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  • Alright, it's been a bit since I dropped into one of my own threads here to talk about some series. I managed to do quite a bit of catching up on series this past week. So, some quick thoughts:

  • In a blink and you'll miss it moment, they did a crazy foreshadow this episode that was anime-original. This isn't the first time they've done this either. It really makes me wish the manga wasn't on indefinite hiatus because the closer the anime gets to the manga, the less opportunity they will have to drop some awesome foreshadowing in.

    This demon that studies humans was foreshadowing Solitar. Probably my favorite demon in all of Frieren.

  • Genau is basically what a stoic tsundere looks like. On the outside he stays cool as a cucumber, but he is aware enough to know that he has had to do some messed up shit and doesn't want others to get their hands dirty like he has. He keeps saying how unaffected he is by his home village being destroyed, but he was certainly compassionate in dealing with his friend's final moments, and cares a lot about their bodies being protected.

  • Alright, I just binged this series and caught up. Unsurprisingly, it delivers exactly what the title promises, but I'll be damned if I didn't still enjoy the ride. Something about a series like this or "The Ice Princess Wants to Be Melted by a Small Patch of Sunlight" that just works for me (it's the younger siblings I think).

    Thanks for sharing.

  • AFAIK, it's just hitagi since gaen is a bot. More admins wouldn't necessarily solve the issue that lemmynsfw faced since it had to do with billing on their infrastructure. I am an admin on a couple other instances, even with ssh access, but don't have access to the billing side of things. That is a big jump up in trust I think that many are hesitant to make.

  • I feel for lemmyposter, it's not a great situation to be in. I sit in a couple matrix channels with them and they have been fighting all the gremlins while trying to spin things up. I do think it is funny that fedinsfw has now shot up to be (I think) the second most populous piefed instance in the span of like two weeks.

  • I enabled this show with the bot, so it should post like normal as this show airs.

  • We get parent backstory this chapter. So, it seems like Miko inherited her abilities from her dad and that this spirit that has been tailing her actually started tailing her mom. Not sure yet how this amulet is going to play a role.

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    Mieruko-chan - Ch. 69

    mangadex.org /chapter/9066c645-fa39-4ced-8cf8-59cb7468c378
  • Well, there it is. Next stop is wedding and then parenthood. It's a rare chapter that these two actually end up communicating their feelings.

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    Please Go Home, Akutsu-san! - Ch. 202

    cubari.moe /read/gist/cmF3L1Nob0hhYmJ5VXBsb2Fkcy9TaG9IYWJieUN1YmFyaVNvdXJjZXMvbWFpbi9LYWV0dGVfS3VkYXNhaV9Ba3V0c3Utc2FuLmpzb24/202/1/
  • I just caught up on a couple chapters. The snow this chapter hit a bit close to home as I feel like the past two weeks of my life have mainly consisted of clearing snow.

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    Akira Failing in Love - Ch. 74

    www.viz.com /vizmanga/akira-failing-in-love-chapter-74/chapter/49360
  • Man, this chapter reminded me that there is an anime in the works and I am really looking forward to it. These two are great.

  • It was nice to get a whole episode devoted to one of the girls. I imagine they probably rearranged some manga chapters to consolidate this story a bit since there were three separate title cards during the episode. I wonder if we are likely to get whole episodes about the other girls coming up.

  • Yeah...it won't be private messages next year for sure. Lesson learned!

  • Apocalypse Hotel, the overall winner, is available on Crunchyroll (at least in the US, it can vary by market). Honestly, if you are in the US, most of these are going to be on Crunchyroll I think. CR are continuing their "take over all the things" arc within this niche. So, if you only subscribe to one service, it should be the one (unless you just sail the high seas). Other places you find some quality titles from time to time would be Netflix, HiDive, Amazon Prime, or Disney+.

  • Ranked choice voting doesn't allow a simple top X candidates due to the way votes can transfer between rounds. If you want to see how each category's voting rounds went, you can see them all here.

    In the list below, I have listed the second-highest receiver(s) of votes in the final voting round:

    • 2025 Anime Series of the Year - CITY the Animation
    • 2025 Anime Film of the Year - 100 Meters
    • 2025 Anime Character of the Year - Izumi Wako (CITY the Animation)
    • Best Comedy - Ninkoro and 100 Girlfriends (tie)
    • Best Drama - Summer Hikaru Died
    • Best Fantasy/Adventure - Secrets of the Silent Witch
    • Best Romance - Fragrant Flower
    • Best Slice of Life - Apocalypse Hotel
    • Best Action - Dan Da Dan Season 2
    • Best Animation - Chainsaw Man Reze Arc
    • Best Soundtrack - Rock is a Lady's Modesty and Umamusume Cinderella Gray (tie)
    • Best Voice Acting - Mikako Komatsu (Nagumo from CITY the Animation)
    • Best Musical Sequence - Kaseijin by Yorushika - Shoushimin Season 2 OP
  • Meta Comment:

    Thanks again, everybody that voted! If you want to check out the anonymized ballot information and inspect the code I used to process the votes, you can find a repository I made here.

    Total turnout this year (25 votes) was down quite a bit compared to last year (90 votes). I think there were a couple contributing factors to this:

    • The private-message voting system was new, and I don't think it seems like it was popular. Last year I had run a survey site that lets people fill out a web form for their vote. However, the software was really flaky on the backend side of things and I didn't want to run it again. Also, there was not really any way to prevent somebody from voting multiple times because I couldn't tie a vote to a user account.
    • Last year's voting period happened over the holidays, and I suspect that boosted turnout.
    • I think total overall activity is down compared to a year ago, especially so since we are in the middle of a season. The active user count always tends to tick up when a new season kicks off, but then falls back down a bit to coast until the next season sees another bit of a spike. So, doing these awards in the middle of a season probably didn't help turnout.

    Please feel free to let me know if you have any ideas for improvement in the future. Whether that is about the voting process, nomination process, timing, whatever...


    As for the award winners, there were a couple titles that really soaked up lots of votes in any category they were nominated for. Specifically, CITY, Apocalypse Hotel, and Chainsaw Man - Reze Arc got a huge portion of the voteshare whenever they were nominated. So, if there is any takeaway from these awards for me, it's that those are this community's standout favorites from last year.

    Other interesting things I noticed:

    • I was glad to see Ninkoro doing so well in the Best Comedy category. I loved the dark humor in that series so much, and the anime really elevated the source material in lots of ways. Glad to see others agreed!
    • I was also happy to see Rock is a Lady's Modesty do well in the OST category. It's always nice when an anime about music actually has good music in it.
    • I found it interesting that Maomao absolutely ran away with the voting for best Voice Acting, but she didn't even make the nomination list for best character. In fact, Shisui received more nominations than Maomao for best character.
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    Announcing Winners of the 2025 Fediverse Anime Awards

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  • You might have heard of jumping the shark before, but now I posit that we can talk about fighting the snake. I hope that this arc is over now, it's honestly been so dumb.

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    Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! - Ch. 132

    mangadex.org /chapter/c424e7d1-4ccb-44dc-9748-084f66633553
  • Not an explanation per se, but all monsters do it in Frieren's world, not just demons. You'll notice that when they kill normal, non-speech-having monsters, they dissolve away as well.

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    Reminder: Final Days of Voting for 2025 Fediverse Anime Awards

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    Mary-san - Ch. 301

    mangadex.org /chapter/c8696728-dad5-42b3-9f01-71ccc407989a
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    Vote Now for the 2025 Fediverse Anime Awards!

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    Journey Home After School - Ch. 51

    mangadex.org /chapter/2c10f28e-2566-4147-8fda-e52b2396df11
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    Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread

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    Reminder: Nominations Close Soon for the 2025 Fediverse Anime Awards

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    Manga Best-Of 2025 and General Discussion Thread