Don’t think so, they revealed that someone was inside the Kaijiu last season

So many… Only counting inserts, OPs and EDs, here are some of my favourites:

• The AoT insert songs are incredible and this suite is even better.
• Grand Escape from Weathering With You
• Suzume’s title track
• unravel, as cliche as it is
• Enigmatic Feeling from Psycho-Pass
• Signal from 91 Days
• Black Lagoon’s OP
• The Garden of Sinners EDs
• Land of the Lustrous OP
• Watashi Dake Yurei (the SICKHACK song from BTR).
• Original Spice and Wolf openings
• Voracity by MYTH & ROID from overlord
• Hunting Soul from Dandadan
• Might be recency bias, but the OPs from With You In The Rain and Clevatess
• Fate/Stay Night Heaven’s Feel EDs by Aimer

In this specific case I think it’s more of a western thing

Totally, since it’s not a common name.

Tbf, isn’t that the case with most Japanese names in anime? Or any foreign name tbh. For example, my name is very close to an English name, just pronounced differently, but even after spelling out how it would be pronounced if I were to spell it in a way that matches English, it took quite a while for my English friends to pronounce it correctly.

I could try it. How heavy is it on the horror aspects? I tend to stay away from that.

Apart from that my fall 2025 recommendation is to get caught up on other stuff

Fair haha. Slow season I guess then

I’ve slowly started to try to catch up with this season, but so far, I’ve not liked any of them except Gachiakuta and May I Ask.

• Dark History Villainess: pacing is all fucked up. It’s as if I’m watchibg a summary. Dropped after 3 eps
• Mangaka’s Workplace: couldn’t stand the MC. I don’t typically mind characters like her, but she seemed super over the top anxious for no reason and over the same thing the entire time. Well for the time I watched it anyway. Dropped after 1 ep.
• Pass The Monster Meat: started out fine, but after a couple of eps it became messy. Dropped it after 5 eps.

If anyone has fall 2025 suggestions, I’m open for it (as long as it’s on CR and Netflix. Can’t be bothered to pirate atm).

It’s impossible to dub every single anime at a reasonable time.

I mean, not really. For all already existing ones, maybe, but for new ones? No reason for it to be impossible. The Japanese dub doesn’t appear out of thin air. The Western streaming services companies just aren’t willing to pay up.

Anything by director Naoko Yamada is amazing.

Apothecary Diaries has gorgeous looking moments too.

I saw the trailers, but can’t say I’m excited for it. The 3D animation looked pretty bad.

With the Chainsaw Man movie still haunting me from last week, I caught up with Gachiakuta and May I Ask For One Final thing. The former I’m starting to care less about, the latter is great. Just as enjoyable as the manga.

Saw the trailers and tbh, the janky 3D animation and sometimes models really put me off

True, but the reason for the vitriol is because most mediocre anime aren’t nearly as popular as SAO.

I think there’s a 50% chance we went to the same theater, because I also went to see The Colors Within yesterday

Haha, yeah, quite likely.

slight plot hole

Hm, maybe, but they were quite lenient with other things in the ends so…

Still a weird experience to go to the mainstream cinema and see an anime film in a packed house, though. That would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

Hmm, I don’t know. It wasnt in any cinemas near me, so it depends on where you are I guess. Bigger cities generally have a wider variety of audiences.

I tried Code Geass as my 1st anime and dropped it 1st episode haha. I didn’t like the OP and the artstyle. Apparently that was enough at the time.

Then I tried SAO (I know), and here I am, 12-13 years later: weeb and still haven’t watched Code Geass.

Haven’t really had the brain space to pick up anything from this season yet, but I did watch two anime films yesterday in the theater: Chainsaw Man: Reze’s Arc and The Colors Within.

CSM: I didn’t like S1 much. I thought it was okay at best. But this film was incredible. Denji is much more human here and Reze is just incredible. She really stole the show. The pool scene everyone raves about deserves all the praise it gets. Visually it’s a big upgrade too imo. More vibrant and better movement. And man, that soundtrack was so good. Kensuke Ushio doesn’t fail to deliver. If this is how the rest of CSM is going to be adapted, I’m all for it.

The Colors Within: the theater I went to ocassionally has anime film showings outside of the release schedule, and they showed this one this time. Great movie as expected of Naoko Yamada, also with a great soundtrack by Kensuke Ushio. Bit of a tonal whiplash to see it right after CSM though haha.

Ah right, personal preference is fair.

I do think that explosive/hype music would’ve been out of place though, looking at the more introspective and mysterious themes of the show.

Hmm, but one of the biggest reasons for its success is the art. You’d need to replicate that somehow in live action, otherwise it’s just pointless tbh

IMO it’s rather lackluster in the music department though. I barely noticed any soundtrack, and when I do, they don’t seem to fit the scene.

What makes you find it lackluster or not fitting?

I think Apothecary Diaries does a stellar job