It’s that time of week again in that it is a new week, which means a new general thread. This is the penultimate thread of 2023 and I am very, very sick. So, I am looking forward to all your anime opinions from the past year! Some example discussion prompts might be:
- The best anime I watched this year is Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. I rewatch it every year so that I can always say that. Checkmate!
- So what if Frieren had a dance scene? Beauty and the Beast did it first - 32 years ago! Frieren is so overrated.
- I don’t understand how I got sick since I always carry an umbrella with me to avoid getting even a little bit damp from rain. Has anime lied to me about what causes illness?
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No, Providence is a prequel. Season 3 came out before, but Providence is chronologically before the 3rd season. I dropped season 3 due to reasons outlined in my comment, but wanted to watch this movie, since it didn’t seem to actually require knowledge of S3. It didn’t, but it did seem to build something up. I was curious if it actually delivered on that in S3 after I dropped it or if that build up was for a later project (that hopefully doesn’t require S3 either…)
There is, but sadly much of it isn’t very good and all of them pale in comparison to S1. S1 is amazing, S2 feels like a cheap imitation of S1, the 1st movie is decent, SoS is quite good as well, S3 sucks imo, and Providence is also decent.