Canvas.Fediverse.Events ended, and this caught my eye. She looks familiar.

Who is this character from?

EDIT: Thank you so much!

  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml
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    I MISSED THE EQUIVALENT OF PLACE IN LEMMY? Does anyone have context?

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      Sorry mate. It just ended today. I’m surprised you haven’t heard of it considering it was all over the platform, but you can see the end result at !canvas@toast.ooo

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          It went on for roughly 3 days. Canvas happened last year this time and it’ll happen again next year, so keep a look out.

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          ITT: proof of the statement that on the Internet, censorship happens not by having too little information, but too much information not all of which reaches all people who might want to know it

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        I suspect the problem was that like a lot of people they’ll be on clients that don’t seem to actually like it. I couldn’t get it to work except on desktop, and I don’t really use desktop to browse Lemmy all that up much.

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        If you want to be sure to catch it next year, sub to the Canvas comm on toast.ooo!

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    That’s the ultimate arch-wizard, the number one mage in axel! Otherwise known as crazy explosion girl

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      I do not understand how people keep up with anime. There seems to be about 500 different shows and all of them seem to be insanely popular, I don’t understand how that works. Meanwhile I’ve never heard of literally any of them.

      Also why are they all suddenly called things like, The Exploded Moon Is My Godmother?

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        A lot of anime are produced with a single season that can run for only 12 episodes with 25 minutes each including intro and outro.

        Some of those more popular ones do get further seasons but not on a yearly basis but there could be years between them. In case of konosuba the first season came out in 2016 with 10 episodes and second season in 2017 also with 10 episodes. Season 3 only released this year so quite a long gap between them.

        However, the really popular ones are fairly overshadowing the general amount of shows being released. Just this season we got 54 new anime releases and 29 “continuing” according to MAL.

        Some of those seasons are really strong like the spring season of this year in which a lot of very popular shows are released. Other seasons could then be fairly slow.

        And since they are all produced to promote the source material that source material has to differentiate itself from the rest and draw people in quickly through the title. So you get titles like

        • How Heavy Are The Dumbbells You Lift?
        • God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!
        • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
        • Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

        Especially the isekai (transported to another world) genre relies heavily on that to quickly explain what you can expect.

        And then you shouldn’t forget that this is only that visible because more and more anime are actually making their way onto other platforms for the western audience.

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          Especially the Israeli (transported to another world) genre relies heavily on that to quickly explain what you can expect.

          Are Israeli anime like isekai, but with Jewish undertones and/or mythology?

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            Lol, well that is a funny typo.

            I Still need to geht used to my New keyboard in my phone (and the keyboard apparently to me)

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        why are they all suddenly called things like, The Exploded Moon Is My Godmother?

        They got lazy with naming and after a couple ended up being good despite the stupid as fuck name, it became a fad. I hope it dies the horrible death it deserves. I don’t think I even look at an anime if it’s got a name like that now. I just can’t.

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    That is a part-fully autonomous remote detonator.
    It stops being autonomous after the detonation, until it is recharged.

    The remote charge is fully contained within it and is able to remotely deploy and detonate the charge, given LOS and other conditions are favourable.

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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    She’s Pico, from the “Boku no Pico Academia” native isekai cartoon. :^)

    [I’m joking. As others answered, the character is Megumin, from KonoSuba. A chuuni who knows only a single magic, Explosion, that often hits her own allies. I recommend the show, by the way, even for people who aren’t into isekai.]

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        • Megumin = the character
        • KonoSuba = the anime series (the actual title is rather long)
        • chuuni = basically a delusional teen who sees the world through rather coloured glasses. (I’m being simplistic)
        • isekai = stories where the main protagonist (not Megumin in this case, but her friend Kazuma) is sent to another world, often a fantasy one (that’s the case here).
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            You’re welcome! I kind of forget that anime/manga fan terminology is opaque. ani.social did this to me.

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            [chuuni mode] WAHAHA! By being open to the depths of weaboo culture, you unlocked your evil eye and you’re now able to appraise its arcane terminology! [/chuuni mode]

            Serious now. As I was looking for a good/succinct definition of chuuni, I found this Wikipedia article, with a great example of a Western chuuni: Don Quixote. Like, he’s considerably older than you’d expect from a chuuni, but it’s the same sort of delusion as them!

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              That’s the same link as you posted earlier, but I already know who you’re talking about and totally get it!

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      I wouldn’t call it “isekai” as in the general term. It’s a “isekai parody” or rather making fun of the genre “isekai”.

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        Personally I see it simply as a comedy isekai. Or at most an isekai parodying common isekai tropes. That’s up to definitions though, so there isn’t a “right” answer.

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          The anime is more comedy than isekai, the light novels on the other hand are definitely more isekai adventure than comedy. I personly did not like the anime, i hated aqua. The books though were much better, i still hated aqua for the majority of the books. The stroy had a really good ending, i mean they go fight the demon king and everything which just seemed so impossible to begin with

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            i still hated aqua for the majority of the books.

            I’m not surprised - a lot of people hate Aqua. She’s whiny, entitled, and she’s always finding a way to fuck it up. I like her as a character doing a role in a story, but as a person (or god, whatever) I’d probably stay away from her.

            About the anime being “more comedy than isekai”: at least for me comedic value and “isekainess” are completely orthogonal. Even if both are used to define genres, one is primarily about the target reaction on the audience (to make them laugh), another about the setting (another world than the one that the protag is from).

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              My comment about the anime being more comedy was a direct comparison to the books which are more of an adventure story instead of a comedy one. I just used isekai as an adjective where i shouldn’t have, which i could have been put better, sorry.

              About our dear goddess Aqua, shes bad in the anime but her action come off as less serious. In the books a lot of the time it is clear she is purposely being a huge bitch and pain in the ass for no reason other then to be passively malicious. She definitely has some good moments, which she ruins every single time. Good read, waaay better then i first thought from my impressions of the anime.

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                adventure

                Got it - and I kind of get why you used “isekai” there, plenty isekais are adventure stories.

                Good read, waaay better then i first thought from my impressions of the anime.

                That happens with me a lot when reading LNs. DanMachi (not isekai, I know) is a great example of that - the anime is OK, but actually following Aiz’ thoughts in Sword Oratoria makes her a lot more relatable and understandable. Kind of opposite of what you’re talking about Aqua, right? I guess we know characters better through novels than anime.

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    You caught the corner of my Hi-Fi Rush and Crown ☺️

    Also made the Keyblade on the second half of the canvas.