Agree about Spice and Wolf so far. I have kept watching based on the fantastic reputation the first show has (that I haven’t watched), but this season has so far not really connected with me. If it wasn’t “Spice and Wolf”, then I would have dropped it by now.

The one thing that any music anime has to do right in my opinion is the music. So, it is a shame to hear that Girls Band Cry doesn’t deliver on that front. I don’t typically watch music shows, but I was debating checking this one out since I heard good things about the CG. So, I might just check out Trigun Stampede or something else instead.

7th Prince was top tier trash. Glad it was renewed.

The adaptation completely blew away my expectations. Really glad that they are keeping it going.

I ended up dropping the manga back when I checked it out for the same reason. The author clearly came up with an interesting premise, but then couldn’t figure out how to keep it interesting as they kept writing.

Went through the list of shows I watched and wrote down a couple thoughts:

• Tsukimichi - The second cour running during this season has been pretty good. There were some slow moments during a tournament arc, but the final couple episodes have been an excellent payoff.
• Konosuba - Another season that has come and gone way too quickly. Let’s hope it isn’t 5+ years before we get more.
• Delicious in Dungeon - The second cour of this show transitioned super well into darker themes while still retaining the goofy cooking humor. Looking forward to another season to wrap up the story.
• Bartender - This was enjoyable even if it was kind of boring sometimes. Not sure if I would check out a season 2 if it were to happen (no idea if the source material is there). If you are into cocktails, then this show has all the cocktail history and trivia you could want.
• Appraisal Isekai - The story between Ars and his father was really well done and Mirelle is overflowing with best girl energy. However, having read the manga, I don’t think I would continue this into a season 2 as the story more or less peaks with the father’s storyline imo.
• 7th Prince - Surprise of the season for me. I had read a good portion of the manga for this, so I already knew about the sussy shota stuff. However, the adaptation for this anime was excellent. The manga has a pretty unique art style (especially later in the series) and the anime was able to adapt it very well. For a newer studio, they really blew away my expectations for this show. Glad there will be a season 2.
• Level 2 Cheat - Another pleasant surprise this season. The manga was good, but I didn’t have high expectations for the anime. However, the real star of this adaptation was the voice cast. They really brought this show to life. Hoping that this one can continue, but I am not holding my breath.
• Spice and Wolf - This one is continuing for another cour. I never watched the first show, and this one has been a bit underwhelming so far. I understand that stories can be slow and take their time to build up, but I just haven’t really connected with this one much yet.
• Loser Ranger - I ended up dropping this about halfway through the season because I ran out of time. I was enjoying it though, so I will probably try to quickly catch up in the inter-season reprieve.

Based on what I have seen elsewhere, there are a couple shows that I think might be worth checking out sometime in the future when I get a chance. In no particular order:

• Tonari no Youkai-san
• Jellyfish
• Shuumatsu Train
• Wind Breaker

Ryu was so hilariously bad, as were some of the monsters they fought in that show (that I really enjoyed still). It reminded me of KamiKatsu, where they intentionally had absolutely awful CG as a joke. Well, people weren’t sure whether it was meant to be a joke or not until the author came out and said that the bad CG was intentional.

Mondays, am I right?

I am realizing since we are getting closer to the end that we haven’t really seen the class prez very much. The series started with her as a main cast member, but she has faded into the background over time.

Also, I tend to think of Nonoka as a side character, but then she hits you with one of these and strongly reasserts her main cast credentials.

Wow, those very obviously CG toys for Gilbert really stick out.

This is a bit of a jump forward from the last chapter I posted because they are a fair bit ahead on the group’s site compared to Mangadex. I just finished getting caught up. The Kewn extension works just fine in Mihon to continue reading it that way.

@[email protected] I have updated the sorting for this post. I mirrored the romaji name to the English name column if there was not a separate English name and then sorted by the English column. Let me know if you have any ideas for further improvements.

Additionally, I have added some functionality to the bot to be able to format a wiki page that provides the status for all the shows it is currently tracking. I have a prototype version of the page up here. This isn’t automated yet to update automatically, so it is just a snapshot in time. Let me know if you have any ideas for improvement there as well.

edit: The page is now hooked into my automation scripting, so it should be updated in an ongoing manner.

Relevant video about how little promotion Disney does for anime.

So, I don’t watch Mushoku Tensei, but it was impossible for me not to be spoiled on what went down in the most recent episode. It was a huge jump up in the vote share for the show this past week so that it easily clears the rest of the table to land comfortably in the #1 spot.

Kaiju No. 8 had a similarly large jump in the vote share this week. I don’t know what exactly happened there, but it is an impressive jump up into the top 3.

Happy birthday ani.social! Thanks for putting the effort into keeping the lights on as the community here has grown.

Ani.Social was supposed to be a KBin instance

That bit of serendipity worked out in your favor. My understanding is that kbin development has essentially stopped because of health issues with the dev. The mbin project has essentially taken up the reins as a successor still under active development.

Automatic moderation tools

These sound interesting, however these are admin-level tools rather than community-level. I have been saying for ages that lemmy needs more tools built in to help community moderators, but I am hopeful that they might be coming. Someday. Maybe. Hopefully? I know that sublinks is focusing a lot on this, but I haven’t heard as much from the lemmy devs.

I host an instance of lemmy I use for testing, so I took a quick look through the documentation for these tools to maybe install and play around with them, but I think these might be a step beyond what I want to put the effort into getting set up. Thanks for the work that you do on this front. I wonder how the image filtering tool is going to deal with drawn content. The false positive rate might differ a lot compared to what is typical.

Thank you for the information! I would have thought リリー would be the typical way to write it, but katakana can be weird like that. I once looked up how to write my name in katakana and was completely dumbfounded by how its done (wa = ウォ for some reason).

I have read most of the manga for this series, but had a lot of fun with the series based in large part to the great VA work. Rys, Uliminas, and the other hero character were all fantastically acted.

I am guessing it is a pun based on my limited knowledge of the language. I never knew before why the lily flower was synonymous with yuri relationships, but I just looked it up and it’s because the way you pronounce the kanji for the lily flower (百合) is yuri (ゆり) and the lily was traditionally associated with women’s purity in Japan. Then, in the 70’s, it was used to describe lesbian readers of a BL magazine by the editor and it kind of took off from there.

The title is written as リリィ which is “riri” (or lily) but written a little weirdly with the small ィ at the end. I don’t know enough about the nuances of katakana to know the significance there. I am guessing that the Lily part of the title is literally correct, but that the target audience is supposed to get the second meaning implying yuri.

Then again, I am not a native Japanese speaker…so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lol, that’s a good way of putting it. Even when Hiiragi is all ready for it to happen, we can’t because we need to have a serious talk about our future instead.

There was even a moment in this chapter

This is what made me think about it. So many wasted opportunities. Before this festival, I remember thinking that the test of courage they were on was another good opportunity.

Is this the end of the cultural festival then? A little part of me was hoping that Kuzuhana would get the chance to speak her feelings to Saotome since the festival/fashion show has been so important in the series previously. Alas…

Yeah, I was surprised by this too. The character almost always has a box of fries in her hand in the manga, so it makes sense that she is associated with fries. However, like you said, if this is a trade association meant to promote fries, then it is questionable whether this is actually helping.