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It's time for a new general discussion thread! Hot takes, recommendations, questions, cautionary tales, all of it is welcome here.

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My good friend Quentin had this idea to create an award for the best feet in anime and manga. He suggests we create a couple of categories to do this justice:

• Best Toes
• Best Soles
• Best feet in socks
• Best feet in shoes (be it sandals, highheels or other open types of shoe)

We suggest we keep the nominations open for a week, so until December 22nd. All anime and manga that came out during the calendar year of 2024 are eligible.

MF Ghost 2nd Season, episode 11

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Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru 2nd Season, episode 11

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Kami no Tou: Tower of God 2nd Season, episode 24

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No premiere date of PV released yet. For more information, check out the Crunchyroll article. Synopsis of the source light novels from AniList:

Rentt Faina, a twenty-five-year-old adventurer, has been hacking away at monsters for a decade. However, without much talent for the job, Rentt finds himself stuck hunting slimes and goblins for meager amounts of coin every day. Little does he know, all this is about to change when he comes across a seemingly undiscovered path in the Labyrinth of the Moon's Reflection. What awaits him at the end of the path, however, is neither treasure nor riches, but a legendary dragon that wastes no time swallowing him whole! Waking up a short time later, Rentt finds himself not quite dead, but not very alive either—he is nothing more than a pile of bones! Armed with nothing but his trusty sword, tool belt, and ghoulish new looks, Rentt sets off on his quest as a newly reborn Skeleton to achieve Existential Evolution, hoping to one day return to civilization with a more human form.

Will Rentt succeed, or will the labyrinth consume him for the rest of his un-death...?

Premieres January 10, 2025. The new PV is here. Check out the Crunchyroll article for more information. Synopsis from AniList:

Rumors stir throughout the land: when the wielder of the black sword draws his dark blade, all who stand in its path are torn asunder…!

Köinzell, the mysterious young boy who carries the black sword, undeniably wields it with exceptional skill, but can he truly be responsible for the bloody rumors? Pursued by the Traitorous Lances, four powerful warriors who were thought to have been defeated by the Seven Heroes, the strength of the young swordsman will be tested to its limit. At battle’s end, only the shocking truth of Köinzell’s quest will stand above the corpses of his enemies…

An epic fantasy on the grandest of scales!

No premiere date or PV yet. Check out the Crunchyroll article for more information. Synopsis of the source light novels from AniList:

One day, a gamer played video games until he fell asleep…and when he woke up, he found himself in the game world–as a skeleton! Equipped with the powerful weapons and armor of his avatar but stuck with its frightening skeletal appearance, Arc has to find a place for himself in this new, fantastical land. All his hopes for a quiet life are dashed when he crosses paths with a beautiful elven warrior, setting him on a journey full of conflict and adventure.

Premieres sometime in 2025. Check out the Crunchyroll article for more information. Synopsis from AniList:

Dennis is one of the most popular members of the Silverwing Battalion, the world's strongest party. So popular, in fact, that the party leader expels him from the group out of spite.

Stripped of his home, Dennis decides to start life anew following his true calling—as a chef! His life as an adventurer might be over, but his new life as a cook is just beginning. He teams up with Atelier, a young girl who has been similarly exiled from her home, and opens up a restaurant for adventurers.

He's finally able to live out his dream, but he'll need use of more than just his cooking skills to take care of his eclectic customers' problems!

Shangri-La Frontier 2nd Season, episode 10

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Maou 2099, episode 10

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Blue Lock VS. U-20 JAPAN, episode 11

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Dragon Ball DAIMA, episode 10

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Premieres sometime in 2025. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis from AniList:

To their classmates, Wada is a quiet rich girl while Yamamoto is an intimidating lone wolf…but what they don’t know is that Wada is a mobile game addict in a passionate love-hate relationship (with a 2D character) and Yamamoto has a penchant for urban legends with eyes only for her favorite YouTuber. And their biggest not-so-secret secret—these unlikely friends meet at the food court every day after school to rant, rave, and learn what makes each other tick!

Premieres sometime in 2025. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis from AniList:

The year is 2052 — an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity prevails across the globe. The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain. Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has developed a miracle cure-all drug with no apparent drawbacks called Hapuna. Hapuna soon becomes ubiquitous… and essential. However, soon after Hapuna is officially introduced, Dr. Skinner vanishes.

Three years later, the world has moved on. But Dr. Skinner has returned — this time, as a harbinger of doom. Skinner announces that Hapuna has a short half-life. Everyone who has taken it will die approximately three years later. Death is coming for this sinful world — and coming soon.

As a response to this threat, a special task force of 5 agents is gathered from across the world to save humanity from Skinner’s plan. This group is called “Lazarus.” Can they find Skinner and develop a vaccine before time runs out?

No release date or PV yet. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis from AniList:

Luna, a black witch who lives quietly in a poisonous mushroom house, deep in the Black Forest. She lives in the city making high-efficiency medicines, but she is rumored to be rumored to die if she is touched, and she is avoided ... The life of a witch who doesn't know the warmth of people is carefully and momentarily drawn.

No other details announced yet. This announcement comes as the finale for season 1 aired today. Check out the Crunchyroll article for additional information. Synopsis for the first season from AniList:

“I have no interest in real girls!”

So claims Okumura, the president of the school’s manga club. He’s your typical otaku, obsessed with a sexy (fictional) 2D manga character known as Lilliel. Then the new school year starts, and a (real!) 3D girl named Lilysa whose passion is cosplay joins the club. Lilysa convinces Okumura to become her photographer–and guess who her favorite manga character is? Not only that, but Lilysa is into modeling the fetishy stuff! The boundaries between 2D and 3D start to blur as this hot-blooded romantic comedy unfolds.

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Submit Nominations Here

I hope everybody is having a great week! I just wanted to put out a reminder that the nomination window for the year-end awards is closing soon (roughly end of Sunday USTZ).

I wrote a lot about the awards already here in case you are wondering what the hell they are. Feel free to ask any additional questions on this post as well. There are sister awards that are also open for nominations:

• Manga Award Nominations
• Light Novel Award Nominations

Finally, just want to thank @NineSwords@ani.social for generating the image I used for this post (as well as just thanking them in general).

The theatrical cut of the beginning of the series premieres in Japanese theaters January 17, 2025. The new PV is here. Check out the Crunchyroll article for additional information. Synopsis from AniList:

Amate Yuzuriha is a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space.

When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.

Under the entry name "Machu," she throws herself into fierce battle day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shuji.

Now their world is about to enter a new era.