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This week on the #AniMangaPictureChallenge lets dig up some:

💎 Hidden Gems 🔮

There's plenty of well-known #anime and #manga that top the charts, but what about the ones that don't? The ones you still love anyway!

Tell us about your favorite hidden gems and why they deserve more attention than they get by @-ing @apc and by using the hashtag #AniMangaFoundIt. Send your entires by Feb 22nd to get in the community collage.

@cthellis@urusai.social · last week

@apc Hmmmm... HMMMMmmmmMMMMrrrrrRRRRmmmm...

Am I gonna have to go on a journey again? I feel like I'm gonna have to journey.

Why?

Well, the problem with "hidden gems" is that a lot of them are hidden now primarily by time. They may well have ALSO been less-popular FOR their time, but if you pick one of them... how many people gonna just think "Hey! That was a 1986 adaptation of a 1975 manga, how could it possibly NOT be hidden?!"

Therefore I need to pile up excuses to talk about a lot of old shit, and THEN the newer stuff people might call Hidden Gems legitimately! 😝

Or it's just any excuse for me to babble a lot. I won't discount that possibility.

So where we gonna #AniMangaFoundIt first?

AniManga Picture Challenge

@apc@starside.social · 2 weeks ago

This week on the #AniMangaPictureChallenge lets dig up some:

💎 Hidden Gems 🔮

There's plenty of well-known #anime and #manga that top the charts, but what about the ones that don't? The ones you still love anyway!

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Ragashingo

@Ragashingo@starside.social · 3 weeks ago

This season, my main watch is Journal with Witch. It's such a calm, insightful show that highlights that the ways people deal with grief and with life don't have to be textbook cliche or make sense to others to be valid.

15 year old Asa loses her mother and father to a car accident outside a convenient store and soon finds herself under the care of her introvert novelist aunt Makio. Watching the two figure out how to live together in the aftermath has been very pleasant.

@apc #AniMangaFoundIt

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It took five episodes, but the show eventually did show us exactly what happened to Asa's parents. Looks like they were parked in a waiting spot and got rear ended by a larger truck not paying attention!

The only reason Asa is alive is that she'd made a quick run to get some things from the store. One of the first scenes we see of her in episode 1 is her sitting on a hospital bench with her grandmother still wearing that same jacket. 😢

Most of the show is done in a nice, fairly realistic, mid tone scheme, but its openings and endings are done in bright watercolor! Here, in the opening, we see aunt Makio in her writing chair (with desk and messy home office removed) on one side, and Asa cheerfully running to school on the other.

The latest episode has thrown in a bit of mildly spice romance, too! Makio and her ex-boyfriend Shingo Kasamachi seem to be on the road to getting back together.

The show doesn't just focus on Asa's grief and coping, it's about Makio forcing herself to be more than the shut-in novelist that she was for the sake of taking in and raising Asa. Maybe stepping out of one's isolated comfort zone has some additional benefits?!

Not gonna lie, threw this one in hoping to snag a reaction or a new viewer or two. :p — The latest episode has thrown in a bit of mildly spice romance, too! Makio and her ex-boyfriend Shingo Kasamachi seem to be on the road to getting back together. The show doesn't just focus on Asa's grief and coping, it's about Makio forcing herself to be more than the shut-in novelist that she was for the sake of taking in and raising Asa. Maybe stepping out of one's isolated comfort zone has some additional benefits?! Not gonna lie, threw this one in hoping to snag a reaction or a new viewer or two. :p

Ragashingo

@Ragashingo@starside.social · 3 weeks ago

@apc #AniMangaFoundIt

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@heinragas@mublog.nl · last month

@apc I immediately had to think of the "point shields" that were developed aboard the SDF-1 in the original Macross. They're small shields that are projected on the hull of the ship, ideal for stopping missile attacks. They were controlled by trackballs, so during the battle there was some frantic trackballing from the bridge officers!
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AniManga Picture Challenge

@apc@starside.social · last month

This week on the #AniMangaPictureChallenge, we're looking to block enemy attacks with our:

🛡️ Shields ⛨

Show us pictures of your favorite shields from #anime or #manga by @-ing @apc and by using the hashtag #AniMangaFoundIt to help make sure your post is seen. Get your entires in by Jan 25th to be included in the community collage.

Hein Ragas

@heinragas@mublog.nl · last month

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AniManga Picture Challenge

@apc@starside.social · last month

This week on the #AniMangaPictureChallenge, we're looking to block enemy attacks with our:

🛡️ Shields ⛨

Gabriele Svelto

@gabrielesvelto@mas.to · 3 months ago

@apc this week's #AniMangaFoundIt is going to be easy. Sheeta's fall at the very beginning of Studio Ghibli's movie Laputa: The Castle in the Sky

#Anime #RetroAnime #Laputa #StudioGhibli

The image on the theatrical poster of the Ghibli Studio movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Sheeta, a girl with brown hair arrange in two long braids and wearing a blue dress is slowly falling from the sky. Her eyes are closed and a gemstone hanging from her necklace is floating slightly above her, emitting blinding light. I tried. Below Pazu is waiting to catch her. He's a young boy with a white shirt with rolled up sleeves, a brown sleeveless jacket and patched blue pants. He's holding a cylindrical metal container with his left hand, and is standing on a ledge, with a large wheel being visible in the back. The scene takes place at night.

Hein Ragas

@heinragas@mublog.nl · 6 months ago

@apc Ever since I watched the Robotechified version of Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, I have been obsessed with the helmets. Open-faced so you can enjoy the wind as you drive your hover-tank in bike mode along the boulevards of the city to go shopping during a patrol, but with a face-plate that can be clamped down for when things get serious. And with individual embellishments like wings and horns, for that much-needed personalization!

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Jeanne with her helmet on, with the face-place down. Her helmet has pink wings on the temples and a white crest on top.

Jeanne in the process of putting down her face place, the top half of her face already obscured. The wings and crest are clearly visible.

A model of Lana, an MP. She is holding her helmet, which is pointy and has horns on the front.

AniManga Picture Challenge

@apc@starside.social · 6 months ago

This week on the #AniMangaPictureChallenge, we're putting on:

🧢 Hats 🎩

It was once said, "If you want to get ahead, get a hat." So let's all get hats from our favorite #anime and #manga and show them off by posting pictures of them using the hashtag #AniMangaFoundIt and by @-ing @apc to try and help make sure your post is seen.

Send in your submission by September 14th to make sure your post is included in the weekly community collage.