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Welcome to the second ever general discussion thread for our burgeoning community! I have been incredibly pleased at the quick growth in the number of usernames I have seen engaging with the community as well as the number of submissions being made. Thank you everybody for contributing and making this community great!

Like always, this is the thread in which you can say what you want or ask about any anime-related topic you desire! Excited about the live-action adaptation of Yu Yu Hakusho? Interested in the teased anime series for Terminator and/or John Wick? Want to tell everybody about your theory explaining how Baccano! is actually a critique of capitalism? Well, this is the thread! Let it rip and have fun!

Just make sure to tag your spoilers! If you forget, then I will have to shout “It’s Moddin’ Time” and mod all over this thread.

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  • wjs018@ani.socialOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This past week I have not had too much time to watch anime, but managed to keep up with a couple airing shows.

    • Frieren once again outdid itself with what is my new favorite episode of its run. It was so good that I rewatched it and made a second top-level comment in the episode thread about it.
    • Eminence in Shadow had an interesting episode this past week. As a source reader, my reaction seems to differ a lot from anime-only reactions that I have seen. There were some serious bits of the story left on the cutting room floor from Episode 6 that source readers haven’t been happy about. I just hope that they were cut in order to give us something special later in the season like they did at the end of season 1.
    • Helck continues its backstory exposition dump. I like backstory as much as the next viewer, but you know what else I also like? Story. About a full third of the show’s runtime has been this single flashback sequence explaining Helck’s past. I really think that instead of a solid 5-6 episode flashback chunk, it could have been interspersed with the rest of the story (see Frieren for a good example of how to mix backstory and story).

    Finally, speaking as a recently appointed moderator for the community, I just want to thank everybody that has been involved with this community since we essentially brought it off of life support. It’s growth has been great to see and I have been very happy to see the positive interactions here after the drama surrounding the defederation incidents in recent days. It would have been all too easy to start steering conversations in negative directions towards individuals involved, but I haven’t seen that at all in this community.

    If you have any questions for me, either speaking as a moderator or just as a random internet person, I am happy to answer here.