this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
2 points (100.0% liked)
Manga
696 readers
17 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
- !anime@ani.social
- !lightnovels@ani.social
- !visualnovels@ani.social
- !otomegames@ani.social
- !isekai@ani.social
- Megathread of other communities on the fediverse maintained by @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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
One year of manga in the books. It has been a trip! Thank you to everybody here for their contributions here. This community has been a joy to be a part of and I don't remember ever having to step in and swing the moderator hammer around (unlike those naughty anime folks). If you all promise not to tell the anime folks, I have a bit of a confession to make:
Cue the flashback sequence...
When the defederation and blanket content removals happened on the ml instance last year, I was worried that anime/manga content on lemmy was going to be smothered and killed before it ever got a chance to reach enough of a critical mass to maintain its activity. At that time, I was way more into manga than anime and I didn't want to be forced back onto reddit to talk about it. So, I hatched a plan...
I tried to kickstart the anime community. That might sound strange, but my thinking was that there are way more people out there likely to be watching anime than reading manga. So, if I could get them to consolidate mostly in one place, it would be easier to drag the manga-reading people from that community into the manga-specific community. One thing I find interesting is that the anime and manga communities here on ani.social have roughly the same proportion of active members as the anime and manga subreddits (~3:1 anime:manga). So, there you have it, my main motivation for facilitating anime discussion at the time was to actually talk about manga.
End the flashback sequence...
Thanks for keeping that a secret from all the anime folks! Overall, I think the plan largely worked, but I was also surprised at how many people are active here in the manga community that don't seem to be active in the anime community. So, thank you to everybody that made the move from the ml community to this one!
There are two other people I want to thank specifically. First is hitagi, who keeps this instance running and has dealt with some serious infrastructure challenges this past year, including an intercontinental migration. The other person I want to thank is the community's resident villainess, Kadath. She has been gracious enough to bear the dreaded M next to her name and act as a moderator. Thanks to both of you in particular!
There are plenty of other people to thank, especially the "power users" that do most of the actual chapter posting. Thank you all for the contributions you have made to this community. Also, thanks for helping me find some great series to read!
Here is to another year of great manga!
Finally, I will make a similar offer to the anime general thread this week of doing a mini-AMA in this thread for any questions people might have (manga-related or otherwise).
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 @PrincessKadath@ani.social 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 @NineSwords@ani.social 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.
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.