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- Comment on [Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff 11 hours ago:
Tonari No Yokai-san A heart warming take on an alternate universe where Yokai, Japanese mythological critters, live and work alongside regular humans. We see them get involved in regular life, and mythological events. It’s really great!
- Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown 1 day ago:
Liverpool matches are art? Not lately…
- Comment on [Episode] One-Punch Man Season 3 • One Punch Man 3 - Episode 6 discussion 2 days ago:
King obviously didn’t want the other heroes to worry about becoming collateral damage when he attacks, so he quietly took off to his own route.
What a guy!
- Comment on [Episode] GANGLION - Episode 7 discussion 2 days ago:
I’m shocked that Hopeman took the minion’s word for it at face value.
The Evil Org and Hopeman really do have a working relationship.
The reference to the attacks being scheduled on Wednesdays was odd.
Super Hero Time when the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai shows air is on Sunday.
- Comment on [Episode] One-Punch Man Season 3 • One Punch Man 3 - Episode 5 discussion 6 days ago:
I have much stuff to do IRL, as opposed to just sitting around watching anime for hours every day.
I know which of those I’d rather be doing, but such is life.
- Comment on [Episode] One-Punch Man Season 3 • One Punch Man 3 - Episode 5 discussion 6 days ago:
I’ve just caught up for this season, and the animation quality has been rough. I’m seeing a lot of Chinese studio names in the credits, so I’m guessing JC Staff went with the lowest bidders
The directors and writers have taken many liberties to adapt the manga story to the TV show format, which I feel is completely understandable given pacing problems in the manga.
Here, Garou has pretty much destroyed the Monster Association on his own, which I don’t remember happening in the manga, so I’m not sure what they have in store for us.
- Comment on [Episode] One-Punch Man Season 3 • One Punch Man 3 - Episode 5 discussion 6 days ago:
Just be warned: The Monster Association Arc drags on for a loooong time in the manga, far longer than I felt was welcome…
You want to see the heroes and you will, but unless they skip through some side stories, like they did with Cat Demon in the Prison in s03e01, it’s going to be here for a while.
- Comment on [Episode] One-Punch Man Season 3 • One Punch Man 3 - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
That art is soo good! That would be good for a manga panel, let alone an animation frame.
- Comment on European Style Anime Suggestions? 1 week ago:
The first thing that popped into my head was the classic shojo story Rose Of Versailles, which conveniently has a 2025 movie remake on Netflix
This story is from a manga from the 70s, there’s the 1979-80 anime TV show, a 1987 animated movie.
I’ve never watched it myself, but it’s one of the most famous bishojo stories out there, so there should be something good about it.
- Comment on Anime General Discussion Thread, Favorite Fall Season OP/ED Edition [2025, Week 45] 1 week ago:
I’m just catching up with a couple of shows.
Mushoku Eiyuu is pretty bad. The OP is decent though. The MC’s overpowered-ness, awful animation, sexist humorless writing. It’s a drop after 3 episodes.
Ganglion is very low key humor. More a straight rendition of Japanese office behavior and the absurdity of being an evil org minion than any attempt at being outrageously funny. The 3 minute episode format works against the storytelling. It’s probably best to “binge”.
- Comment on [Episode] GANGLION - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
It’s very low key humor, and very much sticks to its premise of “Live action hero-type evil org (think Kamen Rider’s Shocker org) as typical Japanese office corporation, with the masked minions/combatants as office drones”
The protagonist is very sympathetic. He’s got a loving family, this episode we even see that his neighbors are nice, despite him walking home with his evil minion mask and uniform every day.
The 3 minutes episodes (including OP and ED) work against the long story that I feel this is begging to tell.
- Comment on xkcd #3164: Metric Tip 2 weeks ago:
It is really wild: Produce is still sold by the pound.
- Comment on [Episode] GANGLION - Episode 5 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Okay, just catching up, these 3 minute episodes just seem to fly by.
The voice acting is pretty good, led by veteran seiyuu Youji Ueda, Tomozaki Sugita, Aoi Koga, and Fumiko Takichi
Very much the Live Action Show combatant-as-salaryman in the 15 minutes of footage so far.
In that, it is kind of working, by showing the boss-worker social dynamics.
But the running gag of our nameless combatant eating food objects that are too hot aren’t landing.
- Comment on A New Predator Has Emerged From the Deepest, Darkest Part of the Ocean 2 weeks ago:
It’s about 1/3 down the original paper, but there is a photo of the flash frozen specimen:
- Comment on Chainsaw Man Movie Dominates Opening Night Box Office in Major Anime Win For Sony 3 weeks ago:
Overall, I enjoyed it. I found Denzi’s falling in love with Reze believable.
But the ending was somewhat predictable, even if it was somewhat shocking and effective, which is probably(?) true to the source material.
The fight scenes got too wild to keep track of exactly was going on.
I found little logic in the fight scenes.
They were nicely animated, but ultimately at what should have been the crescendo of the fights were just figures jumping around, devolving into meaningless squiggling lines, which strikes me as lazy storyboarding.
As opposed to having tense fight dynamics and choreography. But again, the source material may be to blame.
- Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths 5 weeks ago:
If you can get a billionaire or two to back you, the right path can be profitable.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 1 month ago:
So do we get free chocolate, or is that socialism?
- Comment on [Meta] Proposal regarding post tags for c/anime and c/manga 1 month ago:
I don’t think we’ve got such a flood of posts that I need to search by hashtag to find what I want to read.
But that might just be me.
Has anyone had any problems reading or finding desired content in this /c so that tagging posts would be useful?
- Comment on [Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
So looking at the title: Literally translated “towa” is eternity, “yuugure” means dusk or twilight
Of course we now know Towasa is the name of a character, but the construction of her name means “eternity-ness”, i.e. “having the quality of eternity”
You figure that’s going to come in sometime.
While we’re on the subject of names, Akira means “bright,” “clear,” or “intelligent” (which he certainly is) and can also mean “wisdom,” “strength,” or “enlightenment”
According to this
The name’s etymology reflects core values in Japanese culture, where clarity of thought and brightness of character are highly esteemed qualities. Akira emerged from classical Japanese naming practices that often incorporated aspirational qualities parents wished for their children.
- Comment on [Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
Wow, that was really good, even the “will they or won’t they” mini-arc of scenes.
The animation and art weren’t super high quality, but writing was good.
Oddly enough, I found that the AIs were the most interesting character(s), differentiating themselves from the stock protagonists, as a whole, even if the AIs were not as identifiable as individuals.
I’m hoping that Dove, and maybe the smart speakers, survived the apocalypse and find out what happened to them.
The brief interjected scenes of a POV moving down the narrow pedestrian walkways seemed oddly foreboding, and seemingly unrelated to later events.
- ONE PIECE ONLY: How Manga Is Made - Exhibit at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco (Sep 27, 2025 - Jan 25, 2026) Part of or complementary to the Art Of Manga exhibitwww.famsf.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Fall Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 39] 1 month ago:
The first TV series anyway.
The movies are just kind of a mess.
- Comment on Fall Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 39] 1 month ago:
Umm, yeah, as others have said this season does look bare compared to the last 2 seasons that I managed to sit out…
So this forthcoming season, I’m planning to watch:
- Ganglion - About a combat minion in an Evil Organization, because I love this kind of thing
- One Punch Man S3 - Even though I’ve read ahead in the manga and know where it goes
- Sanda - How silly can an action show about the Santa clan get?
- Towa no Yuugure - Mostly because PA Works, but this sounds absolutely fascinating.
Maybe:
- Campfire Cooking S2
- Catch up on what I missed these last 2 seasons
- Comment on Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners 1 month ago:
A wonderful collection of strange studies, as usual.
The zebra stripes on cows thing could be very useful!
Teflon pans have less of my food stuck to them, and therefore increase my caloric intake. I blame Teflon for my being overweight.
Getting academic research funds to learn how to make better pasta sauce sounds like a dream!
An anti-smell shoe rack does have commercial potential!
Drunk bats don’t navigate or fly as well as sober bats. Duh.
Telling people they’re more intelligent than average makes them think they’re more intelligent than average. Remember that when speaking to your kids and family.
Rats preferred cheese-only pizzas. That actually surprised me that they wouldn’t go for more protein with the meat pizzas.
Babies preferred garlic-flavored breast milk. Well, the dairy industry should take note of that…
Fingernail growth charted against age. That actually is interesting, although a sample of one. Need more data points.
Maybe Dutch just sounds like drunk German.
- Comment on Mechanochemical recycling converts polystyrene to a commodity chemical 2 months ago:
The trick is collecting clean polystyrene foam.
You can’t throw it into a mixed recycling bin because it crumbles and contaminates the other materials.
We have a polystyrene recycling system here in San Francisco, CA, the only one in the US I’m told, but we have to separate the polystyrene foam and bring it to the dump.
It’s free for SF residents.
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 2 months ago:
That was the pon farr, basically when even Spock’s half-Vulcan mating urge couldn’t be repressed anymore.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_Time
If you raise a Vulcan without the mental training, you basically get a Romulan.
- Comment on How have I not heard of The Beverly Crushers before? 2 months ago:
Then there’s the Wesley Crushers
- Comment on Informative review 2 months ago:
It’s like the first time in any restaurant or food place where you’re not familiar with the food:
Ask the server what they recommend.
- Comment on Content from !guns@hexbear.net hasn't updated/federated here since 6/22/25? 2 months ago:
I finally figured it out: For some forgotten reason, in my profile, I was blocking ValueSubtracted@startrek.website who just happens to make most of the posts in !doctorwho@startrek.website
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most gloriously gory anime you've seen? 2 months ago:
The following couple of sakuga gore scenes in Megazone 23, Part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q2THtU2g_o&t=13m11s
The rest of the video is nowhere near as gory
