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So I finished watching Akudama Drive, and discovered I was entirely wrong about it.
Partway in, I had written it off as nothing special, and in an awkward middle ground in which it was too over-the-top to be taken seriously but too sincere to work as satire.
But then it turned into something different - by about 2/3 of the way through the series, it all started coming together into something surprisingly serious and dramatic and moving, and very good, and I ended up liking it a lot.
Then I watched the second season of Arcane, which I think only sort of counts as an anime (amusingly enough, as with the first season, aggregators tag it as a dubbed anime, which is sort of oddly accurate in spite of the fact that it’s not at all accurate). It was okay all in all. Kudos for tying everything together into a complete story, but it did feel a bit forced and contrived.
And I’m currently watching Katanagatari, which is pure awesome. I’ve been sort of idly threatening to watch it for years now, and just finally got around to it, and it’s everything I could’ve hoped.
I really liked Akudama Drive. I think it’s underrated.
Agreed. So much was happening at once and they all had to wrap it up in 9 eps