Cute! I always appreciate analog art (as I call it). That shit is HARD. You can’t ctrl-z when you mess up. Tried ink sketches for a while. Disastrous to say the least.

Many years ago when I tried watching DB I did watch from the very beginning but it didn’t catch on for me. Definitely never got to the Z part.

Yea. Often first last episodes are not super representative. So I just jumped in to do a vibe check. I didn’t really judge based on plot. I can’t imagine a plot that would justify whatever the frick happens in Dark Summoner though 😅.

I haven’t been watching new-to-me anime for a while. However, yesterday I clicked two random currently airing anime latest episodes on the home screen. Just to check the vibes and see what’s going on. Well…

However, Dragon Ball is nothing compared to what I happened to have picked next.

Subsequently, I am no longer interested in “what’s going on”. To cleanse my soul and nurse my heart, I watched episode six of Gochiusa. True and art and culture packaged with the finest moe one can find. The warmth I need in my life. Lord be with those who venture into the abyss that is currently airing anime.

Technically a repost (post/34640752) but it’s ok. I didn’t have the donmai link for this yet in my collection. Little annoyed though that it is rated “sensitive”. Surely this general. I always browse on donmai.moe so I don’t have to see porn but it doesn’t show sensitive posts so it seems that I can miss quite a few good ones if they rate it like this. After reading the wiki topic on it I changed it to general.

I haven’ watched any of these. Sound Euphonium makes sense I guess it is probably somewhere on my way too long watch list 😅

I’m not sure either how much ARIA influences later shows either. Apart from Tamayura which is by the same director. ARIA is definitely my favorite though 🥰. I went with Yokohama because it aired much earlier (1998 vs 2005).

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I don’t think Lucky Star and K-ON! are blueprints for CGDCT. They surely influenced the shows coming after them but any popular show in a genre does that. The consensus seems that Azumanga Daioh is the blueprint for CGDCT as before it CGDCT wasn’t a genre and after it CGDCT became a genre. For example, can we say that shows like Gochiusa that came after Lucky Star are based upon it and not on something slightly earlier like Ichigo Mashimaro, and can we say that Lucky Star is truly groundbreaking compared to Ichigo Mashimaro in its content? I would say that shows like Lucky Star and K-ON! are not genre defining but instead popularised the existing genre. If anything, that 2007-2009 era was the golden age of CGDCT, not its inception (2002) or where it finalised its form (maybe around 2005 but harder to say). So my vote is Azumanga Daioh for CGDCT.

Maybe for shows heavily leaning into Iyashikei, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is what really set the tone but I’m not sure. I’m going with “leaning” here because SOL, CGDCT, Yuri and Iyashikei are almost always in there together to some extend but some works lean heavier into some aspects than others.

A combination of two rather rare characters to see.

I don’t know anything about it but it is a Kirara adaptation and those are usually really good!

Indeed, her dealing with her own emotions as well as helping others do it was really what was so good. As you say, the ending wasn’t to my taste either. When she wrote that final letter to Gilbert at the end of the series I was so moved I could barely see the screen through my tears. And it really fit perfectly, she started by writing a letter, she ended by writing a letter and in that letter she really wrestles with everything. The very end kind of cheapens that moment a bit for me. But overall I find it a very good anime and I just kinda disregard the ending personally haha.

Of course it doesn’t need constant action. It doesn’t really need action at all. I remember watching Violet Evergarden. The end had some action. Really the weakest part in my opinion. In our daily lives we mostly just yap to each other. And the yapping part is also the best part in anime for me.

Poor munchkin she needs some headpats.

Cute picture. I would say “sorry for hiding it, you can read it too”.

How did Sakamoto get in there lol

Life also has nice surprises it turns out.

Indeed, they seem quite suitable to be stickers now that you say it.

I can’t remember much interaction from them either. Sakurako might be a kind of mini Kyouko to Chinatsu, and Sakurako feels that Chinatsu stole Himawari from her for a while.

Yes exactly. Meanwhile I’m learning the term “moon runes” here lol.