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The winter season has basically drawn to a close. Let’s talk about it! Anything surprise you? Disappoint you? Disgust you? I’m looking for some hot takes.

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Silly awards time!

    • Best dragon award: From Bureaucrat to Villainess. There was actually a decent amount of competition for this one this time, but cute little dual-elemental dragon won.
    • Originality in hairstyling award: Zenshu, of course. With The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer as runner-up, because that elf with the afro (elfro?) was . . . memorable.
    • Bad CGI horse award: Aparida. Unless I’m confusing it with the very similar Fugukan. The horses in that one episode were memorably bad, but the show itself is not very memorable at all. (And I seem to be using the word “memorable” way too much.)
    • Rub-a-dub-dub award: Beheneko. I am in awe of how they managed to shoehorn a bath scene into every single episode, even if it was taking place entirely in a dungeon. Evidence that this is a show that knows it shouldn’t take itself seriously, I guess.
    • General hygiene award: Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time. I dropped this a couple of episodes in, but was impressed that they directly tackled one of my top-ten reasons for not wanting to be isekai’d into a fantasy world: the flush toilet, or the lack thereof.
    • Cognitive dissonance in costuming award: Ubel Blatt. Sorry, guys, but grimdark + scanty women’s combat outfits that protect nothing has been a combination that won’t fly for at least the past thirty years. Go watch Berserk about a dozen times for some pointers on how to do it right.