This episode was awesome

Good riddance. While I don’t like saying this, good on Tobias for calling the engagement off. Dahlia wouldn’t have, and an actual marriage would have been way worse. Seems he’s not entirely braindead.

Also, those fucking shadows man. They just don’t make sense.

Were there any known issues with Gamma?

edit: lol wouldn’t have pegged this crowd for a sensitive bunch. my mistake, carry on trumpeting your audits lol

This isn’t about ‘trumpeting audits’ or ‘being sensitive’ or brand loyalty or whatever. Your comment just comes across as either wilfully ignorant, or contrarian. Audits and sharing those audits like this are essential for transparancy and building trustworthiness, especially when it comes to security and privacy. If a VPN would say ‘no logs’ but never proves it with transparent audits, they’re untrustworthy. Simple as that. This serves as proof they don’t log.

I don’t see Proton acting special here. Just a report and why it’s important. And they do share all the other stuff you’ve mentioned, so I’m not sure why you seem to ignore that.

Sidenote, if it matters: while I am a Proton customer, I don’t use ProtonVPN

How do you find Oneshots? Do you just scroll Mangadex for them?

I love this manga. The characters are so good and the expressions the mangaka draws for them are so on point.

Yeah, and not just a little bit. All the nudity they added were in scenes/shots that don’t exist in the manga. Not sure how to feel about that. They also seem to have upped the plus sizedness of the characters.

Things moved a little bit too quickly for my liking. Also, why is Dahlia so easily accepting of Tobias’ dumb demands?

The shadows in this show also don’t make sense at all. There’s always some straight lines somewhere on characters, that don’t always match up elsewhere, don’t match the lighting, keep changing positions depending on the viewing angle or are way too static. I don’t know why I’m so bothered about this but I am haha. It’s distracting me.

honestly I find it really gross to have an anime based around a famous person from within living memory, who famously died by suicide, on a comedy journey to commit suicide.

Agreed. Very disrespectful and distasteful

I don’t remember it being so explicit with nudity

Me neither. That’s why I was initially surprised about the ‘no censorship’ news too.

Awesome episode. Also, that ED is gorgeous

Yeah, I do this for my Blurays (with Jellyfin tho), but I don’t really want to bother with downloading seasonal anime episodically. I’d rather use streaming sites for that.

That’s fucked up. I really wish there were legal alternatives to CR here. HIDIVE pulled out, Wakanim merged with CR and now it’s just CR for 90% of anime. There is no choice. Yeah sure Netflix and Disney+ have the occasional anime, but the vast majority is on CR. How the merger got past market authorities is wild to me. It’s a near monopoly. I watch on my TV, so sailing the seven seas for streaming sucks too.

Yeah, this is… risky, to put it lightly

I’ve not properly looked at this season yet, but I’ve started Suicide Squad Isekai and NieR Automata. SSI is kinda meh so far (seen 3 eps). Harley is really fun, but the rest is meh. Despite the anime look, it doesn’t feel like it at all. Also, way too many references to other works of WB. NieR was a great start. Very interesting and despite having played the game, I find myself wondering where it’s gonna go.

I do want to watch Senpai wa Otokonoko and the new Monogatari. I liked the webcomic for the former a lot and am curious how they’re gonna handle it in the anime. The latter I will need to rewatch the entire Monogatari series first, so it might not be this season that I’ll pick up it

Yea, that’s the thing haha.

Yeah, that’s fair

I forgot this was coming out. I think I’ll need to do a full rewatch first.

There’s quite a bit before all this, starting with Bakemonogatari.

There are many recommended watch orders like book order, chronological order and broadcast order, but I usually recommend the broadcast order. Partially because of stylistic changes over the years, but mostly because they did this order for a reason

I don’t fully agree with this. I’d just follow the broadcast order (though Kizu is a weird one). Considering Hitagi End, I think having Hanamonogatari after that makes more sense, like it was broadcasted. Same with Koyomimonogatari. The end of that ties directly into Owarimonogatari S2, so I would put that between OMG S1 and 2, as broadcasted.

I know the anime doesn’t follow the order of the books, but the anime didn’t change it up for sake of it, so it has always seemed strange to me to change that order.