Who the fuck reads ANN for their shitty reviews kek

>>291581488
Its not about their shitty reviews but them being an obvious sellout and spreading misinformation where they promote garbage anime while belittle better anime.

>>291581463
>ANN
go to bed unc

Reminder that there are a lot of poor souls that actually believes in AnimeNewsNetwork.

>>291581463
to be fair the cancer hayamin anime was a complete failure on every level and was only enjoyable from a so bad it's good perspective

>>291582208
Did you wrote that review?

>>291582397
no but I did have so much fun watching that trainwreck

>no mebius dust
>nanoha and tenbin aren't even mentioned in the comments, let alone the article
Not a serious anime website.

> Pokemon Horizons
> The villain's plan is literally to sell steroid openly , a poisonous subsistence that strengthen them but make them unable to listen to their trainer command which should have automatically gotten banned because no league will approve it. .
> Somehow pass the trials and sold in market because Pokemon World in Horizons is such a lawless dystopian world compared to Ashnime that anybody can open a show to sell drag to children on a school.
> Geeta & all other important people knows the truth but choose to do nothing and decided to send children to do their job unlike Cynthia & Lance.
> The main villain henchman are even more incompetent than freaking Team Rocket Trio
> Somehow all law enforcement including every officer Jenny somehow disappeared from the entire pokemon world..
> Roy somehow gotten strong enough to defeat a freaking RAYQUAZA without any actual efforts and growth because he had them OFFSCREEN.
> Zygarde, the guardian of the Pokemon world ecosystem who smite anybody who tries to harm to ecosystem somehow decide a madman that wanted to destroy the ecosystem is worthy to be his partner.& now decides to serve that madman's grandchild.
> The only thing that notable about the main female lead is that she is nice and has magic ancestor that left behind Terapagos for her.
> Somehow we supposed to believe Liko and Dot's pokemon has become strong as legendary pokemon despite barely having actual battle experience because the plot says so.
> The final arc is basically main characters taking an army of Legendary pokemon to fight bunch of grunts.
> The main villain Spinel's goal is FREAKING NOTHING , he is just salty about bond & wants to destroy them because he has nothing better to do.

AnimeNewsNetwork treats it as if this is a huge deal, the strongest climax of the show and somehow the non-existent growth of all characters. I'm sure all the anime for AnimeNewsNetwork's worst anime of summer 2026 has better writing than this.

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>>291581463
Sounds about right.

>>291581463
>>291583575
He's not coming back, F

>>291581684
But Pokemon is way way the fuck better than Tomei.

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>>291581463
The Japanese rated Love Unseen third from the bottom last season too, to be fair.

>>291583681
Not Pokemon Horizons, its basically a fanfic.about a doormat fantasizing about going on an adventure to find her magic destiny because nobody notices her in school.

>>291581463
But.... Love unseen IS a terrible, TERRIBLE show.

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>It appears my superiority is causing asspain again

Also kakekoi is fucking terrible.

>>291583813
Sex with this brat

What the fuck is "Pokemon Horizons"? Some retarded dub title for something?

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>>291583745
You seem upset. Calm down, anon. Have a Pokegirl.

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>>291583623
Have you ever cheeked the views ? You can get 90% with just 10 views but the low view means its unpopular. Pokemon Horizons is barely at 71st place in their Nico Nico ranking among 78 anime.

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>>291583899
That's a different site you retarded mongoloid

>>291583813
>>291583895
Best Pokemon series yet for sure.

>>291583932
> Uses rating from Nicolive
> Ignore the ranking from the same site.
You are desperate.

>>291583813
Please, Jessie alone mog her alongside all the characters on Horizons.

Did this schizo get banned from /vp/ again?

>>291584039
You are absurdly retarded.

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>>291581463
Haven't seen ANN mentioned in a long time. But I still remember them getting a lot of heat over their retarded outrage baiting reviews for Cross Ange's first episode. And now it's been six years already since ol' Zac was driven to suicide by his trooned out gf. Can't say I miss those faggots poisoning anime discourse, not at all, yet still it's a grim reminder how fleeting all things are.

>>291584311
They're pretty on point with these reviews though. The new Pokemon series has been pretty good, while Toumei was definitely one of the worst shows this summer.

ANN has always been shit.
The melodramatic turn was certainly not necessary for Blind Hayamin's show, though. I just wanted to see a cute blind college girl having an adventure and the maturing of a single-mother raised guy. I did not sign up for SHE GETS CANCER HE GETS CANCER THEIR DAUGHTER YEAH SHE'S DEFINITELY GETTING CANCER EVERYBODY'S GETTING CANCER

>>291584311
Can I be honest? When Zac died under undisclosed circumstances (it was suicide, they just never admitted it), I was both sad and happy. The dude obviously hated most anime, and looked down on anyone who enjoyed "lesser" shows, especially fanservice shows. But I'd be a liar if I said I didn't love those end of the year podcasts he did with Justin. Still, I he didn't deserve that. But this is what you sometimes get when you put your dick in crazy. His mental health took a nose dive one he paired up with you-know-who.

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It seems someone is mad its favorite anime just went by and now is forgotten; to the point of going to ANN for validation just to be BTFO lol

>>291584690
>The dude obviously hated most anime, and looked down on anyone who enjoyed "lesser" shows, especially fanservice shows
That's everyone at ANN. I have no idea how so many people decide to make something they dislike so much into their creative day job. They all feel like they'd be happier flipping burgers.

>So how old is Mimi supposed to be? In the screener subtitles for this episode, a supporting character explicitly calls her an “orphan,” which implies she's a child. I'm also finding a couple of sources online that say she's fifteen at the start of this story, which makes me feel like I need to scrub my hard drive after watching this episode. While I already thought it was weird and inappropriate that Hiro has sex with her this episode, as it quietly affirms that her only value to him is as a sex object, if Mimi is not an adult in this universe, that means this show is normalizing pedophilia and super gross! Regardless, I have no desire to watch anymore of this child abuser's misogynistic adventures in space, and I hope I forget about this show entirely until it's time to vote for the seasonal “Worst Of” list.

>>291584771
Back then it wasn't all like that. I mean, before Zac. He was one of the first with open disdain for anime fans. And he brought or helped bring more people like that in. In hindsight it doesn't matter much, as it was always going to end up as the shit-hole it is now. But as someone who was "with" that site since it was hardly even a MySpace page, it really sucked seeing it "turn" on me and those like me in real time.

>>291584690
Zac was a detestable faggot of the sort which has ruined damn near all of Western entertainment. Thank God him and his ilk were never able to punch through the language barrier and take any direct influence on the Japanese industry back in the day. His end seems rather fitting and at once almost ironic - who would've guessed the tranny he hooked up with would prove to be the surivor type while he roped? Anyway, he shan't be missed. And his spirit, unfortunately, lives on. But at least his creature, the cesspool of ANN reviewers, is more irrelevant than ever.

>>291584913
They'd still be thriving if their bad reviews were at least funny. Or creative. I'd read a review of a show I like even if it's trashing it to hell and back, as long at it was fun to read. Make a joke about the main character falling into boobs like he randomly blacks out. Something. But they take their reviews and opinions super serious. They're "serious, mature reviewers".

>>291581463
I haven't watched the blind anime yet but I was planning to watch it because it has a very good score on MAL. Is it really that bad?

>>291585041
It's laughably bad.

>>291584890
Can't even tell if this is an actual quote or a parody.

>>291585062
it's real and funny how they are critical of space mercenary for glorifying cp but five stars for student council has holes..

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I don't understand the hate this Hayamin anime got here and outside.
Is it from fucking pussies who can't handle bad feefees?
I'm not going to act like it was perfect and the MC was annoying in the first few episodes, but it was still a pretty solid story, even if the colon cancer was a tad bit unnecessary. At least it didn't have Key magic retardation that ruins a narrative completely.

>I just watched a group of girls take down an evil research facility that was experimenting on children and yet I could barely muster up enough emotion to raise my eyebrows.

sociopath reviewer, what the hell

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>>291585130
Performative moralism always goes out the window the moment it's some xitter bio bullshit

>>291585204
Why do westshitters act like yuri is heckin legit lbgtqr representation and not fetish fuel?

>>291581463
The impressive part is they not saying anything about Hanaori-san.

>>291585189
Item is shit

now, to be fair to those reviewers, they all have to watch all the new stuff for at least three episodes now, even if they already know that they don't like the series.
but then again, they willingly became anime reviewers, so they will have to power through the 50+ new series each season, or go back to their actual real job.

>>291584404
>The new Pokemon series has been pretty good,
The new pokemon anime is even worst than Pokemon 2019 series which is saying a lot.. The only reason you pretending to like it because you ranted for a decade over how removing Ash would fix everything but it didn't fixed anything and now you just coping & calls it good to maintain your ego.

>>291585557
It doesn't need to "fix everything" to be better than most of Ash's run. That last mini-series they did as a send off for Ash really showed the anime staff had no real ideas or direction for continuing the show focused on him.

>>291581463
>AnimeNewsNetwork
what else, kotaku?

>>291581463
>posting a thread about shitty reviewers
Are you fucking shitting me? Kill yourself.

>>291585524
>go back to their actual real job.

>Well sir, what kind of job experience do you have?
>I spent the last 5 years complaining about titty cartoons on the Internet
>I think we'll end the interview here.

>>291585620
>It doesn't need to "fix everything" to be better than most of Ash's run.
Except it wasn't even better than the worst series in Ash's run.

>That last mini-series they did as a send off for Ash really showed the anime staff had no real ideas or direction for continuing the show focused on him.
Funny because every single episode from the miniseries was better written than anything that came out of Horizons and JN series which proves Ash can still carry the series with right companions instead of being held back by OC such as Goh. Heck four episodes from Amazon Prime Special were far better the entire Pokemon Horizons.

Even the Pokemon Hunter from Latias arc was actually threatening and smarter than The Explorer.

>>291585706
It's just some /vp/ schizo still angry about Ash being written out.

>>291585524
Seems a stretch to even call these people "reviewers" when they're shills at best and gay agitprop niggers at worst.

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>>291585712
I don't know what half the shit you're babbling about even is, but Liko is sex and her show is fun.

>>291582913
To be fair, people would need to watch shows to shit on them. And the article is about the worst shows the staff finished. You need a certain autismo to put up with all of Nanoha GBV. I don't blame anyone who dropped it and forgot it

>>291585794
It's a fucking anime website that presents itself as "the internet's most trusted anime news source", they're literally paid to be that kind of certain autismo.

>>291581463
> But praise Pokemon Horizons season 03 Rising Hope despite the poor writing , uninteresting character, nonsensical plot
Yeah because the other show is sooooo much better right?

>>291585744
Excuse me for not being a pedophile.

>>291586149
Yes because it actually has a story and not wish fulfillment fantasy where the plot bends to the protagonist's will.

>>291586467
You're forgiven. But you still have to go back.

>>291581463
Do yourself a favor and NEVER use light pink and light blue together as a combination thank you.

>>291585620
>That last mini-series they did as a send off for Ash really showed the anime staff had no real ideas or direction for continuing the show focused on him.
Ash carried the series for 26 years and still has things to do while Liko & Roy only been for three years and the anime already run out of idea and direction for them which lead to the WORST FILLER ARC in pokemon anime. At least "Aim To Be Pokemon Masters" was only 11 episode long but Wonder Voyage have to be stretch for an entire years before WIWW comes out.

>>291584690
Zac's problem was that he was too sardonic for his own good and clearly used whatever he could to deal with his depression and when his marriage didn't work out he was immediately back to dating someone else rather than just getting shit done. Its no wonder that when he died there was virtually no news coverage and the most that got spread was an old tweet he made about Totalbiscuit's death leading everyone to point out the bitter irony in it all. ANNCast was the best anime podcast if you basically ever wanted to learn about the American industry and I'd be lying if I didn't say it helped me discover shows that weren't normie shounen slop; best episodes were the Geneon episode in which the guest just went over the list of shows that bombed and the best of the decade episodes where I think Justin had Genocyber and Mad Bull 34 in his top 10 of the decade for the 90's episode which I think he was trolling but his tastes was way more varied compared to most of guests good to see that unlike Zac he did wound up accomplishing something with his life bu taking over Discotech and licensing shows most companies wouldn't touch.

>>291586739
Justin was a dumb anti-fanservice dubtard like all the others.

>>291586722
Wonder Voyage is well received though, F aggot >>291583623
>>291583692

>>291586842
Justin literally reviewed porn and was open to most shows as long as they were interesting and he was also pro fansubs back when the industry was blaming all their failures on them.

>>291586860
The same site ranked Pokemon 2023 at their low >>291583899

>>291581488
ashfags, seemingly.
>>291584090
/vp/s mods are on ash's side. They wont ban him.

>>291586722
>still has things to do
After 26 years? What did he do with all that time?
>already run out of idea and direction for them
They already accomplished what they were set up to do famon. That's actually how most media works. The only reason WV exists is because the WiWa delay which any sane person(not you obviously) knows its not OLM's fault.

>>291586581
Don't pretend like they didn't know what they were doing

>>291586986
>After 26 years? What did he do with all that time?
Actually put effort and develop as a character instead of doing Hoge Hoge Hoge to solve all his problerm. But again I am talking to a guy who think every protagonist has to be Jin-woo.

>They already accomplished what they were set up to do famon.
You mean they got everything handed to them without going though actual effort and growing as an actual character like some Mary Sue protagonists living their Wish Fulfillment fantasy.

>making a shit review about shit reviews

>>291586950
>/vp/s mods are on ash's side. They wont ban him.
Considering the purge involving anything that criticized Pokemon Horizons, I believe the opposite. Their purge was the reason /padt/ died.

>>291586923
That's not the same site and that's not a rating list, you dumbass.

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>>291587081
It is the nico-video site and it is their actual ranking for popular anime of the season.

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How do people have such strong opinions on the main Pokemon anime? Liko and the brat are great character designs and everything that was missing from Scarlett and Violet's designs, but the other designs are forgettable and the writing itself is just competent kodomo anime. This also describes most seasons of the series. Squishy thighs are nice and all but it's just hundreds of episodes of the same thing. Now the Wallace and Gromit studio doing Pokemon? That has me interested.

ANN was paid off by manwha fags to shill their shit

>>291587150
It's just one mentally deranged /vp/ autist who's been making sperg threads about Ash every other week or so and constantly gets pissed nobody agrees with him

>>291587150
>the writing itself is just competent kodomo anime.
Have you watched competent kids anime in your life? It seems your idea of competent kodomo anime are basically wish fulfillment fantasy about protagonist with magic destiny fighting forces of evil. There are dozens of anime such as this written by Dai Sato himself and not a single one of them reached the popularity of original Ashnime, Doraemon & Youkai watch.

>>291587054
That effort doesn't seem to have been worth much if he still has shit to do.
>>291587076
Oh yeah, nobody criticizes Horizons and /padt/ is clearly still not a thing.
Least delusional ashfag.

>>291587150
kodomo anime writing isn't a bad thing in a kodomo anime by definition anon. Also, consider where we come from, the improvement was exponential.

>>291587507
>Have you watched competent kids anime in your life?
Pot, kettle.

>>291587150
This is some dumb tourist who's barely watched anime at all, so his only pool of reference is random shonenshit and a couple kiddy shows like Beyblade and Doraemon. He's not worth engaging with.

>>291587507
Yes actually. I started Chibi Maruko-Chan recently. It was WAY better. I also watched some of Rockman.exe but it wasn't so great.

>>291587511
>That effort doesn't seem to have been worth much if he still has shit to do.
He still has many things to do than Roy ever did. In fact, Roy himself is a walking proof there was no need to replace Ash. Horizons simply would had an actual champion level protagonist with his own Pikachu & Lucario he RAISED FROM A BABY to catch Rayquaza and develop rivalry with champion ranked trainer.

>nobody criticizes Horizons and /padt/ is clearly still not a thing.
Please, for two years people gotten purged for saying anything bad about Horizons. They simply calm down now because not even they can defend Wonder Voyage anymore.

>>291587603
> Horizons simply would had an actual champion level protagonist with his own Pikachu & Lucario he RAISED FROM A BABY to catch Rayquaza and develop rivalry with champion ranked trainer.
So there would be no development? I don't see how that would fix the alleged lack of development
>Please, for two years people gotten purged for saying anything bad about Horizons.
Yet you make weekly seething threads.

>>291587603
...but people clearly like Wonder Voyage, what the fuck are you on about?

>>291587595
>Chibi Maruko-Chan
Maruko chan has been 9 years old since 1965.

>>291587627
>So there would be no development?
" Roy does Hoge Hoge Hoge and he magically become tall handsome boy to beat Rayquaza after timeskip" ain't development. Only people who self insert as Jin-woo think this to be development.

>Yet you make weekly seething threads
Because the purge has killed /padt/

>>291587657
>...but people clearly like Wonder Voyage
Not really considering post from/vp/ itself. Only people that wanted Ash gone desperately pretends to like it.

>https://m.youtube.com/shorts/yHOHng5kFWE

Doraemon and Nobita has nothing left to do after "Goodbye Doraemon" yet it still produces episode like this. All pokemon anime needed was Ash with better companions and fun rivals.

> Ogre's Bride
> " My blood related parent hate my very essence and only care about my little sister for practically no reason, my boyfriend dump me for my little sister that has a fiancé and my little sister wants to torment me for no reason. But everything will be fine because a tall handsome man showed up out of nowhere and fallen head-over-hill for me for no reason outside of magic destiny so he will solve all my problems as long as I remain nice and my cartoonishly evil family screw themselves."

Why wasn't this considered worst anime of summer 2026?

>>291587773
>Only people who self insert as Jin-woo think this to be development.
You didn't answer the question.
>Because the purge has killed /padt/
/padt/ is still on.

>>291581463
>Is AnimeNewsNetwork a sellout? They only gives good reviews to anime that pays them but bash anime that doesn't?
No fucking production company on the planet is paying ANN to give good reviews to anime.
Most people that watch anime, like 99% of them, do not know that ANN even does reviews, if they know ANN even exists.
>>291585935
News =/= reviews retard

>>291588169
>You didn't answer the question
I did , you ignored it just like you ignore everything against Pokémon Horizons.

>/padt/ is still on.
Its pretty much dead with barely anybody visiting it and dump by one or two people repeating the same thing.

>>291581463
They literally got bought some time ago buy a big publishere, weren't they?

>>291587558
You're already above retarded otaku if you actually watch Doraemon.

>>291588209
>I did
No, you just criticized Roy for having no development. You didn't explain how Ash having no development would make up for it. Learn to read.
>Its pretty much dead with barely anybody visiting it and dump by one or two people repeating the same thing.
So its still on, gotcha.

>>291588282
He didn't watch Doraemon though. Ashfags just bring it up believing doing so would make the ash anime good.

>>291588019
It was actually a comedic series. the parents were both truly terrible and blatantly favored the imouto, even before she was engaged to foxbro. imouto almost had a moment of clarity when she was a little kid seeing how differently she was treated but then she just accepted she's a chosen one and onee was a shit who deserved nothing good in life. most especially not the richest handsomest #1 top husbando in all japan

>>291583575
Spinel also molested Liko in that alleyway btw

>>291585305
because the lgbt bullshit is also just fetish fuel

>>291588282
>>291588376
He's from India or something, they all watched local Doraemon dubs as kids.

>>291581684
I wish I got payouts from big Pokemon

>>291588019
because the main girl was cute and it executed solidly on its concept (and if you couldn't handle that concept you dropped it at episode one)
Anime News Network's taste has always been trash, but I like Horizons

>>291585189
>what the hell
toaru fatigue

Notice how there's always one faggot constantly necrobumping the shittest threads

>>291581463
I'm surprised ANN still exists after they started turning every anime review into a diatribe on misogyny fifteen years ago.

>>291591098
probably >>291588219

>>291588376
>No, you just criticized Roy for having no development

Ash actually has on-screen development, Roy's entire development comes from doing hoge hoge joge offscreen.

>its still on, gotcha.
Because only two guy bump them.

>>291588479
You mean a very bad comedy.
The FMC has no personality beyond being nice, she and her fiancé has no chemistry, the bad guys are so cartoonishly evil that nobody takes them seriously. It feels like a wish fulfillment fantasy from a loser who is seething over his own siblings.

>>291591447
>The FMC has no personality beyond being nice
She had no personality period and neither had any male ayakashi that had a bride, since their bride was everything to them when they found her. Youta was fucked from the start.

I think it's odd that ANN always seems to be included in the "Reception" section on any big anime series' Wikipedia page, as if they're some big authority on western (or at least non-Japanese) opinion.
Sorry but I couldn't care less what Roger WeEbert has to say about anything, you don't speak for me, nor am I interested in your agenda.
I'd be more interested in what the Japanese have to say, but you rarely if ever see their critical opinion on anything.

>>291583623
Now guess which conglomorate ANN and NicoNico belong to and which series are based on that conglomerate's IPs.

>OP throwing a tantrum when no one agrees with him
>Goes on a tangent with Hoge Hoge
>Throw it into the archives to see if it's just some sperg
>It's a fucking homeless lolcow Isdra/Famon/whatever
>Got anime discussion crippled faster alongside the general decline of this site by mass reporting everyone who didn't sucked his SI-fantasies off (Which also date back ages with only fotm being swapped out at times) or getting discussions of the Liko anime without his input banned. Lies about events and blames everything except himself by ghosting archive entries
>Fucking Pokewaifu generals even gang up on him after he repeatedly started and fueled shit for years and trying to suck them off now for validation of his fanfics.
>In one entry from a few weeks back when told to fuck off to Reddit: "They doesn't need me, 4chan does."
Two decades of a weekly commercial still ongoing and the strongest defender of the hick is a homeless Bengali stuck in his deranged safe space? People were right about banning the mobile range, this is just ridiculous.

>>291591902
These are viewer votes, you troglodyte.

>>291591915
> Literally cries about one guy instead of providing any actual arguments about his series being good.
> The said person already posted actual argument for the said series's garbage writing.

Go cry a river, ranting over me or anybody wouldn't change Pokémon Horizon is one of laziest and poorly written pokemon anime which is saying a lot.

>>291592167
>his series
Being delusional enough to claim an anime as his work lmao you fucking retard.

>>291592167
NTA but talking about yourself in the third person won't exactly validate the double standard you're preaching.

>>291581463
>Is AnimeNewsNetwork a sellout?
Why do you even need to ask? It's the same website that was shitting on OreImo's anime from the very second it was announced up until they got its streaming rights where it suddenly became one of the best of the season according to them.
They are such massive tourists that they were calling Madoka a Nanoha rip-off because they don't know what the fuck is the magical girl genre so something with girls who transform was obviously copying on Nanoha in their eyes.

Stop bumping this shit thread you fucking retards

>>291591917
Pokémon Horizon barely gets over 1000 views on Nicolive, do you think their vote matters.?

>120 posts arguing with some sperg that can't accept that his opinion is both shit and unpopular to the point even fucking ANN disagrees with him
Stop it

>>291592217
Yes

>>291582913
>>nanoha
The problem with Nanoha is the current writers treat Nanoha less like a 13 years old girl on elementary school and more like 25 year old working woman. The original Nanoha was better because it had Nanoha living a normal elementary school life while doing magical girl staff part-time like like any other magical girls anime. But current writers completely removed her entire normal school life and forces her to act like an working woman for a magical organisation which makes her unrelatable for actual target audience. Then their obsession with gore and blood, as if its written by a 14 years old dumb teenagers who thinks liking blood & gore makes him look mature.

>>291592201
>Why do you even need to ask?
Anon, I can guarantee you OP is an even bigger tourist that doesn't even know what Madoka or Nanoha are, and seemingly thought ANN is some highly respected website.

>>291592277
> Literally explained everything wrong with Nanoha right above you

>>291592289
That's not OP, the English isn't broken enough.

>>291592416
Ha ha ha, it is me.