Every week, I visit more than 215 anime sites looking for posts that celebrate amazing moments in anime or otherwise blow me away with their wit and charm. These are my five favorite posts for the week. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
You can see a list of the sites I check here: Massive List of Sites!
GetMoreXP
Knight’s & Magic Season One Review: I Wasn’t Expecting An Anime With Such A Short Title
I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t matter how much time you have — it’s practically impossible to watch everything. Which sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Yet, somehow, I feel guilty about not having that kind of time. Sounds like something I need to work on.
Anyway, regardless of how I feel about it, it’s impossible to watch everything. Turns out, in many cases, I don’t have to — other anime bloggers watch a lot of the shows that I don’t. That means I can live vicariously through them! Case in point: Getmoreexp’s review of Knight’s & Magic on the site GetMoreXP. I completely missed that show when it came out in 2017. But now that I’ve read Getmoreexp’s review, I know that I want to drop it into my backlog because he was very clear about who might and who might not like this show. If you missed the show, this review will catch you up!
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In Asian Spaces
To Love Oneself – The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity Ep 6 Review
Several of the anime bloggers whose opinions I respect are saying good things about The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity. Within that chorus of praise, there’s a lot of agreement. But not completely. The main point of contention seems to be whether the plot or the characters is the show’s best part. Talk about a good problem to have!
This week, it’s In Asian Spaces’s turn, on the site In Asian Spaces, to weigh in on that question — and more. I won’t spoil the surprise, but I’ll just say that In Asian Spaces’s review made me want to move this show up higher on my backlog. That’s saying a lot!
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MyAnimeGo
Top 10 Morally Gray Anime Characters Done Right
It can be fun to read about characters that are either very, very good or very, very bad. But sometimes, those characters don’t come across as realistic or interesting. They can feel flat. That’s why characters whose morality is more nuanced — a.k.a. “gray” — can be more engaging and interesting. That kind of character is so memorable that Misaka, on the site MyAnimeGo, has come up with a delightful list of ten such characters. i can confirm that this is a quality list. See if your favorite morally gray characters are listed!
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Otaku Central
Houseki no Kuni: A Fragile Adventure in Anime
There are a handful of shows that present worlds, themes, and characters of such complexity that they’re an almost inexhaustible source of discussion. Land of the Lustrous is one of those shows. As proof, please let me present this post by OOCentral on the site Otaku Central. Though the show came out in 2017, and though it has inspired dozens — hundreds? — of posts, OOCentral managed to present a unique perspective. Turns out that not only does the show inspire ongoing posts. It’s inspiring ongoing posts like this one that are a lot of fun to read!
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Shallow Dives in Anime
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2: Dewbond eats Crow (not him) for the third time.
It’s a strange time to be alive. To me, the statement “I use facts to make decisions” should not be controversial. Yet, I’ve had people get quite snippy with me for saying that or something similar. The phrase “I change my mind based on new facts or deeper understandings” provokes and even more severe reaction. I’ve always thought acknowledging that humans learn was a sign of intelligence. And you know what? I still do.
Point blank: re-evaluating conclusions based on new experience of facts is a sign of intelligence.
Maybe the challenge now is to have the courage to discuss such changing conclusions knowing there may be pushback. For example, I was impressed (though not surprised!) that Dewbond, in this post on Shallow Dives in Anime, re-visited his conclusions about Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Second Season. And, because he now has more life experience than his earlier self, he could revise his position! That’s very, very cool — especially in this day and age! Now, if we can only find a substitute for the reference to my corvid friends! Maybe something about eating humble pie?
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TCrow, about acknowledging that humans learn is a sign of intelligence, I now retract one of my previous takes on Season 3. I previously thought that Sirius was delusional when she said that Subaru and Petelgeuse’s souls had amalgamated/fused, but now I believe that it is reality in my new post.
https://thoroughwatch.org/?p=174
I seriously think it’s an indication of higher intelligence to revise based on facts, rather than to double-down on an error. I mean, using facts to make decisions — that’s part of progress, isn’t it?
I agree. But that is becoming increasingly rare in the U.S. due to extreme political partisanship, which is also seeping into Canada, my place of birth and where I currently reside. I blame the social media algorithms that are designed to funnel people into echo chambers where they don’t have their beliefs challenged in constructive ways, which for one, leads to extreme confirmation bias, and also two, ’cause of their addictive nature, lead to people not seeking out real-life companionship, which reduces their ability to naturally interact with others in a healthy and respectful way.
But that is the name of the game in the U.S. The tech giants want to completely dominate the U.S.’s citizens and turn them to piles of mush that can’t think critically so that they can consolidate power and destabilize society. And I don’t mean just the far-right but also centrists and left-wingers who shame people for not 100% aligning with them on beliefs even thought it should be common sense that screaming at people that they’re dumb never really changes people’s minds.