Kissaki
@Kissaki@ani.social
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 47] 1 day ago:
And Yet the Town Moves (2010) is very good. The first half of the season is great. A frantic, wild comedy. The second half(?) felt to me like it lost its core, and went on side tangents [and style] that I didn’t enjoy.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Investigating Situation After Voice Actor Claims Company Opened His Mail, Gave Away Contents | ANN 3 days ago:
The video I linked went into that as well. The clickbait title says it’s a federal crime. Later on, when they actually go into it, they show and quote the law, and given that the package was sent to Crunchyroll, despite being addressed to a person at Crunchyroll, may be fine and depends on how the court interprets it.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Investigating Situation After Voice Actor Claims Company Opened His Mail, Gave Away Contents | ANN 3 days ago:
Ah, nice, thank you. I looked at other nitter instances but those were down or did not work.
- Comment on Me_irl 4 days ago:
Its supposed to be like that
I’m interested whether that’s your or someone’s interpretation, or if the author described that as their motivation?
- Comment on Me_irl 4 days ago:
- Comment on Who am I? 4 days ago:
I see it in anime all the time! /s
- Comment on Who am I? 4 days ago:
“I can help you navigate the anime landscape though!”
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Investigating Situation After Voice Actor Claims Company Opened His Mail, Gave Away Contents | ANN 4 days ago:
Man, why is Twitter X so popular. I hate the closed platform, unordered tweets and replies, no contexts on tweets, segmented content and texts. Otherwise I would have explored and added more links and context.
- Crunchyroll is Investigating Situation After Voice Actor Claims Company Opened His Mail, Gave Away Contents | ANNwww.animenewsnetwork.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to anime@ani.social | 15 comments
- Comment on [Clip] Is That a Real Gun? - Heavenly Delusion 1 week ago:
Great, exceptional anime!
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to animemes@ani.social | 1 comment
- Comment on What is your best isekai anime? 2 weeks ago:
I kept the images under the urls as they were. They’re probably still under
wp_content:D That way it’s not too hard to migrate.I don’t think I implemented anything for image galleries though.
- Comment on Violet Evergarden: The Movie Wins at 1st Dolby Cinema Japan Awards 2 weeks ago:
I remember being quite disappointed and disliking it. Checking my stored rating and review note, I did put it under 8/10 though, which confuses me quite a bit now. Maybe it wasn’t as bad as I remember.
Still, it certainly didn’t reach the exceptional levels of the series and side/prequel movie (Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll).
- Comment on Violet Evergarden: The Movie Wins at 1st Dolby Cinema Japan Awards 2 weeks ago:
I’m a bit confused why the 2024 awards award a 2020 movie!?
The Dolby Cinema Japan Awards aim to recognize the creators and works that have been produced using Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technologies in order to contribute to the international development of Japan’s content industry.
I guess it’s not yearly awards. Or it’s the first one?
- Comment on Violet Evergarden: The Movie Wins at 1st Dolby Cinema Japan Awards 2 weeks ago:
Godzilla Minus One
Does that mean 0 Gozillas?
- Comment on What is your best isekai anime? 2 weeks ago:
too much detail; leading up to the findings that follow
Looking at the git lot, it looks like it was in 2018. I don’t remember, and it’s not documented that thoroughly in the commit messages log. Looks like I had content pages in Joomla, and the blog in Wordpress. I may have exported the content via a plugin, or separate tool that reads from the database, did exported from the DB myself. I certainly did some mass-fixups via text search and replace. (I can recommend VS Code for that.) Unfortunately, I had other projects that I migrated, so I can’t remember which one I did what. :)
Now that I know the date, this is the migration blog post
I used content exporters to export the Joomla pages and Wordpress pages and blog posts into markdown content files for hugo.
Unfortunately, it’s not more specific than “content exporter into markdown”. But who knows if those specific ones would still be available today. :)
So I would suggest to use any Markdown exporter that’s available now.
- Comment on What is your best isekai anime? 2 weeks ago:
I really liked Uncle from another world too, but I wouldn’t list it to that question. I guess because it’s more of a comedy than with a spanning story and depth or development.
Scrolling through the comments to remember some of them,
- Mushoku Tensei - great - the first two seasons have exceptional world building, story telling, contrasting, and developments; not everything is great, but a lot is; for me, last two seasons fell off a bit
- Grimgar - very good - very unique, great world and characters and relationship between them
- Ascendance of a Bookworm - very good
- The Eminence in Shadow - very good - exceptional satire
- Comment on What is your best isekai anime? 2 weeks ago:
It has unique visuals, but what really sets it apart is the great - what do I even call it - significance through realism? It has a lot of depth and is very different. It has my definite recommendation too.
- Comment on What is your best isekai anime? 2 weeks ago:
Ascendance of a Bookworm. A really good one!
- Comment on Japan's Massive Number of Anime at Risk if Failing Currency Problems Continue 5 months ago:
I recently watched Back Street Girls: Gokudols, which has a very low frame and animation count. It still worked well as a comedy. It was enough.
Not that I want anime to be that way, but it can work for some.
- Comment on Japan's Massive Number of Anime at Risk if Failing Currency Problems Continue 5 months ago:
alleged that 90% of animators quit their jobs in three years
Insane number. But not implausible to me. Bad working environments with impossible schedules do that.
I wish they would improve working conditions. As an industry, or through regulation because evidently, the industry doesn’t.
To finance it - I wish they would make anime more easily accessible and buyable.
Less oppressive checkboxed mass/standard productions would surely improve what we see as products too.
- Comment on "Goodbye, Lara" Original Anime Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 5 months ago:
Stitched tongue?
- Submitted 5 months ago to anime@ani.social | 3 comments
- Comment on [Clip] Mecha Battles in a (Mostly) Pre-CG World - Vision of Escaflowne 5 months ago:
I loved Vision of Escaflowne back in the day. (In 2006 I rated it 9/10 apparently.)
I wonder how it would hold up if I were to watch it today.
- Comment on 'Does Everyone Hate Real World?': Ghost In The Shell: Arise Director Bemoans The Rise Of Isekai Anime 5 months ago:
What do you mean by traditional material?
I can see your argumentation being followed by misguided production management, but I doubt it’s necessary or can positively influence world-building.
All kinds of mechanisms and progression can be presented naturally, intuitively, and embedded within the world. I doubt a noticeable number of people are so far gone they can only understand the world through the interface of video game interfaces.
- Comment on 'Does Everyone Hate Real World?': Ghost In The Shell: Arise Director Bemoans The Rise Of Isekai Anime 5 months ago:
I don’t think it’s about “everyone”. It’s about production companies picking what’s popular, the currently popular theme, and produces shovelware standard-productions in a narrow, uninspired target-audience checkboxing way. They contract producers and creatives, but restrict them and likely invest so little that it ends up with what it is. The industry as a whole, many titles, end up as forgettable, mediocre, similar shovelware.
Much like Hollywood produced an abundance of hero movies until everyone was sick of it. Or how EA produced the same sports game each year. Or Call of Duty. Or Battlefield.
I agree with there being a lot of sub-par and mediocre productions, and the overpowered, harem, and video game elements are big offenders and indicators of what most of the time end up as bad products.
I enjoyed Reincarnated as a vending machine. Simple formula, very forced, but hilariously absurd.
Most overpowered protagonist anime end up between bad and awful. But The Eminence in Shadow makes use of it as poignant satire. And I remember seeing another series where they made it work through enemy hybris, and the punishment/revelation was satisfying enough that it worked, in large part through direction and production quality.
The most “wtf” regarding isekai I recently saw was when the entire series was not about being an isekai, but - not at the begining nor end - they put a random scene in where the protagonist had a vision from modern Japan city and was like “what is this about?” and that was it. Maybe they included it just so it can have the isekai product tag? I have no idea.
Coming back to the original theme and hypothosis, the differentiation of and popularity of fantasy vs isekai escapism is interesting.
Ghost in the Shell is certainly fantastical. Enjoying or viewing or getting invested in fantastical stories is inherently partly escapism too. Isekai specifically puts a - most of the time - normal modern human into a fantastical setting though, materializing escapism as a fact on the protagonist.
I’m not sure there’s such a hard line to draw though.
- Comment on Deafness Explored in Anime - A Sign of Affection (2024) and A Silent Voice (2016) 7 months ago:
I’ve thought about the clear inner voice during watching too. I found it acceptable, not that detrimental. Something different could have had more impact, but I didn’t find it that bad.
It’s certainly the easier way in terms of directing.
- Comment on Deafness Explored in Anime - A Sign of Affection (2024) and A Silent Voice (2016) 7 months ago:
Those sound interesting, thank you for the recommendation. I’ll definitely take a look. I’m intrigued about how blindness is represented and integrated.
- Submitted 7 months ago to anime@ani.social | 6 comments
