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Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 02-12-2023
So we can stop using BlackAeronaut's "what I've been watching" thread for the purpose.
I haven't actually watched a thing yet this season, but among those I've been saving for later is season two of Bofuri, because Maple's shenanigans are just too much fun. I've read that there's supposed to be a new season of Youjo Senki sometime soon but haven't seen any previews yet let alone episodes; it is on my list to watch out for at any rate, along with the second half of Transformers Earthspark and SW Ahsoka.
What I really wanted to ask about, though, was one I vaguely remember but never actually watched. I'm pretty sure the setting was not-WWII, and the witch MC rides an a machine cannon like a broomstick, but aside from that I have no real information, save that it would probably have been probably early-noughties or early- to mid-teens, as I was not online with anything capable of watching streams or torrenting from around 2008 to 2012 and it was definitely at least five years back. That doesn't strictly rule out the middle period, or for that matter late 90s, but they don't feel likely. Anyone know what it was?
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - Jinx999 - 02-13-2023
(02-12-2023, 11:46 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: What I really wanted to ask about, though, was one I vaguely remember but never actually watched. I'm pretty sure the setting was not-WWII, and the witch MC rides an a machine cannon like a broomstick, but aside from that I have no real information, save that it would probably have been probably early-noughties or early- to mid-teens, as I was not online with anything capable of watching streams or torrenting from around 2008 to 2012 and it was definitely at least five years back. That doesn't strictly rule out the middle period, or for that matter late 90s, but they don't feel likely. Anyone know what it was?
Could it be "Shuumatsu no Izetta"?
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 02-13-2023
Looks like probably. The cannon is pretty distinctive.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - ECSNorway - 09-27-2023
Arise, thread, Arise!
So, my sister-in-law is Korean. And she's gotten Mom into K-dramas recently. And mom asked me to sit down and watch one with her.
And it was fun.
The series is "Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung". It follows four young women who find themselves working in the Joseon Dynasty court historian's office - a group of chroniclers effectively independant of the Emperor, and explicitly allowed to defy Imperial edicts and orders in the name of Historical Accuracy - in a time of political intrigue and the beginnings of European contact.
It's quite a fun story, I found it very interesting.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - Bob Schroeck - 09-27-2023
Ah, Peg was watching that with Helen; I think they've finished it and moved on to something else these days. They certainly seemed to enjoy it. I wouldn't know, I'm trying not to get into anything new until I get through my existing backlog.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - ECSNorway - 11-27-2023
Well, just to deepen your backlog... I believe I mentioned the Manga and Light Novel series titled "The Apothecary Diaries" in the old thread.
It now has been animated, currently airing and streamable on Crunchyroll.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 12-30-2023
This is more of a wave-off than a rec to be honest, but with the previous anime season hitting final episodes I finally got around to watching some. Among those was The Kingdoms of Ruin, a relentlessly ultraviolent (and occasionally edging into rapey territory, albeit with no actual nip slips let alone anything more explicit as more than implication or threats; also there's lots of dismemberment, a skeleton, and some eyeballs, but no other exposed/flying organs) environmental parable horror/drama that I nonetheless watched all the way through, more for how the the sake of wondering if any recurring character would actually make it through the season without getting killed on camera.
You know the saying about how some men just want to watch the world burn? This is a show where the MC is one such man, and it goes really hard to make you want to cheer him on from the first few seconds, where it explains the creation of the world and humans and witches to guide and protect them both, followed by humans turning against the witches as technology developed, and then a witch in black silhouette cursing humans as a noose is put around her neck and she's hung. On camera. Followed by cutting to a pretty blonde and a kid in a desert area fleeing from the witch hunt, only to be spotted by some hoverbike scouts and captured, where the pretty blonde has her top torn off and (after some populist dictatorial ranting) is personally shot in the head by the Emperor, right in front of the kid, who is of course the main protagonist. The female lead is introduced after a "ten years later" card where she almost gets sold as a sex slave but instead pulls off a prison break that also frees the other.
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SpoilerAll of which up to the time skip is in the show's trailer, by the way, while the prison break spans the end of ep1 and beginning of ep2, which is why I'm not worried about spoiling it. The rest of the show keeps to much the same tone, except for a few jarring moments of comic relief (more toward the end of the season than earlier, IIRC) and a few actual character development moments. Just enough for the thing to actually be watchable, at least while in a very cynical mood that let me nod along and say "yeah, humans are assholes like that" and let the violence wrap around to black humor in its own right.
I doubt I'll bother with a second season if it even gets made, but if animated blood and the occasional severed head juggling act won't put you off, I guess it's got enough character stuff going on to count as being watchable? I don't resent then lost minutes of my life that I can never, ever get back like I did for Revenge of the Sith and The Farce Engorges, at least, and had a strong enough reaction to come and write a few paragraphs about it, unlike the three generic isekais I watched 3-5 episodes of before noping out on for lack of interest in the characters, worlds, or anything they were doing.
Rating, I'd say about three to four out of ten. I already covered the story and characters in general terms, there are definite arcs to both but no really amazing twists, and the finale does close them but is blatantly intended to lead directly into another season. The animation is usually well blocked out and drawn but occasionally has a pretty low frame rate or obvious corner cutting, but very rarely anything that makes you point and say "Oh, that's CGI added in" except for one late antagonist whose gimmick is having a ton of flying robot hands to fight with. It does NOT keep showing the same footage in flashbacks two or three times an episode, and when there are flashbacks it's usually just a tiny clip without the original dialogue, expecting the viewer to have enough retention to remember it for themselves instead of the time-filling all too many shows tend to use them as. The music and sound design are there without being notably good or bad. It's honestly probably a bit too tame to have horror aspects be the draw if that's your thing, there's lots of blood but the magic/tech-flavored magic and general power level would fit more in shounen otherwise.
Well, not the philosophy. MC-kun doesn't believe in friendship or anyone's good nature, and is repeatedly proven right, so very not shounen outside the loads of glowy FX, swordplay and punching, and a sprinkle of cyborgs, powered armor, and giant robots. There's a couple of other genre-clash elements thrown into the mix later as well, specifically to explore the world and character building, admittedly also a big part of what I stuck around for. Overall, it's not a feel-good show by any means, probably not even good by objective standards, but it's good enough to make you think about and admire some of the storytelling in its own right. If there's anything I can actually point to and say Kingdom of Ruins is worth watching for, it's those aspects.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 12-30-2023
... all of which makes Shangri-La Frontier the perfect naime top follow it up with. Beautiful animation, sound design and music that amaze from teh OP to the ED and beyond to the pre and post-credits scenes, humor that's actually funny, characters that inspire more than just curiosity about how long before something bad happens to them, and then there's the theme of the show, about an MC who plays obscure trash VR-games for the challenge of working past crappy technical quality and the joy of being able to file it onto the "never play again!!!" shelf, who picks up a wildly popular, all but universally loved new game and loves it all the more for the lack of bugs and glitches on top of high quality content. Also, Main Girl (and the art in general) falls much more into my strike zone for good looking characters, though that of course is entirely subjective compared to the aforementioned. Haven't watched enoguh to say anything about the overall plot or give a rating, but even if it ends up as brainless eye candy it is at least GOOD eye candy.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 12-31-2023
Some might say that spending three or four minutes on run time on the smith's song in ep11 is bad pacing. Fuck those people. They are objectively wrong. There is more character insight and world building packed into the one song than half the anime of any given season. Shangri-La Frontier is god-tier and I can't recommend it hard enough.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 01-01-2024
One liner grade issekai:
Summoned a Second Time: Flushed at ep5
Most Heretical Last Boss to Savior: watchable to fill time
... I know there was a third, but I can't remember anything except flushing it at ep3, it was so generic.
Anyway, two more recently completed anime to round out the binge - zom100 (100 Things I Want To Do Before Becoming a Zombie/Bucket List of the Dead) and 16-bit Sensation. Two very different shows, the first (like it says on the label) a zombie apocalypse - and believe me, I am UTTERLY SHOCKED to find any example of that I rate even this high - and the other time travel crossed with a passion for video game development.
Yes, they both get super weird, in their own ways. The zombie trash is humor with almost no actual horror aspects; even the blood spatters are a brilliant rainbow of colors and the zombies themselves mostly just look lumpy and/or veiny. The zombie stuff is really more of an excuse to examine the mentality of the various characters, which is undoubtedly WHY it ends up rating so high through most of its run.
The time travel protagonist cries "Ahh! I'm just an illustrator, I'm totally not the main character type!" and is laser-focused on getting to be the lead artist on an ero-ge. It's cute and funny and minimizes the confusion of time travl, aside from the characters working out the what triggers it.
They both have good visual design taking any given frame as a still image and workmanlike animation quality. For sound design, 16bit gets a little melodramatic with the "threat" music when it's not really needed, probably intentionally to mimic the bishoujo-game genre the characters are mostly focused on, while zom100 has nothing to complain about but no real turn-it-up awesome moments either.
They also both have the exact same flaw that drops them from solid seven or eight out of ten to four or five, and that is the "need" to have a villain to end the season with, in both cases crashingly dull and stereotypical in ways that utterly clash with the unique twists the two shows put on their genres up to that point.
I will even go so far as to say don't watch past about two thirds of the way through ep9 for either one, ending zom100 with MC reunited with his parents and 16bit with MC returning to her original time. 16bit's finale arc is tolerable I guess, but zom100 wastes its last three episodes on a trio(? No, I think it was four) annoying diabolus ex machina assholes, trying to make you care about them by dropping their backstories all at once intercut with them fighting a member of the protagonist crew, who uses talking-no-jutsu to dismantle their excuses for being horrible wastes of living flesh. Then it's just a "ride into the sunset" coda far less satisfying than if it had ended before the last arc.
Man, I need to watch more stuff that's actually worth recommending, though up until ep9 these would both make the cut, even if I doubt I'd watch them again.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 01-30-2024
Well, crap. I was making a list of stuff that looks fun in the new season since most shows have 3-4 eps out at this point, but VLC crashed and due to still running off a live boot USB that means my usual form history extension history was erased as well as what I was working ov. Short version then, kiss marry kill anime edition:
* 7th Time Loop: interesting characters and some beautiful animation, esp. the dance scene in ep3. Marry.
* Hidden Boss Villainess Lv99: rtpical magic academy otome game insert stuff, but I like the kuudere MC so will watch even if it's probably not a keeper. Kiss, maybe marry depending on how the season plays out.
* Wrong way to use Healing Magic: typical issekai setup, but the healer mentor is another of my favorite archetypes, The Healer Who Has No Time For Your Bullshit. Kiss.
* Delicious in Dungeon: already love the manga, but again probably don't need to keep it after watching, so kiss.
* Monthly Delusion Magazine: The frou-frou dog is cute I guess? I was hoping for a Master of Mosquiton (OVA) -like wierd science/supernatural roaring 20s style romp, but the characters are annoying, the creature designs are kiddie show stuff, the BG and period stuff is at best sorta present, and the music (what there is of it) is entirely modern anime filler crap, with a shouting-over-rock-rap OP theme compared to Mosqy's period appropriate saxy jazz. Kill with extreme prejudice. Except the dog, the dog can stay. Good pupper.
* Princess, It's Torture Time: betraying your world to the demon king's army for food porn and video games... too childish and meta for me. Kill.
* Issekai Hot Spring Paradise: half length episodes and an entire series based on the stereotypical fanservice filler material. Kill.
* Ishura: Minimal plot, just a buhnc of charaacter introductions for what looks like a tournament for the mid/late series. Also, hella gore, with all the edge (and splashing blood) of Kingdoms of Ruin plus more dangling guts and so on. Like, for the first few minutes of ep1 you'd think it's a pseudomedivial magic academy yuri anime, then one of the girls gets in front of the other and the entire city is left in flames and ruin just to introduce... well, first issekai dude so probably the character the audience is expected to root for. Doesn't have the stylistic twists I mentioned for KoR either, though the animation is mostly better, if obviously hybrid 2D/3D. Borderline, but in the name of saner watch time, kill.
* The Villain's Day Off: I always wanted a more expanded version of those episodes where one of the Dark Generals explores the human world and finds various delicious foods and cute critters. Now I have it. Marry.
* Metallic Rouge: The only beats this doesn't lift directly from Blade Runner are by way of Bubblegum Crisis or Armitage III. Marry.
* Strongest Tank's Labrynth Raids: basically I Don't Eant To Get Hurt So I'll Put All My Points In Defense, except with a big buff guy instead of Maple, and actually living in a pseudo-medieval kitchen sink world instead of an MMO. An inoffensive way to spend time, but Kiss at best, might Kill later if it stays as slow as the first few episodes.
* The Weakest Tamer Leaves on a Journey to Pick Up Trash: no-System Issekai with barely-there past life memories and the opposite of a cheat skill, but the MC is interesting and the technical quality is mostly good, with just a few odd choices for ADR sound effects here and there. Note, almost the entire third episode is MC having a flashback to her past that turns into a nightmare of having been caught instead of escaping in ep1, and the show runners want to really make you hate her father and former villagers, so you can and possibly should skip to the 20min mark if you don't feel you need those details. It doesn't feel like any of them are anything the previous glimpses didn't show the critical features of, just explicitly being told on camera. Despite that warniong, most of the other episodes' runtime is "cute girl doing wilderness survival cutely" with a side order of overcoming despair to find her own way. Kiss.
* My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered (Sokushi Cheat): Finally, an issekai anime for the edgelord chuunis who want to believe that only their will restrains an instant death ability! Aside from all the interesting character designs that show up for a few seconds to a minute and then flop over dead, there's nothing really objectionable here, and it even includes some more technological elements to stave off the endless flood of pseudo-medieval fantasy. Kiss.
* Solo Leveling: In reverse issekai, dungeon comes to you! This one's kinda edgy and gore heavy too, but Kiss for now.
* Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern: Finally, some good old fashioned super-robot shenanigans to round things out! Though MC-kun's history and the world in general have a muich more Real Robots background, so he's like "What the heck is this music playing?!" instead of just rolling with it like your typical Ordinary Teenager protagonist. Kiss at least, possibly Marry if the glimpsed flight mode transformation is at least half decent.
Of course, there are many more anime coming out this season, these are just the ones (and just the new ones, not even second seasons or continuing long seasons) I thought sounded interesting to give my standard "three episodes to not suck" trial. What are you watching? Do you agree or disagree with my picks?
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - nemonowan - 01-31-2024
(01-30-2024, 08:29 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: * Princess, It's Torture Time: betraying your world to the demon king's army for food porn and video games... too childish and meta for me. Kill.
This one would have worked better if they had leveraged on her life having been shitty because of a spartan education from birth meant to turn her into a warrior hero.
As it is, they keep flip-flopping on this, until her only consistent issue was not having friends/peers. And that's not enough in my book to justify succombing to hedonistic pleasures like eating tasy food or playing with cute puppies.
It just becomes an excuse for a "cute girls dong cute things" slice of life mixed with food porn, and since it's just anime you should really just relax and enjoy.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - robkelk - 01-31-2024
(01-31-2024, 06:31 AM)nemonowan Wrote: ... and since it's just anime you should really just relax and enjoy.
That isn't really useful advice -- it assumes all anime is alike. It's like saying "You liked Oppenheimer, so you should really just relax and enjoy Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken" because they're both movies released by Universal.
I have to say that classicdrogn's capsule description of the premise of Princess, It's Torture Time does not make me want to watch the show.
(Me? What am I watching? I'm just getting around to DanMachi IV...)
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 01-31-2024
Make no mistake, it is indeed cute girls doing cute things, but the framing device just ruins it for me - the war against the demon army is treated deadly serious in the glimpses shown of it, or nearly - I believe they didn't show any of the generic troops getting un-alived before the warrior princess jumps in and saves them, but at least so far they don't show how she got defeated and captured either. The information she gives up being unusable for various reasons is played for laughs too, but no one's telling her that either, so as far as she knows she's betrayed critical weaknesses and secret weapons for french toast and a few rounds of offbrand Super Smash Brothers.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - hazard - 01-31-2024
"I'm the Hidden Boss not the Demon Lord" is something I find fairly fun, mostly because Yumiella gives no shits without being deliberately an asshole. She'll blow the demon summoning flute on the class not for revenge, or to show off, or to get them killed. She'll do it because that's how you level efficiently, and she's basically had to raise herself so she doesn't really understand why that's insane to everybody else.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 01-31-2024
That's what I have as Hidden Boss Villainess Lv99, because I store fansubs by their romanized Japanese titles as a rule and mostly couldn't be arsed to look up the official translations if I knew the words myself
I remember seeing that name on a LN a while back though, so if it's the same thing I'm certainly going to check that out. In any case, yeah, Yumi's great fun, though her past life memories must be pretty weak aside from the game itself to have so little sense of what a normal childhood experience or threat level looks like. It's possible past-life-chan was a bit on the autistic spectrum since she mentions "I always was the type to get absorbed in whatever I was doing" as the explanation for why she obsessively snuck out to grind levels every day for a decade after regaining her memories, I guess? I don't know, that honestly sounds like the objectively best thing to do in her situation to me, as well, but then I am a Disgaea gamer, so if obsessive solo grinding is a sign of mental illness (or simply neuro-divergent behavior) I certainly have it as well.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - Labster - 02-01-2024
Man, I'm not all that into isekai and apparently that's all the rage now?
The only isekai I'm keeping up with (in manga, the anime series was just announced last month) is Risou no Himo Seikatsu (The Ideal Sponger Life), which isn't really a typical isekai because (1) MC's wife has access to magic that can let him return to Japan (he brings over an air conditioner), (2) MC is absolutely in love with his Wife/Queen and goes through all sorts of hoops in order to avoid taking concubines, (3) King-Consort MC and his wife have an heir and a spare, and (4) this story is really an excuse to examine Western European politics through royalty, technology (+magic), and trade in the Early Modern era while looking at cute girls. When you see the Kingdom of Capua, you should really be thinking "Crown of Castille" but without all of the icky context of the Reconquista. I really like it, but I'm sure it's not for everyone -- you'll need some interest in history and politics to really enjoy it.
I haven't seen anything newer than Tomo-chan is a Girl!, a romantic comedy about a tomboy's struggles to convince her childhood friend/classmate/fellow blackbelt that she really is a girl. Imagine Ranma/Akane, if there were no other fiancees or curses. Special mention to Tomo's best girlfriend Misuzu, who strikes me as the kind of schemer who would take an instant dislike to Tomoyo Daidouji from CCS. Anyway, pretty funny, as you'd expect from an adaptation from yonkoma. The best romantic comedy anime I've seen since Lovely Complex.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 02-01-2024
Misuzu is my avatar image on the SB family of boards, so yeah, I know about that one even if I originally just picked it as "cute girl with some Welsh in a speech bubble" - still haven't gotten around to actually watching/reading it, but I've seen enough to know that while Tomo-chan is a girl, Misuzu is a cat. I have no issues with this
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 02-01-2024
... I am starting to really hate backstory arcs. Not because I don';t want to know about the characters, but because they spend for bloody ever on slow pans with sad violins, dramatic pauses in the dialogue, and repeating the same scenes two or three times to hammer in that the character is thinking about them differently as their tragic story progresses. Just putting it on 1.5x speed isn't enough, but my vision's been getting worse and I can't read the subs any faster than that. SHY spent three or four episodes on the Russian vodkamancer senpai when it could easily have been two, even one if they rushed it, and still never covered how she got empowered, or gave more than a trace of Shy's own history. Sure lush-chan is cute and all, but you'd think the title character would be the one to be developed first...
And then there's Helck, that I just finished slogging through. Five oi siz episodes this time, and horns instead of strings, but still could have been condensed by at least one episode without actually losing any of the story. (Though the subversion of the "snow means love" trope is pretty cool after letting my temper recover, at least.) At least they pushed that back into the second season, where SHY spent the last third of its own dozen episodes glacially creeping along, and yes that pun is fully intended and still not nearly bad enough to express my disgust.
I get that animation is expensive time consuming and reusing the same footage with desaturation and sepia filters both saves a chunk of change and lets the staff make up for schedule issues, but if a show's going to get greenlit it should damn well budget enough time and money in the first place!
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - hazard - 02-02-2024
(01-31-2024, 11:42 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: That's what I have as Hidden Boss Villainess Lv99, because I store fansubs by their romanized Japanese titles as a rule and mostly couldn't be arsed to look up the official translations if I knew the words myself
In any case, yeah, Yumi's great fun, though her past life memories must be pretty weak aside from the game itself to have so little sense of what a normal childhood experience or threat level looks like. It's possible past-life-chan was a bit on the autistic spectrum since she mentions "I always was the type to get absorbed in whatever I was doing" as the explanation for why she obsessively snuck out to grind levels every day for a decade after regaining her memories, I guess? I don't know, that honestly sounds like the objectively best thing to do in her situation to me, as well, but then I am a Disgaea gamer, so if obsessive solo grinding is a sign of mental illness (or simply neuro-divergent behavior) I certainly have it as well.
Keep in mind that Yumiella has been socially isolated for at least a decade and is implied to have mostly raised herself.
The fact that she isn't a feral child is probably a result of her past life.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 02-02-2024
Original Yumi seemed to be... well, not exactly okay, given she was part of the mean girl clique and picked on the OTL MC to gain favor with the queen bee, but that's not really abnormal behavior for teenage girls either. Probably she acted less spooky without past life memories so the staff got used to her and wasn't quite so distant? Well, maybe more of that will come up later.
For now, my anime binge cotinues with A Certain Uncle's VRMMO Playthorugh. I read the LN version some time ago (I believe it was just called One More Free Life Online, the titular IC VRMMO) and while the crafter/support game style was and is my groove, MC's treatment of the Fairy Queen (even setting aside the paper fan whacks as part of traditional slapstick comedy routines) just makes me sad, especially where the end it for the anime season. He thinks she's obviously more than just a typical game AI mere minutes after seeing her, before they've spoken a word to each other, but still treats her like a pest or at best a quest waypoint NPC to consulkt about kindon-sized problems. It's too cruel. WHy are you killing the show, MC-kun? You literally got a ring on your finger, marry, MARRY! I tried to kiss, and just got a paper fan to the face
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 02-02-2024
Haaa~~ My Daughter Left The Nest and Returned As An S-Rank Adventurer/S-Rank Musume turned out to be the perfect cure for my Toaru Ossan blues. A WAFF-fest that still somehow has one or more action sequences in every episode and a serious plot running through it. Marry, no question.
The fight choreography is utter crap, mind you, mostly just random flailing and clanking sound effects whether they make sense or not, but they're there to serve the plot and don't go on so long that you can't look past it. I'd be ashamed to put them in a fic if I was writing it, but then fight choreography is one of the things I really get into, and not every anime can be Pretty Cure (original.) It still put a big smile on my face when I sorely needed one.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 02-08-2024
I had initially skipped over Sasaki and Pii-chan as SoL shows hold little interest for me. This was a mistake, as it is in fact an absolutely batshit crazy gerne mishmash of, yes, slice of life, but also secret agent thriller, urban fantasy, issekai fantasy, and political drama, with some well done action scenes scattered around too. The first episode is double-length, but it and the second will get your toes wet enough to tell if you like the temperature of these waters, and by the end of e04 it's got short but closed arcs in both worlds. Much to my surprise, it's jumped the queues all the way from Kill to Marry.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 05-03-2024
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Sooo... not a high school sports anime about real-world martial arts then. It looks like I'm going to have to watch this one after all.
RE: Anime recs and requests, a new beginning - classicdrogn - 05-09-2024
While it's a webcomic rather than an anime, it didn't seem worth starting a new thread to ask - is it just me, or did Grrl Power's art have a sudden change in style and general quality around... mmm, 2017 I guess? The outlines went away, which is just a stylistic choice even if not one I personally like, but also characters' faces and body structure gets more and more inconsistent from then on, until where I've gotten up to in mid 2019 if not for having the same hair and clothes you would think every panel had different characters in them, and if the hands were a bit more eldritch you'd think it was AI generated, or at least by modern-ish (like a year or two ago) AI. Which obviously 2019 comics are not, let alone 2017, but it's got kind of look. Heck, maybe they're partly 3D rendered and retouched? But that would not at all explain the physical oddities.
early 2017 page
2018 page
2019 page
Which probably says more about what the AI models are being trained with, but my point was that the early pages looked a lot better, at least by me, and by 2019 they're getting kind of off-puttingly freakish, especially in the eyes. I just wondered what other folks here thought about it.