Betteridge's Law of Headlines . . . but they're not even trying.
nyan
joined 2 years ago
Lord of the Mysteries
I’ll watch. It wasn’t in the seasonal list for summer, so nice catch
I suspect it wasn't on the seasonal list because it's a donghua rather than an anime in the strict sense. The first episode suggests it may end up being style over substance, but it's got enough style that I'll continue with it.
Silly Awards Time!
- Toilet Humour Award: Apocalypse Hotel, which was surprisingly good despite the number of times poop came up.
- Most Overhyped: Lazarus, which was an okay popcorn action series but didn't deserve anything like the amount of promotion it got. At least it was better than Fractale.
- Most Deceptive First Episode: Kowloon Generic Romance, whose first episode plays like, well, a generic wallflower x pushy asshole romance setup. Until you hit the very end and realize that it's something else entirely. Runner-up: Yami Healer, whose first episode was just awful, while the rest of the show was okay brain candy. Honourable mention: Once Upon a Witch's Death—I haven't finished it yet, but as of the midpoint it seems to be morphing from tearjerker-of-the-week to having a larger plot that affects more than just Meg and her town.
- Biggest Missed Opportunity to Transmit Lore: Your Forma. Instead of repeating the "amicus robot" blurb at the very beginning of each episode, they could have put different sequences in there each time to provide direly needed explanations about other aspects of the setting. The only way to figure out what "your forma" actually is is to read the series' description blurb on a website; it's never explained inside the show.
- Dishonourable Mention for Harm to Kitties: Your Forma again.
- Most Confusing: Bye Bye Earth, still. The reveal in the next-to-last episode explains some of the weirdnesses of the setting, but not others. A lot of the lore surrounding the swords is still incoherent, for instance.
One thing I have wondered since season 1 is why its target demographic is seinen. IMO suspense is one of those genres that cater to all age groups and genders.
Hmmm. Shounen publishers might have thought that a political-intrigue-based story with a female lead wouldn't be popular enough with their demographic, and josei tends so strongly toward mundane modern-day settings with romance that an historical whose romance is very slow burn might have been a hard sell. Shoujo might have fit, but I suspect there weren't enough flowers, sighs, and bishounen. (Saiunkoku Monogatari, which is the most similar other series I can think of, has a much higher number of pretty young men in the cast and was published as shoujo.)
So it might have ended up seinen by default.
The last part (or two parts?) of the Vampire Princess Miyu OAV when I first saw it ~30 years ago. Of course, it probably didn't help that I was watching it at weird o'clock in the morning.
I knew that Amazon order with the catnip toys went missing for a reason!
Part of the reason is likely that farming equipment is bloody expensive. A new combine harvester can cost nearly a million dollars, and there aren't a hell of a lot of used electrical machines on the market yet. Each farm will have several machines that currently run on gas or diesel. How many can the average farmer afford to replace how fast?
In the McCarthy era, whatever the average person said usually didn't make it past the actual people they said it to (and those people's gossip buddies, possibly) unless someone had an axe to grind and wanted to get them in trouble. Today, anything you say has circled the globe ten times, been indexed in multiple systems, and fed to someone's AI assistant before the hour is out. Yet another way in which technological change is a mixed bag.
got to admit the first season wasn’t exactly memorable
Yeah, it's pretty much mediocre from start to finish. Not horrible in any category, but the only thing that makes it stand out from all the other "loser is thrown out of adventuring party, then shows that he's actually pretty competent and gets a harem masquerading as a new party" shows of the past few years is the fact that they made a second cours of it (and now, apparently, a third).
though, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the resurrection potion
Loulan's words to Jinshi about people who have "already died once" being let off the hook feel like they almost guarantee it, but I guess we'll find out for sure next episode.
"Has never been higher" = "less than a fifth are okay with it, but hey, that's higher than 1%!"
People who wonder why I use a Linux desktop environment whose appearance and behaviour are basically unchanged from what they were 20 years ago, and daily drive a browser that forked from Firefox 27 and still uses that UI: this is why.