Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - January 23, 2026

While everyone else was sharing their MAL wraps earlier this month, I ~~studied the blade~~ patiently awaited one of those 3rd party AL wraps and I've finally [received it](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/eaf454988951.png).

It's certainly a wrap.

[](#thoughtful)

~~[^(also clicked through another one, since im making this post)](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/90b465b6ec44.jpg)~~

The JJK conversation on JP twitter is wild. Now I'm seeing viral posts complaining about too many overseas fans liking the latest episode

[Only good thing out of the JJK controversy](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/ad97153e1b5e.jpeg)

*I'm looking for:* A school romance where one of the main characters rejects the other, and maybe the rejected enters a period of increasing sadness knowing that even if they can spend their time with the person they love they'll have to part ways eventually because that person doesn't want to spend the rest of their lives together. And the ending doesn't matter, I assume if there was a story like this then it would be a happy ending with the rejected finding happiness in other things and accepting the finite nature of their time together, and trying to make the most of it.
This sounds a little too specific but anything that touches on it slightly would do!

*Shows I've already seen that are similar:* None honestly, it's just a thing that came into my mind.

I am really tired of bigots downvoting shows for just existing. Like, when I open the thread and see a 59% upvote ratio... just why?

[](#foldedarms)

*The Strongest Job Is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage, but an Appraiser (Provisional)!* has done nothing wrong to deserve this

Just a heads up for physical media collectors. The Crunchyroll store has been delisting or canceling orders for a bunch of Discotek titles that have either gone out of print or are slow sellers. To combat this [mediaOCD](https://www.mediaocd.com/post/alien-nine-and-introducing-discotek-deep-dives) will be adding the entire catalog to their site gradually over time.

>Our solution: [**DISCOTEK DEEP DIVES**](https://www.mediaocd.com/category/discotek-deep-dive). Every month, we'll add 20-30 titles from the Discotek Media collection, prioritizing ones that are getting hard to find. We'll have them up for pre-order for a few weeks before we get the inventory to ship them out, so you can make sure you get one.

List of newly OOP titles can be found [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/discotekmedia/comments/1qk8wlj/newly_out_of_print_titles/)

[An article](https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/ryo-orikasa-animation-word-play-258351.html) about one of the critical darlings of modern Japanese short animation; Ryo Orikasa and his poetry/literature meets animation style. Have only watched his graduation piece [Scripta Volant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5od-8bjOqY) but was an interesting piece with its animated written word. Miserable Miracle looks fascinating, but not available in my area. Sad. Think it's for some other regions on [NFB](https://www.nfb.ca/film/miserable-miracle/) though. O well, maybe it will pop up on Miyu Distribution's shorts YT channel.

Why was I a couple years late to this [masterpiece](https://youtu.be/NTZnIt8t4hU) of a mashup? That ED is pure gold!

Do male well intentioned extremists typically die or is it heavily mixed? I wanna know what usually happens and how to know whether or not a character I like is a well intentioned extremist, will die 🫠

Here are a couple of reviews of shows I’ve watched over the past week.

**Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note**

It was alright. I went in hoping to learn more about characters like Flatt (for Fate/Strange Fake), but ended up learning basically nothing about him.

The show does this pet peeve of mine with mystery animes. Early episodes that exist mainly to introduce characters or concepts, wrapped in a one-off mystery to fill the runtime. On paper, it’s a middle ground, a way to balance episodic structure with gradual progress, but it really doesn’t work for me. The mystery feels superficial, like they only exist to justify introducing X character or X concept. It reminds me a lot of The Apothecary Diaries' format.  Do I really need to sit through an entire mystery about metalsmiths just to understand the concept of metal weakening due to poor composition that later serves as a plot device for a failing beam that almost kills someone in future episodes?

That’s how the early El-Melloi cases feel. Take the episode with Gray, Reines, and Luvia for example. Its purpose was to establish the gift Gray bought while fleshing out side characters like Reines and Luvia. But as a mystery episode, it was mediocre.

But like I said, it’s a pet peeve. It’s a personal gripe that others might not share. Ideally, I’d prefer it if they either made the episodes entirely standalone and detached from the finale, similar to The Mystic Archives of Dantalian, which results in higher-quality individual mysteries that aren't burdened by the “main” plot, or made the mystery span the entire show, like Odd Taxi, Baccano, The Eccentric Family, or MyGO!!!!!.

Overall, I’d give it a 7/10. It feels very spin-off-ish in terms of necessity. It's like the Megumin spin-off. It’s great side content if you love the character, but it's not strictly essential viewing.

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**Inu-Oh**

The anime I’d watched over the past six months was pretty dry, and I usually just wait for one or two real masterpieces to appear in my watchlist each year. This is one of them. Inu-Oh is a masterpiece. I finally found a movie that’s on par with, if not better than, the Revue Starlight movie. *(This is basically a callback for people who get annoyed when I use my all-time favorite film as a personal benchmark, like I did with the Reze movie, which didn’t beat the Revue Starlight Movie btw. I do, in fact, rank movies above my favorite if they genuinely blow me away. It's a benchmark for a reason)*

The story is solid enough that the ending genuinely made me tear up. You can tell the director understands how powerful performing arts are. The film fully commits to its visuals and music, delivering long, unbroken performances so we’re basically seeing exactly what the in-universe audience sees. The best part is how dramatic this film is. The deaths are exceptionally dramatic, and the whole film feels closer to “proper cinema” than a standard anime movie.

And if you noticed, I didn’t mention Masaaki Yuasa at all in the review. I only realized it was his work after watching, so I went in with zero bias.

10/10

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Unrelated, but what do you mean there’s a Honobu Yonezawa (Shoshimin) × Kurosawa (yes, THAT Kurosawa) movie? I haven’t even finished the Library Committee series yet, let alone touched his other stuff like Kokurojo.

Even now that I *can* watch it, I'm still not sure that I actually *want* to watch Takopi's Original Sin. I'll probably get around to it, though. Maybe. I don't know. Best case scenario, it's just as good as it's supposed to be; worst case scenario, I can finally populate that one section of my MAL profile. My plans are a little packed for the next while anyway.

A brief summary of the events which occur in the latter half of the third episode of the 2011 anime Guilty Crown:

[They named their protagonist Shoe] >!Shoe summarizes the two rules of Void extraction; Shoe tries to put this into practice, ends up grabbing a classmate's left boob; news of this act of sexual assault spreads around school and he becomes a pariah; turns out Inori just hadn't told him about the eye contact rule as a joke or something; Shoe runs around school extracting people's voids, it doesn't work; then the guy they're looking for just kinda conveniently shows up and reveals himself; Shoe goes "I know you're with the bad guys, but I'm sure it's all fine. Just pinky promise you won't tell anyone about me?" the guy immediately goes to the cops and tells them about Shoe; the cops immediately find Shoe and arrest him.!<

It's actually kind of admirable just how random the plot of this show is. I'm not sure there has been a single instance so far where the writers planned more than like two minutes ahead.

With the anouncement of **kimishinu** for summer, the streak of at least one yuri anime per season will continue for at least two more seasons! And considering **ggwp** has been announced (well, delayed) for this year, but no news so far, probably good chance it will be fall and complete the streak for the year!

(Hopefully that isn't *rule two*, briefly discussing some IRL events as examples)

[Anime title]>!Darwin's incident!< has had its fair share of various criticism, but the weirdest I've seen is "the writing is dumb, because the terrorists wouldn't convince anyone to join their cause this way", and normally I would just ignore it but I've seen MANY people say things like that...

Since when do terrorists do that? Convince people to join their cause with their terrorist attacks?

What cause did you join after 9/11? Did you join Al-Qaeda? What did the terrorists convince you of?

Terrorists (be it in real life, or in that anime) don't expect their opponents to go "Well they blew us up, maybe there's something good to their movement after all..."

Sometimes it's to force people by fear, sometimes it's just an acceptable act of war (in their mind), sometimes it's not even about their opponents, it's about 'Their side', they want to embolden those who already believe in their cause (to make them go from simple believer, to extremist), to show them "We are able to fight against our enemy, now is the time", etc...

And we see a lot of that in this anime, like when [spoiler from that anime]>!after one of their attacks, one of their member expressed some doubts/concerns, but they used that to make them believe even harder in their cause, make them even more motivated, erase their doubts (brainwashing) and so on...!<

I've seen a lot of valid reasons to criticize this anime (some I agree with, some I don't) but this one is super baffling to me. I'm not sure if they simply didn't think it through, or if they just hate the show and came up with anything to criticize it.

To me that's like saying about a gambling anime "It makes no sense to gamble because you're more likely to lose!" or I don't know, if an anime character goes to a prostitute, "It makes no sense because she does not love him so what's the point having loveless sex?"

Ok but millions of people do these things regardless, just like terrorists do their terrorist things even if it doesn't bring their enemy to their cause.

[](#bigthink)

Watched Cosmic Princess Kaguya without really knowing anything about it beforehand and ended up being kinda blown away. Highly recommend.

I don't know if this is just a symptom of watching so much seasonal anime (where there's usually little-to-no closure and endings tend to be deliberately open-ended in case future seasons get green-lit), but it was also so satisfying to watch something with a story that constantly built towards an actual definitive ending.

Was also surprised by how long the movie was (at almost 2 1/2 hours): it could have easily been stretched into a 10-episode series with very little extra work, but felt this format also worked really well, especially for telling a very tight, self-contained story.

Quick question: I haven't watched Anime in a long time (\~15 years) (I'm still reading translated mangas though) and trying to get back into it. I grew up watching only fansubbed content, and remember that there were huge differences in translation quality.

I still remember plenty of discussion about the fansubs of different groups, their translation philosophies, etc.

But today I can't find any information about that sort of thing. Many releases have official subtitles from netflix etc., which seem to be rather bad translations by my standards (too "westernized", too inaccurate, no translator notes)

Are there any websites/groups where the quality/difference of fansubs is discussed and where I might even find those subs? Or are people just using netflix/crunchyroll-subtitles nowadays?

One thing I really miss about an older anime community is that discussion doesn't really seem to be all that active or respected pretty much anywhere anymore.

Anime is an art form, 99% of the conversation being screenshots from the latest episode or "what should I watch" kinda sucks. It's not really the platform's fault or the fault of the users, but any sort of critical analysis or review content has died out.

The Internet (and society in general) is increasingly polarized so I feel like you either have to align 100% or it's a downvote from most people. There are people out there still creating analytical content but it never really catches on.

Did Disney+/Hulu announce they'll be streaming **Medalist** season 2 or is it one of those things we'll find out on the day it airs?

Less than 4 weeks into the season and I'm already falling behind

[](#deadtired)

Maybe I should drop a couple of shows

After the last episode of Champignon Witch its "Romance" tag became mildly concerning. I really hope it won't be gender-reversed Usagi Drop.

Fuck. I forgot how good *Frieren* was.

That second cour really did a number on my impression of it such that I forgot just how good the first one was.

Frieren OPs are on an exponential curve. First one was fine, second one is good and a bit nostalgic for me, but this newest one is an absolute masterpiece (especially the full version).

Oshi no Ko has always had great theme songs, but the newest ones are especially good.

The girls’ vibe in the latest OP is reminding me of something, especially [this segment](https://youtu.be/QgIQbeRzkkc?si=53eFpH0ixYfjZuQO&t=29s), but I haven’t been able to put my finger on it for the last two days.

Can someone recommend me some good anime with female main lead- preferably action anime not pure romantic anime.
I have watched all villaness animes, umamusume,Guild receptionist,love live, wandering witch elina,meiruko chan,slime 300,reincarnted as sword,yuru camp, reborn to master blade, kaguya sama,acro trip, lycrois recoil,symphogear,medeka box.

New [Anime Mind Probe vid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KBVhfg7C44). This time with Shouji Kawamori (man I should really watch Macross: DYRL one of these days) about his 2026 movie Labyrinth. Always interesting interviews so something to watch later.

After Apothecary Diaries S2 opening and now Frieren S2 opening I think I low-key hate Mrs. Green Apple. Such annoying voice.

As I start winter, which shows had extended premieres? Not multi-episode drops, but first episodes that are longer than their normal runtime.

Who is this white haired dark skined green eyed elf with glasses in 
Cute elves from non-isekai anime ☺️🤩 post? 

Is it "lame" that I watch full recaps/summaries before actually starting an anime?


​I’ve realized that I get confused or lost pretty easily when watching sometimes, to deal with this, I’ve developed a habit: I watch full story recaps on YouTube before I even start the actual show.
​So far, I’ve watched summaries for Dragon Ball (Classic to Super), Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, Death Note, Jujutsu Kaisen, Gintama, and even Neon Genesis Evangelion.
​I feel like knowing the plot beforehand helps me focus. Since I already know the "what," I can relax and enjoy the "how"—the animation, the voice acting, and the iconic fight scenes that a 20-minute summary can't fully capture.

I'm planning on hosting a [Figure 17 rewatch](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1qkssei/figure_17_25th_anniversary_rewatch_interest_thread/), I think it's a show that not enough people have talked about or even heard about, so I'd appreciate it if you check out the thread.

Hi everyone. Can I get some recommendations for a few shows?

I haven't watched anime for more than a few episodes in decades until last year when I finally watched Dragon Ball Super.

When I was young I watched DBZ, Gundam Wing, and Cowboy Bebop on Cartoon Network. I watched Lazarus weekly when it aired and wasn't impressed. I did like DBS though.

I tried Hunter x Hunter, Attack on Titan, and My Hero because they're popular but the main characters are so whiney I can't stand them and lose interest/actively want them to die so they'll stop whining and maybe we can get some hardasses.

Any recommendations based on any of that? I don't necessarily want gory/adult things as I'd like to be able to watch shows without worrying about my kids seeing, though I'dtake those recommendations too.

I'm thinking about watching more Gundam or DB movies, or maybe even starting with the OG Dragon Ball since I never watched it. But I'd like to broaden my horizons as well.

Also, completely forgot I watched Castlevania and Devil May Cry. Not sure if those are anime but I liked them.

Thank you!

The anime corner 'anime of the week' thread is full of shit talking/bashing/downvoting, mostly among Frieren and JJK fans, but also a few others.

Should be a fun season for chaos enjoyers.

[](#evilgrin)

Invisible Man and his Soon to be Wife is the most underrated show of the season. Really cute, well produced, and just a whole lot of fun.

Now that I'm CR's desired two weeks behind on JJK...

Maybe this is just aura farming the anime. Like, I guess I forgot at some point that S2 was able to look good when it wanted to. I thought I knew what happened at the end of S2, but I guess not. Then again, does it even matter? The colors on the screen are pretty and the aura sufficiently farmed.

The r/anime awards nominations are fresh out of the oven and lmao at the aoty noms. The top comment in the thread gives some well needed insight and as a juror in 2024 I know how the shortlisting and nom process can get weird like that, but still what a fiasco.

[Here](https://imgur.com/a/tZsN5XM) are my votes in case anyone is curious. For the genre awards Adventure is by far the weakest for me, nothing above a 7/10 there from me. On the other hand, Suspense and SoL are incredibly stacked. Animation is kinda hard too, there‘s a bunch of other noms that are all deserving of a win too.

Reading through each category:

> wow these are the worst awards nominees ever

>> the worst awards nominees ever so far!

[](#taigasigh)

The nominations for anime of the year are uh kind of bad

I didn't used to care about the r/anime awards very much but I've come to enjoy them quite a bit.

The annual thunderdome and jury discourse is a wonderful tradition and really adds a sense of culture and community.

[](#feelingloved)

Just thinking that the easiest attempt at fixing anime of the year would be to up the shortlist to at least 15 entries since it would mean that the specific weird pet favorites of a juror getting through hopefully wouldn't cause as egregious snubs as is currently the case.

People should watch PriPara tho fr it's pretty tanoshii lwk

Also you'll see it again next awards in the movie category so better be ready in advance [](#trololol)

I'm going to pretend that not letting me submit nominations is why the r/anime awards are so messed up. My singular nominations would've saved every category. 



[](#seasonalsmug)


In other news, Holy Grail of Eris is more intriguing than I expected. Thanks to whoever it was who mentioned it here and made me add it to my list at practically the last moment. 

the more things change, the more they stay the same, and if there's one thing you can always count on, it's a handful of baffling nominations in the r/anime yearly awards. i do have to give some handshakes to the jurors who managed to force through so many Sorairo Utility production category nominations. truly impressive work.

[here's my ballot](https://i.imgur.com/4KDCbbT.png) if anyone's curious. can't believe CinGray OST and the Watanare OP or ED missed the cut

Seeing all the tier lists here had me wanting to make my own, but I don't have an account on any image sharing site, so I ended up making a tier table on mobile during downtime at work. Turns out tables in comments don't display properly on my mobile browser, so here's a text based tier list:

* S: Journal with Witch; The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife
* A: A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation; Fate/strange Fake; Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider
* B: Isekai Office Worker/Bean Counter; Frieren; Shibougi; The Holy Grail of Eris; Champignon Witch
* C: Fire Force; Oshi no Ko; Wash It All Away; In the Clear Moonlit Dusk; Roll Over and Die; Cute Girl in the Hero's Party
* D: Digimon Beatbreak
* Dropped: Easygoing Territory Defense; The Case Book of Arne; A Class for Demi-Humans; Kunon the Sorcerer; The Villainess Is Adored; Noble Reincarnation; Tamon's B-Side; Kaya-chan Isn't Scary; Part-time Torturer; Demon King's Daughter; Scum of the Brave

This is based on personal enjoyment and not perceived quality.

No Nukitashi in OP this year is like no Bravern in ED last year. You've gotta give points for an OP/ED that understands the assignment for its particular show. That's their purpose, after all.

On the one hand, I can watch the shorts

On the other I can vote Ruri Dragon PV and move on.

[](#popcorn2)

[AOTY....](#whatamireading)


At least my Rouran choice is easy.

[](#yuishrug)

I remember 10 years ago when YouTubers were making films where the main drama was all about their follower counts not being high enough and everyone was laughing at them. Now we’ve got Netflix producing a big anime film where the main drama is about a girl becoming a streamer and gaining followers to have a live collab with her favorite AI VTuber and I’m all for it.

Peak has never been this peak.

It's easy to vote in categories where I've only seen one of the shows.

idk why ppl are complaining about the jury nominations for aoty. the undisputed anime of the year, shoshimin s2 is there, so who cares about the other slots it's not like there was ever any real competition you know

This year’s anime awards nominees are pretty based, at least in how well they line up with my tastes.

Shoshimin OP Martian for Best Music Video and Best OP, and Ave Mujica for Drama are both no brainers. My Suspense vote goes to Shoshimin. It’s literally the only show that can make a simple conversation in a family restaurant about tomato spaghetti feel tense.

Osanai Yuki for Best Supporting Character is an easy pick too. I saw on a site somewhere that Osanai Yuki is the winner for Best Character.

Orb getting nominated for Cinematography…. is certainly a choice considering their production value.

Shoshimin missing a cinematography slot feels unlucky, especially when you look at the storyboards they released a while back. There’s also a great write up on [Sakugablog ](https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/12/31/shoushimin-series-cinematography/)about its cinematography.

I’m kind of annoyed I couldn’t put Chainsaw Man Reze Arc in Soundtrack. That was one of my favorite parts of the film. Now it feels like I’m only recognizing it for the action, which is a bit meh as a non-action enjoyer.

The most unexpected pick on the list is Hana Shura (Flower and Asura) getting a spot for Best VA. Her recitations in the show were glorious, and kind of funny on a meta level when you realize the characters in the anime are also praising her (Hana’s) voice.

There weren’t enough nominations for Cinderella Gray.

[My list.](https://imgur.com/a/r-anime-6DNYJQx)

I have started winter!

My first show is Tamon's B-Side. This is one I skipped when planning my season, but added later after seeing people (u/_Ridley) shill it.

One episode down and it's... ok. Like I said, I wasn't interested in the beginning; idol is not really my thing. [But] >!I can't do this anymore. That show is fucking hilarious. I'm generally positively disposed to shows that do that manic internal monologue thing (April Showers being a recent example), but when it leaks out and becomes the outer persona too? I'm dead. Gloomyhara is a fantastic counter to the oshi culture and Kinoshita's obsession over his public persona. So yeah, [this is me](https://i.imgur.com/J5zp2N1.jpeg).!<

And if you disagree, [too bad](https://i.imgur.com/Y2G7uru.jpeg).

[Here are my votes finally](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/f75e278d6221.png)

[Link to the category allocation sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wEi6tj3GvirQ7ARmwuSsLSF6gT96EPHVracLJ1PlGnc/edit?gid=0#gid=0), since I want to have this for myself

Breakdown by category:



Category | Watched / 10 | Vote | Thoughts
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**Genre**|
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Action | 2 | Solo Leveling | The only other show I've seen here is DanDaDan and I dont think anyone wants to recap my opinions on SL vs DDD. I knew what my vote here was from day 1 and it hasnt changed.
Adventure | 5 | DanMachi V | This is Pain. DanMachi didnt even make my top 5 when I was nominating in this category and it's head and shoulders above everything else I've watched here. [](#smoke)
Comedy | 6 | Bad Girl | Should come as no surprise as I've been making my voice heard about how good Bad Girl is since the day I watched it. This is easily the strongest category for me, again, just like every other year. Not only did I have the most nominees for it, but also the most watched shows in it and probably the highest average score of all categories. Although somehow Spy x Family is here, again, which means I'm obligated to complain about SxF being here, again, just like every other year!
Drama | 2 | 🐿️ | Much like bad girl, I've also been Monica's Strongest Super Soldier since day 1. I dont think there is a single show out there that does the shy timid girl trope better than this.
Romance | 2 | Watanare | This is the only category so far where I have more than 1 show competing for my pick, as both MDUD and Watanare are very close for me, so I might change my mind in the future.
SoL | 3 | Food Court | Much like the above, Ruri Rocks and Food Court are close for me, but Im honestly leaning way more towards Food Court. This category missing [The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World](https://anilist.co/anime/180292/Arafou-Otoko-no-Isekai-Tsuuhan-Seikatsu/) is fucking criminal.
Suspense | 4 | Apothecary Diaries | If you've seen my top 10, you know that at the top of the list stand Apothecary Diaries and ReZero as my #1 & #2 spot and they are both in here, probably as public votes, but nontheless I am happy here. [](#feelingloved)
**Production** |||*Shill me why I should vote for your show here!*
||
VA | 6 | TsudaKen | TsudaKen
OP | 10 | ApoDia | No strong feelings about any of the OPs
ED | 10 | DanDaDan | Much like OPs, this is the one I hated the least out of them.
**Character**|
|||
Lead | 4 | MaoMao | See below
Support | 2 | Rouran | Rouran, my queen, I will literally die for you.
Ensemble | 4 | Orb | The snubbing of Bad Girl makes me want to commit war crime beyond your wildest imagination.
**Main** |
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AotY | 5 | Apothecary Diaries | On the one hand, I always knew the public would disappoint me with voting mid & midder from summer as AotY material. But at least the jury will surprise me with shows I don't exp- oh.

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That about wraps it up, I've skipped a lot of categories where I will either vote later after watching some things (main), or am giving my space for you to advertise your shows to me (production).

[](#yuishrug)

Not sure if it'd be hard to tell since this new season just started, but anyone know if Trigun Stampede will be over after season? Really looking good, but I'd rather watch it in one go. Haven't been patient with certain new anime lately lol.

The key to not being as frustrated with the r/anime Awards nominees is to watch less anime. That way, instead of getting mad that 5 great Slice of Life anime you watched didn't make the cut, you can just vote for 1 of the 2 that you did watch.

[](#sassyimouto)

To go along with this season's *You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!*, I've decided to start [*Osamake: Romcom Where The Childhood Friend Won't Lose*](https://www.livechart.me/anime/10175) from a few years ago.

I watched two episodes of it when it came out before dropping it but didn't remember a thing about it, and picking it up again that's apparently for good reason: the first episode seems pretty generic to start as far as school romances go. Sure the plot and characters aren't exactly like any of the others but it feels like something I've seen a hundred times before — maybe literally at this point, I haven't counted.

[](#elves)

First time posting in one of these threads, just wanted to mention that after so many months since I watched Hunter x Hunter (1999), I finally watched enough of the 2011 remake to catch up to where I last was at back then!

I participated in the u/KendotsX hosted 1999 rewatch back in October 2024, which lasted until January 2025. I was always planning on jumping to 2011 (and eventually, catch up with the manga as well) after finishing the original anime, but I didn't want it to be immediately after. The original anime was good enough (alright, with the exception of the last set of OVAs...) that I wanted it to be on my mind for a little longer. I didn't want to move on to the new shiny toy yet.

Then came u/Shocketheth who made me SHOCK by announcing a 2011 rewatch just a couple of months after. I was initially planning on joining, I've been to a bunch of Shock's rewatches so I know how good of a host he is. Turns out, it was indeed too soon for me, so I couldn't find the motivation by the time it started.

Exactly 12 months after starting 1999, in October 2025, I finally decided to start the remake. This was purely coincidental, but even more coincidental is that I caught up to where 1999 left off at in January 2026, *also* exactly 12 months after we finished 1999.

Anyways, my quick thoughts are that the first 26 episodes of the remake are a terrible, incredibly bland adaptation of the manga with no personality or substance. It starts to find its footing with Heavens Arena, and REALLY finds the sweet spot with Yorknew and Greed Island (although it saddens me they cut out a lot of scenes from the latter). I don't think it will reach the highs of Furuhashi's original 62 episodes, but *damn* the remake is really good right now. ~~we don't talk about what they did to Kite~~

Really excited for what the future of the series has in store for me! I've heard legends of [Chimera Ant] >!Gon losing his humanity while Meruem gains his!<, whatever the hell that means. That's going to be fun.

[Fire Force's latest episode] >!I can't believe Shinra is just literally [Him](https://images.launchbox-app.com/9cb53980-efe7-47d4-9b88-a1d4431b7e77.jpg)!<

So, for the past few days, I've been trying to find a specific AMV trap remix on YouTube, and I can't seem to find it anymore. The song was very bass heavy. The thumbnail of the video was red and had either white or red text over it with the title of the song. It had a bunch of the clips that were used from Seraph of the end, and Sword art online and many more animes that I can't remember the names of. There are specific scenes of Asuna and Krul from their respective Anime Openings, (Asuna touching hands with her character's hands and Krul dancing and eating the Apple) being rewinded and replayed with an ominous catchy sample sound that I really like. If anyone can help me find it and share it, I'd very much appreciate it!

Ok /u/qwertyqwerty4567 this OP is winning me over. We starting strong with some manic cute vibes.

I'm sorry for sounding like a normie but is there any fundamental difference between "horse races" in Umamusume and... just running?

Now that the awards are in full swing, it's time to bring back the better trend: [Winter tier lists](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/1aadb7971c1f.png) ~~which I definitely didn't forget to post yesterday~~

I normally prefer uniform list rather than top heavy, but hey, if the gods want to send down gifts, I'm ready to be bribed:

* F/SF and Ikoku Nikki are my new favourites, which works well, since they're basically polar opposites in every way, one's a subtle, focused drama that plays on every string in my heart, and the other's a loud ensemble cast playing rock. I couldn't be happier with both adaptations (I was a bit worried that F/SF would rush around the corners after Whispers of Dawn, but I appreciate the thorough dedication to detail in the anime).
* Golden Kamuy: S4 was already my favourite so far, and this one's aiming to top it off, all the sweet, sweet payoffs are coming together [](#justright)
* Jujutsu Kaisen: the manga was kind enough to leave a lot of room for improvement, and it looks the anime staff have fully moved in there.
* Jigokuraku: I prefer the first half of the series, but it's still fun.
* Sentenced to be a Hero: The execution has been good so far, which I appreciate, even the goddess isn't annoying (she's no Frederica), but I hoped for a bit more from a concept that's basically a [thematic gold mine:] >!glorified conscription!<
* Samurai Troopers: I haven't seen the original yet, but I was intrigued since Yoichi Fujita is directing this, and it's been good so far, I like the style it's going for, but the cast could use some improvement.
* Tamon: I have some mixed feelings on this one, since I had a good time watching it for the most part. Hayamin's character is great, and I like the idea of a fan and idol supporting each other (a bit of wish fulfillment isn't that bad), but [I don't find the] >!depressed kid with no support network in an exploitative job to be that funny of a joke, nor does the "but he brings smiles to our faces" emotional throughline work for me. Granted, that's a general issue I have with idol anime.!<
* Kimengumi: why even remake it, if you're just gonna rush a comedy series while looking like ass?

Is this a real thing where teens just move out of their parents house and live in Tokyo to go to school on their own? This comes up so many times. IT's in Cosmic princess Kaguya.

I kind of wanted to like *Cosmic Princess Kaguya* more than I did.

It's got some really fun character animation, some nice gags, and solid boards. The cast and designs are fun, even if Kaguya is a tad annoying. On the production front, it is definitely one of Colorido's better offerings (and that is saying a lot). That being said Colorido's latest films have all lived and died on their story, and CPK's is...

The first act is pretty fine. The story is basic and I'll be the first to bitch about wanting a tad more cinematography in my works (so feel free to ignore me there), but this film is 2.5 hours and definitely didn't need to be. By the middle its starting to really feel that bloat and continues to throw out ideas that without strong central theming just ring hollow. By the final act it had started to lose me a lot more, and some of those late-stage revelations might have worked better in a more concise film with a better grasp of what it's even trying to say. It starts to feel a bit rushed and lost by the end, and I will remind you that its already pushing 2.5 hours as is.

I'm gonna still give it a comfortable 7/10, as I'm a production whore and this one is worth at least a good half of itself for that alone. There's a better film buried in here though, and I can't in good faith shake the feeling that a few small revisions (and not so small cuts) could have helped this one out a lot.

Since we have 2 videos on the front page gushing over Orb, does that mean its an unhidden gem now?

[](#seasonalthink)

I will also say this, cause its been on my mind: I feel like I start beating a dead horse when I have to argue down from a 10/10. If a show is good, and I have no major complaints, then that's more or less an 8/10. You might say "if you've got no complaints then is that not a 10/10", and my response is I do have complaints. It's usually something along the lines of the visual language being fairly weak or the story not saying anything particularly novel or interesting, but if I repeat that ad nauseam like some checklist, then that's just not fun for me or you.

8/10 is a good score, but I need room on the simple scale for the works that go beyond that. The one's that are more than just great and that do something with themselves that really just wows you. That being said, they're more or less just victory laps at that point. I'm not gonna nitpick a show I really liked just to explain down from a 10. I don't want to make the whole conversation about the CSM movie's sometimes disorienting action, Bocchi's very middling CGI performances, or even *Frieren* S1's lackluster second cour, because I do think overall that all of them are really good pieces despite that. Perfection should not be the enemy of good. I will absolutely celebrate those series that I think go beyond to those higher scores, but I'm tired of setting *that* as the bar and being let down in the process.

Finally went and finished OPM season 3. After the disastrous start I had put it off for awhile. Anyway, it kind of found its footing about midway through and wasn't bad. Just sucks it ended right as the arc truly takes off and becomes good. The fights in the early part were fine but the heroes get off a little too easy. Once the real monsters start doing some damage is when it shines. Part 2 of season 3 (assuming they treat it better than they did with this) should be as awesome.

I got the stink eye for putting Fire Force above Frieren on my winter tierlist, but this series is cooking, I'm sorry. I mean, what other shounen is out there in its [final arc] >!revealing that its main character is the second coming of Jesus, complete with the virgin birth?!< The mangaka was working with his whole galaxy brain on this one.

[](#justright)

# Do you all got any good anime's i should check into.


I wanna get back into watching anime but I'm having a hard time deciding what to watch do you have any suggestions.

I'm trying to decide if I am okay to watch Reze Arc without having watched the rest of the anime. I read something like 70 chapters of the manga several years back, including the Reze Arc, though I don't remember it very well (her in the pool is pretty much all I remember). I'm not exactly wanting to catch up on the show either. What do y'all think?

Yo chat is this valid? this is my personal ratings, ignore the scores (cuz i change them for balance changes whenever a new anime is added to the list) just is this a valid top 5 for a person whos watched over 150 animes

Top5

1- Monogatari series 9.98

2- Code geass 9.95

3- Mushoku tensei 9.91

4- CallOfTheNight/QuintessentialQuintuplets 9.9

5- Hells paradise 9.88

# The 2nd adaption of Akuma-Kun on Netflix - What is the difference between Greed and Gluttony?[](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/?f=flair_name%3A%22Discussion%22)

My understanding is that Greed is the sin of over consumption of material things while Gluttony is the sin of excessive eating. However, since watching Akuma-Kun, the meanings seem to blur, and I can't seem to understand the interpretation of each sin in layman's terms according to the show. Help?

Glad I watched Cosmic Princess Kaguya yesterday, if only that I could contribute to its karma total in time for the karma chart (hopefully it manages to edge in to the top 15 of the week).

Really good story and fun animation and pretty drawing quality. The music was not exactly something I will probably look up Youtube vids for, but I liked the songs. Also \[Cosmic Princess Kaguya\]>!surprise yuri and surpise happy ending for a "Bamboo Cutter" story.!< It feels like it was written in the era when the whole "metaverse" thing was still the next big thing... you see similar stuff about massive shared online "verses" in much earlier anime such as Summer Wars too.

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