My interpretation as well.

Akihabara is still alive and well. Comiket also is as big as ever.

Some of the people I follow have been complaining in the past as well about changes in Akihabara. Granted, they were complaining about electronic stores dying out there and not anime-related stuff, so I’m not sure how that translates. I think I also read or heard complaints about Comiket being just a big corporate event instead of the place where people go to sell their doujins. I remember something about winter Comiket now being the new main event for those non-corporate exhibitions.

What I want to say is that I don’t think there’s no passion anymore, just that certain parts of industry become soulless husks of themselves.

You are right, the passion is not lost entirely, but looking at the fandom as a whole, I feel like it has become so large and commercialized that the passionate people are just small individual clusters in an ocean of indifferent people and ads. I base this only on my own views and how it feels to me, and I certainly have changed as well over the years.

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That’s a very good way to put it. I’m pushing 50 and have watched anime since my earliest childhood. When thinking back on how the community has changed over the years, it’s not recognizable anymore. And the passion and energy the community has lost is probably the biggest contributor why it feels so empty now. The second biggest contributor is how commercialized it has become. Third would be that it reached the mainstream (though I personally group this together with #2).

Counterpoint: They are not commercial products, and there is nothing stopping groups from just abandoning series mid-season. For example, Komi Can’t Communicate got a sub that translated all her written text in place and then just dropped it after a couple of episodes.

I’ve seen two arguments during that time.

1. as fan subs, those are entirely done voluntarily and the people behind it owe nothing to the community

2. they shouldn’t have started the series if they weren’t committed to completing the season. Other groups sat out on the series because of that.

I would say he had at least dipped his toes into anime with the Nier Automata anime.

Also this:

“The work I was most inspired by is Neon Genesis Evangelion. I thank you for praising NieR: Automata’s story, but actually it’s pretty much just a retelling of Evangelion”

-Yoko Taro in 2024

Yoko Taro alone is enough for me to get giddy about this. Add Okabe to the mix, and you get magic.

Boy oh boy. It’s been a while since I was hyped for something this much.

Cooking with Wild Game on the 26th. That leaves me with one evening to finish it before RE9 drops on the 27th. Not enough time…

<Tearmoon Empire> Volume 16 - multi-part volume with a cliffhanger. Which wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t release only one volume a year. And I am still strung up about the translator change. It just isn’t the same anymore. Good, yes, but not great.

<Mercedes and the Waning Moon: The Dungeoneering Feats of a Discarded Vampire Aristocrat> Volume 4 - Mostly filler volume, but entertaining regardless.

Hello, my name is Nine and I welcome you to another round of “Spot The Tourist That Only Reads The Title Before Shitting On A Show!”. Today’s grand price winner will go home with up to 100.000 virtue points and a cruise vacation to somewhere else than battle shounen.

My first thought was that it was her sister that she lost. As in their “sisterhood”, not as in her “death”. But earlier when they had their falling out that made her hate her. Maybe they were close once. I’m not sure if it’s a realistic depiction of a sibling bond, but it’s something that would fit into the META of the show. It’s what I would do if I were a writer when trying to spin the story around a central plot point.

Whenever I start to type something about the show in here, I feel like it isn’t adequate enough for the subject matter and then just decide to not comment at all. Especially after the last couple episodes got heavier with emotion.

I hate it, but I hope they can turn me around.

I want a trophy for being furthest away.

<The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects> Volume 12 - Two celebreations and a bandit attack. That’s a lot happenign in the volume for this slow paced series.

The abandoned reincarnation sage for me.

At the end of season 1 I felt the gimmick has been spread too thin and ran its course. Very funny in the first few episodes but grew stale fast. When I gave S02E01 a go I immediately got the same sense. Do they switch it up a bit in later episodes by adding a new gimmick/joke setup/etc. ?

If you are offended by this, you haven’t been paying attention.

I second this. It’s been my favorite of last season.