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Ancient Japanese puppers reprinted over a thousand times.

>>7631
Love them!

How to take city buses in Japan? From what I read, it's super-confusing and you'd need a multitude of travel pass cards not to have to deal with coins. Why couldn't they come up with a one-size-fits-all municipal bus ticket you could get from a ticket machine? This shit is nuts.

>In general (except in Tokyo) passengers enter a Japanese bus through the rear door and exit via the front door. There is sometimes a paper ticket dispensing machine as you enter with a zone number corresponding to the stop you got on the bus. As you exit the bus match the number on the paper ticket with a fare in yen displayed on an electronic board at the front of the bus. Drop the exact fare and the paper ticket in to the fare box next to the driver. If you have no change there is a change machine for 1000 yen notes and 100 and 500 yen coins next to the fare box. The upcoming stop is usually announced on an electronic board in romaji and sometimes with a voice announcement in both Japanese and English. In Tokyo, the procedure is different and passengers enter the bus through the front door and pay the flat fare at the beginning of the journey. City buses and long distance buses tend to be different colors. In Kyoto, city buses are green and local suburban buses are white.
https://www.japan-experience.com/plan-your-trip/travel-by-train/travelling-in-japan-a-comprehensive-guide/buses-in-japan#:~:text=Japan%20has%20an%20efficient%20system%20of%20city%2C%20local,major%20terminus%20for%20local%20buses%20in%20the%20city.

>>7674
I took the bus once in Kyoto and was confused because the bus stop was moved somewhere else but I didn't have any issue paying, I simply used my Suica. If it depends on each city I can't really say anything else. A friend of mine often takes the bus in Tokyo for work and told me it's very easy to take the bus compared to where I live., which doesn't mean anything because public transportation where I live is a huge mess.

>>7673
Yeah, what's the point of staying in Kyoto if you can stay in Osaka for less and just commute with a pass to Kyoto for sightseeing?

I've been reading Ajin and it's such a ride. The Polygon Pictures anime doesn't do it justice.

Treat your veterans right lol. I was hoping for something more than monster of the week/crushing the rebels. Why can't mangaka be more adventurous and edgy?

>>7652
Mozart is an absolute shitlord of a faggot and miraculously rescues his own worst episode in its last minutes, I hope you enjoy. To be honest Japanese comedy is controversial in western fandom to begin with, and usually this kind of 2-cour mostly episodic show would go under the radar save for a handful of fujos, but because it had classical music associated with it people saw an opportunity to be snobby. The pockets of Classicaloid fandom I've met over the years have always contained total diehard classical fans who do pilgrimages around Europe and collect obscure books on composers. I feel like the odd one out because I just think dogs in Bach wigs are funny and Schubert deserves a kiss (no STDs).

>the ending sucked
Well, despite calling it episodic it does have finale plots and may make or break a few characters. S1's ending builds up with a villain plot at first and is goofy as all shit, but elements of it are foreshadowed and the tone in my opinion matches the first episodes. S2 in general had the western fans divided, because after sitting through Mozart and Sousuke for an entire season, Wagner being a whiny bitch shota was too much for them (not even the sumo wrestling episode, just the announcement that Wagner would be in the show as a shota). Wagner has one of the worst vocals in the entire show (arguably part of the intentional parody of manufactured idols) but I've always liked the S2 ending because it's visually dramatic and feels to me like a natural escalation of "we made these magic beings that can literally conjure stuff, how could it possibly backfire when they're upset." It also forces some unusual match ups and tries to settle on a second theme for the series overall (S1 = music is good, everyone should have music! S2 = family is family, music expresses the self).

Sorry if I can't contain my autism. And happy birthday, Beto-san.

>>7646
That's fine, but for me the shameless and over the top nature is the appeal. It's like my version of big titty isekai slave girls.

Well, that's some surprise yandere sibling homo in hoshi furu oukoku no nina.

>>7536
There are little things that can make a fantasy better. Blowjobs are better in fiction if you pretend that cum tastes nice.

I headcanon giant semes as just regular sized white people who just happen to be in korea or japan

I really like when female genderbends of characters are out of shape and have pudgy tummies. Maybe it's just because there isn't enough art of regular guys with a squishy tummy (as opposed to stupidly fat OOC) but every so often someone will do it for a genderbend and make cute comics about it. When a character is a shut in nerd with bad eating habits it never makes sense to make them slender and glamorous anyway, bones or skinnyfat, pick one.

>>1813
I've always imagined T-rex as a music teacher for some reason. I think he'll best fit the stereotype - scary guy with a gold heart.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG

Honk honk.

>>7564
I agree, I also like to see people get creative with nonhuman sex because it's nice to have variety. Even with regular human male x human male I want to see more non anal stuff, I always like to see some intercrural. I want to write docking for my current ship because it doesn't exist and I think it would be really hot for them.
The older I get as a fujo, the more I want to see less common sex acts because my fanfic suspension of disbelief at guys being able to have so much spontaneous anal is wearing thin. Always wish there was more frotting too, that's also good.

>>7667
I really like dicks so any sexual act that has a dick as the focal point and not stuffed inside a hole is amazing.

>>7667
Personally I like entertaining the idea of a guy with a big dick frotting from behind, so there's a bit of intercrural and ass slamming included. Have to pick a couple with a fair size difference though and frankly the logistics are silly porn territory.

Just realised that one of the Gintama music tracks is a spoof of Yumi Matsutoya's song 'Rocket Fireworks Under the Moon'… How many other things have I missed?

>>7628
>it could've taken off to the extent that Fate did but for whatever reason it didn't quite get there
I am also talking out of my ass, but I think it has to do with accessibility and target audience. While Fate is of a similar length, I think it feels less intimidating when each route of FSN is pretty decent, and you get exactly what you expected. Meanwhile, people interested in the war drama aspect of Muv-Luv have to tolerate two VNs in a completely different genre before getting to the 'good part.' Additionally, prior to Fate, TYPE-MOON had created Tsukihime and related VNs; Fate is not terribly different tonally or thematically from Tsukihime, so if you like Tsukihime, you'll like Fate. Meanwhile, although age was no stranger to darker themes, they didn't venture into "war drama utsuge with alien invasion and extensive science and military minutiae" territory before MLA. Kiminozo and KimiIta are their most famous titles prior to Muv-Luv, in my opinion, and while Extra and Unlimited fit with these two tonally, Alternative doesn't. I once read that a lot of Extra/Unlimited fans were disappointed by Alternative when it initially released in Japan, probably because it's entirely linear and it doesn't have a happy ending. We take Muv-Luv's premise for granted now, but it was unexpected when it released; age probably alienated some of their core audience with it. Finally, Fate got another huge boost from its good anime adaptation. It helps that FSN is not horribly difficult to adapt if you just focus on one route instead of whatever Studio Deen was trying to do. Muv-Luv is far from impossible to adapt, but it would take a lot of patience and more time than what was afforded to Fate (the UBW anime is 26 episodes and adapts 1/3 of Fate in a complete and satisfactory story, whereas a Muv-Luv anime would need to adapt the whole thing in one go or else it wouldn't make sense).
>last time I heard about this franchise in the wild is when youtube recs showed me a video about a Muv-luv gacha that imploded in record time.
Don't forget about the godawful 2021-2022 anime adaptation that speedran the first 2 VNs in the series and threw uninitiated people into Alternative with absolutely no context while also alienating the VN's audience by changing thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Reading Akaya Akashiya Ayakashino and random untranslated Japanese out of the blue. So unprofessional.

>>7622
I forgot to mention in my previous post, but I think the Kikokugai all-ages version also got a fan TL, as well!

>Do those version ever make it to the fan translation scene?
Yes! While it's kind of a moot point now that FSN has an official release, the Realta Nua version (originally for PS2 iirc) was the basis for the fan patch that let you toggle sexual content, as well as get the additional scenes from that version (Realta Nua added scenes and had some other better qualities over the original, but omitted the sex scenes since it was on console). AIR is another example; there's a Vita patch available that cuts all the adult content. I think the Killer Queen remake is also getting a fan translation, and last I saw, it's specifically the Nintendo Switch version, which doesn't have sexual content.

>That's interesting. How did this happen?
I couldn't find any concrete information, but I've seen a lot of people say that the Japanese all-ages version added improvements to gameplay and voice acting to the protagonist, so I would assume it had something to do with that?

Ajin is such a sausagefest that it should have been a BL/homobait title from the start. There are NO women of any relevance aside from Izumi - it's all revolving around homosocial bonds of men who prefer to socialise with other men, fight other men, be entertained by other men, conspire with other men, chase other men, save and be saved by other men and talk DEEP STUFF with other men.
I can't conceive a possibility of some male readers being upset at fujoshi calling the manga a feast of undiluted homosexuality when it has a higher male/female ratio than Legend of Galactic Heroes, features an MC being coveted by two dudes of his own age and an old man, and is a uniform fetishism galore. This shit ain't straight, dude.

Personally for me it's Kou x Kei, because of the contrast between them (smart - dumb, emotional - stoic) and because their interactions when they either kill each other or save each other or both at the same time are hot.

>>7386
>>7391
>Nitro plus
>Cute Samurai boys
>Homo end
Definitely going to read this!