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Been going through Shangri-La Frontier and been frothing at the mouth for Dungeon Meshi to premier on Netlfix soon.
Spy x family season 1 was better to me, Is season 2 over? I couldn’t tell, Hulu said the last ep for me was onDec 24 but the season seems a lot less episodes than the first seasonFinished up season 2 of Goblin Slayer and Spy Family. Spy Family is almost cloyingly wholesome (and it suffers from anime/manga's usual narrative running-in-place) but it's still fun to have a superpowered family all trying to hide their secrets from each other. Goblin Slayer definitely treads water as well but that show at least feels like the characters evolve over time.
A lot of those were Ghibli movies but not Miyazaki movies I think that’s why they had less fanfare. Wind rises was good I have Poppy Hill but haven’t watched it more than once. Arrietty was based on another children’s book.Ralfakick said he watched the new Ghibli film called The Boy and the Heron, which I didn't even know existed. Thinking about it, ever since Arrietty came out in 2010 I haven't kept up with Ghibli, and the only one released since then that I did watch was The Wind Rises, which I didn't like and have controversial opinions about (lmbo).
Considering whenever Ghibli comes up, people only talk about their movies from Howl's Moving Castle and before (so pre-2004 stuff), I think it's fair to say Tales from Earthsea is when Ghibli shat the bed. Ponyo rebounded and people liked that but I never hear people talk about the movies they've made in the past 13 years. Here they are:
-Arrietty (2010)
-From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
-The Wind Rises (2013)
-The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
-When Marnie Was There (2014)
-The Red Turtle (2016)
-Earwig and the Witch (2020, and lmbo a 3D Ghibli made for TV film holy shit wtf were they thinking)
-The Boy and the Heron (2023)
I couldn't tell you anything about any of those movies aside from The Wind Rises, and again, I never hear people talk about these on the internet either - it's always Spirited Away or Mononoke or Grave of the Fireflies (fucking normies don't care about Porco Rosso).
Anyways, how about you guys? Do you have any opinion on the movies I've listed? I think it's fair to say we all like Ghibli but in hindsight from the past 13 years or so a Ghibli movie hasn't wowed us. I did watch Ponyo in the theater, had to drive like an hour away to a city that had it, but it didn't do much for me. Killer animation but wasn't for me.
Spy x family season 1 was better to me, Is season 2 over? I couldn’t tell, Hulu said the last ep for me was onDec 24 but the season seems a lot less episodes than the first season
Id watched that some thing they were able to get the license to release the original bezerk anime for bluray.
Neat any news for when nozomi will release macross plus and 7 for bluray ? Ever since rightstuf website shutdown it's been rather quiet.If you missed out on the Macross II Blu-ray/4k Kickstarter you can now pre-order it directly from Animeigo.
https://www.animeigo.com/macross2
Interesting you mention that; I was already about to post this as my most recent anime.Any thoughts on Attack on Titan?This was pretty big when it was on, but I never got around to it. The worldbuilding seems cool though.
One of the greatest manga of all time.View attachment 72840
One of my favorite moments in any show, not just anime. The guy looked for his girl for 108 episodes, yadda yadda yadda ends up in a fight to the death with his big brother...and in this moment we see the hero, who is basically a god, get slapped by his older brother, who is also basically a god, to go see his girl he has been searching for for so long. This single moment says so much to me.
I know most fans are more into the, "Of this life, I have no regrets!" moment when Raoh offs himself into the sky, but this backslap from one big brother to his little brother telling him to go to his woman says so much.
I don't know what it is with me and Fist of the North Star. I used to watch this on Showtime Beyond about 23 years ago, and it was utterly ridiculous and I thought it was retarded. Maybe it is! Regardless, the story, the lore, the characters, the passion is there. I don't see myself ever going through 108 episodes again, but going back to this moment is just fine.
I actually never watched Hokuto no Ken 2. I suppose for the same reason I don't care to watch Dragonball Super.
It's definitely worth watching, it's a very important series but it's very much a product of it's time and creator. It's also one of those series the fans are so fanatical about that it's turned a lot of people off. It's one of those things that you kind of need to watch just as a pop culture/anime piece of history, it's so influential and highly referenced.I've been thinking of watching Evangelion on the side but have heard a lot of mixed feelings on that one.