Kanonical

@kanonical.bsky.social

(They/them) BanG Dream! superfan. Always looking for the next thing to hyperfixate on.

Anime fans have got to be the worst fandom when it comes to having to neatly categorize everything and come up with labels for every subgenre, character type, plot device, etc. All it achieves is making everything seem even more derivative than it actually is.

More proof of how stupid LLMs really are: Twitter's auto-translate turns: バンドリ!アワーノーツ Ba N Do Ri ! A Uu Noo Tsu Bandori (BanG Dream)! Our Notes to "BanG Dream! Ave Mujica" because it's not doing any actual translation but looking for relevant matches.

And finished season 1. Really liked the last few episodes. The dialogue becomes more focused with less non-sequiturs, and thanks to that Hikiyama's MO is clearer (to the point of being spelled out in ep 12) which makes for a richer character.

Kanonical@kanonical.bsky.social · 2w ago

A little over halfway through the first season of My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU and it's... decent? I feel compelled to keep watching at the very least. Protagonist is exhausting, but in a believable way, but some of the comedic reliefs are too over the top.

A little over halfway through the first season of My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU and it's... decent? I feel compelled to keep watching at the very least. Protagonist is exhausting, but in a believable way, but some of the comedic reliefs are too over the top.

Revisiting their stories in Our Notes, I realize that BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica are the closest I'd get to considering any anime a "must watch" MyGO elevates a generic music anime plot with masterful storytelling and beautifully flawed characters. And Ave Mujica is a JOURNEY.

Imagine if other emergency calls were treated like a Section 12 "Yes. it's true we don't see any reason to justify an emergency, but someone did call in a noise complaint so we'll have to take you in and confiscate anything that could potentially make a noise."

Food for thought: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has less dungeons than Link's Awakening. (or the same number, if you count the final dungeon) Zelda dungeon lovers really were spoiled by LttP and OoT

Coincidentally been thinking about most of these recently, so here are my top 5 most disappointing video game sequels: 1. Awakened Fate Ultimatum 2. Code Vein II 3. AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative 4. Jak 2 5. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance A2

Been trying to fully form a thought all day about how outside of intention, the distinction between "good" art and "bad" art is pointless. Art criticism is so often used to make one individual or group to feel superior to another. Which is gross, because it can serve a purpose (1/3)

I think social media has gotten people way too comfortable with abbreviating everything. Saw a discussion on Discord where people were abbreviating The Witcher series as TW#. It's the word The and one more word, people. It took me all day to figure out what the heck they were talking about.