Isekai’d hero doesn’t care about saving the world. He only wants to commit suicide with his lover in his first life that he suspects has also been isekai’d to the same world.
Things turn out okay, despite his best efforts to kill himself, e.g. He poisons himself with the intent to commit suicide, but he can’t die, so his blood becomes poison to enemies who attack him (paraphrased from a MAL review)
It’s a comedy.
It doesn’t sound like the strongest concept, but 10 volumes of manga and still going…
Positive MAL reviewers say to read until the 7-8th chapter when the writing kicks in.
Now, THIS may be an interesting indicator on the state of the Japanese anime industry…
This is actually a Chinese animated adaptation of a Korean manhwa, that’s getting a Japanese dub.
Are the Chinese studios going to start buying up rights to adapt good IPs, leaving Japanese-backed productions out in the cold?
Remember that article about the Japanese yen being devalued so much that they can’t afford to outsource their animation work to overseas studios?
That also applies to buying rights to non-Japanese sources, such as Korean manhwa, which are becoming more important as source material that appeals to an international, not just a Japanese, audience.
If other nations’ animation studios grab good IPs, and release them on the Japanese market, the anime profits go overseas, then Japanese studios may start going bankrupt because they can’t compete on a production pricing level.
Specifically, the more Chinese studios get involved in high-level production decisions, that may subtly affect the social attitudes that get the funding to become animated, i.e. no anti-authoritarianism, government is always right, Westerners are baka imperialists, etc.
edit: Not that there aren’t subtle things in anime either, e.g. missing discussion about the role of Japan’s Imperial government in WW2.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020....
A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic....
The author of this article, if you click on her name, for example:
Rachel Leingang is a democracy reporter focused on misinformation for Guardian US. She is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Here’s her LinkedIn, saying she has 10 years of reporting experience after going to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications in Arizona for 4 years. www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-leingang-6a044b2a
Joe Biden will this week sign an executive order to temporarily close the southern US border to asylum seekers in a sharp political U-turn aimed at winning support on a key voter concern in a presidential election year....
Not yet. More like the continued flow of refugees from the climate-related collapse of agriculture in Central America, and the resulting criminal gang takeover of the countryside there.
The US is partly responsible for advancing Central American gang culture, by inducting disorganized immigrant gangs into organized violent gang culture by putting them alongside US domestic gangs in prison, then deporting them.
The other major part is the flow of money from Mexican drug cartels to ensure drug transportation corridors, which of course, is largely funded by sheer size of the US drug market.
Wind Breaker is definitely good. Not quite great, like Dungeon Meshi, but very watchable.
The MC, Haruka Sakura, is a parody on the “fight to become top delinquent” type of main character. His strange appearance with bi-colored hair, and odd eye colors, set him apart as the freak that he is. He even has 2 girls names.
The local delinquent gang is loved by the local merchants, and when they’re not fighting other roving gangs, they do positive social work.
The highlight so far has been the gorgeously animated fight in episode 5.
'No Longer Allowed in Another World' New Key Visual (sh.itjust.works)
The Girl Downstairs Donghua Gets Japanese Dub With July 3 Debut (otakumantra.com)
A Chinese Man Helped To Stop The Knife Attack Because "Himmel Would Have Done The Same" (otakumantra.com)
Gainax, the studio behind the Evangelion series, goes bankrupt amidst unmanageable debt (automaton-media.com)
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Season 3 of **Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World** Key Visual and PV (ani.social)
PV on Youtube
Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020 (apnews.com)
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020....
Bill Gates' McDonald's Gold Card Offers Free Food for Life, Few Non-billionaires Were Offered One in This Decade (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Gates can visit any McDonald’s worldwide and enjoy a free meal for life.
Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit (apnews.com)
A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic....
‘No way out without bloodshed’: the right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing (www.theguardian.com)
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Biden to sign executive order to close southern US border to asylum seekers (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden will this week sign an executive order to temporarily close the southern US border to asylum seekers in a sharp political U-turn aimed at winning support on a key voter concern in a presidential election year....
Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)
Paramount and Skydance agree to terms of a merger deal (www.cnbc.com)
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Nikki Haley writes ‘Finish Them!’ on Israeli bomb bound for Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
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