This might be a controversial comment. I read Inio Asano’s Solanin over the weekend and I… couldn’t care less about it. I don’t think it’s bad, but I actively dislike most characters, particularly the guys. The women in the manga also got done dirty, particularly the FMC, who didn’t really seem to be much of a character on her own outside of being someone’s girlfriend (I didn’t read that as being some kind of criticism), even after the big event. She was even criticized for trying to better her life because it was putting pressure on her boyfriend, who wasn’t pulling his own weight. Her struggles seemed to come secondary a lot of the time, unless they were related to him. That felt… icky, unintentionally so.

I did like it more after the big event, but that’s already like 2/3rds of the way through.

On paper, I should like this manga. It ticks a lot of boxes for me, but just ticking them is not enough it seems.

I think I might not jive well with Inio Asano’s work. I also didn’t like Girl On The Shore, though I do think Solanin is better. I know Oyasumi Punpun is the big one, but I’ve been avoiding that one.

Japan continues to uphold their status as a country with the most unreasonable copyright laws

National? Where?

Depends on where you’re from. In my country, dubbing in the native language rarely happens unless it’s a kids movie.

Good to know! I haven’t picked it up yet, because I often end up somewhat disappointed in adaptations of these types of manga.

Subs will be a turn-off for a lot of people, that’s for nerds.

If you’re used to media in your own language, I suppose so

Made a honey and poppy seed ricotta cheesecake once with sweet marscarpone on the side. It was delicious.

No bake cheesecake (no gelatin) is the best kind

Changed my life is a bit much maybe, but Hibike! Euphonium means a lot to me

On a slightly different note, does anyone here read manhwa?

Yes

I need a secondary opinion because the more I read, the more it feels like some of the groups localising them use machine translation (or non-fluent people). Things like constant misgendering, regular changes to name spelling (for both people and locations), attributing things said in the past to wrong characters and more are pretty much something I expect rather than a surprise at this point. It’s distracting, sloppy and, at times, pretty annoying.

Assuming you mean scanlation groups, I absolutely feel the same. I often just don’t read ones like that because of it, because it’s hard to make heads or tails from it. I think it’s a combo of MTL and non-fluent speakers. Stuff like misgendering or wrong attribution is very MTL-like, but a lot of the bad grammar, spelling errors and bad punctuation feel more like things from someone who doesn’t quite have a good grasp on English (can be MTL, but MTL is pretty capable of making well-structured sentences at this point).

Just in general I struggle finding good scanlation groups for manhwa (or sources even). Either they have poor translations, are behind paywalls (surprisingly common. Many even use their own stupid coin systems) or both. I often resort to only reading officially translated manhwa (officially or otherwise).

Is this anime original? I thought the story was concluded.

Anyway, I hope Kurumi is in it, she’s the only actually interesting character and made the last couple of seasons bearable.

I’ve not come across that yet and my Bluray player isn’t connected to the internet.

Has to have a dub. Someone who does not watch anime is not going to read subs.

Why not? It’s how many people started, no?

I wouldn’t recommend it as a first anime to most, but I introduced a friend to anime with Spice & Wolf

I’m pretty sure that meme has died out a looong time ago thankfully

As much as I love Martian, I had to go with Hunting Soul. Mirage was close too

Same! Hunting Soul is too good. Probably the most Eurovision-like song too, along with Creepy Nuts

No longer necessary, it worked this time! Thanks though!

The link is stuck loading for me unfortunately (Firefox and Vivaldi)

Probably all gacha games, like Genshin Impact or FGO. There’s a lot about those games I like, but the fact that they’re gacha actively gets in the way. If they were just regular games, most of the problems, which boil down to maximising play time like tedious grinding or filler in the main quests, would disappear.