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I watched the first episode of Love Unseen Beneath a Clear Night Sky and I don't think it should be compared to A Silent Voice at all tbh. ASV isn't a love story as much as people like to pretend that it is, yes Shoko is in love with Shoya but that plays such a minor role in both the movie and the manga that it might as well not even be there, especially since the manga ends on a wet fart and the movie ends before they actually start officially dating. ASV revolves primarily around Shoya trying to reconnect with other people and the process of healing and rebuilding burnt bridges more so than it deals with love. Also, the movie is vastly superior to the manga and I will die on that hill. Love Unseen is very much a romance story from beginning to end, it's a completely different animal.

With all that said Love Unseen is pretty good so far but I have a niggling fear in the back of my mind that the story is going to meander like crazy and waste my time moving forward. Hopefully my instinct is incorrect on that one.
 
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I watched the first episode of Love Unseen Beneath a Clear Night Sky and I don't think it should be compared to A Silent Voice at all tbh. ASV isn't a love story as much as people like to pretend that it is, yes Shoko is in love with Shoya but that plays such a minor role in both the movie and the manga that it might as well not even be there, especially since the manga ends on a wet fart and the movie ends before they actually start officially dating. ASV revolves primarily around Shoya trying to reconnect with other people and the process of healing and rebuilding burnt bridges more so than it deals with love. Also, the movie is vastly superior to the manga and I will die on that hill. Love Unseen is very much a romance story from beginning to end, it's a completely different animal.

With all that said Love Unseen is pretty good so far but I have a niggling fear in the back of my mind that the story is going to meander like crazy and waste my time moving forward. Hopefully my instinct is incorrect on that one.
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Does it better compare to The Invisible Man And His Soon-To-Be Wife? (Really spoiling the ending with that title there)
 
The first episode of the new GiTS is good for what it is. Comparing it to the movie is an useless endeavour, it has a tone far closer to the sci-fi/cyberpunk/comedy typical of the manga of its era. It's both a shitton of technobabble, scenes that are cool just because, and old-style comedy. It's amusing and watchable, if I had to critique something it's the soundtrack, OP/ED are mediocre at best and the music never "pops out" in any way.

I've also wasted a bit of time on Clevatess S2. First season was the definition of a decent 7/10 fantasy anime without isekai characteristics. First episode of the second season was.... kind of rough, with a ton of time on SETUP NEW CHARACTERS SETUP. It's clumsy. I get you want your worldbuilding and proper introductions and proper planning, but it feels like "now I need to get you to speed, good, let's begin the plot next time"
 
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It has a blind girl that an invisible man falls in love with because he feels seen by her
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Sounds very sweet. But like I said, I haven't seen it so I wouldn't know how to compare it to something.

Honestly I think that the most ready comparison that I could make to Love Unseen is probably Katawa Shoujo of all things. Not because the plot or setting is similar but because Kakeru (the main guy) is a lot like Anon in the early parts of the game and I see a lot of Lily Satou in Koharu (the main girl).
 
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And everything before wasn't bad but also in a most cases meaningless and forgettable.
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Yorknew is better than chimera ants dare I say.
Also 411-413 is out but 13 is in yapanese. Someone should just kidnap Togashi and fix his spine with experimental stem cell reseach already. Or the emperor of Japan should force him to hire an assistant.
 
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Yorknew is better than chimera ants dare I say.
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It's been a while since I've read the manga, but I still would have to disagree. It's of course slim pickings with HxH when it comes to arcs. Apart from those two the rest are pretty whatever. Maybe Greed Island is okay but still can't come close to either Yorknew or Chimera Ant.

Yorknew is certainly interesting focusing on Kurapika and the Phantom Troupe. Throw in the heist, Gon, Killua and Hisoka and the other things that happen, and it makes for something unique. But Chimera Ant for me is quintessential HxH, all the things that make it stand out from other manga come together to create something great. How Gon gets drawn into it by accident, how it's a local conflict that can spill out so the Hunter Association decides to intervene, how the conflict is paced, the idea of the Ants is fun, the power scaling is done well since the threat is tangible without being dumb, how veteran Hunters even are struggling with it, the Ant King and his relationship with Komugi and how the power system finally gets enough time and space to shine.
 
I Know 孤独のせい powiedział(a):
the power scaling is done well since the threat is tangible without being dumb, how veteran Hunters even are struggling with it,
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I could be wrong since I haven't read hxh stuff in a while, but the ant arc ruined worldbuilding around nen. Before, it was a huge secret that only the hunter association and some geniuses outside it managed to attain, but after that arc everyone and their mother can awaken and master it within 5 seconds. Even the personal guards of some of the princes already used it, and the plebs aboard the boat are learning how to use it.
 
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Youjo Senki first episode was released. It's probably the most interesting isekai left due to not having any real final goal. Tanya can be as strong as she wants, still won't save her country from its own retardation. It still suffers from the main character and her squad being ridiculously OP, but at least it's funny she straight up in the "hope I won't get executed when we lose" phase.

I'm happy they still have the ugly ass art style, though they do reference the LN art in the ending scene.
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A little late to the draw, but it's really weird how they seem to mix bits of the story that sometimes lose their impact a lot this way.
For example the scene with the fake Beria ; in the manga, you see a lot more of him before the offensive on fake Kaliningrad. He's an overzealous scheming fag that loves extorting people to get them to do whatever he wants by threatening them with intel he got and stuff, and everybody knows but can't do anything because he always has dirt on everybody. The meeting scene we see in the episode specifically actually sets up that everybody expects a purge, and the plot twist is that instead he suggests using the imprisonned russian mages instead, which surprises everybody.
It's part of a thing that's completely missing from the show, where the manga specifically shows how the Soviet leadership actually gives very little of a fuck about communism or anything, and they're willing to bend their principles for basically any reason, only using the excuse of communism to do their bidding. You even see a lot more of fake-Stalin, where he actually himself is protected by Being X (or someone like that) in exchange for leaving the country go to ruin ; there's several scenes (understandably removed from the show since they don't show much supernatural, which is an excellent choice) were you see supernatural entities discuss how the fake URSS is basically an atheist country and how much they hate that, so they kinda want to use Tanya as a cudgel to crush them.

Oddly enough tho, the larger plot seems to have already moved much further in time than the manga ; at this point in the manga, they're actually back near the Manche and doing raids on England, with the Eastern front having been somewhat stabilized. I have no idea if they're skipping ahead, or if it's new stuff made for the anime
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I like the retarded duck faces, they're adorable. Can't imagine Tanya without them

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it fits for the goofy moments but in general i think it's distractingly ugly. the manga does a very odd choice as well by having a fucking shojo artist, which means every dude has yaoi hands, every girl looks very out of place and while it works by contrast during some moments it's mostly just.. distracting. same thing with its obsession with using chibi animals to represent the characters in some panels.
 
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I know josh hates anime and would never ever ever ever ever watch one but i really believe that if he gave anime another chance he should watch youjo senki, the musics great, the story's fun, alt history stuff and theres no real weird japano shit going on besides the main character being a 10 year old girl but I (unless I'm memory-holing something) cant remember any sexualized scenes or any character making weird sexual remarks (except gorbachev, but making communists pedophiles seems like someting josh would enjoy)
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honestly i'd recommend the manga over it.
there's definitely some dodgier moments, and the pacing is ATROCIOUS, but the military stuff is so much more in depth it's not even funny.
the show races way too much through the plot and you hardly give a shit about the secondary characters.
although i will say, there's a lot of things it does well, like the mystery over who or what "God" actually is or how the characters ACTUALLY HAVE WW1 EQUIPMENT instead of weird pseudo WW2 shit. there's a lot of scenes in the fights that also work surprisingly well.
 
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