Communities are best served by an instance more tailored to their content. General instances are good and convenient for people new to the platform, but they’re dangerous to communities. Think of all the beehaw.org communities that are effectively quarantined from .world users. Not that defederation is wrong, in fact I’m a huge supporter of defederation as a whole. But putting relevant content onto a more relevant instance will ensure that the community will be more likely accessible, broadly, to users regardless of defederation.

If .ml wishes to not have anime content, that’s entirely their prerogative. It’s important, then, that anime be moved to somewhere that is is welcome, or else those in the community may find themselves without a community at any given time.

These actions are being taken by .ml site admin Arthur Besse / cypherpunks. There’s nothing I can do as a mere community mod ^^

This is clearly causing pretty fundamental problems to infrastructure this community’s reliant on. Cross-promotion would be fine, imo. We just need to know what the users want of the community.

Communities on the fediverse aren’t beholden to a single instance as well. If .ml admins can’t come to agreement to refederate, y’all should contact the shinobu bot dev to start including links to ani-social discussions on this instance, and petition mods of this community to do something to help that transition (what that is? I dunno).

That said, I’m saying this having read these comments but not the og post. idk what the actual context to the conversation is, nor validity of the defederation, I’m just pro-democracy.

I of course can’t speak on behalf of N3DSdude, but I’m in support of whatever the community wants to happen, happening. Just give us reason to believe it’s actually a significant portion of the community please

Gotchu, ty for doing these btw

gotchu ♥

I got it a bit ago, sorry for the delay; federation apparently doesn’t distribute moderation properly

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Looking forward to a movie of this! I loved the tv series.

I’m gonna second both Violet Evergarden and Your Lie in April.

Violet Evergarden, hands down, is the most I’ve cried watching something.

Plastic Memories is also really good for that at the end, but the overall show imo isn’t quite as good. Still, I rated it a 9.2/10

People generally^[1] like Clannad for After Story, exclusively.

My personal recommendation of what I list below is A Day Before us. While I typically dislike shorts, it works very well with the format, and episode after episode gave me butterflies just watching it. It’s extremely sweet and cute, though as far as comedy is more “cute funny romancey stuff”. I’m sure you’ve seen/heard of most of what I have below, but just filling gaps in case you haven’t.

Yeonae Haru Jeon / A Day Before Us - anidb - MAL - AniList - Personal Rating: 10/10

• Very heavy on cute romance. A series of shorts following soon-to-be-lovers as they come to realize what they have between each other. Streaming on Youtube.

Otaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii / Love is Hard for Otaku - anidb - MAL - AniList - Personal rating: 7.6/10

• Primarily comedy. An otaku tries to keep her otaku and fujoshi hobbies a secret at her new workplace, but her past catches up with her when she reunites with an old friend who shares her interests, and they discover more coworkers with similar passions.

Kimi ni Todoke / From Me to You - anidb - MAL - AniList - Personal rating: 9.2/10

• Primarily romance. Kuronuma Sawako, misunderstood because of her ghostly appearance, hopes to make friends and find romance when the popular Kazehaya Shouta starts talking to her.

Horimiya - anidb - MAL - AniList - Personal rating: 8/10

• A bit more drama, good comedy, and cute romance. Hori and Miyamura, both hiding secret lives, cross paths and unveil their true selves, leading to the possibility of something new and unexpected.

Japanese copyright law protects all works “in which thoughts or sentiments are expressed in a creative way, and which falls within the literary, scientific, artistic or musical domain.” The laws automatically provide the following rights, without the need for formal declaration or registration.^[1]

Since the 90s^[2], Copyright in the USA and all trade partners they have leverage over^[3], copyright has been automatically applied to all works without the need for registration. A creator can voluntarily put their work into the public domain, but this is an extra step they must do themselves. As a company, there’s little reason to actually do this and give up your ability to protect your works and brands. Especially as a publicly traded company, you may even be putting yourself at risk for lawsuits by not profit-seeking as much as you can.

Strictly speaking, this very comment is under various levels of copyright, albeit the ability to protect it is both dubious and very unlikely.^[4]

“is there anything from Japan that I don’t have to feel guilty about sharing with my friends and family (but mostly friends)?”

If you’re concerned about observing copyright law, then practically the answer is no. Literally, the answer is that any cinematographic work before 1954 in Japan is in the public domain. The highest rated anime from that time period would be Manga Futatsu no Sekai (Two Cartoon Worlds) which scores a 5.38 out of 10 on anidb.

A court case in 2007 ruled that works released before and in 1970 are protected by copyright until 38 years after the creator’s death. Works beyond that are protected for 70 years after the author’s death, or 70 years if they’re not made under the name of a single author to the work.

TL;DR copyright is on almost anything you’d want to share from Japan until it’s 70 years old. We’ll see the Astro Boy anime hit the public domain in the year 2033.