I think you’ll be in for a treat when you get to it!

Right? Also here’s how little I knew of it going in: I only knew the name of it and thought it might be an edgy show about some yakuza or something that was constantly going all out 😂

How do you go about following manga btw? Physical copies, or can you buy them digitally now? I used to try to follow some manga with physical copies, but for long-running series that got silly, and libraries around me only carried a few older volumes if they carried any.

(I know of other ways to get them fwiw, but a quick glance at the terms for this instance says not to discuss those, so let’s not get into them 😅 )

Aah, I’m only in the midst of season 4 right now, and I’m not sure if what I’m watching it through goes to season 5 or not. I’m only now realizing this series is still ongoing, so I may stop after season 4, particularly if that’s all that’s available anyway. 😄

Btw, if you go to the site linked in the article and click buy tickets for the upcoming movie showing, you can enter in your zip code to see which theatres around you may be showing them!

You might want to try cross-posting this to !anime@ani.social for more responses.

In the meantime though you might check out Boogiepop Phantom and Robot Carnival on Retrocrush. Boogiepop’s a show, while Robot Carnival is an anthology movie.

Ideally these communities would be prevented from appearing in the “Trending Communities” list or local/global feeds unless someone other than the owner was subscribed to them, but wouldn’t be private in the sense that no-one could see them. Just they wouldn’t get wide distribution.

This raises a distinct but interesting additional feature request that might complement “private” or exclusive communities, as well as others that might like to prepare a community before promoting it: a hidden or unlisted setting for communities.

That would enable what you mention here, preventing their appearance from trending, and perhaps also user profile/data areas (i.e. if one can indirectly view others’ subscriptions, this might offer a way to obfuscate/hide that from others besides admins).

I think this would likely be the simplest solution and is worth considering especially since similar concerns have been raised with Mastodon over their naming of messaging specific people (“private”/direct/mentioned only/etc.).

Exclusive may be another good term instead of private.

Yeah, I can see where you’re coming from on this. Personally I’m not a fan of Active as the default, yet I also don’t know what might be preferable to others. With that being the case, I thought it might help to highlight some ways to work with it in the meantime, especially given the outside perspective.

For those here, I think it’s probably good to advise them to consider trying different sort methods till they find one that suits their preferences if they find themselves annoyed by the defaults, which has been happening for awhile already anyway.

I should elaborate a little, while I think commenting is important under Active sort for helping surface posts, I also think it is being balanced out by the vote scores. For a post to be surfaced you’ll want it to be both valued (upvoted) and commented on, then if you’re hoping for it to remain visible for awhile, you’ll want to see fairly steady commenting (that’s part of why you can see posts from days ago lingering around under Active, I think).

I’ve not really noticed too many situations of flamebait style posts doing this, as I suspect they’re generally downvoted…Aside from the beating-a-dead-horse sort of posts that, despite receiving the usual, “Ugh this again” sort of comments, seem to otherwise be valued by some lurking voters.

Oh whoa, I’m familiar with Monster but didn’t remember the author’s name, so didn’t make the connection! That probably explains some of why I enjoyed it, as I also appreciated Monster, even if it does drag things out a bit.

Also yeah, I don’t remember specific examples of the dialogue, but it definitely has those awkward/clunky moments of, “Did you really need to say it?” I think it’s something I’ve grown to kind of take in stride with some media though.

Always nice to see when an adaptation stays close to the source material! I may have to pick up the manga sometime and do the reverse, lol

As a mild illustration of why this would be a nice change, I’m unfortunately going to slightly bother Boozilla with this reply after almost 2 weeks. Sorry Boozilla!

Er…Maybe I’m overlooking it, or maybe there’s a slight misunderstanding here? I only see the option to adjust the default feed type below theme options in my settings, but without further settings to limit the All feed to only display remote/federated communities.