#bucchigire!

[anime--food]

Bucchigire! - Episode 1

[crehador]

anyway. samatoki saying "i'm just a geisha" be upon ye

[the-insanity-of-mojiru]

If I had a nickle for every time some people engaged in a high speed boat chase and then proceeded to jump off a speeding boat to land on a different, bigger boat in perfect positions for an explosion of some sort to happen behind them just before they wrecked the place starring Asanuma Shintaro, I would have 2 nickles. WHICH IS WAY TOO MANY, HONESTLY.

[longhairedanimeguyoftheday]

Todays long haired anime guy of the day, per request, is:

Toudou Heisuke

[chifuya]

Bucchigire ☆ OP (characters)

[njotaku]

YES SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[babygray-dam]

Some shows I've been clearing off my list this week:

Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte: A couple of high schoolers find themselves able to talk to the characters in a love sim game and try to save the doomed villainess' life. I'm glad there are more shows with a more humanizing focus on the typical love sim rival. Bit slow-paced, with at least two lead couples and worlds to juggle, but the characters were on the whole okay and I did cry during the ending. Also has Sugita Tomokazu using his more boring, generic-ass voice, but there was couple of times his voice broke out of that.

Buddy Daddies: A pair of assassins adopt the illegitimate daughter of one of their targets. An action comedy with a jazzy soundtrack and a cute kid, of course it's going to get compared to Spy x Family. The theme is found family; as they care for this kid, the two guys learn that they can change and have the familiar bonds they didn't grow up with before. I like the action and the comedy of this show. It took a couple of episodes for me to warm up to the kid, though.

Raven of the Inner Palace: Based on a Japanese light novel series, a mysterious consort in Chinese historical fantasy land solves strange happenings and puts souls to rest. There's ghosts, zombies, tragic backstories, and a slow burn romance; the season ends with the consort and the emperor as good friends and the real mystery still unanswered. Can the Raven Consort escape her fate? It was very pretty and the 'monster of the week' style stories were engaging.

Bucchigire! (Shine on! Bakumatsu Bad Boys): After the leaders of the Shinsengumi were slaughtered by soul-stealing occultists, seven criminals are conscripted to take their places. The characters are color-coded in a kids' show sort of way, and the animation has a overlay that gives it an old storybook paper feel. I got too bored to finish it (without the pressure of crossing this off the list), but I did like the Hijikata and Okita replacements, Sakuya and Akira respectively, and the show's take on Katsura Kotaro Kogoro. (Right up until Akira and Katsura kissed....)

Revenger: A group of assassins do the Lord's work by taking revenge for others. I watched the last episode first (complete coincidence, it was airing at the time), and it told me all I needed to know. It's similar to Bucchigire!, a bunch of guys having a murder adventure during the Edo period, but this one has all the things I wished the other had. (Most specifically, deeper pathos, more interesting plots, and less comic relief team members.) I cannot promise that I won't think about a Gintama/Revenger au, what with the light-haired leader of the odd-jobs revenge shop....

[animebw]

This anime season, I’ve made myself a promise: I’m going to drop shows that I’m just not into. No more desperately clinging to every show I start watching out of some weird sense of completionism. If it’s not good, or at least interestingly bad, I’m not wasting my time with it. And it turns out this was the perfect season to start that on, because good fucking lord is summer 2022 looking thin.

Shows I’m Dropping:

Prima Doll: Turns out, Key without Jun Maeda is everything people unfairly accuse Jun Maeda of being. One of the most insipid, emotionally manipulative first episodes I’ve ever seen.

When Will Ayumu Make His Move?: At this point, I’m starting to think Takagi-san was a fluke.

Bastard/Spriggan: As much as I appreciate Netflix continuously adapting older manga for modern audiences, these shows are proof that some things are best left in the past.

Shows I’m sticking with:

Call of the Night: If you watch one new anime this season, make it this one. A better Shaft show than Shaft itself has produced in years.

The Devil is a Part-Timer Season 2: Sorry, but I think those of you with nostalgia goggles on for this show might be in for a rude awakening.

Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer: God, I wish I was more of a manga reader.

Lycoris Recoil: Cute girls do assassination and cafe management, and it somehow makes sense together. If you watch two new anime this season, make this the second.

Made in Abyss Season 2: GOD THE NEW OP IS SO GOOD

Phantom of the Idol: The production values are kinda butt, but it’s still able to make me laugh, so that’s something.

RWBY Ice Queendom: The mere fact that this even exists is the single coolest thing going on all season.

Shadows House Season 2: Clonecest Round 2, here we go!

Shine On! Bakamatsu Bad Boys: This is just Akudama Drive: Feudal Japan edition.

Shine Post: Will this idol thing turn out good? We’ll have to wait and see. What I can say is that the animation is drop-dead gorgeous.

Tokyo Mew Mew: Never saw the original, but this remake is looking like a good time.

Yurei Deco: No idea how this new Science Saru original will turn out, but it’s Science Saru, so it’s by default worth sticking with.