・anime

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/bonk-gif-26414884

[outer scaffold]

"Enough time has passed."

[high storm]

God I remember watching when this just came out

Waste of my internet traffic

[edgy bone]

that manga is really fun if you like tournament fights

[high storm]

Yeah manga had some real solid and fun fights

Sometimes even a bit emotional imo

But holy fucking shit is anime BAD

It's sooooo SHIT

Saying its is a disappointment is giving it a praise

[edgy bone]

ah wait did the manga end?

i stopped reading after a while

[shadow knot]

usual consensus with ror yes

fun manga shit anime

but the only ror that matters is risk of rain

https://tenor.com/view/risk-of-rain2-risk-of-rain-walter-white-falling-walter-white-meme-walter-white-gif-gif-25176399

[high storm]

No

[outer scaffold]

Hey, sorry if i'm wrong, i think there is "some" update to the genshin anime, go and check the new video on genshin japan around the 10 minute mark

[high storm]

Something makes me think if it was something important community would already talk about it

[outer scaffold]

Genshin Japan VA podcast isn't popular in the EN community

[high storm]

If you know what's the update why won't you tell us?

[next crescent]

How am I expected to know what they're saying when there's no subtitles 😭

The only one is auto-generated Japanese

Flame.. we already got that animation

In all their available language channels

It's the music video they made

https://youtu.be/T5-YMslEmxw?si=XxnT-D1-Hp1c5PeY

[outer scaffold]

That's why i say sorry if i'm wrong

[next crescent]

This is it from the English channel

Ah

Yeah no this was released a few weeks ago

[outer scaffold]

Once again, sorry

[next crescent]

No worries

[craggy mango]

https://fxtwitter.com/asce539/status/1813614817816805423?t=W3TQU5iTK_q-yDNu27sKEw&s=19

[outer scaffold]

Just won again 50:50 Ellen (Sorry to rub salt on your wounds)

[ionic schooner]

Why is she always the one with the dance moves

[rancid ledge]

Good for you, i hope you choke on concrete

[outer scaffold]

Have a great day!

[rancid ledge]

and i hope you get gojo'd too or rengoku'd

[tidal shore]

same person

[outer scaffold]

And still alive? DAMN.

[tidal shore]

ya

[ionic schooner]

dw he had a teddybear

so hes invincible

[cobalt wyvern]

https://youtube.com/shorts/Dyj4yDIR-Ds?si=kmfJcu0Wg3nMtWJh

[tidal shore]

lmaooooooooo\

[high storm]

Shikanoko nokonoko is not like super funny but it's serviceable

I laughed at the few naruto references thrown in

I have so much brainrot I think they did a jojo reference

[fair wedge]

Demon lord 2099 looks promising

[high storm]

God the song and dance in 3rd is so fucking embarrassing to watch

It will be made into a thousand GIFs but man

God this fucking SUCKS

Nuclear cringe of a song

[craggy mango]

Should we let them cook?
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1814044787269423203?t=kiQ2bWxHiLtpzNj50O-2RA&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

A ‘TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES X NARUTO’ comic will release in October.

Cover art by Jorge Jimenez.

Twitter · Jul 18, 2024, 9:09 PM

[high storm]

Not the worst crossover ever conceived

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVy7IeRfr8c&pp=ygUNa29zaGl0YW4gc29uZw%3D%3D

[craggy mango]

The Boys fell off so hard

How tf they thought "yeah this shit story writing is fine, lets add more shocking scene" and then approved it?

I should had stick watching Nokotan dance for an hour

[high storm]

Thanks translator's note

[fair wedge]

Lmao

[tidal shore]

S*UP'D

[edgy bone]

that just sounds like shorthand for whats up dawg

[fair wedge]

Lmao

[high storm]

The shit talk is getting better the more important tournament is lol

[tidal shore]

wait

bro has the broccoli cut

default win

[long peak]

His line is fire tho

Good barber

[shadow knot]

took me 3 episodes to drop the whole show

[ionic schooner]

My favorite charater is butcher

[rancid ledge]

what do you guys think of black clover? does it also have those "boring" fights??

[tidal shore]

oh geeee if only I could find this out through watching youtube clips or investing some time into watching something I'm interested in

[rancid ledge]

it was just a question but nvm

[high storm]

It has good openings

[outer scaffold]

Mada da, mada mada~

[rancid ledge]

THANK YOU

[outer scaffold]

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSYnGhqfX/

[outer scaffold]

The only way to solve the misrepresentation problem

[tidal shore]

black clover better in manga form

might be just me, but I rly couldn't stand the anime version, started with source anyway

[edgy bone]

i really liked the war arc in black clover

some really cool ideas and twists you dont see that often

everything else was kinda meh

ah also that one side character soloing one of the main villains was also cool

[outer scaffold]

Magna? What a unique magic that he has

[high storm]

Like I know it's Japan and all but seeing how supposedly tall all the players are is just so funny to me

It's like, my height? Lol and all 3 of my roommates were taller than me too lmao

Very funny seeing how characters are shown as almost intimidating to regular people

[high storm]

Yet another exorcism manga on shonen jump! At least laughed a handful from the first chapter

[outer scaffold]

BRO 263 EPS (estimate) TO GET INTO THE CURRENT EPISODE OF ONE PIECE (PLEASE KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT)

[high storm]

Got really confused for a sec lol, what bizarre names for wrestlers

[high storm]

Translator bro not only are you wrong but you also put this explanation literally 200 chapters ago too, IT'S 30 SMTH CHAPTERS TILL THE END YOU DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN AGAIN

[high storm]

Having finished slam dunk it turns the film actually takes a lot of liberties in it's contents and manga doesn't have nearly as many characters moments that made the film just that amazing in my eyes, I think I am just not the right audience for this manga since I never liked sport's manga and having read this... I still don't...

Like it's admittedly great, I never felt like dropping it or skipping parts but I just don't care that much about basketball sadly

[tidal shore]

BAHAHAHHAHA

ghost is a truther

[tidal shore]

this art is fire tho

have you read Hajime no Ippo?

[rancid ledge]

whats this manga??

[high storm]

New shonen jump thingy from "A popular one shot gets a series!"

[high storm]

No, I am not interested in sports after all

[high storm]

Yeah it's fucking Inoue Takehiko dude ofc it's fire

I did get pretty tired of looking at sweat and uniforms tho tbh

[rancid ledge]

I came across this manga, its called truth mask

[high storm]

The screenshot suggests it's called "the mask of truth" actually 🤓☝️

[tidal shore]

give it a shot, it's more about characters + ur slav so ur supposed to like fighting innit

[rancid ledge]

lmao true

but yeah the mask of truth

[high storm]

I mean I did earn my best friend after fighting him in second grade

[tidal shore]

LOL

that happens???

[high storm]

But I prefer to avoid confrontations generally

[high storm]

Isn't that the usual?

[tidal shore]

can't say I've ever experienced it

[high storm]

Dunno I fought him and we made up and been good friends after that

Our other friend was just the guy with games on his phone so we were always towering over him and eventually got to know the guy

Those 2 were my best friends for whole school

Being like downright provoked I fought only once and I was just grappled by an even bigger fatso

[tidal shore]

my parents were all like "hitting people is bad, never do it" and "cursing is bad, never do it" and they succeeded at indoctrinating me so I've never done any of these things unless I was like breaking mentally n shit

[high storm]

I never seriously had a fight to leave me with bruises or smth

I had anger issues but I managed to never got into a fight because of it

Back in school I mean

I would rather like just scream and maybe punch my table but in the end I would forgive my friends

[tidal shore]

if it's friends I'd never fight them either

[high storm]

I was kinda a punching bag back in school, going into university the moment my groupmate made fun of me we struck a deal of mutual "non-making-fun-of" pact

[tidal shore]

check out hajime no ippo tho

[high storm]

Looking back they were very mean hearted to me often, not the best company to look for a bleeding heart

Everyone was just a dumb kid tho so I am not holding a grudge

[high storm]

Isn't like super fucking old tho?

[tidal shore]

yea that's fair

[high storm]

Also omega long

[tidal shore]

yea it's old and long, I'd say try the first few chapters and if you don't like it then drop

[high storm]

I remember trying Megalobox and it wasn't really my bop somehow so I am not gonna expect much from boxing

[tidal shore]

kind of similar here, honestly pretty sure none of the people surrounding me back then were friends judging by their behaviour during the incident

[tidal shore]

megalo box man vs the machine, I'd say vibes carry more than the writing so I get it

[high storm]

I was just confused because I like the vibes very much but it almost didn't feel like a proper anime and I can't explain why

[tidal shore]

?

[high storm]

I said I can't explain

[tidal shore]

they did try to make it old-school

spiritual successor to Ashita no Joe

[high storm]

Don't know a single thing about it besides "old"

[tidal shore]

yea

well

I watched a few eps out of curiosity

and it felt kinda similar

not sure if relevant

to how u feel about megalo box

[high storm]

I just didn't get interested in the plot

Pure vibes alone have to be absolutely immaculate to carry the whole show

Like with FLCL

[tidal shore]

fair

hajime no ippo is more plot than vibes, some epic character development here and there early on

[outer scaffold]

And you just contradict yourself immediately in the same sentence

[tidal shore]

I don't think I did, why do you think so?

[topaz linden]

"My parents were all like "Cursing is bad, never do it"" -> "so I've never done any of those things" -> curses at the end of the paragraph

[tidal shore]

past tense

[topaz linden]

"I've never done" is present perfect tense

[tidal shore]

don't forget the "unless" part

[topaz linden]

Are you breaking mentally typing that paragraph?

[tidal shore]

and anyway from context we were talking childhood so

reading comprehension moment

[topaz linden]

"done" can be used in all those tenses, yes. But "never done" is present perfect.

[tidal shore]

ur still ignoring the context of childhood

[topaz linden]

But anyway, point was it was a humerous contrast. I get the point is that as a general rule you dont

[tidal shore]

how do I rephrase it into past tense then?

ahh could just do the "used to" thingy

ok now i eat

[topaz linden]

Yeah, that'd do it. That or just take out the "have" and change done to past tense ("so I never did any of those things")

Honestly tho, fuck tenses lol
Worst part of any language's grammar imo

[next crescent]

most people will understand what you mean regardless anyway, considering many of us flip flop tenses in the middle of sentences or default to using the wrong tense

[tidal shore]

right

thanks

[next crescent]

ye

[rancid ledge]

so mha watchers how we feelin?

[outer scaffold]

Watchers... or readers?

[rancid ledge]

both

[outer scaffold]

Wait, is mha anime ongoing this season?

[rancid ledge]

idk

[outer scaffold]

What's happening in manga then? I'm too lazy to open website

[craggy mango]

The staff who put children book label on this rack definitely hates children

[tidal shore]

relevant

some of these covers are so good tho wtf

"aku no hana" in children books section HAHAHAHAH

[craggy mango]

They really suggested Junji Ito and Shuzo Oshimi work for kids

I respect their pure hatred

[next crescent]

I wonder if there's kids books on the other side and someone flipped the sign to be evil

The other side says "horror books" and it's all
"The littlest fish"
"Red red go!"
"Mr. Caterpillar"
"Who ate my cookie?"

[tidal shore]

me looking up every title to see if they have any horror elements like a lot of children books usually do

[terse rover]

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[tidal shore]

???

lmao

[next crescent]

Oh yeah, >me is a command lol

me

[terse rover]

Kc

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[high storm]

Centuria goated, Kagurabachi goated, Undead Unluck being the usual good

Good day for reading weekly shit

[ionic schooner]

That's so a prank

They look like scary books

[outer scaffold]

https://comick.io/comic/honeymoon-salad

[outer scaffold]

This manga has one of those indecisive mc, but this one however is not like the others, he acknowledges his indecisiveness and he also has a 'solution' about his 'relationship"s"'

Also, this manga tells us about the characters characteristic

[tidal shore]

https://fixupx.com/LocalBateman/status/1814767241021301164

they made shikanoko irl

[rancid ledge]

are ya winnin boys

[outer scaffold]

Why is it that Deku still uses his costume when he has no quirk in the newest chapter?

[rancid ledge]

batman ig

[craggy mango]

I didnt expect tcg promotional video would be this good
https://youtu.be/c-x86Ta5CJY

Cyno as the only one who uses gold Dragonspine back card is perfect

[rustic pivot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jdNRXk9WjY

[craggy mango]

I just found out that Makeine got anime this season

Somehow this trashy harem series got the highest animation quality of the season 😭

I also really love the op
https://youtu.be/7GJOBkIgWHc

2 episodes in and the quality still consistent

[outer scaffold]

It's not really a "harem"

It's just the mc being a magnet for losing heroines, but doesn't reciprocate the "feelings" that might grow in the heroines for the mc

[craggy mango]

Yee the mc is a walking magnet for every girlfailure he met

But even in latest volume of its LN, the author still shoving new girl for the mc

[tidal shore]

cool animations here n there

[rancid ledge]

if youre talking about trashy mc, its kazuya from rent a mid

[tidal shore]

actually

rent a mid is rent a big

cuz it's so good

(i've seen 0.3 of episode one)

[rancid ledge]

lmao

[ionic schooner]

right when he gets cheated on and left

😭

[hot notch]

😦

[topaz linden]

It's up here lol. Quick maintenance

[tidal shore]

website: don't panik

me: panik

[fair wedge]

Lmfao

[rancid ledge]

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1815476916226232637?t=p1vwJufnq8bIuMUpGtyq9A&s=19

Dexerto (@Dexerto) on X

Former Attack on Titan manga editor was sentenced to 11 years in prison for murdering his wife

Twitter · Jul 22, 2024, 8:00 PM

[mighty cape]

😂

Solution?

Strike It Rich

[outer scaffold]

https://comick.io/comic/killer-shark-in-another-world?chap-order=1&date-order=

[outer scaffold]

Vivziepop if her crack is still available in her system and makes a shark manga:

[high storm]

Good chainsawman chapter

Pretty goated

[tidal shore]

pretty sure that's not how bones work?

[tidal shore]

thank you for being my weekly csm chapter ping

ok

what just happened???

kinda crazy cuz I skipped like 120 chapters to get to that point

[high storm]

😐 just Keep Yourself Safe man

[mighty cape]

We have women creating craters barehanded

But at least this ain’t as batshit as Baki yet

[high storm]

Baki is the one old martial artist who can defeat you just because he is HIM

Baki is built DIFFERENT

Baki is built STUPID

[mighty cape]

https://youtube.com/shorts/OKISfMWcDNc?si=wsv25xRWaF0W4Hfl

[high storm]

Classic

[tidal shore]

y'all know manga about surviving a zombie apocalypse?

I don't think I've ever seen one aside from zom100

[topaz linden]

School-Live! and I Am a Hero both focus on that. The first being more of a coming of age story focused on a group of high school girls, the other being a darker more serious take with an emphasis on realism and psychological elements.

School-Live! starts a decent way into it, while I Am a Hero starts before the outbreak.

[tidal shore]

I just remembered highschool of the dead

thanks

[topaz linden]

(tho just a heads up for I Am a Hero, author kinda gave up on it towards the end, so it kinda just... "ends" without much real resolution? But imo the story and worldbuilding done in the 265 chapters leading up to it are solid)

Had some really clever stuff too lol

Like a few survivors using the local chat feature in Nintendo DS's to text message each other without making noise (since the cell networks had long since failed)

[shadow knot]

I Am A Hero

wait jake said that already props to him

it was alright from what I remember

[topaz linden]

I remember it starting really strong, staying that way for a while... then gradually kinda just devolving into weird nonsensical plot towards the end

[shadow knot]

yee

[topaz linden]

once they started doing the ||hive mind alien type shit with it||

think that's when the author started to get bored with it lol

[mighty cape]

https://fixupx.com/emiiiasupremacy/status/1815472169486344292?s=46

😭

[tidal shore]

uhh context?

[next crescent]

It's a webtoon and not a manga but a good one I read was Parallel City

[mighty cape]

Kirito’s not as “brain dead confident/OP” as the anime typically depicts him

[tidal shore]

I didn't know you're so webtoon-core

[mighty cape]

One of the most memorable aspects of this was back in GunGale

In the Untouchable challenge

When you watch that scene and compare it with how the LN portrays it, it’s two very different scenes with how much Kirito was on the edge for the latter

[next crescent]

It's just easy to read for me

[tidal shore]

finally found a novel pilled SAO fella 😭

[mighty cape]

The novels aren’t perfect for sure, but goddamn I couldn’t stand the first six episodes of the anime. Hearing how anime Alicization has turned out sounds even more cringe. 😭

Same with SAO Progressive anime

[tidal shore]

I haven't read into the differences between anime and novels for alicization and sao progressive, can you elaborate on that for me?

just a tl;dr

or is it more of the same, that is, making Kirito edgy perfect protag with no inner monologue?

[mighty cape]

SAO Progressive is literally about ‘progressively’ exploring the initial floors of Aincrad, which the anime movie allegedly skips, and apparently slapped on another anime-original waifu for harem slop.

Alicization does what even early SAO anime does, go way further out with sexualization, especially for the creepier and unsettling scenes (like how Leafa got tortured in the anime).

[tidal shore]

mfw

[high storm]

Oshi no ko chapter

It's filler
Meeeeh...
It's filler about MEM
LET'S FUCKING GOOOO

[next crescent]

the betrayal!!

[high storm]

Comments are so funny too

Very nice chapter for a literal filler

[tidal shore]

https://youtu.be/sjco86ekIlQ

this is so anime

[high storm]

DISCO ELYSIUM PEAK

Such a good video

[tidal shore]

and the best part is it vibes with disco elysium

[high storm]

Saw it yesterday

[tidal shore]

i am a disco elysium truther

[high storm]

Good

Very good

[tidal shore]

this video is when you max out Shivers

or Inland Empire

actually I'll take both

should I go for the 4th playthrough

[craggy mango]

Not anime, but CINEMA
https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1816127677541040418?t=9KLVpzsDIN-R092HqsdEEw&s=19

[frank musk]

https://tenor.com/view/yuji-breakdown-jujutsu-kaisen-yuji-jjk-anime-yuji-itadori-gif-2384733500658872785

[rancid ledge]

https://x.com/havenplaces/status/1816190156740911294?t=vADfAYgWpZbKftrAgGy8uw&s=19

𓊆ྀི 𝓊𝓃𝓍𝓃𝓆𝓊𝑒𓊇ྀི (@havenplaces) on X

is it really worth it..?

Twitter · Jul 24, 2024, 7:14 PM

[high storm]

Funny

[thin narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-silly-silly-cat-silly-cats-mewing-gif-14812443053695024113

[craggy mango]

Cant believe its not in Florida

[tidal shore]

chat is this real

[next crescent]

It's Louisiana, of course it is

But I agree, surprised it doesn't say Florida

Maybe they're trying to get mega sized frog legs for their meals

[tidal shore]

wsait, this is real??

excuse me 🤌 🤏

que est fvck

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/871245957168246835.webp?size=96&quality=lossless

[outer scaffold]

Guys, started watching frieren

[edgy bone]

it's not real it's from the onion

also it's really old

it was around during season 1 of the anime

[next crescent]

[tidal shore]

noooo

I've been onion'd

i will never recover from this

[next crescent]

Lol

[outer scaffold]

I feel like the only way for frieren to actually understand humans is to stop her search for spells

The first ever female mc (from what i've seen and read so far in japanese media) that can't take hints...?

The repeatable reason from frieren where she told fern that she's just collecting spells is suspicious...

[ionic schooner]

She's a baddie

[outer scaffold]

The philosophy of immortality is always interesting to learn

Stopped at episode 4

[ionic schooner]

immortally sounds good

until you realize everything wrong with it

😭

everyone you know will die

you will be alive forever

until the sun explodes

eventually you will stop thinking

like the dude from jojo

kars or something idk

[tidal shore]

ngl

i could become the dude from jojo

see him make a comeback by finding alien species somewhere 2 billion years in the future and getting de-stoned

[ionic schooner]

true

or he never finds aliens

ever

[tidal shore]

in that case bro beings orbiting a black hole

free lsd for lyfe

bro be like

[ionic schooner]

bro thought

[topaz linden]

https://vxtwitter.com/AniNewsAndFacts/status/1815774509036622097

[craggy mango]

LFG!!!!

[brisk hinge]

CGDCT for the win!

[high storm]

Just saw JJK leaks of next chapter

I

I have no words

I-it's finally hype?

The good guys get a w?

I am shocked I am tearing up out of sheer happiness

Like? This is fucking awesome low-key?

Huge spoilers ofc

It's like I am reading a shitpost

[high storm]

I never expected to see a panel similar to this

[tidal shore]

?!

[high storm]

It's like I am back in golden age of jujutsu memes

I am losing breath laughing man

[high storm]

Yuji ||uses a DOMAIN EXPANSION AND IT'S A FUCKING TRAIN STATION AND GOES LIKE "Let's go, Sukuna!" All cheery|| it's like I am having a dream

[tidal shore]

LMAOOOOO

[high storm]

Genuinely can't believe my eyes

[tidal shore]

do I pick up on jjk now? seems like a good time to be reading it weekly

[high storm]

Like?

[high storm]

Funniest shit I've ever seen in last several weeks

[high storm]

The shitposting gonna go crazy and it's fairly decent up until shibuya incident arc (aka first 2 seasons of anime)

[tidal shore]

gahhh

i watched the anime 1st season alrdy so half good content gone

[high storm]

In other words

[high storm]

Laughed for 40-50 minutes my mom asked if I am okay

What a great time to view memes

[tidal shore]

hah

reminds me of how I used to subscribe to all the entertainers on youtube back in the day

you laugh you lose was my drug

good hours of fun, especially when ur surrounded by the polish color palette

[ionic schooner]

https://youtu.be/ASis6aJCnM8?si=golLkxmh6F15phOG

[mighty cape]

To clown on it maybe

[high storm]

💯💯💯

If next week isn't a big shitpost I will continue shitting on it to no end

Memes are fucking golden though

Like any popular thing community the jjk community is absolute garbage (especially at handling spoilers lmao) but god are the memes worth it

[mighty cape]

We need some American Jujutsu sorcery

[ionic schooner]

makis sister

idk her name

the one with the gun

[craggy mango]

Wuoghhh lets goooo!!!
https://fxtwitter.com/RoosterFighter_/status/1816595532397039633?t=7kkgEM3sxau_uSRrc5pZxg&s=19

[tidal shore]

the one cockatoo to save the world!

[tidal shore]

@high storm vinland saga, finished chapter 54, since I'm away from home I'll continue in the manga I think

next arc gonna be like thorfinn developing cognitive skills frfr

[high storm]

Haha you could call it that

[craggy mango]

Tutududu koshitantan

[high storm]

Who

Oversleeping Takahashi has pretty funny and cute chapter ngl

But today's highlight is easily beat and motion, a chapter of human emotional struggles over romantic chapter any day I am actually motivated to make my résumé rn

[mighty cape]

https://fixupx.com/psibep/status/1816828871540449325?s=46

Context; sci-fi magical girls get solo’d by their commander in a sparring match whose superpower is that he trains REALLY HARD

His only weakness is that the mobs will dissolve any human that comes into contact with them

[high storm]

He looks like that one Fate character

[ionic schooner]

No way opm

[tidal shore]

@high storm got to the ||parting with violence|| part but then my ass is like ||"but some things can only be solved with violence" 💀 ||

[high storm]

I disagree with Thorfinn but I get what's his point

I don't think you have to agree with ideals of a story to enjoy it

[tidal shore]

i guess

[next crescent]

Oh is that still from the farming arc

[tidal shore]

vinland saga is so lit for interweaving generational social norms and class conflicts into it's narrative

albeit it's a bit on the nose

[tidal shore]

ok I need to complain about how sea sickness is portrayed

@high storm it's bullshit, no one with sea sickness barfs on the sea unless they're not moving

the key to combating motion sickness (or sea sickness) is to move around

I have firsthand experience with this I can testify

why are manga authors always fucking this up

god it pisses me off

my biggest pet peeve

[ionic schooner]

It's like that in every media with seasickness

[tidal shore]

media try to portray motion sickness realistically challenge

100% fail

literally impossible

ooohhhh

[tidal shore]

can't believe I'm saying this

the farming arc was the best arc

me

[high storm]

Lmfao told ya

[tidal shore]

everything from then on kinda flops for me

I'm ngl

the more I read the less I'm invested

on chapter 166 rn

[high storm]

It's only because it's all after amazing arc, give it some time and Vinland arc is pretty fucking good

[high storm]

You are 20~ chapters away from easily my favourite panel

Please just keep going a bit more I wanna know what's your thoughts on it gonna be

[tidal shore]

ok

I'll keep reading anyway since I'm curious

how it will end

[high storm]

It's ongoing lol

[tidal shore]

ik

by the by

I vaguely remember reading about the concepts of mechanical and organic society before

didn't expect that from a seinen manga

they tend to be more grounded and mature in general, while still remaining a little naive, but it's cool concepts like this are presented in the writing

also

Halfdan is a real bro

[tidal shore]

ok I absolutely love the chapter with ||indigenous people pov||

180~ ish

[high storm]

Tell me when you enter 190~ and past

[tidal shore]

ok

[tidal shore]

is it the Hild moment?

[tidal shore]

well anyway I really liked that moment, it's so raw and emotional

[high storm]

Yup

[high storm]

Best panel in series for me personally

[tidal shore]

I really did not expect Hild to ||forgive him, cuz let's be honest, she's thoroughly justified in not forgiving||

||you can let go of your desire for revenge, or of your hatred, even without forgiving||

[high storm]

That's what makes this moment great

[tidal shore]

also Throfinn likely ||killed a genius who could probably invent a steam engine, and I mean this figuratively killing her possibility for that kind of growth||

also also

[high storm]

Smth smth great filter smth smth

[tidal shore]

Hild is pog

[high storm]

She goated

[tidal shore]

I'm a Hild simp now

was before actually

[high storm]

Hard not to enjoy seeing her growth as a character

Thorfinn²

[tidal shore]

perhaps?

[high storm]

In a sense "Muh revenge and killing and stuff >>>>> nvm actually"

[tidal shore]

come to think of it, Thorfinn stopped ||hating Askeladd just before he died||

so that checks out

[high storm]

Makes you think how manga is gonna end

I have a few theories of my own but I am curious what others may think

[tidal shore]

from what I googled the Thousand Year Voyage arc is the last one

[high storm]

By the events happening in it, it sure fucking seems so lol

[tidal shore]

my theory is

honestly shallow as fuck

cuz it's seinen it will either be bittersweet, or good ending

the author has a knack for resolving seemingly unsalvageable situations so

I'm at chapter 194 btw

[high storm]

I think it will be bittersweet ||Like it's just gonna be Thorfinn and his family to escape all the wars because as the tall dude put it "There will be wars anywhere with more than 3 people"||

Thorkell or what's his name

[tidal shore]

the tall dude ||is only right if the 3 people can't be reasoned with||

[high storm]

No it's like
|| People count over 3? War||

[tidal shore]

||don't forget the tall dude's life support is war||

[high storm]

🙄 yeah but he is right low-key

[tidal shore]

I'd say none of the characters have the full picture in the manga, but each of them have something valuable to offer

[high storm]

Yeah just like irl

[tidal shore]

i guess

[high storm]

Pretty good writing if you ask me

Nobody is perfect and omnipotent

[tidal shore]

a nice departure from gag manga and overly simplistic writing

come to think if it

||a war doesn't have to be done with weapons||

||so in that sense Throkell is kinda right||

||Floki quote comes to mind, the way he described war as "an extension of politics"||

||he's not wrong||

@high storm thoughts on this?^

[high storm]

I think Thorfinn means avoiding all conflict in general not just strictly war

[tidal shore]

also ngl I'm stressed to start reading the final arc, it's gonna be agonising waiting for a new chapter each month, especially now that tensions have risen

do i postpone this or what

[high storm]

Yeah lol welcome to hell

[high storm]

Do as you wish

[tidal shore]

shiiit

I don't want a repeat of Houseki no Kuni

ok i keep reading

tomorrow

[outer scaffold]

Halfdan? One of the liked khaenriah's guys? (GET OUT OF MY HEAD GENSHINNNN)

[high storm]

Mfw Scandinavia

[outer scaffold]

Navia? The head of spina di rosula?

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSY3mw8YR/

[high storm]

Ok you got me here

Didn't expect that

[outer scaffold]

My inspiration

[outer scaffold]

It's so obvious (for me), my main is navia

[tidal shore]

ngl I'd ||break the sword and exile Ivar the moment he cut the hand|| @high storm

[high storm]

That's why you ain't him buddy

You aren't Thorfinn

[tidal shore]

yea Thorfinn gotta wake up from his lalaland a bit

[high storm]

That's why I said I don't agree but I respect his opinion and ideals

[tidal shore]

idc about his ideals in this situation, he made clear rules that were broken then didn't uphold them

that's practically screaming at everyone "hey, exploit me, you can"

[high storm]

You will see the consequences of his decision later bud

Dw

Author actively challenges Thorfinn's worldview

That's what makes manga great imo

[tidal shore]

yea fair

can't have a story without conflict

[tidal shore]

ended up reading it all

waiting for chapter 213

this is so Berserk core

more Hild supremacy

[high storm]

Bruh

That's just what seinen is bro

[tidal shore]

u mean seinen in general take forever to release chapters?

nice

[outer scaffold]

Guys, are you guys tired of the same isekai shit?

[high storm]

Can't be tired of something I don't watch

[outer scaffold]

Well, you could be READING isekai and tired of the same shit

[tidal shore]

can't be tired of something i don't read

[outer scaffold]

I'll introduce you guys to a very fresh concept and plot of an isekai, for those who kinda don't like romance, don't worry, it doesn't have romance in it (yet...)

[tidal shore]

I'm ngl

[outer scaffold]

https://comick.io/comic/juunenme-kikan-wo-akirameta-tenisha-wa-imasara-shujinkou-ni-naru?chap-order=1&date-order=

[tidal shore]

for the past few years I've been far ahead of the trends, series I've read in the past get adapted and people jump on it like "okay boys, THIS IS THE NEW FLAVOR OF ISEKAI"

by that point I've already seen 50 series like this + the 2 new following trends, which inevitably get adapted years later

[outer scaffold]

This one talks about the journey of the mc trying to tackle his anxiety of being teleported again, either to earth or other worlds, with the help of little girls twin

[tidal shore]

and this cycle repeats, major reason I don't bother talking about isekai with people here, already seen it, already bored of it

[outer scaffold]

I can very confirm that this one is the freshest one in the market, fresh in plot and concept

[tidal shore]

2023

ok I'll check it out

[outer scaffold]

And i just realized, this manga shouldn't get adapted because i'm scared of anime directors these days changing the plot of the manga just for the sake of money and popularity

[tidal shore]

sorry to say but it seems hella generic

[outer scaffold]

Ok, i can understand since you read more manga than me, please tell me what's generic about it?

[tidal shore]

op mc, the pacing, exposition, story beats and how the reactions are presented are all what you'd expect, art is pretty good though, and this time the flavor is the twins know about Earth

I know it's just the first few chapters I read but how the conflicts are presented is so shounen-esque (read as: shallow), quickly resolved, and honestly all tension gone cuz op mc

in a way it more reminds me of fantasy/supernatural anime from 2010s

[outer scaffold]

Can being op tackle anxiety tho?

[tidal shore]

I don't understand the question
are you asking if op protagonists make the reader feel secure about what could happen to the important characters?

[high storm]

God that was such a good Kagurabachi chapter

Cinema

[outer scaffold]

No, what i meant is that even being op, you can still have anxiety that can't be solved by your power/magic

[tidal shore]

yeah that is possible to achieve, and that's usually done via a stronger enemy or through a chance to lose something/someone important

also

for the manga you sent, and I guess this is true for most manga, the tone is usually decided in the first few panels

and this one came across as rather light-hearted and not that serious

and it stayed that way for the next few chapters

[tidal shore]

before Kvitsev comes after my ass, this is not a rule

[high storm]

Disagree

[outer scaffold]

That's your own criteria then.

[tidal shore]

elaborate

[tidal shore]

it's a storytelling technique, not my own criteria

[high storm]

I don't believe that the tone of whole manga can be decided in first few panels

Rather I think you need to give it a few chapters if not an arc

[tidal shore]

well, Berserk did it, Vinland Saga did it, Dungeon Meshi did it

[tidal shore]

it absolutely can be decided, whether it should is up for debate
I agree about the 2nd

[shadow sleet]

No way theres onk live action

[ionic schooner]

Thats fire

[high storm]

It's a possibility but not the norm imo

Like the comedy manga will always be light hearted

[tidal shore]

playing original FF7 rn and they're at don corneo

I'm suddenly reminded of how in one chinese novel they burned a guy's wee-wee off

don shoulda gotten the same treatment ngl

[mighty cape]

https://fixupx.com/sytokun/status/1817744993299411027?s=46

[tidal shore]

reading "i am a hero" and it kinda dawned on me how people view existing social norms as so important as to dictate their entire lives and then when shit hits the fan it all suddenly becomes so small and not all that important in retrospect

like, maybe stuff doesn't matter as much as I think it does

I always kinda knew it though

[outer scaffold]

Guys, have you guys watched wolverine and deadpool?

[high storm]

No

[cobalt wyvern]

https://youtube.com/shorts/MBz8ic8_zxw?si=XvJr8-zxj7ZWnEey

[tidal shore]

I've seen Deadpool

I even played the Deadpool game from 2010s

my type of humour

srsly play the Deadpool game

it's so stupid

but worth it

[outer scaffold]

Also played it, it's funny

(DEADPOOL SPOILER ALERT)

||Wolverine saying "I'll see what i can do" or something like that is like Nasa saying that 💀||

Don't be like this type of fan in JJK fandom

[high storm]

Because Japanese fanbase for things famously sucks and is very unlikely to coincide with the westerners in almost anything really

[outer scaffold]

They coincide on one thing tho, Go x Ge

[high storm]

Because the people who ship stuff are either opposite gender of characters or have no concept of affection that is not romantic

[eternal wyvern]

Wasn't expecting a prosekai anime announcement in the works, from the tweet seems like it's a movie..? ("Coming to cinemas")

https://fxtwitter.com/pj_sekai/status/1817885201080717438?

Not really updated w/ prosekai, but glad to see more stuff for the fans

[high storm]

That's surprising

Been Seeing ads for this for weeks already

[tidal shore]

@topaz linden so

the erm

"i am a hero"

the song (you know which one)

que est fvck

[high storm]

Yup knew the panel was similar

Very scary thing to witness firsthand I bet

Nice going so far for this weird-ish manga

[outer scaffold]

(MHA spoiler) Wait, ||the fuck you mean deku still has one for all in the newest chapter?||

[mighty cape]

Ok but where is Deku’s ||dad||

[outer scaffold]

On the edge of the universe, he was humming a tune

[dusty fable]

The anime definitely ended strongly. Like an ending I would stop at, even though Knut storyline wasn't finished

[high storm]

Just came across a random mha post that felt relevant to previous discussion

[next crescent]

oh yeah i remember the memes from this lol

[tidal shore]

HAHAHAHAH

the hero is a part timer

[outer scaffold]

"... is a part timer"? Like the devil king is a part timer?

Cavemen left, me right

[outer scaffold]

Cavemen left, me right

[eternal wyvern]

Wait, Hanako-kun s2 in production? I haven't watched the anime or read the manga after the...||school haunting? arc|| in years, maybe I'll do those if I'm in the mood

https://youtu.be/tTj-zHKzwXY?si=qQ8tOo455vV117_i

Can't wait for more songs from the jibaku shounen band, the op music was really nice and the anime is the only place we get more from them

Kinda miss mob choir, but mob psycho 100 is over, so no more songs from them

[brisk hinge]

hanako-kun's getting a second season?!

I loved that show when I watched it on release

[outer scaffold]

And Himmel is my hero.

[rancid ledge]

OH NO.

[eternal wyvern]

Apparently it's for January next year, so winter 2025 season I think...?

[woeful plinth]

https://fxtwitter.com/foilust/status/1817951261389389995?t=HBDUUsRponrLt38qX0beYg&s=19

seiyuuposting

no way yukari my favorite purple cure

[tidal shore]

miku

[rustic pivot]

shikanokonokonokokoshitantan

[woeful plinth]

migu

[outer scaffold]

Magu

[dusty fable]

https://www.twitch.tv/premiertwo/v/2210224983?sr=a fully voice acted Ace Attorney. This streamer is great and the game is great, I suggest watching it a lot

[outer scaffold]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9-EXsYoFms/?igsh=MWNyc21sd3kwdXZpZA==

animelif3_

bro got reborn to continue his plan

Likes

3090006

Instagram

[outer scaffold]

So uhhh, i was scrolling through this post's comments and i found gold in the comments, (from someone in the comments) what if we had a REVERSE isekai? Like from being in an anime to life action? What do you guys think?

[eternal wyvern]

We had that an anime with a concept like that from a decade or so again iirc
Hataraku maou-sama (forgot the EN title)
Oh yeah and that new death mount death play anime or smth from the novelist of durarara

Have only watched s1 of hataraku maou-sama, but it was enjoyable. Haven't watched the second season even though it aired this year or smth

[outer scaffold]

No, what i meant is anime to life action isekai thing, sorry for not making it clear

[eternal wyvern]

As a story concept? It ok, depends on how it's handled story wise

[dusty fable]

There is a lot of stories like that in general. In anime the good recent one is ReCreators

[eternal wyvern]

The closest I could think of (but not anime) for actual live action would be that enchanted movie by disney

[eternal wyvern]

Oh man I forgot abt re:creators, I've been wanting to get to that one from my watchlist

[dusty fable]

It's a good one. Like one of the few decent ones with Hiroyuki Sawano's OST

[eternal wyvern]

I'll try watching it one of these days

Maybe

[high storm]

Whole lotta dogs

[dusty fable]

Who let the dogs out

[eternal wyvern]

Ooh so that's the manga I've been seeing the creator (writer?) promoted the last few days

[high storm]

New Choujin X chapter goes HARD

The whole speech is so cool too

"Do you pawns truly consider this warfare? War is ripe with the stench of flesh and blood, it begets abrupt deaths, yet ends in a mere instant. Allow me to show you true warfare"

• bloodbath Choujin

What a cool ass introduction holy shit

[eternal wyvern]

Speaking of new chapter, finally got to read the new dandadan chapter
I didn't expect ||the title drop to have actual in-canon connection||, I thought the mangaka chose it cuz that's a common onomatopoeia sfx in JP for hyping up fights or smth

[high storm]

Lmfao

[eternal wyvern]

The title in JP does remind me of the moai statue, so what do I know lol

[high storm]

It was also pretty funny

[eternal wyvern]

Tho afaik typesetting and layouts for covers are handled by the graphic team in JP, not the mangaka, but eh idk

[high storm]

Tbf the title drop is accompanied by a dope ass double-spread

One can not ask for more

[eternal wyvern]

Don't really have that much thought abt how the arc ended ||just felt a bit anticlimactic kinda like how Reiko handled the alien invasion imo||, but I am curious how they'll handle ||Momo turning very small and how they'll handle hyper geezer's "dandadan" lore drop|| on the next arc or smth

Always forget ||that man is st. germain, he will always be hyper geezer in my mind||

[outer scaffold]

Wait, recreators make it from anime to live action?

[eternal wyvern]

Aah no, I meant the layout covers for the manga in JP
For that one (manga panels), other than typesetting, I think the mangaka handled it

[high storm]

One "hyper" which is objectively cooler

[dusty fable]

Nah, I misunderstood. I thought your idea was to let imaginary characters into RL world plot device. Anime to Live Action in a single show is cringe tbh. I think I remember a couple experiments like that, they were meh

[outer scaffold]

Is RE:Creators manga ended?

[dusty fable]

I think it's original story, not manga

[outer scaffold]

Is the anime ended then?

[brisk hinge]

all things considered that's quite soon. I'm down to wait that long

[high storm]

That's a long ass time of being asked to stay alive

[dusty fable]

Yes

[outer scaffold]

One season or more?

[dusty fable]

Either one season or 2 cours, don't remember exactly

[topaz linden]

It was one two-cour season (22 episodes)

But yeah, anime-original, and the story wraps itself up within those 22 episodes

[topaz linden]

I remember SSSS:Gridman ||used this for their ending, but that whole show's plot was a fever dream tbh||

[dusty fable]

Oh yeah, that one was nice. I liked Dynazenon better though

[eternal wyvern]

So many anime adaptations I know getting January 2025 releases

https://fxtwitter.com/wsj_manga/status/1818506081250746703?

[topaz linden]

Meanwhile, there's still a few "2024" animes I'm waiting for release dates for

[tidal shore]

more brainrot

[high storm]

This is so shit

[tidal shore]

it's my gen alpha dictionary

the best dictionary

[high storm]

It's fucking pirate speak

[next crescent]

Is... Is she supposed to be Scottish?

[high storm]

It's a mix of Scottish and pirate speak

[next crescent]

Ah

[tidal shore]

"consort"

lmao

[craggy mango]

Im expecting a lot of sakuga scene from this series

[eternal wyvern]

Idk I'm mostly keeping my expectations kinda low atm, unless the anime proved me wrong

[rancid ledge]

https://x.com/havenplaces/status/1818605356282425689?t=c3IbKc6Ph5qBBwrvUERFcA&s=19

𓊆ྀི 𝓊𝓃𝓍𝓃𝓆𝓊𝑒𓊇ྀི (@havenplaces) on X

baby shower colors 🩷🩵

Twitter · Jul 31, 2024, 11:11 AM

[high storm]

👍

[outer scaffold]

Guys, or mainly @tidal shore since probably almost zero people in this channel read romance manga, what do you guys think about a romance manga but the mc didn't get any love interest? Only the side characters get the romance, but the mc isn't

What inspired me to ask this question is because the new "romance" anime, the one about losing heroines, was gaining attraction and they want the mc didn't get any love interest in the end of the series

[high storm]

Reads like a cuckold fantasy

[eternal wyvern]

Wow another winter 2025 anime

https://twitter.com/wsj_manga/status/1818663722426011815?

https://fxtwitter.com/wsj_manga/status/1818663917310083137?

Shonen Jump News (@WSJ_manga) on X

Undead Unluck Anime New Teaser Visual.

Series will premiere a new 1-hour special sequel in Winter 2025. More details in the future.

Twitter · Jul 31, 2024, 3:03 PM

Curious if it's gonna be a recap for the winter fight iykyk
Also just realized they're using winter in the teaser for a winter release

[ionic schooner]

whos sakamoto

and what are his days

[high storm]

Hells fucking yeah

[tidal shore]

that wouldn't be a romance manga then, no? maybe a rom com, does sound like a funny rom-com setting

honestly

if u want to read something like this

[outer scaffold]

It's a rom-com

[tidal shore]

just read cheating manga

💀

[outer scaffold]

GET CENSORED

https://tenor.com/view/censored-gif-20948819

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-no-oh-no-anyway-gif-18887547

[outer scaffold]

Even this would probably get moderated manually by the m0ds

[tidal shore]

it's ok, not my server

[outer scaffold]

The mc doesn't have a love interest in himself (yet...)

[high storm]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO
Kindergarten wars with a ||deserved confession||

How I see people who disagree with me online:

What a gross fucking panel lmao

I know people like this exist irl and I think they are should stop living in their own misery because holy shit it's pathetic

[tidal shore]

these expressions remind me of

[high storm]

No manga can replicate how Bocchi the rock showed being shy or anxious literally turning dead or a blob

[frank musk]

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-bocchi-the-rock-explode-pop-balloon-gif-27215677

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/boochi-the-rock-blender-gif-27312800

[high storm]

I couldn't believe that it was in the actual episode upon first seeing it in the anime

Genuinely looked like a random meme to me lol

[tidal shore]

I get it

that would be my normal reaction too

[high storm]

You are already 3D dum dum

[tidal shore]

but then i've already seen an anime where they just voice acted on some irl goats for half an episode so

[next crescent]

A story with an ace mc? Just someone who wants to show appreciation to others?

[outer scaffold]

Probably, you might need to watch the anime or read the manga for the inspiration of my question

[next crescent]

Probably, because it was a little confusing to read

But I also probably won't watch it

I have so much stuff I have on the list

[tidal shore]

I got it

it's shounen

@outer scaffold then thing ur talking about happens in shounen

[outer scaffold]

But most of shounen (or maybe less, i forgor 💀) can still have heroines loving the mc, but this one isn't

[next crescent]

so what you're saying is

there's finally an anime that isn't specifically a romance or shounen that has a harem theme to it

[tidal shore]

harem without romance? sign me up

[next crescent]

same

sounds like a great friend group

[outer scaffold]

Maybe...?

[next crescent]

it's been a while since i've seen something like umaru

where the mc is great and everyone likes them but isn't strictly in love with them romantically

[outer scaffold]

Until you realize the mc was being used as a trauma dump and a place to get debt

[next crescent]

and everyone is just friends

what

[tidal shore]

isn't this what u normally call fuck buddies?

[next crescent]

what

[outer scaffold]

YOOO, PRETTY FRONTAL EH?

[next crescent]

no i don't mean friends with benefits

i mean just a group of people who all appreciate each other and are always together

[tidal shore]

oh, that's the politically correct term

I see

[next crescent]

you've never been in a friend group where nobody wants to be excluded or exclude each other?

[tidal shore]

so tl;dr a group of asexuals?

[next crescent]

???????

[tidal shore]

cuz of how human brain works I doubt it's possible to keep relationships non-romantic long term in friend groups

[next crescent]

i'm sorry but is platonic relationships with people so far removed from people that you can't just have a really tight friend group

[next crescent]

and if one is gay and the rest are straight and the opposite sex of the gay one? 😭

[outer scaffold]

The first girl, when she was eating food with mc, literally asked for more food and caused the mc to drain his allowance. How is she paying him back? By making lunch.

[next crescent]

because that was my friend group

and also, you don't even have to be gay/ace to just... not want to be fuck buddies with everyone in your friend group

you can just be friends too

[high storm]

Do you think that straight childhood friends are un-ironically gay for each or smth?

[tidal shore]

you know what I meant

[outer scaffold]

HAHAHAHA, WHAT IS THIS TOPIC BROTHER? FROM A MANGA DEGENERATES TO GAY FUCK BUDDIES TYPE SHIT

[high storm]

It's always jokes I even kissed my friend but I can't imagine holding his filthy fucking hand lmao

[next crescent]

😭

[high storm]

That fucking gnome can kick the bucket for all I care

[outer scaffold]

Do you say no homo afterwards?

[high storm]

Still know him since 2nd grade

[next crescent]

it's because we can't understand what the synopsis was that you tried explaining, brother lol

[high storm]

No I just said I felt like kissing him and he didn't object, we were drinking beer

[outer scaffold]

Denial is a river in Egypt

[high storm]

He is not gay either

[tidal shore]

crazy

we're going into the bonobo territory

[high storm]

I haven't talked to him in years man, straight dude friends just do gayest shit ever without romance feelings involved

[tidal shore]

no

[high storm]

Oh dude

[next crescent]

this conversation makes me think of how many men are actually bi but don't think they are because of how society is

[outer scaffold]

(INCOMING LONG SYNOPSIS)

[next crescent]

but drunk, ye

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Even if I ironically I still was like a part of a friend group

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if there are people who are sexually attracted to each other (by gender/sexuality preferences), I think it's nigh-impossible to avoid romantic interest developing over time

[outer scaffold]

“Huh? Who are you calling losing?”

As the background of the class, I, Kazuhiko Nukumizu, witnessed a popular girl–Anna Yanami, getting rejected by another guy.

“Even though he said we’ll get married. Don’t you think he’s pretty mean?” “When did he say that?” “When we were 4 or 5 years old.”

That doesn’t count, right? With this, the losing heroines like Remon Yakishio from the Track and Field Club, and Chika Komari, from the literature club.

“Nukumizu-kun. There are two types of girls. Childhood friends or cheating cats.” “I see. Well, that’s a bold statement.”

There’s a fortune for those who shine only after losing. Losing Heroines—The curtain to the mysterious coming-of-age story “Makeine” opens now!

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We had like a year long running joke in highschool of me being the harem king of all the dudes in my class

[tidal shore]

crazy

[high storm]

I had a joke "fan club" and all

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Crazy dude.

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It was pretty funny

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if they're attracted to each other
but there are lots of friend groups who are just... well, friends
a group of 10 dudes and that one tomboy chick who never falls in love with any of them and they all hang out type of shit lol

or vice versa

or any combination really

[tidal shore]

run for president now, u probably have it in you

[high storm]

I was 50/50 pitied/laughed at

I recorded like a few covers of popular songs at a time and gave girls candy for going along with the joke for so long

[outer scaffold]

I remembered this one comment in tiktok, lemme find it

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as unlikely as it is, I guess it is possible (if the chick isn't playing push n pull)

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Looking back it really was one humorous fucking situation

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so the mc acts nice to the "heroines" because their prospective childhood dates don't actually love them when their feelings develop?

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wasn't there an anime made about this recently?

or is soon going to air

i think?

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idk

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i rember

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I've been in a group of girls (university) for years and I gotta be honest I don't want any of them romantically

[tidal shore]

i remember

[tidal shore]

I get it

first thing you said today I can relate to

🔥

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I wouldn't mind them some other way but knowing someone for years doesn't automatically make such person attractive

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Yes

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then why are you arguing the point that a friend group would inevitably have romance?

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I know them not because I like them but because I have no choice to leave lmao

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It was aired

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when people can just be in a group and not romantically like anyone

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Would DEMOLISH my friends for a joke or two tho they have nice asses

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the ai translations 😭

that thing will be a shit show

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It's so hero(e)ver

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I cast "Soul track"

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really depends on how you spend time together, but I really do believe it's very hard to avoid

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Make it double

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this might just be me, but i never found it hard

i just liked people outside of my friedn group

because my friend group were my friends

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Oh yeah our class also had a fanfic, not involving me tho, I just had a cameo

[tidal shore]

idk never been in a friend group so i have like no point of reference at all

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But kvit, your case was pretty worse...? or maybe not idk

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I asked for cameo to be limited to me walking into guys doing the deed, saying "What the fuck" and leaving

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I had a whole book using my name lmao

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It wasn't as bad, fanfic involving my friend was pretty crazy tho

2 tallest classmates were picked for it ofc

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Her mother was a writer and so was the daughter (the writer), me and the writer actually go to the same school from elementary to high school, that makes us childhood friends...? But i didn't really communicate that much with her, since when i was little, i didn't care about women that much

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Can relate about not caring for women I guess?

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Don't take this as me being sexist, @tidal shore.

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I was too comfortable in my bubble enough to just not try to make new friends

Aka girls

[tidal shore]

why would I?

this is like the most normal thing ever

though during childhood I was kinda the opposite since guys bullied me, so I stuck with girls, but then it turns out girls aren't worth it either

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Jokingly, like how you would censor certain words in my message and post the image here so that i can look bad

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💀

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https://tenor.com/view/jerma-girl-approaches-scared-freaking-out-gif-26506317

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How about becoming a mouse? That way, you can be with Jane Doe

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the worst thing that happened was learning about 4 different girls who had feelings for me and I was so overwhelmed, then I kinda quit social for a year lmao

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In 9/10 cases girls are gonna rat you out of shit talk behind your back but upfront they are pretty nice and compassionate so that's a fair trade off ┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌

Can't care for insults I don't hear

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who that

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Upcoming character in Zenless Zone Zero

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i sleep

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i still sleep

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Speaking from personal experience?

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You gay or sexist or smth

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Ofc

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nah im polish

https://tenor.com/view/poland-asuka-tno-polish-gif-23180114

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Meanwhile men are often assholes who rarely will be compassionate with you unless you are really close and are not nearly as every of their emotions as women are

But will shittalk you (point out your problems if friends) upfront

That's what made me lose weight bullying from friends (mean way of encouraging)

That's a pretty shit way to go about it but it works I suppose

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oh yeah I've heard enough about it

worst thing is when the advice you're given is garbage, and they're 100% sure they're right

mean way of encouraging to do stupid dumb shit

love when it happens

[high storm]

I can shittalk both sexes because I hate people but I also sometimes love people so I can point out positives too

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There is no scenario where you just follow the advice blindly that's restarted in any situation possible

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well yeah

why would I

[tidal shore]

okay point out the positive then 😈

[high storm]

Only such advice is "You should breathe actually"

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Of who? Men or women?

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nah, gnomes

[high storm]

They are funny and very whimsical, always ready to go adventuring and will share their wisdom about forest and would never leave you alone in the forest, love gnomes

[tidal shore]

damn, such cool creatures

I can almost see how humans share some of their features

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Yeah that's how folklore is mostly

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not sure why u needed to say that though, thing about seeing both positive and negative, but since you mentioned it
negatives outweigh the benefits, until something changes I really can't bring myself to see differently

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What a pessimistic way to view people wow

Look for better acquittances bud

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like that's gonna change anything

[high storm]

Yeah it will

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majority of people don't seem worth it, and those that do seem to be constantly busy doing something interesting or fun far away from me

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You are giving up before trying

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spawned in a horrible city tbh

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Move? Look for clubs of interest? Strike a conversation with someone who you think looks interesting or pretty?

At least one of those should be a viable solution for meeting new decent people

[tidal shore]

clubs? not in this city
striking a convo with a rando? not in poland
move? in this economy?

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Excuses

I've been living in shithole town of 15k till I was 16 but now I have I good friends I can rely on and a consider myself happy with

Moving is possible when you actually try to do that

Also having local friends is not something difficult I just smoked with a fucking married 30 year old with daughter dude and I am fucking unemployed and bitchless

Just find someone who isn't an asshole

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yea that sounds reasonable

ya know what

I am pretty much aware of all this

the problem is, and always has been, with trust
something u build through rapport
hard to do it when the vast majority of your experiences with other people are shit

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Ya ever rode a bicycle? You didn't give up after falling few times did you?

Or swimming, or anything a smidge difficult

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this is different

a lifetime of reinforced beliefs vs an inconsequential moment in a time

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Depends how you perceive it

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no shit

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Things are as important as you think they are

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the question is how to change that perception when you have neither the social support network nor the monetary means to do that

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It would difficult but possible

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they say harsh times make hardy people, well, they forgot the part where half of them come out worse

thing is though, if u haven't become a hardy person, you are either broken or somewhere in between

I'm using these terms loosely btw

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Yeah life is survival of the fittest and I am certainly not the fittest out there

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nah

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But struggle and keep going

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fittest in what sense, cuz it seems to me that psychologically you're doing pretty well, which is synonymous with winning life to me

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Life is worth living as long as you at least enjoy smth

Even something tiny

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daaaaaaamn

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I just don't like others being down

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ur still looking at the positives tho?

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Why not

Worst case scenario I go off the grid and have a last night full of drugs

There are so many things I want to see to the end

So I have to be there for it

I have a dream which I will never see come true if I don't try

If there would be no struggle the reward would make me feel empty

The goal doesn't HAVE to be realistic it has to be desirable

Tell yourself you will cure cancer and along the way you will do at least something to feel good about

I am my own punishment and reward I deserve the worst and the best and by god do I want more rewards

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Pretty sure true. Ppl generally have a tendency to be bisexual, but social factor and general tendency to want to have natural offspring make hetero relationship more prevalent

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Ain't no way

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ye, or in the way specifically to men- as a friend put it, "i think more women are bi than men, most men just aren't bi, they're either gay or straight"

which i feel would partially be society's fault and making people averse to being perceived as gay

or how it's seen as more "okay" for women to be lesbian than men to be gay 😭

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It's just societies made certain acts associated with romance which by nature aren't since romance is not by nature I don't think

Biologically speaking "Kissing" is not anyhow related to making offsprings really it's just on society for making it associated with that

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certain societies, i think

since in some cultures, kissing one another on the cheek is seen as a friendly greeting

unless you specifically mean mouth-to-mouth

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u sure? other species seem to have their own "courtship" and all that

isn't human romance an evolved version of that?

ah I guess it would be more part of a culture

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https://tenor.com/view/mods-ltg-ltg-mods-low-tier-god-good-night-gif-218434852118579056

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Was gonna (jokingly) give you the bad one, but i saw this and this is a good one lol

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we should go back to ancient Greece times frfr

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So mods, either @next crescent or golden idk, give kvit a heartwarming message (tagging Kc because she was the only person who is a mod or team leader who is active the last couple of hours)

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Yeah idgaf man

I am in a good mood rn anyways

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i can't reprimand despite being a team lead

and not a mod

[high storm]

Job seeking and shit too busy to actually like be depressed and stuff

I have to be strong right now

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You're gonna get through this, ik

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I sure do think so the only thing that doesn't need anything is my huge fucking ego

I treat my self worth is a resource and sometimes can go as low as to beg on my knees to get something

I am a fucking rat

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Are you John Doe, the partner of Jane Doe? 😱

[high storm]

I am an evil ass mf who can and will fuck over other people for personal gain as long as I know that won't bite me in the ass, not infiltrating anything

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I just think we need to move on from current monogamous structure. It just not really natural to have a single partner throughout the whole life. Then we could have more options to have partners of both sexes. But out of many topics I have zero ideas about what model could be workable.

[high storm]

Eww, yikes, monogamy with many children rules

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That makes the choice way too important, so we have courtships taking years to decide whether two persons have an affinity