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Try Shiki. It’s written by the spouse of Another; you might find it interesting to compare their styles.

K-On - Expected: Shoujo - Actual: Seinen

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They really wanted you to know the answers were left blank since otherwise you might not notice due to the resolution of the screenshot – it really makes it pop out more for the viewer.

Perfectly clear even at 236x133. Good job editors! 🙃️

Top left is Fate/Zero. Not sure on the others.

Huh. I’ve completely forgotten this character.

Guess it’s been too long since I watched Season 2 and the movie… 🫠️

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Factorio - Every so often I still get a craving for this even if the space age release really took a lot of the shine off it for me personally.

I played it about six months ago and sometimes get the craving too. Does Satisfactory scratch that itch or is it too different? (Haven’t played it but was thinking of picking it up next time it’s on sale – or the itch gets itchy enough…)

Should I be proud or embarrassed that I understand your source without needing an explanation? 🤔️

A Place Further Than The Universe has some travel in it that you’re still missing – e.g. Fremantle (in Australia), and, of course, Antarctica among other locations.

One of these days I’ll sit down and figure out how to use Matrix… 😅️

Shirobako is one of the more realistic anime I’ve seen for depictions of real world adult life. Some things are still exaggerated, especially for comedic effect, but the work/stress/organizational dysfunction/interpersonal conflict bits hit decently well.

It has some similarities, and yeah, you might find it interesting.

Still watching anime fairly sporadically (and eclectically) but I’ve picked up the pace a bit recently; some of the things I’ve watched over the last couple weeks are the rest of the main series of Eva (still have the movie to go, but the disc plays now so I’ll get to it), the Megumin prequel to Konosuba, Porco Rosso, and, finally, the first episode of Frieren Season 2.

Out of curiosity, have you watched Shiki?

Bleach, probably? My friends in school dragged me into an anime club they were running back when the first season was airing.

I definitely saw other shows before that – Pokemon, of course, and bits and pieces of Ranma, Speed Racer, and other shows that occasionally made it to broadcast TV – but I didn’t distinguish them from other cartoons.

No.

Although I did go and take a walk outside yesterday – which is, admittedly, rather unusual for me!

I’m not sure where it came from, but FMA also came to mind for me too…

The Ghost in the Shell - […] I wish that the main / overarching plot would advance. So far, all I am seeing is the police’s counter-terrorist unit going around fighting crime.

I haven’t seen the new one, but for SAC the show had a mix of “stand alone” episodes (one offs) and “complex” episodes (that were all connected to the main story).

Probably not what you’re after OP, but there’s what I do to remember where I left off watching things.

I use a plain text file called watch.txt that I stuck in my home directory. I jot down the name of whatever I was watching, the date, context about the disc/season/episode number, plus the timestamp I stopped at or “done” if I stopped at the end of an episode/disc.

e.g. here’s a snippet from it:

  Evangelion  2026-07-20  Disc 4  29:25
  To Love Ru  2026-06-16  Disc 2  E14 done
  Konosuba    2026-06-27  S2      E01 done

Nothing fancy, but it works for me.

Is it really worth building a cube out of the things or would slapping a filter on each side of the box fan work about as well?

Hmm. Not sure I’ve ever actually managed to be properly scared by an anime, but Shiki is probably up there as far as apprehension from atmosphere + concern about what my subconscious might recycle and throw at me at weird hours of the night…

The only thing that’s coming to mind right now for media that properly scared me is Subnautica – particularly a certain predator in Below Zero that triggered a panic attack. That’s not an anime though…

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“isekai” is “another world”.

The protagonist ends up leaving our world and is transported/reincarnated in another – usually JRPG-like medieval fantasy themed – early in the show. The stereotypical mechanism is that the protagonist gets run over by a truck… Usually they end up in some sort of power fantasy story taking advantage of either their knowledge/technology from our world or special skills they got via the reincarnation or whatever.

There’s, uh, a lot of them… of varying quality.

Some popular examples are Konosuba, Re-Zero, and Mushoku Tensei. Which shows qualify as trash is, of course, a matter of taste. 🙃️

I recently finished rewatching Frieren S1 in preparation for (finally) watching S2.

…I started that rewatch back in January. Such is my life lately. 🤷️

“Dry humor” maybe, for the style?

Did some searching and one term that came up was the German word “Schmunzeln” which I hadn’t heard of before.

wiktionary describes it as:

to smile slightly, smirk (not smugly, but in an amused or contented way; e.g. when witnessing an amusing scene or conversation)

Not sure if that’s quite right or not, but might be what you’re looking for if you want a word to describe the reaction? (Maybe someone who actually speaks German can confirm…)

819MB currently, if anyone is curious.

I’ll watch Mushoku Tensei S3 most likely (not sure if I’ll follow as it airs or wait and just binge at the end; I usually prefer the later). Would like to try the new GITS but I have no enthusiasm for dealing with Amazon’s streaming.