Only I Know the World Is Ending and Getting Killed by Rampaging Beasts Only Makes Me Stronger - c1-c31 - 18+ tag is only for gore stuff and it definitely fits. Blood is depicted in hectoliters.

Aria of the Beech Forest - volume 1 and half of volume 2 - cute enough to keep my suspension of disbelief about a girl living alone in the forest not knowing what technology is and her reaction to that technology.

she is beautiful just got into 4 chapters so far but the title of second chapter couldn’t be more poetic.

Before the Tutorial Starts: A Few Things I Can Do to Keep the Bosses Alive, Vol. 1 - Just another isekai to kill time. Decent world building. Decent plot. Decent characters. This isn’t bad but also nothing really to stand out from the rest. Everything is just slightly better than the average isekai. I immersed myself into that world and I enjoyed my time.

a bit of a filler episode

The line must go UP! Invest! Invest! Invest! This will be anime of the season! To the MOON!

Can’t win the pun-battle with the literal dad. @rikka@ani.social (I spend more time trying to out-pun him than I am willing to admit)

Avalon 2001 - hilarious film for over 2/3 of a runtime

Yes

An animated youtube kids show where objects compete in battle royale style game.

I would say that it doesn’t exists. Dunkelferger women are especially known for their plots and wits as men are know for their passion for ditter. Taking a bride through ditter seems on point for them. The women would brew some convoluted plot to get what they desire.

Once again, Dregarnuhr the Goddess of Time has woven our threads together and blessed us with a Myneday. The spin-off will be in 14 parts so the weekly ritual will come back for quite a while.

Will Hannelore escape the eternal ditter and marry Wilfred or sucumb to warfare simulations everyday? We will see next time…

On what ranking is Alexandria? It wasn’t a top ranking duchy as I would expect. Although Arhensbach had poor hervest last year and was a traitorous duchy.

“Be silent as losers should be.” - Chekhov’s gun my beloved

It has been like this for years at this point.

option 1: reset the algorithm or
option 2: give up on youtube or
option 3: use classic subscriptions instead of algorithm. Just watch one guy that you enjoy.

joining a Misskey instance last month with a VPN

a) Do you REALLY need a VPN?
b) Find an instance that is VPN friendly. Just like lemmy.world has VPNs blocked but other instances don’t. It would be similar there.

IMO the more the merrier

there is !tefn@literature.cafe but it isn’t very active. There is also !webnovels@sh.itjust.works with similar situation. Maybe I should post something there.

I usually read light novels but last week I got sucked into a bunch of manga.

-> Captain Corinth: The Galactic Navy Officer Becomes an Adventurer Very fun adventure about a guy trying to prevent cosmic cataclysm. The MC is typical dense harem protagonist but the adventure is good enough to offset it for me.

-> Honobono Isekai Tensei Days ~Level Counterstop, Item Mochikoshi! Watashi wa Saikyou Youjo Desu First 4 volumes were very fluffy and fun but after that volume 5 and 6 got too serious for my taste and it lost it’s charm. The stakes got too high for slice of life. It still could go into interesting direction but that wouldn’t be the same story as in the beginning. I wanted something like Slime Life but it didn’t live up to my expectations.

-> I Picked Up This World’s Strategy Guide there was chapter posted in the community and art was breathtaking.

I personally am going through tadoku catalog right now to get up to a level where I can watch and read random stuff.

I tried a YT method with Russian but I only found 2 youtubers that ware making enjoyable stuff. It was very easy to just switch accounts so a bit of willpower to get through unfun recommended stuff was necessary. Try to use the Algorithm to your advantage. It wants you to stay on youtube. (Sadly I don’t want to learn Russian so I didn’t keep going)

For Japanese Fediverse look into Misskey (and forks). They have a LOT of Japanese speaking people.

I am already reading a bunch of LN and Anime so switching for me will be easy. I also have a backlog of interesting looking YT channels: ずんだもんの定理, あらゐけいいち and Clear Usui

I am to much of a human to let slide the disrespect for foreign cultures and religions. “Look at that silly thing they are doing! aren’t they hilarious! 😂😂😂” even though the people are holding value in it.

I feel a dichotomy between what it wants to be, a comedy show; and between what it ought to be, a serious exploration what it means to be a storyteller, tragedy and a thing you want to do with your life (animator vs director.)

the “skip the fight” bit was hilarious.

Is the Strongest in Another World a Hero? A Demon Lord? No! it’s a Fairy ~desu! WN c1-64 - Another web novel this week. I was expecting a cotton candy but all I have got is cotton. MC gets the strongest in couple of chpters. Starts parting and throws an Idol concert. Everyone is hangover the next day. Worldbuilding is nonexistant. It didn’t keep me interested.

Honorable mention as I wanted to write a similar story where the MC is the only one aware of the cosmic horrors on the planet. I mentioned it once in a mid-week discussion. Captain Corinth: The Galactic Navy Officer Becomes an Adventurer Manga c1-50 The world intriguing, art is pretty enough, harem is subtle enough that it didn’t click for me at first that’s a harem manga. Not original but fresh enough to keep me interested.

P.S. Today The Hannalore 5th Year (Ascendance of a Bookworm spin-off) starts pre-publishing. Yay!

From design and synopsis Alma and Anya look very similar.

Beatiful…

I think that format is made specifically to combat modern watchers that need to decide what to watch just from first episode. It felt more like a pilot episode than proper introduction to the character.