These are mine

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/69021729

OK the question is partly a joke... But let's be honest, that's a Guyver! or at least some sort of clone like Aptom. What's he doing in Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken? 😂 Curious to hear people's hypotheses on how he got there. Maybe Otherworlders can come from other parallel Japanese universes too?

Oh yeah I'd like more Zoanoids and Dr. Barcas/Balcus too! Or maybe I've actually already seen someone like him in TSSDK?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68868025

Since quite a few years back, it's been quite commonplace in fantasy anime and manga to represent casting magic as some kinds of 2D circles or geometric figures with patterns, possibly multiple ones, as in the image on the right (Frieren). I see this idea used in almost all – if not all – anime and manga now.

It hasn't always been that way though. Older anime and manga used other and different kinds of representations, say from blinking stars (image on the left, Majokko Megu-chan) to smoke, or even just sound effects.

I'm just curious: does anyone have any info or links to share about how this "2D representation" came about and why it's become so popular? Cheers!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73415407

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD (although the media is pretty old)

read at your own risk

So I read the extended novel by Shinkai and Kanoh on '5 cms per second', and I think there are a bunch of things I truly disagree on.

In the second part, Cosmonaut, Takaki mentions how they didn't want to add the feelings they felt under the cherry blossom to their letters, since, I quote, 'It was a moment of absolute purity. ... It was a moment that could never be put to words.' Yet he also says that doing so would preserve it, which is why neither of them did it, since forcing a description on it would ruin and tarnish the beauty. Yet he acknowledges that words were all he could send her, despite language being a flawed tool. Maybe he was right about language being a flawed tool.

It drove them to hopelessness how the letter had no mention, no remnant of that experience. And that's the reason why they evem stopped trying to describe their feelings and the letters became sparser and sparser, and also devoid of their depth, only containing everyday affairs.

BUT LANGUAGE WAS ALL THEY HAD. THE SHARED EXPERIENCE MIGHT BE PERFECT, BUT THEY HAD EMAIL! PHONES! LETTERS! THEY HAD TO COMMUNICATE! TELL EACH OTHER HOW WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED WAS PERFECT. EVEN THAT ALONE COULD'VE BEEN ENOUGH! THEY TRIED TO PRESERVE THE PERFECTION AND LOST WHATEVER THEY HAD!

I find this entire section to be a cheap and easy excuse and a way out of responsibility. Yes, love is a responsibility. It takes effort. A lot of it. But I can't really blame kids for not having maturity in life I guess. But one would expect them to be better because they were supposedly much more mature, beyond their ages.

I do wonder, what would've happened if they were honest with each other? If they wrote their feelings, no matter how imperfect. Maybe things would've been different.

I truly think Shinkai and Kanoh fumbled here. But maybe that was the message. Feelings alone don't preserve a relationship. It requires a constant effort and even more constant and clear communication.

However, the way the media was framed, the second novel in particular, makes it seem really, really weird. And the rest of the media just shows Takaki to be someone stuck in the past even though he found much success in his life in his own way (again, second novel).

Literary rant over

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73250926

The story follows the life of a young woman with an intellectual disability who ends up involved in nighttime work, leading to a tragic outcome. Critics accuse the work of profiting from the exploitation of vulnerable people and demand that its production be halted.

https://x.com/i/status/2081696104350122142

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68237154

Reach out to @mackenzibale on instagram for filurther details.

I'm wondering why anime series often put what will become the season's OP at the end of the first episode.

I guess it must be for some marketing reason... do you happen to know why precisely?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71670836

https://youtube.com/shorts/UCaO_XT2Q_c

I mean, after his guardian (his grandfather) died, his guard wasn't transfered, nobody went after him, is he even old enough to live for himself in Japan?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71166238

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71166177

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71160508

I was waiting for the next season for years... just to have this? I'm so disillusioned now, thanks for f-ing up my fav anime / manga.....

Just curious what everyone else is watching this up coming season, any recommendations welcome. I am aware of:

Witch Hat Atelier Dorohedoro Deamons of the Shadow Realm