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I love a good romance as well and this season is pretty sparse. Looking at anichart for Fall 2023, I only see three shows with the romance tag. The only one of those I am watching (100GF) is more comedy-focused than romance-focused. That's pretty light. For comparison, last season there were seven shows with the romance tag.

Oof, this one lands a bit close to home. Teachers can be amazing, but comments like these with the best of intentions can sometimes hurt given the context of a person's life.

That's a good point. When I am making okonomiyaki at my table, it is just for me. I am not making it for the person that sits at the table after I leave. At the very least, I don't think gyoza vouchers are an acceptable form of compensation in Japan (how do you pay taxes on gyoza?). It's fun to riff on, but overall I have been really enjoying this series so far.

As for random downvotes, it happens everywhere occasionally. I suspect it is people seeing things they might not like when they browse the "all" feed of their instance rather than "subscribed". They are just random internet points, they don't matter at the end of the day.

I think that is actually a totally fair way to look at the show. The moral implications of Kotaro's actions are immense and dark. Also, the way he more or less threatens them with society's reaction to zombies in order to become idols is extremely manipulative. I can totally understand why those aspects of the show would turn somebody off from watching.

For me, I have been enjoying the show after basically accepting those bits as the needed bits to establish the premise and then moving on. Namely, the premise of a group of zombie girls becoming idols. After the first couple episodes, they aren't really brought up any more and the girls are all acting of their own will. They are even capable of doing the makeup on their own without Kotaro by the time you reach season 2.

This series keeps showing us how to break workplace safety rules. I mentioned it elsewhere already, but this week it is touching things with gloved hands after handling uncooked meat. When will our protagonists learn proper procedure?

Edit: I had to think about having customers cook, but I don't think that would break any rules. There are plenty of hot pot places that give you trays of raw meat and let you cook it in the broth at your table. Similarly, I was at a restaurant in Tokyo that gave you raw batter for okonomiyaki and let you cook it on a griddle built into the table.

I don't have too much time to craft my usual tome of a comment this week, so I will keep it short. Quick hot-takes on a couple shows I watched during the past week:

• Eminence in Shadow: Return to form after fanservice break
• Frieren: BRB, dead after getting hit by Frieren's flirting
• 100GF: Next episode is gonna be wild for anime-onlies
• Zombie Land Saga Season 2: Yep, still good. Hasn't lost a step from season 1

@ram@lemmy.ca, if you would be so kind as to do the pin/unpin shuffle like normal, that would be much appreciated.

Great to see a scanlator actually on the fediverse! I did a double take when I got to the credits page and realized it was your username as well.

I mentioned it in the comments over at ani.social (as well as a lot of lore), but thought it was worth mentioning here as well that Kadokawa posted this version of the season 1 OP to their official youtube channel in which all the characters are played by crowbars (バール or bar in the credits).

It doesn't look like it. Holo, the project that shinobu is forked from, sometimes has a hard time with certain shows. It works by parsing the sites of all the different streaming providers and a public torrent tracker to look for new episodes that are released. So, if a site changes its layout a little bit or if torrents are named in a way that it isn't expecting, it just won't pick up those episodes at all. I think if you were to redesign holo from the ground up today, you would probably use the AniList api instead of parsing all these things, but holo predates the api iirc.

Edit to add here that I think the reddit mods that use holo for the subreddit must do a lot of manual interventions or have codebase changes that are not pushed to the github. I have run a personal instance of holo for a while connected to a testing lemmy instance I spun up and its behavior exactly matches shinobu. So, the fact that holo does post threads for shows like JJK to the subreddit means that it has either been done/scheduled manually or they are running a modified version.

@ram@lemmy.ca if you could do the pinning/unpinning thing, that would be great!

This past week during the holiday I managed to catch up on several shows that I had fallen behind on.

• Frieren and Eminence continue to be my favorites of what I am watching this season. The anime-original fan-service episode of Eminence was interesting, but looking forward to getting back to the actual plot next episode.
• Helck is still going and it has been nice to not be stuck in a flashback any longer (still need to watch episode 20). I am hoping that they can build to a satisfying season conclusion.
• 100GF is an interesting one. I have loved parts of it and others feel too excessive. I appreciate that they really lean into jokes super hard (something I wish Girlfriend, Girlfriend did more of), but I feel they go too far sometimes. That line is going to be different for each person though, so it is hard for me to criticize them too much.
• Girlfriend, Girlfriend is still doing its thing. I think the adaptation has been alright, but I haven't changed my mind that it just works better in manga form.
• The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch has been ok. It has had its ups and downs and I am mainly still watching due to inertia. Probably not one I am going to remember for very long going forward.

Finally, I had some time to start Zombie Land Saga season 2. They wasted no time picking right back up where things left off. There was a bit that happened off screen between seasons, but it isn't too jarring. The bright spot for me in this show continues to be the voice work of Mamoru Miyano who plays the primary male character Kotaro. You might recognize his voice from some of his other roles such as Light Yagami (Death Note), Okabe Rintaro (Steins;Gate), or Pandora's Actor (Overlord). I am only two episodes into the second season and looking forward to the next chance I get to watch more.

I have previously written about some of the issues I had with Suzume. I think it is a visually stunning movie. I just wish it was better written.

As for Usagi Drop, I really enjoyed the anime and looked up the source. However, when I looked it up, pretty much all I found was threads warning or memeing about it. So, I looked up the synopsis and realized that I was fine with just the anime.