Fun stuff, but more than anything else this mainly just got me excited for what looks to be a confrontation in the next episode.

It’s got to be Odd Taxi, though I can’t think of a lot of competition if I’m being honest. Besides, Odd Taxi is great. It’s got the lore-accurate gacha gamer and everything!

I think that might actually be Mobile Suit Gundam.

Not to mention all the nasty DRM keeping users from watching on their phones or laptops.

Thanks!

I’m assuming the first one isn’t because it felt like it was written by a different person, but I don’t actually know.

Where’s the Behind the Scenes footage? That sounds cool!

They had damned well better, because I’m still pissed.

Just keep in mind that you’ve only seen part of one side of the story there.

From any reasonable point of view, Gabby should be dead now - preferably torn in half and made to suffer as much as all of the innocents she just murdered.

Holy shit calm down.

But instead, she’s being treated like a child and carefully strapped onto a stretcher because poow widdle fing got shot by an arrow oh boo hoo.

You think it’s normal to have someone walk down a mountain after getting shot in the leg and shoulder by arrows?

It’s going to take a LOT of pretty smart and entirely unexpected plot twisting to turn that into anything other than a travesty.

I don’t think it really needs to be that smart or unexpected. The situation is supposed to be confusing, but it’s also supposed to make the audience (and Yuru) question why everyone is doing what they’re doing and whether anyone can be trusted at all.

I have a hard time imagining an anime really changing the way I live or think, but FMA:B and AoT were what really got me into anime so I guess those are as close as it gets.

I’m hoping it just got moved over to another episode for pacing reasons.

On a slightly different note, does anyone here read manhwa? I need a secondary opinion because the more I read, the more it feels like some of the groups localising them use machine translation (or non-fluent people). Things like constant misgendering, regular changes to name spelling (for both people and locations), attributing things said in the past to wrong characters and more are pretty much something I expect rather than a surprise at this point. It’s distracting, sloppy and, at times, pretty annoying.

I don’t read much manwha but all of the things you’ve mentioned are common problems you’ll see with machine-translated Japanese. I wouldn’t expect most of these problems to be an issue with human translators who merely lack skill. Definitely machine translation, and low-effort machine translation at that.

Sure! https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm38324654

The part I was talking about starts at 2:45 or so.

Finished Season 1 of Re:Zero. It capped the season off very nicely. One could argue Emilia was a little too quick to forgive, but that’s just kind of who she is. I followed that up with the first OVA, and uh wow. That was fun. It felt a little like the OVA’s writer(s) were calling out the original work on what it did to Rem’s character, which is very fair. Overall just a good time. Shame it (probably) isn’t canon.

I also watched a couple of episodes of the second season of Umamusume. I was deeply amused by the scene where a certain horse girl wouldn’t enter the gate. I looked it up, and sure enough it was based off of real-life events. There’s even a video out there that shows both side-by-side, because of course there is. My favorite parts of this show are usually bits like this where I’m reminded that the horse girls are based off of real horses. Fun stuff.

As for the current seasonals:

• Akane-banashi continues to be fun
• I really liked the latest Daemons of the Shadow Realms episode. I noticed some people had concerns, and all I can really say without spoilers is: watch and find out. This was written by a writer, and they know what they’re doing.
• I watched the first episode of Agents of the Four Seasons. It was good, but it didn’t really grab me. I think I would’ve liked it more if Hinagiku didn’t speak the way she does. Perhaps it has something to do with trauma from her past. If so, hopefully she’ll stop talking like that because it’s kind of annoying tbh.
• I still need to get caught up on the latest Snowball Earth episode. Hopefully it was good.