ReluctantZen
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- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 11 hours ago:
Don’t know why, but I didn’t expect the Spring season to already have started, even though Winter shows have been finishing up.
- Comment on [Discussion] Falling for Her Secret Side / Ore wa Shiranai Uchi ni Gakkouichi no Bishoujo o Kudoiteita Rashii - Ch. 32 11 hours ago:
I mean, this is still a manga. It wouldn’t be the first MC that got close to some kind of obvious reveal, but copped out
- Comment on Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy 3 days ago:
I was already using Anilist, but now it’s time to remove my MAL account I guess
- Comment on I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time • Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Toubatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu - Episode 12 discussion 3 days ago:
Oh yeah, you’re right. Generic fantasy and generic isekai have a lot of overlap, so sometimes they’re the same thing to me
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 5 days ago:
Ameku M.D. - I ended up dropping this and I don’t think I am going to pick it back up.
Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend it.
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 5 days ago:
For this season, I watched:
- Dr. Stone Science Future: I’m disappointed. On paper, there are lots of fun and exciting moments, but the whole reason for why things are happening is so… vague and weak. It feels like conflict for the sake of conflict and that’s puts a downer on everything for me. It makes me question why all good moments need to happen to begin with and any resolve to the conflict feels meaningless by extension.
- Apothecary Diaries: great. Just as good as season 1. Absolutely love it. Maomao is a joy.
- Overtime Guild Receptionist: such a disappointment. It had a fun concept, but it just turned into a generic fantasy anime with a gimmicky character trait. The serious plot felt very tacked on and didn’t jive with the gimmick at all. The amazing animation of the OP is wasted on the show.
- Bureaucrat Villainess: I haven’t seen the final ep yet, but I had a lot of fun with this one. Kenzaburo as Grace is so fun.
- Sakamoto Days: fine. Enjoyable enough. Fairly typical shounen.
- Ameku M.D.: meh, some fun parts but the latter part in particular became a bit of a drag. Also seemed to be a troubled production with how the quality declined episode by episode.
- Zenshuu: dropped after 4 and a half eps. I was immensely disappointed when it turned out to be an isekai and Natsuko’s powers were just deus ex machinas. Particularly the isekai bait and switch like it’s Madoka Magica really soured my opinion. If it hadn’t done that, maybe I wouldn’t have been as disappointed and would’ve kept watching it.
- Welcome to Japan Miss Elf: just like the manga, I couldn’t bring myself to care. Dropped it around the same moment I dropped the manga (sand monster thingy). The fantasy side of things just wasn’t very interesting, even though it took up the majority of screen time.
- NEET Kunoichi: pretty much dropped from ep 1.
I still want to watch Flower and Asura, I Have A Crush at Work, Re:Zero and Orb.
- Comment on Director of Japan's First AI Anime Defends New Spring 2025 Work: 'It Will Give More Opportunities to Animators' 5 days ago:
The same scale
The scale wouldn’t be the same though. Big productions will still have way more resources available than fans. The discrepancy would much more likely remain largely the same.
but it’l have the same quality standard from the oiginal show,
That’s a bold claim.There’s no guarantee of that at all.
people that, just can’t draw good, and don’t want to go through the process of learning to draw who might have all the ideas in the world that never get utilized because they couldn’t draw to standards, etc
Those aren’t minorities. Drawing is, for the most part, a skill you can learn. If you don’t want to put in the effort to learn to draw, then why would someone put time into watching what you prompted to an AI? Granted, the amount of effort is probably not the same for everyone, but the point still stands. Even the most talented ones put in hours of practice.
If you have a lot of ideas, there are tons of other roles you can fulfill in creative productions like scriptwriting, directing, producing and tons more. Animation productions don’t just rely on people that can draw. If you want to help, help in the way you can with your own skills. That’s more satisfying in the long run anyway. Why would you want a role that you didn’t put effort into learning when there are people who did? That’d get boring pretty quickly.
Lets say you are someone who’s made a comic, but you don’t have the money to pay a big studio, and a bunch of voice actors to do your show. Ai lets you do the voices of the characters you created as you intended them as the creator of the comic in a smaller budget
In this hypothetical, why do you need to be on par with a big studio? What’s the problem with starting small? What’s the problem with asking amateur voice actors that aren’t that expensive or might even do it for free? Many voice actors, animators etc get their start with small projects like that. Without those, they’ll never even get the chance. AI generated projects only muddy the waters. Things aren’t perfect from the get-go and that’s fine. That’s kind of the point. You actually get to have a journey of growth. Find out what you’re good at. That’s way more satisfying. Maybe that won’t give you instant gratification and you’ll probably struggle along the way, but is that really a problem? Instant gratification will only last so long until you want more and more.
- Comment on Director of Japan's First AI Anime Defends New Spring 2025 Work: 'It Will Give More Opportunities to Animators' 5 days ago:
This issue i’m describing isn’t about releasing more slop, it’s about giving shows the chance that fans been saying they deserved since their cancellations.
The core issue here is companies not giving a shit. AI wouldn’t change that. If WB, with all those resources, who could’ve continued TT any time they wanted, suddenly generated a new season of TT with AI, would you really be satisfied with that? If they didn’t give a shit then, they won’t give a shit now.
The original Teen titians ended at a cliff hanger, and if Warner bros isn’t going to finish it, well, now the fans can easily with ai.
This would amount to nothing more than fan fiction though. Fans already have the means to do so without AI, and already do with fan comics, fan animation, fan games and fan novels. Sure not to the same scale, but that gap would remain. Having AI do it changes nothing here.
Because, like I already said, ai gives the animation medium new voices
Who though? What minorities are you speaking of? Again, nearly everyone can animate, as long as you put in the effort to get good at it.
- Comment on Director of Japan's First AI Anime Defends New Spring 2025 Work: 'It Will Give More Opportunities to Animators' 6 days ago:
If maintained by the right people
That’s a very big if
ai would actually reduce exploitation
In an ideal world maybe. In reality, I can only see it being used as a reason to pay animators even less or where animators become proof checkers. The real exploitation is animators not being paid enough, not the amount of time they put in. AI would not solve this.
Ai opens up animation to new voices, that wouldn’t be able to animate
Like? People that don’t want to put in the effort to get good? Unless you’re disabled, anyone can animate. It just takes a lot of effort to get good at it. But if anyone puts in that effort that means you’re passionate about it and they’re precisely the kind of you want in animation.
This is almost starting to look like the Photoshop doomsday all over again.
Not remotely the same imo. One is a new tool that doesn’t try to replace the creator, the other does try to replace the creator.
If you support minorities having a chance at jobs, you should also support the potential for more animators having new opportunities to create animations.
What a weird equivalence. How does supporting minorities equate to supporting more AI-gen? It implies they wouldn’t get the job without AI, which is much more problematic.
Ai also means you might actually get more content of a show made in an official means
I don’t see how that’s a good thing. Let’s not milk existing IPs any more than we already do. It’s just an opportunity for more slop.
- Comment on I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time • Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Toubatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu - Episode 12 discussion 1 week ago:
This anime was very meh. The serious stuff just didn’t work at all with the gimmick of her wanting to clock out on time. In fact, it made Alina seem like an awful person, but not in a comedic way. In a Konosuba kind of way, her gimmick would be funny. In a generic isekai like this, it’s dumb, annoying and, well, gimmicky. The serious stuff wasn’t very good in general. Very tacked on.
It doesn’t deserve its OP. That effort is wasted here.
- Comment on What is your best supernatural anime? 1 week ago:
Monogatari, Fate and Shinsekai Yori are the ones that spring to mind right now
- Comment on [Discussion] The Meals Of a 26 Year Old Single At Her Limit / Genkai Dokushin Joshi (26) Gohan - Ch. 18 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, An is lovely
- Comment on [Discussion] Rock is a Lady's Modesty - Ch. 7 4 weeks ago:
So, some artistic license is being had here.
Yeah lol. I wonder if the mangaka has played in a band (orchestra or otherwise) themselves
- Comment on [Discussion] Rock is a Lady's Modesty - Ch. 7 4 weeks ago:
I get what the mangaka is going for, but as a musician myself, I’m not sure I’d want those 2 in my band if they’re not listening to the rest of the band and just play in their own little world😅.
- Comment on [Discussion] Erio and the Electric Doll - Ch. 21 4 weeks ago:
Bringing back Ange was surprisingly smooth
- Comment on [Discussion] Neochi Shinaide Yukimori San - Oneshot 4 weeks ago:
She may want to check that out at a GP lol
- Comment on "Shoshimin: How to become Ordinary" Season 2 New Key Visual, PV 4 weeks ago:
Season 1 ended on a bit of a frustrating spot. Hopefully season 2 can soften that a little bit
- Comment on Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective • Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte - Episode 9 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Who says “Merry christmas” to someone who’s crying over someone’s death??
I didn’t really care for this arc. It felt like an obvious attempt to make Ameku more sympathetic, rather than make an interesting story.
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 4 weeks ago:
While a weird case, the title is a little misleading. It implies fanmade goods, but she bought counterfeit keychains and resold them (for higher prices).
- Comment on Anime with alternate orders 4 weeks ago:
I think Monogatari series is a classic for this: broadcast vs novel vs chronological. I’d argue Fate as well. Doing Zero before the Stay Night trilogy gives a different vibe to some of the plotlines than after (dramatic irony vs mystery).
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 10] 4 weeks ago:
Damn, Oregairu and Haganai… Been a hot minute since I’ve seen those. I liked them a lot (except for season 3 of Oregairu. Really disliked that one) at the time. Not sure if I still would though.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 10] 4 weeks ago:
Surprisingly, my local cinema was showing AoT again, but this time in one of the better rooms. So I went again since the other experience wasn’t very good. Very glad that I did. I was able to immerse myself much better this time because the sound didn’t sound like it came from a big TV speaker anymore. A little weird to do the bad room first and then the good one, since most’ll have seen it already.
Besides that, I’ve dropped Guild Receptionist. The gimmick has gotten stale for and the plot is not doing it for me. Anime Dr. House also isn’t doing too hot. Animation quality has dropped significantly and the story’s a bit all over the place. Dr. Stone, Apothecary Diaries and Bureaucrat Villainess are still my top picks (not in that order). The rest of what I’m watching is fine. I’m still meaning to pick up Flower and Asura and continue Re:Zero.
- Comment on [Discussion] Ruri Dragon - Ch. 30 - Aoki's Problem 4 weeks ago:
I mean, they did say in an earlier chapter (I just checked: chapter 22) that he wasn’t just a teacher and there to “monitor in a special advisory capacity” as a post. So, that he isn’t a normal teacher is pretty much already known.
- Comment on I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time • Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Toubatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu - Episode 8 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I think I’m done with this. The gimmick is pretty stale by now and the whole secret quest/dark god thingy is pretty forced.
- Comment on Anime Corner's Top 10 Anime Endings of 2024 5 weeks ago:
Why is Nobody so popular? I felt like it was a pretty basic pop song
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 8 discussion 5 weeks ago:
An interesting new mystery!
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 8 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Is that a property of mercury? Preventing decay?
- Comment on [Discussion] Osananajimi Kanojo no Morahara ga Hidoin de Zetsuen Sengen shite Yatta - Ch. 33.1 5 weeks ago:
I thought it was nearly over…
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 09] 5 weeks ago:
Is it just the covers because they are images? If that’s it, I could make a rule that image posts need the [Art] tag. I don’t have auto-expand media turned on, so it’s not something that I have had issues with.
It’s more that there’s a whole lot of consecutive posts I’m not interested in, which pushes down the actual manga posts. I suppose turning off auto expand would make that a little less annoying.
Out of curiosity, what frontend/app are you using that allows tags like that. It isn’t included in the default lemmy-ui.
Yea, so that was just an assumption on my end. There are no custom tags for me either. Whoops
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 09] 5 weeks ago:
Would it be a good idea to give posts that only share a new or upcoming volume cover a specific tag? I don’t really care for the occassional cover spam, since it clogs up my feed. Having a specific tag would help clean it up for those that don’t care to see it.