・anime

[outer scaffold]

No, ik that manga, i haven't read that, but ik it's on the same spectrum as domestic na kanojo (kinda)

Watch the video i sent again and read the text carefully

[frank musk]

I mean in a sense, they are enemies, they just dont know it yet

[dusty fable]

I was told that Domestic na kanojo is not good, so it's not the case with Kuzu no honkai

[edgy bone]

what a tease

[tidal shore]

kuzu no honkai was great

hot take

it's like

oh i just remembered what domestic na kanojo is

oh no

[outer scaffold]

The story of kuzu no honkai is said to be a little messed up

[edgy bone]

despairge

[shadow sleet]

I NEED MORE FRIEREN

[shadow knot]

my mcd bag turned into a manga awau

they repping the limited wcdonald sauce here ig https://youtu.be/alp-u4EFLAc?si=jCfCzQKrrzsjfv19

[hot notch]

This episode was so pretty

[edgy bone]

Thats real

Wtf

[craggy mango]

Definitely not Tomohisa Taguchi work, but not bad at all

[shadow knot]

they repping it here in the west

[edgy bone]

What does the west mean in this context

Cuz by some definitions i also technically live in the west but i im fairly certain they wouldnt do any manga promotions around here

I should check next time i go out just out of curiosity

[shadow knot]

NA specifically

or even more specific

[edgy bone]

humu humu

[shadow knot]

or to be much more specific insert address here

[edgy bone]

ayo

[shadow knot]

coordinates even

but yeah

studio pierrot covering for mcd anime is pretty cool

[edgy bone]

so are they making a legit anime?

my brain still has trouble accepting that

[mighty cape]

hey juca

[edgy bone]

hi teru

[mighty cape]

howre ya?

[edgy bone]

just had to deal with my bathroom being clogged and near flooded

again

i hate living here

besides that im fine

[long peak]

Don't shit so much damn

[edgy bone]

it's the fucking

[long peak]

[edgy bone]

people upstairs throwing tissues and toilet paper in a sewage system made durin communism that wasn't designed to handle that stuff

but they never see the outcome of it cuz they live on the higher floors

so i have to deal with it instead

smh

[mighty cape]

did you eat burritos or somethin??

[edgy bone]

did you not read my messages

bcaConfusedRoll

[dusty fable]

he ate communism and wasn't designed to handle that stuff

[edgy bone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=owM5EO7KcaQ

luffy moment

[mighty cape]

oh communism right

[dusty fable]

yes, sharing is caring. His neighbours upstairs shared their sewage. But if you share too much, it can overwhelm the system

[tidal shore]

I have to ask

actually, I need some validation

why does Luffy have to be such a silly goose all the time, why can't he be more complex, why does he have to be so simple-minded 😔

it's been bugging me when I read the manga, then watched the anime, then re-read the manga again (this time in colour)

and it never stops bugging me

[edgy bone]

thats how the author likes to write him

im not sure what answer you were expecting

sorry it's not your thing

or well

i say likes to write him

but

oda's mentioned a few times in past sbss that he got to the point where he thinks of his characters as actual people and just kinda vibes with what he thinks would be normal for them to do next/act in a certain way

it's the whole gardener vs arhitect thing if youve heard about that

[shadow sleet]

The last few episodes have been especially spectacular

[mighty cape]

https://tenor.com/view/astolfo-happy-gif-22218025

Thoughts on Astolfo?

[ionic schooner]

That girl looks pretty cool

😃

[fair wedge]

💀

[ionic schooner]

It's true

Her outfit is awesome

[edgy bone]

Honestly ive seen so many astolfo memes that i dont remember much about the actual character

[fair wedge]

lmfao

[mighty cape]

femboy

[crisp skiff]

Smash, next question

/jk

[shadow knot]

haram

[frank musk]

i forgot radwimps is having a concert in my country and selling tickets rn

[novel knot]

I drew Mine from Akame Ga Kill but I made her more princess-like than she already is-

[shadow sleet]

am i tweaking? ep 8 of solo leveling the chars are calling each other by jp styled names instead of korean names?

apparantly the site im watching this ep on got it from some other source

were there always 2 versions

dang there always has been wtf

[topaz linden]

Three technically iirc

Korean dub with Korean names
Jp dub with Korean names
Jp dub with JP names

[shadow sleet]

sleeper episode 😴

[topaz linden]

Jp dub also changes the setting of the series from Seoul to Tokyo, and later on, the "Japan" that tries to do some fucked up stuff is change to totally-not-Japan (fictional country name)

[mighty cape]

Finished

[hot notch]

I had this happen on episode 2 where I was watching it. I was so confused.

[next crescent]

Yeah, the version where they have Japanese names and locations is exclusively shown in Japan while worldwide gets the Korean names because Japan x Korea political tensions

All the initial trailers for the animated series used the Japanese names

And a lot of people (myself included) were kind of annoyed they changed the names, not realizing it was the version they'd be viewing in Japan and was probably the first version they voiced

My thought is they probably nabbed the jp version they could get when uploading and that was most likely the jp names one

Hopefully that site fixes it for consistency's sake

[tidal shore]

what the heck that's like super epic trivia, collectors are going to go crazy over this in a few decades

[next crescent]

[mighty cape]

anybody watched that healing magic anime??

[hot notch]

I 'watched' the first episode but I fell asleep during it. That's not a poor reflection on the show I was just tired af and I don't feel like rewatching it to see the parts I missed.

[shadow sleet]

i stopped after a couple eps cuz it became clear that it wont be like the other healing magic anime

[ionic schooner]

https://youtu.be/sIPb5TqQIq0?si=2bUZ7bTcbOx08wl5

[mighty cape]

Only JJK manga readers know what they’re looking at

[long peak]

White a nice vase

[ionic schooner]

I didn't realize until I saw you said jjk

😭

I started seeing the tattoos

[next crescent]

Very interesting cloth choice

[edgy bone]

is it

yaethunk

[mighty cape]

It’s my sister’s dog’s doing when there’s a leftover towel

[next crescent]

[topaz linden]

https://youtu.be/mAd1gIbu3Do

[ionic schooner]

Oh mah gaa

[ionic schooner]

https://youtu.be/t2739dey6Ko?si=VDPAMdqvD-K-dkkC

[ionic schooner]

https://youtu.be/l1jzE7eG6ds?si=J_pLmdAg9ut951iT

Oh ma gah

[mighty cape]

anybody like bungou stray dogs?

[next crescent]

Yeah

I think it's good

I like the mix of comedy, drama, and action

Along with of course the mystery

[edgy bone]

i know a lot of girls like it

BugCatNod

[next crescent]

A lot of girls like dazai*

[edgy bone]

idk who that is but i'll take your word for it

[next crescent]

One of the mcs

[edgy bone]

i'll get around to watching it sometime this year hopefully

[mighty cape]

i dont like dazai so dont count me in

[edgy bone]

ive been watching a lot of live action movies recently

[mighty cape]

im just looking for detective anime at this point

[edgy bone]

finished all the pirates movies and watched inception yesterday

now im onto the alice in wonderland movies

[mighty cape]

its good

only a 2010 lover though

[next crescent]

Bungou is probably my favorite detective anime, though I haven't watched too many to make much of a comparison

[edgy bone]

do you specifically want it to be about detectives or just anything with mind games works

[mighty cape]

can both work?

ik danganronpa is one of them

[edgy bone]

kaiji is my favorite mind fuckery anime

it's not a mystery but all the thinking and tricks and mind fuckery moments scratch the same itch for me

can't really think of any standout detective anime that ive seen

did the ron kamonohashi anime start?

manga was p good with that

[shadow knot]

I fw kaiji a lot

[mighty cape]

This one??

[edgy bone]

there's only one anime adaptation afaik

so yea

like

i can think of a bunch of shonen/seinen stuff with mystery subplots

[shadow knot]

two seasons along with a tonegawa spin off

[edgy bone]

i

forgot about that spinoff

i never ifnished it

lmao

[shadow knot]

there's also akagi which is from the same author

I haven't peeped the tonegawa spinoff too dw

[edgy bone]

i watched like 2 or 3 eps, saw that it was just episodic hijinks, and kinda lost interest

[edgy bone]

did you know the the final akagi arc went on in the manga for about 20 years

with consistent chapter releases

[shadow knot]

yeah

[edgy bone]

fucking wild

[shadow knot]

people who complain about the bog arc in kaiji clearly didn't peep akagi vs washizu

[edgy bone]

man

[mighty cape]

theres also deranged detective

i have to watch that one

[edgy bone]

there's a part of me that feels like im forgetting a detective story that i liked but i can only think of mid stuff

ah

there was one manga

but it never got an anime

[mighty cape]

detective stories are interesting

[edgy bone]

about a guy with split personality

i dont remember the name

the anime man mentioned it in a video

[shadow knot]

did a quick search

Multiple Personality Detective Psycho?

[edgy bone]

nah

it was like

a university student

that one day wakes up and it's like 1 week later and all of a sudden he has a girlfriend that lives in his apartment and they had sex and a lot of people at his uni look up to him now but he remembers nothing of this

[shadow knot]

good binge plot

[edgy bone]

and it keeps getting crazier as he tries to uncover wtf happened

[shadow knot]

typa manga I'd read at midnight not getting sleep cuz you wanna get to the bottom of it

[edgy bone]

the artstyle was really realistic if that helps

[shadow knot]

oh found it

my dearest self

[edgy bone]

ye i just found it

[mighty cape]

reminds me of ajin

[shadow knot]

short black hair mc yes

peeps gotta read its manga, the anime doesn't do it justice

[mighty cape]

okay maybe ill read it

[edgy bone]

which one is that

[shadow knot]

ajin

[edgy bone]

ah

i tried

[next crescent]

Gwok

[edgy bone]

but i really didnt find most of it interesting

i saw a video about how the main villain abuses his powers like it's a game trying to cheat the system which i found interesting

i read like 20 chapters or so then gave up

[ionic schooner]

HES JUST LIKE ME FR

[edgy bone]

story didnt do much for me

[shadow knot]

so basically
first volume or 2 feels like an escape plot and then second volume onwards the high rise invasion author dipped and the main author took over

the rest of the manga is like a call of duty hollywood supernatural flick

[edgy bone]

i stopped around the time the villain calls a bunch of aijins in the same building to go on a massacre

[shadow knot]

art becomes really good after the other author stopped collabing

but you prolly read past that point already

[edgy bone]

the art i liked i think

dont remember a whole lot

[shadow knot]

I wrote a 3 paragraph review upon finishing ajin holy shit

if you wanna read it I can plug it

[edgy bone]

bwahahahahaah

it's late for me , i was planning to watch a movie then fall asleep

but i can read it tomorrow

[shadow knot]

hf with it whenever

Ajin: Demi-Human feels like a Call of Duty campaign storyline for the way it handles the action (Sakurai's inspiration comes from FPS games), providing a lot of similar ideas of some sort. It also tends to flow the same structure as most mystery seinen usually follow to reach the very end goal- from what I have seen at least: meticulous build up in the beginning, perhaps the first arc or two, and as it progresses near the end goal it gradually builds up and intercepts hard. Regarding that in mind, I somehow felt indifferent during the first half of the series. It slowly develops the cast and story while whisking its mystery and action together to create a formidable read throughout, yet I still felt bored - I even thought it was surprisingly average. However, once Sakurai started going lone wolf onto the series, it slowly creeps to the second half and my thoughts completely shifted to provide some thoughts here. To say the least, it was still one hell of a ride.

For the most part, Ajin is full fledged in delivering forethought and thrilling action to the table. There were creative ideas embedded onto the series that adds just the extra spice into the enjoyment (moreso from the second half), but a lot of my attention brings to Satō . Beneath his cheerful presence lies an ominous sense of demeanor that deems his character as a true sociopath. His twisted ideology deriving off video games provides his boost and motivation to maintain his character and remain intelligent while badass at the same time. Many would consider him as one of the best antagonists in manga, and I can see the reasons. He is unhinged and hilariously insane. However, he carries almost all the weight into enjoyment when reading, which is arguably a downside because it yields inconsistent investment throughout the whole series.

The art in Ajin when Sakurai completely took over is nicely detailed and well fleshed out in many instances, may it be the spread panels or even the action sequences. Such details like this aids in enjoyment, because this is what I also heavily factor into reading this manga. Overall, I would say even if one like myself does not feel the compelling nature of the first half, the second half until completion makes the whole experience worth the read. It's a pretty good series.

[mighty cape]

i was trying to find a anime thats like tokyo ghoul

[shadow knot]

parasyte

[mighty cape]

apparently tokyo ghoul anime adaption is bad

[shadow knot]

ajin

[mighty cape]

manga kaneki is just better at this point

[edgy bone]

werent you reading the manga for tg

[shadow knot]

jagaaaan if you don't mind the crazy sexual humor

[mighty cape]

oh yeah and i stopped so suddenly

[edgy bone]

man

jagaaaan

that story went places

[shadow knot]

jagaaaan was really fun but after chapter 100 the author stopped caring about the art

[mighty cape]

wtf am i looking at

[shadow knot]

which was a huge selling point into getting me to read in the first place

that's his fractured ability

[edgy bone]

it felt like it drastically changed course

there was that one superhero arc that i didnt care about at all

[ionic schooner]

This is his life

Ofc

[edgy bone]

then it kinda went back to what it was doing originally but on a grander scale

[shadow knot]

blue lock author cooked

damn I should spoiler tag it, kinda violent

but yeah so much detail

tw gore

[edgy bone]

smh filter

[mighty cape]

and i thought mieruko san or pupa was even weirder shit

[ionic schooner]

Is that dude venom

Why is his arm black

[edgy bone]

OH COME ON

[shadow knot]

I don't think jagaaan or blue lock are really good examples of the author's peak
it gotta be bokutachi ga yarimashita for me

love that manga so much

#1 probably

[edgy bone]

havent heard of that one

[edgy bone]

speaking of venom

i had no idea eddie brock was in inception

i had to pause the movie and think for like a good 3 mins where the fuck i recognized the actor from

it was really bothering me

[shadow knot]

first volume is an ice breaker sell, basically 4 students trying to live normal lives until it wasn't

[edgy bone]

thonk

wow the bot isn't even telling me what word triggered the censor

it's just done

lmao

[mighty cape]

also did yall ever like blue lock??

[edgy bone]

havent got around to it yet

i havent read any manga seriously in a good bit

just kinda been binging anime and movies and playing random games

[shadow knot]

blue lock is fun while it lasted

[ionic schooner]

Lmao

[shadow knot]

they're overdoing the egotistical messages for me

so I just stopped

[ionic schooner]

My friend told me it was peak animr

I never watched it thiugh

[edgy bone]

it's on my manga to read list

with how good the art is i dont really want to watch the anime for that

[mighty cape]

soccer isnt that serious

theres also beyblade

[edgy bone]

and honestly the older i get the more i appreciate seeing the source material of stuff over adaptations

the only exceptions to that rule is when the source is like a gag manga that's just basic doodles or 4koma

[shadow knot]

adaptationcels seething over source materialchads

[edgy bone]

like ranking of kings or bocchi or one punch man

[ionic schooner]

Are you guys hyped for opm 3

[edgy bone]

not really cuz i already read the manga and considering just how godly the art was i know the anime won't do it justice

like mfer murata delayed chapters multiple times cuz the art wasnt up to his standards and/or redrew the same chapter like 5 times to upgrade the art

and certain scenes were even in color

[ionic schooner]

I haven't read it but I know what happens

[ionic schooner]

Aren't there 2 versions

There's like a goofy bad art one and a godlike crazy one

[edgy bone]

yes the original one by ONE is just pure gag

but that's not really relevant

the anime is adapting the murata manga

which is an adaptation of the ONE webtoon

[dusty fable]

I enjoyed anime immensely tbh

[shadow knot]

then you should check out the manga because its even better

[dusty fable]

not really a manga reader

[shadow knot]

same with me, I only read like 50

and watched like 500

if it wasn't for the manga then satou wouldn't be one of my favourite antagonists

they build so much onto the action and there's a lot of clever planning into how they execute some of their big plans when taking him down, along with his own moments stealing the show
...I don't really get that in the anime and it changed a lot of things

[dusty fable]

I have read 20-30, and watched like 1000+ xD Maybe I just couldn't find a comfortable reader for PC

[shadow knot]

I just run up mangasee123/manga4life

[dusty fable]

the problem with manga for me is that it directly competes with reading books for me, and books win most of the time

there are some exceptions of course, but unfortunately the way manga is published makes it target rather short story arcs and short-story narration (e.g. Frieren which is a patchwork of short stories for the most part) which is often detrimental to complex plots

[shadow knot]

that's an interesting problem

so when it comes to manga you immediately lean to novels instead? if I'm not getting it right you should elaborate more

[ionic schooner]

I just want voice acting and moving and stuff

😔

[shadow knot]

do you live in this server

[ionic schooner]

No I live at my house

[shadow knot]

bro is chronically online fr

[ionic schooner]

😃

[ionic schooner]

Why do I not remember the where you go I go song playing in jjk

Like it's always related to the snow scene

But like I don't remember music even playing during that scene😭

[mighty cape]

https://x.com/lookatmymeat1/status/1764293928675942790?s=46

Johann (@LookAtMyMeat1) on X

Today I will remind them

Twitter · Mar 3, 2024, 2:17 PM

😭

[next crescent]

wait avatar has an official comic??

[dusty fable]

no, it means that when choosing a sedentiary leisure activity, I would prefer a book to a manga

[shadow knot]

would it be safe to assume that if anime is a 3rd option between the 2, you would prefer that over manga and books?

[dusty fable]

not really. Books are my main leisure activity for the most part, but they take more time. I can cram 1 anime episode where I can't cram anything else, so that is the deciding factor for watching anime

[shadow knot]

I think I get it

[mighty cape]

avatar is peak

[frank musk]

Most of the comics happen after the original series actually

[next crescent]

Do you know where I can read them?

I'd be very interested despite the funky fucking comic pages they posted on Twitter for the post above

[frank musk]

Not sure where, personally i havent read them either

[mighty cape]

Several yeah

[mighty cape]

Depends what you prefer physical books or digital?

My go to is Amazon for both

[next crescent]

maybe digital since it might be cheaper

oo

okay

[mighty cape]

I’d recommend picking up Gene Yang and Gurihiru’s graphic novel series starting with:
The Promise> The Search> The Rift> Smoke and Shadow> North and South

The Search is especially good

[next crescent]

thank you

[mighty cape]

Lots of THE in there

[tidal shore]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1124389574504874096/1214044748218634250/oq6ZK7lwfE9PY-rf.mp4?ex=65f7ae47&is=65e53947&hm=45c560b9499cfba24ef0fb4aef35edbbd9aad0daae6ad1a2877bc9aa1a9448b1&

pov:

[next crescent]

omg it's so cute

i love the outfit

[tidal shore]

i love how unhinged this is

[silk obsidian]

#1160862828866056243

#・flex-and-salt

[topaz linden]

wat

[edgy bone]

https://youtu.be/S63luLJUTmo?si=ZGYyrAirhaTmW4kv

Since we talked about luffy earlier

Totally not mark started a literary analysis on the strawhats

Hes done 3 members so far

Really good stuff

[frank musk]

as a person who doesnt read or watch the series, for a sec there i thought you meant the literal strawhat

[edgy bone]

Oh

Lmao

[mighty cape]

Juca going on a OP crisis

[edgy bone]

?

Ive been reading the manga weekly since 2015

[edgy bone]

Why is rwby music so good when the story is so bad

This isnt fair

[mighty cape]

rooster teeths writing ig

[edgy bone]

I forgot how detailed the art is

Goddamn

[mighty cape]

yeah thats gonna be on my readlist

[heavy dune]

Anyone know this manhwa?

[tidal shore]

are you asking to find out or

omg I found it with google search lets goo

it's "The Princess Pretends to Be Crazy"

go back in time manhwa

they called their country Vladimar

dfjaklhgklahga

goddess of Hellar

omg i love thjese names

still exposition chapter but imma comment on it [spoiler] ||So the oracle went like "hurr durr the strongest bloke gonna save da king bruv innit" and everyone's first thought was to kill, like what the hell is up with that, do you mean to tell me that out of the 10 children no one bothered to think of real strength in different terms? like one of the bloke's sons went like "ur next babe points finger then kills" and everyone be like "yeahhh this is how shit's now innit". Imagine if the various descendants actually thought of strength in different terms, what if there was a conflict of interests and many ways to prove yourself worthy? they're royalty, one child could go on and become a merchant god while another would be a battle god while another would be a political god, showing strength in different fields instead of eliminating opposition, and I think that would've been so much more interesting as a story than whatever was described here in exposition 💀 but hey, maybe I'm wrong and they will actually do something interesting now that the mc has returned (she's a returner)||

ok nvm all my hopes and dreams were crushed in the next chapter

[edgy bone]

just for reference

anytime you see a random image and you want to find the source

google lens will almost always give you what youre looking for

and it takes 5 seconds to use

i see so many reddit posts asking where random manga panel is from

it feels like most people dont know google lens is a thing

[tidal shore]

ok huh so it's this kind of story

mann

im on chapter 3

[ionic schooner]

Never works for me idk why

Always the same image but not the source

[edgy bone]

?

[tidal shore]

only for mobile, also website navigation on pc SUCKS

[edgy bone]

read the links associated with the images

i use it on pc

ive never had any issues

[tidal shore]

who designed this website on pc it's so bad

[ionic schooner]

It's all like twitter or Imgur idk

[edgy bone]

literally just right click on an image and search

[tidal shore]

every scroll you have to wait before the animation finishes it's so annoying

[edgy bone]

animation?

[tidal shore]

the google lens website

[edgy bone]

i havent seen any animations

[tidal shore]

https://lens.google/#cta-section

[tidal shore]

oh you mean like this

isn't this just google search?

[edgy bone]

it's google lens

it didnt use to be like this a few years ago

[tidal shore]

same thing, why does it have 2 names 😭

[edgy bone]

they integrated it into their search

because

reverse image search is functionally different

[tidal shore]

how so?

[edgy bone]

reverse image search only looks for exact matches iirc

lens tries to detect similarities and shows those too

you can see on the side it gave me different panels from the same series

[tidal shore]

huhh interesting

[edgy bone]

if you click find image source at the top that's reverse image search

ye it's just exact matches

[tidal shore]

on that note

can anyone help me find the source of this image?

google lens isn't returning anything

[edgy bone]

looks like it's just a random art

do you want to find the artist?

[tidal shore]

ye

it only exists on pinterest from what I searched 😔

[edgy bone]

https://twitter.com/osu5i

お鮨 (@osu5i) on X

お絵かきマン。雑多です。

Twitter

looks kinda similar?

[tidal shore]

maybe cyz it's kiunda sketchy byt the linework is very different

also image feels old ngl

[edgy bone]

was moreso looking at anatomy

face structure looks very similar

you'd have to dig through their post history to be sure

im not aware of a way to fitler by site

[tidal shore]

https://fxtwitter.com/osu5i/status/1019089333582643200/photo/1

hmm maybe

thx

[edgy bone]

oh you did it

[tidal shore]

you can do site:pixiv.com for example

to filter by website

[heavy dune]

Thanks lots

[tidal shore]

https://fxtwitter.com/osu5i/status/985118631141896194

Phos before she broke 😔

[edgy bone]

ye but how do you pair that with an image search

[tidal shore]

i remember it used to be that u could do it, at least on the phone

but idk now

ok so what you do is

right click > search iamge with google

and then u will be able to filter by websites

but this usually gives subpar/worse results than google lens or "find source"

also also

[tidal shore]

this character looks very similar to Mizunashi Akari from Aria

moreso the original drawing tho

that art style feels so 2008 tho I rly like it

[edgy bone]

afaik that option only works if you use chrome as a browser

i definitely dont have it

and it's just google lens kek

[tidal shore]

huh interesting

I just tried firefox and I can't even "open image in new tab"

functionality is totally different

[edgy bone]

out the box firefox doesnt offer a whole lot

but unlike chrome it is much more customizable

if you know what youre doing with it you can replicate more or less all functionalities and more

[tidal shore]

that's cool

]I much prefer navigation in chrome or brave

[edgy bone]

i wanted to get away from chromium based stuff

and firefox is like the only major browser that's not chromium

so

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[tidal shore]

ye

[mighty cape]

Strike it Rich chapter 18

They all look so cute…

[mighty cape]

Have some cute @edgy bone

[edgy bone]

Omg cuteeee

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1177584723942457415.webp?size=48

I might read that soon

Now that unis started back up i have a reason to read manga more frequently

[mighty cape]

@next crescent pinging you too cuz cute must be shared

[next crescent]

Oooooh

"Strike it Rich"?

[mighty cape]

Yep yep

[high storm]

20th century boys is SUCH an overrated manga it is insane

do NOT expect "best villain in fiction" it is not allat

it is not a masterpiece either, expect 8/10 if you like more grounded stories with sprinkle of fiction

[craggy mango]

Umm okay

[high storm]

I am just really disappointed that I've never heard anything below "masterpiece! 10/10" before reading it and ended up having unreasonable expectations

need to yell at the wall a bit

or maybe because I just finished Usogui (10/10, but hard to get into) that 20th century boys seemed bleak and boring

[edgy bone]

I think the author as a whole is kinda overrated

I didnt like any of his stuff that much

I dont really get the appeal

At most its like 1 cool concept in a sea of whatever concepts

[edgy bone]

Also wait

Is it time for lore basement book club?

[mighty cape]

sup y'all

how we doin

[fair wedge]

We is doing all

[edgy bone]

oh i thought you were into yaoi

[mighty cape]

real

yuri >>>>>>>>

[hot notch]

As far as I'm aware this is only available on chrome

[edgy bone]

there's extensions for it

[hot notch]

There are plenty of sites that give you easy access to multiple reverse image search engines at a time though

[edgy bone]

(and realistically speaking the overwhelming majority of the market uses chrome )

[edgy bone]

it's not a reverse image search

see the whole convo

[mighty cape]

Doesn’t mean I can’t share memes of it

But yeah

Yuri can be alright

But I love good yaoi

[edgy bone]

humu humu

have you played the ace attorney games

[mighty cape]

phoenix x edgeworth??

[edgy bone]

ofc

[mighty cape]

oh i remember gamegrumps shipping them

so theyre like enemies to lovers?

[edgy bone]

oh you watch gamegrumps

[mighty cape]

UM WHO FUCKING DOESNT

[edgy bone]

nah it's just a community meme

tho you could definitely argue the writers play into it

[mighty cape]

Just an itty bit. I was more into Prof Layton several years ago.

Esp the Mystery Room

Prof Layton is fucking awesome

i heard theyre gonna have a game of it on the switch

[edgy bone]

OMG LAYTON FAN

[mighty cape]

all the puzzles are good

[edgy bone]

i wasnt really into the last 2 games

katrielle puzzles just kinda sucked, you could tell they were made by a different puzzle master

some of them werent even puzzles they were just a joke and the answer was the punchline

smh

[mighty cape]

did yall like the story overall than the puzzles?

[edgy bone]

azran legacy puzzles were mostly touchscreen minigames where you move stuff around with the stylus which i also wasn't a big fan of

i like the logic puzzles the most

[mighty cape]

so logical puzzles

because i love the curious village puzzles

[hot notch]

I mean I wouldn't say Google Lens is fundamentally different from Reverse image search. They both use a source image to find the same or similar images.

[edgy bone]

the process is different

reverse image search doesnt do similar images

[edgy bone]

curious village was alright but a lot of the puzzles were just really well known logic problems so if you have any background in this field you probably already knew the solutions to a bunch of them

i appreciated them making up unique ones from the 2nd game onwards

[mighty cape]

what game has the logical puzzles??

[edgy bone]

basically all of them have some

im talking about the ones where it gives you a problem in text and you have to just input an answer after thinking about it for a while

like ugh

you live in a town that only has 2 barbers, and no one in town cuts their own hair. One of the barbers is very prim and proper while the other has really messy jumbly hair. Which one should you go to if you want to get a good haircut

or

you and your friend were playing tennis and the ball fell in a small hole in the garden. You don't want to damage the garden by digging it up, but luckily you have access to something else that's a very common thing 5 letters long that can get the ball out for you. What is it?

or

youre a scientist that's studying bacteria reproduction. You have access to a bacteria that duplicates itself once every day. If you put 1 of this this kinda of bacteria in a pietri dish it takes 60 days for it to fill out the whole dish. How many days does it take if you start out with 2 speciems of the bacteria in a dish of the same size?

[dusty fable]

erm, did juca visit one of those ads that say "Only 10% of adults can solve this problem?"

[edgy bone]

did you read the whole convo

[dusty fable]

not sure if it was regarding Layton puzzles or Google Lens, but I have read both discussions

[edgy bone]

smh

but yea

obviously there's more complex ones but i dont remember them off the top of my head

[mighty cape]

so theres really complex ones i see

also juca did you ever like the 2d pokemon games??

the sprite ones

[edgy bone]

back in the day yes

pokemon used to be like my main thing when i was a kid

for a very long time

my love for the franchise has died down a lot in the past 5 years or so tho

i don't really like any of the games anymore

[dusty fable]

should have played Pokemon Go

[edgy bone]

i did

as i said i was extremely into it when iwas younger

[dusty fable]

It gets really heated if your city/town has really dedicated players to form an opposition

[edgy bone]

if it had pokemon on it and it came out before 2018 or so i probably played it

[edgy bone]

oh ugh

nintendo as a whole

is basically nonexistent here

in the entire country

[dusty fable]

we had a pretty storng community since Ingress (previous niantic game) which made a core around which all the casuals gathered. So we had around 100+ dedicated players divided among the factions and a swarm of casuals, so it was a lot of fun

[edgy bone]

naruhodone

[dusty fable]

tbh, was one of the best experiences in gaming for me. I was hoping that VR would eventually turn out like this, but alas

[edgy bone]

give it time

[dusty fable]

nah, I am not a believer anymore

[edgy bone]

youre just afraid i'll kick your butt when we get sao

[dusty fable]

when we get sao I'll be a gramps, so it won't be much of an achievement to kick my ass

I will just hope that Dune is a good game so I can kick some asses there, because there isn't much going on in MMO scene

Genshin and Wuwa is kinda fun, but tbh I find MMO more appealing in the long run

I am sadge about the day when session-style and instance-style games were introduced into multiplayer genre

[edgy bone]

and speaking of nintendo

https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1b6h2i2/yuzu_to_pay_24_million_to_nintendo/

fuck this shit man

[mighty cape]

can we not get sao

[dusty fable]

why, don't you want to get a life-long trauma after surviving an anarchist simulator after the game community went rogue? Sounds fun

[mighty cape]

no thank you

i rather go into shield hero, mushoku tensei nor black summoner thanks

name a better isekai and ill suffice

[edgy bone]

but teru

those arent video games

[mighty cape]

oh then im stupid then

i just have a bad exp with sao

[edgy bone]

Ars_Pat

[dusty fable]

hmm, I was thinking what would happen if there was a game like sao, available world wide and that governments can't shut down (servers are floating in the ocean, connection via p2p networks propagated through satellites). And access to it wasn't restricted

[mighty cape]

the whole logout button is stupid regardless

[dusty fable]

it would gather a bunch of very unpretty people

playing it

[edgy bone]

i imagine it would still have moderation

[mighty cape]

the whole anime was glazing kirito so much

[edgy bone]

like idk

how does vr chat do it

i imagine it would be similar

[mighty cape]

also why would we even have a game like SAO?

[edgy bone]

because there's demand for it

and we live in a capitalist society

and vr tech is advancing

[dusty fable]

I meant with the real possibility of dying there and an the same intention as in SAO premise

[edgy bone]

ah

ugh

[dusty fable]

but the access is nor restricted. Anyone can join any time

[edgy bone]

realistically speaking idk if that'd ever be possible

[mighty cape]

you guys seriously want a SAO game?

for real?

[edgy bone]

for userend hardware that has the capability of frying your brain to be sold out onto the public and pass all health and safety checks without no one noticing anything is

very farfetched

[dusty fable]

it would be, if we stretch a bit. Like we would need implants similar to what was in Deus Ex HR through which players can connect (and endanger their life since its the premise)

[edgy bone]

you are saying you seriously wouldnt enjoy a virtual full fledged mmorpg with anime aesthetics?

also this reminded me

[mighty cape]

I DONT WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN A GAME THAT FRIES MY BRAIN OUT

LIKE IF YOU DIE IN SAO, YOURE DONE

[edgy bone]

teru obviously that's not part of what we're talking about

[mighty cape]

YOURE JUST GONE

[dusty fable]

not me, but I suppose there are plenty of people who would have a use for such a game

[edgy bone]

if we're talking about stuff in sao that didnt make sense

i think the original premise said that the game sold like 600k copies

which is laughably bad for a game of that scale

the author didnt really have a frame of reference for game sales

[mighty cape]

so no dying stuff, i guess

id be surprised if juca and lime ever made a game like that

[dusty fable]

dying is the premise. Removing it would remove the point

I just think that such game would be a magnet for 2 certain types of people

[mighty cape]

then yeah no, im out

[edgy bone]

the point is to have a vr game i can beat your butt in

[dusty fable]

it makes sense if you have gradual roll-out (but story-wise, good sales was never the goal of the developer)

[mighty cape]

bruh please you can try

but I guess it can be fun

[dusty fable]

so 600k is good for emerging tech if it's Japan-exclusive, if the dev counts on revenue from promoting the tech and selling either hardware or engine later on a subscription basis

[edgy bone]

do you realise how much a game of that size would cost to develop

and it's a console launch title iirc

[dusty fable]

obviously the intention behind the development wouldn't be revenue from game sales

[edgy bone]

where else are you getting revenue from

it didnt have microtransactions (which in retrospect is probably the #1 least believable thing)

[mighty cape]

now this is confusing as hell...

[dusty fable]

as I said, selling the hardware to companies that are involved in more lucrative sectors (like military or marketing) and selling engine dev tools to those who would want to profit from this

[edgy bone]

what does the hardware have to do with the game

different companies

[dusty fable]

well, if you want to sell hardware you need a product, so you sponsor a game or something

[edgy bone]

that wasn't stated afaik

and definitely not in the beginning either way

[dusty fable]

well you asked about 600k figure and I said why it would make sense. SAO plot is not so well-thought out to be actually discussing it

[edgy bone]

i dont see value in talking about this outside of the plot context

[dusty fable]

if you haven't noticed, the whole discussion was outside of the plot besides the premise itself

[mighty cape]

aincrad really did bad writing the first time

[dusty fable]

nah, it was decent for what it was

[edgy bone]

the whole point i was trying to make is that the author has really poor knowledge of video games

[dusty fable]

maybe. But I wouldn't say that 600k sales is bad for japanese market. JPN is known for overpricing their games and people still willing to buy them, if the game is hyped

So I could see an innovative game itself priced somewhere at 150-200 usd just for a copy

[edgy bone]

was it stated that the game was japan only?

but either way

[dusty fable]

yeah, it was stated, in the first 2-3 episodes I think

[edgy bone]

in the beginnig they presented the game as it being the new biggest hit or w/e

600k for a game of that scale is a commercial failure not a big hit

id' have to pull out the book for the exact phrasing and i dont care enough

[dusty fable]

again, it's fine if it's a gradual roll-out. But then the game director went rogue

[edgy bone]

was it stated to be gradual roll out

and even if it was idk how you'd be able to accurately judge sales numbers in that scenario

[dusty fable]

you will be judging by the number of tweets obviously. Hype is the mother of sales

that's why half of the games lately is a meme clowntown

[edgy bone]

but that's not what was being presented

it very specifically said sales

[dusty fable]

dude, I am just saying that 600k sales is a reasonable number for emerging tech, because it has multiple marketing strategies to capitalize on that. I don't say that SAO plot completely makes sense

[edgy bone]

we're not talking about tech

we're strictly talking about video game sales

i dont remember any statement being made about the nerv gear

[dusty fable]

The problem with the stories is that people assume that author didn't thought through all of this stuff. But reality is often that author actually thought through but didn't write anything down, because nobody would read that shit

when you start to explain something it's a vicious cycle when you need to explain more and more and you don't get to actually narrating the story. And if you can both explain and narrate, you are a god-level writer on a level of Brandon Sanderson, who is like one of a handful of writers who can actually pull off that sort of stuff

and that is why SciFi is a rare beast in manga, because it usually needs a decent amount of explaining

[edgy bone]

i dont see how that's relevant

fact of the matter is the explanation provided in the book doenst make sense

im not gonna sit here making up headcanons

[dusty fable]

which is usually the case for most of the stories and doesn't really showcase the ability of the author (or absence of it)

that's why fantasy is so popular, because "it just works"

[edgy bone]

bruh this isnt fantasy it's commentary on the irl video game market

the author tried to present it as the new big popular game that everyone is talking about

then gave out a number that's realistically too small for that to be the case

end of story

[dusty fable]

the year is 2009 when the novel released. Game market is not that big tbh, so 600k sales is a decent amount

https://www.engadget.com/2006-04-10-oblivion-records-record-sales-1-7-million-and-climbing.html 1.7 million world-wide sales in the first week and Oblivion was very hype at that time.

[edgy bone]

that's over double

for a game that's less than double the complexity

[dusty fable]

its world-wide compared to japan only

[edgy bone]

idk how much that affects things

[dusty fable]

? Japan has a market of 150 mil people (or a much lesser number if we assume access to hardware) compared to a market of billion+ people worldwide

[edgy bone]

no like

i dont have any data to show how much that'd skew the numbers

but maybe

the book might have also called it a commercial success but i dont remember at this point

[dusty fable]

"While VR is still in the niche category, Valve did make a splash in the gaming market with Half-Life: Alyx after selling more than 860,000+ copies of the game in the first week alone." and that was worldwide too

[edgy bone]

alyx was nowhere near the level of popularity sao was portrayed as

[dusty fable]

lmao what. It was the most hyped game in VR.

[edgy bone]

sure

are you claiming it was as hyped as sao was portrayed to be?

cuz i just dont agree with that

[dusty fable]

you underestimate the level of hype around Half Life franchise

[edgy bone]

i think you underestimate how big the author was trying to make sao look like

[dusty fable]

close to it. It wasn't an innovative tech, but it was a defining game for VR tech

plus again, VR market in 2020 is already magnitudes more than anything that could be concieved in Japan in 2009 (by an author)

[edgy bone]

idk like at this point

i can't really make any other meaningful arguments without pulling up the book and i dont care enough

i'll give yo ucredit for the japan only thing i didnt remember that part

[edgy bone]

what did the tiktok generation do to miku

[mighty cape]

i have no fucking clue

[mighty cape]

who is best girl in mushoku tensei?

eris, roxy or sylphie??

[tidal shore]

Rudy's mom cuz she the only one that stays faithful

[craggy mango]

https://fxtwitter.com/kmtakpk/status/1764602662551736421?t=5pZ_kztA2QAt7F34FRa9Rg&s=19

[topaz linden]

https://youtu.be/86JFEDEqxHw?si=bI-gm-Ovl4DNvX1z

[next crescent]

i just came back from work and got mcdonald's on the way home and they have a manga on their bags now 😭

it's called wcdonald's

the episode on my bag is titled "chicken wcnuggets"

[topaz linden]

Sounds like a Skill WcIssue

[next crescent]

[mighty cape]

what got yall into nijisanji?

[next crescent]

Unironically? Professor Evans from the jp branch LMAO

And Mika, from the former ID branch

[mighty cape]

Oh i see

[topaz linden]

Big witch hat girl and Kanauru animations

[frank musk]

en gen 1, and finana's questionable yet funny stories

[frank musk]

https://youtu.be/CkvWJNt77mU?si=mcNXJ7UFm0NcBf2-

[next crescent]

God I love yorushika

[shadow sleet]

spoilers for frieren end of season (maybe) 😂

[tidal shore]

HUH

wait if frieren is so good then why can't she invent magic herself

[edgy bone]

i dont think that's frieren

[craggy mango]

Godtier CG

[topaz linden]

How do you know she hasn't?

[tidal shore]

so she has

ok good

[hot notch]

Roxy. All praise the goddess.

https://tenor.com/view/roxy-migurdia-gif-24765130

[topaz linden]

https://tenor.com/view/roxy-mushoku-tensei-gif-25630925

Best girl for sure

Eris's VA is coming to a convention im going to tho 👀

[hot notch]

As much as I like a lot of the stuff this season I can't wait for it to end so MT can start again.

I need more Roxy screentime

[tidal shore]

Roxy the groomer

[hot notch]

How exactly?

[tidal shore]

/s

I mean tbh there are some people saying that she told a child (mc) to confess like 10 years later when he's all grown up, but you know

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mighty cape]

any detective conan fans here??

[tidal shore]

does watching 200 episodes count?

[edgy bone]

i'd say it depends on why you stopped

[tidal shore]

got bored of waiting for the plot to go somewhere

they were teasing about it every couple episodes but then I figured, if I wait a few years I can just binge it all later

yeah so the reason I stop watching/reading long running series is so that they finish and I can binge, genuinely

[edgy bone]

oh you were watching weekly?

damn

[tidal shore]

no

by the time I started watching around 900 episodes were out

I tried watching/reading a lot of series weekly before but I ended up forgetting about them, or I just wait a year or two and then catch up in like 2 days and then wait another few years 😔

[edgy bone]

ye i gave up on weekly stuff too

[tidal shore]

now as for Magic Kaito

I totally loved that one

[edgy bone]

theyre connected?

[tidal shore]

yea

it's a spin off of Detective Conan

[mighty cape]

no problem i sometimes watch the dub or sub

but i love the dub though

[tidal shore]

:o

[mighty cape]

im on ep 14 so im picking up the pace

as for OP, im on 24

[edgy bone]

my god

that rosen chapter

i love beowulf

[mighty cape]

I havent seen that

[edgy bone]

youre a kid so it's probably for the best

[hot notch]

I'm a bit behind on Rosen. I need to figure out when I talked about it last in here because that was the last time I read it.

[mighty cape]

Ill have to watch it to find out

[hot notch]

It's a Manga. It's honestly not something I can recommend to anyone, even adults. It's just something that if you happen to stumble upon and like then you get to enjoy it.

[mighty cape]

oh i see

damn OP has a lot of manga like alot

[mighty cape]

also any digimon fans here??

[high storm]

Watched digimon adventures when I was a kid and then gave up after being lost in "where is and what is sequel"

Transformations didn't make sense but were so hype holy shit

[shadow sleet]

maybe my mom 30 years ago

[mighty cape]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1765422582323367991

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

Rooster Teeth is shutting down after 21 years.

Twitter · Mar 6, 2024, 5:01 PM

No more RWBY ig?

[edgy bone]

You what

Maybe its time to finish it then

Im 2 or 3 seasons behind

[shadow knot]

I’m rvb pilled but sucks

[next crescent]

it's been 21 years???

i thought they started up when i was like 11

[edgy bone]

i kinda missed the boat on rvb

would you recommend it now

time to figure out where i stopped with rwby

huh ok im only 2 volumes behind

did the story end and i just never heard about it?

kinda surprised they only made 2 more volumes in the past 5 years or so

[next crescent]

idk i never watched it

i just liked a couple of the songs from it lol

[edgy bone]

i like most of their songs

[hot notch]

Not even close

[edgy bone]

i vibe with hard rock stuff

[hot notch]

We were just entering the final arc

[edgy bone]

damn

[hot notch]

They teased the first part of Vol 10 a while back and now I'm like actually sad that we'll never see it complete.

[edgy bone]

idk like

rwby was one of those things i kinda just had a soft spot for cuz it was the first big internet produced anime style story thingie

if i am to judge it based on what it actually tries to do i think the story has always been p meh, i'll see if the last 2 seasons change my opinion but i highly doubt it after 100 episodes

i really like the fight scenes choreography and the music, but since monty died the fights were never as good and now i heard that in the last season jeff williams left rwby too? so rip the music

[hot notch]

Vols 7/8 were really good imo. Vol 9 was defininitely not everyone's cup of tea but I enjoyed it.

[hot notch]

Vol 9's music is still has Casey on it though and is still really good.

[edgy bone]

casey was just the singer

jeff was the composer

i heard some of the songs and it's not the same vibe

you can tell a different person's writing them

[hot notch]

I mean yea, that's how it works when someone else writes music. Vol 9's music is still really good though. Don't get me wrong I absolutely adore Jeff but the new guy aint bad.

Also I'm pretty sure he had helped Jeff on previous volumes so it's not a completely new thing.

[edgy bone]

i'll see when i get around to it

but if casey isnt screaming edgy lines about how shes gonna beat everybody up in my ears then it's not the same

02pensive

[hot notch]

Vol 9 has Red Like Roses Part III and it's honestly one of my favorite RWBY songs

[mighty cape]

ayo what

[mighty cape]

ayo juca my guy hows ygo going?

[edgy bone]

still trying to build a deck ive only done tutorials so far

[mighty cape]

lemme guess galaxy dragon whatever the fuck his name is

[edgy bone]

no idea what you mean

[mighty cape]

galaxy eyes dragon

[edgy bone]

no

that card is over a decade old at this point

[mighty cape]

mmm true, what deck you building

[distant helm]

has anyone here watched yuri on ice? is it any good?

[dusty fable]

I watched it like 6 years ago. Don't remember much except that it wasn't bad. It was mildly good

Hmm, which anime to watch: Ousama Ranking, Synduality Noir, Metallic Rouge, Hikari no Ou? Listed in order of what I would like to see, but they are kinda similar in appeal

[edgy bone]

are you asking for yourself?

ousama ranking is amazing

one of the favorites ive seen since i started binging anime again

[dusty fable]

is 2nd season any good?

[edgy bone]

it doesnt have a 2nd season afaik?

[dusty fable]

erm...

[shadow knot]

its like a spin off or something

[dusty fable]

oh, this one is Short format https://myanimelist.net/anime/52657/Ousama_Ranking__Yuuki_no_Takarabako

[shadow knot]

nah, after s13 or s14 just don’t watch beyond that tbh

[edgy bone]

oh that was a series

i thought it was a movie

either way it's filler

i havent watched it

[dusty fable]

did it reach a conclusion storywise? I watched like 8 episodes and felt that it goes to something inconclusive... So I saw the stuff I sent earlier and thought they have finished it...

[edgy bone]

sort of

it finished the first big story arc

most threads are tied up but there's a few loose that lead into the next arc

which is manga only so far

it's kinda like the anime ending of hunter hunter if you wanna compare it to smth

[hot notch]

Synduality: Noir please. I need someone to talk about that show with.

[dusty fable]

ehhh... welll... HxH was kinda a bummer, after the ant arc conclusion and the stuff with the world where his father went...

[hot notch]

I couldn't get through the Ant arc

[edgy bone]

most people view it as a good cutoff point

but if you werent satisfied with that you might not be satisfied with where the ousama ranking anime ends either

you can try the manga ig but it's very very basic in terms of art and paneling

[dusty fable]

well, yeah. I dropped it halfway, then continued only to be disappointed in the end. But the HxH guildboss fight was awesome, I'll give it that

[edgy bone]

wit studio really has a gift for picking up series with mid art and cranking it up to 11

[hot notch]

HxH was Wit?

[edgy bone]

no

aot season 1 was

[mighty cape]

https://fxtwitter.com/lookatmymeat1/status/1765434174146523205?s=46

[dusty fable]

Ousama is Wit

[edgy bone]

and if you saw the aot art at the start of the manga

it's

quite something

[hot notch]

I thought they did through Season 3?

[dusty fable]

actually, one of the few mangas I have read while both manga and anime were ongoing. I remember it being rough, but not like something too bad. And tbh I wasn't too impressed with animation (not really something I pay attention to in anime)

[hot notch]

Also wasn't AoT Season 1 kinda notorius for having some messed up art during the initial airing?

[edgy bone]

not that im aware?

and wit did everything before timeskip iirc

idk how many seasons it was i lost track

[mighty cape]

pita pita

[edgy bone]

thats cursed

[gleaming trench]

Anyone know a anime where they do something like this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nxaZ69ElEc

They say stories while sitting like that

[edgy bone]

rakugo?

[gleaming trench]

thats the name?

[edgy bone]

there's a shonen jump manga that's ongoing rn that's really really good

about rakugo

[gleaming trench]

is there a anime on it?

[edgy bone]

no it's too new

[gleaming trench]

and whats the manga name?

[edgy bone]

akanebanashi

[gleaming trench]

what does shounen jump mean?

oh

found what it means

nvm

[gleaming trench]

oh this isnt what im looking for but rakugo helped

https://myanimelist.net/anime/33095/Shouwa_Genroku_Rakugo_Shinjuu__Sukeroku_Futatabi-hen

this one

[edgy bone]

it's the most popular manga magazine

i mean

akanebanashi is literally about rakugo

[gleaming trench]

oh

dammn

like rnrnrrn?

[shadow knot]

I love this anime so much

[gleaming trench]

oh?

do you know about shinigami's play?

[shadow knot]

yeah its my personal favourite anime drama

[gleaming trench]

and is it worth watching?

dammn

[shadow knot]

yeah they 100% replicate the shinigami play

multiple times

[gleaming trench]

why do you say that?

I see

[shadow knot]

I wrote a paragraph review about it on my list but im on phone hold on

for both s1 and s2

[gleaming trench]

would like it

[shadow knot]

just hover over to the speech bubbles of the show and you’ll see my reviews for each including s1 and s2 of rakugo

https://tenor.com/view/rakugo-shinjuu-gif-21673724

[edgy bone]

whats the shinigami play

[shadow knot]

the play tells a story about a shinigami who helps a man in debt

rakugo is basically a artform of japanese storytelling and one of the iconic stories is that one

this one’s an irl example https://youtu.be/P4PCds4tlT4?si=P9XikAJSPx-LlxHl

[gleaming trench]

read it ty, will watch it soon

[edgy bone]

Idk why you felt the need to explain rakugo when i talked about it multiple times

but gotcha

[topaz linden]

Ngl, I'd personally say S10 makes a fantastic stopping point

Highest production value (last one monty was involved in iirc), great story, and wraps up most of the major plot threads left open

Wouldnt even bother with S11 onward lol

[topaz linden]

https://youtu.be/87K5Uh3AML0?si=h_CGonOL4eszOMcY

Joshiraku's a good rakugo-themed anime. The ED is them reciting a name from a famous rakugo story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugemu

[shadow knot]

don’t remember

[next crescent]

wait that's an actual anime and not just a short???

[shadow knot]

completely valid

[shadow knot]

yeah

fun watch

https://tenor.com/view/joshiraku-animation-anime-kukuru-anrakutei-gif-20947780

[next crescent]

[topaz linden]

Indeed

https://youtu.be/mlbch74sfG4?si=Nc6H4qeyiZ48N_3V

[next crescent]

LOL

[edgy bone]

earlier in the same convo lol

[shadow knot]

ik, you said multiple times tho and I probably forgot

for the series itself ik anno repped it

but outside of that ion know much

[edgy bone]

gotcha gotcha

[ionic schooner]

This anime is so funny

One of the animes I actually laughed out loud

I didn't even get half the jokes

Also @topaz linden do you play fortnite

Cuz I saw a dude with your username on fortnite

[topaz linden]

https://tenor.com/view/cringe-old-man-clint-clint-eastwood-ugh-gif-7506146

God no

[ionic schooner]

Who's the JakeFromStateFarm I just passed in rocket racing then

😃

[topaz linden]

Ur mum

[edgy bone]

your mom is jakefromstatefarm?!

i didnt know you had a kid jake

POGGIES

[ionic schooner]

Yeah

[ionic schooner]

Hi mom

[next crescent]

new jake lore???

[mighty cape]

Now we got two moms

[edgy bone]

This looks like a 3d room that was drawn over

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1177617697492709486.webp?size=48

[dusty fable]

manga artists do that for ages, no? Quickly build an interior in blender, and turn it into a background. I saw for years rendered school interiors in manga

[edgy bone]

I dont see it often

[dusty fable]

you probably didn't notice. This one is noticeable since the room is small

just look at school interiors next time you read, they are most often done this way

[edgy bone]

Okay

[topaz linden]

How noticeable it is depends on how much time they spend "drawing over" it, but it's pretty common 👀

[edgy bone]

(I also dont really read that many modern setting manga)

I mostly read fantasy shonen stuff

[hot notch]

HUH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS480mqndzQ

Why is it good?

[tidal shore]

such an iconic intro

I wonder what brilliant made came up with it