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>>3646
Let's go! I hope it's like Twin Snakes where everything is cranked up to eleven, watching them handle the scene where Ocelot meows is going to be great.

>>3647
Mgs3 ocelot is the cu te est!
I am a bit worried though because it’s a “remake” instead of a “remaster”…. I hope they’ll keep oce as pathetic as he was in the original

>>3657
To my knowledge the game is not being redubbed/re-voiced so hopefully everything is as it should be!

It's kind of fascinating how Yu-gi-oh! The anime seems to be less popular than the TCG now. The OG is a force to be reckoned with in terms of cultural relevance and a fujo classic, I know fans of GX and 5Ds even though I've never seen either, but I hardly see the newer seasons brough up at all. In a way it's a blessing that almost all fan content is for the series I actually like, on the other it makes me sad that it's a symbol that this franchise's day in the spotlight has been over for a while.

>>3643
A little off-topic, but it makes me wonder how current kids engage with anime compared to how millennials/gen Z did
Do kids outside of Japan watch children's anime at all? VRAINS and Sevens hardly get brought up, but even for how popular something like Yo-kai Watch was in Japan, it wasn't big enough in the West to even get the last game localized
A lot of fandoms in that sphere seem carried by nostalgia without any influx of new fans, which is unfortunate

>>3644
A lot of that probably has to do with the fact that kids today don't watch television anymore. I'm an elementary teacher and while new animated movies are usually popular I rarely hear any TV shows brought up. Youtube-bait horror games are the new Saturday morning cartoons and it's very sad.

>A lot of fandoms in that sphere seem carried by nostalgia without any influx of new fans, which is unfortunate
I think you're right. No one new is getting into Digimon in the current year its mainly carried by nostalgia. Yugioh, at least the first iteration, has a legitimately good plot though and doesn't feel like an advertisement but I can see why someone with no prior attachment wouldn't want to give it a try since as an outsider the whole sphere it's in looks cheap and childish.

>>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.

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

>>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

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.

>>3428
>Is there a way to find old Japanese fanart from before Pixiv was born?
Yes! I used to do this all the time in my fandom and just started again. One way is to google character name + series name or ship names in Japanese. A lot of fansites are hidden from search engines but not all of them. Alternatively, you can see if people link their personal sites from their pixiv, twitter, twpf, doujinshi, etc. You might have better luck looking at older fanart first.

Once you find one site, you should be in. Usually they link a bunch of other art/fic sites and also some webrings and directories. Most of these are monofandom but there are some more general ones. I have this extension so you can right click any link and have it search the internet archive: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pages/. There have been tons of Japanese hosts and a lot of them have been nuked over the years. Archive coverage is spotty and glitchy and you will suffer though.

I was able to find this and it should be a good start: https://web.archive.org/web/20131019151146/http://murai.tk/yomi.cgi?mode=kt&kt=01_01. It looks like the site breaks and starts redirecting in a loop around 2015.

>>3447
Thanks!

>>3447
This is very useful, thanks nona.

I've actually really gotten into exploring the old and small web lately.