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Many of us are already planning which fandoms to offer and request! Nominations open in about a week, which may give some of us enough time to pick up a new canon before signups begin.
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Sarazanmai
The anime follows Kazuki and his friends, Enta and Toi, as they get transformed into kappas by a mysterious kappa prince, Keppi, and defeat monsters and learn about themselves and each other along the way. Every time they defeat a monster, the boy who delivered the killing blow has one of his most embarrassing secrets leaked to the other two. There is also a secondary, fan-favorite storyline that involves the antagonists, Reo and Mabu. Coincidentally, their story is one of my favorite love stories of all time, although I can't say much more without spoiling.
One of the main themes of the anime is the conflict between "desire" and "love", and what that even means. But don't go into it thinking that the plot is going to say that "love" is inherently better, because it's a bit more complicated than that!
If you live in a country that can access these websites, it's available for streaming both on Funimation (dub) and Crunchyroll (sub). And if you want to do some more digging, there is also a prequel manga about Reo and Mabu that is set to be localized in English soon (although I'm sure scanlations are still floating around), and a now wiped in-character prequel Twitter account (also from Reo and Mabu's point of view) that was backed up and translated here, although be careful looking at it because the first tweet (as displayed by the website) is a major spoiler! There are also two light novels that retell/expand on the anime, but you probably won't be able to read them unless you can read Japanese because (to my knowledge) all English translations have been pulled from the internet due to their upcoming official localization.
Content warnings: a lot of butt jokes/butt imagery (so much so that I'd say this anime is probably NSFW despite it being neither porn nor excessively violent), unusual kink discussion including one brief BDSM scene, yakuza activity (including a waterboarding scene and drug references), police brutality, gun and fantasy violence (most is non-bloody, but there are a few bloody scenes), fantasy gore (a character repeatedly pulls out non-realistic organs out of another character), very heavily implied sexual abuse, harm to children/teens, on-screen character death, light gambling, smoking (Twitter only), suicidal ideation, unhealthy relationships (sibling, romantic, friendships)
I will probably be requesting ReoMabu and/or Otter (the Big Bad) fic.