Now that you mention it, I’m not sure whether to call Bravern a romance either. Romance is kind of the focus, but it kind of isn’t. Either way it’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.

I’d love to get a good Junji Ito adaptation someday but at this point I’m beginning to thing the guy is cursed.

Man, why do all the anime streaming sites have to be so terrible?

This show is a weird one to me. The humor is for the most part really good. The mecha-ude are very charming. Any time it tries to do anything serious though it feels like the writing takes a drop in quality.

Oh, I don’t care that much about whether the season comes to its own satisfying conclusion. I was mostly wondering this because I was considering maybe picking up the light novels when I have the time.

Anyone know how long this one is? I’m curious to know whether Season 2 is likely to finish the story.

Does the anilist api give you the release date of individual episodes? If so you could do a check to see if they’re all the same day. Or is that what you were getting at when talking about parsing nyaa?

Maybe in the future for shows like this that are dropped all at once a discussion thread for the whole show instead of individual episodes would make sense. I guess most shows are too long to watch in one sitting though, unlike this one.

Just finished watching the whole show. A couple plot points were really dumb, which is unfortunate because there are only 6 episodes so it was being dumb at least 1/3 of the time. The most impressive part to me was that it didn’t look like ass despite being 100% 3d-rendered. Certainly not the worst thing I’ve ever seen, but I won’t be recommending it to people either.

This episode was a great reminder of why Haryu is just the best. What a guy.

Even if they’re “real” the decision was made to not release them. They’re stories that were specifically chosen to not be canon.

Okay, thanks! I just wanted to be sure it wasn’t a bug.

Am I missing something? As far as I can tell the third episode hasn’t aired yet. Did the bot just bug out because Netflix has it listed despite it not being available for another 5 days?

From this season

• Blue Box - Seems to be a solid adaptation of the manga. I wonder if they went too far making everything as pretty as possible, but that might just be the recoil of watching this right after having seen Ping Pong: The Animation. Now that color has been added, I can finally tell Chinatsu and Hina apart, which is nice.
• Dandadan - An excellent adaptation of the manga. Warning: first episode has sexual assault in it. There’s also another sexual assault scene in a later arc. If you can stomach that, this is a wild, fun tale of some teenagers who are trying to survive in a world beset by yokai and aliens.

Older stuff

• Ping Pong: The Animation - A cool show. This is one to watch if you start feeling like too many anime look the same, or if you’re tired of how every character looks like a model. This is also one to watch if you just want to see a good sports anime.

• Eureka 7 - I’m only 30-something episodes in, but this show has just been getting better and better. Easily one of the best mech anime I’ve ever seen, assuming they don’t do anything to screw it up later. Very stylish; I love the concept of mechs that fight while riding turbulence on surfboards. It also has a charming cast.

• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - This is another one I’m only 30-something episodes into. So far it’s been really good! Not nearly as bleak as the name or the first couple of episodes would have you believe. So far, anyways. I don’t like it quite as much as I like Eureka 7, but it’s close.

That’s excellent news! I know the show’s tone threw some people off, but I really enjoyed season 1. Hopefully the animation quality remains excellent.

The visuals look nice; I look forward to seeing how they animate the badminton matches.

That’s good; the manga didn’t move especially quickly and I didn’t think this story could leave a strong impression in only 12 episodes.

Thanks for the explanation! Does this apply only to anime or does it also apply to manga?

I played the demo of this game during Next Fest. It had stunning visuals, but the gameplay didn’t really grab me.

They still make some incredibly cool Transformers toys, as long as you have enormous piles of money to pay for them with.