mo_lave

I would have put Shinkai's works at the top if the current year is 2016-2018. The other studios learned a lot from him, in my opinion. His art styles are some of my favorites to this day, though.

As an independently-produced short film, its production values punch above its weight. Gigguk is really passionate about anime, and I love it each time the medium portrays non-East Asian cultural elements.

Not that long ago, I've made it a goal to someday produce even a short anime. This inspires me towards that point.

@rikka@ani.social

It's a cut above most of the other episodes in the second cour: Morihito becomes a completely different person when it comes to denims (as seen in the banner). All's well after he obtained a 1 million yen Levi's thanks to Nico.

And to prove among the guys that Morihito can plan dates the best, he asked out Nico O_O. It's hectic and planned to the last minute, but Nico is able to convince him in the end that going off script is fine.

There's only one episode left and it's only now that there is some suspense/tension/antagonist entering the show.

@rikka@ani.social

Holy moly that sakuga

About the Ichigo/Rukia shipping, they have better chemistry. At the time, I thought it was never going to be romantically canon because it's a human/shinigami ship.

DND summons devils ahh sentiment

Another

Mushishi

Summertime Render

Higurashi

Gleipnir

Uzumaki

Erased

Insomniacs After School

Ghost Hound

Summer Pockets

xxxHolic

You're welcome

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Edit: As I took another look at the comments and the picture, the picture points to Mars. I confess I commented because of assumptions that "know your place" and the arrow points to our pale blue dot, Earth. Guilty as charged in reading the headline and not the content. The Omnissiah is not amused at the weakness of my flesh.

We have a human tendency to take safe spaces to mean "safe space for me, even if I make others unsafe".

Uron Mirage-themed episode. Kukumi and Makuwa-sensei's doujin dream comes to fruition. They barely made it through the printing deadline.

It was worth it. Kukumi is able to secure a spot in the event (in Tokyo Big Sight). Makuwa had to bail, but good thing Morihito and Nico could substitute. Nico could use her magic to fix a last-minute printing issue.

While doing that, she committed a slight mistake of changing Morihito's hair to white. That turned into an unintentional cosplay of Oboro's newly-revealed form, turning the (women) target audience crazy.

@rikka@ani.social

Umazing