So, as a moderator for [email protected], I have been trying to keep tabs on how this has been developing over on reddit (especially /r/manga).

I believe that if a publisher were to request content or posts to be removed, it would most likely be directed to the instance admin. In my community’s case, that would be @[email protected]. It would then be up to them whether to or how to remove the content. If it isn’t a formal DMCA or if they are in a jurisdiction not bound by the DMCA, then they could always choose not to take action. If they did decide to remove the content, then the next decision facing them would be how to remove it.

One option would be to “remove” it (no different than a community moderator removing things like spam). This action would federate out to other lemmy servers and remove it there as well. The other option that is available to instance admins is to “purge” it. This removes the content from the local server, but does not federate that removal out to other instances. So, the offending content would still be available to the rest of the fediverse since it was federated out and the publisher would have to go play whack-a-mole with every instance out there. The purge option would definitely be the malicious compliance route.

I know this is what I have done for previous shows that have had a dedicated community, but I don’t really want to change things mid-run like this.

Also, I have been debating just allowing discussion threads in both communities for cases like this going forward after some feedback from other users I have gotten. The activity that @[email protected] has had in [email protected] for Daima threads has been heartening to see even as rikka continued to make threads in the main anime community.

What I will do is try to finish a new feature for rikka that I started working on where she can link to related communities in the post that she makes. It will be a section in her post that looks like this:

Related Communities

• [email protected]

I probably won’t finish before tomorrow’s episode (I’ll edit it into the post), but can probably finish it before next week.

That’s a name I haven’t heard in quite some time…I haven’t watched it though

Watching the PV for this series, I actually really like the art style in motion. Though, there is one scene where the MC’s hair is blowing in the wind despite wearing helmet that fully encloses their head. So, they must have the drama-activated fans inside those suits to make the most impact when needed.

I really like the art style of the PV for this one. I doubt that it is reflective of what the show will ultimately look like, but it’s really nice. Almost like animated pastel art.

Yeah, the title threw me for a loop as well. I definitely double checked to make sure that I wasn’t crazy. As for the romcom, the tags I see for the series make me think this is more of a drama than a comedy, but definitely still the romance component.

Note that ANN writes that this will be different than either the source or other adaptations:

The anime will retell the story from a different viewpoint than the novel and Hollywood’s Edge of Tomorrow film adaptation

As funny as that would be, I think it would be genuinely difficult to watch. It would feel like you are watching an old flash animation on Newgrounds or something like that. Who would win, Saitama or Trogdor?

Agreed on Guild Receptionist. I am still an episode behind, but (trying to stay vague for spoilers) that fight against the pair that were one was really underwhelming. I am just not sure how much this story can sustain itself when it isn’t being carried by Alina. That fight focused much more on Jade and Lululee and it just…wasn’t as interesting.

It’s originally a game series. I have a friend that is a big fan of the games and convinced me to watch the anime adaptation that aired Summer 2023 and I was entirely underwhelmed. The anime never really escaped a very obvious game structure and it kind of just felt like a less interactive version of a pretty standard game rather than an interesting story. YMMV, but I do think it telling that the series is most well known for its art and Ryza’s thighs than for exciting gameplay and engaging stories.

Yeah, I have seen this compared to The Eminence in Shadow a lot as well. I am hoping to give it a shot this coming season.

@[email protected] and @[email protected] here is another dose of Mikadono for the two of you.

Weekly ranking roundup:

1. Anime Corner - Full Results - Weekly Winner: Re:Zero
2. Reddit Karma - Weekly Winner: Re:Zero

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

Amagami Sister shot up the AC chart this week while there isn’t a ton of movement on the reddit chart. I am happy to see Orb still making gains, now up to fourth in the reddit chart. I have kind of held off continuing the show and am going to wait for it to finish before just bingeing the whole thing. I am really looking forward to it. The first 8 episodes I watched were really, really good.

I am trying my best to catch up on a bunch of shows I fell behind on, so here is where I stand currently:

• Ameku MD - Dropped for time. Not sure if I will try to make time for this or not. I have popped into the episode discussion threads and the reception seems mixed.
• My Happy Marriage - I am two episodes behind now, so I might have to just let this one go until the end of the season. I had been enjoying this season a lot.
• Apothecary Diaries - I am one episode behind. Great show continues to be great. Getting more interaction with the Emporer this season.
• Guild Receptionist - I am one episode behind. This show has fallen down my priority list a bit. I feel like the premise has long since been abandoned and the most recent dark god fight didn’t really keep my attention.
• 100 Girlfriends - This most recent episode was a fresh dose of insanity. Just an incredibly unhinged, and hilarious show.
• Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf - Sleeper hit of the season for me. It’s just such a nice comfy time. Even this past episode that prominently featured an actual fight, it never felt tense at all.
• Bureaucrat to Villainess - This most recent episode kind of feels like a throwaway, and even in the otome game it was a bonus event. There was a fantastic special ED though.

I think the jury and the public both had good choices. Look Back and Oshi no Ko are really standouts in drama for me. When we had the Lemmy Anime Awards this past year, Apothecary Diaries won the category. In the reddit awards, Apothecary Diaries was separated into the Suspense category instead.

Also, checking out the comment thread on reddit, there were extra, fun awards given out:

Regardless of how you feel about reddit as an entity, it is still home to one of the largest forums of anime watchers in social media. So, I find results like this interesting and worthy of discussion in spite of how many lemmy users feel about the platform.

If you click through to the actual results page, you can see the full rank-order of how both the jury and the voting public sorted things for each category. Some were pretty consistent between the two, while others were way off from each other.

I think this PV is just animated manga panels and hopefully not representative of what the final anime character designs will look like. Let’s hope anyway.

Lots of red on the chart as Amagami Sister and Orb leapt over most of the rest of the top 10.

The Galaxy Express ED was great. @[email protected]

If you hadn’t heard the song before, it is from a 1979 film by the same name, Galaxy Express 999. There is a TV series as well, but this song is specifically from the film. It’s performed by a group called Godiego. Here is a video that shows them performing it (well, edited together performances).

The song has kind of stuck around ever since and been covered many times. My personal favorite cover is this music video by EXILE. In case you wanted to see what this song would be like if it had way more bad CG and a long rap break. It’s such a time capsule (2008) that I find it immensely entertaining.

It has had ups and downs, but overall it has been a lot of fun. I mentioned this in a previous thread, but one of the nice things about this show is how much Kenzaburou (the dad) matters as a character. Too often in isekai/otome series like this, after the initial reincarnation or transportation to another world, the person that they were in the previous world just doesn’t matter at all.

If you like this show, then last season had a kind of similar show where a character tries and fails at being a Villainess, I’ll Become a Villainess That Will Go Down in History. It is a bit less silly and covers some darker themes, but the basic premise is similar in that somebody tries to embody the villainess role and kind of makes herself endearing in the process.