What anime are you watching or manga are you reading?

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Finished up Misfit of Demon Academy. Really enjoyed it, looking forward to more if there is some. Decided to sign up to the free trial of Funimation, and got a free month too. Which is a good thing, because my god it's a terrible App and even worse on the PS4. Not loading right, having to close out and go back in again if I want to watch the next episode. CR has some issues, but it's like the golden goose compared to Funimation. It's even a pain to scroll through what's available (mainly on the PS4 App), looks like it's made in 480p, constantly crashes, won't load info, won't let me add to my queue and subsequently crashes... Terrible. I won't be allowing it to renew.

But seeing as I have it, started Deca-dence, which is like a poor mans light hearted version of Attack on Titan. Not sure if I'll continue tbh, so I started Trinity Seven instead. Kinda happy I work nights so I'm awake when everyone else is asleep, as I didn't research the show at all, and it's quite lewd (no issue with that, others might) but it's also quite funny and interesting. The most confident main character in an anime yet, and that's really what's keeping me interested so far. I've only a few episodes left in it, so will finish it out (in private).

It's just as bad on all platforms. It even forces landscape mode on tablets.

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Shocking... It's a wonder they're still in business.

They're owned by Sony and have a near monopoly on anime in English territories, not going to happen.

I'll be honest, I don't think my patience will let me watch after I've finished the current ones. Being owned by Sony, you'd think it would at least work properly on the PS4, my main source for watching things.

Of course, how could I forget that multinationals don't allow communication between their own companies. My bad, was expecting a miracle I suppose! The crowd I work for have trouble communicating between Limerick and Dublin, so should have known.

The corporate divisions are strange, Sony's most lucrative game IP is owned by the TV division.

Are they going to fold one into the other or be competing with themselves?

It's not really good for anyone.

Time to motto nihongo benkyo shimasu and VPN my Netflix to Japan.

I think the only thing Funi has over CR is the ability to turn off subtitles which hardly anyone would need. I used to prefer dubs but I find I can't go back now either. Netflix occasionally starts playing the dub for something and it just isn't right.

I watched Queen's Gambit on Netflix, which is a show about Chess and not an anime.

It was pretty good, but it really just drove home how much better anime is getting across concepts for niche interests the audience doesn't necessary know anything about.

Like in Haikyuu the team is represented by a crow trying to fly, their rivals are cat or an eagle. Difficulties of getting the ball over the net are represented by an iron wall, and fighting a powerful opponent is represented by that opponent literally pinning our heroes under his massive body, and them struggling to overcome him by pushing up with all their might. Plus I feel like a goddamn volleyball expert after watching the first three seasons. I know rules, terms and playstyles I didn't before.

All the big moments in Queen's Gambit are shots of the players faces, crowd reactions or musical montages. They don't really show the board because an audience of laypeople can't follow top level chess, and they can't do any cool analogies (like a crow fighting a cat by a dumpster) to get across to us what is happening in any kind of abstract sense, because that would be super weird to do outside of anime.

Just something to think about. Anime affords us some cool visual storytelling, and exciting ways to learn about real world hobbies we previously had no idea about.
I watched seven 1 hour episodes of Queen's Gambit, and I learned nothing about Chess.

Finished The Asterisk War. Not bad. Another general run of the mill anime, again fills a void but nothing to write home about. No word if there'll be a Season 3, but it's hopeful to be out in 2021 if announced.

Generic, that's the word I should have used. It scratched an itch until the good shows start again. Now if only I could find a copy of the Demon Slayer movie...

Nana the talentless(like a cross between Deathnote and Among us) and Jujutsu Kaisen. Nothing else really interests me this season until Attack on Titan comes back.

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Any of ye watched Bakuman?

Somebody told me that Netflix is the only streaming service that has all 3 seasons of Bakuman. Is this true?

Parsnips wrote: »

Ive read all Bakuman a few years back.
I definitely didnt notice it on Netflix. think I would have if it was there

It is on Netflix, just not in Ireland.

I know it's not anime, but it's based on a manga, started watching Alice in Borderland on Netflix. Only finished episode 3 and I am hooked. Really well done so far. Good idea too, and it's going in directions I didn't think it would. Can see myself binging the rest.

So yeah, I ended up binging the rest the following night. Really enjoyed it for the most part. Sets a sequel up nicely and looking forward to it if it emerges. It better, or I'll have to go back and watch the ova from years ago to finish the story. It's the closest live action film to anime that is actually good, that I've seen yet.

Up to date with Haikyuu too. Strong end to the season so far, only 1 to go I think.

It is indeed silly, but silly akin to an anime, which is why I think I like it. It has bouts of brilliance and silliness imo. As for Shibuya, from what I can gather, it was either crazy good CGI (doubtful in a Netflix premiere, money wouldn't be available to make it look that good), and another claim that it was a rebuild of certain areas (probably coupled with green screen). If it was either, whoever was involved in making it look empty deserves a raise! It's actually freaky, knowing full well how many people should be there.

Enjoyable last episode of Haikyuu, looking forward to more of it now. Starting to get over the graphical and personality changes, but it's still missing something that was there in the first 2 seasons. As mentioned by someone else, it teaches you about the sport and actually makes you interested in the real thing. Excellently made series for a subject I never cared about before.

IIWTTTPUGIAD is plodding along nicely, but feels a bit flat this season. Maybe it's because it's weekly, whereas I had binged up to now. Will continue with it, but watched 3 episodes back to back last night so reckon I'll continue doing it that way.

Also watching Jujutsu Kaisen, pretty good so far.

Potential-Monke wrote: »

IIWTTTPUGIAD is plodding along nicely, but feels a bit flat this season. Maybe it's because it's weekly, whereas I had binged up to now. Will continue with it, but watched 3 episodes back to back last night so reckon I'll continue doing it that way.

The season is over if you want to binge the rest of it.

I finished Alice in Borderland, not bad overall if a bit cheesy at times. It reminded me of Darwin's Game.