Another month gone, another month older, another month at work.

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I’ve been reading Great Teacher Onizuka and so far it’s almost exactly 1:1 like the anime… which means, the horribly aged ableism is about to hit, beyond all the other problematic stuff. Beyond that, it remains as fun as I remember. It’s neat. B+

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Gundam SEED has managed to make it across its entire 50 episode run without making me too annoyed or in amused disbelief over the nonsense happening on the screen. Really, it’s… alright. I wish Kira and Lacus were less wooden characters. Athrun and Cagalli were significantly more interesting and 500x more likeable than Ange and Tusk in the trainwreck of a show named Cross Ange, who used them as a self-plagiarism source of inspiration B-

SEED Destiny too… has been pretty alright so far. However, I do like Shinn’s character. That man has definitely every reason to be as angry as he is… but I am fairly confident the show won’t do too much with that. Speaking of Cagalli, wow, that is a massive downgrade in character writing compared to S1. Supposedly, there’s IRL drama that caused that! C+

CITY is Nichijou 2, not much else to say about it. It doesn’t quite live up to the predecessor, and with the shorter show run it probably never will, but it is undeniably still a good show. A

Dragon Ball Z - almost done with the Freeza fight. That was… pretty long. But consistently good, even though some previously impactful stuff, like people dying, is not much of a big deal now. A

Ranma 1/2 is also consistently entertaining. Not much else to say about it at this point. A

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I knew Gravity Falls was always a highly regarded show… but I did not expect it to be this good. There’s an iconic cast of characters, compelling storytelling… it’s just very very competent at what it sets out to do. A+

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A challenging Super Robot Wars game in the year of our Lord 2025? One that has, so far, good writing? One that is available in a language I speak? Y is shockingly good. I’ve been on a binge this weekend. A+

  • batsforpeace [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    This month I checked off two classics I never saw in Akira and Evangelion (+ End of Evangelion movie), and more recently started to watch Lycoris Recoil. The second hour of Akira was such an escalating ride also props for the caricature depiction of the politicians as completely incapable, self interested, and petty. I heard the manga takes the story further. Speaking of manga I definitely want to read Evangelion to see the differences with the series and focus more on the details I missed. Given how some Eva eps were mostly multimedia collages I’m really curious how they handle those parts in the manga, it could be really neat looking. Lycoris Recoil is a friendship and action series that Kojima endorsed when it was coming out. Nice change of mood after the last stuff.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      I heard the manga takes the story further. Speaking of manga I definitely want to read Evangelion to see the differences with the series and focus more on the details I missed.

      The Akira manga is a must read for any manga or comics fan, to be honest. Go read it, you’ll blast right through it!

      The Evangelion manga is pretty good. It took longer to finish than the original series, so it melds stuff from End of Evangelion into it. I kinda like Sadamoto’s take on the characters, so I’d recommend giving it a try.