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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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[–] Unboxious@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I started watching a couple of shows:

Akiba Maid War - It's what it says on the tin. Super fun, humorous, well-written show.
Zenshu - The English blurb for this show lies by omission. It cuts off the ending of the Japanese blurb! The cut off part reads something like, "While struggling with her storyboards, she loses consciousness. When she awakens she finds herself in the world of an anime she saw as a child, Tales of Destruction." That's right, it's actually an isekai. They admitted it to the Japanese audience but deliberately hid this information from western viewers. The animation is superb, and I can see why they wouldn't want to be lumped in with all the other generic isekai that are constantly being churned out, but I don't appreciate being lied to.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The English blurb for this show lies by omission. It cuts off the ending of the Japanese blurb!

Depends on where you read it, I guess. Livechart's blurb was complete as of yesterday, when I last reloaded the page.

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

Interesting. It's missing on Anilist.co, MAL, and Crunchyroll but sure enough there it is on Livechart.

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

Huh. That looks to me like two of those copied an incomplete blurb from the third (I would guess that Crunchyroll made the initial error, since they're the one with the commercial interest). Livechart says "[Source: MAPPA]" at the very bottom, so they went back to the original studio for their information.

[–] wjs018@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

Popping into the Zenshu thread and it seems like it might be one to try to check out this season. That bit about the difference between the Japanese and English synopses is pretty funny. Thanks for pointing it out.