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Anime I've been watching
Feb. 20th, 2022 09:08 pmYou ever do that thing where you start a post but don't finish it, but when you go to finish it it's out of date so you end up rewriting half of it without finishing it, ad infinitum? I've had one of those sitting in my drafts for what feels like a month now, so I'm just cutting it up and posting pieces of it before this results in my never posting anything ever again, which has happened to me in other places.
I caught an episode of Mashiro no Oto and was intrigued, so I went and picked up the whole series. It's a story about a depressed kid who's grandfather dies. The grandfather was a shamisen master and the MC, Setsu, of course picked it up from him and is some sort of shamisen prodigy. He's also however completely removed from the shamisen world and doesn't know anything about performing or competitions or whatever, so no one knows about him either. The story is kind of about him being able to "find his sound" and his frustration with asserting himself vs living up to the reputation of his grandfather and the pressure of his parents, who are absolute pieces of abusive shit.
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I've also been keeping up with each new episode of Kimetsu no Yaiba / Demon Slayers when it comes out. This one I'm 1000% into. The fights are so fucking good, and every episode is like injecting raw shonen energy into my veins. The only problem is that I haven't watched a show as it was being released in FOREVER, and this show in particular is really fucking with its viewers by putting out cliffhanger episode after cliffhanger episode. The wait is causing me mental anguish, but unlike Mashiro no Oto I absolutely don't want to spoil myself with the manga on this one because I don't want to dilute the hype.The last season was tops for animation. Just awesome combat scenes all around. The pleasure quarter arc just finished and I don't know if they're going to pick up with a new arc right off the bat. If not I'll need to find something else to watch. Maybe give Kill La Kill another shot.
I caught an episode of Mashiro no Oto and was intrigued, so I went and picked up the whole series. It's a story about a depressed kid who's grandfather dies. The grandfather was a shamisen master and the MC, Setsu, of course picked it up from him and is some sort of shamisen prodigy. He's also however completely removed from the shamisen world and doesn't know anything about performing or competitions or whatever, so no one knows about him either. The story is kind of about him being able to "find his sound" and his frustration with asserting himself vs living up to the reputation of his grandfather and the pressure of his parents, who are absolute pieces of abusive shit.
( More plus some music )
I've also been keeping up with each new episode of Kimetsu no Yaiba / Demon Slayers when it comes out. This one I'm 1000% into. The fights are so fucking good, and every episode is like injecting raw shonen energy into my veins. The only problem is that I haven't watched a show as it was being released in FOREVER, and this show in particular is really fucking with its viewers by putting out cliffhanger episode after cliffhanger episode. The wait is causing me mental anguish, but unlike Mashiro no Oto I absolutely don't want to spoil myself with the manga on this one because I don't want to dilute the hype.The last season was tops for animation. Just awesome combat scenes all around. The pleasure quarter arc just finished and I don't know if they're going to pick up with a new arc right off the bat. If not I'll need to find something else to watch. Maybe give Kill La Kill another shot.
