[starkillr]

This one left me more confused, since I guess it left out stuff from the novels.

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I'm not convinced Echidna is the evil one, especially since the other witches are also on friendly terms with her. As for the Ryuzu experiments, it just seems like a lot of witches made stuff for the hell of it. Like Gluttony with the White Whale and Vorpal Bunnies. I thought they might be connected, like the clones are the bunnies, and they eat to make more Ryuzu clones, but that totally doesn't make sense if you believe why Gluttony made the bunnies. I also didn't go back to look, but Satella looked like she has a black flower in bloom where Emilia's white flower bud is.

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I don't think Subaru would've promised to save Satella after stabbing himself at the beginning when he was surrounded by shadow. That was Emilia. He was also scared of her afterwards when he restarted. As for the other witches, it could just be that Echidna is the most powerful of them and has control over the construct. Those witches are weird as hell. It's hard to say if logic applies to all of them. Greed seems the most straightforward. I think we'll get a nice lore dump next episode that will answer a good chunk of questions/theories.

[roger watersmelon]

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I don't have anything worthwhile to contribute.

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Which is no different than any other time, I suppose.

[starkillr]

Oh dear god that episode gave me chills. RE: Zero = win. A lot of theories crystallized as truth. I'm really curious as to how this show goes forward. I'm not even sure how he solves this. Good times!

[starkillr]

<== theories are fairly on point. This show is great. Rodimus, have you caught up yet on RE: Zero?

[Rodimus]

<== theories are fairly on point. This show is great. Rodimus, have you caught up yet on RE: Zero?

Yes, but I haven't seen the latest episode that dropped today.

 

It's been great but I fell like this Sanctuary arc is dragging a bit. Subaru has been get his shit kicked in the dirt every other episode. I tough to watch. What's your take on Roswaal and his plans? 

[starkillr]

Check my spoiler stuff in earlier posts. I'm pretty much spot on there. I'll consolidate it here though. I'll try to avoid spoilers from the latest episode.

 

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Roswaal clearly made some sort of deal with Echidna. He has her book and uses it to guide him along to his end goal. The suggestion is that he loves Echidna or at least wants to help her out. Killing the dragon would unseal her soul from its prison. That's my current theory around his motivations. I said earlier that he didn't give a shit about Rem and that he had the predictive book, turned out to be all true! The episode after this one.....oh boy. Can't wait...this show is so good.

[Rodimus]

Check my spoiler stuff in earlier posts. I'm pretty much spot on there. I'll consolidate it here though. I'll try to avoid spoilers from the latest episode.

 

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Roswaal clearly made some sort of deal with Echidna. He has her book and uses it to guide him along to his end goal. The suggestion is that he loves Echidna or at least wants to help her out. Killing the dragon would unseal her soul from its prison. That's my current theory around his motivations. I said earlier that he didn't give a shit about Rem and that he had the predictive book, turned out to be all true! The episode after this one.....oh boy. Can't wait...this show is so good.

 

I figured as much too.

 

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Also it seems Roswaal knows Subaru can return from death, or at least suspects it. It'd make sense if he's in league with Echillada.

[starkillr]

Well, this episode pretty much proved my theories 100% correct. Holy crap, sometimes logic works for Japanese storylines. Also, what a shit end to that episode for a lead in to the 2nd cour. The first half was really unexpected though. Do we know if that's still coming in January or if it got delayed? 

[Rodimus]

I got through a bunch of Summer shows that ended recently

 

Sword Art Online: The Alice One - It was pretty much what I expected it to be. It was fine and enjoyable but the Raft stuff was boring, During those parts I found myself playing on my phone. I'll continue to watch cyber space Jesus Kirito if it returns.

 

SNAFU Climax - I had to re-watch the entire show months ago to prepare me for this. I forgot a lot about it. A bit too much drama on bullshit like a school prom. But that's kinda why I watch these shows, it takes me away from the stress of real life to watch teenagers deal with non-issues. In the end best girl wins IMO.

 

The Misfit Demon-lord Show - Yeah, not much to say about this. At no point in this show was the MC ever met with any kind of a challenge. Dude just breezed through everything (at one point literally defeating a major rival with a freakin' stick) while collecting trophies for his harem. Even threw one more in there at the very last second.

 

Fruits Baskets S2 - I watched the original anime but never read the manga. From what I understand this was a more faithful adaptation. If or when we get a season 3 I'll watch. Tohru can be charming but a little annoying. The gender reveal at the end was so damn obvious from the start. But rooster boy's secret I didn't see coming. That was a nice surprise.

 

Rent a Girlfriend - This was probably my favorite new anime this season (despite being garbage) At this point we all know where this show is going, but I'm interested to see how we get there. Looking forward to more rom/com garbage. 

 

God of Highschool - First let me say I love tournament style anime. I didn't gave a damn about the story and most of the characters, but you throw me some fun fights with good animation and you get a pass. Fun but shallow show.

[Rodimus]

And is the new Re:Zero the season finale? If so that'll be the next one to go.

[elessar123]

Mid-season finale (split cour).

[starkillr]

And is the new Re:Zero the season finale? If so that'll be the next one to go.

Not the finale for the season, just the half-season. We'll get another 13 episodes later. Currently I'm seeing Jan 2021, which isn't a horrible wait. SAO had large swaths of disappointing in this latest arc. We had Kirito whip out the Genki-dama Sword, Asuna suddenly becoming useless, and stuff dragging on that made no sense so they could inject the movie into it. After the nonsense, it had an episode or two of something good, but honestly the majority of this arc was trash. I pretty much agree with you on everything else. GoH had great fights but was soooooo shallow and dumb.

[Rodimus]

Why did it take me so long to find Kengan Ashura? I watched 10 episodes last night and I'm probably going watch 10 more tonight. 

 

Again, I love tourney style anime stuff. This has been like crack for me.

[Rodimus]

I started the Fall season watching 1st episodes of several shows. Here's my dumb, uneducated breakdown.

 

Noblesse - I didn't really get this one. Unless I missed something I'm guessing they'll explain more of what the hell is going on later. The first episode I had a big question mark over my head.  It was okay. Kinda weird they hired a dude for security while he can't really do his job because he needs to lay low. Whatever. Have a feeling this isn't going to make a lick of sense.

 

Dragon Quest: Dai Dai's Bizarre Adventure - This was fun. I'm a mild fan of the series so seeing all the monsters was cool. I think my daughter will enjoy this so this will be a daddy daughter show. Shame we couldn't get the DQ fanfare theme song. 

 

Jujutsu Kaisen - This seems to be the new high production project of the season. Wonderful animation. It started off really good so I'm game. WTF is up with the Panda in the intro? Cant wait to see what that's about.

 

I'm Standing on a Million Lives - Garbage isekai of the season. Love it.

 

Tonikawa - Garbage rom/com of the season. Love it

[starkillr]

For Noblesse, there's an OVA you have to watch before episode 1. Otherwise yeah, it's very confusing. I dunno why that wasn't just made a part of the season by CR.

[Rodimus]

For Noblesse, there's an OVA you have to watch before episode 1. Otherwise yeah, it's very confusing. I dunno why that wasn't just made a part of the season by CR.

 

Ah. That explains a lot. Is the OVA any good?

[starkillr]

Ah. That explains a lot. Is the OVA any good?

Ya, I mean, it's really the first episode of the show so...haha

[RogueSplinterCe11]

Not too long ago I was searching for random vampire pics on google images and stumbled on a cool looking vampire character. Turns out it was from a show called Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign, and wouldn't you know it, as soon as my interest was piqued I got spoiled by a random user from google search results.

 

That didn't stop me from trying out the first episode though. All I'll say is give the first episode a shot if you haven't seen it already.

 

Edit: First off, no worries about spoilers. I take those seriously, so there's none here.

 

I finished the series fast, about one week for 24 episodes. And I've never felt so good about finishing a show, (especially anime) ever. I couldn't sleep the night I finished binging the last 11 episodes because I was beaming lol. I thought it was a damn good, albeit short-lived series. I didn't know going into it that the anime was cancelled, (or they just stopped making episodes for it for some other reason, maybe) but I was satisfied with knowing the Manga continues the story we didn't get to see finished. Originally I was disappointed that there's no more to watch, but too many shows can overstay their welcome, so I'm happy with it for now. The last part isn't jarring to end the series, and as long as you go into watching it knowing it's an Anime from 2015 that may or may not've been finished (I'm not 100% sure of this myself), you should have a pretty good time with it.

[RogueSplinterCe11]

Enjoying Afro Samurai so far. First episode was pretty cool, I like the soundtrack.

 

Edit: Also got hooked on Spy X Family, got off to a cool start but so far my interest is starting to wane because of how slow it's getting. I appreciate story-building and all, but I think it should have more action. Only on episode 4 of Attack on Titan S1, and that's where I've been at for almost a month now lol. Other than that, I might give Mob Psycho a chance since I saw a pretty cool looking fight scene on YT. It looks pretty good.

 

I think I'm starting to make a decent backlog of anime now. Not good!

Edited by BlazedTekken, 15 November 2022 - 07:29 AM.

[RogueSplinterCe11]

Anyone have a recommendation for anime that has a good ending that wraps everything up nicely? I used to like dark endings, and didn't mind when shows were left unfinished but now I like to binge shows like I just described.

 

Anime I've finished:

Mob Psycho 100 (Liked it)

Attack on Titan (Liked it, ended up F-ing hating it)

Seraph of the End (Liked it, the anomaly on this list)

Code Geass (Loved it, purposely stopped at episode 50 though)

Death Note (Meh, seen it too much)

Dragon Ball Z & Dragon Ball Super (Like both)

Spy X Family Season 1 (Hit and miss)

 

Anime Backlog:

Mushi-shi (A bit slow so far, seen 3 episodes)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans (Seen maybe 15-ish episodes)

 

I've also been recommended these two in the past:

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

Tokyo Ghoul

[Sindur]

Parasyte

 

Akame ga Kill!

[elessar123]

Given your list, Fire Force maybe?

[RogueSplinterCe11]

Thanks for your suggestions, I think I'll go chronologically with them after I finish Mushi-shi.