It’s hard to call something a “must watch” because different people like different genres. If we define “must watch” as something every fan of the genre should watch, my list would be Redline, Gurren Lagann, LOOK BACK, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, and Skip and Loafer.

That’s neat but I’ve never seen it called that so it still doesn’t really work.

I didn’t notice that criticism about the OST when I watched it; I’ll have to keep an ear out if I rewatch it. Maybe I just really love synths.

“Yuuki Bakuhatsu Baan Breibaan” would translate to something like “Let Your Courage Explode, Bang Bravern”. I really like “Bang Brave Bang Bravern!” , but for some reason it also goes by “Brave Bang Bravern!” which I don’t like as much.

“JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” is a straightforward but great way to translate “JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken”.

I don’t care quite as much for “Boku dake ga Inai Machi”, which would translate to “The town where only I am gone” and was instead localized to “Erased”. It removes the emphasis on the struggles the main character had as a child.

“Delicious in Dungeon” is a travesty of a title. Based on the fact that that title is even on the cover of the original Japanese version of the manga I wonder if the mangaka came up with it themselves without consulting any native English speakers.

SAKAMOTO DAYS: a really fun 1st episode. Little confused about how this one gets releases. Everywhere it says there’s a 2nd ep, but it’s locked to 18th of January on my Netflix so idk.

I think it’s the same thing that happened with Blue Box where it’s released a week earlier in Japan than in the US and presumably the rest of the west.

Zenshu: I feel a little bit scammed about this one

I felt the same way, especially once I realized that the full Japanese blurb says it’s an isekai but the English one I read omitted that detail.

On the one hand, she sticks around. On the other hand, the more girlfriends he picks up the more dilute her presence is. That said, that only works if you dislike her for her personality. If you dislike her due to the age gap, you may need to give up on this story.

I’d agree that it’s watchable without prior knowledge, but scenes like the hypnosis one are soooo much funnier if you know what they’re referencing!

LOOK BACK was pretty dang sad, but it’s one of the only 10/10 anime I’ve ever seen.

Dororo (2019) is also up there.

Hello, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior G Gundam?

Seriously though, it’s one of my favorite ones and can be watched at any time. It’s kind of like if Gundam was a saturday morning cartoon. I think if you watch the first episode you’ll have a pretty good idea if it’s for you.

Build Fighters especially is a joy to watch

This is so frustrating to me because Build Fighters is my favorite Gundam series but I can’t recommend it to anyone without asking them to watch over a hundred episodes of other stuff first!

Gquuuuuux is it’s own timeline

Based on the latest trailer it actually appears to be UC related; there’s a Zeon insignia on someone’s collar.

Also, I really liked ZZ. I understand being frustrated with it (especially those two teens who just exist to make Bright’s life even harder), but to me it was a welcome change of tone after how dark Zeta was.

Weird for her to call “handing out books” a roundabout way of increasing literacy. Short of holding classes that’s about as straightforward as it gets!

More than usual? That’s quite impressive coming from the writer of Death Note.

I don’t read blurbs before watching and I got no indication of why the main character has writers block for her movie, but the article confidently states it’s because she’s never been in love

This is indeed something that the blurb states very straightforwardly.

I love Shirobako, but what a stressful show to watch. It felt like the world was threatening to end every other episode!

Interesting. It’s missing on Anilist.co, MAL, and Crunchyroll but sure enough there it is on Livechart.

I started watching a couple of shows:

• Akiba Maid War - It’s what it says on the tin. Super fun, humorous, well-written show.
• Zenshu - The English blurb for this show lies by omission. It cuts off the ending of the Japanese blurb! The cut off part reads something like, “While struggling with her storyboards, she loses consciousness. When she awakens she finds herself in the world of an anime she saw as a child, Tales of Destruction.” That’s right, it’s actually an isekai. They admitted it to the Japanese audience but deliberately hid this information from western viewers. The animation is superb, and I can see why they wouldn’t want to be lumped in with all the other generic isekai that are constantly being churned out, but I don’t appreciate being lied to.

After procrastinating it for so long, I finally got around to watching the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam.

One of us! One of us! Now that you’ve watched that, you can enjoy all the parts of UC Gundam where they actually had money and their animation director wasn’t in the hospital!

I don’t keep track of favorites, but I really love this Dungeon Meshi x Pokemon fanart from Raikoart.

Ah, didn’t realize since MAL doesn’t list those. I should’ve known to go straight to anilist.co!

Thanks!