A submersible with dead billionaires.

it’s a perfect comfort food for rough times

I wish this manga gets an anime adaptation.

What about Dan Da Dan is giving it such high ratings?

People like it. Personally, I like the story-telling, the characters and the execution.

Do you think I’d find this series worth it?

Hard to tell without knowing what you like. Based on what I’ve seen so far, I guess you’d like it if you enjoy a romcom filled with action and a pinch of emotional moments.

What is the expected age group for the show?

It feels like the target demographic is shounen / boys. I’m older (i.e. seinen), but I still enjoy it. I believe ladies (both shoujo / girls and joshi / women) would like it too. IMO when it’s good, the demographic matters less; everyone would like it.

the series description gave me a hard pass for the aforementioned reason

Felt to me like a bunch of nonsense being yelled at opponents until some cool anime action happened

I haven’t (and don’t intend to) watch JJK for the same reason: it sounds like a typical battle shounen anime that is boring as hell. That’s not what is happening in Dan Da Dan.

I was originally going to pick up Oshi no Ko. Now that I know the ending, I don’t think I’m going to - at least not in the near future. In fact, season 3 of the anime is now low priority on my watch list.

Past Seasons

Completed Attack on Titan Season 3, both part 1 and part 2.

It already has many of the usual Gundam tropes in previous seasons, but now it introduced (or made explicit) one more: the princess figure. At this point, I’m expecting a Char clone (maybe Zeke?) and a weapon of mass destruction.

I enjoyed it a lot just like season 2, so I’m giving it a 10 / 10.

By the way, the Beast Titan shouldn’t be able throw as well as he did.

This Season

At this point, I’m only following 3 series.

1. Murai in Love - It is the dark horse of the season for me, but fell behind a bit as it approaches the end. I was aware going in that it is a shoujo anime, but the humour was on-point so I didn’t care. In fact, I had high hopes that it would be the first shoujo anime to enter my top favourites. Unfortunately, it looks like it couldn’t resist catering to its demographic and ended up including some shoujo tropes that I didn’t like (i.e. unnecessary drama). With only one episode before it ends, I doubt it’s going to climb back up to being anime of the season.
2. Re:Zero Season 3 - Just like others in this community, I was about to put it on-hold and binge it later - but then I learnt that it would be going on break after the next episode anyway. I’m sure it would get good later, but for now, it’s becoming a chore to watch.
3. Dan Da Dan - Most likely to be my anime of the season; needs no explanation.

Among their favorites is “Fallout” – a post-apocalyptic drama based on the video game series of the same name.

I find this incredibly ironic.

Thanks for pointing it out; edited phrasing.

This is a no-brainer but I’m predicting that Dan Da Dan tops this (next?) week’s anime charts.

Lousiest episode so far. Listening to them talk makes me feel dumb.

For some reason, they’ve got to state the obvious throughout their conversation. Also, whenever someone come up with a counterpoint or an idea, the rest would revere it - even though all the speaker did was said something common-sensical.

It’s like the show’s creators don’t trust their audience to think or something. My intelligence feels insulted.

Subaru’s speech sucks too. Too lazy to elaborate.

This is not the first time Re:Zero has made me feel this way, but it rarely makes me feel like this the entire episode. I had to speed up the episode to get through it.

It’s about time Subaru get back to dying again to make things interesting.

Even in a fantasy, made-up world, teachers get laden with so many tasks beyond teaching…

Completed season 2 of Attack on Titan.

Just like @ReluctantZen@feddit.nl, I found season 2 to be way better than season 1 based on just the plot alone.

The flaws that I pointed out previously are still present, but I felt that there have been improvements e.g. less narration and exposition, reduced recaps (no recap for some episodes).

I like it a lot, so I’m closing one eye to its flaws and giving it a 10 / 10.

Also watched Look Back. It’s good.

It being only 1 hour long makes it an easy watch too.

I noticed that they never actually defeat Raspi; it just went out of bounds. I won’t be surprised if it returns in the future.

For me, it’s the PS5 for having such a slick and futuristic look.

Honourable mention goes to Nintendo Switch for being so cute.

In these trying times:

Witch from Mercury is on my watchlist so I’ll have to give it a go.

Make sure to start with the prologue / episode 0.

As for everyone else, it’s just that typical anime thing of keeping characters in the same outfit so you don’t need a design sheet for multiple outfits.

This is so lame, considering a number of (personally highly-rated) anime have characters donning various outfits.

It’s kind of late to ask this, but why is Subaru still wearing his one-and-only tracksuit? Does he not have any other clothes? What happens when he does laundry? We don’t see him change out of it ever!

In fact, other characters are all wearing the exact same clothes or have multiple sets of the same clothes.

The only explanation I can think of - in Subaru’s case at least - is that someone casts laundry magic on him regularly.