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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 42] (ani.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've got a couple more premiere reviews for the garbage pile:

Haigakura

A perfectly serviceable action romp about ~~pokemon~~ god trainers running around fighting things with their captured god buddies, but done in by its horrible budget. The central premise of the story is an art that lets you bind gods to your will using song and dance, but they appeared to not have the budget to give the main character a real song or dance to do, preferring panning stills and visual sound effects - like, what's even the point of it being an anime if you're going to cut those kinds of corners. In much better hands, it would have been decent, but as-is it was a 2/5.

Tohai - Ura Rate Mahjong Tohai Roku

I will give this one some credit: they did not do the boring thing and spend most of the first episode trying to teach the audience mahjong. They instead assume that if you've shown up to watch the edgy mahjong anime you are already familiar with the game of mahjong. Now, I am not familiar with the game of mahjong, which made it feel a bit like watching an early Yu-Gi-Oh episode, where the rules are made up on the fly based on whatever would make the most dramatic twist - not a terrible experience, but not really engaging either. I'm also not typically big on edge, and the edginess here is really quite a lot (the first little arc centers a crime group who keep sex slaves and make CP). If the description of "edgy mahjong anime" perked your ears up, honestly, you'd probably have a good time with this (you'd almost certainly be able to follow it better than I did, lol). For me, though, it's a 2/5.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I remember watching a trailer for Tohai and almost wish I understood Mahjong because it looks so over the top edgy that I think it might loop back around to being funny.