Here's my problem with 3.0, in the end of 2.22 Shinji goes full sync God with the eva and "saves" Rei, all that after feeling down and finally find his resolve to pilot the Eva again, but oh Geez he is about to make the third impact!! Thankfully, Kaworu comes down from the sky like an Angel with the lance and stop that from happening.

3.0: Holy fucking damn Shinji you stupid brat! you ruined everything with your third impact and shit! REI IS DEAD!!! is all your fault!!! everyone in that ship hates him so he leaves (and for some reason, they can't believe he did it) and start some yaoi piano with Kaworu and then KAWORU IS DEAD! Holy fucking damn Shinji you stupid brat! is your fault too, now move your ass back to the Ship, I don't care if you're feeling down you gotta fight!!

See, I haaaaaaaated the end of 2.0. That sort "Look at the main character be a badass! He screws the odds and saves everyone!" thing runs exactly counter to what I like about Eva. If I wanted a power fantasy I have so many other options

I liked 3.0 way more than the earlier movies, personally. It was doing it's own thing instead of being a watered-down version of the original series

Oh, that's painful

Then Mahiru fails to work up her nerves and Karen wanders off looking for Hikari

Well, this is a nice change of pace

This is kind of an uncomfortable read. Juri does not come off as someone prone to stable relationships. And I'm not sure Noa genuinely likes girls. It acts like this is a happy ending, but I feels like they'll break up in a couple of months

Look at that, a four-year-old April fools' joke still getting bites. Before any of you send hate mail, I suggest reading this:
http://arascans.blogspot.com/2014/04/gakkou-no-sensei-end.html

The actual ending is... marginally better? Not an aggressive slap in the face of the readers, but still pretty much the opposite of what I'd want to see

Hikari's chapter actually feels like the anime!

Tayuya... wasn't she one of the Sound 4? I don't think she ever met Hinata?

Wait, Mystic Messenger has yuri?

So this is set in the original games' continuity, but has the Ultra protagonist as a cute kouhai for some reason?

Enjoyed it, though

So this is helpful for being able to tell who everyone is in the anime. It starts after most of the cast is established

The anime is a combination of Madoka magika and love live, i was really surprised by the fight scene and is looks like a sequel of the manga(im not really sure)

The anime is stylistically pulling from Ikuhara's works. The parts that seem crazy are probably metaphors

Speed! Tenryuu just got her kai2

If it helps, Haruka has an ahoge, Kouhei doesn't

Striking "my first serialization" feel

I'm not sure who decided that the latest Love Live clone should be 40% Utena by volume, but I'm not complaining. It is Pretty Great

Wow, that is a lot of this series to take in at once

Shio has a personality and agency now! And is totally on board with Satou's craziness, which I wouldn't have expected

Shio's backstory is some depressing shit. Sato's actually doesn't seem that bad?

In the present day things seem to be going too well, which makes me think the climax is soon

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The tags say I should be depressed, but really I'm just confused

Cute and relaxing. Could use more character depth for Haru and Fuyu, though

So, Hanebad is kinda radically different from the manga? Like, it covers roughly the same events as the first chapter of the manga, but the character focus, tone, and placement of events is all very different. Of relevance to this thread, the prologue prominently features a picture of a lesbian couple, and the story proper quickly establishes that the main character isn't interested in men. Not really sure what to think about this

Okay, before starting Summer, my impressions on Spring:

Toji no Miko: Already covered this earlier

Gegege no Kitarou: Mana x Nekomusume is surprisingly viable, though not what anyone should be be watching it for. So, it's a decent kiddy horror series. Has the occasional neat design moment. Considerably more #woke than expected

Comic Girls: Yep, definitely yuri. Koyume is in love with Tsubasa, Kaos is just generally gay, and most of the cast has subtext with someone. Show has some great art and direction, and is even well-written for the first half or so! Then the second half happens and it becomes increasingly apparent that it was as strong as it was because they front-loaded all of the source material's good chapters. Still, one of the better CGDCT anime

Cutie Honey Universe: Honey and Natsuko are in love! Then Natsuko dies and the whole thing falls apart. Like, not just the yuri, but the show as a whole. I'm pretty certain that that was the big climax most of the show was written to lead up to, since the rest of it just sorta happens without much direction. In the end, it has some neat moments, but I can't really recommend it, except maybe as a study project

Hisone & Masotan: Includes a tragic lesbian backstory. Fun dramedy that also has military shintou dragons. It's a weird show that's too far outside the normal frameworks for me to call it good or bad, but I enjoyed it, at least

Gun Gale Online: A fun action series who's main character appears to be attracting a lesbian harem. Like, I'm pretty certain the gymnastics team is collectively courting her? You don't give heart-shaped jewelry to a senpai you admire

This needed to either grow a plot or turn into porn if it was going to continue, anyway

I liked it, but most of these were too short to have much impact

Toji no Miko

Show itself was okay? The first cour was pretty mediocre, but the second was fairly good (though I felt it weakened towards the end). Really not sure it's worth getting through the first half, though

Yuri-wise, there's three ships that're actually implied as more than friendships, but I felt only one of them actually worked. Kanami and Hiyori are extremely close at the end, but this comes after Hiyori spending 20 episodes almost completely forgotten by the plot. Maki and Suzuha get a cute relationship in the second half, but are supporting characters. Yukari and Ichikishimahime had a nice relationship, but then Ichikishimahime fucking dies

Mahou Shoujo Site

They got farther than I'd expected. If there's a second season it won't be for a while

Feel like an anime like Girl Friends could act as gateway yuri for non-niche audience. Any ideas why it was not yet considered for adaptation?

It generally takes about 5 volumes of a manga to get a single cour of anime, for one