Ike Posted December 3 Posted December 3 2 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said: I did not. I found it far too cheesy/happy go lucky. How far did you get?
Hero-of-Time Posted December 3 Posted December 3 55 minutes ago, Ike said: How far did you get? About 15 episodes in.
Happenstance Posted December 3 Posted December 3 1 hour ago, Hero-of-Time said: About 15 episodes in. Typical, the 16th ep is the one where everyone falls in love with the anime immediately! 2
Julius Posted December 5 Posted December 5 OP for Beastars Final Season is a banger and continues the trend of these being some of the most creative OPs in anime: Love it 2
Glen-i Posted December 5 Posted December 5 That is miles better then the second season one! That one felt a bit generic compared to the lovely stop-motion first season opening. Can't wait for this! One of the few animes that truly captured my attention. 1
Julius Posted December 11 Posted December 11 (edited) Finished Season 7 of My Hero Academia a little earlier this evening. It's been a while since I've watched and completed any anime. It was phenomenal, and I completed it in just a few days (I mean, I tried to pace myself). If I thought S6 was taking the show back to the heights of the first cour of S3, then S7 may genuinely be challenging S2 as my favourite season of the show. The music is hype as hell (and there's so much that's new!), the fights feel a level above with how they're broken down (not quite at the level of something like HxH, but it's so much better than MHA has offered for a while now), the twists and turns are exhilarating, and it just peels back layer after layer on some characters while still retaining a great fog of mystery around others. More than a few moments got me choked up, and it feels like virtually EVERYONE got their moment to shine – momentS, in a couple of cases. The only bummer was that after the 4 recap episodes ('Memories'), which I skipped, this was only a 21 episode season, and it also leaves things mid-fight by the time credits roll around and we're left waiting for the show's eighth and final season, which as far as I'm concerned should be outlawed. It feels like absolutely no-one is talking about it, and I get it, I think S4 and S5 were messy and/or weak adaptations of the manga which saw many people cool off on My Hero, but damn it if the show hasn't seriously returned to form between S6 and S7. I'm left chomping at the bit for S8. This season felt like the first to be all killer, no filler, and it was so much better for it. One particular character/group arc, my favourites in MHA, had their arc come to a head – and it was damn near perfect. If you've been keeping up with My Hero, or you're a bit behind, or hell you haven't even started it yet, there's an earned intensity after six seasons leading up to this one which I think makes it more than worth checking out. Edited December 12 by Julius
Julius Posted Sunday at 09:44 AM Posted Sunday at 09:44 AM First trailer for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, which will be airing from April 2025. I actually read through the first few volumes of this way back when I started to get into MHA, and it was decent. It ran concurrent to the main series so I do think it's a little bit odd to start My Hero spin-offs with this; think I'd much rather skip to a prequel show about All-Might, if I'm being honest Which has got to be inevitable... right? 1
Jonnas Posted Sunday at 11:22 AM Posted Sunday at 11:22 AM 1 hour ago, Julius said: First trailer for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, which will be airing from April 2025. I actually read through the first few volumes of this way back when I started to get into MHA, and it was decent. It ran concurrent to the main series so I do think it's a little bit odd to start My Hero spin-offs with this; think I'd much rather skip to a prequel show about All-Might, if I'm being honest Which has got to be inevitable... right? Oh, this is cool! I read this Manga up until the end of its... first "Season", let's say. I definitely liked to see a microcosm of the wider MHA world, featuring a college student as the protagonist (IMO, what Deku should've been as well). I do remember it getting surprisingly dark at times as well. I remember one of my peeves with it was with quirk creativity. A lot of characters-of-the-week have quirks that are just "turns into an animal/monster", or a variant of super strength. Or both. But overall, fun romp. I'm glad to see it adapted! 1
martinist Posted Sunday at 12:39 PM Posted Sunday at 12:39 PM (edited) I'm behind on Shaman King I'm behind on Zom 100 I'm behind on Don't Toy With Me Miss Nagatoro I'm behind on Dead Dead Demons Dedede Destruction I'm behind on One Piece I'm behind on Chainsaw Man I'm behind on Spy x Family I'm behind on Oshi no Ko I really need to stop buying manga before I'm finished reading what I have. I'm really thinking of picking up those Naruto box sets in the sales though.... Edited Sunday at 12:40 PM by martinist 1
bob Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago On 9/8/2024 at 9:16 PM, Julius said: Finished S4 of Demon Slayer after starting it the other day. S2 is still the peak of it for me, but that entire 30+ minute finale and the penultimate episode's credits were just flexing so damn hard with the craziest anime eye candy I think I've seen in a show – it matched movie quality and then some. The entire finale is basically just the most glorified and stretched out post-credits scene and it freaking works. Which makes complete sense with the knowledge that we're getting a trilogy to finish it all off. It does seem a bit rushed, but hey, I'll take three gorgeous and fight-heavy anime films to round this all off before it would otherwise run itself into the ground I'm really confused about what season I've seen and what season is out/available. I think the seasons were labelled weirdly on Netflix, which didn't help, but the whole way that anime tends to be released in fits and spurts, with specials and extras and movies just makes it way more confusing. Especially when you add in that there are two versions (dubbed Vs subbed), I can never remember where I am. I think the last season of Demon Slayer I watched was the sword maker village one (which was labelled as Season 4 on Netflix). It sounds like there is another season out after that though? Has it been dubbed yet?
Julius Posted 13 hours ago Posted 13 hours ago (edited) 2 hours ago, bob said: I'm really confused about what season I've seen and what season is out/available. I think the seasons were labelled weirdly on Netflix, which didn't help, but the whole way that anime tends to be released in fits and spurts, with specials and extras and movies just makes it way more confusing. Especially when you add in that there are two versions (dubbed Vs subbed), I can never remember where I am. I think the last season of Demon Slayer I watched was the sword maker village one (which was labelled as Season 4 on Netflix). It sounds like there is another season out after that though? Has it been dubbed yet? Can totally see why you're confused about it, and I agree with you, it has had a very strange release schedule – it seems to have worked for them in the grand scheme of things when it comes to making money, but yeah, not easy to follow at the best of times. Mugen Train was a prime example of this: film was huuuuuuuuuge, it's the best way to experience the story in my opinion for how it is better paced without the opening, closing, and recapping of anime episodes, but then the TV release splits it into a number of episodes with some additional content and it was awkwardly squeezed in as the start to the second season. Anyways, to answer your question, I've just checked on Netflix and it looks like they've done away with calling them "Seasons" (probably for the reason you're citing, I imagine) and instead have just split them into arcs – the latest arc, which is called the Hashira Training arc, is the fourth season I was referring to in my post; it's only 8 episodes long and the final episode is a bit longer than the others. The third season, Swordsmith Village arc, is the one it sounds like you watched most recently. The English dub for the Hashira Training arc/S4 is all out on Netflix too, as it has finished airing, so it's all ready for you to dive in! Edited 13 hours ago by Julius 1
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