Fall 2021 anime

...Are you talking about Banished From The Heros Party? That's not an isekai

I'm going on an anime fast for the upcoming season, but I wonder if Mushoku will abide to my bare minimum desire of "time and place" for Rudeus' bad ta- actually didn't they introduce a scantily clad Loli at the end of the first cour? It's over befor it even began huh...

Said scantly clad loli is most likely a demon and is probably going to be 500 years old or whatever so it is Not A Problem™. The show still looks really good from the trailer (I dare say it looks better??) so definitely going to bookmark it on sakugabooru or watch any one off episode that seems particular good.

Edited by AbrahamOmosun on Sep 20th 2021 at 4:29:37 AM

Faraway Paladin is less like your boilerplate isekai and more like a classic Western fantasy story with a charmingly melancholy edge. Pro watch.

As long as Rudeus isn't constantly molesting girls this time around, it should be a much more enjoyable watch.

MY watchlist is going to be bloated as usual, but the highlights should be Mieruko-chan, Digimon Ghost Game, Yuki Yuna, Yashahime and Cardfight. Everything else is either a continuation or I'll need to see the first few episodes to decide.

Tawawa on Monday Season 2 shorts licensed by Crunchyroll.

I approve. Also, the Short haired lesbian in the episode in a nutshell:

Plus, the cute reference the flexing contest scene from Castle in the Sky, complete with a clip of said scene on the TV, was brilliant, too.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Sep 20th 2021 at 1:53:27 PM

Aside from carryovers from previous seasons my watchlist is:

Restaurant to Another World Season 2, Yashahime Season 2, Digimon Ghost Game, and Kimetsu no Yaiba Season 2. Anything else is dependent on word of mouth, specifically Mother's Basement on Youtube and whatever my friends/acquaintances recommend.

My only definete watch are 86 part 2, new season of Isekai Shoukudo and Tsuki To Laika To Nosferatu. I haven't watched Yu Yu Yu S2 yet (only S1 and Wa Shi Yu) so no reason to watch S3. Will still pick around 3-5 more series probably.

Some comments on the upcoming season:

• Kimetsu seems to be promoting itself pretty much solely by broadcasting compilation movies. Very little has focused on the actual upcoming title. I think we'll be getting an airdate once the last one airs in two days?
• Build Divide is advertising a TCG, but it doesn't seem to be particularly pushing the mons? Kinda weird
• Deep Insanity is spending it's marketing budget weirdly—They splurged on a manga and an anime, all with unique storylines, but they don't seem to have any budget left for promoting them
  • The game's OP is a duet from two of Hololive's best singers, which did result in a stream with nearly half a million views, so that might have worked out?
• Muv-Luv Alternative recast and redesigned everyone. Might just be updating to modern standards, but it's already a time travel story...
• Platinum End is from the Death Note/Bakuman people, but generally considered much worse than either
• Tesla Note is from the Tiger & Bunny writer

I'm definitely looking forward to 86 and Saihate no Paladin. Heike Monogatari is also pretty interesting so far - it's doing a great job of humanizing the cast and setting up the tragedy that results.

First Impressions

• Star Wars Visions: Well I’ve tried the first three episodes and, well, I’m not really impressed. The duel in the Trigger episode is the best thing so far, because of course, it’s a Trigger-animated action scene. In comparison, the per-episode plotlines were cheesy and trivial. Still continuing, it’s a good way to pass the time. Maybe the other episodes will be good.
• Heike Monogatari: The opening segment where the blind man is mercilessly slain in front of his daughter is immediately arresting, and once the song kicks in I am already enamored with the show. As the title implies, this seems like it will chronicle what the rise and fall of a powerful clan, through the eyes of an orphaned girl who can see the future, adopted by a noble who can see the dead. It’s a small touch of mysticism, but considerably adds to the intrigue. The art style is simple but stylistic, the animation buoyant and expressive. The animators clearly think this is a tale worth telling, and I am eager to listen. Onwards to episode 2. Definitely continuing.

I really appreciate Biwa's ability, yeah. The actual story (which is intended to be recited over shamisen, the way the brief narration sections are) is told from a point of view where this was all a foregone conclusion, so Biwa being able to see but not act on what she sees is a great way to capture that.

Uh. So, the new Kimetsu arc isn't starting till December. What's actually coming up soon is a TV version of Mugen Train

...

Anyway, we have airdates for everything now

Edited by Hylarn on Sep 25th 2021 at 8:08:07 AM

It actually kinda annoys me that the TV version seems like it will have new content. Entirely new content for the first episode sure but who knows how much has changed for the subsequent ones.

I would put money on the "entirely new first episode" being a compilation or story-so-far catchup of the first season.

There some new footage from before the Mugen Trai part.

Honestly, if Maid In Abyss Season 2 does this with the Bondrewd Arc, I'd be fine with it.

Same with this, as not everyone saw Mugen Train in Theaters.

It actually kinda annoys me that the TV version seems like it will have new content. Entirely new content for the first episode sure but who knows how much has changed for the subsequent ones.

Well, the movie has about 111 minutes of animation. Assuming the TV episodes are the same length as the first season, they'll have 21 each. This means there'll need to be about 15 minutes of new content, even outside of the first episode

Same with this, as not everyone saw Mugen Train in Theaters.

This information literally came after a TV broadcast of the Mugen Train movie

Just realized that Yashahime drops on Saturday.

Excited for it.

You may be the only one. While I was initially excited the first season more or less killed my enthusiasm messily and slowly, dragged it outside, dismembered the corpse and buried the pieces in shallow graves in an illegal toxic waste dump.

While that's... certainly an emphatic way to put it, I have a hard time disagreeing, if I'm honest.

Why do Sequel-with-the-Kids-of-the-Old-cast usually suck?

I'm enjoying Yashahime well enough, but I never saw the original Inuyasha as something of particular quality anyway. It has most of the same flaws, just with a main cast I sort of like this time.

Yeah, Yashahime isn't some massive insult to the original or anything. It's a fine enough show, and Inuyasha was also fine at best.

I think paradoxically that's one of the problems that a lot of people have with it, at least as far as pacing goes. The originally had poor pacing because it was a weekly anime adaptation of an ongoing manga. Overtook the Manga and the chronic filler arcs and padding animation to drag out the story that resulted was an issue.

Yashahime, being an anime-original project should in theory be immune to these issues. But it has them. So much of it feels like throw-away, disposable side-plots that do nothing to advance to story or the characters and whose only purpose is to pad the episode count.