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Yes, I loved this one. I should do a rewatch soon. Really loved all the characters and how the story unfolded. I didn't think this one would live up to the hype it was getting for a while, but I feel it did.

One Piece: Just finished Arlong Park a little bit ago. It's my first watch, I just started reading the manga a few months ago and I'm on Water7 in that. Put it off for so long due to how big it was and it didn't look great art wise. It has such great world building and characters though. Great pacing, and I haven't encountered anything I'd call filler so far.

Devil is a Part Timer S2: This is much better so far that the first part of part 2. Love how MgCafe is taken so seriously. Glad we seem to be back to character development. More funny than just part as well.

Ancient Magus Bride S2: The school environment is more exciting than I expected. It's great to see the cat expand too. Seeing more of Elias's quest to feel human is very good and Chise becoming more independent makes it way more interesting to me than season 1. I almost didn't start S2, the premise was great, but I just started getting bored. Season 2 has been much more lively and interesting overall to me.

The bat is definitely cute!

I enjoy that I can no longer tell if you are serious or not!

What a country! 😂

I had heard the kiwi stuff, but you had me second guessing myself!

I did look up the island names since I had never heard Aotearoa before, and a few of the blurbs say there are a few hundred actual islands that make up New Zealand, but it seems nobody can agree on an actual number because they all have a different estimate.

Lol, you two have me picturing literally just 3 bats in the whole country and the middle one being upset he isn't biggest or smallest and is plotting to take one of the other 2 out.

I deleted my tangent on spears a few times! Everybody in history has used the spear and in massive numbers. Cheap, easily made and repaired, and lower initial training required. If we count bayonets as spears, they're still used today.

Thank you! Those are some pretty significant facts. I've got much to learn about things over there!

Thank you for all that! As I said, we don't seem to get taught much about that part of the world. LotR is probably the only NZ thing I can recall of the top of my head, which is pretty embarrassing.

The only one I know off the top of my head is the coelacanth that I was thrilled to get to see a preserved one at the Smithsonian.

Here's some more examples

There's some more I found. The bird in this article is the prettiest of the list. The others may be a bit underwhelming.

I'm from the US, and usually all we hear about Australia and New Zealand is of the scary, deadly animals. I've been happy to see so many articles on Lemmy about all the work they are doing on endangered animals like this bird and the bandicoots.

I'm also surprised that so many of these programs seem to involve indigenous people. I don't know much about that part of the world, but I wish we would involve our native people in things like this. It feels we still keep ourselves cut off from each other. It makes all these feel good animal stories into feel good people stories.

That's horrible! What a shame. At least they owned up to doing it, but that had to be devastating to anyone in the recovery effort.