These are homophones in Japanese. Same thing as words like their/there/they’re or seas/sees/seize, etc. Words that sound the same but are written differently. The Japanese language has tons of them. Often, the ambiguity around homophones is used as a source of humor, causing misunderstandings between characters in anime/manga or puns that add a layer of humor to an otherwise normal thing to say.

I haven’t watched it, but it looks like Girls Band Cry. The 13th episode and finale is airing in a couple days. Not sure what episode this is from.

Filterable post flairs and instance-agnostic links are my two biggest wish list items that I think would go a long way to making that specific community much nicer (speaking as a mod).

Typesetting is one of those things that we tend not to notice at all when it is good, but becomes pretty obvious when it is bad.

They don’t usually announce a new season until the previous one has finished airing. I find it almost impossible that Frieren doesn’t get a season 2 given its immense popularity both within Japan and abroad. Final episode airs on Friday and I give >50% chance that a season 2 announcement is also made on Friday.

Obligatory shout out that you might get more answers in !anime@ani.social, either as a post or a comment in the weekly general thread as compared to a meme community like this one.

It sounds like you want to avoid melodrama or manufactured tension. Here are a couple recent shows that popped into my head that generally fit across a couple genres:

• Horimiya (2021) - A really well done romcom set in high school. There is a second season that aired recently, but the first season tells a pretty complete story, the second season is mainly side stories.
• Campfire Cooking (2023) - If romance isn’t your thing, you could check out this series that is a “slow-life isekai” that focuses on good food and fun companions.
• Bocchi the Rock! (2022) - Not into either romance or cooking? Check this series out for anime girls doing music instead. This series came out of nowhere to become a lot of people’s favorite of the season/year.
• Frieren (2023-currently airing) - Think Lord of the Rings, but from an elf’s perspective in that Frieren, an elf, has a functionally infinite lifespan. This fantasy series quickly became the highest rated series on MAL despite still airing its first season. It has its emotional moments, but the series so far has been an excellent adaptation of an excellent manga.

Haha, I wish it was as “ordinary” as Nichijou. Sadly it is ordinary in the sense that it is neither great nor terrible and it is quite forgettable. I dare say the kids today would call it mid.

Well, I like the manga a lot more, and had been reading that long before the anime was even announced. However, once I started the anime and was disappointed, I just couldn’t bring myself to stop until I had finished the season. It was the sunk cost fallacy in action.

In general, this genre of story, the “slow-life isekai”, generally doesn’t translate to anime well in my opinion. Probably the only one that I liked the anime adaptation was Slime 300 (which had a second season announced).

Not that I remember. This is from “Farming Life in Another World” which is an exceedingly ordinary show. I have watched the show and read the manga, but I don’t remember this as a plot point (and I am pretty sure this would have stuck in my brain). If I remember correctly, this scene is the group of elves introducing themselves to the MC as they are moving into his village.

Pretty funny joke subs though. Something as crazy as this might have made the show more interesting tbh.

I just finished the first chapter and this hit me in the nostalgia so hard. I started using Linux in one form or another back in 2006 (Ubuntu and Red Hat back then). Seeing the old UI, synaptic, and a user that insists GUIs aren’t needed are so spot on for the time. One of Ubuntu’s big differentiators back then was the ease with which you could install codecs, so it was nice to see it called out.

How have I never seen this before? I have been reading manga and daily driving linux for years. Instant must-read! Thanks!

I most recently watched 100GF. I don’t know if that is a blessing or a curse. Rentaro is a lot to live up to.

For some reason, this post reminded me of the illustrations Reiji posted to his twitter of Chizuru drawn on top of photographs. Here is the first example I could find from a quick search, but there is a whole series of them.

Yes, this is a panel from that same series, much later on. I will reiterate what I said in that thread that the series is great and worth checking out for the genius absurdity that is contained within.

Yeah, it must be a kbin/lemmy translation issue then. I think you are right in that kbin is parsing it as a link, and then lemmy is writing that out with link markdown. So, it seems as though the syntax just won’t work for kbin users (at least you won’t get notifications from the bot each time you do it since you are on kbin).

I wish there was a way to link to things in an instance-agnostic way, but unfortunately that is not possible yet (open github issue).

There are lots of weird kbin/lemmy interaction quirks. For the community linking, you need to include the instance as well. So if you wanted to link the community this post is in (using lemmy syntax) it would be written as !animemes@ani.social (note that you don’t need to include linking markdown, it will automatically be parsed as a link) even if you are on ani.social.

As for bot accounts not federating, that is especially frustrating for the !episode_discussion@ani.social community since it means that kbin users just see a vast desert of a community that contains zero posts.

Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero. I agree with the other poster, this series was way better than I expected it to be.

Here is a post on the anime community about it. Basically, there is a bit of a backlash against Mappa by others in the industry right now for setting timelines way too aggressively, forcing tons of overtime on the animators.

If you haven’t read this series before, it’s fantastic. The author crams in so many visual gags it is really impressive. Also, they are able to keep surprising with the humor. One of the risks with these silly premise manga is that they get old. However, this one has only gotten better as its gone on.

I only wish it published more frequently.

Great post! Keep it up!