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Anime General Discussion Thread - Winter 2024 Midterms Edition [Week 8] (ani.social)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by wjs018@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

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We have officially hit the halfway point through the Winter 2024 anime season with most shows having aired at least 6 episodes and several already with their seventh behind them. I want to hear what your impressions are about the season so far. Any shows surprise you? Disappoint you? Exceed your expectations? Like every week, this is also a general discussion thread, so feel free to post general questions/discussions as well.

As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here (also linked in the sidebar).

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[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Haven't watched anything last week due to a holiday abroad. Very excited to catch up on Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, Level 99 Villainess and 7th Time Loop though. I did buy some anime BDs over there though. Physical media is much more expensive where I'm from. Also less popular in general. I bought Belle, GitS and Akudama Drive, all for good prices.

[–] Endmaker@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Belle

The adaption of Beauty and the Beast? You've got good eye.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Akudama Drive was rad as hell. GitS is obviously a classic. Belle... is certainly a movie. By all rights it should be such a great movie. The soundtrack is amazing, even the dubs sound good. The animation is beautiful. But my suspension of disbelief can't handle the game they're playing. I'll spoiler tag my main problems with both types of tag, so it should work no matter how you're viewing lemmy

Belle spoilers

Is it PVP or PVE? Is it a massive sandbox? Are the no admins? >!Why is there The Gun That Doxxes People?!< That one is the thing that I really couldn't take seriously. Like, I can handle the disconnect between what appears to be a PVE world and the PVP elements that we see–maybe it's just part of the game's social structure that everyone agrees to no attacking people in cities. I just can't get over that >!Gun That Doxxes People!<. What psychotic programmer makes that item? How does the game still have players when they know that someone can always come by and >!shoot them with a Gun That Doxxes Them???!<

Other than that it's so good. I just couldn't keep my suspension of disbelief intact.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've yet to watch Belle, but it was decently priced. Also, I've only skipped over your comment since the spoiler tags didn't work for me lol

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh no! I've tested those tags on the website (both SJW and feddit.nl), Connect, Sync, and Jerboa, so I thought they'd work everywhere! What are you using to browse Lemmy? I want to be able to tag spoilers for everyone

Belle really is a good movie with an amazing soundtrack, I was just ranting about one thing in it that bothers me

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No worries, I don't think I'm using a common client. I personally use the fork of Infinity for Reddit, which I used to use for Reddit: Eternity for Lemmy. These are the spoiler tags for that app >!spoiler!<. Example: >!test!<. No idea if that works for others though.

[–] wjs018@ani.social 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, spoiler tags are a mess. The style of spoiler tags in your comment work in pretty much every other markdown-syntax I have seen. However, lemmy spoilers are formatted differently, so the spoilers from your comment are not hidden at all in the default lemmy ui. My personal mobile app of choice, Boost, has the worst of both worlds in that neither style of spoiler works right now (though they stated lemmy spoilers are coming soon).

This state of mixed support for spoilers is what motivated me to make a whole post about it and pin it to the sidebar for future reference. tl;dr is that it all sucks.