It's weird that this /c !anime@lemmy.ml doesn't show up on neither Feddit's Community Browser https://browse.feddit.de/ or Lemmy Explorer https://lemmyverse.net/communities when searching for "anime"
Instead anime@(the-instance-that-shall-not-be-named).social shows up first on Community Browser, and
I'm not sure what to make of that.
Is someone trying to shadow deprecate this /c/ ?
I'd forgotten all about C/FO because it had been such a long time since I'd heard of them.
It was really local groups who organized anime showings on college campuses who kindled me to take a more serious interest in anime.
Tape trading is where those groups from the 70s and 80s got their imported show from, but tape trading happened in all kinds of media, e.g. rock concerts.
Often we'd wind up watching 3rd or 4th gen VHS copies, i.e. grainy, washed out with bad sound, because we were so far down the chain.
...Aaaand the entries from the modlog concerning deleting my thread and post have been deleted.
Wonderful transparency there....
Fortunately, the bookwormstory.social entries are still there, so I could recover my scribblings.
Hahaha, the writer's joke was on us the viewers!
It starts out as a boring isekai "quiet life" scenario, then things get complicated...
The amount of twists that were thrown in to ratchet up the tension...
This is the best first episode I've watched in the new season so far.
Actually according to the modlog, some "mod" removed for "Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Episode 1 discussion" citing Rule 3 "No Porn"
I mean the show is risque, but we're starting to see nipples on Hollywood red carpets these days...
"mod" being in quotes because of the uncertainty elsewhere in this post...
Another villain POV series, but this one takes the form of a gag comedy, with what was probably a 4 panel gag comic, turned into a series of skits per episode.
As in all gag comedies, don't expect sakuga animation sequences.
The voice actor for the villain is great! And he should be, because he gets the most dialogue, and the story hangs on his character's POV.
Basically, the theme is "don't bug me on my day off" that should be relatable to 9 to 5 working people.
I didn't like this first episode...
I didn't care for any of the characters, the big fight looked expensive to animate, but there was never any sense that the sword dude was ever in danger.
Nor did I get any sense of the plot's direction or why I should care.
Probably a drop for me.
Thanks for posting the episode discussion threads! I thought you were shinobu's replacement bot!
I read the manhwa too, and so far it's being faithful, and it was nice touch to have additional explanations of this world up front graphically animated without being talky.
Good so far.
Yes, I also agree that a double episode premiere would have been more effective, because we haven't seen what this story is really about.
I'm finding the time to watch a lot more shows this season, and so far I'm finding enjoyment in the first episodes of some unexpected titles:
Sousou No Freiren continues to be a strong show.
Solo Leveling - I've enjoyed the manhwa, and this first episode is okay, it could have been longer to get to the key plot mechanic.
Conversely, I was disappointed by the first episode of the highly anticipated Dungeon Meshi/Delicious In Dungeon, which is fine. Some shows take a few episodes for the writing to gain traction.
You'd be surprised.
I have a RL friend who's on Reddit all the time, and he didn't even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I've been trying to sell it to him...
Re: The "We're elite" becomes "We're bored talking among the same old people" or "We're burned out", leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.
I've been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.