It is a theater release atm, not sure how many screens are still playing it however. It looks like it’s got a couple days left in my city before its out of circulation, not sure about your area

It’s not necessary, you could have a complete experience without it for sure. But I will say you feeling like that about season 3 doesn’t surprise me at all, and it was a risk the team took that I personally loved but I can totally understand why people wouldn’t like it.

I’ll put it this way; the movie fills in the gaps that season 3 introduces, and there are story beats in the movie that I think only truly hit with the context of season 3. But if you didn’t like 3 that’s totally fine, tonally it’s a mix of case 1 and case 3 of Sinners of the System, if you liked those two movies (not sure if they technically count as movies lol) you’re probably gonna like the movie.

I could go further in depth but it will spoil things, just let me know and I can go more in depth :)

Cowboy Bebop

Samurai Champloo

Terror in Resonance

Beastars

Land of the Lusterous

Ghost in the Shell

Gundam

Big O

Berserk

Monster

Psycho Pass

Akira

Gunslinger Girls

Serial Experiments Lain

Haibane Renmei

Parasyte

Evangelion

Escaflowne

And many, many, MANY more. These are all things off the top of my head, and most of them are fairly different in genre. It’s kind of a broad request, super deformed art styles are common in assorted anime but it’s not like it’s a defining feature of all anime, so most recommendations you’ll get are gonna be pretty varied.

One thing in common is typically more mature anime are less likely to use it, so that might be the only common denominator between all the stuff I recommended

Currently reading Lolita, after I have book 3 of the Millennium series and book 3 of the expanse.

Also begrudgingly waiting for the next Crescent City and ACOTAR books, we have a mini book club at work and I’ve already invested too much time into these books to give up now lmao

Yeah I got up to act/part 3, but decided to take a break and now it’s been a couple months. I started reading some other stuff so I just haven’t had the time to go back. Really well written, just also really slow to pick up steam lol

Between Two Fires by Chris Buelhman

I had heard good things about the book, and while it is fantastic, its very dense and plodding and very depressing. There are chapters that leave me in awe but then there are 4 chapters of slow depression that bring the story to a grinding halt.

I only have a third of the book left so I might finish it later but man it’s rough to read sometimes

I mean they’re still fantasy books, just with a heavy lean towards romance. If your search criteria is just fantasy there’s no way to know whether you want romance included or not. I get it, I’m tired of YA romance but once you know the authors to look for you can get related books that generally skew towards your preferred type of fantasy

So I looked further online and it looks like season 3 will be referenced but isn’t necessary to enjoy the movie, so I think we’re safe there. But it does look like at least case 3 of Sinners is a necessary viewing, as well as seasons 1, 2, and the first movie, which thankfully I have covered lol.

Much less to cram in a couple days thankfully, I’ll just watch season 3 and First Inspector after unless I find the time somehow

Wayyyy too rushed, I’m very surprised to see this didn’t get the standard 50 ep run that most AU gundam series get. Especially since it seemed to be doing quite well as far as I understood, anyone have any insight?