16bit is too good

Frieren is really really good. I was not expecting anything because i thought it was just going to be a boring slice of life. But here i am waiting for the next episode to release.
Dead Mount Death Play is pretty good aswell
Eminence In Shadow has been really shit this season. It just feels incredibly rushed and full of filler. Not to mention they spent an entire episode on a ANIME ORIGINAL NTR story. I felt romanced. It wasnt even the authors idea. The anime people specifically requested it to him. Fucking unbeliavable.
>Hi! This is the director! That was episode 8. It's anime original time...
>Why? Let me explain. I already said it a million times but I'm going to say it again. "I love the fake money arc!" but that's that and this is this. After all the things that the MC did to the heroines just to appear next week like nothing happened is a bit weird. Also he himself said "Maybe it's correct to put some distance." Reading the WN, you can feel the MC and the author had burnout syndrome in the prison break arc. Even in the LN... you know... There was a time that it took a year to publish a new volume... I was even relieved for his comeback.
>Anyways, following the LN, having an interval in the anime is inevitable. And using this episode as an interval between arcs was all according to plan.
>So it's obvious for "what to do next?" to rise to the surface. Personally I wanted to do the prison break arc, but we don't really have that much time. Actually the reason that I can't make it is because I couldn't think of methods to solve the setting differences between the WN and LN. I did come up with a solution right now, but unfortunately too late.
>So we had a meeting about "what do do next?". Make a story about the past? Make an original story for the anime? Those sort of stuff. And suddenly a bigwig said: "Can't we just request sensei (Aizawa) to write something?" All of us looked at each other unintentionally. "What if the new volume gets delayed due to our request?" says the director. Well let's just ask sensei and pray for the best.-------- And thus this episode was born.
>By the way, the request was "Seven shades with Jaga and Hyoro, no Cid". Thank you for your help Aizawa-sensei. Let me borrow this place to express my gratitude.
>Oh and by the way, it was me. It was me. It was me who said "If the author is helping, it should be natural for the illustrator to help." and pressed such demands. Thank you too Touzai-sensei.

I don't think Shadow is any different. It's just that there's less hints of him being a sociopath and now it's more outright. Less playful chuuni, more showing how it's a cult. The first arc was pretty nice and I did like most of the John Smith one. Current is contrived

>>117104
Filler in what way? That it's not advancing the fight against the cult like S1 did? Cid constantly made the point before that he wanted to try out various things, disguising himself and playing different roles, so ultimately clashing against the rest of the Garden while acting as John Smith makes perfect sense. I absolutely loved how conflicted the girls were, and how Delta was immediately able to see through the illusion so he had to direct her elsewhere, and the last episode was great. Can't see what's rushed about it, either, wasn't the problem that they were taking too much with this?
I don't get the problem with the water park either, it was an episode dedicated to showing the girls doing their own thing as a whole group for once, and it was pretty nice. There was absolutely zero NTR in any shape or form, they got physically swatted away, and the director's explanation makes sense.

As for Dead Mount, what do you like about it? I'm a bit bummed out honestly, I realized it's one of those stories that wouldn't work at all if it weren't for the trickster with no plan ruining everyone else's keikaku.

>>117104
>Eminence In Shadow has been really shit this season. It just feels incredibly rushed and full of filler. Not to mention they spent an entire episode on a ANIME ORIGINAL NTR story.
Thank you for the dis-recommendation

>>117106
>Filler in what way?
i mean filler as in that they skip or just simplify important moments. I mean that scenes just last for way too long just to pad the runtime. They're just spending time showing shit noone wants to see. They'd rather spend a minute on a scene for some stupid random interaction then spend a minute animating a pretty entertaining fight.
>There was absolutely zero NTR in any shape or form
They LITERALLY went on a date with Cids friends. Its literally NTR. It does not matter whatsoever that they got swatted away. They went on a date together. Absolutely unforgivable shit.
>As for Dead Mount, what do you like about it?
I like the other world and the characters. Im not really sure what else to say. Its fairly entertaining and i look forward to weekly episodes.
>trickster
easily my least favorite part. I hate that gag where everything is all serious one second and then the next second the character starts to make some joke or sillify the situation. And thats what Solitaire has done quite alot. Its just so very unrealistic.

>>117111
>They LITERALLY went on a date with Cids friends
I think this is a bit of a stretch, considering that Cid doesn't really seem to care about anyone in any serious way to consider it a relationship. Although cutting down on the chuuni action seems like a dumb move if that's what they're doing, basically the whole point of the anime.

the divorced dad anon

>>117111
>i mean filler as in that they skip or just simplify important moments. I mean that scenes just last for way too long just to pad the runtime.
Hmm, have you read the LN? Are they doing things differently?
>They'd rather spend a minute on a scene for some stupid random interaction then spend a minute animating a pretty entertaining fight.
Well, I never saw fights as the focus, they're just another way to be chuuni.
>They LITERALLY went on a date with Cids friends
Yeah I agree with >>117113 in that it's a stretch, it absolutely matters that they were flatly rejected all along because they didn't achieve netoru. It's at worst a parody of NTR.
>Its just so very unrealistic.
And the entire story hinges on it, that's the thing. He's a strong contender for most important character in terms of plot impact.

I'm not a big fan of Shadow this time either and I think I said so already a couple weeks ago. There's too much uneventful discussion and it's more serious than chuuni. It's like that trend where a silly web comic over time turns into a serious one. TVtropes has a page for everything! https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CerebusSyndrome
It's strange to me that it's so highly rated, like people are just hoping for it to return to its expected glory. (and I hope it does). I'm glad there's people here that still enjoy it a lot, but I'm mentally checked out of it.

I'm catching up on this year's Bocchi (original Bocchi, not music Bocchi) Hoshikuzu Telepath and it's really cute and nice. The visuals and faces are really good! The forehead 'kissu' thing is cute and sometimes a bit ero. There's some simple talk about rocket science which was unexpected, but thankfully Yuu echoes my own stupidity and it doesn't linger on it for too long. I was a bit surprised to see it maintain the focus on the bottle rockets, as I assumed that to just be single episode plot. It works, though.
I'm 3 episodes behind having just finished episode 6, but I'll definitely going to watch all of it and enjoy it! I think the stream is missing out on voting it off, but it is one of those sleepy shows that are difficult to marathon.

>>117123
>There's too much uneventful discussion and it's more serious than chuuni.
I entirely disagree. The only "uneventful discussion" has been the bathhouse episode. Every single other episode and scene has served to present and characterize Cid's chuuni side and moments. I've been under the impression that the appeal of the show has always been this highlighting of Cid's chuuni moments. The second episode of the series is a great microcosm of how the author highlights Cid's chuuni moments.

The second episode of the series is a microcosm of how all the other story arcs.
1. Cid has some interaction with Shadow Garden to show how things have developed with the organization so far. Cid is generally surprised by some event that Shadow Garden believes is important but Cid had no idea about. Through some misunderstanding Cid makes it sound like he already has a plan in place to handle Shadow Garden's event.

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Cid rescuing and curing Alpha, telling her the made story about hunting the Cultists, and then Alpha recruiting more members for Shadow Garden.

2. Cid pretends to be a nobody that is utterly unremarkable.

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Cid not being able to slice a boulder with his sword unlike his sister. When sparring Cid always loses to his sister and never learns.

3.Through either happenstance some situation is forced upon him that an unremarkable average joe (background character) would be utterly helpless in dealing with.

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Cid's sister is kidnapped.

4. Shadow Garden mobilizes to deal with this situation and inevitable misinterprets Cid's intentions and Cid misinterprets them, believing them to be merely playing along with his fantasies.

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Cid and Epsilon find the Cultist hideout (Cid believes Shadow Garden is merely calling the bandits, as cultist due to delusions) from Cid accidentally tossing his dagger at the wrong place on the map.

5. Shadow Garden does some fighting while Cid meanders around, maybe fighting, looking for a chance to have a "chuuni moment" with someone.

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Shadow Garden fighting the majority of the Cultists and driving off the leader. The choose not give chase, as the leader is headed towards Cid. Cid had no idea that Shadow Garden drove the leader off or that there was some secret entrance, he was simply wandering around and looking for someone to fight.

5a. The main girl of the arc, fights the "big bad" and loses. This step can happen in the middle, before, or after "Shadow Garden" mobilizing.

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Cid's sister breaking from her chains to attack the Cultist leader.

6. Cid fights the "big bad", by playing with them. The "big bad" is usually someone close to the main girl of this arc (not for episode 2) and during the fight uses some special power given to them by the cult.

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Cid fighting the Cultist leader and him taking too many red pills

7. During the resolution the main girl leaves or their is some distance put between here and Cid.

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Cid's sister goes off to school

Every single story arc, hits these beats and the purpose of them is to construct the dramatic power "gap" between Cid and the rest of the world only to bridge that dramatic "gap"; in the fifth beat and then begin the process of remaking the gap in beat six. We the audience know Cid is more powerful than his outward appearance but the world does not know that, a form of dramatic irony and essentially gap-chuuni.
There is a caveat here, the hot springs/dating arc doesn't really conform to this structure but I think that speaks to what >>117104 said with it being an addition to the story. "The uneventful discussion" and "serious" tone of some parts are needed to remake the gap that separates Cid and the rest of the world. These parts are not in anyway filler or meaningless to the story, when considering the their ordering within the beat structure outlined above. They are part of the process, highlighting Cid's chuuni moments. Without them the show would just be an uninteresting power fantasy.

short maomao ep

>>117133
Hmm, maybe it was eventful then, but not in a way that was interesting to me. The economic talk was especially baffling to me there's been what seems like over an hour devoted to it out of 8 episodes and I don't understand its inclusion. Was the writer an economist or something?
I actually liked the onsen episode because it reminded me of the first season. The girls fighting some sort of water dragon thing was cool whereas if was like the previous episodes there would be 5 minutes of the girls talking in the changing room about Cid's greatness while barely moving and then 10 minutes of the economic situation of water management and how they will take control of local tax laws to leverage power to blahblahblah and then something cool with the remaining time.

The first few episodes with the vampires were great, though, particularly the conclusion.

I didn't want to bump the summer thread for this, but Zom 100 is getting its last 3 episodes all at once on Christmas. Might stream them on the 29th (Friday) since it was in the seasonal stream. Maybe...

>>117153
YEAH

let's stream isekai ojisan too

>>117133
also this is a very nice analysis and i might just steal it
>>117150
never felt the econ talk was that heavy, it's just "biblical amounts of counterfeit money are BAD for banks"

>>117150
> I don't understand its inclusion. Was the writer an economist or something?
It's an arc that's meant to explore a particular character trait of Cid, his greed. It's literally just pic related but as an entire story arc. Serving to again highlight the gap between Cid and the rest of the world, instead of just a power gap it's an intent gap. The whole economic talk abotu what's happening is really all just there to show how rudimentary Cid's understanding of economic forces is and how he is only just making counterfiet bills to steal money from other banks. Where as the Everyone else is thinking he's doing it as some complex scheme to intentionally crash the economy and devalue the currency, all to crush the Merchant Allaince; depriving the Cult of an economic resource. Those concerns are all secondary, if even, concerns for Cid, he just wants personal wealth. The gap between the audience expectations of Cid's motives and the world expect Cid's motives to be is again the core reason to watch the show, as the audience has all the cards laid bare in the final episode of the arc, with all the double entendre that were previously stetup, being explicitly shown to us and how Cid doesn't get what he wants but instead gets what the world/Shadow Garden thinks he wants.

>>117156
Glad you like, when you steal it, you should fix the grammar. I read it again and it's pretty bad.

>>117153
manga spoilers. Its NTR.

>>117296
The boner makes it seem like a parody lol

>>117296
lol is this a doujin

>>117297
that boner is absolutely an edit

watching the stevejobs anime and holy FLIP is it gay

>>117306
i know right it's so cute

niggy to dali

Now that the season is almost over which anime would you recommend to others?

I'm thinking about watching that pig show.

pig?

>>117413
https://myanimelist.net/anime/50583/Buta_no_Liver_wa_Kanetsu_Shiro

It keeps popping up in my local feed whenever my server updates. The cover art makes me laugh every time. I keep forgetting it exists until the next episode comes out.

Looks like stupid fun.

>>117412
Frieren and dead mount death play

AAAAAAAAAAA IT TOOK THEM ELEVEN EPISODES AND THERE'S ONLY ONE LEFT
THEY CAN'T END IT LIKE THIS

>>117412
Well, I hope I've made it really obvious that I really, really like Undead Unluck and it's my favorite show this season (and it's continuing into Winter!). I made a thread on /jp/ about it but be aware that it's full of spoilers. >>>/jp/62144
This was quite a strong season and I'm sure I even missed some shows.

16-bit Sensation is a great quasi-nostalgia thing which is an adaptation of a manga created by Aquaplus staff, Migi to Dali is a fun and bizarre, uhh.. something or other, Frieren is fantastic albeit generic fantasy (although the first few episodes bored me), Spy X Family is more of the same (which is great), uhhh... Hikokomari is pretty good (but can't seem to decide what it is) and Hoshikuzu Telepath is the sleepy SoL of the season.
Unfortunately the return of the horse girls and Kanojo mo Kanojo aren't as good as previous seasons, at least to me.
Some people here really like the Chinese apothecary girl show and that Shadow one, but I'm not a huge fan personally.

>>117475
I wouldn't really group together Kusuriya and Shadow. Shadow serves as fine entertainment with a nice comedic tone, but Kusuriya has a more serious quality to it that meshes well with the more unique ancient chinese setting. The episodic detective-like story does well for mixing in with the nobility politics of the royal court, especially when you have it taking place in a power struggle between courtesans.

>>117477
They're only grouped together in my post in that I lack the enthusiasm for them that others here do. Yeah, they're not very similar thematically.

>>117475
>fantastic albeit generic fantasy
I don't disagree at all, it's a very basic setting and there's nothing about its worldbuilding that screams originality, the interesting part is how it's played entirely straight and in a very down to earth way, with a lot of time and effort put into the little things. How it carries itself. "Contemplative" is the word that comes to mind, inspiring something like pic which you rarely see any media do.

It uses its simplicity pretty well, it's most obvious with the massive storm it brewed up all throughout the internet by just going "demons bad, actually." It's the same thing Goblin Slayer does with its eponymous beasts, except this time they're articulate and pretty. But they're still simply irredeemable monsters. It's not that they're complex characters, it's the exact opposite.

A lot of Jap fantasy feels to me like it's not serious from the get-go, it's more like "what if this joke wasn't a joke." Kinda like Mushoku, which still goes uwaaaa kemonomimi sugoooii in its lighter moments, but Frieren doesn't do that. It can make jokes, the difference is that it doesn't really lampoon itself.

damn, Helck is over and basically everything else is ending too. Where'd the season go

Is the thread at bump limit already? In any case, here's the collage I mentioned where people mock Kage's manga and its readers.
The part with the comedic running is the gate scene in S2's first arc, you can now see it animated and how it is indeed nothing like the manga.

>>117640
i feel like i made a parody image mocking that style of schizophrenic compilation images that are hard to read and say nothing but i don't have it on my laptop to post

>>117641
You see, the message is embedded in the larger discussion, and this image's role is to act as a periodic aide to the recurring jabs directed towards the graphic novel. It is a representation of the discourse.

Pat blackie.

And, well... most of the conflict was defused simply by talking, and even more people were brought in. The different factions did not clash in any serious way and no lasting harm was done. Resolved without much trouble.
Dang.

>>117640
you have to be really high IQ to get the humor of EiS

migi&dali is good.
Another story she made https://myanimelist.net/anime/32542/Sakamoto_desu_ga

>>117720
Very disappointing!

zero stakes battle royal!

>>117744
Yeah, basically. Girl gets cleaved in half, turns out now she's able to revive. Dude is taken hostage and mutilated, but actually he has regen powers. Cute boy loses his arm, immediately gets it replaced. Ehhh.
>>117733
That's what I heard when it first came out, and that she was great at absurdity like that. RIP.

Was browsing some places and found this chart of the final rankings for all anime on nico. More than popularity, kissu may like seeing this.

>>119824
>Idolm@ster
>98.2
wait what
98 out of 100?

>>119825
yeah

>>119826
that has to be selection bias

>>119827
Well it's the ratings for the final episodes, so most people that were still watching probably did like it a lot.