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VeePeeN said:
A drunk Japanese girl rubbing her hands all over some strange white guy is the complete opposite experience I've had lol

I cite the "Don't fucking talk to me" expression of Japanese girls in my exp, but I've also been accused of having that look, so prob my fault more than anything.

And not just the 2nd and 3rd generation J-americans I've dealt with, but the student-visa types I've seen at work for 2 decades. Oddly enough, I see them accompanied by black athletes more commonly.

It's actually quite wholesome when I see a cute Japanese couple in puppy love walking around campus. I feel for that dude in the clip. Must be disheartening to see the chick you thought you were taking home, fawning over some doofy looking tourist. (edit: missed the streamer say "You're married". Fucking oof, that was her husband? She'd be walking home alone, and she better hope she had a key when she got there.)

Tbf tho, she was probably just as intrigued at him being a streamer. It sounds like she called him "white speed", like 'ishowspeed'? Even the streamer was confused, "you like what?"
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Apparently she thought he was Lucas Black from Tokyo Drift kek.
 
God of Nothing said:
the name for fast and furious in japan is wild speed
either that or she meant white seed
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white seed, Im going to choose to believe that cuz its hilarious. Maybe thats what streamer guy heard lol Thanks for the laugh!
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Apparently she thought he was Lucas Black from Tokyo Drift kek.
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Ah, so wild speed and dude from Tokyo Drift. Makes sense. He does kind of look like him.

Still hate it for her husband, like what did you marry? If George Micheal was still alive (my wife's teenage celeb crush), and she saw him in a crowd and had that look in her eyes of a horny teenage girl, I would have some shit to say, despite him being a flaming homo.
 
(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
Oh, so MHA's ending failed on literally every level?
Because of course.

Was Horikoshi really that terrified of getting his manga cancelled for taking a break from it that he had to hatefuck it into the ground and tarnish whatever goodwill anyone had towards it?
Any of those normie faggots still want to say JJK or MHA are better versions of the big three.
That Naruto ending's starting to look pretty good by now, ain't it?
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It's kind of a disease of shonen battle manga, especially the weekly shit. Editors keep badgering the artist to extend the plot indefinitely and the artists are unable to find the time to keep the plot making sense. Naruto's ending was kind of shit but it's probably better then average for the genre. I liked the anime ending for Yu Yu Hakusho but apparently the manga ending is much more abrupt.

Scarlett Johansson said:
So uhhhh about the GTO anime.....I read about and saw the scene where Onizuka spanks the evil girls and then takes their skirts off and writes on their panties and photographs it/ISPOILER].....uhhh.........so is he a perverted teacher going after minors? That's disturbing imo.
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Onizuka seems to like the idea of having a HS/MS GF but he's too good of a guy to actually do it and he had ample opportunity to if he wanted.

Actually, thinking about it he's too good of a guy to get laid in general, if he loses his virginity it will be to a female rapist.
 
(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
Man, I really hope One Piece doesn't fuck itself.
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Don't listen to the naysayers, just enjoy it for what it is while Oda cooks. Egghead is finally wrapping up and we're getting some juicy stuff.

VeePeeN said:
I also should've mentioned that the only anime I can access right now is on Netflix, Crunchyroll and whatever Amazon might have for free (Ghost Story eng dub being one that I saw there). So some suggestions I've been unable to find.
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Learn to pirate, dude. It's not that hard as long as you have an Adblocker and anti-virus protection.
 
Trollblade69 said:
I'd say it's an accurate comparison you're making. The way Quess acts around Char is a lot like how Asuka acts around Kaji, and for basically the same reasons: teenage girl far too anxious to become an adult tries to sexually court an uninterested older man to feel grown up.
...Holy shit, Anno really does take way too much from Gundam. Good thing he never bothered to take the political parts for Eva.
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I've always taken Evangelion to be essentially a remake of Gundam. not literally, but like some other guy years later doing his spin on something. Tomino was born in and grew up in the aftermath of world war 2. raised by that generation and their media that was all informed by it. Anno was born in 1960, and was the same thing but by from those guys. storyline wise it's got some similarities but isn't really the same thing at all but mainly from character and thematic places, it's very similar but different and goes in different directions based on the shit the generations in question experienced or grew up seeing. it's a really good example of wearing your influences on your sleeve really wholeheartedly but not just doing the same thing verbatim.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Learn to pirate, dude. It's not that hard as long as you have an Adblocker and anti-virus proprotection
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I probably will if I manage to watch everything I'm interested in that's available to me. If there's something I really want to see, and I can't find it, I know how to get it and do it safely.

I'm just using my kids crunchyroll acct to check things out, it's only $10 a month.
 
Just read JJK chapter 265

I admit I've been a Nobara is still alive coper this whole time but this chapter seems to have left all of us in shambles as she appears in a montage of all the characters that have died so far. The only argument that can be made at this point is that Yuji thinks she's dead because everyone else has kept the fact that she's alive away from him, but I'm willing to admit that's pure copium at this point. RIP Nobara. Idk why Gege put in a slim hope for her to still be alive only for it not to mean anything, but it's possible he's a bad writer.
 
deerbeer said:
Just read JJK chapter 265

I admit I've been a Nobara is still alive coper this whole time but this chapter seems to have left all of us in shambles as she appears in a montage of all the characters that have died so far. The only argument that can be made at this point is that Yuji thinks she's dead because everyone else has kept the fact that she's alive away from him, but I'm willing to admit that's pure copium at this point. RIP Nobara. Idk why Gege put in a slim hope for her to still be alive only for it not to mean anything, but it's possible he's a bad writer.
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lol
lmao
as if more useless than sakura would ever be important
 
deerbeer said:
Just read JJK chapter 265

I admit I've been a Nobara is still alive coper this whole time but this chapter seems to have left all of us in shambles as she appears in a montage of all the characters that have died so far. The only argument that can be made at this point is that Yuji thinks she's dead because everyone else has kept the fact that she's alive away from him, but I'm willing to admit that's pure copium at this point. RIP Nobara. Idk why Gege put in a slim hope for her to still be alive only for it not to mean anything, but it's possible he's a bad writer.
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I have a question regarding jjk. Does the author have a grudge or hate boner for the countryside? I think every characters tragic background story always takes place there.
 
(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
That Naruto ending's starting to look pretty good by now, ain't it?
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Even if the Big Three's successors are all failing to be as good, it doesn't make Naruto's ending not awful. All of Shippuden is littered with decisions and retcons that wreck so much of what came before and reverberate to even worse effect going forward, the spectacle becomes so stupid that you can't help but disconnect by the time of the Kage Summit let alone the 200+ chapters afterwards, and the Ninja War is just this solid wall of dumb, stupid noise that doesn't end until Kaguya is defeated 10 chapters from the end. And Sasuke is still a boring, unlikable douchebag throughout the whole of the timeskip.
 
Trollblade69 said:
Even if the Big Three's successors are all failing to be as good, it doesn't make Naruto's ending not awful. All of Shippuden is littered with decisions and retcons that wreck so much of what came before and reverberate to even worse effect going forward, the spectacle becomes so stupid that you can't help but disconnect by the time of the Kage Summit let alone the 200+ chapters afterwards, and the Ninja War is just this solid wall of dumb, stupid noise that doesn't end until Kaguya is defeated 10 chapters from the end. And Sasuke is still a boring, unlikable douchebag throughout the whole of the timeskip.
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I think it's more appropriate to say that the conclusion of Naruto was good. Protagonist gets everything he wanted and it feels deserved. Nearly everyone else gets hooked up and looks happy. You can't argue it's not satisfying, especially with good endings becoming rarer and rarer in modern media. MHA is a literal cuck ending, JJK will be a full on downer unless they revive a fuckton of people, and I don't think Attack on Titan even had an ending.
 
Trollblade69 said:
Even if the Big Three's successors are all failing to be as good, it doesn't make Naruto's ending not awful. All of Shippuden is littered with decisions and retcons that wreck so much of what came before and reverberate to even worse effect going forward, the spectacle becomes so stupid that you can't help but disconnect by the time of the Kage Summit let alone the 200+ chapters afterwards, and the Ninja War is just this solid wall of dumb, stupid noise that doesn't end until Kaguya is defeated 10 chapters from the end. And Sasuke is still a boring, unlikable douchebag throughout the whole of the timeskip.
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Shippuden is fine. The Ninja War is a rollercoaster of great to terrible to great to terrible and it thankfully ends on great. From the moment Sakura punches Kaguya in the head to the last page of the manga is a solid 10/10 ending.

More named characters should've died in the war, that's about my only lasting complaint.
 
I feel crazy because JJK 265 was a very mid chapter to me, whereas the entire Internet seems to be raving about how great it is and how it proves Gege has always been a great writer. Not sure what I'm missing here.

By all accounts this chapter is really nothing special.
Yuji:
1. Grows 10 levels in a single fight,

2. Develops a domain capable of stumping and completely containing the guy who killed Gojo and withstood everything all the remaining top tiers in the world threw at him (at the same time) while heavily handicapped.

3. Then goes on to talk about how he's abandoned the philosophy that has carried him to this point, and I mean literally to this point. Yuji has been throwing himself into the fray with no concern for his wellbeing against Sukuna right up till his domain expansion. Where is the development before this realization? This current fight is not that far off from Shibuya which he concluded with his memorable "I'm you" to Mahito, and he was offering himself as a sacrificial pawn as recently as when the team was strategizing to kill Sukuna if Gojo failed. The point where he started to rethink his philosophy is not really clear and this just seems very sudden.

4. Then somehow convinces Sukuna to play along with his nonsense and even gets some comedy out of it.

5. Then goes so far as to tell Sukuna he pities him and threaten him with death, which for some reason sets Sukuna off when he's been unfazed by other characters expressing similar feelings of empathy towards him. This alone raises so many questions. I mean yeah I get that he has a specific disdain for Yuji, but he's been able to show how he fully understands the philosophies of multiple powerful characters and still dismiss them as meaningless in the face of his own. It just surprises me that he would be set off by the most boilerplate "durrh human life is precious it's the little things that matter. Now repent and I will spare you" spiel after how unshakeable he's proven his resolve to be.


Honestly I could write a whole essay about why everything above doesn't make a lot of sense given what has been shown in the story and what was happening right before Yuji opened his domain, but I'm more interested in finding out what makes 265 "peak" in the eyes of so many readers right now as opposed to explaining why it's just average, perhaps not even good for a JJK chapter.

It all feels a bit forced but, understandable in terms of what he was trying to achieve. At best it's a filler chapter to buy Gege time to decide what Yuji's Domain actually does and at worst it's reminiscent of Naruto extending a hand to Obito after he'd murdered countless people including his own parents. What am I missing here?


Is it because Gege never actually writes any worthwhile character interactions that the first one he writes since Shibuya looks like Shakespeare to readers?

Or is it because he finally produced a not shit chapter after over a year of frustrating breaks, pointless filler chapters, lazy ass pulls and repetitive cliffhangers? Is it a "one dry cracker tastes like a gourmet meal to a man who hasn't eaten in 2 weeks" situation?
 
I really like the character of Rachel in Tower of God. It's rare for a media to have such an unrepentant bitch acting like maiden in distress. Usually they'd try even a bit to make her likable.

Stanley Ipkiss said:
Then goes so far as to tell Sukuna he pities him and threaten him with death, which for some reason sets Sukuna off when he's been unfazed by other characters expressing similar feelings of empathy towards him
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I really fucking hate this trope. Both in how ridiculous it is, and how cringe villains act to it.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I think it's more appropriate to say that the conclusion of Naruto was good. Protagonist gets everything he wanted and it feels deserved. Nearly everyone else gets hooked up and looks happy.
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We really didn't get much of Naruto seemingly WANTING Hinata though, so it felt forced. Hinata has the track record of always crushing on him so it genuinely works for her, but except for that rushed movie to try and build a relationship between the two I never got the feeling Naruto gave much of a shit about her, Naruto was consistently after Sakura. Don't get me wrong, I was one of the kids who was shipping Naruhina from the start, but that was because Hinata was so clearly dedicated to it and frankly deserved it after almost dying for him. It really surprised me when she actually got what she wanted.
 
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