This will be a long wall of text as I have a lot of thoughts and no one to say them to.

Valid.

When I started reading the Sigrid section, I became interested, but that quickly faded when you wrote about season 2 and 3. That sucks

Signal is hardly difficult to use tho. It’s just another messaging app

You’re probably right, but it’s not explicitly part of her character or even implicitly. Why let yourself suffer as if that’s the only viable path?

After a season ends, I tend to not watch anything from the new season for a while to watch other things. So, I spend last week getting caught up with most of what I wanted to watch from this season. No real standouts for me yet, but overall still good.

• MARRIAGEXTOXIN: I was already reading the manga and so far I’m really enjoying this adaptation.
• Gals Can’t Be Kind To Otaku: also a manga reader. For some reason, I typically don’t really care for adaptations of these types of manga (that I’ve read). They often don’t provide extra value to me. I’m afraid that mostly holds true here. It’s not bad and I am enjoying it, but would rather read the manga. I think a large reason here is the voice acting for Seo. It’s so wimpy and pathetic. Not that he isn’t in the manga, but it feels amped up here. And louder.
• Daemons of the Shadow Realm: mostly enjoying it, but there are some crucial points that I don’t like about it, particularly how it reveals information (or rather, doesn’t) feels very artificial and obtuse. Depending on how that goes, it might become a reason for me dropping it.
• Ramparts of Ice: digging this one the most so far. I like the FMC a lot. It’s only brought down by Netflix’s awful typesetting in the subs, unable to properly present text bubbles and signs without interrupting the actual spoken subs.
• An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess: it’s fun to see a “villainess” story from the perspective of someone else.

Still want to watch:

• Dr Stone
• Needy Girl Overdose: only watched the 1st ep, but thought it was really good. Very heavy, but good. The heaviness is making me a bit reluctant to continue.
• Witch Hat Atelier
• ReZero: haven’t fully watched season 3 yet tho.

Excited for the new season. Less excited that it’s going to be a school setting…

Really enjoying this one. The main thing I’m missing is why Bertia wants to play the villainess role.

I like the more serious moments of this anime, but I really don’t like the comedic bits, especially from those who I can only still see as (nearly) indiscriminate murderers.

I also really don’t like the way this show is withholding information. Yuru had ample opportunity to ask about why they murdered the village, but only asked about his parents (except the why), even when Asa gave them a perfect hook when she brought up the Higashi village. Which is pretty crucial to everything and possibly also why his parents left. It feels like an artificial way to keep their intentions a mystery, but at the same time they want to us sympathize with them.

This might be a controversial comment. I read Inio Asano’s Solanin over the weekend and I… couldn’t care less about it. I don’t think it’s bad, but I actively dislike most characters, particularly the guys. The women in the manga also got done dirty, particularly the FMC, who didn’t really seem to be much of a character on her own outside of being someone’s girlfriend (I didn’t read that as being some kind of criticism), even after the big event. She was even criticized for trying to better her life because it was putting pressure on her boyfriend, who wasn’t pulling his own weight. Her struggles seemed to come secondary a lot of the time, unless they were related to him. That felt… icky, unintentionally so.

I did like it more after the big event, but that’s already like 2/3rds of the way through.

On paper, I should like this manga. It ticks a lot of boxes for me, but just ticking them is not enough it seems.

I think I might not jive well with Inio Asano’s work. I also didn’t like Girl On The Shore, though I do think Solanin is better. I know Oyasumi Punpun is the big one, but I’ve been avoiding that one.

Japan continues to uphold their status as a country with the most unreasonable copyright laws

National? Where?

Depends on where you’re from. In my country, dubbing in the native language rarely happens unless it’s a kids movie.

Good to know! I haven’t picked it up yet, because I often end up somewhat disappointed in adaptations of these types of manga.

Subs will be a turn-off for a lot of people, that’s for nerds.

If you’re used to media in your own language, I suppose so

Made a honey and poppy seed ricotta cheesecake once with sweet marscarpone on the side. It was delicious.

No bake cheesecake (no gelatin) is the best kind

Changed my life is a bit much maybe, but Hibike! Euphonium means a lot to me

On a slightly different note, does anyone here read manhwa?

Yes

I need a secondary opinion because the more I read, the more it feels like some of the groups localising them use machine translation (or non-fluent people). Things like constant misgendering, regular changes to name spelling (for both people and locations), attributing things said in the past to wrong characters and more are pretty much something I expect rather than a surprise at this point. It’s distracting, sloppy and, at times, pretty annoying.

Assuming you mean scanlation groups, I absolutely feel the same. I often just don’t read ones like that because of it, because it’s hard to make heads or tails from it. I think it’s a combo of MTL and non-fluent speakers. Stuff like misgendering or wrong attribution is very MTL-like, but a lot of the bad grammar, spelling errors and bad punctuation feel more like things from someone who doesn’t quite have a good grasp on English (can be MTL, but MTL is pretty capable of making well-structured sentences at this point).

Just in general I struggle finding good scanlation groups for manhwa (or sources even). Either they have poor translations, are behind paywalls (surprisingly common. Many even use their own stupid coin systems) or both. I often resort to only reading officially translated manhwa (officially or otherwise).

Is this anime original? I thought the story was concluded.

Anyway, I hope Kurumi is in it, she’s the only actually interesting character and made the last couple of seasons bearable.

I’ve not come across that yet and my Bluray player isn’t connected to the internet.

Has to have a dub. Someone who does not watch anime is not going to read subs.

Why not? It’s how many people started, no?