They’re stretching my suspension of disbelief quite a bit with how they’re portraying jack the ripper.
That he was more of a concept and thus could be anything I quote liked, but becoming a literal demon and summoning hell seems a bit much.
Not sure if I’ll watch. Loved the 1st 2 seasons and the movie, but when season 3 started, I lost interest for some reason. It didn’t feel the same as before
Given how it came together at the end, I think it was very much on purpose.
Jezus wat triest
Monsters aren’t animals. They’re not part of the fauna category, and are instead their own category. So it’s a 4th addition to your usual flora, fauna and funga categories. Demons belong to the monster category.
I would say he had at least dipped his toes into anime with the Nier Automata anime.
True
“The work I was most inspired by is Neon Genesis Evangelion. I thank you for praising NieR: Automata’s story, but actually it’s pretty much just a retelling of Evangelion”
Yeah, makes sense
That’s unexpected. It does feel right up Yoko Taro’s alley, but does he have experience doing this for anime? I feel like there’d be quite a difference between games and anime in that regard
Generally, the different titles are independently watchable
More Nasuverse? Hell yeah
It seems Minori was projecting her own insecurities onto Makio
if they don’t get into some political intrigue or psychological suspense or something, then it’s just going to be violent, but not really, which is sort of dumb and pointless.
Absolotely and I don’t really trust it will if it hasn’t shown a hint of that yet.
going to go as far as they do to take the edge off of the violence
Tbh, the gore isn’t usually my issue with this type of thing. It’s the psychological aspect of the hyperviolence that gets to me. And they didn’t really take the edge off there.
Shiboyugi
it has an oddly serene atmosphere to it
violence and death are constants.
Yeah, I really dug the atmosphere, but the horrrifying violence and deaths really put me off.
I wanted to know if there was going to be a purpose to it other than “it’s a death game” and “it’s a bizarre world”, because I don’t really deal well with that kinda thing. I looked into it a bit and couldn’t really find any, so I decided not to continue past ep 1. I typically don’t watch these types of anime because of that, but wanted to give it a shot due to the atmosphere.
I’m not sure how widespread it is, but I’m noticing that some people somehow don’t seem to remember that Frieren has always had loads of slow slice of life aspects and then act surprised. Not saying that’s happening in this community, but I’ve been seeing it here and there. It’s really strange to me.
My favourite series that I read in 2025 is a manhwa:
But if I were to exclude manhwa and ignoring actual release dates:
Favourite reads of the year:
Please wrap this up already:
This series basically spent a whole year spinning its wheels.
Yeah… I dropped it some time last year. Anytime anything happens, it pretends that nothing happened.
Maybe it’s that the people all feel a little too idealized?
I get what you mean. I sometimes have the same feeling. I wouldn’t say they’re without flaws per se, but they are all almost saintly at times. On the one hand it’s refreshing because it means that the usual “misunderstanding arc” that could be resolved by just talking doesn’t happen or go on for ages. On the other hand they sometimes go too far and it feels unrealistic.
These are my picks: :::spoiler Nominations
Ah, I didn´t realise you were manually going to be sifting through the nominations. Fair enough!
Regarding the formatting, the anime series themselves are relatively straight forward, but what about the OPs/EDs and VAs? There are many ways of writing this down. Is the song name + anime sufficient? Or just the anime + OP 1/2? Or do you need song + artist + anime? Does the order matter? Do you want streaming links?
Fucking gross. Why is this guy not in prison?