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Why aren't we getting as many cute girls doing stuff anime adaptions anymore?
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How did the Sansha Sanyou manga end? The anime was nice
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>>287253693
Anime is for normalfags now.
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We were living in the golden age of dogakobo and we didn't even know it...
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Someone post the guitar thing
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>>287253693
We live in dark times

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Bring me Sissymu's bussy, ZEHAHAHAHAHA!
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>>287255804
well he ate lots of cherry pie, that's something
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>>287254675
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Zolo was born a girl named Zora and ivankov turned her into a boy.
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What if Zolo swung his balls behind his back then over his head and into his mouth
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Zoro was born a Zoro

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What was your reaction when reading through a manga and suddenly came to an abrupt end? Consumed by rage? Filled with confusion? Drown in disbelief and denial? Perhaps, plagued with uncontrollable laughter at the absurdity.

Nevertheless, come. Relive, share with others, or experience for yourself the first time some of these short lived (maybe justifiably so) creations.
Make valuable lessons be learnt. And never forget, the true ending was the friends we read questionably sourced Japanese cartoon drawings on a handicraft forum with along the way.

Bringing the "petty" in petty officer is part of the job description for those protecting our homeland from illegal aliens.

>One day, a junior high school sophomore student, Kuro-chan, discovers aliens coming out of her closet! Now, it's up to her to regulate these migrant aliens!

Chapter 22 & 23 >>287222674
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And that's all for today as well as Kuro-chan Chi no Oshiire ga Tsukaenai Wake. Thank you to everyone that has followed and read along.
In the end, the real panties were the holes we met along the way... At least there are only tentacles around so it's perfectly legal. And Momo's still waiting...
Accustomed to hard labor conditions at a young age is a recipe for early onset middle age crisis. It's not long before the lost of will starts to set in, next time, in Suibu Yametai Hagino-san.
Before then, a final good and innocent day/night to you all.
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Iana. Is. BACK.
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>>287254117
English web didn't pick it up until vtubers
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What are your thoughts and feelings on Pink Konoha?
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>>287254543
She no personality besides being a vaguely flirtatious, whoreish tease. She's just there for fanservice.
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>>287254854
Wtf, why

Itsuka, chikatta no yo.
Jibun no, kokoro he to.
Nageki no uzu ni nomareta.
Kimi wo, tasuketai tooooo!

Kasaneru toki ha, kaete yuku.
Kotowari no, haguruma ga sabitara.
Mou modorenai, I hate this wooooorld!

Subete kowashitai!
Dokonimo mada ikenai!
Omoide no tame ni!
Shiawase datta to!
Ano koro dake dakishime!
Toozakaru, yume no ashiotooooo!

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>>287186661
good song
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They should marry each other to cover up their gay and lesbian selves.
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>>287246890
I know you meant youtube. Im sure the channels that react to KnY already saw it in theaters.

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Strange Fake anime has ended, lets keep the typemoon energy until the final volume this summer

>Remake of the Imperial Grail War from the Koha-Ace manga. The protagonist is Akagi Kanata, who gets transported 75 years to the past to participate in a Holy Grail War in the midst of World War 2.
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>>287252652
Command seals are rarely used wisely in Fate. Or they're hoarded until the end like in Fate/Zero.
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>>287252550
>jobbed to turtles
Would Keikenchi have the balls to do Yi Sun-sin?
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>>287247524
This>>287250124

Redline is a critical work about the Showa-era government and the mindset of the last surviving samurai and the classic Bushido that so characterized the troops in WWII. The work has more in common with Shigurui than a classic Chanbara.
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>>287252550
Hideyoshi is my personal favorite out of the three unifiers and he put in the most work out of all of them, but his Korean campaign just tarnishes how history views him. He would've been viewed more positively if he just chilled after becoming regent.
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Okits owns me sex

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What I’m starting to realize is that “too many characters” usually isn’t the real problem—it’s a symptom.

Some of my favorite stories, like Hunter x Hunter, One Piece, and Fullmetal Alchemist, have huge casts, yet I’ve never felt like they were weighed down by it. On paper, they should feel bloated—especially something like One Piece, which introduces plenty of characters who are minor, redundant, or disappear entirely—but it never really hurts the experience.

By contrast, series like My Hero Academia, RWBY, Fairy Tail, Bleach, or Genshin Impact often feel like they have too many characters—but I don’t think the raw number is actually the issue.

What makes the difference is how strong the core of the story is.

When the main cast and central arcs are engaging, focused, and emotionally satisfying, the audience doesn’t really mind how many side characters exist. Even if some of them are underdeveloped or unnecessary, they don’t stand out as problems because the story’s foundation is solid.

But when the main characters or primary narrative feel underwritten, inconsistent, or unfocused, the audience starts looking elsewhere for something to latch onto—often the side cast. And when those characters also lack depth or purpose, the entire story starts to feel bloated. That’s when people say “there are too many characters,” even though what they’re really reacting to is a lack of substance at the center.

In that sense, underdeveloped side characters aren’t inherently a problem—they become noticeable because the main story isn’t carrying enough weight.

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>>287254233
It takes a 10/10 and turns it into a 9/10. You are still enjoying it, but it's not as good as it could be.
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A big cast isn't inherently bad, most harem anime have a ton of characters.
If you turn to the US, the Simpsons have a ton of characters.
The question is really how they're developed and used. Not all characters need a deep backstory or a ton of screen time
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>>287254233
Don't AI-slop /a/.
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>>287254871
>A big cast isn't inherently bad, most harem anime have a ton of characters.
You've clearly never seen many harem anime because most of them have MAYBE ~10 characters while your below average isekai slop will have something like 30+.

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>Mage Next Door Ends this week
JK Hero is one foot out the door.
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This is a hundred posts of in depth discussion of the plot of a manga, it's clearly not what jump threads are meant for why won't they make their own fucking threads
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Post woke
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People forgot about the old batch already huh
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>>287255459
They lost so they're desperately hissing and pissing.

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>Your waifu
>How well you think she'd do in a hypothetical Mrs./a/
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>>287255148
Well she's married to Mr. /a/
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>>287255148
miss international/world/universe but for married women
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>>287255148
/co/, /v/, and I think a few other boards have annual tournaments where anons vote for their favorite characters, so this would be the /a/ equivalent
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>>287255113
>Mrs./a/
each board got its own titleing
for /a/ it should be "waifu of /a/"
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This faggot tried to force this shit in the past and was so retarded about it that mods banned him and he responded by spamming the board about it for a couple weeks. He tries to do it every so often but nobody gives him attention.

>The chair of the discipline committee at Tama Municipal Votive Academy, popular and athletic female student Kanan Takakiyo, is actually a demon coming from the demon world to devour human souls.
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>>287248755
It starts out with ZERO. That is a terrible look for a series billed as "ecchi"
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>>287255481
There's nothing to censor. It's a romcom, not an ecchi series. If you want boobs wait for Yowa Yowa Sensei. This show ain't it.
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Thought I had let them somewhere around here
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>>287251852
Wasn't that the mirror one?
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>>287248473
Can a mushishi borrow a mushi?
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>>287231744
Magical
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something just flew up my butt and now i cough out pennies from the year 2226. i didnt see any mushi though. btw, limp bizkit is on the coins.
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>>287231744
the pasta that keeps on giving.

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The legendary anime known as "Sailor and the 7 ballz"
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For me it's sogna gifs
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>>287251244
Ancient slop
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>>287253193
Bullshit.
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>>287251244
Was thet the star wars one with the dickhead storm troopers?
I'm pretty sure that was the first hentai OVA I ever watched, was like 9
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>>287251244
Posting fake AI slop pictures should be a bannable offense.

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Alot of Odas reveals are disappointing. He spent so long hyping one pieces lore and mystery up just for it to be super special punch harder power and generic attractive evil guy.
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>>287253607
Curious as to what you think would be better like design wise
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>>287253607
Honestly I don't hate Imu's design. Find it weird that he's wearing Elbaf style clothes, but apart from that its great.

I'm still mad about how the gifters were ruined though.

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Explain to me like I'm 5, what's the appeal with light novels?

It can't be the writing because it's amateurish at best.
It can't be the artwork or people would just read manga.

I can understand webnovels popularity in Japan, since they're free and accessible but what is the appeal here?
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>>287253379
Western fantasy targeted at men doesn't include low-brow romance tropes like harem building, vacuous love triangles, enemies to lovers, interspecies erotica, etc. to anywhere near the extent that romantasy does. The protagnists are often frequently quite normal by the standards of their world, and ascend to greater heights via hard work and dedication. By contrast, romantasy protagonists are presented as being normal and boring, but are actually le specialest of all—not unlike many isekai/litRPG protags.

Note that I love the kind of slop in my LN's, so I'm not judging white wine moms for liking it in their shitty fucking fantasy novels.
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Japanese reading practice that goes further than manga.
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There's actually good light novels published in Japan. The problem is the audience in English doesn't usually buy them so you get the lowest quality isekai and villainess slop again and again.

Take a look at J-Novel Club, there's maybe 3-5 decently written light novels on the lineup out of over 200 series.

Yen Press and Seven Seas fair better, but Yen Press has priority to the better Kadokawa stuff like Seishun Buta while Seven Seas gets lucky with authors like Yoru Sumino.

It's an English market problem that makes light novels look worse and less appealing from the outside. It's less jarring if your coming from manga, maybe.
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>>287254784
I think the translation is also a huge factor. The only light novel I've ever read where I was legitimately impressed by the translation was an ancient Yen Press series called Book Girl (one of the company's first releases). I don't know who worked on the translation, but the English version's writing style was noticeably more poetic than you usually see out of LN translations, official or otherwise. Like whenever it was going into atmospheric descriptions, it would use a lot of warm, flowery adjectives.
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>>287253286
Well LitRPGs have made their way westward sadly

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The writing quality in both parts is staggering. Even if you for some reason dislike part 1, you cannot deny that not only is it 100x superior than part 2, the difference in writing style, art and quality is insane. It does not feel like the person who wrote part 1 wrote part 2 and I truly wonder if there was a ghost editor or assistant who made fire punch and chainsaw man part 1
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>>287251711
>Did Fujimoto even write Part 1?
Yes, but Part 1 was more comercial. Part 2 is Fujimoto writing what he wants and this made a lot of people dislike him.
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>>287251711
>Denji totally forgets about Reze 1 chapter after they say goodbye to each other, then goes back at simping for Makima
Great writing m8
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>>287251711
Part 1 felt like he wanted to write it. Part 2 didn’t.
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>>287251863
Centuria started to suck once it became about dime store Game of Thrones gerrymandering.
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Creatives need someone to occationally tell them
>no, that's retarded


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