I am a big fan of this manga and so far I am of two minds on this adaptation. First is that the humor is still there and still funny. In particular this episode gave us one of my favorite characters (Manda) and one of my favorite recurring gags (Dragon Kirio). However, the pacing feels really slow. I feel like the comedy would hit more if the episode was just sped up like 15% or something.

The Apothecary Diaries is going to be hard to beat for me. It feels like a Sherlock series with how it has both mysteries of the day, but then an overall mystery that everything feeds into. Really great hooks and payoffs throughout.

Threadiverse is kind of the informal name given to the subset of fediverse software that has a more threaded conversation structure. So, that would be lemmy, piefed, mbin, and nodebb.

For future reference, if you put your intended post title first and then @-mention the community, then it will render much nicer on the threadiverse side. As it is now, the post came through to the community, but has a blank title because there was no text prior to the @-mention of the community.

Just one of the weird quirks of how the different fediverse softwares interact.

Weird, it works fine for me. If you pm me which one you want to vote for, I can make it happen.

Yeah, happy to do this and share some culture with the wider threadiverse. I think that the anime community is an example of a hobby/interest that has successfully taken root in the fediverse and am happy to share with the normies out there.

I haven’t read the LN, but the manga is a ton of fun and is a community favorite over on [email protected]. The premise is silly, sure, but the humor is very good. Part of that might be because it kind of lends itself to visual gags, so that they translate better in manga form. Basically, Rona is granted the power of Google, and is under the conception that the internet is written by the Gods…all of the internet. That means she reads everything she finds 100% straight; forum trolls, advertisements, everything. The other side of this is that when she looks up information about the world that she is in (a video game world), she often finds discussion forums talking about game bugs or cheese strategies that play out in very silly ways from the perspective of the people around her.

Just a reminder to vote for nominations to lemmyvision 3 over here (stickied to the community). In a couple days, I will make a final poll with the finalists. See the stickied post for more details and rules.

Thanks, missed that bit. I think I am going to keep it to just 2025 for anime because of the seasonal structure of the shows, but it makes sense to be more flexible in this case.

I have not been able to get this out of my head since I first heard it…

…that was months ago.

Reiji’s response:

That was great!

Megane wo Hazushite - You and I Are Polar Opposites OP

Disqualified as it came out in 2026.

Forgot that Guild Receptionist was last year. Such a gorgeous OP.

This absolutely wins the thread for most delicious looking MV.

Edit: Nevermind!

As much as I love this song (and MIMI in general), it did come out in 2026, though it was January 2nd.

If it’s something like a video game, then probably not. If it is just promotional for the anime, then sure.

Just caught up on the past couple chapters and I really hope this senpai is not coming back. Hopefully he was just a vessel to try to help Aoba actually act on his feelings. I really don’t want somebody trying to interject themselves between these two.

This one is really unique. I hadn’t seen this one before, thanks for sharing.

Disclaimer: I read the manga through this point but haven’t watched the show.

The answer is resoundingly no. There was a period where it really feels like it was building to a climax and would have made for a decent conclusion (I think it was season 3, the movie arc). However, they quickly undid all the progress and the lead couple became even more infuriating. I ended up dropping the series shortly after what is depicted in this fifth season.