
2025-10-17 03:06:00
Day 21: Aya Yoshinaga
I'm actually generally much less aware of the creators involved in the anime I watch, for a number of reasons, and the few anime directors I could name without looking them up were all men before I started this list. I've now got a short list of anime directors/writers who are women, and the first I'll include here is Yoshinaga, in part because she was pivotal to one of my favorite lesser-known anime, "Kurau Phantom Memory". It was actually one of the first anime I watched ever, but I didn't like it just because of that, since I've rewatched it at least twice and still regard it highly. It's got a pretty cool science fiction setting, an extremely cool barely-comprehensible alien race, a female protagonist who is not sexualized and not subjected to romance, and it centers a platonic relationship torn apart by technological hubris. Very "cool seinen stuff that wouldn't make it past the focus groups today" stuff.
Besides Kurau, Yoshinaga has worked on other great stuff like Golden Kamuy, Azumanga Daioh, Durarara, and Fullmetal Alchemist, and when you see a correlation like that between well-written shows and the same writer showing up again and again, it's clear there's talent there, even if most of these are manga-based.
Probably going to circle back to at least one more anime writer, but for tomorrow I'll move on to manga probably, since I want to space out all my YA enthusiasm a bit.
#30AuthorsNoMen
Prediction: OPMS3E1 turns out to just be nickle-and-dime fan-trolling
#onepunchman #anime
The vision of some tech bros on how they will alter our lives by shoving #AI into every transaction and activity can come across as twisted. And then there's Elon Musk....
#AImaggedon
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-pay-you-440k-make-anime-girl-ai-elon-musk-2025-7
anime where a quirky group of drugsonas has to stop lsd-chan's involvement in mkultra
Anyone recommend any anime/manga artists for me to follow?
GANime: Generating Anime and Manga Character Drawings from Sketches with Deep Learning
Tai Vu, Robert Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09207 https://arxiv.o…
🏴☠️ From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance
https://theconversation.com/from-anime-to-activism-how-the-one-piece-pirate-flag-became-the-global-e…
#HarperCollins übernimmt das #Manga-Geschäft von #Crunchyroll in Deutschland und Frankreich - heißt, Crunchyroll steigt aus dem Manga-Geschäft aus, nachdem sie die letzten Jahre alle ihre zusammeng…
Warum wurde eine Piratenflagge aus der japanischen Anime-Serie "One Piece" zu einem Symbol für die Protestbewegungen der Generation Z auf der ganzen Welt?
https://www.dw.com/de/was-die-one-piece-pi
Crunchyroll partners with Delta Airlines to offer over 2,000 anime titles on more than 169,000 seatback screens later in 2025 (Raquel 'Rocky' Harris/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/crunchyroll-delta-airlines-anime-partnership/
Wenn Deutschland ein Anime-Intro hätte:
#Schlantologie #Anime
Osu2MIR: Beat Tracking Dataset Derived From Osu! Data
Ziyun Liu, Chris Donahue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12667 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12667
Day 22: Yuki Urushibara
I've got a few more mangaka left on my short list, and might very well get to at least one more, but Urushibara is the author of Mushishi and anyone who knows either the manga or anime understands immediately why she appears here.
Mushishi is a "seinen" anime, which means it's written for adults, not children or teenagers (although it's very accessible for all ages). It deals with a vast array of life's circumstances through the lens of a traveling mushi expert and the various whimsical supernatural creatures he is called on to deal with. He's not an exorcist though, instead understanding that humans must live in harmony with the mushi, and working like an ecologist to sort things out. As is probably obvious, Urushibara is an incredible world-builder; she's also a top-notch artist and above all, her stories are overflowing with kindness, humanity, and respect for the natural world.
Besides Mushishi, I've read "Suiiki", and it's one of the few manga I stumbled through in the original Japanese, which says a lot given my limited reading vocabulary (and the fact that it doesn't include rubi). It weaves the supernatural into a story of childhood innocence and curiosity in a lovely way.
Much like Shirahama who I mentioned earlier, Urushibara's stories are full of gentle wisdom for all ages, but Urushibara's work is quieter and less dramatic, with an adult main character confident in his expertise instead of a young-and-learning protagonist.
#30AuthorsNoMen
LLMs vs. Chinese Anime Enthusiasts: A Comparative Study on Emotionally Supportive Role-Playing
Lanlan Qiu, Xiao Pu, Yeqi Feng, Tianxing He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06388 https…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Eminem feat. Ez Mil:
🎵 Head Honcho
#Eminem #EzMil
https://rickreinhartmusic.bandcamp.com/track/eminem-featuring-ez-mil-anime-head-honcho
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GXOXYdU950eRvk5rUAE8F
Duolingo launches a five-episode anime series in collaboration with Titmouse, premiering October 13 on YouTube, as a marketing campaign (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/duolingo-anime-series-final-test-…
Changed up the anime list on new website version a bit.
- Before: Server yeeted 1 big HTML file with the entire list (~24kB in size).
- After: Server yeets 1 smaller HTML file (~4kB) and client will then later request the anime list itself.
So client can get working on the main HTML which now neatly fits in 1 little packet rather than being split across 2 (assuming MTU of 1500 bytes).
Finished Ruri no houseki (Ruri Rocks)
I really enjoyed this anime. I learned about minealogy.
I think that the studio who adapted the manga, studio bind, is the same that onimai
Final Note on MyAnimelist and Anilist 8/10
https://myanimelist.net/anime/59791/Ruri_no_Houseki…
ToonComposer: Streamlining Cartoon Production with Generative Post-Keyframing
Lingen Li, Guangzhi Wang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yaowei Li, Xiaoyu Li, Qi Dou, Jinwei Gu, Tianfan Xue, Ying Shan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10881
AniME: Adaptive Multi-Agent Planning for Long Animation Generation
Lisai Zhang, Baohan Xu, Siqian Yang, Mingyu Yin, Jing Liu, Chao Xu, Siqi Wang, Yidi Wu, Yuxin Hong, Zihao Zhang, Yanzhang Liang, Yudong Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18781
😼 Answerman - Is Superhero Burnout at the Box Office Affecting Anime Films?
#anime
In the Sora app, I tried to remix people’s generated anime clips with a prompt of “Make it live action.” Was curious how good or bad the output would be. The result was… “This content may violate our content policies.” Tried it multiple times with the same outcome.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Alessandro Stradella, Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb, David Thomas, Richard Wistreich, The Consort of Musicke & Anthony Rooley:
🎵 L'anime del Purgatorio - cantata for 2 voices, chorus & ensemble
https://open.spotify.com/track/1O2rXdcPmmUpUboiDB35pL
ToonOut: Fine-tuned Background-Removal for Anime Characters
Matteo Muratori, Jo\"el Seytre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06839 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…
A look at the history of anime in the US, its impact, and the forces that keep it distinct from other mass-market animation, including Japanese IP law (Joshua Hunt/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…
Elon Musk now regularly posts AI images and videos of scantily clad women generated by Grok's Imagine tool on X, including avatar Ani dancing in her underwear (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-gr…
"Summer Pockets", ein kürzlich abgeschlossener #Anime, erzählt vom Sommeraufenthalt eines Jugendlichen auf einer kleinen japanischen Insel, bei dem er die Geheimnisse der Insel und vor allem deren Mädchen erkundet (geschieht weniger schlüpfrig als das klingt). Erinnerte mich sehr an Serien wie Air oder Canon aus den 2000ern und ist tatsächlich die Umsetzung einer Visual Novel vom gleichen…
Chinese anime feels very challenging to watch for me.
I'm not sure if there's a larger culture of "and the things happened outside the show, fans will know what's up, because they watch more than just the show" or it's just culturally accepted to run a little looser/faster in the content.
There's also strong tendencies to weave in Chinese history and culture plot points or references that just continue to miss me.
BUT - I do enjoy that they tend to go _hard_ on universe building and story intensity. Everything is always epic.
Lord of Mysteries so far is an -amazing- mysticism story with strong Lovecraftian elements. Would love to see more like it. Live action would be absolutely wild.
Akira is such an incredible movie! The first time I've seen it was about 25 years ago, and it was one of my first anime movies. I've watched it a 2nd time now and it is still great.
Some animation is slightly jerky for today's standards but the detail is incredible. It also keeps up its high animation quality level right until the end. While anime sometimes starts to get lazy towards the end, Akira has detailed explosions and billowing smoke until the very end (and gross bod…
CHARM: Control-point-based 3D Anime Hairstyle Auto-Regressive Modeling
Yuze He, Yanning Zhou, Wang Zhao, Jingwen Ye, Yushi Bai, Kaiwen Xiao, Yong-Jin Liu, Zhongqian Sun, Wei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21114
Day 20: bell hooks.
Despite having decided to continue to 30, number 20 feels important, and hooks gets the spot in part because I haven't yet included a non-fiction feminist author, which feels like an obvious thing to include on such a list. The one category of author being bumped out of the first 20 here is anime writers, but I'll follow up with one of them, along with more academics and mangaka who I've been itching to include.
In any case, hooks is absolutely legendary as a feminist writer for good reason, and as a teacher I've especially appreciated her writing on pedagogy like "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom". These have challenged me to teach at a higher level, and while I'm not sure I've completely succeeded, they're important to me. They also pair well with Paolo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", but hooks always seems to be focused on very practical advice and it's incredibly direct in her writing, even though her advice isn't always straightforward to implement. In fact, that's one of the things I value about her writing: when the truth is complicated or the real work is messy interpersonal relationships that need to be negotiated with each student, she's not afraid to say so and give good advice for navigating those waters instead of trying to dispense simple-seeming platitudes or formulas for success that paper over the deeper issues. Her concern has always been truth, rather than simplicity or audience comfort and the popularity it might seem to entail, which I think is part of why her legacy endures so well.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen
Have y'all who are into anime seen Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc on Netflix? Kinda reminds me of Dragonball, but with more wrestling - and I'm not really into either of those things, but I love Kinnikuman. Go figure. It's based on the manga by Yudetamago (ゆでたまご) and some of the character designs were used by Bandai and then Mattel for the M.U.S.C.L.E. figures in the 80s. As they say, boosts appreciated for reach. I'm super curious.
Look what I found fooling around in used DVD stores
#anime
"Yano-kun's Ordinary Days" TV anime begins on September 30!
PV2
#yanokun
Shoshimin: How to become Ordinary: Ein #Anime der nun vorletzten Season und des letzten Jahres.
Es geht um zwei Jugendliche, beide sehr intelligent. Während der Junge gern Rätsel wie Kriminalfälle löst und sich daher überall einmischt, ist das Mädchen hier ihrer niedlich-schüchternen Fassade nachtragend und verwickelt andere in ihre Pläne. Da ihnen ihr Verhalten immer Probleme bereitet hat, h…
Watching "Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon" on #Crunchyroll while working 😅
#Anime
I remembered a god awful Discord server I used to be in as a teen. I remember this fucking incident. https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddybaka/comments/n5kbuu/the_may_3rd_incident_of_the_okbb_discord/
I also remember the server being delet…
Side view of a decorated electric box inspired by the anime となりのトトロ (My Neighbor Totoro)
#photo #photography #ithaca #art
Memo: Crunchyroll is undergoing layoffs as part of a restructuring to shift resources toward high-growth markets outside the US, like India, Brazil, and Mexico (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/crunchyroll-layoffs-restructur…
¡El anime de Witch Watch Tendrš 2 TEMPORADA!
Anuncio en la web oficial: #anime
Me: Ob irgendwelche Folgen von $Anime auf YouTube rumfliegen?
YouTube: Videos der Folgen? Nein. Aber möchtest du diese 7h aller Folgen hintereinander?
Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen
The Witch Watch anime will have a second season!
Announcement on the official website: #anime
I'm trying to delete an account for a popular anime video streaming service (You get a cookie if you can figure out which one it is)
And their help documentation requires that I download and install the mobile app and delete it via that....
What the actual fuck?!
I am already logged in on a desktop computer, I ain't downloading an app to delete an account.
HOLY FUCK KAWAII OVERLOAD
#anime
This awesome t-shirt caused me to rewatch the #DaftPunk anime saga. I thought there were only 4 music videos but there are in fact many more (not for any hit singles though). Another tiny easter egg is the short drummer's back story: He's supposed to be from my home town Munich! So of course he likes beer :)
idgaf about these queer comics that are anime puppygirl catgirl infantilized male gazey sexual availability shit i wanna see them meet and fall in love and call eachother buttercup and honeybunny and sweetpea and see new movies and argue about affording the new place and try to copy dancing videos in a cluttered kitchens blue curtainlight and go back to school shopping and learn ones mom died from facebook and not give a shit and get tired of fucking eachother and excited to fuck eachother a…
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[1/5]:
- A Challenging Benchmark of Anime Style Recognition
Haotang Li, Shengtao Guo, Kailin Lyu, Xiao Yang, Tianchen Chen, Jianqing Zhu, Huanqiang Zeng
The TV anime "Atelier of Witch Hat " will be delayed from 2025 to 2026
Official Website: #witchhatatelier
Circana: in July, Sea's Free Fire jumped seven spots to 6th in US mobile game sales, above COD, driven by anime and Netflix tie-ins; US users buy 2M Switch 2s (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08…
Here was a place I didn't expect to see an anime PVC -- Denys Davydov, who vlogs about the Russia-Ukraine war with Miku Hatsune, mascot for a synthesized voice, waving a Ukrainian flag
#anime #animeart #mikuhatsune
#WitchWatch (Staffel 1) - Jugendliche Hexe wird von einem (menschlichen) Oni und später weiteren Fabelgestalten (die alle bei ihr einziehen) vor drohenden Gefahren beschützt. - Am Anfang war ich skeptisch, ob das nicht zu viel Albernheit und Parodie und Bezüge auf andere #Anime sind, so wirkte jedenf…
Kore Kaite Shine Anime PV
Airs in 2026
#anime
Wenn man mal einen #Wikipedia-Artikel über einen offenbar ziemlichen Schrott-#Anime schreibt, tut es gut, dann wenigstens solche Kritikerperlen zitieren zu können:
„Nur was für Masochisten mit ausgeprägtem Gehirntodeswunsch“
El anime "Atelier of Witch Hat" se estrenaba este año 2025, ha sido retrasado para 2026
Web oficial: #atelier
Google adds new features to Google Photos, including a Veo 2-powered photo-to-video tool and a Remix tool that applies styles like anime and sketches to photos (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/23/google-photos-photo-to-video/
How Toho, the Japanese media company behind Godzilla, aims to increase its international presence and revenue via acquisitions, anime, video games, and more (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
"Vigilante - My Hero Academia Illegals" ist als #Anime eine unterhaltsame, actionreiche Verfilmung eines der inzwischen zahlreichen Ableger von My Hero Academia.
In einer nahen Zukunft erhalten viele Menschen von Geburt an die verschiedensten (gelegentlich absurden) Superkräfte. Einige von ihnen werden Helden, andere Schurken. Die Geschichte folgt einigen "Vigilante" - Hob…
"Akane Banashi" TV Anime Officially Announced!
Official Site #akanebanashi #anime
'Marriagetoxin', gets TV adaptation to anime. Airs in 2026.
Website: #marriagetoxin
There's another season of "Made in Abyss" on Netflix!
The show was an incredible bait and switch. It had this cutesy look and a very interesting world to explore. But each episode got darker end the end of season 1 was pure body horror.
#MadeInAbyss #anime
'Marriagetoxin', tendrš adaptación a anime en 2026.
Pšgina web #marriagetoxin
ZatsuTabi: Der #Anime um eine junge #Mangaka, die das Reisen entdeckt und sich dabei persönlich wie auch beruflich weiterentwickelt war eine nette, entspannende Abwechslung zwischendurch. Nicht gerade aufregend oder spannend, dafür ruhig und mit interessanten Blicken auf eher unbekannte Reiseziele in Ja…
Made in Abyss Gets Film series
First Film Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery premieres in 2026
#madeinabyss #anime #manga
Sony acquires a ~2.5% stake in Tekken and Pac-Man owner Bandai Namco for $464M, to expand "the fan community for IP such as anime and manga around the world" (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/sony-buys-stake-in-pac-man-own…
The anime Yano-kun's Ordinary Days releases trailer and image
It will premiere in October 2025
youtube.com/watch?v=m1CHIKyqVCE
#矢野くんの普通の日々 #anime
After last episode today, it was annouced that Dandadan Season 3 is in production
source:
#anime
"Tetsuryo! Meet with Tetsudou Musume (Tetsuryo! Meet with Railroad Girls)" TV Anime teaser PV
Airs in 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXi2kvQubng
Official Website:
Made in abyss Obtiene nuevas peliculas
La primera peli Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery se estrena en 2026
Mšs información en la pšgina web oficial del anime:
#madeinabyss
2 Season of
The Summer Hikaru Died (Hikaru ga shinda natsu) confirmed
#hikarugashindanatsu #anime #manga
El anime Yano-kun's Ordinary Days estrena tršiler e imagen
Se estrenarš en Octubre de 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1CHIKyqVCE