Spice and Wolf is a masterpiece. Excellent adaptation of the LNs. Incredible VA work on both the Japanese and English versions. Excellent writing, and some of the scene direction during the last few episodes was stunning. Really hope this hangs around to adapt the entire story.
Think we’re getting a release date for 1999 at Tennocon?
Picked up my tickets. Love this movie so much.
Waiting a bit to see what shows actually hold, but currently only watching Spice & Wolf and Kaiju No. 8.
Spice & Wolf is perfect and is following the LNs almost exactly from my recollection.
Unfortunately Kaiju No. 8 is boring as hell. Despite having immense power capable of one-punching kaiju into showers of blood, the MC has spent 90% of their screen time being functionally useless. It’s just such a weird way to write an MC. I get 1 or 2 episodes, but nearly half of the 12 episode run? The pacing needs to pick up 10x. I’m not kidding. We should be seeing kaiju getting bodied every episode. The slow burn it’s trying to structure itself around is not happening at all. Boooooooooo. Pick it up!
RE: Your edit. Votes are public. OP didn’t downvote you. You, however, downvoted OP when they replied to your question. No idea why you’d do that when all they did was answer your question. FWIW I upvoted your comment so it doesn’t get buried, but yeah, people shouldn’t be downvoting posts unless they’re off topic or against the rules IMO. No need to weaponize them.
Glad this is getting positive reception so far. I’ll be curious to see what gets adapted going forward given the OG anime skipped some things and slightly modified others, but so far this is really close (if not exact) to what’s in the LN.
Really good. Closer to the book as I remember it.
Also, one of the few shows I’d love to hear a dub of given how good the original dub was. I’ve been listening to the audiobooks of the LNs (which have the same VAs as the dub) and they’re great fits for Kraft and Holo.
All parts in 1hr15m-ish. Got 3 of the parts right in a row and bought the missing one after.
Anyone see S1? Any good?
Tasks.org is great. I use it with a CalDAV server.
Can’t wait. Guess I never gave much thought as to what time anime airs in Japan. 1:30 in the morning? This is prime time TV!
Frieren has a good dub from the few clips I watched. Currently airing.
Haibane Renmei. Never heard the dub but loved the subbed version. Older show, but a hidden gem IMO.
Wow, was just watching clips from the first season last night. Decent show. Picked up its pace near the end.
The first “utility” frame I farmed. At that point I think I had Volt, Rhino, and maybe one other. When I finally built Ivara and went invisible for the first time I was absolutely hooked. You spend so much of the game flying through levels and gunning everything down indiscriminately, but with her you have to slow down and take a methodical approach. Was a cool experience as a low MR player to see that other styles of play were supported AND viable.
IMO Yareli is S-tier. She’s an absolute tank if built right and can solo SP, Archon Hunts, and Netracells without much effort. I guess the biggest challenge is mastering k-drive controls and getting a decent secondary to use with her.
An unfortunate part of the fediverse is that it attracts people who were too obnoxious for even the more annoying parts of Reddit/Twitter/etc. I’ve made plenty of attempts to “get into” Mastodon and can confidently say that’s a miserable experience across the board if you aren’t willing to do the work to curate your feed. Even if you do get a feed that is free of bad actors, conversations rarely veer off-course from Linux, programming, computers, tech, etc., at which point that’s fine, I guess, but it’s hardly diverse. Also, for all the complaining about “techbros” ruining the fediverse, it sure is full of them.
I have more faith in Bluesky currently. If they’re able to achieve their own kind of federation then I’ll gladly jump ship since their userbase is a lot friendlier and more diverse that Mastodon IMO.
Gyre and Yareli Tennogen? Sign me up.
Already bought mine! Guess they went up early here.
I just started watching the original!