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Premiere set for January 2025. The PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional information, the primary thing being that this is a GoHands original. No synopsis yet for this series.

Kenka Dokugaku, episode 3

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Bartender: Kami no Glass, episode 4

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Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 3, episode 3

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Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi, episode 3

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Premieres May 24th on Netflix. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional cast/staff information. Synopsis from AniList:

Yearning to get along with others and not be disliked, first-year high school student Hiiragi finds himself unable to say no whenever someone requests something of him. One summer day, while unsuccessfully carrying out yet another request, he encounters an oni girl named Tsumugi, who has come to the human world to search for her mother. She does whatever she pleases and is the complete opposite of Hiiragi. Snow mysteriously begins to fall... and their adventure begins.

Tensei Shitara Dai Nana Ouji Dattanode, Kimamani Majutsu wo Kiwamemasu, episode 4

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Boukyaku Battery (TV), episode 3

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Rinkai!, episode 3

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Unnamed Memory, episode 3

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This movie is a visual treat from beginning to end. Talking about this movie in this forum and others, I have advocated that if you are a fan of animation as an art form, then this movie is a must-watch.

The story of this movie didn't connect with me very much, but speaking to others, it was very impactful to them. So, your engagement with the story seems to vary a lot from person to person.

I chose a clip of this road trip from the movie because this stretch of the movie was my absolute favorite. There are tons of great character moments that happen because these different characters with their own complexities are all jammed into one car together. This portion of the movie also has several moments in which the story slows down, lingering on scenes here and there. This is a nice contrast to most of the rest of the movie which is very tense and has lots of action (Suzume runs a lot, it must be nice to have that much stamina).

I had debated choosing a grand action sequence as a clip, but when I remember this movie, its this stretch of relative calm that I remember the most. A lot of the action sequences have pretty big story spoilers as well that I wanted to try to avoid.

No release date announced yet. Adaptation is being done by Studio Shaft. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis from AniList:

A naive ninja ran away from her remote village and meets a high school girl assassin!

The start of an unpredictable life together between ninja x assassin.

Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF, episode 4

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Re:Monster, episode 4

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Lv2 Kara Cheat datta Moto Yuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life, episode 3

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Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu 2nd Season, episode 16

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Kami wa Game ni Ueteiru., episode 4

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Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku?, episode 4

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Series premieres May 23 on Netflix. The PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional cast/staff information. A quick synopsis from the article:

On the run from a past crime, Juzo Fujimaki is blackmailed into joining an illicit tournament and has to face top martial artists in deadly match-ups.

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Hey everybody! The post this week likely isn't going to show up on lemmy.world for a while (see here). So, this thread can be just the rest of us from smaller instances. We can say all the things about those world folks that we always wanted to say, but were too afraid to.

In all seriousness, this is the general discussion thread. Talk about what you have been watching, ask about what you should watch, warn others what not to watch...you get the idea.

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Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/14555726

Title: Heaven's Design Team (original: 天地創造デザイン部)

Type: Anime TV

Year: 2021

Country: Japan

Genre: Comedy/Educational

Status: Completed

Platform: Crunchyroll (watch here)

Appropriate for 30+?: Yes

My rating: 4/5 stars

(Rating scale: 5/5 = masterpiece, 4/5 = quite good, 3/5 = mostly good, 2/5 = bleh, 1/5 = I regret ever being exposed to this series, 0/5 = affront to humanity)

The greatest irony of Heaven's Design Team is that a series about creationism is actually one of the best science anime out there (not that there's a lot of competition). While some elements of the show would undoubtedly make many biologists squirm (for instance, the show's premise inevitably leads the series to portray evolution as intentional rather than incidental), however if you're willing to brush off certain scientific inaccuracies as a consequence of artistic liberty, this is a really fun, mildly-educational show.

The premise of Heaven's Design Team is simple: God burned out when having to create Earth and everything that lives there, so He outsourced the work to a team of designers (the main cast). Most episodes revolve around the design team receiving a specific request from God for a new animal (like "an animal with bones as weapons" or "make more stripey animals") and then they walk through different possible ideas and why that would/would not work given physiological limits and environmental pressures. It becomes a bit of a puzzle show: can the viewer guess what real-world animal the design team is building up to? (Or for the more obscure animals: have you even heard of this species before?) Between the brainstorming and trial-and-error, there's a lot of failed designs along the way to a design that God deems "accepted," and IMO the most interesting part of the show is when they go into why certain designs failed and the tweaks necessary to get around it (for example: bigger eyes means better eyesight, but then the eyeballs take up so much room in the skull there's no room for the musculature necessary to move them, so the design team extends the animal's neck so it moves its head rather than its eyeballs).

The show has very little objectionable material in it (a PG-rating at worst), and the deluge of "fun facts about animals" is reminiscent of kid-oriented nature shows (like Wild Kratts), however I think Heaven's Design Team has plenty of entertainment value for adults too. I consider myself quite well-educated on animals for a layperson, but most of the facts and many of the animals I had never heard about before, so there were plenty of surprises and much trivia learned. There's also a good dose of (G-rated) adult-oriented humor, mostly of the office workplace variety. Mostly though I think older audiences will appreciate the series's solid execution: the animation is bold and colorful, the dialogue is decent, the pacing is snappy (exceptionally so for a comedy anime), and the humor is on the gag side but the jokes usually land. While the characters are extremely two-dimensional and undergo minimal character development, that actually works in the show's favor, as it gives each animal designer a "style" that influences the creatures they create (whether they're more likely to come out cute, creepy, delicious, etc). While some topics of humor are used multiple times (e.g. "Tsuchiya/Saturn is obsessed with making everything into a horse!") on each occasion the reused humor was always presented with a fresh spin and never wore out over the series's 13 episode run (sadly rehashing the same tired joke over and over is par for the course in comedy anime, so this is impressive). I think the series goes a little off the rails at times in the last few episodes and gets extra goofy (although bonus episode 13 brings the series back to its roots), but even the weaker segments of the series are still very watchable.

As always, this review is nothing more than my personal opinion. Anyone familiar with this work is encouraged to express their own in the comment section. Or submit your own review… it’s a free ~~country~~ fediverse.