Another weekly general thread! I know everybody has this time of the week set aside as their favorite, so here it is. Like usual, feel free to use this thread for any kind of anime/anime-adjacent topics you might want to discuss.
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Jujutsu Kaisen ending soon after a Sakamoto days teaser. Gege knows peak is coming
Mother’s Basement’s hottest trash video for this season just came out. This is another one of those things I always look forward to each season.
We recently watched Dungeon Meshi and Spy x Family with our kid and both were a big hit. I’m curious if anyone has recs for shows with a similar vibe and maturity level. I liked that both shows have comedy, positive messages, and light drama.
The violence in dunmeshi was borderline at times but overall not a problem as long as it’s not more much than that.
I’m going to continue watching the new Monogatari Off Season this week. I saw the new OP and it’s really cute. I feel like Off Season might be one of my favorite seasons in the series. Anyway, it’s summer and I spent a lot of time touching grass (and sand!) which was very refreshing and really tiring. I went on three different trips and got sick during one of them so I haven’t been very active lately.
Dahlia in Bloom 1-8:
More than just the last week, but I finally caught up with the translations.
The story is fairly mundane for an isekei fantasy world light novel. No major meta plot, no level grind. No major world building. No major fights. No real enemies. It is basically a light character drama slice of life. So far, maybe 6 months have passed in 8 volumes, and the main, so obvious even a horse sees it, romantic subplot is unchanged. The main character is something of a mary sue with everything tending to work in her favor (cold open, otome like dumping scene included.)
Normally I’d be bored with this. But the business/inventor subplot is fun and the characters are very well written, especially the way their interests and back stories tie together. It is character driven and uses the characters well.
Sadly it does not look like the anime has done a good job showing any of the stories charms, but I’m a few episodes behind so maybe it gets better.