I loved all the little details that were only on screen for a split second! The one shot where they first meet--I assume all the eggshells in the bird nest implied she had eaten them 😭
There were a couple weirdly fanservicey shots, like the shot that went up that ninja's underwear, but the show is so goofy that I don't really mind. (Also that was a pretty cool animation sequence.) I love Satoko ;-;
The action was also way better than it had any right to be
I loved the creative camera angles (both the action scenes and elsewhere)
it’s been fun trying to guess people’s animal blessings since they don’t say them outright
I also really like the choice to use the gorilla god as a (silent) character that just pops in for cameos; it's hilarious to me
I loved the moment they met and how they animated at least a whole day passing by in the blink of an eye for Lilisa
something something u-haul
I laughed when the other classmates were talking about how it was a scene from "a picture", and then in the very next scene the busker is singing about beauty that doesn't show up in pictures. Cheeky.
The "I saw flower petals" comment also made me snort.
The production team is basically showing their hand and saying "yeah, our goal is to make you cry every episode for the entire season". That's ambitious and I like it.
Maybe I'm just easily manipulated, but this first story got me (even with them having to take the time to establish the premise first). It could've hit harder, sure, but it (subjectively ofc) felt like a pretty promising start to me. If I have one thing to nitpick it's actually the soundtrack when she goes into town--it feels out of place? it doesn't mesh and feels frantic. It's entirely possible that it was intentional--I'm willing to trust the story for now.
I loved the cold open! It really efficiently establishes the mood, sets up the magical aspect with the single "tea brewing" shot, and shows us Meg's personality through how others (Ms. Faust and all the animals) interact with her. When people say "show, don't tell", this is what they mean.
didn’t feel slow at all.
there were actually a couple spots I wished lingered a little longer (to sink in), but they were also trying to fit quite a lot into this first episode.
competently directed
There were lots of little touches I really enjoyed! e.g. Ms. Faust being framed in the bottle, the cloud (literally) coming over her face, Anna dissolving into younger Meg. One (subtler) parallel between Anna and Meg I noticed was: Meg is supposedly going to die from a curse, and her teacher ("the greatest witch") cannot save her; while Anna's mom died from an illness, and her dad is apparently a doctor/pharmacist.
It wouldn’t surprise me if it was revealed as all being a trick by the old witch as a character building exercise.
Even if we play along with Ms. Faust here, I feel like there's two layers (kinda) to the whole ordeal---one is she needs to literally collect tears (joy) in order to live the rest of her life, and the other is that she needs that joy to really live, in the carpe diem sense. ... I hope that made sense...
the alternative is that they don't sell replacement parts at all
maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't the corresponding alternative in this case "you can use parts from any manufacturer you want"?
... oh damn, I didn't catch that at all. First time hearing about them. (looks like the all caps thing is canonical too)
I guess they're completely unaffiliated with LibreOffice? looks like their product is intended to feel as close to Microsoft as possible
~~OpenOffice is unmaintained, unfortunately (see the LibreOffice page explaining this); LibreOffice considers officially hosting a cloud service out of their scope but~~ Collabora does provide hosting (and you can self-host, of course). Their "Development Edition" is the free version that doesn't come with an SLA.
edit: I can't read
and if they punish you before the judge says you don't deserve punishment, oh well!
the horrifying thing is on multiple occasions, they've (we've? it's our government) attempted to use this logic to execute people. Some of which we know for sure are innocent.
speculating here, but the "auto-generated ones" are probably just the ones in the opengraph tags, which is supposed to be what the website intended as the thumbnail. It's more likely that these websites' operators don't have a clue that opengraph is being used, but since they're the "proper" way to do embeds, lemmy can't just ignore them, either.
This bill doesn't, but the senate version did iirc. Still, it's obviously a step in the right direction.