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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • You know, the main reason I didn’t comment here earlier is that I find it basically impossible to narrow it down to 5. I’m always bumping against MAL’s stupid “maximum 10 favorites per category” limit, where to make matters worse they decided that all real people are a single category.

    That said: for voice actors, I distinguish between “breadth” (the range of different characters they can convincingly play) and “depth” (the acting skill of portraying a character realistically through a wide range of situations and emotions).

    There are some seiyuu that excel at one of these dimensions. E.g. Atsumi Tanezaki has amazing breadth, from Mizore to Vivy to Anya to Futaba. Also Yumiri Hanamori.
    Tomoyo Kurosawa has great depth, I don’t think there is any other seiyuu who can play a teenage girl as realistically as her, with all the little vocal quirks.

    But the greatest have both, breadth and depth. HanaKana, Aki Toyosaki, Nao Touyama, Maaya Sakamoto, Saori Hayami are in that category for me.

    Thank you for coming to my TED talk.


  • Wow. Cat’s outta the bag, huh? Kyotaro is Origin and Shobon is producing all this for her entertainment (and to live out his fantasy of getting back at Otaku-dom for not appreciating his genius).

    Gotta say, that’s actually a weaker reveal than I would have expected, but it’s certainly surprising. All the predictions based on the imagery in the ED were apparently way off-base (unless there’s another twist in the final episode).

    The imagery was all the more impressive in this episode. Reminded me of Evangelion 3.0+1.0. And Slayer’s realization that doing what she loves means beating Anarchy into a pulp was… almost heartwarming?

    This show leaves me with so many conflicting feelings. I don’t know if I’ll even give it a rating after it’s finished. It’s somehow a masterpiece and trite trash at the same time.


  • awdsns@lemmy.worldtoJerboa@lemmy.mlBeehaw
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    Since account creation does not happen in the app, but requires visiting the instance’s home page, where registration requirements, federation status and other peculiarities are plainly visible, I don’t think this belongs in the app.




  • Man, the friendship between Yuzuki and Makoto is just the most heartwarming shit! The whole girl squad was really wholesome this week actually, with Mika now firmly part of it. And we even seem to have Shima take his first steps to reconnect with his familiy.

    But of course Ririka has to show up to stir some shit. That glance between her and Shima’s mother at the end does not bode well. They obviously recognized each other and were both pretty shocked. It’ll be very interesting how this plays out next week, with Shima possibly between the front lines.

    Edit: I just saw on MAL that Ririka is voiced by Minako Kotobuki (Mugi in K-On). With Aki Toyosaki (Yui) voicing the teacher, that’s two of the K-On girls’ VAs reunited in this show. Not really relevant, but I like spotting connections like that. Well, they are both really talented and versatile VAs, so it’s not that surprising that they’d get a large number of roles.