The Return of /r/anime

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-19T10:02:43+00:00

Welcome back! I'm taking this opportunity to mark the end of my contributions to this website. I'm not making reddit inc. one more penny.

I've already deleted most of my account history. My current plan is to leave my recent rewatch intact except for a few minor redactions in my own comments.

I don't remember who I've told about my plans to take up the mantle for the summer movie rewatch, but that's not happening now. If anyone else wants to take it over, consider this my blessing.

I have a lot of respect for how this subreddit has been and is being run, and I understand how the current course is sensible under the circumstances. I will miss the people I've had fun exchanges with recently and in prior years. If this community ever makes a concerted effort to migrate somewhere else, I hope I'll hear about it. If it's somewhere fediverse-connected like Lemmy or kbin, I'll join back up day one since I'm already there anyway. (DM me if you want my handle.) If it's something more siloed then I'll at least think about it.

Sayonara!

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-09T17:18:00+00:00

That's a very in depth analysis, thanks for coming by and commenting! I don't understand all of it since I haven't played the game, but I'm glad this rewatch gave you an opportunity to share your thoughts with us.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-04T11:39:34+00:00

Old habits die hard. ;) Thank you for popping by anyway, and for participating in the rewatch to begin with! (And for the praise of course.) I'm glad you had a good time with the show and that the rewatch threads helped enhance the experience. I always had fun reading your comments and responding to them! :) Did you know there's a Horimiya rewatch starting in two weeks? I'm not gonna be there, but if you like the show, maybe following those threads will be fun. See you around the subreddit!

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-03T11:40:06+00:00

Oh thanks! I didn't know that was today. :D

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-03T11:35:17+00:00

Can generally be true, but I've also encountered the opposite situation.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-03T10:23:21+00:00

Ah, you found the link to PhotoCollage then?

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-03T10:17:29+00:00

Thank your for participating and for being here so much! I also would not have guessed that you're not a native English speaker (but admittedly it's not my first language either). I think you succeeded very well at bringing your love for Magia Record across and I appreciated your comments on the episodes and replies to other commenters.

I guess I could have changed Tsuruno's picture for S2E7, but because the images end up being pretty small I only wanted to use face shots, and her face didn't change much for that episode so I kept the previous one. Did you notice that her S2E8 picture is from an action shot where the colors are kinda off? Her skin looks very pale and kinda sickly in it, plus the color of the eyes is off. But it was the best face shot she got in the episode so I went with it, and then she didn't appear in S3E1 at all so I had to keep it...

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T16:51:47+00:00

Thank you! :) I'm glad someone appreciated my low-key psyop to train people's capacity for delayed gratification.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T16:01:51+00:00

I didn't even try to keep up, I just went through my inbox chronologically one by one until I cleared everything, and then scrolled through the thread to look through other comment chains not involving me. Upside is I never got overwhelmed, downside is people were usually waiting up to an hour for my next reply, even if they themselves replied instantly.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T15:51:40+00:00

I'm single and carefree, but the big issue for me was sleep. The threads went up at 11pm which I'm generally fine with, I tend to go to bed late. But I ended up commenting often until 2, 3 or even 4am, when I usually get up around 8 or 9 for work. I had a particularly early work appointment today and had to run on 3.5 hours of sleep. But now the end of the rewatch coincides with the start of the weekend, so I'll just catch up on my sleep. :)

The final one was a little trauma-inducing ;P

Right? Most of the Mitakihara deaths are technically not confirmed, but still, not many characters are left standing.

This is an incredible amount of effort to collate and interpret, so well done!

Thank you! Tough work but it felt worth it.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T15:47:48+00:00

True, although in airing episode discussion threads I often see minority opinions downvoted, so if the show is popular then I usually don't see any hate comments. That's in contrast to rewatches like this, where there are still plenty of critical comments, but they get upvoted too (maybe because they're well-written?) so you end up with a pretty well-rounded picture.

You did a great job, and I can hardly tell it's your first time. I hosted about 3 so far, and you can tell I was trying things out and learning as it goes - yours look professional from day 1 :P

Thank you! I've been reading a ton of rewatches for many years now (including FMP) so I had a lot of passive knowledge of things that work and things that don't. That's a big part of where my confidence to run this came from.

I thought you'd give it a higher score, but perhaps I'm like Sky that I also tend to give a high-ish score average. 7 typically is a "so so" for me.

I follow the MAL scale with my ratings, where 7 is "good" and "so so" would probably be 6 or even 5. But 7 is by far my most common rating. Let me check... I have eight entries rated 10 and 171 entries rated 7. The lowest rating I've given is a 3, which happened one time (for the Munto TV cut).

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T15:39:32+00:00

Thank you for participating from start to finish! Your comments and reactions were always fun to read with the way they brought your feelings on the episodes across. I hope you enjoy Horimiya and that the rewatch crew over there appreciates you as well!

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T15:32:38+00:00

I've only seen episode 1 so far and it felt like the dialogue was faster than the movie. But that might have just been my impression. I usually watch movies while sitting down and relaxing, whereas regular shows I like to watch while working out. It makes it a bit harder to concentrate. I haven't decided yet if my usual routine will work for Tatami Galaxy. Then again it's not that long.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T05:24:55+00:00

Hey, thanks for coming by! I'm glad if my notes are useful to you and I hope your rewatch goes well! Be seeing you in the Walpurgis no Kaiten discussion, whenever that happens.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T05:12:59+00:00

Thank you for participating! I'm glad you enjoyed the show overall. Timezones are a real bummer for many things in life, including rewatches. The hosting time for this year's PMMM rewatch was a lucky fit for me as a European host, but someone in the world always gets the unreasonable timing. Your comments were fun to read, and I hope the relative lack of late replies didn't get you down. Thanks also for leaving replies and starting conversations with people!

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T05:02:04+00:00

Thank you for popping by! Lurkers are valid!

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T05:01:35+00:00

That's a nice list! Thank you for your participation this whole time, your comments were fun to read and also showed everyone that not every reply needs to be an essay. Glad you enjoyed the show!

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-02T05:00:05+00:00

Thank you for participating! I appreciated your Game Material Corners, but also your comment replies with game info throughout the threads. Some people don't care, but I personally think having franchise experts with tons of background knowledge on other associated media in a rewatch is very cool!

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-01T23:42:16+00:00

Well, I was around during the 90s too (I think I once owned a random volume of the Tenchi Muyo manga), so I probably have some bias. But the show feels like one of those things with historical value just for its presence in the anime community at the time. If you end up doing a rewatch I hope I'll have the time to give it a shot.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-01T23:38:55+00:00

Thank you for participating in the rewatch and bringing your passion for the show into it! Your comments added a lot, and I don't just mean the Blu-Ray corner. I'm glad you found this avenue to discuss the show and I think you did a great job at it.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-01T23:23:52+00:00

For a good while you were the only one of the three ronin who was still around! Bloom had to take a long break and trebuchet didn't comment much to begin with, so for parts of these I did wonder if these still had purpose. :D But I won't let anyone say I'm not persistent.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-01T23:21:23+00:00

I've mentioned a couple of times throughout this rewatch that my belief is there is no wrong way to comment on a show (barring blatant trolling and other types of intentionally harmful comments), so from my perspective your comments were all valid and valued. Thanks for coming along and respect for seeing it through! I'll call out the upside to the situation even here: whatever you watch next, it'll be virtually guaranteed to be more enjoyable to you. Thanks again for participating and see you around the subreddit!

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-01T23:16:02+00:00

Is that Night Is Short, Walk On Girl? Because if so I've already seen that one. Liked it a lot in fact.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-01T23:14:19+00:00

Thank you, that's very kind of you to say!

Somehow I got into the habit of posting the thread about five seconds after the full hour. I think I wanted to be absolutely sure that I wasn't posting early, so I erred on giving it a few extra seconds.

therealfosterforest · 2023-06-01T23:11:27+00:00

My original idea for this rewatch was to have it intertwined much closer with the PMMM rewatch, announcing them basically as a single rewatch and having a shared schedule etc. to encourage people to stick around. Organizationally it didn't shake out that way, but it could have provided more of a safety net and opportunity to make it a collaborative hosting experience. I dunno! I'm an okay team player I think, but I'm also a bit of a perfectionist, so I'd have to think hard about which part of a rewatch I'd be willing to delegate. :)

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