I don’t think I’ve seen one of these threads in a minute, so why not? 
Here’s what I’ve had going on -
Completed:
Good:
Giant Robo: the Day the Earth Stood Still - Great OVA! I’d recommend this to anyone who enjoys G Gundam since the first few episodes of this essentially helped Imagawa get the job as the first non-Tomino TV Gundam showrunner. From what I know, they didn’t license the actual stories from the manga, so Imagawa and crew made shit up whole cloth and use characters from miscellaneous Yokoyama manga. It gives it this really manic energy when guys with random super powers and Romance of the Three Kingdoms characters are all fighting each other like a kid playing with a box of their parents old toys. Very light on actual robot fights, but the animation is gorgeous.
Getter Robo: Armageddon - More 90s super robots. I didn’t like it as much as Giant Robo, but this goes pretty hard and was enjoyably edgy as fuck.
Rose of Versailles - Delightful 70s classic. It has me wanting to watch more Dezaki stuff - maybe Space Adventure Cobra will work its way in soon.
OK:
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2 - Wasn’t bad, but it just didn’t have enough to interest me.
.hack//Sign - This was a favorite of mine back in the old days. It’s good for an advertisement/prelude for the PS2 games, but I don’t think I would recommend it otherwise. I also watched the Intermezzo and Unison OVAs - they’re eh.
Kill La Kill - I watched this on a whim after watching Cutie Honey (1973). It’s not bad, it’s just not really my thing.
Musha Knight Commando: SD Gundam Scramble - Probably cool if you were like 10 in Japan in the early 90s. 
Bad:
Cross Ange - Please check CWs before considering this, but wow is this an interesting train wreck of a show.
Ongoing:
Legend of the Galactic Heroes - 30/110 so far. Still liking it a lot, but I’m just slowly working my way through this one. I couldn’t imagine binging through it.
You can tell that dungeon food is made by a woman by the fact that female characters have more than 2 body types
The female gaze is once again proven to be majority hand related.
Per @Cromalin@hexbear.net recc in the anime across the decades post I watched keep your hands off eizouken this past week. Really enjoyed it. I’m totally about those “industry” behind the scenes/meta type shows. Also, it had some really entrancing scenes, would’ve been great if i was still smoking weed.
Hopefully gonna watch Space Dandy next, but I keep forgetting about it.
I’m totally about those “industry” behind the scenes/meta type shows
Shirobako is the behind the scenes show
It is top tier
I’m totally about those “industry” behind the scenes/meta type shows.___
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun!
It’s a comedy parodying shoujo romance stories and tropes (from an author who actually wrote one in the 2000s), but it’s just as much about the Manga production process.
Oh word. I’ll add it to my list, thanks!
i’m kinda surprised i didn’t have it in that anime across the decades post, but i 100% second that recommendation
also 2 of the movies in that list (inu-oh and night is short walk on girl) are by the same director as eizouken, so if you liked the style and cool animation you should 100% check it out
Noted and added, thank you!
Hopefully gonna watch Space Dandy next, but I keep forgetting about it.
I want to watch through all of the post-Champloo Watanabe stuff, but like you, I never get around to it lol.
lol. now that you mention it, I did watch Kids on the Slope some years back, so I guess I’m working on that.
At this rate we’ll both have watched Lazarus in like 20 years lol.
hell yeah!
GOATED:
Dungeon Meshi - monumental feat of imaginative worldbuilding, on par with LotR or Dune.
Ok:
Frieren- I think we’ve talked about this show on here enough already. It’s a mixed bag.
Apothecary Diaries- It’s neat. Having the plot twist be that the literal personification of patriarchy actually be a victim of patriarchy was a choice, although I’m not sure how successful of a story beat it was as presented.
Bad:
Granblue Fantasy- I started watching it because of the game, but it’s literally the middest of mid shows. S1 is at least kinda interesting for having all these baroque, incredibly hard to animate over-the-top over-designed JRPG character designs, that the animators somehow heroically tried to animate beautiful fight scenes for, but the story is mid as hell and then S2 simplifies all the designs and they just straight give up on trying to tell a story, so bleh.
GBF was one of the biggest disappointments ever, it had potential, if you are at all familiar with the franchise it got some people from Final Fantasy working on the GBF game, the gacha game story wasn’t even that bad once you get past the early stuff.
But the problem is GBF is a gacha game primarily, and it had a lot of fan favorite characters, its ridiculously bloated for a gacha. But imo in particular just the Eternals they’re one of the best designed characters I’ve seen anywhere, also in terms of personality too, and also top notch VAs etc…
But you see what stupid Japanese incompetent company decides to double down on? The most bland main cast ever created. Also litealy half the appeal of the MCs in the gacha game is the fact they can transform into all these different classes and they wear all these different outfits etc but nah, not even that.
The gacha game is slave labor simulator 2014 but Cavalier, Gunslinger, Luchador, Glorybringer, Runeslayer… what could have been.
Ah, should have made it clear that the game I was talking about was Relink, not the Gacha (Ever since Fate Grand Order I’ve bounced off hard on all gacha). Relink won me over with how sincere of a “JRPG where we go kill God with the Power of Friendship” deal it was, even if the story itself was kinda tropey, so I wanted to learn more.
But apparently all the really kino stuff like Biblically Accurate Twinks screaming John Milton at each other while there’s more lasers, explosions and J-rock going off in the the background than an X Japan concert never got covered in the anime. Instead we get swimsuit OVA.
If you are intereted in an actual above average/good GBF “multiverse” anime maybe you’ve heard of Rage of Bahamut Genesis. Favaro is a gigachad nuff said. Its good because it was before Cygames got big and ambitions drinking their own koolaid. Some people don’t like Virgin Soul, I thought it was fine too, but I recommend the original S1 first and foremost.
I quit GBF a long time ago now in early 2020, at that time the game was already dying. Cygames was the typical xenophobic shit pandering to 2ch, in 2019 or so they mass banned foreigners because of browser plugins, just QOL stuff realy, but the Japanese couldn’t or wouldn’t make or use their own QOL so they cried etc.
The Chinese gachas(Arknights and Mihoyo) completely destroyed the competition at that point too.
The GBF anime was entirely made to promote the gacha game and it followed that story, if you’re disappointment with the anime its sadly because as I said the franchise had potential. When the anime was made in 2017-8 the story was in a decent place, all they had to do was skip pretty much the entire early stuff and ignore the main 5. Yet they did the opposite.
The gacha game had some very good even stories too, specifically I think the What Makes The Sky Blue series, that first event was the 3rd anniversary in 2017 the same year as the anime. Sandalphon is probably the most popular male these days and that was his debut.
I can tell you Cygames is incredibly incompetent, apparently Seofon, Twen and Sandalphon are DLC characters for Relink, I don’t have or played that game but, Seofon and Twen are part of the Eternals I mentioned. Too little too late but I guess it will be good for new people into the franchise.
GBF could have been the next Fate. That is how anticipated and how much good material they had to work with. Maybe not the first season but certainly the second season. The next Fate will definitely be Genshin when that anime comes.
Dungeon meshi is pretty enjoyable looking forward to the story continuing
Frieren was also pretty good although it peters off towards the end
Started metallic rouge but fell off. Conceptually it should be up my alley with a female centered cyberpunk / sailor senshi hybrid thing going on, but the plot really feels like it’s gonna head towards liberalism and I’m not looking forward to it.
We need like a hexbear rec list that takes into account like how reactionary/liberal the work is etc. cuz I don’t trust any anime communities to not be awful/blind about politics
If we do, it should have a quiz that tests if you read that Diagetic Essentialism post from Sigmarxism that makes the rounds around here before you can view it lol
Despite all the suggestions earlier not to watch Fate, my partner saw it on a “list of strong female characters in anime” list and wanted to so we’re doing that. It’s fine. Can’t complain but it’s not earth shattering. It’s enjoyable enough.
I still have to watch the last episode of Mashle s2. Honestly loving this dumbass show.
Otherwise I feel like I’m hitting a wall of “I’ve seen everything I’d enjoy” so it’s getting tough to find new things
I don’t think I’ve seen one of these threads in a minute
Damn, I’ve been neglecting c/anime. I was the one who’s been doing those in the past 😔
So here’s a few I’m far enough in to comment.
Completed:
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun (2014, Rewatch)
Still great, one of the funniest shows around with great and very foolish characters. This rewatch made me actually read the Manga, and it’s also very good and entertaining. Unfortunately, it’s still incomplete and very slow. Who knew? Girls’ Monthly Nozaki-Kun is a monthly series.
Ongoing:
Dragon Ball (1986, 102/153 episodes)
Going through the original Dragon Ball, you’re gonna get a very consistent quality good Shounen, and really, it’s good enough for me. Especially since even master Roshi calmed down on the horny bullshit by now. Unhinged Gun Lady my beloved.
Nichijou (2011, 23/26)
Not as good as Azumanga Daioh, but it’s still excellent and you WILL fall in love (platonically) with characters like Yukko or Nano. And of course everything about the show screams high effort. I wonder what Azumanga would have been like if late 2000s KyoAni was the company tasked with making it instead of J. C. Staff (not like that version is bad - the opposite in fact)
Damn, I’ve been neglecting c/anime. I was the one who’s been doing those in the past 😔
Life happens and you sometimes get too busy to post - it’s all good! Clearly quite a few people also missed your list posts.
Dragon Ball (1986, 102/153 episodes)
This is such a an exciting place for this show, too. Right at the end of the Budokai Tenkaichi/Tienshinhan storyline and getting into the Piccolo storylines. I feel like this is right where the show starts feeling like DBZ.
Started Dragonball last night, first episode is… well
Yeah, especially the beginning is very horny. It does… eventually… calm down in that regard.
Ep. 1 of Train to the End of the World is good. Interesting premise, fun animation, and it’s got trains and yuri in it. I’m hoping it will hold up for the rest of the season.
TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN
Many people are saying this!
I have been watching Monster and Dungeon Meshi, i try to watch monster last year but i had to focus on my classes that semester so i dropped it and right now im in episode 11 its pretty good i like dr tenma and i want to see whats going on with Johan, Dungeon Meshi i only started it because when it was comming out it had a latam dub so i though why not watch it and i really like it i also started the manga and i have already finished the first 3 volumes
i also started the manga and i have already finished the first 3 volumes
The Dungeon Meshi manga was such a fun read. I blasted through it about a month ago.
About 3/4 done with the Skypia arc in One Piece, gonna watch the older Berserk anime too.
Dungeon Meshi and Metallic Rouge. First cour of Dungeon Meshi just ended (I think? But there’s no break between it and the next so does that count?) and I liked it. Actually the first couple episodes I wasn’t so sure about it, but I got hooked after that. As for Metallic Rouge, I watched the latest 12 episodes within the past couple days, and that’s definitely the way to go. If I watched it weekly I’d probably be pretty confused lol. I’m going to have a lot to say about it and will probably make a post the next few days after the finale releases tomorrow. But here are my current thoughts that I posted on Mastodon. #ImWithJill #DownWithTheProtag
HOLY SHIT IT’S NOT COMPLETE LIB SHIT
WALK DON’T CRAWL TO WATCH METALLIC ROUGE! A SOLID 4/5 WITH “OK” POLITICS AND ONLY SLIGHTLY BAD PACING!
GOOD: “King of the Hill” and “Ranma 1/2”. I watched some of the dungeon cooking show, but isekai always bores me after a while, I tell you hwat.
Bobby 1/2
what a coincidence, i also just finished rose of versailles and gundam 00!
i liked rose of versailles, but i didn’t love it. the next dezaki i watch is probably going to be oniisama e because i need more drama than oscar was providing. really disappointed in 00, honestly the fall from the early episodes was massive enough that i really dreaded watching the last few episodes and the movie (which i also didn’t like)
i also watched the patlabor early days ova. pretty fun, nothing incredible but a solid way to spend 7 episodes
e: also watching dungeon meshi so i know what’s been covered and can talk about it without spoiling my friends, but that’s not the same
I kept telling myself that I’d read Romance of the Three Kingdoms before GGP does SD Sangokuden, but uhhh, I’ve read the first few chapters like 5 times and I have like 2 months for them to finish Unicorn lol.
The best part of 00 was the goofy in-universe movie parody in A Wakening. Just barely aware of what it spent the last however many episodes doing lol.
Patlabor Early Days
That Godzilla parody episode is a classic. If you haven’t watched the movies, 1 is the fun one, 2 is the Metal Gear Solid cutscene movie, and WXIII is a monster movie in the Patlabor setting. Patlabor TV and the New Files OVA are perpetually on my “need to watch this” list lol.
the best part of 00 is the 1 second trans am. and the first hour of the movie was really good! it brings up a bunch of ideas i like and find interesting! but then the second half either ignores them all or deals with them in ways i find completely unsatisfying. that’s the gundam 00 promise i suppose
i haven’t watched the patlabor movies, i need to watch more g gundam but it’s still such a slog. gonna watch more tonight while doing gunpla and just start skipping episodes if nothing interesting seems to be going on because i cannot be assed to care
That’s too true for 00 - following in the tradition of Gundam Wing. Too bad AWotT wasn’t as fun as Endless Waltz.
How far are you in G Gundam? Guyana highlands training arc lol? If you’re not enjoying it, you can probably just put the dub on and only watch when Mark Gatha (it’s so funny to see the anime fanart he has on his doctor website) starts screaming something goofy.
The Patlabor OVA just having one episode where they meet the missing link/godzilla and another where they get reverse double scooby-doo’d right before the finale which is about an incredibly grounded political coup was such amazing tonal whiplash.
yeah it rules. fun show
Wow I didn’t know anyone else had watched cross ange. Interesting truely is the only word to describe it.
i’ve also seen cross ange! terrible show, can’t believe my ex didn’t break up with me sooner after i suggested she watch it with me
That made me cackle. For some reason it’s lived in my brain since I saw it, probably because there are so many scenes that are, uh, stimulating.
now in my defense i also didn’t know how bad it was, i’d never seen it. i just knew we’d been watching some good mecha anime (ibo, some of votoms) and thought it’d be fun to watch some bad stuff and didn’t anticipate HOW bad it was. not even the horniest lesbian anime we watched together, though the other one was a million times better (yurikuma arashi)
Comparing Ikuhara with Fukuda is hardly fair lol
that’s true, maybe the biggest coughing baby hydrogen bomb situation every conceived lmao. at least among anime directors i would be hard pressed to think of any Auteur’s (not that either is solely responsible for the failings or successes of their respective works obviously, auteur theory is at best extremely limited and at worst complete bullshit) who are as far from each other in quality (though i haven’t seen the entirety of either artist’s output)
It’s comparable to The Room with how awful it is. The worst part is that Cross Ange probably has people who are unironically fans of it.
Misread what you said. I don’t know if there are real fans. Maybe I count. It’s fascinating because they succeded in what they wanted to do (horny bad mech show), but someone on the writing staff kept trying to do more. There are these occasional glimses into it being a show that has something to say. Not just a show with a plot, but also an actual message. But the message keeps changing and the horny comes first.
the bit with tusk magically coming back to life with no explanation is one of the most unintentionally funny things i’ve seen in an anime but it also runs any goodwill i had towards any read of the show that suggests the good things were on purpose
Finished:
Bang Brave Bang Bravern! - A mecha show. Anything I say about it would be a spoiler; I’d suggest pretty much anyone to watch the first episode. The theme absolutely slaps. Now that it’s over I can say it commits to the bit 200%, sometimes to its detriment. Also the male leads are pretty fuckin’ gay.
MagiRevo - A sort-of-isekai that doesn’t really do much with the concept and becomes a pretty boring yuri about the difficulties of being nobility in a fantasy setting. Hexbear recommendation from last year let me down.
Shirobako - AKA the anime about making anime. It’s pretty great if you’re into that kind of thing, and makes you wonder how the fuck anything gets made if the industry is such a damn mess. Imo it could stand to be a bit more cynical because as-is the heroines solve most of their problems (which are themselves very realistic portrayals of burnout, not being able to find work, etc) simply by being anime girls and saying “ganbare”. Still, very good. Weirdly hype.
Shirbako OVAs - In the mainline show the studio works on two separate anime, and the two OVAs are the first episodes of those fictional series. You have the idol/adventure/mystery anime original and the adaptation of Girls
und Panzerand Planes. Both are utter fucking trash in just the right way that I’m not sure whether the creators are laughing along with me. At some point in the mainline series one of the anime girls says “All anime made today is trash”, and these prove her correct.Shirobako Movie - What if you made a movie about making an anime movie, that was also guilty of most of the tropes typical of anime movies? You get this beautiful mess. Just as good as the mainline show imo. Made me
when Yano and Honda showed up. Somehow has a sick ninja action scene in the back half.Also Frieren which is a fantastic 6 episodes followed by a very mid show that can’t live up to itself.
Started:
Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex - Only watched one episode so hard to say anything. Bounced off the series back in the day but we’ll see this time.
Brave Bang Bang Bravern!
This seems like something I’ll blast through in a week or two lol. Glad to hear it has wrapped.
Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex - Only watched one episode so hard to say anything. Bounced off the series back in the day but we’ll see this time.
The first season is fantastic. If you like the show enough to finish it, give the Solid State Society movie a try.
Berserk is going to be on hiatus for years isn’t it?
There’s been more manga volumes out since Moira’s death
I know but I got into the series right after he died so I’m not used to the delays. I could only imagine the year’s long waits y’all had to put up with.
