Fall anime
Oct. 1st, 2023 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellI wound up watching two shows regularly last season: Undead Murder Farce and Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead.
Undead Murder Farce was such a mixed bag. The first arc was a fine murder mystery. The second went and mixed it up with a whole bunch of familiar characters in Victorian England but then turned into one big fight scene and nothing got solved. The third arc returned to detectiving, which was nice.
The two lead characters are fun to watch. There is an entire organization in the story whose apparent purpose is to provide people with ridiculous names and horrible light-novel outfits who just show up and get killed almost immediately. The third arc pushes way to hard to show how grey the morality of the story is.
I really don't know if I'd watch a second season of it.
Zom 100 was my pick for show most likely to hit production issues, and unfortunately, it did. We only got 9 out of the planned 12 episodes and it's uncertain when the other 3 will air.
But 75% of Zom 100 was still the best thing going this season. It's a life-affirming horror story, it's a comedy which understands the horrible things that toxic jobs do to people, it's a fun romp with a hero who's great to spend time with.
I will say episode 4 is a low point, but stick with it, because next episode you get to see what I have taken to calling the Pantomime Shark. Also ahead is Akira finally learning to really quit a terrible job.
It took until episode 9 for Zom 100 to even have its full OP (NSFW, comic nudity) in place, but I think it may be my favorite this year.
I also watched one episode of The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today, and it was not quite my kind of thing, but I can report it was pleasant, and the buzz at my favorite anime Discord server is that it held up well for the rest of the season.
Undead Murder Farce was such a mixed bag. The first arc was a fine murder mystery. The second went and mixed it up with a whole bunch of familiar characters in Victorian England but then turned into one big fight scene and nothing got solved. The third arc returned to detectiving, which was nice.
The two lead characters are fun to watch. There is an entire organization in the story whose apparent purpose is to provide people with ridiculous names and horrible light-novel outfits who just show up and get killed almost immediately. The third arc pushes way to hard to show how grey the morality of the story is.
I really don't know if I'd watch a second season of it.
Zom 100 was my pick for show most likely to hit production issues, and unfortunately, it did. We only got 9 out of the planned 12 episodes and it's uncertain when the other 3 will air.
But 75% of Zom 100 was still the best thing going this season. It's a life-affirming horror story, it's a comedy which understands the horrible things that toxic jobs do to people, it's a fun romp with a hero who's great to spend time with.
I will say episode 4 is a low point, but stick with it, because next episode you get to see what I have taken to calling the Pantomime Shark. Also ahead is Akira finally learning to really quit a terrible job.
It took until episode 9 for Zom 100 to even have its full OP (NSFW, comic nudity) in place, but I think it may be my favorite this year.
I also watched one episode of The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today, and it was not quite my kind of thing, but I can report it was pleasant, and the buzz at my favorite anime Discord server is that it held up well for the rest of the season.
