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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
Fool night | Chapter 122
https://weebcentral.com/chapters/01M3CYDJ0FFKEB02W8TQAZ762S
So I got impatient and check out the manga after seeing the anime trailer, and now I've gone from mildly curious to highly anticipated. Potential contender for AotY for me.
Set in a future where the sky has been entirely blocked of sunlight and all natural plant life has gone extinct. In order to maintain the oxygen supply for life to function, the world relies on a technolgy that gradually turned humans into plants (who may or may not loose their consciousness after the fact). For ethical reason, the procedure is permitted only for those who are already going to die, who then also received a sum of money to enjoy their last days. However, reality is anyone struggling financially routinely fake their conditions to apply, and the authorities turns a blind eye to it.
Basically, this is a world where poor people can only survive by giving themselves a terminal illness, and society relies on human sacrifice to function. It's a pretty bleak setting and the plot is fairly grounded. The MC has a small superpower but it's pretty limited. There're fighting but the primary action is information warfare. Somehow the author created an arc about the HR department and that was one of the most tense I've felt reading a manga.
Political thriller x philosophical dilemma. Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell except without the mind trips.
Edit: I've just realized the title is "fool night" as in "full night", since there's no sunlight.
~ manga corner ~
I was reading "How to be an Epicurean" by Catherine Wilson, but only made it about half way before decided that she wasn't doing that good at advocating Epicureanism, at least not to me, although I can't honestly say if it was her fault or Epicureanism.
Now, I am currently a couple of chapters into "Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living In". It's ok, and would have served as a nice introduction, but it's short, so I expect to see it through to the end.
You may want to repost in this thread instead of the manga/anime one, but thanks for contributing nonetheless.
wow, I really got lost there. Thanks.
While you're here, might we interest you to take a gander at some of what we have to offer around these parts?
We shall now begin ethics is a story about an ethics teacher who helps provide guidance to students via his lessons. Each chapter feature a student with a problem that ranges from serious to mundane (e.g. from shoplifting or unsafe sex to not getting enough sleep before class), and whenever the occasion allowed it, teacher will explain to them about a pholosophy or relevant concept, which let them think about their situation on their own.
Despite the preachy-sounding premise, the story is fairly realistic about the extent that theoretical advices could reach another person, especially teenagers. Sometimes the students gained clarity and changed their behavior, sometimes they didn't change but still got a different perspective, sometimes they were just confused or even lashed back. The teacher himself also had his own flaws which he still struggled to resolve.
The story works pretty well as light introduction to a variety of ethical concepts, with each student serves as demonstration of how those concepts could be applied in practice, as well as the extent that such concept could lead to meaningful change.
I've been digging through MAL's top anime for something interesting I have yet to watch (cursing them for not giving me a toggle button to hide anime already on my list) and I've landed on Kanata no Astra (wiki). It was surprisingly fun series. Basically an iyashikei mystery in space.