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- Comment on Akihabara: Death and Rebirth [Pause and Select with Patrick W. Galbraith] 13 minutes ago:
I was watching this late last night so I missed the first part and I didn’t realize that it was Patrick Galbraith on screen! I’ve been reading some of his works lately like Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan and his articles like Lolicon. I think everyone here on !anime should read his works.
Anyway, I’m too young to know what much of anime culture was like two decades ago, and my only trip to Akihabara was a few years ago so I never really saw what the “old Akihabara” was like. Though my experience was pretty much exactly described as the “current Akihabara” in the video so it’s pretty cool to learn more about it.
I should probably go back with a friend because I mostly just went around for a few hours looking at figures, searching for a particular monochrome Hitagi figure. Though it is true, there was a lot of ehh… sex industry stuff lol. Kind of funny how Galbraith mentions it in the video with such an ominous tone lol.
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- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 5 days ago:
I was not expecting to wake up to this :(
On one hand, it makes me want to recommend Lemmy.World even more. On the other hand, if Lemmy.World ends up like this too…
It’s a really tricky situation.
- Comment on attempt #5 at piefed federation 2 weeks ago:
IT WORKS. LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- Comment on The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May 2 weeks ago:
I got the worst the ending. I should really replay it with a guide some day.
- Comment on Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer it have simulate the performance on a similar PC 4 weeks ago:
Good ol 750 Ti.
- Comment on Lemmy needs more donations - Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I’ve been eyeing Piefed for a while now because of all the features they’re adding and experimenting with. Thinking of putting up a Piefed instance on nyaa.social but I don’t really want communities to overlap with ani.social. If an instance migration is possible, then that would be better.
- Comment on It's quite simple really 5 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 1 month ago:
I think Peertube is more of a Vimeo alternative. YouTube is built around advertising.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
For the free ones, it’s still Cloudflare unfortunately. The other option looks like it’s only for npm, GitHub, Wordpress.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
That’s a goal of mine (moving away from Cloudflare) but Cloudflare’s free CDN is kind of necessary to keep server costs low at the moment.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
If it’s a personal community, probably not. But you can still share over at !anime@ani.social or any of the communities that exist here. You can take a look at ani.social/communities to see what kind of communities are generally acceptable!
- Comment on Pope new anime waifu 1 month ago:
I actually saw this the other day, then a few hours later I learned that the pope had died. I thought the meme was referencing the pope’s death so I thought “Wow, I can’t believe I learned about his death because of a meme!” Now, it’s kind of awkward.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 17] 1 month ago:
I watched Kick-Heart the other day. Masaaka Yuasa is incredible (and his work is incredibly horny). It’s a lot of fun.
- Comment on Weird bot posts in !Parentalité@jlai.lu got federated 1 month ago:
Sorry I just came across this right now. It seems like the mods of the community took care of it already. It was probably just a misconfigured bot.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
I’ve been thinking about this too. I might limit it to “East Asian” works because that covers China and Korea. But that still doesn’t cover everything. Western media with “anime influence” is also really tricky too. I was watching Genius Party (collection of Japanese animation shorts) and some of the short films there don’t look anything like “anime” because they’re not very “moe”. But a lot of Western works are “moe”. There’s some disagreement between the two terms.
I could just put “anime” in scare quotes too. That might solve it for now lol
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 month ago:
Dota Underlords
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
Thanks! Interesting book. My sister read “Why Nations Fail” from the same author so maybe I should read this one. But yeah, I’ll update the policy to include the clause and just try to word it nicely.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
Thanks! As for the discretion clause, it only applies to admins removing/banning things. Mods are free to manage their communities as they see fit. As much as possible, I’d like to make instance rules detailed so nobody can claim abuse when a catch-all rule is used. Although I know I can make up rules on the spot, I’d like them to be well-documented at least. But you’re right, it’s hard to predict the future. For now, I think I’ll include it to see how things will develop first.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
It is. A lot of anime are like that (Monogatari, High School DxD, etc). I didn’t specify the term “ecchi” because IIRC it also just means “hentai”. Only in English does it mean “no sex”.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
It happens sometimes lol. The weirdest community was dedicated to a celebrity and the first post was a video of him shirtless o_o.
It’s one of the reasons why I don’t agree when people say “just pick any instance, it doesn’t matter”. It does matter!
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s more or less why I’m having trouble with the terms. Because it means different things in different regions. In this case, I think I’ll emphasize moe more.
I’m also concerned with using the term “Japanese media” specifically because a lot of things produced today aren’t Japanese origin. Like Genshin and Wuwa which are Chinese, and Blue Archive which is Korean. MiSide is made by Russian developers.
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- Comment on One Piece Director Megumi Ishitani Calls For Legal Action Against OpenAI: 'Can't Stand Ghibli Being Treated So Cheaply' 1 month ago:
Interesting mix of responses here. I think it’s not a matter of copying art style though. I think it’s more to do with the death of creative labor. Especially with how labor intensive Studio Ghibli films are.
But I learned some time ago that we’re in “the age of curatorship” so maybe we’ll just continue filtering out AI stuff the same way we try to filter out “brainrot” or “slop content”. Unless of course, you actually like any of that (and I do like to watch these from time to time myself).
With the current situation, it’s also interesting that Studio Ghibli hasn’t said anything yet. Or at least I’m not aware of any legitimate statements yet. Maybe Sudio Ghibli isn’t bothered by it at all.
Anyway, I think it’s good people actively resist AI. It’s here to stay unless laws limit or prohibit it.
- Comment on Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube 1 month ago:
You’re nitpicking and biased. I win. Bye bye.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 15] 1 month ago:
I watched two movies the past few weeks:
- Genius Party
This is a collection of animated short films from different directors. The two notable ones here for me were Masaaki Yuasa and Shinichirou Watanabe. Happy Machine (Masaaki) was my favorite! The little baby character (and the overall vibe of it) reminded me of Pendleton Ward’s Adventure Time.
There were other really quirky ones in the collection too. Deathtic 4 was different from the rest. It was 3DCG and I don’t know the language (it sounds European). Interestingly, there’s a scene there where the zombies said they were fighting “injustices” and it shows them trying to pick a fight with two girls wearing a US flag and USSR flag suits (it was funny). Genius Party (same title as the collection) was chaotic and fun while Limit Cycle was really (intentionally) boring (it’s about a salaryman).
The more “normal” ones were Shanghai Dragon, Doorbell, and Baby Blue (Shinichirou). Shanghai Dragon was partly in Chinese because it’s set in China. I think anyone familiar with Japan-China relations will raise eyebrows here because it portays a poor China and a technologically advanced Japan, but at the end it was the Chinese boy who saved everyone through his imagination as opposed to the technology of Japan. Doorbell reminded me of Satoshi Kon, and Baby Blue was maybe my favorite for the “normal” shorts.
- Ghost in the Shell (1995 movie)
I had this in my watchlist for a looong time (because it’s a certified classic) and I’m happy that I did not watch it earlier. I don’t think I would have appreciated this at a young age. I think this is the second Oshii Mamoru movie I watched. The first was Angel’s Egg which was pretty much the ending of GITS. There’s already a wealth of information and reviews on GITS especially by Western writers so I don’t really have to say much here.
But I noticed how spirituality or religion always ties with technology in anime. People who’ve seen Serial Experiments Lain probably know what I mean. It’s very similar to GITS. Evangelion is another example. Also, it might sound a bit odd but it reminds me a bit of the “programming” in Angel Beats too which I complete last month.
(Also Major Kusanagi is very beautiful. Holy shit.)
This week I might watch Genius Party 2 and maybe look for an older series to finish (maybe more Masaaki Yuasa stuff).
- Comment on Having trouble with my caddy congif for my lemmy instance 2 months ago:
Have you tried looking at the Caddyfile from Lemmy-Easy-Deploy?
- Comment on Anime wisdom 2 months ago:
I’m not sure about the others, but the last guy (from Oregairu iirc) was definitely pretentious. Like being vague about his ideas just to appear smart and productive. The hand gestures was the best part.
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 2 months ago:
Though they couldn’t even manage to do that without sticking the bitch in the scene
I read the Scum’s Wish manga. If I recall correctly, there’s an extra chapter of her some time after the events. I think that was the very last chapter too. Now that you point it out, it does kind of seem like the story centered around her a lot.
For some reason though, I actually enjoyed this manga lol