Not sure what significance Ramune has to this story, but all I could think about was Anchorman. Chitose is in a Ramune bottle of emotion!

Oshi no Ko and Alya traded spots on the top of the chart this past week while Makeine (Losing Heroines) continues charging up the chart week after week. Meanwhile, Nokotan has continued dropping, now down to #12.

I am curious about this one as the LN series has won awards in the past. Anybody familiar with this series?

Also, based on the synopsis, two of the main characters are dudes and didn’t make the announcement visual for their own series. Better luck next time guys!

That’s a wrap. I can’t help but feel let down by this ending. Unfortunately it is not the first and definitely won’t be the last series that is unceremoniously rushed to an unsatisfying ending.

Huge thanks to the translation team and how they went above and beyond illustrating and explaining the sign language.

This is an excellent point that I thought about when a previous community I was active in got shut down on the ml instance due to some admin whims. Since then, for the two communities I run, I have an external wiki that I maintain with things like complete rules or an index of past weekly discussion threads, etc. These wikis are set up on a VPS that I am responsible for, independent of the host instance of my communities.

ani.social and the admin, @hitagi@ani.social, has been excellent, and the instance is a logical place for anime/manga communities. I have also tried to keep up donations to keep the server running, but people’s lives change, not always by choice. Having some form of communication independent of the lemmy instance makes sense for those scenarios, if for nothing else except for communicating a migration to a different instance.

Time for a Jumanji adaptation!

This has sat in my manga library for a while but I hadn’t gotten around to reading it yet. I’ll try to check it out sometime before the show comes out.

However…you know that watermelon is going be cut with laser-like precision.

Did they eat the whole gingerbread house in one sitting? Geez, I like sweets as much as the next person, but that is a lot. Also, I agree that there is a romance to them, but only in the construction. I am personally not a big fan of gingerbread when it is baked fully dried through like you need to for the houses.

If you drew the route of circles in a loop, would you trap Mary? Also, I am enjoying imagining the Miko class where they were taught how to deal with Mary. Step 1 - hopscotch, Step 2 - pudding.

This is a fair take. I remember watching it and being mostly confused until I got past the halfway point or so. That being said, if the first half’s plot threads that it waves at you aren’t piquing your interest, then the payoff when things get explained later probably isn’t going to be terribly satisfying.

what happened Silver Link

They just put the currently airing Our Last Crusade Season 2 on an indefinite hiatus due to production issues, less than halfway through the season. Something is seriously messed up over there. I don’t know if they are just way overextended or what, but from the outside looking in, it looks bad.

Yes, this does have a lot of potential…

Naori saw through everything the whole time. She really is on another level compared to the other two. She is super intelligent, hyper observant, and has an emotional insight into how others are feeling.

It really feels like the others are dancing to her tune. Honestly, I am feeling more and more that she is too good to get dragged into this mess. She should just run off and be happy with the professor. They can be turbo nerds together.

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That abstract sequence really caught me off guard. Such a great use of the animation medium that manga could never hope to replicate. Very meta in how it handles adapting media from one form to another, elevating it.

What an incredible adaptation of Melt’s big moment. I went back and checked out the manga to remind myself of how this was handled in the source material (chapters 57-58) and the anime takes this sequence to a whole new level. Melt had his own shonen protagonist climax moment.

Up to this point, this whole arc has been about the difficulty of adapting media from one form to another. Then, they bust out this episode that adapts the source manga in a way that utilizes animation that could never have been done in manga form. They even hand painted some of that sequence with actual oil paints (this is one of the animators’ accounts)!

This season had a bit of a slow start, but this episode has given me tons of confidence that the rest of this arc is going to deliver. My only complaint is that I really wish that Ruby and Mem weren’t relegated to being completely off screen through it all.

This is a situation that pops up a lot in anime/manga romcoms; embarrassment over using first names and casual speech. I fully understand that there are significant cultural differences between Japan (the intended audience) and the US (my cultural experience). From my interactions with Japanese people I have met irl, this trope feels like it is super overblown in the genre.

Anyway, all that is to say that I wish that authors would get a bit more creative about awkward things in a new relationship. There are loads of things to be self conscious about, you don’t always need to go back to the metaphorical first name embarrassment well.

A slice of life chapter this week. Looks like Aqua is hoping to reprise his role as a doctor. However, this chapter does nothing to help avoid the Alabama allegations with how close the two of them are.

Crunchyroll shifted the releases to Wednesday, moving it up from Sundays. This means it lines up with the release in Japan which also happens on Wednesdays.

This one might be my bad. I might have triggered it accidentally by screwing up an ssh command from my phone. Cleaning it up now.