Chainsaw Man - First episode of this was very painstakingly animated and there's a lot of obvious love being put into this show. The CGI is not the best but it's solid enough. If you're not a fan of this comic, be ready for every normie and their mom to mark out about this show though.
My Hero Academia Season 6 - Started out with a bang. And that's actually kind of remarkable. My Hero's last several seasons dedicated their entire first episodes to basically being glorified recap filler-episodes. And this 6th season jumps right into the beginning of what will become a huge war. The beginning of this war focuses on Mirko though, and I'm not looking forward to the next few episodes since I know how her character arc goes. For as much fun as this show is, it's got some borderline misogyny problems.
Legend of Mana -The Teardrop Crystal- - This show began a few days ago and I'm actually kind of gobsmacked. I had zero expectations for it going into it. We're only one episode deep, but so far... it might be one of the best video game anime adaptations to have ever been made? That's not saying a lot, admittedly. But still. It's *super* faithful to the original game, to the point where it's very obviously being made by huge Seiken Densetsu fans. It uses a ton of music from the game too, which is the correct and just choice that many a game adaptation fail to do.
The change in artstyle for the character designs is still a little weird, but I assume it was mostly a pragmatic choice. Drawing more closely to Shinichi Kameoka's character designs probably would have been both extremely hard for animators to replicate and animate, as well as potentially alienated younger audiences. So it's fine, and it looks fine. The names for many of the characters in the subtitles don't match the game's localized names because they're more in line with the original Japanese names, and that's also fine. (Don't cry about missing hamburgers or I will judge the fuck out of you.)
Mostly, it's just a really good looking show, that just feels super nostalgic to watch because of how much attention to detail and love/care is put into everything. Like, there's a whole sequence where Shiloh picks fruits from his tree to feed to his rabites! It's the friggin' best. If any of y'all enjoyed Legend of Mana, please give this show a try. It's streaming on Crunchyroll.
My Hero Academia Season 6 - Started out with a bang. And that's actually kind of remarkable. My Hero's last several seasons dedicated their entire first episodes to basically being glorified recap filler-episodes. And this 6th season jumps right into the beginning of what will become a huge war. The beginning of this war focuses on Mirko though, and I'm not looking forward to the next few episodes since I know how her character arc goes. For as much fun as this show is, it's got some borderline misogyny problems.
Legend of Mana -The Teardrop Crystal- - This show began a few days ago and I'm actually kind of gobsmacked. I had zero expectations for it going into it. We're only one episode deep, but so far... it might be one of the best video game anime adaptations to have ever been made? That's not saying a lot, admittedly. But still. It's *super* faithful to the original game, to the point where it's very obviously being made by huge Seiken Densetsu fans. It uses a ton of music from the game too, which is the correct and just choice that many a game adaptation fail to do.
The change in artstyle for the character designs is still a little weird, but I assume it was mostly a pragmatic choice. Drawing more closely to Shinichi Kameoka's character designs probably would have been both extremely hard for animators to replicate and animate, as well as potentially alienated younger audiences. So it's fine, and it looks fine. The names for many of the characters in the subtitles don't match the game's localized names because they're more in line with the original Japanese names, and that's also fine. (Don't cry about missing hamburgers or I will judge the fuck out of you.)
Mostly, it's just a really good looking show, that just feels super nostalgic to watch because of how much attention to detail and love/care is put into everything. Like, there's a whole sequence where Shiloh picks fruits from his tree to feed to his rabites! It's the friggin' best. If any of y'all enjoyed Legend of Mana, please give this show a try. It's streaming on Crunchyroll.
