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Agreed that Delicious in Dungeon is quite enjoyable. An older series on Youtube at the moment is Isekai Izakaya (Japanese Food From Another World). 15 minute episodes about a izakaya bar/restaurant with its backdoor in Kyoto and a front door connected to a parallel universe in a medieval town. Very food focused. Made me want to try a few dishes, like eel, but I may have fallen for the exuberant reactions of the other worlders.
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I’ve noticed a few series this season that are doing a horrible job of blending CGI and traditional animation. You know, it’s even possible they’re blending crap CGI and good CGI together. But either way, it’s ruining the shows. (We’re talking painfully obvious crap CGI here)
Eel, like lamprey, is one of those things I'm glad I don't HAVE to eat. A friend made me try jellied eel when I was in London, and while the taste was indeed nice, the texture was, if anything, too characteful.
I'm not sure jellied eel is the best introduction to eel. Fresh is a much milder flavour and has a much less... alarming... texture.
Thought so too, tried it again in Italy and here at home, river eel is a thing up in the mountains. Turns out, it's just not my kind of fish.
The actual jelly stuff on the eel had a good taste, but yes, the texture...
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I love eel. The Japanese do it right- grilled over hot coals with eel sauce. Delish.
Just seen a trailer for “War of the Rohirrim” - it doesn’t look bad. Released later this year in the cinema apparently.
One for the UK Anime Yak Fans (and those with a VPN I guess) - the BBC iPlayer has now got all of One Piece on there (well, 265 episodes so far with all 1000+ by the end of the year).
I’ve never actually watched it - so I guess I could give it a go though with 25 years worth of material it’s as bit of a daunting task!
There are a few Anime titles like that and I almost don’t want to start as it looks like such a slog to get through. (Hopefully watchable in less than 25 years though)
I used to watch classic Doctor Who on UK Gold in the 90s and it took 2 years to cycle through 1970-1989+96! It was mostly weekends mind and Tom Baker's Doctor took almost a year on his own!
That’s a lot less than 1000 episodes too!
I’ve never actually watched it - so I guess I could give it a go though with 25 years worth of material it’s as bit of a daunting task!
There are a few Anime titles like that and I almost don’t want to start as it looks like such a slog to get through. (Hopefully watchable in less than 25 years though)
I used to watch classic Doctor Who on UK Gold in the 90s and it took 2 years to cycle through 1970-1989+96! It was mostly weekends mind and Tom Baker's Doctor took almost a year on his own!
That’s a lot less than 1000 episodes too!
The art style/animation is what did it for me, it just seems so cheap and janky, even compared to other animes of the time when it was released, and it never really improved. The live action doesn't have those issues, so could watch it just fine.
Another series I could never get into, same reason. The look of the characters just seemed so off, even when the characters were meant to be human.
I must say that I’ve noticed an increase in CGI in anime, and I’m not a fan. Like obvious and bad CGI, often mixed with more traditional animation (or maybe just better done CGI?)
A good example is “The strongest magician in the demon lord’s army is a human.” Main characters are ok, but background characters and armies are just crap CGI. There was one about cheerleaders that I didn’t get past the first few minutes because of the horrible CGI. And some like “Redcat Ramen” were barely tolerable.
There must’ve been 30+ new or returning titles this season. I quickly dropped to watching maybe half, and only actually paid attention to maybe 5 of them. Not a good season.
A good example is “The strongest magician in the demon lord’s army is a human.” Main characters are ok, but background characters and armies are just crap CGI. There was one about cheerleaders that I didn’t get past the first few minutes because of the horrible CGI. And some like “Redcat Ramen” were barely tolerable.
There must’ve been 30+ new or returning titles this season. I quickly dropped to watching maybe half, and only actually paid attention to maybe 5 of them. Not a good season.
Sometimes it's done quite well, like in Metropolis where backgrounds were CGI but everyone in it was traditionally done. I thought that was quite well done at the time, but haven't seen it for years so it may have aged horribly.
But I have noticed a couple of things recently where the CGI could be used to save animation/prop time but it's been done so poorly it stands out and distracts rather than blending in. The last few episodes I've seen of Doctor Who have suffered from that, and yet they have the budget to do it well.
But I have noticed a couple of things recently where the CGI could be used to save animation/prop time but it's been done so poorly it stands out and distracts rather than blending in. The last few episodes I've seen of Doctor Who have suffered from that, and yet they have the budget to do it well.
I watched the first episode of Adult Swim's Uzumaki the other day. It was pretty good, a decent take on the manga in my opinion. The only really note I had was that they chose to run a few of the stories together concurrently, rather than consecutively as Ito did. It makes it slightly jarring for a fan of the manga, but makes sense to do it for the anime. Anyway, it was a good first episode and I'm looking forward to the rest.
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