Sports anime about things that can only vaguely be considered sports.
Hibike! Euphonium, Initial D, March comes in like a lion are more obvious ones but band anime like K-On!, Bocchi the Rock!, and Nana also have a similar appeal.These all have some kind of competition or performance involved, so they are structurally similar to sports anime with character drama and training/practice leading up to a big climax that caps off both the drama and the training.
Maybe this genre isn't so niche as these shows are all very popular, but I don't often see people consider them to be similar in any way.
It's not actually a tier list, I just used a tier maker website to put together this play order and put rough labels on them. BotW and TotK are far apart cause we didn't want to play them back-to-back.
Also, who's the genius that said we don't play Hyrule Warriors, and what is wrong with them?
I humbly admit that I am the genius in question.Doesn't really look very fun or interesting, and it's certainly not mainline. So to be honest, I didn't even consider including it. Maybe I will try it at your recommendation.
Currently playing through all the Zelda games with a friend in this curated order:
So far I recommend it, although I'm only 3 games in.
I just finished Wind Waker and it was far worse than I remembered, and I didn't remember it being very good in the first place. Probably a conversational opinion, but I think Wind Waker is the most lazy and forgettable Zelda game. Curious if anybody liked this one for more than just the music and artstyle.
I can't wait to move on to the DS games which I really like, but I'm waiting for my buddy to play Wind Waker first.
I used to be always on vibrate, but then I found out I can schedule do not disturb via calendar events, so I have started leaving my ringer on with it automatically disabling when I don't want it on.
This is my ringtone: Moment (instrumental) from Marmalade Boy. Watched this anime with my friends and this track is unforgettable. The show is about this girl whose parents divorce and get remarried to another couple who also got divorced, and then she tries to date her step-step-brother who is both her mom's husband's son and her dad's wife's son.This track plays any time something dramatic happens, which is like every 5 minutes.
"Learn" and "bird" are pronounced very differently depending on the accent of English. Wiktionary has "learn" RP pronunciation listed as lɜːn and American as lɝn, although personally I don't believe in ɝ so I would write it as lɹn and bɹd.
Slight rant about American English IPA, but Wiktionary even has American "bird" listed as bɜɹd, which is frankly ridiculous. Say bɜɹd out loud and it sounds absolutely insane. Be'rd. Nobody says bɜɹd, it's gotta be bɹd. English spelling treats R as a consonant, but American English functionally treats it like a vowel. If we spelled with R the same way it's pronounced, it would be brd, lrn, teachr, wrking, etc. Not suggesting a spelling reform, because the current system works so well for uniting different accents of English, but it seriously bugs me when people talk about how American R (ɹ) is a consonant. It's not!
The slightly longer story is that if you watch K-On! while really trying to overinterpret every interaction and assume more stuff is happening off-screen, a few romantic dynamics develop, with Yui x Ritsu being the most obvious.
The full story is 13+ charts and an 8 page writeup that I did as a personal project to justify this overinterpretation. I may post it somewhere if I ever decide to clean it up and make it presentable to the public eye, but there's a lot in there. Ui x Nodoka. The Azusa->Yui->Ui and Jun->Mio->Azusa parallel. Yui-Mugi breakup arc. The Azusa human instrumentality arc.My friends have called me schizophrenic for making these charts and while I don't agree with their non-clinical use of the word "schizophrenic", you should know that when I say "speculative / non-obvious" for K-On! in particular, it's at about that level of extreme interpretation.
Cardcaptor Sakura, Princess Tutu, Toradora!, Maison Ikkoku, Chuunibyou, and Kare Kano are all contenders. If I can expand to speculative / non-obvious romance, then K-On!, Hidamari Sketch, Hibike! Euphonium, and Bocchi the Rock! are also up there.
Overall, the main couple from Cardcaptor Sakura may be my favorite, just extremely cute and well-paced. Miya & Yuno from Hidamari Sketch are also a really great couple.Also, shoutouts to this guy who did an extreme overanalysis of how gay Hidamari Sketch is.
I have some screen recording software on my computer that I occasionally accidentally leave running. One time, without knowing that I was recording myself, I ended up watching a whole movie with my friends, so the whole movie and our conversations were recorded.
A couple years later I found the video file and decided to rewatch the movie via the recording I took, so I was also hearing my conversations from the past.
So many times during the movie rewatch, I would come up with the exact same response in the conversation just before or after my past recorded self would say the same thing.
My dad didn't have a wedding when he got remarried, but he invited me to be there when the papers were signed. Then he did it without telling me 🤷♀️ so "no" I guess. One day he was just like "oh yeah we got married yesterday"...
Also, I don't think anybody honestly believes the argument that it is immoral to have children "without their consent." The idea that you cannot do anything to someone else without their consent is a very useful idea in 95% of situations, and this is clearly one in which it does not apply. I did not consent to being born, but I would have if I could. Imagine a bureaucracy in which to apply for a passport, you needed to have an existing passport. It just doesn't work. I can see the logic, but the idea has failed on a functional level. You can apply this to anything and make fake disingenuous arguments for any cause: "I don't think we should elect a president unless they've already been president before. I think it's a role where you absolutely need to have prior experience." "You need to consent before being born. Since it's impossible to do so, I guess it's just immoral to have children." See: Catch-22.
It is more difficult to have children now than it was 20, 40, 60 years ago. Some people feel the need to further justify their decision by convincing themselves that would be immoral to do anything else.
Now that we know we will be causing not death but merely suffering, we can continue to dismantle people's rights to do what they want with their own bodies. Any questions, liberals? 😈
Taking their clearance items, something they are trying to get rid of anyway, would actually help them out.