Been following One Piece, but this Wano Country arc is wearing out it's welcome massively. They keep making it seem like we're going to get a nice intense battle but then it happens off-screen and we go right back to seeing another group of characters aimlessly running around. This has been a bad habit of Oda for a while now after Fishman Island. It's depressing for me to say the anime is getting better in my eyes now thanks to being better paced, making the visuals less cluttered, and actually showing battles that the manga didn't have time for because Oda would prefer to just show us how many cultural references he knows.
There's been a rise in the oddly specific 'villainess reincarnation' genre, so I thought I'd check out one of the first ones, "
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!" and despite being a shoujo, I'm bizarrely into it. Catarina (or 'Bakarina') is one of the funniest protagonists I've seen in a while.
One of the best manga I've read that more people need to see to believe is "
Sh1tei Bouryoku Shoujo Shiomi-chan", (replace the 1 with an "i" cause auto-censor) it's about a 56-year old yakuza mob boss who goes undercover by a plastic surgeon to avoid assassins, but the surgeon gives him the appearance of a junior high school girl. What makes it great though is actually how seriously the plot takes itself, showing intense and graphic mob wars going on, while still showing some of the funniest slapstick comedy I've ever seen. The boss himself is also a really well written character.
