I love it when character put their squishy cheeks together.

Extra headpats for Kokoro from now on.

The art style is indeed delightful, really one of my favorites. It is simple yet has something refined to it. And just so cute 🥰. I’m curious how your drawing turned out. Don’t be afraid to post your fan art .

What is “procs”?

Maybe she is thinking about Akari-chan while eating those dango.

Quite a big one!

She says she “should have worn/prepared long sleeves after all”, so she is probably cold.

I didn’t even see the shape of the ring! You’re right, the square one feels iconic. I think it’s like a scrunchy… that doesn’t scrunch? Personally I really like the contrasting collar on her vest.

Ah yes long sleeves over your hands are comfy indeed 🥰

Cute 🥰

Lovely outfits! I like how they each have a flower that is incorporated with their outfit and hair.

I know it’s right in line with the things I watch but so are many others. I’ll try to get around to it for real this time.

When season 3 was going I thought man I still have to start this series, and now season four is announced already. There is just so much to watch and I’m a slow guy…

Kaede is just so cute 🥰.

Namori probably did not know before hand. I think for mangaka it is quite normal to have one work that ends up either going for the rest of their career or at least pays enough to be able to take risks with other works. Like many arts it is very difficult to actually earn a decent amount money to live off. So once you hit it big, there is a massive incentive to capitalize on that hit. Especially with manga or anime, once people know and love the characters, making anything with those characters in it brings fans to it. If you make something completely new, it is a much bigger risk and can flop. I’m pretty sure studios and producers also see it this way. Getting the Oomuro-ke films produced was probably way easier than pitching them something with new characters and and a new name that no one yet knows. To give an analogy ( :) ) imagine writing a song under a new artists name versus making a cover of a popular song and uploading to youtube. Even if your new song is really good no one knows it, or types in the keywords that land them there. But the cover can be discovered more easily just by lifting along on the popularity of the original artist/song title.

As for knowing whether something will become something you like or not, I actively try not to do that. If I think I will really like something that kinda puts an expectation in the back of my head. I will watch it being biased in some way. If it doesn’t meet expectations I might be disappointed, whereas without the expectation I would think “huh pretty good”. I select anime that I likely will like in order to not waste too much time watching stuff I don’t like, but personally I never really think “oh this will become one of my favorites”.

I understand the sentiment. Personally I’m not really waiting for it and it will come when it comes. I like that they delay it instead of rush it.

I never played uno so I have no clue what’s going on but the title says Osaka lost.

I finished Tamayura Hitotose. It’s a very nice iyashikei mainly about photography and loss. The pace is slow and the atmosphere is gentle. It has many elements that remind me of ARIA (same director). I like the setting: Japanese villages with lots of traditional architecture. My favorite episode was Maon’s flashback episode. It might be worth noting that it is one of those anime where the characters have realistic hair colours like K-ON!, giving it that extra down to earth vibe.

Wow, amazing! That mangaka is so lucky to go and see the seiyuu do their parts. Imagine seeing Emirin and Mimorin together in real life… Also you can post this to !seiyuu@ani.social

Pani Poni Dash is underrated, good to see it mentioned. Have you seen Poputepipikku?

The Chinatsu is a very fluffy creature.