anime-manga

[frosty knoll]

So I’m going to bleed them dry for all they’re worth.

So I have the resources I need to secure my own future.

[lapis solstice]

BTW what’s wrong with Toonami? 90% of people I know were first exposed to anime from it.

As well as Kids WB, Fox Box, and Jetix

Most of us wouldn’t be anime fans without it

[slender skiff]

If you're American yes

Or at least

[lapis solstice]

Which I am

[slender skiff]

If you had cable TV

[lapis solstice]

Which I had back then

[slender skiff]

Spoiler, a lot of us here aren't American

So no

[lapis solstice]

Really?

[faint crag]

[silver robin]

im merican but i haven't heard of the last 3 ive only heard of toonami

[faint crag]

tf happened here

[slender skiff]

I can only say I've watched jetix

[silver robin]

ramblings of perpetually online people happened

[slender skiff]

And it was not for anime

[faint crag]

not american, but we had jetix here

didn't have anything to do with anime tho

[slender skiff]

I watched what

The old X-Men cartoon

[faint crag]

yea

[slender skiff]

And some other similar stuff

[boreal oyster]

mention me to the latest anime part of this convo

[slender skiff]

You and the Gundam guy both need to understand you live in bubbles

[boreal oyster]

Spoiler, ||a lot of us here aren't American||

[faint crag]

tho we had sakura and sailor moon just on normal tv, not on cable
that shit was peak
became a weeb before I even knew what's anime

[slender skiff]

And what you think is "popular shit"

May not be popular outside your own circles

I've never watched DB as a kid

Or sailor moon

[faint crag]

ye, DB wasn't a thing here either

[slender skiff]

I'm fairly sure my first magical girl was a precure

But I have no idea which one

There's too goddamn many

The only one I distinctly remember watching and remembering

Was something called Pretty Princess Yucie

I think that's the name at least

[faint crag]

didn't we already figure out it was the original precure

[slender skiff]

Did we
I guess based on the year I watched it

But I don't remember anything past the OP anyways

[slender skiff]

This is the only one I remember even something about

[faint crag]

precure isn't that old of a franchise
so if you watched it as a kid - there's no that many options

[slender skiff]

But my first anime was Pokémon lol

Then what

Bakugan and Beyblade

I never watched duel masters

And the only reason I even knew of Yu-Gi-Oh was cos it aired immediately before Pokémon

[faint crag]

back then I didn't even know what anime is, so probably there was a buch I didn't even 'register' as anime

we def had digimon and pokemon on tv

[slender skiff]

Same lmao

[faint crag]

(I low-key prefered digi tbh)

[slender skiff]

There was Digimon here but for some reason I never came across it

My good friend did but I somehow never

Which is kinda weird

[slender skiff]

A lot of people that watched both prefer digi yeah

[slender skiff]

There was stuff I did register as anime

But that was like

A certain few days of the week

At certain (late) hours only

And the only one I remember was D-Gray Man

(oh and Gundam)

But I believe I only watched parts of SEED

Which uh, turns out is known for not being particularly good

[lapis solstice]

YuGiOh was my first anime ever

[boreal oyster]

cap

[slender skiff]

Ok cap

I still haven't watched DB

At all

As far as I'm aware

The big stuff when I was young here

Would be Beyblade and Naruto

[boreal oyster]

[slender skiff]

I never heard of DB as a kid at least

[slender skiff]

Oh and card fight vanguard

I think fairy tail too

[boreal oyster]

as a kid?

[slender skiff]

I'm not that old

Card Fight Vanguard came out when I was like

[boreal oyster]

yer older than me

[slender skiff]

11 or 12

Lol

Beyblade I only watched the metal series

Which was around when I was 10-11

[slender skiff]

I must say

It was kinda sad to see card fight transition into buddy fight

Not as the anime but

When actually seeing people well, play

[slender skiff]

The kid anime here

[faint crag]

I watched sakura when I was like 6
I didn't remember shit
I even forgot I watched it until I decided to watch it like a year ago and felt extremely strong nostalgia immediately at ep 1

[slender skiff]

Would be doraemon

Lmaoooo

CCS is another weird one

[boreal oyster]

?

[slender skiff]

CCS

[faint crag]

the real sakura

[slender skiff]

Not naruto

[faint crag]

https://tenor.com/view/sakuracard-jesakura-sakuraje-gif-7840498644000953348

[slender skiff]

Or as I like to call her

Fueeeeee

[faint crag]

ccs is peak

[slender skiff]

I never watched CCS as a kid
My friend swears by the fact he did as a kid

Idek how

As far as I'm aware
Neither of us had cable

So idk

[boreal oyster]

yer 26 ain't you

[slender skiff]

25 but yes

[boreal oyster]

why are we the same age

[slender skiff]

Shouldn't I ask why you don't behave your age

[silver robin]

i watched them when i was around 7-10

[slender skiff]

Uh

Sam

Metal series came out when I was 9...

And the age gap between you and me isn't small you know

[quaint patrol]

what's a good ol adventurer manga, but without 10000 shit twists

[slender skiff]

Are you sure you didn't get your timeline messed up

[silver robin]

i remember the beyblades themselves irl were like rated 8+ but i was under 8 when i first watched beyblade

[slender skiff]

Metal saga isn't the first Beyblade

[silver robin]

and under 8 when i first got beyblade toys

[slender skiff]

[silver robin]

its the first one i watched

[quaint patrol]

im not here to be mature smh

[silver robin]

[slender skiff]

There's multiple Beyblade series

[silver robin]

yes im aware

[slender skiff]

Metal saga was the second

[silver robin]

i watched metal fury masters fusion as a smol boy

[slender skiff]

I think

Anyways

[silver robin]

then later in life i had a lets go back into beyblade and watched all of beyblade burst s1

[slender skiff]

I only watched it at 10/11 cos

[silver robin]

thats basically all my beyblade watching

[slender skiff]

Delay in getting dubs over from the US

But uh

Surely not 7 or 8 sam

Not for metal at least

Metal aired 2009 to 2010

[silver robin]

so ur saying i was an even smaller boy

?

[slender skiff]

Sam aren't you like

[silver robin]

don't doxx me plz

[slender skiff]

20?

[boreal oyster]

my first beyblade was the OG one
where the final battle was causing literally cyclone

watching via dvd

[silver robin]

im above 20

[boreal oyster]

29

[slender skiff]

21 then

4 years younger

Metal fight aired 2009

So uh

[silver robin]

ok but do you think it was simul

[slender skiff]

You were 5 lol

6

[boreal oyster]

no way bros even younger

[silver robin]

i distinctly remember they actually aired episodes then went back and started from a previous episode

[slender skiff]

I watched it 2010/11

[silver robin]

like they aired an episode, then went back like 6 episodes in the past then replayed them

multiple times

[slender skiff]

So yes you were even smaller

Lol

[silver robin]

also at this same time pokemon gen 4 anime would air right after beyblade, but gen 5 anime would air on the weekends

so

[slender skiff]

Gen 5 anime was 2011

So you would have been 7

[silver robin]

what did i tell you

[slender skiff]

7-10

[boreal oyster]

yeah i watched the metal fight Beyblade back in 2009, first aired in 2009 on local tv

[silver robin]

7-10 was the entire beyblade era bwo

that was the period of my life when i was into beyblade

[slender skiff]

Ah yes

Lethal weapons

The amount of cuts I got

[boreal oyster]

https://vt.vxtiktok.com/ZSh4o51GH/

i remember sharpen my beyblade blades with sharpening stone

idk why, just sounds cool

pros : cool shi
cons : can't stop shi without stick

[slender skiff]

Ah yes

Good ol' ryuuga

@silver robin do you know dio was in metal

Actually a lot of big name VAs lol

Ryuuga was Kenjiro Tsuda

RYUUGA WAS KAIBA

Yeah that's totally not fitting

[boreal oyster]

https://vt.vxtiktok.com/ZSh4o97m1/

wait I don't remember this one

i only watchin it up to mc beats ryuuga on tower

[slender skiff]

That's the first one

[slender skiff]

This is from the second one

[weak glacier]

i'm bored af

[slender skiff]

Like damn

Why are these big VAs voicing children anime

Then again I suppose Kenjiro Tsuda also voiced Kaiba so not that surprised...

[weak glacier]

indoctrination + kids shows are bigger than your average simp bait

[slender skiff]

True

Do you know who koyasu is btw

[weak glacier]

you think i would know

[slender skiff]

That you should know

Surely you've seen that meme

[weak glacier]

jojo fans are infestation

ofc i would know

[slender skiff]

So you have

Yeah that's him

Actually

How many anime do you not watched dubbed even

[weak glacier]

hmm

like 2 or 3

one movie, one ova, and one season

i watched one anime in japanese without subs, not like it wouldve made it better

it's actually on yt

https://anilist.co/anime/3135/Dragons-Heaven/

Fuck this score, this show is truly amazing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5cwK9R_9CA&t=2266s&pp=ygUPRHJhZ29uJ3MgSGVhdmVu0gcJCY0JAYcqIYzv

[silver robin]

i watched eng dub bwo

[slender skiff]

So did I

I'm just saying

There's all these big names

Even Pokémon

Like mallow/mao in sun and moon anime is voiced by ueda reina

And kiawe is voiced by ishikawa kaito

Iris is aoi yuuki

Cilan mamoru miyano

[quaint patrol]

Kazuki is gonna write the bookworm sequellllllllll

[slender skiff]

Oh she finally confirmed it

Wait doesn't that mean that

[faint crag]

pokemon is like one of the biggest franchises in the world lol

[silver robin]

whats to do in the sequel

[slender skiff]

H5Y is over?

[faint crag]

huh

[quaint patrol]

H5Y has a vol 2

[slender skiff]

Ok uh

We could tell you what'll happen in the sequel

But massive massive spoilers

So uh

[silver robin]

don't

[faint crag]

I will punch you

[quaint patrol]

I literally cant say anything

[slender skiff]

I haven't even said anything

I mean H5Y gives many strong hints

[silver robin]

but i thought bookworm ended like "happily ever after no sequel necessary"

[slender skiff]

About the direction

[silver robin]

[slender skiff]

To not spoil anything

The sequel

Deals with plotholes

[silver robin]

so the plotholes aren't resolved in the og

[slender skiff]

Yep

[silver robin]

sadge

[slender skiff]

There are

Although very few

Easily forgettable ones

[faint crag]

was that spin off translated yet btw?

[slender skiff]

Yes it's in the works

[faint crag]

nice

[quaint patrol]

kazuki said smth like it's not a sequel of the plot but of the world

[slender skiff]

The most major of these plotholes is expected to be addressed in the sequel

Tho

Maybe plothole isn't the right word

[silver robin]

makes sense

[slender skiff]

You could argue it's an intentionally left plot point

That's necessary to uh

"Complete the circle"

[silver robin]

samsara moment

[slender skiff]

Or I guess complete the story

I think cad knows what I mean

Cos he follows H5Y

[quaint patrol]

It's cos she opened h5Y fanbook questions and said "no myne questions cos x"

[silver robin]

whats h5y

is that like an arc name

[quaint patrol]

hannelore's 5th year

[slender skiff]

Hannelore's 5th year

[silver robin]

so is that an arc name

[slender skiff]

It's a spin off arc

[silver robin]

oh

[slender skiff]

Ig

[silver robin]

[quaint patrol]

it's the spinoff series

[slender skiff]

But it takes place after the main series

To begin with so uh

[silver robin]

isn't the main series not done though

or did it start after the main series finished

[slender skiff]

Done

Ages ago

Like 2 years ago?

[silver robin]

wdym ages ago i thought it ended last year

[slender skiff]

EN snail

[quaint patrol]

en tl was last year

[silver robin]

oh right

🧇

[slender skiff]

Waffle I will turn you into a fucking pancake

[silver robin]

i love waffles and pancakes

[slender skiff]

But yes

It's implied that the sequel takes place same time as H5Y

[silver robin]

ok

[slender skiff]

So ig

[silver robin]

h5y came out after main series finished tho right

ok

[slender skiff]

You know how bookworm has like

Bonus stories

[silver robin]

yes

[slender skiff]

That's from a different pov?

[silver robin]

yes

[slender skiff]

Yeh think of H5Y as that

But 2 volumes worth

[silver robin]

ok

makes sense

[slender skiff]

And the sequel ig

[quaint patrol]

weird way to say that

[slender skiff]

Is from myne's perspective

[silver robin]

well

if the sequel isn't from mynes perspective

[slender skiff]

I mean it's the story told from hannelore's perspective

[silver robin]

its not really a sequel

[quaint patrol]

yea that's all

[slender skiff]

And well the bonus stories are that

It's a different story told from a different pov

Like angelica's first day at the temple

Or like

[faint crag]

it still is if it's still a continuation of the same story

[slender skiff]

Wilfred's day as the high bishop

Which is still one of my favourite parts of bookworm

[quaint patrol]

what part is sam at now

[silver robin]

p3

[quaint patrol]

p3 or p4

[silver robin]

oh

[slender skiff]

Good question

[silver robin]

rip

wrong ping sry

[slender skiff]

Res did you finish p5 yet

[faint crag]

no

[slender skiff]

Pepehands

[silver robin]

i need to read p3v3

ive read up to that

[slender skiff]

I thought you said you would start p5 when it all came out

Well you're not as bad as yami

[faint crag]

I did say that

[silver robin]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/528197562998718474/1072649452088737792/bocchiShock.gif

[slender skiff]

Yami still hasn't finished FMAB after 3 years

[silver robin]

(he did not follow through)

[faint crag]

and then I re-read the entire p3 and p4
and by the time I got to p5 I wanted to take break
and this is still the break

[slender skiff]

And then you have this baka @glass sundial who still hasn't finished Bokuben after 5 years

[faint crag]

Ender, you have to let it go
I don't think it's happening at this point

[slender skiff]

He can finish the piece of garbage that is gotoubun but not Bokuben?

[faint crag]

wtf

[silver robin]

ok but like aren't they the same thing

[quaint patrol]

rereading is a big vibe

[slender skiff]

The difference is Bokuben has 5 happy endings

Gotoubun has 0

[faint crag]

tf you mean 'piece of garbage'

[slender skiff]

[silver robin]

kekw

[slender skiff]

Ok in all seriousness

[faint crag]

I WILL actually kill you

[slender skiff]

Gotoubun was fine up till the final arc

Hey just like Oshi no Ko!

(Good thing frosty isn't here)

[faint crag]

It was obvious they wouldn't be able to land it and then they didn't
I expected a shit ending tbh

[quaint patrol]

OnK final arc didnt get too bad till they met kamiki

[silver robin]

no spoilers plz

:3

[faint crag]

it's not even 'bad', it's just kinda random and doesn't make much sense

[slender skiff]

Gotoubun?

[quaint patrol]

are you committing to reading onk?

[silver robin]

or just mark it spoiler thats also fine

[faint crag]

ye

[slender skiff]

Ah ok

[silver robin]

im committed to watching anime

[quaint patrol]

you havent read onk yet actually?

ohhh

[silver robin]

and the anime will probably adapt everything

[slender skiff]

Sam is innocent

[silver robin]

probably

[slender skiff]

For all we know

[silver robin]

[slender skiff]

They change the anime ending

[silver robin]

a1 is so busy they don't have time for aka series very sad

[faint crag]

I need to finish onk
I'm in like final chapters

[slender skiff]

Well res

[quaint patrol]

the manga ending was such an omega fumble that an anime original would be nice

[slender skiff]

Do you remember hayate's ending

[faint crag]

ye

[slender skiff]

OnK is that kind of ending

[quaint patrol]

bruh ender

[slender skiff]

So don't get your hopes up

It's like

[faint crag]

I mean Hayate just kinda ended

[slender skiff]

Why

Cad that didn't spoil anything

[faint crag]

it wasn't a bad ending, it was just
"we kinda bored actually, lets make this the final arc"

[slender skiff]

It's just

Honestly that's how I feel about

Quite a lot of shit endings actually

[silver robin]

real

[faint crag]

the ending itself was fine
I didn't have much issues with it

[slender skiff]

The World God Only Knows is the same

[faint crag]

I will actually die on this hill

[slender skiff]

Which

[faint crag]

kaminomi ending was good

[slender skiff]

No I have no issue with who he ended up with

Unlike Rei who malds to this day

[faint crag]

the entire final arc was good

[slender skiff]

My issue was how

Wait what's her name

Airi?

Idk

His "sister"

[faint crag]

I don't fucking remember, it was ages ago

[slender skiff]

There was clearly supposed to be a plot point

About her being this big evil
Or some kinda hidden power

And then suddenly

Huh

She's just

Kinda there?

There was foreshadowing towards her not being just a plot device to continue the story

And in the end she was... Just there

That's my only issue with it

I don't consider it bad

But I feel like the author had something planned but never executed it

For one reason or another

[faint crag]

I don't really see that as a problem if the rest of the story is good
directions change and so are plans
as long as they're properly replaced instead of just having a trainwreck

[slender skiff]

It's the same with negima...

Negima absolutely had a massive cut out part lmao

[silver robin]

🧅

[slender skiff]

The cut out part appears in UQ instead...

Like bruh

I mean negima story is complete

They just had a massive time skip for no reason

Hmm what else is there

Kaguya's ending was weak

Compared to everything else

[quaint patrol]

kaguya's ending was fine

penultimate wasnt

[slender skiff]

It's not bad just weak

[quaint patrol]

penultimate arc was shit

[slender skiff]

The uh

Helicopter

Arc

Which has more or less given my reason to belief aka just isn't good at endings

[quaint patrol]

must suck to want to write drama but be so talented at SoL

[slender skiff]

That's just hayate

Hata couldn't decide what he wanted to do

[faint crag]

I mean most mangas have bad endings
I think we discussed it already

[slender skiff]

I'm hoping

[quaint patrol]

couldnt argue against that

[slender skiff]

Tonikawa doesn't go the same way

Because uh, a LOT of similarities

[silver robin]

so true
i mean even his most recent manga is drama focused

[faint crag]

Hata def became much better at writing actual stories

[slender skiff]

I haven't even read his latest stuff

[faint crag]

he's still hata so 'actual story' has like 150 chapters of 'nothing happens' before it

[slender skiff]

I still maintain
The best arc of hayate

[faint crag]

but still

[silver robin]

yep

[slender skiff]

Was the one without any of the main girls lol

[silver robin]

ive read tonikawa and thats exactlyhow it goes

[slender skiff]

Ruka's arc in hayate is still my favourite

No I don't like athena

Sue me

[faint crag]

I actually dropped tonikawa because of how much 'nothing happens' it was

and then decided to give it a try again

[slender skiff]

And then dropped it again

[faint crag]

and got to actual story part and that was just pure peak

[slender skiff]

And it's the eternal cycle

[faint crag]

and then it went back to nothing happening

(I haven't read it since, but I haven't read pretty much anything in a while)

[slender skiff]

Did any of you read kumeta's works actually

[slender skiff]

Kumeta as in Zetsubou Sensei and Kakushigotou

And Hata's sensei I guess

[faint crag]

I read a bit of SZS
but there wasn't much translated back then

I think it's mostly/fully translated now tho

he's a very... unique writer
but I like his shit
I wanted to read more of it but never really got to it

[slender skiff]

It's fully translated

Has been for a long time

Tho uh

With the Dex purge

I'm not sure it's still there

[faint crag]

dex is not the only place manga is uploaded to
it's fine

[slender skiff]

I mean anime is good too

But not complete

Any foreshadowing the manga has is present in the anime

[quaint patrol]

to be really really honest

im happy enough that the manga pages arent 404ed like some other sites

the titles are still listed, can still go on the reading and completed lists

[faint crag]

I'd guess it's because they not only host english translations and they might not have the rights to dmca other regions
like I'm checking 100gf and there are still partial translations for older chapters in other languages
tho it also possible they just 'missed' those I guess

[boreal oyster]

wtf

kissing spree

no why is there a teacher

[slender skiff]

100 Kano be like that

[boreal oyster]

https://vt.vxtiktok.com/ZShVX3sw4/

[warm berry]

Man, gotta love umas getting all up in each other's business

[trim swan]

hors

[weak glacier]

do they have topgun?

[silver robin]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/899490551806693387/1373529549987512361/image.png?ex=682b6753&is=682a15d3&hm=f57933b2d938768096c2cc5a99a5c0a772bea4584125cd5863aa72144d09b78b& one of my friends posted this screenshot from it lol

[flat cedar]

Im glad cingray is 2 cour

[zinc lance]

R U R I

S U N D A Y

[zinc lance]

[dry moon]

Can’t read ruri on md

chapters that are there are past what i’ve read up to previously…

I think i’ve got ~10 chapters to catch up on

[quaint patrol]

@silver robin so im trying to look up stories on syosetsu, but how do i search for words in the story instead of just keywords that the author labels with

[silver robin]

no idea sry

most of my syosetsu reading was just from looking at most popular within a genre xd

[solid nebula]

Abductions are on the rise
Incoming alien
slow clapping

[boreal oyster]

sejong the great invented pedals

[silver robin]

its the title holy shit @trim swan

@trim swan u gotta read this chapter bwo

[silver robin]

[trim swan]

aight

[silver robin]

its so peak

[weak glacier]

@slender skiff decided to make a poster out of a cover of a manga

plan on cutting up some JP manga and make posters out of them

(and no i'm not selling any)

[boreal oyster]

intoxicated the whole base into being weeb

[solid nebula]

The Military weeb ven diagram is really a circle

[boreal oyster]

are we Deadass 💔

[shut lion]

lmao

[grim pebble]

"what if we remade Command and Conquer Firestorm Crisis but with anime girls"

[boreal oyster]

so who won the duel lol

[silver robin]

I JUST SAW THIS LOL

[shut lion]

nice collaboration

[silver robin]

@somber relic btw not sawano but still eliana and benjamin wao

in to be hero x

[boreal oyster]

ok so won the duel

[slender skiff]

That's honestly really nice

[slender skiff]

sigh

/ban 630661589455863869

[broken swallow]

shirona_yuki#0 got banned.

[quaint patrol]

hmm

this series im reading is kinda like

"im the mc and i definitely dont love this girl who ive been with for years" but they're flirting so much that it's like meh

not really frustrated about it

good enough

[trim swan]

ended out here banning shiro

[slender skiff]

[flat cedar]

[dry moon]

[weak glacier]

[cedar furnace]

[boreal oyster]

just bcs she been inactive for 10months, ender banned shiro 😔

[ivory mauve]

Oof

Pfff what the hell

[flat cedar]

(the meme panel everyone uses.)

[solemn pollen]

new e soul easily. literally the whole ploy was uncle Yan wanting to replace e soul from mg since bro fell off.

[boreal oyster]

what if it's just so the old e soul become a new e soul?

i mean look at this

[solemn pollen]

hard to say the shoulder pads look like yang cheng

also the last scene with the Darth Vader looking ass and how his suite has yellow kinda fits yang cheng

also how he brings in a red chair from the shop into his room in the tower. the chair being from the bubble tea shop

[silver robin]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/BeginningAfterTheEnd/s/fWK1aULWlB

top comment "more emotion in this art than in the anime" 😭😭

[cedar furnace]

I kinda feel bad for that fandom

[flat cedar]

^

[slender skiff]

house understands chinese and speaks it so

at least if we assume they actually speak chinese given its ancient china and not japanese

[solid nebula]

Knowing House, he'll find a way anyway. And say it's Lupus

[zinc lance]

[severe sapphire]

Any recommendations for decent Senpai/ Onee-san main/secondary chara comedy anime?
*By onee-san I don't mean real sister or step sister, merely sister-like figure

[trim swan]

Uhh

The dangers in my heart

Aka boku no kokoro no yabai yatsu

[slender skiff]

/kick 488885168963190794

[broken swallow]

admiralzimmer#0 got kicked.

[dry moon]

[flat cedar]

?

[trim swan]

how long has it been since a kick command was used

[slender skiff]

5h ago

[trim swan]

[lament holly]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-anna-gif-24010370

[weak glacier]

whadda they do

[boreal oyster]

tf this manga

objective : to milk every beast in isekai

[slender skiff]

"$50 steam gift card"

[boreal oyster]

i want $50 steam card

[flat cedar]

paypal

lol

[boreal oyster]

New Trailer Anime "Takopii no Genzai"

The Series begins distributing Weekly from June 28, 2025 (Late Spring) on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and ABEMA platforms

Animation Studio: ENISHIYA

[boreal oyster]

bruv

[solid nebula]

his crocs are in sports mode!

he's serious!

[boreal oyster]

https://fxtwitter.com/ShitpostRock/status/1924348041324122288

Rock solid (@ShitpostRock)

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FxTwitter · May 19, 2025, 6:15 AM

[weak glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-anime-girl-gif-22450365

[weak glacier]

@slender skiff I didn't realize the seiyuus sung this outro. I'm so glad they kept in the dub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWiVpb9GpnI

[zinc lance]

paypal me 60€ and i will send you one

[shut lion]

[shut lion]

gqux is doing a good job in depicting rebellious teenager girl who looks adventures on her ass tbh

[inner sphinx]

[weak glacier]

@slender skiff i found the most degenerate user on MFC and it's an admin lmfao

https://myfigurecollection.net/profile/Petitssk

(and touhou fan)

[silver robin]

Sauce

[inner sphinx]

Mayonaka Heart Tune

[silver robin]

[boreal oyster]

tohok

[quaint patrol]

so im reading private tutor to the duke's daughter

and it's solidly a harem, but

why do they add sooooo many characters to the harem if investment into each development is so vastly different

just make the side characters non-harem

literally the main couple is leaving hickeys on each other midway through the series and it's like

"oh im jealous of her" fuck off or commit yo

[silver robin]

is it a poly harem yet

[quaint patrol]

main couple not necessarily meanign title girl

it's not even poly

[silver robin]

[quaint patrol]

not yet anyways, 12 volumes in

[silver robin]

i mean arifureta wasn't poly until vol 9/13

[quaint patrol]

either commit to poly or just do smaller harem

[silver robin]

14 now

agree

[slender skiff]

Oh hi

It's not a true harem really

I mean the younger students like him

But he very clearly only has eyes for Lydia lol

[boreal oyster]

https://vt.vxtiktok.com/ZShtBwJBU/

[quaint patrol]

i mean yea, i said that
the fact that it's so one-sided is why i dislike the harem, just give these chars a normal life

[quaint patrol]

like cmon

[slender skiff]

Lydia too strong a waifu

They literally run off together too

[quaint patrol]

they stroke each others' hair in bed, lydia bites gim alot

[slender skiff]

The best girl is Stella tho

[quaint patrol]

I could actually agree

Tina's the second-runner only because of plot

[slender skiff]

Exactly

Tho

I've been reading the prequel WN

About when Allen just joined the school

(it started like in Jan)

And uh

Lmao the princess is just as yabe

It's just that Lydia is way more needy

[quaint patrol]

what direction is that

yandere tsundere?

[slender skiff]

Uh

She's quite literally

BA's Mika

She's a gorilla princess

[quaint patrol]

matches to where im at

starting V13 now

[slender skiff]

Like Lydia used to fight with pure sword play

This gorilla princess literally uses her fists enchanted with magic

[quaint patrol]

lawl

ill start the prequel after catching up

[slender skiff]

And frankly

If Lydia wasn't there

Allen may have ended up with her

[quaint patrol]

smth ill say is that fighting was clearly a strong theme from the beginning volumes, but it's ballsy to have 4 volumes of harem-y things and then a complete solo arc + others

like ? the genre change was especially large

[slender skiff]

Teaching arc

[quaint patrol]

yeah teaching arc

I looked up the LN for updates and saw the anime btw

for summer

if it werent for lydia, this is just complete heisei anime

a shame

but even if they're moving on from teaching arc

does it have to be that harsh

I read it through though

the entire western dialogue was stunningly good

[boreal oyster]

if the mc only choosin one girl at the end of the day

would it be called harem even?

[slender skiff]

It wouldn't

Context is that his (younger) students all like him lol

[boreal oyster]

bcs this one fella really said raku on "best harem mc" discussion

yeah that raku, choosin random blond over cake shop owner

[quaint patrol]

harem theme is different from harem ending, isnt it

[quaint patrol]

no it isnt

love triangles are not harems

[boreal oyster]

dumb blond

[quaint patrol]

though this is a love octagon

whatveer the number is for this series

[boreal oyster]

the nakano family anime isn't harem

#yotsubaftw

[slender skiff]

Nisekoi?

Shd be love pentagon?

[boreal oyster]

nah nisekoi, at the end of the day, is just triangle

unless we also count the tomboy and the ginger that ends up with mc's friend

[slender skiff]

[shut lion]

[silver robin]

the one good thing about nisekoi besides POTENTIAL SPOILER BTW --> ||best girl winning||
is the one claris opening thats a banger

[boreal oyster]

||random blond chick||

[silver robin]

ok buddy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wkj5NCSzbU&ab_channel=ClariS-Topic claris opening in question

[shut lion]

I wish nisekoi op was not so similar to oreimo op

[silver robin]

this is a lot better tho

especially the chorus of oreimo is significantly worse

[shut lion]

idk they are almost identical to me

[silver robin]

[shut lion]

the same with madoka movies

[slender skiff]

I mean it doesn't help eromanga sensei op is also claris

[shut lion]

hitorigoto is very different

[slender skiff]

Yes but they have the same writer

[shut lion]

oh in this sense

now he is writing gender bender manga

[silver robin]

yes

well its an LN that then went to manga

i think

[slender skiff]

It is

[silver robin]

i remembered properly pogu

[weak glacier]

@slender skiff

[slender skiff]

Let me guess

"Blonde (elf) waifu my beloved"
-Frosty 2025

[boreal oyster]

bet bros gonna chose chitoge during the war

[weak glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/迷宮飯-delicious-in-dungeon-danjon-meshi-marushiru-絕望-gif-9857374367123871433

[boreal oyster]

i know that title through r34 art

[neat pelican]

Ah yes, that DnD season that became an anime.

[quaint patrol]

man

this guy is following a dying testament to be racist

I dont vibe with it

"my last will, be classist and racist"

[boreal oyster]

what testament

[quaint patrol]

never trust beastmen or commoners

[frosty knoll]

I mean

[boreal oyster]

https://fxtwitter.com/AniTrendz/status/1925544676624621789

Anime Trending (@AniTrendz)

Here are your Top 10 Couples or Ships for Week#6 of the Spring 2025 Anime Season!
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[slender skiff]

https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1925602543809221041?t=lyCHFOVltYYcEGCsB2fwFw&s=19

Manga Mogura RE (Anime & Manga News) (@MangaMoguraRE)

"Clannad" by Key was voted as the Best Bishoujo Game of All Time (Beautiful Girl Visual Novel) at the 2024 Moe Game Awards, as chosen by user vote. Nagisa Furukawa was also voted as the best character of all time.
"Nukitashi 2" by Qruppo won second place.

X · May 22, 2025, 5:19 PM

[quaint patrol]

?

[silver robin]

might be a mistranslation

[quaint patrol]

that'd be a shame, this is JNC, not yen press

[slender skiff]

It isn't a misTL

That is the actual text

[neat pelican]

Yes and did it say they were blood related at all anywhere?

[rotund sail]

i finally "finished" to love ru

if you could call that an ending

if i knew the series was never gonna be finished because of some drama i would have never picked it back up

what a waste of time

[slender skiff]

Wat

The anime just missed out the last

Maybe 10 chapters of the manga

Where he actually chooses a girl

[rotund sail]

no it ends right in the middle of a fight

[slender skiff]

Wait, did you watch the ova?

Lol

The ova finishes it

[rotund sail]

which one

[slender skiff]

It was aired a special

And most websites don't list it as part of the anime season

Lol

[rotund sail]

theres like 4 different ovas

[slender skiff]

Give me a moment

[slender skiff]

https://anilist.co/anime/21852/To-LOVERu-Darkness-2nd-Specials/

This wraps up the story to be more or less complete

Including the aforementioned battle

(He doesn't actually choose a girl in the anime)

[rotund sail]

i skimmed through this it all seemed unrelated

[quaint patrol]

spoil me

[rotund sail]

am i missing something

[slender skiff]

Look for the one named specials

Unless your source doesn't have it

[rotund sail]

it doesnt i think

[slender skiff]

||Haruna||

Not that the other girls give up

[rotund sail]

oh nevermind

[quaint patrol]

did the drama happen after the manga finished?

[slender skiff]

The one about who she was based on?

[quaint patrol]

mm

[slender skiff]

Nothing burger at the time

[rotund sail]

||shouldnt have clicked but literally the worst choice he could have made||

[slender skiff]

It was never an issue in Japan

Just look at the popularity polls from the time

[neat pelican]

Well ToLoveRu was basically the author leaning towards his wife, until they got divorced or something. Then Darkness changed that

[slender skiff]

||Well, it turns out he actually wants a normal person who would have thought||

[rotund sail]

||normal is one way of describing her, bland is another||

[slender skiff]

Idk

It's different when you're a 3rd party aka the reader/viewer

And when you're actually in his situation

[rotund sail]

||never liked her from like the first episode shes the most basic shy anime girl ive ever seen||

||wasnt yui supposed to replace her in darkness anyway||

[slender skiff]

Because she defines the trope?

Yui is also one of the earliest tsunderes

A lot of to love ru characters define current character tropes

Even the fucking "mesugaki" cliche originates from to love ru

[rotund sail]

the cursed word

[neat pelican]

Ah yes, Nana and Momo

[slender skiff]

It's a cursed word yes

But isn't that what nemesis is?

[rotund sail]

||trope defining doesnt have to be bad though||

[neat pelican]

Surprised you didn't bonk yourself for that

[slender skiff]

I mean

Mesugaki just means "brat" lol

[rotund sail]

hes not being pervy about it

dont see whats the issue

[quaint patrol]

they at least share the same last name, and sister-slash-fiance is a straight term here

[rotund sail]

i need to actually finish before i start talking about it thanks ender

[neat pelican]

Isn't that what happens when people remarry in Japan though?

[rotund sail]

||genuinely thought it just ended halfway through yamis "awakening" thing||

[quaint patrol]

this isnt a remarriage

can you make a divorcee a fiancee again?

not very reasonable but i dont see exclusive problems

[slender skiff]

You can't divorce a fiancée

[neat pelican]

I mean for the brother-sister trope

[slender skiff]

Cos you aren't fucking married

In any case

As far as I'm aware

They are actual siblings

But it's a lot more complicated than that

The guy in question is super complicated

[quaint patrol]

i'd imagine the tree is pretty complicated

xd

[slender skiff]

And not to mention

As you may have realised

There's a reason why they're bringing all this up

Only now

13 volumes in

Or is it 14 idk

[quaint patrol]

this is the 14th, im starting the 15th tomorrow probably

[slender skiff]

If it's 14 you already would have seen the colour inserts at the beginning of the book

And gotten spoilt

[quaint patrol]

i dont like how there's dialogue on the color inserts

like cmon now

[slender skiff]

But again

Stella is best girl

And I will die on that hill

[quaint patrol]

stella's the best after lydia, but just cos lydia's screentime is too high

[slender skiff]

Lydia is obsessively needy

Stella is cutely needy

[quaint patrol]

I GET THAT

[slender skiff]

And unlike the other girls

She isn't nearly as aggressive

Though she can be at times when she gets fired up

[boreal oyster]

spoil him rotten

[slender skiff]

That's kinda the charm?

[quaint patrol]

and stella's relationship is alot less of an elder to a student

[slender skiff]

Idk how to explain it

[quaint patrol]

that part really appeals to me

[slender skiff]

I expect the anime ends on vol 3

[quaint patrol]

that's a section of gap moe

[slender skiff]

Maybe vol 4

No shd be 4

Doesn't make sense to not have him return

That sounds like the best way to have closure

[quaint patrol]

by the way, like 3 or 4 of the girls have had 0 character development over the last 9 volumes

[slender skiff]

Since the anime starts with him trying to escape

Tbh

You know who has the most character development after Stella?

[quaint patrol]

hmmm

[slender skiff]

Lynn lol

Unironically

Like the whole arc with the crazy Lydia

[quaint patrol]

ohhhh

[slender skiff]

Really shows her growth

And how she's

Kinda normal

[quaint patrol]

yeah her development arcs are great, but the lynn to allen scenes are like

[slender skiff]

In the same way Stella is

[quaint patrol]

static the whole way

[slender skiff]

Non existent

Yeah

Stella and Allen moments are so cute

Sorry Caren

[quaint patrol]

and like

[slender skiff]

You will actually have a sister in law

Maybe more than 1

[quaint patrol]

I understand that 4 year age gap is really not big at all

but allen's mindset is just waaaay too mature against the other three

[slender skiff]

4 year age gap when they're that young is

[quaint patrol]

stella doesnt feel all that far away

[slender skiff]

Stella is mature but she's not strong willed initially

That's why the whole thing in vol 3

Or rather

Confidence

I suppose

She knows how to act mature

But she isn't that mature

Hmm

I did forget the self proclaimed maid

Idk what to think of her tbh

She's a giant anomaly

[quaint patrol]

she's a new girl who hasnt had a flashback arc yet

apparently she's popular in the polls (based on the afterwords)

[slender skiff]

Wait has she not?

She is

Oh right no detailed flash back

[quaint patrol]

well she has some history told already

but no feelings or narration about it

[slender skiff]

I expect that to be covered in the spin off

I am most curious about Alice lol

[quaint patrol]

i do wonder whether their battle was a first meeting or a cumulative thing

what the author's gonna write for that

[slender skiff]

What did happen in that dragon fight

I am very curious

Vol 15 I think you'll find interesting

In a very different way

I won't spoil anything

[quaint patrol]

ill get spoiled by the inserts anyways /s

[slender skiff]

For this one nope

I got completely blindsided by the reveal

[quaint patrol]

oh nice

[slender skiff]

Until I read back the epilogue for 14

I think it was the epilogue

I mean I didn't think much of it at the time

And I was reading as they came out

Not binging

So I forgot about it

https://x.com/myanimelist/status/1925476905714651466?t=6kbJm0cU4eCzblk9wJS4Bw&s=19

MyAnimeList (@myanimelist)

Happy birthday to Kevin Penkin! 🎂

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X · May 22, 2025, 9:00 AM

@silver robin

The legend himself

...why did they choose half the works that aren't even that good

[ivory mauve]

I can't keep up

Discord isn't sending notifications like before

[rotund sail]

okaaaaaaay

that ending was a lot better

[silver robin]

apothecary diaries where

[silver robin]

summer pockets took 6 episodes for lore to appear

also they reset back to the start for a new route

[boreal oyster]

maomao x jinshi

[silver robin]

in summer pockets there is no sexing the sister

mainly cause he doesn't have one

[slender skiff]

There are a lot of "sisters" in key tbh

[silver robin]

[brittle basalt]

3/4.
Shield hero, made in abyss and spice &wolf

[slender skiff]

horrible adaptation of s2

unless you really liked the series you wouldnt have started s3

story isnt that bad at this point honestly

but it falls off hard later

[silver robin]

https://x.com/BOOKWALKER_GL/status/1925869566262993196 @slender skiff @quaint patrol official english translation

BOOK☆WALKER Global (@BOOKWALKER_GL)

Half a year after Yurgenschmidt inaugurated its first underage aub, Hannelore finds herself pressed to choose from a growing list of marriage candidates.
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore's Fifth Year at the Royal Academy Volume 1 @jnovelclub is out.
📚https://t.co/KSiczWVqou

X · May 23, 2025, 11:01 AM

[slender skiff]

@faint crag get back to bookworm you baka

i mean i read the H5Y wn a bit but

uwu

i dont think my usual source has it available yet