Such a fantastic series. I miss the Mystery Research Club antics each week.

I love this manga so much. Kaguhara is such a ridiculous character.

I didn’t realize this series had an anime adaptation. The manzai bit that they do works best in small doses I think (thus the kind of short manga chapters). Not sure how well it would translate to anime form. Might try to check it out though as I do really like the manga.

As somebody that doesn’t really follow VTubers at all, I thought this was going to be about Oshi no Ko based on the title.

These are homophones in Japanese. Same thing as words like their/there/they’re or seas/sees/seize, etc. Words that sound the same but are written differently. The Japanese language has tons of them. Often, the ambiguity around homophones is used as a source of humor, causing misunderstandings between characters in anime/manga or puns that add a layer of humor to an otherwise normal thing to say.

I haven’t watched it, but it looks like Girls Band Cry. The 13th episode and finale is airing in a couple days. Not sure what episode this is from.

I just finished the first chapter and this hit me in the nostalgia so hard. I started using Linux in one form or another back in 2006 (Ubuntu and Red Hat back then). Seeing the old UI, synaptic, and a user that insists GUIs aren’t needed are so spot on for the time. One of Ubuntu’s big differentiators back then was the ease with which you could install codecs, so it was nice to see it called out.

How have I never seen this before? I have been reading manga and daily driving linux for years. Instant must-read! Thanks!

I most recently watched 100GF. I don’t know if that is a blessing or a curse. Rentaro is a lot to live up to.

For some reason, this post reminded me of the illustrations Reiji posted to his twitter of Chizuru drawn on top of photographs. Here is the first example I could find from a quick search, but there is a whole series of them.

Yes, this is a panel from that same series, much later on. I will reiterate what I said in that thread that the series is great and worth checking out for the genius absurdity that is contained within.

Yeah, it must be a kbin/lemmy translation issue then. I think you are right in that kbin is parsing it as a link, and then lemmy is writing that out with link markdown. So, it seems as though the syntax just won’t work for kbin users (at least you won’t get notifications from the bot each time you do it since you are on kbin).

I wish there was a way to link to things in an instance-agnostic way, but unfortunately that is not possible yet (open github issue).

There are lots of weird kbin/lemmy interaction quirks. For the community linking, you need to include the instance as well. So if you wanted to link the community this post is in (using lemmy syntax) it would be written as !animemes@ani.social (note that you don’t need to include linking markdown, it will automatically be parsed as a link) even if you are on ani.social.

As for bot accounts not federating, that is especially frustrating for the !episode_discussion@ani.social community since it means that kbin users just see a vast desert of a community that contains zero posts.

Here is a post on the anime community about it. Basically, there is a bit of a backlash against Mappa by others in the industry right now for setting timelines way too aggressively, forcing tons of overtime on the animators.

If you haven’t read this series before, it’s fantastic. The author crams in so many visual gags it is really impressive. Also, they are able to keep surprising with the humor. One of the risks with these silly premise manga is that they get old. However, this one has only gotten better as its gone on.

I only wish it published more frequently.

Great post! Keep it up!