In Western folklore and fantasy goblins are very intelligent and sneaky. Tricksters. Liars. They set traps, steal shit, tinker with stuff, and usually outsmart people instead of just brute forcing everything. Not good guys, but not inherently evil either. But in anime and manga, they are shown as irredeemable rapist trash species. That's not even Western goblin lore. That feels way closer to oni or hentai orc logic. Like JRPGs needed a weak humanoid enemy you could grind early game and goblins got stuck as the default punching bag. Then edgy fantasy doubled down and went “yeah make them rape elves so nobody feels bad killing them.” At this point anime goblins aren't goblins at all. They're just small green rape oni wearing a Western fantasy name. So is this just decades of lazy genre recycling or did Japan ever actually look at goblin folklore beyond ruining their reputation?
>>284507650They're basically clans of marauders.It's not that they're evil so much as this is their culture and primary means of survival.Like vikings.
>>284498743I prefer doglike kobolds over lizard kobolds.
Goblins, kobolds, pixies, bugbears and what have you are for the most part just basically the same minor arsehole spirits in folklore. They rarely had commonly agreed physical characteristics. That's mostly a 20th century thing when they started getting illustrations for media, think of DnD bestiaries and stuff like Disney films for portayal of the seven dwarves. Goblins are green because Warhammer did that and WoW spread it further. This has more to do with media depiction legacy than anything related to myths of folklore.
>The orc was a sort of "hell-devil" in Old English literature, and the orc-né (pl. orc-néas, "demon-corpses") was a race of corrupted beings and descendants of Cain, alongside the elf, according to the poem Beowulf. Tolkien adopted the term orc from these old attestations, which he professed was a choice made purely for "phonetic suitability" reasons.>An elf (pl. elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.>In Norse mythology, Dökkálfar ("Dark Elves")[a] and Ljósálfar ("Light Elves")[b:lit] are two contrasting types of elves; the dark elves dwell within the earth and have a dark complexion, while the light elves live in Álfheimr, and are "fairer than the sun to look at". The Ljósálfar and the Dökkálfar are attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the late Old Norse poem Hrafnagaldr Óðins. Scholars have produced theories about the origin and implications of the dualistic concept.Tolkien didn't invent shit, he just borrowed from mythologies like everyone else.
>>284498450I may be wrong here but the "intelligent, clever humanoid" type creatures were quite common in germanic folklore
Do you like injured girls?
>>284506301that's a ghost, no way she survived that bookshelf
>>284506301I like girls with scars. I want to kiss their scars
You encounter two trigger happy officers, what do you do?
>>284506449Those are kyoani happy officers.
>>284506961But what if I had an American Noa?
>>284506449Swallow my stash>I can't breathe!
>>284506449>heel popthat’s my fetish
>>284506449>trigger happyOnly one of them has her gun out, and she doesn't look happy.
ITT we talk about how bad the Umamusume S3 was
Someone, post that webm of uma face-planting herself right at the start of starting gate.
>>284475513Oguri PITS
>>284506519Again. Who cares
>>284503267You are an actual bonafide retard. Kitasan is based on a fucking horse than came in and dominated his competition from the very start. There's no way to do a damn "underdog" story with Kitasan Black
>>284508381Shoulda focused on kitasan and duramante rivalry. Diamante coulda been kitasan JoJo/Dio
Chapter 69.2 tomorrow 12pm JST>Summary: Please do stay to witness the conclusion of this long and arduous struggle!!
>>284505639Not so fast. They have a new witch right here >>284446677
>>284505488Thus far it's literally the other way around, Tokio is looking at every pair of tits his way but Palma was laser focused on him the second she awakened in the sky.
>>284445974C-can he even see where he's driving with that in front?
>>284505639how is he gonna do something without Mado
>>284505639Sandek the wise destructor, now there is no one to nerf him, his brother is dead now
Kallen is defenseless. Would you risk it?
>big tits and round ass>in a skellington bodyRepulsive combination. I need protein, not just fat and bones.
Kallen is for rape
>>284505199Imagine Kallen is taking a bath, and she were actually as physically weak as her persona in school because she is tired from all the fighting she has been doing.>>284496304Would you be cruel enough to actually go with it, or would her sad eyes begging you not to be enough to dissuade you from the act.
>>284495972if "thousand year old" lolis are pedobait then "14 year olds" with the bodies of college students arent
I'll be storytiming the manga, one complete case per day. Most cases are around 3-6 chapters long. Feel free to drop in at any time, since it's mostly episodic.Case 120: Eri Vs Yukiko Murder Previous case:>>284438535
>>284506103Not so innocuous if you think about it. The weirdest thing is that the police didn't immediately say "okay, let's replicate the conditions in which the murder happened", as soon as they heard about the situation. Thinking about it... What do the inspectors even do in all these cases?
>>284506728Sure, but that's where the blind spot lies.What use would it be to turn off the lights and see nothing, right?
>>284505398I hate it for the exact same reason.
>>284503335It's a searing indictment of both of her parents, but it's played for laughs and to show Ran is the superior wifely girl. Good parents are practically nonexistent in the Conanverse anyway.
>>284503415He ranks pretty high on my list, but my favorite is still Tintin
BWOAH
the wings stay on
Kuroneko is CUTE
>>284505977It's a common symptom upon witnessing perfection
i love her too
>Why i feel this way for her love and what i must dooo!!!!>If you could only see how blue>Her eyes can be !!!!when she says!!!!>WHEN SHE SAYS SHE LOVES MEE!!!!
Route 26: Lunchtime
>>284502300Ice cream profitteroles
>>284505011But only if filled with casu marzu ice cream
>>284489247>The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
>>284489373I'm a peace walker.
>>284505052What about someone's leg
I know the anime was made just to promote the gamecube game but is it worth watching? It's 52 episodes seems like it'd be a good ride.
>>284503611yea it was cool when he showed him his moves
>>284503611Wakamoto carries the role on his back.
>>284502783It being a predcessor of yugioh 5ds is pretty funny.
>>284502959which genealogy manga, there's like 4 of them
>>284503437It's all worth it to see the Falcon Punch.
Who would you have chosen?
TWNCY (they will never choose you)
>>284506328Man, this was such a good one. Finally the newcomer girl doesn't get the MC and it makes sense she doesn't. But obviously since newcomer girl is the star of the movie and gets way more scenes with the MC, you would think she will win, but no. And that's a great thing. Nitou needed some additional scenes to make it more convincing but for a 2 hours long movie sacrifices had to be made. Wish this one was a 10-12 episodes show.
>>284506759MC was a retard for picking the boring normalfag.
>>284506821No he wasn't. He established a relationship before with her and talked out their problems.
>>284507067They weren't in a relationship and he just found a superior woman so the logic course of action is to pick the new one instead.
Are you for or against Sybil?Would you be better off with Sybil in your country?
>>284499310She’s going thru a lot and things finally settled down, it’s not that hard
I hated s3 because I thought mind tracing is bs
imagine the hue of who decides willingly to mutilate his genitals
>>284492059isn't this the end goal of whatt palantir is trying to do? build a surveillance state that can catch potential criminals before a crime has occured. that and automate war.
>>284506470pretty low, unless he's neurotic over it
BRAVO
I clapped.
>>>/rs/test_test
>>284506210Anon your test results just came in. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you didn't pass.
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