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DoodlestheGreat: !next
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Earthenone: signal
Juliamon:
TXC2: CONTACT
betweenmyself:
animoos!?! 
Jay_Blanc: Remember, the first rule of Beej's Anime Soc, is that Beej's Anime Soc doesn't exist.
Gekyouryuu: hooray, I made it to one. been a while since I managed that.
TXC2: hello Gekyouryuu welcome
public_key_reveal_party: I just recently finally got into watching anime, so this might be the first time I have watched been talking about anime where I actually understand a bit of what is going on
DoodlestheGreat: Gonna be honest, this Summer is insane. So far, i've sampled a half dozen shows that are candidates for Best of Year, much less the season, an I know of at least two more that are likely to join them.
lamina5432 subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 80 months!
lamina5432: animu time
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Laurence72: Yay Anime! Which stands for Animation Might Interest ME
Gekyouryuu: I'm behind on anime because the new season caught me unawares and started already
Juliamon: Laurence72 amime?
public_key_reveal_party:
@Laurence72 Writing that down 
Laurence72:
Oops, 
lamina5432: A lot of things to look forward to. New shows and classic's
Laurence72: Ummm... ANimation Interests ME?
Gekyouryuu: and where I usually watch has the GALL to go "ok, you can't be using adblock while we make whole new tabs pop up every time you click ANYTHING, INCLUDING starting or stopping the video or adjusting the volume, AND we want you to pay for our premium service, despite us maybe not even being legally allowed to ask for money."
TXC2: Here we GO!
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TXC2: Hello Beej
DoodlestheGreat: You look mahvellous!
lamina5432: ello beej
TheGreenMonster450: Hello hello
Ashmantle:
Jay_Blanc: It's that guy!
INCSlayer: Hello Beej
TXC2: bono episo fever
TXC2: !patreon
bytecaster: Is this where the japanimation is?
TXC2: !store
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bytecaster: Things?!?
Juliamon: Perennial shirts, SECRET shirts
247Gremlin: @bytecaster No this is where you get the address to send your money and get a VHS, which is where the Japanimation is stored.
public_key_reveal_party: I have not found the secret shirts yet
TXC2: !discord
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bytecaster: Love an ARB - Alternate Reality Beej
Texan_Reverend: Good afternoon, Beej!
Texan_Reverend: And greetings, chatfolk.
bytecaster: Or maybe BARG?
TXC2: hi Texan_Reverend
DoodlestheGreat: It's fluffy
Juliamon: Your hair wants to be a pompadour but there's not enough of it
lamina5432: mini pompador
INCSlayer: i am here and im watching the roundup
bytecaster: I am wrong though!
Jay_Blanc: Please hold your thrown tomatoes until the end of the presentation.
lamina5432: opinions are like holes, everyone has one
bytecaster: @lamina5432 Some even have multiple!
TXC2: just one? have many holes
ClockTamer: awww *puts coals away
TXC2: * I have
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public_key_reveal_party: Liking it is good, not liking it is also good.
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Laurence72: As Beej himself famously said in a Crapshot -- NO KINKSHAMING!
bytecaster: When someone gets the Anime cold!
lamina5432: delaying it for having more chapters sake??
bytecaster: Lots of romcoms have the problem of the never-ending gimmick
Jay_Blanc: At least it didn't turn into a continuous Tournament Arc?
Travilogue: Akane-banashi was very good. Excellent VA work
Brozard: It was real good!
Gekyouryuu: Akane-banashi is FANTASTIC, and I think you'd like it, but fair for you to skip if you're not feeling it
Lysander_salamander: hello everyone
TXC2: hello Lysander_salamander welcome
Travilogue: Loved Awajime. I kind of liked the stories being different people and times. (there is a little bit of a tying together later)
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kyosokun: It's slice of life
JollyGee29: Anthology series can be hard to watch weekly in my experience
public_key_reveal_party: More like vignettes than a cohesive whole?
Travilogue: yes, vignettes was the word I was trying to think of
TXC2:
2nd prettiest....who is judging that ? 
lamina5432: the soft pretty seems harder to have in anime
Earthenone:
its anime, usualy there is a poll given on scrap paper to each male student secretly 
Travilogue: This show ended up being more complex and serious than I was expecting.
lamina5432: It was a major complaint for fragrent flower of mine, kaoruko was also supposed to be softer
Laurence72: @Earthenone Or the school newspaper holds the vote, per decree of the shadowy student council?
lamina5432: I hear dr stone is almost over so will probably go watch that later
otakon17: Please no
otakon17: I get enough of that in real life
Amentur: I watched the first episode and could not deal with the guy
Travilogue: Yeah, I got sick of Koichi around ep 3 or 4
otakon17: what this i hear about a chainsmoking catgirl?
Travilogue: There was that one moment in the hot spring...
otakon17: hot springs are REQUIRED
7gorobei: the manga is a bit more explicit in the bathing scenes
radiowasabi2014: oh this was the one where he has the giant dong but it's only mentioned twice lol
thyeggman subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 76 months!
thyeggman: Anime!!
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Travilogue: It is a fun show. Kind of treads the line on noble savage stuff at times though
TXC2: Hello Heather
TXC2: bye Heather
lamina5432: need to watch honzuki new season
lamina5432: honzuki did kind of get shelved for me just to wait for it to build up
DoodlestheGreat:
Be grateful you skipped "Fist." It belongs on a double bill with "Bleach 2016" 
Gekyouryuu: @DoodlestheGreat do you mean Berserk?
DoodlestheGreat: I didn't enjoy the fanservice and the characters, so I dropped it
DoodlestheGreat: @Gekyouryuu Yes. My fingers are too fast for the brain.
DoodlestheGreat: One really flat note, too.
lamina5432: didn't realize this got a season 2
Texan_Reverend: L and I have been having fun with this.
Texan_Reverend: It's silly, but fun.
TXC2: Beej: "they have introduced more men" me, with no context: boooo
Travilogue: Vending Machine S3 was decent, not as good as 1, but liked it better than 2.
DoodlestheGreat: Vending Machine - after watching the first two seasons, I had to finish the damned story. Not sure it was worth it.
INCSlayer: i fell off during season 1
kingandcommoner: At least it had an ending
Texan_Reverend: THIS is the one L and I have been having tons of fun with. L absolutely fell for the premise.
Travilogue: It got real stupid
loufghyslaufey: Battle? Observed by... a vensing machine?
Texan_Reverend: It's absolutely as ridiculous at it should be. It knew what it was, and as long as you're there for the ride, it's tons of goofy fun.
kingandcommoner: Holy Water Vending machine was a pretty good pull
loufghyslaufey: *vending machine, What the bricks...??!
otakon17: I'm sorry did I hear the 100 yard FIELD get into a fight with a Kaiju?
Travilogue: Also, Field being in his own harem anime was dumb but I laughed
Basic_Human_Decency: How many people got their arm stuck in its hole?
Texan_Reverend: @otakon17 Yes. A field with a human soul that was isekai-ed into this world.
Travilogue: Oh yeah, the RPG check in with each character to get their one line reaction to the battle was a bit too much
DoodlestheGreat: Oh yes, I hate that.
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CaKnuckleguy: One month for every year that happened since The End of Time
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kingandcommoner: Fighting Evil with Bud Light. He's the Vending Otaku.
otakon17: Well their spirits at least, IIRC they all got killed in the final run on Beryl.
otakon17: @kingandcommoner I read that to the tune of the American theme.
Texan_Reverend: Yeah, if you're not smiling a bunch at the fundamental premise, it might not be for you.
DoodlestheGreat: it's a wonderful low-stakes slice-of-life about a young man and his relationship with a collection of deities. Yamaguchi is a good pupper god.
Korolan subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 73 months!
Korolan: What a good show to resub on
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kingandcommoner: And then Amaterasu Goddess of the Sun
otakon17: But are they as fluffy as the slime and wolf from the Discount Shopper Isekai show?
DoodlestheGreat: Also, castella!
kingandcommoner: @otakon17 you mean Campfire Cooking?
otakon17: yes
otakon17: fluffy and cute and fun is good
kingandcommoner: Sui is best boy and nothing in this anime compares. But it's much more wholesome overall
tdapenguin: Mobius floors?
Texan_Reverend: The stakes don't have to be the size of columns; they can be tiny garden stakes, and that chill, gentle concept can still be good fun.
atinyspacemarine: hello fellow weabs
TXC2: hello atinyspacemarine welcome
kingandcommoner: That's about where I gave up
lamina5432: i have some friends who watched the live action. wonder if that did it better
Gekyouryuu: I heard nothing but good things about this
otakon17: Gotta love Japanese where even PRONUNCIATION affects the meaning of a word.
Travilogue: I quite liked Botan
TXC2: I guess metaphors require more effort to translate
TXC2: otakon17 yes...."love"
tdapenguin: @otakon17 English has a few of those but I'm guessing far less than Japanese
Travilogue: The animation can kind of be all over the place, in a good way
public_key_reveal_party:
JollyGee29: They deliberately had a different animation director for each episode, hence the wide variety of artstyles
JollyGee29: Episode director, I meant episode director
kyosokun: Oh God, karekano
tdapenguin: @JollyGee29 Interesting.... that could be really neat or hard to handle, depending on how it's done.
kyosokun: Read the manga, no production issues lol
tdapenguin: @JollyGee29 Ah, that makes more sense
Travilogue: It felt like if they did have less time, the knew it was happening and were able to plan to use that time effectively.
betweenmyself: His & Hers just kept adding more and more recap to take up increasing amounts of each episode as far as I recall
JollyGee29: Kare Kano's production issues were.. interesting. Too complicated to get into in Twitch chat
kyosokun: Classic Gainax
Gekyouryuu: Kanan-sama was cute, at least
kingandcommoner: I started episode 2 of this and just didn't have it in me
Travilogue: I was up and down on Kirio. Ended on up though.
kyosokun: I can't take the second hand anxiety/embarrassment
Travilogue: I will say the end does bring in some stuff from earlier that is only mentioned in passing
Brozard: Yessssssssss
Brozard: love this and Polar Opposites
lamina5432: the little i watched of this it was great.
Travilogue: Yes, we are
jdr_42: I love Ramparts of Ice
avjamethyst: oh yeah, ben and I have been watching this, so relatable
Travilogue: Fall 2026 for Ramparts S2
Decaped: they're alternating seasons so an entire year of their anime
NarwhalsInATrenchcoat: It's her year. Polar opposites -> ramparts -> polar opposites 2 -> ramparts s2 back to back to back is insane
kingandcommoner: From what i hear, Rampart's manga has ended and we're probably only getting 1 more season. maybe 2
Brozard: each character is very thoughtful and internal
Brozard: and reflective
Brozard subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 91 months!
Brozard: oh hey, button
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TXC2: the classic love dodecahedron
Travilogue: They made very good use of the intro bars of the end credits under the final scenes of the episodes.
DoodlestheGreat: Why watch, when you can avoid the utterly annoying bird character's screeching by enjoying something else?
Travilogue: *ARATA*
TXC2: the manguin
radiowasabi2014: lool
DoodlestheGreat: Mao - I no longer need to watch "Inu-Yasha," since this story speedruns the same thing. That's not a bad thing, really.
Decaped: Mao is cool if you want to be reminded of the 90s
radiowasabi2014: Mao = Inuyasha redux
Travilogue: Kinosaki is the best
Wolfstrike_NL: All I know that Liar Game had a banger song that got a lot of youtube artist do a react video to
Kragaar: marriage toxin is straight from the margins of a 13 year old's notebook
Amentur:
Kill or Kiss 
Kill or Kiss
kingandcommoner: Sounds about right. What i wouldn't give for an actual detective anime in this day and age
dougma: could not get past the first 5min
TXC2: !addquote (Beej) [now] There's nothing more fun to solve then a murder.
LRRbot: New quote #9613: "There's nothing more fun to solve then a murder." —Beej [2026-07-05]
lamina5432: thats sad. i always thought want more detective stories
Travilogue: Ribdiculous was soooo good
TXC2: I wonder how much ACAB has effected detective stories
Amentur:
Ribdiculous was some great fun 
betweenmyself: Rib Reincarnation was nice in that they explored a number of media
kingandcommoner: I enjoyed it if for no other reason than the animation switchups
Travilogue: Not just animation, they get some live action in there as well
kingandcommoner: "Locker in a horror game" was actually pretty great
DoodlestheGreat: My Ribdiculous Reincarnation - My sleeper hit of the season. Utterly wacky comedy making fun of multiple genres, especially the standard isekai power fantasy. "Pop Team Epic" level of humor, so if that's not your speed, I understand.
Travilogue: The conceit of it being a recap of what happened was charming to me.
Decaped: This having the same problem as Needy Girl Overdose is lowkey hilarious
Travilogue: It was only on the last episode that I realized that the goddess's chair and platform were physical object.
RealGamerCow: was that the girl from the game Ian played last week?
DoodlestheGreat: It's a narrative conceit that I recognize as being hard for folks to handle.
Travilogue: Meathead Princess!
Decaped: Everyone should watch the Door episode of Needy Girl Overdose. Everyone should watch the Door episode of My Ribdiculous Reincarnation
SquareDotCube: This sounds like the girl's gonna join a rebellion eventually without knowing it
kingandcommoner: "The first thing you should do...IS GET YOUR EYES CHECKED!"
calculated_uncertainties:
100 
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kingandcommoner: Chaos Gremlin punches her way through life
Texan_Reverend: I'm currently watching this and enjoying myself. It's one that I've made work in zoomed fullscreen on my CRT TV.
DoodlestheGreat: After an interesting start, the joke ran out of steam relatively fast for me.
Texan_Reverend: Not the rooster, but Mimi before that, I mean.
exeJayce: hey neat I'm able to catch some of Beej talking about anime. Hi Beej! hi chat!
Kragaar: it's a good watch
Travilogue: Otaku Gal was good
UtilityPunk:
"Ooops, now I'm 5 years ahead of the anime, and I can't go back" 
Punching_Bag: Otaku Gal has a good opening
Lysander_salamander: Oh I'll give it a try
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Gekyouryuu: "I liked this. if I watch it again, it'll water it down."
INCSlayer: Hey Heather, Bye Heather
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