Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - January 28, 2026

Youtube keeps thwarting my attempts to make a gif of her skipping from the PV lol

You are just saying that because she reminds you of yuki.

Can't believe the Japanese found a way to minimize the size of death game players

I read some of the original and and all of the manga adaptation (what's available in EN so far anyway) and I liked it. I think the manga adaptation is good and the anime adaptation could be even better.

I wonder who's holding the rights to the show that they couldn't release the PV outside Japan.

i really liked haibane renmei too, but havent rewatched it since

i have never really been able to get into texhnolyze for some reason despite attempting to watch it multiple times

I first watched Haibane Renmei starting in late 2002, thanks to connections who shared the first fansubs. It almost immediately displaced Lain as my top series (though I still love it immensely). And it is not likely to ever lose its top spot (though Tamayura is virtually tied with it). I can't even estimate how many times I've rewatched it in whole or part. We bought the (subless) Japanese sets as they came out, and tend to watch these now -- as we know everything that is being said without aid of subs.

Texhnolyze is visually incredible and emotionally powerful, but I think I have only watched it all the way through 3 times. I need to get around to another rewatch.

Have you seen HR's fraternal twin Niea_7 (conceived right alongside HR). Not as intense and sometimes a bit too silly, but the best parts are very very good (and it has a number of Takahata homage moments).

And since Im on the topic of smutty smut that was missed on r/anime, [zom_ore](https://x.com/zom_ore) apparently got an anime announcement all the way back in april 2025.

There's literally nothing in the announcement except that it will broadcast on AT-X at some point in 2026 and the only posts from the official account since seem to be new chapter releases for the manga, as apparently the original LN got axed but the manga continued.

On another note, referring to a zombie vaccine being sex as innovative is a bold lie, theres like a dozen eroticas that are literally this exact plot.

[](#thoughtful)

ive really been meaning to watch it

there's plenty of variety every year. If all you're watching is battle shounen after battle shounen, then of course they'll start to blend together.

i kinda understand but i don"t agree

I think there is a point to what you're feeling, we are living in a time where the big publishers prefer to continue spending money on sequels, sure-success adaptations and things that try to ape existing successes.

But at the same time, that has often been the case in the media industry, and there is so much anime produced today that there are several unique and interesting shows created every season, which are easy to find if you look beyond the broadly popular action shonens, fantasy isekai and high-school romances that are pushed heavily by Crunchyroll's front page.

Of some of my favorite shows from the last years, I have a hard time describing any of them "similar" to each other.

* [Umamusume: Cinderella Gray](https://anilist.co/anime/180516/Umamusume-Cinderella-Gray/) is a sports anime which is as comedic and dramatic as its concept of racing horses turned into anime schoolgirs is "oh Japan"-bizarre.
* [Shoushimin: How to Become Ordinary](https://anilist.co/anime/173295/SHOSHIMIN-How-to-Become-Ordinary/) is a weirdly "ordinary" high-school mystery about two people who are far from your average romcom leads.
* [Apocalypse Hotel](https://anilist.co/anime/180675/Apocalypse-Hotel/) is a story about a lonely hotelier-robot in a world where humans have disappeared, which manages to be as melancholic and somber as it is unpredictably comedic.
* ['Tis Time for "Torture", Princess](https://anilist.co/anime/166522/Tis-Time-for-Torture-Princess/) is a very chill and simple comedy about a captive princess being subjected through various unconventional "torture" methods. I find it an exceptional proof that comedy is just as much in delivery as it is in coming up with something subversive and new.
* [Medalist](https://anilist.co/anime/165171/Medalist/) is a heartwarming sports story about a young girl who finally gets to find her purpose and motivation in one of the most competitive and difficult sports out there, figure skating.
* [Journal with Witch](https://anilist.co/anime/177385/Journal-with-Witch/) is about an introverted novelist who find herself living with her estranged sister's daughter after a fatal car accident. Equally heartwrenching and heartwarming about creating a new family and processing grief.

> I kinda think maybe I've just had all I can take with the constant screaming and dramatism in anime fights and all the tropes in general

i think i got my fill of all battle shonen after watching the first arc of Bleach, like, 20 years ago

nowadays, i mostly watch chill slice-of-life shows and romcoms because ultimately the part i liked most is to be able to relax and goof around rather than be led by the nose by cliffhangers

like, i think tropes aren't inherently bad because they're like the raw ingredients for a dish; the journey is about finding what flavors you enjoy and finding genres and niches which serve them up regularly

anime will slowly condense into a singularity. then it will explode into a thousand different genres. only for the cycle to begin again. this is the way of the world. this is the way of life.

You underestimate the number of kids online talking about stuff they like. Add that to the number people who have kids or have kids in their lives, who enjoy talking about stuff those kids like. For example even if mom&dad know their kid’s version of rock em’ sock em’ monkey aliens is dog water they gonna be hype as shit because the kid’s happy and they can share an interest. That generates all sorts of residual wow/yay because it’s better than them being loud about something no one gives a shit about. 

Now add that number of people to the number of people who are hyped for nostalgia and it do a big math. 

For reference, I'm coming at this with basically no experience watching Dragonball.
> I refuse to believe we can't all see that clear as day

That seems a little closed-minded, no? Can you *really* not conceptualize that other people might enjoy something that you don't?

Well, it's been a long time since we got episodes of Super, and the Galactic Patrol arc is generally well-received by the manga readers.

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[Holy shit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX1lcj4-4Rk) (JJK S3 spoilers). Dude's awesome.

The F in friday means Frieren day.

The TV broadcast episodes (eps 1-12) were in 16:9 and it appears that Heartbroken Time Leap had an alternate version of the 12 ep for that (the kind of thing that could get easily overlooked).

During broadcast the eps 1-3 were multiple YT shorts but after ep 12 they brought in the paywall model for all but the newest ep. Why these are paywalled is they're also on vertical video content platforms in the same manner (I think those took a similar model to manga of new and early chapters are free). I think virtually all the "anime" content on those is motion comics.

I would be remiss to not mention the occasional AI generated images Shuukan Ranobe Anime has (Marie Antoinette and Femme Fatale Development Plan are clear offenders, like [I know the camera lies but come on](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/bd3ccb4f2a47.jpg) [AI image]>!I've heard of crazy paving but WTF!< shame as that same ep had [this part](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/279b7d116301.jpg)).

Btw, vertical content came back in [Duanju](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duanju) form. Some of them are app exclusive and microtransaction to death models. I guess likes of Anime Beans and Quibi were smart but either too early or too ethical for their own good.

Oh damn, I remember it was on my hype list too!

Sad we never got it "normally" and all (with episode discussions)

It's Key doing Key things and the closest to Clannad out of their other works that got an anime, very clearly a visual novel adaptation for better or worse. I can see why some other people would like it, but their particular style of drama has never clicked for me.

Edit: if you had reasons for avoiding the other stories by them those probably still apply, but I think it's the most approachable of their adaptations these days if you're curious.

How is this a bitchy question lol, I see nothing wrong here.

From what I've seen (up to episode 10 iirc on the first try, 7 on the second) I'd say that's a hard [ew no](#sakuraconcern)

Though you already said you probably won't watch it, I think it was... fine. I only watched one cour, to be fair, but the character development of the main character kinda bugged me. They constantly hinted at what his problem was but refused to elaborate, and without that knowledge, none of his interactions with the various girls felt meaningful.

Like sure, Clannad had its own vagueness with the girl and the robot appearing super early and not explained until much later, but Tomoya's own problems were made very clear by the end of episode 1. And every arc it's relevant, and makes it pretty clear that Tomoya matters. You can't replace him with another character and have the same story. I can't say the same for Hairi, at least during the first cour. The insistence on hiding his problems behind this mystery made him too generic IMO and the format really suffers without a good main character.

Also [Summer Pocket genre stuff I guess]>!time looping makes it really hard to care when the time loops aren't revealing anything meaningful to the person being time looped, or the viewer, in the case of stuff like Higurashi.!<

I would rank it near the bottom of the shows I watched last year, so... yeah, I wouldn't particularly recommend it. Some of the individual arcs were pretty neat, and I did fall for the crybait a few times, but looking at the overall thing is kinda [](#yuishrug)

At best I can say it was better than Air and Rewrite as far as Key adaptations go, but nowhere close to Clannad, Little Busters, or Kanon.

I dropped it after six episodes. It was one arc.


There were a lot of character introductions early, then most just... dissappeared. I get this may be the VN route posting it, but for an anime, it's really annoying. Then the characters are so poorly introduced, I had no real attachment to any of them, even the one they stuck with for the first route. The ending of the arc wasn't satisfying, and left me with questions. But I didn't really care.


So, no, I would not recommend.

If you are hesitant, I would say no. The 1st cour was pretty mediocre to me. The 2nd cour started better, and I do admit the last 4th or so turned out amazing.

But is it getting through 16 episodes that I am really meh on? I would say no.

I completed it, but wasn't particularly impressed by the second court;

FWIW this is a hot take among Summer Pockets fans, most seemed to think the second cour was better.

Personally I thought the first court was better, exploring little mysteries/arcs with different girls.

Second cour was mostly an arc on its own and wasn't the same 'format' at all, and didn't really work for me. (Completed it mostly as a Sunk Cost thing).

But the first cour DOES have its moment, both in 'cute', and in 'feels'. Like [this excellent clip](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1lcvi9b/mugyu_song_summer_pockets/) posted by a r/anime user of great taste.

[](#urbansmile)

(Probably doesn't do much out of context, but this song/scene made grown people cry!)

The thing is, because Crunchyroll has to sub the episodes, they have a deadline for the episodes to be delivered to them that are sooner than the Japanese TV channels, which means the studio has to ship the episodes without certain corrections that they were planning to do up until the last minute (because for TV channels the episodes can be delivered even minutes before airing and it's fine), thus the Crunchyroll version ends up being "unfinished"

But the truth is, the TV episodes could also be considered unfinished, as the production of the show is clearly needing to work up until the broadcast of the episodes, so the real finished version (or something close to it) will be the blu-ray because that's when the staff will not be on too tight of a deadline

Anyway, because of what I explained about the deadlines, there's no way to watch the "more finished" version of the episodes legally outside Japan. The only alternative to Crunchyroll would be a streaming service that was releasing the episodes with delay (meaning they could wait for a more finished version), but there isn't, so the only legal option would theoretically be watching the Japanese TV airing or in some Japanese streaming service (as they also don't need subtitles, which is how there's the "Amazon Prime version" that some people are talking about, it's not on Prime outside Japan)

Gunslinger Girl reminds me of Lycoris Recoil except darker and without the comedy.

> Tamon's B-side — I like Hayamin's righteous fangirl mode

Tamon-kun wa kami!

[](#SPORTS)

> Bean Counter — This is the kind of series where I want more of all parts of it but the show only has so much time to work with.

It's not going much faster than the manga adaptation does, but it still feels a little brisk. On the other hand, though, it's so much fun to have pulpy romance novel tropes in an anime. That doesn't happen much.

Glad to see someone else who can't parse the posters and that it isn't just me!

[](#drool)

It will probably air on OceanVeil or just be streamed like season "not-hentais" from AnimeFesta.

GOMG was and still is proudly displayed by Hidive. They don't care. They didn't dub it (bit silly when they're OK with doing that for the bestiality anime), but that's about the extent of it.

[Your spoiler] >!Her mistaking him checking for rain was adorable!!<

[Future romance plot spoiler--don't read if you don't want to know] >!It goes nowhere. My only real disappointment with the show.!<

Depends on what you mean by "animation". The mocap (I think it's mocap at least) is really solid, I might even say good. It's the *models* that are the real issue. The faces in particular. And there is one issue with the actual animation, which is that any long hair looks really bad.

Was of the same opinion when watching: premise worked well when the application of stratagems was as ridiculous as in the first few episodes. After than, Koumei basically become supersmart modern guy and wasn't even much in the story.

The other band's story was more compelling than fMC imho.

[](#yuishrug)

>gritty, grounded urban decay, preferably non-SciFi with nihilistic leanings.

Less sci-fi:

Heavenly Delusion

Patema Inverted

More sci-fi

Vivy

Usuzumi no Hate / Color of the End (This is a manga but might fit what you're looking for)

Honorable mention:

Made in Abyss

Oh, and if you're open to all fiction, the the one thing I think fits what you're looking for the best is the novel The Road. There's a live action movie adaptation that's okay, but the book is way better (as it usually goes).

*Upvoted a thread 3 times*

That's him! He's manipulating karma counts!

[](#flustered)

(It's just reddit doing reddit things)

/r/animedubs focuses on that side and has threads when the dubbed episodes are released.

Didn't you already ask this a week ago? The answers you got then aren't going to change.

By waiting until it releases and then watching it? I'm not sure where this question is even coming from.

You get over the FOMO and watch it later.

i love how Koguma becomes a bit of a spitfire by the end

it's not objectively a huge difference, but i think the way the show in general is a bit subdued (in comparison to other bright and poppy shows) makes it feel bigger than it is

> From the new world

it good

> Darker than Black

it good

> Gunbuster

it good

> Cross Ange

it good

[](#kannathumbs)

> From the new World (2012) Fantasy, Drama - 25 eps

9/10. Very suspenseful show that kept me on the edge of my seat for most of it, but had some weaker parts holding it back from a 10 for me. Also [Wareta Ringo](https://v.animethemes.moe/ShinsekaiYori-ED1.webm) is an all-time banger of an ED.

>Gundam 00 (2007) Mecha - 50 eps

I originally scored both seasons a 9/10, but bumped up the score after hosting the rewatch for it back in 2024 (just for the two seasons though, the movie's still a 9). Solid mecha designs, great main cast, *very* effective sad moments whenever it goes for that, and it blessed us with the existence of Patrick Colasour. [](#utahapraises) Also [Prototype](https://v.animethemes.moe/Gundam00S2-ED1.webm) live rent-free in my head, one of my favorite EDs in the entire Gundam franchise for sure.

>Gunbuster (1988) sci fi - 6 eps

9/10. I... admittedly vibe with Diebuster a bit more than this one [](#fingertwirl), but this one's still definitely an all-time classic and I absolutely love the style of the last episode.

>8th MS Team (1996) Mecha - 12 eps

I should rewatch this at some point. Anyways I gave it a 10/10 when I finished it for the first time and [have a full write-up about it](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/8djepg/free_talk_fridays_week_of_april_20_2018/dxzbqr4/), so I'll just link that.

>Cross Ange (2014) sci fi - 25 eps

I could have sworn I gave this a 10, but apparently I gave it a 9? The most glorious entertaining trainwreck ever. [](#gintamathispleasesme)

> From the new World (2012) Fantasy, Drama - 25 eps

I think it does some interesting stuff with its relationships and social classes, didn't really care for [From the new World] >!the rat war that takes up the latter portion of the series!<. Very reminiscent of YA dystopian literature. 7/10
> Gunbuster (1988) sci fi - 6 eps

Beautiful mecha animation. My favorite part is how it handles [Gunbuster] >!time dilation and sacrifice, especially for the finale!<. Things like [Gunbuster] >!Kazumi's crush on the coach!< fell a little flat for me and almost felt like an afterthought, possibly a victim of the runtime. 7/10

Both shows I think are pretty good, didn't quite enjoy them enough to be favorites. Haven't seen the other shows you listed yet.

Shinsekai Yori is peak. One of my all time favourite shows. The way the story unfolds along with the characters growing up and the world expanding just draws you in. There is this certain sense of mystery and unease, the feeling that something is wrong but you cant quite name it. Then the tone shifts again and you forget about it until suddenly its all coming back with full force in the end. Where I describe some other shows feeling like a fever dream, this would be just a normal dream. By the time you wake up and are piecing together what just happens, you wish to go back.

I only gave it a 9 because the beginning is a bit slow. One of my most rewatched shows of all time. Having a finished story within 2 cours is just nice. So many others just drag or continue until they get boring or implode (if they get adaptions at all). Also yes I only watched it because of that one yuri clip. Also squaler is a hero.

Havent seen, considering the rest of this list I probably should?

Darker than Black, another classic. Really good, dark, mature story. Nothing much else too say. S2 was weaker but not that bad, the in between OVAs and S2 ending made me really wish for more. A shame the story never continued/finished. I guess DtB has both the best and worst aspects of beeing an original anime. (Idk what I rated it, 8 or 9)

Gundam 00, my entry to the gundam franchise. Still its overall best entry I would say (as some of the cooler entries like Thunderbolt arent standalone), it has everything Gundam UC has but more condensed. Beeing completely standalone is an upside and having enough eps to properly develope the plot and characters is something the newer gundam spinoffs are severely lacking (looking at you here WfM) 8

Gunbuster - holy shit man Gainax really is just build different. Ever since I have seen Gainax "short" anime I had a completely different outset on just how much story you can put in 6 episodes. By that I mean Gunbuster, Diebuster and FLCL. They managed to cram a proper plot, with characters and developement into the amount of episodes other shows need just to finish a shitty melodramatic backstory. Looks amazing, has this cold, hard sci fi feel to it. Where aliens are allowed to be simply the enemy and the plot does not turn into "lets get all along and be friends". Also one of the few sci fi anime stories who threat the vastness of space with respsct. If you know you know.. 9

I will just talk about Diebuster now because while its not as outstanding as Gunbuster, it still belongs together. Yes you basically only watch it for the ending tying everything up, or for the music. But the vibes beeing so completely "upbeat" and colourful compared to the bleakness of Gunbuster was nice. I think its characters might also be better, but maybe I simply remember their designs more vividly than Gunbusters. Either way its 6 episodes just check it out too. 8 (I really want to rewatch gunbuster and diebuster now)

(Bonus mention, if you like the "literal space pulling us apart" theme of those, watch Hoshi no Ko. No I dont bring this up because I mistyped Oshi no Ko on mal.. I did not! Ok I did but I actually have the BD bundled with 5cm per second)

Havent seen

08th MS team. Great mecha, great gundam. Remember what I said about 00? This is why I specified 00 beeing standalone. Because I guess you can watch this standalone, but its really just a side story for the main UC timeline with all its up and downs. 8

Cross Ange. My beloved. 11/10, sunrise cooked a 5* meal. Whoever looked at Code Geass and decided to make it horny, I owe you a drink. Seriously though *Ange is the single best female main character of any medium*. Ripley seems downright boring in comparison. Almost all of my recommendations on reddit are for cross ange. I will always find a way to recommend it. I can not recommend it enough. If this was not on the list I would have mentioned it anyway. Sunrise give me new merch. And to think I only randomly watched it because some guy on MAL had a signature of it, I couldnt even thank him because I never found him again. Why is the show called Cross Ange? *Ange is always cross* (not a joke by the way, ^^a ^^quote ^^from ^^the ^^show) between Code Geass and Cross Ange sunrise really stole the original anime crown for me. Rated it 8.

Magical tech jesus, fun show 10 years ago. The last bastion for the now forgotten pre isekai juggernaut of a genre that is "magical high school with battle tournaments, underdog but actually OP MCs, harems and incest" seriously for a while we had a lot of those. Lots of stereotypes done well. Like that one ultra buff guy on the student council looking like hes an adult or just the student council having more power than the prime minister. Tatsuya is just OP and its satisfying to watch. He suffers from the Kirito syndrom a bit but I would still have a drink with him. Onii sama onii sama onii sama onii sama. Are they related by blood? Does that make it better? I have no idea why this suddenly got sequels but Im not complaining. (peak wincest movie coming by the way). Post S1 the quality dips and the plot gets a bit confusing, but auntie maya is a giga milf and this show knows that proper dresses are nice. Lots of nice characters, a fun plot, nice action. Overall rock solid show. (S1 that is. The rest is eh, just skip to the incest and spare us the side plots) rated it 7 but its one of those very strong 7s you likely wont forget

> drop a rating

**Cross Ange**

One of the most interesting female protagonists I've encountered across any form of media, in a wild series that is anti-establishment and subversive on multiple levels, including being willing to give up the entire narrative conventions of fiction for a gag. Also largely unwatched and unappreciated by those who are searching for such things in more superficially intellectual properties, given it's a profoundly feminist work in the messiest way possible, including its inversion of "fall and boob grab" tropes that doesn't really work, but nobody else has ever dared try.

**The Irregular at Magic High School**

If Shakespeare wrote an anime, it would probably be this one. Most people equate his name with "highest quality literature" but that completely misunderstands the substance and nature of his dramatic works. Forced incestuousness through fate's cruel hand, constant convoluted scheming from powerful families, seediness in unlight rooms to the sides of the brighter world, casts of fools and thwarted characters... now *this* is the stuff of the Bard.

I've seen Gundam 00 and 8th MS Team.

I really liked the characters from 00 and the story during the first half, though I wasn't as into the plot twists from the second half, so I gave it an 8.5/10 - 9 for part 1, and 8 for part 2.

8th MS Team was interesting in the sense that it was a more grounded war story with mechs, but I didn't really care for the characters so it didn't leave much of an impression for me. But I thought the story improved as it went on, and gave it a 7.5/10.

> 8th MS Team (1996) Mecha - 12 eps

9/10 It's one of my favourite Gundam entries, and probably one of my favourite UC entries. I really dig more grounded mecha (my favourite is Votoms) and I really like the dynamic of the group, and the enemies to lovers plotline. The only issue is that yeah...it could have benefitted from a longer run time. Honestly...if it was like 24-39 episodes, I think it would beat out Votoms for my favourite mecha anime.

>The Irregular at Magic High School (2014) action - 50 eps

6/10 It's not a great show.....I still like it though. The power fantasy element especially gets kinda crazy (I have only seen S1) to the point it steals a lot of the tension. Still I do love stoic MCs, and the world is actually quite interesting....granted the school setting itself is boring. Still characters are likeable and I want to get caught up with the recent entries.

>Midnight Eye Goku (1987) Mystery - 2 movies

7/10 I like Buichi's other work Space Cobra more however, it's pretty fun.

>Gunbuster (1988) sci fi - 6 eps

7/10 I honestly want to give it a higher grade, though again, this is a work I wish had a longer run time. The time dilation stuff though was really cool, and overall it has one of the coolest robot transformation sequences alongside beautiful art/animation.

>From the New World (Shinsekai Yori)

Unironically some of the best writing I've seen in a novel-to-anime adaptation in a long time. The show spends about three quarters of the show is purely building toward the climax. It’s "Attack on Titan done better" when it comes to setting up a massive event. AoT Parts 1-3 don’t really build cleanly toward the spoiler event in Part 4, while Shinsekai Yori effectively hints that something huge and catastrophic could happen.

It’s a very theme-driven series, so the characters can sometimes feel secondary. It’s closer to Heike Monogatari in that it focuses more on watching events unfold and reflecting on them.

10/10

Cue: "Is this a Jojo reference?"

Heidi is also referenced often enough from my experience

[](#harukathink)

I'd be *really* impressed if any show has been more referenced than Ashita no Joe. It's like if Akira had 2 different bike slides (the cross counter and the very last scene) while also having a couple of other things that have been referenced a lot, just not as much those two (the pig stampede and the faucet covered in wires), and that's not even counting other things like when a character is just made to look like Joe or Danpei for some cutaway gag

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But speaking of keeping track of anime references, I do keep track of ones from one very specific anime: Space Runaway Ideon

Not only because Be Invoked is my favorite anime of all time, but because I'm fascinated about its place in anime culture. It was never a smash hit with the general public like Joe (or its older brother Gundam), but it was a big deal to the very specific demographic of nerds that would end up in the anime industry so you can see it being referenced more than arguably more well-known shows

You can find Ideon references in Gunbuster, Diebuster, Evangelion, FLCL, GQuuuuuuuX, Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Space Dandy, Shirobako, One Piece, Urusei Yatsura, Kaguya-sama, Onipan, Astro Note, Puni Puni Poemy, Vlad Love, Doraemon, Your Lie in April, Duel Masters and Aikatsu. Going beyond anime, we can find references in live-action works like Shin Godzilla, Blue Blazes and Donbrothers and games like Xenogears, No More Heroes, Muv Luv, Pokemon Legends ZA (and any other Pokemon thing from now on that features Mega Zygarde) and Needy Streamer Overload.

And that's just the things I'm aware of, there's probably a bunch more all over Japanese nerdy works

I imagine it would be hard to measure, but I would definitely be interested.

I think we could probably make a guess, though, and it likely lines up with some of the most historically important and popular: Astro Boy, Speed racer, Space Battleship Yamato, Devilman, Gundam, Osomatsu, Urusei Yatsura, Dr Slump, Dragon Ball, Jojo, Macross, Kochikame, Totoro, etc.

I'd be willing to bet it's Gundam. It's like the default mecha reference. I don't even know how many little Haro or RX-78-2 easter eggs I've seen. There are some obvious references like [GTO](https://youtu.be/uA1Cg05Naz0?si=GYGTMGhR11-gvLmb) ([Timestamped link](https://youtu.be/uA1Cg05Naz0?si=UqwNyAWH2ez8_OIB&t=103)) or Birdie Wing or [Genshiken](https://files.catbox.moe/8aegfd.jpeg). Then there are some really [subtle ones](https://files.catbox.moe/ollwqd.jpeg), you blink and you miss it.

Do you know why you like those early parts of the seasons more? Because I don't see it necessarily getting better for you if you're not feeling it so far.

> as soon as its over all thought of it leaves your mind?

This is why Utena rains supreme. Here's the [super sweet ED](https://youtu.be/mY_4iMQGohk?si=pnb1UlA7fv2IjqJ_) again, which pops into my mind periodically!

Idaten Deities Know Only Peace was a super enjoyable watch but that’s really all it was.

It happens to me a lot with manga. Like I know I read [Takemitsu Zamurai](https://myanimelist.net/manga/15306/Takemitsuzamurai), and I know I really enjoyed my time, but I can't give you a list of events that happened. I know MC stops being samurai and becomes a teacher and his past haunts him, [and then the](https://files.catbox.moe/sa7h2e.png) [cool ass art](https://files.catbox.moe/bf98co.jpg)

Where was this propaganda before the r/anime awards nominations?!?

> Here is an album of Granart from Tales of Wedding Rings

Hell yeah, now I don't have to watch season 2; I've seen all that matters!

[](#delighted)

(Though you should still clip that kiss)

(Also, is she cosplaying as Runa?)

[](#kannainspect)

oh the dub finally finished like a few days ago so I'm rewatching the whole show dubbed. The show had a pretty satisfying ending but like dang the show's discussion threads were unpopular (even though of course the random image album of the show had more upvotes than every discussion thread combined)

It's more *Magical Girl Raising Project* than *NinKoro*.

i mean, numerous characters that have names have died

you could have just replied

[](#punch)