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!
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Anime Rants
Spy x Family Episode 40 Review – Best Episode?!
This season of SPY x FAMILY delivered some emotional payoffs hinted early in the series. The writers have invested the time to build layered, complex characters and a world that’s worthy of them. That kind of investment can pay enormous dividends. So enormous, at times, that it’s almost overwhelming! That’s the experience that 7mononoke shared in this post from Anime Rants. I completely get what7mononoke talked about — the episode hit me the same way, too! It’s one of the ways I know that the show’s executing well! Go see if you agree!
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ARUM JOURNAL
This Monster Wants To Eat Me Episode 4 Review – Protector Or Predator?
In all honesty, I don’t know what to think about the series This Monster Wants to Eat Me. Every time I read about it in My Anime List, I can can’t engage with its premise. I have nothing against it. I just can’t find anything that intrigues me. That is, until I read ecargmura’s reviews on ARUM JOURNAL. Then I’m all like “hey, that does sound interesting!” This week, ecargmura’s notes on Miko were particularly engaging. I’m still not sure what’s going on, but I want to know more now! Go see what you think!
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The Con Artists
Sanda – Episode 01
Talk about not knowing what to think about a series! When I looked up Sanda on My Anime List, I came to a complete stop, re-read what I thought I’d read, and just stared at the page for a minute. That’s actually good news, because it meant I was ready to read conartistscott’s review on The Con Artists of episode 1. The art looks fantastic! And the story? Well, like I said, at least I went in prepared. But I kinda wished I hadn’t, because seeings things unfold through conartistscott’s perspective would have been quite a bit of fun — which you should now be able to experience! Please, go have fun!
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D&A Anime Blog
Chainsaw Man the Movie is Finally Here!!
I got a kick out of the first season of Chainsaw Man, and I’m looking forward to the next season. I think. I’ve lost track if they announced it yet. Regardless, the movie Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc recently dropped, and the reactions I’m seeing appear hopeful. Take this review by Roderick J “Jay” Friz from the site D&A Anime Blog, for example. The way he talked about what Denji went through made it clear: Roderick J. “Jay” Friz knows the show. He knows it so well he has me convinced I need to be in the right frame of mind to watch it! And that’s a good thing. Go see if he talks about what you enjoyed in teh movie.
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Shallow Dives in Anime
Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc: My Mind’s Telling me No! But my Body…My Body is Telling me Yes!
Speaking of Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc, Dewbond this week also posted a review on his site Shallow Dives in Anime. Dewbond will often let a series or movie sit awhile before watching and reviewing to let the hype die down. He’s mentioned before, and I can confirm through my own experience, that such hype can make it hard to enjoy the work for what it is. In this case, season one is far enough in the past that Dewbond could dive in. You can probably guess from the title how it went! What did he like? What didn’t he like? There’s one way to find out!
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This Monster Wants to Eat Me is quite good. It comes at the heels of The Summer Hikaru Dies, and that was actually the more interesting show; the comparison I saw online somewhere that felt closer to what we have here to me is actually Yuri Black Butler; it wouldn’t have occurred to me, but the description is just so spot on.
There’s a huge difference between Miku and our protagonist mermaid. They’re both ancient maneating youkai, but Miku’s been subdued by a monk and has spent at least a century (or two) among humans. The mermaind, though? She’s interesting. Miku blends in; behaves like a regular teenager. The mermaid? Character design is an interesting mix between yamato nadeshiko and mischievous fang girl. Her personality is straightforward. She doesn’t express the range of emotions you get from Miko; she has two main modes – cheerful and surprised. The result, based on the topic of the show, too, is an intriguing uncanny valley effect. She basically tells our human protagonist that she’s going to eat her, but her depression isn’t tasty, so she’s going to make her enjoy life and only then she’ll eat her. Our mermaid protagonist is a weird mix of perceptive and experienced, but also somewhat naive about human psychology. It’s very hard to get a read on her.
So at this point this one of the rare occasions where I’m entirely unsure where the show goes with this distinction. I might also say that I’ve always suspected something was up with Miku (mostly because there’d have to be some way for our human protagonist to survive before out mermaid arrived), but I thought more along the lines of onmyouji or miko (Miku the miko, heh). I didn’t expect her to actually be a youkai, too. Looking back, I can see hints in the flashbacks before the reveal, though those flashbacks might point towards something else.
The thing about this show is that its style is that of aestheticised suffering; kind of like March Comes in Like a Lion, but not nearly as effective for me. That sort of holds the show back a little for me, though not much (I’m used to it). It doesn’t feel exploitative to, though (as someone who knows depression inside out). It’s more a missed-opportunity thing than anything else. The show is good and well worth watching.
Now I want to see it even more! Hearing it’s a bit of a missed opportunity isn’t a negative for me right now. It’d act almost like insulation, which is what I prefer right now.
TCrow, regarding May I Ask For One Final Thing? Episode 6, it was said in a previous episode that Godwin helped spread Palmianism, elevating it to the state religion even though Dianism is more fitting to be Pallistan’s true state religion based on this episode revealing that Saint Diana always restored the barrier that prevented invasions from demons, and perhaps the current Saint Diana lost her powers not ’cause her father gave her another name in Sanya but because Dianism lost strength due to having much fewer followers than before due to being supplanted as the main religion the masses follow
I like your theory about why Diana lost her powers. At least, I don’t see the story hinting at any other reasonable explanations yet.