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- Comment on [Discussion] A Bouquet for an Ugly Girl - Vol. 11 Ch. 64 - Lovers - MangaDex 2 hours ago:
Huh…I had never though about that.
You’re right - it doesn’t seem to make sense to believe that people would actually say that.
But it’s a not uncommon trope at least for someone in a relationship or considering one to be afraid that that’s what other people are going to think. So there must be something there. And Japanese society is certainly very conscious of relative class and stature, so I have little doubt that it’s something that other people would potentially think, and might even be extremely conscious of.
My first thought is that it’s something that, in reality, is communicated without ever actually being said - that it’s one of those things that’s communicated by the pointed misuse of expected modes of speech and such, and it’s just translated into English as an overt statement (sort of like Japanese “swearing”).
I dunno though… it is sort of strange, now that you mention it…
- Comment on [Discussion] Wakaba-san'chi no Aoi Koi - Ch. 29 - Coward - MangaDex 19 hours ago:
Yeah - I’m really curious to see where this is going to go. We can be sure that it’s not going to be heartbreak and betrayal, nor is it going to be a throuple or reverse harem, because this manga is far too wholesome and upbeat for anything like that (not to mention this is the youngest sister). But we can also be pretty sure, just based on what the author’s already done along the way, that it’s not going to be simple and predictable either.
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- Comment on [Discussion] The Meals Of A Single Woman (26) At Her Limit - Ch. 26 [END] 1 day ago:
Wow… that really was abrupt.
I kind of get it though - if she had started to actually get Shiraishi to open up, then that would’ve called for more detail, and so on So instead it ended at the point that it started to look as if she was going to be able to get Shiraishi to open up.
It’s sort of a shame though - I really liked Shiraishi’s design. Her eyes keep making a subtle shift between angry and sad that’s really effective.
And at least we got to bask in An-san’s radiance one last time.
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread 2 days ago:
That opening was what initially sold me on the series. I just followed a link from somewhere - probably a MAL stack - and read the synopsis and thought it looked promising, so I tracked it down and clicked play on episode 1 to find out what it was all about, and was immediately hooked.
Kotaro was one of the many big surprises for me. Those loudly emotional characters generally grate on my nerves (in fact, I dropped How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend in large part because the MMC’s constant shouting irritated me so much), so I was worried at first, but somehow it just works for him. And having Saki punch him early on helped, as did the fact that so much of what he yells is foolishness, and they all know it.
And somehow, in the middle of all the yelling and all the foolishness, he tells each one of them exactly what they need to hear when they need to hear it.
On that note too, one of my favorite parts of unexpected humor is when Sakura stops him on the stairs of the mall/shelter to sincerely thank him for all he’s done for them, and she’s talking about how important he’s been - “And you never gave up! Well… except for that one time, but other than that…”
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread 2 days ago:
The last episode of The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity aired Thusday, and it was every bit as wonderful as I’d hoped it’d be. I’d already read it in the manga, so it wasn’t a surprise, but it was still worth seeing. And the series as a whole is now at or near the top of my list for awkward, sincere romances.
Aside from that I watched two surprisingly great older series last week.
The first was Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku. It’s not so much that I didn’t expect it to be good as that I expected it to be disappointing compared to the manga, which is easily among my top five all-time favorites. And after seeing the character designs when the season was announced, I was sure that would be the case, since they didn’t even manage to look right. The facial proportions are all wrong, and it throws everything off. And I expected the rest of the series to be equally inferior.
But I kept seeing positive mentions of the anime, so finally decided to give it a chance. And it was really very good, even though the character designs never stopped being distractingly wrong. The rest though - the rest of what I appreciate about the manga - they nailed. The backgrounds are lush and beautiful, the tightly focused action sequences - things like Komichi tying her hair back - are just as graceful as Hiro’s originals, and the character interactions and growth and especially the emotional content are all spot-on - just as rich and satisfying as in the manga. It was still inferior to the manga all in all (it really couldn’t help but be), but it was damned good anyway.
Then, on something of a whim, I watched both seasons of Zombieland Saga. Then I watched them both again.
I still can’t quite get over just how awesome that series is. It came out during a period when I wasn’t paying much attention to anime, so I vaguely knew it existed, but that was it And I really didn’t expect a lot of it because I don’t hear a lot about it. But it just swept me away.
The characters are uniformly terrific. Every one of them gets their moment in the spotlight and every one of them shines when they do. The humor is great, and so well-placed. Even in the middle of the darkest drama, they’ll just suddenly drop in a perfectly timed laugh out loud moment. The overall plot is brilliant - hell, just the fact that it exists is brilliant, because that’s something in itself that’s only slowly revealed. Kotaro says he’s forming an idol group to save Saga, and it seems at first that he means to “save” it from being a generally disregarded cultural backwater, but no - he means it literally. And as the plot keeps expanding through the series you find out that he’s right - that Saga really is under threat (and not for the first time) and really does need to be saved.
And then there are the performances, which are easily among the most awesome of any music anime ever. Every one of them has a creative hook that makes it stand out, and the later ones in particular are just astonishing (and in fact I’d say that the show opening for Iron Frill - season 2 episode 4 - is the single greatest anime music performance I’ve seen - everything from Tae on the drums to Junko’s amazing voice to Junko destroying the guitar and pointing across the arena at Ai with the splintered neck (and Kotaro’s laugh out loud reaction) to the epic rendition of Mezame Returner, hearkening all the way back to their first guerilla parking lot show.
And their fans. Starting with the two metalhead guys (“Those guys are seriously awesome”), they just expand, as if the world is just divided into people who haven’t seen Franchouchou yet, and fans. So by the time of their stadium show, every notable character from every episode is there. And if I was in their world, I would be too.
I can’t wait for the movie.
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[Discussion] The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace - Ch. 63 - The Ideal Result - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗ - Submitted 3 days ago to manga@ani.social | 1 comment
- Comment on [Episode] The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity • Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku - Episode 13 discussion 3 days ago:
Aaahh, yes.
I’ve read far enough ahead in the manga that I was pretty sure when the last episode ended where it did that this episode was going to be this scene, and it was, and it was just as wonderful as I’d hoped.
This was a great series.
- Comment on [Discussion] Maison and the Man-eating Apartment - Ch. 17 - No Unsorted Garbage, Please, Part 3 5 days ago:
I debated whether to post this or not, because I wasn’t sure if you planned to. I didn’t (and don’t) want to interfere if you want to post it, but also don’t want to let it fall through the cracks.
- [Discussion] Maison and the Man-eating Apartment - Ch. 17 - No Unsorted Garbage, Please, Part 3mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp ↗Submitted 5 days ago to manga@ani.social | 3 comments
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- Comment on [DISC] Kyou mo Veranda de - Ch. 90 [END] 5 days ago:
Currently on chapter 8 - just popped back in long enough to say this is a good one
- Comment on [DISC] I Swapped Bodies with a Wicked Witch, but Today I'll Keep having Fun! - Vol. 4 Ch. 21 - MangaDex 6 days ago:
I assume that the witch is living in her original body, and likely up to no good with it.
I expect she’ll show up sometime.
- [DISC] I Swapped Bodies with a Wicked Witch, but Today I'll Keep having Fun! - Vol. 4 Ch. 21 - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on Fall Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 39] 1 week ago:
Well, it looks like I can go back to just binging older anime exclusively, because there’s nothing there that caught my attention. I’ll undoibtedly watch Spy X Family some time but it’s a known quantity and I’ve been following the manga since the start, so I’m in no hurry.
Last week, I finished a rewatch of Scrapped Princess and loved it just as much as the first time. It’s just such a great series.
Then I happened on a bit of a surprise - Rokka no Yuusha. It’s a simple and intriguing set-up - when the demons invade the land, the six heroes - the Braves of the Six Flowers - will assemble to fight them. And sure enough, the demons are on rhe move and the heroes assemble - but there are seven of them. So it plays out as an imposter mystery, and is actually quite engaging. The only real problem with it seemed to be that it’s based on the first volume of a six-volume light novel series, so it has a somewhat open ending. But it was okay anyway - the ending was necessarily not entirely satisfying, but it worked. But then, in the last few minutes of the last episode, for who-the-hell-knows-what reason, it goes beyond that somewhat open but still sarisfying ending and tacks on some of the cringiest sequel bait I’ve ever seen anywhere. It was seriously so bad that at first I thought it was some sort of satire It didn’t really affect the series overall, since it was just tacked on to the end but my god it was awful.
And now I’m sort of knocking around, but I think I’m about ready to give Haibane Renmei the attention it deserves.
- Comment on What are the visually-best anime you're seen? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t presume to say they’re the “best,” but some of my favorites:
Casshern Sins - post-post-apocalyptic world in which the robots who displaced humanity are themselves falling into ruin. Mostly ruins, twisted rock formations and drifts of rust, all done in shades of gray.and against which the few remaining bits of power, light and unblemished form stand in sharp contrast.
Heike Monogatari - a Japanese epic tale with backgrounds that look like tapestries and foregrounds that look like woodblock prints. If anime had been made in the 13th century, this is what it would’ve looked like.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou - deceptively simple 1998 hand-drawn anime with exquisite attention to detail.
Serial Experiments Lain - a primer on how to depict loneliness and alienation in an anime.
Non Non Biyori - lush green countryside has never been done better.
5 Centimeters per Second - Just a succession of absolutely stunning backgrounds, and this is, IMO, quite possibly the most beautiful anime background ever:
- Comment on [Episode] The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity • Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku - Episode 12 discussion 1 week ago:
That was just as good as I’d hoped it’d be.
I’ve read far enough in the manga now that I know what’s coming, and I was hoping this episode would end right about at this point, since there’s one more episode left.
- Comment on [DISC] Vivarium de Choushoku o - Vol. 4 Ch. 53 - Ch. 57 (End) 1 week ago:
This one was complicated even by Dowman Sayman standards, so now I can read it straight through and hopefully make sense of it, instead of trying to read a new chapter a month after the last one and going, “Wait, what?”
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- [DISC] Pani Poni - Vol. 11 Ch. 139 - The Plum Blossoms Of The Season Do Not Wait For The Spring Breeze - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on [DISC] Yankee JK Kuzuhana-chan - Ch. 253 - Jenga! A Young Girls' Battle! - MangaDex 1 week ago:
The art changed.
Oddly, it looks more like Sogabe Toshinori’s other art than it has for years now. I’m not sure what that means…
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- Comment on [Episode] Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express • Ginga Tokkyuu Milky☆Subway - Episode 12 discussion 1 week ago:
And it all came together nicely. That was a great series.
In retrospect, I’m not sure why I didn’t see the end coming. All the hints were there - I just didn’t put them together in the right order.
I can’t wait to see what Yohei Kameyama can do with a bigger budget and more runtime.
- [DISC] Starting Today, We’re Childhood Friends - Ch. 147 - Childhood Friend and Practice - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 38] 2 weeks ago:
Beyond all of the things I’m currently following (and mostly posting here), I discovered, courtesy of a thread from ludrol@bookwyr.me, an awesome goofy, surreal, science-fictiony bit of amazing worldbuilding called Maison and the Man-eating Apartment. And once I caught up with that, I delved back into the author’s (Tanaka Kuu) past and found an earlier series called Tate no Kuni (The Vertical World), which I’m currently binging.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 38] 2 weeks ago:
On a whim, I watched the first episode of The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity last week, and it just sucked me in. I ended up binging the ten current episodes over two evenings and loved everything about it.
So then it was episode 11 of that and episode 11 of Milky Subway, both of which were excellent in their own ways.
Aside from that, I’ve been rewatching Scrapped Princess, and being reminded of what a great series it is.
