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[Akura]

There's an anime I remember seeing on TV when I was really young, I want to say around the mid- to late-90s, that's bounced around my head once or twice lately. I don't remember the name. I only remember a very bare amount of details.

I think the the story was that Earth was under attack by aliens, or that aliens had largely already won and devastated the Earth. The main protagonist may have been based on the Moon or maybe a space station. He had the unique ability to summon an armor suit onto himself that may have been based on the alien technology. One detail I remember for sure is that he had a 30-minute time limit for being in his armor, before the suit itself would take over or something like that.

Spoiler: One or two twists I may or may not remember correctly (click to show/hide)

He had a sister with the same(if slightly different) armor as him, and they were both created by the aliens.

[Frumple]

I'unno, relatively well known 90s-ish anime with power armor transformation makes me think Guyver or Tekkaman? There's... a remarkable amount of those from back then, though. Those two and maybe Devilman are ones I could think of off the top of my head/look up fairly easily but I'm pretty sure there's at least a half dozen others. It was kinda' popular for a while, iirc, generally a darker spin on tokusatsu/sentai stuff.

[lemon10]

Maybe Tekkaman Blade?

[Akura]

It might be Tekkaman Blade, yeah. The image on the TvTropes page seems familiar enough, and it's description of the non-Tekkaman Radam also might fit what I remember. I'll have to look it up when I get the chance. The year('95) and even the TV channel it was on also checks.

EDIT: A quick look on Youtube confirms that it was indeed Tekkaman Blade. Thanks!

[Frumple]

I remember reading fanfiction of that back in the 90s, ha. Also the series eventually showed up in super robot wars (J and W at a minimum), which was neat!

[Folly]

I just finished the Training Arc of Kimetsu no Yaiba. Very boring arc, with little meaningful training actually happening. Helluva finale though.

[Folly]

Rick and Morty: The Anime

I dunno...maybe I just don't get it. I mean, a part of me wants to think that they're doing a Cloud Atlas, where for a really long time it just seems like random incomprehensible bullshit, but then towards the end all of the pieces start coming together and it's actually a grand masterpiece of storytelling. But here the moment-to-moment dialogue and animation are just so unforgivably terrible, it's really hard to keep being optimistic.

[JoshuaFH]

Yeah the Rick and Morty anime is just confusingly terrible. No jokes. Incoherent plotline. Doodle-tier animation. I only had the stomach for one episode, and I decided I'd wait for cultural osmosis to inform me on the rest.

Literally no clue what they were thinking.

[Folly]

I caught the Season 3 premier for Re:ZERO.

I did not expect it to be 90 minutes long. I also did not expect the first 80 minutes to be unbelievably tedious light family drama surrounding characters I'm not remotely invested in.

Even the last 10 minutes where the real plot actually started were bogged down by lengthy and repetitive dialogue with very little action. A very unfortunate start to the new season.

[JoshuaFH]

I finshed season 1 of Elusive Samurai (aka Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi) and I thought that was a really fun show. It's a very colorful, 'artsy' show that has very fast pacing. So fast it took me a couple episodes to warm up to it.

To summarize, it's about Hojo Tokiyuki, the last prince of the Kamakura shōgunate, who's family was betrayed by Ashikaga Takauji, a samurai general (and real historical figure who'd become the first founder and first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate.) and a magical, future-seeing priest Yorishige convinces Tokiyuki to live rather than die with everyone else. Tokiyuki is still a child at this point, but using his speedy, dodgy skills, can survive combat, and start on the path to avenging his family.

The show has excellent action (and pulls off CGI horse-mounted combat very well) and a good sense of humor. I hope it gets another season cause it was just getting started by the end.

[JoshuaFH]

I powered through Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate recently. Very fun animes that I've left on the shelf for too long, and Alucard is such a well-known character that it was about time that I finally caught up on the hype. I'm a little hung up on Alucard's Stu-ness; as in, how much a Gary Stu he is. As in, I can't decide if he is or not. His nigh-invulnerability and absurd powers kinda robbed the endings of both animes of satisfaction to their endings. Otherwise very fun shows.

I started up Dandadan. Feels a little bit like Mob Psycho but with the wackiness cranked up even higher than usual. Also very fun.

[heydude6]

Have you seen Hellsing Abridged? It's pretty famous and some of its quotes became memes. Personally, I prefer it to the official story simply because it tones down the edginess. Hellsing always had comedic moments and the abridged series just leans into them.

[Travis Bickle]

Hellsing 2001 is pretty good and I don't think it's a hot take to say that the soundtrack is much better than that of Ultimate. I liked the general angle it took of making Seras the main character and being about her initiation into this underworld she's found herself in. It just would have been nice if the show had continued and it had led into the manga's plot instead of leading absolutely nowhere. Frankly I didn't find Alucard nearly as dull as similarly overpowered characters like Goku, despite the former probably being even more unkillable; it probably has to do with Hellsing being actually cool and interesting. The manga and Ultimate also are wise enough to bench him for a while and make the weaker characters pick up the slack.

I should probably rewatch Ergo Proxy at some point soon. It has been almost a decade since I last watched it and I remember it being better than 95% of anime (admittedly an exceedingly low bar).

[JoshuaFH]

Have you seen Hellsing Abridged? It's pretty famous and some of its quotes became memes. Personally, I prefer it to the official story simply because it tones down the edginess. Hellsing always had comedic moments and the abridged series just leans into them.

I know about Abridged, but I thought Hellsing was better for its edginess, and that the comedic moments were inappropriate and ruined the tone. Moreover, from what I can tell in Ultimate, it was a very close adaption of the manga, jokes and all. The problem being that manga-style jokes don't translate well into animation IMO, so in the end-product I just have to live with some silly clownshoes nonsense tainting my evil edgelord power fantasy.

I'm not against watching Abridged, I'll probably get around to it, it is one of the more famous Abridged series out there from what I know, and probably for good reason.

[JoshuaFH]

I started up Yofukashi no Uta, the 'vampire girlfriend' anime. I thought it might be relatable since it's about a protag that is socially troubled, and stays up late at night wondering when life is gonna stop sucking shit, while letting the night soothe his anxiety as he walks around town. However, I'm very disappointed in the show and rage quit it near the end of episode 3. Just more fanservicey, wish-fulfillment trash.

I feel like I could write a short essay just on those 3 episodes, but it'd just be a lot of rage-against-the-coomers for setting up a plausibly interesting premise, and then underdelivering, because laser focusing on the relationship (and crotch) of this Haruhara Haruko-wannabe vampire girl is just SO much more important! The story and world-at-large aren't allowed to complexify and become interesting because it would interfere in the ?romance? between this nebulously old vampiress and a 14 yr old boy. Perhaps the show gets better, who knows, because it sure knows how to alienate a viewer that is spending more than two braincells to actually think about what is going on and not just ogling the petite OC waifu.


In anime adjacent experiences, I played "S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH Demo" on steam. A game where you act as the mouthpiece for clients who pay you to pretend to be them and speak on their behalf. It's a visual novel at its heart, but the actual story occurs diegetically on a computer using an old chat program. You navigate the computer and select whom to talk to, you 'pretend' to type responses by actually mashing on your keyboard, and then either hit Enter, or backspace if you want to type something else. There's only ever 1 to 3 responses to any given bit a dialogue, so yeah, basically a visual novel, but I found it immersive and interesting. There also seems to be various stories and relationships occurring simultaneously and you can be flipping back and forth between conversations very quickly, just like if you were texting multiple people simultaneously in real life. The "Mouthpiece" job is explicitly just a side-hustle for the protagonist, who's actual day job is as a building architect for some company that she doesn't like and seemingly doesn't pay her enough. Our Protag's ultimate goal is to save up 50,000 dollars, and money trickles in on a job-by-job basis, so it would seem this is a long term goal and the game would go on for a while.

The world seems kind of bleak and interesting. The demo didn't go into great detail, but there was also something called "Cyber Life" which are implied to be AI's that live in cyberspace, but they count as people and so have their own autonomy, and their own bills to pay.

The full game isn't out yet, it seems that it was a Chinese game that was released some time ago and is just now getting localized to English. I look forward to it, the demo was very interesting.