Loved this little joke. It’s kind of hilarious that she now gets her own shounen-style transformation ability…but it’s just because she’s happy.

What is this backstory for new Miyu? I still have no idea what is going to happen each chapter of this series. It is an interesting development that original Miyu’s dad is in league with new Miyu. I suspect he might be inside the mascot outfit at the end of the chapter. But, then again, what good is trying to predict anything in this one?

I love that 100GF x OnK idea!

Azunyan-ga Daioh

Sakaki approves of this!

There is at least one collection of Frieren short story spinoffs. As far as I know though, this has not been translated to English yet. Maybe some short OVAs to help tide us over.

I think this release schedule, despite being very weird, was planned. At least I haven’t seen any news about issues with the production or anything like that.

Zilbagias

I have been keeping up with the manga chapters that get posted to Mangadex and I feel similarly. It’s such a weird setup that I can’t say it is all working, but I am willing to keep reading to see where it goes. One thing I have been a bit disappointed by as the chapters have gone on (you are likely ahead of me), is that the whole idea of “taboo” seems to be so open-ended that it is not really clear what is or isn’t considered taboo. Like, as long as there can be some flimsy rationalization, then it can count. I don’t know if this gets better or not, but I thought that aspect was really interesting and has so far been under or poorly utilized.

Metallic Rouge

This one was a huge disappointment for me. I feel like all the effort put into the style, animation, and OST was wasted on a story that fell apart along the way. This is my comment from the finale for more of my thoughts. I absolutely love the OP for the show though. One of the best OPs in a season that had a ton of great OPs.

Unfortunately, I was living almost entirely off the grid last week, so I wasn’t able to keep up with things that came out. Additionally, I was constantly surrounded by way too many family members crammed into one house and wasn’t really able to work through my backlog either. So, I have quite the mountain of chapters to try to stare down this week.

Weekly ranking roundup:

1. Anime Corner - Full Results - Weekly Winner: Bleach: TYBW
2. Reddit Karma - Weekly Winner: Dan Da Dan
3. Anime Trending - Weekly Winner: Dan Da Dan

Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma and /u/Nooble5 for the Anime Trending chart.

Dan Da Dan is absolutely undisputed atop the karma chart with Re:Zero having dropped out for the rest of the season. However, this comes as the total karma seems incredibly low for the week at only 15k.

If you didn’t see my post in this thread last week, I was basically off the grid this whole past week. As a result, I was unable to watch literally any episodes of anything. So, I have quite a bit to catch up on this week. Not sure what shows to try to prioritize yet. Too many shows and not enough time!

the sidebar rules specifically mention allowing “donghua”

Getting into what is or isn’t anime can be thorny sometimes. The rule of thumb I follow, which I have mentioned in the past, is that if a show/movie has either a MAL or AniList page, then it is relevant enough for this community. AniList includes donghua in their database, including this show, so it is fine to post about.

What this discussion has made me realize though, is that the bot wasn’t tracking donghua like it does anime. The AniList api includes it, but I was filtering to just the JP shows. So, I will be removing that filter going forward. I apologize retroactively to all the donghua fans out there that didn’t have a place to talk about it.

This discussion has also made me realize that, despite them being listed on AniList, the bot wasn’t tracking any shows marked as Chinese origin on AniList. I will rectify this going forward. I have stated before that any show with an AniList or MAL page is fair game for this community, and I will make sure that the bot follows those rules to the best of my ability.

Thanks for helping me find this little hiccup with the bot!

Alright, popping back in here after a busy day and wanted to thank everybody for their input. I will do some thinking on it.

In the meantime, considering the feedback here, I will not be adding rules against posting full-length, legally accessible episodes to this community. As I see it, there are a couple different acceptable reasons to post these:

1. Posting episodes to discuss them when they have recently aired

This would essentially be in place of a normal discussion thread created by the bot. The bot doesn’t let users request episode discussion threads that aired more than 30 days prior, so a similar rule should apply to full episodes posted to discuss that episode. Note that if you do this, let me know so that I can make sure these threads get included in the wiki of episode discussion threads.

2. Posting an episode of an older (> 30 days) series that has finished airing in order to foster discussion of the series/genre/staff/visuals/etc.

This would be similar to a recommendation thread (or a Watch This! thread from the subreddit). The basic rule here is that in addition to simply posting the link, a user would need to include some other content to contextualize or explain why they are posting the episode. This could be either in the post body or as a top level comment.

3. Posting an episode as part of an organized rewatch.

I have on my to-do list over the year-end holiday season to write up rules and guidance on organizing rewatches. If you want an already written guide, here is the subreddit wiki’s page on them. Basically, it would be a user-led effort to gather a group of interested parties to all watch through a series together. If a series that was being rewatched had full, legally accessible episodes, then those could serve as the rewatch threads.

So, with this set of guidelines @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al, I welcome you to resubmit the episode you posted. I just ask two things:

1. That you make the title more informative/relevant rather than the autogenerated wall of kanji that most people in this community can’t read.
2. That you also write up a bit about the show and why you are posting it to line up with the #2 point above. It doesn’t need to be long, but just something more than simply the link so that people know what they are watching and why you wanted to share it.

Hopefully this can serve as a middle ground that allows posting of full-length episodes that are legally accessible as well as fostering discussion and community involvement.

I understand that I didn’t explicitly have any kind of rule against posting links to publicly, legally available full episodes, so I will be clarifying that going forward soon when I get a chance (on mobile atm).

This community is really intended to be geared towards discussion/clips/news than sharing full-length episodes like that. Additionally, the episode was originally released almost two months ago, so it isn’t particularly timely (unless there is some wonky release stuff I am not aware of). However, I admit that this kind of thing was merely an intention on my behalf rather than something that all of us in the fediverse huddled together and decided collectively. So, I am open to feedback (such as this thread) on this kind of thing. In general, when I haven’t made rules about something, I tend to default back to what would have been allowed in the anime subreddit because they have had years of history to work through all the edge cases that can arise from rules.

I would be more open to posts of full episodes that are legally available if it was part of some kind of community effort. Say, for example, that OP wanted to organize a group to watch this series together and discuss it (like a rewatch in the subreddit). Then, there could be some kind of schedule and an episode post would get made each day/week/whatever and the discussion among members of this community could happen in that post.

For context for others, OP posted a link to Slay the Gods Episode 1 which is a Chinese ONA series. In that post I removed, I replied before removal:

This seems like it is a full episode of a series. It isn’t really suited for this community which is more focused on news/clips/discussion. I am going to remove it, but if you want to create a discussion thread about the series you are welcome to do so.

This might be more suited to a community dedicated to the series (I don’t know if it exists in the fediverse or not).

This is the first instance of this happening, so I will be updating the rules about this going forward.

This seems like it is a full episode of a series. It isn’t really suited for this community which is more focused on news/clips/discussion. I am going to remove it, but if you want to create a discussion thread about the series you are welcome to do so.

This might be more suited to a community dedicated to the series (I don’t know if it exists in the fediverse or not).

This is the first instance of this happening, so I will be updating the rules about this going forward.

As a DM myself, I found this origin to Lodoss War interesting and was something that I wasn’t aware of. I haven’t watched the series, but I might have to change that.

Really glad to see the TL come back for this one. It is one of my favorites. The way it is so cozy and unsettling at the same time is fascinating.

Also little things like the leaves of the trees being a decorative motif on the pots and plates. It’s so macabre if you stop and think about it.

Another communication problem set up and dealt with in the same chapter. It was a good idea to call Rinne for advice and I am glad to see these two aren’t letting silly misunderstandings get in the way.

Also Kanon here is great. She started this series so calm and cool, that it’s quite a shift to see her so flustered.