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- [DISC] Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa Inai!? - Vol. 5 Ch. 36 - Otaku & Gyaru & Misunderstanding / Vol. 5 Ch. 37 - Otaku & Gyaru & First Namesmangadex.org ↗Submitted 9 hours ago to manga@ani.social | 2 comments
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- Comment on Winter 2025 Anime Season Kickoff and General Discussion Thread [2025, Week 01] 2 days ago:
Ah.
Well, at least it wasn’t the cynical attempt to establish a franchise that I took it to be. It really felt to me like the entire point of that season in the long run was simply to create a demand for season 2.
I might have to look into the LN, because I liked the story well enough until I figured out that we weren’t getting any sort of resolution of anything, and the petty contrarian in me kicked in.
- [DISC] Dou ka Ore wo Houtte Oitekure - Naze ka Bocchi no Owatta Koukou Seikatsu wo Kanojo ga Kaeyou to shite kuru - Ch. 28 - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 2 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- [DISC] Mankitsu Shitai Jouren-san / Miss Regular Customer Wants to Enjoy - Ch. 39.1 - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 2 days ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on [DISC]Conveni de Kimi to no 5-funkan. / The 5 Minutes We Share At The Convenience Store. - Vol. 6 Ch. 86 - MangaDex 2 days ago:
Shibasaki is so damned earnest.
Hopefully once he gets his tests over with, he’ll let himself go a bit. OL-san is ready to be swept off her feet.
- [DISC]Conveni de Kimi to no 5-funkan. / The 5 Minutes We Share At The Convenience Store. - Vol. 6 Ch. 86 - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 3 days ago to manga@ani.social | 1 comment
- Comment on Winter 2025 Anime Season Kickoff and General Discussion Thread [2025, Week 01] 3 days ago:
Nothing in this coming season catches my attention.
So, first up last week was the KonoSuba movie, Legend of Crimson. And it was every bit as awesome as wjs18 led me to expect it to be.
Lots of great moments, but my favorite had to be Komekko completely stealing Kazuma’s spotlight, then unveiling her own Crimson Demon chuuni-style intro. I’m even laughing right now, remembering it.
Next up was an oddity: [VTuber Nandaga Haishin Kiri Wasuretara Densetsu ni Natteta]( (aka VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream). My little brother’s a bit of a weeb too, so we spend much of holidays sharing interesting things we’ve seen/played since the last time we talked, and that was one of the ones he mentioned. It was better than it seems like it should have any reason to be - not high art by any means, but not a cynical cash grab either, which is what I would’ve expected. I know nothing at all about vtuber culture, so that was all lost on me, but it was enjoyable enough anyway.
Followed that up with another he mentioned Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha (The Unwanted Undead Adventurer). It was really quite good all in all, and then completely fell apart in the end when it was revealed that it wasn’t really an anime season in any meaningful sense, but was pretty much just a 12 episode prologue. Nothing at all was resolved - it spent all of that time, and all it managed to do was establish the setting and what presumably is meant to be the main cast and some of the background, and it was cynically obviously done just to serve as a foundation for a hoped-for franchise. There’s apparently a season 2 coming, but I’m not sure if I’ll watch it. I liked it well enough, but to be honest, the cynicism of so blatantly trying to create a franchise with the only possible payoff relegated to the future rather than telling a story with its own payoff pisses me off.
And at the moment, I’m finally watching the second season of Non Non Biyori - Non Non Biyori Repeat.
I have a complex history with NNB. At the time the first series came out, the manga was my absolute favorite, no competition, and it still ranks as one of my all-time favorites. And the anime was certainly gorgeous, and it has a couple of stellar episodes (the New Years episode with Candy Store and Renge is on the short list for my all-time favorite anime episodes period), but I was still disappointed all in all - it just never quite caught the magic of the manga. So when the second season came out, I was interested, but I just couldn’t quite get myself to watch it - I didn’t want to be disappointed again. But it is NNB, and its reputation is even better than the first season’s so… I was going to end up watching it sooner or later. And now’s the time.
And so far, so good. It’s sort of odd that it’s essentially a reboot, but I’m hoping that that’ll be to its advantage, since a lot of what disappointed me with the first season was seeing inferior versions of great gags from the manga, and this one has only touched on a couple of those moments in passing and is mostly telling other parts of the story. We’ll see.
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- Comment on Fall Anime Season Wrap-Up and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 52] 1 week ago:
Mm… yes and no.
Yes - the animation style is sort of simplistic and imprecise, and that’s presumably a deliberate stylistic choice.
But I was talking about season 2 specifically, which goes beyond that, and is notably different from the rest of the series.
- [Discussion] Starting Today, We’re Childhood Friends - Ch. 123 - Childhood Friend and Soccer - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] Tengoku Daimakyou - Vol. 12 Ch. 69 - Izukunoeshima II 1 - MangaDex 1 week ago:
The actual transformation, yes.
The closest it’s gotten before is the girl from the original cast who turned into the hand/fish thing, and that was off camera.
I assume that hard seed thing is the crystalized remains of the same thing that Maru can see when they’re alive, and crush to kill them.
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- Comment on Fall Anime Season Wrap-Up and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 52] 1 week ago:
Yeah - the movie’s next up on my list. At the moment, I’m wading through season 5 of Star Trek Lower Decks.
The thing with season 2 of KonoSuba - in retrospect, I can’t even quite pin down what made it so much better than season 1. There were some notable bits (like the introduction of Yunyun, who makes me laugh pretty much without fail), but really it seems that it’s just that every part of it was kicked up a notch. Or at least everything other than the embarrassingly awful animation, but I stopped noticing that for the most part.
And yeah - the Monogataris. At some point, I’m going to watch Nekomonogatari Kuro, since it’s a prequel and fills in the part of the story that’s repeatedly flashed back to in Bakemonogatari, and then I suspect I’ll be done with the series. I don’t really dislike it - it’s just sort of tedious and pointless.
- Comment on Fall Anime Season Wrap-Up and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 52] 1 week ago:
Since I’m not watching anything this season and instead browsing through the past:
First up last week was Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo (2019), which was… not good. At all. It was sort of promising at first - the initial setup was intriguing if a bit derivative - but it fell flat almost immediately and never recovered. The biggest problem - I don’t know if it traces back to the LN or was just part of the adaptation - is that the writer(s) appear to have understood the idea that it’s good to have characters who grow and change, but didn’t get the bit about the changes having context and following a recognizable progression. So what we get are characters who are seemingly arbitrarily assigned traits, then at some later point, they’re essentially arbitrarily assigned different traits.
Next was Nisemonogatari (2012), which was… kind of dull really. It’s all the same gimmicks as Bakemonogatari, but at this point, they’re wearing a bit thin for me. And try as I might, I just detest Senjougahara.
Then came a surprising gem - season 2 of KonoSuba (2017). I liked season 1 well enough, but it just didn’t quite come together entirely for me. And season 2 didn’t look promising, since the first thing I noticed was that it has just about the worst art I’ve ever seen. It looks like it was done cheap and fast by amateurs. But then I discovered (the surprising bit) that pretty much every other aspect of the season was stellar - great stories, great characterization (most notably, they took the edge off of Kazuma’s assholery - in the first season there were too many times when it was unwarranted and too extreme, but in the second season, it was better timed and proportioned), and more genuine laugh out loud moments. And both the opening and closing themes are terrific.
And finally, after bouncing off of a few things, I ended up rewatching Akudama Drive (2020). The first time through I was initially intrigued but not particularly impressed, then slowly came to enjoy it more and more and was very impressed by the end. I wanted to see if it held up to a rewatch though, since I wasn’t sure if it was genuinely that good or if I was just swayed by the contrast between my initial reaction and expectations and what it turned out to be. And I’d say it really is genuinely that good. It’s not flawless by any means - it has some plot holes and some notably forced bits, but all in all, it just really is very good. And Swindler - the main character - is plain awesome.
- Comment on [Discussion] Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku - Vol. 15 Ch. 80.2 - Akebi Sato's Discovery - MangaDex 1 week ago:
I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure the closest we’ve seen to his work before is him leaving for work or coming home from work.
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- [Discussion] Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku - Vol. 15 Ch. 80.2 - Akebi Sato's Discovery - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 2 comments
- [Discussion] Fluffy Punk, Nakamura-kun - Vol. 1 Ch. 4 - Nakamura-kun and the Rain - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 1 comment
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- [Discussion] Vivarium de Choushoku wo - Ch. 48 - "They Audit" Sunglasses and The Cloning Machine - MangaDexmangadex.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on [Discussion] Chigau Miyahara Omae janai! - Ch. 33.2, 33.5 & 33.6 - MangaDex 2 weeks ago:
My theory is that he actually is in love with Miyahara, and he just hasn’t realized it yet.
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- Comment on Kiraware Majo to Karada ga Irekawatta Keredo, Watashi wa Kyou mo Genki ni Kurashiteimasu! / I Swapped Bodies with a Wicked Witch, but Today I'll Keep having Fun! - Vol. 3 Ch. 17 2 weeks ago:
Yeah - I was kind of put off by how determined the villagers’ opposition is. I can definitely see it up to a point, but it seems to have gone beyond anything reasonable. But it makes for a good story, and it’ll probably make it just that much sweeter when they finally do come around.
And yeah - Grieja.🥰
- Kiraware Majo to Karada ga Irekawatta Keredo, Watashi wa Kyou mo Genki ni Kurashiteimasu! / I Swapped Bodies with a Wicked Witch, but Today I'll Keep having Fun! - Vol. 3 Ch. 17mangadex.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to manga@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 51] 2 weeks ago:
I’m still not watching any current anime, but Negative Positive Angler is on my TBW.
I finished up Boogiepop wa Warawanai (2019). It was pretty good all in all. As I noted last week, I watched the original series - Boogiepop Phantom (2000) - years ago, and while it was intriguing, it was a bit too buried in the surrealistic visual imagery of the era, which made its already subtle plot pretty much indecipherable. This one was much more straightforward in style and presentation, which is a much better approach, since part of the overarching theme is bizarre mysteries and horror taking place right under our noses and virtually everyone failing to even notice. And with a more straightforward style, I was better able to follow the recurring characters and appreciate their certainly not coincidental growth, and piece together hints about the mysterious Towa Organization that’s lurking in the shadows behind many of the crises that Boogiepop and friends face. And now the light novel series is on my TBR, which is presumably the intent.
Then, casting about for an entirely different tone, I thought back to series adapted from manga I particularly enjoyed, and suddenly remembered Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san (2013), so that was next, and it was wonderful. It’s a slice of life gag series centered on a notably staid high school student/tsukkomi who spends his spare time fishing, and the childish, self-absorbed, seemingly immortal mermaid/boke whose attention he catches after he literally catches her (more than once - one of the many running gags is that no matter how many times she ends up with a hook in her mouth, she just can’t resist a fishing lure). It expands out to an entire cast of legendary creature bokes, and has more laugh-out-loud moments stuffed into its 13 minute episodes than anything I’ve watched in quite a while.
Then most recently I watched an oddity called NieA Under 7 (2000). I just happened on it listed in a stack and thought it looked interesting, and I ended up quite liking it. It’s a sort of melancholy slice of life about a distressingly poor ronin (in the modern sense of the term - someone who’s out of high school and studying for, but hasn’t yet passed, college entrance exams) who lives above a quaint old bathhouse in Enohana with a brash, selfish, free-wheeling alien freeloader (in their timeline, aliens crash-landed on the Earth about 20 years previously, and have since just sort of blithely blended in with human society). The art style is rough and simple, but it fits the setting of a broken down bathhouse in a broken down town, and the overall feel of it is satisfying - mostly melancholy but with bits of hope shining through, and with a pleasantly well-developed cast.
And I have no idea yet what’s next. I’ve been sort of considering catching up with either DanMachi (which I burnt out on with the second season) or Re-Zero (which I dropped after the first season because I hate Subaru with every fiber of my being), but I just can’t quite get myself inspired. We’ll see - something will present itself, one way or another.