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 [email protected]
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.]
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).
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.
Looks like Minecraft but since you are posting it in the time of that current places / flags fashion trend, it is probably something out of that subculture.
Impressively incorrect. Do you just think all video games are called Minecraft or something? And flags aren't a subculture nor are they some kind of tend that's going around.