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- Comment on [DISC] Houkago Kitaku Biyori - Chapter 41 8 hours ago:
That was great, but I have to admit I’m a bit disappointed they didn’t do a display about her awesome stick collection. ⚔️
- Comment on [DISC] The One Within the Villainess - Chapter 28 [END] 10 hours ago:
That was a great wrap-up — it settled pretty much every question I had about the story, and it was great to see Emi and Remilis face to face.
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- [Discussion] Robou no Fujii - Vol. 2 Ch. 14 - Fujii's Day Off & Ch. 15 - Matsuoka and Fujiimangadex.org ↗Submitted 2 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Now I think SOA was not even that bad. 4 days ago:
SAO was excellent here and there (Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, The Black Swordsman, Mother’s Rosario) and was at least decent all the way through.
It was just one of those series that became so commonly loved by normies that advertising one’s hatred of it became an easy way to gain instant edgelord cred.
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- [Discussion] Mankitsu Shitai Jouren-san / Miss Regular Customer Wants to Enjoy - Ch. 43 - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- [Discussion] Sekai wa Owattemo Ikirutte Tanoshii / Even If the World Is Over It's Fun to Live - Vol. 5 Ch. 31.2 - In The Midst Of The Cycle - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] Renge to Naruto! - Ch. 35 2 weeks ago:
It’s easy. The only difficulty is that it can’t understand a link to a specific chapter - you have to get the link for the series and plug that in to Cubari, then go to the specific chapter on the list Cubari generates.
- Comment on [Discussion] Renge to Naruto! - Ch. 35 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Yes she is.
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- Comment on [Meta question] With MD's new Uploader's Liability Policy, Should we even share links when discussing series? 2 weeks ago:
Obviously this is entirely up to the instance owner, but it seems to me that, if anything, all of this actually makes our position stronger.
Scanlation’s always been a sort of gray area. It’s technically piracy - that part’s black and white - but the publishers have generally turned a blind eye to it, at least in cases in which there are and will be no licensed translations available. The publishers appeared to generally see it, and correctly, as free advertising (and in fact, scanlation is the ENTIRE reason that manga has gotten as popular as it has outside of Japan).
So the basic rule of thumb for more or less legitimate scanlation has always been that if the series isn’t licensed, it’s fair game, and if the publishers take exception anyway, all they have to do is say so and we’ll immediately “cease and desist.”
In one sense, this is just a massive version of what’s happened to MD all along. They’ve gotten takedown requests from the start, and just immediately comply with them.
The things that are notable about this one are the scale of it, and the fact that many of the titles do not have and likely never will have official translations, so it seems to be entirely vindictive. The publishers aren’t losing anything by allowing scanlations of titles that they’ll never license anyway, so they’re not protecting themselves from any nominal loss - they’re just being dicks.
And that’s undoubtedly what’s rattled MD - it’s not the fact of the takedowns, which have happened from the start but the seeming vindictiveness of them.
But their response has been to formally shift responsibility to the uploaders. They’re saying not just tacitly but explicitly that anyone who uploads anything effectively claims to have the legal right to do so, so if they don’t, that’s their problem and not MD’s.
Which actually removes us even further from any liability. From our position, the uploaders claimed to have the right to do so, and MD accepted their claim, and all we’re doing is taking everyone else at their word.
For whatever that’s worth.
- Comment on [DISC] Manemane Nichinichi - Ch. 29 - DVD - MangaDex 2 weeks ago:
According to their credits page, Harmless Monsters is going to stop uploading to Mangadex. They’re going to continue all of their series, but they’re going to post them somewhere else to avoid “potential legal issues.”
Is that the future of scanlation? We’ve gotten sort of spoiled, since the primary sites - Mangadex and before that (the original) Batoto got left alone. Is it going to become whack-a-mole now, like anime? Instead of being able to depend on one site, we’ll have to move to a new one every few years?
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- [DISC] Shiretto Sugee Koto Itteru Gal / The Gals Who Always Say Incredible Things - Ch. 31.5 - Special Edition: Reintroductory Chapter - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 6 discussion 2 weeks ago:
We got some great animation with the random sentai group that showed up.
That was especially awesome, and it impressed me that they manged to be appropriately stereotypical without matching specific recognizable individuals/franchises.
Then finally, a really touching gesture between two very non-emotional creatures to end it on.
And with Ponko enthusiatically shipping them the whole way.
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 6 discussion 3 weeks ago:
I’m really liking this, and this was arguably the best episode yet…
I originally expected this to be an iyashikei, but (starting with the oddly dissonant OP) it sort of shifted from what I expected, and started to feel more threatening and somber than that. And this episode started out the most threatening yet. But then there was such a complete and rewarding shift in tone from start to finish that it made it ultimately just that much more warm and uplifting. And to the degree that this has a central theme, that seems to be it.
This is essentially an iyashikei - it’s just that it’s not naturally or automatically that way. It’s made that way by Yachiyo’s kindness and courtesy that’s tempered by quiet determination and a sharp sense of right and wrong. She’s unstintingly kind and courteous, right up until the moment that someone steps beyond acceptable behavior, at which point she immediately shifts to brutally honest and unreserved condemnation, which lasts exactly long enough to clearly convey her opinion of things, at which point she just as quickly and easily shifts back to unstinting kindness and courtesy. And it works. It’s made clear, even to someone like Harmy, that she bears no ill will at all - that her kindness is entirely sincere. It’s just that she’s also entirely honest and fair-minded and fearless, and when somebody deserves a figurative smack upside the head, she will deliver it. And they all come to respect and even admire that.
As do I.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 3 weeks ago:
Started off this week with the rest of Mekacucity Actors, which ended up being mediocre all in all (early on, I didn’t think it’d even manage that). In the later episodes, it mostly set aside the tedious Monogatari-style pop philosophy monologues set against geometric abstract liminal space backdrops and got down to some actual character development and exposition… It wasn’t particularly compelling or even coherent character development and exposition, but at least it was something.
Then, sort of wandering around aimlessly, I happened across a currently-airing series of a genre I’ve never bothered to watch before and what-the-hell gave it a watch, and that’s how I ended up catching up on and following Maebashi Witches. On the surface, it’s just cute and cheery, with pleasantly high quality animation and music and endearing characters and surprising emotional depth, and that might be all it ends up being, which’ll be fine. It’s surprisingly enjoyable just as that. But there’s also some room there for something else. Nothing is quite what it appears to be - they aren’t really “witches” in any recognizable sense, the mascot character who recruited them is revealing himself to be a smooth-talking and dishonest hustler and the deal they’ve made with him keeps getting more complex and its completion further out of reach. I don’t expect anything close to Madoka out of it, but there does seem to be a similar hidden agenda and while Keroppe is no Kyubey, he definitely isnt telling them the entire truth.
In any event, at worst, it’s cute and endearing and pleasant, and I’m enjoying it.
Then I sort of bulldozed my way through Sora no Otoshimono Forte, which I’ve been idly threatening to watch for years now, but I expected it to be similar to the first season, which is to say little bits of brilliance scattered here and there among lots of tedious and cringey trash, which is pretty much exactly what it was. Tomoki spent about 90% of the series super deformed and doing that “Kek kek kek” laugh while the rest of the cast just played their assigned one-note roles, but it wasn’t all bad, and the handful of serious moments were actually pretty good. So about what I expected.
Then I capped the week off with a real gem - Planetarian, which was absolutely glorious. It’s heart-warming and beautiful and tragic and uplifting and somber and deeply, deeply moving, and it made me smile and tear up at the same time and I loved it. I ended up watching both the series - Chiisana Hoshi no Yume and the movie/sequel - Hoshi no Hito, which tells a condensed version of the series plus some additional content after the events of the series. They’re both worth it.
And I already grabbed a Yumemi screenshot that’s my new wallpaper.
- Comment on [Discussion] Akuma de Fukei! - Ch. 13 3 weeks ago:
I saw that gotcha coming, and it still made me laugh.
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- Comment on Anime General Discussion Thread, Favorite Spring Season OP/ED Edition [2025, Week 19] 3 weeks ago:
It told me to not expect anything original - to just settle in for the same insipid edginess they’ve already beat to death in the Monogatari series
- Comment on [DISC] Yuuutsu-kun to Succubus-san - Ch. 86 - MangaDex 3 weeks ago:
Four years later and this surprising gem finally returns.
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- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 5 discussion 4 weeks ago:
That was some fine iyashikei.
Ponko continues to be a great character and Yachiyo is definitely growing as an individual (and not just with the va-va-va-voom upgrade). And it was nice to see the rest of the Tanuki family applying themselves.
And we got more aliens, and now Yachiyo can talk to them.
Just nice and heartwarming all around.
- [DISC] Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku - Vol. 15 Ch. 83 - Drama Club's Secret Plan Brainstorming Session - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Anime General Discussion Thread, Favorite Spring Season OP/ED Edition [2025, Week 19] 4 weeks ago:
The only ones I’ve seen are to the only series I’m watching this season - Apocalypse Hotel, which is of note for an oddly off-key OP.
The first time I heard it I just took it to be the OP as sung by an awkward and poorly skilled robot, endearingly trying to sing a song that’s more upbeat than she is, and I loved it. I still do and I still do.
So I started off the week finishing up Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e, which was excellent. It’s part political thriller and part coming of age story, played out against a backdrop of quantum mechanics and multiverse theory, and just very well done.
Then I watched both seasons of Getsuyoubi no Tawawa, which, in spite of its four minute episodes dominated by fanservice is actually pretty good.
Then, somehow, I ended up watching Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! for the third time, and enjoyed it all over again. (And just thinking about it, I now have Easy Breezy stuck in my head).
And at the moment, I’m watching Mekakucity Actors, which atarted off being all style and no substance, which is particularly disappointing in this case, since its style is just a retread of the Monogatari series. And I don’t just mean that it’s the same basic style - it’s the same sort of character designs against the same sort of backgrounds (and seems as if they could be literally the same backgrounds) doing the same stylized gestures and motions accompanied by the same sort of droning narration of the same sort of edgy pop philosophy. So basically the anime equivalent of reheated leftover cup ramen.
Thankfully, it soes seem to be finally revealing some actual substance (seven episides in) though whether it ends up being enough to be satisfying or not remains to be seen.
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