Endmaker
@Endmaker@ani.social
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27] 1 hour ago:
I picked up Time-stop Ugly Old Man thanks to @themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com.
This shit is peak comedy.
- Comment on Just finished Medalist, wow. 3 hours ago:
It’s always nice to see a fellow fan. I’ve always find it a pity that top-tier anime like Medalist get overlooked / underwatched by the general anime community.
I’m glad there’s people like you who are willing to give them a chance.
I know these recommendations are uncalled for, but I think you may enjoy these anime too:
Girls Band Cry - The MC - Nina - is an idiot unlike Inori, and the anime is about music instead of sports, but I find that their stories are quite similar.
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray - The similarity here is more straightforward, with both being sports anime.
- Comment on Spring Anime Season Wrap-Up, Summer Kickoff, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27] 14 hours ago:
Machu and Nyaan’s story
Yeah that’s where my interest is too, but they keep not doing anything with it so far
If this is your first foray into Gundam, I think Witch from Mercury may be more your cup of tea.
- Comment on Spring Anime Season Wrap-Up, Summer Kickoff, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27] 15 hours ago:
Past Seasons
I completed two anime over the past week. As usual, top-rated shows do not disappoint.
Grand Blue was good dumb fun. The slapstick humour was on point and got me laughing my ass off many times. I am glad I picked it up right before season 2 airs.
Easy 9 / 10
While watching Girls Band Cry, I had an epiphany: this is, in fact, a sports anime. The sport here just happened to be making music.
Think about it, it has all the makings of a sports anime: main characters being heavily disadvantaged, them having tragic backstories, numerous obstacles, but despite all that, they persevered.
But if we take it one step further, a lot of these stories of sports teams or bands are typical of start-ups. It’s just that the space are they in is sports / music.
Anyway, stories like Girls Band Cry never fail to tug at my heartstrings. Despite being a dumbness, Nina’s character makes me (and everyone else) want to root for her. Same goes for the other band members with their backstories. This show knows how to get you to connect with its character.
There’s not much I can add besides saying that this is absolute cinema. 10 / 10
- Comment on Spring Anime Season Wrap-Up, Summer Kickoff, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27] 21 hours ago:
Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray surprised me. I didn’t expect to like it as I tried to watch the first Umamusume a couple of times and couldn’t get past episode 2. Will watch Part 2.
That was my experience with Pretty Derby too.
Thanks to Cinderella Gray, I gave it one more chance but didn’t watch by release order - and finally got into it.
Please try starting from Pretty Derby season 2, and try at least 2 episodes before deciding whether to drop it or not.
It has a significantly higher rating than the first season for a reason: the story is just that good.
- Comment on Spring Anime Season Wrap-Up, Summer Kickoff, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27] 1 day ago:
This Season
Watched (or will watch) till completion
Gundam GQuuuuuuX
I see people complaining that the show progresses too quickly. Personally, the breakneck pace means that I didn’t have a chance of grow bored of it.
My only “real” complaint is the
Gundam GQuuuuuuX spoiler
yuri bait with Machu and Nyaan. The studio definitely know what they were doing, given the success of Witch from Mercury at drawing in new fans.
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray
WIP
The Apothecary Diaries season 2
WIP
Notable Drops
Witch Watch
WIP
To Be Hero X
WIP
Plan to watch
I have heard good things about the shows below, so I am planning to try one episode for each of them.
- Apocalypse Hotel
- Ninja and Assassin under one roof
- Rock is a Lady’s Modesty
- Comment on Umamusume: Cinderella Gray • Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray - Episode 13 discussion 1 day ago:
Good on you for playing the game.
I rerolled for Fine Motion and Super Creek for quite a few hours, got salty that I can’t get them even after so many tries, and ragequited and uninstalled the game.
For what I’ve heard, the game is rather difficult, which means having sink an ungodly amount of time or (given that it is gacha) money into it, neither of which I have sufficient of.
Personally, I will try to support them in some other way.
- Comment on Umamusume: Cinderella Gray • Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray - Episode 13 discussion 1 day ago:
I am glad the last race here turned out the way it did. If Oguri kept winning the whole time, the show would turn stale real quick.
That’s why we don’t have Umamusume anime centered on Symboli Rudolf, or why Superman shows are hard to make. When people know that you are unbeatable, they would find it boring.
Regardless of the way it ended, the race still delivered on the hype as usual. The ending of this last episode also set the anime up nicely for future arcs, with rivals in the form of Tamamo Cross, Dicta Striker and the foreign horse.
Thankfully, there’s only a one-season break before part 2 of Cinderella Gray; I can’t wait to see more of Oguri. This is the only Umamusume anime I found to be on par with Pretty Derby season 2.
Banner:
“This girl is on fire” - Symboli Rudolf version
@rikka@ani.social
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 days ago:
The field of artificial general intelligence has been around for something like 70 years, and has made a really modest amount of progress in that time, on the scale of what they’re trying to do.
I daresay it would stay this way until we finally figure out what intelligence is.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 days ago:
Artificial Intelligent is supposed to be intelligent.
For the record, AI is not supposed to be intelligent.
It just has to appear intelligent. It can be all smoke-and-mirrors, giving the impression that it’s smart enough provided it can perform the task at hand.
That’s why it’s termed artificial intelligence.
The subfield of Artificial General Intelligence is another story.
- Comment on Notice anything about the characters of "Turkey!" ? 2 days ago:
The number of pins left when they win? Their number of wins? Number of strikes?
Bodycount?😈
- Comment on Notice anything about the characters of "Turkey!" ? 2 days ago:
They are all ladies?
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 26] 6 days ago:
- Comment on [Discussion] The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You - chapter 219 1 week ago:
About time someone acknowledges that they straight-up have superpowers.
Nakamura (the writer) has been cooking, doing plenty of set-up for a future Yamato household arc.
The obvious approach is for Rentarou to zing with Miss Naddy’s younger sister and rescue her from the abusive family. However, knowing Nakamura, it will probably be something badshit again.
- [Discussion] The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You - chapter 219danke.moe ↗Submitted 1 week ago to manga@ani.social | 3 comments
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 26] 1 week ago:
Next Season
Sequels
Dan Da Dan season 2 - needs no introduction
My Dress-Up Darling season 2 - fun romcom
Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus - At this point, I’m wondering: what can rascal dream of??!
Grand Blue season 2 - I’m still checking out season 1, but there’s a decent likelihood that I will be continuing with season 2
New Shows
The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity - Heard about it. Shall give it one episode.
Turkey! Time to Strike - Given how good Medalist and Umamusume: Cinderella Gray have been recently, I’m going a give another random sports anime a shot.
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 26] 1 week ago:
Past Seasons
I completed Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 last week, and I’m glad that it’s as good as season 1.
As with similar shows, JJK’s story got darker / more brutal in later seasons; I actually like this more. The twists are also really something.
I still have complaints about the show though:
- the second half of the season - especially episodes 13 to 15 - involves more exposition, which is really just poor scriptwriting / directing / whatever you call it. “Show, don’t tell”.
- no more Juju Stroll. These small segments at the end of each episode in season 1 are so cute and funny. I understand that they don’t fit the darker and more serious mood of season 2, but I still miss them.
- it became too predictable. I know that the writer is capable of introducing plot twists; I wish that they could do so more liberally. Otherwise,
JJK season 2 spoiler
whenever a character has a long flashback, it became way too obvious that they are about to die. Or if a character doesn’t get killed immediately - despite becoming severely weakened / disarmed - after a drawn-out fight, I knew that they are going to survive.
It is still deserving of a 9 / 10 like before, so it is entering my Peak Shounen list.
- Comment on [DISC] SPY x FAMILY Chapter 118 1 week ago:
Loid’s and Anya’s, as well as Yor’s and Anya’s, relationship has been well-developed.
I hope the next few chapters give Loid’s and Yor’s relationship some much-needed development.
- Comment on Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback? 1 week ago:
Thanks; fixed
- Comment on Umamusume: Cinderella Gray • Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray - Episode 12 discussion 1 week ago:
I was not expecting the episode to end like that, in the middle of the race.
Place your bets - who do you think would win the Tenno Sho?
I’m betting on
my guess
Tamamo Cross. There have been multiple signs that she will be winning. In just this episode: - we see that the commentator introduced Oguri Cap first, then Tamamo Cross; the best is saved for the last - we are seeing snippets of Tama’s backstory
Banner: my reaction knowing that it’s ending next week (even though second part is in the works)
mini Tamamo Cross crying / tantrum
@rikka@ani.social
- Comment on The future is amazing 1 week ago:
peak
- Comment on Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback? 1 week ago:
2020s
Needs continuation:
86 - still has a lot of source material to adapt
2010s
Needs continuation:
Cautious Hero - still has a lot of source material to adapt
WIP
- Comment on Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback? 1 week ago:
What’s considered “older” anime?
- Comment on "The Demon King’s Daughter is too Kind" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 1 week ago:
Dou says: everything is going to be alright
Best news I’ve heard in a while.
- Comment on [DISC] Isekai Shachuuhaku Monogatari - Outrunner PHEV - Ch. 34 1 week ago:
If there’s one thing I dislike about this manga, it is that it spent too long harping on how the MC was a loser previously, and him turning over a new leaf came as a surprise to his old associates.
I still like it a lot though. It’s so rare to see a protagonist how is actually self-aware and capable of reflecting on himself.
- Comment on What Romance Anime Do You Consider the Most Wholesome? 2 weeks ago:
Weren’t they just tsundere towards each other? How is that screwed up?
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 25] 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 25] 2 weeks ago:
Pinning Down Joy
Thanks for sharing. It is very cute indeed.
Also, Josei romances still makes the best romance stories.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 2 weeks ago:
keep cooking
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 25] 2 weeks ago:
Finally finished Cells at Work!! (S2).
What are your thoughts?
