The stupidest fucking timeline…

I read the first couple volumes of this manga and it gets wild…

ANN calls it a “romantic suspense manga” and that is closer to the truth. However, I feel like that is still underselling it. This series is basically suffering porn, and that is why I ultimately ended up dropping reading it. This visual is a huge misdirect and gives off the totally wrong impression.

The genre that I most often see people mix up is CGDCT. A lot of casuals that I have talked to don’t realize that the target audience for these series is almost always either boys or men. Instead, they kind of lump these series in with stuff like Precure, which is aimed at girls. To prove the point, AniList only has 13 series that are shoujo and CGDCT, and a grand total of 0 that are josei.

The past couple weeks I watched a couple things that I can write about…

First up is Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi. I really liked the two anthology episodes that were part of season 1 and 3 of Star Wars Visions (especially the episode from season 1). So, getting the chance to get an eight episode season sounded great. The first couple episodes felt a little slow, but did a lot of work establishing things. Then, it delivered really well as the season went. Right as I was finishing it, Mother’s Basement released a video about the series, singing its praises. While I wouldn’t go as far as he does in his video, the series manages to feel pretty fresh with respect to its treatment of Jedi and the force. It is probably the most interesting depiction of Gray Jedi (neither pure dark or light) since the KOTOR games.

Next up is Toradora!. I am currently 8 episodes in and have been enjoying it a lot. I don’t have a ton to add here, but I think the thing that surprised me the most is how much I like Ami’s character. She seems like an easy to hate character, but there is something oddly compelling in how toxic she acts.

Last but not least, I watched Asobi Asobase. I didn’t really know what to expect when I started this series, but my initial thought based on visuals was maybe a CGDCT. However, I quickly realized I was mistaken as these girls are absolutely unhinged (in the best way). The humor feels similar to something like Nichijou, but a bit more restrained due to the smaller cast and scope of the setting. My absolute favorite sequence involved an android that they programmed to speak English using just the vocabulary of one of their grandfathers. I created a clip, but I must give an NSFW language warning: https://static.wjs018.xyz/iJ2rJ45DeIOD6zZA.webm

The only example I can think of off the top of my head are the live action Rurouni Kenshin movies. In my opinion, they are excellent and the best way to consume the story.

I love this series. Really looking forward to this one being adapted. I am curious about how they’re going to depict hearing impairments.

Yeah, this series is a lot of fun.

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Yeah…there is some history with anime on the ml instance. Thanks for the content! Anime Feminist is a great read and more than welcome.

I started reading this manga recently and have been enjoying it. Hardly any of it has been translated though, so I am looking forward to seeing more of the story via the anime.

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Thanks for pointing this out. I try to fix these when I notice them, but I have been on vacation the past two weeks, so I haven’t been as attentive as usual.

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I am going to be posting a new weekly thread in a couple hours, so you might have some better luck if you repost this question there, but I have made a pass at some recommendations below. You have a lot of the recent ones I have enjoyed. Some others that come to mind:

• Lycoris Recoil - Imagine John Wick but with anime girls
• Villainess Level 99 - the animation quality isn’t great, but the humor is and it wraps up nicely, not some cliffhanger that will never resolve
• Mushishi - Anthology series…don’t binge this one, take it slow and let your brain chew on each episode
• Silent Witch - kind of like if you made Bocchi into an OP witch
• 100 Girlfriends - Strap in to experience the best harem MC out there - Rentaro
• Dungeon People - A great SoL about the folks working behind the scenes to make a dungeon work
• Endo and Kobayashi - a fun take on the villainess genre; if you like tsunderes, you will like this one
• Fruits Basket (2019) - one of the pillars of shoujo, and for a good reason
• Slime 300 - a very laid back SoL, basically a CGDCT
• Kino’s Journey (2017) - anthology series…if you really like this, then you can watch the older 2003 series as well for some different stories
• Love After World Domination - the red ranger falls in love with an enemy general…
• Orb: On the Movements of the Earth - an anime about heliocentrism…yeah, it sounds weird as a premise, but it works…trust me.
• Heavenly Delusion - Traveling across a post-apocalyptic Japan and things are kind of off…
• Shimoneta - a world in which even the smallest dirty talk/gesture is literally illegal, meet the brave warriors fighting back against this censorship with the power of horny (note: don’t watch this with anybody else in the room)
• Yuri on Ice - dramatic ice skating (boys version) - Medalist is the girls version, but I haven’t watched it, so I can’t vouch for it, but I have heard good things.

Wait, so did episode 7 just air? If so, I will just make this be the thread for 6-7 and episode 8 should go like normal then.

Looks like Bodacious Space Pirates.

Fun fact - I visited Tokyo years ago when I had a friend living over there teaching English as part of the JET program. When I visited Ueno Park, there was a group of cosplayers in the park all in costumes from this show doing a photoshoot. I had no idea what show it was at the time, but figured it out years later when I came across a random image in a thread like this one and was able to piece it together.

I am pretty excited about this one. It is a community favorite over on !manga@ani.social and it is very funny.

Ubuntu already has some anime-ready mascots they could use from their official manga, Ubunchu!

The article refers to it as a short anime, which usually means episodes are only like 5 minutes long.