Some of the shows I found had great opening scenes and became favourites:

• Shadows House
• Ancient Magus’ Bride
• Medalist
• Ascendance of a Bookworm

Spice and Wolf - The Wolf Whistling Song

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Myne (Ascendance of a bookworm)

MY-11E

Mile (Average Abilities)

MI-1E

MI-13E

Class 3E (Assasination classroom)

CL-33

CL-53E

CL-3E

Tanks (Girls Und Panzar)

BT-42

FT-17

ETC

Honourifics

ON-33

ON-11

Give me a story following Loulans journey

Here are some of the story driven ones I have enjoyed.

Shadows House (2021) - Great story and I don’t see it mentioned much. One of the ones that made me go and binge the source material.

The Ancient Magus’ Bride (2016) - Another one that never seems to get mention but is fantastic. Season 1 was in 2016 but it’s had season 2 since 2020

Lycoris Recoil (2022) - Great story, if I remember correctly it was vey popular but has faded into the back ground as more series get pumped out.

Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019) - Excellent series, binged the Light Novel. Can’t wait for Part 3 to be Animated.

Medalist (2025) - A nice comfy show that will have you routing for all the characters.

Delicious in Dungeon (2024) - Personally not one of my top picks but was vey well received by the community.

I think ponko goes for Glico Man pose here

Ponko was clearly giving prays to the gods!

7th Prince: The MC’s design will keep turning people away from this series, which is a shame because of how consistently fun it has been to watch. Production is also really good, the magic spell effects are beautiful.

I originally dropped it after 3 episodes. But after your comment I have gone back and watched Season 1 and enjoyed it. It’s the usual overpowers fantasy but they keep drawing me in.

Yeah it looks like Chise

I haven’t read loads of series but the most similar feel would be the invincible little lady ( usually based around a school, over powered girl trying to fit in, strange things keep happening, gains a animal companion in later volumes, friends with the prince ) but it is still pretty far off being the same.

Just note it does have a pervert of a school master who assaults the students.

@NineSwords@ani.social any ideas on similar series to the silent witch?

Come enjoy the silent witch.

We have:

The coolest cat Nero

The number obsessed Monica

The best villianess Isabelle

The devoted husband Louis

Old man Sam and his pigs

I just hope it lives up to the light novel

He was an HR guy in his previous life, and thinks of people as numbers.

So every HR person and senior management?

It’s not a factual documentary?

Really enjoyed the LN so far, Can’t wait to see Nero (the cat).

Idea 1:

I was thinking of web scraping the data before hand, then having it hardcoded in an array or DB to be used in the drop-down. I have seen a few of the anime sites have pages for each season it could be pulled from. I saw some plugins for searchable drop downs for lime survey, So you might be able to make it work with the same software.

I think Manga would be the most difficult to limit, I am not aware of a single point where all the data is available. Light Novels have a CSV someone is scraping and hosting on GitHub, Anime have clearly defined seasons, But manga doesn’t seem to have a release system.

Idea 2:

You could check the account age. If anyone starts creating accounts now for a poll which may never happen then they deserve an extra vote.

I am absolutely open to feedback like this for if/when we do something like this again.

Just some ideas -

1. Limiting the options - you could pull the anime’s that have aired in the time frame from one of the Anime databases and limit the users to searchable drop downs.

I do worry now that people know I made these calls based on number of nominations that they could simply fill out the form a bunch of times. There are some steps I can take on my end to prevent or filter that, but it would also mean doing things like attaching browser cookies to the form or recording ip addresses, which I haven’t wanted to do out of respect for the users.

2. I feel it would be less intrusive than cookies or IP addresses to have a confirmation like you do with email signups. You could have an optional input for Lemmy Username and have a script to send the user a message via Lemmy to confirm they made a submission (… reply ‘YES’ to confirm…). Blank or unconfirmed submission could be treated with less importance when taking nominations due to the possibility of multiple submissions.

If you do decide to do it again in the future I am happy to help when possible.

And Thanks again for doing this.

Modern Apothecary Diaries?

I am happy but surprised this got a season 2.

I love the light novels but it is a slower story so I am not sure if it will have the action to keep viewers. But then again there’s a lot of slice of life series.

Personal Favourites which haven’t been mentioned as much

1. Tuskimichi Moonlit Fantasy
2. Ascendance of a Bookworm
3. No Game No Life
4. In the Land of Leadale
5. So I’m a Spider So What
6. Didn’t I say to make my Abilities Average
7. Death March to a Parallel World Rhapsody

Cute / Fluffy

• Ascendance of a Bookworm
• In the Land of Leadale
• Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
• The Weakest Tamers Journey To Pick Up Trash

Action

• Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy
• Rising of the Shield Hero
• Reincarnated as a Slime

Politics / Kingdom Building

• Log Horizon
• Reincarnated as a Slime
• How a realist hero rebuilt a kingdom

War / Fighting

• Overlord
• Saga of Tanya the Evil

Comedy

• Konosuba
• Didn’t I say to make my Abilities Average
• So I’m a Spider So What
• Reincarnated as a Vending Machine

Struggle and Strife

• re: Zero
• Jobless Reincarnation
• Rising of the Shield Hero

Game Worlds

• No Game No Life
• Log Horizon
• In the Land of Leadale
• Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
• Overlord
• Rising of the Shield Hero

Gender Bender Characters

• She Professed Herself Pupil of The Wise Man
• Life with an ordinary guy who reincarnated into a total fantasy knockout
• Log Horizon
• So I’m a Spider So What

I haven’t read the light novels but I think the first season ends at the end of the second volume as the penultimate chapter is “Balsam and Woodsorre”.

There are 12 English translated and 15 Japanese novels so based on the first season, season 2 may cover volumes 3 + 4 leaving 5-12?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apothecary_Diaries

I’ve been killing slimes for 300 years and maxed out my abilities

• Cosy
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic

Didn’t I say to make my abilities average

• Cosy
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic
• The totally Normal Average Miles

Kuma kuma kuma bear

• Cosy
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic
• All the bears

By the grace of gods

• Cosy
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• All the slime you could need

In the land of Leadale

• Cosy? (The story and characters are 100% cosy, but if you think about her circumstances it is a bit melancholy)
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic
• The most over the top elf son

Konosuba

• Cosy?
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic

Ascendance of a bookworm

• Cosy? (I would say it’s very cosy but there are a few bits which are a bit melancholy)
• Adventures? (No adventurers guild or actual adventuring, but the MC has a goal and is working toward something which makes it feel like they are adventuring)
• Fantasy
• Magic? (There is magic in the world but you don’t see much until the end of the 3rd season, there should be lots more in the next season)
• No.1 Super mega monster bookworm

But Ascendance of a bookworm is an amazing story I think it fits the criteria

Beast tamer

• Cosy (Mostly cosy, some more serious confrontations)
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic

Banished from the hero’s party: I decided to live a quiet life in the countryside

• Cosy (Mostly cosy, some more serious bits and a bit of melancholy)
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic

TsukiMichi Moonlit Fantasy

• Cosy? (The relationship between the MCs is cosy but it can take more serious themes and moments including war / killing people. But there is an underlying comedy aspect? )
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic
• Includes best Dragon samurai , Devouring Spider , Human Lich

So I’m a spider so what?

• Cosy? (fairly cosy, Lovable non-human MC tying to survive, some more serious parts but the MC is always upbeat and doing their best)
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic
• Best parallel minds

That time I got reincarnated as a slime

• Cosy (Mostly cosy, some more serious buts including war and a fair few battles. But the MC and their friends are wholesome)
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic

The weakest tamer began a journey to pick up trash

• Cosy (Mostly cosy, some more serious bits including kidnapping and MC background is melancholy. But the story as a whole is cosy)
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic

Reborn as a vending machine now I wonder the dungeon

• Cosy
• Adventures
• Fantasy
• Magic
• You will either enjoy it or hate it