Sorry to hear you’re having a rough time.

Hope you get a chance to relax a bit this weekend!

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I’ll watch Mushoku Tensei S3 most likely (not sure if I’ll follow as it airs or wait and just binge at the end; I usually prefer the latter). Would like to try the new GITS but I have no enthusiasm for dealing with Amazon’s streaming.

non-action battle-shounen

The first thing that comes to mind when you say that is Yakitate Japan. Shokugeki comes to mind next as a newer take on the idea of cooking competitions. Let me know if I’m misunderstanding the wording though.

I don’t understand the cutlery, but I could see someone modding this version of Rei into Nier:Automata…

I think they mean that they’re blaming Mary Sue-ish/wish fulfillment isekai specifically. i.e. like stories that are stereotypical of self-published content on Shosetsuka ni Narou (lit. “Let’s Become a Novelist”) – not two separate genres.

(“Narou” itself just means “let’s become”, but it’s slang for the website if I understand correctly.)

RIP.

(Screenshot is from Bodacious Space Pirates – he directed the anime.)

Consequently, the opening sequence recently published on YouTube has been removed from the platform.

Anyone save a copy of it? Would be interesting to see what they thought was OK to ship vs what they replace it with.

No sequel movies, only standalone

No Ghibli movies

I don’t really watch a lot of anime movies. Excluding Ghibli and movies that are associated with / cap off a TV series cuts out a lot of the ones I’ve seen as well.

Colorful and Paprika come to mind pretty quickly. Would have to think a bit for what else I’d put on there. May edit this later if more come to me.

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whenever the top pirate site goes down, a decent chunk of its users switch to legal services.

[X] Doubt

Nom!

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They would probably make more money if they’d just put the shows up for sale for direct download as soon as they air.

Seriously, it’s 2026 for fucks sake. Why can’t I just go to the studio’s website and pay them a dollar (or whatever) to download an MP4?! I can understand the old conservative idiots running old studios with old stupid practices, but why is NO ONE doing this? Especially as studios keep going out of business and reforming? Have they never seen Steam and GOG for game sales? Bandcamp for music?

…rant rant rant…

minimal inaccuracies

I (mostly) liked the show, but conflating the physical compression of a blackhole with data compression really grated on me.

CITY is not on CR – or, at least, it wasn’t when I was looking for it last year.

Wikipedia has it listed as licensed by Amazon Prime Video. (I expect most people just raised the Jolly Roger though…)

なでなで

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You put works like Mushoku Tensei, Steins;Gate 0, 5cm Per Second, Re:Zero in your Good to Great tiers. Frieren has some similar aspects and might land in a similar range for you. Seems a bit odd to reject it without even trying it just because it’s popular.

I recently managed to get a physical copy of Evangelion. Most of the discs work, so I’m watching through the series now for the first time. The only disc that didn’t work when I tested them is the one that has something called “Evangelion:Death(True)2” and the End of Evangelion movie plus some bonus content – this is an AACS issue rather than physical damage so there’s hope that I can watch it eventually, just… not now.

I was told that the ending theme has been changed. The copy I have has an instrumental piano piece instead of the various “Fly Me To The Moon” versions on animethemes. It’s not clear to me what the title of the ending piece on my copy is, and the version on my discs isn’t listed there.

I was expecting some weird stuff from this show, naturally – the later parts of it are infamous for that, even though I don’t know exactly what I’ll encounter yet – but, even still, the casual presence of the penguin was a surprise.

Even without clicking the link I recognize this one. Listened to that a bunch back during COVID lockdown in 2020.

I mean, there’s people like me who can say “Yeah, I can appreciate the aesthetics of a well-drawn foot; that takes some skill to do” – and then there are the people who really, really like feet. :-)