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…

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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:

• Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Villain POV with S&M lewdness
• Sokushi Cheat - Kill all the evil classmates in an isekai. Kind of a similar vibe to The Executioner And Her Way Of Life
• Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha • The Unwanted Undead Adventurer - An adventurer unexpectedly joins the monster track of advancement and starts from being a weak skeleton
• Chiyu Mahou no Machigatta Tsukaikata: Senjou wo Kakeru Kaifuku Youin • The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic - An average student gets sucked into an isekai. All likeable characters so far.

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.

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Like a lot of isekai first episodes, this was a good start.

I do like the evil-classmates-kill-em-all idea

But of course, it’s all about whether the writing can sustain the quality and surprise.

Starting with Winter 2023: Overall a weak season.

Vinland Saga S2 Handyman Saitou In Another World Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

Spring 2023: A very strong season

Birdie Wing Golf Girls Story S2 Oshi No Ko Chibi Godzilla Raids Again Heavenly Delusion My Home Hero Skip and Loafer

Summer 2023: Honestly I got burned out here, and stopped watching halfway through the season

I really liked this start!

The MC is bumped onto the monster track of progress and growth.

I enjoyed his funny cartoony thought process.

It’s the opposite of Skeleton Knight In Another World, where the main character skeleton starts extremely strong.

An oddly quiet style of animation for a Trigger series.

It’s not grabbing me yet.

The elf mage seems useless and annoying so far.

As someone else pointed out, it seems to share a food porn aesthetic with the Campfire Cooking show.

It’s kind of a shock to see Sein leave so soon after joining the party. We might or might not see him again, or find out how his search for Gorilla went.

The OP shows us a second female mage joining the party, but doesn’t show the party without Sein yet, so maybe we’ll see him again…

The woman living alone where the Frost Cherry Tree village used to be didn’t explain why the village disappeared…

A total-non-adventure episode…

A promising start so far.

Usato and the other characters seem interesting and likeable so far.

It’s not really clear yet why Healing magic is so bad, but I suppose we’ll find out

A new test for Ayanakoji, and the newly promoted Class C, this time split into mixed groups with upper and lower classmates.

This first episode was about what is expected for this show, which is good if you enjoy this kind of writing.

I can’t believe GS wouldn’t take on a dungeon or potential city full of goblins without preparing something special like the firehose scroll.