Started reading Syd Craft: Love Is a Mystery, the newest thing from Shonen Jump. It’s the story of a great detective who hides the fact that he has no interest at all in being a great detective, but was rather forced into it by fate. The first chapter was really fun, but the ending had me worried that it’ll end up going into love triangle or even full-on harem BS. We’ll see.

I started watching a couple shows I wasn’t following before. Anyways, here’s where things are at:

• Blue Box: Still good, but it’s moving very slowly. When I read the manga I already had over a hundred chapters to burn through at once, so experiencing it like this is very very different.
• Dandadan: An absolutely heart-wrenching episode. The animation team executed excellently on this one.
• 365 Days to the Wedding: This is one of the shows I just got caught up on. I appreciate a show that features adult main characters. Overall it’s quite fun. Not as good as Wotakoi, but still good. Cutest ED I’ve ever seen.
• Yakuza Fiance: Same comments as above, really, except that there’s nothing cute here. If you’re annoyed at how the main characters in romance anime always seem to be good people, look no further.
• Mecha-ude: A while ago I said that this show is great at being charming and funny, and bad at being serious or edgy. Unfortunately it seems to be putting most of its screen time into serious and edgy stuff. I’ll keep watching it, but I’m finding myself enjoying it less than the other shows I’m watching this season.

I wonder if syosetu.com has a character limit on light novel titles. This is getting out of control.

Glad to see Hikaru has some new bodyguards, but they don’t seem all that more helpful than what he already had in terms of… anything tbh.

I hadn’t really thought about it, but if the Mecha-ude can’t normally move without a human it’s extremely unclear how they ever lasted in their own world.

These multi-chapter fights don’t really do it for me. It’s not what I read One-Punch Man for.

Sometimes those model kits actually just won’t stay together without a bit of glue.

Well, that certainly was one of the endings of all time. Aqua decided ages ago that he’d take revenge on Ai’s killer no matter the cost to himself. I don’t know how many people expected him to actually get himself killed doing it, especially after the movie seemed like it would be revenge enough, but here we are.

Mecha-Ude

This one is weird to me. When it’s trying to be funny or charming I think it almost always succeeds. When it’s trying to be cool or edgy (most of the time unfortunately) it almost always fails.

Cool, thanks for the review!

Fun fact: in addition to the meaning we usually see (underestimate), nameru/舐める can also mean “to lick or taste”. So the title can translate to either “Don’t underestimate bread” or “Don’t taste bread”.

It can also mean “to burn”, but I don’t think it works in the sense of burning food. I think it’s probably more like “to scorch”. I can’t seem to find any examples of it being used this way, so I’ll hold off on whether “Don’t burn bread” is also a valid translation.

Sailor Moon

I finished the Sailor Moon manga last week. It was pretty good! Between the manga and the TV show I’d say I prefer the manga more. The TV show had a lot of filler, and the filler gave lots of opportunities to flesh out the characters of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus especially, but it was a much better time experiencing the story at a sane pace instead of waiting dozens of episodes at a time for something to finally happen. The final arc especially was much better this way.

Char’s Daily Life

I’m nearly done with the second volume of this one. It’s a goofy AU where Char and other Zeon characters, primarily from UC Gundam’s One-Year-War, are living in modern-day Japan. Char has amnesia and is just trying to get by. It actually ended up feeling a lot like Gintama, but not quite as cleverly written as Gintama. Still a fun read, and well worth having bought for the cover art alone.

I’m curious to hear peoples’ overall impressions of this show; I was considering picking it up. Has it been good so far?

I had no idea this was getting an anime! Something to look forward to with the new year I guess.

I forget, what was going on in this scene? Was this the dragon fight?

I know Aqua said from the very beginning that he intended to get revenge no matter the cost to himself, but it’s still a little surprising to see it end like this.

I’m two episodes from the end right now, and once it got past the slow start this show was really excellent!

is there a christmas-themed anime movie?

It’s not a movie exactly, but at only 6 episodes Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket is roughly movie-length. If I remember right it doesn’t require any prior knowledge of Gundam, either. It’s not exactly Christmas themed, but as I recall it takes place in December and there’s Christmas decorations and stuff in the background of some scenes.

A bit of a stretch, I know.

1 LN volume is not equal to 1 manga volume is not equal to 1 anime season. So…open to ideas on that one.

I was going to suggest a certain number of chapters, but it occurs to me that 1 manga chapter is not always equal to 1 manga chapter; manga from monthly magazines tend to have much longer chapters on average. Anyways, I think 1 discussion thread for 1 volume of manga per week is a good pace. Since it’s a smaller community having a lot to talk about at once might help to make the discussion threads more active.

I think a good candidate series would be something short, but with good ratings overall. Most of my favorite manga have at least 10 volumes though so I dunno.

For me it’s got to be Skip and Loafer. It has the most human characters I’ve seen in a manga, which makes every character interaction a delight.

Curiosity sated. Thanks!

Feels weird to say that one of my favorite isekai is a shoujo mech anime, but you’re absolutely right.

Heck, I might even be able to say that two of my favorite isekai are shoujo mech anime depending on how much I like Magic Knight Rayearth once I finally get around to watching or reading that.