And Texhnolyze is just unflinchingly bleak from beginning to end. I kind of admire it as a mood piece, but the relentless nihilism honestly started to feel juvenile by the end.
Still, it's easily my favourite of the two shows and is definitely worth trying.
Honestly I'd say maybe given something like Witch Hunter Robin a try first.
Gilgamesh is cool in concept, but it's basically a six episode story where both the story and budget has been stretched to fit a 26 episode show. It's slightly torturous for the wrong reasons.
Just don't walk too far down that path or you'll end up with a Gilgamesh or Texhnolyze. 😬
Guy Ordering Nonalcoholic Beer Has Either Seen A Ton Of Shit Or No Shit At All https://theonion.com/guy-ordering-nonalcoholic-beer-has-either-seen-a-ton-of-shit-or-no-shit-at-all/
Beano #1632, October 27, 1973
It was confirmed via LinkedIn & Screenrant that Crunchyroll is doing a wave of layoffs across the HR, Product, & E-Commerce Departments
For E-Commerce specifically:
The intent is to change how merch is “made available” to collectors & fans
modern yuzuriha & sagiri (hell’s paradise)
Joy Division - Disorder
Prince - Pop Life
It's real.
Well that sure as hell didn't take long
happy international women's day
its always a good time to post this
Damn, people seem to like that last post huh
It's still wild to me that the only time I can channel the power to be funny is during 3am sleep-deprived fugue states
Of course Dicta Striker's trainer would turn out to be Kaiki Deishuu
I've been wondering why all the mothers in Uma Musume only show up with eyes covered, watching races at home.
At first I thought it was a draconian horse law that parents of racers have to be blinded & put under house arrest, but it's more likely they just instantly become (reincarnated) ghosts.
la creatura
I know I've seen engagement accounts posting clips of it that have done pretty big numbers on the other site, so there definitely seems to be a level of visibility & enthusiasm rarely seen for these types of grounded, intimate character shows.
The current top 10 Winter 2026 anime series according to ANN readers. Journal With Witch has consistently been #1 for the last five weeks, and was #2 prior to that. (4nn.cx/.234885)
I'd be interested to hear if this is decidedly different elsewhere.
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
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After 9 yeareals, it's finally my turn to post the "a thousand cereals" clip, seeing as how I'm the idiot who made it.
MangaOne has revealed that the writer of “Act Age” Tatsuya Matsuki is writing the series “Seisou no Shinrishi” under the name of Yatsunami Itsuki.
Matsuki was arrested for assault on a middle school student August 2020, and subsequently received a guilty verdict (1 year and 6 months in prison.)
My friend J-Maz on how director Sunao Katabuchi's studio Contrail was absorbed by MAPPA and the difficulties of making anime. An enlightening deep dive.
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