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    Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 18]

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  • The standout last week for me was the final episode of Release That Witch. The series overall has been a revelation - it's well-written, with interesting and well-defined characters and solid and effective, if not exceptional, art and sound, all of which is just that much more impressive because it's a donghua. And for a series that has gone on far beyond what could be adapted into a single season, the "ending" was just about perfect - neatly wrapping up the immediate issues, and setting the stage for much more to come. I can't imagine it won't get at least a second season, and I'm definitely looking forward to it.

  • [Episode] NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE - Episode 4 discussion

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  • This is settling down nicely.

    Well - "settling down" might not be quite the right phrase, but after opening with a barrage of surreal imagery, free associated dialogue and disjointed slices of the lives behind the streamers, it's slowing down a bit and focusing more, and filling in some of the gaps. Which is just as it should be.

  • [Episode] Mata Korosarete Shimatta no desu ne, Tantei-sama - Episode 4 discussion

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  • I liked how unique Shaft art direction was, back before they killed its uniqueness by repeating it over and over and over and over and over and...

    Looking forward to Shoushimin. I expect I'll start it either tonight or sometime tomorrow (I still have a couple of current series to catch up on).

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    Tengoku Daimakyou - Ch. 82 - Monsters Busters (2) - MangaDex

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    Class de 2-banme ni Kawaii Onnanoko to Tomodachi ni Natta - Ch. 40.1 - A Bit of Favoritism - MangaDex

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    Tonari no Neko to Koi Shirazu - Ch. 33 - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/c064a2d1-282f-44bd-b8a6-75600c602ada

  • [Episode] Mata Korosarete Shimatta no desu ne, Tantei-sama - Episode 4 discussion

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  • Shoushimin Series...

    And I just found the likely next thing I'll watch.

    I don't know how that slipped under my radar - I love Hyouka, and the only problem I had with Kubikiri Cycle is that it's Shaft, and the Shaft gimmicks alternately bore me and irritate me.

    As for this one I'm about where you are, though probably a bit more optimistic. But yeah - they appear to be slowly building a great big background twist, and it remains to be seen how well or poorly it works.

  • [Episode] Mata Korosarete Shimatta no desu ne, Tantei-sama - Episode 4 discussion

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  • This is sort of surprisingly not bad.

    The individual mysteries are very formulaic, in a sort of Lupin III / Murder She Wrote / Scooby Doo sense - the recurring characters assemble through some extraordinary coincidences, a murder happens, they all stumble around seemingly uselessly, then the hero solves the murder. It just has the added twist that somewhere along the way, Sakuya - the hero - is going to be killed. But that's okay because he's something resembling immortal and always revives, with his head on the lap of his long-suffering, fiercely loyal and charmingly tsundere assistant, Lilithea.

    It has hints of harem, at least insofar as Sakuya has an ever-growing set of cute female admirers, but he only has eyes for Lilithea.

    And the nuts and bolts of everything - the art and character designs and music and voice acting and so on - are all fine, if not exceptional.

    So just on the surface, it's a passable, satisfyingly formulaic diversion.

    But there's something going on in the background too - an overarching story of ridiculously gigantic proportions. It's playing out sort of somewhere between Full Metal Panic and Kill la Kill. And it might just be pretty good. Or at least sort of surprisingly not bad.

  • [Episode] The Ramparts of Ice • Koori no Jouheki - Episode 4 discussion

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  • Well... yeah, he was very considerate of her viewpoint... for about 30 seconds.

    It seems that if he focuses entirely and maintains his concentration, he can manage to be considerate and self-aware for a bit. But then the moment his concentration falters, he drops right back to being a dick. Watching him is almost like watching someone who's only intermittently conscious - like from time to time, his eyes focus and you can see that his mind is actually working, and for that brief moment, he's aware. Then it fades and he wanders away again.

    I'm trying to cut him some slack, because it seems like it's not deliberate. But he's just like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

  • [Episode] The Ramparts of Ice • Koori no Jouheki - Episode 4 discussion

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  • Have to hope that if enough people tell Minato enough times in enough different ways that he's a dick, he'll at least be self-aware enough to try to be somewhat less of a dick.

  • [Episode] Megami "Isekai Tensei Nani ni Naritai Desu ka" Ore "Yuusha no Rokkotsu de" - Episode 3 discussion

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  • I'm really enjoying this one.

    The stories and character dynamics are great by themselves - the MMC basically has no fear and no concern for much of anything beyond whatever is right in front of him, so there's no telling what he'll do in a given situation. And he's relentlessly honest about everything - not only what he's done but why, and no matter how bad it makes him look. Or more precisely, how bad it would make him look if he cared, but he doesn't, so somehow it doesn't. And that's the other half of it - the goddess is brilliantly snide and low key, and has some pointed comment to make about everything he says. And he just takes it all in stride and keeps on going. And you can tell that she's warming up to him - that she's starting to find his eternal optimism and complete honesty appealing.

    But then there's that whole other layer with the art style. It was already interesting enough when they were doing things like making the MCs pretty standard puni plush, the enemies late 90s spikey shounen action and the goddess' computer/mascot creature thing thick lined Doraemon style, but that was just the faintest hint of what was to come. I would've never dreamed that I'd see a story told through live action film of a series of heavy paper pages with drawings and ingenious windows and slots and separate sliding pieces and such being manipulated by a pair of hands in white gloves. It was very strange, but very impressive. And I can't wait to see what's next.

  • [Episode] Even a Replica Can Fall in Love • Replica Datte, Koi wo Suru. - Episode 3 discussion

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  • Yeah - I initially just thought it looked sort of promising, and the first episode was okay but not great. But then the second episode just built up all the way through and ended on an impressive sort of a cliffhanger - a reminder that, if she chooses to exercise it, Sunao has pretty much absolute power over Nao. And then this episode just blew me away - so many intriguing and surprising reveals and a terrific cliffhanger.

    And yeah - I just hope it can keep me on the edge of my seat going forward.

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    Starting Today, We're Childhood Friends - Ch. 167 - Childhood Friend and Photo - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/dd43773f-4050-4f6d-a8eb-c7e7cf5d817c

  • [Chapter] Houkago Kitaku Biyori / Journey Home After School - Ch. 54 - Let's Talk a Little About the Future - MangaDex

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  • Actually, me too.

    I had a compound fracture of my lower left leg and had a plate and six screws to hold it together. They took them out about a year later, and like Shun, I still have them.

    And yeah - Chokki-chan is graduating soon, and they're looking forward. That was actually the thing that most caught my attention in this chapter - Chokki-chan has really changed in a lot of ways over the course of the series. She's still that charming eccentric, but she was originally sort of detached, like the real world didn't even enter into her considerations. Now she's much more planted and much more aware of the world, and of course of Shun.

  • [Episode] Even a Replica Can Fall in Love • Replica Datte, Koi wo Suru. - Episode 3 discussion

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  • This is so good!

    Even with as high as my hopes went after last week, it still blew me away. What a story!

    And I don't have the foggiest idea where it's going, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

  • [Episode] NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun • Nippon Sangoku - Episode 3 discussion

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  • Finally caught back up with this.

    I'm not sold on the art style. I like the chunky lines - they give it a sort of heft that seems appropriate - but there are other little eccentricities too that don't work as well and seem to be there not so much because they're appropriate to the series as just because they're unusual. It has a sort of "art is weird so if we make it weird it'll be art" feel to it.

    And that all stands in sharp contrast to the deadly earnest and casually violent storyline.

    It does seem to be setting up for a very satisfying resolution though. The villains are villains and there's no pretense that they're anything else, and while things look odd and out of control on the surface, it's safe to assume that it's all playing out more or less according to a strategy Misumi has already worked out, and we can look forward to some well-deserved karmic retribution before this is over.

  • [Episode] Release that Witch • Fangkai Nage Nüwu - Episode 8 discussion

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  • Ah... that was excellent.

    I really liked the ending. It's still very early in the story, so it couldn't have a real ending, but it wasn't really a cliffhanger either. It was sort of complete, in an unfinished way - everyone is gathered, their provisions are stored, the wall is finished and the first snowflakes have started to fall.

    I can't imagine there won't be another season, and I assume it's already in production. And I'm definitely looking forward to it.

  • [Episode] The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt • Ponkotsu Fuuki Iin to Skirt take ga Futekisetsu na JK no Hanashi - Episode 3 discussion

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  • The moment when Sakuradaimon says that the girl who just went by is a special exception, and Poem's hair starts slowly rising. 😂

  • [Chapter] Houkago Kitaku Biyori / Journey Home After School - Ch. 54 - Let's Talk a Little About the Future - MangaDex

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  • They're growing up right before our eyes.

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    Houkago Kitaku Biyori / Journey Home After School - Ch. 54 - Let's Talk a Little About the Future - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/3c051786-8eff-4bb2-a96e-2567a335c310

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 17]

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  • That's almost reassuring to hear.

    I watched the first couple of episodes back-to-back, then the next three or four over steadily longer periods of time, and it's been a couple of days now since I've watched one at all. I enjoy it all in all, but it definitely has felt slow, so I haven't felt any urgent desire to watch more of it.

    That's not necessarily a bad thing - slow series have their own appeal if my mood is right, and I do like how neatly the mains fit together - it's easy to see from their personalities how and why they appreciate each other. And I can take my time with it and not be afraid that I'm missing out.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 17]

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  • Daemons of the Shadow Realm first few volumes

    Thanks - saves me having to wonder if it might've been worth it after all.

    I'm sure there are people to whom a story that unfolds like that is appealing. I'm not one of them.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 17]

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  • Is Yomi no Tsugai your first Arakawa Hiromu anime?

    Of course not.

    I don't recall either Fullmetal Alchemist or Silver Spoon opening with a character chopping an entire village's adults in half while they screamed in agony and their children looked on, sobbing and screaming in terror and grief. And if they had (FMA had its share of broadly similar moments), we certainly wouldn't have been expected to then sympathize with the person who so eagerly did it.

    I mean - we weren't expected to sympathize with Shou Tucker were we?

    ...Yamaha-ba...

    Yes - that was made pretty clear. And I don't see how it can possibly be relevant to the brutal and horrific murders of a whole bunch of other people.

    I haven't entirely given up on it, if for no other reason than that Gabby hasn't reapoeared and hasn't been mentioned, so I don't know yet how her and her actions are going to be addressed, if at all.

    But everything I've seen so far indicates that they're going to just be sort of swept under the carpet, and she's going to be treated as not so bad after all, because she must be okay because she won't kill children (even though she will leave them sobbing next to the corpses of their parents). So I'm not optimistic.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 17]

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  • 😄 That'd explain it...

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    Ane no Tomodachi - Ch. 29 - MangaDex

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    Starting Today We're Childhood Friends - Ch. 166 - Childhood Friends For Now - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/fb98c533-9582-4cbb-8895-0c5c6fcbb924
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    Wakaba-san Chi no Aoi Koi - Ch. 42 - Hated - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/ce880a2f-530e-49da-b394-b58be2d3a684
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    Moee-chan Doesn't Mind / Moee-chan wa Kinishinai - Vol. 1 Ch. 8 and Ch. 9 - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/ce3138b7-cd20-4c72-912b-c08fc429adb0
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    Shinya Shokudou - Ch. 59 to Ch. 92 - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/3cc44a1b-7f29-4657-9dae-5386de7c9c51
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    My Life Turned Around: After Being Cheated on and Falsely Accused, I Ended up Being Adored by the Most Beautiful Girl in School - Vol. 2 Ch. 8 - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/cec05e5e-638e-4e88-adb2-7a1c5ce953b3
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    Wakaba-san Chi no Aoi Koi - Vol. 4 Ch. 39.5 - Volume 4 Extras - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/531a5e46-f6d4-4b38-a4f2-420323863ea5
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    Tengoku Daimakyou - Vol. 13 Ch. 74 - Inori's Village ③ - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/32edb241-fd4a-4609-9a59-ef6196652692
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    Only I Know / Boku dake ga Shitterun daze - Ch. 17 - Touchable - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/c2cd6599-fa66-49b2-9383-4ce5ce215b44
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    The Ice Princess Wants to be Melted by a Small Patch of Sunlight / Koori no Hime wa Chiisana Hidamari de Tokasaretai - Vol. 4 Ch. 29 - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/b568030d-31c6-48ad-a7a2-8eb5818b9f6b
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    Starting Today, We're Childhood Friends / Kyou kara Hajimeru Osananajimi - Ch. 165 - Childhood Friend and Quarrel - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/997f7d84-97d7-4588-99f2-055f19f9a169
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    Fujii on the Roadside / Robou no Fujii - Vol. 3 Ch. 20 - Fujii at the Farewell Party - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/474e46a5-e4ff-41df-b4a4-5df9722e0874
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    The Ice Princess Wants to be Melted by a Small Patch of Sunlight - Ch. 28 - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/75a10212-5cca-4620-8577-bc2445e2ec1d
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    Unexciting Date - Ch. 32 - A shared umbrella - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/b4b73d22-3fbf-4ee4-8ff0-004b9a933220
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    Flying Witch - Ch. 90 - Tricks Save a Friend - MangaDex

    mangadex.org /chapter/d069fbb3-67cd-48eb-b7c6-1f214b87b022