#anime rewatch

[titanralsei]

i know it’s not like a covert thing in the show but ive seen mob psycho like 3 times already and without fail when it goes from “mobs a quaint awkward middle schooler with a fraud mentor who lives in a cute little food themed city and has a cute little childhood crush” to “mob almost killed his brother when they were kids and it sort of created two complexes in both of them where ritsu both fawn responses his brother out of fear and resents not being special and mob suppresses his emotions so severely he physically couldn’t laugh for years and constantly felt like a danger to everyone around him” i crumple like a happy wheels character

[kylersmess]

Rewatching Fruits Basket

Honestly, I've already had hella queer headcanons of more than one of the characters here, but to me theres just a lot of queer like subtext in more than one of the characters' relationships and stuff, but ofc the series suffers from heteronormativity given when it was made and all but honestly I don't think that fully excuses it when other animes had rep in them around that era and all plus they could've handled characters like Ritsu's relationship with gender way better in the modern remake, that said fuck canon I can headcanon what I want fr tbh, anyone can really, I just think Hatori should kiss a man or like I love the concept of Yuki becoming more comfy in his androgny in the future, and like mf's like Haru that is a bisexual fr and Tohru? Pansexual energy, I could go on lmao, not to mention I think more than multiple in the Sohma clan could be queer when they have over 100 people in there and even amongst the Zodiacs it'd make so much sense bc they wouldn't have to worry about transforming and stuff, gen I think a good number of the characters would be chill with it too.

Fruit Basket has multiple typical anime issues and more plus decisions I don't fuck with, but I still love it and all, and the characters that exist in it, so I'm having a blast rewatching it.

[burton-adib]

... right let's get into it

So this takes place Episode 10 (ithink) Gilbert is finally explaining to Oz what has happened in the past 10 years, getting adopted by The Nightrays, reuniting with his brother, explaining how he met Break, being a spy, assassin, gaining Raven Chain, working for Pandora and betraying the family he knows and loves, there's a lot to unpack and a lot of trauma to delve into.... side note, Jun Mochizuki needs to make a novel or manga spin off explaining Gilbert's 10 year life cos it is so interesting, we get little clues in the novel but how amazing would it be to explore his life through his POV.... anyway, lots to unpack...

Oz is his best friend, it makes sense to want to know how his best buddy has been, it's called caring Oz!! Why are you sleeping! That just ticks me off cos Gil isn't even bothered, and that's why we love him,, but honestly, he should be annoyed, and what's sad is that Oz doesn't even acknowledge Gils past, he knows Vincent is his brother, but that was early on, he probably fell asleep at that part, he just seems uninterested, and is focusing a lot of time and energy to Alice, who at this time, is still a stranger! Grrr it just grates me 😅 Gil is without a doubt the most interesting character, on par with Break and even then, when we're learning Break's past the same time as the characters, Oz is awake and listening 😵 talk about rubbing salt in the wound, the level of attention Oz shows Gil is abysmal compared to everyone else... but I still love him and Ph is not perfect, nothing is perfect, and it'll always have a special place in my heart (what's left of it after the ending) it's just this scene and segment in the chapter that makes me see red 🤣🤣

[motherly-birdy]

I’m realising that animes are deceptively long

20-25 minutes per episode is relatively short, however, that means that 2 or 3 episodes is one ☝️ hour,

but they go by so faaaast

So I press on

[alpaca-clouds]

While preparing for the Digimon rewatch (follow @rewatchingdigimon) I decided I would also fetch me some of the other old monster anime, as the entire genre of "monster taming" shows certainly has to be one of my favorite things. And so I started to randomly rewatch a show that I have not watched in like 20 years: Monster Rancher (or as it was known in Japan: Monster Farm).

Holy fuck. Genki, the main character, has to be the most AuDHD character in all of anime.

This kid, I am tell y'all.

For those who do not know the anime (which is probably most of you): Kid loves his monster taming video game, wins a tournament so he gets to be the first to play the new edition, which then isekai's him into that world.

Now, a lot of those late 90s monster anime had kids being isekai'd into a monster world. To which the normal reaction is: "OMG! Shite! How do we get back home?"

Not Genki. Genki: "OMG! This is the best day of my life! I finally have escaped the real world!" Now, you might think: "Okay, he is a kid who just got isekai'd into his favorite game. But the novelty of this has going to wear of quickly, right?"

Nah. Not for Genki. Genki ends in this rather Dark Fantasy world in the middle of a big ass war. (Like, I not even kidding. This show is dark. By episode 10 the body count is far above 100 if you count both monsters and humans.) And he does have nightmares........ about having to return to the real world. And he goes even on to explain: Yeah, he misses his "real world" friends and family. But not to have to live in that world, where everyone has to kinda be the same? Yeah, that is a blessing to him.

And yeah, this is just a thing that does never change throughout the show. Genki does not want to leave his isekai. He wants to stay there. Yes, even if it is a medieval fantasy world that goes from one war to the next. Everything is better than to go to school and then take a salari job.

Man. I... really get this boy. Like fuck. Kid. I feel you so much.

[hell-uvaqueen]

I already rewatched this shit THREE TIMES! And I still cry. Why do I do this to myself? 😭

[tinyperson00]

Getting ready and hyping myself up to rewatch the promised neverland since I've had Isabella's lullaby stuck in my head now for a while. Lowkey scared tho since I first watched this at 11 YEARS OLD and it kinda sorta traumatized me a bit. But I shall face my past fears and watch this with older eyes now and I shall enjoy it!

Edit: yea it’s perfectly fine now that I’m older lol- still can’t think of it the same way tho, knowing I was the same age as these characters the first time I watched it 😭

[nikkimidorima]

I keep having dreams about KNB

I think that means I should rewatch it.

Aomine and Kagami were showing off their best shots.

But they were being total goofs about it.

I guess I kinda fell off KNB when I was telling a friend about it and they said they couldn't give a fuck about some anime they didn't watch, so I just stopped talking about it and when I had no one to talk about KNB with I kinda just didn't feel as motivated to make stuff.

But I'm in the mood to rewatch it and rewatching KNB usually gives me the fuzzies so maybe that'll help my mood get better.