I have recently finished watching Campfire Cooking in Another World and it was a way better adaptation than I had expected. I am up to date on the manga, but had written off the anime as I figured it would be a fairly sub-par isekai adaptation (like most of them are). However, I was really surprised at how nice the animation was, especially the titular cooking sequences. It actually inspired me to make chicken katsu curry (it was delicious). Also, I love the OP. Like, it is a regular in my daily listening now it is so good. Really...check it out (long version).

After finishing that, I started watching Zombie Land Saga. I actually picked this one completely randomly from my library and went in completely blind. I must say, the cold open of episode 1 caught me completely off guard. I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this show before I started, but it has turned out very different than I expected. Other highlights include the performance in episode 2, and the VA work for Kotaro (really, it is incredible).

Finally, on a meta note, I just want to thank everybody for engaging in the thread about episode discussions over the weekend. There were a lot of great ideas and points raised in the course of that discussion.

Natsume is a pretty good suggestion. There are some episodes that can have sad themes, but not any worse than you find in Disney movies aimed at kids. Also, there is a lot of content so you can just turn it on and let it play for a while to keep them busy. Finally, it is an anthology, so episodes are self-contained stories for the most part, so if they get distracted and miss the plot of an episode, its not really an issue.

Link to the discussion post made when shinobu was late to the 100GF party for future visitors.

I liked this episode better than the opening, My big complaint about the first two episodes is that there was too much ecchi that felt really out of place. This episode there was no ecchi to be seen (other than some random S&M slaves of the one aunt? idk, that one is still weird).

One thing that I did find a bit weird is how many transitions they have in this show. They had a dozen or more instances of a quick transition with a spinning face icon and it really disrupted the flow of scenes. It did not surprise me when I looked up the source manga to find out that it is a 4 koma format. However, I feel like you can adapt a 4 koma better without excessive use of transition sequences like that (see Tomo-chan for instance).

Enjoyed the first episode a lot. It's good to see that they have kept the meta-humor feel to the series. In the manga, there are lots of meta-jokes referencing things like panels, the artist, chapters, etc. So, I am glad to see that during the conversation with the god, that the meta-jokes remain strong when he talks about getting lines cut from the manga and then we literally see a skip button and a mouse click it like its a game or something. This one looks like it will be a lot of fun. Kind of funny that this is airing the same season as Kanojo mo Kanojo.

I agree that a weekly pinned thread where non-seasonal anime could be discussed would be great. I also watch some older shows and there isn't anywhere in this community currently to discuss them other than just creating a new post; which a lot of people like yourself tend to find a high barrier to entry.

I kind of like the voting before a season idea!

I see, so the top level replies in the megathread would be the equivalent of an episode thread and discussion of that episode would be replies to the bot's top level comment? That could help, though it would be even better if lemmy allowed for replies to be automatically collapsed like the source corner posts in the reddit threads.

I thought that this moment might be a good point to ask peoples' opinions because of the temporary outage so that people saw what it might be like without the bot. I personally agree with you that automation can be beneficial and help facilitate community involvement. Also personally, I think that the current Shinobu is great, but wanted to see what others thought.

Thanks again for the hard work of keeping our Shinobu running.

Same. Faced with the prospect of having to manually make episode posts going forward, I actually spun up a wiki for myself to more easily be able to copy paste all the markdown for each show involved in the posts.

It would certainly require a major rework or a new bot entirely, but I made this thread for brainstorming ideas and getting peoples' opinions. This isn't a bad idea, though I think it might run into incidental spoiler exposure similar to another idea in this thread. I like the idea though of consolidating many threads into a periodic megathread of some kind. Weekly makes sense to me, similar to the airing page on anichart.

Yeah, this is what I am worried about. I don't personally really mind it, but I sympathize with those that would find it annoying. In general, I have seen a fairly negative sentiment towards bots of any kind on Lemmy, so I wanted to get a feel for what others in this community think.