General Anime Thread

Today is Satania’s birthday

@TheHappySpaceman  
It’s not at all like Harry Potter. The obvious comparison is X-men, with a school for gifted children and such.
 
I’ve never watched Sky High.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Sky High is closest comparision from all

So many Satania memes

@Holofan4life  
Isn’t that the norm?

@dt  
Yes, but today there’s even more because it’s her birthday.

Some Satania memes I made
 

 

 

Not anime per se, but I want to share this because I think it’s quite impressive.

@DeathCloud  
I’ve heard that just like Sky High, the main character doesn’t really have any superpowers. I’ve also heard that it similarly has characters with superpowers that are just bizarre.
 
It sounds like a weird show.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Yeah, but it’s good.
 
I think so, anyway.
 
and just like in Sky High, he doesn’t remain powerless for long.

My dad has recently discovered isekai. He’s really into Overlord now. I bet he’d like KonoSuba.
 
As for me, I started reading the Hanebado manga. It’s very different from the anime. Ayano (the eponymous main character) is much more lively and energetic. In the manga, she’s not cold, she’s just shy. The manga also shows her natural athleticism off the court instead of having her turn it on during a match. She seems like, y’know, a person instead of a mean robot. The initial setup of Ayano and Nagisa’s match is better in anime, though. The match is more visually interesting the anime, of course. But in the manga, Ayano plays that match with her off-hand, and she barely loses (21-18). Nagisa is going all out, and Ayano isn’t even sweating. A bit contrived to get her to play with her off-hand, but I thought this was a more effective way of establishing Ayano’s skill while showing the character has a goddamn personality.
 
Coach has a more central role in the manga (he seem to be the point-of-view character), but he is also a lot creepier and I’m okay with that change. Also, Yonex basically being part of the character models is actually from the manga, I thought that might’ve been added in after their sponsorship.

@E-123  
So Doom getting anime?  
(Goblin Slayer dont count).

So, I read the Hanebado manga up to chapter 16, the latest chapter to be translated, as far as I know. Chapter 16 is easily the most faithfully adapted so far, and I guess they decided to apply that tone to the whole show. I did take a peek at chapter 17 and at least it doesn’t have Ayano giving back the handkerchief, so it can’t be that bad.
 
I shouldn’t complain about every change the anime made, but I do want to mention one change: the boys. The manga does not have girls fawning over the prince of tennis at the start, and the two boys in the club hardly have any lines for the first three volumes. Like, it’s actually a big deal when they talk. I’m guessing the love triangle between Yuu and the other two gets developed later in the manga, and they just decided to play that up more in the anime even though none of the characters involved are developed at all. (Or did they take that one scene and extrapolate a romantic subplot between the three?) Maybe I’m being too cynical, but this feels like the original “Cardcaptors” western adaptation. Like the studio (or whoever decided that change) thought boys wouldn’t watch this unless the boys were more involved.

Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka ep 3. I don’t think this show has particularly good timing, and the material is already pretty average. Probably works better as a 4-koma. I think I’m done.
 
Devil is Part-Timer/Hataraku Maou-sama ep 1. I didn’t think much of the premise going in but this seems pretty well thought out. I liked how bewildered Satan and Alsiel were by our world, and I also liked how calm Satan was. I also like how most people didn’t care that there were two guys walking around in big capes. (Cultural differences, I guess.) Show had pretty good timing, too. I even liked the expository bit starting at the police station. I thought it would be really dumb to do a lot of exposition on stuff we already know, but it was executed pretty well. I hope this keeps this up.
 
I kinda hope Satan stays evil in the end. He probably will turn out to be a genuinely nice guy at heart or whatever but I think it would be more interesting if that didn’t happen (executed properly, of course). Also, I can’t help but imagine what the show would be if they structured the story backwards. Like, if it didn’t do the backstory first and just started with scenes like this:
 

 
I think it could’ve been this weird chuunibyou story with an amazing twist in the end. Maybe.

@TheHappySpaceman  

 
BnHA as Harry Potter????
 
I’d expect someone someone to compare something like Little Witch Academia to Harry Potter before BnHA. At least LWA takes place at a literal school for magic.

@PonyPon  

 
He deosnt get powers until the ending climax of the movie.

@YetAnotherBrony  
No, he doesn’t get his second power until the end.

@dt  
I just finished Devil is Part-Timer, so I can talk about it with you. Episode 1 is a good episode. It does a good job at establishing the setting. As for the structure, while the twist would have been funny, I like the way they did it. I like that they contrast between going from one world to another. In my opinion, episode 2 is much better than episode 1. I’ll explain why when you get to it.

@dt
 
Also, there’s something kinda amusing about you not liking Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka because a lot of anime fans consider it the quintessential moe show.

@Holofan4life  
/shrug I don’t like every popular mo-e show. I didn’t like Yuyushiki at all. I got to the (first?) beach ep of Love Live and I was hating every second of it for some reason (it is on the retry list, and maybe I’ll skip that ep). I actually don’t like most of the first season of K-On that much, but I did grow to love it.
 
I see similarities in GochiUsa and K-On, so part of me wants to give GochiUsa a chance, but eh. I got so much other stuff to watch.

 
Hey, conflict. Conflict is good.
 
The bit with Emilia on the other side of the door was pretty great. Also, Chi takes the lead for my favorite character. I hope she actually gets an arc.

@dt
 
Besides the humor, which in my opinion is great, the dynamic between Maou and Emilia is my favorite part of the show. I think they play off each other really, really well.

Holy shit, this show got lewd fast.