I haven't gotten to the third OP yet. I just started watching the second season the other day, and haven't been able to give it my full attention yet, so have only seen four episodes. And yes - the OP is awful.
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I delved way back into the past last week and watched Magic Knight Rayearth and thoroughly enjoyed it. Sure it's a bit dated and silly in places, but it's engaging and good looking and the story turns out to be quite a bit more than it initially seems.
Pretty good all in all - seems to be mostly setting up the next episode.
Funny that when the conversation went from just a generic risk that Kanata was in danger to BL in particular, Akane panicked.
Currently binging Deca-Dence and thoroughly enjoying it. The basic set-up is fascinating, the world-building is very well done, and the two main characters have great chemistry, and both get satisfying character arcs.
At this point, I'm not surprised.
It actually struck me later that I was probably wrong - that, this series being what it is, the defied expectation was a sort of meta-joke and I was just too dumb to catch it. So... yeah.
I like your undies?
Somehow I don't think that was the original joke...
Actually I haven't, but only because I'm planning on binging it.
Surreal idiot humor — series that are surreal, absurd and/or satirical because most if not all of the characters are idiots, and the world somehow matches them.
Examples: Pani Poni Dash, Galaxy Angel, Nichijou, Photon, Renkin Sankyou Magical Pokaan, Robot Girls Z, Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san, Kill Me Baby...
It's strange to wait so eagerly for a 3 1/2 minute episode that's over so quick, but it's worth it anyway.
I'm wondering if there's something to Kurt wondering just who exactly Makina is.
The battle "remix" of Haijo-kun's music was brilliant - that's the kind of touch that makes me eager to see what Yohei Kameyama could do with a bigger budget and more run-time.
Chiharu's thank you was perfect.
And Makina's last line made me laugh out loud.
Now I have to wait a week for another 3 1/2 minutes...
Having just watched it, I find myself wondering why.
It was okay. It tackled some difficult subject matter in an interesting way, and it has a very distinctive and effective artstyle, but all in all, it ended up oddly unsatisfying.
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Glibly, it seemed that the central message was that Shizuka and Marina were both doomed to end up suffering and/or dead unless and until they bonded over the fact that they both had shitty parents. And that Takopi was an annoying idiot.
Or more sincerely, that talking to each other was the key - that life just has ugliness in it, but if we talk and listen, we can maybe cope.
That's fine as far as it goes, but I'm not sure how that rates 9+, much less how each episode does, especially since each episode ended up going somewhere that ultimately didn't matter. Is it just that they tended toward shocking twist endings? If that's the case, a whole lot more people need to watch Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song, which did shocking twist episode endings much better.
It was odd enough that it made me think, and is still making me think, and I guess that's something, but I could say the same, just off the top of my head, for Madoka Magica or Kaiba or Wonder Egg Priority or Mushishi.
I dunno. I certainly didn't dislike it - it's among the more interesting and unusual anime I've seen. I just don't get how each episode is 9+.
Ahhh... Suzu finally got the focus I've been waiting for in the post-credits flashback. And Atori's sadism is coming into focus too. And we got to meet the silver haired girl from the credits - I think that's the entire cast now (though we didn't get any Ru-chan this week).
Not bad all in all - it's still not meeting its potential, but it's closer.
Thanks for the heads up - I'll check that out.
I watch older anime almost exclusively, but with manga, I'm following so many new series and adding new ones all the time that I generally don't have the time and energy to read older ones. But I keep adding them to my TBR anyway...