I get that, doesn't mean I can excuse it for not keeping me engaged.

saw yugioh dark side of dimension yesterday and i love it. i will say this feel more in to manga continuty and retcon GX near the end the dub full on uncut. i will say that i was happy to see a gun yugioh.

That's because it's supposed to be in the manga continuity and not the anime one.

I haven't seen it and I'm glad I passed on it as 4K just announced the video release will include its Japanese version.

thing is though the dub was not cut all any thing it was full on uncut with guns and all. the dub has been best dub from the original cast. 4k did great faithfull adaption. i know it set in manga continity i was talking more on GX manga what was diffrent to anime.

I stayed home sick from work on Friday and ended up watching the pretty much the entirety of STEINS;GATE...

Credit is due to any show that can get me to watch 20 episodes in a day (note: I'd already seen the first 4 eps). It's obviously doing something right.

BUT.

Um...

I guess I thought it was only okay? The first 12 episodes were very slow, but the promise of it "getting good by episode 12" kept me going. And sure, when the plot kicked in around that point, the show became like animated crack. I couldn't stop watching. But by the end, I thought it was like really well made junk food. It's seriously lacking the grander themes and complex characters I require from my "top shelf" anime. It is a very well-structured time travel series, but all that's impressive about it is its structure...

I think my main problem was that I hated pretty much all of the one-note, semi-harem-esque supporting characters and could not connect with Okabe at all. (Because he is intolerable.)

The arc in the middle about Suzu was admittedly excellent, but it's only like 3 episodes. Hardly enough to justify watching a whole 24 episode series.

I def don't understand all the "Best Anime Ever" plaudits the show gets online. The fandom's near-universal praise is a large part of what kept me going, even though I was lukewarm on the series from the beginning. But by the end I was like... "really? This is the show everyone declares a modern masterpiece, in the same breath as Evangelion and Utena? Hardly!"

I guess what I'm saying is, I wish I spent my sick day watching something better. :lol

Watching Samurai Trooper because nostalgia and Dragon Ball Super as well. Gosh, the 90s must be in full effect.

Watching Haruhi has done unfortunate things to my head. I am now literally incapable of hearing Sugita Tomokazu voice act without it sounding like Kyon doing silly voices. I guess this is my life now.

In spite of this, I do think I'm enjoying Battle Tendency more than Phantom Blood overall, even though I'm only two episodes into it. I enjoyed the progression of PB for the first three episodes or so, but the 6 after that were...definitely there. BT's kinda fun. The whole incident at the diner made like negative sense though but whatever.

My only regret is that best character Speedwagon is just an old man now.

If you want more 90's nostalgia, check out the recent remakes of The Heroic Legend of Arslan and Ushio & Tora (I remember both OVA's from the 90's as a kid). Both are good IMO.

Battle Tendency is MILES better than PB, Joseph has a lot more personity and is a LOT more likeable, the side characters are a lot better, better fight scenes, the plotpoints are more exciting, my only issue is that Dio's a more entertaining villain

I like Part 1 and Part 2 of Jojo over Part 3 because I like the darker tone and the horror atmosphere better in my opinion. Too bad Part 7 is not going to be adapted for a long time since that's my favorite part of Jojo.