Dr. Stone is based as hell, it's only scientific to approve of the show.
I've definitely seen it picking up steam with youtubers beginning to make videos about how great it is. I think the fact that it's going to continue airing for another 12 episodes will help keep that word-of-mouth momentum building.
On Netflix, and thereby fighting an uphill battle for watchers, I suspect.
Also obligatory mention of [email protected] for anyone who hasn't found it yet.
Dungeon Meshi is out of the top 10 again.
Everyone who has seen it gushes about it, but I fear some people haven't given it a shot, not seeing past a funny premise, or the first few episodes.
I predict that as the second cour gets going, and with another fan favourite character joining the main cast, we will see the people who are watching it redouble their efforts to spread the gospel.
I kinda dropped the show, but yeah, go enjoy the manga, it's legitimately only uphill from here.
Narratively, and probably artistically, as well. The anime had its moments and I might finish off the last few episodes to see if there were some more, but generally the art and animation in the adaptation, though not bad, didn't impress half as much as the panels of the manga do. It's worth a read just to see Tenka start referring to Aoba as sister-in-law.
If we do get a second season, I really really want it to be with a larger budget, enabling production to aim for greater quality and more closely matching the detail level and lineart of the manga.
I really enjoyed the manga, and the anime is apparently entirely 3D CGI.
Did it turn out any good?
Oh darn. Konosuba is a must watch.
I will of course continue running [email protected] for the second cour of the anime.
I've not even looked at what is airing next season, as I don't tend to watch in a weekly manner, but rather several episodes at a time with large gaps in time in-between. So discussion threads are hard to contribute to :/
But Dungeon Meshi is different for me.
We'll be getting the last episode of the first cour this week, and boy. Trigger has lined it up with something big. Now is a great time to jump in and marathon the first 11/12 episodes if anyone who is interested didn't get on the train at the first station.
Ok this sounds like fun. I feel like the receptionist lady NPC is in every series, making her the lead should be interesting.
Someone please keep that fanatic away from Nei!
And I'm not too sure this was welcome either, but I loved it anyway:
And as hilarious as it is that Yacchi is obsessed with her sister, her treatment of her in unforgivable. That she's the only Azuma who genuinely cares about her doesn't mean shit if she won't act like it.
But damn, I do love a girl who lifts.
And it's absolutely hilarious that the anime tripled the amount of weights on her bars from slightly unrealistic to literally impossible.
This episode also has a weird amount of padding. For example, in the manga, the whole post-battle scene is done in a couple pages, they don't go back to the barracks, and Yuuki is even still in his slave form.
This seems like pointless extra work to stretch out the already plentiful source material.
Manga panels
And man, another character I feel like I have to look at through a low-quality filter. Like everyone, Tenka's design just has more oomph in the manga.
Tenka panels
I honestly don't see a way for the anime to really get into the meat of the series within the episodes remaining, so here's hoping it keeps going.
The show also has a way of using the miracle of culture and science to prove there is hope for humanity. I think that stuff can land for anyone, giving the show emotional "fuck yeah" moments that nearly brought me to tears at times.