/ot/ - Off-Topic

I really like this channel with Eurobeat anime song remixes: https://www.youtube.com/@TurboA

Curious as to what people here think of Karl Andersson.
https://youtu.be/xWtPFSNd6_E

>>12997
I mean i more or less agree with his assertion that the coupling aspect is the key feature that attracts women to male characters, its something that we've already posited with our own meta analysis of fujoshi culture, but also isn't this that one guy who's obsessed with shota and wrote some research paper about how horny it makes him? I'll never jive well with a man like that kek.

>>12964
We might not have cool mecha, but we do have shitty 'cyberpunk' cars straight from QUALITY screenshots of some vintage anime.

>>12959
I don't think I've ever had a place to say it, but anyone who visited /new/ in the years before it was shut down already knew it was a white supremacist shithole that did nothing but stoke narratives about race wars and eugenics. It's weird thinking that /an/ of all places has taken on some of its old traits. You can open it most months and find vaccine conspiracy theories, biological determinism for humans, and some form of misogyny-racism combo over dogs. All put together over news story screencaps.

Witchan has an oekaki board now!

>>12979
I only played Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Remake on the PS5 so far. I plan on getting FF7 Rebirth once I beat more games in my backlog at the very least and I downloaded the demo for Metaphor but haven't started it yet. I liked FF16, it's not too difficult, it's just that the beginning is very slow when it comes to the gameplay but once you get more abilities combats become way more fun. If we're talking about it from a BL point of view the game focuses on the main character Clive and his little brother Joshua a lot to the point where Joshua feels like he's the actual heroine. But Clive has a female love interest who has a lot of screentime even if she's irrelevant they even have a scene where they talk butt naked after they finally have sex but the framing of it is a bit cringe worthy. Like the writers wanted to make the story look more mature than it is idk. Regardless I recommend you download the demo and try it before purchasing it. People said the game feels less like Final Fantasy and more like a Game of Throne copy but the further you go into the game the less true it is.

Then you have a canon gay pairing, Dion and his bishonen bodyguard. Which was very well received even by gamergate dudebros because it felt less like LGBTQ+ representation by out of touch boomers and gen X writers, and more like the cool, handsome guy voiced by Yuuichi Nakamura with the coolest boss fight in the game or even the whole series just happens to have a boyfriend. Their backstory isn't shown in the game, it's in an Ultima guidebook so I'll summarize it here: they're childhood friends who had a crush on each other for a very long time. Terrence eventually becomes Dion's page. They were involved in a battle together when they're like 17 or 18 years old but Dion becomes severely injured and Terrence nurses him back to health and they confess their feelings for each other because it feels like an emergency, it's now or never. Then they start dating after that event.

tldr about FF16; there's a canon gay pairing with an important character and and NPC, and you can easily interpret the relationship between the MC and his little brother as brocon.

>>12983
I'm not usually the type of woman who will immediately start complaining about the writing of female characters in videogames but even I noticed that Jill is barely written any better than Rosa FF4 who was made in 1991 and Jill is far less interesting than the women in FF5 and 6 who were also written in the SNES era like Rosa. I've seen hetshippers cry about how they need to drown out the ~gross brother shippers~ by shipping Clive/Jill harder but instead of being annoyed at them I just find the whole thing funny. You wouldn't need to try that hard if the canon ship was actually interesting.

>>12984
At least Rosa saved my ass plenty of times during battles in FF4 on the DS, she was my MVP. Jill isn't a playable character so something like that can't even help her. She's nothing more than a love interest and damsel in distress and she shows up too early to have a cool boss fight like the other dominants. I still wanted to mention her because the scene I described in spoilers is so in your face I'd rather warn other anons.

>>12954
>I think I trained my brain to really like kannushi and Heisan court robes
Aside from Onmyoji adaptations and HikaSai, I'm always thirsty for more Heian courtier BL. The poetry culture is fun and everyone was having affairs all the time, plus that one diary confirms that there were at least some men fucking. I've always been fascinated by the idea of a male writing poetry pretending to be a woman and it wouldn't even be hard for him to keep it up when visited if he sat behind a screen.

>>12974
>That letter delivery system was called the "Pony Express," never considered it in a BL scenario but it's quite cute
Anon that's just Mouthwashing

>>12974
I'm a huge fan of westerns. I can just see like, some bounty hunters ala For A Few Dollars More getting some tip that some pony express guy is carrying some letter with information, and now they're all trying to hunt him down. He can hook up with the brooding Clintwood stand-in, who is out to protect him.

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>>1539
Am I an Aiden if I want to put these on and have yaoi sex

>>12967
You're based

>>9519
Every past era is historical to me. WWII is certainly historical but why shouldn't the Vietnam war or Berlin wall related stories be considered historical?

To be honest I am interested in all periods no matter which, including cave men. Though I will most likely avoid Victorian age stuff unless it's a manga about the Firth of Tay Bridge or something.
I would call everything historical that involves eras or conflicts that are mostly concluded. So the current invasions aren't historical to me, at least not as long as they last, but the Balkan war is, even though it just ended a few decades ago.

Does this count as historical?
>A story based on real-life events in 1966.

>>12965
Hmm… Even though it wasn't even 100 years ago, I would say it counts as historical. It seems to be something that's based in the real world and focuses on accuracy, so…

>>12774
well that sucks. I mean, I guess it's good for the relationship between Japan and China while they're on the fritz but bad for readers.

>>12774
Meanwhile everyone was convinced it was webtoons that got the takedown enacted …

I guess large-scale publishers finally decided to start caring about copyright claims outside of Japan.

It's your last chance to binge on Futekiya manga before the service shuts down next month.

I wish I was it desu.

>>1271
Must be coke poisoning.
>Results demonstrated that "92% of the bills were positive for cocaine with a mean amount of 28.75 ± 139.07 micrograms per bill, a median of 1.37 μg per bill, and a range of 0.01-922.72 μg per bill. Heroin was detected in seven bills in amounts ranging from 0.03 to 168.5 μg per bill: 6-AM and morphine were detected in three bills; methamphetamine and amphetamine in three and one bills, respectively, and PCP was detected in two bills in amounts of 0.78 and 1.87 μg per bill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency

>>12873
Sumire isn't ugly wtf

>>12893
I hate hair drills…
Sorry for calling her ugly in case you like her, just my taste.

>>12894
Fair enough kek, she is just my favorite so I got a little offended. I'm not a big fan of drills either but I never thought of the little curls around her face as drills