Oh, I don’t care that much about whether the season comes to its own satisfying conclusion. I was mostly wondering this because I was considering maybe picking up the light novels when I have the time.

Anyone know how long this one is? I’m curious to know whether Season 2 is likely to finish the story.

Does the anilist api give you the release date of individual episodes? If so you could do a check to see if they’re all the same day. Or is that what you were getting at when talking about parsing nyaa?

Maybe in the future for shows like this that are dropped all at once a discussion thread for the whole show instead of individual episodes would make sense. I guess most shows are too long to watch in one sitting though, unlike this one.

Just finished watching the whole show. A couple plot points were really dumb, which is unfortunate because there are only 6 episodes so it was being dumb at least 1/3 of the time. The most impressive part to me was that it didn’t look like ass despite being 100% 3d-rendered. Certainly not the worst thing I’ve ever seen, but I won’t be recommending it to people either.

This episode was a great reminder of why Haryu is just the best. What a guy.

Yotsuba&! is great! I wish it got more recognition as a hilarious manga rather than just a stepping stone for Japanese learners.

My favorite though is Kaguya-sama: Love is War. The characters are all insane in the most perfect ways. Skip and Loafer is a close runner-up though; I love its characters for all being so grounded they feel more like people than manga characters. It’s a very different feel than I get from other manga.

Even if they’re “real” the decision was made to not release them. They’re stories that were specifically chosen to not be canon.

Good to see that the Desmonds continue to deliver on being weird as hell.

Okay, thanks! I just wanted to be sure it wasn’t a bug.

Am I missing something? As far as I can tell the third episode hasn’t aired yet. Did the bot just bug out because Netflix has it listed despite it not being available for another 5 days?

I can’t believe they ended it there! Anyways, great episode. I really like how color was used here, especially how red was used for contrast in an otherwise colorless scene.

No, but it might as well have been for all the awareness the mangaka appears to have had for what they were writing.

Tried reading Hakutaku, Shonen Jump’s newest thing. A game development manga sounds like a cool idea! Anyways, wow. That was complete shit. Character A (can’t remember her name, doesn’t matter) has been developing games for 3 years instead of going to school. She’s bad at it. Character B (can’t remember his name, doesn’t matter) has been learning to develop games for closer to 3 weeks. He’s somehow, inexplicably good at it. He can program. He can do art. He can do game design. He can do sound. Of course, this is all just stuff we assume he can do since the manga doesn’t show us any of this. It just shows those two teaming up and agreeing to make something together, then BAM! It’s done! Just like that. And everyone loves it. So Character A asks Character B if he wants to make games with her again with her as the producer and marketer and him as the person who does literally everything else. No clue what a producer or marketer even does here, and the manga sure isn’t going to show us. He agrees, and BAM! They made a fun game again. Completely off-screen. I’m dropping this. It already occupied too much of my time at 3 chapters; aint no way I’m giving it more.

From this season

• Blue Box - Seems to be a solid adaptation of the manga. I wonder if they went too far making everything as pretty as possible, but that might just be the recoil of watching this right after having seen Ping Pong: The Animation. Now that color has been added, I can finally tell Chinatsu and Hina apart, which is nice.
• Dandadan - An excellent adaptation of the manga. Warning: first episode has sexual assault in it. There’s also another sexual assault scene in a later arc. If you can stomach that, this is a wild, fun tale of some teenagers who are trying to survive in a world beset by yokai and aliens.

Older stuff

• Ping Pong: The Animation - A cool show. This is one to watch if you start feeling like too many anime look the same, or if you’re tired of how every character looks like a model. This is also one to watch if you just want to see a good sports anime.

• Eureka 7 - I’m only 30-something episodes in, but this show has just been getting better and better. Easily one of the best mech anime I’ve ever seen, assuming they don’t do anything to screw it up later. Very stylish; I love the concept of mechs that fight while riding turbulence on surfboards. It also has a charming cast.

• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - This is another one I’m only 30-something episodes into. So far it’s been really good! Not nearly as bleak as the name or the first couple of episodes would have you believe. So far, anyways. I don’t like it quite as much as I like Eureka 7, but it’s close.

That’s excellent news! I know the show’s tone threw some people off, but I really enjoyed season 1. Hopefully the animation quality remains excellent.

The visuals look nice; I look forward to seeing how they animate the badminton matches.

As far as I remember there is one other scene like this in Dandadan, out of over 150 chapters. So it’s not the main focus, but this is also not the last time.

I totally get it though. I bounced off this manga the first time I tried to read it because of that scene.

Note that Turbo Granny isn’t a Dandadan-specific reference. She’s a well-known Japanese urban legend.

That’s good; the manga didn’t move especially quickly and I didn’t think this story could leave a strong impression in only 12 episodes.