It is a '17 - '18 joint depending on what you watched it on and I think it is really good.

I was sick so I banged it over the past few days and It seems way better than it has a right to be. Like a cheeper nausica. Geat painterly art. Posive depictions of feminine men before it was cool. dramatic acton. Cool japanese hipster muisic that is diagetic to the story. Lovecraftian horror Cool crunchy nature vibe world building. Anti-imperialist themes.

This one just didn't seem to get it's moment. Unless I missed it. There doesn't even seem to be much fanfic. Did people bounce off? Did the release window fuck up it's momentum? I am gonna go back and check out the manga so I am only up to the part where the show covers so I dunno the rest of it. I think there is a season two that got stuck in development hell but I am not sure there.

  • ConstipationNation [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I never watched the anime but I've read the manga (up to volume 8) and I agree it's pretty good and I need to get back into it. The art is beautiful and it has an interesting story and premise.

    I also agree that it's an underrated series that hasn't really gotten the attention it deserves. I've looked at anime review sites like myanimelist for it and some people were pretty critical of it and say the author didn't handle the story very well so I guess that's why it never took off. I'm not very good at media critique so I don't really understand what they thought was wrong with it, I like it a lot and I think it's worth reading.

    Maybe Children of the Whales was just a little too unique/niche to gain mass popularity.

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I found some scans of the manga but I never liked manga much honestly. This is true, there are very few wifus to by minis of in this one.

  • meme_monster [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I liked it but remember ::reddit-logo: r/anime called it super generic, oddly enough. My library is still getting new volumes of the manga in so I should probably look at what the last chapter that got animated was and start from there.

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      ...is it? Maybe I don't watch enough anime to know. I got it's got the early '00s sigel effect for powers but it seems to be done in an overall interesting way. Part of my enjoyment was how few classic anime tropes I remember being in it. Which might be related to why people didn't like it maybe

      • meme_monster [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Beats me but you can google it and see that reddit didn't like it (or assumed other redditors didn't like it). I think it suffered from the netflix release schedule, weebs mad because not only was it not simulstreamed like most anime these days but also released three months after the season ended. So already viewers got a chip on their shoulder against it for being made to wait to see it (and the show had zero opportunity to build up expectations week to week and spoilers would already be out there from anyone that torrented/fansubbed).