General anime/Japan/weebshit thread

[Acrux]

Had there been anything released in the last year or so actually worth watching?

Dungeon Meshi and Frieren both aired last year, Frieren S2 is in January and I'm hoping for a Meshi S2 announcement soon. Honorable mention to Shogun, the only actual TV show I've watched in years. Technically it's western but 99% of the characters are japs

New Shogun sucks. I couldn't even finish it. The old one is better.

Agree. I really like the old one and couldn't watch more than half an hour of the new one. Just terrible.

[Statesman]

New Shogun sucks. I couldn't even finish it. The old one is better.

Agree. I really like the old one and couldn't watch more than half an hour of the new one. Just terrible.

Do you consider it terrible as a representation of the novel in TV-format or just bad as a whole?

Dungeon Meshi and Frieren both aired last year, Frieren S2 is in January and I'm hoping for a Meshi S2 announcement soon.

I honestly tried to give Dungeon Meshi a chance, but I couldn't stand everything being food talk, food gathering or food making montages.

[SpellSword]

Had some success fishing out anime and a boring failure. First up, finished Blue Exorcist. It wasn't worth the trip. Don't be fooled by the starting episodes, the show won't be anything like that afterwards. I was sold on it being a "Shonen Battle" anime, but it really isn't.

Even worse, the final season basically abandons following the main character for a prequel arc where he just observes past events. The main character is barely in it, just occasionally showing up to remind anyone watching that yes... he still exists in this show.

Unless you really like what you see in the first season, bail out on this one. It isn't going to get better.

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Fortunately I also found a short but funny series called Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time.

► Trailer for Tonari no Seki-kun

The opening is a pretty good description of what to expect from the show. Seki will be doing something ridiculous instead of studying and Rumi will try in vain to ignore it.

Had there been anything released in the last year or so actually worth watching?

The Solo Leveling and Viral Hit anime were interesting.

► Trailers for Solo Leveling & Viral Hit

Both have more of a monetary focus than I've been seeing in other anime. Is this more common in anime based on Korean comics?
(Sadly no second season for Viral Hit so far...)

[WhiteShark]

Speaking of anime based on manhwa, has anyone watched Tower of God? I used to read the shoddy English translation of the comic a long time ago.

[SpellSword]

Speaking of anime based on manhwa, has anyone watched Tower of God? I used to read the shoddy English translation of the comic a long time ago.

I've only seen part of it. The genre felt like it shifted a bit when they switched to team battles with named roles instead of individuals with their own unique abilities competing in death games to climb the tower. The main character being somehow outside this tower climbing system was interesting though. I should really finish it.

[rusty_shackleford]

There's a graphic novel adaptation of one of the books from Jin Yong. Posting this so I can remember to post about it more later. It's actually the only official English translation of that specific book.

[WhiteShark]

The genre felt like it shifted a bit when they switched to team battles with named roles instead of individuals with their own unique abilities competing in death games to climb the tower. The main character being somehow outside this tower climbing system was interesting though.

Yeah, I vaguely remember thinking the same thing. I didn't mind some team battle stuff, but I do recall hoping that it wouldn't fall into a typical shounen rhythm. The manhwa was always felt the most compelling when the stakes were higher and Baam/Yoru's role as an irregular clashed with the established system.
I've started reading the Japanese translation of the manhwa. It's better than the English fan translation I read so long ago, but it still feels sadly amateur; I detected some odd wordings and a typo in the first couple of chapters. Based on that, I'm assuming it was translated by a JSL Korean. Looking forward to seeing how some of the Tower terminology gets translated. I remember there was a translator's note about one of the protagonist's fancy moves explaining how it ended up so long in English; knowing what I know now, it was probably originally some 4-kanji fictional compound word, which I will now be able to fully appreciate.

[rusty_shackleford]

There's a graphic novel adaptation of one of the books from Jin Yong. Posting this so I can remember to post about it more later. It's actually the only official English translation of that specific book.

It's an adaptation of this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heave ... agon_Saber

You can borrow it from archive.org to read it, but it's just the first volume. I like the art.

https://archive.org/details/heavensworddrago0001mawi

[Finarfin]

New Shogun sucks. I couldn't even finish it. The old one is better.

Agree. I really like the old one and couldn't watch more than half an hour of the new one. Just terrible.

Do you consider it terrible as a representation of the novel in TV-format or just bad as a whole?

Dungeon Meshi and Frieren both aired last year, Frieren S2 is in January and I'm hoping for a Meshi S2 announcement soon.

I honestly tried to give Dungeon Meshi a chance, but I couldn't stand everything being food talk, food gathering or food making montages.

>Watches anime called Delicious in Dungeon
>gets mad about food centric story.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I watched Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final Chapter

Overall satisfying movie, with no major issues. I liked that the big bad got turned into a poor homeless muggle and was crying at the end. Nice to see Bailan again. We get to see Lang and Mu married and with children! It is a little bit of a downer that Lang and Mu had to part with their firstborn son within a few months of him being born, but hopefully they had many more kids after that.

The time loop thing opens a new question that I don't think we got a coherent explanation for. What Shang is doing here in the past? If he was born as Lang's and Mu's son at the end of the series and wouldn't have grown up into the man we see today until 25ish to 30ish years later after this movie. Why did he come back into the past? Is he just timetravelling around whenever? It does not seem like he deliberately came to the past to fulfill a time loop. If Shang is the son of Lang (who is half demon), then wouldn't Shang be 25% demon? But there has been zero indication in the series that he has demon blood, manifesting no demonic powers, and none of the demon characters like Kei Gai noticed anything off about him.





Thunderbolt Fantasy series review

Hard to believe it has been nine years since the original show airred. Crazy how time flies. I still stand by the opinion that the first season is far and away the strongest. It has the most tension as the powerless heroine contracts some mysterious foreigner and a really dubious flamboyant guy who then recruits a party of supervillains for a heist. They are at each other's throats and there are so many people you don't trust and you wondering "who is going to backstab first?". People throwing each other under the bus, and then people dying left and right. Never a boring moment. Kept me on the edge of my seat.

The following seasons are good and worth watching, but at that point you are watching a party of good guy heroes who are on good terms with each other chasing around after bad guys, and Lin Setsusa's dubiousness is toned down so you aren't wondering if he's going to betray them. And the none of the heroes die, so the tension begins dissipating as the seasons roll by. The big bad Kaisei-Meikyou's introduction in season 3 when he blinds Mu was dramatic, and I was wondering if any of the heroes would die trying to take him out in the finale, but that didn't happen. So the only casualty after season 1 was Ban Gunha, but he had only just been introduced that season and never joined Shang's party so it doesn't feel like a hero loss.

I really liked the combination of Nitroplus' colorful anime designs with a Chinese slant + Pili's puppet materials and ornamental decor. I tried watching Pili's War of Dragons arc of their mainline series on Netflix, but aside from it being super long and boring, I did not like the aesthetic of the puppets, which looked more dull. The sets also looked good. I particularly liked the first season villain's castle with the insectoid/ornate interior with the spiderwebbing amber stained glass, the Divine Swarm hall at the start of season 3 with the green banners/curtains, and also the Xi You sets from the 2nd movie.

Music wise, I feel like there are only a handful of memorable tracks, namely Shang's TBF theme and the first villain's evil theme from the first season, and then Lang's theme from the second season. The rest of the series has a novel synth backing, but I struggle to recall any tunes.

[Cedric]

Finally, a real anime adaptation that's not isekai or horrible.

It's called The Summer Hikaru died. It's BL / horror / psychological. I enjoyed the first episode.

The manga is nice and planned to only be ten volumes which means it won't overstay its welcome.

[methoxetamine]

Struggling to choose my next weebslop. I played the first hour or two of these but don't know which one to stick with

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
AI Limit
Ender Magnolia
Triangle Strategy

I know one of these is chinkshit

[Valter]

Struggling to choose my next weebslop. I played the first hour or two of these but don't know which one to stick with

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
AI Limit
Ender Magnolia
Triangle Strategy

I know one of these is chinkshit

Triangle Strategy lets you be an accomplice to war crimes iirc

[rusty_shackleford]

Struggling to choose my next weebslop. I played the first hour or two of these but don't know which one to stick with

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
AI Limit
Ender Magnolia
Triangle Strategy

I know one of these is chinkshit

Triangle Strategy lets you be an accomplice to war crimes iirc

cool war crimes or gay war crimes?

[Valter]

Struggling to choose my next weebslop. I played the first hour or two of these but don't know which one to stick with

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
AI Limit
Ender Magnolia
Triangle Strategy

I know one of these is chinkshit

Triangle Strategy lets you be an accomplice to war crimes iirc

cool war crimes or gay war crimes?

racial war crimes, been a while tho so I'm not sure

[methoxetamine]

Triangle Strategy lets you be an accomplice to war crimes iirc

cool war crimes or gay war crimes?

racial war crimes, been a while tho so I'm not sure

I'll report back after I play it, even if I don't play it first I'll be playing it in the next couple months

[WhiteShark]

Triangle Strategy

Haven't played the rest, but I liked this one a lot. It was even a solid challenge on hard mode for the first couple of runs.

I know one of these is chinkshit

Huh, I had assumed it was western based on the the only dub's being English, but I guess it was silly of me to think that a western dev could ever pull off that art style.

[methoxetamine]

I know one of these is chinkshit

Huh, I had assumed it was western based on the the only dub's being English, but I guess it was silly of me to think that a western dev could ever pull off that art style.

Are you talking about Triangle Strategy? AI Limit is the chink game, I didn't know TS only had English though until just now. Good to know TS is good though, I've been wanting to play a tactics game for a while and I heard the story is really good

[WhiteShark]

Are you talking about Triangle Strategy? AI Limit is the chink game, I didn't know TS only had English though until just now. Good to know TS is good though, I've been wanting to play a tactics game for a while and I heard the story is really good

No, I meant AI Limit. Triangle Strategy is definitely Japanese and has excellent Japanese voice acting.

[Tangerine]

Triangle Strategy

TS is exposition dumps interspersed with the occasional mission.

[methoxetamine]

Triangle Strategy

TS is exposition dumps interspersed with the occasional mission.

I'm aware, thanks for the heads up though. I've seen people say that it's got an egregious amount of time in between gameplay/combat sometimes but I don't mind as long as the story is good

[rusty_shackleford]

Struggling to choose my next weebslop. I played the first hour or two of these but don't know which one to stick with

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
AI Limit
Ender Magnolia
Triangle Strategy

I know one of these is chinkshit

play hero's adventure
viewtopic.php?t=3427-hero-s-adventure-road-to-passion

[Acrux]

Triangle Strategy

TS is exposition dumps interspersed with the occasional mission.

I've heard reports of 1.5 hours or more of visual novel between missions so I've skipped it. Is that accurate or an exaggeration?

[Tangerine]

Triangle Strategy

TS is exposition dumps interspersed with the occasional mission.

I've heard reports of 1.5 hours or more of visual novel between missions so I've skipped it. Is that accurate or an exaggeration?

I stopped playing it for that exact reason. You get some intro fluff before going into the first mission, which is about 20-30 minutes long. It's at least an hour before it gets to the next mission. When I finished that mission, I watched another 30 minutes of VN stuff and called it quits. When there's more story than gameplay in the first three hours of the game, they did something wrong.

[WhiteShark]

I've heard reports of 1.5 hours or more of visual novel between missions so I've skipped it. Is that accurate or an exaggeration?

That sounds like an exaggeration, but I don't dispute that there's a decent chunk of exposition and dialogue between missions. I liked the story and setting, so it didn't feel cumbersome to me; I wanted to know more about what was going on.

[methoxetamine]

Struggling to choose my next weebslop. I played the first hour or two of these but don't know which one to stick with

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
AI Limit
Ender Magnolia
Triangle Strategy

I know one of these is chinkshit

play hero's adventure
viewtopic.php?t=3427-hero-s-adventure-road-to-passion

That does look interesting, wishlisted at least and will try it out sometime

[rusty_shackleford]

chinktoons drawing eyes in front of hair looks stupid

[Val the Moofia Boss]

https://archive.fo/YyNv5

Netflix Says 50 Percent of Global Users Now Watch Anime, Reveals Expanded Slate

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According to Netflix, more than 50 percent of its members — amounting to over 150 million households, or an estimated 300 million viewers — now watch anime. The company says anime viewership on the platform has tripled over the past five years, with 2024 marking a record-breaking year: 33 anime titles appeared in Netflix’s Global Top 10 (Non-English) rankings, more than double the number in 2021.

The streamer also revealed that anime content was viewed over 1 billion times globally in 2024, and that 80 to 90 percent of users opt to watch anime dubbed. To capitalize on the demand, Netflix has begun offering anime titles with dubbed audio and descriptions in up to 33 languages.

[LemonDemonGirl]

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[ArcaneLurker]

https://archive.fo/YyNv5

Netflix Says 50 Percent of Global Users Now Watch Anime, Reveals Expanded Slate

...

According to Netflix, more than 50 percent of its members — amounting to over 150 million households, or an estimated 300 million viewers — now watch anime. The company says anime viewership on the platform has tripled over the past five years, with 2024 marking a record-breaking year: 33 anime titles appeared in Netflix’s Global Top 10 (Non-English) rankings, more than double the number in 2021.

The streamer also revealed that anime content was viewed over 1 billion times globally in 2024, and that 80 to 90 percent of users opt to watch anime dubbed. To capitalize on the demand, Netflix has begun offering anime titles with dubbed audio and descriptions in up to 33 languages.

Makes sense, compare Studio Ghibli, Orb, Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, Dungeon Meshi to the live action slop made Jews & their underlings.
Koreans can make some decent live action period dramas & crime thrillers too.