this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
24 points (100.0% liked)
Manga
693 readers
20 users here now
This community is for discussions related to manga.
Rules
- Posts must relate to manga or similar (manhwa, etc.)
- Obey the ani.social Terms of Use
- In general, keep things civil and avoid attacking other individuals.
- Make sure to tag spoilers where appropriate. See here for details.
- Memes should be redirected toward a different, more appropriate community and will be removed. Same with hentai.
- Please avoid linking to Manga Aggregator sites when possible. Stick to linking an official site, a scanlator's site directly, or Mangadex when possible.
Post Tags
Post tags are optional, but are recommended since some frontends can use them to categorize posts. Some recommended post tags:
- [Discussion], [DISC] - chapter discussion threads
- [Art] - Official art from a series or author, OC fan-art is also allowed
- [News] - news updates about series, authors, publishers, etc.
- [RT!] - Read This! posts are posts in which you recommend a series to others. Please provide a short review and information about the series as well.
Related communities
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- Megathread of other communities on the fediverse maintained by @[email protected]
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That's me, I'm one of those not active on the anime side (even if I tried early on). In my case it comes to two things:
I'm still planning to join in from time to time whenever I have something to talk about and I'd like to suggest/run a rewatch or two in the future but that'll have to wait for now. Need to sort out the boring IRL stuff first for that.
Anyway, thanks again to both you and @[email protected] for running the joint as well as admins for giving it a place to thrive in the first place.
🥰
I am happy that each of the communities has kind of developed their own vibe, and a big part of that is that there are simply a lot of different people in the two communities. It's always interesting to hear different perspectives on how they engage with the communities, so thanks for sharing!
As for anime, rewatches are definitely on my to-do list. I was kind of planning to run one starting in January if there is interest. My schedule is pretty busy until then. Then again, maybe I could find time to do a one-off movie rewatch or something like that instead of committing to do a whole series (is there a christmas-themed anime movie?).
Another idea that @[email protected] and I have tossed around on discord in the past is doing some kind of coordinated re-read of a manga/light novel series. I guess that would be kind of like a rewatch. I just am not sure what a good candidate series for something like that would be. Also, the pace at which the different medium go through the story are very different. 1 LN volume is not equal to 1 manga volume is not equal to 1 anime season. So...open to ideas on that one.
Conceptionally I'm all for it. There are even series that have LN, Manga and Anime, so we could do a 3 medium thingy in theory. It's just becoming a huge tie investment at that stage, so maybe keeping the scope small for the first time would be a good idea. Like looking at just a specific high-profile scene from anime, manga and LN.
It's not a movie exactly, but at only 6 episodes Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket is roughly movie-length. If I remember right it doesn't require any prior knowledge of Gundam, either. It's not exactly Christmas themed, but as I recall it takes place in December and there's Christmas decorations and stuff in the background of some scenes.
A bit of a stretch, I know.
I was going to suggest a certain number of chapters, but it occurs to me that 1 manga chapter is not always equal to 1 manga chapter; manga from monthly magazines tend to have much longer chapters on average. Anyways, I think 1 discussion thread for 1 volume of manga per week is a good pace. Since it's a smaller community having a lot to talk about at once might help to make the discussion threads more active.
I think a good candidate series would be something short, but with good ratings overall. Most of my favorite manga have at least 10 volumes though so I dunno.
I hope to attempt my rewatch idea sometime in the first half of next year if everything goes right. It's something I've been thinking about for months now but can't really justify taking enough time to actually work on it. I'll get there eventually.
As for the the reading one, I think it would be a good idea to start with something generic enough to cast a wide net and on the shorter side, as going in with a series right of the bat could scare off potential participants (especially since they don't know what to expect engagement/discussion wise yet). I'd say start with a low commitment title to see how things go and then adjust based on that. I'd certainly like to give it a shot at least once if I'm available whenever that happens.
Would it help if we had some sort of real-time chat platform, ideally on FOSS software (in the spirit of Lemmy and the Fediverse)? I'd be happy to help set that up.