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>>3619
samefag because my first reply was too long and i had to split it into two.

slight disagreement on yuta, but i’m biased just because i think he’s cute, tbh. and i liked his tragic (albeit generic) backstory more than gojo’s “i was born the most special baby and i have always been the most special baby and the only truly bad thing to ever happen to me was losing my high school boyfriend” thing, but ymmv.

>he made a whole chapters all about the characters replying to these anons instead of mourning the dead or talking about what they plan to do next
i should have mentioned this along with my blue shadow style lore dump complaint because i also laughed at this. genuine “uhm, actually” vibes. like, why was it not just some sort of ending note?? and yet, i almost find it stupidly amusing for some reason.

so, still, i wouldn’t consider it to be anywhere near the dumpster fire to the extent that some people did. also i got gojo/geto out of the equation, which naturally makes everything worth it. i used to have more shame about the “well, at least there’s fan content” mindset, but in this case i really did kind of treat canon as the springboard to eventually get into all the art, fic, doujinshi, etc. almost like an investment, lmao.

>>3619
>there wasn’t really a singular “oh shit” moment where it hit me at once that gojo had actually lost, more of a progressive “wait, what” sort of feeling
I get what you mean. In my case it was the reverse, if I didn't see leaks against my will before even starting the manga I would have been nervous the whole time and expecting anything to happen. The battle made perfect sense imo, the end made it look like Gojo was about to win for very logical reasons, with how everyone was explaining which techniques Gojo and Sukuna were using. The way his defeat was presented kind of ruined it though. It's funny how almost everyone agreed even way after that chapter that him dying ironically made him look stronger than Sukuna after all, since Sukuna kept spamming binding vows left and right after that. I can already imagine Gege whining that he made Gojo too strong again so he just skipped to the airport scene to make his job easier. I feel like I'm repeating myself but it's hard to explain, idk.

>slight disagreement on yuta, but i’m biased just because i think he’s cute, tbh
I actually like Yuta, but him using Gojo's corpse and having like 10 shot flashbacks where he keeps saying "don't worry I planned this complete bullshit move so now it's time for plan A, B, C, D, E, F, G etc." looked so stupid it kind of ruined him for me. After learning that JJK0 was meant to be longer and Yuta would have progressively evolved in that story all of this made sense, but it's insane how Kusakabe keeps explaining everything and coming up with ideas and all of a sudden it's Yuta who does this, but almost only in flashbacks. I would have liked it more if everyone was just coming up with their own bullshit on the spot out of sheer desperation, Yuta possessed Gojo's corpse would have been a lot more impactful that way and we wouldn't have had this ridiculous scene where Yuta says he's willing to be a monster to win like Maki didn't slaughter her own family in cold blood a few days earlier. Again, I can already imagine Gege drawing the last arc and being like "fuck I forgot to put Yuta's existential crisis in the manga earlier, I need to do it now" and Yuta cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3621
Still the same anon but I might as well talk about other things from the manga. I don't understand why Tsumiki isn't blood related to Megumi. There's no point to this, the story would have been the exact same or better if she were just his older sister and a Zenin who's not a sorcerer. Instead only Megumi ever interacts with her on screen and in flashbacks only, Toji never, ever talks or thinks about her, Gojo interacted with her offscreen and it's not even relevant, etc. Before she or rather, Yorozu woke up from her coma I was wondering if Megumi wasn't becoming schizophrenic and hallucinating having a sister that nobody heard about before to cope with his shitty life. Yuki was very underdeveloped too but I liked her overall. It's like Gege wanted to make her some cool, mysterious figure and forgot to give us more hints for it to work. Same thing with Tengen and her relationship with Kenjaku.

On the other hand what was funny was how Sukuna and Yuji's grandfather being twins seemed too obvious so everyone got tricked into thinking Sukuna's twin was reincarnated as either Yuji or Jin. Even Sukuna guessed it wrong. What fucks me up is that thanks to what we learned with Mai and Maki it's kind of implying that Yuji's grandfather was on of the strongest sorcerers until he died at the hospital, and his strength went to Sukuna's fingers as soon as he died which explains why Sukuna wakes up very soon after. But he clearly didn't give a single fuck, minded his own business, raised his kid and grandkid and spent too much money in pachinko parlors. It also makes me wonder what was up with Jin? Since he turned out to be a normal guy who says some really suspicious shit the one time he's on screen. It's like he knew something was going on the whole time,maybe he was also a sorcerer and that's why he married one. I wonder what Yuji's grandpa told Yuji about his parents because Yuji also didn't give a fuck until the very end.

Last point, but I consider Yuji/Megumi canon until stated otherwise. I still can't believe Megumi became the tsundere heroine/damsel in distress at the end, it wasn't even subtle with how Yuji told him he would be lonely without Megumi by his side while crying. When you think about it none of this bullshit would have happened if it weren't for Megumi stPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3615
Based, I loved Bastard. It's so funny that every reader I ever met was a woman. Back then I considered the series prime male targeting material (and technically it is, being shounen/seinen), but I feel like dudes like Dark Schneider are more popular among girls and women. He's way too much of a chad to be a relatable MC for the average of male reader lmao
> I was asking myself what the fuck was going on with the Shonen Jump magazine at the time compared to now
I wish we could get it back. I actually prefer series with sex over that weird innocent ecchi that is so popular nowadays where the girls are usually super innocent (and underaged) virgins and the camera assumes the role of the creep by showing their pantsus at every given opportunity even during serious or down-to-earth scenes (looking at you too, Shinkai) or write all girls as devote tradwives. At least Bastard women were wild and could kick ass.

But speaking about raunchy stuff. One of the many reasons for why I consider GK special is that its fans are super chill from what I experienced so far. Maybe it helps that the series is super "problematic" to begin with for featuring soldiers and thematizing patriotism and traditionalism to some degree as well as featuring a ton of big burly masculine men. I think the types of fans that usually start online drama aren't interested in that sort of stuff.

>>3617
>I wish we could get it back.
Same. Just for recent examples we had JJK, which has a degenerate sadistic hedonist who eats people because he's a fat fuck as the main antagonist but the longer the manga gets the less relevant it becomes so he just acts like a grumpy old man most of the time, and MHA was supposed to have mostly adult characters instead of teenagers studying in the same high school. This can't be the same magazine that serialized Bastard and City Hunter.

>I think the types of fans that usually start online drama aren't interested in that sort of stuff.
I think that's it. If these same people got tricked into reading or watching GK because the beginning was a lot less brutal they wouldn't shut up about it, but instead they already know they won't like the story but by reading what it's about.

is dogsred any good if you dont care for sports too much? It's the same author so maybe some of you checked it out already and can comment

>>3513
I wish Mads Mikkelsen were cast as Grindelwald from the beginning, he's exactly what I expected from the character based on what we already know in the HP books. Whoever decided to cast Johnny Depp deserves nothing. If JKR herself wanted him in that role I'd be very disappointed in her, regardless of Johnny Depp being an abusive degenerate because I heard about his role in the movie before he got sued by Amber Heard and already avoided them on purpose until the third one got released. I wonder when we'll get more movies, I heard there were supposed to be 5 of them but I assume it's complicated based on, well, Johnny Depp's scandal, Ezra Miller's own criminal record, several of the actresses not returning or barely having screen time in the latest movie because they were pregnant, etc. I want more old man yaoi. Unironically.

My sample may be skewed but it kind of looks like HPDM is more popular with Western fans now, it seemed more equal/leaned towards DMHP before. I have an inkling it's because of one artist though I'm not sure; her art has a lot of likes compared to others so I'm sure it swayed some people.

>>3432
Do you have specific tastes or something of the sort? HP is the only series I can reliably go to if I want good long fic so my experience is the opposite.

>>3501
Not a ribafag myself but I can link some if you're still interested.

>>3513
I wonder if Hideo Kojima reads Grindelwald/reader fics and self inserts…

>>3586
Yes! Would love to see him acting erratically and lose control. I want to see him try to fight his insticts and fail. Just one moment he's pouring tea, and the next, trying to hide a growl or accidentally shape-shifts, or loses concentration in some goofy way.

>>3586
Oh my god that would be so perfect and dramatic

>>3586
It could happen, right? His whole thing is how he wants to eat Ciel's soul because he's so mentally fucked up or maybe because he could be related to Undertaker, who knows it would taste good, as opposed to eating other souls that would just taste normal. Maybe Sebastian is developing a supernatural eating disorder without realizing it.

Do any other anons still play this game? The new world is coming out soon, hopefully there'll be some good fujobait.

>roll Sunday
>GET SUNDAY
>Roll chad thundercock
>run out of jades

I'm not going to torture myself with those awful missions or that dumb deer. Oh well, once again, no Lightning because I refuse to touch Sevral.

A real shame, I genuinely enjoyed him as a guest character during the trailblaze mission where he joins. Lightning feels like a legitimate requirement for some encounters and Moze simply doesn't work being single target only.

I wonder if they'll shape Phainon up to be like Firefly (in regards to MC shipping/self-inserting aspects, not just meta). Even with barely anything right now it's doing more for me than DanCae though I'm barely interested in HSR shipping in general honestly.

>>3510
I don't have any Lightning DPSes either, I've been coping through the game with only my JL and FF kek, can still clear endgame content well though.

>>3494
Thanks. I'll try the anime instead.

>>3493
Totally worth it. The last episodes of season 2 were the most intense of any anime i've ever seen. Plus anime kaiji is qt

Getting obsessed with big nosed men manga for the cuteness of a 70+ year old blood-draining tsundere villain was definitely not on my bingo card when I started Akagi in the late 00s but here we are.
I am glad that fkmt manga are popular enough to spawn spinoff series for the villains and that the fandoms for his big old hits are still alive, even 15 years later. Bless Fukumoto and his autism. That guy has a crazy talent for dramatic climaxes and infodumps that are actually interesting. Even the series that are solely about games never bore me for a second.

I admit I also find most of his characters very relatable, even though his series feel like they were written for middle aged men with midlife crises lmao

>>3571
>kirikami topping bakugou
I see your vision. Bakugo healing.

>>3573
>ifunny
Everyday I loathe google reverse search.

>>3573
I used to also imagine kiri>kami>baku train because it was fun to see a twink like kaminari topping bakugou, but now he looks so confident he would make even kiri bothered while kirishima is the one sandwiched between them even if he's all buff (and bakugou would still be the bottom train kek)
It was sad how they always made kaminari too much like a weak whiny bottom so it's nice to see that Hori shares my same vision, maybe now that they are matured big boys I can read more juicy fics

>>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

>>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