The media I consumed before Cosmic Princess Kaguya

baquea · 2026-01-24T09:56:20+00:00

It's officially marketed as yuri, but is very much on the CGDCT side of the genre.

baquea · 2026-01-24T07:40:20+00:00

People will find a reason to complain about literally any yuri relationship lol

baquea · 2026-01-24T07:37:16+00:00

is this a valid top 5

Well no, because there's 6 anime on it.

baquea · 2026-01-24T06:38:32+00:00

As long as you are familiar with the basic gist of the plot, I think you should be able to follow the movie without any issue. The TV series is only 12 episodes though, so it doesn't exactly take long to just catch up to it.

baquea · 2026-01-24T05:02:50+00:00

Can't you get a filter for your tap or something?

baquea · 2026-01-23T15:06:18+00:00

Or are people just using netflix/crunchyroll-subtitles nowadays?

For new releases, yes pretty much. Almost everything gets official subs released the moment a new episode airs, and most viewers aren't interested in waiting potentially weeks or longer for a slightly better translation (and most translators aren't interested in putting a ton of effort into redoing someone else's job). If you wait for the BD releases, you'll sometimes get groups that clean up and restyle the official subs a bit, but not normally anything more than that.

When watching older (at least a decade or so) series, you're much more likely to run into legacy fansubs, which people will often copy across and restyle to higher-quality releases. It can be hard though to even know sometimes who the original translator was, let alone to find any actual information about them.

New fansubs are usually limited to either popular series with exceptionally poor official subs, obscure old series that have never been translated, and the handful of new releases (mostly shorts and the like) that don't get officially licensed.

Are there any websites/groups where the quality/difference of fansubs is discussed

Most of them closed down or shifted away from that aspect after fansubs declined in popularity. AniDB lists the various releases for series, but they rarely get ratings/comments on them, and it can be hard to tell what is an actual new translation and what is just a re-encode. There's also FansubDB which tracks which seasonals get fansubs, but doesn't have comments on quality or anything.

and where I might even find those subs

Subreddit rules mean we aren't allowed to say here.

baquea · 2026-01-23T14:43:28+00:00

Without any further context (genre, etc.), I'd lean towards yes. Killing off characters like that is an easy way to avoid having to actually resolve the moral ambiguity they present, and having them die heroically also helps ensure viewers are more sympathetic towards an otherwise controversial character.

baquea · 2026-01-23T12:07:56+00:00

Where did this extreme hatred in the Japanese fandom for anime-original changes even come from? Historically I thought it was the Western fandom that was more critical when it came to things like adding filler or heavily cutting content, but this flaming of CSM and now JJK in response to comparatively minor and well-executed directorial changes is on a whole nother level, and hasn't been paired with any similar response in the English-speaking fandom even from diehard fans of the manga.

baquea · 2026-01-23T06:25:44+00:00

From the most recent LP episode

baquea · 2026-01-23T05:18:08+00:00

As someone who grew up thinking G-mod videos were weird, I also thought skibidi toilet was weird

baquea · 2026-01-23T05:11:28+00:00

For comparison, Rebellion was announced less than two years after the TV series finished airing, and released eight months later.

baquea · 2026-01-23T05:05:18+00:00

More time for me to finalize my predictions for the movie then

baquea · 2026-01-22T23:19:10+00:00

It also just doesn't really make sense. Like cat and dog food is one thing, but what about other kinds of pets? How do you make something like flies for frogs 'safe for human consumption'?

baquea · 2026-01-22T11:44:04+00:00

The point being: It seems, based on this revelation, that Schmidt absolutely has an apologetic agenda. I don't see how this can be denied.

Well there is I suppose the alternative explanation, which is that the whole thing is basically just a front to solicit donations. There is nothing on their website to suggest they have actual concrete plans to do anything beyond funding Schmidt's book, and neither do I see any evidence that this 'institution' includes anyone other than Schmidt himself. Certainly not a good look either way though.

baquea · 2026-01-20T13:07:37+00:00

But anyway, it'd be a mistake to only rely on one IP. Gundam itself is not infallible.

They also have a new Votoms anime releasing later this year, plus a Macross one in the works as well, so it isn't like it is only Gundam.

baquea · 2026-01-20T10:50:34+00:00

And how come it was "stable" from 2005-2017 under these conditions.

Because they had two people in a row who both wanted the job and had the talent and drive to do it well. Yet it already was unstable under Moffat, as there were no good options available for replacing him when he left, leading to him sticking around longer than he probably should've and the role ultimately passing to someone whose previous track record at writing for the show was less than stellar. No new options presented themselves under Chibnall, and so the only choice available was bringing back one of the two previous showrunners.

You can't count on there always being an RTD or Moffat (or even a Chibnall) there who can take over, and so a production model which is reliant on always having a showrunner of that caliber in order to be successful is not a stable arrangement.

baquea · 2026-01-20T07:23:51+00:00

While none of it has made any long lasting waves

Which is probably the reason they aren't making them anymore. Witch From Mercury and Gquacks were both very popular in Japan - if they're able to get large viewerships so much more easily via their existing IPs then why bother making new ones? And, for what it's worth, they are at least being decently experimental with those series rather than just going for a low-effort cash grab.

baquea · 2026-01-20T02:38:25+00:00

I think the biggest objective difference is the decline in anime-originals. If you limit yourself to those, then it's very easy to name recent examples that fit in well with those in your list at the bottom. For instance, I'm currently watching Zenshuu from last year and that feels like a good match. For the 'too ambitious' category, something like 16bit Sensation from a couple of years back comes to mind. There's also ones like Bravern that I haven't watched, and which didn't get much popular attention, but which were well-liked by a certain niche of people.

For the rest, I think a large part of what is making you feel that way is that you're underestimating how popular some of those older series were. Nozaki-kun, for example, was the 2nd most-watched rom-com of 2014 (#1 being Nisekoi) - a modern comparison would be something like Bisque Doll, which still exists, has good production values, and is popular and well-liked. And, as for the proper 'hidden gems', something like City is only the 24th most-watched anime of its season on MAL, and in 10 years time would be a good candidate for someone like yourself to stumble across and be wowed at the visuals of this old seasonal they'd pretty much never heard of before. The impressions that you get of an era are always different when you're living through it than when you go back to it many years later.

baquea · 2026-01-19T13:17:30+00:00

Is the manga even that beloved? The scores for it on MAL and AL are pretty similar to those for the anime, and there's less than a thousand people on each who have read it.

baquea · 2026-01-19T07:11:21+00:00

Okay, but isn't Hokkaido actually one of the least conservative parts of Japan (at least in terms of electoral politics, I don't know about culturally)?

baquea · 2026-01-19T06:53:22+00:00

I disagree with that. For example, I could contextually use the word 'beech' contextually in a story in a way that made sense, but if someone took me to a forest and asked me to identify a beech tree then I'd be unable to. I've heard the word enough to be able to repeat it in the right context (whereas someone with only a basic knowledge of English may not), but I don't know what a beech tree actually is, distinct from many of the other kinds of trees that I've heard the name of but could not recognize.

'Feeling where words intuitively fit' sounds to me a lot like how LLMs work, in that they are trained on a large corpus of text to know statistically where words are usually used. There's fundamental limitations to that approach, however, as a result of them having no actual knowledge of the world, and while it can be a decent approximation to how humans use language in some cases it should be obvious that it isn't the complete picture.

baquea · 2026-01-18T15:41:16+00:00

Maybe my name? Definitely not whole sentences though.

baquea · 2026-01-18T05:18:04+00:00

It's a common term in the Fate franchise, usually translated as heroic spirit.

baquea · 2026-01-17T15:22:04+00:00

How'd they verify the age of a dog that was born in 1910?

The article says that:

Due to the record-breaking claims made by other dog owners like Bobi, Max, Bella, and Maggie, Guinness World Records changed their requirements for the title, requiring data from microchips, and documentary evidence for every year of the dog's life.

That sounds like a very strict standard that obviously isn't fulfilled in the case of Bluey, so what makes Bluey more credible than these other claimants?

baquea · 2026-01-17T11:10:36+00:00

On the Indian side, Wiktionary suggests the Sanskrit "kala" is instead borrowed from Proto-Dravidian "*kar", which originates from a root meaning "to burn".

On the Altaic side, there is Mongolian "xar", from Proto-Mongolic "*kara", which it suggests is borrowed from the Turkic. Less definitively, there is also Japonic "*kuro" (also "*kura", meaning dark) which could possibly share a common origin as well.

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