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Thought at first you meant enemies with invisible sprites like Intangr from FFVI and that one rare enemy from FFXII.

But on random encounters and turn-based combat, the mainline entries (the numbered ones) have been progressively more action-oriented and static encounters-oriented since XI afaik. Though on combat specifically, the first hack and slash (not counting non-mainline entries) afaik is XV.

But the series is pretty overarching, so if you check the non-numbered releases, or spin-offs of numbered releases, you get things like RTS (FFXII Revenant Wings), tactical RPGs (FF Tactics), souls-likes (Stranger of Paradise), hack and slash (Type-0, maybe Crisis Core), literal movies (Advent Children, Kingsglaive), etc. And whether enemy encounters are random, depends on the game too.

And lastly, feel free to crosspost the question to !finalfantasy too, so you can get more opinions. =)

I've only found smut ones, and sporadically only.

But if there are no sources for DRM-free anime, maybe worth for consumers to pressure for that. Could be a good time now that right to repair and stop killing games movements are gaining traction. =)

Oof. Quite a lot.

Not familiar with most, but makes me wonder how many of these are on physical media, sold DRM free digitally, or at least available elsewhere through streaming.

At the same time, #Crunchyroll has a monopoly on #anime overseas, and removes most #physicalmedias from the store. And engineered tragedy, it feels like.

Dunno if it's on vinyl, but if it is, maybe from the movie Suzume?

I think I had searched the links after I made the post.

But just made a post and checking across ~10 Lemmy instances, including the community's home instance, each got the post. So maybe it was some temporary issue.

Also even if there is a decent overlap, appearing as 55th biggest in MAU among all softwares on FediDB, not being the immediate result in most searches should be good. I'd expect people to choose if not the first, then at least one of the first instances they find, so other instances appearing in searches helps spreading out, and thus not making a specific one disproportionally big.

Sauce according to SauceNAO:
https://x.com/pacpoi/status/2049540272607166707

No Nitter because of the C&D letter sadly =/

The author is also on Bluesky though it doesn't seem to have been posted there:
https://bsky.app/profile/pacpoi.bsky.social

Missing in both entries if also appearing in the anime.

Also, any place to report missing entries? I play more games than I watch anime, and I can remember a few games missing from your entries.

In Persona 5, at least in the game, there's a short section in Hawaii. Does it also appear in the anime?

Sorry for the late reply!

About genres, I don't mind whichever it may be usually, so long as the end result seems well made.

An exception might be mecha animes. Not a big fan of a humanoid robot fights being a series of slideshows. Only exceptions might be Pacific Rim and specially The Big O, since those give a better feeling of giant machines moving around.

About the ones you mentioned, will be checking them!

Also from what I have read, between France being liberated and the government was reinstated, the French people also persecuted the French traitors that aided the nazi during the occupation.

Any recommendations for animes on Crunchyroll?

Thinking about cancelling my Crunchyroll subscription, and wondering if there's any to still justify subscribing to.

Some of nice finds I had over recent years were With You And The Rain and My Dress-Up Darling, which are over, Suzume which is a movie so not much to extend, Frieren and MHA Vigilantes which both were enjoyable but neither got new seasons yet, and Demon Slayer which I already read the manga out of impatience.

You could poke the author of the project to have it done. Remember to be polite though.

Would "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" count as underrated? I rarely see people commenting about it at least.

That sounds even worse imo, like Vulcanus wanting to make a little trolling against the poor fellow’s legacy. 😬

Not directly related to anime but to representations of magic in general, but this reminds me of the speed up spell "haste" in Final Fantasy II (PSP) and Final Fantasy X. In FFII, iirc no gliph appears, and the character gets so fast that in the initial peak, he/she runs off to one side of the screen and come back at the other. In X, a gliph appears, but it is a spherical clockwork-like gliph instead.

In a more recent work, now back at anime, magic used by humans in Dragon Raja has audio and visual representations, the voice of the caster distorting, a mist coming out of the caster's moth iirc, and both this mist and the eyes of the caster glowing.

Dragon Raja, apparently making 2D animation in a 3D software, probably is what allows this non-gliph type of representation. By extension, FFX using a 3D engine probably is what allows and even facilitates this type of 3D gliph instead. And FFII, though 2D, is from before the glyph trend, thus preserving the old style.

And this makes me think, maybe the 2D glyphs are used in manga as a way to make easier to represent magic in a purely 2D and static medium, and this ends up causing a habit which evolves to a culture over time.

Curious Archive has a recent video on representation of magic btw, though iirc it's a Nebula exclusive. =/

In the movie, the natives understand Miguel and Tulio, so either the movie's also very inaccurate, or they understand Spanish too. =)

Starbound maybe?

Might not match the hardware and controller requirements since its optimization changes depending on the machine, and the commands are keyboard and mouse-centric so adapting to a 24-keys controller can be hard.

Watching Crunchyroll's releases through Grayjay, if I follow a series as I would subscribe to an Youtube channel (they're treated as the same by Grayjay), they appear in the subscriptions and can be hidden by toggling off the default filter "watched". Also, you can generate a playlist of a series' episodes, and remove each episode as you watch them.

Grayjay's Crunchyroll integration only works if you log in to Crunchyroll and have access to the episodes, though.

Ever checked https://heroicgameslauncher.com/?

It's a launcher for GOG, EGS, Amazon Prime or whatever the name is these days, and still in beta, Zoom Platform. It has native Linux builds as AppImage, so you can run just by launching with the file, without installing anything.

They're also on the fediverse if you'd be interested: @heroiclauncher

All Reddit communities and users have RSS natively, so if someone's on a fediverse platform that allows following users (main one Mastodon, but also Friendica, Mbin, Misskey, etc.) and still wishes to follow some Reddit feed, there's @birb. Bots generated through it don't pull images, only the embedded text and link included in the given feed's posts, so the bots shouldn't be as heavy either.