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I don’t have anything that can play this game anyways so no pre-order from me either From what I’ve seen so far, the game looks decent, but IMO certainly more comparable to D3 (what little I remember of it) than D2. I enjoyed the parts of D3 that I played. Not nearly as much as I enjoy D2, of course. I hope to try D4 someday.

Any of you folks getting in on the Diablo IV open beta this week? A few different D2 streamers I follow on YouTube are playing right now, so I'm just following along with them. The opening cutscene was rad. No comments about the gameplay yet as I've only been watching like 10 minutes

Revenger has built up to the big final episode that will be next week. Overall, the show has been pretty solid. I'm curious to see how it ends. Do we get a happy-ish ending or tragedy? Could go either way with how Raizo's character has developed. Stray Dogs has been steadily very good the last few weeks too! I think there are two episodes left to go. I don't think they can resolve this story line in just two episodes. There are so many moving parts in this story. I guess there will be another season eventually. Maybe this season ends on a big cliffhanger.

Wow, we're definitely on the same wavelength here My gut says Nico remembers more than she is letting on during her drunken outbursts. I dunno why. Probably wrong I didn't start Jiangshi X yet. I might circle back to it if it enjoys a long-ish run and seems to pick up some momentum. But if it meets an early end then I figure why even bother I've been thinking about maybe picking up World Trigger if I have time for some binge reading. I watched the first season of the anime way back (hard to believe that was nine years ago! ) and enjoyed it well enough (not that I remember much about it anymore!). It must be doing something right if it's still running...

Finally got round to checking out some of the new stuff. Beat & Motion is definitely a winner in my books! Nico is hilarious The art is a bit generic IMHO so it's not as nice to look at as some other series that I'm enjoying at the moment, but I like the basis for the story. I actually read the first two chapters at like 3am this morning when I couldn't get back to sleep while stressing over some dumb work shit in the middle of the night, and this idea of "You just died today, now you should do what you really want to do" struck a chord. Gokurakugai is also interesting, though I am not as into the concept as I am Beat & Motion. The latest Chainsaw Man (123) also has some good stuff going on. Asa is in a bit of trouble here! Denji to the rescue? Or does she save herself?

Trigun, so good

Tell Lucy we say hi!

Coming soon to a screen near you..! The Fall anime season has some stuff that I am super excited about Some useful links: Fall 2022 AniChart MAL Fall 2022 season page Crunchyroll Fall 2022 season lineup (still some items TBD as of this posting on Sept. 28) I still don't do HIDIVE so I dunno what they've got. Also unsure of what might be coming up soon on Prime, Netflix, etc... My for-sure-I'm-watching-them titles are... Chainsaw Man Spy x Family Gundam: The Witch From Mercury FYI the prologue episode is on YouTube and OH MAN IT IS GOOD I have wanted a new Gundam series in my life for literally years now and I am very hyped for this! @Vic Boss please come back and chat about Gundam with me As always, I will also be looking out for interesting anime originals. Nothing has jumped out at me yet. I'll have to wait and see what else Crunchyroll has in the lineup and then decide what else to check out. A couple other interesting items: The Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie is now available on Crunchyroll, so I think I will try to watch that one night this weekend (still thinking about picking up the manga from where the anime left off as well... maybe now is the time to get into that, after watching the movie!) Berserk's Golden Age arc is getting an anime series, but I think this was already covered in movies that I'm pretty sure I already watched a few years ago... so I'm not sure if I'll bother watching the anime, but maybe What are you looking forward to? Discuss!

^ I'm in agreement about pretty much all of that! Ichinose Family has been rather captivating lately, after a brief lull for a few chapters The Masamune stuff in Elusive Samurai has been super rad, and those weapons are cool AF Chainsaw Man has overall been good, and even when it's not great the vibes are still pretty cool, but it would totally benefit from a longer format (eg, like Choujin X which often has closer to 30 pages, sometimes more... you should totally get caught up on it if you haven't yet ) Akane-banashi continues to be great overall and now that PPPPPP is over Akane is easily my favourite current artsy manga ( PPPPPPP) Every new Show-ha Shoten! is loaded with good stuff even when I don't really get the Japanese stand-up humour Are you caught up on Sakamoto and DB Super? @Anelle thoughts re: latest JJK chapters???

I put it off for several weeks, just 'cause I didn't want it to be over, but I finished Bocchi the Rock! tonight... It was fantastic. I'm also super bummed out that it's over Easily one of my all-time favourite music anime ever

Fuck, the last few episodes of Stray Dogs have been quite the trip

I watched the new Spriggan mini-series on Netflix this week. Pretty good stuff. Animation quality dipped in a few spots, and the translation could have used some more proof-reading, but I enjoyed it overall. Hopefully there will be more. There was a post-credits scene in the final episode.

Thanks! Gonna get take-out tonight and drink a bunch of beer and stay up maybe until midnight, aren’t I wild and crazy

Fantastic stuff in chapter #76 Several very funny Anya moments

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, new one-hour special of SnK!

Yeah overall I'm pretty disappointed by how PPPPPP ended. Chapters the last several weeks have been mostly hard to follow, and then the sudden ending. Felt like it was a bit rushed, even if it was already close to reaching the end point. I agree about that one thing though---Lucky slugging his dad on the final page was a nice touch. So much of what led up to it was a mess though Did you ever catch up on Choujin X? A loooooot happened in the latest chapter (35). It was a lot to take in. Not as good IMO as the chapters that preceded it, but it seems like we're building up to more cool stuff happening.

I wasn’t going to check out the new one right away, but with PPPPPP done now (total bummer!) I guess there is a spot open on my reading list…

Yeah, I am loving the background details that are being revealed in Trigun Stampede.

More good stuff this week in episode #7 of Trigun Stampede. I am thoroughly enjoying this show! Revenger is getting more weird and gritty than I expected with the whole opium angle. It’s not my favourite new show, but I like how it has been a bit unpredictable.

Latest chapter of Ichinose Family was very good stuff too … PPPPPP was a bit more interesting, and made more sense, this week. I would rather just get back to focusing on Lucky… but I guess I’m also up for Dada-sensei’s back story.

Loved the new chapter of The Elusive Samurai (97) this week

Crazy stuff going on in Stray Dogs this week!

Did you do anything fun to celebrate?

Kinda feels like both Sakamoto Days and Elusive Samurai could be building up to big final showdowns soon-ish. Other non-spoiler random thoughts: I feel like PPPPPP has lost its direction—or I just don’t get what’s going on these past few chapters (totally possible ). In any case, I’m not enjoying it is much anymore… I am absolutely loving these ‘Fetching Tea’ chapters of Akane-banashi Interesting twist in JJK this week! Overall, I am getting tired of the Culling Game arc, but events at the end of this week’s chapter have renewed my interest.

Chapter #75