I went off anime when the isekai and moe craze took off about 10 years ago.
I tried to get into modern anime, but couldn’t (JoJo is based off an 80s manga, that doesn’t count as modern to me).
But I’m on episode 3 and I’m really digging Dungeon Meishi/ Delicious in Dungeon. I’m watching the English dub and It’s like if Monster Hunter and Dimension 20 had a baby. The humour is great, I actually laughed out loud a couple of times. The world is cool too.
I like how it isn’t following the anime tropes. The characters aren’t high schoolers, the women act like real human beings, there’s no Shonen toy commercial BS. It’s just a good fun adventure.
My only criticisms are that it’s a little videogamey, it makes me hungry and that the title Delicious in Dungeon makes no sense, it should be Delicious in THE Dungeon.
Senshi is my favourite.
The premise is cute but i bounced off the animation. Not DiD-specific, i had the same issue with the new batman. The current generation of cg cartoon animation looks so flat and, idk… austere? I’m not sure what the call it. But it doesn’t speak to me or generate visual interest.
The manga is gorgeous, and has a lot of cool establishing shots of the dungeon that the anime just skips over.
There’s no CG in dungeon meishi from what I can remember. The animation quality is worse in the first few episodes than the rest of the show, I remember watching an action sequence in episode six and thinking “oh hey, the animatioj budget turned up”
Yeah, aesthetically it’s more or less perfectly capturing the manga in a way that looks better on paper on than it does as an animation. It’s pretty visually disappointing coming from a studio with a history of doing incredibly vibrant and dynamic original work like Kill la Kill, BNA, and Edgerunners.
Although I wouldn’t say this is a modern problem, because they’re doing a very good job of mimicking a very specific aesthetic style. It’s just that their own original work has historically been a lot better looking including their other most recent series Edgerunners.
Gotcha. That’s understanable, i didn’t realize it was a stylistic choice.
Yeah, my experience with it was “wow, I don’t really like how this looks but I’ve heard enough good things about it that I’ll stick it out anyways” and then I ran out of anime and read the manga and it all made sense, because it’s just straight up shot for shot the manga turned into animation.