Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

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pokoko said:

After watching Violet Evergarden, I take back what I said about this being a weak season.  

Super_Boom said:

Speaking of Amazon, I started watching Made in Abyss on the Prime Video app on PS4. Works pretty nicely, though with three different caption options you think one wouldn't have that stupid black box around the text. Oh well, still better than the Funimation app.

Also Made in Abyss is fantastic so far. Seems like a unique premise with some likable characters and a neat setting. It's a nice anime where I can tell nothing bad will happen. *slightly smiling face*

Love the animation as well, could have told me it was Ghibli and I might even believe you.

It's really not that bad.  I think it just caught people by surprise, after the first episode being so adorable, that the Abyss really is dangerous.  After that, it turned into a meme, basically.  People have been conditioned to think cute characters will emerge from difficult circumstances with no more than a scare, so it's easy to surprise them.

And the art is amazing.  Even the music is amazing.

I'm pretty sure even if the anime was categorized as horror from the start, the worst scenes would still be very bad, even in comparison with other graphic animes. It's the buildup and execution that makes it so effective, not the surprise.