Code: White was so much fun in theaters. It kind of runs into similar problems to a lot of other anime movies, with the non-canon status-quo excuse for a big fight, but Spy X Family naturally handles that better than many series and it turned out to be a ton of fun.
!The fact that the fate of the world rests on Anya not taking a dump is just peak comedy, I don’t care what anyone says.!<
We really got the whole spectrum of Darkness being best girl this episode. This season has truly been blessed.
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma⭐Ilya. I swear I’m not a pedo. I just want Ilya to be happy.
From what I can find it’s okay. It’s not up there with the big shonen movies which are in the $10+ million range but, as an example, the slime movie got $1.4 million in its opening weekend.
Anecdotally, I saw it in IMAX and the theatre was mostly full, whereas I’ve only seen that for the Digimon 02 movie and Dragon Ball Super Hero in the past couple of years.
Hey, nothing wrong with being excited about discovering new things about a show you love! Even the German word bit, it’s super prevalent in fantasy (especially Japanese fantasy), so most people have had that exact realization at some point with some show, so now it just feels obvious haha.
A lot of the framing of modern Japanese fantasy derives from Dragon Quest. There is some MMO-specific stuff mixed in at times, like the raiding terms, but the tropes mostly shake out from a time well before the Internet was a thing.
The bit about old clans and such is especially not an MMO-specific thing, it’s just life. It’s something everyone experiences, and the exploration of those themes in varied ways account for a large part of why the show is so universally praised.
That said, if the MMO framing helps you to get a deeper understanding of the show you go for it. Part of appreciating art is finding your own ways to engage and relate with it.
Is the movie important to watch before season 3? It’s on my list but I’ve been procrastinating on it for ages.
I only just started season 2 of Mashle yesterday but I’ve read the whole thing and love it. It’s goofy fun and the anime captures the vibe perfectly.
Also the new OP is the most aggressive earworm I’ve ever encountered. My brain has been on a BLING BANG BANG BLING BANG BANG BLING BANG BANG BORN loop for, like, 20 hours now.
I stumbled across Yasuda’s shorts a while back and thought they were both fun and super well animated. Excited to hear he has a full-length movie coming out!
This idea seems stupid and ridiculous…
I’ve been using Obsidian lately. Proprietary with an open plugin ecosystem. Works well, makes it easy for me to integrate with other notes and such, but I haven’t figured out a good workflow for exporting work for submission. That said, it’s all markdown and there are lots of plugins for stuff like that, so it’s probably mostly just that I haven’t tried very hard.
In the past I’ve used Google Docs (proprietary), Scrivener (proprietary), Manuskript (open), Zim (open), and probably a few I’m forgetting. Really it just comes down to what you’re looking for out of the software, there are lots of options.
The biggest thing to keep in mind from a self-hosting perspective is local storage and easy backups under your own control. I use syncthing to keep my whole Obsidian vault synced across a few devices; for some software that’s easier or harder due to file formats and accessibility.
I’m surprised there aren’t more people listing game servers here. A good chunk of my networking knowledge just comes from hosting game servers and fighting routers in my teens and early adulthood.
If they put the effort in this could be a really good show. The LN has a lot of rough edges, but on the whole it’s a great concept that goes in interesting directions. But the art does a surprising amount of heavy lifting; the depicted horror of the characters to those unfamiliar with them creates this interesting dichotomy with how a lot of the day-to-day interactions proceed, and it would be really easy to just gloss over that and make a fairly generic isekai.