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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clevatess • Clevatess: Majuu no Ou to Akago to Kabane no Yuusha - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with Clevatess on this one. Humanity probably should be destroyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity • Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t appear to be doing anything new (at least so far) but Cloverworks’ gorgeous animation and direction really sell it regardless. Everyone’s very cute and I’m eager to see them grow. I give the premiere a 4/5.

  P.S. netflix please let this out of jail, what is wrong with you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solo Camping for Two • Futari Solo Camp - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes it feels like you can just tell when an author’s heart isn’t really in it, like they don’t have a story they want to tell, they just need to be writing because it’s their job, and this definitely seems like one of those. The characters are pretty weak (their only traits are annoying ones) and the camping portions don’t feel like they’re really meant to sell the audience on the hobby the way a lot of hobby anime try to. Overall, I give the premiere a 2/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Accidentally Reveals They've Been Using ChatGPT for Sub Translations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs should be good for translation, but the thing is that they aren’t, for two main reasons:

  First, the avoidable problem: CR is running them on the audio, not the script. The AI is mishearing stuff all the time, leading to inconsistent character naming and nonsensical sentences. There are a few CR anime this season that are extremely hard to follow at times because the AI subtitles can’t even begin to understand what’s happening.

  Second, a more permanent problem: translation of fiction is much more of an art than a science. Translators don’t just translate words, they translate connotation and tone, as well. A translator interprets the meaning of the lines - what information is being conveyed, spoken or unspoken - and tries to put that same meaning into a different sentence. This is a task that LLMs are going to struggle with a lot. For example, how is the AI going to convey that there’s been a pun, or a reference to a well-known turn of phrase, or an innuendo using words with multiple meanings?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze • Mikadono Sanshimai wa Angai, Choroi. - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only watched the first episode because I felt like I’d seen what I’d needed to, lol. It’s got a bunch of the standard harem anime stuff with sort of a mean cast of girls, plus an interesting theme about the importance of family time which gets completely undercut by the fact that it’s a harem romance. I give this premiere a 3/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turkey! Time to Strike • Turkey! - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you finish the first episode? lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turkey! Time to Strike • Turkey! - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really sure to think about this one, since I feel like I have no idea what to expect going forward, lol. The drama and characters are good so far, as is the animation quality. I give the premiere a 4/5 because it hooked me, but who knows where it’s headed (and that’s sort of the beauty of anime originals).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The animation looks great and I’m glad all the nichijou fans seem to be pleased, but (just like with nichijou) I’m just sort of left wondering what on earth I’m missing. I just didn’t find this funny at all? Sometimes I could identify jokes, but most of the time it was just things occurring in what seemed like an unhumorous way. I don’t resent other people their humor - I’m genuinely glad different people with different tastes get their shows. I’m mostly confused because I know nichijou is held in pretty high regard and both that and this just make me wonder what it is that I’m just unable to see in it.

  For me, this premiere is a 2/5 (but the extremely similar vibe to nichijou and high production values means it’s probably going to be a huge win to a lot of other people)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachiakuta - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing start. I love the care that was taken with the aesthetic and tone - the vibes here are immaculate. It’s really hard to predict where this is going, but I’m excited to see. I give the premiere a 5/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nyaight of the Living Cat - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a really fun premise, but I feel like the janky cgi cats really killed the vibe. I give the premiere a 3/5 and I might try reading the manga instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin • Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes this feels like watching someone play a strategy game, sometimes it feels like reading someone’s middle school fanfiction, but all of the time it is very much not for me. It picked up a lot of steam in the second half, but not enough for me to care too much about where it’s going. I give the premiere a 2/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ruri Rocks • Ruri no Houseki - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The animation is stunning, but I find the characters a little weak and boy howdy is there a lot of unnecessary fanservice for a show about rocks. The main character’s VA also is doing an excellent job at sounding like an annoying spoiled child, which is unfortunate. I give the premiere a 3/5, but I could imagine it being great for people interested in both rocks and t&a.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With You and the Rain • Ame to Kimi to - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is some pure iyashikei right here, a real “dog caretaking to study/sleep to” type anime. I’m not sure if it can retain momentum for a whole season (it really felt a lot like a one-shot), but I’m willing to follow it at least for a while. I give the premiere a 4/5 and wish i could touch the dog’s little beans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity • Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Livechart says that english subs will be available on a week delay in at least some regions (“Asia-Pacific”, allegedly), so with a VPN it should be accessible much sooner. Either way, though, Netflix is doing what they do again…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad Girl - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK what it was, but this episode just fully didn’t hit for me at all. I found it hard to get invested in any of the characters and the jokes just didn’t really land. I hope other people have fun with it, but for me the premiere is a 1/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Summer Hikaru Died • Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard very good things about the manga, but this didn’t really hook me. I’ll give it some more time, but it feels like it’s not really delivering on the horror or the drama yet. I give the premiere a 3/5 but hopefully it’ll find its footing and finish strong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Betrothed to My Sister's Ex • Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was perfectly fine, all around. It’s cute and it works and if you need your shoujo fix this will do it. It’s a little unfortunate that this is coming on the heels of Too-Perfect Saint, which executes a very similar idea in a much better way, but that’s not really this anime’s fault. I give the premiere a 3/5.

  I won’t be watching more, but before I go, a prediction: the sister faked her death and will turn back up disguised as a man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secrets of the Silent Witch • Silent Witch: Chinmoku no Majo no Kakushigoto - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like this so far. Monica is a little bit of a weak main character at the moment, but the dynamic of autistic wallflower being forcibly adopted by theater kids works really well (and was my own high school experience, lol). The action even looks good, too. I give the premiere a 4/5.

  Also, it’s nice to see that Jinshi and Maomao are having a nice married life in this fantasy world, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Water Magician • Mizu Zokusei no Mahou Tsukai - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cute, but the story so far is just so boring and there were a lot of strange choices in the writing like skipping the entire conversation with the dragon. It felt like we got to know very little about the main character or the world he’s in, and we didn’t even dig that deep into the nature of magic and what makes someone good at it. I give the premiere a 2/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! • Tsuihousha Shokudou e Youkoso! - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty bland, but serviceable, and it gets some goodwill for (I’ve heard) being more wholesome than harem. If this is your genre then I’m sure you’ll have a good time. For the rest of us, I feel like it’s unlikely to provide anything we haven’t seen before. 2/5.

  Also, I’m really tired of slavery in anime being treated as morally neutral (or only bad if the master is bad). At least this time MC freed the slave he bought, but I hate that he put quite a lot of money into the pocket of a slave trader. Especially since I don’t think the story would be very different if she was a homeless kid instead. Like, she could be sitting dead-eyed in an alleyway and he could see her and be like “i can’t help everyone” but then feel guilty as he’s sitting down to eat dinner and show up back in the alleyway with a plate of food for her and she just follows him home from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Saga • Tsuyokute New Saga - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The story really didn’t grab me and something about the storyboarding in the action scenes made them really hard to follow sometimes. It’s not terrible, but it doesn’t really have anything going for it either. I give the premiere a 2/5.

  MC, please, TELL YOUR MOM. She would likely believe you and you can probably trust her with that information, especially since she’ll have all kinds of magical insights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clevatess • Clevatess: Majuu no Ou to Akago to Kabane no Yuusha - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a lot of issues with the tell-don’t-show worldbuilding in this first episode, but despite that I found the story really engaging and definitely want to see more. I’m sort of a sucker for main character bait-and-switch type shows (which is why i try to go into shows blind) and this pulled it off very well… except when they added the fake main character back in later, boo. Overall, I give the premiere a mixed 3/5, but it has plenty of room to grow.

  Also, I find the fluffy-haired barbarian sidekick character’s eyes very suspicious and I wonder if Clevatess’ plan of “become an advisor to a puppet monarch” has already been executed by a different beast lord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Takopi's Original Sin • Takopii no Genzai - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, that episode was a LOT. The writing, direction, and animation are all on-point, but this is going to be tough to get through. Takopi’s upbeat, cartoony reactions to real, serious problems were painful to watch, but I think it’s only going to get worse as he learns more and more what kind of suffering exists in this world. I definitely want to keep watching this, but I’m going to need to make emotional space for it, because jeez.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Watched Galverse So You Didn't Have To⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally I’m pretty open to the idea that something has dogwhistles. I saw someone post about your blog negatively and was ready to side with you over it, but looking at your actual blogpost, I feel like you’re just seeing what you want to see.

  To be fair, I’ll agree with you on the black-coded villain - that sort of villain design that evokes black people is a staple of the era the anime is trying to emulate and carrying that racism forward into the modern day is not a good look.

  Everything else you point out, though, seems like a huge reach. For example, “children are the future” is a pretty common sentiment, and there’s a reason references to the fourteen words need to stick to a pretty specific sentence structure to be understood as such. Similarly, the idea that a reference to Amaterasu is code for antisemitism because of the connection to historical to race science ignores the many many other cultural connotations Japanese viewers will have about their country’s creation mythology. Would you think the same about a reference in western media to Zeus just because white nationalists always evoke Greek and Roman mythology?

  Anime has a lot of problems - racism, sexism, queerphobia, apologia for war crimes, you name it - in the fandoms, in the creative staff, in the works themselves sometimes. But this really isn’t the Nazi-coded anime you seem to think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard that recommendation a lot - “play DS1 first because otherwise you won’t have the patience to play it later”, and TBH all that tells me is to skip 1, play the more recent entries, and then move on to the many, many other games that I keep meaning to play, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Edgeworth’s games are very different in structure but SO GOOD. I played the first one when it came out and it instantly became my favorite in the series. I still need to get around to playing the sequel though, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve bounced off a couple souls games before but I’m now like 150 hours deep into elden ring on a friend’s copy, lol, but they only have the base game. I’d like to play the dlc (which is not on sale) eventually so I think it makes sense to get my own copy at some point (I’ve heard transferring saves is pretty easy on pc)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, I have to decide between the various ace attorney collections, elden ring, and lies of p, because I can’t justify buying all of them…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO outer wilds has a strong tone of optimism and hope in the face of existential dread, so I think you’re probably good on that front. And if you’re at all a fan of environmental storytelling and don’t hate physics sims, I think you’ll like it just fine. If you’re super unsure, maybe watch like the first hour (or less if you find your answer early) of someone doing a blind playthrough and see if the manner of storytelling grabs you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Romance Anime Do You Consider the Most Wholesome?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of good answers here, but I’ll add some gay to the mix as well:

  • Cherry Magic, a story about the need to know others and the vulnerability of being known with a strong emphasis on healthy communication.
  • Given (first season ONLY), a story about healing from trauma and letting out difficult emotions via art. The anime very cleanly divides the somewhat fraught manga between the actual cute and wholesome (though often sad) story of the high schoolers in season 1, and the extremely unwholesome and honestly kind of disgusting messy drama of the university-aged bandmates in the movie, so I’d suggest just watching the tv anime and pretending the story is over.
  • Sasaki & Miyano - just a cute little fluff anime. light on substance, but so sweet.

  I’ll also second My Dress-Up Darling* and A Sign of Affection and add My Happy Marriage, Snow White with the Red Hair, and Recovery of an MMO Junkie

  *depending on how you define “wholesome”. I know some people would require it to be chaste, which dress-up darling is very much not, lol. IMO, the story uses sexuality to inform and develop the characters and their relationship and does so in a very wholesome way.