Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 46]
Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 1 week ago
Not sure where else to put this, but I appreciate ani.social for new anime/manga discovery. Sometimes I toggle on Local and look around, and I often find an anime or manga title that sounds interesting, I click it, I look it up online, and add it to my ever-growing list of stuff to read or watch.
It is also funny because I see people writing that they didn’t like an anime or manga for X reason, and X reason is exactly what draws me to it. Both positive and negative reviews are pretty useful as long as you say why you (dis)liked it. You tell people what kind of content is there (often tells more than just the promo content for the anime/manga/book/film/game/whatever it is), and they can judge for themselves. I always toss over an upvote to these because they are useful on telling me if I’d like the content or not, even if their “this is amazing please watch it” recommendation is what convinces me I’d be better off using it as a sleep aid.
wjs018@ani.social 1 week ago
Glad you find all my (and others) writing about random series useful! I agree with you that a review (positive or negative) is way more useful when some reasoning is provided. I think it is some kind of universal law that the to-watch/to-read backlog only ever grows.