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Summer 2026 Anime Fan Poll: Jaadugar Wins No. 1, Record Votes
A Japanese anime review channel's season-ending fan poll for Summer 2026 has crowned Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia the season's top show, with Draw This, Then Die! taking second and Though I Am an Inept Villainess placing third. The vote drew over 600 participants, the channel's largest turnout ever, and the comment section spent far more time reacting to the results than arguing with them. Across 269 comments, several viewers who initially doubted Jaadugar because of its art style say they came around after actually watching it, and one comment even notes that the show's own creator showed up to react to the results. The discussion also digs into what made the rest of the top five stand out, from Draw This, Then Die!'s scrappy charm to Though I Am an Inept Villainess's small on-screen touches for foreign viewers trying to keep character names straight. By the end, even commenters who disagreed with parts of the ranking admit it was one of the deepest seasons in recent memory.
269 comments9/26/26, 12:30 AM
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One Piece SBS: Oda's Flight-Fruit Answer Backfires on Fans
One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda answered a reader's question in the manga's SBS Q&A column about which flight-granting Devil Fruits the character Pell knows about — and instead of naming them, he replied that Pell doesn't know about every flight-type fruit in existence, dodging the actual question. On a Japanese reaction video collecting comments on the exchange, readers are calling the answer defensive and evasive rather than funny. Across 245 comments, the most-liked one (217 likes) jokes that a reply this touchy over a simple question must mean something's up. Others go further: one highly liked comment (123 likes) says Oda seems to have mistaken ordinary criticism for an attack, while another with 84 likes breaks down exactly why the answer doesn't logically respond to what was asked in the first place. Not every comment is pure mockery, though — some end up somewhere more wistful, comparing this answer to how playfully Oda used to handle SBS questions in the manga's earlier years.
245 comments9/26/26, 12:14 AM
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One Piece Anime Smooths Out One of Its Most Notoriously Clunky Lines
This week's One Piece anime finally adapted one of the manga's most notoriously clunky exchanges — and while animating it, staff quietly rewrote the dialogue around it, though not the meme phrase itself. On a Japanese reaction video collecting comments on the episode, the edit itself became the whole conversation before anyone got to the actual story. Across 461 comments, the top comment (996 likes) points out that the anime left the manga's actual meme line untouched and only smoothed out the dialogue immediately around it. Not everyone is as forgiving: another highly liked comment (532 likes) argues that needing the fix at all is something Shueisha's editors should be embarrassed about. From there the thread splits between blaming the source material and crediting the anime staff's editing, and commenters can't stop previewing next week's episode, which apparently crams several more of the manga's most-memed exclamations into just a few pages. By the end, even the skeptics admit they're curious to hear a professional voice actor deliver the next one out loud.
461 comments9/25/26, 12:18 AM

Japan Reacts

Summer 2026 Anime Fan Poll: Jaadugar Wins No. 1, Record Votes

One Piece SBS: Oda's Flight-Fruit Answer Backfires on Fans

One Piece Anime Smooths Out One of Its Most Notoriously Clunky Lines