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Happy birthday! :D

Thanks for reading my Dress-Up Darling review and apologies for replying late! Just finished an assignment that was due 5 minutes ago my time lol

Personally, I'm just someone who wants to get their opinion out, and at least for Dress-Up Darling, more diverse opinions appeared after mine so I'm glad the consensus is not unanimously positive nor negative.

Also, thanks for the friend request! You have a lot of interesting scores for shows and movies I've seen so it might be a fun discussion~ I'm more curious about some of your more negatives ones though like Bunny-Girl Senpai and Erased though lol; I'll bring up more I want to know about later if I remember.

Also, what shows/movies are the images at the bottommost center and bottommost rightmost positions? It was kind of a fun name game for the rest though lol (HxH, Shouwa, Yuu Yuu Hasuko, Vampire Hunter, Mushishi, Lain, Aria, 3-gatsu, Mononoke Hime, K-On, Nausicaa, Millennium Actress, Casshern Sins, Whisper of the Heart, Spirited Away, Angel's Egg, Summer Wars, ???, Clannad, ???) correct me if I'm wrong though~

No problem, thank you very much!

Thanks you my based brother

Happy birthday! :)

Ah, that's good to hear.

Yeah. I mean, it's not like the adaptation does any big changes or anything and it's one of those anime, that sticks mainly to the source material without really adding much to it, but since the source material is already pretty good and it's a competent done anime, it doesn't bother really.

Eh, I feel like season 2 did improve on some things more than season 1. Mainly, while it is more a bunch of different vignettes than really a story (outside of the first 2 episodes with Ilulu), it's nice that the anime this time also focuses more on the side characters like Fafnir, Shota, Elma (who especially suffered in season 1, since she first appeared like in one of the last episodes)...it adds so much to their character. And also, I feel like it fits, since season 1 ended with both Tohru and Kobayashi going through their respective developments. So it's good that the show now wants to develop the others too.

Right?
I mean, the author (who's my favourite manga author) is already known for doing tons of big tits on small girls. He even started with doing Loli and Shota hentai before doing "real" manga. So it's pretty hilarious, how shocked people always are about his character designs XD

Oh, I can recommend Mieruko-chan. It is based around this one joke, but they do this one joke pretty well, that I don't mind. Plus, the ghosts in this show geniunely look creepy. And while I don't fully agree with that statement, one Youtuber described it best as "This show manages to be more creepy than some modern horror anime".

Oh, I might be biased, since...Pompoko might be my favourite Ghibli film. It's funny, it's sad, it has some great messages about protecting the enviroment, the animation spectacular (especially that one parade scene)...plus, I do love stories about Yo-Kai and the like, so seeing this movie fully using the Tanukis is pretty awesome too :D

Hey, it's been good, hopefully it also has been good for you :D

Eh, some good stuff, some bad stuff, the usual.

I finally finished Nagatoro, which was a pretty fun and good adaptation of the manga. And so the news for the 2nd season already make me pretty excited to watch it XD

I started watching Dragon Maid season 2...which is just as amazing as season 1, if not even better. I honestly don't get all this whirlwind about Ilulu (who's actually my favourite of the Dragons), but eh. People gotta complain about something...

Other than that, I started watching Mieruko-chan from this season. The first episode has me hooked already :D

mister bean

Thanks Mr. Bean. He's truly indefensible, no matter how much praise and pretty animation is heaped on top. Unfortunate.

Definitely. I do ocassionally try to watch seasonals to keep up with 1 or 2 talks, but that's really it. Besides, it's just as fun discussing older stuff with people too.
Yeah, same. Though I want to try to watch at least a bit more than just "1 episode every 1-2 days". Especially, since my hobby (writing reviews of Anime and Manga) is connected with how much I watch and read.

Also, I do try to keep the shows I watch at a time varied. Basically, trying to be like "1 comedy, 1 drama, 1 magical girl show, 1-2 short anime..." so I can always jump to the genre I'm feeling like watching at the moment.

You're welcome, hope you'll enjoy it :D

Yeah, I rarely watch seasonals myself. I'm not really into the whole "Discussing every new episode the moment it comes out" part of the anime community. I've seen people burning out on watching seasonals, which certainly isn't the way I would want to watch my anime. I have my own "flow" when watching shows, though I occassionally try watching and keeping up with seasonals (with mixed results).

Hmm, I see. So far, I loved the first 3 episodes and each of the girls do add something promising to the table. Plus, I love the whole concept of suicide and all that. It acutally reminds me of Flip Flappers, which is my favourite anime, only with darker themes and less magical girl like.
Heavens Design Team is fun...if a bit standard. But the comedy based around animal factsand the characters do keep it fun.

So far, I like it. It honestly feels more like a detective, film noir show than a mech anime, which I do like (I still can't get really into mecha anime). Though the episodes are a mixed bag. Nothing is awful or anything so far, thankfully. Certain episodes (like the one about the journalist going insane trying to find the truth of the city) are amazing, while others (like the one where Dorothy finds a cat) just are meh. Also, many of the side-characters, especially the villains of the week feel underdeveloped.
But yeah, if you're into anime, that are like detective shows where the main-character muses about the meaning of the word memory, while a saxophon plays in the background, then that anime is something for you.

Oof, seeing Wonder Egg on your profile reminds me, that I definitely need to catch up with it (still stuck at episode 3).

I usually don't watch seasonals, but this season, I decided to watch 2-3 shows. Including Wonder Egg, Heavens Design Team and Yatogame-chan season 3. I wanted to watch Ex-Arms too...but it's as terrible as people say it is. It's not even worth it in a "So bad, it's good" kind of way. It's more in a "People threw money at this, thinking this would make a profit!" way.

Ah, I see. I can recommend these two, as I think next to Nausicaa they're some of Myazakis best films. Hopefully, you'll enjoy them like I did when I watched them a while back :D
I actually plan on watching PomPoko soon. Out of the ones not made by Myazaki, I remember loving this one in particiular (though it has been a while).

Agreed. Funnily enough, I actually own the first volume of the manga, I bought it from like a flea market way, way back (back when I didn't even know what this thing called "anime" really is) and it's still in a good condition. The artwork is pretty amazing and Myazaki has a talent to tell a story through manga just as much as he does movies. Though I haven't really read it, I know that the movie is basically the beginning arc of the manga. I heard that it gets dark later on (apparently, from what I've heard at least, Myazaki suffered PTSD while writing it and it shows in the later chapters...though I get be mistaken with that info) and that they get more...challenging with the pacifist viewpoints of Nausicaa.

Oh yeah, I plan on watching Monoke soon.
Porco Rosso was still pretty good (I use worst, though I would say, the more fitting word is...weakest). It does still have amazing, likable characters, some great animation and some wonderful anti-war themes (a trademark of Myazaki XD). But I feel like the story is...confused. The pacing feels completely off, it suddenly gets dramatic, then funny, then subtle, then not so subtle...it felt like it was all over the place and it didn't really know what to say.
It's funny since you mentioned Totoro, which is basically a film with no story...and I feel like I got more what that one was about. But again, I still like Porco Rosso.

Agreed, every single Ghibli film I've watched so far has been at least a solid 9, even their weaker ones have so many great elements, that I still end up giving them a score on the upper range.

My favourite of the ones I've watched so far, if we strictly speaking Ghibli, is either Howls Moving Castle (for how creative it is, the great fantasy world, the amazing characters, a bit of nostalgia since this was one of the first I watched as a child) or Ponyo (it's basically the end of the world imagined by a child, that read too much Little Mermaid...and it's just a fun film).
Otherwise, it would definitely go to Nausicaa for it's themes (I am a sucker for pacifistic themes) an amazing and memorable written main-character, some solid world building, beautiful enviroments and creatures...it definitely is Miyazakis best work.

Their weakest one...definitely, to me at least, Porco Rosso.