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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 03] (ani.social)

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[–] glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Everything's finally out now and it seems like this season managed to right itself after a very lackluster first week. There weren't any that blew me away, but there are a handful I'm looking forward to seeing more from:

I Fell In Love with an Okinawan Girl - cute romantic drama put together with comedic edutainment about Okinawan language and culture (I can't tell how accurate this part is)
Sakamoto Days - goofy action comedy vibe reminiscent of both Spy x Family and Way of the Househusband, which puts it in very good company
Welcome to Japan, Ms Elf - very cute reverse isekai with good chemistry between the leads
Zenshu - amazing animation, but I'm still a little dubious about MAPPA making an anime about making anime without acknowledging the hellscape they create for their workers and also centering a creative lead as the one important character.

I also want to give special mention to the last garbage review I have, which is quite possibly the most disgusting anime I've seen in a hot minute:

Babanba Banban Vampire (cw: child sexual abuse)

The plot is that a 450yo vampire has a taste for the blood of 18yo male virgins. He happens across a kindhearted 5yo boy and decides to dedicate the next 13 years to making sure he grows into the most delicious meal possible by integrating himself into the child's family and preventing him from going down the wrong path in life. Now that the boy is 15 and in high school, the vampire needs to defend his virginity at all costs. That all sounds like an ok premise for a comedy, but the thing is, blood drinking is very directly sexual and it's not subtle. We get multiple shots of the vampire's boner in his pants while he thinks about the kid's blood, and he gets a flashback of him killing Nobunaga, who he loved, saying that he climaxed while drinking his blood. On top of this, our lead uses actual, real-life child grooming tactics on this kid. There's a chilling scene where he invites the kid into his room with the door closed while he is fully nude and stays nude the entire conversation. To me this read as a tactic predators use where they introduce sexuality slowly to their relationship with a child in order to lessen the impact when they do actually cross a line, which makes the child less likely to tell anyone about it. The anime treats this all as a joke. Get it, because it seems like he's grooming a child for sex when he's actually grooming him for blood drinking, which is treated as inherently sexual! All of this put together with the fact that the vampire lead is very obviously designed to look like a gay stereotype makes the whole show feel like a deeply homophobic joke. It's really frustrating that this is the gayest show this season, because it's revolting. 0/5