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Fall season and the year of 2024 is drawing to a close. Most shows have either wrapped up this past week or are wrapping up this week. So, let’s talk about it! Did anything surprise you? disappoint you? exceed your expectations? Of course, more general topics are still welcome just like any week.

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  • UnboxiousEnglish
    5·
    13 days ago

    Things I watched or tried to watch from this season:

    • 365 Days to the Wedding: Good but not great. It sometimes went off in weird directions that didn’t seem to serve a purpose proportionate to their screen time. Sometimes things also moved way more quickly than makes sense. It makes me wonder if things were sacrificed to get it to fit into a 12 episode season. Loved the ED though!
    • Yakuza Fiance: Good but not great. The story was usually good, but the art and animation were sub-par. Still worth a watch if you want to see a really toxic relationship develop.
    • Mecha-Ude: Mediocre. It didn’t know what it was good at (charming, goofy moments) so it spent all its time on things it was bad at instead (serious, generic plot stuff).
    • Blue Box: Good but not great. I don’t love the style of the animation. It feels, I dunno, over-rendered? It looks like the anime staff tried their hardest to make every moment look as pretty as possible to the point of distraction. So many specular highlights! I’m up-to-date on the manga though, so I’m still really looking forward to watching the second half of the season develop!
    • Dandadan: Obviously this is great. I still need to watch the last few episodes, but no complaints here. The mangaka wrote an great story with fun characters, and the anime staff executed that story more skillfully than I could have possibly imagined.
    • Re:Zero Season 3: I watched about 5 minutes of this and decided I really needed to re-watch at least part of Season 2 first.
    • Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance: Mediocre. The animation was fine but the writing was straight-up bad. This is a situation where knowing the lore actually makes it worse, too.
    • EndmakerEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance: Mediocre. The animation was fine but the writing was straight-up bad. This is a situation where knowing the lore actually makes it worse, too.

      I watched Gundam RFV without having watched anything else from the UC timeline and thought the story was fine.

      IMO the show is the way it is because of its intended audience - casual viewers without much knowledge of Gundam, given that it aired on Netflix.