/ot/ - Off-Topic

>>3217
Alright, would you wanna do it Wednesday at 7PM EST?

Is Bravern like a T&B situation where it's decently liked in Japan but non-existent to English viewers? I guess I'm not surprised because it's two beefy dudes in a mecha series but pretty sad considering how homo it is.

I was thinking about the state of fujos today and I honestly hate how dominant Hoyoshit pairings are, considering how bland they tend to be. I remember as a (pre)teen there was a variety of fujobait series you could cycle through like K, Servamp, Yowapeda, etc. Everything seems lame now but I might just be romanticizing it.

>>8087
I wouldn't say non-existent since there are definitely western fans, but I think the men being a bit more muscular/mature is driving away younger people who probably would have enjoyed the story like you said. Unfortunately my bara acquaintances are the only people I know into it, no fujos.

Hoyo is "free" and is designed to print money so it's no wonder it is a dominating presence but I still see variety under the surface. Off the top of my head for 2020 fandoms: Sk8 as another nonna mentioned in the anime thread has a lot of different body types and ages so it's managed to capture a wide swath of different fans, Geass and One Piece both saw a bit of a revival due to new iterations. Trigun's remake series brought with it a new set of incest fans and revitalized the older fandom, and I don't watch new Shonen anymore but I know that BnHA still has a shipping fandom as do works like Jujutsu Kaisen and Mashle. I do think there's some rose-tintedness on your part since the big shipping fandoms from my preteen days were just the big three SJs Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece and then Clamp series. People always gravitate to what's popular and accessible, and I'm sure if mobile games had been a thing in 2008 that's what would have been big as well.

I picked up the manga after liking the first anime episodes, Medalist is really good.

>>8070
Probably because few people in Japan have a PC. Even so, they would get much more overseas sales with a PC port.

Moonchime is releasing this VN at some point in the future. Apparently it doesn't include any romance. Anybody read it?

>>8070
Porting is much more expensive than just localizing a game, I'm a dev with a game that's been waiting for console approval for almost a year because the storefronts keep being retarded about stuff we need to change…

>>8062
Pui Pui Molcar. You can watch both seasons in an hour. If you want more cute shorts we've also had Chiikawa (subs are posted on /wsg/ every Tues and Thurs, you can catch up with what's on nyaa), Odekake Koazame, and Yoru wa Neko Issho.
>>8067
Seconding Fairy Ranmaru, Kyuushi, Atarashii Joushi, Migi to Dali, REVENGER (though that final ep, good lord), Undead Girl Murder Farce. Was not pleased with Sankaku Mado's adaptation quality, the relationship between the leads is far more fun in the manga but be aware there's a major het pair too.

Throwing in High Card because the leads are very shippable and even though the writing falls apart by the end, the revelations in S2 are batshit homo. There's no other way to summarize what goes down other than "wow pretty gay". Also Onmyouji, which FINALLY got an anime adaptation after decades of live action movies and TV specials, but Netflix gave it all the budget of a vanilla ice cream that contains no real vanilla and put rainbow jimmies on top hoping we'd be appeased. Well Seimei and Hiromasa are meant for each other and they even slipped in Seimei turning up at various men's bedsides so I was happy despite Douman getting genderbent for some reason. I'm guessing someone in production staff demanded more boobs in a period setting where everyone would be covered up. Thankfully she seems to ship the leads, so it's more like genderbending to prevent SeimeiDouman shippers getting in Hiromasa's way (if they even exist).

Shows with little homo appeal I'd rec include Akiba Maid Wars (PA Works doing yakuza mob movie parodies with cute maids), Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (poison loving girl in old China ends up solving mysteries in the palace harem), Paripi Koumei (famous Chinese general takes on Japan's nightclub scene and promises to make a girl a star), and Chimimo (a family of three sisters play host to Suwabe oni/namahage and his cute minions, who are supposed to be researching how better to torture modern humans in hell). I also really liked Tsukimichi and Shinigami Bocchan but those are an isekai and a CG het romcom so your mileage will vary.

I wrote too much for one post, teheh.

>>8075
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Do you like trash? Trash with singing? Visual Prison happened, and it was a complete dumpster fire, but it's a rare breed of shameless all male dumpster fire we don't get so often. About vampires who idol band sing while fighting for moon wishes or something, and there's a cat (nobody knows why there's a cat). Gekkan Mousou Kagaku tried taking its title with added giant neon furries and a conspiracy theory archeology theme, but was kind of lacking even in the weirdness department. And then there's Kawagoe Boys Sing, where the boys did sing, and the animation did fall apart, and there's a honey badger (nobody knows why there's a honey badger), but the guys were remarkably likeable and it even gently suggested ships.

Lastly, for children's shows there was a Muteking reboot that had surprise homo between the hero and a space cat-octopus, despite the hero's motivation being a girl he likes.

Starting Bungou since it keeps toping the AO3 charts and I'm jealous of the fans who are eating well. lol I like reading classics and I know some western authors are featured in the series so I'm curious how the writers I like like Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain will be treated.

>>8072
Yeah not really the same experience as that anon you linked, but I have Asperger's and in highschool I considered myself asexual and only into 2D, 10 years later and now I have a BF and consider myself straight. I'm not going to say being asexual or whatnot doesn't exist, but when you're a 17 year old teen who has never dated and spends most of your time online the label is easy to attach yourself to.

Really focusing on orientation and relationships are a bit of a trap, you either like something or you don't and I think that should be the end of it. A lot of people put way too much of their self-worth into relationship status, or in terms of anime/manga fandom their purity status with regards to their waifu/husbando but in the long run it must hurt their perception of self and who you are as an individual.

>>8057
Unrelated to what everyone else has been adding but I thought I'd mention that cuteness aggression seems to contribute to people applying sexual actions to cute things. I think cuteness aggression with fictional characters extends to general infatuation, when you feel a burst of emotion towards an intangible thing and you just want to squish and squeeze them and let all that energy out. However, aside from them not being real, in fantasy squeezing your fave until they break is destructive and unpleasant and doesn't go anywhere, so some people translate the sensation into "I want his ass pounded until he's in a state of delirium and can't form words". An orgasm analogy gives climax and release to the feeling, and a presumably nice time to the character.

To me this is a stage removed from finding something sexy and wanting sexual content of it for the sake of sexual gratification. It's a sort of mental outburst. It can make people look absolutely nuts and depraved, but it stems from more than just cocklust. I think even asexuals I've spoken to in fandoms have gone through this, they like a character a lot and then they write the most ass slapping BDSM fic of them. It's expressing the crescendo of feeling in ways that just cuddling and sharing a sundae can't, and it's easier to write than fight choreography.

>>8060
And then this post gives me whiplash. I love cute animal characters and I've had so many run ins when doodling them in fandoms and discovering everyone else present is there to fuck the animals. I can't fucking stand it with some series. I give some leeway when it's animal versions of a ship that I'm fine with fucking as humans, because many artists make cute jokes about the fact the dogs are prone to humping or had puppies, but there's still a limit. When people in a fandom assume any and all sfw depictions of a cute animal are inherently sexual or "moments before mob rape", I'm so fucking bewildered indignant about it. I even know when it's coming in a fandom and I'll still get funny with them for it because it doesn't make sense to me.

The worst part is I find it really cute when they draw the bumhole on small animals and make the tummy pinkish. It makes me think how warm and soft the little thing is. You know, the sensatPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>8074
I can relate to the cuteness aggression lol, though it only applies to dudes I am into, not characters that are meant to be cute. But I guess it's related to autism or something. I just don't feel anything with kids, neither in real life nor shota/loli in fiction so I don't consider them cute even though they are mean to be.
Agree about zoophilia, it's just as alien to me as the general attraction to kids or anything that lacks sexual traits (related to human gender I mean). Sometimes I am baffled to what abstract shit anons on /co/ are allegedly fapping to. But then again they would probably say the same about me if I showed them some of the dudes I am reading porn of lol

I want more edgy content that isn't ryona.

Stuff like this makes me wish I had learned how to color sooner~

Speaking of Hetalia in the other thread. That series has so much pretty folklore inspired art.

>>8035
What did you say to her?
I would try some soft gaslighting. If she tries to confront you on what you said, act like you don't understand what you did wrong. Question why she has such a problem with what you said and make her out to be hyper sensitive.

>>8035
What you said does matter I guess, but I just wouldn't bring it up if she doesn't.

>>8035
act uneducated about the subject showing some sort of innocent interest in learning more and being clueless about what you said having been "wrong".
handmaidens love to explain and act like they're opening your eyes to social justice.
then thank her for explaining and either act like you agree with her now, or say you need some time to reflect on this new information you acquired (if you don't want to go all out) and don't bring up the subject again around her.

How do I find out about otaku + fujoshi events, do they exist outside of Tokyo/Kyoto?

I want to visit Osaka, but I also want to visit the countryside, and just live comfy JP vacation life while reading manga and getting rice balls from konbini for breakfast. Preferably in an ancient house, aircon optional (Unless we're in the hottest months), while also hiking and biking around the area.

>>7991
Check the akaboo.jp website for upcoming events.
Besides Tokyo and Osaka there are also ones in Kobe and Fukuoka listed.

>>7992
Thank you! Much appreciated, seems like I can actually just stay in Kobe as I wanted to.

On another note, how much are bicycle rentals typically? I want to do some cycling, but am wondering if it's cheaper to just buy a bike or bring mine over.

>>7982
it's not gay but and it's not even popular aside from one pretty talented artist only drawing fanart for it years ago, but the girl involved in is massively popular despite being side girl so main girl shippers are seething lol.
Strangely enough in a fujo magazine i got her poster and cherry magic poster too so I guess double win ahah

>>7980
>The disinterest the west is displaying for NGWK/EluSam surprised me a bit.
Wouldn't surprise me if episode 1 filtered people with that blushing Tokiyuki scene. I remember an instance where I recommended the anime and someone replied "Is this that show that pedos like?"

Oh hey we're at bumplimit. New thread time I guess.