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I've been reading Great Teacher Onizuka and so far it's almost exactly 1:1 like the anime... which means, the horribly aged ableism is about to hit, beyond all the other problematic stuff. Beyond that, it remains as fun as I remember. It's neat. B+
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Gundam SEED has managed to make it across its entire 50 episode run without making me too annoyed or in amused disbelief over the nonsense happening on the screen. Really, it's... alright. I wish Kira and Lacus were less wooden characters. Athrun and Cagalli were significantly more interesting and 500x more likeable than Ange and Tusk in the trainwreck of a show named Cross Ange, who used them as a ~~self-plagiarism~~ source of inspiration B-
SEED Destiny too... has been pretty alright so far. However, I do like Shinn's character. That man has definitely every reason to be as angry as he is... but I am fairly confident the show won't do too much with that. Speaking of Cagalli, wow, that is a massive downgrade in character writing compared to S1. Supposedly, there's IRL drama that caused that! C+
CITY is Nichijou 2, not much else to say about it. It doesn't quite live up to the predecessor, and with the shorter show run it probably never will, but it is undeniably still a good show. A
Dragon Ball Z - almost done with the Freeza fight. That was... pretty long. But consistently good, even though some previously impactful stuff, like people dying, is not much of a big deal now. A
Ranma 1/2 is also consistently entertaining. Not much else to say about it at this point. A
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I knew Gravity Falls was always a highly regarded show... but I did not expect it to be this good. There's an iconic cast of characters, compelling storytelling... it's just very very competent at what it sets out to do. A+
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A challenging Super Robot Wars game in the year of our Lord 2025? One that has, so far, good writing? One that is available in a language I speak? Y is shockingly good. I've been on a binge this weekend. A+
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Continuing with There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless..., for a problematic harem anime it's actually pretty good, Mai being the literal worst aside. Turns out all you need to do to make harem anime good was make it yuri instead. Heavily qualified B.
The second season of Dandadan continues being absolutely fantastic across the board. It came out of the gate swinging and has only escalated from there. Completely unqualified A.
For something new I started watching in the past couple of weeks, Call of the Night absolutely blew me away. On the surface it looks like any other hetero romance anime and one might even expect it to be a harem show, but it's not any of that at all: the MC is close to being aro/ace, his response to the sexy vampire isn't "I want her" or even "I want to be with her" but "I want to be like her", and the show has semi-frequent frank discussions of sexual orientation and the MC's lack thereof. The characters also struggle to articulate depression and ennui and some sort of neurodivergence and masking and the dissatisfaction and alienation that results from this, and both Ko Yamori and Nazuna complain about and discuss shitty and toxic things men do. I'm nearly caught up with the second season and for all I know either it or somewhere later in the manga it could jump the shark and wreck all these good things, but goddamn if this isn't a very surprising gem of a series so far. It even managed to have a gender nonconforming character who's not any kind of stereotype, which is a low bar to clear but I feel like I can count on one hand the number of anime series I've seen that don't slam face first into that bar. It's like someone made a straight romance story queer and also not a romance story at all but more just a story about two depressed gremlins hanging out and being harangued by their friends who want them to hook up. Cautious A, just because I keep expecting it to randomly do something horrible that ruins everything retroactively.