barrbaric [he/him]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Anime

    • Ghost in the Shell SAC S2 This shit sucks and I’ve totally stalled on it for months with like 10 eps left due to the non-stop copaganda (does it even count as copaganda if they’re mercenaries?). I WILL finish it eventually. Apparently everyone says S1 is better but I think they’re roughly comparable which is to say equally bad. Perhaps this is a thing of it being the first in the genre which means that I’ve seen other media that more thoroughly explored the ideas, but honestly none of this seems groundbreaking.
    • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time A clear case of working backwards from a cool concept resulting in a weak story. Imo the first half of “fuckin’ around with time travel” is fun but the back half of drama/romance is boring.
    • Castle in the Sky It’s fine. A kids movie that’s pretty solid. Watching it the main thing I noticed was just how different the types of conflict and sense of adventure were from most modern stuff I watch. I wish that they gave an example of… who the CIA wanted to actually go to war with? Perhaps that’s the point, that geopolitics is so removed from the average person’s life that they aren’t even aware of it, but I definitely lean more towards a “this is for kids” explanation.
    • Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction About 2/3 through, pretty solid but weird. Very anti-american, which you love to see, and also critical of japanese nationalism. The art style is very different from typical cutesy anime characters, with all of the main girls being disproportioned blobs. Probably helps stuff like the student-teacher “romance” come off less creepy. Oran needs to read theory.
    • Oshi no Ko The only seasonal I’m watching, a solid season that’s very character-driven with not much happening with the main plot. Last episode in 2 days I think, and I’m looking forward to it. Ruby needs to learn basic math.

    Manga

    • Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint The sloppiest of korean slop. What if the superpower of the main character was that he read too many webnovels? There’re some fun character intereaction bits, but the action scenes are mostly unreadable garbage, and as seems to be the way in this subgenre of power fantasy, at some point the power-scaling gets so out there that the numbers cease to mean anything.
    • Chainsaw Man and One Piece Still keeping up. CSM continues to be good.