At this point in time, the Winter seasonal shows have either wrapped up or are airing their finale this week. So, I wanted to hear your thoughts on shows you watched this season. Shows you liked, disliked, were surprised by, disappointed by? Let those opinions rip!
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A stranger on the internet recommended me Frieren, I thought it would be 8/10 at the best but it has been easily 10/10 right from the start. The next season doesn’t look any promising to me, it has sequels for Jobless reincarnation and Konosuba though, have to watch their previous seasons to catch up.
Well, Frieren is hardly a insider recommendation. It’s the most talked about show in the last half year.
No see here, come closer, are you interested in a real internet stranger recommendation? One with a good chance that your friends haven’t even heard about because they are too mainstream? One that goes deeper than just a puddle? Do you want to know the real stuff? If you think you have what it takes then go an watch
spoiler
Haibane Renmei
I never heard anything about Frieren until I heard it from someone. Frieren just had 3 or 4 episides back then. It wasn’t talked much in the discord server I hang out. I think it’s popularity increased exponentially like Bocchi.
I will watch your recommendation once I am done with my current list, thank you!
I assume it’s not a anime centered around anime then. In anime circles the Frieren anime was already one of the most anticipated shows based on the Manga which was hugely popular long before the anime announcement. Then when the anime aired it dethroned FMA:Brotherhood from the #1 spot on Myanimelist which was like cemented by the word of God or some such. Took everyone by surprise and the discussion flared at that point with discussions about the popular manga, how awesome the adaptation is, about that insane 90 minute first episode, and about the FMA:B fans frothing at the mouths about that affront against their religion. It only got more popular from there with exceptional week after week and finding its way into the mainstream media. In Japan especially it got so huge that the phrase “It’s what Hero Himmel would have done” became a mainstream saying like we in the west would joke about WWJD. I love that anecdote and I hope that isn’t just a fad and stays for good.
We talk about anime daily, maybe I might have missed the conversations about them.
It was a truly special show. Sometimes those internet strangers can really knock one out of the park. Other times you might end up with Rent a Girlfriend.
don’t tell me you got recommended and then watched rent a girlfriend.
Haha, nope, just used it as an example. I have read most of the manga though. I had a lot of fun in the past making fun of the chapters on /r/manga as they released. However, as the series went on, it stopped being fun to even joke about it. So, I am proud to say that I have been Rent a GF free since November 2023.
The chapter where
Rent a girlfriend manga
the mc thinks about his gf/crush getting fucked by another guy and getting a boner out of it
released around that time right? No wonder people stopped reading it after that lmao.
That was a bit before that point (Jan 2022), but that chapter (218) was peak humor for the discussion thread. It was all downhill after that. It was like we were all just taking the piss of out the series and then the metaphorical Fire Nation of chapter 218 attacked.
I continued reading it for a while after transitioning to Lemmy. Fortunately, after starting the !manga@ani.social community, the users there have helped me replace it with much better choices.