Der japanische Comic-Künstler und Schöpfer der weltweit erfolgreichen Manga-Serie „Dragon Ball“, Akira Toriyama, ist tot. Er wurde 68 Jahre alt.

/ The Japanese comic artist and creator of the globally successful manga series "Dragon Ball", Akira Toriyama, has died. He was 68 years old.

I'm looking for a chapter where hayate faces off against a group referred to as something along the lines of elite four. It may have been four devas/kings/etc. instead. Rather than four though there were way more, they were censored, yet clearly major characters from several popular anime at the time. I recall lelouche and the four main pilots of 0 Gundam, but there were more.

I feel like it was closer to the beginning than the end but it's actually such a slog rereading it and I'm starting to feel like I might be wrong, and my guessing has not worked out.

What the hell just happened? Feel like the plot turned to 11 and we are heading right to the end game. Where does

Jo! My very first post on feddit - yay! I really like drawing (especially while reading my manga). Anyone else does this? Let us see your stuff :D I also like to use postit stickers and draw while at work then stick them on the wall of my office.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/700718

It is my great pleasure to announce in collaboration with @[email protected] & @[email protected] that automatic episode discussion threads will now begin posting to the [email protected] community starting right now!

Q&A:

What are episode discussion threads?

Simply put, they're a place to discuss newly aired seasonal anime episodes. Here's an example.

Why do these need to be automated?

Automation will lower the barrier to entry for discussions and help to remind everyone when new content airs. More importantly: it's what you guys asked for! (exhibit A, exhibit B)

What technology does the bot use?

The bot uses the same code as the /r/anime subreddit known as Holo. We had to fork the bot to make it work with Lemmy, but we intend to merge our work back upstream so that we can share improvements and collaborate with them when it comes to things like code optimizations and show data.

You can follow our efforts in refining & upstreaming the Holo fork here. Please feel welcome to contribute your own improvements to the PR as well 😊 (see below known issues list for ideas)

Why fork Holo?

Two reasons:

• Building a good bot is time intensive. By forking a mature project, you guys get what you want faster and us developers don't have to reinvent the wheel, so to speak.
• Every season, some poor soul has to perform the grueling task of manually cataloging each airing show. By using a shared codebase, we benefit from the dedicated work of /r/anime's data collection instead of having to do it ourselves.

Are there any known issues?

Yes:

• Links to episodes that aired prior to today will point to the wrong place. The bot is designed with the assumption that it can edit every post it links to -- since the actual threads prior to today were manually created by other people, it's impossible to incorporate those threads into the bot's database.
• Episode polls currently have an anti-brigading feature using Reddit authentication. That's obviously kind of a non-sensical thing to do here since 1) this isn't Reddit & 2) nobody's brigaded us yet. We plan to fix this soon!
• Anime subreddits currently show up in each thread's "Show information" list, but there's currently no such support for plugging the equivalent Lemmy communities. Eventually, we'll need to get that set up and upstream it, too. 😉

Who's the bot?

The episode discussion bot is named @[email protected]!

Why's the bot hosted on ani.social?

Let's break this into three parts:

• Why not lemmy.ml? Because new user registrations are closed for lemmy.ml 🤷
• Why not lemmy.world? Because lemmy.world is defederated by beehaw.org. In addition, smaller instances (like my own) sometimes temporarily defederate lemmy.world during heavy traffic. Obviously, we don't want visitors missing out on episode threads just because of federation drama or a recent traffic surge!
• Why ani.social specifically? Because they're on-topic, small enough to generally dodge defederation threats, and serious about their infrastructure.

Why "Shinobu"?

Before /r/anime's bot was running under /u/AutoLovepon, it ran on an account named Holo. Clearly the bot's creator was a fan of Spice & Wolf. I named the bot Shinobu because I'm a 🤮 bakemonogatari 🤮 fan. No further questions -- this interview is over. I will never apologize!

Would love to have a bot like this for current manga chapters, what do you think @[email protected] ?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1192960

A lovely story with incredible art!

The visuals really carry this one. The lines are beautiful, and the shading is very well done, it really gives every single page lots of depth. I love how Nakamura used empty space to give some pages this feeling of letting the words float in the air, while some others feel horribly cramped. It really enhances the reading experience.

The plot is nice too. There's a very sad backdrop to every interaction, and the way the main character (Mizushima) talks about life and death is a bit cringe, but there was still plenty of emotional weight.

It's a one-shot, so there's not much time to properly develop the characters, but I felt that things weren't particularly rushed.

I love the themes of loss, trauma, and depression, and I really appreciated how much everyone around the main character cared for him. Especially Hanamori, of course. Mental health is a very serious thing, and seeing how much Mizushima struggled with his personal trauma really touched me, but I think a lot of authors, when they try to tackle these issues, end up putting their struggling characters in seemingly hopeless situations where everyone is against them, and it's up to the main character to break out of their misery. Not here. The people around him care about him, and they try to help and support him, even if Hanamori was the main catalyst for his recovery.

I think that was really beautiful.

What do you think?

Rating: 4/5

Read on ジャンプ+!
Read on MangaPark!!!

As for my city, we have decently sized conventions and even a dedicated Anime/Manga-style "cultural exchange mascot" courtesy of our biggest book store.

It's still hard to find people of my own age to talk to about this hobby lol

Which website or app do you use to track new chapter releases? I use kenmei.co ( https://www.kenmei.co/ ) but I'm not happy with the number of supported sites. I also tried Tachiyomi but the updating process often fails due to mangadex call rate limits.