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New week, new general thread! Our friends over at lemmy.world are back in sync with us, so welcome back everybody! Having everybody in sync certainly makes my moderating life easier. Like normal, feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.

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  • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Did I hear something about Comic Sans last week?

    Still don’t have time to look for new stuff so here’s a list of updates for some of the ongoing series I follow:

    On an unrelated note, it feels like this community became quite active recently, that’s nice.

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      5 months ago

      I have seen a couple new faces making posts over the past week or two, so that is always welcome. I still vividly remember when it was basically just me (and I think Rottcodd was one of the very early folks) making posts, so I am glad every time I see a chapter get posted by somebody before I get a chance to read it. Lemmy as a whole has seen some activity drop off, but the anime/manga/LN communities on ani.social have been growing…slowly, but hopefully sustainably.

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        5 months ago

        I feel you. I also tried to kick-start a community pretty much since my first day on fediverse but gave up recently. Granted, my topic was way more niche than anime or manga but screaming into a void for so long gets tiring. Now I try to help with content in places with at least some amount of life in them - hopefully we’ll have a bit more discussions in the future.

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    5 months ago

    This past week I came into possession of a large collection of physical manga volumes that a friend of a friend was trying to find a home for. They are all series that I haven’t read before and there are even a couple volumes in Japanese. The bulk of what I got is (I think, haven’t double-checked it is complete) the entire collection of Lone Wolf and Cub. The rest seems to be somewhat random volumes of samurai/ninja themed series. I just got it, so I haven’t actually read any of it yet, but I am looking forward to giving it a shot.

    The other thing I did that I want to write about is that I caught up on a series in my backlog. Specifically, I am now up to date with Usuzumi no Hate. I have really, really enjoyed this series. I had originally thought that it would be an anthology like Kino’s Journey after the first couple chapters. However, it settles into a more chronologically continuous storytelling mode after spoilers redacted happens. Really looking forward to see where this one goes.