It's feeling like a worse-than-usual season to me. Realist Hero I avoid because it's the most reliant on idiot-ball-holding show known to man. Genius Prince has thus far been a vastly inferior adaptation compared to the manga.
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Golden Kamui is great. I'm glad it's getting another season. People joke about Jojo being homoerotic, but Kamui wins in that aspect thanks to all the jokes. The action is great, CGI bear notwithstanding. It's definitely an odd season. Orient seems fun, but you can't compare it to the budget Magi had. It looks cheap, despite the premise. I'll still watch it, but it's generic shonen. Fantasy Bishoujo is funny, but the premise will get old quick if the other characters such as the Kirito parody aren't as interesting. Bisco seems cool, but yeah the Panda doctor will just show Bisco how to be more empathetic and stopping his sister from wanting to kill him. I liked the use of animals as vehicles/weapons. Also, the hitmen wearing those bunny masks reminded me of the manga Doubt.
He's blond and bold but, most of all, doesn't smoke. Man isn't Japanese, he's a burger born in a foreign land.
honestly he's the best one in that series:
I think the cgi bear was honestly the best and worst thing in the anime.
I love the anime. It's directed and voiced very well, especially Tsurumi (same guy as Sato from Ajin) but they also cut a lot non-crucial arcs, including a lot of Sugimoto's backstory, so I don't know if I should recommend it or not. I'm leaning towards "yes" but definitely try out the manga after to see what you missed. And if you read the manga first give the OPs and EDs a watch at some point even if you don't watch the whole anime.
Yeah, the CGI is pretty damn wonky, especially in the first season, but Geno gradually improved in their use of it, and I think they were actually using it well by the time season 3 rolled around. I know they've been something of a budget studio and Brain's Base might do a better job, but I think Geno was hitting their stride. We'll see whenever season 4 comes out.
What’s it actually about? Personally I’m not too into “realistic” historical fiction (which is the impression I got from it, I could be totally wrong) but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it so I may give it a shot.
I actually dropped the anime adaption of Golden Kamuy because of the bears ngl. I'll give it another try but even then I'll probably still recommend the manga over the anime since the scanlations come with neat translator's notes about references.
Basic premise is a treasure hunt, where a criminal stashed away a pile of gold, tattooing parts of the map to the treasure on his fellow convicts. A bunch of different groups want the gold for their own purposes, which is where a lot of the conflict arises. But there are a bunch of other subplots mixed in that weave through the story, and while it starts off kind of simple, it quickly gets complicated as new characters show up and new truths are revealed.
I used to agree with this but then I watched and went on to read Vinland Saga so if this opinion already has you missing out on Vinland Saga, I highly suggest you check that shit out.
Golden Kamui is literally a Western but with the proper nouns and settings changed to something appropriately Japanese (i.e. Ainu instead of Indians).
You know, it IS interesting how more manga don’t go the “multiple parts with discrete standalone storylines with no significant overarching plot” structure. Jojo is the only other major example I can think of off the top of my head. I guess it’s usually something you may see more with LN’s, Monogatari and Index/Railgun (the only two LN adaptations I’m familiar with) definitely share this structure, where the story doesn’t really have an overarching “end goal” it’s building towards, but rather just a series of mostly unrelated storylines with some vague thematic link.
