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I've been reading Full Metal Panic: Sigma, while watching The Second Raid alongside it. It's interesting, considering it has some differences from the anime. Some for good, others for worse. I prefer the Anime, but the Manga is good too.
The other two manga I've been following, The Lies of Sheriff Evans: Dead or Love and Shibuya Near Family are both still fun.
Anime:
I've recently watched Gundam 00 - I wrote more about that here.
Tokimeki Tonight is still a fun show when it comes to the wacky comedy and artsy backgrounds.
Ranma 1/2 (1989) - Rumiko Takahashi's writing is consistently entertaining, and over a dozen episodes in, it keeps delivering. Will the show be able to keep up? I hope so!
Another entertaining show is You're Under Arrest!. Is it copaganda? Yes. Has a certain aspect of the show aged poorly? Also yes. What the show excels in, are the villains of the week. Strike Man will be living in my head rent free for a bit, I suppose.
Dragon Ball Z is peak, over 60 episodes in.
**Western Animation & Live Action **
I'm still watching Gravity Falls, and it's good, if formulaic. Apparently people dislike Mabel and like Dipper? Because so far it's the exact opposite for me lol.
Also, I started Andor. I like it so far, but it's clearly still cooking at this stage.
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as a fan of toku, i really enjoy this one. jokes are very self concious and they tend to hit very good. i really wanted to like it more but sadly the story itself is very uninteresting so i'm watching it one ep per month or something (just one ep pending)
this one has been on my pending list but the synopsis made me put it away for long. reading your review it is closely to what i expected so i'm not sure if i can stomach it, but curiosity is still strong. i also tried watching nyaruko-san, because of the toku references, but i ended up droping it because it was quite boring
I will say it's mostly the dialogue that's the glaring issue. It's not like seasonal softcore ecchi slop nor is it quite as skincrawlingly bad in the way that even "mainstream" series often are, it's just kind of bizarre and uncomfortable and the characters will randomly say just abhorrent things off the cuff. I personally kind of found it too much of a fever dream to ever actually be offended by any of it, but I'm not joking when I say that I'd think the translation was like a 4chan fansub or something if not for the lack of slurs and the presence of an official dub that shared the same awful bullshit, and the fact that I can pick out enough words here and there to validate at least parts of the subtitles.