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I have seen some people compare this one to The Eminence in Shadow. That makes me curious to check it out since I am a big TEIS fan. I just need to find the time...

MF Ghost

But how is the OST? Isn't that why people watch that show? For the Eurobeat?

If you want to see an example of anime made for TikTok, then @LiteralGrill@ani.social wrote a really interesting piece a while back about Otaku-chans, an anime specifically made for and aired on TikTok, with episodes usually less than 60 seconds long.

I encourage people that are interested to check out the whole article. One bit I found interesting in particular is the constraint that the algorithmic feed places on the ability to tell stories. Specifically, each episode basically needs to start and stop at a similar status quo since the episodes might be served out of order. From the article:

Because viewers are unable to rely upon TikTok’s algorithm serving the episodes in order, anime like Otaku-Chans are forced to work more like syndicated television, where things generally return to the status quo each episode. In fact, the For You feed “generally won’t show two videos in a row made with the same sound or by the same creator” according to TikTok, meaning it’s unlikely that multiple episodes of the show will even appear side by side, let alone in any logical order.

forcibly sending an employee to an overseas branch

It can happen, but probably not for a travel agency like in the show. Growing up, my dad worked as a civilian contractor for the US military, and we moved all the time. I went to >10 different schools before graduating high school. I was basically always the new kid. There was only one time though that we almost moved overseas. That got changed up only about a month or so before we had planned on leaving. So, instead of moving to Scotland, I got to enjoy Phoenix instead. Not sure that was a favorable trade.

You got me curious, so I did some quick searching to figure out where the name came from and found a random fandom wiki that said it stands for "Guerrilla Kids International Distribution Syndicate." Just in case anybody was curious like I was.

Man, if only Disney could figure out how to promote the anime that it has rights to, it might actually make some money with Disney+ (probably not though). Instead, they are all left to wither away in Disney jail.

That is a good point. If people are unfamiliar with the history of this time period, they might mistake this as being more accurate than it actually is. This is clearly a very fictionalized version of our world. Even the torture implement we see Nowak walking around with (the pear of anguish) most likely did not exist during this time period and was merely imagined hundreds of years later.

Anyway, you have given me an excuse to nerd out about some science history, so I will gladly take it...

The most famous prosecution of geocentrism by the church is likely Galileo. His use of the telescope and observations of both the four large moons of Jupiter (we still call them the Galilean Moons) as well as the phases of Venus were strongly supportive of a heliocentric solar system and could not be explained in a Ptolemaic system. However, Jesuit astronomers at the time were able to replicate his findings and did not dispute him. Instead, it caused most geocentric scholars of the time to support a variation on the heliocentric model that was earlier developed by Tycho Brahe (an outstanding astronomer btw), called the Tychonic System. This model had the Earth in the center of the solar system, and the Sun orbiting the Earth. However, all the rest of the planets orbited the Sun, just like in the heliocentric model:

In the absence of an understanding of the force of gravity (which Newton won't publish for another 100 years), this model actually works very well. It was basically the most accurate predictor of astronomical objects of its day. The heliocentric model wouldn't become more accurate until after Kepler's laws of planetary motion fully described the planet's orbits as ellipses instead of circles a couple decades later (like you mentioned). Kepler actually used the incredibly precise measurements made by Tycho Brahe to prove the accuracy of his model.

Anyway...back to Galileo. He was prosecuted twice. The first time he was basically just told to stop teaching about heliocentrism. He then proceeded to write a whole book about it in which he thinly veils calling the pope an idiot the whole way through. This is most likely what led to his second prosecution as church scholars of the time didn't look kindly on calling the infallible pope stupid. However, even after all that, he was only ever placed under house arrest until he eventually died.

One of the only natural philosophers of the time that I know of that was actually executed is Giordano Bruno. He publicly espoused heliocentrism, was eventually tried by the Inquisition, and then executed. However, heliocentrism is only one of many, many heretical things that he advocated. Some others would be pantheism (nature is God essentially) as well as reincarnation of the soul (directly contravening the church's doctrine of an afterlife). These beliefs were much more transgressive than his heliocentrism advocacy.

Hubert's necklace?

I kind of want Nowak to become the protagonist personally, though I doubt he will. I just think it would be neat if Rafal inspired such a crisis of faith in Nowak that he started questioning everything he believed in.

Wow, this is big. GKIDS handles a lot of the NA distribution for the most popular anime films (Ghibli, Shinkai) already, but this gives Toho a direct line in and allows them to integrate the existing distribution network and contacts that GKIDS has.

My biggest hope is that this can mean more theatrical screenings of anime films with less of a delay from the domestic Japanese release. I know that is a bit optimistic of me though.

I remember watching a trailer for Tohai and almost wish I understood Mahjong because it looks so over the top edgy that I think it might loop back around to being funny.

The Dan Da Dan OP is really something. Each season, I have an OP/ED thread where I listen to all of them for the season, but I have a hard time believing that I am going to be surprised by something to surpass Otonoke. Creepy Nuts always hits it seems.

There were lots of production issues with Uzumaki. One of the producers actually posted about it after episode 2.

Weekly ranking roundup:

1. Anime Corner - Full Results - Weekly Winner: Bleach: TYBW
2. Reddit Karma - Weekly Winner: Dan Da Dan

Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma and /u/Nooble5 for the Anime Trending chart.

Bleach is back on the AC chart for the season, so you know it is going to be competing for the top spot. There are few shows that AC likes more than Bleach (Dangers in My Heart is the only one I can think of). It was interesting to see the Oshi no Ko finale unable to top the reddit chart against some second episodes considering the drop in total karma most shows have for the second episode.