Yeah, that sums it up succinctly

Loved this season. After a neat ending with Zoku Owari, and despite a pretty big change in the status quo and setting, it still managed to maintain its vibe and storytelling. I feel like many stories tend to fall off if something similar happened. I guess that’s a plus of actually putting time into your side-characters before finishing the main story.

I was happy to see Shinobu and Araragi back for the final arc though. Though it wasn’t needed, Shinobu’s origins were very cool and fitting. Suicide Master was a great addition too. The detective vibes were nice too

Kagenui coming back this ep and making swift work of Kie was great.

If there’s one thing I didn’t like this season is the lack of those flash cuts, or whatever you call them. They added a lot to the style. Tbf though, they were already reduced quite a bit during Owari and Zoku.

I hope to see more again.

Didn’t expect to see Towa again. Guess this is a vtuber anime now lol

Hm, I don’t think Level 99 Villainess was as bad as this one though.

I love the voice acting performance in this anime, especially Momo’s

Busy time for Subaru. 4 at once, damn

Honjoji giving Ohara a frog-shaped stone was adorable.

Tsutsujimori is great. Hopefully this is the start of a better life for Hiro

but I just seriously wish anime would stop doing this.

Yes. I know this kinda thing wasn’t unusual in medieval times, but man, even if the setting’s similar, you don’t actually have to follow it that strictly. Especially doubling down with the ‘I like em younger’ comment. When he said that I was hoping he saw her actual age somehow, but that doesn’t excuse much even if that’s the case.

from some future plot element

If true, that kinda feels like a hindsight excuse.

(Sorry for the late reaction, I only just watched the first ep)

Visually, this anime is pretty hard to look at. So many stillframes, yet inconsistent and often pretty bad looking too imo. When there is animation, it’s often still quite static. Storywise, the manga does a better job, imo, at executing it.

I think I’ll drop this and just continue the manga.

but I spent most of it trying to remember who everybody was or why I care

Yeah, I was afraid of this happening to me too, so I rewatched season 2 before, which really helped.

So far, I’ve started:

• Dandadan: pretty fun so far.
• 365 Days To The Wedding: fun premise and characters. Always appreciate shows with adults as MCs. I can only hope the premise of forcibly sending an employee to an overseas branch can’t happen in real life though, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it can.
• Villainess Goes Down in History: not great so far. Prefer the manga.
• Re:Zero: interesting start. Curious to see where it goes.
• SAO Alternative GGO II: meh start. No reason to care yet.
• Demon Lord 2099: cool setup, but there are a lot of ways this can go wrong, so still a bit on edge.

I’ve also caught up with the new Monogatari season. I love it, especially the latest arc.

Also still continuing 2.5D Seduction which is still fun.

I want to watch Magilumiere, but it’s on Prime and I’m not too thrilled about giving Amazon money.

Some shorter anime are fine for some 4-koma adaptations (loved I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying for example), but generally, please no. Especially for story focused anime.

It doesn’t even make much sense either. 24 minutes is already short compared to most beloved shows coming out of Netflix, HBO or Prime.

The Villainess Just Wants To Live In Peace is on Webtoons now! I’m pretty happy with that, since they’re a much more reasonable official source than Tapas imo. So I think I’ll switch from sailing the seven seas to that.

https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/the-villainess-just-wants-to-live-in-peace/list?title_no=6879

from the proliferation of magic abilities and from the genocide of immortals

These points make it extra weird. It’s not as if he wasn’t going to do it without those points.

It’s also his insistence of being a superior being compared to mortals that bothers me.

Cool world and interesting setting. I’m not really feeling the MC so far though. He wants to try and conquer the world again, but like, why? Sounded like they were the bad guys, so why should we care? Sure, it’a a cyberpunky world so there’s probably rampant corporatism and whatnot, but not sure totalitarianism is much better. Or are they going to pull a ‘the demon lord was a good guy all along’?

But only 1 ep is out so far, so maybe I’m spouting nonsense and I should not speculate this much yet. It’s just that I can see this going in a, imo, boring/generic direction pretty quickly, despite the cool setting.

You may as well sue everyone then, especially on the internet and even more so on Twitter. To sue randos on the internet as a famous person because someone said something bad about you is just wild and petty, unless it did considerable harm to your reputation.

Just for a tweet from 2 years ago? Seems a little extreme. Was this person that influential that people actually started thinking this?

If you’re on a free plan, doesn’t it make sense for them to push their paid plans to you? They don’t sell your data so they need to make money somehow.