But now it got your attention, no?

I completed the Shirobako series over the past few weeks.

This is probably one of the most relatable anime for me. At first I thought it’s because 95% (or some other stupidly high percentage) of software development work is in fact common to most other jobs as per Working with Coders.

However, the more I watch it, the more I realised just how similar anime production is to software development. It’s not just the stand-up meetings, the team dynamics, suffering from burnout, etc. Even the creative process - the way animators / designers / etc approach their work - is so similar to building software.

Picking just one example out of many,

With all the similarities, this anime may have as well been about making software.

Quality-wise (encompassing characters, story, and everything else), this anime is top-notch too. To be fair, it’ll be ironic if an anime about making anime is badly produced.

As with any series that I’m extremely impressed by, I’m giving it a 10 / 10.

P.S. I would totally watch 3rd Girl Fighter Wing if it’s an actual anime

Mei is one of the worst-kept secret / twist in anime

Episode banner:

@rikka@ani.social

!gundam@ani.social

I can’t remember / don’t know if it carried over from the manga / novel, but this show wasn’t even trying when it comes to twists. It’s as though the studio want the viewer to know that the traitor is going to turn on them.

The divide-by-9 heuristic is a pretty neat trick.

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You

I actually kind of enjoy making the posts myself when I can

You’ve made a good point. Sometimes, too much automation takes the fun away.

Continuing from last week, I dropped the following series:

• I’m Living With a Otaku NEET Kunoichi?! - I got bored of it
• The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World - Just read the manga instead

The ones most at risk of being dropped are now Zenshu and I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths!. Let’s see how it goes.

One last thing: Sakamoto Day is slowly failing to live up to the hype for me. I think I’ve been spoilt by the top-tier action comedy of One Punch Man and slice-of-life comedy of Spy x Family.

My irl workload continued to be crazy this week. So, that is a contributing factor to the late posting of this thread.

Since these weekly discussion threads tend to follow a standard format, how about scheduling it to be posted at a certain time every week? It can be done for free (and easily in my experience) with cron-job.org.

The only problem I foresee with this approach is when the post body got to be different from usual. In that case, one just has to edit the post body manually like what has been done so far.