11-05-2017, 07:34 PM
Might as well give a small update on things I've been reading/watching.
After finishing Kakegurui, I decided to give some good anime a watch, and forced my way through Kaiba.
It was honestly alright, nothing special in my eyes but I did feel like a lot of what was going on went over my head, due to watching the episodes so sporadically (I watched the first episode in June, and the second in September). I enjoyed the world since it was pretty interesting and all the side stories were very well done. The whole show was very unique and interesting, it was boring from time to time but I still enjoyed it.
I also go into Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, and man what a fucking anime. I only found out about it from seeing a thumbnail of the opening on Youtube, and I clicked on it since it piqued my interest and man. Just watch it.
When an anime has a good opening, it'll always get me into it. Trigun, Kaiji and Baccano! are good examples of this. I loved the openings for those shows and would usually watch them fully instead of skipping them like I did a lot of other anime.
When I got around to watching Nadia, man it was great. The show is very well done, and even has a good dub which reflects the show, since characters are from around the world and their accents reflect this. The best way to describe the anime would be like if you took the Pokémon anime, reskinned the characters, removed the Pokémon and put them in a JRPG esque world like Grandia or Skies of Arcadia. It's very very good, and each episode hasn't disappointed yet. I have heard it gets a bit bad around episode 20-30, but I've still got high hopes.
In my anime society, One Punch Man and Erased are the current running series, so I'm going through those as well, whether I want to or not.
I also started Little Witch Academia, currently on episode 2 but I'll finish it soon.
Manga wise, all I've finished is another Fukomoto classic, Buraiden Gai. A story about a teenager falsely imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit and is sent to an awful rehabilitation facility, and has to do his best to prove his innocence. It was pretty short and I finished it in a day. Would recommend.
On the currently reading section, I'm reading two. Zero: Man of Creation and Yotsuba!.
Zero is an odd one, I only started reading it after being the only good looking thing to come up out of the hundreds that had the name Zero in the title when I searched it on Mangafox. It's about a guy who creates "original" counterfeits to famous pieces of work where only one would exist, it's an odd manga and it's not fully translated in English yet despite being over 25 years old. I do hope more work is put into it, it's oddly good.
Yotsuba! is something I've been meaning to read for years now, and finally got around to it and man am I pleasantly surprised. It's actually really funny for once. I usually don't laugh at Japanese humour that you'd see in shows like Nichijou, but damn Yotsuba! is just really funny. I'm finding myself laughing at the manga more than I'd like. I shouldn't have to explain what it's about, but it's basically the adventures of a 6 year old girl in her new neighbourhood, it's a very cute and funny manga that I hope gets better as I read more.
Haven't been doing much else anime/manga wise except these.
After finishing Kakegurui, I decided to give some good anime a watch, and forced my way through Kaiba.
It was honestly alright, nothing special in my eyes but I did feel like a lot of what was going on went over my head, due to watching the episodes so sporadically (I watched the first episode in June, and the second in September). I enjoyed the world since it was pretty interesting and all the side stories were very well done. The whole show was very unique and interesting, it was boring from time to time but I still enjoyed it.
I also go into Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, and man what a fucking anime. I only found out about it from seeing a thumbnail of the opening on Youtube, and I clicked on it since it piqued my interest and man. Just watch it.
When an anime has a good opening, it'll always get me into it. Trigun, Kaiji and Baccano! are good examples of this. I loved the openings for those shows and would usually watch them fully instead of skipping them like I did a lot of other anime.
When I got around to watching Nadia, man it was great. The show is very well done, and even has a good dub which reflects the show, since characters are from around the world and their accents reflect this. The best way to describe the anime would be like if you took the Pokémon anime, reskinned the characters, removed the Pokémon and put them in a JRPG esque world like Grandia or Skies of Arcadia. It's very very good, and each episode hasn't disappointed yet. I have heard it gets a bit bad around episode 20-30, but I've still got high hopes.
In my anime society, One Punch Man and Erased are the current running series, so I'm going through those as well, whether I want to or not.
I also started Little Witch Academia, currently on episode 2 but I'll finish it soon.
Manga wise, all I've finished is another Fukomoto classic, Buraiden Gai. A story about a teenager falsely imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit and is sent to an awful rehabilitation facility, and has to do his best to prove his innocence. It was pretty short and I finished it in a day. Would recommend.
On the currently reading section, I'm reading two. Zero: Man of Creation and Yotsuba!.
Zero is an odd one, I only started reading it after being the only good looking thing to come up out of the hundreds that had the name Zero in the title when I searched it on Mangafox. It's about a guy who creates "original" counterfeits to famous pieces of work where only one would exist, it's an odd manga and it's not fully translated in English yet despite being over 25 years old. I do hope more work is put into it, it's oddly good.
Yotsuba! is something I've been meaning to read for years now, and finally got around to it and man am I pleasantly surprised. It's actually really funny for once. I usually don't laugh at Japanese humour that you'd see in shows like Nichijou, but damn Yotsuba! is just really funny. I'm finding myself laughing at the manga more than I'd like. I shouldn't have to explain what it's about, but it's basically the adventures of a 6 year old girl in her new neighbourhood, it's a very cute and funny manga that I hope gets better as I read more.
Haven't been doing much else anime/manga wise except these.