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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 20] (ani.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Happy Monday everyone! Back to your regularly scheduled weekly general thread. Please post any questions, comments, recommendations, etc. that you might have in this thread.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Waiting a bit to see what shows actually hold, but currently only watching Spice & Wolf and Kaiju No. 8.

Spice & Wolf is perfect and is following the LNs almost exactly from my recollection.

Unfortunately Kaiju No. 8 is boring as hell. Despite having immense power capable of one-punching kaiju into showers of blood, the MC has spent 90% of their screen time being functionally useless. It's just such a weird way to write an MC. I get 1 or 2 episodes, but nearly half of the 12 episode run? The pacing needs to pick up 10x. I'm not kidding. We should be seeing kaiju getting bodied every episode. The slow burn it's trying to structure itself around is not happening at all. Boooooooooo. Pick it up!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I haven't been watching Kaiju, but I do know the protagonist is in their 30's. So, maybe that is a reason that so many anime protagonists are in their teens; so that they have enough energy for the constant action? Just wait until they sleep in an awkward position and wake up sore for an entire episode. I may or may not be speaking from experience.

I have been enjoying Spice and Wolf so far as somebody that has gone in blind. Really glad that it is running for two cours as the pace has been leisurely so far.