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A Sign of Affection (2024) is a very good romance series. (jp Yubisaki to Renren)

A Silent Voice (2016) is a great movie. (jp Eiga Koe no Katachi)

Both explore deafness in a very meaningful way.

Have you watched them? What were your experiences and thoughts on it?

My personal assessment:

A Sign of Affection starts great. Positive, vibrant, and meaningful and with depth, exploring deafness. At some point, I felt like it's kind of the same throughout (stylistically and the kind of things happening), but it never lost its continuous progression in fitting pace or its quality at least.

I've wanted to rewatch A Silent Voice for a while, which also has deafness as a central theme, and I remember it being great - albeit quite different to the aforementioned romance. It has more struggling themes, and is a movie rather than a series.

Both had very interesting, insightful, and respectful depictions of deafness, which certainly elevated them into something very good and unique.

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The popular Spice and Wolf anime character Holo will make her VTuber debut on April 3, 2024, on the TOHO Animation Channel (YouTube) and the Spice and Wolf anime official TikTok.

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I couldn't figure out whether the anime VA will also be doing the VTuber duties, or if they have somebody else performing as VTuber Holo. Finally, here is the preview image for her avatar:

No date announced yet for the premiere of season 2. The announcement comes after the finale of season 1 just aired today. See the Crunchyroll article for more information. Season 1 synopsis from AniList:

They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with the System, a program only he could see, that’s leveling him up in every way. Now, he’s inspired to discover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that spawned them.

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One Room, Hi Atari Futsuu, Tenshi Tsuki., episode 1

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I loved Paripi Koumei/Ya Boy Kongming and how the great music was integrated into the plot.

So I was looking forward somewhat to Girls Band Cry next season because obviously it's going to have music.

Then I was doing more research into next season's shows, and found the linked page, which had 4 songs and music videos for GBC.

The first song Nameless Name sounded like generic rock pop. The CG characters supposedly rocking on a stage, looked stupid and low budget, and left me cold

The second song no rhyme nor reason I found similarly boring, and the hand drawn animation aesthetic was better, but the visual themes I found very derivative of Noragami's awesome S1 OP complete with black and white punctuated by color, a light rail station, and closeups of train and traffic signals. But of course with worse music.

The 3rd song, white drizzle in gloom I couldn't get through

The 4th song Ideal Paradox was the best of the lot combining a decent tune, with an 8 bit background riff, good vocals. The visuals had an effective and pleasing art style, but the song went on a bit too long and lost me towards the end.

To be honest, I feel that way about the almost all of the full versions of OP/ED themes that I listen to after becoming familiarized with the shortened versions of those songs as OPs/EDs, and I can't handle the 2nd verse, so maybe a shorter version of Ideal Paradox will work as an OP/ED.

So Girls Band Cry.... hmmm... :-/

I'm now feeling more cautious towards this one mostly because the music isn't outstanding, and what I see of the artistic vision of the show just doesn't seem to work.

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I am looking for something similar to Bocchi or Zombie Land Saga as far as slice-of-life comedy with great music. Any recommendations?

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