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Tenchi is generally better than OMG, I'd say. First Tenchi OVA is way better than the OMG OVA, and I'm pretty sure most of the Tenchiverse is better than OMG in a general sense.

I think it's one of Ito's better short stories. I think I remember liking the one where the brother and sister were haunted by the killer of their parents, but I'm not sure of the name or which comp that was. I also kind of like that one with the washed-to-shore sea creature and Earthbound. The former is pretty well known, but I never see reference to the latter. Earthbound is in this collection, but I don't remember the name of the other one. Earthbound is one of the more psychological ones.

https://myanimelist.net/manga/3126/Yami_no_Koe

Oh, sorry, I guess that wasn't a great pick. Lensman is pretty awful, I feel, but it has many neat set pieces and animation. I didn't like the OMG OVA, but I thought the movie was decent. I think they probably upped the B-movie feel for the film version of Gyo, but, as silly as it is already... :P

lol, sounds weird. Hmmm... Okay, let's go with 33. That's a significant number. XD

Treasure Island seems a fun start. I guess that makes me a little more interested in RE:, though, because if I don't like one episode, at least the next will be a lot different. I'm most curious about Anno's (based on the way a lot of people talk about it, I assumed Anno directed them all, actually...). But I dunno why you'd want to inject drama into Cutie Honey, especially after the craziness of the first episode... lol, I recall disliking his NAM short a lot. Not because of ecchi, as I don't have a problem with that in a general sense (I'm even liking AIKa, which squeezes panty shots into nearly every frame XD), but I just don't like Imaishi's style all that much. He has this funny and cool way of doing certain scenes, but I tend to get sick of it quickly, unless it's a short KA bit from him and not all done in his style. Though I'd say that if it's a directorial work from him, it works better with something intensely his style and not as bargain bin. Dead Leaves being one of his more interesting ones. And I don't like the more diluted ones, like Gurren Lagann. When you gonna try that, btw? :P

Wait... it's on hiatus? Didn't it say release date 2019? I was thinking maybe it did release but it was a limited one at like a film festival and hasn't been released otherwise. Happens with plenty of short films, but I don't know the exact details here. Remember that short film a generous club member provided for us? We couldn't find it anywhere until that point. Kind of like that. But I don't know, maybe you read something about it that had the exact details. Looks good, though. I'm a sucker for survival-oriented things and am disappointed it's not full length.

Ugly cry in response to the TP Bon comparison. Ugh, I guess I'll watch it still. You pretty much give all of these things a 5, it feels like. Final verdict on best Doraemon film? I doubt your view is going to change by this point and you've probably seen the best ones. I can't remember which ones you named before, but you talked about the dinosaur one some. I'll make whatever you pick my first Doraemon.

I watched a few mins of RE:, and it's really not my thing. XD

It is sort of hilarious in a way, I guess. Seems unfortunate for director change because I can't see a series that ridiculous working any other way.

lmao, yes, I remember something like that. It looked like a spoof of Chainsaw Man but with a shark instead, which is kind of funny because there is a shark devil character in CSM. That short film looks way better. Came out all the way back in 2019, but I never heard about it. Anime fans just aren't into short films, lol. :S

The other annoying thing is I was wanting to see what a new directorial role would be like from the Flip-Flappers director, but he had to take this one I'm not interested in. And I say that despite it being on my PTW list and that I will probably end up watching it. Well, at least it probably will do well. :S

Right. I have no idea what they do in the Miyu series or if it's even sort of finished. Forget the animation... I'm scared of what the direction will be like. :S

I thought the same back when I read the Look Back manga. The ending is one of the most shoulder-shrugging things I've ever seen, and I just say "Okay." Just pointless, lmao. Cool scene. Looks like something that would be in a Hosoda movie, since he seems to like those infuriated scream and run scenes. Would be better if they adapted Fire Punch instead, which is a lot more interesting, especially with the meta/edgy movie within a comic thing. :S

GII sounds like dog shit. I might have to track down the shark scene, though, lmao. XD

Maybe this one will be better for mystery than that last thing we both had added:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/59136/Tasokare_Hotel

Art looks kind of gross and shojoish in a bad way, but seems maybe promising. :\

Ah, I wasn't too enthused by the Look Back manga, so I guess I probably won't have a much different opinion of the adaptation. What did you think of it?

Yeah, but the visual downgrade from OVA to TV must be frightening, not to mention the length for something that is probably episodic! I was kind of interested with Konaka being involved, but I'm quite suspicious of it. Curious to see how that one will go for you. Maybe I'd like the OVA a little bit better now. Not really sure.

It might be an effect of the spiral, but I feel that Ito simply has an off-kilter way of how he engages with characters, though maybe he had improved upon that by the time he started working on Gyo. I never bothered with Gyo, as I found the concept too silly.

True, it's difficult to get what's going on sometimes in that animation, but I think it's mostly the lack of context. I haven't read that arc in a long time, but it throws you right in the middle of it. I actually kind of like how vague it is, though. Is this a one-man team? Would love to see an indie animation team gradually do the whole series.

lol, I saw that comment.

Well, I can never really take Uzumaki seriously, and most of his work is more horror comedy. Those episodes were always building toward a greater process of the town's spiral loop. Definitely anti-climatic, since there is no resolution to the spiral curse. It simply loops. It's part of that nihilistic brand of Lovecraftian horror. Overly dark, bleak, and hopeless. Just this feels more like a piss take because of Ito's absurd style. I don't feel there was any issue with the brother being left behind as a snail. He was just going to go do snail things, like the other snails. Then get eaten, I suppose. Such is life. : ^)

Oh, looks interesting. I didn't know about this animation. Quite a unique style, and it's making me wonder what the original was like, as I haven't read that arc in so long.

Oh, that one. A lot of scenes definitely don't look great or have weird moments. :P

I forgot when I added it to MAL. So I placed it at 300 chapters, but I may have gotten significantly farther. I'll start from there and try to pick it up soon. I'd like to catch up.

Those were the final two he published? Hmm... What's going on here? Or maybe I should just read it soon. :S

How many chapters are there now from this point and what chapter is this?