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  • wjs018@ani.socialOPMEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    Thanks for the nominations for the year-end awards everybody! We ended up with quite a few nomination forms for me to work through this week. Please look forward to the voting round beginning this time next week.

    As for anime, some thoughts on the past week:

    • Dan Da Dan - We got to know a bit of the new main cast character and…he’s a lot… Looking forward to this coming week’s finale.
    • Tower of God - It’s almost over. Definitely still here from the sunk cost of watching so much, but it still manages to have its moments.
    • Loner Life Isekai - Finale aired this past week and it was fine. I don’t expect this to have a season 2, and it frankly doesn’t deserve it. Season 1 ends at a good point.
    • 365 Days to the Wedding - I continue to enjoy this show, but sometimes it can be tough watching two extremely socially awkward people try to figure out a relationship.
    • Negative Positive Angler - Really great episode 11 to set things up for a finale this week. I’ve been really pleased with this show and the past two episodes have been really narratively satisfying.
    • Villainess in History - Lots of things being set up in this show and I am not sure there is going to be a payoff for it all yet. It has a lot of fun moments though.
    • Appraisal Isekai - War is hell…except when you take a break and have a snowball fight. A pretty fun episode this past week.

    I still need to catch up on the past couple episodes of Orb. I have held off to give this show the time and attention it deserves in my opinion. It’s been excellent so far, but it is running through next season too, so I am probably going to catch up on it during the slow period between seasons.

    • Mercuri@ani.socialEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Loner Life Isekai

      I just binged this. It was better than I expected but that’s only because I wasn’t expecting much. I think I agree that it doesn’t really deserve a Season 2. Not because it was bad but because by the end of Season 1 it’s no longer Loner Life. Like the whole premise is that he has trash skills and is a loner. By the end he’s OP and not a loner. And they’ve exhausted a lot of the unique story elements such as the wall of skills and the cheat skills so moving forward it would just be generic isekai.

      • wjs018@ani.socialOPMEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        moving forward it would just be generic isekai

        That is exactly what happens. I read the manga quite a bit past where the anime ends and this is pretty much it. This anime was specifically adapting the manga instead of the light novels. From what I understand, the LNs actually have a bit of a unique (and polarizing) style that sets them apart. By comparison, the manga sticks closer to safe, generic isekai.

    • ReluctantZen@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Dan Da Dan** - … Looking forward to this coming week’s finale.

      It feels like it just got started… And from the looks of it, it’s not gonna end on a particularly interesting arc. Should’ve been a 2-cour season