Ako Kobayashi is a high school girl eagerly awaiting her prince charming to sweep her off her feet, but she has to overcome one small problem: she is so afraid of guys that she breaks out in hives whenever she comes near one. She even rejects the popular Kei Kitaooji who is the first guy to ever...
FYI the career mode in the new Made In Abyss game everyone's been shitting on since the first previews is legit pretty good and I'm enjoying it.
Meanwhile Riko mode is fucking dogshit and smells like something they were forced to tack on at the last second, unfortunately you have to finish it to play the real game.
Fortunately it's basically a tutorial scenario and it's pretty short. The problem is it doesn't tell you that, and instead punishes you for exploring and makes inventory management a nightmare with all the seemingly-useful junk you can collect that it doesn't actually let you use in that mode. Just run past everything, follow the quest markers and drop anything that isn't food and you'll be okay.
A while ago, I binge watched Made in Abyss because I thought to myself “pffft, there’s no way it can be as fucked up as everyone says it is.”
I ate my words.
Author’s creepy fetishes aside, I was not prepared for the absolute fucking nightmare fuel that is stuffed into this series. The first handful of episodes, or two volumes in the manga, reminded me of watching a Ghibli movie with some unsettling revelations.
BUT THEN EPISODE NINE TROTS IN TO SAY “FUCK YOU WE ARE DIALLING THIS SHIT UP TO ELEVEN”
And don’t get me started on Mitty. Or Prushka. And now Irumyuui.
Just what the fuck have I gotten myself into?
For anyone else watching the show, how do you feel about the theory that the abyss itself is a living organism that has been swallowing up civilizations every 2000 years? I can buy it, but I have a feeling that if that were true then that would only be the tip of the iceberg.
Being caught up on the manga now, and I find myself wanting to know what the fuck kind of atrocities lies ahead of the 6th layer.
I thought I’d mention that so far, I don’t trust Srajo at all. I get that she’s hot and all, but I get the feeling that she isn’t given the plague doctor design for no reason. In fact, I wonder if she’s been trying to find a way to “cure” Narehates, but ends up doing more harm to them in the end but continues anyway. I might be jumping the gun, and I acknowledge that
I'm not sure how much of a following Lucky Star has these days but I similarly didn't know how big of a following Haruhi Suzumiya still had when the last novel that was released sold like hotcakes.
For anyone else watching the show, how do you feel about the theory that the abyss itself is a living organism that has been swallowing up civilizations every 2000 years? I can buy it, but I have a feeling that if that were true then that would only be the tip of the iceberg.
I have like four parallel, mutually-exclusive theories. One of which required me to draw a Back to the Future blackboard diagram to wrap my head around because black hole timeline stuff is a huge mindfuck.
The intricacy of it is so satisfying. Every time I re-read the manga, which if you tally up partial reads where I go back to check one thing on a particular page and end up going through a whole volume is probably a dozen times, I find some new detail. Normally you gotta fear the author is just making shit up as he goes but I think this dude is an actual genius.
And yeah, Ozen warned about all 3 of the deep white whistles. She said Bondrewd is the worst but told em to watch out for Srajo as well. And Ozen hates lying to children; after testing them she dumped a bunch of restricted white whistle-level knowledge on the pair so I doubt she was kidding about that part.
For anyone else watching the show, how do you feel about the theory that the abyss itself is a living organism that has been swallowing up civilizations every 2000 years? I can buy it, but I have a feeling that if that were true then that would only be the tip of the iceberg.
It kind of sounds like a forced conflict. I like that the Abyss is just a random hole that attracts people into it, and the whole story being very personal. We don't need the heroes to save the world or any kind of explanation how the Abyss was formed.
Also the whole idea of the force field only working on you if you try to exit the Abyss is brilliant.
I kinda doubt it'll go that way, or at least there are too many mysteries surrounding what's actually happening every cycle to conclude that 2000-year deal is really what people think it is. Maybe they'll fix the birthday disease, or conclude that people shouldn't be living there at all, but the abyss feels like too much of a fundamental force of nature for some kids to do anything about it (and it's just as likely that it's the primordial crucible from which life returns whenever some outside force wipes it out, as opposed to being the source of the threat).
One thing people overlook is Lyza's epithet. Bondrewd is of "The Dawn" and is fixated on preparing for the dawn of the next cycle, so Lyza being "The Annihilator" sounds important--there could be a very good reason it needs to be initiated, or something.
(The wiki thinks she's called that because she's just so good at fightin but as usual wiki authors are plotlets and the manga doesn't actually fucking say that, it's just mentioned in proximity.) And there are some potential connections like the bell, her grave in the amaranthine-deceptor field and them having tentacles that look like Wazukyan's but we don't know what that means yet.
Somehow, in the later part of this upcoming week will be almost nine years since I read the AKIRA manga for the first time. I didn’t even watch the movie version of it until a couple of years after the fact, and I remembered that I made the mistake of watching the English dub version of it over the Japanese dub.
I think this time, I’ll re-read it again. It’s been a long time since I read it clearly and carefully.
have you guys read the manga Aiki? it was made by Isutoshi who was famous for making another classic called slut girl. if you into battle shonen, fart and dick jokes, rape and the abuse of women kind, it would highly recommend it.
the main character is such a lovable asshole. one of the better ones out there.
"Also its presented as something of an open secret in the fandom that Gil was going brokeback mountain on Kotomine. That’s not strictly speaking canon is it? Come to think of it, was anything in their lives in the period between regular fate and zero touched upon ?"
No. It was never stated something like that.
Gil is maintained by the children's body in the church, so there isn't a need for buttfucking or nothing like that. This idea of yours sounds more like a yaoi doujinshi plot.
lol no.
Apocrypha understands the core of Fate as a franchise so hard that makes Zero looks like a joke, and with a cast that is double the size in the same ammount of volumes.
And Shirou Amakusa I think it is better than Kirei as an antagonist, since they had the same upbringing and are similar. but Shirou desire isn't something evil, but it comes from a genuine love for humanity and a desire for salvation with lots of resolution.
And to not even talk about the animation or music, apocrypha is really good fate route based story which expands the world of fate so much.
The anime being written by the same guy who wrote the novel helps a lot
"Also its presented as something of an open secret in the fandom that Gil was going brokeback mountain on Kotomine. That’s not strictly speaking canon is it? Come to think of it, was anything in their lives in the period between regular fate and zero touched upon ?"
No. It was never stated something like that.
Gil is maintained by the children's body in the church, so there isn't a need for buttfucking or nothing like that. This idea of yours sounds more like a yaoi doujinshi plot.
lol no.
Apocrypha understands the core of Fate as a franchise so hard that makes Zero looks like a joke, and with a cast that is double the size in the same ammount of volumes.
And Shirou Amakusa I think it is better than Kirei as an antagonist, since they had the same upbringing and are similar. but Shirou desire isn't something evil, but it comes from a genuine love for humanity and a desire for salvation with lots of resolution.
I'm not sure how much of a following Lucky Star has these days but I similarly didn't know how big of a following Haruhi Suzumiya still had when the last novel that was released sold like hotcakes.
Lol this is why I kind of quit on manga. In manga, you'll have a really popular story that gets backburnered until everyone forgets it, while the artists and writers get reassigned to work on some shity isekai for at least 10 hours a day with the rest of their time (including sleep time) being spent on sports manga. Oh yeah, and said popular story was already a 'monthly release,' meaning you're lucky if you get a single chapter + a page of heavily censored fanservice every six months. Meanwhile, with manhua, a popular series ends up getting a release every other day.
Not even the worst mc of fate itself, that is HAKUNO kishinami.
In the context of the story, sieg characterization makes totally sense, being born as a mana battery that gains more and more sentience due to siegfried's heart.
And knowing how Siegfried thinks and acts, it makes totally sense for him being who he is.
Yeah, I just watched the Heaven's Feel movies and they were alright.
I really think it's just a mistake in general to adapt long visual novels into anime because I could seriously feel all of the cuts and missing details of the story even moreso than in UBW. Like, this felt like it was made for people who already read HF and could fill in the gaps for more emotional impact because not many scenes got anything out of me. Based on the events, I could believe that this could be great in VN form with all the blanks filled in but I didn't really care for it. I know that the HF route is "The Sakura Route" but I thought that it was supposed to be more of a shared route between Sakura and Illya and Illya barely did shit in these movies. I'm glad that my boy Kirei got some of the spotlight and literally stole the show every time he was on screen but I feel like their fight towards the end was too short and that Shirou just kinda outlasted him instead of defeating him which would have been fine if he was portrayed as much stronger than Shirou but he wasn't and outlasting someone who seems to be at around your strength level is a lot less exciting if the fight is this short. I also know that this Shirou is supposed to be a lot stronger than the version of him at the end of UBW but his showing for the most part really don't make him feel like it.
All in all, they were meh, I'll have to read the VN sometime soon. I also wanna read Tsukihime though which I probably will first.
Basically, this is still me when I see Kiritsugu Emiya:
Ako Kobayashi is a high school girl eagerly awaiting her prince charming to sweep her off her feet, but she has to overcome one small problem: she is so afraid of guys that she breaks out in hives whenever she comes near one. She even rejects the popular Kei Kitaooji who is the first guy to ever...
Check out Okama Report, it's a mature themed romcom from the creator of Homunculus and Ichi the Killer. Guy gets drunk and his friends make him cross dress as a joke and he ends up working at a gay bar, despite being straight and he meets a girl that he likes, but she has a boyfriend.
I liked the first season and the movie trilogy, but the abuse is a bit much. Ozen beating up the kids in order to train them and Bondrewd being as diabolical as possible was already a bit much, but with everything that is going on in the second season... I think I'll pass. I may watch it once the season finishes airing, but it seems like a torture endurance test.
Watch Jojo part 6. Apparently, Netflix did a shit job of subtitling. Had Foo Fighters referred as they/them then say she/her in the next episode. Good job, Netflix.
A while ago, I binge watched Made in Abyss because I thought to myself “pffft, there’s no way it can be as fucked up as everyone says it is.”
I ate my words.
Author’s creepy fetishes aside, I was not prepared for the absolute fucking nightmare fuel that is stuffed into this series. The first handful of episodes, or two volumes in the manga, reminded me of watching a Ghibli movie with some unsettling revelations.
BUT THEN EPISODE NINE TROTS IN TO SAY “FUCK YOU WE ARE DIALLING THIS SHIT UP TO ELEVEN”
And don’t get me started on Mitty. Or Prushka. And now Irumyuui.
Just what the fuck have I gotten myself into?
For anyone else watching the show, how do you feel about the theory that the abyss itself is a living organism that has been swallowing up civilizations every 2000 years? I can buy it, but I have a feeling that if that were true then that would only be the tip of the iceberg.
Being caught up on the manga now, and I find myself wanting to know what the fuck kind of atrocities lies ahead of the 6th layer.
I thought I’d mention that so far, I don’t trust Srajo at all. I get that she’s hot and all, but I get the feeling that she isn’t given the plague doctor design for no reason. In fact, I wonder if she’s been trying to find a way to “cure” Narehates, but ends up doing more harm to them in the end but continues anyway. I might be jumping the gun, and I acknowledge that
It's a rare series. It's very good and the exact quality is hard to nail, it's very genuine. Reg is a bit of a pussy in a well-written way. Riko's adventurous spirit and naive nature edges a line where I really enjoy her. The author being a 40yo lolicon who lives with his mother and has questionable imput of his fetishes is one of those things where shit like the toilet in Value Village is creepy, but it ties into the rest of the village being a horror show.
10/10 series. Am making a Prushka drink with Cinnamon in it.
So some anime I've never heard of allegedly had the producer run away with all the production money. I find it pretty funny because that's literally a plot point in a godaweful arc in the new Jashin Chan season.
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