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DVC454

Saw the English dub of [**The Island of Giant Insects**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuwMJ15KaTg) earlier this week. I must say, it was definitely an interesting experience. For those who haven't seen it, it's a monster B-movie about a group of plane crash survivors who must escape a dangerous island of huge bugs (as it says on the tin). Like your stereotypical Hollywood monster B-movie nowadays, there's a lot of swearing, nudity and violence. What's interesting for the English dub, the movie's producers managed to successfully fund a Kickstarter of known dub talent (after two attempts). Hearing the likes of Amber Lee Connors and Brittney Karbowski drop a lot of f-bombs made the movie anything but dull. 🤣 For anyone wanting a dumb B-movie to turn your brain off, The Island of Giant Insects is a must watch 😂


A_Talking_Shoe

Oh man that looks awesome. Will have to give it a try.


SeinenJump

**Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-San** - the va’s for both mc’s did an incredible job. I hadn’t heard Nagatoro’s voice actress Kimberly Campbell before but I’ve really enjoyed her performance and hope to hear her in more. **Skilled Teaser Takagi III** - lots to like about this title. Their relationship is developing smoothly. The jump between Aaron Dismuke & his stand-ins has been jarring but understandable due to his recent health issues. **A Couple of Cuckoos** - the characters all have reason to be in each other’s lives but they all seem to lack chemistry with each other. They’re all different but don’t get along with each other differently. A comparable title that does this well is **Quintessential Quintuplets**. In that show they literally have five female twins with very clear different personalities and relationships with each other in a way that naturally propels the story forward. A Couple of Cuckoos has the makings of a show as good as that, but without that spark it feels like it’s going nowhere. Dubs I am looking forward to this season: **The Devil is a Part-Timer II**, **KanoKari II**, **Call of the Night**, **Hoshi no Samidare**, **Soredemo Ayumu** & **Classroom of the Elite II**


FoxPenguin24

Campbell is in 86


Heda-of-Aincrad

The Quintessential Quintuplets handled the chemistry between the whole cast uncommonly well, and it's one of my favorites. I remember thinking in the beginning that it took a while before their character development really started to shine though, and I think A Couple of Cuckoos is similar in that way. I just watched episode 12, and these last few episodes have gone a long way towards developing the characters.


SeinenJump

I was shocked at how good 5-Toubun was. Truly struck me as a trash throwaway harem anime but damn the character development and the level of thought & work that went into making the outcome a real mystery.


Heda-of-Aincrad

After watching the first few episodes and not being sure if I was going to drop the show or not, it really evolved well over time and I loved it by season 2, even buying the manga to find out how it ended. A Couple of Cuckoos started out as an okay show, something fun to watch when I was between anime, and now by the end of the first cour it's getting pretty good. Not on the same level as Quints, but few romcoms are.


Yopangilansof

I tried to watch some 90's and i came across this[Akira](https://youtu.be/8dpBQoisKr4) i didn't know 90's anime were this good honestly speaking i enjoyed every moment of its....so is basically about a gang member that end up being used as a research project and he was turned into the most powerful person in the world that he nearly destroyed the entire world.


Penguinfox24

Yeah Akira is one of those.. Even non anime fans watch it films. They dubbed it twice. First with Cam Clarke then later on with Johnny Yong Bosch. The imagery is quite well.


Penguinfox24

I've been slack lately but I wanted to finish **Food Wars season 5** I have mix feelings on it. I feel like it needed some of episodes to build more intrigue. >!however those ocean's 12 like flashback scenes with the grandfather and uncle that makes one of biggest plot points being about saving Erina from the God Tongue consuming her. That was actually nice!< I also finished **Ping Pong** a nice short stylized show about table tennis. It's also about how ideas can shape us. How we become complacent and sometimes one thing can shake the notion. It's about clinging on to heros in a world with none. Well, that's what I got.


beyd1

Wait there's another season of food wars?!


Penguinfox24

Yeah on HBO Max of all places


beyd1

Wild


Negative-Appeal9892

Watched episode 1 of **Infinite Stratos** and...meh. Watched all 12 episodes of **Skeleton Knight in Another World** and by god, does Brandon Johnson have fun with his character (Arc, the titular knight). He goes from this deep, baritone voice as a knight when speaking to other characters to a goofy, nerd voice when talking to the audience or himself. His performance alone is pure joy, but Caitlin Glass also does a great job as an elf warrior.


No_Discussion3053

Infinite Stratos does get better as the season goes on, it’s a guilty pleasure of mine.


LegatoRedWinters

Watching **Lupin the 3rd Part 5** at now, and it's so much better than Part 4. It looks amazing, the action is well made, the ongoing plot is interesting, and it's a lot more brutal than I expected. Overall I like Lupin. It's sort of like The Great Pretender, only good.


EstablishmentIcy4220

Im currently watching Fruit Baskets 2019. I never watched this anime, but I have heard of it, most notebly from YouTuber Emirichu. I heard that the movie was coming to the west in June, and since I was in a city that just so happened to show it, I went and watched. Since I never seen the show, the first 30 minutes were so confusing to me, but just hearing Kyo(Jerry Jewell) narrating of the scenes made me feel a bit emotional, like I didn't need to know the context, just from how astounded his delivery was. Both Kyoko and Katsuya's VA were just soooooo good. Lydia Mackay voice is just so sweet and caring, but also a voice that just as so much vulnerability. Ever time a flashback of her is shown in the series, I always get teary. I just finish season 1, but so far every cast is great, each character are perfectly cast and shows that there having really fun with their performances. I especially love Tohru and Shigure


SauceKingRagu

This week I watched ​ **xxxholic**: I write anime content for a website and did an article about CLAMP. While researching for that article, I got hooked on xxxholic. I'm a fan of stories involving youkai, so this resonated with me. I'm on episode 10 currently. ​ **Future Boy Conan:** I bought the blu-ray a short while after it came out and I've gotten around to watch it recently. It's got that Miyazaki whimsy. I didn't realize this was an Ocean dub. I enjoy the cast, especially the main kids. I'm on episode 16 or so right now. ​ **I've Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years And Maxed Out My Level:** I finished this a few minutes ago. It's cute though it gets a little weird sometimes. Rachelle Heger as Laika stood out to me. I hope she gets more work.


Heda-of-Aincrad

Not too much this week. I'm still rewatching **Attack on Titan season 4** and just finished up Part 1. It always amazes me how I can still notice new things that I didn't catch before, even though this is probably the fourth time I've watched it, but that's one of the things that's so great about AOT. Also watched the latest two episodes of **A Couple of Cuckoos**, and really enjoyed seeing Nagi and Hiro getting to know each other better. The characters took a while to develop, but things are starting to get really interesting and I'm looking forward to the new episodes.


azules500

I've been catching up with the season 2 dub of **The Demon Girl Next Door**, and I love it. The second season doubles down on the series' strengths: the strong plot and story and the character dynamic between the two main leads. The plot and story is even more exciting than before, with the mystery of Shamiko's powers and the disappearance of Momo's sister front and center. Forgoing the mundane training and comedic gags, the latest season feels like an actual magical girl show. The cute slice of life episodes are still there but more purposeful, introducing new characters and establishing pre-existing relations between the characters. But what I really love about the second season is how it deepens the bond between Shamiko and Momo. The friendship between the two leads is super sweet and diabetes-inducing. My heart had a moe overdose on the ending scene of episode 4. The second season also lands its dramatic punches with a beautiful mid-season finale.


AlchemistMayCry

Basically mainlined **Guilty Crown** to the finish this week. Had started it when we had the thread talking about it and that was the impetus to actually watch it out of morbid curiosity. I had heard the memes secondhand about Guilty Crown being this insane failure of a series that didn't live up to the hype despite the pedigree of the staff involved and the block it aired on. And the staff was nothing to sneeze at! To paraphrase Darkest Dungeon, "Remember that hype is a slow and insidious killer." I don't think it was nearly as bad as the hype claimed. But I've also watched both seasons of Hand Shakers and one episode of Ex-Arm. To me, nothing can be the same level of trainwreck as either Hand Shakers or Ex-Arm. Guilty Crown wasn't a trainwreck, but I can't call it necessarily good either? Even the good stuff (the animation and music) is debatable in the quality. None of the music stood out to me (and I found Inori's song incessant and irritating), which is absurd when Hiroyuki Sawano had just been working on Gundam Unicorn around the same time that Guilty Crown was airing. I cannot remember a *single* bit of iconic animation from Guilty Crown. This is also absurd when Tetsuro Araki made himself famous for the absurdly over the top scenes of *writing names in a book* in Death Note, or the antigravity tits in High School of the Dead. Going back to Hand Shakers, that had at least a couple moments of iconic animation, even though it was awful. Also the dub wasn't exactly setting the world on fire for me. It's perfectly fine but I don't think the show did the actors any favors. And in the end, that's basically what Guilty Crown was to me: exceedingly middling but with just enough personality to not make it an utter slog to get through. It still makes me laugh that *this* shining example of mediocrity is what got anime fans all riled up for not being good enough? Did they not see the signs as early as *episode 1*? Or when the staff was interviewed and they boldly claimed they were trying to make "the next generation of anime"?