The year has flown by. With the 40 h work week, you’re speedrunning getting old!

Manga

I’m still only reading Great Teacher Onizuka and Shibuya Near Family - both of which are good.

Anime

Gundam SEED Destiny was a mess, and feels like a waste of time for what is 100 episodes of Gundam. And yet, there’s still the movie to go through. Fun. D+

Eureka Seven is a show I’ve started recently, and is quite competently made. Not much is original, it feels like, with the show’s themes (so far) being kinda obvious - a coming of age story. But I don’t dislike it, and studio Bones is pretty reliably good. B

Dragon Ball Z - The Frieza saga ended - 200-ish more episodes to go. But DBZ is reliably good, even if slow. A

Vision of Escaflowne is good, even if imo somewhat harmed by the comparisons to Evangelion. I liked it A-

Wasteful Days of High School Girls is something I picked up on a whim and surprised me. Another show from the Azumanga / Nichijou genre, it’s a fun one. I haven’t had out-loud laughs at an anime in a while, but maybe it speaks of me I enjoy the kind of silly nonsense this show is about. A

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Riiiiiight I remember hearing that they deal with establishing an MMO society. Can’t wait for social commentary from the same show that has people (well, Gamers anyway) randomly turn to banditry in what is essentially a post-scarcity society due to boredom.

    Actually, now that I think about it, that makes even less sense. Banditry needs to have a high payoff to be worthwhile, but what exactly are you going to spend your stolen goods on when people aren’t even aware you can cook food? From what’s been shown so far, nobody’s playing the new expansion content.

    • CriticalOtaku [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Can’t wait for social commentary from the same show that has people (well, Gamers anyway) randomly turn to banditry in what is essentially a post-scarcity society due to boredom.

      OH BOY

      You see, what you need are INCENTIVE STRUCTURES. If you Keynesian economics all the negative externalities away, we can fix all of society’s problems.

      AAAAAAALLL OF THEM.

      (I don’t want to spoil too much of the show inadvertently so I’ll leave how the show answers your question, or even whether if it just completely ignores it for the sake of the narrative, for you to find out. I’ll just say that the show goes places that are incredibly inadvertently hilarious to someone with even a basic grasp of socialist concepts)