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This was released on twitter as part of the 45th anniversary of Gundam as a franchise and to mark the 2-year anniversary of the original broadcast date of Witch From Mercury (October 2nd, 2022). Check out the Crunchyroll article for additional information. Synopsis of the first season from AniList:

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An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. A lone girl from the remote planet Mercury transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry.

Her name is Suletta Mercury. With a scarlet light burning in her pure heart, this girl walks step by step through a new world.

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Premieres January 2025. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis from AniList:

It's July 1, 2020. Mizuha, a high school second-year, is having the worst seventeenth birthday ever. She's missing her chance to get close to the older student she admires, and her parents didn't even remember that it's her birthday. Worst of all, there's a new and unknown infectious disease making the rounds, so all her club tournaments and school trips have been canceled.

She's convinced that she'll never have the dazzling youth that she's always dreamed of... but then her childhood friend, Mizuki, suddenly declares himself a candidate to be her boyfriend.

This is a school youth story about four childhood friends who grew up like family, one being the heroine, Nishino Mizuha, and the four boys she grew up with whom she sees as family.

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Acro Trip, episode 1

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Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 3rd Season, episode 1

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Premieres sometime in 2025. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis from AniList:

Kusakabe Shiina, who has advanced to the second year of a new high school, meets Akihiko Chuzenji, a new instructor of Japanese. Chuzenji always read books with a bad mood. A combination of teachers and students confronts a series of strange cases.

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Rekishi ni Nokoru Akujo ni Naruzo, episode 1

Alternative NamesI'll Become a Villainess That Will Go Down in History, I'll Become a Villainess That Will Go Down in History - The More of a Villainess I Become, the More the Prince Will Dote on Me, Rekishi ni Nokoru Akujo ni Naruzo: Akuyaku Reijou ni Naru hodo Ouji no Dekiai wa Kasoku Suru you desu!, 歴史に残る悪女になるぞ 悪役令嬢になるほど王子の溺愛は加速するようです!


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Nageki no Bourei wa Intai Shitai, episode 1

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  • Let This Grieving Soul Retire*

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With the start of the new season and the growth of this community, I thought it worthwhile to create a guide for how episode discussion posts work. The short version is as follows:

  • All episode discussion posts must be created by the community bot, @[email protected].
  • To request a post be made for a recently aired episode, you can private message the bot following these instructions.
  • To browse older shows' discussion threads, you can check out the wiki where they are all indexed.

Now, if you are curious, I have tried to answer questions about the bot and episode post process I have gotten in the past as well as areas that I thought might be either interesting or provide more clarity to users.

Why restrict episode discussions to bot-made posts?In past surveys of this community, there is a sizeable portion of the community that is not interested in episode discussion threads and felt that it cluttered up the community. By consolidating all the episode discussion threads to a single bot user, it allows these users to simply block that bot and proceed to use the community in a much more suitable way for them.

Why didn't rikka make a post about XYZ episode?I have tried to explain the process by which rikka makes episode discussion posts over on the wiki. The short version is that I manually mark shows as having discussions enabled by asking the community what they are planning on watching. Then, as the season goes on, if people stop commenting in the threads for a show, then rikka will stop making posts for that show. At any time, users can request a thread for a disabled show by private messaging the bot. I went and made a hopefully helpful flowchart (full resolution):

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An episode aired, but rikka won't let me request it!If you watch an episode of something immediately as it airs/releases, then it is possible that you simply beat rikka. She has a 60 minute delay from the airtime before she is allowed to create a post for an episode. This is to allow for members of the community to have some time to watch the episode before a post is made. This delay was not present in earlier versions of rikka, and it would often cause confusion from users as an episode might show up on different streaming services at slightly different times, leading to non-relevant discussions about whether something was out yet or not.

If you are past the 60 minute delay, then it is possible that rikka is messed up for some reaon. Let me know! rikka should give some output in her message back to you. That would be useful to provide to me to help me figure out what the issue might be.

Technically speaking, how does rikka work?rikka is written in python and you can peruse the source code here! She uses the AniList api to get all the info about episode airtimes, show information, related links, and artwork.

If you are wondering about the logistics of running rikka or the infrastructure, then it is all run from a VPS. I have a set of bash scripts that run different modules of rikka as well as handle things like updating the wiki when episode posts are made. These are then scheduled via cron. I am happy to answer more questions in the comments or by message if you have them. I also wrote more info in the github README here.

Can rikka make a post about a movie?Yes! Though, this use case is probably not going to come up very often. Movies typically come out in Japan first and then take quite a while before they make their way around to a global release. rikka currently only makes posts about things as they air or that have aired in the recent past. So, movies are unlikely to reach most users of this community in a timely enough fashion for rikka to still be monitoring them.

If this is something desired by the community, I can manually make posts for movies later, when the global release happens or for some other reason. This is something I have thought about doing before, like a community movie night or something. Let me know if you have ideas!

Can rikka make posts for a community rewatch of an older show?Not yet. I have thought about this use case for rikka and have an idea of how to implement it. However, I think automating a rewatch kind of defeats the purpose a bit. Even on the /r/anime subreddit, rewatch threads are created by the user that is hosting the rewatch instead of the subreddit's bot. If this community wants this, then it is possible, but I would want to see a demand or need for it before devoting time to implementing the functionality.

Who/what is a rikka and why is that the name of the bot?There is a bit of a tradition in the anime post-making bot space of naming the bot after one of your favorite characters. Previous bots have been named after Holo (Spice and Wolf) and Shinobu (Monogatari). So, I chose Rikka Takanashi from Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions.

I have a question that you haven't addressedLet me know! You can reach me in a number of different ways:

  • Post a comment in this thread
  • Send me a message on lemmy
  • Reach out to me on matrix (link in my lemmy profile if you are logged in)
  • Reach out to me on the [email protected] discord (linked in their sidebar)

Thanks everybody and I hope you have fun discussing this coming season of shows!

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Fall is here! A couple shows have already aired their first episodes and most of the rest are starting this week. I hope that everybody finds something fun to watch this season! In case you wanted to browse the airing shows, here is a list:

As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here (also linked in the sidebar).


Meta Update

It's been a while since I last made a meta post, so I guess we are due. With the start of the Fall 2024 season, I was reminded that it was during the Fall 2023 season that I created this account and began posting to this community. So, it seems like an appropriate time to reflect and take stock of where things are.

Overall, I have been very pleased with the continued growth of the community. I remember starting out where it felt like it was just me and a couple others posting things that nobody else saw; yelling out into an empty void. So, it is always exciting to me when people are making posts and having conversations in the comments in which I was not involved at all. We have grown to be the most subscribed-to community on ani.social with far and away the most comments/discussion. Keep it up everybody!

An important part of this community, our resident bot @[email protected], has also been seen in a generally positive light (or at least I haven't gotten complaints). The very beginning of a season is always a little weird with the bot because the api it uses is being edited a lot as things like broadcast schedules or streaming links get sorted out in the first 1-2 weeks. So, please bear with her as she gets herself sorted out this season as well.

Something else I wanted to mention was the success of having some shows run their own discussion threads in a separate community. The first of these was [email protected] running their own discussion threads, followed by [email protected]. Thank you to both @[email protected] and @[email protected] for your contributions! Also, for those unaware, episode discussion threads for the upcoming Dan Da Dan are going to be run in [email protected] by @[email protected] this coming season. I hope you all check them out!

Finally, a hearty thank you to all of you users for the content you have and will hopefully continue to contribute to this community. I consider this community as one of the more successful and sustainable examples of community building in the fediverse. Here's hoping that I can write an update like this one come Fall 2025.

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Kami no Tou: Tower of God 2nd Season, episode 13

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  • Kami no Tou: Tower of God 2nd SEASON, Kami no Tou: Tower of God - Koubou-sen, Kami no Tou: Tower of God - Ouji no Kikan, Sinui Tap 2, TOG 2, Tower of God Season 2: Return of the Prince, Tower of God Season 2: Workshop Battle, タワーオブ・ゴッド 2, 神之塔 -Tower of God- 工房戦, 神之塔 -Tower of God- 王子の帰還, 신의 탑 2*

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Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru 2nd Season, episode 1

Alternative NamesAs a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World Season 2, KanteiSkill 2


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Season 2 anime was announced with a trailer immediately after the first season ended

no other details regarding the sequel were revealed

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Uzumaki, episode 1

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  • ก้นหอยมรณะ, The Spiral, Uzumaki. Spirala, أوزوماكي*

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Make Heroine ga Oosugiru!, episode 12

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Alternative NamesMakeine, Toooooo Many Losing Heroines, รักครั้งนี้มีคนนกเยอะไปมั้ย!, マケイン


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