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  Have started on what I think is my biggest #anime compression yet. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Some 64 episodes. I've enlisted 4 computers to make this go quicker. Which means we have some stats! MacBook Air M5 (4 Super, 6 Efficiency) ~16fps 2x 12th Gen Core i7-12700H laptops ~16fps AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d gaming PC ~33fps (Keep in mind the MacBook Air is passively cooled and silent, while the Windows laptops are... air cooled and infinitely loud. Much louder than my desktop!) #Ha...

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  RE: https://starside.social/@Ragashingo/117171011036180121 Today's #anime was Do It Yourself!! It's a fun little story about some high school girls who all join the DIY club. Along the way they make benches and decorations from seashells and eventually an entire treehouse! Calm and relaxed, the show actually won quite a bit of respect among anime studios for its nice animation and watercolor-like backgrounds. Plus the main character's name is Yua Serufu, and she is...

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  Your goal is simple: Identify this #anime tv show or film from a single frame set somewhere within its first minute. Send your answer hidden using a Content Warning spoiler so others can play after the first correct guess. Everyone who answers correctly before the next post gets a point. Score will be kept! #FirstMinuteAnime

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  For me, the concept of a Road Trip meant finding an optional journey taken for one's enjoyment rather than a necessary one taken because of a job. This ruled out a couple of things like the constant business traveling in Spice & Wolf. So, what was left? One of the greatest road trips in #anime history! That of Frieren and Fern starting on their "mere ten-year adventure" to find the place where one could speak with the dead that Frieren's mentor wrote ab...

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  For my #AniMangaAlsoRan, I'll go with the subtly spectacular storytelling in the end credits of Girls Band Cry. In this sequence, we see Nina Iseri suggest a road trip to see a rival band, then all the various shenanigans she and her own bandmates get into on the road. There's pet sitting, important hair cuts, arguments and reconciliations, goofball moments, and plenty more to enjoy in this delightfully artistic series of stills and postcard-like popups! #anime #GirlsBandCry

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  RE: https://starside.social/@Ragashingo/117176426871837435 Today's #anime was Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works. Specifically, showing young Shirou Emiya caught in the firestorm that engulfed several blocks of Fuyuki City in the aftermath of the 4th Holy Grail war. Given that the main Fate story has 3 different Routes the plot can follow, Stay/Night, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven's Feel, you can see this scene in all three anime. It's also at the end of the...

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  Your goal is simple: Identify this #anime tv show or film from a single frame set somewhere within its first minute. Send your answer hidden using a Content Warning spoiler so others can play after the first correct guess. Everyone who answers correctly before the next post gets a point. Score will be kept! #FirstMinuteAnime

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  Thanks to the crazy wackiness of free Cloudflare tunnels... and my pre-existing Synology, https://www.ragashingo.com is now running on the box behind me instead of on a server in a datacenter far away. If someone wants to click on it and tell me if performance feels fine, that'd be nice.

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  For my main pick I'll go with Metallic Rouge. On its face, this is a sci-fi story about revenge and liberation of an oppressed people. It had an awesome, weighty battle song in "Crimson Lightning". It had a Blade Runner-ish first episode that had excellent vibes. And then it just kinda went nowhere while getting bewilderingly more complex at the same time. If the story had been trimmed a little, if the plot had been more solid, this could have been great! Oh well. :(...

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  1st day of #MarathonTheGame's 2nd season is having some... issues. Mostly server related, with frequent, gear-losing disconnects, and all sorts of oddities when trying to finish a match. Like, I appreciate someone made the "Status Unknown" post-run screen... but that's kinda one of those "You should never see this error." type errors! Other problem is those with more time to play last season start this season with purple gear. Sucks to get du...

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  It's not all that hard to find a dumb phone in modern anime, but I wanted to shoot for something old school iconic. The 1st opening from NANA turned out to be exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. In one pic it had everything: - A hard cd case with cool background art - A compact disc player loaded with an awesome looking cd - Cool wired headphones - Nana Komatsu's fabulously pink dumb phone displaying 01 new messages. @apc #AniMangaFoundIt #anime #NANA

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  For an alternate pick, how about that time Shiro Emiya calls his own residence and asks Rin Tohsaka, genius heir of one of the three most important and powerful mage families in Fate, to simply turn on the DVR and press record on a soon to air tv episode for him. Everything goes JUST FINE, for Rin... especially with Archer nearby to "help" her. @apc #AniMangaFoundIt

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  Good Job! #anime #DoItYourself #RandomAnime

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  Things have been going well between traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence and minor harvest god Holo the Wise Wolf. They'd overcome trading houses and smugglers and were now rather lovey-dovey... until another merchant and a shocking truth came between them. Lawrence finds himself in a crowd trying to make a desperate play to crash a short sold decorative pyrite market in order to stop the fellow merchant from having the funds to purchase Holo from him! @apc #anime #AniMangaFoundIt #Spice...

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  Kaoruko Hanayagi and Futaba Isurugi sit beneath the bright neon lights of a cabaret more at odds with each other than ever before. At issue in this stage play scene on the magical Stage of Fate is whether these two will stay together or go their separate ways. Their Revue of Resentment is all about Futaba's newfound need to stand out on stage with her own talent vs Kaoruko's controlling codependence that would see them always together but never equals. #anime #RevueStarlight #R...

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  It's no secret that A Place Further than the Universe is my favorite #anime. It's also no secret that I enjoy english covers of anime songs. Here's a fun one that popped up in my playlist this morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNabJxWlCpM Yes, the vocals are a bit unrefined, and the recording is a bit low quality... but honestly, that makes it more perfect. This is exactly the earnest quality our four Antarctic-bound girls would be able to produce, and I love it...

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  This is pretty much a "If you know, you know..." shot from #LandOfTheLustrous. Pairs nicely with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yB7NLTjTMg #anime #RandomAnime

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  Akane Shinjo presses the button to request a bus stop while sharing a smile with her friend and classmate Rikka Takarada. Akane's true identity is one of SSSS.Gridman's core plot points, but Rikka's is perhaps the #anime's most closely guarded secret. One that is so subtly revealed that many viewers might not even know of its existence. #SSSSGridman #RandomAnime

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  Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary starts its 2nd season with its 2 main characters distinctly separated. We focus a lot on a new character, Urino Takahiko, who has ambitions to be a big name at the school newspaper club. Meanwhile, Jogoro and Yuki's separation seems destined to end sooner or later... given the flames of arson connecting them at the end of the episode! Mention has to be paid to seasons 2's opening. It is a stunning, mixed-media extravaganza! #anime #Shoshimi...

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  I'm gonna go ahead a pick what is almost certainly a common favorite for this season: Witch Hat Atelier. With charming characters, an intriguing world, and standout animation, this #anime has somehow managed to hold its own against the very best magical shows from the past and present. Being able to say this deserves to be listed alongside greats like Little Witch Academia and widespread anime of the year winner Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is high praise indeed! @apc #AniMa...

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  @noheger@wien.rocks @siracusa@mastodon.social Also, the cursor changing to the drag arrows can be inconsistent. Sometimes, it just does not change until I move it away and back again. The swap between normal and drag is important. It should be instant and happen always. But... nope. Drives me nuts.

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  When runaways Hodaka Morishima and Hina Amano are nearly brought in off the streets of Tokyo by concerned police during a huge freak storm, Hina's attempts to use her strange mystical powers as a Sunshine Girl to distract them. Usually Hina is able to pray for clear skies. But not this time. Her urgent prayer works a little too well, and a poor, innocent, off-duty Truck-kun ends up paying the price thanks to a powerful burst of freak lightning! @apc #WeatheringWithYou #AniMangaFoundIt

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  Bows: Day 4/5 People bow for lots of reasons. To show respect. To beg for mercy. To apologize. They also bow in prayer. Five people who definitely need the help of the gods are Rupa, Tomo Ebizuka, Subaru Awa, Momoka Kawaragi, and Nina Iseri. Having finally managed to come together as the rock band Togenashi Togeari, they found that a lot of their existing fans didn't quite get the new, less angry sound of their first studio single. Thus, the bowed prayers. @apc #AniMangaFoundIt

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  Bows: Day 1/5 Having set herself up as THE pinnacle actress for others to strive for, Maya Tendo tries to make sure to always give her all in order to live up to her challengers' expectations. Her giant blue hair bow can be considered one of her signature pieces of attire. She wears it almost constantly in her musical theater training, in her more casual outfits, and in both her school uniform and her magical Revue uniform, at which points she actually wears two bows! @apc #AniMangaF...

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  Bows: Day 2/5 I'll do my favoritest bow scene in #anime as a runner up at the end of the week. I've just talked about it too many times before. Instead, have dream Kyosuke Kamijo putting to rest stressed out, lonely dream Hitomi Shizuki thanks to the heroic efforts of the Puella Magi Holy Quintet! Being a Magical Girl sure is great! @apc #AniMangaFoundIt

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  Bows: Day 3/5 There lots of bow and arrows in #anime. But how many are fired by a Heroic Spirit named Archer?! Wait... is he named Archer? Maybe it's all caps EMIYA or possibly Actually Satan? Is he even a Heroic Spirit? Maybe he's a Counter Guardian... whatever that is? You know what? Fate is way too complicated. Better to just watch Fate/Stay Night UBW Abridged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Eq8TUki44 Anyway, here he is using a bow to fire a sword at Hercules, or what...

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  All these big #AniMangaFoundIt libraries reminded me of another important set of bookshelves somewhere, under a starry sky: those of the Shaher Astronomy headquarters at the Justitia Observatory. #anime #VioletEvergarden

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  Saint ♡ Slippery's Academy for Girls Not my main #AniMangaFoundIt pic for the week because I couldn't find enough... acceptable... images. :( I swear #MyDressupDarling is one of the most whole #anime there is! :p

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  Video games in #anime span everything from traditional consoles, to phone games and handhelds, all the way to full dive systems where dying in the game means you die in real life! I'm gonna take a step or two back from that last one, and instead pick the safer round of VR Golf played between Evangeline Burton and Aoi Amawashi. Even here, Eve's aggressive brute force style vs Aoi's calm and cheerful play leave them both desperate for yet another rematch. #AniMangaFoundI...

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  I'll do another backup pick for this week's #AniMangaFoundIt. The literature club in #TooManyLosingHeroines serves as a nice meeting place for Kazuhiko Nukumizu and the various heroines he ends up shepherding when they find themselves on the losing side of love. And, what does a high school literature club need? Books! And what do books need? Bookshelves! #anime