I watched Tamayura and started Tamayura Hitotose. It’s an iyashikei by the same director as ARIA, Satou Junichi. Also shares some seiyuu with ARIA. It’s very gentle… And has that same sense of wonder to it. Fushigi… (he seems to like that word both in ARIA and Tamayura)

Maybe suspender skirts are easier to find than pinafore dresses. If not, if you have a skirt in a basic colour you might be able to find well matching separate suspenders to wear together.

Hmmmmm

There are many moments where characters are screaming or surprised themselves but not much I think that would scare a viewer.

I think Ichigo Mashimaro is quite iyashikei because of things like pacing, music, ambient sounds, wholesome moments, those little vignittes between scenes. It just kinda breathes nicely, there is space between jokes and lines. Soft music, kind moments. The environment feels real and “encompassing” (a bit like in non non biyori). For me CGDCT is kinda iyashikei in general but Ichigo Mashimaro is definitely significantly more iyashikei than average to me. A SOL CGDCT that is less iyashikei and more comedy to me is something like Ika Musume. Peak iyashikei to me is ARIA, highly recommended for pure brainmelting wholesomeness and healing of the soul.

Wow a fricking Ichigo Mashimaro recommendation in the wild. Shows can be both CGDCT and Iyashikei, and they often are. Non Non Biyori is definitely also a CGDCT and Ichigo Mashimaro is quite iyashikei depending on how you receive it. But good picks for sure.

I finished Violet Evergarden and the OVA episode and I’m 2/3 through the first film. It looks stunning and it’s an emotional show. In the end there is some action to resolve the story which is ok but I thought that was the weakest part. My favorite episode was number 10 with the girl Ann. Usually I was a bit wet behind the eyes but with this one the tears just streamed down my face lol.

The OVA was just a good episode. It has some singing parts which I enjoyed. For reasons I am 2/3s through the first film. It kind of is a three act film roughly each act 30 minutes. The first act was wonderful and very tender. It has certain element to it that I am used to from other anime but didn’t expect in Violet Evergarden. I won’t say what it is to not spoil anything. But it was well done. In the second act the story gets going. Still very good and enjoyable, but the first act has a certain vibe that I really like.

Other than that I finished Ika Musume by finishing the 3 episode OVA. It’s consistent as always. OP -> 3 stories -> ED. I’m not watching anything from the season. I was expecting the Madoka film but that one has been delayed yet again. I rather have it delayed than rushed so I’m fine with it.

I can’t remember who I suspected the most out of her friends but I guess it could be someone else completely.

I don’t read the manga so I still don’t know who Nadeshiko’s girlfriend is.

I’m not really a “I want to live in Japan” person but these events do make me jealous from time to time. As well as prices of stuff in Japan compared to importing them.

I don’t like Twitter either but all Japanese anime and manga things are on there so it is the best feed there is to keep up with things (like this event).

As to why I post the original link, it has some good reasons. In the past I used to post Invidious links instead of Youtube links. Just like you just did here. But the thing is these individual font ends often go down temporarily (or worse). Then your link is dead. These front ends usually have the ability to copy the original link into them and then they open it. So I just post the original for everything (yt, twitter, reddit) and then people can paste that into whatever frontend they like or is operational at that moment.

Note that these frontends still need the original site so function… They are mostly for end user privacy, not really effectively boycotting the original site anymore than using an ad blocker.

Additionally not everyone knows about these frontends and linking to some other url for official announcements might not look like legit news to some. It is also just good practice to link to original first hand sources. Even if you don’t like the source, you are still getting it from that source. If you really dislike the source enough, you should just not get any info from that source. But if you do, the source is still the source.

I just checked the post again and I can’t see anything about merch. Maybe they will announce something in the future or they only sell stuff on location.

Dangerous levels of cuteness when Akari puts on the apron 🥰

Of course. There are many human made subs that suck too. For example when Shikanoko came out the subs were quite bad but clearly human made. But the positive about subs is that you can still hear the original Japanese so you never have to trust or rely on them completely. I always take things from listening that are not in the sub. If I were just to read the sub I would miss many things. With dubs you don’t have a choice, you just have to trust them. AI dubs would be even worse.

I see, I hope they have enough of a celebrity status among dub watchers then. I think that is really the thing that will shield them from being replaced by AI in the future.

That’s fine. Do you watch subs if there is no dub? Some popular shows don’t have English dubs. What about extra content? A lot of it is in Japanese only. If you watch that after watching a dub the voices don’t match.

One time I was watching one of my favorites and an emotional scene came up. However the sub was not accurate and diminished the emotional impact. Luckily it was not a hard line and I could just hear the Japanese which saved it for me. I’m curious what you think of that. Because with a dub you wouldn’t be able to spot the mistake right?

It’s not that a dub can’t be good, but I don’t understand how you can know if a dub is accurate. You would need to have the dub and the original side by side and watch line by line to see if it fits right? With a sub you have this automatically. Of course due to grammar it can be the next or previous line but generally you can listen to the original and read the sub at the same time to check for differences. I don’t do this consciously but it is effective.

One time I was watching one of my favorites and an emotional scene came up. However the sub was not accurate and diminished the emotional impact. Luckily it was not a hard line and I could just hear the Japanese which saved it for me. If that happens with a dub, you wouldn’t know. That is my problem with dubs, not if the voice acting is good or not. I’m sure there are many good voice actors in other languages that do a great job.

I’m being half serious here: divine punishment for dub watchers :)

When choosing a dub over a sub you give up a lot just for the convenience of not having to deal with another language. It must be of no surprise that you can pull a lot more bullshit on dub watchers, including this AI nonsense.

Seiyuu’s are celebrities in Japan. You couldn’t replace them with AI because fans will not watch that shit if their beloved seiyuus are replaced. I think it would be a real riot to try remove Japanese seiyuu from anime. Maybe I’m ignorant but there seems to be no matching passion for english voice actors. Do they have many events, concerts, photo books, radio shows, merch and such?

Right now AI is not good enough to pull this off. If it is in the future, only the perceived value of the humans that are voicing the characters can save voice acting.

If you have interest in Japanese voice actors feel free to visit !seiyuu@ani.social.

I post images from this series from Namori in order of date and I don’t see any suspender skirt outfits coming up. But I think I can pick out a fan art with them next time yuruyuri is in rotation (I rotate through a list of anime one a day).

Haru is so good, I always recognize their art quickly before reading that it is indeed them.