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- Comment on [DISC] Kiraware Majo to Karada ga Irekawatta Keredo, Watashi wa Kyou mo Genki ni Kurashiteimasu! - Chapter 19 14 hours ago:
Hopefully that’s all, and she’s gotten the message that he definitely is trustworthy (even Grieja is trying to bring her around).
I was just wondering, because it seemed like such a cliffhanger, if there was some reason she literally couldn’t tell him - like revealing the secret would break the spell - and I just didn’t remember that part.
- [Discussion] Yankee JK Kuzuhana-chan - Ch. 236 - A girl's heart in conflict - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 day ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on [DISC] Kiraware Majo to Karada ga Irekawatta Keredo, Watashi wa Kyou mo Genki ni Kurashiteimasu! - Chapter 19 1 day ago:
I can’t remember - is there a reason for her to not tell him?
- [Discussion] Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? - Ch. 69 - Otaku & Gyaru & Playing Couple - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 day ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on [DISC] Starting Today, We're Childhood Friends - Chapter 133 1 day ago:
Yes - Kaede is fully aware of and embarrassed by the prospect of “various things.”
I count that as progress
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 3 discussion 2 days ago:
Well, we finally met the tanuki family. I liked it all in all, and now Yachiyo has an assistant, and I assume the whole family is going to stick around. And Yachiyo passed a second mission - I’m assuming there’s an overarching plot involving those.
Interesting that this episode was set 50 years after the last one.
I’ve been resisting wjs018’s predictions of mood whiplash in this series just because I’d rather it not, but then they went ahead and threw a mostly implied bit in with the human ship, then made it explicit in the post-credits scene. Ah well.
The OP is still oddly clunky, but it still makes me smile anyway.
- [DISC] April Showers Bring May Flowers - Vol. 11 Ch. 61 - Love Cheer Squad — Leader: Me - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 3 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- [DISC] Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? - Vol. 9 Ch. 67 - Otaku & Gyaru & Gyaru Confession Meeting - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 3 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 17] 3 days ago:
I love ARIA. To me, it’s the perfect iyashikei - it’s just beautiful snd calm, and Akari’s entire purpose in life is to share happiness. And Alicia is the archetype ara ara onee-san.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 17] 3 days ago:
The only series I’m following so far thos season os Apocalypse Hotel. Last weekorpisode was fine all in all, but it did an odd thing. They showed the OP for the first time, and it was oddly dissonant - both doenbeat and off-key, and ultimately sort of dirge-lije. But it was disconcerting enough that it has to have neen deliberate, and it sort of fits, because at the point we picked up the story, both the hotel and the MC have just about run their course, and have just at this late stage found a glimmer of hope. I’m hoping that over the course of the series, the OPbis going to evolve to reflect it.
As far as day-to-day viewing goes, I started off the week with season 1 of Baka to Test. It was fine but sort of oddly dull. I’m not quite sure how it managed that, since all of the individual parts seem like they should add up to more than that. The setup’s interesting and the characters are relatively well developed and the art style is intriguing and it’s consistently funny, but it still somehow manages to be sort of drab all in all. The subs were sort of meta-amusing though - very much “localized,” and by era as well as place.
Then after a bit of wandering, I watched Saekano Or more precisely, I watched half of Saekano, then dropped it. It was strange - the “boring girlfriend” of the title was the only engaging character in the whole cast. She’s intriguing and distinctive and very much her own character, while all of the rest are just awkward conglomerations of tropes that aren’t even internally coherent. I never got a sense of any of them as distinct, recognizable individuals - they were just sort of blank ciphers arbitrarily assigned whatever qualities and actions the current plot required. And most notably, the qualities and actions assigned to the MMC tended to be tedious, insufferable and obnoxious, in addition to arbitrary, which is most of what led me to drop it.
Then I ended up on something only sort of anime-adjacent - Pantheon - which was excellent and highly recommended, but not technically anime, so I giess I’ll leave it at that.
- [DISC] Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? - Vol. 9 Ch. 66 - Otaku & Gyaru & Girl Logic - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 4 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- [Discussion] Vivarium de Choushoku wo - Ch. 52 - Chapter 52: The Last Day of Summer Vacation - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 4 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 2 discussion 1 week ago:
Madoka.
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 2 discussion 1 week ago:
As I just noted in another response, I immediately heard the OP as an overly earnest and depression-prone robot a century out from human contact letting go, to the best of her ability. I thought it was brilliant.
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 2 discussion 1 week ago:
I loved the OP.
What I heard, clear as a bell, was an overly earnest and depression-prone robot who’'s one of the few remaining who hasn’t ended up on the scrap heap, and is gamely and determinedly keeping a luxury hotel not only running but luxurious a century after humanity left the planet letting go, just a little bit, with a song that’s more upbeat than she is. For now.
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 2 discussion 1 week ago:
Okay - first off, the OP is wonderful.
The episode itself was sort of odd, but in a promising way - it touched on a number of apparent mysteries, but didn’t reveal much of anything. It’s a slow pace, but if the series remains mostly slice of life with mystery, that’ll be fine.
Still haven’t met the Tanuki family, though they’re heavily featured in both the OP and the ED.
- Comment on [Discussion] Wakaba-sanchi no Aoi Koi - Ch. 17 - Next Time, It'll Be Me - MangaDex 1 week ago:
Half an hour later and I still haven’t managed to actually read this chapter.
Mangadex never really has lived up to its potential, and at this point, I suspect it never will.
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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 16] 1 week ago:
The thing I really noted is that if you take Makeine apart and analyze it, it’s mostly standard school rom-com tropes - childhood friends and “homewreckers” and a club and a couple of oddball teachers and a beach episode and a series of festival episodes and an amusement park fake date and so on - but every one of them has just enough of a spin to it to make it new and interesting and specifically relevant. And the characters are the same way - they’re each almost stereotypes, but not quite, because they have individual quirks that lift them above the stereotypes.
It’s just very well done all the way through, and with especially impressive attention to the characters.
And yeah - I’m looking forward to the new season, and cheering for Nukumizu and Yanami. They just have such comfy chemistry.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 16] 1 week ago:
I don’t normally watch currently airing snime - I’d rather binge completed series - but last season I ended up getting sucked into not just one or two, but three of them - Zenshu Guild Receptionist and Honey Lemon Soda. Now that they’re over though I planned on going back to not watching currentvseries.
But then lasr week I happened on a mention of Apocalypse Hotel and read the synopsis… and couldn’t resist. And it was excellent, so that’s vat least onecseries I’m going to be following.
Beyond that, I finished up Shinsekai Yori aka From the New World. I’ve bounced off the LN a number of times, so decided ro give the anime a chance, and even it took a while to get going. But it turned out quite good all in all. It’s not sn easy watch - not only is it relatively complex and slow-moving - it doesn’t pull any pinches. But ot was worth it.
But after that, I was drained both mentally and emotionally and wanted something comfy and pleasant, so after a bit of thought, I decided it was time to rewatch Makeine, and it was just as terrific as it was the first time around. And Anna is still one of my all-time favorite characters.
Then I bounced around for a bit and ended up watching one that had sorr of lurked at the edge of my awareness for years - Aquarion EVOL And that’s one of the most fascinatingly awful series I’ve ever seen.
I actually tried to drop it a few times, but it kept drawing me back in. It was just so bad, but in mesmerizing ways. It’s a constant barrage of hot blood and pointless drama and insipid pseudo-philosophy and clumsy innuendo and chuuni and giant hams, all forced into a combination of gratingly awkward teen love and sex allegory and super robot model kit advertising. Most of the characters aren’t even characters really - they’re plot devices with legs and hasty backstories, each just reciting whatever collection of tropes is going to move the plot along to the next phase on the way to the hot-blooded, pointlessly dramatic, insipidly pseudo-philosophical chuuni and giant ham conclusion.
And now I’m casting about for the next thing, without even any clear preferences in mind - just wandering around clicking things and seeing if they hook me.
- [DISC] Osananajimi Kanojo no Morahara ga Hidoin de Zetsuen Sengen shite Yatta - Vol. 4 Ch. 35 - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on [DISC] Wakaba-sanchi no Aoi Koi - Ch. 13 - Shelter From The Rain - MangaDex 2 weeks ago:
It strikes me that this manga is sort of like his bento - there’s nothing at all new about it, but it’s put together with such skill and attention to detail that it ends up special and wonderful anyway.
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