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I liked the chapter this week too. There’s more to it than what I might have thought last week, but it’s also not too convoluted. Pretty good balance in that regard. Situation is getting critical again this week in The Elusive Samurai! Sakamoto was short this week

I was all digital on my 3DS, so no worries about losing game carts I put so many hours into Bravely Default…

Octopath Traveler is on the ol’ to-do list… some day… if I can ever finish all my goals in Diablo 2 I need a good JRPG back in my life though. It’s either going to be Octopath or Bravely Default 2 next up. (I effing loved Bravely Default and Bravely Second!)

Lots of potentially helpful/insightful reax to D4 here on the PureDiablo D2 Single Player Forum that you might find interesting to read. These views are of course coming from people that are primarily D2 fans. PureDiablo is the successor to the old Diabloii.net forums if anybody around here used to post there. The D2 SPF is loaded with great stuff

I just realized we’re getting a second season of MIX this Spring!!! I’m not sure how I missed seeing that. I love a good baseball anime

Pretty epic finale to Trigun Stampede. We’re getting more too https://myanimelist.net/news/68885800

yeah, maybe not super well written all things considered, but I was still surprised how graphic that episode got compared to everything that preceded it.

Buddy Daddies #11

Solid finish to Revenger! I really enjoyed this show overall.

Yeah that was an interesting little piece of background info showing the Dr. Gero family tree.

Every week I read all the new chapters and I feel like I have so many things to comment on, and then I pull up this thread and my brain mostly draws a blank I am enjoying the flashback in Sakamoto too. I feel like the happenings in the past are going to explain a lot about Slur's motivations. I am also super curious to see what happens next in The Elusive Samurai. Fun times sight-seeing in Kamakura are on hold for now..! Back to the action. Ichinose Family #17 You up to date on DB Super as well? We're properly getting into the Super Hero story now. I guess reading it after having seen the movie already is a bit boring, but whatever, the movie was a really good time so I'll enjoy reading the manga adaptation too.

Happy birthday Lucy! Come back to say hello to us sometime please

Yeah, isekai is on quite the run of sustained popularity! People must be watching them in big numbers if studios keep making more of them. Gimme another season of Grimgar please… ?

YuYu Hakusho is top tier stuff! (Well, until the messy ending...) I can re-watch it any time.

I don’t have anything that can play this game anyways so no pre-order from me either From what I’ve seen so far, the game looks decent, but IMO certainly more comparable to D3 (what little I remember of it) than D2. I enjoyed the parts of D3 that I played. Not nearly as much as I enjoy D2, of course. I hope to try D4 someday.

Any of you folks getting in on the Diablo IV open beta this week? A few different D2 streamers I follow on YouTube are playing right now, so I'm just following along with them. The opening cutscene was rad. No comments about the gameplay yet as I've only been watching like 10 minutes

Revenger has built up to the big final episode that will be next week. Overall, the show has been pretty solid. I'm curious to see how it ends. Do we get a happy-ish ending or tragedy? Could go either way with how Raizo's character has developed. Stray Dogs has been steadily very good the last few weeks too! I think there are two episodes left to go. I don't think they can resolve this story line in just two episodes. There are so many moving parts in this story. I guess there will be another season eventually. Maybe this season ends on a big cliffhanger.

Wow, we're definitely on the same wavelength here My gut says Nico remembers more than she is letting on during her drunken outbursts. I dunno why. Probably wrong I didn't start Jiangshi X yet. I might circle back to it if it enjoys a long-ish run and seems to pick up some momentum. But if it meets an early end then I figure why even bother I've been thinking about maybe picking up World Trigger if I have time for some binge reading. I watched the first season of the anime way back (hard to believe that was nine years ago! ) and enjoyed it well enough (not that I remember much about it anymore!). It must be doing something right if it's still running...

Finally got round to checking out some of the new stuff. Beat & Motion is definitely a winner in my books! Nico is hilarious The art is a bit generic IMHO so it's not as nice to look at as some other series that I'm enjoying at the moment, but I like the basis for the story. I actually read the first two chapters at like 3am this morning when I couldn't get back to sleep while stressing over some dumb work shit in the middle of the night, and this idea of "You just died today, now you should do what you really want to do" struck a chord. Gokurakugai is also interesting, though I am not as into the concept as I am Beat & Motion. The latest Chainsaw Man (123) also has some good stuff going on. Asa is in a bit of trouble here! Denji to the rescue? Or does she save herself?

Trigun, so good

Tell Lucy we say hi!

Coming soon to a screen near you..! The Fall anime season has some stuff that I am super excited about Some useful links: Fall 2022 AniChart MAL Fall 2022 season page Crunchyroll Fall 2022 season lineup (still some items TBD as of this posting on Sept. 28) I still don't do HIDIVE so I dunno what they've got. Also unsure of what might be coming up soon on Prime, Netflix, etc... My for-sure-I'm-watching-them titles are... Chainsaw Man Spy x Family Gundam: The Witch From Mercury FYI the prologue episode is on YouTube and OH MAN IT IS GOOD I have wanted a new Gundam series in my life for literally years now and I am very hyped for this! @Vic Boss please come back and chat about Gundam with me As always, I will also be looking out for interesting anime originals. Nothing has jumped out at me yet. I'll have to wait and see what else Crunchyroll has in the lineup and then decide what else to check out. A couple other interesting items: The Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie is now available on Crunchyroll, so I think I will try to watch that one night this weekend (still thinking about picking up the manga from where the anime left off as well... maybe now is the time to get into that, after watching the movie!) Berserk's Golden Age arc is getting an anime series, but I think this was already covered in movies that I'm pretty sure I already watched a few years ago... so I'm not sure if I'll bother watching the anime, but maybe What are you looking forward to? Discuss!

^ I'm in agreement about pretty much all of that! Ichinose Family has been rather captivating lately, after a brief lull for a few chapters The Masamune stuff in Elusive Samurai has been super rad, and those weapons are cool AF Chainsaw Man has overall been good, and even when it's not great the vibes are still pretty cool, but it would totally benefit from a longer format (eg, like Choujin X which often has closer to 30 pages, sometimes more... you should totally get caught up on it if you haven't yet ) Akane-banashi continues to be great overall and now that PPPPPP is over Akane is easily my favourite current artsy manga ( PPPPPPP) Every new Show-ha Shoten! is loaded with good stuff even when I don't really get the Japanese stand-up humour Are you caught up on Sakamoto and DB Super? @Anelle thoughts re: latest JJK chapters???

I put it off for several weeks, just 'cause I didn't want it to be over, but I finished Bocchi the Rock! tonight... It was fantastic. I'm also super bummed out that it's over Easily one of my all-time favourite music anime ever