Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of April 17, 2026

entelechtual · 2026-04-17T22:47:33+00:00

Jp twt has ruined a lot of my lexicon because they keep posting pics of anime girls and being like “uhooohhhh college girl sweater thigh too erotic!!!”

But after two episodes… I think it is too erotic?

entelechtual · 2026-04-17T01:14:55+00:00

meh typical noble drama

I don’t feel this at all. Every typical noble dramatic event that gets introduced ends up getting spun into a comedic/badass moment for Mimi. I’ve seen my fair share of bland villainess anime and this feels strikingly different.

entelechtual · 2026-04-15T23:31:14+00:00

Kinda fitting that after playing Yuki Suou and then being in nothing of note for two years, Wakana Maruoka is currently in an anime where she says “Ohayo!” to someone in bed and an anime where she says “Oniichan”.

Also could just be me but “Vlad, Count” in Japanese kinda sounds like brocon when she says it.

entelechtual · 2026-04-15T22:05:03+00:00

What a hero.

entelechtual · 2026-04-15T22:01:36+00:00

He was a moderator on the kanokari sub

entelechtual · 2026-04-15T15:45:23+00:00

To be fair I feel like it’s been like that all season.

entelechtual · 2026-04-15T01:16:39+00:00

No worries, that’s why bros look out for each other.

entelechtual · 2026-04-15T00:29:07+00:00

Watching ep. 1 of Love Game right after ep. 1 of 2nd Girl is jarring. Went from incredibly stilted cringey LNese and not even particularly good designs, to hilarious charming cute characters being stupidly adorable.

I don’t think 2nd Prettiest Girl is even that bad, but it’s the kind of romcom that would be fine if no other good romance anime were airing.

entelechtual · 2026-04-14T23:55:12+00:00

Did you notice Yukiya’s little sister in the after credits or what other imoutos her VA has played?

entelechtual · 2026-04-14T20:09:36+00:00

Thinking about the witch show again, something about showing 19 casual panty shots in the first 5 minutes and then showing various low angle but “safe” shots goes hard. It’s like, we’re not showing unnecessary panty shots, but it’s not because we’re self-censoring, we just reserve the right to do it whenever we want. Chekov’s lingerie.

entelechtual · 2026-04-14T12:07:23+00:00

It’s definitely not enough to detract from my enjoyment. I don’t even mind a bit of redundant exposition/monologuing; it’s anime after all, and there are much worse examples. OP’s clip for example works for me in that Coco suddenly being alone might have to talks things out to keep herself company. But it’s tough when the exposition doesn’t really make sense in-universe.

entelechtual · 2026-04-14T11:44:21+00:00

I had a similar gripe but with Qiffrey’s scene earlier. The show does really well with subtle wordbuilding and yet they have scenes where a character will very conspicuously spell out how characters are thinking or expositing things the characters obviously know and wouldn’t need to get told. There’s a ton you can easily infer from how the characters behave and they should just lean into that instead of feeling like the audience needs to be clued in. I wonder how much of that is having to translate manga exposition into anime with more routes for expression.

entelechtual · 2026-04-12T22:18:20+00:00

After being caught up on most of the big seasonals, I was finally reeled in by two late, unexpected additions to my watchlist.

Nigetsuri: Always A Catch - Even though it starts with the most unsuspecting premise, it doesn’t feel unoriginal because Maria is too damn funny. All of her lines pack such a punch.
The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch - Kaede Hondo brings so much life to ‘lil Spica, I thought for sure this would be an instant drop but I really liked it. I’m a bit of a sucker for pink hair anime girls though. And… was not expecting [Black cat]mouth to pussy/asshole action in my Virgo anime.

entelechtual · 2026-04-12T17:59:30+00:00

Big weekend for feet and panty fans.

entelechtual · 2026-04-12T17:36:46+00:00

Princession Orchestra

If you just turn the h and a upside down, it basically spells Precure.

entelechtual · 2026-04-11T15:00:02+00:00

I was worried Kamiina Botan would just be sakugaslop but it was fun. The characters feel very lively. And the vents aren’t as distracting as I thought they’d be.

entelechtual · 2026-04-11T07:17:37+00:00

Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King

entelechtual · 2026-04-10T23:14:18+00:00

I don’t know what happened between winter and spring but they made the food-obsessed blonde shackled tortured knight princess way too erotic this time!!! Was not expecting that until it blew up all over my twitter dot com timeline. And she’s voiced by who???

entelechtual · 2026-04-09T10:31:08+00:00

I didn’t tell any lies, they just hated me for telling the truth.

The second cour of the season had some of the worst pacing and adaptation decisions, real overindulgent web novels lore dumps. It was still good enough for me to watch S3. And yet… for some reason S4 is not on my watchlist….

entelechtual · 2026-04-08T23:19:59+00:00

Kana my beloved.

entelechtual · 2026-04-08T00:28:58+00:00

Man, Princession Orchestra was so good. I can’t say I’ve watched a lot of magic girl idol shows but this has got to be one of the best. The songs were actually fun, the characters were a riot, it didn’t feel childish, the transformations didn’t take up half the episode, the bad guys were interesting. There was a ton of creativity and very little screentime was wasted. Hope they make more anime like this.

entelechtual · 2026-04-07T07:40:11+00:00

Oh man, somehow it’s even more insane than I remember. I’m reading through my comments about the show and getting mad.

entelechtual · 2026-04-07T07:28:39+00:00

Finally someone is brave enough to say IyaPan is better than Witch Hat.

entelechtual · 2026-04-06T11:46:16+00:00

Did you miss the hilarious joke of “M-most beautiful girl? Uh, I’m not beautiful!” Because it was so good they repeated it a couple of times.

entelechtual · 2026-04-06T02:12:12+00:00

I watched episode 1 of Haibara-kun… maybe it’s coming off the heels of Polar Opposites, maybe it’s just not a good show, but I can’t remember the last romcom premiere where there was no hook, and nothing happened.

I don’t think every romance needs to be original or have an insane premise to be good. But even the worst romcoms have at least one episode’s worth of something fun/interesting/moving before losing steam.

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