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>>3373
I'm a Yamatsukkifag so maybe a bit unorthodox but I like Norio's doujin for fluffy stuff
>https://myreadingmanga.info/tag/norio-komametsushinsya/
plus MADAMAYO for nsfw, untranslated though
>https://myreadingmanga.info/madamayo-kimura-hidesato-zenchi-nishukan-haikyuu-dj-jp/

This author also has some nice Levyaku
>https://myreadingmanga.info/tag/ichikabachika-yuchitose/

>>3375
Thanks!

I’ve never watched an anime with so many smug boys, it’s ridiculous.

>>3556
This is so freakin' cute it inspired me to scrawl down some New Years' fic.
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The postbox is filled with postcards.

Some few are from business associates, management, and distant relations. These lie in simple, but well-folded envelopes, waiting to be opened, nodded at, and filed away. They’re all pre-printed. Even without reading them, one can guess that they’re all adorned with horses.

There are horses on the other ones, too, albeit hand-drawn ones. The envelopes are hand-folded from tickets, newspapers, certificates, whatever humans have thrown out, or forgotten.

A small hand reaches out for them.

“Not now, Kitaro. We’ll look at them later, ok?” Gegero nods, gently wrapping the boy into a shirt. “We’re off to the shrine first.”

“Da.” Kitaro nods, sagely. Mizuki’s heart swells stupidly with pride, it isn’t even technically his child, but the quiet, observing tone in the boy’s voice has him impressed. Kitaro is growing into a quiet child, crying only under distress. Mizuki isn’t sure if it’s a youkai thing or not, but he appreciates it, all the same.

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A lot of fanworks seem to have Mizuki as raising Kitaro with Gegerou, while still having dark hair. Is there some fanon explenation for that?

>>3564
I think people not drawing him with white hair it's not to spoiler stuff, or artworks before the release of the movie (dunno how old are the fanart you posted). But Japanese are pretty open about "delusions", how they call it, which is why teenage kitaro/mizuki exist

I finally found the time to start Fate/Samurai Remnant! There looks to be a lot of fujo potential, although I'm reserving judgment until I get further into it. I feel like I'm missing something with the lore, though, as this game's Saber seems to have been summoned without understanding concepts from the era into which he was summoned? I'm talking basic stuff like the concept of money. That hasn't been the case in previous series, where servants receive basic knowledge of the current era. There was like a whole conversation about it between Saber and Shirou in the VN, if I recall, not to mention all the other times it's happened in other series. I'm wondering if it's an intentional choice in the writing (ie Saber's lying about how much he knows).

Anyways, it's pretty fun so far, and the combat is unarguably better than in Extra or CCC. I don't know when I'll find time to finish it. Has anyone else played it?

>>3560
I bought it a few months ago but haven't had time to start it yet since I'm in the middle of another long game. New Saber boy is cute, that cluelessness is weird and I can't think of a single other servant with that quirk but knowing the franchise it probably isn't an oversight.

Who's your favorite servant in the game so far? Any fun new additions?

>>3563
The new Archer is very cute, and there seems to be a lot of ship art of him with his master. I think he's my favorite of the new servants so far, but my mind could still be changed because the cast is really good in this.

However, I'm also very happy to see Gil return in this one, especially in a new class, as he's one of my most favorite characters in the whole franchise.

>>3358
>>3360
I have downloaded the English game on my tablet, and I'm going to try to watch the anime and get caught up on the lore by reading the translated stories (at least, the cult one and the stuff about the war) from the first game after life calms down in the next few weeks. Very disappointed to hear that the war is metaphorical and this series is not, in fact, about a bunch of child soldiers who sing and dance in their free time.

>>3361
Oh, there are actual former child soldiers, just not in relation to "the war".

sorry for your loss akatsukisisters

Satan help me get through the next three weeks, the "IT'S CAPITANOVER" doomposting is unbearable. Why does nobody believe me when I say avatar_male_sword_ilcapitano

Anyway, these two are delicious together and I'm glad so many other fujos agree. When Hoyo gives you this few male characters, they better be bangers.

Just finished the archon quest. All in all, it doesn't top Fontaine's, or even Sumeru's. It's better than Mondstadt's, but that's only because Mondstadt was the first nation, so kind of an easy bar to clear. Liyue and even Inazuma's archon quests were better than it imo though.

The scene with the Captain was pretty much the best part. The final part of it reminded me of the Lich King from WoW. I also liked all the npcs from various side quests who came to our aid, was cool to see.

5.3 spoiler pics

"stay strong, my soldiers", even Mavuika ships it

>>3532
>Duck being strangely sentimental. Almost like he thinks something might happen to him.
I don't want to think about it but I should probably mentally prepare myself for the possibility of him getting slain by the Butcher.

>>3549
What if he tricks the demon king into merging back together and tempts him into ruining his own plot?

>>3558
I can certainly see it heading that way.

>>3519
Right?? I completely agree and (third time reuploading this post and the spoiler wrap is still not working, read further text at your own discretion) loathe alexandria and all the horrific modern/cyberpunk-esque aesthetics it brought along with it. Inb4 previous final fantasy games had future elements in it, yeah it did indeed but it was kept to a minimum and the outfits still had a classic "final fantasy-esque" look to them that still kept them timeless and classy. I wish Alexandria had similar aesthetics to living memory, a technology enhanced kingdom that still retained old architecture to reflect their culture of perpetuality and clinging to the past. Imagine ishgard but more colorful and with LED lights kek. I know this will never happen because they cant outright remove an area in a game, but my megacope is that once the alexandria shard gets restored, the area goes back to their original world and heritage found ends up becoming a massive crater that once held the region.
Another thing, I just wish they actually let the scions behind in endwalker and maybe have them show up as a cameos in future expansions/side content only. They served absolutely no purpose in dawntrail that couldn't have been done by a new NPC. I dont even care if people call the new NPCs "bootleg scions" I just want them to lay down orbiting the wol for everything and focus on their own goals.
Ive been mega delulu regarding xiv MSQ these days and my biggest cope is that they keep the plot generic so players can flesh out the world building themselves while the devs focus more on gameplay/mechanics. Extremely lazy sure, but it makes me content as a writer since I dont have to worry about minor cultural lore getting retconned or character personalities/reactions not aligning to the wol's personality/canon. Dawntrail dialogue being generic as fuck? Alphinaud pointing to a mountain and saying "this looks like heavensward"? No problem, I can envision the filler conversation inbetween that and have it pull references from fleshed out segments in the story like the downtime during the travel to the churning mists from my personal lore.

apologies for the unprompted text dump, i get really excited when the XIV threads get bumped up from time to time and I love to read other player's writing and thoughts about the lore

>>3542
>Inb4 previous final fantasy games had future elements in it
I've argued so hard with people who just refuse to read what I have to say. I never played 13 or 15 so I can't say anything about that but I feel like all the older FF tech stuff has been stylized steampunk or mystical tech that fits in better with the fantasy elements and not just Cyberpunk 2077. You didn't see Celes end up in GPU city encountering a vending machine.
>I know this will never happen because they cant outright remove an area in a game, but my megacope is that once the alexandria shard gets restored, the area goes back to their original world and heritage found ends up becoming a massive crater that once held the region.
Yeah sadly I can't imagine they would either, especially after all that writing about coexistence. I've been hoping that at the very least they will let us remove that dome. One of the plot points they brought up is the levin sickness and it sounded like they could never permanently fix it unless these people no longer live inside of a plasma globe.
>Another thing, I just wish they actually let the scions behind in endwalker
Yeah same. Admittedly before DT launched I was part of the problem as a G'raha simp who wanted him to stick around cause he's my precious catboy but by now I also wish they had just retired the scions. Would've been an interesting parallel if we assembled new party members of each tural race just like Gulool jaja did on his journey.
>Ive been mega delulu regarding xiv MSQ these days and my biggest cope is that they keep the plot generic so players can flesh out the world building themselves while the devs focus more on gameplay/mechanics.
I've seen someone in the recent /a/ homo thread joke that since ishikawa's departure it shows we needed to have a fujo in charge of the writing and not waifufags but I guess we have no idea what mandates go on behind the scenes. Maybe I should just think of it more from a writing perspective too, that I didn't necessarily misunderstood Erenville but that the game simply left stuff blank that I wanted to see and I should imagine it myself. Oh btw to spoiler something you have to wrap the spoiler with ** on each side, not the way it works on 4Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3544
> I don't really want to bitch about dawntrail in other XIV communities I'm on anymore cause I'm sure most people are tired of hearing it but here I can just get it off my chest.
Oh i completely get that. Im mostly tired of people expressing disdain on the expansion except they dont actually have a critical reason for hating it and only dislike it because fetch quests, scrote streamer said it was boring, or vendetta against wuk's VA (not that I care my voices are on JP)
There are so many glaring flaws to easily pick from but people tend to stick to the lowest hanging branch and repeat it over and over it starts to get redundant. That aside, I love reading people's deep critique regarding the lore, and their interpretations on how they could've changed it to be better or less two dimensional.

And even if I have a lot of criticism regarding dawntrail and openly make fun of its shallowness sometimes, I still had a lot of fun going through the MSQ on my own pace and personally enjoyed that the wol had a backseat role while a new character sort of filled the slot as a primary character (though my character is a non-wol so its probably easier to think of it this way lol) though theres no fixing alexandria and I personally retconned it in my head to look more like 9/13/15 which had a more steampunk/medieval style as you said with futuristic elements incorporated in it.

Inuyasha. Everyone I knew preferred Sesshomaru, but Inuyasha is a perfect mix of hot and cute. I still love him, just not obsessed with him like I was when I was younger.

Strange Klug from Puyo Puyo. I pirated Puyo 20th around when it came out in 2011 and fell in love with him. I think this guy is the reason why I have a huge thing for evil pretty boys with glasses, and dark personas. He gave me a huge thing for selfcest too, now do I think about it, kek.

He still holds a special place in my heart, but I'm incredibly embarrassed to admit to others that he was my first husbando because of how the Puyo fans tend to be nowadays.

>>3524
Nice! Klug is my fav character so naturally Strange Klug psedo-selfcest is one of the best pairings in the franchise. It's a shame the plots involving Klug and Sig's demons got dropped post PP7 it's arguably the most interesting SEGA era Puyo plot. I guess this is the trade off for having the newer entries officially translated into English.

>>3486
Agree, Victor wrecks him. Impressive just how many bottoms Pokemon produces.

>>3487
The only question now is who is the cutest uke in all of Pokemon besides Silver

>>3484
If Avery also counts as a rival, he's also 100% a bratty uke. I wish there was more of him with the male protag, age gap is too good…
>N is seme except with his dad
Have to disagree with you on this one nona, I think top!Touya is cute. This ship can go either way really.
Rei as a rival is also 100% uke. He bottoms even to Akari.
>>3488
I think the only answer can be your favourite one. It's all in your heart.

>>3149
Well not really, because these people use this argument as a cope to say nobody should ship them even if Gege most likely ships them himself.

All the talk about how MHA's bonus chapter ruined the most popular fujo pairing got me thinking, does anyone here think we'll also have a bonus chapter in the last volume of JJK? Volumes 29 and 30 will be released at the same time on Christmas Eve or Christmas so it's going to be very soon.