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wjs018 ani.social wjs018@ani.social
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Welcome to another general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread to talk about things you have watched recently, questions you have, or recommendations you want to give!

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wietach ani.social wietach@ani.social
Joined: 2025-03-08
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Watched We Were There, a shoujo romance with lots of drama that somehow manages not to feel overly artificial. It's girly but at the same time heavy and very 2000s coded. Nanami and Motoharu are so different they struggle to understand each other, but neither can live without love, which makes both of them miserable, so they try to make it work because neither can let go. It was sad and painful to watch. I liked it enough to consider picking up the manga to see how this ends.

Now onto Nana. Ikoku Nikki has already destroyed me, so I might as well reach the bottom of the abyss while I'm at it.

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kiri ani.social kiri@ani.social
Joined: 2024-06-08
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I keep rewatching CGDCT Kin-iro Mosaic (with japanese immersion with mpvacious). There are so many things I didn't notce or just forgot about. The teachers in this anime are pretty funny. Something like, "Sensei, do you know how I can get along with my students?" — "Put on bunny ears, they will like it".

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Aya is my favorite character. Slightly paradoxical, but she expresses her thoughts quite calmly and clearly, yet at the same time she is very sentimental, romantic and shy, especially with Youko, often struggling to string together even a couple of words. She is like Ayano with Toshinou Kyouko from YuruYuri, but Aya has a stronger tsundere side.

Sounds like meme, "two tsunderes: Aya and Ayano" xd.

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Endmaker ani.social Endmaker@ani.social
Joined: 2024-07-10
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I've heard a fair bit of praise for Call of the Night season 2, so I have been slowly working through season 1.

Honestly, the first half was pretty mid, and a chore to sit through. Nothing was really happening besides a kid having (being?) chuunibyou because he got burnt out. That, and him meeting a vampire.

It became way more interesting in the second half. Without going into any details, more things happened.

Man, I love drama.

Now I am looking forward to season 2.

P.S. I noticed there are a few similarities to the Twilight series

Call of the Night / Twilight spoiler
  • vampires are physically attractive
  • vampires are pretty much human in every way except for the need to drink blood (i.e. modern vampire?)
  • they can survive for a while without drinking blood, but would be in agony
  • the main romantic interest finds the blood of MC especially tasty
  • MC wants to become a vampire; romantic interest is at least somewhat hesitant of turning MC into one
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