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- Comment on Chainsaw Man Movie Dominates Opening Night Box Office in Major Anime Win For Sony 1 day 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 2 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 3 weeks ago:
So do we get free chocolate, or is that socialism?
- Comment on [Meta] Proposal regarding post tags for c/anime and c/manga 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Fall Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 39] 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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? 1 month 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
- Comment on Antarctic researcher remains, working for Falklands’ Dependency, 66 years ago, found in receding glacier 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s a muddled headline.
Good article though.
- Comment on What anime has the best worldbuilding? 2 months ago:
I also loved Log Horizon S1. It’s too bad that the later seasons were terrible Studio Deen productions.
- Comment on What anime has the best worldbuilding? 2 months ago:
If you go old school, Galaxy Express 999 has a universe of extreme inequality where immortal robotized wealthy humans hunt poor people for hunting trophies because they’re so removed from their human origins. The intergalactic train system that the protagonist rides on is an unimaginable luxury, and many plots arise from people trying to steal his train pass in order to escape their own doom or hopelessness. Each planet that they visit is a study in pathos in one form of another, stemming from some human condition or desire.
- Comment on Content from !guns@hexbear.net hasn't updated/federated here since 6/22/25? 2 months ago:
When I look at comments, newest first, as opposed to posts, I can see comments from 15-16 hours ago, which is the same as looking at startrek.website directly.
It’s just the view of posts newest first that seems to be affected.
- Comment on Content from !guns@hexbear.net hasn't updated/federated here since 6/22/25? 2 months ago:
That’s weird, I am seeing a post from 1 month ago as the first sorted by newest first, in both web and vger
Screenshot:
- Comment on Content from !guns@hexbear.net hasn't updated/federated here since 6/22/25? 2 months ago:
I have also just noticed that more recent content from !doctorwho@startrek.website also has not federated here in about 1 month.
Don’t tell me we’re also on their s___ list!
- Submitted 3 months ago to meta@ani.social | 8 comments
- Comment on xkcd #3116: Echo Chamber 3 months ago:
That can’t possibly be right, because it didn’t appear in my YouTube recommendations.
- Comment on Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review 3 months ago:
Samples of the hidden messages:
- “I, for one, love our robot masters”
- “I trust the Computer!”
- “The Computer is my Friend!”
/s of course.
- Comment on Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus • Seishun Buta Yarou wa Santa Claus no Yume wo Minai - Episode 2 discussion 3 months ago:
I’m still waiting for my latent mutant abilities to activate.
- Comment on Solo Camping for Two • Futari Solo Camp - Episode 1 discussion 3 months ago:
I’m still reading the title incorrectly.
- Comment on Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 New Key Visual 3 months ago:
Triple vaginas are a thing?
- Submitted 3 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 1 comment
- Comment on Would Frieren kill Nezuko? [Discuss] 3 months ago:
Neither. Freiren has impenetrable plot armor, and Nezuko has impenetrable merch armor.
They’d probably end up teaming up, or in a lesbian scene.
