ReluctantZen
@ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
- Comment on Dan Da Dan Issues Official Apology Over "Hunting Soul" Copyright Controversy 4 days ago:
If this song is too close to YOSHIKI’s style, then he needs to worry about most of the power metal scene. This is pretty standard power metal, good power metal, but pretty standard.
- Comment on GKIDS announces 4K restoration release of Perfect Blue in U.S. theaters in October 6 days ago:
I mean, cheaper than a new film sure, but not as cheap as 4K upscales
- Comment on GKIDS announces 4K restoration release of Perfect Blue in U.S. theaters in October 6 days ago:
Not sure I’d call it a minor touch up. Restoration doesn’t necessarily require the original to be actually damaged. Film/cells fade over time. Digitally restoring that can be pretty intensive, depending on how faded it is.
Restoration for projects like these is a pretty common term AFAIK.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 34] 1 week ago:
I’d say it’s worth it. I’ve played the game too and loved it. It changes things up here and there (Yoko Taro was involved after all) in a good way and also adapts parts of the Pearl Harbour Descent manga, and I really liked that. The 1st season was a bit troubled due to COVID stuff (still good), but the 2nd season was incredible.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 34] 2 weeks ago:
That’s a solid starting point. Some other suggestions:
- Monogatari series: Off and Monster Season
- NieR Automata anime adaptation (1st season is good, but 2nd season is amazing)
- Attack On Titan finished
- Makeine
- SHOSHIMIN
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and, unsurprisingly, the actual experts on child abuse and privacy are mostly against this.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 34] 2 weeks ago:
I’m finally catching up this season. I’m now up to date on Dr Stone, Gachiakuta, Dandadan, With You And The Rain and My Dress-up Darling. There are others I want to watch still, but oh well.
Some banger OPs this season. Gachiakuta’s OP is fire and With You And The Rain’s OP is delightfully chill
- Comment on [Episode] My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 • Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru Season 2 - Episode 7 discussion 2 weeks ago:
I probably shouldn’t take it so serious, but 50,000 calories? How? At first I thought it was a translation error, but the manga has the same number. Then I thought it was small calories, but that’d be 50kcal, which is nowhere near enough to even live. Are both the translated manga and CR wrong? Or is it just exaggerated for comedic effect? (I’m guessing the latter)
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not confident either
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 2 weeks ago:
Fucking hell. When does it stop? It’s gotten shot down multiple times, so why do they keep trying? Do they see more of a chance now that we’re getting more conservative views in the EP? It’s good to see my country opposes it, but man.
- Comment on Arkane Devs Call For Microsoft To Stop Working With Israel 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, they’re never going to be the same under MS anyway. I hope they (can) start anew
- Comment on Anime General Discussion Thread, Favorite Summer Season OP/ED Edition [2025, Week 32] 4 weeks ago:
I’m so out of the loop this season. I’ve only just caught up with Dandadan S2 and My Dress-Up Darling S2 and started with Dr Stone.
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 4 weeks ago:
Probably CLANNAD, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was SAO S1, god forbid.
- Comment on I totally wasn't expecting "May I Ask for One Final Thing?" to get an anime adaptation 4 weeks ago:
Hell yeah, the manga is so fun.
- Comment on My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 • Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru Season 2 - Episode 4 discussion 5 weeks ago:
I love the supportiveness of everone
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 5 weeks ago:
What is the actual context here? I don’t trust what this tweet says
- Comment on For Steins;Gate watchers, what do you think of Steins;Gate 0? 1 month ago:
I enjoyed it, but not more than the original. From what I remember, which is not as much as I thought, it became a bit of a slog for me either midway through or towards the end, which didn’t really have a pay off like the first eps of the original did.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 month ago:
Payment processors being puritans again huh?
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
No, it took time to get Proton to where it is now. Its initial release was in 2018
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Yes
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 month ago:
Just a note before my comment: my reference is the Netherlands, which is struggling with too much cattle and too little land.
Methane is a worse greenhous gas than CO2 though (28 times more) and just growing more grass, which gets eaten pretty much immediately again, does not necessarily compensate for it.
But methane is not the only problem with large amounts of cattle. The shit can actually become problematic in for the soil and water due to ammonia. This is a large problem in The Netherlands right now (and sadly we don’t have politicians in power willing to make actual changes here). Biodiversity and water quality are going down significantly and a very big contributor is cattle farming.
- Comment on [News] All 12 Episodes of Grand Blue Season 2 Leak Online Ahead of Schedule 1 month ago:
Yeah, that actually surprised me the most here. The fact that all of it can leak at once seems like a good sign
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 28] 1 month ago:
Finished Gundam GQuuuux. Even though I read in many places that was no prior knowledge was needed, I felt lost a lot of times. I don’t know the characters that were actually important in the end and I missed a looot of context. It felt more aimed at fans of the original. It assumed you know the world, the terms, power dynamics etc, but as someone that only watched Witch From Mercury, I did not know any of it.
The characters that were posed as the leads were heavily underdeveloped, including their relationships to each other. I think they had potential (a duo of rebellious rich girl together with a refugee is an interesting dynamic to explore), but were shafted in favour of what felt like nostalgia bait.
Animation was nice though.
- Comment on My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 • Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru Season 2 - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
The exposure scenes feel more like a fan-service scene than what it was in the first season.
I recently rewatched S1 and was surprised how much fan service it had. I didn’t remember it at all. Definitely not less than what this episode displayed.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 14 discussion 1 month ago:
Filler? I skipped forward during the Uron Mirage thing, thinking CR mistakenly uploaded to the wrong anime. Then I saw they didn’t but I didn’t go back to watch it. Seems like I didn’t need to either.
- Comment on The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity • Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
Gross, Netflix jail
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 24 discussion 1 month ago:
Hmm, it didn’t bore me at all. Just hard to keep up with. It’s kind of the main theme of the anime. Season 1 was full of it as well, but not connected (or at least, it didn’t seem like it. Now we know it was).
But yeah, it seems like the new arc will be quite different, but it’s probably not just Maomao being Maomao
- Comment on Crunchyroll accidentally confirmed it uses ChatGPT for subtitles 1 month ago:
Not surprised. I’ve seen some subs that felt off lately
- Comment on MONOGATARI Series OFF & MONSTER Season | New Episode Teaser Visual 1 month ago:
Fuuuuck yes
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 24 discussion 1 month ago:
I’m still not even sure if Maomao feels the same though I guess she’s not the most in-touch with her emotions
That, but she also just doesn’t seem to care and/or think romance can happen to her