#locodol

[anime--food]

Locodol - Episode 11

[regarding-stories]

Round them up, I say!

I've watched more stuff. Let's quickly run over it...

Stardust Telepath

A really socially awkward and shy girl fantasizes about space to find friends among the aliens. Only to meet a really strange girl (and classmate) that claims to be one! In her efforts to get her back to her home planet she befriends two more girls and they all get into launching model rockets.

This is a show that teases with yuri vibes, but it is really a wholesome story about friendship and... gun powder model rockets?? I wonder if there will be a season 2. This stuff is heartwarming. Bonavuu!

Locodol

What does a small town that isn't particularly outstanding in anything do to promote itself? Besides inventing a mascot, it apparently creates a local idol group - Locodols!

In the end, two girls are chosen, and two more girls (of small build) are hired on to wear the mascot costume. Again, a story about friendship with yuri-teasing vibes between the two Locodols themselves.

It also opens a bit of a window into how the parts of Japan outside Tokyo try to generate interest in themselves, especially to attract tourism, including inventing new local specialties or events. And the cute mascots battling it out on national TV were hilarious!

Bocchi the Rock!

Wow, I'm really backlogged. This one actually deserves its own article, but right now I don't have the time to do that...

A socially awkward girl obsessed with rock music and actually a secret shut-in guitar hero dreams about making friends. Her lucky star gets her roped into a band with (eventually) three other girls where.. she initially sucks. (Playing with others is a separate skill, believe me.)

We not only follow her journey towards self-actualization through rock music, we also get to watch her inner world. In a hilarious twist, all her friends can too! It's what makes it one of the funniest series out there.

Bocchi the Rock! is funny and fun to watch, and contains some genuine stuff about making music and being in a band. Apparently it was an instant hit and people can't wait for season 2. Me neither! You go, Whatever-san!!

Burn the Witch / Burn the Witch 0.8

A quick warning before you watch this. The first season of this is only 3 episodes long. This series from the creator of the extremely popular series Bleach has simply not amassed enough content for more, that's why it initially was released as movie. (And then it was split into episodes.)

Given how much worldbuilding and character intro is done in this short season, one would expect a lot to follow. A season two will eventually drop. Until then we are left with a lot of concepts that have been name dropped but answers will have to wait.

Burn the Witch tells the story of two young witches that work as Pipers, their job is to be first responders on dragon sightings (and lots of menial work) to secure the scene until the heavy guns (the Sabres) arrive. There are also a dude who attracts dragons (a Dragonclad) and his adorable feisty doggy. And some deranged girl named Macy that is apparently here to stay, her actual role still unclear.

Currently airing is Burn the Witch 0.8, a prequel season that explains how the witches ended up with Balgo, how Balgo ended up being a Dragonclad, and what everyone's darling doggy really is underneath. (This changes things?)

Gorgeous art, funny dialogue and scenes, great action, and some really ingenious (and horrible) dragon designs. Especially magnificient: All the fantasy elements we see in the countryside outside of Reverse London.

INVADERS of the ROKUJYOMA!?

An older one - guy moves into suspiciously cheap apartment for high school, only to find it to be the battleground between a ghost, a witch from an underground civilization, a space princess, and a magical girl, all of which need the apartment for various reasons.

They of course all end up liking him or become his friends, and their rivalry gradually turns into friendship as they master individual adventures. Slight harem vibes, but mostly just good fun. How the ghost girl acts like his live-in girlfriend and actually sleeps sideways piercing through him is... unique. Good enough to deserve a season 2, but released in a time where that was rare.

(Apparently no GIFS for this one.)

Love Flops

I finished this one before HiDive actually closed shop in my country.

I'm going to spoiler on this one.

Starts out as a weird harem show where inexplicably five girls fall in love with same dude and confess to him in no time. In an even weirder move, they all end up living with him. Makes no sense, right?

Turns out, they are all AIs and he's in a virtual reality. Each one of them is the best effort of a team from a different nation to present an AI that can feel emotion. Hence their original weirdness before they start to grow into more real personalities.

The story takes a more emotional turn when we learn that the base of all "personality AIs" is the protagonist's childhood love, Ai. Her father scanned her personality and brain into a computer before she died of a brain tumor.

The story resolves in a dramatic turn where the main character gets to say goodbye to his first love and they get to share the feelings with each other that they could never express while she was alive as they were too afraid and immature to handle the situation.

In a weird hurricane of a self-contained season this original anime series (not adapted from a manga) moves from explicit harem comedy with lots of fan service to action show to actually really sad and emotional drama. The ending is somewhat predictable, and that after all they put us through before.

It's watchable, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and a whole lot stupid, too. It touches on spy action, magical girl, and even a gender-ambiguous arc. Parts of it are indeed touching. Could have done with being less things at once.

I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness

... and that's not even the full title. And it's not shorter in Japanese, either. (The poor naming of most Japanese light novels is its own genre of comedy.)

The basic premise is that a Cinderella-like beauty gets framed for a crime, and somehow ends up in a powerful magician's care during her escape. He totally not has the hots for her, and wants to teach this innocent beauty how to be "naughty." The sublimation is powerful in this one! (Even if the search for a title wasn't.)

(No GIFs on this one, but thankfully also none for "disgraced," either. GIFs have become kind of naughty, lately.)

Crash Course presents a rich fantasy world and an evolving love story with a growing cast of characters. Breaks genre for a whole episode in the middle..? I liked it well enough. And it's about as naughty as Dark Helmet from Spaceballs is scary.

Classroom for Heroes

The great legendary hero that saved the realm gets reborn as a high school student, attending an academy where none of the students (and aspiring heroes) know his identity. He's totally overpowered, though, and quickly befriends not only the local prodigies (which he beats), but also a dragon (which he adopts), the robot guardian of an underground library (which becomes his maid), etc...

A lot happens in a season and I lost track. It's generally fun to watch and has characters you end up liking. Nothing too surprising, all in all.

And that's it for now.

[toonabby]

Happy (late) 35th birthday, Aina Kusuda

Characters pictured above from left to right: (BOLD Text means Star-Making Role)

Eri Minaguchi from Girl Friend Beta

Cheriel Ayanokoji (Karen Strassman) from The Guided Fate Paradox

Suuko from Million Doll

Nozomi Tojo (Laura Post) from Love Live!

Kana Mikoze from Locodol

Delilah (Carli Mosier) from GATE

Sadako Gozen from PriPara

Rose from Rilu Rilu Fairilu

[tetrapod-speedweed]

happy birthday to this cute locodol!

[raleydrew]

Wanna know the fandoms I'm in or at least interested in? Get to know me a bit more by the characters I ship and obsess over down below:

Juleka x Rose - Miraculous Ladybug

Madoka x Homura - Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Sakaki x Kaorin - Azumanga Daioh!

Luz x Amity - The Owl House

Aya x Yoko - Kiniro Mosaic

Yuri x Natsuki - Doki Doki Literature Club

Stelle x March 7th - Honkai: Star Rail

Lumine x Sucrose - Genshin Impact

Belle x Ellen Joe - Zenless Zone Zero

Jane x Seth - Zenless Zone Zero

Zhu Yuan x Qingyi - Zenless Zone Zero

Female Rover x Yangyang - Wuthering Waves

Hatsune Miku x Megurine Luka - Vocaloid

Nanako x Yukari - Locodol

Kara x Lena Luthor - Supergirl (TV show)

Ji-yeong (Player 240) x Sae-byeok (Player 067) - Squid Game

Joker x Futaba Sakura - Persona 5

Naoto x Kanji - Persona 4

Chie x Yukiko - Persona 4

Minato (MC) x Yukari Takeba - Persona 3

Yui Yamada x Tomoka Kase - Kase-san

Makoto Naegi x Kyoko Kirigiri - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Hajime Hinata x Chiaki Nanami - Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

Tenko Chabashira x Himiko Yumeno - Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Komaru Naegi x Toko Fukawa - Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls

Izuku x Ochaco - My Hero Academia

Fluttershy x Rainbow Dash - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Naofumi x Raphtalia - The Rising of the Shield Hero

Chiya x Kon Tatsumi - Urara Meirochou

Aoba x Hifumi - New Game!

Ritsu Tainaka x Mio Akiyama - K-On!

Saaya Yamabuki x Kasumi Toyama - BanG Dream!

Yumi Fukuzawa x Sachiko Ogasawara - Maria Watches Over Us / Maria-sama ga Miteru

Ami Kurata x Aoi Niigaki - Long Riders!

Nurse Morikubo x Miyake Mia - Wanna Skip School in the Infirmary?

[vynnsblog]

pls leave me idol anime show recs (and where i can watch them)

So far i’ve watched:

- Million Doll (why were the episodes so short 😭)

-Music Girls

- I’m Still currently watching Locodol !

- A3!

- Love Live (only seen School Idol Project tho !)

- Heroines run the show (if that counts ?)

- Zombie land saga (obvs)

- Just Started Wake Up, Girls !

- CUE!

- 22/7

- If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It To The Budokan. (just finished so good + unsure if that counts too)

(my fav anime site was taken down so i need MORE. 😭)

+ should i start the Idolm@ster series ?

lemme know!

[newsintheshell]

ANIME EXPO 2023: TUTTE LE NOVITÀ DALLA KERMESSE LOSANGELINA (PARTE 2)

Seconda tranche di annunci, Crunchyroll Edition: in testa c'è il ritorno di Black Butler!

Come vi avevo promesso, ecco la seconda parte del resoconto dedicato all’ANIME EXPO 2023, tenutosi come a Los Angeles, fra il 1 e il 4 luglio.

La prima parte di annunci e trailer, molto più sostanziosa, la trovate nel post precedente a questo (QUA).

Questa che vi porto oggi è incentrata interamente sul main panel di Crunchyroll, durante il quale, in mezzo ai soliti aggiornamenti sui prossimi anime in arrivo in streaming, c'è stato spazio anche per un paio di trailer nuovi di zecca e un bell'annuncio a sorpresa!

BLACK BUTLER

Ebbene sì, Ciel e Sebastian stanno per tornare e, no, non si tratta di un reboot della celebre serie basata sul popolare manga firmato Yana Toboso, ma di un sequel.

La quarta stagione dell'anime debutterà in simulcast sulla piattaforma, in un periodo ancora non precisato del 2024, a ben sette anni dall'uscita del film di Book of the Atlantic.

L'adattamento non è più prodotto in seno ad A-1 PICTURES (Mashle: Magic and Muscles,Kaguya-sama: Love is War), ma è in lavorazione presso CLOVERWORKS (My Dress-Up Darling, Bocchi the Rock). La direzione è passata in mano a Kenjiro Okada (March comes in like a lion, RWBY: Ice Queendom), mentre alla sceneggiatura rimane Hiroyuki Yoshino, scrittore da sempre legato alla serie.

Al character design, invece, troviamo Yumi Shimizu (Locodol), che raccoglie il testimone da Minako Shiba, tristemente scomparsa nel 2021.

SOLO LEVELING

Mostrato anche un nuovo trailer per l'attesissima serie basata sul popolarissimo webcomic coreano, edito qua in Italia da Star Comics.

Diretto da Shunsuke Nakashige (Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory), presso lo studio A-1 PICTURES (86 - Eighty Six, NieR:Automata Ver1.1a), l'anime arriverà in simulcast a partire da gennaio 2024.

A RETURNER’S MAGIC SHOULD BE SPECIAL

C'è stato poi anche tempo per un primo sguardo alla serie ispirata all’action fantasy scolastico coreano, firmato So-nan Yu e Uk-jakga. 

Il trailer annuncia che l'adattamento è targato ARVO ANIMATION (Monster Girl Doctor, Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut) e segna il debutto alla regia di Taishi Kawaguchi; gli episodi dell'anime arriveranno su Crunchyroll da ottobre.

Oltre ai due annunciati nei giorni precedenti, sono stati svelati in anteprima altri titoli che vedremo prossimamente in simulcast:

THE APOTHECARY DIARIES - 2023

THE FARAWAY PALADIN (Stagione 2) - Ottobre 2023

THE KINGDOMS OF RUIN - Ottobre 2023

BOTTOM-TIER CHARACTER TOMOZAKI (Stagione 2) - Gennaio 2024

I WAS REINCARNATED AS THE 7TH PRINCE SO I CAN TAKE MY TIME PERFECTING MY MAGICAL ABILITY - Aprile 2024

TO BE HERO X - TBA

⫸ NON VUOI PERDERTI NEANCHE UN POST? ENTRA NEL CANALE TELEGRAM!⫷

Autore: SilenziO))) Se usate Twitter, mi trovate lì! 

blogger // anime enthusiast // twitch addict // unorthodox blackster - synthwave lover // penniless gamer // INFJ-T magus

[FONTE]

[margieargie]

every once in a while i’ll see something in my old posts that, with information i’ve gotten since, i understand in a completely different light.  tonight that’s “looking back through my locodol tag and a person i reblogged something from when the show came out way too many years ago became a mutual some years after that”

[pixthefuckup]

more people should watch locodol. it has cute characters, some nice gl moments, and it involves a giant fish that can do backflips! and that's it. that's my whole post for today. peace out.

[dandere-dumbass]

Me picking out anime to watch: What group of cute girls with an obscure or weirdly niche hobby will make me so emotionally invested I’m brought to tears?

[anime--food]

Locodol - Episode 1

[shiroi-honoo]

Ringo Musume (りんご娘) - Ringo disco (Dance Shot)

[healing0924]

[2daidorumusic]

[jpbs12]

Journée de rencontres pour tous les médiateurs formés en Bourgogne/Franche-Comté, le 9/09/2023, par AMORIFE International à Dôle (39)

AMORIFE International organise samedi 9 septembre, de 9h à 18h dans les locaux de LOCODOLE (sur le parvis de la gare SNCF), une journée de rencontres pour tous les médiateurs formés en Bourgogne/Franche-Comté : médiation familiale, médiation généraliste, sensibilisation à la médiation familiale.Cette journée s’adresse également à toutes les personnes qui travaillent à la médiation ou résident en…