James is not kidding. Someone on Twitter put together a clip compilation and Kenshiro's actor sounds like someone doing a parody of bad old anime dubs. I am SPEECHLESS. I am DUMBFOUNDED. He can't even do the fight noises right! Also no one can pronounce "Hokuto."

Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk is a cgdct anime, only with the pastime activity being about getting blasted, which apparently fuels an invisible lesbian innuendo gauge. There's no way the show will ever commit to anything, but I did find myself enjoying it as a iyashikei.

A couple of days ago someone mentioned that Tiny Chef cancellation video, only for me to then watch Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble, which is about an eldrich abomination with an eerily similar voice.

Hmm, A Hundred Scenes of Awajima looks pretty. Guess I'll blind watch the first e- *The Class S comet crashes into my house*

FMA 03 is one of those deviations that you won’t see anymore because of how vitriolic (especially Shonen/Jump) fanbases are to creative liberty. I love Brotherhood but I absolutely consider its production and success to be the start of the current reality

OK, the second episode of The Ramparts of Ice managed to sell me on the series far more than the opener. Now that the shoujo romance clichés have settled down into more of a group ensemble about kids working stuff out, I can definitely see more of Agasawa's fingerprints in the writing.

I like it when AMVs are built on a joke that everyone can appreciate. I don’t even know what series this is, and I’m still cracking up. youtu.be/m8ZxgXIJ-EY

My wife when she informs me that thermonuclear war was being threatened today:

MARRIAGETOXIN Not a premise I'd normally go for but it's impossible to deny the utter confidence in which it embraces the utterly bonkers premise. It was genuinely funny throughout. Definitely one of the seasons big surprises next to Nippon Sangoku.

Pardon the Intrusion, I'm Home! I suppose after the delightful Tamon's B-sides last season, it's reassuring to go back to the status quo for these types of fan-centric rom-coms, where the male cast is utterly miserable to spend time with.

I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class The incredibly scummy sounding title complements the show about some teen loser getting himself a manic pixie dreamgirl built around his exact basic nerd tastes. Truly the funko pop of premium girl shows..

Eren the Southpaw had a solid introductory ep, but then I think of the fate for pretty much all these types of non-competitive 'chasing artistic passion stories & realize it will probably only ever be a one-cour manga advertisement. Such is fate of all your Blue Periods & Dance Dance Danseurs

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

I can't exactly say The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt was the greatest thing I've seen (although it certainly wins worst title of the season), but so far this season has been so light on iyashikei & rom-coms that I'll take what I can get in terms of warm-fuzzies.

Don't know if someone posted it already

The plebeian 'try to describe an experimental anime art style without bringing up Masaaki Yuasa' challenge

I hope Nippon Sangoku ends up something worth watching, even if it's a bit clumsy. Goodness knows there's very little new shows worth watching so far this season outside of pre-hyped big manga hits

I absolutely adored how Nippon Sangoku looked, using an animation style you usually only see if experimental shorts, or the very rare prestige anime film like Children of the Sea.

Listening the old hip-hop groups like the Fugees with the knowledge of the hotep spectrum really makes a lot of their lyrics make much more sense today.

Damn, this fairly obscure Fugees track bubbled up to the surface of my subconscious, making me remember that it was a brief chart hit in the UK, & that I owned the single on cassette. Q-Tip & Lauren's verses still slap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6f...

The man yelling is a political activist and well-known Rakugo performer from Osaka. He is shouting down a racist propagandist internet troll who goes around trying to spread hate. As a Rakugo performer he known for his powerful voice. He can be found at @taiyu1984 on twitter.

Meanwhile in Japan

Akane Banashi has easily been the highlight of the season for me so far, even if it's hilarious how much of a shounen template is used for it's decidedly non-shounen premise. Here's to Akane getting revenge on the villainous dark lords (of Rakugo) that killed her father('s career in the arts).

It's great to see Bookworm back and looking better than I could have never imagined, even if the stuff about gen-AI being used for backgrounds sucks ass.

Why am I watching this documentary about Amelia Earhart? I'm neither a woman, nor can pilot a plane. What is this madness?

I honestly didn't enjoy Nakamura's focus on drawn out extreme reaction gags through the first ep. So I glanced over the ANN reviews, & thought "Oh, it looks like Richard had a similar reaction to me. Then I read that paragraph & blurted out "Oh fucking hell dude!"

I was wondering where "Girlfailure" came from in this title, but it looks like they just lifted the whole English word romaji and all and put it there in the subtitle. Looking like we're getting cross cultural pollination

After loving Polar Opposites I was looking forward to The Ramparts of Ice, but sadly the pilot episode did little for me, coming across as yet another of those put upon shoujo heroines meets some nice dudes. Honestly it looks & plays out just like Kimi ni Todoke, but with a more jaded lead

forgot the most important of the genre

I realized to my horror that it's been 7 years since I bought Valkyria Chronicles 4 on the psn, only to never actually touch it. Guess it's time to finally remedy that.

Granted, I'm not so entrenched in JJK communities so know if misogyny is a serious topic that gets brought up, but this article genuinely feels like it imagined its own completely different reasons for the frustrations with the franchise post-S1. www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2026...

I was watching an old Men Carrying Things video about a post calling books like LotR, Dune, Blood Meridian, etc. 'Reddit' & thought about how other creative arts could fit in that trollish category, eg. Joy Division. Then I had the cursed thought that Harry Potter is now pure 'Truth Social'.

Being a grown ass man coming up with reasons why you, yourself should be allowed to watch Harry Potter TV Show is embarrassing on its face, before we even consider JK Rowling

As much of a production mess this season of Golden Kamuy has been, I'm happy the journey isn't quite over yet. But good lord, Attack on Titan really opened the floodgates for franchises to start falsely calling latter arcs final seasons.

I'm not sure how intentional it is, but I find it interesting that Journal With Witch tends to depicts the most 'traditionally' masculine looking looking guys in the show as either the most caring or the most exhausted by their perceived social obligations.

I wonder if Makio ever got back together with the woke dog?

Sometimes the people we least expect have sides & nuances that we can't image. That said, I choose to believe Asa's dad was just as much of a lifeless, wishy-washy mound of nothing as what the story depicts him as.

I really liked the brief snippets of the future interspersed throughout Journal With Witch's final episode. It was very similar of Windy Tale's final episode, even if that was abstracted in showing adolescent growth rather than making a strong thematic point.

NAILED IT FROM START TO FINISH!

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy. How this remained folded up inside a copy of Newtype JPN for 25 years before it ended up in my care, I have no idea. It was certainly a 'Holy…' moment when I dug into the extras in the mag and unfolded it.

I remained fairly cynical to Prison Rondo's idyllic fetishization of early 20th century England, particularly London throughout it's run. And yet here I am, immediately following it on by re-watching Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth for the first time in 15 years.

imagine the Pope personally calling you a fake bitch who's going to hell lol

Oh no, the two best shows of the season are ending today. At least Polar opposites is getting another cour.

It's amusing someone just posted about The Two Ronnies, as yesterday an elderly colleague described someone as a 'piss artist', a term I've only every heard before in their Mastermind sketch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C5...

In return for information about the thieves, Crimestoppers are offering a large bounty.

Well Trigun Stampede/Stargaze remained largely consistent through, having a few strong thematic points but lacking the time and writing chops to build any kind of meaningful narrative or emotional weight.

You know that the worm is just out of shot