So
hot damn, we're getting a Steins;Gate sequel!Just finished watching Kokoro Connect, which is about a group of highschoolers who get messed around with by a psychic plant alien. I normally read the synopsis of an anime, read "set in the prestigious high school akamablahablah" and look for something else, but I bit the bullet. It was a bit melodramatic in places, and yet they didn't whine enough about being the playthings of this cosmic abomination, but I still loved it. Helped that the primary couple I shipped won out - but I had to track down episodes 14-17 somewhere other than crunchyroll because licensing hates you.
Also watched all but the last episode of Parasyte and enjoyed the hell out of that too, even though it was a bit heavy on the masculine power fantasy. I like how it sets up a green aesop but then says "actually nah watevs" and drops it at the last minute. Gives me ideas for a Tzimisce character who psychologically displaces his beast/embrace into his fleshcrafted arm and calls it a parasite.
And just a while ago, I watched the first season of Psycho-pass. Great soundtrack, slightly reminiscent of blade-runner in some respects, a cyberpunk thriller. A bit too self-congratulatory about the literary references it makes, but still amazingly solid, and in my opinion considerably better than anything except possibly Steins;Gate. I think I'll likely be rewatching it.
Psycho-Pass spoiler
So I feel like the ending is bittersweet because the bad guy wins. They don't take him in, and instead he gets shot like he wanted. I just wish that he'd been apprehended and forcibly inducted into the Sibyl system.