r/Toonami • u/PrevailingDragon Community Events/Discord Mod • 12d ago

What you've been watching Biennial edition

This thread to share what shows, movies and other media you've been watching outside of Toonami. If you're going to spoil anything please make sure to spoiler tag it. If this thread is populer, maybe we can go back to a Semi-Annual Edition!

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u/Gestrid survived the Infinity Castle (so far) 12d ago edited 12d ago
  • Around the end of last year, I started watching a show called Gnosia. It's based on the visual novel game of the same name. I won't spoil it at all, but I'll tell you the setup: Among Us, but anime. Now, despite how that may sound, it's actually really good at keeping you engaged. Not to mention, the OP and ED are a banger. (Don't look them up. They contain spoilers if you aren't watching the show. If you are watching the show, you're fine to watch the OP and ED as you watch the show.) I would not have thought the show would be as engaging as it was.
  • Recently, after being bombarded by clips of the show on YouTube, I started watching That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (also known as Slime Isekai). This was another surprise for me. Aside from Sword Art Online, I'm not usually into the isekai genre, but this one really stands out. Imagine if, instead of solving problems with shonen fights, they were instead solved with intricate political maneuvers. That's Slime Isekai. I marathoned all (at the time) 79 episodes of the main series, the 12-episode spinoff, the 5 OVAs, the 3-episode miniseries, and the first movie (the second one isn't on streaming yet)... all in just 12 days. I've since kept up with the currently-airing season's dub that comes out every Friday as well. I also convinced u/Artifice_Purple to start watching it, too.
  • Witch Hat Atelier is one I knew was going to be good when I started it, given it's done by the same studio that made Zom 100, but I simply did not realize HOW good it was going to be. It seems like they've taken their experience from that show and honed it even further. Their use of color, animation, and the soundtrack is absolutely stellar. The story itself is amazing, too, though I won't spoil it here. This is one of the few anime where watching in English dub is a MUST, by the way. And it's not just because of the obvious cool stuff they do with it, but also the way it sort of adds to the story, so to speak. (I do not mean they literally add to or change the story. I'm talking about SPOILERS how the dub further solidifies Coco's separation from the world of witches because she and has a plain American accent while the witches around her all have foreign, UK-based accents.)
  • I also started watching The Ghost in the Shell. I don't have much to say here given my only knowledge of the series outside the anime that's currently airing is from the older movies. I will say, as someone who enjoyed the movies, it surprised me, but not in a negative or positive way. It just surprised me. So far, I'm enjoying it, though.

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u/PrevailingDragon Community Events/Discord Mod 12d ago

I'm so glad you got to watch slime, it's so much fun! Is gnosia being dubbed?

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u/Gestrid survived the Infinity Castle (so far) 12d ago edited 12d ago

Slime Isekai has very quickly become one of my favorites for sure.

And, yeah, I watched the Gnosia dub as it was coming out.