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Finished Dorohedoro season 2, what a gut punch of an ending Glad they already announced season 3, hope we don’t have to wait for more than a year. Gonna try to finish up Agents of the Four Seasons & Akane Banashi today, start Re:ZERO’s latest season tomorrow.

Animé LA in Long Beach has got to be straight vibes. It sounds pretty cool

Binge watching a new anime :))

It worked well as a stand-alone novel, but considering how Sanderson seems to tie all of the Cosmere together, it's not entirely surprising. I'll probably have to re-read it when new ones come out, it's been so long. Have you read any of Sanderson's other books? I picked up Tress of the Emerald Sea, so that'll probably be my next one to read. Only a couple chapters in.

Some possibilities Fantasy/Isekai: Dororo • Scrapped Princess • The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat • The Faraway Paladin • The Eminence in Shadow • Clevatess • Demon Lord 2099 • Sentenced to be a Hero • The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic • The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs • Tsukimichi Romcom: Dealing With The Mikadono Sisters is a Breeze • Recovery of an MMO Junkie • Makeine •Tomo-chan is a Girl

I might need to go in and give it a try!

SPACEBALLS THE MOVIE TICKET

Currently making my way through The Summer Hikaru Died. Quite a good pick if you're into Lovecraftian and psychological horror (these are not spoilers, by far the most "present" Lovecraftian element of the narrative is revealed as such in the first five minutes and much of the psychological horror flows out from that overt element).

500 page novel IN A DAY is insane!! That's crazy impressive

just curious, I finished it a few weeks ago and I just wanted to say I absolutely loved it

try my list. i will think you like most

Hi Hunter, it's nice to meet you. Welcome to the forum!

You hang around bars until someone knocks you out and forces you to sign a contract.

Watching series that are too similar to each other especially during the same season makes it too easy to confuse which events took place in which series. Besides I need some CGDCT & moe content to balance out my mood after sone of the darker, bleaker, more violent series. Increasingly though a series needs to make some sort of positive (not ambivalent) impression on me in the first couple eps or I set it aside for future consideration if I can’t find anything else to watch.

Mostly spent the first half of today reading the last couple hundred pages of a novel I've been reading through on-and-off for the last couple of weeks (Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty, if you're curious). Quite enjoyable, though I've no idea when I'll find time for the sequel.

Just finished up Fractale, which I thought was all right. I enjoyed it well enough, but the chance I'll ever watch it again is extremely low. Picked up Last Exile to replace it, and I'm having a great time. Hopefully this continues throughout the entire show.

I have a background in computer science and I know a bit about AI, past and present. I don’t have a problem with AI, but I understand why creators of all forms of media are concerned. My main issue is that the big AI companies - Open AI (ChatGPT) and Perplexity and others - make money by scraping humans’ art without providing any compensation to the originators. I doubt the AI companies would reciprocate.

ALWAYS! haha

Recommended to study to mostly help get into the industry.

Welcome @AshAstridy Nice to see another Iruma-fan . Have you been watching the latest season?

some of you recommeded sushi and ramen, and for a Japanese deeply in love with Japanese food and culture, I can't agree anymore. But I also recommend you to try Japanese omurice, with the cut-open fried egg on top of rice, often used with Japanese curry sauce. Its my comfort food ever since I was a kid.

old but gold

Snack time!

Got a new set of battery cables for one of my solar batteries the other day but I don't like the connectors on them. The ones that came on the cable are aluminum and the bolt hole is too large for the battery's terminal bolts. As a result the metal around the hole - the part that actually connects with the battery terminal and carries the power - is too thin for my comfort. So I'm replacing the lugs on the cable with ones that are a bit more substantial. Mine are solid copper and larger overall but with a bolt hole of the proper size for the battery's bolts. More importantly the surface area for contact with the battery terminal is much greater. The same power going through more metal means less resistive heating and a cooler connection.

Egg and cheese sandwich on toast for lunch. I might have put a bit too much Tapatío on it though.

This just brought back memories from when I was the biggest SWS fan

I've never actually looked the movements intentionally, but to be fair it might depend on the genre of the anime as well. If i'm watching anything action, movement is going to be super important in comparrison to something like a romance

I have taken my interest in mangas once again after years of temporarily deciding to move on from them, thinking it should be just something that I was so fond in my childhood. Little did I know how much mangas have nurtured my creative side. Lately I have been reading Vampire Knight again all from the start (yes, the one with the scandalous incest themed manga) which was one of my favorites back then in my junior high school (around 2008). I didn't get to finish the series because at some point of waiting for the next volumes to be published, I kinda dropped and jumped on other bandwagons of so many more fresher, strongly-developed series like Gakuen Alice, etc,... To be honest, the only reason has compelled me to come back to pick up Vampire Knight where I left off is to be able to experience first-hand how morally unsettling this serious is. Besides, I still love the super sharp, defined, striking and mesmerizing art style of Matsuri Hino. I think the highschool me still has a soft spot for the manga that aesthetically captured my heart back then.

I really enjoy Fantasy and Thriller/Mystery books, esepcially if it's a series. It's the one thing I don't mind staying up till 2am doing

Recently got back into manga. I’m obsessed with Frieren and I need some recommendations!

I agree with this, the blogs and clubs aren't used much these days so if doing away with them would keep the forum around that would be good, it would be a shame for it all the disappear.

It would be fine without blogs and clubs, they aren't used that much anymore anyway. If it kept it around rather than deleted it, that would be nice. I'd hate to see it all just disappear.

What's even worse is that now AI images are being used to illustrate fake news stories and even create fake news programmes.

Ai takes from legitimate artist and steals their work so I can't say I'm a fan. I don't think you can "Claim" ai art as your own either, since you didn't do anything but input a few words and that's not art. I'm tired of seeing AI art at this point and most of the faces give me the creeps.

Cracker

There's a big one here that I'm going to near my house soon ~ that's the only one I know of so far though I'm trying to go to anime MidWest this year but since I'm going on a cross country road trip with Zari over the Summer, I don't know if we'll be in the area at the time of it.

Bean dip. Crazy amounts of bean dip. This is my third can of bean dip this week and I don't know what's wrong with me.

The last thing I drank was lemon Brisk iced tea.

I live in Texas and we have a ton of anime cons. Which is good, since it's so spread out. My favs are San Japan, Anime Frontier, and Weebcon. I used to list Animefest and A-kon on that list until they died, RIP. Lots of other cons though. Anime North Texas is still struggling along, there are a number of cons that start with 'anime+city-name' even though they're not all affiliated (Anime Dallas, Anime Tyler, Anime Texas, etc). Ikkicon and Ushicon I used to go to and they're still around, too, I just can't make it out to them anymore due to time of year. I'm going to one called Otaku Odyssey next May. Anime Impulse is not a Texas con but they held a show here last weekend, too.

Nope.

Just started watching My Hero Academia’s final season & it has been absolute FIRE

Yuru Camp

Without Jases bravery none of us would have ever known that

There was Louisville Anime-Fest today not far from us that @Sakura and I went to. We didn't stay long and neither of us thought it was very good. The booths didn't have a lot of anything that interest us or good merch and no good panels going on or voice actors to meet. We ended up to leave after only around an hour.

It's due to arrive on Saturday so we'll see.

I'll let you all know how it is and @Sakura I'd share if you were around lol

Exams can be really stressful so I hope the remaining ones go OK for you. Remember, you've put in the hours studying, so do your best that's all you can do.

Goku = raw power, skills, and abilities (Instant Transmission), among others. While Saiki has a lot of formidable abilities, he's not in the same league. Goku would likely hold back until things got real, and then he would just beat the living dog dookie out of bro.

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Has anyone ever watched Elfen Lied? Red hair girl named Lucy who is psychic and has horns on her head? Kills people for fun? This is probably one of the most violent anime shows I've ever seen with tons of nudity. Its a fun watch. Just wondering if anyone else has watched it.