get past the SDF/Pro-Japan propaganda.

PhantomStranger

If you love movies, Pompo the Cinephile is great fun. A young female movie producer shepherds a green director into making a masterpiece. Based on a manga, GKIDS recently put out the theatrical film on BD. Sly spoof of Hollywood filmmaking with a couple of fantastic characters.

https://www.doblu.com/2022/07/25/pom...lu-ray-review/

PhantomStranger

I found Bofuri: i don't want to Get Hurt, so i'll Max Out my Defense's first season highly enjoyable. Absolutely fantastic animation, which explodes in color on a good OLED. Kind of similar to That Time I got reincarnated as a Slime in tone and approach while mimicking the game aspects of Sword Art Online, it follows a school girl who doesn't really know how to play MMORPGs and builds her character up into an unstoppable juggernaut by accident.

Light subject matter, humorous and some awesome battle sequences (some of the most dazzling I've seen in anime) make it an accessible and charming Sword Art Online knock-off.

TheBigDave

Bofuri's a blast. I love how her character just keeps getting crazier and crazier. I'm looking forward to the second season.

chrisc31

Crunchyroll just added "Sing a Bit of Harmony" dubbed, i have been wanting to watch it.

Edit: I really didn't know much what it was about before but I thought the movie was awesome. I should say I knew nothing what the movie was about, this is all I knew

OutRun2

wangan midnight and initial d. good shows. gonna rewatch dragon ball for the first time in like 10 years in a couple weeks.

milo bloom

Got back into Aggretsuko. Sometimes the office politics stuff is a bit too real.

Maxflier

Watching Sailor Moon for the first time, which feels awkward saying publicly as a 47 year old man, but it is what it is.

milo bloom

We finished Season 4. I was saying it was a little too real, so they went and did a heist storyline to make it a little more fantastical and it was pretty fun. Very amusing to see Ton using an abacus at that store.

Glad to see another season coming, Retsuko is showing confidence in herself finally and I'd like to see more of that.


Does anyone know how to watch the original shorts?

chrisc31

Is it odd that I watched Sing a Bit of Harmony a good 4 times since coming to Cruchyroll?

PhantomStranger

I could understand watching it twice through, four times does seem excessive.

spainlinx0

I've been enjoying Lycoris Recoil.

Why So Blu?

Binged the first season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Been a long ass time since they've showed some proper anime that was brutally violent and faithful to the source.

chrisc31

I started watching Lycoris Recoil two weeks ago but now I think its the best show of the season.

TheBigDave

I'm currently rewatching Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle. This show was hilarious. If you're looking for something lighthearted and goofy, check it out.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/sleepy-p...e-demon-castle

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LYCORIS RECOIL AND SHINGO ADACHI: TURNING ORIGINAL ANIME PRODUCTION CHAOS IN YOUR FAVOR

https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2022/09...in-your-favor/

spainlinx0

Chihiro is just such a great character.

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PhantomStranger

I finished up the first season of "Our Last Crusade or The Rise of a New World". Beautifully animated by Silver Link but the show isn't really anything special. A legendary swordsman (who looks suspiciously similar to Kirito of SAO fame) squares off with the magic princess of a rival kingdom. They slowly fall for each other, though the relationship moves at an absolutely glacial pace even by anime standards. I was more interested the first few episodes. Secondary characters aren't developed particularly well and the recurring sub-plots are all kind of stupid.

I regret making a blind buy on the Limited Edition Blu-ray set.

PhantomStranger

So I watched The Dungeon of Black Company. A very clever satire of Japanese work culture and capitalism wrapped within a fantasy isekai package. On the surface it's an action comedy about a wealthy Neet who gets teleported to a planet where he ends up a lowly corporate grunt for a mining company which rules this fantasy world.

Fun characters and some of the better laughs I've had of late from anime. I would have called it perfect but the last few episodes pack in way too much plot development, it's pretty clear Silver Link wanted to finish off the story if it didn't come back for a second season.