• glilimith
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    1 month ago

    I’m a bit of an angler (though mostly freshwater drifting/trolling), and they did a pretty good job showing off the hobby - i especially loved the animation on those spinning reels. The fish on the other hand, um… they’re scary. The cgi always looked unnatural next to the hand-drawn characters and the way they moved felt janky. I do not like them.

    As for the story, it’s fine? It seems like one of those hobby shows where someone’s problems will get solved by them discovering a love for whatever thing the show is about, which always feels kind of hollow to me and just an excuse for a writer to recruit people into their hobby. This one’s an anime original, so I’ll give it a bit more time to prove itself, but the premiere is a 3/5 from me.

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      1 month ago

      How does it hold up to Slow Loop? I’m admittedly have a hard time picking a second seasonal to pick this time. It’s tentatively Blue Box, but if I have other plans, I have little to no alternatives at the moment.

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        1 month ago

        I barely remember Slow Loop at all (cgdct is very much not my genre) but I’d guess they don’t have a ton in common beyond being about fishing.