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- Comment on "Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter" Anime Adaptation Announced for 2025 with Teaser Visual 25 minutes ago:
Their teaser visual is basically just a lightly edited version of the LN Vol. 1 cover. However, the date announcement I thought was worth posting. The series was originally announced all the way back in 2021 with no updates since.
- "Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter" Anime Adaptation Announced for 2025 with Teaser Visualani.social ↗Submitted 27 minutes ago to anime@ani.social | 1 comment
- Comment on Chart: MAL+Anilist Followers Gained Season Aggregate Spring 2024 Wks 1-13 34 minutes ago:
I am trying to think of demographics that wouldn’t really be represented here and I came up with a couple ideas, but the biggest is probably kids. So, I wonder if a show like Tonbo! did well enough with a young audience to get a second season, but it just isn’t showing up here.
It’s pretty safe to say that Astro Note bombed pretty hard based on the staff apologizing about the show.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 27] 7 hours ago:
So, a bit of a different type of post from me this week. Instead of highlighting interesting series I found this past week, I wanted to talk about a couple series I have come across recently that all seem to have a similar premise. See if you can spot a theme!
In no particular order:
This series begins with the MC’s childhood friend turning down his confession because she is dating somebody else. We then see him declare himself as a gloomy character on the first day of school and profess that he is going to drop out. As the story goes on, we see that he has a history with several other female characters in which he thinks they loathe him and he tries to push them away while living his best life without them. However, is loathing what they really feel towards our MC?
This story starts with the MC in a relationship. However, his girlfriend breaks up with him for being too nice and accommodating, allowing others to take advantage of him. We later meet two other characters; a kouhai that mercilessly teases him, and a maid at a local cafe that berates him (and the other guests). Eventually, the MC gets fed up with this treatment and decides to cut all three out of his life altogether. However, after doing so, they approach him completely differently. What could their true feelings towards the MC be?
This one starts with the MC dumping his girlfriend. Then, he gives himself a bit of a makeover and makes a debut in school as a hottie (I guess bangs make the man?). As the story goes, we see the MC get to know his classmates (something his overbearing girlfriend never let him do) and his ex scheme her way back into his life. For somebody that treated the MC like crap, she sure is trying hard to get his attention…
All three of these series are wish fullfilment in its purest form. Enormous mountains of drama that don’t hold any punches in dialing up the absurdity. It is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine to read stuff like this that is just full angst and manufactured drama (I blame DomeKano for starting me down this path). If that is what you are looking for, then these series are decent passes at it. Don’t expect logic, likeable characters, character growth, or any of that. Just turn your brain off and strap in. If you like fantasy/isekai stories that are “I got kicked out of the hero’s party and my life is awesome while theirs sucks now” then you would like this high school equivalent genre of “I dumped the toxic people out of my life and my life is awesome now.”
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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 27] 7 hours ago:
Weekly ranking roundup:
- Anime Corner - Full Results - Weekly Winner: Kaiju No. 8
- Reddit Karma - Weekly Winner: Mushoku Tensei
Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma.
In the final week of the year, Kaiju and Demon Slayer made some gains on the charts. As the new shows pop up on the charts this coming week, it will be interesting to see how things shake out.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 27] 7 hours ago:
So, I usually try to quickly binge a show in the slow week between seasons. I had been planning for that show this season to be Patlabor. However, with the discussions around the upcoming summer season, I kept seeing people talking about Tower of God. When the show first came out, it didn’t really pique my interest and I pretty successfully just ignored it.
However, for the sake of community involvement, I thought it would be fun to quickly get caught up to try to be active in the threads this upcoming season. So, I started watching it the other day…and then just didn’t stop…at all…until I finished it. I went back and tried to capture the thoughts that were running through my head as I was watching. So, spoilers galore below the tags. Suffice to say, I will be right there with everybody when season 2 airs. Not sure how I will handle waiting week to week though.
Episode 1
What the hell is going on? Where are we? Who are these people? Why in the Hunger Games are there this many people (creatures?) fighting each other? Lots of unanswered questions here. I feel like I was just thrown into the ocean having never been taught how to swim.
Episodes 2-5 (through the Crown Game)
We seem to be putting together a main cast during this game. Also, Rachel is back, and she is in her hooded phase. I still can’t claim to have much of an understanding of this world we are in or most of the characters in it. I will say that one of my favorites almost immediately is Lero-Ro because it is so instantly recognizable as the voice of Shiki from Tsukimichi.
Episodes 6-7 (training)
Lots of lore on the tower and the characters during this training period. Also, some shady stuff happening with the test administrators. It is pretty clear already that this is the type of show where everybody is always acting with an agenda of some type or another. Any character might just be acting out a scheme and no character is safe (I should have suspected something like episode 12 at this point).
Episodes 8-9 (Playing tag)
Schemes upon schemes upon schemes. Turns out Khun is one of the better schemers out there. Also, metagaming is totally a thing through the use of stuff like that note. Some battles might be won before they are ever fought. All the betraying and (literal) backstabbing in this sequence should have been more hints at what was to come.
Episodes 10-12 (Underwater Hunt)
I literally, physically gasped at the conclusion of episode 12. For whatever reason, bingeing through this season at a breakneck pace, I never stopped to consider the possibility that Rachel was anything other than what Yoru had presented to us. I happened to watch this episode right before bed as well, so I was forced to sit with it and ponder it for a whole day before I could watch the finale. Rachel’s turn in this episode really, really makes me want to know more about Yoru and Rachel, about their time before the tower and before each other.
Episode 13 (Finale)
The way this season ends makes it feel like the story up until now was really the prologue to the actual meat of the story. I still think that there has not been enough establishment of the setting overall, but the show is cool enough that it doesn’t bother me too much. If you think about this season as a prologue, then there is still a lot of story left to tell in which those gaps can be filled in over time. You get the sense also, that sometimes it just doesn’t matter. The Tower is a place where rule of cool wins…always. Screw your rules, power systems, logic, schemes, none of that matters unless you do it in a cool enough and interesting enough way. Also, totally digging the new rurouni-version of Lero-Ro. Safe travels!
Overall, I can’t say that it is one of the best shows I have ever seen. However, it was certainly gripping and can’t help but ooze a cool vibe between its animation, characters, and the fantastic OST. Very much looking forward to the discussions coming this season.
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- Comment on Bartender: Kami no Glass • BARTENDER Glass of God - Episode 12 discussion 7 hours ago:
I had kept up with this show but just didn’t really have time to keep the threads alive on my own. I have been really pleased with it overall. I would put on an episode before bed and just vibe (another reason I didn’t want to spend the time with the threads and instead I just crashed). I think my favorite little vignette of story was the one about trying to identify the liquor bottle that Miwa broke as a child. Just the thought of the chief having a nice bottle of liquor with his departed son kind of hit me out of nowhere. Runner-up was the romance that bloomed over a pack of cigars.
- Comment on Plus-Sized Elf Will Be Uncensored on HIDIVE 7 hours ago:
It’s been a while since I read a chunk of the manga, and I couldn’t remember, so I pulled up the mangadex page to check. It is listed as suggestive, but it has chapters labeled as (Uncensored). Flipping through a couple, it would indeed need censoring to be broadcast.
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [Week 26] 13 hours ago:
I heard good things about that one. However, if I remember correctly, it was only licensed partway through the season after my watch schedule was mostly filled up.
- Comment on [DISC] Food Truck Owner Inside the Dungeon - Ch. 1 15 hours ago:
That’s a good point. You think that running your own business like that gives you control, but really, she is now just an employee of the dungeon master, in whatever form that takes. Do you think having a master like Thistle would provide a good work/life balance? I doubt it…
- Comment on [DISC] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Chapter 91 16 hours ago:
School of Rock is a decent choice. My favorite rock movie is Spinal Tap though.
- Comment on [DISC] Food Truck Owner Inside the Dungeon - Ch. 1 16 hours ago:
Delicious in Dungeon, but crossed with modern day food. First chapter was fun, so I thought I would share.
- Submitted 16 hours ago to manga@ani.social | 5 comments
- Comment on "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle" Movie Trilogy Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 20 hours ago:
I am not familiar with Demon Slayer, but I think these movies should be the end of the main story if I am reading articles correctly. Congrats to all the fans of the series for getting a complete adaptation. That doesn’t happen too often.
- "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle" Movie Trilogy Announced with Teaser Visual, PVogre.natalie.mu ↗Submitted 20 hours ago to anime@ani.social | 6 comments
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- Comment on [DISC] Slime Saint - Ch. 15 1 day ago:
I’m not sure what it was that cracked on page 7. I had feared at first that it might have been her magic core or something like that.
- Comment on [DISC] Hajimete no Ojou-sama - Ch. 13 1 day ago:
Agreed, will be sad to see this one go.
- Submitted 1 day ago to manga@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on [DISC] Osananajimi to wa Romcom ni Naranai - Ch. 78 1 day ago:
I hope we get more of her backstory soon. I do agree with Eiyuu though about her smug smile.
- Submitted 1 day ago to manga@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on [DISC] Hajimete no Ojou-sama - Ch. 13 1 day ago:
Loved this face on Sewa
- Submitted 1 day ago to manga@ani.social | 4 comments
- Comment on "Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin" New Key Visual 2 days ago:
Yeah, video game anime adaptations are usually not great. The last one I watched was Atelier Ryza because a friend is a huge fan of the series and hyped it up. However, the anime was so incredibly boring and the game structure was so apparent through the story that it was impossible not to notice.
- Comment on "Tonbo!" Season 2 Announced with Teaser Visual 2 days ago:
I didn’t watch this series, but the only option I could find after a quick search in my region (US) is streaming through Amazon Prime. Otherwise, sailing the high seas is a fallback for when other routes fail.
- Submitted 2 days ago to anime@ani.social | 2 comments