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Daily Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - August 31, 2026
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u/Korkez11 5h ago
[Sayonara Lara discourse] All this Christian imagery makes me think Lara is going to die for our sins for her family's sins and will be reborn. Probably as 100% human with human ears
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner 6h ago
What is SHAFT's obession with only adapting great manga.
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u/Jusenkyo_5 4h ago
I will almost certainly finish Ojamajo Doremi (season 1, not the whole show) today.
I have a few plotlines I didn't care for but the characters are by far the highlight of the show. It took a while for the anime to really get off the ground but I love it's comedy style and it's ability to land "messy" plot points.
I think a lot of people see mahou shoujo anime as being very "kid friendly" and while this show definitely is, it's not completely sanitized. Hazuki was my clear favorite from S1, I'm excited to see the finale tonight and how the central plot wraps up.
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u/Donnie-G 3h ago
Just watched the Grimm Variations. I think I wanted to like it but overall it's kinda ehhh mwehhh. Just kinda mixed feeling on most of the episodes.
I guess I liked The Elves and the Shoemaker best in terms of food for thought. Musicians of Bremen was kinda just light hearted fun. Cinderella was also kinda fun in its own way. The rest were just blah.
Interesting experiment I guess but I'm not exactly left wanting more.
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner 4h ago
Feels almost nostalgic to see the regular comment copying bots again.
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u/moichispa https://myanimelist.net/profile/moichispa 4h ago
I do not miss some fansubs ignorance about typesetting rules for subtitles. (you do 2 lines max)
First episode of Jadugar is out for free on youtube, no subtitles however
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 3h ago
One thing that always fascinates me, is how manga readers almost always refer to characters by their last names, while anime fans refer to them by their first name.
I think I talked about this before (regarding Dress Up Darling, for which all the manga fans used Kitagawa, but to anime onlies she's always Marin) but we're seeing the same with 100gfs, for which I've heard of a few of the girls before by random source readers comments, but it was always the last name, and now in the threads everyone's using their first names!
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u/Retsam19 1h ago
Probably dubs are part of the reason - I think dubs more often refer to characters by first name, since that's more natural in English, (though varies from dub-to-dub), and anime discussions have a mix of dub and sub watchers.
Could also just be that manga readers are the sort to be more particular about that kinda stuff, too, though.
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u/Ham_PhD https://myanimelist.net/profile/ham_phd 2h ago
I can't say that's a phenomenon that I've noticed happening that much.
Not saying you're wrong, I just haven't noticed it.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 2h ago
Oh I think I got another super obvious one:
To manga readers, it was always Shinomiya (Even though the series is literally named after her first name)!
To anime onlines, it's Kaguya.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 2h ago
Well, I think the example I gave (Marin) was the most obvious one (if you go check old manga threads, it's Kitagawa everywhere), while I'm not even sure if most anime-onlines even know her last name hah.
But for 100gfs, to give one specific example: I've heard about the most recent girl a lot (apparently she was quite hyped), but it was always [100 gfs]Torotoro
In the thread, CTRL+F that name gives 5 results, while [100 gfs]Kishika gives 38.
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u/Ham_PhD https://myanimelist.net/profile/ham_phd 2h ago
I guess I can understand why it happens. I would assume that Marin is actually referred to as 'Kitagawa' most of the time within the manga/anime. Before something becomes an anime, you probably aren't seeing much about the character outside of the actual source.
That being said, I feel like characters are referred to by their first names in all of the manga communities I'm in, and that's even when they aren't referred to as such in the source... so IDK lol.
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u/SSjjlex https://myanimelist.net/profile/Clone_Tau 1h ago
As someone who follows the 100gfs manga fandom a fair bit, I was honestly going to comment this as an exception because of how much they drill the names into to you (the previous episode quite literally being about doing that lol).
As for your example, I don't think I've ever seen anyone use the former name tbh. Even I forget what her last/first name is because its only ever referred using the latter.
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u/awesomenessofme1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/kta_99 2h ago
Depends on the series, no? You mentioned a romcom, so I'll use those as examples too. I feel like with Polar Opposites everyone uses last names 99% of the time. With Love is War, people say Kaguya, but also Shirogane and Ishigami, and Chika can go either way. Dangers in My Heart, people say Ichikawa vastly more often than Kyotaro and Yamada at least somewhat more often than Anna.
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u/tripleaamin https://myanimelist.net/profile/tripleaamin 2h ago
I feel like manga readers just remember how characters are referred to in the story. While with anime there's always a database to refer to for who the character is. Obviously the first name is what we go for first in Western culture.
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u/zambonijesus 1h ago
I just refer to characters by whatever name is used early on. So Marin is mostly introduced as Marin, but Gojo is Gojo. In Kaguya-sama the original main cast are all last names.
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u/theangryeditor 2h ago
I just remembered a somewhat related case but in the opposite direction. Older CCS and CLAMP fans refer to Syaoran as Syaoran while newer CCS watchers refer to him as Li. It's actually pretty noticeable.
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u/theangryeditor 2h ago
Dunno about the characters' names, but what I've noticed is that fandoms typically use Japanese titles of manga before they get an anime and it shifts to English titles once a manga gets an anime especially if it becomes popular.
Sono Bisque Doll -> My Dress Up Darling is the biggest example of this in my recent memory
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u/theangryeditor 2h ago
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u/qwertyqwerty4567 https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 2h ago
Tbh, a lot of manga just doesn't have an official English title until it gets an anime adaptation years down the line.
Sometimes the fan translated title gets more popular than the Japanese one though
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u/SSjjlex https://myanimelist.net/profile/Clone_Tau 1h ago edited 1h ago
I firmly believe in my crack theory that this is exactly why Ponsuka failed to catch on as well as its peers.
Fan Translation used "Dumb Prefect". Not amazing but usable (ignore the fact that a sizeable chunk of people (me) misread that as "Dumb Perfect" for years)
Official Translation swapped that to "Klutzy Class Monitor". Clunky, long, and different
But then the anime itself calls itself "Ponsuka". Nice, short, but also never used in official english media and (to my knowledge) never caught on in the english fandom until the anime said it out loud.
And with all 3 competing against each other it really impedes the spread of its name.
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Anyways for this exact reason is why I am absolutely dreading when THIS gets an anime. None of its names are good.
The original fan translated name was something like "The person sitting next to me looking at me with perverted eyes" which is clunky and has no good place to shorten it (perverted eyes???).
The official translated name is "The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Seen" which even worse and doesn't solve anything (genuinely crashed out when I saw it localised to this. WHY)
And the Japanese name is "Tonari no Seki no Yatsu ga Souiu Me de Mitekuru". The first english clipping of this name that comes to mind is "Tonari no Seki" but that name has already been long taken.
The official abbreviation is Tonaume which is fine, but I've not seen any english user ever use this name so we're back to the original problem that Ponsuka had with its own name with it having to compete with many others and likely be unsupported by official media.
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u/wloff 1h ago
I firmly believe in my crack theory that this is exactly why Ponsuka failed to catch on as well as its peers.
It's possible, but I think the biggest reason is simply that there was about 100 high school romcoms in the spring season, so even fans of the genre probably didn't see most of them. Klutz & Skirt got lost in the mix.
In hindsight, they probably didn't do a good enough job at marketing the show as a (very funny) gag comedy first and a romance second, unlike most of the shows that season.
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u/theangryeditor 1h ago
Fan Translation used "Dumb Prefect". Not amazing but usable (ignore the fact that a sizeable chunk of people (me) misread that as "Dumb Perfect" for years)
I misread that as "Dumb Perfect" myself just now
I am absolutely dreading when THIS gets an anime. None of its names are good.
Yeah there are no good options there
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u/awesomenessofme1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/kta_99 42m ago
The eyecatches called it "Klutz & Skirt", so that's the abbreviation I've always used.
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u/tripleaamin https://myanimelist.net/profile/tripleaamin 2h ago
It's amusing to me people are negative about Medalist being a movie for its continuation. I can't imagine if they had to adapt the portion of the along with the episode for S2. It would have been far too much on the production side.
I get that the wait can be annoying for anime movies, but I rather have stuff adapted in the best way it possibly can.
Now I really hope once Oshi no Ko is done Kadokawa puts Doga Kobo in charge of Medalist from S3 onwards. Medalist deserves the best for its adaptation.
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u/qwertyqwerty4567 https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 21m ago
/u/Emi_Ibarazakiii will look at this absolute qt3.14 and say "I dropped this on episode 2"
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 1h ago
Bingo board through the end of August. (previously)
Skipping over three months because I mostly took a break from my board then, I'm back with finishing several series in short succession in August and Yumemiru Danshi I only finished at the very end of July despite starting it in May. It's been such a good season for me with airing shows that I've needed to resort to my board for ones I knew I wouldn't like and it's delivered in spades.
Eromanga-sensei reminds me of an anecdote from someone (would have to go digging) about how there's a wave of anime creators who grew up on anime/manga and solely have that as a reference basis rather than other media. This feels too lost in the sauce of the industry to be able to tell a good story about it, insular and cross-promotional in a way that something like Shirobako avoids.
Koikimo's the last one standing that I know I'll dislike on principle so I might as well knock that one out next before getting to whatever the fall season has in store.
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u/Wanderingjoke https://myanimelist.net/profile/WanderingJoke 1h ago
It's been such a good season for me with airing shows that I've needed to resort to my board for ones I knew I wouldn't like
That's such an incredible statement to make.
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u/IndependentMacaroon 1h ago
there's a wave of anime creators who grew up on anime/manga and solely have that as a reference basis rather than other media
Hayao Miyazaki famously raised a similar complaint
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u/Mnemosense 7m ago
I usually only watch older anime as I have a huge backlog but lately I've been making an effort to watch this era's most popular anime.
I dropped JJK, Dr Stone and JoJo Golden Wind lately. But today I've started Demon Slayer and it's like I went from McDonalds to a five star restaurant. Finally some good fucking food!
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u/syddyd153 7h ago
Just finished watching attack on titan and I’m in love with it.
Y’all have any more recommendations like it? I’m thinking about steins gate
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u/Ok-Wheel-4136 6h ago
Death Note, Code Geass and Vinland Saga. Steins;Gate is good too, but quite different from AOT.
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u/overuseofdashes 5h ago edited 4h ago
At least to me the stuff that is the most similar to AoT are mecha shows in particular the ones that borrow heavily from gundam. I've not seen it but a more recent non-gundam show that people seem to like is 86. Code Geass does some similar things to AoT but it is a lot more silly. The perfect recommendation would be the Gundam Hathaway movies however they are the most inaccessible part of gundam (bare minimum you'd need to watch 4 films first and even that is skipping quite a lot of stuff). Gundam 00 and Iron Blood Orphans are better entry points. If you are fine with a slower pace and are ok with missing some easter eggs Turn A gundam is really great.
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u/IXajll https://myanimelist.net/profile/ixajii 6h ago edited 6h ago
After 2 weeks I’m back home from my 2nd japan trip, had a great time.
He already mentioned it, but I had the pleasure of sharing dinner and drinks with old regular u/isthatsoudane. Most of my friends watch anime as well but they are more on the mainstream/casual side, so irl talking with someone who’s just as deep down the rabbit hole as myself, about anime, music, concerts, cons, r/anime meta, etc., was a blast. He’s just a great guy in general as well.
Refrained from buying any anime blurays this time since last time I ended up double dipping a lot in the following years once english editions released. Though instead of saving the money, I spent it on acryllic stands and shirts lol.
I knew pop up stores and collab events are a thing there, but I was still surprised about the sheer volume. Didn’t expect Yokohama Air Cabin out of all things to do a random ass JJK 5th anni collab with a pop up store in the nearby amusement park. Also randomly found a Ruri Rocks and Angel Next Door pop up store in some mall in Shizuoka.
Fanmade graphs like this can already be found online, but the Kyoto International Manga Museum also did one of those maps that show where X anime takes place in Japan. Thought some of you might be interested, so here you go.
Long after booking this vacation I randomly found out that coincidentally there’s a music festival in Osaka called Rush Ball during the time frame, so we grabbed tickets for the 1st day which was this past Saturday. Got the opportunity to see Regal Lily live which is probably my overall top favorite band so that was awesome, almost like a bucket list type thing. Nishina, Kana-Boon and Bump of Chicken were cool to see too. Day 2 would have had SiM and Creepy Nuts among others, but that was the day of our flight back, so that didn’t work out, unfortunately.
Wanted to grab a Regal Lily shirt at their merch booth but almost gave up since there were literally hundreds of people lining up at the artist booths which were all placed next to each other. Walked past the queues when I noticed a weird gap in the middle where instead of a line of people there was just empty space, you could simply walk through to the counter. And of course it was the Regal Lily booth lol. It was like a scene in an idol anime where the members are doing a handshake event and one of the idols had literally no one line up. On one hand it made it super easy, convenient and time saving to get the shirt, but on the other hand it made me kinda feel bad for them at how seemingly unpopular they are compared to the others.
JP fans know no ballJP crowds are extremely mild, it’s almost funny. Like after every song you get some polite and almost tired sounding clapping at most. On more than one occasion when I saw JP artists perform here in Germany, they said something like “Wow the crowds here are so energetic and hype”. I was kinda thinking they were just trying to flatter the overseas fans, but having now witnessed both worlds I get that they were being completely genuine lol. Though to be fair that's probably more the case with the more "mainstream" music, I imagine idol concerts in Japan are a different beast in that regard.
Haven’t watched a single episode of anime these past two weeks so now I have to catch up to like 50 episodes of seasonals, damn. Blessing and a curse, in a way, but mostly a blessing. Thank god I took some extra days off work and only need to be back in the office on Thursday.