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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02] (ani.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by wjs018@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

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[–] wjs018@ani.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am keeping this post very brief as I am really not feeling very well at the moment. So, here are some super brief impressions on what I watched this past week:

Tower of God Season 2 Finale - Even with a stronger end, a really big letdown over season 1. Unsure if I will continue if there is a season 3.
Ameku M.D. - OK start. Willing to continue with this one if I find time, but a low priority.
Pom Poko - Watched for the first time this past week while sick and it was kinda weird. Not sure if it was meant to be tragic, silly, or preachy about nature conservation. It ended up a bit of a mishmash of all three that wasn't great. I did love the creative animations of the tanuki and their transformations though.
Porco Rosso - Similarly watched for the first time this past week and I liked this one a lot more. Some really gorgeous animation and an interesting cast of characters.
Rurouni Kenshin (Remake Season 2) - Watched the first couple episodes and I appreciate that they aren't afraid to change up animation styles for impact from time to time. Also, I really like Misao, so it's been fun.
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 - Watched a couple episodes and it's the same as always. Each episode is just a bite of comfort food. It has been remarkably consistent over all seven seasons.

Just as a meta aside, I have been toying around with stuff for future versions of the voting stuff we just did for the awards and the async nature of web stuff is really breaking my brain. I am so used to writing scripts and stuff for work that just runs a bunch of data cleaning and analysis sequentially and I sit there while it thinks until it spits out the results.

That kind of thing just doesn't work when you try to do things in a browser without making you constantly think that things are broken. Making this issue worse is that one of the api's I am trying to integrate (animethemes.moe) is pretty slow to respond, usually taking ~0.5-1 second per query. So, I am being forced to learn async stuff and I kind of hate it...

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That kind of thing just doesn't work when you try to do things in a browser without making you constantly think that things are broken.

There's some things you can't really avoid dealing with that stuff for, but if it doesn't really need to be a dynamic interaction with the service, you may be able to just write a script that runs on your server (either once or periodically) to download what you need as a batch, and then serve static results based on that to your users. It's not only easier to implement when you can use that technique, but the UX is often better that way too...

the async nature of web stuff is really breaking my brain

I am being forced to learn async stuff and I kind of hate it...

I remember beating my head against the wall working through the details of Promises in JS a couple years ago when I needed to figure out how to trigger certain pieces of logic only after all of a large batch of slow, dynamic results were fetched -- which the user would often want to interrupt and adjust as partial results came in... so, I know what you mean.

[–] wjs018@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

download what you need as a batch, and then serve static results

Yeah, I think this is what I am going to do for the most part. Especially when dealing with the slow api responses, I can just make all the requests in a background script and save what I need to a local database. It's just text at the end of the day, so even a couple thousand entries is nothing.

Promises in JS

Haven't really gotten a handle on these yet. I have almost exclusively worked with python and R in the past, so dipping a toe into JS has been challenging. I haven't gotten too far into frontend stuff yet, but think I might try to just avoid it as much as possible through flask+htmx. Some JS is going to be unavoidable though I think since I do want certain things to be interactable.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You guys have just reminded me why I no longer try to do any kind of website work. 🙄 😭