One Punch Man

This anime is so refreshing and just downright smart. It's so simple and just makes sense. With shounen anime and manga being in a weird place with... stuff... like Boruto existing I guess One Punch Man feels so right and relevant to both the current standing of shounen and just relatability in general. One Punch Man is able to carve a new narrative into shounen while still being smart and keeping shounen at the forefront. It has the action and everything that makes a shounen a great shounen while it also heavily comments on shounen satirically. It's just fun and relatable to a point where I just want to go and do one hundred of everything every day like Saitama and be at his level of not giving a crap. One Punch Man feels so genuine and the character interactions are what make this show great, most importantly Saitama and his development.

Silver Spoon Response

Through reading Silver Spoon, my initial response was relating to the direct similarities between Japanese coming of age and US coming of age. This experience is so relatable between the two cultures and share so many similar values. One such value is camaraderie and its growth. Another aspect of Silver Spoon was the theme of wide social class interaction and relationship and putting aside judgement in relation to this. One great example of how this is portrayed in this manga is the relationship between horses and new people and the emotions and reactions that are involved. The excerpt image below is a great summary that describes societal tension and the relations between people and the unknown. The relatability of Silver Spoon is great because of the diverse cast between an outsider looking for a path and to fit in, and the group of people that think they know what they want to be and do in life. In all, the elements of relatability center on coming of age, camaraderie, and facing the insecurities and fears that come along with these. In terms of adapting Silver Spoon into an anime, I would slow the progression of the narrative and spread out new character interactions more so that the viewer can get a better feel of the characters to create a better bond between the main characters. In terms of episodes, I would probably have the show be broken down into episodes based on core events that happen in the school days i.e. assignments / tasks.

Shield Hero

Let me start out by saying Shield Hero is damn amazing. This show made me feel an anger at characters I havn't felt since Re:Zero. But instead of hating one character with all of my might, HOLY SHIT let me tell you every damn character in this show made my blood boil at every turn. Hell, most situations I knew some blood boiling stuff was going to go down, but my god this show was able to push that to the next level. Malty and the Lance hero can seriously screw off as well as the king. I honestly have not much more to say than dang this show knows how to make me feel. The start of the show was really refreshing seeing it go back to a classical isekai. This show is amazing and it has no business being this good nor does it have business being this frustrating.