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Exactly. And meanwhile, the OP is on Reddit, where we're not.

It's sort of like going to a restaurant and being served a picture of some food from some other restaurant.

Binged this last night, and it is very good. Not perfect by any means, but very good.

And the ED's still in my head.

Good riddance.

The whole idea of reposting Reddit content on the fediverse has always been stupid and toxic. It's never going to get any meaningful engagement, so it's just a waste of server space at best.

Sort of thinking through my fingers here...

The first notable one I can think of is watching the entire run of Elfen Lied in a single sitting, so 12 episodes. I've done that a number of times since though, most recently with the first season of Zombieland Saga.

One curious one was Magic Knight Rayearth. I watched most of the first season - 20 episodes - in a single day, but not so much because I was so hooked on the story. What it was was that if I didn't catch it in time at the end of one episode, the next episode would start, so the OP would start, and that was it. There was no way I could turn off what is, IMO, the best OP ever, so I'd end up just letting it go, which led into the episode, and so on. I'm not sure how many total episodes I watched that way though.

I can only think of one instance when I'm certain I watched more than a single season/cour in a single sitting, and that was The Apothecary Diaries. I watched the first half or so of the first cour of the first season one day, and it was certainly good, but it hadn't yet fully hooked me. But then when everything started coming together in the second half of that cour, I couldn't stop, and I watched the rest of it plus the entire 12 episode second cour in one long binge. I'm pretty sure that started from about the time that Maomao went home to visit her father, which was episode 7, so that's 18 episodes or about 7 hours.

There's nothing quite like it really.

The closest comparison I can think of is Drifting Classroom, but it never got an anime adaptation.

Bokurano is similar in some notable ways, but it's an ensemble and set in (more or less) our world.

Casshern Sins is sort of oddly similar - broadly similar setting and tone and a lot of the same themes, though a much different story.

I guess Noein is sort of similar, insofar as it's a cast centered on children, the stakes are much bigger than they initially seem and tragedy lurks around every corner, but it's different in most details.

And Kaiba is actually sort of very broadly similar too - much different setting, artstyle and story, but a similar downbeat tone and broad subject of people, and mostly children, at the mercy of a screwed-up world.

And I can't think of anything else even vaguely similar.

Fate/Stay Night - couldn't say - it's never interested me. Note that it's not "forgotten" by any stretch of the imagination.

Mushishi - very, very good. And entirely the opposite of "forgotten" - hardly a week goes by that I don't see it mentioned in some context.

xxxHOLiC - Clamp. I can sort of see what I guess the appeal must be, but have no interest in investing the necessary time and effort.

Negima reboot - important to stipulate "reboot," since the first series was ridiculously awful - like they actually went out of their way to try to make it as bad as possible awful. The second series is okay. The manga's better.

Witch Hunter Robin - I've bounced off of it three times now. It looks intriguing, but for some reason...

Hellsing Ultimate - I prefer the original.

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles - Clamp^2

All in all, a pretty awful list. Here's a better one, just off the top of my head:

• Scrapped Princess
• Casshern Sins
• Trinity Blood
• Now and Then, Here and There
• Ghost Hound
• Solty Rei
• Last Exile

Yeah - that was a good Jugemu.

And I'm tempted to drop this right here. I just have no hope that what's going to come next is going to be satisfying.

They completely explained the mystery, and unless they have an unusual season of 11 episodes, there are two more episodes left. That’s quite a lot of time to spend after the mystery has been explained.

I was wondering about the same thing.

From what I can find on the database sites, it is indeed scheduled for 12 episodes. So obviously something has to happen, and something relatively momentous (or at least that will be seen as momentous by Bertia, which will in turn make it momentous for Cecil). I can't imagine what though.

I hoped after last week's episode, and sort of suspect really, that Heronia and Pii-chan will get some sort of happy ending. Maybe something that oddly fits in with the game canon?

Yeah - more broadly, as I think about it, this needs some sort of resolution that will satisfy Bertia as well as Cecil - something that's close enough to game canon to lead to Bertia accepting that that's the way it's "supposed" to be, and that will still allow Cecil to get the ending he wants (and really the ending that Bertia wants too, though even she doesn't yet realize that).

We'll see, and I'm looking forward to it.

This is turning into a really impressive series, and I suspect it's not even close to done surprising us.

It just seemed silly and pointless at first, but throughout the series, sort of in the background (undoubtedly not coincidentally like the growing collection of presents and mementoes in the goddess's chambers), it's been assembling a cast of characters and laying out an overarching plot. And over the last couple of episodes it's started revealing it.

I can't wait to see what it's going to do next (and I'm especially keeping my eye on the giggling plant with the ridiculously long name - the goddess isn't paying it that much attention for nothing).

Since I decided to drop all of the ongoing series that I thought would be better binged, I had some free time last week, and I've been exploring donghua lately, and decided to go back and watch the beginning of a series that's currently on its seventh season - Quanzhi Fashi aka Full-time Magister aka Versatile Mage. And I liked it.

It's pretty straightforward - magical academy and a student who's derided as a loser but then reveals himself to actually be far and away the most powerful mage there. It's sort of what Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei could've been if the MC was a genuinely nice guy instead of a tediously arrogant asshole. There weren't any big surprises, but it was pleasant to watch him grow and improve, and there was enough background context to make it especially enjoyable when he inevitably curbstomped his unjustifiably arrogant rivals.

And there was a bit of a hint at some very dark background that I suspect is going to become much more important as the seasons go on.

Just caught back up with this, and wow. They did it again.

It's been an odd series, because while the basic idea is strange, most of the story has been relatively straightforward. Not without drama, but the drama for the most part hasn't been anything too far beyond the norm for school slice of life. But then suddenly they'll drop in some huge gut punch of an event, and it's like everything comes to a screeching halt, just left standing there, staring agape at what just happened.

I keep thinking, "I can't believe they just did that." But they did. And then it sort of slowly recovers, regains its feet, and starts moving again.

I'm really curious to see where it's going next, because basically the whole school now has been clued in to the existence of the replicas.

I suspect that it's going to be another gut punch.

The Ramparts of Ice

I've been thoroughly enjoying the anime adaptation. And as I recently commented on the latest episode's thread, I've realized it's been doing something fascinating.

Not just the tone and feel of the story, but the actual depictions of the characters - their design and artstyle and movements and gestures and everything - have changed as the characters (mostly Koyun) have changed.

There was an early clue when an episode ended with a confrontation between Koyun and Minato that ended up with her blowing up at him, and seemingly entirely justifiably, and then the next episode opened with the exact same interaction from Minato's point of view, and it wasn't just different - it was almost as if it was an entirely different interaction. There was virtually no correspondence between what Koyun thought she was hearing and saying and what Minato thought he was hearing and saying.

But the really impressive thing is that that's become a part of the series. As it's gone along, the same people and things, either as seen from different viewpoints or even just from Koyun's viewpoint at different times, have been constantly changing.

Like there might be a scene of a conversation between Koyun and Yota, and it will start from Koyun's POV, then switch to Yota's, then to Miki's, then to Minato's. And each version of the scene will actually be somewhat different - it's all the same scene, but it's not even just that the different versions will be interpreted differently - to us, the audience, they're actually portrayed somewhat differently, as each version is filtered through the presumptions of the current POV character.

Similarly, when they first showed Igarashi, he actually looked dark and sinister. Everything about him - his posture, his build, the look on his face - everything - was threatening. He'd sort of loom up somewhere in Koyun's peripheral vision, looking like a pure villain. But already, as it's gone along, though Koyun hasn't yet entirely revealed the story behind her reactions to him, he's been changing. Every time he appears, he looks a little less villainous and and a little more just human. And in this most recent episode, as they're moving toward Koyun finally telling the whole story, I was keeping an eye out for him to appear, and when he did, I barely even recognized him, since he looked... perfectly normal. His eyes and his hair were recognizable, but other than that, he just looked like any other guy, rather than the dark and evil weasel he looked like earlier in the story.

And that's a really neat trick that I don't think I've ever seen before.

And what you've said here about the manga seems to tie right in with that.