I am going to be posting a new weekly thread in a couple hours, so you might have some better luck if you repost this question there, but I have made a pass at some recommendations below. You have a lot of the recent ones I have enjoyed. Some others that come to mind:

• Lycoris Recoil - Imagine John Wick but with anime girls
• Villainess Level 99 - the animation quality isn’t great, but the humor is and it wraps up nicely, not some cliffhanger that will never resolve
• Mushishi - Anthology series…don’t binge this one, take it slow and let your brain chew on each episode
• Silent Witch - kind of like if you made Bocchi into an OP witch
• 100 Girlfriends - Strap in to experience the best harem MC out there - Rentaro
• Dungeon People - A great SoL about the folks working behind the scenes to make a dungeon work
• Endo and Kobayashi - a fun take on the villainess genre; if you like tsunderes, you will like this one
• Fruits Basket (2019) - one of the pillars of shoujo, and for a good reason
• Slime 300 - a very laid back SoL, basically a CGDCT
• Kino’s Journey (2017) - anthology series…if you really like this, then you can watch the older 2003 series as well for some different stories
• Love After World Domination - the red ranger falls in love with an enemy general…
• Orb: On the Movements of the Earth - an anime about heliocentrism…yeah, it sounds weird as a premise, but it works…trust me.
• Heavenly Delusion - Traveling across a post-apocalyptic Japan and things are kind of off…
• Shimoneta - a world in which even the smallest dirty talk/gesture is literally illegal, meet the brave warriors fighting back against this censorship with the power of horny (note: don’t watch this with anybody else in the room)
• Yuri on Ice - dramatic ice skating (boys version) - Medalist is the girls version, but I haven’t watched it, so I can’t vouch for it, but I have heard good things.

Wait, so did episode 7 just air? If so, I will just make this be the thread for 6-7 and episode 8 should go like normal then.

Looks like Bodacious Space Pirates.

Fun fact - I visited Tokyo years ago when I had a friend living over there teaching English as part of the JET program. When I visited Ueno Park, there was a group of cosplayers in the park all in costumes from this show doing a photoshoot. I had no idea what show it was at the time, but figured it out years later when I came across a random image in a thread like this one and was able to piece it together.

I am pretty excited about this one. It is a community favorite over on !manga@ani.social and it is very funny.

Others in this thread are close to the truth when they say this is a light novel thing more than a manga thing. The reality is that this is a web novel thing, even before these stories become published light novels. I am going to quote an answer I wrote previously about this:

Long, specific titles have always been somewhat of a thing. For example, did you know that the novel we typically refer to as Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, was originally titled thusly:

“The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself.”

In modern light novels, the long titles come from the ease with which amateur writers can self publish to a website like syosetu. This causes tons and tons of stories within the same genre or content tags to be listed alongside each other. So, having a long, specific title helps your writing stand out by acting as a quick synopsis rather than having a website visitor click through and read the synopsis of hundreds of search results.

A lot of our modern light novels were originally self published as webnovels to these sites and have therefore inherited the long titles that helped them stand out on those sites. I just wish that the titles would be adapted and shortened as well as they transition from webnovel -> light novel -> manga -> anime. Some of them just keep the long title but pick up shorter nicknames since the Japanese language is so prone to portmanteaus (konosuba, danmachi, arifureta, etc.).

The article refers to it as a short anime, which usually means episodes are only like 5 minutes long.

Careful what you say or Rentaro will make an app for you that spits out 100GF quotes!

This continues to be simultaneously one of the most baffling yet compelling things I have watched in some time. It was really interesting how they had the occasional focus of Ame playing a piano version of Internet Overdose sprinkled through the episode. Speaking of Internet Overdose, it seems like they just released an official Anime Version of the MV. Weirdly, it is a bit more coherent than the original that was released with the game.

This episode marks where a lot of people will evaluate whether to continue watching or not (three episode rule). I can’t really say where this is going to go, but it has my full attention.

@rikka@ani.social

I am a big fan of this manga and so far I am of two minds on this adaptation. First is that the humor is still there and still funny. In particular this episode gave us one of my favorite characters (Manda) and one of my favorite recurring gags (Dragon Kirio). However, the pacing feels really slow. I feel like the comedy would hit more if the episode was just sped up like 15% or something.

The Apothecary Diaries is going to be hard to beat for me. It feels like a Sherlock series with how it has both mysteries of the day, but then an overall mystery that everything feeds into. Really great hooks and payoffs throughout.

Weird, it works fine for me. If you pm me which one you want to vote for, I can make it happen.

Yeah, happy to do this and share some culture with the wider threadiverse. I think that the anime community is an example of a hobby/interest that has successfully taken root in the fediverse and am happy to share with the normies out there.

Just a reminder to vote for nominations to lemmyvision 3 over here (stickied to the community). In a couple days, I will make a final poll with the finalists. See the stickied post for more details and rules.

Reiji’s response:

That was great!

Megane wo Hazushite - You and I Are Polar Opposites OP

Disqualified as it came out in 2026.

Forgot that Guild Receptionist was last year. Such a gorgeous OP.

This absolutely wins the thread for most delicious looking MV.

If it’s something like a video game, then probably not. If it is just promotional for the anime, then sure.

Disclaimer: I read the manga through this point but haven’t watched the show.

The answer is resoundingly no. There was a period where it really feels like it was building to a climax and would have made for a decent conclusion (I think it was season 3, the movie arc). However, they quickly undid all the progress and the lead couple became even more infuriating. I ended up dropping the series shortly after what is depicted in this fifth season.