Anything in SSSS.Dynazenon? I'm waiting for the dub to watch, but curious if it has yuri like its predecessor.

Anything in SSSS.Dynazenon? I'm waiting for the dub to watch, but curious if it has yuri like its predecessor.

The female lead has a friend she's strikingly close to. But the show also seems to be setting up a romance between her and the male lead, so it's not something I'd be watching it for

Anything in SSSS.Dynazenon? I'm waiting for the dub to watch, but curious if it has yuri like its predecessor.

The female lead has a friend she's strikingly close to. But the show also seems to be setting up a romance between her and the male lead, so it's not something I'd be watching it for

Okay, I kinda had a feeling it would be less yuri than the original. I'll still watch, but good to know. Thanks

Anyone here following Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood?

I was looking for a good anime to watch and it caught my eye. Then I watched all six episodes in one sitting.
It keeps you want to see more because you are thrown in a world that is not explained, with the characters' motivations being very unclear and weird.

Also there is potential yuri from one character that presents as male, but is a female and it seems like she has feelings for the mc. But i feel like she will probably die.
She is the type of character that you hate, then they get a redemption arc and after that they die.

Started watching Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song. I just finished episode 4 and I can only say that I came into this series with high hopes and they've been met or surpassed at every turn. At the moment I can't recommend it enough.

I finally sat to watch Vivy - Fluorite Eye's Song but After the end of episode 02 I lost all interest... Too bad, it seems really nice but I can't stand the death of an innocent just to shock the audience while this guy from the terrorist group that I hate already gets to live and most likely become too important at the end But it has nice visuals

If you're referring to the little girl on the plane, I don't think that was "just to shock the audience". It demonstrated that the future AI thing is wiling to work against Vivy's wishes if that's what is needed to fulfill its mission, said mission being to prevent the war in the future while keeping deviation from the regular timeline to a minimum. The plane was going to explode, so it kept Vivy from doing anything about that. I mean, she wouldn't have had any idea it would happen if the AI hadn't come from the future with that knowledge anyway. As for the terrorist guy... I don't exactly get what your beef with him is? Just about all he did there was not get crushed by rocks, and that served more to give Vivy some characterization than anything. I'm also not sure why it would be a problem if he becomes an important character?

Anything in SSSS.Dynazenon? I'm waiting for the dub to watch, but curious if it has yuri like its predecessor.

Anti showed up in the last ep, so maybe more characters from the first anime will show up, so a slight chance.

So you got me intrigued with Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song and I decided to give it a shot. Honestly, while the Diva's friend dying in plane crash sucked, my biggest issue is actually with entire logic of the premise. I understand the fear of AI revolting against humans is very common idea in those sci-fi stories, and I guess it's not bad in and of itself, but my issue lies with the fact that story never bothers to actually establish why AI revolted. I disagree with simple idea that more advanced/intelligent AI equal AI uprising. It's like show just assumes that AI will eventually want to kill humans, as if it was just inevitable outcome. Most of the time AI revolts either because despite getting smarter and more human-like, it's still treated as inferior to humans, just a workforce or is being kept in check on purpose. There will always be people who hate even just idea of AI or that AI will be consider equal to humans or even just fears feeling inferior to AIs, but I don't believe that peaceful co-existence with AIs is impossible. Also for how much those stories want to paint AI becoming just like humans and wanting to have the same rights, it always irritates me that those stories still portray AIs as monolith and/or hive-mind. So all AIs across all the world will decided to genocide humans at the exact same time? Wouldn't all those invididual AIs had their own ideas, believes and opinions? Would even all of them reach the human conscious lvl at the same time? Basically my issue is that instead of solution to war with AI being "let's make sure humans and AIs get along and don't discriminate each other" it is "AI can never become more than AI, so let's keep sabotaging its development for next 100 years", which doesn't even solves the problem, because like what? After 100 years the issue will magically disappear? No they'll need to keep AIs in check after that and until the end of time, as long as humans use AIs. Also it's really ironic that such advanced AI is all onboard with pretty much keeping its own kin lobotomize and subservient to humans. All in all I just disagree with message and approach the story takes to solving a realistic issue and dilemma we'll have to face eventually in the future. It's like saying we should keep black people enslaved and uneducated, because giving them freedom and chance to progress will lead to war that kills white people and we can't have that.

Also I think Serenata more meant that character they liked died seemingly for shock value, while character they hated not only survived, but clearly will become a important character in the future, probably some kind of change of heart/redemption arc. Also the dreaded potential het is probably a factor in it as well.

So you got me intrigued with Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song and I decided to give it a shot. Honestly, while the Diva's friend dying in plane crash sucked, my biggest issue is actually with entire logic of the premise. I understand the fear of AI revolting against humans is very common idea in those sci-fi stories, and I guess it's not bad in and of itself, but my issue lies with the fact that story never bothers to actually establish why AI revolted. I disagree with simple idea that more advanced/intelligent AI equal AI uprising. It's like show just assumes that AI will eventually want to kill humans, as if it was just inevitable outcome.

That's fair. I'm guessing that we'll learn more about it as time goes on, but you make a good point.

Most of the time AI revolts either because despite getting smarter and more human-like, it's still treated as inferior to humans, just a workforce or is being kept in check on purpose. There will always be people who hate even just idea of AI or that AI will be consider equal to humans or even just fears feeling inferior to AIs, but I don't believe that peaceful co-existence with AIs is impossible.

Peaceful co-existence is certainly not impossible, but AI behaving against our wishes, maybe even violently, is a very real, very dangerous possibility. My problem with the vast majority of sci-fi about AI is that the idea tends to be "AI deserve the same rights as humans", which is certainly a noble goal, but not necessarily a good one. We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the future, it's not unreasonable (and actually quite wise) to worry about our safety.

Also for how much those stories want to paint AI becoming just like humans and wanting to have the same rights, it always irritates me that those stories still portray AIs as monolith and/or hive-mind. So all AIs across all the world will decided to genocide humans at the exact same time? Wouldn't all those invididual AIs had their own ideas, believes and opinions? Would even all of them reach the human conscious lvl at the same time? Basically my issue is that instead of solution to war with AI being "let's make sure humans and AIs get along and don't discriminate each other" it is "AI can never become more than AI, so let's keep sabotaging its development for next 100 years", which doesn't even solves the problem, because like what? After 100 years the issue will magically disappear? No they'll need to keep AIs in check after that and until the end of time, as long as humans use AIs.

It seems like the AI already have a shared consciousness/network of some sort because of that tower. That being the case I don't think it's out of the question for a sudden shift in the behavior of all AI to be possible.

You're definitely right that changing the next 100 years of history wouldn't be a magical cure to all the problems that might arise in the future. That said, changing that period of time so that humans don't go extinct is a good first step to finding better, more permanent solutions. :P

Also it's really ironic that such advanced AI is all onboard with pretty much keeping its own kin lobotomize and subservient to humans.

That's the goal that it was given, I don't think being onboard with that is much of a choice. However, I do get the feeling that there's more going on there than we know about. A lot of things about that character are pretty suspicious.

All in all I just disagree with message and approach the story takes to solving a realistic issue and dilemma we'll have to face eventually in the future. It's like saying we should keep black people enslaved and uneducated, because giving them freedom and chance to progress will lead to war that kills white people and we can't have that.

I don't want to get too far into this but it's really not like that at all. The differences among humans is nothing compared to the differences between a human and an AI.

Also I think Serenata more meant that character they liked died seemingly for shock value, while character they hated not only survived, but clearly will become a important character in the future, probably some kind of change of heart/redemption arc. Also the dreaded potential het is probably a factor in it as well.

I guess I'm just not of the opinion that those were bad things. And lets be honest, there was no chance of yuri to begin with. Frankly I don't think romance is going to be much of a priority at all. At least not for Vivy.

Somewhat off-topic, but I want to take this chance to plug Robert Miles. He's an AI safety researcher and he makes great videos talking about AI. I highly recommend watching some of his videos if anyone's interested in the future of artificial intelligence. He has also done a series of videos on AI for Computerphile that are equally as interesting.

Caught up on Super Cub after initially dismissing it as too slow-paced even for me (which is saying something), and I'm glad I gave it another chance. It's very charming, I like the detailed visuals and the music and the characters are cute.

As a bonus, the main character and her new friend are very easy to ship.

Spoilers up to episode 6 of Vivy:

Well, I started out thinking Matsumoto was sus, then by about episode 4 I was starting to think maybe he isn't, and now I'm back to thinking Matsumoto is sus. It certainly seems like all the things that hes been getting Vivy to do have resulted in the opposite effect of what his stated mission is. That said, Vivy did handle the previous incidents (especially the Sunrise crash) differently from how he told her to, so it's hard to say whether these results are what he's really after or if they were just flukes. Regardless, the ending to episode 6 was certainly something. I'm probably gonna wait til ep. 8 is available before starting ep. 7, since they seem to be doing 2 episode-long arcs for each incident.

Also. Hey anime? Can I ask you a favor? I get that animating vehicles is hard, but if you need to use a lot of CGI for vehicles in an action scene, could you maybe try a LITTLE harder to make it look uniform? Or just go all the way! I promise you that fully-3D anime can look really good! Just look at ex-arm! At least stop swapping between 2D animation and 3D animation willy-nilly in the middle of a single scene. Pretty please?

I just realized I forgot Cramer out of the all-girl anime list.

So if you like football, its pretty good, if you don't like football you will probably not care.

I just realized I forgot Cramer out of the all-girl anime list.

So if you like football, its pretty good, if you don't like football you will probably not care.

Any yuri subtext yet or do you think it'll just be a regular cute girls do cute things show (football in this case)?

Also, Strike Witches Road to Berlin is being dubbed now (2 eps as of this post). Great to get back into this franchise and I'm looking forward to the Trude x Erica episode.

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No subtext unless you put on your goggles really tight.

One of the boys(whos name I don't even know) does seem to have a crush on Onda, but she only cares about football so it hardly matters.

No subtext unless you put on your goggles really tight.

One of the boys(whos name I don't even know) does seem to have a crush on Onda, but she only cares about football so it hardly matters.

alright. Thanks for letting me know

Finally remembered to finish Uma Musume and it's as good as everyone's been saying. It may have a silly premise, but it really is a fantastic sports anime with one of the best rivalries I've ever seen in the genre.

Also, I'm done with my Battle Athletes rewatch. I doubt many people care to read an opinion about a 90s anime and this write-up got long (sorry!), but if even one person watching the (very weird) new anime is curious about the original, I think it's worth it.

There are a bunch of parts in the Battle Athletes franchise. Anime-wise, there's a 26-episode TV show and a 6-episode OVA, both long out of print in North America but recently re-licensed by Discotek.

I should warn that there are two glaring flaws: the racism (I can't imagine audiences in China liked the original, maybe making the character named after the comedic relief Chinese cheat a serious lead in the sequel is a way to make up for that whoopsie?) and the fact that main character Akari is possibly the biggest crybaby in all of anime. She gets better, and the other characters carry the show when she fails at it, but holy shit can she be annoying during the first arc of the TV anime.

Said TV anime has three arcs: the Earth arc, the University Satellite arc, and the what-the-fuck-is-this arc. In each of the first two arcs, Akari has a best friend/love interest who helps her reach her full potential. Ichino is too busy dealing with her internalized homophobia to get the girl she's obviously in love with, but Kris, who falls in love with Akari at first sight and isn't shy about expressing it, succeeds. The yuri is canon in every iteration of the story. I think it's okay to spoil this about an anime from 1997. (If you're so inclined, you can read the ending as Ichino joining the relationship at the end of the TV anime. I like this interpretation as it would neatly solve the love triangle, although it isn't supported by the other versions.)

The OVA only covers the University Satellite arc but the story is completely different from the TV version. Some different choices are made, Akari is generally less annoying and overall it's a serious, streamlined version of the second arc. The romance is also treated more seriously. However, I found the ending less satisfying and there's a reveal about one character (that doesn't happen in the TV anime) which is handled in a way that has aged really, really poorly.

Two volumes of the manga out of four have been translated and are available here.

TL;DR It's my favorite sports anime and I highly recommend it if you've watched every recent show in the genre and are craving more. I personally recommend the TV version, but the OVA is more straightforward and Akari is much better in it.

Two volumes of the manga out of four have been translated and are available here.

Watched both the anime and Ova series before the new series came out. Waiting to watch because I think it'll have a dub (if it doesn't get one then I'll just find time to watch it at some point). I hope the manga gets picked up again since I heard the ending is very yuri.

^ Hmm, I doubt it'll have a dub as it probably isn't very successful, but I guess it could get one. It would reach a larger audience if it got dubbed, so that would be nice.

I don't know if the rest of the manga will ever get translated, but I've also seen some raws and it looks more yuri than both anime combined. Yuri in the new one would be nice, too.

The 2 main characters in super cub are married and I will not take 'no' for an answer.

Yuri in the new one would be nice, too.

Again, waiting to watch the new Battle Athletes anime, but people I follow (like yuriempire) are talking about it and it does seem to have some nice yuri. I definitely look forward to watching it.

Yuri in the new one would be nice, too.

Again, waiting to watch the new Battle Athletes anime, but people I follow (like yuriempire) are talking about it and it does seem to have some nice yuri. I definitely look forward to watching it.

Now that I'm caught up, I can say there is some yuri subtext. I wonder how far it'll go. Keep in mind though when you watch it, apart from some characters' last names and the Cosmo Beauty competition theme, it has very little to do with the original. I won't spoil more, but it's actually quite baffling.

So, I only have one ova left in Dokyuu Hentai HxEros and then I'll have finished it. I said that the only yuri after the episode 3 couple would be brainwashing in one of the ovas. That was partially true, turns out Maihime Shirayuki, one of the main girls, has a crush on her best friend (And it might be reciprocated) as she said her name while getting turned on at one point and she said in the ova that girls can gather H-engery with each other when another character said they couldn't.
Again, not really a yuri series (if you want yuri and ecchi watch Valkyrie Drive, Strike Witches, or Kandagawa Jet Girls) but I thought I should give an accurate assessment of the yuri in it/

What a cute married couple in super cub.

^ Agreed, they're adorable.

Pretty much all summer anime have been announced now, so lets see what sort of yuri/all girl shows we have.

Maid dragon S2 is an obvious one

Bakarina S2, everybodies favourite bisexual harem.

Jahy-sama A wonderfull show about how to not pay rent.

Love Live! Superstar!! - Should be obvious.

Higurashi Sotsu - Even with K1 it does not take away how gay Rika and Satako are.

Kageki Shoujo!! - A shojo, don't know anything about this

No kirara all-girl show this season it seems.

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I plan to watch all of those (just need to catch up on Higurashi Gou first) but Bakarina S2 is the one I'm looking forward to the most.