Kyoto Animation’s RuriDragon Anime Officially Confirmed for 2027
https://www.cbr.com/kyoto-animation-ruridragon-official-anime-2027-confirmed/
Final thoughts on this anime season:
Best in Season: May I Ask For One Final Thing? Absolute cinema this. I love Scarlet. I love Sanya-sama. I loved the two masochistic (albeit in very different ways) princes vying for Scarlet's affections. Solid 4.5/5 would watch again. Buying this on bluray when I can.
Worst in Season: GNOSIA. I can only imagine that James Beckett over at ANN must've been charmed by Terrenezza, or be a GNOSIA himself, to not tear this piece of trash to shreds like it so richly desserves. I will give GNOSIA credit for one thing though: its sheer stupidity caused me to stick out Mugen Gacha just to see which show was worse, but lo and behold Mugen Gacha actually got better. I'll give it half a star for the gender ambiguity of some characters, I guess.
Unexpected Dark Horse: Mugen Gacha, aka Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon. I absolutely hated episode 2 of this show, to the point where I nearly dropped it. But I decided hey, why not make it a game and see which is worse, GNOSIA or this? Cue surprise when Mugen Gacha turned into a fun, cathartic, unapologetic revenge fantasy that managed to have more heart than something like this desserves, and certainly more intelligence than GNOSIA. I mentioned before, I can respect a show that knows what it is and embraces it without pretense, and that is certainly true of Mugen Gacha. 3.5 stars.
The Cutest of Cutes: It's a tough call between Alma-Chan Wants to Be A Family and Reincarnator, but I have to give it to Alma-chan because I just happen to love autistic blue smols. Both shows were very therapeutic for me during the past couple months, which have been very stressful for me. Both get 3.5 stars.
"Chichi wa Eiyuu, Haha wa Seirei, Musume no Watashi wa Tenseisha": The second cutest-of-cutes. Crossover with Alma-chan when? 3.5 stars.
Shuumatsu Touring: It's like Girls Last Tour but not as good. Airi is cute as heck tho. 3 Stars.
A Manga-ka's Yuriful Workplace: I expected GAY. GAY was delivered. Satisfied. Solid 3.5 stars.
Towa no Yuugure: In the post-apocalypse, people will be polyamorous and pansexual, androids will be able to have sex, get drunk, and sometimes not even know they're androids, slaves will have barcodes on their butts, and a man will go on a quest to find his 200 year-old girlfriend. It was fun, I guess. Would I have kept it had there been more good shows this season? I dunno. 3/5.
#anime #fall2025anime #gnosia #amangakasweirdlywonderfulworkplace #shuumatsutouring #TowaNoYuugure #DuskBeyondTheEndOfTheWorld #mayiaskforonefinalthing #backstabbedinabackwaterdungeon #mugengacha #EgaonoTaenaiShokubaDesu #almachanwantstobeafamily
If an #anime introduces voice actors Miyuki Sawashiro and Keiji Fujiwara as sidekicks in the first episode, you bet I'm going to stick around.
Once, drawings for anime ended up in garbage bins, now they are the focus of exhibitions in Japan’s biggest museums and galleries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/27/art/anime-manga-exhibitions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art #anime #manga #evangelion #ghostintheshell #exhibitions #gundam #animetokyostation #2025inreview
Inspiration, innovation and identity — our 20 Questions interviewees had lots to say about their chosen careers and the paths that led them here in 2025. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/12/27/our-lives/2025-end-of-year-20-questions-wrap/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #ourlives #expats #livinginjapan #womensissues #japanesecrafts #shinto #anime #mixedrelationships #2025inreview
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"Deca-Dence": The Fight for a Better World - Joshua Baron examines 2020 anime series Deca-Dence, and the way the series approaches its themes of social justice, worker rights, and activism, and the forces of inertia and apathy that must be overcome for these elements to effect lasting change.
"Deca-Dence": The Fight for a Better World - Joshua Baron examines 2020 anime series Deca-Dence, and the way the series approaches its themes of social justice, worker rights, and activism, and the forces of inertia and apathy that must be overcome for these elements to effect lasting change.
Anime dubs tend to use the word “however” a lot. I’m curious if this is a quirk of translation and how/whether it’s affected the speech of English speakers, i.e., do kids who grew up watching anime use “however” often in everyday speech?
I'm in the hospital waiting for a scan, entertain me, give me your favorite knockoff characters/media/games where it's clear they wanted to do X but don't have the rights to X but they barely try to hide it (not something that started out as one thing but changed into something else)
#fiction #books #videogames #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #anime #manga #film #movies #TV #television
This year, anime’s global boom brought record profits and more Hollywood interest but also renewed anxiety over AI and creative labor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/26/film/anime-demon-slayer-gundam/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #anime #demonslayer #japanesefilm #chainsawman #2025inreview
E poi c'è chi non crede che Babbo Natale esista. Stanotte, finalmente, la #RAI ha reso disponibile l'intera serie (compresi 3 inediti) in streaming, mentre in #TV tornerà dal 29 dicembre alle 6.50 di mattino. #Goldrake - RaiPlay https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/goldrake
Genre-hopping anime adventure “Whoever Steals This Book” is visually inventive and easy to watch, even if the finer plot details fade fast. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/25/film/whoever-steals-this-book/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #anime #kagokan #keikokurosawa
Kevin Carson
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#QuestionOfTheDay for a work that you like that has multiple releases/editions/etc, what's the definitive "best" version for somebody to experience in your opinion?
#anime #manga #movies #film #television #TV #videogames #comics #comicbooks #books #DVDs #bluray #TTRPG #CCGs #Boardgames #music #musicals
In what world -?
From the way the main bad guy Kyuubey stalks, manipulates & uses girls as property to hurt & exploit, then cast aside, to how the best way to resist his system is consistently shown to be girls showing each other empathy & solidarity instead of competing, to that scene of Sayaka literally crashing out on 2 misogynists on the train based on a REAL conversation Urobuchi heard...
HOW TF IS PMMM ANYTHING BUT PRO-FEMINIST??
#QuestionOfTheDay for a work that you like that has multiple releases/editions/etc, what's the definitive "best" version for somebody to experience in your opinion?
#anime #manga #movies #film #television #TV #videogames #comics #comicbooks #books #DVDs #bluray #TTRPG #CCGs #Boardgames #music #musicals
I'm enjoying May I Ask for One Final Thing so much! Each episode makes me laugh out loud at some point, just great fun!
halcy :icosahedron:
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I painted this during a difficult time. medium: Procreate, Photoshop #DigitalArt #Illustration #Anime #AnimeArt #SliceOfLife
Dane 🇮🇪🏴☠️🖖⚛️☮️☸️🕉️
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just coming to say hi! I'm trying to join a social network after years of being offline, and mastodon seems to be a interesting place to be.
I'm from BR, work as a software engineer, linux/books/movies/anime-addicted, and my dream is to live in fully automated luxury communism.
#MoodMusicMonday returns with the mood "generic"
Post a song you think fits the mood, it can be something about being generic or that is very generic or sounds generic. Or a song you think is just the most generic thing of a genre. Whatever you think fits!
Include the hashtag and the mood so others can play along!
#music #vgm #anime #pop #rock #hiphop #classicalmusic #rnb #country