I love how they have Cid with a conductor’s baton. He would totally love to imagine himself as some kind of shadow conductor where everybody else is just playing along to his tune. Also, here are the seven shadows’ intruments:
It’s one of my favorites of all time. Highly recommended!
This is one of my favorite anime of all time. I haven’t really been able to find anything that can capture the same feeling. There are two that I have found to be the closest.
I’m wondering what anime they’re actually talking about?
It will be whatever some Christian lobbyist group complains about. Given the state of Texas, that will largely be anything with LGBT themes.
Yep, absolutely!
I have personally been some combination of sick, traveling, and busy the past couple weeks, so I haven’t been very active in these threads. I have fallen way behind most things this season. The only thing I have managed to keep up with has been City the Animation, and I have absolutely loved every second of it. I am hoping to try to catch up on a couple shows this week, but I am still struggling with a lingering illness, so time will tell.
I was reading the manga and then all the redraws just killed my interest in it. I felt like I kept having to go back and reread stuff and it felt like a chore. At this point I am probably just going to wait until the run is over or a good chunk of time has passed and then read it in a batch.
Before I went to college and had reliable access to (relatively) high speed internet, watching anime was…difficult. I remember passing around both VHS tapes and DVDs with friends at school (this was around the time most of us had a dual VHS/DVD player at home). Often I would just get to watch a couple episodes of a show, maybe or maybe not in the right order since they were basically all unofficial. I remember watching random episodes of lots of shows during this period in my life and not fully understanding the story, but just thinking it was cool or having a friend that knew what was going on and could catch me up (Ranma, Trigun, Fushigi Yuugi, Urusei Yatsura, Rose of Versailles, and many others I don’t even remember).
Some of those Toonami shows (in the US) were really the first ones that I could reliably count on watching in the right order and through a whole series. So those kinds of shows were really formative for a whole generation of us. I have fond memories of talking about shows like DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho (in addition to Bebop and Gundam Wing which you mentioned) with friends at the time.
These days, even if you run across another anime fan irl, with 50+ shows coming out every season and broadly available, it is not too likely you are even watching any of the same shows. That’s not a bad thing per se, but it is a very different vibe than how it used to be when anime was much more niche.
Big fan of Magic Knight Rayearth. It was one of the first shows that my (now) wife and I watched together when we started dating. It was a lot harder to watch anime back then, but she actually owned a copy so that we could watch it together.
City has been my absolute favorite this season. It’s something that I foresee popping on as a pick-me-up many times in the future, just like Nichijou has been for me.
If nobody comments on an episode before the next one airs, then rikka won’t post it. Feel free to request it by pm, that should still work. I’m literally in a plane right now about to take off, so I can’t right now.
I’m on vacation at the moment, so I can’t really dig it up, but I remember discussing an idea like that way back in the previous community. However, people weren’t too keen on it because going into that thread would basically guarantee getting spoiled on other shows airing, so it was decided to keep them separate. If you dig into rikka’s source repo a bit, there is a whole megathread functionality that I built that I have never actually used for much the same reason.
I believe this is new content. There isn’t too much more of the manga to adapt, not enough for a full season, so this is the outcome. I expect these will probably be more like OVAs than full feature films.
This would have been a fine comment, but just don’t self-promote where it isn’t relevant to the rest of the discussion.
Official flair support is coming for lemmy 1.0…sometime later this year. In the meantime, the photon frontend will parse parts of a post title in brackets as a tag. Take a look at the manga community in the photon frontend for an example. It removes things like [] or [] from the post titles and puts a little tag in the upper right of the post to act as a flair of sorts.
I am not actually watching too many shows this season, so that portion of my list is pretty short. However, I feel like this season has, overall, a lot of good OP/EDs to choose from. I cut down my initial version of this list a lot and included some kind of silly awards at the end.
Post tags are kind of an unofficial thing that (afaik) only photon supports. So, posters should feel free to use tags as they wish. I can add some recommendations to the sidebar/rules though, like in !manga@ani.social. When lemmy 1.0 comes out, or if this community ever ends up needing to move to a piefed instance, there will proper post flair that can be used instead.
As for the episode discussion threads, I can modify the bot’s template to include a tag. The manga community-style tag would be [DISC] or [Discussion], but the anime subreddit uses the [Episode] flair. I don’t have a strong preference and would be open to feedback on which way to have rikka go.
My roundup is still pending…I have been busy and haven’t yet finished listening to all of them yet. Stay tuned!
I am partway through season 2 right now and I kind of feel like it has lost its way a bit. Most of the second season has been a pacing nightmare I feel like where we are wandering around and doing slice of life things for most of the time, then like a minute of important plot happens just before the episode ends. Also, it makes for a weird tone as the circumstances of this season are quite dire with a disaster unfolding, but they devote a whole episode to silly antics like a beauty pageant.
Not sure what their plan is for season 3, but I hope they are able to right the ship. I was genuinely impressed in the first season with how well the ridiculous premise worked, but it may have overstayed its welcome by now.