I wish I had your confidence in the Texas judicial system to only apply this law in an appropriate and measured way.

These are homophones in Japanese. Same thing as words like their/there/they're or seas/sees/seize, etc. Words that sound the same but are written differently. The Japanese language has tons of them. Often, the ambiguity around homophones is used as a source of humor, causing misunderstandings between characters in anime/manga or puns that add a layer of humor to an otherwise normal thing to say.

I understand how one could interpret the title of this series, but everything I looked up about it indicates that this series is actually a serious story about processing grief of a loved one that passed, and the trials that the MC faces as a suddenly-single father. I haven't read the series though, so if others that are familiar with the source want to back me up, then I would love to hear your take.

This is pretty tragic as a non-trivial percentage of these series just aren't available legally in English. I started putting together a list of the series I am reading or have recently read, but it was just too depressing. Between the recent takedown of Tachiyomi and now this, it isn't going to drive people to buy things legally (it it's even possible) as much as it is just going to drive people away from the medium altogether. Piracy will still exist for the very driven fans, but the general consumer will just move on to something else vying for their attention.

Something people are missing just based on the headline is that this is a "suspended sentence." So, there is a period of three years where, as long as she doesn't commit any similar offenses, she will have been considered as having served her time without actually going to prison.

Different article source.

I mean, it has to be Kazuya from Rent a Girlfriend, right? I haven't watched the anime, but if it is even remotely similar to the manga, it is definitely Kazuya.

I haven't seen Darling in the Franxx, so I can't personally speak to how bad Hiro is.

I believe that is a young Utena from Gushing Over Magical Girls.

Alright, reading between the lines, it looks like Mangadex is pretty much dead as a platform for scanlations. They seem to be now owned by NamiComi, a platform that allows creators to self-publish comics. Then, in this FAQ, the Mangadex staff write:

We will continue working on the features that make MangaDex great, to make it an even better platform for content creators.

Combine this with the recent updates to their uploading policies which require an uploader to be the legal rights holder, and it looks like the end of Mangadex scanlation uploads except in very particular circumstances (some twitter series have explicit author permission for example).

As for this community, in the short term there are no changes other than that I slightly relaxed the rules in the sidebar. Previously I had a rule about preferring mangadex or scanlators' home sites if possible. However, in light of these events, I suspect there are going to be a wider array of sources for reading.

While I don't agree with their decision or reasoning, this is their right to do. At the very least, it is nice that there is any kind of resolution rather than just locking down and preventing discussion.

I think the frustrating part of this is what appears to be a double standard in which a small instance is being held to a different standard than larger instances. If the ml admins don't want any NSFW communities federated to their server, then that is fine (and I would argue the *moe communities are a stretch to consider NSFW, but whatevs). However, communities on other instances that have similar content or even much more explicit content are still being federated with ml. Just looking at the largest instance, lemmy.world shows other *moe communities (1, 2), moe-adjacent communities (1, 2), and even extremely explicit content/communities (pulled up this very NSFW user from my blocklist for example). Even if we just look at communities that are local to ml, the content on the *moe communities doesn't seem out of line with art that I have seen in the honkai star rail community on their local instance.

In any case, I think this issue validates concerns that were raised after the initial defederation happened that the ml admins could come to view any kind of lewd content or fanservice as anathema to their instance. It begs the question if the anime or manga communities on ml are on borrowed time. If the admin's metaphorical Eye of Sauron passes over their community on a day a lewd clip, key visual, or trailer is posted, that could be it for them.

I think the best plan long-term is to try to build those communities here, in a space that is explicitly welcoming to the content. If we build an active and welcoming community here, I am hopeful that users will find it and activity will increase (though discoverability on the fediverse is a huge challenge). As a moderator, it is my job to make sure content in the communities I moderate doesn't cross the line to where a reasonable instance admin would feel the need to defederate and to make sure anything NSFW is marked as such.

Thanks to hitagi for the work on this in the background and the partial resolution. Time to just put this behind us and focus on building positive engagement here.

You've got some good suggestions already. Here are a couple that I think are good for somebody that is fairly new to the deep rabbit hole of anime tropes/conventions:

• Mushishi - My personal favorite anime of all time. Very contemplative and melancholy. Don't binge this, just watch an episode before bed or something like that, and let it sit in your brain.
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - This just recently finished airing its first season and was excellent in every respect. Classic high fantasy story (think Lord of the Rings) which follows the near-immortal elf Frieren in her travels. Very approachable for previously non-anime watchers.
• Cowboy Bebop - An all-time classic space western following some bounty hunters.
• One Punch Man - A humorous take on the superhero genre. If you are looking for something more comedy oriented, this is a decent starting point.

Alternative title: "Kiyan Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Okinawan"

To be clearer than most of the articles I saw

Thank you. I had seen this news break the other day but held off posting it because all the headlines were written in a way to make you double check whether it was Shinkai or not.

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.).

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.

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Thanks again, everybody that voted! If you want to check out the anonymized ballot information and inspect the code I used to process the votes, you can find a repository I made here.

Total turnout this year (~25 votes) was down quite a bit compared to last year (~90 votes). I think there were a couple contributing factors to this:

• The private-message voting system was new, and I don't think it seems like it was popular. Last year I had run a survey site that lets people fill out a web form for their vote. However, the software was really flaky on the backend side of things and I didn't want to run it again. Also, there was not really any way to prevent somebody from voting multiple times because I couldn't tie a vote to a user account.
• Last year's voting period happened over the holidays, and I suspect that boosted turnout.
• I think total overall activity is down compared to a year ago, especially so since we are in the middle of a season. The active user count always tends to tick up when a new season kicks off, but then falls back down a bit to coast until the next season sees another bit of a spike. So, doing these awards in the middle of a season probably didn't help turnout.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any ideas for improvement in the future. Whether that is about the voting process, nomination process, timing, whatever...

As for the award winners, there were a couple titles that really soaked up lots of votes in any category they were nominated for. Specifically, CITY, Apocalypse Hotel, and Chainsaw Man - Reze Arc got a huge portion of the voteshare whenever they were nominated. So, if there is any takeaway from these awards for me, it's that those are this community's standout favorites from last year.

Other interesting things I noticed:

• I was glad to see Ninkoro doing so well in the Best Comedy category. I loved the dark humor in that series so much, and the anime really elevated the source material in lots of ways. Glad to see others agreed!
• I was also happy to see Rock is a Lady's Modesty do well in the OST category. It's always nice when an anime about music actually has good music in it.
• I found it interesting that Maomao absolutely ran away with the voting for best Voice Acting, but she didn't even make the nomination list for best character. In fact, Shisui received more nominations than Maomao for best character.

When I saw that title, I knew I had to include the whole damn thing. It's just too ridiculous.

Alright, I am guessing I am probably older than the average person that might be posting here, so, for me, when I hear "older anime" I think back to shows/movies pre-2000. Limiting myself to that criteria, here are some that come to mind (in chronological order):

• Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - If you have never seen this movie, then you should. Just prepare yourself to be an emotional wreck for a good while afterward. My first introduction to this movie was in 2001. Back then, on September 11, the school was gathered into the main auditorium after the planes struck the towers. For some reason, some teacher thought it was a good idea to show a movie to the students to keep them entertained. I never found out which teacher chose it, but somebody decided Grave of the Fireflies was the movie of choice for the moment. Yeah... It has made for an interesting anecdote at parties ever since.
• My Neighbor Totoro (1988) - This probably remains the easiest entry point into anime for non-anime watchers that exists. There are many that argue other Ghibli movies might be better in one respect or another, but I think this one is special due to how approachable it is for just about any potential viewer regardless of age/gender/previous anime exposure.
• Yu Yu Hakusho (1995) - In my opinion, this series took a lot of the shonen conventions established by its predecessors like Dragonball (1986), and refined them. I am not about to claim it is the best shonen, but it established a lot of the best practices so to speak for what makes a good shonen and its influence can still be seen in shows today.
• Cowboy Bebop (1998) - This one is a classic by just about any definition. It is still talked about regularly in forums like this one. If that isn't still relevant, then I don't know what is.

I'm wondering what anime they're actually talking about?

It will be whatever some Christian lobbyist group complains about. Given the state of Texas, that will largely be anything with LGBT themes.

Alright, I am going to leave this post up, but I suspect this series will not fall within the rules of this community because it is unlikely to get either a MAL or AniList page. It does have at least some staff involved from Studio Actas, so I will leave it up for now (also the end credits has Japanese). However, due to the main studio being located in Peru and the primary language being Spanish, I don't expect the indexer sites will allow a page for the series.

All that being said, this looks pretty dope.

My personal favorites of hers are the Lycoris Recoil ED and the My Hero Academia ED. My favorite of her non-anime work is Anonymous.