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The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.

'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'

@thaliarchus12/28/2022, 2:03 PM

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@pontifus12/28/2022, 5:07 AM

I guess it's a bit of a shame that Do It Yourself!! had to share a season with Bocchi, but maybe I'm only saying this because it's a thing people are saying. Being arguably the less ambitious of the two shows doesn't mean DIY isn't quite a good version of what it is.

Premise: intrepid teens aspire to do it themselves. One somewhat more trepid teen harbors a furious crush on her childhood friend and copes by acting like a tech industry girlboss, setting herself up for an unfulfilling, lonely, and brief corporate career that will end in total burnout and lasting regret.

#Anime #do it yourself!!

@thaliarchus12/28/2022, 2:03 PM

DIY stands out to me as an anime-original exercise in this type of show. Most other anime that follow a group gently doing a thing—I'm staying very general here!—emerge from manga source material. Adaptation is not inherently a problem. But I did think, watching DIY parcel itself out into twelve elegant episodes, that it benefitted from having full initiative.

#Anime #do it yourself!!

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Beta is on cohost dot org @stillinbeta12/28/2022, 5:11 PM

Also Purin loves Serafu so much, that's important

@pontifus12/28/2022, 10:47 PM

true

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@pontifus12/28/2022, 11:52 PM

I don't think I knew this until I'd seen it all, but this makes sense. As someone who tends to get bored of comedy manga adaptations because they take too long to deliver the jokes, I guess I have a bias here, but I also wonder if slice of life adaptations sometimes have weird pacing for similar reasons--structure-wise these are very comic-y comics, and in some ways it'd be easier to start from nothing. Not that storyboard artists don't realize that comic panels aren't a storyboard, but they have to negotiate with an audience with varying opinions about the importance of adaptation faithfulness and what faithfulness even entails re: types of comics that don't have much need to borrow techniques from film in the first place. This is getting pretty tangential, but a subset of Bocchi the Rock manga readers not liking that adaptation has me thinking about this stuff.

@thaliarchus12/29/2022, 9:16 AM

Yes, I think source material sometimes trips these things up (only sometimes!). At the weaker end, one can sometimes feel where the page-divisions fell.

Being original must've made it very easy to line up a nice satisfying conclusion, too.