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- [DISC] Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa Inai!? / Gal Can't Be Kind to Otaku? - Vol. 8 Ch. 56 & Ch. 57 - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 23 hours ago to manga@ani.social | 1 comment
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- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 2 days ago:
Thanks, but I’ve already read the sequel, and didn’t like it much either.
In fact, pretty much the first thing I did after the shit ending of the anime was to track down the manga in the hope that there was more. But nope - the manga has the same shit ending. But it does have a sequel. But Hanabi doesn’t fare much better in the sequel than she did in the original. Even the slut still gets a better ending than she does.
- Comment on [DISC] Houkago Kitaku Biyori / Journey Home After School - Ch. 39 - Let's Make Plum Wine - MangaDex 3 days ago:
Ah… this manga never disappoints.
The omake page was pretty funny too.
- [DISC] Houkago Kitaku Biyori / Journey Home After School - Ch. 39 - Let's Make Plum Wine - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 3 days ago to manga@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 3 days ago:
I’ll get to the winter anime in a bit here.
First, I started last week watching Scum’s Wish, and not to put too fine a point on it, I fucking hated it. I can’t remember the last time I hated an anime this much.
It started out well enough, and I was interested in spite of the fact that the set-up invited drama and heartbreak and a fair bit of unpleasantness.
What I didn’t expect though was that halfway through they were going to just abandon the FMC entirely - one of the few decent human beings in the cast - and completely shift the focus to a gross, nasty slut and the two pathetic cucks vying for her entirely non-existent affection. It didn’t even feel like an actual story - it was more like just a set-up for an NTR doujin series.
The only bare saving grace of the whole thing was that after wasting the second half of the season on the nasty cumbucket and her pathetic simps, it finally returned to Hanabi - the original FMC - long enough to throw her a vaguely hopeful open ending. Though they couldn’t even manage to do that without sticking the bitch in the scene, apparently so she could remind us that she’s a bitch in both the Japanese sense of the word and the American one.
So after that, I really needed a pallete cleanser, and I didn’t even dare gamble on something - it had to be something that I knew would wash the stink of that slut out of my mind. And as it turned out, I didn’t watch one thing, but an episode here and there of lots of things.
Some of the highlights:
Episode 4 of the first season of Sword Art Online - The Black Swordsman. That’s the introduction of Silica and Pina, and it’s just a pleasure from start to finish and one I rewatch often.
The final episode of 86 - brings tears to my eyes every single time. It’s just one of the most touching and beautiful things I’ve ever seen.
Episode 1 of Gurren Lagann - it’s solid all the way through, but mostly I watch it for Yoko’s entrance, which is one of the greatest ever.
YuruYuri episode 5 - Ayano goes to Comiket. It’s worth it just to see Chitose discover the world of yuri doujins, but Ayano is especially cute too.
Little Witch Academia OVA 1, which has become my most recent obsession, and at this point I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve watched it.
And a few other things here and there, plus some of my favorite opening and ending themes.
And now we get to winter anime, since once I’d finally fixed my mood, it was time to catch up on them.
There were three that I watched last season:
Zenshu. - started off strong, as an almost deconstruction of an isekai, and with amusing bits of all sorts of genres mixed in (I never got tired of her mahou shoujo style transformation). It bogged down at about the 1/2 to 2/3 mark, but finished fairly strong. I liked it all in all.
Guild Receptionist - started off a bit slow, other than the sheer awesomeness of Alina kicking boss ass, but built up nicely for a while and looked really promising. But then it sort of floundered for a while, and ended a bit weak. Too much focus on Alina hating overtime and not enough on her coming to terms with her past and her feelings about adventuring and about making herself vulnerable to other people.
Honey Lemon Soda - I thoroughly enjoyed this, and ended up rewatching the entire series. Yes - it’s trite and cliched and sappy, and most of the drama got settled too quickly and easily, but I just don’t care. I liked it.
An awful lot of it is that most anime depictions of social anxiety rely on personality tics and gimmicks to sort of represent it, but never actually depict what it actually feels like. Honey Lemon Soda nailed it with Ishimori though - I couldn’t help but cheer for her, because I recognized so much of what she felt. And the dynamic between her and Miura was unusual but believable and effective - he has just the personality that’s actually best suited for dealing with someone like Ishimori - fundamentally kind but not conciliatory, and relentlessly honest but not cruel.
And at the moment I’m early in Noragami Aragoto. Broadly I can already guess much of what’s going to happen, but a lot of the charm of Noragami is the character interactions, so that’s okay.
- [DISC] Kamiyama-san No Kamibukuro No Naka Ni wa / What's Under Kamiyama-san's Paper Bag? - Ch. 24 - Survival of The Fittest - The Mother is Too Strong - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 4 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on [DISC] See You Tomorrow at the Food Court - Ch. 24 - MangaDex 5 days ago:
Damn I’ve missed this.
I didn’t expect the dramatic turn, but the potential’s always been there - there’s always been a bit of melancholy about Yamamoto, and with hints at least that her home life was nowhere near as idyllic as Wada’s.
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- Comment on [DISC] Renge to Naruto! - Ch. 30 - What a Mess! & Ch. 31 - Weird Person! - MangaDex 6 days ago:
When this started, I would’ve never guessed it was going to be so well written.
spoiler
Everything about that was brilliant. First, in just a few pages, Shiori was turned from a disappointing potential villain into a very sympathetic character, much to my relief. I was worried about that because I really didn’t want to end up disliking her, but it was handled very well. And then Naruto not only got out of the situation, but did it in a way that was so heartfelt that he even surprised himself, and I suspect that both he and Shiori are going to get some character growth out of it.
It was all just very well done, and very impressive, especially for a manga that started out as unpretentiously as this one did.
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- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 6 days ago:
Little Witch Academia OVA 1 (2013)
Kemurikusa
Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na
86
Sousou no Frieren
Akudama Drive
YuruYuri S1
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
ODDTAXI
Nichijou
…or something like that.
- [DISC] Kono Healer, Mendokusai - Vol. 7 Ch. 68.1 - The Team Encounters a Crazy Monster - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- [DISC] Pani Poni - Vol. 11 Ch. 136 - Even A Withered Tree Adds To The Mountain's Liveliness - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 11] 3 weeks ago:
I assume that what we’re seeing lately is literal filler. They have a background plot going with this mysterious villain who’s spreading rumors of secret quests and apparently trying to get people to confront dark gods, and my guess is that they already have the culmination of all of that planned out, and ended up with two or three episodes they had to fill with something first.
The latest episode does have a bit of character growth, at least as measured on a relative scale (with someone as tsundere as Alina, a little goes a long way). But it’s still mostly biding time.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 11] 3 weeks ago:
So Season 2 of Oregairu wasn’t quite the slog I was afraid it was going to be, though not because the characters really improved at all. They were still pretty much all assholes of one sort or another - it’s just that the other characters didn’t get as much screen time, thanks to the VERY welcome addition of Isshiki to the cast. Just having to sit through less of Haruno would’ve been enough all by itself to greatly improve the season overall, but as a bonus, Isshiki actually turned out to be a great character (easily my favorite in the entire series), and a perfect foil/accomplice for Hachiman.
Then I went on to Season 3, which was… okay. It was initially difficult, in part because it was like Hachiman and Yukino and Yui cranked their already frustrating inability to communicate up to 11, but mostly because it put a lot of emphasis on Yukino and Haruno’s mother, who’s one of the most foul, loathsome, manipulative bitches it’s ever been my displeasure to encounter in any medium, and just seeing her on-screen ruined things for me. But once it got that c*** out of the way and Hachiman and Yukino finally started to open up, it was (finally) pleasant. Oddly enough though, the ending sort of suffered IMO by coming together too quickly and easily, particularly after all the time spent tediously building up to it. It was okay all in all, but mostly I was glad it was over.
I wanted an antidote after that, so I deliberately looked for something roughly similar but far more pleasant, and ended up finally watching Zero no Tsukaima, which has been on my TBW pretty much as long as I’ve known Louise existed, which is pretty much ever since I first went online. I expected it to be amusing and enjoyable, but it surprised me by actually being sort of awesome in addition to that. I really enjoyed it, and even more than I’d hoped I would.
Then I bounced around a bit and finally, for I don’t know what reason, ended up with Queen’s Blade, which is one of the most thoroughly bizarre and ridiculous things I’ve seen. It manages to combine cringily brazen fanservice, battle royale, complex political intrigue, genuinely interesting characters, tragedy and gag humor into… something. It’s so exaggerated that it almost seems like it was meant to be a satire, but it stops just short of actually being one. It is definitely… something though.
And as far as current series go, Guild Receptionist is moving a bit too slowly lately, Zenshu is still flailing a bit, but I’m hoping it’s going to do that MAPPA thing where they somehow manage to tie everything together in the end anyway, and I’m still really enjoying Honey Lemon Soda, trite and tropish though it may be.
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- Comment on [DISC] Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu - Ch. 163 3 weeks ago:
Same here - I read the first few chapters and just couldn’t get into it.
It’s not just that the MC is too creepy for me to tolerate - he’s so over-the-top creepy that he breaks my suspension of disbelief.
- 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 9 discussion 3 weeks ago:
It’s hilarious that even the guildmaster is intimidated by Alina.
And nice to see Jade actually make a bit of progress. He still has a long way to go, but her heart did actually thaw just a bit, and that’s a first.
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[DISC] Shinya Shokudou - Vol. 5 Ch. 67 - Spring Cabbage & Vol. 5 Ch. 68 - Grilled Horse Mackerel - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗ - [DISC] Robou no Fujii / Fujii on the Roadside - Vol. 2 Ch. 10 - Fujii on Typhoon Day - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 10] 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago to manga@ani.social | 3 comments
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