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Cosmos said:
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Even this one?
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Cosmos said:
Just read all of the Goblin Slayer chapters available (28 atm) and caught up on the first two episodes. I'm really enjoying it. I love the dark parts, but I also love how it isn't just an edge-fest. There's a lot of page time devoted to Goblin Slayer slowly becoming closer to his party members (especially Priestess) and it's the sweetest shit ever.

Also, I'm amused that this is the very first piece of media I've consumed that's made me actively root for the genocide of an entire species.
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Imma be honest, had the creator replaced Goblins with Boglins as his evil rape machine monsters I would be far more favourably inclined towards the series
 
Nazi vegeta said:
what the hell is this?
looks like a cheap porno.
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Its a schlocky italian sequel to a schlocky italian ripoff of Conan the Barbarian directed by the italian nigger behind both Anthropophagus and Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
 
@Kari Kamiya I've seen Utena already, but keep going, it's good! And don't forget to watch the movie version, it's more surreal but the animation is beautiful. Unfortunately Genei didn't click with me (although I'm a big fan of the character designer), while I didn't think it was riffing on PMMM specifically it felt like a show that made the cutesy characters suffer unnecessarily for shock value.

Having seen both already, they are very much unique beasts and the only elements they have in common with other magical girl shows is the use of magic + femininity (and, with each other, fairy tale elements). It also slightly bugs me that people call them 'deconstructions before PMMM was a thing' in praise, when (imo) they weren't deconstructing the genre but doing their own thing which is what makes them so different to played-straight mahou shoujo, and PMMM, which does do the dark spin on magical girl tropes (but then kinda becomes Homura's story by the last few episodes).

Utena feels like a boarding school soap opera with really fucked up relationships within its dorms featuring supernatural elements, Tutu is like... a meta-ballet of an original fairy tale that's a love letter to all the ones that came before it, with even more hidden depths for classical music nerds.
 
Ah, you've already seen both lol. Well I just remembered another that's my last "throw at the 'Another Like Tutu' wall" rec, and that's the six-episode OVA Shamanic Princess. Which does have a brief relation to Magic User's Club, which is one of Tutu's recommendations.

Other than that, I honestly got nothing unless you decide you want to leave the magical girl genre lol.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
8bit must just suck ass, then, I really didn't enjoy Grisaia at all. Feel like it just was one of those "edgelord" series, I just didn't get it at all. I also feel like they fucked up Rewrite as well, from what I've heard about that one, it really needed more than 24 episodes.
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In the anime he looks like a edgelord mary sue that get bitches and is oh so amazing in the visual novel is totally different because you read his monologues, he is a sarcastic smartass that dont hold back in anything and considering the heroines he has to deal with it he is the sane person in all the school excluding the director, a word of warning the first novel (the only one i played) is looooooooooooooooooooooonnnggggggg as hell, it took me like 4 days to get to the branches but at least they flesh very hard the characters and you get to like them

I finished watching Island in a binge and uhhh the only thing memorable is the mc banging his GF in the future, the rest is just a mess of a plot that the studio wrapped like a tornado in the last episode because there was no time, and according to one of my friends that played the VN they botched the ending very hard and eliminated some controversials plot points

The main heroine is actually the daughter of the protagonist from the future where the world is ending by a new ice age, the protagonist is stuck in a loop that has him going to the past to try to fix the problem but because the tech is unreliable he always end with amnesia, in the anime he actually manage to get the to the past in the VN he just go to cryo sleep and stay there for millenia until the loop is repeated and even in the better ending is just implied that they finally are able to stay together, in the anime the GF finally managed to finish another time machine and manage to get to the past but she arrives at a point much sooner that the mc, she end as a maid working with one of the big families but she arrive pregnant with the daughter of the MC, the kid is born and after that the events of the story properly start, the thing is that in the VN you can actually bang and marry your daughter, so obviously that thing was not going to fly so the ending was altered, even the hardcore fans of frontwing consider Island very meh because massive plotholes and such, i dont even know if i explained it properly because the thing is such a mess that i only watched it because i was doing it with friends

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That goblin surely deserved it
 
Currently reading Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu.

It's surprisingly fun to read.
 
Josei manga magazine You just released its final issue. Fortunately for me, the only manga I followed from that magazine is moving to Cookie.
 
I finished re-reading a manga I once read back in 2012 called Love Lucky! by Katsu Aki, who's most famous for Futari Ecchi, but this one needs more love. It's about a salaryman who has some really bad luck with women (though he's kind of a pushover anyway), but he gets through the day listening to his favorite super-idol's music. One day he goes to a matchmaking party and ends up talking to and going out with a girl who wears disguises, but even with all the weird masks she has on he still ended up falling in love with her. So they register their marriage, and she then reveals herself to be the super-idol who just wanted to have a normal married life, but the harsh, busy life of being a popular idol made it difficult for her to find someone who could truly love her. The real conflict of the story is that for the record company to accept their marriage, they have to keep it a secret for a year, so inevitably, hijinks ensue.

It has some clichés you expect to see from an ecchi series and almost feels like nothing much happens most of the time, but it's a sweet little series about perseverance and that idols are just as human as everyone else. Fuuta and Kirai are pretty adorable together the more they opened up to one-another and (after all the cock-blocking) become more lovey-dovey. Her fellow idols and his co-workers get the right amount of screentime, and the manager, Mameda, is easily the best thing ever about the series:
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The guy getting punched out by a bear totally deserves all of it, by the way.
 
Has anyone seen that slice of life manga of the former yakuza husband? Keeps looking intimidating as fuck because he takes his duties as a husband as seriously as he did the duties of a yakuza?
 
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