I prefer to use mine to solve sudoku on a sinking ship

get OUT OF HERE, creepy shoe man!!

(I am excited for this though)

Ya, I’m excited! (But less creepy shoe man this time please)

I enjoyed the first season, even as someone with very low tolerance for ecchi and harems. I decided to nope out on the second season though when I learned our boy’s harem has some creepy age gaps and incest in it. I figured I’d just let myself imagine the rest of the show instead of continuing until it’s too uncomfortable to watch. Plus, in my imaginary version, Friend A can come back and make the title slightly inaccurate.

I have no knowledge on the topic so I can’t answer the first couple questions.

However, I will say its a useful correction to say there are ongoing efforts to maintain historical practices if it makes the correctee happy to hear that (as is the case in the meme). It’s also useful to remember that indigenous peoples still exist and aren’t just historical (something a lot of US folks aren’t taught in school)

I believe it’s the verb tenses. Instead of it being a historical fact, it’s an ongoing practice of an ongoing group of people

I’ve heard that part of it is a spoiler and part of it is a pun that’s impossible to translate

Best time of year. I love my little octopus skeleton 🐙 💀 💕

Gender dysphoria is not the same as being trans. Not all trans people have gender dysphoria and plenty of cis people do. Cis men who do steroids and cis women who get boob jobs typically do so to ease some level of gender dysphoria they feel. The only reason trans people get diagnosed and cis people don’t is the continuing view of transness as itself a disorder.

It might be a countable/uncountable noun thing, lol. Like, I wouldn’t consider Dan Da Dan s2 to be “a new show” but i would consider it to be “some new animation”, if that makes sense. “Anime” can be used in either sense and since it doesn’t change when pluralized it can be hard to tell which someone means. At the same time, I stand by what I said that “[x show] is returning and it’s still very good” and “[y show] is new and it’s very good” are statements with fairly different target audiences.

Hype!!

IMO it’s a little weird to fill a “best new anime” list almost half with returning anime. Like, they’re not wrong picks, but people are either already planning to watch them or they’re not caught up.

I’m pretty sure the people complaining about child sexualization in anime are not the same people supporting child beauty pageants and child marriage…

If it were a series of strategies to attempt to reduce the number of pedo/incest anime (not just outlawing them, but influencing the market with regulation of advertising and/or broadcast content), I might be tentatively on board, but something tells me it’s going to be more about censoring blood and gore, queerness, and maybe even themes of fighting against authority, depending on how ambitious they get.

I get really salty when people point at patterns in anime that are sort of objectively bad and claim that they’re fine because that’s “just Japanese culture”. Like, I’m really tired of being told I’m overreacting when I say maybe anime shouldn’t glamorize pedo shit or make characters that are racist or homophobic stereotypes. Save “it’s just Japanese culture” for when I’m complaining about the cute mascot character’s annoying verbal tic, lol.

Also, this isn’t specifically an anime thing, nor is it specifically a western thing, but I get a little frustrated with “it’s just fiction”. Fiction is constructed out of the worldview of the creator(s) and will always contain at least some of their ways of thinking. All art contains some meaning to it, and teasing apart exactly what a piece of art is trying to say is typically both useful and fulfilling.

There’s an episode of Eminence in Shadow where one of the girls has a little plushie of Shadow-sama and I was APPALLED to learn that I could not buy such a thing. Every bit of merch for that show seems to be of the girls and all i want is my own little Shadow-sama!

It’s fun, but I still don’t know where this show is going lol.

I’m with Clevatess on this one. Humanity probably should be destroyed.

This doesn’t appear to be doing anything new (at least so far) but Cloverworks’ gorgeous animation and direction really sell it regardless. Everyone’s very cute and I’m eager to see them grow. I give the premiere a 4/5.

P.S. netflix please let this out of jail, what is wrong with you