/f/ - Fandom Generals

>>2317
I didn't realize Marth x Grima was a crossover crackship because awakening was my first game and I mistakenly thought Grima was a legacy character and was the main antagonist of one of the past games. Imagine my shock when I couldn't find any fanfics for them.

>>1455
my first husbandos were all the wolves rain boys, i still have the manga and reread it sometimes but ive moved on to bigger and better. But as my first anime awakening they will always hold a special place in my heart ♥

>>3150
We are in dire need of more moody series with pretty dudes in a dangerous or desolated world, why did this type of genre disappear? WR is one of the first anime I downloaded

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.

Surprisingly my friends and I all like Zolu and hate Zosan and think its popularity makes no sense. The brothers in Fan Letter were also kind of shippable not gonna lie.

>>3173
You and your friends are absolutely correct. Zolu is the only correct ship for both characters and Zoro's undying loyalty to his captain and putting Luffy's wants and needs before his own is prime ship material.

>>3173
the combo of sleeveless turtleneck + gloves + a scary face and nice personality combo is really lewd on the older marine

>Best boy?
Killua! Or Kurapika.
>Best ship?
killugon, they're meant for each other and I don't think anyone can deny that. Close second: Kurokura and illukillu. I like the fucked up dynamic with both.
>Favourite arc?
Yorknew city, easily!
>Favourite nen ability?
I'll admit, I read the manga through TWICE and I still have no idea how the fuck nen really works.
>Is Togashi actually a shotacon? Will he ever finish his manga?
I don't think he's a shotacon, but he definitely has some sort of interest/fetish around unconventional gender expressions, especially boys crossdressing.
I hope he will finish his manga, but nothing in life is promised, especially considering the tragedy of miura's passing not long ago.

>>3159
>Play in Japanese and download fansubs or have no swords at all.

Hmmm, never had to try to add fansubs to a game before. Guess there's a first time for everything if I can find them. Wading through all these subbing communities for the stage plays reminds me of fandom communities I used to pursue years ago.

>>3161
Ah sorry, I meant subs for stage plays and the movies, that kind of content. There's a fanwiki for the game which has translations of most screens and dialogue lines (with audio files), and since the dialogue is voiced you can listen to it while playing to figure out which line is what.

And yeah, the fansubs for the stage productions are still mostly passed around via blogs and LJ/dreamwidth, outside of the fanwiki's discord server. I haven't really interacted with the latter but if you have an account you can join it, make a bland hello and help yourself to things. Personal use is all good so they won't chase you if you lurk. Can be helpful for new event gameplay instructions too because other people will have asked about them and tested things.

>>3160
And yet they performed in France and filmed a documentary about Western TouRabu fans to air on Japanese television.

>>3165
Haha I'd just assumed I was retarded yesterday and was too embarrassed to ask to be spoonfed where to look for it.

The fanwiki for this game seems very thorough and the fact that they've even got the audio clips for ease of following along is awesome so I can deal with the text being in Japanese.

Thanks for the clarification nonna!

New favorite Kaito artist just dropped on twitter…

bump because Len is outrageously cute here

>Best Game?
Ocarina, NES, or Awakening. Ocarina is the best made imo and is peak Zelda in terms of tone and having the best ratio of story to exploring and dungeons. NES is really fun and while it has the least interesting story/world besides maybe AoL it makes up for it by having the best gameplay of the 2D games. Awakening is just charming and has a really cozy atmosphere.

>Best iteration of Link/Hyrule?
For Link its actually Twilight Princess, I like the strong farm boy routes and of course being able to turn into a wolf is a plus. Termina is my favorite world and I love the way the NPCs are interwoven into the core game and masks. Probably the best implementation of NPCs in a video game I've seen that isn't a Point and Click or visual novel. If that doesn't count because it's not "Hyrule" I guess Ocarina, again that game just really knocked it out of the park for the first 3D venture and similarly has a great tone.

>Does the timeline matter at all?
Kind of? With stuff like Ocarina -> Twilight Princess or any of the games that are clearly sequels it does, but really as long as you have a general vibe that there is a hero of legend born ever generation I really couldn't care beyond that. Anyone who tries to play the games in "Timeline" order is setting themselves up for failure.

>What is the best ship, alternatively what game produced the best fanworks?
Oooh, tough one. One underrated 2D ship I like is Ralph x Link from Oracle of Ages and I honestly think if the game was released today there would be more art of the two. Ralph is the bodyguard of Nayru in that game and takes great offense to Link trying to rescue her since he thinks he can handle everything himself until he's forced to begrudgingly accept Link. Skyward Sword with Giralink is awesome and the best villain/Link ship easily. For Twilight Princess Shad x Link and Minish Cap Link x Vaati though I don't feel as strongly about those two.
>Dark Link x Link or 4swordscest?
Don't particularly ship either. Never understood the Dark Link x Link ship because it always felt like a less interesting version of Link x Ganondorf or people too afraid to ship some weird stuff like Poe Collector x Link. Dark Link is just an absolute nothing character and their are more interesting "dark" characters in thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3112
>why are people posting about the longer, modern, more accessible games which are on nearly every fucking platform instead of the 20+ year old games with questionable localization that you can’t play outside of emulation??!?!?!!
nonna, i love p2 and wish that there were more pre-p3 fans with all my heart, but this is just embarrassing.

>>3114
P1 did eventually get a better localization for one of the portable Playstation systems but it's still just not that fun. Great characters, but it's a slog to get going and imo doesn't do the best job explaining it's rpg mechanics. After you get like 10 hours in it does get better, but I think it would have benefited from the flashy remake compared to yet another P3 one.

Both P2s hold up fine and I don't get why they aren't more popular.

>>3115
Like >>3114 said, accessibility. To play P2 in english, you play IS on the psp and then EP on ps1, which requires two different emulators and is an awkward jump back in game tech. Alternatively, you could play both on ps1 with the IS translation hack or recently, the psp translation hack of EP that came out a few years ago. It's a lot of hoops to jump through to play a game. I suppose you could always play EP first, but most people nowadays wouldn't like to play a game out of order unless that's how it was originally released.

>>3089
Thank you, I love posts like these which combine all the evidence into one post!

Bless this show for playing into my bandages kink