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- Comment on [DISC] Damedol to Sekai ni Hitori Dake no Fan - Ch. 49 - To War 8 minutes ago:
Kamiya’s going to build the perfect cake.
- Comment on [Episode] Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express • Ginga Tokkyuu Milky☆Subway - Episode 11 discussion 1 hour ago:
That was awesome.
I was sure they were building up to some sort of reveal about Makina’s family, but I didn’t expect that one. And I expected the buttons were going to play a part, but again, I didn’t expect that.
Akane’s reaction was hilarious.
I think the next episode title is a misdirection. It was sort of implied in episode 1 too, but that wasn’t how Chiharu was acting.
It’d damned well better be…
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- [DISC] Damedol to Sekai ni Hitori Dake no Fan / A Useless Idol and Her Only Fan in the World - Ch. 48comick.io ↗Submitted 23 hours ago to manga@ani.social | 1 comment
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- [DISC] Damedol to Sekai ni Hitori Dake no Fan / A Useless Idol and Her Only Fan in the World - Ch. 47comick.io ↗Submitted 1 day ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37] 2 days ago:
Huh.
No - actually I’ve avoided it. I read the first few chapters when they were released and thought they were meh, and then when people started to rave about it, it triggered my contrariness, and I wrote it off as likely overhyped mediocrity - pabulum for the masses.
I might have to tamp down my reflexive disdain for it snd check it out…
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37] 2 days ago:
That tracks.
As I hinted at, I was especially impressed by Kana. She’s become a terrific character, and obviously because the mangaka has lavished attention on her.and has really satisfyingly mapped out her personality - the combination of strengths and weaknesses and fears and hopes that make her the person she is. Ditto Akane - she hasn’t gotten quite the attention, so not quite the development, but is still very pleasantly well-developed. And Miyako has been a pleasant surprise - she almost seemed like a throwaway character at first, but instead she stuck around and has really blossomed. And so on - even characters like Melt and Frill get satisfying development.
And meanwhile, the whole murder mystery plot, harrowing though it seems it should be, keeps fading into the background, and only moving in fits and starts.
I definitely enjoyed it, and the quality is undeniable, but it just has an odd imbalance to it.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37] 3 days ago:
Binged two longer series last week.
First, I finally watched one of the series I’d been saving because I already knew it was good - Oshi no Ko. And yes, it really is as good as its reputation says. It’s an odd series though, because it’s very well done and engaging all along the way - particularly the characters - but if you pull all the way back from the details and just look at the basic premise, I don’t think it holds up all that well. It’s all just a bit too contrived. Still very good though, and really, I’d probably watch it just for Kana.
Then, looking for something completely different, I finally watched Toradora, which was… weird. It started off well enough. It moved slowly, but the characters were all interesting and I could see them growing, albeit slowly. But then starting immediately after Taiga’s fight with the President, it went badly sideways. They obviously changed it up dramatically then - it even got a new OP and ED. But more to the point, it went from slowly and steadily developing the characters to just heaving some seemingly random bit of dissociated plot in the general direction of the audience, then not even bothering to resolve anything before rushing on to the next random bit of dissociated plot. So it just became incoherent and ultimately unsatisfying - instead of a steady progression of character growth, it was just a jumble of sudden and inexplicable changes. Shame too - I was impressed up until then.
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[DISC] Imasara desu ga, Osananajimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimaimashita / It’s a Little Late, but I’ve Fallen in Love with My Childhood Friend -Ch. 42comick.io ↗ - [DISC] Akuninzura Shita B-kyuu Boukensha - Shujinkou to Sono Osananajimi-tachi no Papa ni Naru - Ch. 16.3comick.io ↗Submitted 3 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on [DISC] Chigau Miyahara Omae Janai! - Ch. 53 [END] 4 days ago:
Wow… that ended up being even more dissatisfying than I expected it to be.
Still though - there was a time a few chapters back when it was sort of looking like they were going to resolve it in Miyahara’s favor, which would’ve broken Yukihira’s heart, which in turn would’ve enraged me, so I guess it could’ve been worse.
If only it’d been given the time to properly sort through everyone’s feelings…
- Comment on [DISC] Chigau Miyahara Omae Janai! / No Miyahara, Not You! - Ch. 52.5 5 days ago:
I suspect that the goal now is to make it least likely to trigger rage. It didn’t get the time to sort through everyone’s feelings, so at this point, if Arima picks one of them, the other is going to be hurt, and her shippers are going to rage.
So unsatisfyingly open is the least bad choice…
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- Comment on [Episode] Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express • Ginga Tokkyuu Milky☆Subway - Episode 10 discussion 6 days ago:
Ahh… that was probably my favorite episode yet. Eveeything came together so well.
And I’m still laughing at the opening gag.
- Comment on [DISC] Journey Home After School - Ch. 44 1 week ago:
That was beautiful.
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- Comment on [DISC] Combini de Kimi to no 5-funkan. / The Five Minutes We Share at the Convenience Store - Ch. 89 1 week ago:
And my favorite cute and awkward romcom is back!
- [DISC] Combini de Kimi to no 5-funkan. / The Five Minutes We Share at the Convenience Store - Ch. 89comick.io ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 1 comment
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- [DISC] Nibanme na Boku to Ichiban no Kanojo / Me, the Second Best and My Number One Girlfriend - Ch. 2.2comick.io ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 1 week ago:
VHS
That was a lot of the thing. There was such a limited number of anime released on VHS that all of us that were fans then tended to have seen the same things, so conversations naturally went to Akira and Vampire Hunter D and Bubblegum Crisis and Ninja Scroll and Hellsing and so on.
And as you note, another part of that was just seeing parts of series. Like I had a tape with the first four episodes of Trigun, so for years, that was all I knew of it. (Imagine the impact when I finally saw the rest - it’s mood whiplash enough when you watch it straight through).
Toonami opened things up and exposed a lot more people and provided a dependable way to watch a series all the way through, but it was still a relatively limited set of shows - Gundam Wing and Cowboy Bebop and Tenchi Muyo and so on.
And yeah - it’s a whole different world now. Now there are so many choices available any time that the biggest issue I face is option paralysis.
And on the topic of the VHS era of anime - a video I’ve always liked - a barrage of anime from that era, set to music: SR-71 - Let It Whip
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 1 week ago:
It was a lot harder to watch anime back then
Why I’ll always have a soft spot for Gundam Wing and Tenchi Muyo and Vampire Hunter D snd Ninja Scroll and Trigun and Cowboy Bebop and…
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 1 week ago:
Thanks for the heads up - I’ll check that out.
I watch older anime almost exclusively, but with manga, I’m following so many new series and adding new ones all the time that I generally don’t have the time and energy to read older ones. But I keep adding them to my TBR anyway…