Endmaker
joined 7 months ago
Kinda ironic that she's asking for permission to do so.
Odd Taxi
As with any mystery series, do watch it till the end for the payoff / reveal.
Here are my thoughts on some series I have watched recently.
Kaiju no. 8
This is the third anime of the season that I've completed (the other two being Konosuba and Dungeon Meshi). I'm surprised that I did not drop it before the end, given that it is quite a brainless battle shonen. I guess it helped that I cheated by skipping over the boring and filler scenes, and by turning my brain off for the rest of them.
I love the soundtracks though, especially the insert song Never Break Down which played during the climax.
Good enough to get a 5 / 10 from me.
Solo Leveling
I was planning to ignore this series based on its synopsis and its genres + tags. I decided to give it a go now because of its high rating, and because friends assured me its not battle shonen.
Big mistake, because it's way worse than any generic battle shonen. This series screams wish fulfillment.
I can see how people who are not doing well in their lives can easily project themself onto the protagonist. Like, you are suffering because you drew the short end of the stick and life, and others look down on you. Then you got your big break in life, and yadda yadda yadda.
What takes the cake was
Solo Leveling
the rant he made before dying. That was peak loser behaviour.
It was so frustrating to watch that even skipping scenes and turning my brain off doesn't help, and eventually I dropped it at episode 5.
I'm giving it a 2 / 10. Its only saving grace is that it serves to elevate the top-tier series that I have watched earlier: Odd Taxi, Violet Evergarden, Heavenly Delusion, and 86.
Mob Psycho 100 (season 1, 2 and OVA)
I decided to try it out since I've heard good things about it. Once I started watching it, some of its art style and humor seemed familiar to me. When I checked, sure enough, the author is also the one who wrote One Punch Man.
It feels like a mix of One Punch Man and Saiki K, combining Saiki Kusuo's psychic powers and desire to be low-key with the flashy battles plus humor of One Punch Man. It's good, but I don't find it as funny as either of them though.
I'm still planning to watch season 3.
On average, it's getting a score of 7.5 / 10 from me - for now.
Same.
In my case, Gundam: Witch from Mercury was the one that single-handedly brought me back into anime after 4?+ years of not watching.
Sounds interesting; I'm in
Exiled 100 Worlds
I enjoyed the novel, but got tired of waiting for new chapters to be released. Gonna wait for it to end first before picking it up again, but my sentiment is the same as yours.
Puberty, an All Boys School!?
Nice; and there's only 16 chapters. Gonna binge it after all chapters have been translated.
Planning to watch
My Wife Has No Emotion - The manga is great
My Deer Friend Nokotan - There's a lot of hype around it, and it seems weird enough
Senpai Is An Otokonoko
Looks like trash
Pretty much any of the generic isekai / harem / battle shonen shows
Senshi should be holding his wok
Source: 100 girlfriends, chapter 177
