anime-manga

[slender skiff]

was not something i expected

goddammit it's arima lacking confidence again

[quaint patrol]

shiranui is one of the best characters

but that's cos she isnt touched by the story

whenever Aka lightens up on the story, the characters become so good

[slender skiff]

he likes edgy stories

but he's just so much better at comedy...

[stable herald]

WAIT THEY ALTERED THE SCENE FROM THE MANGA

[slender skiff]

like im enjoying renai daikou more at this point

[stable herald]

That's hella quick to reach latest chapter manga wise lmaoo

as expected of novel sourcing

[quaint patrol]

well the manga is actually glacial

[quaint patrol]

the dex rating threw me off

havent started it yet

[slender skiff]

it's bad on there?

[quaint patrol]

7.8

[slender skiff]

i guess my concern is that

maybe some of the jokes are a bit too similar?

or rather

it's more of

you kinda know what to expect out of aka's comedy style

[quaint patrol]

i read reviews on how aka is replicating kaguya too fast

[slender skiff]

which is "expected subversions"

or

[quaint patrol]

trying to make in depth characters without enough initial comedy

[slender skiff]

expect subversions ON subversions

[quaint patrol]

this by itself doesnt seem so bad

[slender skiff]

i don't think it's anything amazing yet

but then again

same for kaguya

until like chap 90

aka the ishigami arc

[quaint patrol]

you say that, but now and then I read from the beginning

and it's still holding fabulously

[slender skiff]

kaguya's only really contentious arc

was the final arc

that felt quite out of place

[quaint patrol]

it's infamous for the helicopter

[slender skiff]

i mean it's funny but i guess

people expected more

for me

the whole final arc feels like a throw back to old shoujo manga's final arcs

[quaint patrol]

just prior to the final arc, the gag where kaguya was rich af was hilarious

where she was crying all the way ||till her private jet to fly to america||

[slender skiff]

like kaichou wa maid-sama's final arc was just ballsey misaki being misaki

and ouran had 2 completely different endings with the anime and manga

and yet both are fabulous

though the anime one sticks in the memory more

[silver robin]

Yes that was funny

[stable herald]

Lvl 99 villainess ep11 spoiler

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

MY MAN STRAIGHT TO THE POINT

[potent schooner]

Sheit

[stable herald]

Soooooooo

My friend won his 50/50

in the new SL game

Animation is soo fuckin good

But sadly the combat mechanic is quite boring. Typical soul game thingy with no advance system

But damn

[thorn briar]

The misunderstanding

Okay , he does understand now

After he scared her

[silver robin]

Idk how many of yall read physical light novels but what are yalls thoughts on light novel illustrations that force you to expand the folded page to view the entire image

[slender skiff]

"save that for manga
the poor publisher"

[silver robin]

im not talking about 2 page spread

[slender skiff]

i know what you mean

but like

again, the poor publisher

[silver robin]

Im talking about stuff like this 86 illustration thats folded not once but twice

So its technically a 3 page spread

[slender skiff]

wtf

cursed

[silver robin]

I would post the entire thing but am currently on a bus so can't expand it fully and take a picture at the same time

[thorn briar]

If u don't want to marry him , then why are you agreeing to this

[weak glacier]

Eminence in shadow s2 finished and dubbed?

Am I that out of touch?

[thorn briar]

Idk about the dubs

But s2 is done

Long time ago

[weak glacier]

5 months damn

Also, next up

@slender skiff

[thorn briar]

Wait what

Girl

Are you gonna die

Cause if yes

Then it's another character that I like that would die

[silver robin]

Yea wasnt it simul or very close to simul

[silver robin]

No the witch is the main character she wont die

Just look at all the ln covers

[thorn briar]

[silver robin]

If she dies then it's gonna be one hell of an ending thats for sure

[weak glacier]

I am angry
I am devasted
The hokkaido girls don't have a country accent

This is bullshit

They can't do this to me

[silver robin]

in the dub?

[weak glacier]

yeah

[silver robin]

lol

yea i would be too

[weak glacier]

Sounds like a fucking california valley girrlll

[thorn briar]

Then why do I have a feeling that she will die for real

[silver robin]

well you are from texas so thats like the country for you right

[quasi vault]

Date a live watcher right now in shambles 🥶 🥶

[silver robin]

She might but we dont know yet

Story unfinished

[weak glacier]

[silver robin]

[weak glacier]

I ain't country, just suburban white kid

But we got a lot peopel from the country

[silver robin]

No i mean

As someone living in texas california is the country

[thorn briar]

Finish it please

[stable herald]

What anime is this anyway

[silver robin]

yell at author not me

[silver robin]

Unnamed memory

[thorn briar]

Unnamed memory

[weak glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIsopqHX0C8

[stable herald]

Oh

Fuck

QAIT IR GOT AN ANIME I FOEGOT

its the witch one

[silver robin]

Yes

[thorn briar]

Who is the author

[stable herald]

I forgot it got an anime

[silver robin]

I have made multiple posts in #965642875994013777

[weak glacier]

I am devasted

[stable herald]

Damn, most of the manga i read got anime past season

[silver robin]

just read smh my head

[stable herald]

Too busy with student life

[silver robin]

Shota thighs got one yes

[weak glacier]

They can't be fucked to give me a country accent

[stable herald]

No time bruh

[thorn briar]

I'm reading the manga for unnamed memory

[silver robin]

Just sleep 6 hours and watch anime for the 2 hours you saved

[weak glacier]

Ironically, Cells at Work gave the male red blood cells a thick country accent loooooooool

[stable herald]

Im more busy to read fuckin not one, but multiple articles to do an analysis on

[thorn briar]

Cause 1 of you here said that they skipped alot of things

[stable herald]

Bro, 6h of sleep sounds rich

Even 4h is a blessing

[thorn briar]

Good luck

[stable herald]

I was soo lucky to finish an anime in 2 days

That lvl99 one

And in 2 days, not one too

Aight imma sleep

Have class at 8

Lmao

[thorn briar]

Now I have no longer human , the setting sun and this one

I already read no longer human

[weak glacier]

why does the mom have an irish accent

😭

[silver robin]

"we need a county accent"

"how about we get europeans"

stonks 📈

[weak glacier]

the fuck

The voice actor is from Minnesota

oh fuck

THey made her midwestern

https://tenor.com/view/what-gif-5983043

I guess Minnestoa cloest thing we got to a Hokkaido

that or Alaska

I'm gonna fucking dew it

[ivory mauve]

The scariest villain ever

[weak glacier]

Char goober

[ivory mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/char-aznable-quattro-bagina-zeta-gundam-i-came-to-laugh-at-you-gundam-gif-24795600

He's scarier in Origin than any other iteration

[weak glacier]

You got two hot beautiful girls next to you and you decided to JUST BE FRIENDS?

https://tenor.com/view/blank-stare-homelander-antony-starr-the-boys-dead-inside-gif-25853869

Mfers playing girls hearts like this

[thorn briar]

Friend zone

[weak glacier]

If the MCs keeps pushing girls this hard away, I suspect they must all be gay

Look, I ain't gonna judge

anyone noticed the rise of arm pit related stuff recently or am I losing it?

Her mom is blessed

I'm get mental whiplash

Gyrau meants evangelical mom lingo

https://tenor.com/view/idk-head-scratch-gif-9979323

[grave hill]

Why?

[weak glacier]

This anime got me all sorts of confused

[grave hill]

What is the name of it?

[weak glacier]

Gyaru soccer mom truly is blesed

Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!

https://myanimelist.net/anime/53421/Dosanko_Gal_wa_Namara_Menkoi

[grave hill]

Thanks

[weak glacier]

Sounds like a gyaru version of my grandma

[thorn briar]

[slender skiff]

Unfortunately it's already popular

[cedar furnace]

Well I made it before it was popular

I think I posted it here too

[slender skiff]

And even then it was already popular

[cedar furnace]

Also wdym Unfortunately

[slender skiff]

Nothing

[cedar furnace]

Well then i guess it's my mistake then

[slender skiff]

Just saying the meme is posted too late

You could make a case with towa I suppose

[cedar furnace]

One sec

[cedar furnace]

Ta da

[solid nebula]

whar

[cedar furnace]

I never heard of whar before is that some type of country?

[bronze bluff]

Ah yes

It's cooking alright

What are these kekw

[weak glacier]

Hun, I ride this hype train after everyone gets off

Me when I talk about this "new" anime 6 months after everyone watched it

[bronze bluff]

not sure what are those lol

[thorn briar]

It's been 13 years since you last appeared in the manga

I miss him

Eventhough he's not my fave

[solid nebula]

It just means confusion

[thorn briar]

[stable herald]

What-

[bronze bluff]

...

[thorn briar]

[stable herald]

Onimai but straight up incest

11k people bookmarked

[dry moon]

Ohhh I remember that

I definitely definitely definitely definitely definitely didn’t read it at all

Just remember seeing it

Yes

[bronze bluff]

uhhhhhhhh

[bronze bluff]

what happened?

[stable herald]

What the fuck mike

[candid flint]

oh sh-

Oh Marine's song, know that one

Why I have a hunch that Kay-Yu gonna ask Eufrik to remix to this song for the next Holocure

[cedar furnace]

I know I was just making a joke

[weak glacier]

[silver robin]

So basically all their friends voted them the mom of the group

but they are taking it more seriously than intended

[bronze bluff]

DaL are in shambles

[shut lion]

its date a ||death|| now

[glass flax]

Bruh DaL is brutal past 2 seasons lol

shit really hitting the fan

[silver robin]

also in this weeks spice and wolf episode they said the title

they said the title of the show

[slender skiff]

Wait
It's on computer?

[silver robin]

Or emulator

[slender skiff]

I mean it's net marble

I'm giving it a try anyways

I still haven't watched the anime tho

[quasi vault]

Everyone got ||Kakyoin'd||

[bronze bluff]

https://youtu.be/bj7tW2fLxLc?si=xqeblsl5Gje2lKD6

The theme that played before the other one gets Orsted'd

I found the remix instead so kekw

@quasi vault you read the LN?

[quasi vault]

LOL ye

by the way

[quasi vault]

someone dropped DAL because that

me when i watch JoJo:

"this is fine... Probably."

[bronze bluff]

Real question here

||Did Yoshino get Orsted'd too?||

[quasi vault]

that's something to look forward in the next one

[bronze bluff]

You're scaring me

If she does...

||Fuck you Mio Takamiya||

[quasi vault]

||it will definitely be a dark turn from others, as long bro hasn't done that||

[bronze bluff]

a

[grave hill]

That hit hard

[stable herald]

It have a pc client

@silver robin

[slender skiff]

Netmarble with PC client

What has this world come to

[stable herald]

What

Didnt netmarble already have pv client long ago

Cuz there kof games

[slender skiff]

I mean

It's netmarble

[stable herald]

Guinevere and Lancelot laughing in the background:

[slender skiff]

It looks good btw

Even on phone

But well

Kek

Like seriously

It doesn't look like some cash grab gacha game like Eminence or Danmachi

They actually put effort into this

Well, they are using some of the manhwa art for the story scenes

Instead of just simply voiced cut scenes that you see in every game

Also didn't realise his name was completely different in jp

[shut lion]

solo leveling is a big franchise now huh

[slender skiff]

It's like the most famous Manhwa so...

[shut lion]

I so dont know anything about manhwa that I've never heard of it until anime came out

and I didnt watch it either

[boreal oyster]

it's basically OPM world with different icons and story

mechanic is exactly the same

even the gameplay

[stable herald]

True

And the boss' moveset is too easy

I play elden ring soo

Not that hard for mr

[bronze bluff]

Hmmmm

[boreal oyster]

still waiting for wuthering waves

you could not even see the boss movement at all

[boreal oyster]

Saegusa is not as mature as in season 1

she look like a high schooler now

[slender skiff]

I mean

She was a high schooler

And she's actually really childish

And she only really shows it around her close friends and Tatsuya

[quasi vault]

predict deez PGR boss

i love how dungeon meshi manga art are some shitass great eldritch things

[stable herald]

True

Even pgr bosses moveset are harder than some soul game

[slender skiff]

there's a reason i dropped pgr in favour of hi3...

[stable herald]

why

tell

im curiouis

[slender skiff]

im just generally bad and hack and slashers

and even worse at fps

and while i really do think pgr has very unique and interesting combat mechanics

i simply do not have the coordination to trying to play a match 3 and fight at the same time

it's just "not for me"

[stable herald]

I mean, pgr is not that hard. it's just, for pc client:

Click to attack, button press to orb combo, button press to swap, button press to skill combo, hold click to ult charge, spacebar to dodge, double or triple spacebar to dodge more, spacebar to dodge for skill combo,

Not that many

[echo quiver]

clearly we just need to switch to a simplier game. with cute anime girls. with guns. with an anime this season.

[stable herald]

Played hi3 on my friend's pc, story is great ngl, but the fighting mechanic is, ya know, good too but not that very interactive

[slender skiff]

i mean i use controllers for a reason

yeah i just don't have the ability to play those games

[stable herald]

Im also the type that loves fast pace games, that's why pgr is my fav, While I dont like open world games like genshin, or generally any mihoyo game

But I can't like their story writing is peak

@quasi vault Yo bro, new catto event for pgr btw

lmao

[stable herald]

Oh kai

idk if I have told you

But I bought red frame astray

RG

[ivory mauve]

Pretty cool

There are sooo many astray

[stable herald]

true

But my next astray target is gold frame

[quasi vault]

Ye pc client got delay lmfao

[stable herald]

lmaoo

[weak glacier]

Already half way through that hokkaido anime

[thorn briar]

[silver robin]

The only netmarble game ive played is knights chronicle but i dropped it a while while back

[slender skiff]

honestly it looks pretty decent

im trying out

lucked out to get cha very early

prob will drop for wuwa tho eventually

[thorn briar]

Can I scream

[slender skiff]

silently yes

[quasi vault]

Ggs

[thorn briar]

I will delete it

[quasi vault]

👏🏻

[stable herald]

The game is reroll support

[slender skiff]

i rerolled like

twice

[stable herald]

OH WAIT

Ur already playting the game?

[slender skiff]

ended up with 2 SSRs

[stable herald]

[stable herald]

.....

Fuck you

[slender skiff]

wait no it's 3 now

[stable herald]

What the fuck

[slender skiff]

got spooked when i continued rolling cha's banner

[stable herald]

lucky mf

[slender skiff]

so as of now i have cha hae in, seo jiwoo and lee bora

and i can assure you

i do not remember jiwoo or bora

like

[stable herald]

Seo is a very good character

[slender skiff]

when?

i don't even rmb bora

seo i feel like i've seen her

[slender skiff]

is it the antvasion arc

[stable herald]

Yeah, most of the heroes are some background characters

[stable herald]

My games are increasing....

I want seo

but fuck the game

3rd reroll

[shut lion]

how do you have time to play all these gachas

I barely can find some time to play two

[slender skiff]

to play like only the unemployed can

[ivory mauve]

I swear how Char is depicted here looks like he's about to start some drama

[silver robin]

TRUE

but ender is employed so it doesnt check out

[ivory mauve]

Anomaly DETECTED

[slender skiff]

i mean i don't play games that much anymore

AL is the only one i can really sink hours in

cos i can afk it while at work

[silver robin]

what about hsr

[slender skiff]

all at home

i could play it on my phone

but my phone tends to overheat a lot

[silver robin]

hsr is just as autoable as azur lane

[silver robin]

Same even when i play azur lane

[slender skiff]

you can't auto hsr for hours on end tho

[silver robin]

also fun fact al has similar storage space reqs as hsr

[silver robin]

Yea but you run out of "stamina" faster in hsr

[slender skiff]

like

on weekdays

[silver robin]

whatever its called

[slender skiff]

my hsr gameplay time is like

30 mins at most

[silver robin]

sounds about right

[slender skiff]

meanwile

i have no planars for robin

[silver robin]

Mines usually that amount except for events

[silver robin]

skill issue wheres your space sealing station

[slender skiff]

robin is supposed to be fleet of ageless

[silver robin]

i built harmony mc instead yesterday

[slender skiff]

haven't farmed that in months

[silver robin]

Broken keel at that point then

[slender skiff]

used for aventurine

[silver robin]

doesnt it stack

[slender skiff]

out of spare stuff more like

and i'd need to stack effect res on her

[silver robin]

fair enough

I did 30 pulls for robin cause i cant spare any more atm

[candid flint]

NAME ME THE SOURCE!!!!!!

[silver robin]

gotta save for firefly

[silver robin]

The hokkaido gal one

whatever its called

[slender skiff]

^

[slender skiff]

https://anilist.co/anime/155963/Dosanko-Gal-wa-Namaramenkoi/

[candid flint]

Oh that one

Whoa

Time to search for th....

(I cannot say the rest, its bonkable)

[ivory mauve]

Spend a few years at the Texas colony they said. It builds character.

Artesia like her brother have a affinity for war

[stable herald]

@slender skiff people said the pc client is bad. NAHH MAN, THE FUCKIN MOBILE CLIENT IS HORRENDOUS

Fuckin, hanged midgame

Black screen

[slender skiff]

mobile is laggy ye

[stable herald]

And it heats up my phone for prolonged use

Bro, I played HSR for 6h straight with this phone

It never heats up

[weak glacier]

69% nice

[stable herald]

SL's mobile game is soo fuckin bad

Lmaoo

[weak glacier]

But also fuck anilist users

[stable herald]

?????????

Fuck ttat about

[weak glacier]

MAL might be a meme, but at least they possess self-awareness

[slender skiff]

i mean you're more pretentious than most of them

[stable herald]

What the fuck ya mean self awareness

[slender skiff]

[weak glacier]

I am pretentious, but I know that

[stable herald]

I never seen soo proclaiming "self awareness" In mal

Lmao

[weak glacier]

They're idiots and insufferable

lol

But at least it's funny

Anilist is just sad

[stable herald]

You judges a website based on its user community

I judges websites by its user interference and friendliness

We are NOT the same

[silver robin]

agree

we are not the same

(i am 183 cm tall)

[stable herald]

But im the same as sam and ender

Aight imma sleep

[weak glacier]

Anilist interface is not any better than MAL

[stable herald]

Sl game is fun

But yeah, tuck mobile client

[weak glacier]

true

MAL doesn't give 2 fucks about mobile

But they interface on PC is better tbh

[stable herald]

Interface is not the only thing that caught me, the usefullness of shit in there is better than mal.

Hell, I used Mal far longer than anilist

Then ender recommended me to use it

Worth the export to the website

[weak glacier]

Anilist, the official website of "copy the info off of MAL"

[stable herald]

Darling, in marketing you call that innovation.

Yeah ofc they copy stuff, both is literally have the same type of service

[weak glacier]

This fact is hilarious because Anilist forbids people from copying information from their service

[stable herald]

Why does that even fuckin bother you bro, you use the website to keep track of your animes not to fuckin work with their companies

What tf even is this argument

Imma just sleep

My Asian head cant comprehend your american mind

[weak glacier]

Isn't even argument

[stable herald]

Goosnight frosty

[weak glacier]

[stable herald]

No no, i meant like this talk

My brain isnt functioning

[weak glacier]

I just was building my website off of Anilist

I use all their backend shit to copy the info

[stable herald]

Damn, coding engineering

Goos for you

[weak glacier]

But yeah, I am the only one gonna be using it

Fuck paying to host people's shitty opinions

[silver robin]

Just prevent user comments

cant be that hard

[weak glacier]

Oh sweet summer child

Just the hosting cost alone is enough to make me dead inside

[silver robin]

just host it in a different not merica country using vpn

or something

idk how it works

[weak glacier]

[stable herald]

Sam, if everyone were to take this advice seriously. Half the shit on the internet would vanish because people would be smarter.

[slender skiff]

i mean

[stable herald]

Aight goodnight darlings

Ender...

Continue b4 i go sleep

Or I'd say gn for like 3-4 times

[weak glacier]

There is so much I need to get done. I already poored 200 hours in this project

[slender skiff]

frosty, the fact that you're creating your own website just to track your anime/manga because you can't stand the community is just

[weak glacier]

Oh this isn't anime/manga

This anime, figures, manga, music, etc

[slender skiff]

at this point

[weak glacier]

Spreadsheets

[stable herald]

So thats why ur dying inside...

[weak glacier]

[slender skiff]

you're just better off making a fucking spreadsheet yes

[weak glacier]

Ender

Hear me out

A database is a fancy spreadsheet

[stable herald]

Mf's website is basically Spreadsheet V2

[weak glacier]

I can't just flex by saying, "here, have a spreadsheet"

I gotta make it pretty

[stable herald]

Oh yeah, yall know any website thats a library tracking service like mal or anilist, but for movies?

[weak glacier]

Ironically, getting the information and processing it is what taking so long

[stable herald]

Like... Cinema movies and sorts

[weak glacier]

Theres plenty

Letterboxd

[stable herald]

I want one

Cuz i have shitton of movies i had saved and to watch in my note

Lol

[weak glacier]

Literally my website just displays the info I collected

The website IS THE EASY PART

[slender skiff]

i mean

unironically

just create a damn twitter account and blog your shit there

[weak glacier]

Be me

Create a twitter bot

But everything is pratically automated

I am already finished with Anilist and MFC scripts

[stable herald]

Ender, the more you gave your view. The more it doesnt make sense cuz its frosty

Dude a coder dude, must be pretty comfy in his long thighs stockings with a cute bunny hoodie rn

[weak glacier]

Can

Can't a man just make a website?

[stable herald]

Or are you not a coder femboy?

[weak glacier]

No, I have a life

I only code on weekends to save my sanity

I literally forbid myself from coding on workdays

[stable herald]

Nahh thats just an internet joke for programmers

Sowwy

[weak glacier]

Yes, those femboys are C programmers

I do Python, like a person who has a life

[stable herald]

Ah

Lmao

Python is at least manageable

And sane

[weak glacier]

Javascript programmers get the women and the money

C/C++ programmers bitch the current state of programming at their dead end job in game development

[silver robin]

The funny thing is i know a guy who also keeps track of anime and scoring using a database too

[weak glacier]

[stable herald]

I

Gonna

[weak glacier]

down with the system

[stable herald]

Sleep

For

The

4th time

Ok gn

I hope...

[weak glacier]

A database is just a fancy spreadsheet

[silver robin]

yes

[silver robin]

Yes but you can use a static site generator instead of making a website website right

[weak glacier]

They do some magic to retireve the info faster

[silver robin]

[weak glacier]

I would rather display the info dynamically

Can't be static if you constantly watching anime

Could probably batch update it

[silver robin]

depends on how you want to update the info

[weak glacier]

I already fucking using Flask

[silver robin]

If you just edit a line of code then push then you dont need dynamic

if you want the user (yourself) to edit it through the live website itself then dynamic is the way to go

[thorn briar]

1 month until conan manga comes back

Conan movie 27 is 70 minutes

It's not 1 or 2 hours like usual

[weak glacier]

Requires uploading all the files monthly

I actually created user interface to add entries

[ivory mauve]

Char Aznable never betrayed no one

But

Casval Rem Deikun, BURNED THE WORLD

[echo quiver]

i can already imagine nexon getting buried under all the bribery gifts from crunchyroll and hulu and amazon and all the other streaming companies

they already know global viewers are watching ba so it's a guaranteed profit if they get an exclusive contract lol

[cedar furnace]

I think I see a pattern here

[boreal oyster]

🔥🔥

[cedar furnace]

What game are ya playing

[boreal oyster]

mid leveling

[cedar furnace]

Is it better than SAO?
Shitty
Anime
Online?

[boreal oyster]

endless reroll
no ssr

mf

[potent cedar]

Oops

ok

AKAME GA KILL MANGA REVIEW: #off-topic message

[silver robin]

Just repost it here

If its very very long consider posting it as a pastebin or something

[thorn briar]

She looks like that girl from jjk

[weak glacier]

are we still on d. gray man?

[thorn briar]

No , this is wind breaker

[weak glacier]

Are you going to do another Conan rewatch soon?

I'm sorry I'm laughing at the title

"Wind breakers"

💀

Mfers being breaking wind

SOMEBODY

SAT DOWN

AND SAID

" W I N D B R E A K E R "

https://tenor.com/view/konosuba-aqua-scared-shaking-terrified-gif-17362385

[potent cedar]

ok

:)

[potent cedar]

hahahahaha

I JUST FINISHED THE ENTIRE AKAME GA KILL MANGA...

Overall:
Art: Consistently solidly good
Characters/characterization: Alright/okay/fine/passable.
Character designs: Good.
Plot: Okay/decent.
World Building: Sadly bad, and lacks/doesn’t have much context or scope, and just makes the story feel more empty overall (there’s not even a map, I think).
Ending: Somewhat satisfying and admittedly emotional despite some minor things that I don’t like about it.
Final Grade: 7/10 MAX. It’s not a masterpiece like people say it is, but it’s not bad either. “Akame Ga Kill Zero” (the prequel) is around the same level.
Do I regret reading it?: Surprisingly no.
Would I recommend it?: If your eyes won’t bleed from the HIGH levels of insane and unseen violence that could happen to anyone and DOES happen to anyone no matter who it is, in addition to the depraved dialogue and facial expressions, and are willing to read through 78.5 chapters of that, then possibly/maybe.

1: Appalling
2: Horrible
3: Very bad
4: Bad
5: Average
6: Fine
7: Good
8: Very good
9: Great
10: Masterpiece

||
More:
Most annoying characters:
Seryu (frustratingly annoying and flawed sense of justice)
Prime Minister “Honest” (no redeeming qualities)
Shura and the Wild Hunt members (arrogant and impossible to be liked)
Esdeath (annoying, flawed, hypocritical ideology learned from her father, which she stubbornly sticks with to justify herself by any means. Any attempts by the author to make us feel sympathy for her don’t really work. Kind of a “Mary Sue”. Overpowered and, when she’s about to get hit, she uses her time stop ability or blocks Akame’s sword with ice, or uses some other ability never mentioned before. Seductive, obsessive, toxic, almost yandere-like advances towards Tatsumi despite his age of <18 and her age of 20+. Even as she solemnly accepts her death, she still doesn’t understand why Tatsumi never liked her. Oh boy, I wonder why…)
Suzuka (somehow lived throughout the whole thing and relaxed at the end, and I don’t like that. War would’ve ended faster if she died way earlier on)
I would’ve added The Emperor, but he accepted his fate with pride in the end, so he wasn’t hopelessly clueless

Favorite characters or ones that I care about the most:
Bols (fairly developed character)
Akame (just cool overall)
Mine (Somewhat annoying tsundere at first, but became very respectable to me because she held her own against Esdeath’s overpowered projectiles and also blasted Budo into the sky)
Leone
Bulat

Funniest death:
Cosmina’s “death” (got shot while asking for SUS things, and fell onto the ground)
Dorothea’s death (desperately begged for mercy)

Most satisfying death:
Champ (got what he deserved. Didn’t suffer enough, but still)
Esdeath (died solemnly alone and disappeared for good)
Honest (died in despair like Dorothea) ||

|| Most frustratingly avoidable death:
Chelsea (she didn’t completely die in vain, because she managed to injure Kurome somewhat with just a needle, and this affected Kurome’s performance in future battles, but it would’ve been better for the team if she just didn’t pursue Kurome, and attempted assassination another time).
I would have said Leone but chapter 77 showed that she luckily didn’t die yet (I thought she died in chapter 72).

Favorite chapters (best to “least best”):
Chapter 77, chapter 74, chapter 76, chapter 53, chapter 66, chapter 75, chapter 78, chapter 60

Most disliked chapters:
Chapter 23.5 (DO NOT READ), Chapter 45 (edginess hell…) ||
OK, that's everything i wrote

[solid nebula]

Smug twins

[thorn briar]

I'm still in my 1st rewatch

I didn't rewatch from the 1st episode

I chose the arc after akai got killed which was fake actually

[weak glacier]

damn, shiro dropping spoilers

[thorn briar]

It's not a spoiler when I watched the same arc 3 times when I just dropped cause I liked him and thought they killed him for real

I remember spoiling myself about it

[ivory mauve]

Idk why but the tall black hair in the middle made me think it was Her Summon.

[little kelp]

@polar crane what anime

[silver robin]

Today is thursday right

So its slime and mahouka day today

[little kelp]

Ive read some of the mahouka ln tbh

Never went through the anime though

[silver robin]

ive read all 32 volumes in the original series

this was back during covid when i was bored

[little kelp]

Anime worth it?

[silver robin]

its good yes

action is pretty good

[thorn briar]

It's Friday

[silver robin]

story can be hit or miss depending on the arc but its generally alright

the movie isnt really canon so you can skip it

*movie adapts a side story

actually wait theres 2 movies now i forgot

[little kelp]

Hm. Well I’ll try out the latest season

[silver robin]

uh

with mahouka you want to start from the beginning

do you remember how many light novels you read of mahouka

[little kelp]

I have read up past volume ten

[silver robin]

Oh

Then start with s2

[little kelp]

Probably further tbh I forget

[silver robin]

Cause thats volumes 9-11 (visitor arc)

s3 is double seven, steeplechase, and ancient city

[polar crane]

uhhh, currently God's Game We Play

[silver robin]

based

[little kelp]

Lmao don’t recognize the name

I’ll look it up

[silver robin]

Its kei sazane

[little kelp]

Is that supposed to be more recognizable?

[silver robin]

aka the guy who is getting 3 lns adapted in 2 seasons

which is insane

cause this season you get kami game and next season theres nazeboku and kimisen

[little kelp]

I read the nazeboku manga

Fantastic art

Still don’t get the story

[silver robin]

sounds about right

[little kelp]

Anyhow

Thanks for the information samheart

[silver robin]

np

[little kelp]

I’ll try out the anime

And cheeky sorry for the ping and thanks for answering

[silver robin]

If u want to talk anime ender and i usually lurk here sometimes

[polar crane]

no worries

[silver robin]

[little kelp]

I’m mostly only watching dungeon meshi this season tbh

[polar crane]

hahahahaha......, I'm watching a bit more than that.....

[little kelp]

Also catching up on the alchemist one since I was busy

Tf

Tbh I don’t even rly have a vacation rn despite it being the summer term at my uni

Anyhow

Oh right I am watching spice and wolf

It’s pretty great

I’m reading the ln too

[slender skiff]

Hi

[polar crane]

Still need to get around to starting it. Somewhat low priority for now as I did watch the original some time back.

[slender skiff]

Yeah I prefer to lurk here more than gph

[little kelp]

Honestly I took a glance at the og

Pretty much identical in content

[silver robin]

Holy shit

[little kelp]

Might as well wait for the newer g

[silver robin]

Finally someone who watches about as much seasonals as me

im watching less though, only about 20 ish

[little kelp]

Only

[silver robin]

nvm its 24 if you include mha and demon slayer

[slender skiff]

Watching anime like only students or the unemployed can

I mean what

[little kelp]

I’m a student

Not rly having a vacation here

[silver robin]

same

[polar crane]

also a student

[silver robin]

Na if you just take away the social life and replace it with anime you too can also watch this many

[little kelp]

Tbh I mostly read

Novels mostly. Can’t compete with professional anime watchers

[slender skiff]

Unfortunately im only a part time student

And yes I prefer to read at this point

Cos the subway has slow fucking internet

So that's where I do most of my translation work

[little kelp]

Grad students?

[silver robin]

part time student = masters student = job probably paying for your degree

[slender skiff]

Degree student not masters

I'm not that old or smart

[silver robin]

wao

[little kelp]

I don’t think that’s related lol

[slender skiff]

I have enough saved for the degree at this point

Just earning my keep for the future

If I was smarter I would have started my degree about 2 years earlier

If I was a girl, 4 years earlier

Mandatory military service is lovely

[little kelp]

Oh Korean?

[slender skiff]

Nah

Singaporean

[little kelp]

Fair enough. My condolences

[silver robin]

How the fuck can you translate on the subway

[slender skiff]

Ya see sam

I already ran every volume through a MTL a week back

[little kelp]

I spend three hours a day on commute

[silver robin]

oh

[little kelp]

You learn to deal with it

[silver robin]

Makes sense

[slender skiff]

So it's just a matter of editing the baka mtl

So sometimes the MTL produces le funni

[silver robin]

cause i extracted text using calibre then ran that through mtl then put it in a doc

[little kelp]

What are you peeps mtling?

[slender skiff]

I used a plug in with calibre to translate it

[silver robin]

im not mtling anything currently

[slender skiff]

As for me well

It's a passion project

[silver robin]

i dabbled in it over covid but i got too busy so i stopped

[slender skiff]

It is slow work tho

My standards are a bit high

And I don't actually know Japanese

[little kelp]

Dw

Often even official translators barely understand that much about jp

[silver robin]

Thats like 90% of fan translators

[slender skiff]

Like

[silver robin]

if you see a tl group online chances are only 1 person in the entire org knows jp decently or better

[slender skiff]

I sent you that bit yesterday

[silver robin]

or none

[slender skiff]

I'm just bullshitting my way through with what makes sense to me

[silver robin]

yep

use feeling

[little kelp]

I’ve been in a translation group for webnovels before

Wrong reply sry

Anyhow yeah few people actually know the actual language

[silver robin]

i am technically still in the group

and i can confirm im like one of two people who know jp somewhat decently ish

[slender skiff]

その拳の軌道が予定の半分も行かない間に, 少女は人形の膝ひざ元もとに踏ふみ込んでいた

[silver robin]

i dont really tl or edit anymore so I'm just there as a legacy member xd

[slender skiff]

The MTL comes out as something like

Before the trajectory of the fist had even reached half its intended length, the girl had already stepped right into the doll's lap.

[little kelp]

You get a way larger number of editors, who basically just got sent an initial bunch of text very roughly translated

[slender skiff]

This is a girl with a sword trying to kill something

Why would she end up in the lap?

It doesn't make any goddamn sense

[silver robin]

btw did you remove the kanji readings cause that can fuck with the translation

I think u did but just keep that in mind

[slender skiff]

It actually hasn't fucked around that much

[silver robin]

nvm you didnt

[slender skiff]

There's

A LOT

To remove

[silver robin]

人形の膝元

[silver robin]

Welcome to tl

[little kelp]

What do you use to translate?

[silver robin]

deepl google translate and chat gpt

well back when i did translation chat gpt wasnt out yet

[slender skiff]

Yeah I use all 3

Lol

[little kelp]

Honestly I’ve found Google translate better than deepl free

[slender skiff]

It depends

[little kelp]

The pro version is probably quite a bit better

[slender skiff]

Sometimes deeptl can get better translation

[silver robin]

also since the only thing I don't know is kanji i can also just plug the kanji into a dictionary and get meaning on my own

[slender skiff]

So in this case

Before the fist had even been swung halfway, the girl had already slipped between the doll monster’s legs.

Was the translation I made

[little kelp]

That’s completely different

[slender skiff]

I mean

With context it seems the most plausible

[little kelp]

Must be difficult making the call not knowing jp

[slender skiff]

I mean

In this case

The girl is moving to attack the doll (monster)

Doesn't make sense for her to be in its lap/knee when it's standing up

[silver robin]

na people know it's a fan tl so they cant complain about quality

[little kelp]

I know and agree with that

But translators and editors derive some sense of pride from their work

[silver robin]

yes ofc

[slender skiff]

Like how do you stand on the monster's knee when it's standing up LOL

[silver robin]

so ender has the pride of making the logical decision

[little kelp]

When you anguish over whether you’re being respectful of the work itself…

[slender skiff]

[little kelp]

It does stress you out

[slender skiff]

Translate for myself

[silver robin]

Perpendicularly

[silver robin]

If you don't publish it for everyone to read it would be a disappointment

[slender skiff]

I mean I probably will do that after the first volume is done

The issue is

I'm not even done with the first chapter

[silver robin]

i feel bad for the chivalry of a failed knight tlers cause they were forced to quit once it got out of licensing hell but they were only 3 volumes away from the ending

[slender skiff]

I haven't even had the first talking scene with Yuuji and Shana yet

I will be happy if it gets licensed

[silver robin]

it likely wont

[slender skiff]

But this series is in licensing hell

Yen press dropped it

[silver robin]

if yen press dropped it its joever

[slender skiff]

And jnovel never got its hand on it

Unlike with Slayers and Rakudai

Yes slayers was translated fairly recently
You know the 90s series

[silver robin]

At least with chivalry of a failed knight the licensing company just bankrupt

so its just a matter of acquiring it from a dead company

[slender skiff]

YP dropped it cos no cash

Or rather, not getting cash from the series

So they only translated the first 2

And that's all

[silver robin]

who dropped aria

i mean hidan no aria

cause i remember something similar happening to it

[slender skiff]

Aria was weirder to me

The series is still ongoing after all

Why drop it?

[silver robin]

tsun loli scared the publisher i guess

[little kelp]

Hm. Any recommendations by the way for lns? Later after this convo

[slender skiff]

Like...

IT'S STILL GOING

[silver robin]

holy shit

what the fuck

[slender skiff]

It started in 2008

[silver robin]

what genre do you want

[slender skiff]

I think I gave up around

15 or 16

Or was it 20 sth

Basically when the fan TLs fell behind

I genuinely enjoyed HnA tho

[little kelp]

Anything praised for the quality of its writing, setting and chapter development itself?

Some of the stuff I’ve read:

[slender skiff]

ASCENDANCEEEE
OFFFFF
AAAAAA
BOOOOOOOKWOOOOOOORM

[little kelp]

Read🙂

[silver robin]

bookworm good

[little kelp]

Overlord, Tanya the evil

[silver robin]

Ender got me on it

[little kelp]

Reading spice and wolf

[silver robin]

Nice

[little kelp]

Bakemonogatari

[silver robin]

ever since last summer ive been reading physical lns since my local library carries quite a few

[little kelp]

Well that series in any case

[silver robin]

have you read eminence in shadow

its pretty good

anime also good too

[little kelp]

Oh physical huh… tbh I don’t rly go to libraries anymore

[slender skiff]

Eminence just had

So little content

[little kelp]

Bought a kindle, just read with that

[silver robin]

i mean each arc is like half a volume LOL

[little kelp]

I read the eminence wn

The translated version ended somewhere around the hm black rose stuff back when I was current with it?

[silver robin]

so anime actually just finished on that

At the end of s2

[slender skiff]

Yes

Movie is covering vol 4

[silver robin]

cause thats when the black rose is used to ||generate a portal back to irl world||

[little kelp]

I’m up to date with the manga so

[silver robin]

Second half of vol 4 lul

first half is the orianna kingdom stuff

[little kelp]

Oh wait

Oh wow the ln is at vol 6

Back when I was reading it it was pretty much just the wn

Also by the by

One of my favorite all time ln series is dungeon defense

Sadly ended at vol5 but the wn continues

Accessible on NU

[silver robin]

Official en is only at vol 4 though sadge

[silver robin]

nu my beloved

[little kelp]

Be warned; the characters are all psychopaths

Very very psychopathic and cruel

[little kelp]

On NU I’m seeing stuff on v5?

[slender skiff]

Not out yet

V5 shd be October

I think

[little kelp]

It’s a fan translation for NU

Oh whoops

You did say official

[silver robin]

Yea fan tls have tled all jp vols out so far

[silver robin]

Very pog

thats probably when ill get the next tenten volume at this rate

[little kelp]

Anyhow if one of these days you’re interested in novels

[silver robin]

going back to lns im reading 86 as well and thats been good

[little kelp]

Particularly sci-fi or classics

Send me a ping

[silver robin]

huh

I only read light novels unfortunately

[slender skiff]

Same

[little kelp]

but but...

you have banger quotes sometimes too

[silver robin]

sorry i need my anime girls

[polar crane]

I don't even remember the last time a I read a none light novel well novel

[slender skiff]

Hyouka