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In 2024 there were 801 anime released and I only watched 1. Maybe this year will be better
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Link click just keeps getting gayer and gayer.
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I've renewed my love for a certain boy this year.
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Who stole whose clothing. We already know that scarf was on Rona in the previous merch line.
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>read pic related first chapter
>tagged seinen
It's just bl at this point, nothing but bl.
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Yuuri is so lucky...
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>>275264784
Xavier is so gorgeous.
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The new Aquarion boys are still cute!
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>>275266224
Middle boy claimo
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>>275264876
I am glad that this shit is finally back. I need my men-with-swords fix, there is no good samurai shit to follow right now save for NGWK and I am not sure if I will see its best boy again.
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>>275266224
The art style looks like a middle schooler's vtuber fanart.
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>>275267136
Maybe that was intentional.
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>>275267168
This looks cuter.
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>>275264784
I can't believe they actually allowed a
>you DO NOT touch my boyfriend
Plausible deniability stretched super thin.
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Suggest me your favourite Cold War homos fanfics and doujins
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>>275266224
Isn't far left implied to have been a girl in his past life? The scene that made it seem like each of them established a connection to their respective former selves showed brown/blue girl to be his past self or whatever you call that and said character is implied to have been together with the former self of the middle boy. Would be fun it it's true and they eventually remembered their past lives and fell again for their old lovers, just in new bodies.
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>>275267357
I always see these outfits used for Rusame in a cold war period, does anyone have the original Hima art or is it fandom hivemind and the'yre not canon?
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I'll be waiting, but the potential is here.
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Is anybody watching/reading Medalist? I will watch it anyway since the writing and characters seem to be pretty good so far, but does pic related dude get relevant later?
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Cute detective, hoping he doesn't die and/or turn out to be a woman in disguise.
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>>275264652
Same to be honest. Though I always end up caring about non-yaoi characters more anyway so I stopped caring about "actual" yaoi. There is barely a difference anyway if you consider certain characters from series like Kamuy or Bravern. Might as well be BL but you have action and a story on top of just some gay characters.
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>>275266224
Left boy claimo
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>>275267136
>modern /a/ gets filtered by experimental artstyles
Truly, yet another reminder of how far have we fallen
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>>275268074
The second episode didn't even get a thread on /a/.
I mean there was one, technically, but only a day later and it died after 10 posts.
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>>275268074
It's not experimenting dick, first thing I thought of was that shitty 5 minute utaite anime Urashimasakatasen. DVD bonus chibi anime tier.
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I miss shows with gothic homoerotic tones.
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>>275268332
I like this shit the most. As much as I love gay shit I won't read or watch a series just because it throws some gay schoolboys with generic idol designs into it if it has nothing else to offer. What makes characters hot are their roles and dynamics anyway and dynamics aren't interesting if you know it's a mutual vanilla love from the start. Gankutsuou was one of the best series of the 00s in my opinion, but the homo tones and the gay friend were an unexpected extra that made it even better.

Wonder if it would have fanart and shipping if it aired nowadays. Or if it would be ignored completely by the retarded modern audience (probably the latter).
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>>275268332
gay sex with Baptistin.
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>>275268433
Any BL set in high school or a fucking office Is just a turnoff for me.
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>>275267823
The first two episodes made me want to know more and read the manga.
I'm halfway through volume 1 and it's worth trying it just for the pretty art. I can guess that with 11 volumes they won't be able to adapt most of it in a single cour anyway.
Dunno yet how much that guy is relevant but Tsukasa is lovely.
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>>275268126
If a thread dies after 10 posts, you know there's at least one person out there who really wanted to talk about that thing, even though there was no one around to hear them.
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>>275268503
Same. I never liked high school anime to begin with, even when I was still in school myself and it only got worse afterwards.
Doesn't help that school boy BL is usually vanilla as hell.
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>>275266224
>Aquarion
NEVER EVER AGAIN
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>>275268433
>>275268503
We get this same complaint every fucking thread, we get it you guys are so special
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>>275268735
I literally never talked about school shit in like a year or longer. At least not in these threads.
Also that shit is never successful so I doubt anybody is trying to sound special for not liking it.
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Not a single interesting show this season, what a bore.
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Why is the Hikaru anime getting so much shilling? Because of Netflix?
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>>275268126
You missed the other previous thread with 70 posts
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>>275268520
I like the age problem the series thematizes. For reasons I can deeply to characters that have waited for too long to do or join something they like until they realize it's too late to do so.
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>>275268829
Because it's one of the best selling seinen right now?
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At the end of March, Anime Japan will have news about the Black Butler and Twisted Wonderland animes. I wonder if there will be the first trailers for these animes?

And the rock band Cö shu Nie and musician HYDE are collaborating for the opening of the new season of Black Butler
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>>275268851
Well fuck, you are right. Was already nighttime so I gave up looking for it by then I guess.
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>>275268829
All the promo art made me realise that Hikaru is... Ugly.
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>>275268829
Is it getting any shilling? All I saw so far was a casual retweet with the trailer.
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>>275268965
More dumb stinky lovecraftian abomination himbo for me
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>>275268829
I find baffling that the manga's discussion died here once it got simulpub and that no one is uploading the new chapters anywhere despite being free for a while.
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>>275268938
Hopefully they don't waste it with terrible op direction like last season, I still don't get what they were trying to do.
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>>275268938
Male cutes!
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>>275267823
He's the coach of the rival, and in charge of filtering the lolicons with homolust
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>>275269102
<3
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>>275269201
God I hope. I don't have an issue with loli posting but it's all those threads are about and it's boring.
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>>275268965
May sound like a cope but he seems like the type that looks better when in motion.
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Hachuling called him cute in the last episode
ToT
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>>275268965
His dead skin is literally being worn by interdimensional tentacles anon.
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>>275268878
To know more about Tsukasa and his backstory I can already recommend reading the manga. The anime cut stuff to put the focus on Inori.
>I like the age problem the series thematizes.
For both the coach and the student it's a wall that keeps getting closer. I like how they insist on that from the beginning, it naturally adds a bit of tension.
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>>275267639
They're official and it's from 2 different oficial arts of Alfred and Ivan that he did a little after he began to publish on SJ+
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>>275268332
somethingsomethingNosferatujokesomething. Also it's avant-garde not gothic.
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>>275269530
It has elements of both. The original novel definitely did.
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No one watched the gay vampire show?
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>>275268813
This season, I am watching Maomao and that's it huh.
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>>275269802
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>>275269802
I did, I was incredulous at just how gay it was.
Ranmaru is a creep, but an entertaining one so far and the monstrous aspect of vampirism looks like a promising counterweight for the comedic tone.
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>>275269802
I am but for some reason the comedy isn't vibing with me.
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>>275267883
I only started to watch season 1 after I saw him. it was pretty good. When does season 2 start?
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I miss them so much
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There was an English-language BL webcomic in the late 2000s called "Honeydew Syndrome", which I had never read or even heard of. It evidently got a low-quality vanity-press print run at some point, and just a few weeks ago I somehow found a copy in a second-hand bookshop next to actual manga by Japanese people.
And, honestly, I loved it. The art is actually attractive (and feels more authentic than the typical "OEL manga" of the period), the story is charming, and there's a ton of embarrassing late 2000s internet culture references (V for Vendetta, Mudkips, etc etc). Very soulful and sincere generally. Not a masterpiece in the slightest, but one of the nicest little surprises I've had in a while.
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>>275269845
Jinshi makes my dick happy.
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>>275269802
the vampire dies in no time? pretty sure that took ages for season 1 to get licensed in english, then it went to the braven route where it went to crunchyroll jail with no promotion whatsoever.
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>>275269081
I dropped it.
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>>275270192
Already has.
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>>275270193
Did the manga end?
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>tfw your favorite character got turned into a gay slut
Not really what I expected but such is life, I'll just roll with it. Guess elegant men with umbrella and Fukumoto nose are just too irresistible.
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Did I hallucinate the news that the rest of Hagio Moto's Poe Clan series was licensed for 2025? I can't find the press release anywhere.
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>>275270491
It ended in like 2022 and their arc in the currently airing anime just ended.
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>>275268813
I like Aquarion and Medalist but the first is probably for autists and the second one is mainly about a dude and the girl he coaches.
Nothing else that seems decent so far though. The old man isekai was better than expected and I like the dude, but it would be a miracle if an isekai wouldn't end up boring after three episodes.
At least Orb is still airing. And Kinnikuman.
>>275269802
Skipped it so far because SoL comedies are usually not for me and the vampire seems to have a bad taste because MC looks bland as hell. But the rest of the season seems weak so I will at least give the first episode a try later.
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>>275270374
Jinshi needs correction. He's been getting uppity.
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>>275270338
>Maybe I can get his MSN or something
I feel old.
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The recent FKMT thread motivated me to catch up with some of his recent stuff and the spin-offs and I am glad it did because I enjoy them so much so far. Especially the Ichijo spin-off.
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>>275268813
At least in April there will be a new season of Black Butler!
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Was this made for shota ryona lovers, or shota lovers who want their shotas to heal/get revenge?
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>>275271575
Ngl I haven't checked the latest chapter since it seemed like it was going to use rape again.
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>>275270463
Oh shit. I'm not up to date with the season anymore.
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>>275270655
Completely forgot this existed until you just made that post. To think that I used it for years and now it's basically buried in my subconsciousness. Remember how I used this parallel with IRC. Then I moved to ICQ when MSN added a lot of stupid shit for early phone users or something, then I Trillian and eventually everything became discord. Sadly the types of communities from back then are gone. I even like the technical aspect of discord (showing when you're gaming, or the ability to drag images into it opposed to upload everything first before you can show it), but even if you find some of the very rare small decent groups they are just not the same dirty nerdy fags from the 00s.
>>275268965
He looks better in the trailer. Maybe this is just a bad artwork.
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>>275271616
Actually no, the guy's plan was kinda childish and petty.
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>>275271575
I read the first chapter but it was trying too hard IMO. I like some ryona too sometimes but there needs to be some balance. That aside I need to like the MC first before caring but the series throws you right into it and the writing doesn't help making him or the situation relatable and I am saying this as someone that was bullied for many years.
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>>275271852
Good to know, thanks.
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got into watching trigun cause someone brought it up a few threads ago and now i can't stop.
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Does anyone here play or is watching the Dynasty Warriors Origins game that just came out? Some of the dialogue in this game is very gay or seems to be written by a fujo. Everyone seems obsessed with the protagonist and keeps flirting with him.
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cake
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>>275271937
Asura is fun in how mentally unhinged he is from the get go.
The series doesn't ask you to like him or empathize with him, just seeing him go ham with his key and super warped sense of justice.
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>>275268074
>experimental artstyles
This experiment failed, sis.

Promare good tho.
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>>275272146
The only musou I like is Sengoku Basara sworry anon
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>>275271975
Based I like Trigun and Vash in particular. Personally I even enjoyed the new series. My main issue with it wasn't even the hairstyle and the lack of Milly (both will obviously change) but the pacing because I think that Trigun works much better if it has time and a bunch of episodic adventures.
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>>275268030
I love shotas more than anything <3
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>>275272146
When and why did they start using these damn subtitles for ants? I couldn't play certain games for years during my bad eyesight period because the texts were unreadable unless I sat right in front of the screen.
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I don't know what to post
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>>275272146
>>275272487
Here is the image with better quality.

https://i.imgur.com/pI52Mh5.jpeg
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For me It's old men
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>>275272220
I love powerbottoms who have the actual power, so much.
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>>275272146
>protagonist is twinky enough to self-insert as
Ehhh.. FINE.. I'll pirate it.
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>>275272220
Not canon, flattie
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>>275272544
Thanks anon. I didn't mean to criticize you but the creators for those ant fonts.
Third guy first row and fourth guy on the second row are pretty cute/hot IMO maybe I should put this into my wishlist.
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>>275267823
the little girls ruin it not for me
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>>275267823
Isnt this just a discount Yuri on Ice
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>>275272614
nu-uh
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>>275272586
Based, me too.
Looking forward to the upcoming new anime season despite the damn CGI.
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>>275272713
It's actually good.
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>>275272713
It's quite different unless you also consider YoI a better Ginban Kaleidoscope because they're both about figure skating.
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>>275272587
>powerbottoms
>all his doujins are him having some attitude before getting fucked into submission
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>>275272713
pls we all known that Yuri on Ice was just discount "that Ranma episode about ice-skating"
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>>275272727
Air bag shorts.
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>>275272438
>I think that Trigun works much better if it has time and a bunch of episodic adventures
Unrelated, but unfortunately, the new age of anime is to avoid episodic adventures, or "filler". This is due to quite a few reasons, from modern short-attention span, to the anime industry prioritizing the variety of shows rather than less shows, more episodes line of production. Kind of sucks that unless your show is extremely popular, many can't afford to have "fillers" in the story. I miss the character chemistry (homo or not) being built up from these adventures.
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Anyone know what that doujin of the guy that hypnotizes his friend and fucks him is called?
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>>275272902
Do you know how little that narrows it down?
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>>275272902
there are too many doujins like that
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>>275272146
I have yet to play these, is the look of the PC customizable? Pic related is too twinky for me.
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>>275272902
there's a whole genre for that
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>>275272727
Is this a webm from the anime?
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>all these skating and sport shows
>still no Air Gear season 2
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>>275272894
Same here. When I looked at my top ~50 anime I realised that maybe only five of them are one-cours series despite the gigantic number of one-cours that exist. They are usually good for plot but not the thing that will get you attached to the characters since they're basically rushing from plot point to plot point or banking on mysteries and a big twist which also means that we won't get many infos about the characters let alone some SoL or development heavy episodes.
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>>275273079
and they dont get fanart neither
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>>275272902
I like this one: [もりっとこけ (もり苔)] ノンケの幼馴染を催眠寝取り
But there are plenty of those.
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>>275273116
They do, but the output isn't long-lasting. Once the season is over, the artists will likely ditch the fandom to a new one.
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>>275272871
excuses, excuses
>>275270193
We've lost 2 homos but we've gained a daughterless old man and his shota tulpa
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>>275273116
Yeah this makes it worse. But it's related. Fanart or actual fandom is based on characters, less plots. People might love a series with great plot and twist but in the end they only love it for that and move on to the next afterwards. It's the characters that make someone an actual fan. But for that you need dynamics and some jokes and some lighthearted scenes on top of development.

And then there is the issue of the time like >>275273173 says. I noticed that I usually get attached to a character or series in the SIXTH week the earliest. For a one-course series this means that half of the story is already over and since I usually gravitate towards antagonists or side characters they might not even get much screentime anymore.
This is why most of the big hypes are long running seinen and shounen or shared universe stuff like Fukumoto's manga and their side stories.
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>>275273045
It wasn't fujobaity enough so who cares
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>>275272146
>>275272544
This feels like an isekai BL VN in which MC romances one the generals of "Romance of the 3 kingdoms" and he tries to stop them from dying but he can't and then MC returns to the real world and you were in a coma, so was it a dream or real? It's ambiguous so we just don't know.
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My problem with homo stuff (or infatuation with characters in general) is that neither I nor the mangaka can control whom I will like, so I usually don't pick anything up "for the homo" because chances are extremely high that I won't care about the character and not even consider them attractive.
The only way to find homo shit I love is to watch series with decent writing that I am principally interested in regardless of homo and hope that it will actually have some characters that I can get into that have some homo potential.

This is as rare as it sounds, I only discover maybe one series/ship that I deeply care about every three years. I wish it was easier to get attracted to characters but maybe my taste is just too limited.
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>>275273262
>I noticed that I usually get attached to a character or series in the SIXTH week the earliest.
>(s)he doesn't get love-at-first-scene
Sad.
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>>275272599
>>275272935
The duality of /It's time/
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>>275272918
>>275272925
>>275272947
>>275273128
Found it
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>>275273403
Love at first sight implies it's about the designs alone or a single trait which is usually not enough for me. What I love are usually contrasting personality traits. It's the combination that makes it good.
That aside even if I tried to reduce my preferences to archetypes the ones that I like are just very rare for characters with a narrative relevance. It would be easier if it was just "bratty bishounen" or shit like that.
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>>275273491
thats ace of the diamond doujin ok i though you was asking for an original doujin
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>>275268332
The count should've gotten to fuck Albert and rub that fact in as part of his revenge against Fernand and Mercedes. Imo.
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>>275273173
>they do
my favs dont or only get 1 or 3 but shit quality
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>>275273499
I said scene... not sight...

A single complete 60 second glimpse of a character is all it should take.... their voice, mannerisms, way of being. I think in good stories the characters are often introduced in such a way that you can ascertain their main personality traits quickly.
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>>275273565
It's incredibly rare for an one cours series to be genuinely successful and only those will actually get art. It happened to Madoka and Odd Taxi, but you can guess how rare it is compared to how many are made. Usually it's like you said. You get like 20 fanarts for the series as a whole and your fav gets two and one of them will be shitty.
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>>275273547
Yeah, it's been years since I read it so I thought it was OC
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>>275273588
>I think in good stories the characters are often introduced in such a way that you can ascertain their main personality traits quickly.
That's true and not enough people can write like this. Though to explain myself I never like MCs so the dudes I love don't even appear before episode 3 or later.

That aside I often only really get into characters if they're not only hot and/or interested, relatable etc. on their own but having a good dynamic with at least one other character and this might sometimes take longer. The last time it happened one of my favorite characters only appeared in episode 4. I liked him instantly but didn't expect him to appear again so my hype was contained. Then he DID appear again in 5, but only short. It was only in episode 6 where he returned and it not only became obvious that he'll stay a reoccurring character, the other dude I ended up favoring only appeared in that episode as well as well as their great dynamic and this is what eventually got me.
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>>275273555
Was probably part of the keikaku and some ultimate level of cuckery towards Mercedes and what's-his-name but then the count kinda got healed by Albert
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>>275273846
That is just so delicious.
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>>275273371
>>275272146
Koei has a devision entirely staffed by women who make Otome games and jewelry.
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>>275274231
Did they get new designs?
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How is the Ao no Miburo manga? I dropped the anime quickly because the adaption seemed kinda shit. Not a fan of the MC but I usually like Shinsengumi shit so I consider giving the manga a try at least. Assuming it's decent and not anything that defangs technical bad boys like Wind Breaker
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>>275274333
Only after you grind and upgrade (some of) them.
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>>275273374
It's the same for me.
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>>275274231
>mikazuki gets a fourth nendo
>still 0 nendos for any naginata
I sleep eternal.
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>>275274231
I can't believe it's been 10 years already, I still remember how this thread reacted when the game came out.
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>>275273748
Needing a good dynamic with others is more likely to take more episodes, btw I think we'd all appreciate namedropping anime that are being referred to ITT in case we'd like to check it out... esp because this season is pretty dry
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>>275268938
Speaking of Anime Japan, King Records is featuring Charisma at their booth there. I'm not sure if it'll be like the Kitakyushu event where it was just a printed wall and nobody there, or an actual S3 announcement of some kind, but people are already joking "please don't bring them to the public, Momoiro Uta Gassen was enough".

>>275272894
What I find particularly frustrating about this trend is that when a show takes time developing characters while progressing through an overarching plot with multiple story beats people start writing it off as "episodic". In their minds addressing different aspects of relationships as time passes is all it takes to make something episodic, and therefore bad. Or maybe it's that the plot has stages and characters are introduced as the protagonists continue through those stages? I don't fucking know, but I keep seeing people accuse random shows of being "episodic trash" when each part of the story takes multiple episodes to conclude and builds upon that in the next sequence. It's like years after trying to explain to people what episodic meant in Kekkai Sensen threads they've memorised the word as their go-to complaint.

>>275274973
Kashuu too. Gotta have even more fucking cashews.
>>275274333
Everyone got an anniversary tux design recently, but this is just his kiwame.
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I read the entire Ranma 1/2 manga this month and I loved the series, very fun, it has several great boys, Ranma/Ryoga are cute, I hope the remake increases the number of fanfics and doujinshi of this series, since at least the remake is good and it seems to be having success unlike some other remakes of old animes.
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I'm ready for these 2 faggots to hit the stage
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>>275273262
>Fanart or actual fandom is based on characters, less plots. People might love a series with great plot and twist but in the end they only love it for that and move on to the next afterwards. It's the characters that make someone an actual fan
i kind of agree with you on this. i think one of the reasons hetalia is so long-lasting, despite its (arguably) silly and somewhat random plot, is due to how explorable the premise and characters are. it still receives so much love even after 16 years. and it's not just the premise alone that's carrying it, if the characters weren't as interesting people wouldn't have band together and made so many incredible works based on them and would just use their OCs or something
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>>275276068
Timeless ship
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>>275275161
MitsuKou are back this season!
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>>275270398
Think they meant Babanbabanban Vampire.
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>>275275028
Still wishing I'd hoarded that artist's stuff before they nuked every archive.
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>>275273186
This anon gets it
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>>275275028
Goddamn this is cool as fuck.
>>275269802
I read a couple chapters of the manga and I didn't get into it, endgame is clearly NL anyway.
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I wish i was either of them...
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>>275277986
>NL endgame
I mean, maybe? The manga is still ongoing, but according to an anon on the show's thread last week, the homo kiss is the only kiss we've seen thus far in the manga. There's definitely non-homo love stuff happening all around, but the fighting, and more importantly, the comedy, take precedence over any proper romantic development. I don't know how far the author is willing to go regarding homoeroticism here.
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>>275265317
May as well post it.
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anons.. hikaru and banbanban are not BL per their mangaka
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I want more of them.
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>>275275004
>that blush
>that rape stare
What did they mean by this?
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>>275279302
I've seen the Hikaru debacle, though the mangaka wants to develop their non-platonic relationship, just not under the BL label, but rather it be "queer" (whatever the fuck that means). But I've never seen anything about the banbanban one beyond BL=Bloody Love, and that didn't necessarily omit the Boys' Love aspect. Is there any additional info I'm missing for the vampire one?
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Anyone else watching the new season of Lin's show?
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>>275272220
stupid sexy isagi
>>275272587
thank god some artists draw MUSCLE
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>>275275004
how did I forget about this fucking scene? thanks for refreshing my memory
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>>275279488
Im really annoyed with that and the weird direction the manga took after vol3. it felt like the author lost their nerve and derived from their previous plan.

it's a gag manga. I dropped it quite early one ~3vol.
However it's usually tagged as just shounen/comedy and the BL is bloody love as you mentioned. I doubt it will even have a romance due to the fact it's published in a shounen magazine.
As far as the publisher is concerned it's just a shounen gag manga that might have some homo in but wont be confirmed. the mc is also based on the son which is kinda weird to mention but okay.

Same thing happened with pic related.
I'm just tired of authors baiting and then after a few volumes go "this was never BL"
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OpeIru
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>>275268965
The artist fucked up, they made the proportions weird. My cute lovecraftian monster is actually very photogenic.
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>>275273491
you just reminded me of the single mother eijun one
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>>275268965
The proportions for Hikaru would be better if he was shorter. That long torso with a youthful smile is a hard combo to pull off because of the tall equals old, funny grin equals young. Thus the dichotomy makes it look off.
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>>275276173
Started rewatching Dr Stone to prepare. It's so comfy and Senku is still a cute
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Good to know they’re keeping the seiyuus
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>>275280268
Of course? I don't think I've ever seen a gacha adaptation switch up seiyuus?
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>>275273588
NTA but imo if what you're into is contrast, one scene isn't really enough, especially if what you like is the slow-burn unravelling/metamorphosis from one trait to another. A character that's an obvious yanhomo/haraguro/menhera kettle man/etc. from a glance is fun, but kind of lame and not very memorable. One that nearly has you fooled into believing they are what they say they are, though? Whose foreshadowing is subtle enough that you know something's wrong but can't put your finger on what until the whole thing comes crashing down? One who gradually accumulates pressure until he explodes into a full-blown villain? That's, as the zoomers say, kinography.
You're right for most other cases though. A well-written story should give you the basics on how you're meant to perceive a character, and that's usually enough to tell if you'll like them or not. It just doesn't work so well when what you like is being deceived kek
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>>275276173
the goats
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>>275266224
This show just makes me wish there was a puyo puyo anime. The light blue kid reminds me of Sig.
>>275267823
The men in this show are so delicious.
>>275269802
I don't mind age gap, but the way Ranmaru keeps emphasizing the kid's age the whole episode skeeved me out a bit. Hopefully the comedy kicks in soon.
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There's a viral tweet with more than 40k likes on Japanese twitter that mentions the BL tag for orb so if you're an orb homo start downloading your favorite works before it's deleted
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>>275279770
Ah, I see. So the fact that it's too focused on the gags takes away from your assumption that the romance will deliver, and thus you dropped it. I can see the argument for that. But for me personally, even if that's the case, as long as the het doesn't get used to make fun of the homo moments, I can enjoy it as much as the other vampire show with a lot of gags. It's a fine line to tread that can end in catastrophe, see SamFlam, but hopefully banbanban will still be enjoyable.
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>>275280538
Can you link it? I want to know the context of the tweet.
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>>275280733
https://x.com/me_kki/status/1879902179064172739
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>>275280852
Literally what the fuck does this mean
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>>275280852
>Sorry, but I really dislike the Pixiv culture of using corrupted tags (changing part of the title to include the character for 'corruption'). However, I just found out that the corrupted tag for the manga 'Chi.' is 'Fu.' and I couldn't help but burst out laughing. 'Fu.' sounds like 'smile.'
Why would they art over this?
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>>275280904
Diff anon but I believe this person is talking about how Pixiv tags for BL fanworks usually modify the name of the series to include “fu” somewhere, ie “Fujutsu Kaisen” and apparently the BL parody tag for Orb is just “fu” so they find that funny.
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>>275280852
>>275280904
So if I'm reading/translating this correctly, the person is against using the tag or preffix "fu" 「腐」 as in, fumuke, because it implies homosexuality as something to be corrupted, when it should be "xx BL". However, they find the word play in Orb BL changing the entire name to 「フ。」a homophone of the other fu, this time meaning centre, to be kind of funny, because heliocentrism.
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>>275264784
I dropped it after ss2 being such a stupid fest
The writing collapsed because they wanted to do so many things with limited cast and power
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>>275279438
Sex.
With boys, possibly.
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>>275280268
>anime done by the cheapest/worst studio they could possibly get
This is gonna be so bad.
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Will this anime be gay enough? Will it end like Kiss Him, Not Me?
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>>275268878
Cutie spotted. Picking this up right now.
Oddly enough I semi relate to the MC too. Even so far as him not having a decent job. In fact he kind of looks like he could be as old as-
>exact same age as me
FUCK
This is hitting too close to home
... Am I the target audience for this?
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>>275267823
I want to like it, but it feels like a bunch of reaction faces strung together. I don’t know if it’s bad direction or the manga is just structured that way, but the overall flow is odd and clunky.
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>>275273491
if you pull that move you don't need hypnosis
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>>275282684
>Kiss Him, Not Me
That manga was the author channeling all her hatred towards the generic main love interests.
And I thank her for that, super based.
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Togame wins the Sakura bowl
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>>275279770
This gets sold as BL on CMOA though
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>>275267639
I remember this
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>>275282684
It's a reverse harem and the MC isn't even a fujo this time, right? What do you think?

>>275282890
Absolutely, I'm so glad best boy won.
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>>275268074
>experimental artstyles
kek, sure esl sis it's experimental and nothing this board or anyone who follows artists has ever seen befor
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>>275283112
She can't end up with them all and it looked like she ended up with no one
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Why is Iruma such a whore? He keeps attracting older men
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>>275283004
Cold war arc needed
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>>275267639
there's this one from world stars
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>>275280852
Reading the qrts
>kill la kill's bl tag is homo la kill
>mob psycho's bl tag is homob psycho
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>>275284240
>homob psycho
Wasn't it mofu psycho?
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>>275282890
More like it was a textbook case of a self inserting series



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