Was a mood for some chill summer iyashikei, something like:
Grand Blue | Anime-Planet
Found two things, one was
Amanchu! | Anime-Planet which seems alright so far.
And the other was
Tsuritama | Anime-Planet that I'm now going to rant about until I lose steam.
There's this whole sub-genre of anime that's about obscure hobbies and manages to make said hobbies look as the dullest, most unfun, crap. I?m reminded of
Rail Wars! | Anime-Planet the interesting thing about that was nothing. It's about trains, and trains can be very interesting, but in these types of anime the hobby is always portrayed as even less interesting than it's perceived.
The art is really good...on things specific to the hobby. In the case of Rail Wars, the trains look neat. In the case of Tsuritama, fishing poles look neat. Everything else is traced, filtered, or CGI.
Story, the story is always about how super serious the hobby is and how super serious you must take the hobby and only then may you experience some fun. Maybe.
Characters, who cares? It's all about the trains and fishing rods. The characters are there just because someone has to stand around while the author drones on about his hobby and how serious it is.
I love learning about different hobbies and people involved with them. I assume I'll see passionate people have with their hobby. Yet it always turns out as this weird, sweaty, miserable thing for dull gits.
It makes me unreasonably furious.