Rottcodd
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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 10] 17 hours ago:
So first up for me last week was the rest of [Punch Line](myanimelist.net/anime/28617/Punch_Line?q=punch+lo…
- [DISC] Dou ka Ore wo Houtte Oitekure - Naze ka Bocchi no Owatta Koukou Seikatsu wo Kanojo ga Kaeyou to shite kuru - Ch. 29 - There's No Way a Loner Can Solve a Relationship Problem, Right?mangadex.org ↗Submitted 17 hours ago to manga@ani.social | 1 comment
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- [DISC] Combini de Kimi to no 5-funkan. / The 5 Minutes We Share At The Convenience Store. - Vol. 6 Ch. 88 - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 2 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time • Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Toubatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu - Episode 8 discussion 3 days ago:
Great episode - everybody got some character growth.
Lululee overcoming her self-doubt was the obvious original focus of this arc, but it was still nice to see.
Jade showed both determination and creativity, both of which he’s going to need if he’s going to keep up with Alina.
Lowe being unexpectedly badass was particularly great to see.
Ah but the highlight - I’ve been especially waiting for the moment when Alina would finally let her guard down, and it was every bit as awesome as I’d hoped it would be. And she even opened up a bit about Shroud. Of course, neither one lasted long before her tsun kicked back in, but still…
- [DISC] Combini de Kimi to no 5-funkan. / The 5 Minutes We Share At The Convenience Store. - Vol. 6 Ch. 87 - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 3 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on [DISC] Gal to Iinchou ga Guuzen Saikai suru Hanashi - Ch. 14 - 17 (END) 4 days ago:
Mm… I guess that’ll do.
The series hinted at deeper, darker secrets, and romantic possibilities, none of which figured in the end. But that’s sort of okay, since it didn’t get the time to lay all the necessary groundwork for that, and just making it simple and light is likely a better choice than speedrunning the rest of the details just to get the ending in place.
I’ve definitely seen worse.
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- Comment on [DISC] Starting Today, We're Childhood Friends - Chapter 129 5 days ago:
Is Kouhei making his move?
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- Comment on [Discussion] Akebi-chan's Sailor Uniform / Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku - Ch. 82 1 week ago:
Hiro never ceases to amaze me.
He just captured all of the awkwardness and charm and excitement of the beginning of this date through a series of studies of held hands, and it was awesome.
- Comment on [DISC] Please Give Me Your Blood, I Will Serve You in Gratitude - Vol. 3 Ch. 50 - I'm Going to Do My Best Today, Too! (END) 1 week ago:
Yeah, and he’s gotten some tankoubon releases too. They’re definitely aware of him - it seems they just haven’t quite slotted him into the system yet.
- Comment on [DISC] Miyu-chan wa Zutto Tomodachi - Chapter 16 1 week ago:
It’s become a sort of game for me, to just skim through the latest chapter and see how many new details/mysteries/characters/twists they’ve introduced this time.
As far as I can tell, they still haven’t resolved anything. They don’t even seem to return to anything - they just introduce a new mystery and character(s), then next chapter… introduce another new mystery and character(s).
It’s sort of entertaining in a meta sense.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 09] 1 week ago:
Spent most of my anime time last week on season IV of DanMachi, which was pretty good all in all. It suffered a bit from being adapted from a light novel series, in that it was more a handful of juxtaposed arcs than a single overarching story, but it was nice to see Ryu get a good deal of character development, and Bell is finally starting to feel like an actual hero. There’s very little of the old hesitant, self-doubting Bell left, and good riddance. And it was nice seeing the rest of the (extended) familia succeeding without him - Aisha in particular has turned out to be a great character in her own right, and Haruhime is showing signs of what I assume is eventually going to be extraordinary power.
The only thing that really irritated me about all of that was that they got into the whole situation in the first place because nobody believed Cassandra, even after she had just proven herself by predicting the moss monster basically exactly. And Daphne in particular really needs a swift kick in the ass, because her whole attitude toward Cassandra’s premonitions not only puts the party at risk, but deeply hurts a person she claims as a friend.
Between the two cours of DanMachi IV, I took a bit of a break for Ganbare Douki-chan, which was adorable. I remember when the original was releasing, but it slipped past me initially, so by the time I became aware of it, it was already in the hundreds of chapters (one or two page chapters generally, but still). So it just went on my TBR. But the adaptation did its job - it was a perfect quick and easy break, and it led me to finally read through the original series, which was well worth it.
After DanMachi, I dipped all the way back to one that’s been on my TBW basically from the start, but that I just hadn’t yet taken the time to watch - Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou And the first OVA pair - the 1998 ones - are IMO quite simply some of the finest anime ever produced.
It’s a thing I’ve really been keyed into since watching Eizouken. The details that went into these OVAs - the simple but exquisite animations of a weather vane turning in the wind or ripples breaking across a flat stretch of water or the dappled transition from light to shadow on entering a forest - are just breathtaking. And the little incidental sounds all along the way - the ticking of a cooling engine or the creak of a gate hinge or the quiet roar of a gas flame and the rattle of a percolator lid - are just as wonderful. The whole thing is very obviously a labor of love, and the art of anime at its finest.
The second pair, from 2002, are still quite good by any ordinary standards, but they pale in comparison to the 1998 ones.
And at the moment, I’ve gone back to the search for odd gems and currently watching one I’d somehow never even heard of before called Punch Line (which I assume is a pun in Japanese). It starts with a cheesy concept of a guy who manifests superpowers if he sees a girl’s panties, but then almost immediately leaps past that into a thoroughly bizarre genre mashup meta/deconstruction… thing, alternately goofy, surreal, stylish and inexplicable. At this point (about halfway through), it’s pulling in little bits and pieces of plot from all over the place, but is actually looking like it’s going to tie it all together into… something. And if nothing else, it looks great, in a sort of bold colored, cel-shaded style reminiscent of Redline or Kill la Kill or Idaten Deities.
- Comment on [DISC] Miyu-chan wa Zutto Tomodachi - Chapter 16 1 week ago:
I wonder if this will ever start making sense…
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- Comment on [DISC] Please Give Me Your Blood, I Will Serve You in Gratitude - Vol. 3 Ch. 50 - I'm Going to Do My Best Today, Too! (END) 1 week ago:
Yeah - I really liked this a lot all in all, and I’m not quite sure what to make of that.
It’ll be interesting to see how Zyugoya’s career goes. He’s in that sort of amateur ghetto - mostly posting ecchi/hentai to Pixiv and Fanbox - and he has a very rough and unusual style, but the few times now that he’s done complete series, they’ve actually been very good. The childhood friend one is still one of the best romances I’ve read in recent years, and this one was… oddly satisfying. He stretched it out into some really unusual territory, with the whole vampire hierarchy and political infighting thing - and then, as you note, tied it all neatly together. That’s an admirable feat, and I really enjoyed it.
He obviously has talent, but I would imagine the industry doesn’t quite know what to do with him.
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- [DISC] Madara Moyou no Yoi / Yoi with Mottled Skin - Vol. 2 Ch. 13 - A Pure White Room - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- [DISC] Please Give Me Your Blood, I Will Serve You in Gratitude - Vol. 3 Ch. 50 - I'm Going to Do My Best Today, Too! (END)mangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 4 comments
- [DISC] Please Give Me Your Blood, I Will Serve You in Gratitude - Ch. 49 - That's All I Need to Be Happy! - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time • Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Toubatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu - Episode 7 discussion 1 week ago:
Excited Alina was adorable.
Beyond that though, things were a bit too murky and possibly contrived. I got a bit of that sense that the writers were following an outline and just filling in blanks - “introduce villain here” or “reveal secret quest here.”
- [DISC] Please Give Me Your Blood, I Will Serve You in Gratitude - Ch. 48 - You Really Saved Our Butts! - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- [DISC] Starting Today, We’re Childhood Friends - Ch. 128 - I Saw It With My Childhood Friend - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
[DISC] Yankee JK Kuzuhana-chan - Ch. 228 - Fight on! Fashion Class Leader! - MangaDex