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Now that we're into a new season, I guess I'll take a moment to reflect a bit on the previous one. I was watching 7 different anime in the Winter season of 2016 (Not counting a couple of shorts I watched as well). Ajin Boku Dake ga Inai Machi Dagashi Kashi Dimension W Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Musaigen no Phantom World Schwarzesmarken Ajin is a pretty controversial anime in the sense that it is made entirely with CG Animation rather than drawn digitally. Created by "Polygon Pictures"(Who previously did "Knights of Sidonia", another fully CG anime) Ajin is about a young Japanese student who discovers that he is a demi-human or "Ajin". These Ajin are mysterious beings with the unique trait of being immortal. They can die just as well as any other human (Being shot, stabbed, drowned etc.) but their bodies will always regenerate after a little while, bringing them back to life. Personally, I consider Ajin a sleeper hit of the Winter season. Not many people watched it and that is a shame, because it was really good. I should mention that I haven't actually finished Ajin as of writing this, due to real life butting in on my viewing schedule, but the 7 episodes I did watch were absolutely excellent. The story is mature and doesn't shy away from violence, it has none of that stereotypical anime bullshit and the characters aren't just caricatures of various anime character-types. The writers make great use of the established "laws" of the world, for example, the military forces that hunt the Ajin use sedatives to subdue them rather than regular bullets, because while killing an Ajin might momentarily disable it, it will eventually come back to life. I'm gonna link a fight scene now that showcases how the writers get creative with the Ajin and their abilities. As you can see, they use sedatives to knock this particular Ajin out of commission, but he works around it by chopping off his own hand initially and then by shooting himself in the head, causing his body to regenerate and "reset", circumventing the sedatives in his blood. Dope as fuck? Dope as fuck. Boku Dake ga Inai Machi or "Erased" as it is called in English is one of those anime that everyone was raving and ranting about when it first aired. The anime revolves around a man who has a unique ability to go back in time and stop bad things from happening. As neat as that may sound, he doesn't actually have a choice in the matter. If something disastrously happens near him, he is automatically pulled back in time to a timeframe where he can prevent it. He doesn't get any information on what he must do and time keeps looping until he figures it out. One day he finds his mother murdered in his own apartment and he himself is framed for the murder, at the depth of his despair he is sent back in time once again, but this time it is all the way back to grade school. I've only watched 3 episodes of BokuDake, I'm not exactly sure why I never got around to watching more of it as it aired, because it was very enjoyable. I won't speak too much about this anime, because I've only seen a quarter of it, but what I did see was very compelling. I've heard that there was some controversy surrounding the ending, but I think the first 3 episodes are strong enough to make me recommend Boku Dake ga Inai Machi. Dagashi Kashi is an anime about the son of a candy-store owner out in the middle of no where Japan. His father wants him to take over the family business, but he just wants to write Manga. Enter our female protagonist, the daughter of a massive candy-corporation, who wishes to buy out the candy-store and bring their brand into the corporate fold. The father agrees on the condition that she can convince his son to take up the mantle as candy-store owner. HILARITY ENSUES. Except not really... At all. I was hoping for some silly slice of life shenanigans with a sprinkle of comedy, instead what I got was an anime-length candy commercial. The character designs are endearing, but pretty much everything else about Dagashi Kashi falls completely flat. Stay the fuck away from this one. Dimension W is set in the future of our world. A new dimension has been discovered which contains vast amounts of energy which is harvested using tools known as "coils". Enter Kyoma Mabuchi, a mercenary with a DARK AND MYSTERIOUS PAST who has very little love for coil technology. On a routine job he runs into a very advanced coil android who claims to be the creation of the very man who discovered coil technology many years ago and through a set of events, the two of them end up as unlikely allies. I... Didn't really like Dimension W. I really wanted to, because it's made by the same people who did Darker than Black and I enjoyed that anime, but unfortunately Dimension W is just so fucking convoluted and weird and I just didn't give a fuck about any of the characters. The first three episodes are OK, but as the anime progressed it just got more and more annoying for me to watch. I'd say give it a go, you might like it. I didn't. But at least we got this sick-ass dance. Hell yeah dude. Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! or "KonoSuba" as it is commonly called is an anime that I initially had no intention of watching. I read its synopsis and it just sounded so fucking generic. A NEET Otaku pushes a girl out of harms way on his way home and ends up dying in her place. In the afterlife, he is offered a second chance at life if he will allow himself to be reborn into a fantasy world and fight the demon king. It might as well have been another one of those TRAPPED IN VIRTUAL REALITY anime because the fantasy world, while not technically a video game, was pretty much a video game. Luckily KonoSuba actually manages to be a genuinely funny comedy series. At no point in time does it take itself seriously and the cast of main characters are so fucking dense, self-serving and generally pathetic that it's hard not to laugh at them when they get into sticky situations. A useless goddess, an explosion-crazed archwizard and a masochistic crusader form up the main crew, rallied behind our NEET Otaku who functions as the voice of reason for the most part throughout the anime. He reminds me a bit of Araragi Koyomi of the Monogatari series and that is a good thing. Honestly I can' recommend KonoSuba enough. I'm pretty jaded when it comes to anime and especially comedy anime, but this show had me laughing earnestly and it's only 10 episodes long. I understand that humour is subjective, but I'd still like to recommend KonoSuba. Musaigen no Phantom World was the Kyoto Animation show of the season and thus I had to watch it. Long story short: Humans have manifested the ability to see the "Phantom World" and use various powers and now people form groups to deal with phantoms causing a ruckus in the human world. I personally found Musaigen no Phantom World to be pretty underwhelming when I first started watching it, but the characters and the world grew on me eventually. The show is very well animated and extremely colourful, as expected of Kyoto Animation and while the characters aren't particularly unique they are at least pretty to look at. For a simple Slice of Life show, I think Musaigen no Phantom World is well worth watching. It does have a little more story than your average SoL school anime, but that only works in its favour and in general it's just kinda cute. It unfortunately also has a few fanservice scenes, beacause KyoAni have discovered that they need to please the otaku crowd in order to make sales. One of these scenes was so fucking ridiculous that I almost dropped the show right there and then, but luckily it is toned down a lot following that one scene. H-Here it is... Yeah... It's pretty bad. BUT PLEASE BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY THAT THE REST OF THE ANIME IS LESS RETARDED. Schwarzesmarken is a spin-off of Muv-Luv set during the cold war. I watched it initially because I had been told that I could watch it without any prior knowledge of the Muv-Luv franchise and because of its military themes. It's fucking shit, don't bother. I guess if you're a Muv-Luv fan it might do something for you, but I was just fucking bored watching it.

Well, Blizzard shut down the most popular WoW Private Server around I know, intellectual property and all that, but it pisses me off. They provide no way to play older versions of the game, and refuse to admit that some people might be justified in not liking the game in its current state. These were fans who worked for years to provide the best, most accurate clone of Vanilla WoW, for absolutely 0 profit (that we're aware of) and Blizzard shut them down. Every day this company pisses me off more and more, and shit like this makes me not want to give them my money. I don't want to say that I'm never going to play WoW again because I probably will, but as it stands Legion really isn't shaping up to be anything better than Warlords of Draenor imo. Sure, it was well within their right to shut it down, I get that completely, but they constantly refuse to recognize that some people don't like the game currently, and act like proper cunts when they're asked. It's just sad.

I think I watch the Chinese video once a week at this point

It was pretty good, I guess I had way too high of an expectation for the culmination of ten million panels of a webcomic but for a final battle it was alright

Or maybe they used 9mm.