・anime

[undone marten]

Still the most groovy theme in anime

And it's only been a year

🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[mighty cape]

I assume you got to the final episodes of it already

[undone marten]

Nah I'm like

3/4ths there

On ep128 rn

I still think it's fucking perfect

[mighty cape]

just you wait

the endgame parts of that route are pretty amazing

[long peak]

Bling bang bang born is better in my eyes but I get it

[tepid sky]

can i detonate miself on ya

[long peak]

What

[tidal shore]

gen alpha trying to make a conversation

be patient

[long peak]

I talk with kids for my work, they don't say that

[tidal shore]

they're a rare breed

there's layers to this Henry

[undone marten]

He's speaking the language of the gods

[tidal shore]

I'm joking but

genuinely speaking, I found gen alpha on average to be very difficult to talk with on the internet

maybe I came across the wrong people but it was definitely an odd experience

[undone marten]

Genz has been exposed to brainrot but not as much as gen alpha lmfao

[long peak]

They shouldn't even be on the internet they're like 10

[tidal shore]

actually

[long peak]

Actually max age is 12

[tidal shore]

up to 14 now

[long peak]

[tidal shore]

yea remember when you were 14? feelin' old yet?

https://tenor.com/view/boomshakalaka-gif-25687559

[undone marten]

Yeah 3yrs ago

[tidal shore]

ok I was wrong

it's 10-12 or something

[long peak]

Okay yeah

I was right

I was gonna say, the kids I work with are like "no I'm gen z" and then I die inside a bit

[undone marten]

Unsupervised internet access

[tidal shore]

nvm I was right

[long peak]

Pay attention in class

[undone marten]

Wha

[long peak]

You're 17

Do your homework lil bro

[undone marten]

Damn all of a sudden bro treats me like I'm 12

[long peak]

You're a baby it's only natural

[undone marten]

[long peak]

Don't copium me

Pay attention in precalc

[tidal shore]

aw what is it my lil baby gronk? yer mewing streak stop? got L rizz?

[next crescent]

Children thinking they aren't children smh

[shadow knot]

https://tenor.com/view/skibidi-toilet-spiderman-skibidi-gif-11268458470528183028

[rough meadow]

I luv this Rebecca image

[long peak]

That's kirby

[tidal shore]

ma'am, this is Kirby's

[craggy mango]

We found a generation that doesnt know Kirby

[tidal shore]

what the sigma

[rough meadow]

Dawg ik it's a kirby

[rough meadow]

What the

[tidal shore]

so

"The raws fell behind the English version"

"The English version is the new raws"

first time I've seen something like this happen

[craggy mango]

Onna no Sono no Hoshi is my favorite josei now

[dusty fable]

Which one, there was a popular Kirby game recently

[craggy mango]

Wdym which one?

[next crescent]

How the fuck

[dusty fable]

You found a generation, so I am asking which one

Unless you meant founded

[craggy mango]

I only teasing the guy who put Kirby x Edgerunners art, wasnt serious at all

[dusty fable]

Simple, Watson. The author started to write both Eng and Vietnamese raws and started to prioritize Eng

The other possibility the author of the comment doesn't know the meaning of "raws"

[topaz linden]

The first sounds more likely imo

Reminds me of mangas that get made for a series, then the anime comes out and blitzs right past what the mangas had adapted

[next crescent]

Oh okay

[tidal shore]

I wanna say Fr#nch

but I'm not sure

hmm but she does wear middle eastern ornaments

but the blue hair and clasically victorian style of clothing, albeit a more exposing version

throw me off quite a bit

but then again she does wear more loose clothes here and there

it's probably a mish-mash of different cultures

[long peak]

Vivi is supposed to be Egyptian like alabasta is

[tidal shore]

well yea

agree

gyatt pog sigma

[tidal shore]

@topaz linden u majored in sociology or did I remember wrong?

[topaz linden]

Sort of a mishmash degree of economics, history and poli sci

Twas a specialized permit meant at State Department/gov work before an unnamed someone put a one year hiring freeze on State Department hiring the month before I graduated...

[tidal shore]

I see

well, I have a conundrum here and honestly Idk who to turn to

I don't suppose you are also interested in philosophy, biology, and psychology by any chance?

[topaz linden]

!!jake

[fiery tinsel]

https://tenor.com/view/adventure-time-demon-cat-i-have-approximate-knowledge-of-many-things-wise-wisdom-gif-4593239

[tidal shore]

okay then

can you tell me how genetics impact qualia?

and how this affects you in current, or previously existing systems that any given society uses

and how much nurture (in the nature vs nurture debate) impacts qualia

[topaz linden]

...I feel like you just copy pasted the prompt for an essay assignment

Like, verbatim

[tidal shore]

lmao

so recently I watched this video about qualia, and then thought about my ADHD diagnosis, and then thought about how that affected me in life, and then considered how my sister behaves similar to how i have, and concluded how her qualia might be similar, so then I started questioning evolution and other things

and this is like

[topaz linden]

This part is literally "we dunno"
The nature vs nurture argument is literally thousands of years old and still unresolved

[tidal shore]

deeply convoluted but in a way simple topic I think?

but I feel like many people just want to complicate things, especially when they bring in the nature vs nurture debate

[dusty fable]

Honestly, if someone asked me the first question, I would ask "are you looking for new eugenists to join?"

[tidal shore]

lmao

[topaz linden]

Each of the several questions you put out is an essay prompt in and of itself lol

[tidal shore]

yeah that's my problem

[topaz linden]

It'd be like: "Hey, you studied philosophy right? Is man inherantly good? How can we know if we know that? Say you have two groups of people on a track with a trolley barreling towards them, should you..."

It's some of the broadest open-ended shit you could ask

[tidal shore]

yeah see

so I could start with my line of reasoning here and go from there

but the general conclusion I've arrived at is as follows:

philosophers suck at talking and explaining, so let's stick to normal people speech cuz I don't want to essay
same for evolutionary psychologists, sociologists, and what may have you ologists

the thing is

I lean heavily towards the nature side of things, and am of the opinion that people underestimate how much genetics can dictate your behaviour and how you experience the world

in other words, I think genetics dictate how your brain wired, which indirectly impacts how you experience things

and you can see this very well in people with disorders

but err, this is #・anime so I don't want to yap too much

[dusty fable]

Biologically speaking, your genetics influence how you interpret the objective reality. If someone is blind or deaf - their perspective is very different from other people. Small deviations are less pronounced, but I think they compound, especially in time.

[craggy mango]

Please stop it before you get carried away again

[tidal shore]

sorry this is like my pet interest, if there's a more appropriate channel I will move there

it's just I muted every other channel so I can't see it

[topaz linden]

https://tenor.com/view/noko-kanoko-anime-my-deer-friend-nokotan-shikanoko-nokonoko-koshitantan-gif-1127032685120984755

[dusty fable]

I suggested you "The Brain" by Richard Restak before. Unfortunately, our understanding of how the brain is wired is very lacking

[tidal shore]

right

honestly I am not familiar with how psychology science is being conducted aside from a few famous (and often dumbed down when communicated through other media) experiments

[topaz linden]

Emphasis on the last part

[tidal shore]

the thing I'm focusing on though isn't just how brain is wired but also how we experience the world (qualia)
someone who's biologically wired to be insanely driven and motivated and comeptitive will experience the world differently than someone who's biologically wired to impulsive and compulsive behaviours and experiences rejection much more harshly than the average person

these small differences in perception can lead to 2 completely different courses in life

[topaz linden]

I don't know what answer you were hoping for from #anime, but the real answer is "nobody (really) knows"

And people claiming they do usually are pushing some belief system or another on top of it, which is why the topic gets messy quick

[dusty fable]

Before the invention of MRT, most of it was clever guesses based on medical cases. So the science of it lagged a lot. Imagine trying to figure out anatomy without being able to cut into the body much. Like you can get lucky and sometimes guess correctly

[tidal shore]

well, the current commonn consensus perhaps? and a conversation, cuz I know asking for a concrete answer (or trying to reach the truth) is kind of pointless since this is a broad topic

[topaz linden]

current common consensus

[tidal shore]

oh

[topaz linden]

https://tenor.com/view/bender-futurama-laugh-sarcastic-fun-gif-12163274

[tidal shore]

you mean there's no common consensus?

https://tenor.com/view/boomshakalaka-gif-25687559

[topaz linden]

Every field of study has one area where it's "lets agree to disagree". This is sociology's

[tidal shore]

man this is vexing

[topaz linden]

Welcome to soft sciences

If you wanted definitive answers, stick to STEM

[tidal shore]

Imma count on super powerful AI to figure our brains for us

[tidal shore]

it kind of works like maths so surely there's an answer

watch a super powerful AI try to figure our brains out only to spit out the answer 40 million years later
the answer: 42

[dusty fable]

Scientists are floating a possibility that our behavior is quantum, since we have structures in our neurons that can be influenced by quantum effects, so that might not happen in couple lifetimes

[tidal shore]

well

for now I will just headcanon my own answer

it's undeniable that everyone experiences the world a bit differently, which means everyone's brains are wired a bit differently, and those small differences can lead to wildly different behaviours
the differences I'm talking about is the emotional composition of a person, how their emotions are balanced and how those emotions impact their behaviour, this is like a domino effect
this domino effect determines our entire lives, and while nurture can have a big impact on this (qualia, meaning our experiences, which is determined by emotional composition), there are certain emotional compositions that cause you to perceive the world and behave in certain ways that don't let you reach some targets no matter how hard you may try
so in other words most of your life is determined by your genetics and how they impact your qualia

had to edit a bit

it may be a deeply flawed answer, but I will roll with it for now

and learn from here

shit, if I ever take up psychology science you can point fingers at me

it's the one topic I can't get bored of

[dusty fable]

Political science is just applied Economy. Economy is just applied Sociology. Here, I finished for you

[tidal shore]

so uhh @topaz linden wdyt about this? @dusty fable u to

too*

[tepid sky]

https://tenor.com/view/scream-love-poland-gif-10918710646251769391

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/asuka-langley-evangelion-poland-polish-gif-16140458016629515468

[dusty fable]

I think similarly. My take: Be happy to have a unique POV from everyone else. Be happy for it not to be completely alien to everyone else

[tepid sky]

https://tenor.com/view/ip-i-have-your-ip-address-address-ip-address-dox-gif-19850626

[tidal shore]

thanks, at least what you say is somewhat comforting

[dusty fable]

Your life is determined by many things, starting from your family wealth etc. Just play cards you have been dealt with, win, lose, roll with the punches, have fun whenever you can.

[tepid sky]

your name bein caveman is a lil

[tepid sky]

bro is speaking a language unknown to me

[dusty fable]

Oh no, Neanderthals are evolving right before us

[tepid sky]

do i ned to start saying word in polish

i just come back from a ban

[tidal shore]

what about it?

[tepid sky]

idk i whanted to ask ya

the ispiration behind it

why chose that name

[tidal shore]

I've waited 3 years for this

here it goes

[tepid sky]

im ready sir

[tidal shore]

ok so this all start back in 2018 when I started participating in that one rhythm game-

jkjk

[tepid sky]

ok

interesting

[tidal shore]

a buddy once called me a caveman for not knowing what's happening in the community I'm active in, I laughed so much I decided to adopt it

[tepid sky]

wonderfull

thank for explaining it

now i can die in peace

[dusty fable]

Haven't you heard, Russian scientists successfully unfroze a caveman that was frozen in a river three years ago. Now he explores the world around

[tepid sky]

did ya know i have been banned becose i tried to eat a dude

whant to be my next meal

im a cavemen miself

[tidal shore]

reminds me of that one time some scientist successfully transplanted a person's brain
they measured success by whether they were able to get it to another skull undamaged, nothing about sustaining life and the like tho

[dusty fable]

Well, first you have to catch me

[tepid sky]

its easy

[dusty fable]

I doubt

[tepid sky]

unless you are a female individual

i can chase ya

[topaz linden]

https://tenor.com/view/aharen-no-thoughts-head-empty-gif-26010608

[tepid sky]

im stomac empty can i eat ya

[tidal shore]

understandable

it was a difficult assignment

I get it

[tidal shore]

@tepid sky

[tepid sky]

XD

curva in italian mean angle

[dusty fable]

You poles curved the curve too much

[dusty fable]

Also, if you have a theme nobody cares to talk about, write a book that explores this theme. Might work if it's interesting

[tidal shore]

nice idea

I am so not going to do it tho

[dusty fable]

You will someday. When you get to a dozen ideas nobody wants to talk about

[tidal shore]

fair

and when I get ADHD meds

[dusty fable]

Like for example why India is the best country to lead a cosmic race only if they fucking drop the caste system

[tidal shore]

it's geography is pretty good for this tbh

they have a lot of people but ethnically... whatever, this will turn into another 3 hours topic

[dusty fable]

Tbh, this topic became slightly more interesting since I floated it 12 years ago after reading Jawaharlal Nehru's works (too bad India deviated a lot from his vision) after India landed a moonlander

[outer scaffold]

Do you guys think that picking an Indian actress to play as Vivi is the correct decision? (NOT TRYNA BE RACIST)

[long peak]

Ultimately not up to me so it's not my call to decide

I would have liked a middle eastern actress to play her but maybe they just didn't fit it enough

It's not like I'm gonna watch it anyways

[tidal shore]

couldn't care less

I don't see why this even needs to be discussed

[outer scaffold]

Fans don't like it when Oda picks an Indian actress to play Vivi, but... also don't like it when a Russian actress plays Nico Robin because Russia is a terrorist state...?

[long peak]

To be fair

The ones not liking the robin pick are children on Twitter

You should ignore them

[tidal shore]

16 YOs trying to make arguments on twitter

last time i saw someone tryna lecture a polish dev about the polish history it was surreal

[dusty fable]

I mean... Being born in a country doesn't mean this person knows its history better. Especially considering that history is subject to interpretation, and countries tend to bend their own history to their own ends

[tidal shore]

if u knew the context u would be laughing with me

dm?

[dusty fable]

You can write, but I go sleep soon ish

[undone marten]

Finished it

It was beautiful

9.5

[mighty cape]

||"Komugi, are you there?"||

[undone marten]

||"You can rest now, Meruem."||

[mighty cape]

||"I will be joining you soon."||

[undone marten]

The King's character development was beautiful

||Pitou|| 100% deserved that shit though

[undone marten]

Okay, finished hxh

Ging wasn't that bad in the end

[mighty cape]

You can smile again

[undone marten]

It ended on a good note atleast

[dusty fable]

Ehh? What exactly changed?

Like you can see that he cares about Gon in his own way in the island arc. Ging genuinely wanted Gon to have fun and meet his old friends, seems ok to me. The guy is questionable as a father but not really bad per se

Ging is literally Alice from Genshin who is conventionally a failure of a mother but does care about Klee in her own way (creating fun dangerous islands and sending old friends is pretty glaringly similar besides not being around)

[undone marten]

I thought ging never wanted to see gon

I thought he'd just run if gon ever found him

So I was quite surprised when he's willing to have a conversation

[dusty fable]

He did setup a lot of stuff for Gon to not to want to see him. But running away from a son doesn't depend only on not having a wish to meet. There is a whole possible assortment of reasons

Not that really matters concerning Gin. He just prioritizes exploration(and world affairs) more than anything else. I would say Elrics father is a better example

[undone marten]

You can tell it's Ging's way cause gon almost fucking died in GI

[mighty cape]

he plays the hard to get route actively lmao

and he still does it once again when you see a shocking revelation about Gon that's only mentioned in the manga after this arc once again.

[undone marten]

What's the arc after the election

[mighty cape]

ok but Alice still visits Mondstat to this day tho.

we just happen to miss her from Traveler's POV lmao

Alice is mostly questionable bc of her own destructive tendencies and passing them onto Klee

Ging's issue as a father is more rooted in that he wants to push off personal hassles as much as he can

[undone marten]

Ging isn't cause he wasn't there in the first place

500iq

My guy ging just wants to have fun

We all know gon wasn't planned😭

Top 5 Nen user and can't buy a condom

[mighty cape]

(assuming that was how Gon was 'concieved' anyways)

[undone marten]

Jesus

[mighty cape]

You wouldn't believe the wild theories out there about how Gon is actually 'related' to Ging

especially to explain the lack of any mother

[undone marten]

We would've known the truth if gon wasn't so prideful

[mighty cape]

a lot of this also comes from some nuggets people pick apart with certain Greed Island details

aka

Ging is the only 'friend/companion' Gon had on that area

to the point some even speculate that Gon was actually sth akin to a humanoid Nen Beast created by Ging

though I've got reservations with that

[undone marten]

People just be saying anything

[mighty cape]

esp since it needs to work aroun how Gon maintains his own existence when using things like Zetsu

[mighty cape]

and the thing is, esp with the arcs covered after this, we some FREAKY af Nen Beasts that are manifested in very eery ways. So it's not like it wouldn't hold no salt, but needs more evidence to back that up.

on that note

HxH manga just came back too lol

[undone marten]

The goat

What's the arc after the election btw

I'm kinda planning on reading the manga

[mighty cape]

if you plan on reading it I hope you're a Kurapika fan

[undone marten]

I'd put him above leorio

Kil>gon=kurapika>leorio

[mighty cape]

he gets a lot focus nowadays, among other side characters getting the limelight now too.

Heck even Ging is arguably a protagonist himself the arcs coming up this time around

[undone marten]

Killua got to traveling

Gon went to wherever

Leorio came back to study med

Kurapika got shown with ||like 3 pairs of kurta eyes||

That's what I know

[mighty cape]

yeah Gon and Killua are pretty much on an indefinite "break period" in the story as protagonists atm. Esp Gon for reasons you'll see soon enough lol.

[undone marten]

Sus

They say the anime's coming back too

With mappa

[mighty cape]

you said it yourself

people will say anything

[tidal shore]

inb4 anime will outpace the source material

[mighty cape]

lmao

[undone marten]

Hopefully they don't overdo the animation lmao

[mighty cape]

I wouldn't trust my favorite manga with Mappa

[undone marten]

They did good with jjk atleast

Mappa just be animating everything

[mighty cape]

rip Hell's Paradise and Yuri on Ice

esp the latter

[tidal shore]

Idk if it's worth the price man, Mappa is so cooked

[undone marten]

Overworked and underpaid

[mighty cape]

don't get anyone started on their staff treatment

[undone marten]

Gotta love the japanese work ethic

[tidal shore]

I looove Japanese work ethic

[undone marten]

I saw a vid of the director

Bro looks like a zombie

[tidal shore]

make me a Japanese employee

[mighty cape]

KyoAni's like, one of the few JP studios I know of that isn't bombarded with shitty work ethics

[undone marten]

What is madhouse up to nowadays

Frieren?

Idk

[mighty cape]

But yeah just watch out with anime “leaks” and rumors.
They tend to surprisingly be even less reliable than your average ‘gacha leak’ from a couple patches ahead lol.

[undone marten]

DP?

David Production

[mighty cape]

I don’t follow them so idk

But KyoAni has that notable rep

[undone marten]

They only do jojo stuff iirc

[frank musk]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-force-enen-no-shouboutai-anime-shinra-kusakabe-shinra-gif-14673069

[tidal shore]

oh hey it's Fire Force

[dusty fable]

Do you want ADHD lvl 3 or something?

[tidal shore]

I remember people yapping about fight scenes in this like "too much silence" like bruv

[tidal shore]

I think this would actually make my ADHD better cuz being in constant rush (and under pressure to perform) works out for me

[frank musk]

the sound effects are my favorite part of that show

[tidal shore]

only to hit max burnout in 3 months due to monotony and then have a mental breakdown, works rly well short term tho

[tidal shore]

man that's like listening to rock and saying "the hi hats were cool" 😭
there was so much more that Fire Force did well

like the actual fights themselves

[undone marten]

Stopped watching halfway through s2

[tidal shore]

unfortunate

[undone marten]

Idk what happened

Got bored of the plot prolly

[dusty fable]

Does she?

[frank musk]

hey thats just my opinion, the fights are great too, i never said thats the only thing they did right

[undone marten]

The animation was inconsistent at times

[dusty fable]

It would have been a much better anime if it was about a realistic fire fighting force. Firefighting has enough action and drama by itself without unnecessary posturing

[tidal shore]

that's like saying Cars would be a better show if it was about people

who cares man

[dusty fable]

It's like watching a sports anime with superpowers: sure, it's fun. But it's nowhere near close in tension to a real thing

[undone marten]

Comparing apples and oranges

[tidal shore]

the twist that's in Fire Force actually makes it more interesting

if it was any regular show about actual fire force it would just be another soap opera drama of some sort

paradocumental and the like

or you could go into exploring grief, loss, and how people cope with it

that would also be interesxzting, but Fire Force started as a shounen and as a power fantasy of some sorts

so I don't see where ur coming from here

[undone marten]

Okay fine I'll watch ff again

[tidal shore]

ah I wasn't trying to convince you

it's just

[undone marten]

I know

[tidal shore]

It would have been a much better anime if it was about a realistic fire fighting force.
this line of reasoning pisses me off

[undone marten]

I convinced myself

[tidal shore]

damn

[undone marten]

You just helped

[dusty fable]

As I said, there is no twist that makes it more interesting than a real thing. That's why realistic sports drama is always>fantastic sports drama. That's why Million Dollar Baby will always be >> than Space Jam, even if Space Jam is a good show

[tidal shore]

good luck

[undone marten]

[undone marten]

This is like saying "Kuruko would've been better if it was like slam dunk"

[dusty fable]

Very much so. I like Kuroko, but it's a shitty representation of basketball

[tidal shore]

it's not supposed to be slam dunk

[mighty cape]

she does. Albedo and co. sometimes mention her just stopping by and Traveler missing her.

[dusty fable]

Yes, but imagine if there was no proper show about basketball, and Kuroko is close to only existing representation of basketball in anime.

And then you watch Kuroko, and the rules of the game are wack, scoring by hitting the ball with a leg or sonething

That's pretty much what Fire Force is about

[mighty cape]

The rules of Kuroko are to break the sound barrier shooting hoops

Change my mind

[tidal shore]

doesn't matter

all the voids will be filled by people like you

or those who share a similar sentiment

[dusty fable]

If only. There aren't that many firefighters writing memoirs and then looking for an artist to draw it

And interviewing firefighters is fucking depressing, so getting a source material is a hellish job

So when I see an anime about firefighting, and I think someone went the whole length and they really didn't even make a step, it makes me sad

[tidal shore]

okaaaay Dandadan anime slaps

it's rad

litt

gyatt

rizz

goat

what other gen alpha slang is there

[tidal shore]

fair

[craggy mango]

Peak returns
https://fxtwitter.com/AniTrendz/status/1842530391128957119?t=WFT31rPBj_EAATO1x96stQ&s=19

[tidal shore]

pov: mushoku tensei fans

[topaz linden]

They already got their new season confirmation a few months ago

||Can't wait for Iron Man Rudy to get adapted||

[tidal shore]

bro I totall forgot about the ||iron man||

I do wonder how I would enjoy the post-school arc now that I'm older

before, the subject matter just wasn't interesting enough for me to carry on

[topaz linden]

Yee, S2 ended about where the author stopped really caring about character focused stories and started focusing on your normal fantasy conflict/adventure focused story again lol

Which has its positives and negatives

[undone marten]

Bussin

[tidal shore]

what the sigma

@dusty fable wussy

[dusty fable]

Damn, the foreshadowing in this story is something else. I have thought about this depiction for a couple of minutes. This is like double foreshadowing: both imminent event and future yet undisclosed event. Honestly, I bow my head to authors, I haven't seen such masterclass foreshadowing in a long time.

Like literally, nothing at all, but in context speeks volumes

Like storm above the mansion? Classic literature

[tidal shore]

he bacc

[dusty fable]

I am thoroughly impressed. If they manage to wove in Richelieu's past somehow I would go crazy. I wish he ||did return back in time as well|| no such luck there unfortunately. Though I did appreciate, how the Emperor called Suri ||a tool of revenge aimed at them||. Very good work of an artist especially then and there

I still wonder if ||Johan really brainwashed Suri|| intentionally or unintentionally. Her devotion to the family goes above and beyond, especially in contrast to her original wishes of whom to become in her life from the first 2 chapters. As if she completely abandoned her original aspirations in favor of the family

[topaz linden]

Ngl, took me way longer than it should have to realize that Suri = Shuri there
Was trying to remember if they included some other character with a similar sounding name

[dusty fable]

Honestly, if anything, I think Nora is the reason the whole time regression happened.|| I wonder if they show us what he has done with Shuri's blood and emerald in the first cycle||

[topaz linden]

As someone who is waiting for the series to finish before binge reading the rest, I'm curious how long the author plans to run with the series. It could easily be a very slow burn if they wanted with all the backroom machinations and whatnot 👀

[next crescent]

Yeah, marchen is really good

[dusty fable]

Generally blood and a prized possession (especially involving precious mineral stones) take an important place in both religious significance and an alchemical/occultic one. I doubt we will get something of the latter, just not the type of a story, but the meaning is there, especially after ||he gifted it in a second cycle, basically bonding the two cycles and finishing a circle||

[dusty fable]

It spans multiple generations in an echoing manner, when past events echo in the future in a similar fashion, which usually implies there was something before the original trio of Johan, Emperor and Nurnberger, but so far there are only two small implications of original stone cast into the water: ||the church order and the remodeling of the swan hall||. That looked like a slap in the church's face

With the speed of events barely starting to scratch Johan's generation timeline, I wonder when and if it comes to things before that

Also Richelieu ||doggedly pursuing the war with Ottoman empire|| out of nowhere. Like what, why? ||No way simply to have a holy war and purge heretics||

Tbh, I wholly expect this to have at least 400+ chapters so yeah, time to put a memo to book your graveyard plot and finish reading Marchen

[next crescent]

Oh maybe even more than that lol

Depending on how exactly they want to go about this

[topaz linden]

I feel I wrapped up at a good stopping point (right after the trial/at the time skip), so I think I should be good to hold out til then. The temptation is real tho

[dusty fable]

Ooops, I thought you have finished until recent chapters. Anyway, most of it except the church is my interpretation of the foreshadowing, so hopefully I didn't spoil you anything. I haven't moved far past timeskip myself, like 20 ch into the 2nd one

[topaz linden]

It's thankfully been so long that I dont remember enough to be spoiled

I'll likely reread from the beginning when it's done

[next crescent]

Nah, I'm the one who finished to the most recent chapters lol

[dusty fable]

Ngl, these reborn princess mangas are pretty good, even though the basic premise is isekai lvls of cringe. I wish isekai novels were this good

[tidal shore]

reading isekai is like

being an ultra masochist who keeps edging himself over and over

cuz ur reading for the promise of fantasy

but ur getting mcdonalds instead

how much mcdonalds does it take before ur too full?

I'm in a toxic relationship, help

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[tidal shore]

uooohhhhhh

[tidal shore]

is that a train below the Mansion? does the shot of the mouth make more sense in context? before you posted more than just the mouth, along with the face, which I think worked better than just mouth alone

prolly makes more sense in context

[tidal shore]

me asf when author picks 5 names that start on the same letter

[dusty fable]

I didn't send it to make more sense, it wouldn't anyway. Just point out a rather expressionless (not quite) frame of a mouth which is a rare occurrence in manga. The second picture just to corroborate usage of storm as a means of foreshadowing. I do find otome genre uses it much more overall, which is a good thing, since it takes root in classical literature usage of natural events to describe moods and mindstates of characters

[dusty fable]

This is one of the best antagonists I have seen in a long time. And the art makes it even better

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/johan-gif-21273582

Monster looking mf

[undone marten]

What chapter does the anime end at

HxH

Nvm I can just google this

Mb

Chapter 339

So I start at 340

[mighty cape]

This is sth the 2011 anime kinda glossed over but arguably isn’t that big of a deal in Yorknew

With certain mechanics of Emperor Time

(There’s actually more info about it in the current arc too)

[undone marten]

Ah so he still needs to train with that specific nen type

[mighty cape]

Ultimately what Emperor Time does is already boost his force+accuracy with a certain category

[undone marten]

Or does emperor time make it so even if he doesn't train with that nen type he can still use it to 100% of its potential

[mighty cape]

By 100%

[undone marten]

Certain category being all nen types yeah?

[mighty cape]

Not so much “doesn’t train” but let’s him use certain categories out of his own innate one at a much much better output in general

[mighty cape]

Yes

[undone marten]

Iirc that's what they said

Shit's broken

Does it have a drawback

[mighty cape]

Like his Holy Chain boosting his own self healing massively

[mighty cape]

Yes

[undone marten]

I don't think they said it had one in the anime

[mighty cape]

Aside from the massive fatigue and exhaustion the state brings him if he stays in it too long, the current arc introduced another one

[undone marten]

Oh

Don't spoil that I'mma read it

[mighty cape]

I won’t

[undone marten]

Bro came out a beast after his training arc

Suddenly he had all that shit lmao

Emperor time and his chains n shit

Bro's a professional hater

[mighty cape]

It also boosts his innate type too.

He can using his Dowsing chain without ET pretty fine, but with ET it’s pretty bs what he can do with it

[undone marten]

Gon and Killua came out of their training arc knowing the basic nen types

[mighty cape]

Yeah Kurapika’s incredibly talented as a prodigy at Nen, arguably more than Gon and Killua with the advantages he has.

But he also has his own vendetta and even his unique constitution (Scarlet Eyes) that gave him an edge too.

[undone marten]

I'd love to see how he matches up with Chrollo

[tidal shore]

yaaay power scaling

💀

😐

[undone marten]

Wha

[mighty cape]

Ignore them

[undone marten]

Yeah ik but it's not even powerscaling it's just an explanation of kurapika's ability

[mighty cape]

But curiously enough. While this isn’t explicitly mentioned in the manga, Togashi did actually update some stuff about nen affinities lately. Namely it’s possible to have sth close to dual affinities.

Killua is an innate Transmuter for example

But also a Transmuter-Enhancer

[undone marten]

Is that confirmed

[mighty cape]

Yep

Togashi revealed it in an arti expo a couple years back

But it’s not complicated really

In fact

It actually rationalizes a bunch of stuff better

[undone marten]

Oh so godspeed is an enhancer ability

[tidal shore]

it gives a base on which we can evaluate other people's abilities, by putting it into numbers and categories and stuff
I was never a fan of this tbh that's why the reaction

[mighty cape]

Since Godspeed being a pure transmuter ability makes like

Zero sense lol

[tidal shore]

but yea ignore me, I'm just ignorantly reacting, I don't even remember 90% of HxH

[undone marten]

It gets a pass cause nen is the best power system in anime

Trust

[mighty cape]

It’s not really an issue and is just used for the sake of an illustration. Practically speaking it’s hardly relevant aside from the base concept of “yeah this is why Kurapika can go toe to toe with some masters of their own innate types that aren’t his”.

[tidal shore]

[mighty cape]

Tho there’s also the fact that Kurapika himself has only been in a small handful of fights too lol

[undone marten]

They didn't show much of his training too

He went like "fuck you master I'mma do my own thing" and dipped

[tidal shore]

low sample size skewing the results innit

he was always my fav tho

actually

a lot of HxH characters are great

I remember liking most of them aside from Gon

[undone marten]

Yeah it was hard to like gon before chimera ant

Killua was always the reasonable one

[undone marten]

The fact that if he didn't knock himself out from using too much nen when he jajanken'ed that ball into razor and he deflected it back to gon

He would've just not dodged and died

[mighty cape]

It’s only used to add context to his fight with a really strong ‘straight forward’ Enhancer, so it’s not the end all be all either. Esp with how certain ‘complex’ abilities are later in the series.

Like idk if I can say Kurapika sizes up that well to even the Royal Guard. Maybe a Chimera Ant Squadron Leader like Zazan.

[undone marten]

His abilities are restricted too

[mighty cape]

Yesnt

Just Chain Jail is the only ability he has that is fixed to one type of target

He can use ET any time he wants to boot

[undone marten]

Isn't that like the most broken chain though

[mighty cape]

Personally? I wouldn’t say so after seeing his index ring’s ability lol

[tidal shore]

true

[undone marten]

Bet?

I'mma read more then

[mighty cape]

Like don’t get me wrong, CJ is busted against the Phantom Troupe for sure. But that’s already such a small pool of people already. Not to mention the PT is already aware of what CJ can do and can prepare for it if they encounter him again.

[undone marten]

Chrollo gonna smoke his ass

I think

Idk

Bro survived vs silva and zeno that already told me enough

He might smoke hisoka too idk

Might be in the next few chapters

[mighty cape]

He also wasn’t trying it either of them at the time either. And the fi gf t was called off before it could escalate further.

[undone marten]

Oh so the manga just makes ging more of a dbag than he already was

Good to know good to know

||He just wanted to be no. 2 bro😭😭||

[outer scaffold]

Hey guys, what's your limit on sophiscated mc's?

[tidal shore]

this is a very broad question, can you elaborate on what you mean?

[outer scaffold]

So i'm reading a manga, the mc is... i would say so sophiscated, that he would do brutal things in front of a child because their father tries to kill the mc's party

[tidal shore]

that's the opposite of being sophisticated

[shadow knot]

mc is clearly being haram

[outer scaffold]

The manga is...

The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan

[outer scaffold]

If anyone has ever read this manga, you guys know what i mean by that question

[outer scaffold]

If you were in his place, what would you do?

[shadow knot]

sounds like your usual edgy mc I bet he has black hair

[tidal shore]

point is, the world you're looking for is "edgy"

and I wouldn't do anything like that in front of a child 💀

[outer scaffold]

If you read it, maybe you will find he is not that 'edgy'...?

[tidal shore]

idk the way u described him sounds pretty messed up

[outer scaffold]

That's not all

[tidal shore]

ok cool, but we don't know about "the rest" yk

[shadow knot]

you say “sophisticated” I have full assurance that you probably mean “edgy”

[undone marten]

The way you described him sounded like he's edgy

[shadow knot]

exactly

[undone marten]

Sophisticated like

Laid back?

Chill?

[outer scaffold]

He sold his two betrayal allies AS SLAVES, but those two 'allies' takes all of the party's money and gamble it

[shadow knot]

pretty edgy

[tidal shore]

yea full edge manga

[outer scaffold]

This is below chapter 10, quite a strong start on the mc impressions towards the readers

[undone marten]

Yep that's edge

[tidal shore]

I'm getting cut from the edge

all those stories start like

"how could they betray me like this"

and meanwhile here I am thinking like "bruv u should've seen this coming for years"

it's like the villains never slip up or something

[outer scaffold]

You guys do know that sophiscated is the antonym of naivety? Or is it another word? If so, then i have the wrong word

[tidal shore]

is it?

[outer scaffold]

Well, i tried to google the antonym of naivety and got sophisticated

[tidal shore]

u could call them smart, observant, self-assured even

if these are the traits u wanted to describe

[shadow knot]

sophisticated = complex for sure

but the way you described the mc is just plain edgy

[tidal shore]

the plot is edgy too

[outer scaffold]

The thing is, one of the two betrayal allies is the leader itself, so you would never know it, like a plot twist

[shadow knot]

haha I am gonna do a lil bit of violence because its cool and I wanna take over the world

[undone marten]

Damn the art's pretty fucking good

[ionic schooner]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/792041331517423647/1292177305812205711/image0.png?ex=67037225&is=670220a5&hm=fe3232e3a7d6bb8fa449845e216dfbd955824444a1e7a06b96b69b726a99a354&

[outer scaffold]

You are reading it rn, right? I've seen some of the comments on the chapters and they have mixed feelings about the mc

[tidal shore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5pu8SxhIME

oh it has an anime

or is it coming?

[undone marten]

Nah I just searched it

[tidal shore]

kirito looking mf 💀

[outer scaffold]

...look at the 2024.10 "NUMBERS"

[undone marten]

Yeah he's pretty fucking edgy

[outer scaffold]

If you actually read the manga, he's not kirito looking at all, he's an androgynous, like when a man and a woman having a baby (pun )

[undone marten]

Tf

But yeah

The guy's edgy not sophisticated

[outer scaffold]

Then, what is your limit on sophisticated mc's?

[tidal shore]

ok the terminology is pretty funny

I'm locked in

seeker this talker that

[outer scaffold]

Ofc, this question is for those who are tired of naive mc's

[tidal shore]

yapper no jutsu

[ionic schooner]

cause hes a talker

!!!

[undone marten]

Idfk man when I see sophisticated I think of suits and drinking tea and shit

[tidal shore]

yapper no jutsu 🫴 🤏 🤌 🤏 🫰

[outer scaffold]

Talker means not what you're thinking it is

[undone marten]

The art is really good though I'll give it that

[tidal shore]

yeah the traditional, verbose, british man acting in a very british manner

posh type of guy

[outer scaffold]

Ok, let me change the question, what's your limit on self-assured mc's?

[tidal shore]

is he self assured? Idk haven't read
I do know I like confident mcs

and hard working ones

[shadow knot]

I mean it depends on the anime

or manga

[tidal shore]

mainly cuz I want to be a hard worker myself but it's very difficult

[shadow knot]

like a super confident mc can either make or break a series

[ionic schooner]

whos the guy from gurran lagan

hes pretty cool

[shadow knot]

exactly

[outer scaffold]

Ohhh, he's hard working, infact, his training is inhumane for a normal human, he's running and carrying a three man weight for 50 km DURING 5 AM (sorry if i'm wrong)

[ionic schooner]

never watched guran lagan i just know anton zzz is based off him

[shadow knot]

oh yea ik who u talking abt

https://tenor.com/view/kittan-bachika-gurren-lagann-king-kittan-kittan-goat-gif-26133296

[ionic schooner]

the mc i think

with the drill

yeah

[shadow knot]

nah diff guy

his name is kitan

[ionic schooner]

oh

[tidal shore]

exposition babyyyy

[shadow knot]

https://tenor.com/view/kittan-smile-gurren-lagann-kittan-kittan-bachika-episode10-gif-26021829

[outer scaffold]

AND BELIEVE ME, HIS BODY IS STILL WEAK AMONGST OTHER SEEKERS, well, he would be the strongest in his class, i think

[tidal shore]

god I love info dumps

[ionic schooner]

abyss 12

[undone marten]

Peak mentioned

[ionic schooner]

GENSHIN IMPACT

[tidal shore]

gaming

[outer scaffold]

Watch out for the economy education dump

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/anton-anton-ivanov-anton-ivanov-zenless-zone-zero-anton-zenless-zone-zero-anton-idle-gif-11420178033065151971

[shadow knot]

probably kamina at the same time

[tidal shore]

man I hate how manga do exposition

[shadow knot]

but either way ttgl inspo

[tidal shore]

why can't you just phrase it in a way where everyone knows what is what alrdy

just hint it to the readers that there are levels and shit

[undone marten]

Adult Simon was so cool

[tidal shore]

readers aren't dumb

they can reason shit out

[undone marten]

With the sunglasses

"yeah those sunglasses just appeared on him we don't know the reason it just looked cool"

Coolest anime I've watched

Pure adrenaline

[shadow knot]

its like my favourite anime for a reason

https://preview.redd.it/ru3m40y3ool71.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a0bfb5f8ee93e524f3ea39f457f68c6e19e4d304

arius is this truth

[tidal shore]

kafka :o

wtf Hegel

[ionic schooner]

KAFKA

HSR

??!??!/1

[undone marten]

Meruem

[tidal shore]

bro doesn't know Kafka 😔

[ionic schooner]

ik the musician right

or writer idk

[undone marten]

Istg his development is god tier writing

[tidal shore]

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

[shadow knot]

like if you call mereum a sophisticated character I wouldn’t fault you

[undone marten]

He is one

[shadow knot]

its an ok example compared to that edgy mc talk

[undone marten]

Bro just wanted to play gungi you can't blame him

[ionic schooner]

yuh writer

heheheha

[undone marten]

You can also say pre-ptsd knov is sophisticated

[tidal shore]

coco

[undone marten]

Oh fuck I forgot shia

[tidal shore]

Sebastian from Black Butler

I'm tryna think of the most sophisticated mothafucka in town

[undone marten]

Jin from samurai champloo

[tidal shore]

hmmm

good candidate

Ouran Koukou Host Club has a bunch of them

[tidal shore]

I was gonna say Youjo Senki but the guy is also crazy so Idk

Mahoutsukai no Yome's Ainsworth maybe?

Sakamoto from Sakamoto desu ga

actually he might take the top spot lol

[outer scaffold]

Just read chapter 20, mc actions starting to catch him upppppp

[dusty fable]

Is this Genshin manga? Looks like a typical Genshin player

[tidal shore]

he looks like me

jk

but people sometimes confuse me for a girl like this guy in the manga

[dusty fable]

He will compete with the Principal of the school in SpyXFamily

Also, male MC in Nodame Cantabile, though he is of a sophisticated sort you would expect from a normal human

[outer scaffold]

Update, that child has died.

[ionic schooner]

isnt his catchphrase literally "elegant"

😭😭😭

[tidal shore]

it's been on my PTW list for 6 years now

wdid

[dusty fable]

It's my favorite musical anime that is not drama

[shadow knot]

its an ok romcom I liked the finale especially

outside of that I enjoyed seeing the series delve into the orchestral pieces

[undone marten]

In japanese

[outer scaffold]

Ok, branching off the self-assured mcs debate, i asked my friend today about the self-assured mcs question and his answer makes me realize something

If you look closely, nowadays we have so many self-assured mcs and that makes my friend want more naive mcs because naive mcs can show emotional contradiction/problem in what they are doing and self-assured mcs by japanese author are being made to look brutal

[dusty fable]

There is nothing preventing self assured MCs to have emotional contradictions. A good recent example is Skip to Loafer male MC

There is a difference between being self assured, because you have already thought through multiple variations beforehand and have a rough idea what to do, and being self assured because you act without thinking. In both cases you don't change the course, but the reasons behind it are completely different

[tidal shore]

this guy got his priorities straight

respect

[next crescent]

True

[tidal shore]

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rv2d939OP61zj57oq_r2.mp4

the world is cray

[topaz linden]

Something neat that popped up in my feed
https://youtu.be/p-umT12q-y4

[shadow knot]

poggers

[craggy mango]

I just finished 2 episodes of Blue Box

I wonder when will Netflix fix their shitty subtitles

Fmc keep calling mc by family name, yet Netflix keep insisting to use mc first name smh

They dont understand the meaning of it

Btw the animation is beautiful

Cg looks weak at some point, but overall still great

[undone marten]

@mighty cape so this is the last chain

[mighty cape]

yep.

and there's more to it still

[undone marten]

Yeah the dolphin

||analyzes the nen ability that's borrowed||

That's broken as shit

||kinda like Chrollo but watered down and more easy to use||

[undone marten]

Why did he have to use emperor time though

Does it only activate if he uses emperor time

[mighty cape]

and versatile too

[undone marten]

Well he activated the syringe before emperor time so I assume the dolphin only appears if he uses emperor time

[mighty cape]

iirc Yesn't.

Some parts of the ability don't require it, but if he's ||using said ability he's locked into ET until he blacks out or the ability is fulfilled in use||

[undone marten]

Brutal

Bro the colored english pages end on chapter 362

[mighty cape]

oh believe me.

Wait till you see draw back.

[undone marten]

I got spoiled on the drawback

Yeah unfortunate

[mighty cape]

it gets potentially 'worse' depending on that situation

[undone marten]

But it is what it is

The ends justifies the means I guess

[undone marten]

Aw he's fucked now (hxh spoilers)

[long peak]

Why did they do this

[next crescent]

Because it's cute and funny

[undone marten]

Man the succession war arc is confusing af

Too many people working for too many people

[eternal wyvern]

As someone who hasn't caught up w/ the manga (since the...||twins kiss for the movie|| I think?), genuinely wasn't expecting it to end later this year. Ig it's time to resume my reading then

https://twitter.com/mangamogurare/status/1844030427289604481?

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

"Oshi no Ko" manga will END IN 4 CHAPTERS in Nov 2024!

Twitter · Oct 9, 2024, 3:01 PM

I still have my minor gripes abt the series, but hopefully it'll end with a satisfying conclusion at least

[mighty cape]

Hmmm. I should prolly catch up.

I liked the parts I’ve read

[dusty fable]

Huh, how many chapters is that? I expected it to get at least 200+

They introduced so many characters, I thought we are into a long haul

I guess I ll just resign myself to the fact that I never got time to read it

[topaz linden]

They're on ~162 (give or take a chapter, not sure if EN is caught up or not). So ~170 chapters total it sounds like

[dusty fable]

Sadge. Well, I'll see how it turns out. Ideally I hoped some of the characters like the movie director from the beginning would receive a decent development. At least he seemed like a character who is either important in the late game or completely washed from the start kekw

[ionic schooner]

WHAT

I can't believe the authors finally stopping

Ig he really liked the new apex season

[tidal shore]

I will be able to binge this soon

nice

[dusty fable]

Surprisingly, the Empress becomes my favorite character in this manga. Her personality feels the most balanced. Hopefully she won't become a schizo torn between her two sons.

[dusty fable]

I admit I am impressed by this manhwa, it's a masterclass in many narrative techniques I like

[tidal shore]

yep

I can see it

[next crescent]

[topaz linden]

And thats not even mentioning the consistent (emphasis on that) high quality artwork/character design

[woeful plinth]

https://x.com/kirifudajoeLove/status/1844186703403286950

愛者(アニポケとかプリキュアとかの人) (@kirifudajoeLove) on X

アニメディアにようやくアニポケキャラ入ってきたみたいですね

Twitter · Oct 10, 2024, 1:22 AM

animedia top 20 anime characters

this month

~~oh hello liko ~~

[tidal shore]

i lost

hold up\

Magic Kaito

lfg

[dusty fable]

This is so random

Who is no 1, 3,4,6 ,8,9 lmao

[woeful plinth]

idk i heard ppl say 4 6 and uhhhh 9 are from uhhhhh precure

idk i search on gg

3 is liko from pokemon

[long peak]

Wooooow you don't even know peak

https://tenor.com/view/horizons-anime-violet-and-scarlet-gif-103502144711274774

My beautiful queen

[next crescent]

Gojo being 7 is actually insane

Wtf is he doing up there he hasn't even been visible in an anime in like a year

[frank musk]

Thats the character with the clodsire right?

[dusty fable]

Manga has just ended though?

[long peak]

Yes, Rika my beloved

[next crescent]

Does animedia count the manga as well? It looks like they're showing animes and not mangas

[long peak]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-rika-wooper-clodsire-breakdancing-gif-14433222332004482476

[next crescent]

Considering a lot of the top ones are pokemon characters only found in anime, and every avatar on there is from the anime adaptation of manga

[dusty fable]

I mean it's character popularity, meaning doesn't matter, basically any recency bias

[next crescent]

Obviously idk about the shows/characters I don't know up there, but they may or may not have a manga as well like with pokemon

[long peak]

Well pokemon adventures doesn't cover scarlet/violet yet

It only goes up to gen 8

[next crescent]

Trying to figure out how a Japanese magazine company does their polls on the English side of the internet sucks

But if it were manga and recency bias, I still feel like you'd see more than anime exclusives like the pokemon characters up there, and would probably see the manga versions of them if those were voted, no?

Idk how popular pokemon is over there but I'd assume it wouldn't entirely eclipse jjk in popularity for a poll if the manga just ended

[dusty fable]

Pokemon is always a recency bias in jpn. They are fanatical about it

[next crescent]

Trying to look that up is also ass 😭

But according to this, the show has been on a major decline in ratings- idk how that stands to other shows but it's literally all I can find
https://pocketmonsters.net/episodes/ratings

If anyone is able to find anything relating to its actual ratings and popularity in scale with other shows like anilist/myanimelist

Nvm, found one and what is this 😭

[woeful plinth]

nani the f

[next crescent]

Inside out 2 was #5 most popular from the summer?

This is an actual equivalent to mal in jp

Damn, 800 titles added in 2015 but only 360 in 2023

Either people stopped using the site as much or there really are way less anime now to choose from

[long peak]

I forgot this existed

Apparently it was actually kinda decent

(The wife essentially meets with them, and the whole series is about moving on from her passing)

[next crescent]

So the current airing of the show is apparently 4254th in rankings on this site

The one with the new kids instead of ash

And ranked below like half the movies and several seasons

[long peak]

Yeah people aren't a fan of the anime without ash

[next crescent]

Taken with a grain of salt because the pool of people who voted on this site could be wildly different from the pool they use for the poll

[next crescent]

Ohhh okay

Thank God the "moving forward with his wife" part of it wasn't.. well 😭

[long peak]

Very bad wording

[next crescent]

When I read that I was like "does he raise his wife???"

[long peak]

Yeah the wife has her own life with her "birth" family

She just kinda comes over sometimes

[next crescent]

Gotcha okay

Oh damn, pokemon horizons has a 3* rating 😭

[long peak]

I watched two episodes and then dropped it but yeah, not that bad

[woeful plinth]

what web

[next crescent]

Kaguya-sama #1 with a 95.9

[next crescent]

This one https://www.anikore.jp/

[woeful plinth]

tks

[next crescent]

Np

I also like how tags are translated to "ingredients"

[dusty fable]

Translation is cooking

[next crescent]

This one sounds cute
https://www.anikore.jp/anime/14544/

[woeful plinth]

wow theres overlord movie already wat

[next crescent]

I guess

[topaz linden]

Not out in the US til November tho sadly 😔

[long peak]

There is an overlord gacha game though

[dusty fable]

We all know what overlord game we really want though

[long peak]

I don't

I don't watch it

[dusty fable]

You don't need to watch it to know who is Albedo

[long peak]

I died of cringe before I could even get 3 episodes in

I do know albedo

She's unbearable

[topaz linden]

A continuation of the 2007 hit third-person action-adventure game Overlord?

[ionic schooner]

Idk what this is but it looks awesome

[topaz linden]

It's the 2007 hit third-person action-adventure game Overlord

[dusty fable]

Yes

[dusty fable]

But you mean third installment. I think there was a second game

Fun game, good humor and pretty unique gameplay. I don't think there is another game with this kind of gameplay

Namely 3d action with minions

[topaz linden]

A third installment would also be a continuation

[ionic schooner]

Guys

Is BOCCHI a gamer

Like me!!!

[tidal shore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJLZS4l0RRs

haven't even watched past S1 but I agree XD

[woeful plinth]

https://youtu.be/YwortdC_o14

thats

a

pretty nice boat

and im sure theres nothing happens

right

[topaz linden]

Technically the thing that had happened was the day before, it's just that the episode aired the day after it

Also, Genshin references the meme in one of their achievement names

[woeful plinth]

ye

i actually got it during summer event

but then idk the origin of it so i found this lmao

[undone marten]

This man is a fucking genius (hxh spoilers)

[undone marten]

@mighty cape you read the new hxh chapter?

I'm on chap 389 rn

[mighty cape]

No

I’m in no rush to keep up atm

I’ll be rereading the whole arc from when Beyond got reveleaed anyway

[undone marten]

So the whole succession war arc

I'll need a recap after I'm done reading the arc

There's so many moving parts

[craggy mango]

Damn is Dragon Ball Daima that good? Somehow its #1 worldwide trending topic

Toriyama sensei must be smiling peacefully rn

[topaz linden]

I think it adjusts based on your preference/algorithm shit. Mine looks completelt different

[craggy mango]

I set it on worldwide long in the past and never changed it at all

I also dont know what are those topic no 2-5

But maybe you're right

[rancid ledge]

https://fixupx.com/voidroonil/status/1844327873425048044?t=0nHZXRemIic0Y7UzB73W-A&s=19

[tidal shore]

is her voice okay

looks familiar, think I watched it before

kind of forgot to finish

[rancid ledge]

im not even gonna question, she puts so much volume in her voice

[next crescent]

Finally, a character who sounds the way they look in these scenes

[rancid ledge]

name someone with good voice acting

[next crescent]

The guy who voiced vanitas

[tidal shore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlnuL3Js-Y&list=WL

these guys

also these guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6ZwmEse40c&list=PLEcaNXXnlhbUX1avLlkK969I7fqPmCwhn

also Sugita Tomokazu

[topaz linden]

Kenjiro Tsuda's voice makes any character he plays iconic af.

Otherwise, personal favorites:
English:

• The Dobson brothers (Warhammer was some of their best work)
• Ian Sinclair (Love their work in Fire Emblem)
• Lizzie Freeman (Sparkle, Pomni, and Chisato were all super well expressed characters)
  Japanese:
• Aki Toyosaki (Incredible range and some of the best rage I've seen in anime)
• Saori Hayami (Just search her "I don't understand" clip and you'll see why)
• Aoi Yuuki (Insane range in the characters she plays)

[rancid ledge]

damn wtf

[topaz linden]

^mostly trying to go for somewhat objective voice acting.... often times my favorite are just ones I like the sound of the most lol

[long peak]

is saying my goat ray chase cheating

[tidal shore]

Aoi Yuuki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU1iIST_cNg

[rancid ledge]

Lizzie did amazing job with sparkles laugh

but not Kaji Yuki?

[tidal shore]

Saori Hayami (Just search her "I don't understand" clip and you'll see why)
at this point her acting from that anime is more popular than the anime itself

[topaz linden]

Ngl, the only roles I know them from never really landed with me

Aside from maybe Ranking of Kings

[rancid ledge]

theres also bryce papenbrook and kanekis jp va

[tidal shore]

ooo Aki Toyosaki did Cautious Hero

I loved her voice acting there

actually insane

[topaz linden]

She also was the villain in ReCreators (my favorite role of hers)

[tidal shore]

Ic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v05AIPh-ooE

[topaz linden]

https://youtu.be/ujiCtC7h8ns

Also K-On

[rancid ledge]

is cautious hero good?

[tidal shore]

WTF

I did not realise

[topaz linden]

Very

[tidal shore]

for me Aki Toyosaki singlehandedly carried it

[rancid ledge]

i feel i should also watch log horizon

[topaz linden]

Only if you're satisfied with never getting an ending lol

Author has all but abandoned it

What's been made is very good imo, but yeah...

Never getting an ending kinda stings

[tidal shore]

maaaaaan

maybe some time in the future author will change their mind

[topaz linden]

Iirc, author got busted in some tax evasion scheme and hasn't been able to land any work since

Last new volume was almost 7 years ago

[tidal shore]

oh

[topaz linden]

At this point, fan fiction is your best hope at an ending lol

Which tbf, some series have gotten really good ones... still sucks tho

[next crescent]

Watching the uzumaki anime rn and damn I can see why it's taken so long to release after that teaser like 2 years ago

It's like every frame has full movement in it

And not the usual "here, they're talking so their bodies are completely still and just their mouths move"

Their entire bodies move slightly as they talk, their hair changes a lot during those movements since some have so many lines like the fmc

Not to mention it's so damn smooth

[mighty cape]

Lmk what you think of the next episode later

[next crescent]

Okay

[shadow knot]

episode 1 is ok
episode 2 is...

[next crescent]

That first episode was so good

I wasn't expecting it to actually be decent after the trainwreck the other series was 😭

[tidal shore]

episode 1 buff

hold up

this is a Junji Ito anime

huhhh a quite a few scenes look rotoscoped to me

interesting choice

[next crescent]

Okay the hair scene was kinda silly

But the second half of the episode was good

That last bit was unexpected

[craggy mango]

We dont talk about episode 2

[long peak]

Episode 2

[tidal shore]

that Olivia-chan

[hot notch]

Binged all of Oshi no Ok S2 and I'm blown away. S1 was really good but holy shit. Unironic 11/10. The Visual Storytelling is peak and is probably one of the best adaptations of a manga I've seen. The only weak points you could probably find are some weaknesses in the original story that blend in to here but other than that it's literally perfect.

[rancid ledge]

I should watch cautious hero huh

i guess ill add that to my list

[undone marten]

What is oshi no ko even about

[ionic schooner]

It's about this guy

Called oshi

He really hates ko

So

Oshi no ko

[next crescent]

Damn I wasn't the only one who went straight to oshi no ko yesterday? Lol

[next crescent]

In a nutshell: a super famous idol gets secretly pregnant and later ||murdered|| in her home, her kids grow up and one tries to be like their mom while the other tries to solve her murder

[undone marten]

Interesting premise

[next crescent]

Yeah, it's actually really good

It taps into the other side of idol culture that people don't generally see or think about

Idol and acting

[mighty cape]

You were better off going in blind lol

Wish I had seen this sooner to warn you or give you a different premise of my own

The first volume alone is an interesting test for a reader

Or the first episode I should say

But there’s a particular reason the protagonists go the route they do that you can at least look forward to

Granted with how absurdly popular the series is, it’s bound to happen to just about anyone

[undone marten]

I was asking for a synopsis not a whole ass spoiler

But it is what it is

[mighty cape]

my own 'safe' synopsis would be:

It's a drama series about a pair of twins pursuing a career in the celebrity industry, one out of a personal vendetta and the other to follow the footsteps of their mother who was a former idol at one point, while exploring the shady parts of the industry as a whole. A number of twists and turns along the way esp with ther former twin's motivations and goals.

[dusty fable]

Tbh, better to omit ||the murder|| part, because it's kinda the most interesting event in the story

[next crescent]

Oh shit I'm so sorry, I just looked it up and didn't realize the ||death|| part wasn't part of the official synopsis 😭

[shadow knot]

my favourite isekai (it was my first one)

[mighty cape]

now you must eat 5 sticky honey roasts whole

[rancid ledge]

ive never watched it