That’s both horrible and hilarious - piracy serves a better product ones again…

Just so we’re clear, I completely agree with everything you wrote here. At the same time, I’ve seen people seriously holding the opinion you started with and those are the ones I was talking about. These are just my random musings though, they weren’t meant as a serious discussion about fandom or how this project will be received. All I know is I’ll be there for more GitS.

Totally, I’m just curious because from what I’ve heard manga is a bit more humorous than the movies/shows so it might be a bit of a shock (especially for those who don’t even know about the source material). I also have some… interesting experience watching various fandoms being confidently wrong about a lot of official stuff so that might be why I’m thinking about it.

Anyway, I’m on board with a manga adaptation - still haven’t read the thing myself and that could be a good push to finally do it.

Were there issues with subs before? It’s been a while since I saw this one but I don’t remember having any issues with that.

I wonder how people will react to that considering the difference in mood and atmosphere between manga and anime. I’d certainly like to give it a shot.

I’ve got as much details as you unfortunately. Official site doesn’t provide any info beyond what’s in the trailer description.

This movie contains a heavy amount of CGI so they most likely rerendered the whole thing from scratch, assuming they still have the source files for that stuff.

Edit: I looked around a little bit and while I didn’t find anything official I saw some suggestions this might just be an anniversary screening of the Japanese release from few years ago. Let’s hope we’ll get some more info on that.

I’m guessing “horny” is the answer.

They are a corporation so we definitely shouldn’t take them on their word I just don’t see much value in coming up with imaginary abuse “just in case”. You don’t have to trust to not make up stuff without evidence.

As for their leverage… it sure is there to some extent but it’s not absolute. As much draw as Hololive as a brand has, viewers stay for specific talents. Every time one of them leaves (whether it’s graduation or termination) they bring some chunk of their audience with them - it’s not like they are completely dependent on the company.

Edit: As for actual abuse, that was the case with Mel and her first manager if I recall correctly. Dude was fired and they changed their rules to better protect the talents after that. That was the early days, back when they neither knew what they were doing yet nor had a proper staff to deal with such problems. It’s still a screw up, but apparently they did learn from it.

I mean… we can go based on what she herself said or based on our feelings - I’ll stick to the former.

They also defended Rushia when her drama started btw. Termination came after internal investigation found out she leaked info (something I think was confirmed by the dude who was suppose to get it? I might be misremembering this part).

Don’t take me wrong, I’m not saying you have to believe everything company says or think they are the “goodest boys who can do no wrong”. Not at all.

What I am saying is that based on the limited insight we do have there’s no reason to think they are super evil. They might be but there’s no serious evidence for that that I know of.

What about it?

They defended both Coco and Haachama, and didn’t give into antis’ demands (hell, Cover was willing to cut the whole Chinese branch instead of firing them). Some people were angry about the timeout of both talents (pretty normal approach to try and let the drama die down) since they thought they were being punished.

Haachama is still happily with the company and Coco quit way later since she wanted to focus on different content (including face cam streams). Other talents still mention Coco without issues and Coco never talked about any grievances towards Cover (which tends to happen when relationship is less than amicable).

The biggest bomb from the whole situation was already mentioned loss of Holo CN, though apparently at least some of the talent there was involved in the harassment so it may have been the right choice. Well that, and antis would make it hard to function there anyway.

As messy situation as it was they handled it relatively well and with each new issue they seem to be constantly improving (compare very early problems like Mel’s first manager, to CN drama to Rushia’s termination).

Are they perfect? I mean… they’re a corporation so the best I can say is: they seem do be doing as decent as they can.

I mean… we’re not talking about Nijisanji here. Seriously though, she’s signed with Universal Music Japan and has a growing number of contacts within the more independent music scene in Japan. Going after them would potentially hurt their other talents who also get access to them this way.

Not saying that’s impossible, it’s just Cover hasn’t really shown any signals of being vindictive towards their employees so far, former or otherwise.

In principle? Sure. But Calli is familiar with both sides of the coin and considering how she talks about her current career and all the opportunities she got since joining I don’t think she minds that much.

Plus, she gathered a huge following and is building a web of professional contacts so even if she decides to quit, she’d be in a much better position than before Holo.

Man, I haven’t engaged with Dragon Ball in years and it still hit me like a brick. Hell of a news to wake up to.

RIP another legend.

I think it’s a mostly forgotten show in general - it’s neither an amazing hidden gem nor a complete train wreck. There are some good things about it but nothing that would make it a “must watch” so far. The only reason I found out about it was a discussion about less known anime soundtracks.

I still hope for the sniper cat though, there’s plenty of episodes left for that.

The only ongoing series I’m keeping up with is Frieren - not much to write about this one. It’s good and nicely improves on the source material.

On the other hand, I promised myself to try thin out my backlog a bit and decided to start with El Cazador de la Bruja - it’s a story about a girl with special powers traveling through Mexico with a bounty hounter.

It’s a bit rough and feels low budget at times but it’s not bad. There’s some action (with anime understanding of guns), kind of a boring villain (at least for now) and writing varying between medicore to pretty alright. There’s also plenty of funny (and fun) scenes, some nice backgrounds and an excellent soundtrack by Yuki Kaijura. Pretty decent watch so far.

I have some ideas where the story might go but I’m also still early into the show (episode 6 out of 26) so we’ll see how things go. I don’t expect my opinion change much unless there are some crazy swerves before the end honestly.

Oh, ED has a cat with a sniper rifle in it. Still waiting for it to show up in an episode - it has to, right? ED wouldn’t lie like that.

Besides join-lemmy.org, this community is present on both Lemmy Community-Browser and Lemmy Explorer - two main sites I tend to link to anytime someone asks for a way to find new communities. There’re also links between communities with cross-posted threads which should also help with discoverability.

I feel like focusing on building a fun and welcoming community with user base interested in spreading the word is the best approach at the moment - all in all, it’s still relatively early days of reddit-like part of fediverse. There will be plenty of time and opportunities to grow.

Hell, I’m one of the people who stumbled on this instance by accident and eventually decided to make in my main hub for anime & manga related discussion.

I’m not a model user however, as I tend to go community hunting for fun from time to time so that that as you will.