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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 6] (ani.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by wjs018@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

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Another week of the year is in the books which means we get a new general discussion thread. Feel free to use this thread to talk about what you have been watching lately, questions about a series you didn't understand, recommendations for what to watch next, or any number of things. A couple examples to get your brain gears turning:

What anime character this season has the best facial hair and why is it Denken?
Konami is making their own anime? If you enter the code in the player, do you get the uncensored version?
I saw that Maomao was on the cover of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare magazine. What do you think the next anime character used by the Japanese government will be? Perhaps Ai Hoshino for the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology?

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I enjoyed Helck overall, but yeah, first half was all fun and games, while the second half was all dark and serious. With it so segregated content-wise it just felt like it didn't know what it wanted to be.

I think we could have revealed the backstory evenly throughout, like during the cooking competition, show how he looked after his lil bro.

Piwi was so cute and charming, but through all the backstory he's literally just sitting there.

With all the backstory gone now, I hope a season 2 could bring the story to a satisfying conclusion.

[–] wjs018@ani.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a good point that a season 2 wouldn't have to bear the burden of telling the whole backstory, so it can flow a lot better.

I think we could have revealed the backstory evenly throughout

This is my big complaint. I felt that this could have been handled a lot better and the backstory doled out in pieces throughout. I think it was even more jarring because its run overlapped with another show that does flashbacks in bits and pieces just where you need them; Frieren. So, the wildly different approach that the two shows took to tell their stories really threw into relief how much the plot progression came to a standstill for a month in Helck. I suspect it won't be as bad after the fact if you can binge the series, but watching week to week, it was tough for me.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think Helck left off at a very good spot for a second half. I don't know if I'd want more than another full season, and I don't think the manga was all that long to begin with. If like to see it reach its conclusion for sure though and see everyone get a nice ending.

I keep hearing all this talk about Frieren. I looked at some trailers, I've read the show summary, but I guess I'm going to have to just watch it, because nothing about it is really selling it as anything special to me.

Nothing in this season has really got me pumped, but I have spent the last few months binge reading all of One Piece, which I hadn't seen or read before, so it's going to be tough for anything new to measure up.

[–] wjs018@ani.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Frieren has been an excellent anime and one of my favorites in recent memory; easily my anime of the year last year from its first cour. However, at the same time, I recognize that its story isn't necessarily for everybody. It is deliberately very slow, contemplative, and melancholy in a way that a lot of other anime aren't. The production of the adaptation has truly been excellent, taking an already great manga and improving on it with great animation and an incredible soundtrack.

If you want to give it a fair shake, I recommend watching through episode 4. When it premiered, the first four episodes were shown as a single movie, so it does a pretty good job of setting up what to expect from the show. If you aren't hooked after that, then you can pretty safely drop it and know that it just wasn't going to be your thing.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I'll definitely give it a look. Thanks!