Have you read the manga for Hokkaido Gals? I am debating trying to find time to watch it or if I should just dive into the manga instead. It is usually a lot easier for me to find time to fit in a couple chapters of a manga to my schedule compared to a 30 minute block of time for a show.
Thanks friend! Together we can keep the dream of me having a sense of humor alive. My wife gave up years ago.
I doubt it, though Frieren has had more staying power on the list than past shows that have briefly topped the list. I suspect it might stay on top while the show is airing, but over time I think the MAL userbase will revert to the mean of FMAB #1. I might personally think Frieren is a better show, but when you are talking about shows with thousands and thousands of scores factored in, there is a lot of resistance to change given enough time.
Haha, if it wasn’t clear, my example prompts are really meant to be jokes. Nobody ever seems to notice them, but I still laugh.
I actually know kind of what happened there. The mod was banned from the ml instance, and when that happens all of the content submitted by the user (and communities created by them) are automatically purged. I don’t know what prompted the ban, so I can’t speak to whether it was justified or not, but that incident is what led me to realize that being banned also removes all of that content as well.
I hope people are settling into the new year and new season of anime well. I have gotten to watch the premiere of a number of shows. Thought I would provide some quick thoughts below.
I have yet to watch Solo Leveling or start catching up on Apothecary Diaries, so nothing to say about them yet. Two shows that are starting this week that I am looking forward to Tsuikimichi season 2 and Level 99 Villainous Daughter.
@ram@lemmy.ca @N3DSdude@lemmy.ml Would one of the mods be able to pin this discussion thread and unpin the old one? Thanks in advance!
Disclosure: as a moderator of the /c/anime and /c/manga communities on ani.social, I don’t want to try to influence anybody’s decision regarding this as I think there is plenty of space for multiple communities to exist at the same time.
That being said, after the defederation happened and there was clear hostility from the ml admins toward much of this type of content is when I made my account on that instance and started up activity on those two communities. I agree that there is an inherent risk of these communities being purged from the ml instance and that is one of the main reasons I wanted to establish an alternative community that is well established with existing content that users can migrate easily to. Quoting myself from that post:
In any case, I think this issue validates concerns that were raised after the initial defederation happened that the ml admins could come to view any kind of lewd content or fanservice as anathema to their instance. It begs the question if the anime or manga communities on ml are on borrowed time. If the admin’s metaphorical Eye of Sauron passes over their community on a day a lewd clip, key visual, or trailer is posted, that could be it for them.
All that said, the reality is that unless you use an ml account (which you unfortunately posted with), then you can access both communities. I had primarily been using this ml account on lemmy for some time until the defederation happened, and then proceeded to make an account over on ani.social to access that content and drive activity in those communities.
I was also a bit disappointed with the first episode of Dungeon Meshi. I wrote in more detail over here, but it felt like it wanted to be two shows at the same time (dark with dead sister, light with silly cooking) and it didn’t mesh well. I have only heard great things about the manga, so I expect it to become clearer in tone as it goes, but I am with you just based on episode 1.
tl;dr: the new season’s yaml files haven’t yet been fully merged into the source code (PR here)
@chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org might want to chime in here as well as the bot maintainer, but I think I know what is going on, but the explanation is going to be a bit technical.
Shinobu is a lemmy-focused fork of the holo project. Both projects use user-curated yaml files that contain all the information for each show. As an example, you can check out Fall 2023’s yaml file here. This winter’s yaml file has not been merged into the holo project yet. There is an open pull request to do so, but it is still open. The reddit mods have clearly already merged these commits since their bot is posting, but Shinobu hasn’t done so yet. Also, the reddit bot is not a straight copy of the source code that is on github, there are clearly some tweaks they do on the backend to do things like pick up shows that shinobu can’t see, but that is a whole other topic.
I suspect that chaorace is waiting for the pull request to close and the new season’s yaml to be merged before adding it to shinobu, but I haven’t spoken with them. For what it is worth, I run a copy of holo on a test lemmy instance I host and by merging the 5 commits in the PR, my local holo was able to make posts for the winter shows (but it doesn’t pick up Classroom of the Elite for whatever reason picked it up after a couple hours).
I haven’t read the source manga for this show, but those that have said to expect something completely unhinged (in the best way).
@ram@lemmy.ca @N3DSdude@lemmy.ml Would one of the mods be able to pin this discussion thread and unpin the old one that is a couple weeks out of date. It would be appreciated!
I have a couple tweaks to the list I posted previously. I plan on watching a handful of shows in the new season:
I have read/watched a lot of bad isekai. Reincarnated as a Sword is not one of them. The premise might be dumb on the surface, but it is executed extremely well. I think part of what makes it work is how the relationship between Master and Fran is a Father/Daughter one. It just kind of makes the whole thing work. I had dropped the manga at one point because I thought it was kind of losing its way, but then found out that the arc I didn’t like was a manga-only filler arc. After I got back onto light novel content, it was the great old Fran/Master journey that I loved.
Really glad they announced a season 2 is on the way.
I really like the manga for Tonikaku Kawaii (and several other fluffy romances like it), but haven’t ever really liked any of the anime adaptations of them. I just don’t think it usually translates to the medium well. I often end up bored and the studios don’t put enough effort into the animation or soundtrack to keep my attention that way either.
Heavenly Delusion was probably my biggest surprise this year. I had never heard of it before, randomly picked it up, and it was outstanding.
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If you had asked for my anime of the year prior to the Fall season, it would have unquestionably been Oshi no Ko. However, Frieren’s adaptation has been so excellent over this past season that I am hard pressed not to give it my AOTY. I know Frieren is still airing for a second cour, but it has a full cour’s worth of episodes to compare to other seasonal shows, so I think it is fair for now. I think that Oshi no Ko has definitely left a strong impression on me though and I will always remember the first episode and episode 6 as extremely impactful. Few anime have ever had me as invested in a character’s story as episode 6 of Oshi no Ko did for Akane.
As for my worst anime of the year, this one is tough. I watch my fair share of bad anime so it is tough to pick. I think I will have to award it to “Am I Actually the Strongest?” The show was horribly paced and narratively confused. Large sections of important story were seemingly glossed over almost nothing was explained. Having watched 12 episodes of the anime, I still don’t think I can give any kind of explanation for the MC’s abilities. Just avoid this one, it isn’t so bad it’s good, it’s just bad.
Finally, in my quest to pretend to still be young, I thought I would also give a mid award. This one goes to a show that was so bland and generic that it wasn’t good, it wasn’t bad, it just exists. That goes to Atelier Ryza for me. I have heard that the game series this show was based off of is actually quite good. I have a friend that has played a ton of them and was hyping up the show to me because of it. However, watching the show being unfamiliar with the source at all, it was extremely boring. Things happened extremely predictably. I actually felt that watching the show was like being stuck in an unskippable, long tutorial cutscene in a game. Things were overexplained, drawn out, and the game’s quest -> reward structure was very obvious. There were never really any stakes it felt like. I don’t know if the entire game was adapted or not, but I certainly hope there is more to the game. The show felt like it was adapting just the tutorial levels.
@ram@lemmy.ca or @N3DSdude@lemmy.ml if you could pin the new/unpin the old discussion posts, that would be greatly appreciated.
I think the Helck flashbacks wouldn’t have been as bad if I was bingeing it, but watching week to week, it felt very drawn out. Since the flashbacks have ended, I have gotten more into it again.
As for Girlfriend, Girlfriend and 100GF, I have written before that I think I enjoyed the series more in manga form. I think that Shino is by far the best character in GF, GF though, so you have excellent taste in that department.
Yeah, I was reading the WN for Villainess Level 99 and dropped it shortly after the main arc. It reached a pretty satisfying conclusion and the story after that felt kind of forced, plus I just had too many other things competing for my time.
Rather than writing about what I have watched this past week, I decided to look ahead at the upcoming season of anime and check out shows that looked interesting. My first pass led me to some shows that I am debating watching, but I will likely need to cut this down due to time. I divided it into shows I am familiar with the source and those that I am not.
@ram@lemmy.ca if you would be so kind as to do the pinning/unpinning, it would be appreciated.
Like @neshura@bookwormstory.social said, those sites have instances drop on and off the rankings all the time. I had been checking lemmyverse quite frequently over the past couple months…for no reason I am going to mention in this thread…and instances will disappear and reappear every couple days. The ml instance in particular was prone to that. No foul play going on, just typical software flakiness.