Removing bloat doesn’t necessarily make things unstable. I remove all the games from my KDE Plasma installs. The primary mistake that can occur in removing non-essential programs is ignoring the list of programs that this is a dependency of or also removes.
Dedicated discussion posts for the weekly anime episode could help. Currently the manga scans have weekly posts but don’t really receive a lot of comments, as most people comment on the website or on the other site.