When season 3 was going I thought man I still have to start this series, and now season four is announced already. There is just so much to watch and I’m a slow guy…

I understand the sentiment. Personally I’m not really waiting for it and it will come when it comes. I like that they delay it instead of rush it.

I finished Tamayura Hitotose. It’s a very nice iyashikei mainly about photography and loss. The pace is slow and the atmosphere is gentle. It has many elements that remind me of ARIA (same director). I like the setting: Japanese villages with lots of traditional architecture. My favorite episode was Maon’s flashback episode. It might be worth noting that it is one of those anime where the characters have realistic hair colours like K-ON!, giving it that extra down to earth vibe.

Pani Poni Dash is underrated, good to see it mentioned. Have you seen Poputepipikku?

I watched Tamayura and started Tamayura Hitotose. It’s an iyashikei by the same director as ARIA, Satou Junichi. Also shares some seiyuu with ARIA. It’s very gentle… And has that same sense of wonder to it. Fushigi… (he seems to like that word both in ARIA and Tamayura)

I have no clue but I do have a question. If you want to mess about with window managers and ricing them (I like that as well), wouldn’t a non immutable distro be easier? It is “immutable” but it seems you want to mutate all kinds of stuff.

I think that’s because the user can still fuck up their system by doing some stuff to those user files, like not managing their packages correctly. Note that for normal users anything that messes up their user experience equates to messing up “the system”. But I don’t really know, it’s just a guess. I just run a normal distro where you can mess with everything (like god intended lol).

I think Ichigo Mashimaro is quite iyashikei because of things like pacing, music, ambient sounds, wholesome moments, those little vignittes between scenes. It just kinda breathes nicely, there is space between jokes and lines. Soft music, kind moments. The environment feels real and “encompassing” (a bit like in non non biyori). For me CGDCT is kinda iyashikei in general but Ichigo Mashimaro is definitely significantly more iyashikei than average to me. A SOL CGDCT that is less iyashikei and more comedy to me is something like Ika Musume. Peak iyashikei to me is ARIA, highly recommended for pure brainmelting wholesomeness and healing of the soul.

Wow a fricking Ichigo Mashimaro recommendation in the wild. Shows can be both CGDCT and Iyashikei, and they often are. Non Non Biyori is definitely also a CGDCT and Ichigo Mashimaro is quite iyashikei depending on how you receive it. But good picks for sure.

I finished Violet Evergarden and the OVA episode and I’m 2/3 through the first film. It looks stunning and it’s an emotional show. In the end there is some action to resolve the story which is ok but I thought that was the weakest part. My favorite episode was number 10 with the girl Ann. Usually I was a bit wet behind the eyes but with this one the tears just streamed down my face lol.

The OVA was just a good episode. It has some singing parts which I enjoyed. For reasons I am 2/3s through the first film. It kind of is a three act film roughly each act 30 minutes. The first act was wonderful and very tender. It has certain element to it that I am used to from other anime but didn’t expect in Violet Evergarden. I won’t say what it is to not spoil anything. But it was well done. In the second act the story gets going. Still very good and enjoyable, but the first act has a certain vibe that I really like.

Other than that I finished Ika Musume by finishing the 3 episode OVA. It’s consistent as always. OP -> 3 stories -> ED. I’m not watching anything from the season. I was expecting the Madoka film but that one has been delayed yet again. I rather have it delayed than rushed so I’m fine with it.

I use Artix btw. Pretty stable, I guess I have to fix something a few times a year.

I have been using Dash for years now as bin/sh. I couldn’t manage to get rid of Bash so it’s still installed (distro is Artix). As an interactive shell I run Fish. Dash is indeed rather terrible as an interactive shell as others have said.

Of course. There are many human made subs that suck too. For example when Shikanoko came out the subs were quite bad but clearly human made. But the positive about subs is that you can still hear the original Japanese so you never have to trust or rely on them completely. I always take things from listening that are not in the sub. If I were just to read the sub I would miss many things. With dubs you don’t have a choice, you just have to trust them. AI dubs would be even worse.

I see, I hope they have enough of a celebrity status among dub watchers then. I think that is really the thing that will shield them from being replaced by AI in the future.

That’s fine. Do you watch subs if there is no dub? Some popular shows don’t have English dubs. What about extra content? A lot of it is in Japanese only. If you watch that after watching a dub the voices don’t match.

One time I was watching one of my favorites and an emotional scene came up. However the sub was not accurate and diminished the emotional impact. Luckily it was not a hard line and I could just hear the Japanese which saved it for me. I’m curious what you think of that. Because with a dub you wouldn’t be able to spot the mistake right?

It’s not that a dub can’t be good, but I don’t understand how you can know if a dub is accurate. You would need to have the dub and the original side by side and watch line by line to see if it fits right? With a sub you have this automatically. Of course due to grammar it can be the next or previous line but generally you can listen to the original and read the sub at the same time to check for differences. I don’t do this consciously but it is effective.

One time I was watching one of my favorites and an emotional scene came up. However the sub was not accurate and diminished the emotional impact. Luckily it was not a hard line and I could just hear the Japanese which saved it for me. If that happens with a dub, you wouldn’t know. That is my problem with dubs, not if the voice acting is good or not. I’m sure there are many good voice actors in other languages that do a great job.

I’m being half serious here: divine punishment for dub watchers :)

When choosing a dub over a sub you give up a lot just for the convenience of not having to deal with another language. It must be of no surprise that you can pull a lot more bullshit on dub watchers, including this AI nonsense.

Seiyuu’s are celebrities in Japan. You couldn’t replace them with AI because fans will not watch that shit if their beloved seiyuus are replaced. I think it would be a real riot to try remove Japanese seiyuu from anime. Maybe I’m ignorant but there seems to be no matching passion for english voice actors. Do they have many events, concerts, photo books, radio shows, merch and such?

Right now AI is not good enough to pull this off. If it is in the future, only the perceived value of the humans that are voicing the characters can save voice acting.

If you have interest in Japanese voice actors feel free to visit !seiyuu@ani.social.

I started watching Violet Evergarden. Looks very pretty.

I usually pick out my anime carefully. I don’t watch that much so I don’t want to pick something that is ass. I also tend to finish everything I watch. So usually I pick out things that I quite like.

In the beginning of liking slice of life I didn’t know what to expect and if I liked it so I didn’t guess before watching that I would be into it. However it changed with Lucky Star. I watched a few clips on youtube and thought, man this is going to be great. And it was! While watching the very first scene where they eat lunch I just thought “this is the shit”. Lucky Star really confirmed to me that SOL was my thing.

I like the “ikandeshou? ikandeshou?” “uuu san hai!” type of stuff in the first one.

And I never thought about it like that, but you are right. From now on I will say that Ika Musume is my favorite isekai!