Anime/Manga What was the last anime you watched or manga you read?

finished cyberpunk edgerunners. now to finish mob psycho 100 and black butler
kept telling myself i would finish these two but i just kept forgetting. no longer!!!
 
I had just finished watching the 1st season of Jujutsu Kaisen. About to start watching the 2nd season. And I'm also trying to play catch up on Blue Exorcist.
 
I've finished Digimon Tamers, I was one of those people who always wrote off Digimon as an overly edgy ripoff of Pokemon; but I've wanted to give it an honest try and most of the places I looked around online suggested starting with either Tamers or Adventures. Between those, I chose Tamers since the screenshots looked better to me. Overall, it was really good! All 3 "main" characters were excellent, and I felt like the other 4 "supporting" characters still got plenty of time / moments to shine. They all had fleshed out arcs (eg: Rika learning to open up to others, or Jeri (whose name I thought was "Gerry" before looking it up lol) overcoming her depression) and changed significantly over the course of the series. My favorite aspect of the show was Guilmon and Takato's relationship, it was really sweet to watch them interact / grow together; and I wish the show allowed them to spend more time together outside fights. Even with the relatively limited time they spend together on-screen, I was genuinely unnerved when Guilmon digivolved into Megidramon; it fighting with actual intent to kill with that extremely threatening design was incredibly jarring coming from it being essentially harmless to that point. It conveyed how beserek Takato had gone incredibly well, and although I was originally planning on going to sleep after watching that episode since I'd already watched like 8 in a row, but I ended up turning my TV back on and watching 4 more because I just had to make sure they were going to be OK. Which is a sign of great character development. Outside that fight though, I found the rest kinda underwhelming; they were pretty bland and repetitive, even compared to the Pokemon anime (which isn't a particularly high bar); and it felt like every episode had to have a fight shoehorned in even if it didn't benefit the story. I really wish there were some quiet episodes that entirely focused on the relationship between the characters / their families / their Digimon without the monster of the week busting in, because there were very few if any apart from the very start of the show. The whole deva thing was also pretty annoying and ended up being a bit of an anticlimax since the Big Bad Sovereign built up for half the series isn't even defeated by the heros; instead doing a 180 in like 2 episodes and deciding to help the gang defeat the menace of the red blob. The ending was really solid though, incredibly bittersweet for sure, but it was well built up and Henry's dad's actions felt very understandable. I've heard Tamers is the best Digimon series though, which makes me nervous to try the others. But I'll probably end up giving one of them a go after taking a break from it.
 
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I decided to go ahead and finally begin watching Beastars. There are probably several reasons for this, but, to keep it short and sweet... I don't want a repeat of last year when it took until March for me to start watching a new anime, yes there are new animes starting this month but it's unknown how long english dubs will take to begin for them, and I'm pretty much trying to stall until S2 of Ranma 1/2 2024 begins. Besides... Final Season Part 1 of Beastars just recently became available so if I watch one ep a week... maybe Part 2 will be available by then?

I have to be brutally honest... quite the intriguing start thus far. More intriguing than I was expecting it to be.
 
I've just completed Blue Lock Season 2. The animation took a dip versus Season 1 for sure, but this season was heavily carried by the voice acting and the music design.
 
Dr. Stone Science Future (S4) has begun. Dubbed as well. Same day dub. I'm not sure if it's just for ep 1 or the entire season. I hope it's the latter. As always... great start so far. This series also never seems to disappoint. Now... obviously... I don't know if it'll be able to cover everything or if things will be skipped or whatever (it's supposed to be the final season with multiple cours) but either way... I ain't reading the manga lol.
 
Currently watching "Medalist," "Flower and Asura," and "Honey Lemon Soda" for my current seasonals. Obviously we're only one episode in each, but so far it looks like a fairly good season albeit without any standouts.
 
Dragon Ball Daima has also now finally started english dubbed. I don't want to judge it already... but I'm confused on why they are acting like Super never happened? I don't know... it feels like a another GT situation. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing... is still TBD right now.
 
I've finished Digimon Adventure; honestly looking back I should've listened to the people who said to watch it before Tamers, because I can now see how it really subverts a lot of expectations you'd have coming out of Adventure. In any case, it was pretty good! I enjoyed the more light-hearted tone and I was very impressed by how it managed to juggle 8 main characters without sidelining any of them. The villains were a bit over-the-top and simplistic for my tastes; and the animation was pretty underwhelming, even for 1999 (there are multiple scenes where a character is running and they just recycle the same clip but speed it up, and they reuse stock animations for attacks extremely often). But I really liked the main cast (especially Joe and Izzy, who I found very relatable) and how they bounced off each other, I also liked how there was more room to breath and slice-of-life segments instead of 24/7 fighting like in Tamers. Overall, I'd give it an 8.75/10. I'll probably watch 02 next, I'm not too optimistic about it, but apparently it's really important to watch before Tri, which I'm very intrigued by; so I'll just have to get through it.
 
I finished a few airing things that ended like Blue Lock, Blue Exorcist & Dandadan. & some other older stuff like The Vampire Dies in No Time, Noragami Aragoto, Giant Robo, Patlabor, Sand Land (movie version).

Started Spy Family Season 2 & almost caught up with Mashle.

Airing I'm only watching Daima now I think, but I'm also watching a bunch of older series still like Dr. Slump, Devilman, Saint Seiya, GTO & Kinnikuman.

For manga I've just been reading Saint Seiya and some axed series on the Shonen Jump app, and Crimsons on Mangadex.

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Dragon Ball Daima has also now finally started english dubbed. I don't want to judge it already... but I'm confused on why they are acting like Super never happened? I don't know... it feels like a another GT situation. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing... is still TBD right now.
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Daima is before DBS in the timeline, so it wouldn't make sense to acknowledge it?
 
[PokeCommunity.com] What was the last anime you watched or manga you read?

Despite having a lot going on I've been trying to get back into reading manga again after enjoying my time with it last year! Last month I started reading (and am now fully caught up on) Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta after a mention from a friend and seeing mentions of it online, and it is very good. I am always present for good yuri.
Earlier this month I came back to and finished Oji-san ga Joshi●sei ni Warui Koto wo Oshieru Hanashi after putting it down years ago because I just sorta fell off reading manga in general. It's a genuinely super cute story where it's all about how it seems misleading on the surface that this guy is getting a girl to do these "bad things" with him and then the punchline is that the "bad things" are stuff like eating pizza and playing video games together and he looks after her and helps give her emotional support. Really lovely.
Last night I finished Nijiiro Days after knowing it was the exact thing I'd fall in love with (since I saw the anime years ago and always wanted to read the parts after the anime ends) and I was absolutely right. The way I summed it up was that it's one of those things where you kinda know how it's gonna end and who's gonna date who when you start it, but witnessing their journeys, learning about these characters, and seeing how everything plays out between them is what it's all about. I enjoyed every moment of it, didn't expect it to get me as emotionally invested as I did, and there were a couple moments that felt like they hurt in the best of ways. I love a good romance drama manga but they feel like they're hard for me to come across, and Nijiiro Days felt like 4 of them all together without weakening any of the four individually.

While I am busy and things aren't really going to slow down the next couple weeks, I really want to finish reading Tsun-Ama na Kareshi because I think I'm somewhere around halfway through, because I told myself once I finally read everything I've been meaning to finish, I really want to start reading the original Sailor Moon, and I'm very excited for that. Whether I do actually read the original manga or get into the series some other way, it's something I'm looking forward to.
 
Watching GTO, Black Clover and Spy x Family (still) atm. I have been reading a lot more manga tho, I read the entire OG Saint Seiya manga, and now I'm getting through some of the spin offs and sequels. & also a lot on the Shonen Jump app (some new series like Embers, The Marshal King, Bug Ego & also older ones like Yu Yu Hakusho and some oneshots/one-offs)
 
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