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>>3857
No, I never took the bus. I plan on visiting the daibutsu in Ushiku and the only ways to get there are either by car/taxi or by bus rom the Ushiku train station so I will eventually try at least once though. I've seen a lot of people who recommend taking night buses from one city to another to save money because the shinkansen can be expensive, but I always took the train to save time instead of money.

Trends at Comic City 31 https://twitter.com/anodoko/status/1785254703640801668

Gegege No Kitaro is popular lately, followed by Genshin and Touken Ranbu

>>3883
It's so funny how popular Hazbin Hotel is, it looks so out of place compared to all the other series listed.

I mainly read manga and have no strong opinions on manwha. I don't read webtoons or anyrhing and their print books are clearly not Japanese but that doesn't bother me. I guess from my experience their stuff tends to be "girlier" for lack of a better term. Like in all the ones I've read their men are much more androgynous. But it might just be the series I've checked out.

Source of the manga picrel?

Manga. I've read some manhwa before but 8/10 times the art is way too bland and soulless for me. I prefer manga illustration and panelling a lot more. Korea also seems to be going through its early yaoi stages because holy fuck are some body proportions insane. Some semes are so roided up and huge it's too gross for me to look at.

>>3156
Steam games are all censored basically, they don't allow R18 content. But you can download the R18 patch. It's free on Jast's website.

https://jastusa.com/games/blue006_r18dlc/paradise-18+-content-dlc

>>3160
Correction. They do allow R18n content, the reason you barely see it in VN releases is that they're absolutely retarded regarding content rules and that R18 content gets yeeted to its own section, so most devs just make patches and call it a day.

Azuma's such a tradthot

>>979
You and me nonna
Feel the same about the comics. Action is top tier, but characterwise only Optimus is written well so far. The humans could be cool as well, at least for human standards. But the rest is lacking. Soundwave kicking ass was nice, but my fear is that most of the Decepticons will be flat and evil and most of the Autobots mere yes-men and that the series will focus too much on cool action to ever write proper characters or dynamics.
>One of my favorite parts of transformers is the way characters interact with each other
Yes, this. Even Earthspark that focuses more on characters just gives us results like Megs and Optimus being friends, without caring to show their wartime conflicts or tell how they eventually got closer. Without that the relationship lacks the spice. And the rest of the legacy characters have nothing at all. The OCs are friends with everybody but I honestly don't like them (neither the Terrans nor their relationship dynamics), so Bee/Breakdown is the only interesting part for me.
>I'm hoping it's just the trailer jamming together all the crappy jokes
This is what I said on /co/ few hours ago. The jokes are awful and I would legit feel down if they finally used that fantastic premise only to turn it into another wacky nerd adventure for little kids that doesn't take anything seriously and refuses to thematize anything darker and depicts a "safe" war.
>Making Orion a miner also feels like they don't want to accidentally make baby's first class war
This and the attempt of making them "brothers", which I am honestly not a big fan of. I hope the impression is wrong and they deliberately try to attract the mass with shitty jokes since that's what they think the mass enjoys.

We know that Sentinel is part of the movie but the trailer doesn't show him, so maybe it's hiding the serious parts on purpose. Worst case would be that it's total shit but 1. making money (= more TF content in the future), 2. attracting tons of new fans that will later read/watch the other series and make fanart for them and 3. finally make people realize that fully animated TF movies without humans are profitable. This is the reason for why I will most likely pay for the cinema, even if the movie isn't very good.

>>971
I'm only watching cartoons right now but IDW is definitely on my to-read list

Does anyone know if Snowii draws them with vaginas? I'm interested in their patreon, but you never know nowadays…

>>5131
It pretty much is, because people still do the scars even in advanced futuristic or magical settings. It's all about making their headcanon visible in fanart, similar to 'autism headcanons' where people draw a character stimming or give them that chew necklace or whatever. They've got to make their headcanon 100% clear and obvious to everyone in some way or they won't get any asspats.

>>5133
>>5131
My 'favourite' instance I've seen personally is in the final fantasy 14 fandom with Au Ra characters because canonically the race has exaggerated sexual dimorphism between males and females. The males are naturally tall and buff while the females are naturally small and skinny. Yet the TIF Au ra OCs I've seen are always built like the males in every single way except they have the huge tit removal scars and a vagina. I know this is because they just use mods on their male player model but in-universe it implies that somehow the character could change their body enough to grow twice their size but not enough to just get rid of the other female qualities in a world where body-altering magic is canon.

>>5134
It's also funny when it goes the other way in low technology/historical settings, where you'll have trans 'headcanons' of super buff tall guys and tit surgery, when realistically if you want to make this character trans then they wouldn't have access to HRT, so would still have a female body type, and would be binding their chest (not to mention they wouldn't be sounding like the cis man who voice acted them). They rarely want to engage with the impact it would have on their upbringing due to gender roles either. It makes the 'any character can be trans!! my headcanon is totally valid!!' insisting extra empty.
At the end of the day it just comes down to projection fantasy and/or feminization fetish and it wouldn't even be as annoying if more people admitted it. This is why 'headcanon' is the worst possible term to use.

>>5071
Yes, agreed. They also put so much love and effort into sebastian bowing at the end of the episode. Whoever made that happen must be down bad for him. I've seen some 4chan anons claim this arc is bad but I'm personally interested to see where it will go.

>>5071
>fan service and bl moments
This particular arc has so, so much of that I'm practically beside myself with anticipation! God bless the yaoi queen yana toboso for preparing this feast for us.

>>5073
>sebastian bowing at the end of the episode
I must've replayed that little animation where his hair slips out from behind his ear about 50 times. The animators for that scene definitely wanted to fuck sebastian kek.

>4chan anons claim this arc is bad
4chan loves being contrarian. I remember seeing a poll on twitter some years ago asking which arc was the most popular among fans, and this arc ranked first.
I guess I can see why people might dislike it though because it is a bit different from the rest of the story tone-wise. But that's just a surface level observation imo. I think it makes perfect sense for this part of the story to seem 'lighter' because Ciel is infiltrating this normal school and pretending to have a normal life as a normal boy. Obviously they're not going to jump straight into the grimdark meat and potatoes of the story right away. That's just my two cents though kek

I sure didn't expect this guy to show up in the Touken ranbu anime.

>>3147
Satyrs are lovely, definitely my second favourite type of monster, do you do a distinction between satyr and faun or do you think they mean the same thing?
>I like the idea of a shy satyr boy trying to hide his legs from someone and being embarrassed about it.
That sounds incredibly adorable!

>>3148
Personally I don't but I think if ai were to devide them and use them interchangeably. I'm actually not sure what the real difference is classically, I'd need to look it up. If I had to divvy them up though it'd probably be pic related vs. >>3147 in terms of hair coverage.


Here's a reated question. Minotaur boys, are they good? I like the ship Asterius/Theseus from Hades but most minotaur characters are too non-human for me to like. Centaurs and Stayrs have a better potential for not just being monsters.

>>3158
Ah phone typing is hard. Oh well hope my post is legible.

Charon's a pretty cute taur, too bad offical art tends to "humanize" him.

>>2557
Nendoroids are awesome because every so often they'll just release a figure of a character you haven't thought of in years.

This is an old video but it lives rent free inside my head

>>717
Snagged!

CP on /bl/, trying to bump it off the main page

>>719
Deleted thanks for bumping

>>657
Yeah I thought they were a good starting point when I was tipping my toes into writing and they're still some of the most fun things to write imo.
Good luck with your writing nonna!

You know how to learn to draw, the best way is to start drawing still life from observation and work through fundamentals, construction etc? Cause if you just draw from imagination without learning, it still looks like shit. Is there any system like that in drawing for improving writing? Cause reading good literature doesn't automatically rub off on my writing, and when I try to write my own scenes they are capital S shit. They are Shit.

>>702
>They are Shit.
Do you understand why they are Shit or are you just being hard on yourself? What helps me with prose is not only reading "good" literature, but sometimes engaging with popular genre fiction that I know is mid/bad because it's easier to critique another person's work. For as long as I can stand to read I am thinking about why things are written the way they are and how I would write them instead. Borrow or pirate them; you don't even have to finish!

If you are getting your ideas down but don't like how they are written for a reason you can't identify, a common culprit is passive voice.

>>315
idiazu shippers always make the best stuff

>>3879
>I also love loyal lackeys with their leaders
Woman after my own heart! Yes! And the lackey/right hand man needs to top

>>3879
>lawful evil and lawful neutral characters
Yes!! This is why i love Pucci from JJBA so much. Evil that comes from a place of sincere beliefs has a special flavor to it.
>allegedly strong leaders that are actually figureheads serving some twink that they look up to
You've unearthed a new need. I have to find a ship that remotely sounds like this

>>3880
>And the lackey/right hand man needs to top
YES. I really liked the Batman TV animated show as a kid and thought Batman ought to be topped by his butler-lover after my fujo awakening (if only he wasn't bald…)

>>3877
Even better if this starts to come undone while they're raising the sexual tension. Small glimpses of impatience in the submissive character, or unexpected shyness.

>Woman after my own heart!
Am I going insane or did I suddenly start seeing this exact sentence pop up everywhere this year?

>>3138
It was a fun ep, but yeah, a little obviously fast even as a current animeonly. I'd been planning to pick up the manga when I can, but this ep definitely spurred my decision further. Though I have been told by other anons that uh, Hibiki doesn't exactly have a fun time as things progress and considering he's already down a limb/scarred from this ep, I'll just have to see how that goes. Poor dude.
Hard agree about Red, btw! He's a fucking nut and it's awesome.

>>3140
>spoilers
Yeah, it's extreme. I didn't expect them to go that far, I have seen pics from the manga and wow. On the other side it makes me respect him even more. He goes through the kind of suffering that they usually reserve for villains that deserve it. He could become insanely cool for this though so I am intrigued. I didn't expect any of this development, I assumed he would be the nice sidekick that only exists to be a cheerleader for the MCs.
Recommend reading the manga, at least the parts involving content for this episode, since they skipped a bunch of important Hibiki and D dialogue that develops their relationship and shows more about Hibiki's and D's pasts.
>Hard agree about Red, btw! He's a fucking nut and it's awesome.
Feels good finally having a legit psychopath again. Crazies are a bit rare and when they appear they're usually laughing maniacs, but I consider them more interesting when they're rational and manipulative. Red seems calm and controlled and he is even funny. But then he casually reveals his mindset when he talks about his victims, says things everybody knows is a lie or turns around to murder his SIC. What the hell.

>>3142
>Yeah, it's extreme.
>He goes through the kind of suffering that they usually reserve for villains that deserve it.
I do not doubt. Back when I first watched ep1 people were already vagueposting about him and I'm just like 'what happens wtf?'. I hope it does lead somewhere for him, and isn't just miseryporn for miseryporn's sake.
>they skipped a bunch of important Hibiki and D dialogue/shows more about Hibiki's and D's pasts
It's definitely on my backlog. Fast as it was I still liked their interactions during the ep so that'll surely be fun to have a little more of while reading.
>Red
"Pleasant to be around until they're suddenly not" psychos are awesome, and he's shaping up to be a good one. Like you said, the casual flipping back and forth between personable and absolutely unhinged is a rollercoaster.

Does anyone have the AlibabaxAladdin from Tsubasa Yamaguchi(Blue Period) ?

I had Dungeon Meshi on my to-read list for years because it always sounded and looked like my type of fantasy. I only read a few volumes in that time, but the anime has been a lot of fun (Chilchuck's voice threw me for a loop though, I imagined something more mature). There's a physicality to the characters that's nice to watch when they interact, and I love revisiting fantasy tropes like stubborn dwarves getting on with shit and shunning magic no matter what they're told.

The fandom is one of those sprawling beasts you don't want to poke with a long stick. I've been getting my kicks out of fanart here and there, but it's just as easy to find shit that doesn't work for me. Personally, when I first read the manga, Laios had this kind of empty stare when he wanted something and there was some line like "every day he gets less human", and I'm sorry but that stuff makes me horny. Can't explain away a fetish.

>>5122
Yeah I'm usually first to say "no we're just having fun, not saying it's canon" about fujo ship saturation in a fandom, but the yuri shippers in DunMesh fandom seem to reaally really push that it's canon and you have to acknowledge it. I'm sure I'm biased as hell to see it that way, but it feels like they're more serious than fujo shippers.

>>5116
A friend and I did it for shits and giggles. We quickly found that every story it produced had the exact same plot and was more a two paragraph movie blurb than actual prose. Trying to write prose into it would start promising then turn the same way.

>>5129
>Trying to write prose into it would start promising then turn the same way.
LLMs tend to get off-topic the longer they go on, maybe that's why it starts okay before falling back to the same patterns. Have you tried a more collaborative approach? Like telling it you will be taking turns writing each paragraph. Maybe it will produce something better if it only has to write every other paragraph with user input in-between.