hardware support has always been spotty at best. I still remember the dark days where one wrong codec setting meant shit's not gonna work.
Them workin with Netfux should be seen as a warning label.
If you liked Aggretsuko, you'll probably like My Senpai is Annoying.
Hot damn, it's Yukari's birthday!
Manga as a medium has always primordially been Japanese and continue to be, the point was about not obsessing over what other English communities on the Internet may enjoy or not. Below examples are a sample of the recent works since the past decade and the 2020's :
Isn't that the new american/anglo Internet lingo to more or less say "Attractive-looking cartoon characters repulse me but I must project my masturbation obsessions into everyone in the world (men and women alike) until they all adhere to my backwards values" just like 'coom' ?
My friend, thats in a tranny's nature. Its like getting mad at a bear for shitting in the woods. Its a trannys nature to ruin everything they touch. They will ruin everything u love by making it gay and lame.
Major vidya companies may have gone "DEI", and major anime studios may be going that way too, but manga is too decentralized for that to happen to that industry as a whole.
Seems a number of Americans still haven't gotten over the old "fapping bad" mindset of the Puritans and the Victorians, although there is taking fapping to an unhealthy excess as well -- the latter of which could be related to the old "fapping bad" mindset.
It looks like there are some manga projects that had woke diseased mangaka working on them, but short of fujoshi marketed shows they all bomb in anime.
How does that work? Is it a "celebrity worship" thing?
If you are the top of your field you get some recognition (if you aren't doing anything deviant) but there's no idolizing a "poor artist just trying to break in" that Hollywood basically brainwashed the entire western population as a sympathetic figure, instead you are just a loser wasting his time and money.
Is that why Western artists overall seem to be more fanatical about copyright and what constitutes "art theft"?
That's an interesting idea. Western artists are obsessed with "fighting the system" (which later became fighting the audience), I doubt Japanese think like that, heck you'd find hardcore hentai doujins having more respect towards their buyers than 99% of modern Hollywood films.
I am really hoping this allows for a SWR crossover.
I need detail's man.
Now that I'm up to date with the manga I can finally reply to this properly. I didn't mind the absence of their thoughts on what was happening but I can imagine it being more frustrating when you're waiting weeks for the chapters to come out. What I did mind was the pacing after the music video arc, when you're reading it all in one go you get the feeling that the mangaka wanted to get to the movie arc faster and this is especially apparent when it comes to the subplot about the cosplayers. I also find it strange that so many new characters were introduced and then promptly dropped after, when so many of the prominent characters from the previous arcs keep showing up every now and then.
Hikaru's treatment is fucking strange. If you just watched Season 1 (or just read the manga) he seems like someone who's shady in that he merely gave some stalker AI's information. The next time you see him (I think) he's pushing some chick off a mountain. Then the third time you see him he's filming everyone's thoughts on the movie and is a stricken lover/victim of the Entertainment Industry's inability to not fuck children.
Its kind of stacked this year so far I think. My group of friends watch 5 anime a week after tabletop every Sunday night. Season 2 of Oshi No Ko is having to compete with Chainsaw Man (which we still haven't watched), Solo Leveling, and up until this most recent week Kaiju #8, My Hero Academia, Apothecary Diaries. Several of them were highly liked hold overs from previous seasons we couldn't watch at the time, some of them are long running series we've been watching for years, so its kinda hard for it to just comfortably slot in. Especially because there are shows like Dandadan coming out in 5 weeks that I'm significantly more hyped for.
The more I think about it the more of an incoherent mess his character becomes. If the idea was to make you sympathise with him to some degree after you learn of his true relationship with Ai, it falls flat once you remember the chapter in which he kills the actress for no apparent reason and the one in which he almost pushes Ruby down some stairs. The stalker murdering Ai was an accident as far as his intentions were concerned but he did fully intend to kill the actress and possibly Ruby too. Nino could have very easily worked as the actual serial killer, she is the one who doesn't want anyone to outshine Ai so it would have made sense if she killed the actress for that reason. God knows why either she or Hikaru wanted to help the stalker kill Ai's doctor though. Hikaru might have wanted to abort the children but he didn't really care about Ai's career as an idol, in fact he could have used them as a pretext to get back together with her. She herself wanted to meet up with him so he can see his children. I guess Nino might have had a reason, she could have wanted Ai to continue being an idol and the children could have destroyed her career.