ReluctantZen
@ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 50] 4 days ago:
Mostly Mangadex tbh. Very occassionally Weeb Central, Mangafire or Mangafox
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 50] 5 days ago:
Bato in particular, but otherwise not really
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 50] 5 days ago:
I finished That’s My Atypical Girl after someone recommended it here. It’s quite good. I like how it deals with several heavy topics. Many manga have a tendency to make it a bit torture-porn-ish with topics like that, but this one stays grounded and almost a little detached, which fits well with the themes of the manga.
Not all plotthreads were finished up however, which was a bit anticlimactic. That also does kind of fit with the theme of the manga, but it didn’t feel intentional.
- Comment on [Chapter] The Gals Who Always Say Incredible Things - Ch. 43 - MangaDex 1 week ago:
However, it is also confusing as hell
I have had no idea what’s going on since this tea ceremony thing started haha
- Comment on Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad 1 week ago:
It’s impossible to dub every single anime at a reasonable time.
I mean, not really. For all already existing ones, maybe, but for new ones? No reason for it to be impossible. The Japanese dub doesn’t appear out of thin air.
- Comment on Are there any other anime with beautiful depictions of light and color like in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End? 1 week ago:
Anything by director Naoko Yamada is amazing.
Apothecary Diaries has gorgeous looking moments too.
- Comment on [DISC] Blooming Love - Final Chapter 1 week ago:
them back in art classroom was nice end setup
I totally agree! I think that was perfect, it’s just that something was lacking in the lead up to it.
- Comment on [DISC] Blooming Love - Final Chapter 1 week ago:
I think this is a good place to end it, but it was a little underwhelming to be honest. They met up like nothing happened, which was nice in its own way, but idk, I expected a little more drama or time together I guess. Maybe just 1 more chapter of them being back together to let their reunion simmer a little bit.
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- Comment on Mamoru Hosoda's Scarlet Anime Film Debuts at No.3 1 week ago:
I saw the trailers, but can’t say I’m excited for it. The 3D animation looked pretty bad.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 48] 2 weeks ago:
Caught up with Gachiakuta and May I Ask For One Final thing. The former I’m starting to care less about, the latter is great. Just as enjoyable as the manga.
- Comment on [DISC] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 150 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m kinda over it at this point tbh. Probably better to take a short hiatus to figure out where to go rather than leaving it weirdly meandering like this.
- Comment on [DISC] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 150 2 weeks ago:
What is this cheating accusation that keeps coming back? It’s quite strange
- Comment on New Visual for Mamoru Hosoda's "Scarlet" 3 weeks ago:
Saw the trailers and tbh, the janky 3D animation and sometimes models really put me off
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47] 3 weeks ago:
True, but the reason for the vitriol is because most mediocre anime aren’t nearly as popular as SAO.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47] 3 weeks ago:
I think there’s a 50% chance we went to the same theater, because I also went to see The Colors Within yesterday
Haha, yeah, quite likely.
slight plot hole
Hm, maybe, but they were quite lenient with other things in the ends so…
Still a weird experience to go to the mainstream cinema and see an anime film in a packed house, though. That would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
Hmm, I don’t know. It wasnt in any cinemas near me, so it depends on where you are I guess. Bigger cities generally have a wider variety of audiences.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47] 3 weeks ago:
I tried Code Geass as my 1st anime and dropped it 1st episode haha. I didn’t like the OP and the artstyle. Apparently that was enough at the time.
Then I tried SAO (I know), and here I am, 12-13 years later: weeb and still haven’t watched Code Geass.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47] 3 weeks ago:
Haven’t really had the brain space to pick up anything from this season yet, but I did watch two anime films yesterday in the theater: Chainsaw Man: Reze’s Arc and The Colors Within.
CSM: I didn’t like S1 much.I thought it was okay at best. But this film was incredible. Denji is a much more human here and Reze is just incredible. She really stole the show. Visually it’s a big upgrade too imo. More vibrant and better movement. And man, that soundtrack was so good. Kensuke Ushio doesn’t fail to deliver.
The Colors Within: the theater I went to ocassionally has anime film showings outside of the release schedule, and they showed this one this time. Great movie as expected of Naoko Yamada, also with a great soundtrack by Kensuke Ushio. Bit of a tonal whiplash to see it right after CSM though haha.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 46] 4 weeks ago:
Ah right, personal preference is fair.
I do think that explosive/hype music would’ve been out of place though, looking at the more introspective and mysterious themes of the show.
- Comment on ‘5 Centimeters Per Second’ to get live-action film adaptation | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis 4 weeks ago:
Hmm, but one of the biggest reasons for its success is the art. You’d need to replicate that somehow in live action, otherwise it’s just pointless tbh
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 46] 4 weeks ago:
IMO it’s rather lackluster in the music department though. I barely noticed any soundtrack, and when I do, they don’t seem to fit the scene.
What makes you find it lackluster or not fitting?
- Comment on [Discussion] Which anime has the most mysterious atmosphere? 5 weeks ago:
I think Apothecary Diaries does a stellar job
- Comment on [REVIEW] Sohachi Hagimoto - That's My Atypical Girl 5 weeks ago:
Nice, I’ll give it a read then.
- Comment on [REVIEW] Sohachi Hagimoto - That's My Atypical Girl 5 weeks ago:
Sounds interesting. Is it painful or depressing to read the entire way through or is there space to breathe as well? I’d like to give it a read, but I don’t deal well with fiction that is depressing all the time.
- Comment on [Chapter] Slime Saint - Ch. 46 5 weeks ago:
Leon is partly to blame for running away and then acting as a distraction
Yeah, I thought they were going to do this and that probably is the case, but instead they chose for Leon to believe something a bit more unlikely.
- Comment on [Chapter] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 147 5 weeks ago:
If they can’t figure out where to go, I hope they do. Would be a waste to turn something good into something bad just to keep it going, but that is unfortunately how things tend to go.
- Comment on [Chapter] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 147 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, same. I don’t think the mangaka knows either. Hopefully they settle soon or simply end it
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 & Movie Teaser Visual 1 month ago:
Hmm, yeah. Better than the usual 6 or more months though
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 & Movie Teaser Visual 1 month ago:
Wasn’t the recent HeroAca a simul-release?
- Comment on One Punch Man S3 Director Shinpei Nagai deletes his twitter account due to the pressure, calls out people who took his tweets out of context/exploited the staff's struggles for "rage-baiting" 1 month ago:
Why do people so often blame the actual people that worked on this? It’s so dumb