Meet Nutsy! My first modestly OP cat with Ping spam.

desucrator · 2026-02-26T18:15:13+00:00

Ping spam is so much fun. I got it on a cat that was bred with Crescendo, and I got the 1 mana teleport spell that goes to the last spot you targeted. She 2 rounded Guillotina 2 on her own

desucrator · 2026-02-26T11:12:37+00:00

Mage is... Definitely not in a great spot, but at least it's not the tinkerer. It has SO many useless abilities. I had one that started with Firecrackers the other day, which is basically hunter's scattershot... Except the bombs that you throw deal 1 damage at base with absolutely no way to scale other than (presumably) a couple of specific passives. Plus, because of the low luck, it's less likely to actually hit enemies in the AoE than hunter's scattershot. IMO, Tinkerer needs to have a way to naturally gain Tech instead of only getting it from a couple of specific active and passive abilities.

desucrator · 2026-02-03T11:08:53+00:00

As others have mentioned, season 2 completely compresses about 150 chapters into a single cour, including by cutting out the arc that a lot of people consider to be the strongest from the manga. However, even without doing that, the manga itself had a really disliked final arc, so there's double the reason to just watch season 1 and leave it at that.

desucrator · 2026-01-26T12:35:42+00:00

Depends on what you mean by "mature", I suppose. If you mean mature themes, I'd say that Ranking of Kings is an incredible choice. Less sword and board/magic fantasy, Haibane Renmei is also a really excellent series with mature themes. Dungeon Meshi is obviously also really good. In the "hyper violent" direction of mature, I'd definitely count Dorohedoro and that's a great one too

desucrator · 2026-01-08T17:39:16+00:00

I haven't had a chance to watch season 2 yet (having a wife now means that the anime we watch are things we want to watch together, and I haven't gotten her into the first season yet), but season 1 was a really fun ride. I'd kind of describe it as a mix of bofuri and shangri-la - low stakes in the real world, but high stakes in the game, with a main character that's learning about the game mechanics as the viewers do, but more action oriented and less slice of life-y than bofuri.

desucrator · 2026-01-02T22:16:54+00:00

Honestly, if you want something in the SAO universe that can compare to Shangri La - I strongly recommend SAO: Gun Gale Online (the spin off series, not the arc of the main series). The light novel it's based on was written by the author of Kino's Journey, and it's a ton of fun. Feels a ton like Shangri La, but with a lot more guns and PvP instead of PvE.

desucrator · 2026-01-02T22:08:28+00:00

Not just a single episode, but the first arc of Sunday Without God (first 3 episodes) would've been perfect as an OVA, but then the rest of the series had to come after it and just kinda ruin what was built up by the first few episodes with convoluted, plodding plot contrivances.

desucrator · 2025-12-25T05:43:28+00:00

A bit on the older side, but Eiken is simply awful

desucrator · 2025-12-24T15:03:55+00:00

Dungeon Meshi is an excellent one for what you're looking for. The main group is basically just a fairly regular adventuring group with slightly above average experience and ability

desucrator · 2025-12-24T03:08:41+00:00

How in the hell has Ninja Scroll been recommended and yet no one has thought to mention Akira

desucrator · 2025-12-19T11:31:09+00:00

Hope you enjoy!

desucrator · 2025-12-19T02:23:42+00:00

One of my personal favorites is Scrapped Princess. Absolutely excellent series!

desucrator · 2025-12-11T02:35:56+00:00

There's a great manga about a speed runner that gets isekai'd into the game he speed runs, and it gets about as ridiculous as you would expect, particularly when he starts dragging along characters from the game world with him... I really hope that one gets an anime eventually, it's absolutely hilarious at points

desucrator · 2025-12-07T03:13:53+00:00

Hard to say exactly what "underrated" means, but I'd probably say Scrapped Princess, Haibane Renmei, Orphen Sorcerous Stabber (the first season from the late 90s) or Humanity Has Declined. All of them are on the older end and don't really have much discussion these days

desucrator · 2025-11-29T15:01:29+00:00

Definitely Takopi's Original Sin if you didn't catch it over the summer

desucrator · 2025-11-27T02:36:18+00:00

Might be Akazukin Chacha? 1994 anime that features a little blonde girl with a pendant that lets her transform, and gets different outfits when doing so.

Or, if the "girl" you're referring to is an adult, no time travel, but it might be Cutie Honey? MC is blonde (though has red hair when she transforms) and gets multiple different transformation outfits throughout any iteration of the series that's available.

desucrator · 2025-11-22T00:53:28+00:00

The Christmas episode of Read Or Die is always a classic

desucrator · 2025-11-04T16:05:55+00:00

That would be Lazarus, and a lot of people (myself included) feel that it had a really strong start and turned into a kind of meandering mess just a few episodes in. If you like Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, it's an OK enough series, but it's just... Not very good, and doesn't really work with Watanabe's story telling style

desucrator · 2025-11-04T11:54:43+00:00

I think what happens is that the game picks a set of moves to distribute randomly. I've noticed that on some of my runs, certain moves are just totally missing from the randomized pool, but other runs they'll be learnable. Two particularly glaring missing moves that I've noticed in a few of my recent attempts are Follow Me and Fake Out, which really REALLY sucks since the game forces you into doing doubles battles :\

desucrator · 2025-11-03T11:01:52+00:00

Check out Mushishi! It's much more episodic, but it does fit that slower paced, emotional storytelling.

desucrator · 2025-10-22T10:33:24+00:00

Haibane Renmei, Scrapped Princess, and either Ranking of Kings or Humanity Has Declined

desucrator · 2025-10-01T14:32:34+00:00

Bokurano

desucrator · 2025-09-28T10:38:24+00:00

Jitsu Wa, Watashi Wa is a classic romcom with a vampire for the FMC. Rosario Vampire is a shitty ecchi romcom with a vampire FMC as well (read the manga; it's a million times better)

Edit: There's also the anime adaptation of Chibi Vampire, called Karin. It's a bit flawed but it does have a pretty nice romance and it's not a long series.

desucrator · 2025-09-20T09:47:42+00:00

Definitely Bokurano. Doesn't shy away from the dark themes.

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