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[Tack]

Megalobox. Tame man’s Baki. I still love it to all heck though.

[NRDL]

Megalobox. Tame man’s Baki Ashita No Joe. I still love it to all heck though.

FTFY


For real though, is it actually good? I love boxing anime, but never really found the idea of machine enhancement to be all that interesting. Haven't seen anything past the first episode, so I don't know how good the fight scenes get.

[Folly]

For real though, is it actually good? I love boxing anime, but never really found the idea of machine enhancement to be all that interesting.

Minor storyline spoilers...

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Most of this story revolves around our protagonist refusing to use machine enhancements, and returning to the classical pure form of boxing.

[Cruxador]

So many sister shows, I can't keep up. After Eromanga sensei the sheer number of little sister light novel adaptations where the main character happens to be ... a light novel author who writes (or his sister writes) little sister light novels is starting to getting ridiculous. I know they say "write what you know" but the sheer number of little-sister light novels in which all the author apparently knows about, thus all he writes about, is being a little-sister light novelist is getting silly. Forget novels where you have to research something interesting and write about that: just write a novel where the hero is a struggling novelist, and have everyone else in it be a cliche from existing novels. I mean, this is even lazier and worse than over-using school as a setting. At least "school" is something everyone can relate to, unlike the supposition of a light novel about a light novelist.

Part of it may be that a lot of the people who read light novels in significant volume also aspire (however much or little they may actually put into this goal) to write a big successful LN of their own.

And on the general little sister romance tack, HenSuki this season kinda subverted some big parts of the usual narrative, so that was a bit fun. It kind of makes me want to check out the LN and see what happens next. Not enough that I'm likely to actually do so, but still.

[Reelya]

Yep, after watching "my sister is among them" i read some of the stuff on wikipedia. The light novel has some amusing twists, but still not enough to go and read them. Got spoilered, but it's kinda funny if you don't care about the series:

The set up is rich kid enters a prestigious school after the death of his dad, and if he doesn't find a wife there, he doesn't inherit the company. A mysterious veiled girl on the day of the funeral says she's his sister, and she'll be attending the school and plans to marry him.

Spoiler: for the anime (click to show/hide)

In the anime, everyone is the sister: they constantly drop clues about everyone being the sister, and you have to work out which clues are legit. It actually makes some logic however. Dude is worried that he'll bang his sister. Turns out his worries are justified, and one girl he ended up in bed with turns out is his sister. Since there are really only two girls in contention (there are 1-2 other delusional ones who think they have a chance, because he helped them with their life problems) he's now free to pursue the other girl.

All of which is completely overturned because ...

Spoiler: for the light novels (click to show/hide)

So he's gotten together with the "not his sister" girl. Then, a DNA test reveals that his "sister" from the anime part is actually his cousin. Then it turns out that the girl he's dating is the illegitimate child of his father, i.e. his sister. But then it turns out that he's not the brother. The main character turns out to have a different father. So he's nobody's brother and he's not actually the heir to the fortune.

[JoshuaFH]

Megalobox. Tame man’s Baki Ashita No Joe. I still love it to all heck though.

FTFY

I thought there was a little bit of facetiousness to your edit, but I just watched the first ep and these are just Ashita No Joe characters, but in a new settting. Like, exactly the same! They're clones! What a transparent homage. I love it already.

[Frumple]

It was literally made in commemoration of anj's 50th anniversary. So uh. Yeah, it's a homage

[JoshuaFH]

I just plain didn't even know anything about it, so it took me by surprise.

[Cruxador]

So I just finished watching Kanata no Astra and I gotta say, I was real disappointed with the ending.

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It's just so ridiculously optimistic that I was waiting for the other shoe to drop the whole time. Never mind that the basic setup involved loads of things so improbable as to be impossible (an asteroid is going to destroy the earth, we know years in advance, and somehow it's easier to move everyone than it is to divert the asteroid? And for some reason, everyone has to be sent to a single perfect planet instead of branching out into the many good enough planets? And not only this whole event, but all religions and all record of religion can be erased just because people "want peace"?) but on top of that, a government so omnipotent and corrupt as to orchestrate all of this just decided that when the kids brought this to the attention of a police investigator, they wouldn't cover it up but would instead just go with it? What?

And then, finally at the end, they didn't even give a fulfilling "happy ending" – they could have had everyone back on the ship for the exploration mission and let them continue with other endeavors through the power of wormholes, and it would have been so much less of an ass-pull than the kids safely landing on the ground with a government escort and not being taken immediately into government custody.

I know this was made worse by the fact that I was looking forward to this ending, and if I hadn't expected it to deliver, it would have been fine. But when the last episode is double-length, you expect something, you know?

Maybe this is just what I get for watching a show outside of my demographic. But it was enough fun along the way that I expected more from it.

[Tack]

Oh woah yeah that basically is Ashita no joe.

Anywho, been watching Joshikousei no Mudazukai (wasteful days of high school girls).
Another absurdist SoL. Never been happier. It's the second season of Nichijou I never got.
Well, it's basically a girl's danshi koukousei no nichijou, but the character of Mai Minakami is back 100%. As she was my favourite, no contest.
Also mild lesbian vibes but I guess they're shooting for every audience.

[Reelya]

I thought you were talking about this thing actually:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/38295/Joshikausei

This one is just shorts about some highschool girls, but it's pretty unique in that there's no dialogue at all, there is voice acting, just no actual dialogue, the story is all told visually.

EDIT: I have the other one already so I'll definitely check it out.

BTW another plug for Hidamari Sketch. It's pretty great for that sort of thing, and the closest thing you'll get to Azumanga Daioh. I think the best plug for Hidamari Sketch is that it's Shaft's take on a school slice of life series complete with Shaft's weird art direction.

[SquatchHammer]

Thank you Reelya for the rant about the whole issue of light novelest with little sister interest because I was looking for the Eromanga series. I saw a few clips of it on YouTube and there was no name in the title nor description so I didn't know what it was called. I'm amazed by the quality of the animation and I do have a soft spot for erosensi because she reminded me of a school crush of a girl who was quiet and had platinum blonde hair.

[Reelya]

I want to read "My Little Sister Can Read Kanji".
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/my-little-sister-can-read-kanji/novel-1/.11300

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In Kajii's world, the 2060 publication of a novel known as OniAka, short for “I Want to Have Onii-chan's Baby,” took the country by storm. Its popularity was so great that other authors began writing in the same style, which was devoid of kanji, and eventually little sister fetish novels became Literature and panty flashes became the highest form of literary symbolism. Now in the 23rd century, kanji is obsolete, what we'd call light novel schlock is “Orthodox” literature, and the two political parties are basically reduced to “blood-related little sister fetish” or “non-blood-related little sister fetish.” It is in this world that Gin Imose dreams of becoming a great author, and he jumps at the chance to meet bestselling Orthodox author Gai Odaira, who specializes in little sister novels.

[Frumple]

Liked one of the first goodreads reviews I saw:

Literary Me: This is a clever and entertaining Juvenalian satire of current Japanese publishing trends, resulting in something of a light novel burlesque.

Regular Me: WTF did I just read?

[Reelya]

Wow this is cool you can actually read the whole thing on the Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/manga_My_Little_Sister_Can_Read_Kanji