#this week’s episode was just. UGH. the way they took that little filler chapter and extended it was so clean and perfect

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god there is actually no feeling like watching a manga you’ve loved since release get handled SO WELL in an anime adaptation

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Dino Watches Anime (Nov 24)

Africa no Salaryman (7/12)

Story? Mediocre (but funny) Art? (Clearly) bad Music? Terrible But I’m enjoying myself. I don’t see myself dropping this trashy series. I’ve laughed a little bit from week to week. Have you ever wanted to see a mix of bad CG and limited 2D animation by a studio that has no other notable anime (besides that flop from 2018)? Have you ever wanted to hear the villains of BNHA (All For One, Overhaul, and Dabi) voicing weird safari animals with quirky side characters? Seriously, they took the money that they should’ve put into animation and hired a bunch of famous seiyuu who seem to be having fun. We have Eri Kitamura, Yui Ogura, Akio Otsuka, Kenjiro Tsuda, Hiro Shimono, Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Kengo Kawanishi, Akira Ishida, Hiroshi Kamiya, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, etc. It’s a lot of fun guessing them.

Ani ni Tsukeru Kusuri wa Nai! (S3) (7/?)

Another (slightly better animated) bad anime. It’s a collab between Japanese and Chinese studios (but is originally Chinese), but since Japanese dubbing is far more accessible, I went with that dub. Sora Amamiya, Yuuichi Nakamura, Kensho Ono, and Natsuki Hanae are part of the main cast here. Nothing is really notable besides the story. The sibling thing is kind of relatable.

Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai (S2) (8/13)

I will eventually stop wasting my time with these bad romance series, but *cough* I need to fill my depressive void with something, and somehow other’s awkward situations distract me from my own. I mean, this feels like an anime that was supposed to fill the void that Nisekoi left after finishing in Shonen Jump. Hopefully, this time he’ll end up with the right girl. As usual in a lot of harems, the main character has several bad choices. But the overall message and whatever’s left of the plot is really nice and entertaining. The characters are actually intriguing when the fanservice isn’t glaring in your face. 

Boku no Hero Academia (S4) (6/25)

Bones is sure taking their sweet time with a ton of filler and exposition. It’s so slow! Episode 5 was a lot of fun. Besides that, it’s the usual stuff. It’s like Bones is dangling a stick in front of us, and we all have to watch it anyway no matter what. I just feel like they’re doing this to save money and to make sure they won’t get ahead of the manga.

Dr. Stone (21/25)

This turned out to be a good show. It’s a strong 7/10 so far, and it might place higher (or lower) depending on how they want to end their arc. The politics and science behind this anime are really cool, and whatever they lack in character diversity (which I feel that because the cast isn’t nearly as strong as the other ones on this list) they make up for in their science and story execution.

Fire Force (18/24)

Ladies, gentlemen, and other fine people, let me introduce the BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT SINCE MY BIRTH. Waste of a good OP, waste of awesome art, waste of a pretty okay cast, waste of my time that I want to stay through the end, and it turned into a badly executed gimmick. Seriously, how did we dive this low? It ever happened since Tamaki showed up. Ugh, I hate how this show gave me hope.

Kono Oto Tomare! (S2) (8/13)

This anime is heading very slowly, and that’s probably because only one chapter is released a month I think. It’s a music anime with not as music as you’d think, and honestly, until the music starts going, I find that this anime insults the art that the original manga had. It does its part, but the original manga is beautiful. It looks like a shoujo manga that got put into Jump SQ.

Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo (8/12)

Everyone in this anime is a scumbag in one way or another. Everyone has their bad sides, and unlike a lot of series, this anime isn’t afraid to put them front in centre. This contrasts nicely with Bokuben which is mentioned above. Both are centred around harems, but this one is everything turned on its head with vengeance. Protag? May have a Deku voice, but he’s a pervert that’s described for being “Jekyll and Mr Hyde” which I find interesting because he’s truly nice to his best friend and doesn’t want to betray him, but he also really, really, really likes girls and would want nothing more than to have several of them all to himself. Best friend? Jealous as heck and would probably stab him if things truly went south, but he’s also his wingman. Class president? Talks like a samurai sometimes when nervous and uses MC. Childhood best friend? Terrible liar and uses MC. Then there’s a whole bunch of other people who use everyone. The score is not that great. It’s better than silence, but it hasn’t really been anything above that. The OP is catchy, but I’m not sure if I like it? The ED is nice. The voice acting for this anime is PERFECT for the MC anyway. Daiki Yamashita is really good at acting like this animal of an MC.

Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo (15/24)

Once you past the first few episodes of fanservice, this turns into an anime that’s surprisingly deep and fun to watch. I have to be in the right mood for this, and while it’s usual for JC Staff to animate these kinds of anime, this one feels different. The voice acting is good, the characters are interesting, the gimmicks work, and I just like this anime. Yeah, there’s still fanservice, but it has meaning and a good story this time.

Kekkaishi (27/52)

I really watched... 27 episodes... in one day. Life goes faster at 1.25 speed. I haven’t watched a good shonen action anime at my own free will in a while. Hero Aca is going slowly, Dr Stone doesn’t have that action that I sometimes want to see, and Fire Force is like that pudding that started to be covered in mould (you don’t really want it anymore).

This anime is 13 years old, but it stands and fills a void that a lot of shows can’t really do anymore. It has a not-so subplot of romance with a MC that has no smarts, a heroine who doesn’t have as much “talent” but makes up for it with hard work, and she’s one of my favourite characters that I’ve seen in a while. She’s what Maki of Fire Force should’ve been. She’s awesome. Finger guns are actually valid in this anime. The music is really good too. The score is written by Taku Iwasaki who still writes for several anime to this day. It adds a layer of substance the manga couldn’t do. 

I’d highly recommend this anime for people who don’t mind anime from 2006.