What have you watched recently?

I've been greatly enjoying my delve into the realm of The Twelve Kingdoms. I'll wager you haven't heard of it, as it's quite old now and lacks appeal for the average knuckle-dragger; but I'd describe it as a rather unique 2002 fantasy anime that reminds me a lot of InuYasha, right down to centering around a typical Japanese schoolgirl [ this time with two friends! ] that gets involuntarily pulled into a fantastic world.

Unlike InuYasha though, the world of TTK is anything but welcoming to our MC. Danger lurks both in the skies and in the shadows, and within the opening episodes we realize the people of this land seek to exterminate visitors like her. What ensues is a gripping and rather heart-wrenching tale of an individual driven past all known limits, furnished with a detailed and beautifully-drawn world (for 2002, mind) and complete with the large cast of characters typical of high fantasy.

I've found I especially relate to Youko [ our red-haired, olive-skinned MC ], so I'm really excited for this one. Can't wait to watch more. ^~^

Yugioh Vrains to mainly understand Links. Yes there's the handbook but fuck that

Mob 100 s2

Backlash wrote

I've been greatly enjoying my delve into the realm of The Twelve Kingdoms. I'll wager you haven't heard of it, as it's quite old now and lacks appeal for the average knuckle-dragger; but I'd describe it as a rather unique 2002 fantasy anime that reminds me a lot of InuYasha, right down to centering around a typical Japanese schoolgirl [ this time with two friends! ] that gets involuntarily pulled into a fantastic world.

Unlike InuYasha though, the world of TTK is anything but welcoming to our MC. Danger lurks both in the skies and in the shadows, and within the opening episodes we realize the people of this land seek to exterminate visitors like her. What ensues is a gripping and  rather heart-wrenching tale of an individual driven past all known limits, furnished with a detailed and beautifully-drawn world (for 2002, mind) and complete with the large cast of characters typical of high fantasy.

I've found I especially relate to Youko [ our red-haired, olive-skinned MC ], so I'm really excited for this one. Can't wait to watch more. ^~^

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Hah! I've heard of it and I've watched the first half (season?). It's a great show indeed. One of the better fantasy animes I've seen and one of the few truely high fantasy shows, as you mention. It's technically an Isekai show I guess, but without the "the fantasy world is actually a video game world, huehue" stuff. Good show!

Cross wrote

Yugioh Vrains to mainly understand Links. Yes there's the handbook but fuck that

I already practiced getting links down on ygopro but decided to pick up vrains because I want to see what happens, heard it was good. Also it might help me hone understanding of speed duels more, alongside actually getting to (hopefully) start using that style of play when i get a set of them for one of my presents this holiday season.

Just finished Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, it's a rather fun show with low tension, which I think is why I really got into it.

higschool DxD... i now feel ashamed

Rewatching Haruhi for old times sake c:

Slowly rewatching Joshiraku. I'm hoping that Kaleido-Subs picks it back up once they finish Wandering Witch because his releases are top notch. I get more of the references now. And the OP and ED are still great, I never skip them.

bigG290 wrote

higschool DxD... i now feel ashamed

DxD is great, nothing to be ashamed of. The ecchi is top notch and it's story tops a lot of non-ecchi anime. Highschool of the Dead is another boob-tastic anime that's worth watching.

floattube wrote

Rewatching Haruhi for old times sake c:

I did the chronological watch order last year. Super comfy and Haruhi is the best god.

floattube wrote

Rewatching Haruhi for old times sake c:

i rewatch the disappearance every single christmas

i recently just rewatched mobile suit gundam the 08th ms team

Jujutsu Kaisen. Ended up continuing with the manga because I'm really enjoying it.

I started watching A Certain Scientific Railgun and Horimiya. Railgun's great so far, but I'm not impressed with Horimiya so far. I'm sticking with the GSK_ releases for it, so I've only watched one episode, but I don't like how heavy handed the romance elements are. I read the manga and it wasn't this forced. It felt like they grew together a lot more before the romance stuff started to set in.
Also Hori is a blonde.

Watching AoD Yuru Camp, I was waiting for this second season for so long!

Watching Mushoku Tensei, VladLove and Wonder Egg Priority from this season. Not sure if I'll stick with any of them yet. Mushoku Tensei is decent for an isekai show, although the frequent sexist remarks of the MC and his father started to grate my nerves by episode 3. I've less tolerance for that shit these days and it's sadly still far to common in anime in 2020.

Just binged the first three episodes of MTBB's Mushoku Tensei release. It's absolutely phenomenal! I haven't enjoyed anything isekai since Konosuba S2 and this is right up my alley.

GSK_ finally released episode 5 of Horimiya, but then motbob started subbing the series at episode 6. As of episode 4 though, I really like that the forced romance shit got toned down. Episode 1 was a shit show in comparison. Still no blonde Hori...

Not an anime, but I love that content like this exists on YouTube. It's a pretty interesting watch with lots of love put into the production of the video. And wow, (some) anime really looked amazing in 1989!

Getting some serious boomer vibes from episode 8 of Super Cub. I don't know how a damn Honda commercial could be the comfiest thing since the first Yuru Camp season.

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Erika Super Cub was good up until that last arc, then they just went full throttle with the Honda shilling and it just felt forced.
Now to sleep on currently airing stuff until Mushoku Tensei S2 hits in fall!

Asobi Asobase.

It's like the perfect storm, everything just came together to make an absolutely hilarious show that I can't get enough of.