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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - December 29, 2025

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Everyones_Dead_Dave2025-12-29 12:14

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BaytaCosmico2025-12-29 12:45

By "this", do you mean the daily thread? This is pretty much the only thread I track regularly and have active discussions in. Losing it would in no way make up for those other threads hogging the board.

Also, like someone suggested in the meta state of the sub thread, switching from 'Best' to 'Hot' cleans up the board quite nicely.

One_Bend74232025-12-29 14:05

I think Dave means the gluth of posts with titles like "Suggest me something" or "Looking for recommendations" etc.

I sort all my sub/r/'s by "New", and this particular sub/r/'s new posts are mostly garbage by people who can't even be bothered to use tools like AL's or MAL's "recommended" feature :(

BaytaCosmico2025-12-29 14:42

No, I got that. He is saying why have a daily recommendations thread if you're not policing those other threads that ask for recommendations. But this thread is so much more than just for recommendations. It is sort of a space for regulars to talk about anything anime and I don't want to lose that.

Agreed that those threads are largely lazy. I've never once asked for recommendations though I've discovered so much anime through this sub simply by lurking and paying attention. And this was even before I created a reddit account.

Wish there was a way to tell people to try a little before just making a thread asking for recommendations. Not sure what the solution is but putting this on the mods feels just as entitled imo.

DrJWilson2025-12-29 14:47

We've thrown around a couple of solutions in the past, including outright banning those types of posts. But seeing as those are commonly peoples' absolute first interaction with /r/anime, we wanted to lean on the side of welcoming newcomers. We may still implement something like a greater minimum character limit or similar in the future.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-29 15:07

Yeah, banning seems a bit excessive. But I also don't understand how people feel it's okay to barge into a community and straight up demand that their tastes be catered to without making any effort on their part. I lurked for a good year and even after joining, I still don't feel the need to go yo, tell me what to watch. There's so much you can find simply by following the discussions in this one thread let alone the rest of the sub. Baffles me that people can't even take the trouble to do that.

A greater minimum character limit could be a good idea. At least weed out the laziest of these posts.

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Hot_Researcher_68392025-12-29 12:16

I wonder how well would frieren do if we had the top 100 favourite anime poll today, away from recency bias. I also bet takopi would also make the top 50.

Nomar_952025-12-29 13:58

It would probably still be pretty high up there. Season 1 only ended just last year, and I bet plenty of people are watching or rewatching it right now to prep for season 2.

Dumey2025-12-29 16:51

I wouldn't be surprised if people still rate it at number 1 even taking away immediate recency bias. It seems to be a show that has survived public and critical consensus as being super high quality, and pure fantasy rather than Isekai or other similar derivative narrative framings. I think Frieren is going to survive alongside shows like FMA:B as a top rated quality show for a long time. As long as future seasons don't tank its reputation at least.

AkiraTheOcean2025-12-29 13:57

I was so busy watching anime from previous years I missed out on a lot of good stuff from 2025. Stuff like Apocalypse Hotel and Lord of Mysteries somehow completely flew under my radar. Before the 2026 anime I want to watch start rolling out I need to catch up. I thinking I'm going to start with those two shows first.

SSjjlex2025-12-29 15:55

Their art has floated around my feed for long enough so I feel like its finally worth the ask

\[Takopi\] >!So you know that 1 minute epilogue of Shizuka and Marin in the final episode? And presumably you may or may not have seen certain fan art of various depictions of the two in scenarios relating to their status as of that 1 minute epilogue. So... Does anyone know of any series that sort of follow off on that dynamic? It feels like something that would be really fun to watch for at least an episode. Not sure how best to describe it, but like there's a very slight hint of toxicity between each other, but they're still in it together out of shared interest/history and are somewhat fond of each other now, but there's still that lingering feeling of bad blood of the past, but they understand they need to move forward together. That sorta thing.!<

harrietubmansburner2025-12-29 15:55

Finished Twin Star Exorcists yesterday and Wow just Wow shits cinema 9.5/10

Durinthal2025-12-29 15:56

Taking movie suggestions for my next milestone which I'll hit today, anything goes though I'd prefer something not attached to a show.

[MyAnimeList](https://myanimelist.net/animelist/Durinthal) | [Anilist](https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal/animelist)

[](#ama)

TehAxelius2025-12-29 16:10

[Mononoke Movie Karakasa](https://myanimelist.net/anime/52107/Mononoke_Movie_1__Karakasa), is connected to a series and part of a trilogy, but it is good.

[Birth of Kitarou: The Mystery of Gegege](https://myanimelist.net/anime/48426/Kitarou_Tanjou__Gegege_no_Nazo) is also connected to the Gegege no Kitarou series, but is more standalone.

[Bakeneko Anzu-chan](https://myanimelist.net/anime/54603/Bakeneko_Anzu-chan) I've not finished it myself yet (saw the first third today) and I've heard people are pretty split on the third act, but production wise it is a very interesting movie.

[Suu Funkan no Yell Wo](https://myanimelist.net/anime/57915/Suu-funkan_no_Yell_wo) short and pretty good 3D movie. Nothing special, but pretty neat.

[Pui Pui Molcar: MOLMAX](https://myanimelist.net/anime/57910/Pui_Pui_Molcar_the_Movie__MOLMAX) honestly, the best hunt for a poop I've seen with a surprisingly good moral about the overreliance on technology and the deceitful nature of the AI industry.

Durinthal2025-12-29 17:09

Mononoke I'll definitely get to, just waiting for the whole trilogy.

Bunch of other recent things I haven't thought about, thanks!

[](#kannathumbs)

Shimmering-Sky2025-12-29 16:11

Clicking on your MAL is how I find out you're watching SI-VIS (just not all caught up)? [](#curious)

Anyways, giving the "unique to me" section of the shared tab a quick glance [Crusher Joe](https://myanimelist.net/anime/2722/Crusher_Joe) seems like an immediate good choice since I know you're a sci-fi fan.

Durinthal2025-12-29 17:08

> you're watching SI-VIS

It's okay. Haven't really gotten hooked yet but still giving it time.

Crusher Joe's a good option I haven't considered, heard of it and burned subs into a file for someone else to use in a group watch on the Discord years ago but didn't watch it beyond a quick spot check.

> Character: Dirty Pair (TV)

...is it in the same universe as Dirty Pair?

[](#sakurathink)

Shimmering-Sky2025-12-29 17:10

> It's okay. Haven't really gotten hooked yet but still giving it time.

Fair enough.

>...is it in the same universe as Dirty Pair?

I... have no idea. [](#animatedthink)

cosmiczar2025-12-29 17:13

Dirty Pair and Crusher Joe are by the same author and you see characters from one doing cameos in the other and vice-versa, but I'm also not sure if they're supposed to be in the exact same universe. It's definitely not some super serious canon connection, regardless.

IXajll2025-12-29 16:33

You already watched most of the movies I could recommend, but there's 2 left:

* [Mutafukaz](https://myanimelist.net/anime/38292/Mutafukaz). Feels a bit like if GTA was made into an anime. Might not really be your cup of tea though. English dub highly recommended.

* [The Summer](https://myanimelist.net/anime/56601/Geu_Yeoreum_Movie). Technically not an anime since it's from South Korea, but it has a MAL entry so it would work for a milestone. Just 1 hour long and personally my top 1 favorite yuri romance.

Durinthal2025-12-29 17:13

> Might not really be your cup of tea though.

It's the kind of thing I'd probably enjoy if I'm in the right mood for it, just maybe not today. Good idea on the dub.

> Technically not an anime since it's from South Korea

I'm out.

> yuri romance.

[](#holdup)

...well, maybe.

Queue_Jumping_Quack2025-12-29 17:06

You have Sword of the Stranger listed as PTW, so I'll suggest that. It was the best anime movie I watched in my recent backlog catching up spree of fall 2025.

Durinthal2025-12-29 17:15

That's always one that I've been "eventually" on, maybe that's today. Thanks for putting it back on my radar.

Queue_Jumping_Quack2025-12-29 17:18

It really was well made with a compelling story that moved on a snappy pace. And some of the best fight scenes i've yet seen in an anime movie. Highly recommended!

cosmiczar2025-12-29 17:16

The Dagger of Kamui

Mai Mai Miracle

Roujin Z

The Wings of Honneamise

The Sky Crawlers

Jarinko Chie

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Durinthal2025-12-29 17:21

Ooh, lots of good ones there, thanks.

[](#whisperwhisper "I just remembered The Wings of Honneamise when thinking about other older films earlier and that's probably what I'm going to go with, but I'll still take suggestions.")

_Ridley2025-12-29 17:22

I'll second Crusher Joe. It has a bizarrely low rating on MAL, but my husband and I thought it was a fun sci-fi action series.

You didn't love Akira, but you might like Otomo's other movie, Roujin Z, which says some interesting things about trying to pawn care work off on machines that are sadly still relevant.

If compilation movies count, you should check out Robot Carnival or Memories.

Durinthal2025-12-29 17:35

Noted on Crusher Joe, even if I don't get to it today I'll bump that up for the future.

I've seen enough clips of Roujin Z that I'm pretty sure I'll like it more than I did Akira, just never been a priority.

Memories was great, I still need to get to Robot Carnival and some other anthologies eventually.

[](#takasakiapproves)

OmegaVirgin942025-12-29 18:39

Looks like you haven't seen [Five Star Stories](https://anilist.co/anime/2042/Five-Star-Stories) yet. It's a pretty neat fantasy scifi mecha series. The movie is only a slice of an expansive world but it's a good way to wet your whistle for the manga. It's not the best movie ever but I think it's interesting and historically significant.

FSS is one of those series that's popular in Japan but hardly anyone in the west has heard of it. The manga is still ongoing since '86 and had a new volume just this March. The series still gets model kits to this day which is how I first heard of it after seeing some pictures of the kits from WonFes or something.

Durinthal2025-12-29 19:00

I want to say I watched that with someone else years ago and forgot to record it, though I can't immediately find a record of doing so. At any rate it's a good suggestion, thanks.

[](#niatilt)

Infodump_Ibis2025-12-29 18:50

*Disclaimer: I tend to not plan milestones*

- [~~Artiswitch is about 54 minutes~~ **It's also not a movie**](#getout)

- IIRC you preferred the Toei Animation movie version of Clannad so maybe it's time to see if that's also the case for Air by watching **Air: The Motion Picture**?

- You've not seen **In This Corner of the World**? [^(but it's in one my favourite MAL genres: Award Winning)](#seasonalsmug) [Now you've got two versions to choose from](#unsure) (the one CR got last year is the extended *in many corners* version, there is no dub for that extended version). Either version is a pretty long film (2h 10m vs. 2h 47m).

If it helps, in 2020 The British Film Institute published [a 50 key anime films list](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/lists/50-key-anime-films) (with few paragraph write-ups for each) and ones I spotted on your PTW were:

- A Thousand and One Nights (the write-up author, Helen McCarthy, has recorded an audio commentary for it, included in all good releases, I've heard it's appreciative and insightful)
- [Captain Harlock:] Arcadia of my Youth (blub says it's an origin story)
- Wings of Honneamise
- Tekkonkinkreet
- Mai-Mai Miracle
- Giovanni’s Island

Durinthal2025-12-29 19:10

> Air: The Motion Picture

That's one I've been waiting to ~~force upon~~ watch with a friend, so not today.

> In This Corner of the World

Another that I want to be in the right mindset for and have at least partially held off before because I *do* want it to be a milestone, just maybe not this one.

[](#tiredaoi)

Good options with the rest as well, I think a couple of those are going to be group watches with friends so I'll have to figure out which ones they're less interested in so I can get to on my own time.

Quiddity1312025-12-29 18:52

Belladonna of Sadness is really impressive and unique looking, even with it being over 50 years old at this point. It does contain some hard to watch subject matter though.

Durinthal2025-12-29 18:54

Belladonna was my previous milestone film, got to see it in a theater earlier in the year and was well worth it.

[](#mindmelt)

BiggieCheeseLapDog2025-12-29 22:48

Princess Arete is one of my personal favourite anime films. It has a more relaxed pace to it and a very beautiful, muted art style. The music is wonderfully understated as well and the vibes are immaculate with a likeable central heroine.

[It also has an incredible poster](https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/7/0/6/8/7068-princess-arete-0-230-0-345-crop.jpg?v=2b5da3c98e)

Zeallfnonex2025-12-29 16:03

The reframing of the Count of Monte Cristo so far's been pretty interesting. While the book starts out with the Count's identity and the reader can more or less guess his objectives, the anime gives the story from the viewpoint of another character and as of episode 9 the Count's goals are still completely hidden. It's originally pure drama, adding this mystery's definitely a shift.

It's been pretty great so far, a third of the way in. Feels like there's no unnecessary scenes, every dialogue has meaning layered behind it. The aesthetic is fantastic, love the clothing especially. The Count's VA has so much presence, his recaps at the beginning of each episode have felt so buttery smooth.

I did find it hilarious that as much as they tried to make the adaptation in the future, they just kind of ignore the existence of phones or any other sort of long-distance communication, and so we have characters running around in pouring rain trying to contact someone else instead of just giving them a call xD

SpaceTurtleHunter2025-12-29 16:34

> the anime gives the story from the viewpoint of another character and as of episode 9 the Count's goals are still completely hidden

It's honestly amazing how much the change of perspective influences things. When you're not privy to his thoughts, the Count becomes a terrifying force of nature, a chaotic god that may grant you unfathomable riches or make you watch him slowly murder your entire family, sometimes both, all based on his completely alien to you logic.

Zeallfnonex2025-12-29 16:57

The OG OP revenge story, except that unlike most modern revenge stories the reader/watcher *should* slowly come to the realization that he's going WAY too far by the end...

soracte2025-12-29 18:27

> The Count's VA has so much presence

Yes! That's Nakata Jouji. He has the right kind of voice for this sort of role and has played a bunch of them, but I think this's one of his best.

IXajll2025-12-29 16:07

With today's finale of Mangaka, all the 1 cour shows I was watching this season have concluded, so it's finally time for a final [tierlist](https://imgur.com/a/60zzxbO) of Fall 2025.

* Besides the dropped tier, each row is ordered best/worst - left/right

* Out of the dropped shows, SxF and Tamahoshi are the two I am most likely to pick back up again at some point in the future. SxF didn't really turn bad or anything, I just kinda lost interest a bit and Tamahoshi was alright too, but felt too generic and run of the mill to really keep me engaged, so I ended up not being motivated enough to continue with either for now.

* Surprise of the season: Kamen Rider

* Disappointments of the season: Towa no Yugure and Shuumatsu Touring. The latter was still kind of okay to watch, but I went into it with incredibly high expectations which the show didn't reach, not even remotely.

* It's been said a lot, but overall a season that's been on the weaker side. Has me all the more hyped for Winter which looks amazing on the other hand.

Queue_Jumping_Quack2025-12-29 17:51

Yeah, Mangaka marks the end of Fall 2025 for me as well.

Agree on your overall verdict of the season: not too great even though there were some good and solid series. At least my schedule was free to catch up on my backlog (got through a whole bunch of movies).

RetroCrush_Matt2025-12-29 16:30

[I have a Samurai Troopers marathon going all day on the RetroCrush Anime free TV channel!](https://RetroCrush.tv/livetv)

BaytaCosmico2025-12-29 16:33

Mangaka Mondays are also over. Only KimiKoe finale left now and Chiramune (but I'm not super enthusiastic about it and may even drop it late as it is in the season) to wrap things up. And I still need to finish the last episodes of MHA, Twisted Wonderland and Made Me a Princess. But all told, I've really enjoyed this season. The best one yet since I started following seasonals last year.

Sad as it feels to say goodbye to all these great shows, I'm as excited about the upcoming season. Lots of shoujosei, so yay! And looks like I might start out at least with even more shows than Fall 2025, so will be interesting to see how many I am able to stick with.

Did the person who does the schedule posts put one out for Winter already? Those are really useful. I think I saw at least one of my PTWs (Hana-Kimi) starts this weekend, so no break between seasons this time.

Edit: Whoa, Tamon starts even sooner - Wednesday - so literally not even a day between the end of Fall (Tuesday) and the start of Winter. Wild.

oedipusrex3762025-12-29 17:03

Why is there always a “Saki” in yuri or yuri-adjacent shows? You’ve got [Sakiko Togawa](https://myanimelist.net/character/231741/Sakiko_Togawa) from MyGO/Mujica, [Saki Miyanaga](https://myanimelist.net/character/17274/Saki_Miyanaga) from Saki, [Saki Watanabe](https://myanimelist.net/character/57569/Saki_Watanabe) from Shinsekai Yori, and [Saki Kindaichi](https://myanimelist.net/character/238539/Saki_Kindaichi) from The Moon on a Rainy Night. The only straight Saki I can think of is Rin’s mom from Yuru Camp, Saki Shima.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-29 17:08

That's interesting because in my language, 'Saki' means close female friend but also has romantic connotations. Wonder if there's a similar meaning for the word in Japanese.

oedipusrex3762025-12-29 17:16

That’s really cool. I’m no expert on Japanese, and the name Saki can be written with multiple kanji. But the noun 咲, which is also used for the MC's name in [Saki](https://myanimelist.net/anime/5671/Saki), means “bloom” (eg flower bloom).

SSjjlex2025-12-29 17:40

Depending on your gender definitions, [Saki Aoi](https://myanimelist.net/character/207050/_) from Senpai wa Otokonoko also comes to mind as... Yuri-adjacent?

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oedipusrex3762025-12-29 19:41

I did actually, Saki Miyanaga

zairaner2025-12-29 20:07

Me dumdumdum.

cyberscythe2025-12-29 19:29

i didn't associate Saki with yuri before; still can't really think of any examples from yuri and adjacent shows I'm familiar with (Yuru Yuri, Bloom Into You, Machikado Mazoku, Yuri is my Job, MahoAko etc.)

could just be that it's a somewhat common female name, and yuri series just have a lot of female characters in them

[](#yuishrug)

the "blossom" kanji 咲 for Saki might also be thematically linked to yuri (lily), but i think you can use it [for other puns using the "next" 先 kanji sense](https://myanimelist.net/character/160789/Nosaki_Futago)

oedipusrex3762025-12-29 20:11

There’s a good chance it’s just coincidence, and that the overlap comes from the shows I *happen* to watch. They aren’t exactly yuri-coded in the way things like aquarium dates are. Calling Shinsekai Yori yuri-adjacent is honestly a stretch. That said, if the next series I watch has a character named Saki and it’s yuri or yuri-adjacent, I’m calling it.

>i think you can use it [for other puns using the "next" 先 kanji sense](https://myanimelist.net/character/160789/Nosaki_Futago)

I’m losing it over this show’s pun names. Futago Nosaki, Futago Notsugi, Kurai Kako, Sotoka Rakita, Yawara Kai. This might be the worst (best) cast of pun names I’ve ever seen in anime.

_Ridley2025-12-29 20:41

> yuri-coded in the way things like aquarium dates are.

I've never understood this factoid. Everyone goes on aquarium dates in romance manga and anime. When did we decide it was yuri-coded?

cyberscythe2025-12-29 21:07

i also don't get why aquariums became a yuri thing; i first noticed it when people were talking about the aquarium date in Lycoris Recoil

my best guess is that it traces back to Bloom Into You and their aquarium date; it is the most mainstream of the "actually for reals" yuri series, and humans do like drawing a line between two points in that classic ["has boss baby vibes"](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/getting-a-lot-of-boss-baby-vibes-from-this) sort of way

it raises the question though: what is the classic BL date location? planetarium?

[](#schemingsaten)

_Ridley2025-12-29 21:19

> what is the classic BL date location?

Planetariums do come up a lot, but I still think it's aquariums. One of my favorite one-volume BL manga this year [centered on aquariums.](https://myanimelist.net/manga/134506/Ero_Yume_Aquarium)

Tarhalindur2025-12-29 22:00

FWIW, the yuri aquarium date trope is old enough that it's outright referenced in Does It Count If Your First Time is With an Android?[1] (including the iconic line from the fan translation, [tagging Does It Count manga just in case]>!"it's one thing to jam clams, another to see them in their natural habitat"!<). Would need to check exactly when that chapter was published, but given the rough timeframe this trope should be at least a decade old (old enough to have time to get common and well-known enough to make sense as the punchline to a joke) and likely at least a decade and a half.

Come to think of it, arguably Symphogear G references or at least nods to that exact same trope too and that's 2013. Which actually would hard rule out Bloom Into You as the source, since even the manga only started in 2015 - we're probably looking for some yuri manga from the 2000s or even 1990s, possibly one that never got adapted. (I don't *think* I remember MariMite going there?)

[1] - I forget what the hell the official localization is now that it's getting an anime.

_Ridley2025-12-29 22:41

Huh. So it's been A Thing for a while now. Interesting.

oedipusrex3762025-12-29 22:08

I honestly didn’t think that deeply about it since my experience with romance anime is pretty limited. [It just feels like one of those things people kinda agree on](https://x.com/desyoune_san/status/1967792423217820068?s=20), and I went along with it. The shows I’ve seen like Sailor Moon, Revue Starlight, and Lycoris Recoil all have aquarium scenes, so that idea clicked for me right away. It could also just be that the people who relate to this exclusively watch Yuri/Yuri-adjacent stuff.

cyberscythe2025-12-29 21:14

> I’m losing it over this show’s pun names

i love that part of the series

it's like 100girlfriends, but without the romance/ecchi

Emi_Ibarazakiii2025-12-29 21:25

*Saki Saki realizing why she accepted to join a trouple with a girl*

[](#forbiddenlove)

Dumey2025-12-29 17:04

After constantly hearing it be referenced as an inspiration for a ton of different isekai, fantasy, and some rom com shows, I finally decided to go back and watch Familiar of Zero. I cannot recommend it or really say too much good about it, other than some of the concepts and premises are fairly engaging, but the execution is often incredibly lacking. 95% of the conflict in the show seems like it would be solved if the main duo simply communicated their intentions before going off to act on their own. Instead of always going to "seek forgiveness, not permission" route every single time. Which then makes the "Louise beats the shit out of her familiar for comedy" scenes go real stale real fast.

But it did get me wondering when thinking about how we take inspiration from things as creatives. Do writers that list Familiar of Zero as an inspiration say so because they really enjoyed the series and want to pay tribute to it? Or is more of a, "I love this premise, but I could write it better" sort of competitive inspiration?

I find a lot of my personal creative writing tends to follow the lines of wanting to recreate great premises but just execute on them better/the way I thought they should have gone. But it makes me wonder if that's me being very egotistical and most authors are probably inspired in a more positive way instead of competitive.

Maeve_Extraordinary2025-12-29 17:17

I just started watching my first anime, "Solo Leveling", and I really like it. I want to find something similar: interesting lore, a protagonist who starts out weak but trains and becomes stronger, cool fights and some magic. Thanks.

cyberscythe2025-12-29 20:05

maybe check out Wistoria: Sword and Wand; check out the synopsis and see if it interests you

https://myanimelist.net/anime/58059/Tsue_to_Tsurugi_no_Wistoria

> ... Inspired by this story, childhood friends Will Serfort and Elfaria Albis Serfort promised each other that they would climb to the top of the Wizard's Tower. However, now a sixth-year student at Regarden Magic Academy, Will's future looks bleak. Although Elfaria managed to join the ranks of the Magia Vander five years prior thanks to her unparalleled magical power, Will has no magical abilities whatsoever, attracting the ire of teachers and students alike.

> However, blessed with an exceptional physique, Will is able to slay monsters in the labyrinth and prevail against skilled magicians with the only aid of his sword and a few magical items. Determined to climb the Wizard's Tower at all cost, Will is determined to not let anyone or anything prevent him from keeping the promise he made to Elfaria.

Maeve_Extraordinary2025-12-29 20:38

Yes! Very interesting synopsis. Thank you!

Dumey2025-12-29 20:24

If you're okay with superhero powers instead of magic, I think My Hero Academia is one of the better zero to hero stories out there right now. The main character really starts out quite pathetic and unable to use his abilities, but throughout the first few seasons, he becomes quite the powerhouse, with some really exceptional fights in there.

For something more fantasy, I'd recommend "Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon?", also referred to as Dan Machi. Don't let the title of the show throw you off too much. Light Novels often have super "click baity" titles like that to attract people's eyes in stores, but the show itself is mostly about a young adventurer who delves into a deep dungeon and has to level up alongside his party and take on bigger and badder monsters along the way. This also features an RPG-like "system" with character stats and skills, but everyone in the universe has access to it, not just the main character like Solo Leveling. If you watch the first season and the end of season fight doesn't hype you up, you can come back and reply to me with a frownie face. It won't happen!

Maeve_Extraordinary2025-12-29 20:38

Thanks for the recommendations!

Maeve_Extraordinary2025-12-29 20:40

And I want to add one more thing: I want to find some brutal anime with action and fights, but with a female protagonist. Do such ones even exist? I'm ready to try any genre.

_Ridley2025-12-29 21:30

> I want to find some brutal anime with action and fights, but with a female protagonist.

* Moribito
* Black Lagoon (more of a deuteragonist)
* Akiba Maid War
* Princess Principal

michhoffman2025-12-29 18:37

I recently finished a book series (Malazan) that inspired me to do some writing on that series which in turn helped me rediscover my interest in writing. How this is relevant to anime is that I'll probably be making a writing post or two on this subreddit in the coming weeks.

Dumey2025-12-29 20:29

Have you seen the show Ishura yet? Nothing can REALLY compare to Malazan, but Ishura was a solid 7/10 show for me that felt like it shared a lot of themes with grim dark fantasy series like Malazan or The Black Company. A lot of god-like figures coming together through circumstance and finding out that the meddling of higher powers often doesn't go as expected.

Heda-of-Aincrad2025-12-29 18:44

I don't recognize which Pokémon show is pictured in today's place, but it looks adorable.

baquea2025-12-29 19:00

It's apparently from [a music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZ0Zwab6Oc)

ComfortablyRotten2025-12-29 19:05

It's [Gotcha!](https://youtu.be/BoZ0Zwab6Oc?si=dUb6QpVNVb7z7Zht), a music video for a Bump of Chicken song. Not a full anime, but one of the best things to come out of the franchise by one of the anime industry's best directors

theangryeditor2025-12-29 19:26

That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to watch Kyousougiga

Psyduckisnotaduck2025-12-29 20:16

Watching Kyousougiga is always a good choice, peak anime

Heda-of-Aincrad2025-12-29 20:46

Oh, that's the same band that made my favorite Spy x Family OP. Awesome!

Abysswatcherbel2025-12-29 18:44

Shame Watanare tv version of the movie won't come out until next year

Really wanted to post the "Top 5 bath scenes of 2025"

With 4 watanare scenes (minus ajisai) and Chainsaw Man in the top with the pool scene

Komarist2025-12-29 19:11

Take advantage of your timezone getting it on December 31!

qwertyqwerty45672025-12-29 19:16

What about top 12 anime bath scenes with the 12 bath scenes from Beheneko?

[](#mugiwait)

harrietubmansburner2025-12-29 18:58

To your eternity next season couldn’t come quicker

WingsofLegends2025-12-30 05:58

Season 3 isn’t over it’s just taking a week off.

miniscuffer2025-12-29 19:05

Looking for recs! I got my husband into anime recently, and he’s enjoyed watching SpyXFamily (he likes how cute and sweet it is), and Apothecary Diaries (all about the tension) but we’ve finished. His one complaint is the action can take a little too long and the romance slow burn is too slow - is there anything out there that might be good to watch next? Completed and available on Crunchy Roll would be ideal! Thanks!

Dull_Spot_82132025-12-29 20:01

[Black Lagoon](https://anilist.co/anime/889) is one you both could enjoy. It’s darker in tone, but has some great character chemistry.

_Ridley2025-12-29 20:37

You might enjoy Buddy Daddies. It's a one season, complete story about two hitmen raising a preschooler.

Dumey2025-12-29 20:49

Slow Burn Romances are unfortunately going to be a very persistent problem for your husband in the anime world. Very few writers like to actually pull the trigger on their romances until the very end unfortunately. I have a couple reccs that might work that unfortunately aren't on Crunchyroll. But to fit MOST of your criteria, I'd recommend Delicious in Dungeon as your next show. Definitely has the comedy, the sweetness, while also having some serious tension at points, all while never getting too wrapped up in action sequences. The only small thing is the relationships on display in this show are more siblings bonds rather than anything romantic. Also not finished yet, but that's an even more difficult criteria to meet!

miniscuffer2025-12-30 03:52

I know it was a lot to ask, but I like that recommendation, thank you!!

TheBigIdiotSalami2025-12-29 19:46

The guy who plays the dub version of the red keeper in Go Go Loser Ranger does such a great job playing an asshole

Salty1452025-12-29 19:46

From what I can see, Baratie has about 2.25 chapters per episode, and that’s one of the higher end arcs in OP.

Now I am seeing that chapters get *longer* as the years prattle on, but the absolute lows of 0.5 chapters *per episode* that I’m seeing in the future is alarming to me.

I’ll approach the weekly issue when I get to it, but I think maybe the best approach if I do want to get through the whole series would be to treat it as basic background noise, at least for this first bit. If I pay attention to much the pacing or the passing of time, I will go insane.

_Ridley2025-12-29 20:34

Just FYI, you can't watch One Piece for science. If you're not having fun watching it for what it is, drop it early. Those of us who are caught up on it watch it because it's entertaining.

KendotsX2025-12-30 09:09

>you can't watch One Piece for science

[Won't stop us from trying](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhOBpC1BbayUwwTHuOBWTUFgQ-Oo0alT9)

mr_beanoz2025-12-29 22:24

Now you understand why long weekly shows like this would usually make anime original episodes.

Salty1452025-12-29 22:32

People seem to get the wrong impression from *Bleach*'s filler. The issue isn't really that *Bleach* has filler arcs, or that they're necessarily the worst thing to ever exist from a writing perspective. The problem with *Bleach*'s filler was that it was just really poorly placed and ended up in year-long detours from the main plot. That hasn't stopped people from implying that anime original content is inherently bad, as if the pacing mess that is OP is any better.

Salty1452025-12-29 19:53

Although, it certainly does take a special kind of creativity to stretch half a chapter into a 20-minute episode.

You know there are two kinds of great artists from a business standpoint. Visionaries who are skilled at their craft and people that can churn out art quickly on budget. There is an art to creating storyboards or entire episodes quickly and efficiently that doesn’t always get the appreciation it deserves.

That-Departure-73182025-12-29 19:58

Do people actually care about the story/characters in Demon Slayer?. I stopped during the Swordsmith Village arc and tried watching the Infinity Castle movie. It was just so boring. I can't feel invested in the cool action if I don't care for any of the characters.

It's like night and day comparing it to the Chainsaw Man movie.

Shimmering-Sky2025-12-29 20:56

I do.

Emi_Ibarazakiii2025-12-29 21:22

I care about Shinobu, that's it.

(I don't even know where I'm at in the series, I think I watched the train stuff and a bit more).

IXajll2025-12-29 21:44

But she had like a combined 10 minutes of actual dialogue at that point, if *she* is the main selling point for you when it comes to the show‘s characters I‘m not surprised you haven‘t watched further lol.

Emi_Ibarazakiii2025-12-29 23:30

Hah.

I think the story is fine (by battle shonen standard, anyway), but yeah the characters don't really do anything for me.

Inosuke's funny sometimes (though his gags get repetitive), Zenitsu is the most unbeareable character I've ever seen, and Tanjiro is a 'goody two shoes' which does nothing for me (almost made me quit watching on episode 1 because it was ridiculous). Tengen Uzui is annoying, Giyu is fine I guess, Muzan (well, mostly his presence and all) was fine, the spiders were fine, Rengoku didn't do as much for me as he seems to have done for others, Nezuko's super whatever (at this point anyway, I imagine she starts doing more)...

Shinobu only had 10 minutes at this point, but she's the only character who had any 'hook' for me in the entire show. Well, her and some of the villains I guess.

IXajll2025-12-29 23:50

I get it, I don't really care for any of its characters either. Mainly still watching for the popcorn action and high production quality.

mr_beanoz2025-12-29 22:22

Akaza's past was kinda sad, though. Dude just can't get a break. \[movie\] >!From losing the figure who once saved him from his lowest to losing the girl he cared a lot, I think he has experienced a lot of pain before becoming a demon.!<

oedipusrex3762025-12-29 23:41

>I stopped during the Swordsmith Village arc and tried watching the Infinity Castle movie

So you skipped the Hashira Training arc? I’d say skipping content does affect the experience. My sibling is a manga reader and never watched a single season of Demon Slayer, and he was pretty disinterested in the movie. It feels like people who get invested in the story + Infinity Castle movie are mostly those who’ve watched everything.

There are scenes that hit really hard for me, like [Spoiler] >!Gyomei’s!< backstory during the Hashira Training arc. My sibling just doesn’t have that the impact of seeing it animated with strong direction, so he ends up way less invested in the story overall.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 01:21

I dropped it after the first season for this very reason. Couldn't get myself to care about any of the characters enough to continue. And some like the screechy guy were just plain annoying for most of the time.

May go back and continue it at some point but not while there is so much better, more interesting stuff out there.

Charmanders_Cock2025-12-30 06:00

It’s got enough endearing little moments that the series didn’t lose me completely, but I wish those moments weren’t so far and few between. The entire series peaked for me with the interaction between Kanao and Tanjirou toward the end of the first? season. It’s a really stale trope on display but they really leveraged the strengths that the battle shounen setting lent to it. I could say a bit more but don’t feel like fussing with spoiler tags on mobile right now.

I agree overall that the character writing is weak though. I also think there‘s more there than almost anyone gives credit to, because the times when the characters are well written aren’t the moments that get highlights or attention whether it be due to hype, animation or whatever.

Capable-Towel-63022025-12-29 20:59

I will watch anything yuri, but I avoid narou-kei fantasy like plague. What should I do next season, just *roll over and die*?

cyberscythe2025-12-29 21:11

it took me a moment to remember that there's a title called [Roll Over and Die](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_Over_and_Die) and i thought you were just being dramatic

[](#sassyimouto)

Emi_Ibarazakiii2025-12-29 21:21

> Roll Over and Die

Me everytime a season doesn't have a good mind games anime.

[](#emptyinside "Which is always")

cyberscythe2025-12-29 21:23

that's what they *want* you to think

[](#csikon)

GondolaMedia2025-12-30 00:24

>Me everytime a season does~~n't~~ have ~~a good mind games~~ anime.

[](#emptyinside)

VoidEmbracedWitch2025-12-29 21:45

I'm in the same situation and... I'll just try it, I guess. Worst case it just dies and rolls over into my dropped list after the first episode.

ZaphodBeebblebrox2025-12-30 00:16

[](#angrypout)

[](#getout)

Nachtwandler_FS2025-12-30 01:19

While it uses the overused "kicked out of hero party" and "RPG-like system for characters" rropes, it is more of a classic dark fantasy than typical narou-key one.

At last the parts that will be adapted in the anime.

GondolaMedia2025-12-29 21:21

What even is [Captivated, By You](https://i.imgur.com/Lyl7JfL.png) about?

[](#azusalaugh)

_Ridley2025-12-29 21:24

You know. Teenager stuff.

Backoftheac2025-12-29 21:52

I've seen some people talking about it here and on CDF recently, so I wanted to say something about One Piece.

I think part of the disconnect for newcomers is the way the series has (somewhat rightfully) built up a reputation as "Epic Fantasy". The story has ballooned into this grand, centuries-long conflict involving themes of legacy, companionship, race, class, and human dignity. And a lot of people now seem to get into the series looking for the dense lore, grand mysteries, and the dramatic action setpieces.

But the series doesn't start off that way. [Early One Piece has almost as much in common with stuff like Looney Tunes](https://imgur.com/a/kfiv0o2) as it does with any of its other influences. It's just simple, earnest fun and all the series asks early on is that you enjoy the silliness and stupidity. The author plants various seeds during these early parts which will eventually sprout into a grand, overarching plot, but that's not necessarily what's supposed to keep readers engaged at the start. Early on, the author stated:

>Oda (1998): I'd rather draw the Straw Hats relaxing on the deck of a ship than fighting. But if that's all I do, my audience would not enjoy it. Although I enjoy drawing battle scenes, I love an atmosphere more like the Moomin Valley.

I think that's part of the reason many people feel the series doesn't get going until hundreds of episodes in. It's because that's when One Piece finally puts its cards on the table and reveals the grand scale of its world and drama, which is what they've been promised and have been waiting for. And mostly everything up to that point are just the characters merrily sailing to new islands and getting into some shenanigans. But both parts make up the essence of One Piece. [Even at its most dire and political, One Piece still has a Seussian sensibility to it.](https://imgur.com/a/3nlhuM3) I dunno, I think it's important to fall in love with [the silliness, warmth, and coziness of One Piece](https://imgur.com/a/thUZ9A3) first and foremost before hounding for the epic action and drama. That stuff will come with time when it needs to. At least, that's how I feel about it.

qwertyqwerty45672025-12-29 22:03

is it me or has moeblob anime died out in recent times.

I feel like I havent seen some new moeblobs in a while.

[](#thinkingtoohard)

theangryeditor2025-12-29 22:14

Mangaka just finished airing today

qwertyqwerty45672025-12-29 22:38

did it moe

theangryeditor2025-12-29 22:41

it moe'd indeed

qwertyqwerty45672025-12-29 22:46

shou miii

Korkez112025-12-29 23:55

Yes. Even Kirara's biggest hits of the last ten years, Yuru Camp and BtR, are far from classic K-On-like moe.

Longjumping_Page5972025-12-29 22:31

Does anyone else find modern fight scenes disorienting?

Just watched the new Chainsaw Man movie and I thought it was amazing. My only gripe was that the fight scenes follow this new trend in modern shounen of putting as much as possible on screen at the same time.

It isn't just the effects (like explosions), but the character movements themselves feel over-complicated. I find it very disorienting when trying to follow what is actually happening. I feel like this trend started with Jujutsu Kaisen and might just be MAPPA's style, but I've seen it in most other modern shounen shows too.

It wasn't long ago that good fight scenes were easy to follow even with insane effects. Examples that come to mind are Mob Psycho 100 and Attack on Titan (specifically the pre-MAPPA seasons). Demon Slayer seems to be the only one still making fights with epic effects that remain completely clear.

Has anyone else noticed this trend, and does it bother you? Or am I just getting too old and this is a "me issue"?

P.S. If you've got suggestions for modern shows or movies with easy-to-follow fights and great animation, I'd love to hear them.

pinweed2025-12-29 23:33

how was the csm movie action hard to follow? i felt it was quite clear what was happening 95% of the time

alotmorealots2025-12-30 02:13

> Does anyone else find modern fight scenes disorienting?

Sometimes, although I think for me it's more a matter of "this is the most basic ass fight choreography and lack of imagination being slathered in post-processing with a bunch of impact frames spliced in without any real feel".

Granted there are a few notable scenes that are genuinely disorienting in the sense of "this fight has no flow and is just a flashy mess", like in the middle section of JJK S2 where ambition far surpassed available animator time. In particular it sits in very stark contrast to JJK S1 which had a superb balance of sakuga-for-style and cohesive, narrative-interwoven fights.

I will say I had no problems with the CSM movie though, I thought the fight animation, choreography and story-telling was top notch and well balanced between spectacle and flow.

> suggestions for modern shows

I still think *Lycoris Recoil* is quite underrated on the specific dimension of its fight staging, flow and (to a lesser degree) character development through fights. It's easy to glance past it and say "well, they just did John Wick Hollywood style fights", but stepping back from that a bit, you just don't see that sort of direction in action anime by and large.

Abysswatcherbel2025-12-30 02:44

I believe that if JJK s2 had more time, it wouldn't change drastically how this looks in terms of "ambition"

You see and will continue to see many JJK s2 in shows that had plenty of time and no major issues, it is just some people that are really ambitious with their animation and not everyone will like that

That's where some higher-ups come in and say "dial down", but if your selling point to bring talent is that "you can go wild" there is very little that can be done

All that to say this is infinitely better *to me* than the cold reality of being extremely on model and factory-like to a fault, some big studios made their bread and butter to be like that, holy shit, won't mention names but they appear to be aliens that came down from a UFO with their lack of humanity sometimes

I appreciate the human touch in my animation, every episode having slightly changes in flow/animation due to the staff working on them, that's great

If the price is some broken moments, I accept that

theangryeditor2025-12-30 00:02

Finishing another batch of shows always makes me want to go back and revise a bunch of scores. Feels like I either need to raise a bunch of older scores or lower my recent ones

[](#hardthink)

IXajll2025-12-30 00:28

What's wrong with that? I go over my MAL about once a year and adjust the scores of shows I feel different about now, which is usually about 10-50 entries I think. Makes sense to me since recency bias wears off and taste might change as well.

theangryeditor2025-12-30 00:35

Nothing inherently wrong with revising the scores, it's just more consternation and overthinking over exact numbers.

baquea2025-12-30 01:17

I almost never change old scores, since I feel like the time at which I'm able to most accurately say how I feel about a show is right after I finish. Years later, and I could easily have forgotten or be misremembering some parts I really liked/disliked, and my impressions are likely to have become distorted by reading the opinions of other people. That does mean that many of my scores are unlikely to reflect how I would feel if I were to go back and watch the show now, but I don't really see anything wrong with leaving them as they are, as something like a time capsule of what I enjoyed in the past.

Zale13x2025-12-30 01:05

I always consider revisiting my scores at the end of the year but never bother.

I feel like there are some major consistency issues in my 8/10s, in terms of how much I actually like some of them compared to others. I’ve even considered starting with the decimal nonsense, but I just cba spending the time to "fix" my list.

I envy the people on AniList who remain completely satisfied with the smiley system and just move on with their lives.

theangryeditor2025-12-30 01:18

> I feel like there are some major consistency issues in my 8/10s, in terms of how much I actually like some of them compared to others.

Yeah the consistency issues are what really make me have second thoughts about my scores. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter, but there's just always that nagging little voice going "should this show really have the same score as this other show given how differently you feel about them?" and such.

Nachtwandler_FS2025-12-30 01:13

The more shows I watch the more often I think "I should lower the scores for that bunch of shows". Did it a few times but it us still so much hassle. I have 1600+ MAL entries and when I actually start revusing the scores I always hesitant if I should change the one foe every other entry or not.

Zeallfnonex2025-12-30 01:54

I've looked over my list a couple of times thinking that I'd adjust some downwards for sure, only to realize I had already given them the lower score I was thinking of [](#rinkek)

Past me was already pretty critical of stuff, it turns out

Dull_Spot_82132025-12-30 03:42

I do this sometimes. It’s like, I was too harsh. I did not foresee the depths I could still descend. Also, I keep going back to some shows and give them better scores on rewatch.

Heda-of-Aincrad2025-12-30 04:58

I've been doing this fairly often too. My scoring has shifted a bit more towards critical, and part of that is likely the massive gap between my faves (which I rewatch often) and everything else.

TheBigIdiotSalami2025-12-30 00:45

So they're not gonna explain how the guy cracked that monster, huh?

Patrickk_batemann2025-12-30 00:46

It would’ve been awesome if they ended the one piece with something like “prologue”

Disastrous_Debt17802025-12-30 01:51

It so surreal that Kyoani is animating RuriDragon. They have never done a jump title before. And They are known be very picky which IPs they want to animate.

Zeallfnonex2025-12-30 02:17

With all the other recent Kyoani news, it's great to see people find Clannad for the first time. There's just something so neat about watching someone find something I love and them loving it around as much as I did.

theangryeditor2025-12-30 03:25

You just made me realize Clannad probably isn't nearly as well known as it used to be. The thought really dangos my daikazoku

[](#whippersnappers)

Zeallfnonex2025-12-30 03:45

If you were born when the anime was released, you'd now be older than both Tomoya and Nagisa at the beginning. [](#whippersnappers)

... Next year's the 20 year anniversary, if there's not a rewatch already planned and I'm still in the community I'll consider finally hosting one...

theangryeditor2025-12-30 04:09

You must host

[](#mugiwait)

Zeallfnonex2025-12-30 04:12

Have you *seen* the irregular times I've been posting my replies to the rewatches I've been in? Sometimes it's fine, other times it's "Oh, I've been away from my home computer until 11 PM"

I mean, I *suppose* I could actually prep ahead of time and make most of the post beforehand... We'll see. There's like 21 months still, right? September 2027...

theangryeditor2025-12-30 04:15

Hosting will teach you discipline

[](#gendo-pls)

Zeallfnonex2025-12-30 04:16

Yeah, uh, I fear that's not the most likely thing to happen...

Shimmering-Sky2025-12-30 05:11

You can always do what u/lC3 does with me and rope someone in as a cohost to post on days when you can't (either because something comes up out of the blue at post time or because you *know* you'll be busy then).

[](#mug7)

Heda-of-Aincrad2025-12-30 05:02

> I mean, I suppose I could actually prep ahead of time and make most of the post beforehand...

This is the only way I can manage to keep up with rewatches, whether I'm hosting or just participating. But that feeling you described of seeing someone find one of your favorite shows and loving it as much as you did is the best thing about rewatches.

Queue_Jumping_Quack2025-12-30 06:32

Clannad is coming up on my backlog list now that I finished Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, being the very next "Drama" anime. Since go through the genres on rotation, few other series to go through first, so will be some time maybe February that I'll get to it.

Abysswatcherbel2025-12-30 02:44

Oh no Mato seihei is releasing music videos of the new characters....

Komarist2025-12-30 04:22

Pony Canyon doing their thing? Thought the community view was swapping to Passione will solve the ecchi while not caring about the music.

theangryeditor2025-12-30 03:22

True Tears done

What the ***FUCK*** was [Shin/Hiromi/Shin's mom/Ai]'s problem

[](#gununu)

[TT]>!I mean I know what Shin's problem(s) were but damn did the boy take his detours figuring them out. Meanwhile I'm not quite sure what the fuck was going on with Hiromi in the last scene in the epilogue!<

I appreciate the story it told, and the drama and struggles afflicting our cast of mostly charmless bakas. There were quite a few developments where the need for drama actively hindered the exploration of the characters and themes, but I was more or less satisfied with the ending. As I'm reflecting on it and thinking that I appreciate the themes and what it was trying to say while also thinking about all the ways it went awry, my thoughts ultimately converge on the fact that [TT]>!Noe deserved better than all that and that she was able to grow from the experience and "fly" in the epilogue means it truly was the good end.!<

I did not shed a single tear throughout the entire show, but perhaps that's how it was meant to be.

[](#thoughtful)

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 03:48

Just saw a tweet of someone saying watching The Summer Hikaru Died and seeing how good it looked pissed them off because nothing they love ever gets that kind of loving adaptation. And that kind of thinking makes no sense to me.

I too would love for shoujosei adaptations to be better quality but getting annoyed that another wonderful piece of work got a great adaptation while your favourite didn't is so petty. Some shoujosei fans take it a bit too far with their agenda imo.

Had to look up what demography TSHD belonged to and no surprises that it's Seinen. Seems like all of my recent favourites have been Seinen despite looking very different on first glance. Yano-kun, April Showers, Wandance, Hikaru, Kowloon Generic Romance - I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting. I seem to have the same taste as Japanese men. Or it's just that Seinen get some of the best adaptations.

I'm still glad all of these got made and I got to watch them even if they're not shoujosei. Demographic labels need to be taken with a grain of salt. If a story's good, it's good. Who cares who it was intended for?

/Ramblerant

tina_faye2025-12-30 04:27

Yeah like all categories of things, it can be limiting I agree. Hikaru to me was genre bending. So well done. I’m hyped that there are artistic and complex, poetic stories being written and animated about queer romance/love in general. I’m not sure I want to label Hiakru as Seinen but that is probably what it would be (or is?). I think as time goes on we’ll see more complex stories like Hikaru. And probably will be mostly about men but then will include women over time. Kind of of things go. *shrugs*

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 08:47

>I'm hyped that there are artistic and complex, poetic stories being written and animated about queer romance/love in general.

Amen! I loved Hikaru so much and am so glad it got made.

MAL lists it as Seinen but who knows? I say it doesn't matter, just give me more such stories!

_Ridley2025-12-30 05:03

> Just saw a tweet of someone saying watching The Summer Hikaru Died and seeing how good it looked pissed them off because nothing they love ever gets that kind of loving adaptation.

They apparently saw all the attention people mad at Heated Rivalry for not being about lesbians have been getting and decided to try their hand at rage baiting. I've never seen anyone say that, so it's not a widespread opinion, thankfully.
> I seem to have the same taste as Japanese men.

It's probably more that seinen magazines are becoming more general adult than specifically male. Like, 10 Dance comes from a seinen magazine. The only thing a lot of seinen titles have in common is being in Japanese.

edit: LOL forever. I went to Twitter to try to find who sent that tweet, and it was my second guess. Shoujo Twitter sucks, I'm sorry to say.

theangryeditor2025-12-30 06:51

> Shoujo Twitter sucks, I'm sorry to say.

I have noticed it's a very angry, resentful place for some reason.

[](#mug1)

Durinthal2025-12-30 07:17

The reason being it's Twitter.

[](#elves)

I don't bother checking for anything anime related on social media outside of following a couple specific accounts, I get enough of other people's opinions here.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 08:30

Hey now, I'm on Twitter a lot and I don't think I'm angry or resentful. But yeah, in general, it's the social media for wallowing in misery. It's still the best place to get news about all of my interests though. Even anime news hits there first before making its way here.

Durinthal2025-12-30 18:00

> Even anime news hits there first before making its way here.

Is the speed worth the sanity hit? I don't feel like I'm missing out on much by waiting for it to get here.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 18:09

Fair enough. It's not just anime that I'm there for. Over the years, I've sort of built up a community there too, so it's harder to give it up. And so I put up with and ignore this kind of thing as much as I can.

oedipusrex3762025-12-30 08:02

Interestingly, Japanese does have a gender-neutral term for adulthood, 成年 that also read as seinen. It refers to the transition into adulthood and is tied to coming-of-age ceremonies. Demographic tags use 青年 seinen though, which technically refers to young adult men.

The Great Passage was first serialized in a josei magazine before being published as a full novel, which is why I sometimes feel like josei and seinen overlap in practice. Both seem to target adults in general rather than strictly gendered audiences.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 08:33

There seems to be a lot of fluidity and stories that started in one magazine move to another in a different demography. Apothecary Diaries did this if I'm not mistaken. So I don't see the point of being fiercely loyal to any one and not venturing out. If I enjoy a story that's good enough, is how I see it.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 08:28

>I went to Twitter to try to find who sent that tweet, and it was my second guess.

I've had good interactions with that account before this but they do take things a bit far. All of Shoujo twitter seems to. Guess it's just young people being young people smh

_Ridley2025-12-30 15:40

> Guess it's just young people being young people smh

The bulk of them are in their late-20s and early-30s, so they're old enough to know better. If they're not fighting stupid quote tweet battles with shounen fans, they're making videos about how people who don't like what they like lack media literacy. I check twitter occasionally for news, but I vastly prefer bluesky for actual human interaction about manga and everything else.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 15:57

I need to start using bsky again. Do you go by the same handle there? Will find you and then other anime and manga accounts through you hopefully.

_Ridley2025-12-30 16:08

I'm [here](https://bsky.app/profile/rid-ley.bsky.social). I mostly post about manga there.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 17:16

[**Followed!**](#meguminthumbsup)

Korkez112025-12-30 05:05

I admit I'm angry that shit like Anyway I'm Falling in Love with You and Renta-Girlfriend get second (third, fourth...) seasons and Silent Witch doesn't.

BaytaCosmico2025-12-30 08:48

Ok yeah, this I can understand. It is definitely frustrating when stuff like this gets made and good anime like Silent Witch don't get renewed. But resenting Hikaru baffles me.

Enchant232025-12-30 04:01

Bit of a different question. Not entirely sure it's allowed here but idk where else to ask: Does anyone know good artists in a anime-western style that sell posters? I'm looking for artists w a store like a lot of the twitter artists I follow, ex. Akairiot,Ilya Kushinova,Carol Cao, Simzarts, Heikala, etc

Thanks

baquea2025-12-30 04:40

When the damn Commie subs are funnier than the actual anime

[](#mug1 "This is about Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san")

theangryeditor2025-12-30 04:49

[](#kotohoops)

Several such cases

cheesechimp2025-12-30 08:23

[](#modsalute)

It's been a long time, I kind of miss Commie.

KendotsX2025-12-30 09:34

They're still somewhat active, just not shitposty anymore.

cheesechimp2025-12-30 09:46

I guess my comment doesn't make it clear that all
I was trying to say is that it's been a long time since *I* watched one of their subs.

KendotsX2025-12-30 10:01

You're all good, I jumped on that assumption, since these days they're not talked about as much or making as loud of a presence as they used to.

cosmiczar2025-12-30 13:55

And they just put out subs for the live-action adaptation of a yuri by the Wandering Son author starring Kill Bill's Gogo Yubari!

KendotsX2025-12-30 14:06

Oh, I should watch that. Thanks for bringing it up.

Durinthal2025-12-30 05:25

Just finished Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise for my 1500th completion.

[](#doggo)

No opinion yet, still thinking about it.

noheroman2025-12-30 07:27

*That* one small segment keeps me from actively recommending it to many people.

Durinthal2025-12-30 07:28

Yeah, that's a part that's puzzling me and a big "but why?" moment.

KendotsX2025-12-30 09:33

I will give it that it's relevant to the character and themes, but it's also part of why I'll probably never rewatch it.

Infodump_Ibis2025-12-30 12:27

The Manga Entertainment June 1995 UK VHS release (and TV airing) had a part cut in order to receive a PG rating (that practice can be called a pre-cut).

The decision was unusual for Manga Entertainment because they typically did the opposite and aimed for a higher rating to make it "cooler".

The uncut version was released on DVD in 2015 by Anime Limited and received a 15 rating.

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Alt22212025-12-30 07:04

iv learned to revisit these type of shows once or twice a decade but only watch the first few eps. prevents me from dumping a bunch of time into something i know that iv already seen at least once. probably more than once more often than not. Eva is an example for me. great way to do it is watch with a friend that has never seen it. after 2-4 eps set them free to finish or not on their own

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AliceinTeyvatland2025-12-30 11:00

Does the new stuff(episode 2) actually come a week later(Jan 10th) for Fate Strange Fake?

TheElderGodsSmile2025-12-30 11:20

//begin rant//

Minor spoilers ahead

So I'm on episode 11 of *my status as an assassin obviously exceeds the heros* and I get the Akira's whole thing is that "he's an assassin that doesn't kill because murder is bad" but what the hell man this is not a hard moral question.

At this point in the story almost the entire cast of the anime has spent the last five episodes justifying every reason under the sun to kill this one guy who is:

- A child murderer.
- People trafficker, organ trafficker and probably sex trafficker as well.
- Manufactures his own drugs.
- keeps trying to kidnap the MCs GF.
- is a provider of mercenaries to the bad guys
- is actively destabilising the local government
- and all of the above is providing causus belli for a potential inter continental war.
- probably jay walks as well.

Killing this fucker isn't murder, hell the local government flat out asks Akira to do it and at this point it would be justified by every ethical code under the sun, but he's spent literal hours now complaining about what his mum will think about it. I think his mum might be pretty proud that he stopped a war that has the potential to kill millions by slotting a serial killing drug kingpin.

Also please ignore the fact that said MC has no problem blending multiple monsters which he acknowledges might be intelligent because they're a threat to at most a dozen people but is absolutely bricking it about offing some fucker with a mercenary army who's been murdering folk in job lots for years.

Just stab him already and get your parade for fucks sake or at least move on to a better story line because this pacifism at any cost thing you've got going on is just dumb at this point.

Burn his fucking book dude, no one wants to read that slash fic.

//end rant//

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