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At least this is the part where I think Edomae Elf, Elda, is better than Umaru or much more tolerable than Umaru. And well, a bit of food.
Because, Umaru is a little cunt, who'd make you want to kick her teeth in.

Elda is cute despite her tendencies & there's a bigger nuanced to reason to them unlike Umaru-chan.

Also, she's a literally me character.
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Because, Umaru is a little cunt, who'd make you want to kick her teeth in.

Elda is cute despite her tendencies & there's a bigger nuanced to reason to them unlike Umaru-chan.

Also, she's a literally me character.
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I might be getting confused with that incest anime, but Umaru has the issue of being normal outside her hobby which is just annoying when both gender otakus are usually very awkward (at the very least).

Elda is the right amount of awkward yet not complete social obliviousness which is especially fitting for current 30-40 year old Neets who need to interact with nephews.
 
Here's a hot take that might raise many eyebrows.
Nasu has written some of the best modern fantasy (genre, not fantasy in our current time/age) period, and I have no idea why no one else has even come close. Tsukihime, Stay Night, and Kara no Kyoukai all feel like legitimate fairy tales. They're wistful and dark in a way I can't really describe. Even if they're overly edgy and juvenile at times.
Environmental storytelling is an unknown concept to Nasu and most Japanese writers. There is no need to make a stupidly over-complicated autistic storyweb that not even the author understands like nasu did.

You could literally take the cast and story of Nasu's works and put it in any other contemporary japanese VN setting and it wouldn't change anything. The spinoffs demonstrate that very well. There is no history to those locales beyond "this exists lol. HEERE KYUTE GURL! REED WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE!"
 
Environmental storytelling is an unknown concept to Nasu and most Japanese writers. There is no need to make a stupidly over-complicated autistic storyweb that not even the author understands like nasu did.

You could literally take the cast and story of Nasu's works and put it in any other contemporary japanese VN setting and it wouldn't change anything. The spinoffs demonstrate that very well. There is no history to those locales beyond "this exists lol. HEERE KYUTE GURL! REED WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE!"
Environmental storytelling is an unknown concept to literature in general because it's not a visual medium. What the fuck is this logic?
 
Environmental storytelling is an unknown concept to literature in general because it's not a visual medium. What the fuck is this logic?
They're called Visual novels for a reason.
This is the anime and manga thread.
All of these are visual mediums.

Where do you think we are?
 
They're called Visual novels for a reason.
In the same way a picture book is, not a manga or an anime.
Going back to your original post, it really doesn't matter if the locations the story is presented in feel like they have no history to them. That's not relevant to the work at large or to the consumer. Environmental storytelling is like frosting: it's good, but it's not necessary.

How many anime or manga can you name off the top of your head that even use environmental storytelling anyway? Of all things to criticize Nasu for, environmental storytelling is the weirdest one. I don't care for his setting rules specifically designed for characters to break them myself. Takes away from the mystique of some things and makes some characters too snowflakey.
 
In the same way a picture book is, not a manga or an anime.
Going back to your original post, it really doesn't matter if the locations the story is presented in feel like they have no history to them. That's not relevant to the work at large or to the consumer. Environmental storytelling is like frosting: it's good, but it's not necessary.

How many anime or manga can you name off the top of your head that even use environmental storytelling anyway? Of all things to criticize Nasu for, environmental storytelling is the weirdest one. I don't care for his setting rules specifically designed for characters to break them myself. Takes away from the mystique of some things and makes some characters too snowflakey.
I actually got the VN of Stay Night running last night, got thru what is the prologue episodein UBW, there is some explanations about locations, it isn't complete bare bones, but a lot does rest on the charecters and his autistic explanations of what the shit is happening, seemingly to save on dev time and not having to draw more sprites. Some of which got directly translated into the shows but visually, I've noticed
 
Been looking for some good Delinquent anime/manga recommendations. I already saw GTO and the prequel and I have Kyou Kara Ore Wa, Shounen Bakusouku, BeBop High downloaded.
Angel Densetsu. The anime is a short OVA, but the manga is quite a bit longer. It's quite hilarious!

I need to figure out what I think about Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers but it's been OK so far.
I dropped it. I finished every episode disappointed, which is a shame because the 2D mechs were cool and the premise is interesting. It doesn't really go anywhere with that premise and ends up feeling like a really stupid show.
 
been watching the anime Parasyte the max and i know i should not talk about shows i have not finished watching but i need to went here. why are the female leads so GOD DAMN AWFUL!?

"wahh, you not the same betacuck loser i feel in love with. why do you have to be so different? what about MY feelings!?"

"teehee, i know you told me to fuck off the last five times but i cant help myself getting in your face and putting myself in danger because your my prince theehee"

LET MY BOY KILL THE PARASITS! LET HIM COOK! THATS ALL HE NEEDS TO DO! FUCK!
 
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been watching the anime Parasyte the max and i know i should not talk about shows i have not finished watching but i need to went here. why are the female leads so GOD DAMN AWFUL!?

"wahh, you not the same betacuck loser i feel in love with. why do you have to be so different? what about MY feelings!?"

"teehee, i know you told me to fuck off the last five times but i cant myself getting in your face and putting myself in danger because your my prince theehee"

LET MY BOY KILL THE PARASITS! LET HIM COOK! THATS ALL HE NEEDS TO DO! FUCK!
They're teenagers, man.
 
been watching the anime Parasyte the max and i know i should not talk about shows i have not finished watching but i need to went here. why are the female leads so GOD DAMN AWFUL!?

"wahh, you not the same betacuck loser i feel in love with. why do you have to be so different? what about MY feelings!?"

"teehee, i know you told me to fuck off the last five times but i cant help myself getting in your face and putting myself in danger because your my prince theehee"

LET MY BOY KILL THE PARASITS! LET HIM COOK! THATS ALL HE NEEDS TO DO! FUCK!
It's from an '80s manga and they didn't exactly change the characters all that much despite the modern setting. Lol whoops.

Ushio and Tora has the better female leads anyway, and it's from the same time-frame (manga serialization and anime airdate).
 
I dropped it. I finished every episode disappointed, which is a shame because the 2D mechs were cool and the premise is interesting. It doesn't really go anywhere with that premise and ends up feeling like a really stupid show.
That anime could have been good like Akiba Maid War but it just doesn't know what it wants to be. It doesn't take itself seriously enough to resonate, but it doesn't go the full way of being a shitpost (like Akiba Strip). The characters are just unappealing and uninteresting, and sabotage each other's development. Like why even have the "otaku culture is illegal" if it never amounts to anything besides making a conflict in the background.
Few of the episodes are focused on an otaku niche, the magical girls don't fit in it (as it's more of a MLP niche rather than something well known like maid cafes). Cool opening and ending sequences tho
 
I liked Blame! 2. It was an ok side story and the ending was retarded, but nice to see the author do something different with the androids. They dont just pay lip service to the meaningless "muh peeple" trope that those annoying twats always LARP about in anime/manga. Pcell actually does go off and rebuild her android village.
 
I actually got the VN of Stay Night running last night, got thru what is the prologue episodein UBW, there is some explanations about locations, it isn't complete bare bones, but a lot does rest on the charecters and his autistic explanations of what the shit is happening, seemingly to save on dev time and not having to draw more sprites. Some of which got directly translated into the shows but visually, I've noticed
Did you just get a basic version of it running or did you get the Ultimate Edition patch?

The Ultimate Edition is definitely the way to go, it really modernizes it. In the original PC release each route is just on its own disc. It merges all of them into one game and lets you pick and choose assets from the subsequent rereleases if there's a specific version you want to experience, the original, the PS2 release, or the Vita release, or it kind of has a predefined compilation of movies and music that works really well.

It is kind of a pain to get running and if you have an old computer it takes a while to install, it has to extract assets and basically build the final game from scratch. You also have to supply the isos for the original PC release yourself but it sounds like you probably have those already

 
You mean the guy who we don't know much about other than he's Naruto's dad and the Fourth Hokage? After all these years? Par for the course for Kishimoto, I guess.
I think everyone wanted a Prequel instead of Boruto, but kind of knew that it would never be allowed to be dark. I like the weird anachronist time period of Naruto, oddly advanced, but still really retarded where they have televisions, but still use fucking carrier pigeons because the carrier pigeons have magic.

Minato in canon slaughtered a regiment to save a regiment. He and Kakashi are basically the best characters because they never really show homolust, Kakashi just has crippling PTSD from being a child solider and committing warcrimes.
 
Don't know how many of you are still watching Tengoku Daimakyou blind after that tranny via literal brain transfer plot point in episode 2-3, but if any are when did it become obvious that there doing two different timelines between the school and the outside world? I want say it was episode 8 or when ever that alien looking chick flashback was for me, but I wouldn't be surpised if a few people caught on sooner.

been watching the anime Parasyte the max and i know i should not talk about shows i have not finished watching but i need to went here. why are the female leads so GOD DAMN AWFUL!?

"wahh, you not the same betacuck loser i feel in love with. why do you have to be so different? what about MY feelings!?"

"teehee, i know you told me to fuck off the last five times but i cant help myself getting in your face and putting myself in danger because your my prince theehee"

LET MY BOY KILL THE PARASITS! LET HIM COOK! THATS ALL HE NEEDS TO DO! FUCK!
One thing I think got lost in the parasyte anime is because they tried to modernize it like Kari Kamiya mentioned, they played up Shinichi more as a whinny beta male to contrast his transformation to a "chad" when in the manga he was really just a normal high school kid that was slowly being stripped of most if not all human emotions, i.e how most of the parasites act (and migi was slowly showing more human as a contrast). Its been year since I read it through so I'm forgetting what was the turning point that made him feel things again but I think it might of legit been having sex which now that I type it feels like its straight out of Baki.
 
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Don't know how many of you are still watching Tengoku Daimakyou blind after that tranny via literal brain transfer plot point in episode 2-3, but if any are when did it become obvious that there doing two different timelines between the school and the outside world? I want say it was episode 8 or when ever that alien looking chick flashback was for me, but I wouldn't be surpised if a few people caught on sooner.
The anime arranges some scenes order to feel easier to follow when swapping back and forward between the school and the outside. Episode 11 with school part is the prime example, while in manga school part spreads out from chapter 30 to 35, big bad thing happens first with Kiruko, Maru and Robin in those chapters.
Also hints are implied in both anime episode and manga chapter title.

To help with easier to follow for overall plot, anime removes or adjusts some parts seem to be "unnecessary", but loses some minor character interaction, Kiruko is the most affected.
They add more hints in anime comparing to manga like ep 10 and 11.

Some examples
Manga ch2 and anime ep 1. The anime has Kiruko and Maru talking about bodyguard and finding the place. While in manga, they talk about cannibalism.
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Manga ch7 and anime ep2. The part where that one guy notices Kiruko looks exactly like racer Kiriko.
Anime doesn't have this "100%" confirmation from the guy, when both Kiruko and Maru denies about Kiruko appearance - identity.
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Manga ch22 and anime ep8. Anime animates entire scene of Dr.Usami shoots himself, manga doesn't, but manga actually has a bit more happens after that. Kiruko experiences first period, I skip some pages so it looks very abrupt.
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And then has to go to next chapter to see the dream sequence between Mimihime being lost and founded by Shiro, when this scene happens after ep8 credit.

Manga ch24 and anime ep9. Anime has Kiruko noticing bird logo immediately looking same as one on Kiru-beam gun, while manga has an entire back story about the gun prototype.
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Same episode, but manga ch 26, when going through Dr.Usami old place, looking at the academy paper.
Anime has Kiruko remembers whole orphanage group while manga only focuses on interaction between Haruki and Kiriko, especially Kiruko has a bit issue with self-identity.
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And anime doesn't have this part where Kiruko asking Maru about cram school.
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Anime episode 10 probably has the most deviation comparing to manga in action sequences and comedy delivery. Also, over the top goofy faces, all thanks to guest animator from Trigger studio. If I'm being honest, Trigger over the top animation style isn't good for this anime.
Adding more hints aren't in manga, like keychain between moms, Juiichi and baby.
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And couple more short focused scenes on this guy.
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Episode 11, bunch of flashing scenes around 12:00 where Mimihime is screaming, that part isn't in the manga but also tries to connect to Episode 8 between Dr.Usami (Shiro) and the patient (Mimihime herself).
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Found this and did a little double take because I thought this was some /tg/ fanfiction, but shockingly its an actual ongoing manga

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Series is called Destroy All Humankind. They Can’t Be Regenerated/Subete no Jinrui wo Hakai Suru. Sorera wa Saisei Dekinai. Read the one-shot and TLDR its seems like Hi Score Girl but replace streetfighter with MTG, although no comment if its actually as good.
 
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