#AKIBA PASS

[charactersmashorpass-2]

"i like women with guns"

[garmmy]

2024 jp trip report (sights edition)

i just returned from my week-long tokyo trip, and wanted to log them down so i can remember where i went. i split up the food and sights posts thanks to tumblr's image limit per post. also apologies for my unflattering pictures😂 i don't have a particularly good phone, i was taking pics more for the memories than the niceness

(food edition here)

Day 2 (14/5/2024)

starting with day 2 because we arrived at night on day 1.

we started the day at nakano broadway...where we spent too much time and money!! with its 10000 mandarake and other retro/anime goods stores. i forgot to take a closer picture of the entrance…anyway, just like in the hit video game Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth for the PS Vita and Nintendo Switch and PC and-

(expensive!!) twintails!! my beloved... <does not watch ultraman

and pokemon center in sunshine city ikebukuro! a very cool miraidon statue...and also a quaxly butt for some reason 😂

Day 3 (15/5/2024)

we walked around akiba and asakusa today. for a weeb in particular, i don't think you could finish walking akiba even in a week...anyway, just like in the video game Digimon Story Cyber Sl-

we walked the multi-storey donki in akiba. of particular note is the signage for the 'pokemon corner'....i'm crying 😭 love this graphic design

so we went around mandarake and a few other anime merch spots. soul hackers 2 merch spotted???? (i didn't get it since i didn't really need more acrylic stands.. :') arrow and his lil poltergeist friend tho...)

while walking, we passed by the otahimeinari shrine. it's always really nice to find these in the middle of the city..the tree's fruit were also huge!!

before we headed to asakusa, we walked by jinbocho. just like in the hit video game Persona 5 for the PS3- while i wish we had a bit more time to spend there (i would have loved to find some japanese language/linguistics-related books from prewar era), i really think most of the old books there are out of my depth 🤣 (it is a very nice place to stroll for lovers of old books and book smell though)

and after some train line switching screwups we made it to asakusa. as expected it's crowded even on a weekday! we saw the famous kaminarimon and also walked down the streets.

Day 4 (16/5/2024)

we started the day at tsukiji outer market, which was very near tsukiji hongwanji! beautiful buddhist temple. (also just like in the hit video game Shin Megami Tensei IV for the Nintendo 3DS)

we went on to ginza which was nearby, and made it to itoya, the multi-storey stationery store i spent too much time and money in 😩 they even had a paper shadowbox art exhibition below! the art pieces on showcase there are 🤯 beautiful...

before leaving ginza/hibiya area...shin godzilla spotted!!

then we went to tokyo skytree and did..even more shopping... (and even though i didn't get any reservations it was so cute to see kirby cafe in person ;w;)

and then we headed to ryogoku, the sumo town, for dinner. it's near sumida river so i couldn't resist getting a view...just like in the hit video game Paranormasight for Nintendo Switch and PC (ok i don't think this is the correct bridge 🤣 but the view was still very nice! and we DID go to the ryogoku bridge too though i didn't get a good pic of it)

Day 5 (17/5/2024)

we started at shinjuku today to walk to shibuya. this was the day that totally killed my feet T_T (not that the other days didn't already lol). apparently the other days were averaging 10k steps but this day was 30k?? i'm not a fit person to begin with..

anyway we were greeted by a giant cat overlord near shinjuku station exit!

godzilla spotted again! and we also spent a bit too much at the multi-storey tokyu hands here...

nearby takeshita street, we took a walk to meiji jingu shrine. just like in persona fiv- i especially enjoyed the walk to the shrine (now if only i didn't have foot pain from excessive walking), the scale of the pathway and trees! coupled with the wonderful 25? celsius weather...i still miss it as i'm writing this while back in singapore where i'm sweating just by existing. lol

on the way to shibuya, we dropped by this store called 'birdmore' specialising in birb merch and pet bird goods. MY JAW WAS ON THE FLOOR this is the first time i saw sooo many birb-themed items in one place 😭 from socks to bags to stationery to mugs and bags everything. though the species are a bit focused on the few species that generally get the birb merch in japan (budgies, cockatiels, tits, bunchou, shoebill, etc.).

i had a little talk with the shopkeeper and i mentioned we were from singapore, and she said she was envious as she wanted to visit our birdpark ;w; i told her that the birdpark moved to mandai and how the birds are flying around outside of cages and are not scared of people so you can get reallyy close to them, and she seemed so excited..aa i really hope she gets to go one day..!!

we reached shibuya parco, and...DIGIMON CORNER... i think i could cry seeing a bunch of digimon merch lined up like that in person 😭😭😭 i wanted to buy up all of these otedama SO BAD but unfortunately money and space are an issue lol. i ended up settling for an imperialdramon DM otedama ;w;

there was also a capcom store at shibuya parco! of particular interest to me were the monhun and ace attorney otedama, they didn't have otedama of susato nor my boi yian kut-ku tho...😭 it was a tough choice between nargacuga and maya ace attorney but i settled for narga ;v; (crying at otedama edgey's face though)

some other iconic locations in shibuya! just like in the video game The World Ends With You for Nintendo DS and various other-

also before we return to the hotel..the ike-fukuro statue at ikebukuro station! (TL note: fukurou is japanese for the ural owl)

Day 6 (18/5/2024)

we took a day trip to miura peninsula today (it's about an hour train ride from tokyo), using the misaki maguro ticket! i gotta get some fresh tuna sashimi while i'm in japan 😤 this might be my fave day among the days...idk, i just really enjoyed the walk and sights and food and overall experience on this day soo much ;v;;

just like everywhere in japan they have to have their own cute mascot characters....miura tunanosuke the daikon-wielding tuna samurai and miuran the sakura fairy(??)

miura beach! a very short walk from miurakaigan station and a wonderful view. also, it's just like in the hit video game Persona 5 for- (i swear i'm not specifically hunting for videogame spots lol but if i come across them why not🤭 i still find it a bit surreal how persona 1-4 were all in fictional japanese cities and suddenly..persona 5 in tokyo!)

after that we took the train to misakiguchi station and about a 20?min bus ride to misaki port. we went to the urari marche (a seafood and veg market); other than market stuffs, they had a bunch of crane machines filled with just fish and tuna merch...i respect the dedication to the theme lol! there were also other fish-related merch like this eyemask that looked like an ikura platter i wanted it so bad :')

after misaki port, we took a bus to jogashima. CATS!!!!!!! while it's not particularly a 'cat island' like some of the more famous cat islands in japan, it's still a pleasant surprise to see these cats roaming around.

and some pictures of jogashima. we walked along the uneven coast where there was no clear marked path; having stayed in the city all my life (even the nature trails here are usually cleared for easier walking) and rarely venturing overseas lol, i've never really had this sort of experience before? i didn't prepare myself for this and so my shoes meant for normal walking and not hiking kinda split halfway through the trek on uneven ground 😂 it was really beautiful, but i think because of my fitness (lack thereof) i caused extra worry...i would like to experience something like this alone sometime so i can go at my own pace without feeling pressured like i am worrying others who could've gone much faster if only i weren't there.

Day 7 (19/5/2024)

we had a morning walk at ueno park, which is HUGE and really nice to walk in, and also houses museums such as the national museum of western art, national museum of nature and science (nature museums my beloved), and tokyo national museum. sadly we didn't have time to check out the museums this time, but i'd love to visit them if i do make another trip here... my mother said before that a tour guide once told her 'singaporeans don't seem to like museums much, they prefer shopping' and sadly i am not proving that uncultured singaporean stereotype wrong with all my weeb shopping 😂😭

ueno toshogu shrine, which was built in dedication to tokugawa ieyasu. i wasn't aware till now but apparently toshogu (東照宮) refers to any shinto shrine in which ieyasu is enshrined with his deified name, and ueno toshogu is just one of the toshogu.

shinobazu pond! it was really a sight to behold in person.

ok i hit the post photo limit skdfjdkgh well the rest of the day was walking around akiba with my friend 😆 we tried to look for 13 sentinels merch (we checked out radio kaikan, suruga-ya and other places) but there was none to be found /_\ i did pass by the square enix cafe though! i was tempted to get the 16-bit arrange albums of octopath and then realised i do not have a CD player anymore..and also managed to see the one (1) bravely default merch!!

just gotta slowly save up for that next trip...someday... .w.

[thenightpool]

rinharu wrapped 2023

We almost can't believe it's already time to bring out the kadomatsu again! 2023 just raced by, didn't it…?! Let's take a moment to look back on everything Rin & Haru (and their fans!) have achieved this year.

🌸 Archive of Our Own

The Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka tag on AO3 now holds 3,674 works!

That means 173 new fics were posted this year. (There might've been more than that, but it's hard to keep track of creators privatising their older fics!)

And the Night Pool's AO3 collection is up to 90 works!

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🌸 The Night Pool

Here at TNP, we revived @sakurathon, a cherry blossom-centric event! This year, the event received 40 works by 19 lovely participants.

Since it was such a big success, we're bringing the event back on April 27th & 28th 2024.

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We also held the aquatic-themed Unleashed Blue, during which 20 participants created 51 (!!) otherworldly works for us.

With permission of the creators, we lovingly collected them in a 400+ page commemorative zine. You can download it on linktree

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Writers filled an impressive 35 prompts during our prompt meme Make a Splash! that we held in honor of Haru's birthday.

Read the fills on AO3

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Rin & Haru's Big Warm-Up, our monthly prompt event, received 16 new works on AO3 across the year & more on socials.

Check out our collection on AO3

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We also kicked off rinharu fandom's very first bang: MEDLEY!, a mini + reverse hybrid bang that will start posting in March!

(Psst. Sign ups are still open for a few roles!)

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We held 3 training camps – super fun writing retreat weekends – over on our Discord. We have 4 more retreats planned for 2024!

If you'd like to join us for the next one(s), here's the info

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We posted 33 new fanart translations!

Here's the link to our masterlist

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And finally, The Night Pool beat out Harurinralia to win our Ultimate Rinharu Moments Tournament that we held back in April on both Twitter and Tumblr!

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🌸 Other Fandom Events

It's been a busy year!

In July, @starstarfairy hosted Wave Of Memory (@rinharumemories) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Free! The event ran in two wave on tumblr and Twitter and combined polls, fan memories, and all types of fanworks.

@sweetheavenfics helped us run the RH-friendly @soumako-week in September!

@ryu-outsider hosted the month-long daily prompt event Free!cember here on Tumblr. It welcomed the entire fandom. The event was promoted by eleanorenchanted and run via hashtag.

And @rinharuweek ran for a full 10 days this year in celebration of the show's anniversary! They are just wrapping up.

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🌸 Official News

Free! turned 10 in 2023. Omedetou gozaimasu!

Free! The Final Stroke Part 2 broke all of the series' previous records in the box office, bringing in over 1 billion yen

It also finally made it to Crunchyroll.com for the US & select others

Miyano Mamoru & Shimazaki Nobunaga fed us (+ fanartists' inspiration) well by shouting "HARU!!" and "RIIIN!!" at each other before hugging passionately during the 10th anniversary event at the Saitama Super Arena

We got tons of amazing new art; including a cover illustration for Free! The Band Live's Ever Blue performance in Yokohama, Animedia's July W-cover, Sweets Paradise's promotional art, and Kyoani's 10th anniversary event's illustration

Rin's ripped jeans (+ THE ANKLETS) in the Matsukiyo & Cocokara's Top Of Summer collaboration launched a thousand fanworks

Matsuoka-senshu, Nanase-senshu, Kirishima-senshu & Yamazaki-senshu represented Mizuno at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka

Spoon2Di recently restocked volume 78 & 85 on their webshop, and Akiba Pass Shop opened pre-orders for some gorgeous tapestries featuring said art

Karatz, Bikkuriman Choco, Iwami & DECOL all bumped Rin up to 2nd place in character listings (where he belongs!!)

Last but not least, KyoaniShop bankrupted us all by releasing amazing new merchandise (and also did not try to hide that Rin is the Free! series' 2nd protagonist, either…)

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Thank you so much for being here with us in 2023. We hope it has been a wonderful & creative year for you. Here's wishing you an even more rinharu-filled 2024!

[marcarella-pizza]

The Impossible Task of Buddy Daddies Vol 2

Lemme tell you. Getting my hands on volume two was the most impossible task ever.

It released on the 26th. The only Animate in Japan that had it was in Osaka — aka 2 hour bullet train ride… which coincidentally, I can’t get on as my JR pass expired on the 25th.

I went to every Animate I could access by foot. I walked for hours.

Ikebukuro. Shibuya. Shinjuku. Akiba. Yokohama (by local train).

None had it.

The hotel front desk lady rang all the animates even — nothing.

27th and 28th I went to a flower garden, then rechecked shibuya and Shinjuku. Nothing.

Yesterday (29th) I decided I didn’t care for the bonus stuff animate gives you and tackled every digital media store in the same areas as animates.

Tower Records. Big Camera. Nothing.

Out of all 30 something stores, no one had it.

Did I mention that Golden Week (Japan’s national holiday) began this week? Creating mass delays, demands and sales?

Perfect timing! Especially since I leave Japan on the 1st. Aka in a few days.

Alas!

Yobodashi is still left.

Get there and the guy says “go to other building, 2nd floor”. It’s got two parallel buildings. There’s a lot of those here in Japan.

Guy THERE says “other building, 3rd floor.”

Guy THERE says “other building, 7th floor.”

And finally! The guy says there’s two left by some miracle… it’s only in Akiba.

In my desperation I ask him if it can be transferred to this store - I cannot afford to walk to Akiba because I have plans for the next couple days.

He said yes!

And here we are!!!

Finally it is mine.

Oh! And remember Golden Week?

20% off 😉

I’ll show off the bluray in another post in a couple days when I’m back home~

[l3v1uhthan]

Hi Levi! Different anon from the promised neverland one; What do you think of Spy x Family?

Also have you watched Akiba Maid War? It's...interesting to say the least

Oh! Spy x Family? I've watched that a little bit. I remember watching it when it became popular but then I got super busy because apparently staying up all night watching it during RAD finals is "a bad decision" (even though I still passed them, Lucifer! I'm not dumb!)

I thought it was cute! Especially the fact it had the found family trope!

I haven't finished it yet, I promise I will! But so far it looked really cute and had fun tropes.

Also, Anya is sooo funny. LOL

I haven't watched Akiba Maid War, I can't tell if you're saying its interesting because its really weird or if its genuinely interesting, but I'll check it out later!

[perfecttenth]

Hakuga (AnxEyeTea) findings

So there's some more or less interesting stuff in the files.

Oddheader's most recent video about video games tied to cults oOOOooOOOoo showed up in my recommended, and Hakuga was the only game I didn't recognize. The original itch.io page claims that the game was created by the uploader's friend, who took his own life in 2017, and the parents of that friend gave his computer to the uploader, which contained the game in an unfinished state, so the uploader made it playable. Since it was made in Unity, you can extract the game's assets with AssetStudio. The first thing you'll notice upon extracting them is that the game contains actual photos of dead people. Most of them depict the victims of Unit 731, and are completely uncensored. The ones that are related to the unit are used in the "Museum of Shame" area in the game.

There are also some development screenshots ("Offline.png", "hokugescrin.png" and "hkgunity.png"). Note how in the second one the top and bottom are cropped, and in the third one parts of the top are obfuscated.

At some point, I found a file that was dated 2021, which would be 4 years after the creator allegedly passed away. And this graphic has multiple variations.

It wouldn't make any sense for the creator's friend to have put it there, since he said he wanted the game to stay the way the creator left it.

So then I looked at the audio files in the hopes that I could find the source for some of them, at least the ones that weren't taken from SDR2/Persona 5.

I reverse searched this one, and it actually led me to a result:

A soundcloud trap beat. Even though the track is now titled "20", the url still has the original title, which lines up with the filename.

Having looked at the game's files for as long as I did, there were some glaring similarities between them and the cover art. One featured the japanese Shin Godzilla logo that was also used in-game multiple times, another cover was present as-is in the files, another used the same anime girl in the same 3D program and another one had that exact same picture of Renamon uncropped, which was used as a texture. Overall, they had almost the exact same art style as the game.

After this was discovered and shared with the Oddheader discord, a "fixed" version of Hakuga with no other info was uploaded on AnxEyeTea's itch.io, being 57mb smaller than the first version.

The Soundcloud account's last activity was on March 10th, 2021. There's no way this account doesn't belong to the original creator of the game, especially when you consider there was no trace of this game on the internet prior to Halloween 2022. That, and the account has its location set to Japan even though a lot of the comments it wrote were either in English or French. What's noticeable is that 1. The syntax of these comments is typical for a native French speaker 2. There are spaces before exclaimation and question marks 3. The first person "I" is always lowercase And before that, I had already tried to compare the writing styles of the game's creator and his "friend", which were exactly the same. Some of the game's graphics were also titled "sans titre", "téléchargement" and "copie" which would indicate that the creator's first language is French.

This story of "My friend took his life 6 years ago and his parents gave me his stuff so I learned how to use Unity and made this game playable" reeked of bullshit from the start. My first thought was that the creator made up the story of him taking his own life in order to either be shielded from criticism or to make the game seem more interesting by getting people to believe he died.

And finally, by looking up "hakuga reddit" in order to find something else, I found this post. An AMA by the creator, Alex.V/"Akiba Tomoke", hidden in plain sight.

There's a chance this is fake and was made by a data miner or something (considering the "I" is actually uppercase this time), but this account uses the Akiba name that was only used in-game, and its profile picture is a slightly altered version of an image in the assets that I couldn't find a source for:

So there you have it. The backstory was fake, there's no real link to a cult, it was just another edgy ARG.

EDIT: But wait, there's more. Somebody other than the OP replied to the AMA post, claiming to be the uploader.

These were up for about an hour until he deleted one of them and deactivated his account. At the same moment, this was posted to the itch.io page:

Somewhere in that timeframe, the Soundcloud account also got deleted. Strangely enough, the Twitter account from 2018 (which doesn't mention the friend AT ALL despite being created a year after his alleged passing) is still up. An hour after the intial text appeared on itch.io, some sections of it were rewritten multiple times (these are in chronological order, click for better quality):

You can see that after the third revision the archive.org link was removed, and right after that the itch.io download for the game was removed. After the last revision, the seperate page for Hakuga was completely deleted from AnxEyeTea's itch.io.

It should be mentioned that as soon as the "fixed" version of Hakuga was uploaded to the itch.io account, a review popped up on the old archived version, which got edited multiple times. Make of that what you will.

Certain aspects of the now deleted Soundcloud account actually led to the creator's professional design work, some of which still included assets and references to Hakuga. Nowadays he works on music videos, his last one was released in May of this year. I won't link to it here since I assume he doesn't want to be associated with Hakuga under this identity.

The Conclusion

A statement has been made on the itch.io page.

TL;DR: The creator of the game is still alive and well, nobody died. The premise of someone distributing his dead friend's unfinished Unity project was solely made up for the release of the game. Hakuga was a failed (collaborative?) ARG that utilized suicide, war, depression and drug symbolism as well as images of real dead people that were, in his words, intended to denounce and not forget what happened (specifically in relation to Unit 731). The usage of Japanese text is purely stylistic and mostly nonsensical.

Thanks to everyone on Discord and Reddit who contributed to debunking this.

[layanalaya]

Anime List

I might be wrong regarding the demographic/category, but I tried my best. I didn't put an appreciation on everything. Please do your own research too before watching something.

American

Action

Blue Eye Samurai

Yasuke

Fantasy

Arcane

Castlevania

The Wicther ✅

Chinese

Comedy

One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes (It was funny with a lot of childhood references)

Seinen

Blades of the Gardians

Xianxia

Heaven Official’s Blessing (✅)

Korean

BL

Mignon (🌶️ 18+😏✅)

Japanese anime

Comedy

Buddy Daddies ☺️✅

Fantasy

Angel Beats!

Child of The Kamiari Month (✅)

Garo : The Animation

Inu-Oh (Idk what to say about this one)

Lu Over The Wall ✅

Ookami Kodomo no Ame Yuki (✅✅😭)

Touken Ranbu : Hanamaru 

Touken Ranbu : Hanamaru 2

Violet Evergarden (✅)

Violet Evergarden : The Movie (✅🥹)

Horror

Another

Blood-C : The Last Dark (✅)

Corpse Party

Hellsing (✅)

Kangoku Jikken

Satsuriku no Tenshi

Shiki

Josei

Given (✅)

Given the Movie (✅)

Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom (✅)

Hakuoki : Wild dance of Tokyo

Kamigami no Asobi

Kids on the Slope (✅)

Josee, the tiger and the Fish (✅)

Ōoku : The Inner Chambers

Orenchi no Furo Jijo

Paradise Kiss (✅)

The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague (✅)

Uta no Prince-sama (I used to LOVE watching it. I upgrew it but the 1000% LOVE song is still a hit idc.)

Music / Idol

MARGINAL#4

Uta no Prince-Sama S1&S2 (There is more seasons but I didn't watch everything)

Psychological

Rascal Does Not Dream About Bunny Senpai (I liked it but I didn't LOVE it. The ending song is fire though)

When Marnie Was There (✅)

Zankyou no Terror

Science-Fiction

B : The Beginning (✅)

Cyberpunk : Edgerunners (✅)

Darker Than Black (✅)

Frankenstein Family

Psycho-Pass (✅)

Psycho-Pass : Sinner of the System (✅)

Psycho-Pass : The Movie (✅)

Steins;Gate

Time of Eve

Seinen

Akiba Maid War (I still don't what to thing about this one, but it was kinda funny ? 🩸🔪🤔)

Beautiful Bones - Sakurako’s Investigation (✅)

Blue Giant

Blue Period (✅)

Bungou Stray Dogs S1-S4 (✅)

Bungou Stray Dogs : Dead Apple (✅)

City Hunter

Death Parade (✅)

Devil’s Line

Dorohedoro (Didn’t finish the anime because that style of animation isn’t really my thing, but the manga is FIRE ! ❗️Read at your own discretion because it is very graphic and gore)

Elfen Lied (✅)

Erased

Gangsta (✅✅)

Gofushufudo

Grand Blue Dreaming (❌ Didn't finish it, I had a hard time watching it)

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures : Rohan Kishibe

Magica Somera-chan

Monster (✅✅)

My Dress-Up Darling (✅ Marin is the love of my life. I love this girl so much)

Nanbaka

No Game no Life (😕I find the brother-sister dynamic fantasy annoying)

Oshi No Ko

Pluto

Sirius the Jaeger

Thermae Romae

Tokyo Ghoul

Vinland Saga S1-S2 (✅ Loved S1 but S2 wasn't really what I expected, I wanted to see more about Thorfinn as a youngster)

Shojo

After the Rain (😕 the age gap really made me uncomfortable but it's not bad at all !!)

Akagami no Shirayukihime (✅)

Ao Haru Ride (✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ I LOVE THIS ONE WITH ALL MY HEART. CHILDHOOD LOVE ??? LOVE IT. THE TENSION AND THE DRAMA ??? DELICIOUS. THE OSTS ???? It's the first I watched so it has a special place in my heart.)

Bubbles (✅)

Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru (☺️ very cute)

Clannad (❌... I really didn't like this one and I know some people might be hate but it BORED the sh*t out of me and I don't plan on trying to give it a try EVER again)

Diabolik Lovers (Not my favorite one but I used to secretly love it even though I never wanted to admit it 😳)

From Up on Poppy Hill

Fruit Basket S1, S2, S3 et prelude (☺️ I never thought I would like it but Kyo and Tohru made me so soft 🥹)

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

HAL (🥹)

Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light (🥹)

Kaichou Wa Maid-same (✅✅✅✅✅ Like Ao Haru Ride, it was one of the first shoujo have watched so it had a special place in my heart. DOUKA PLEASE CAN YOU MY SECURET ??? *start dancing*)

Kamisama Hajimemashita (✅✅✅ TOMOE IS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE THAT B!TCH)

Kimi no Na Wa (✅ Do I need to say more?)

Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai / I want to eat your pancreas (🥹)

Lovely Complex

My Happy Mariage (✅ not the husband being the cutest green flag and standing up for his wife)

My Love Story with Yamada-kun (✅✅✅✅✅ THERE ARE SO CUTE and I swear to God idk why but Yamada feels like Shu Yamino to me)

My New Boss Is Goofy

Ookami shoujo to Kuro Ouji (😶 I don't need to add more)

Orange (🥹)

Ore Monogatari!! (☺️)

Ouran High School Club (Fujioka our Queen)

Suki tte Ii na yo (I would recommend it but idk... It's not my favourite but the couple is very cute !)

The Apothecary Diaries (✅✅ I LOVE THEM AND THE 1st OP IS MY MANTRA)

The Garden of Words (😕 again age gap and teacher-student relationships are not my favourite tropes)

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion

Shonen

A Silent Voice (✅🥹)

Akame ga KILL!

Assasination Classroom (✅ When everyone started to sing together ? 🥹)

Attack on Titan S1&S3

Baki (I didn't manage to finish it but I tried)

Ballroom e Youkosu (✅)

Beastars

Black Lagoon (Revy 😳)

Blue Exorcist

Blue Lock (✅)

Boku no Hero Academia S1-S6 (✅)

Chainsaw Man

Cowboy Bepop

Death Note (✅✅✅)

Dive

Dororo (✅)

Durarara!!

Great Pretenders

GTO

Haikyuu S1 - S3 (✅✅)

Hells’s Paradise (✅)

Horimiya

Hunter X Hunter 2011 (✅✅✅)

Jujutsu Kaisen (✅✅✅)

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (✅✅🥹)

Kabaneri of The Iron Forteress

Kakegurui S1&S2 (✅)

Kimetsu no Yaiba S1 -S3

Kuroshitsuji (✅✅✅✅ Sebastian)

Kuroshitsuji : Book of Circus (Sebastian 😳)

Kuroshitsuji : Book of Murder

Kuroshitsuji : Book of the Atlantic (✅✅✅✅✅ Undertaker)

Masamune-kun no Revenge 

Mirai Nikki

Noblesse (✅ The anime adaptation is awesome but read the webtoon too)

Noragami (✅✅)

Noragami Aragoto

O Maidens in Your Savage Season (😶)

One Piece (✅✅✅✅✅✅)

One Piece Gold

One Piece Red (✅✅✅✅✅ SHANKS MY MAN AND ADO OUR QUEEN)

One Piece Stampede

One Piece Strong World

One Piece Z

One Punch Man

Owari no Seraph

Revenger

Sankarea (❌😶)

Shinning Hearts (😂 I call this anime 'The Guy who Loves Making Bread)

Spy x Family S1 & S2 (✅ Waku Waku !)

The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten

The Case Study of Vanitas S1 & S2 (✅���😏)

Tokyo Revengers S1-S2 (✅)

Ultramarine Magmel

Your Lie in April (I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. But I know a lot of people who genuinely loved it, so try it !!!)

Yuukoku no Moriarty S1 & S2 (✅)

Shonen-Ai

No.6 (✅)

Psychic Force

Yuri!!! On Ice (✅✅✅ CAN YOU HEAR MY HEARTBEAT)

Sport

Free! : Dive to The Future

Free! : Eternal Summer

Free! : Iwatobi Swim

Yaoi

Banana Fish (✅✅✅😭)

Doukyuusei (✅☺️😳)

Dramatical Murder (😳🌶️)

Hitorijime My Hero

Junjo Romantica (😶😳🌶️)

Love Stage!! (✅😳🌶️)

Sekaiichi Hatsukoi (😶😳🌶️)

Super Lovers (😶😶😶 I was the same age as Ren when I watched it so I didn't really see the problem... Now that I'm an adult 😬)

[solradguy]

i’ve read through volcanic’s lta translation and it supposedly confirms the old fandom story that he carved it into his belt because his soldiers gave their lives to save him by disobeying his orders to leave him.

also there’s a bit which suggests that he saw some of sol’s confrontation with justice at the end of missing link. he keeps mentioning that he saw a gear mark on sol’s forehead that day. so that old headcanon has some truth to it.

i’m surprised at how much stuff the old fandom’s gotten right honestly. i don’t want to confirm anything. not until you, someone who can understand japanese, has seen it first.

Volcanic's the GOAT and has been at fan translating GG stuff for way longer than I have so whatever he says in his translations I trust 100%.

Ky seeing Sol's Gear mark is really interesting!! Denki Akiba's chapter in the GG Comic Anthology from 1998 (MEET AGAIN) is a recap of the end of Sol's Missing Link arcade route where he fights Testament and then Justice, and Ky is there but he gets knocked out. The manga volumes aren't canon, but the novels are. So I guess if this chapter and LtA both hint at Ky seeing it, then he very well could have!

MEET AGAIN ends before the part where Sol's limiter comes off, but Ky (and a few others) are in the scene. Even though Ky passes out from his injuries, he could have woken up later during the battle to have seen something. Not sure about everyone else though lol

It seems like much of the old pre-Xrd English language GG fandom were bilingual EN/JP speakers. Makes me wonder how many of these old headcanons that've ended up having a solid basis—or straight up confirmation—in the canon were things that had been implied or shown in Japanese-only materials (like the GGCA) that never got fan translations. People could've read them and then shared ideas from them, but without having anything in English to point at, it just kinda fell into a mystery headcanon zone as time erased their original posts...

[jujutsuaiko-ka]

do tell plz we need to know or at least i do tell me about your first three dates

Okay, this WILL be a long post, be forewarned. (And SORRY, it took longer than expected to answer!)

Before the first date, something happened previously...

ℍ𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕨𝕖 𝕘𝕠.

Well, to be short, Kusakabe took Kiyo-kun drinking once, then he teased him about me. This made him come over drunk, and after helping him lay down (and cleaning the puke on the floor), I stayed by Kiyo-kun's side all night. He muttered that Kusakabe was right, that 'someone like me would never be interested in a loser like him'...

𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝔸𝕥𝕤𝕦𝕙𝕒 𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕂𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕜𝕒𝕓𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕒 𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕜 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥, 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕡𝕦𝕟𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙 𝕘𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 (𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕜𝕦𝕛𝕚 𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕕, 𝕒𝕤 𝕤𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤.)

I couldn't just hit his face, even though I really wanted to. But Kiyo-kun eventually intervened alongside Yuuji-sensei and Junpei, and we talked; Kusakabe did apologise for the situation, even admitted he was a bit jealous of Kiyo-kun (though Junpei think it might've been some excuse). We're now in friendlier terms.

Anyway, now the dates!

The first one happened in a weekend; he waited for me with a cute as heck Fly Head plushie. We spent the day on Akihabara; had to choose between Maidreamin and Owl Cafe Akiba Fukurou to eat, I turned lots of Gachapons, we checked some rarities in Mandarake, and took pictures with cosplayers! Not gonna lie, I did said I wanted to check it out once, but never thought he'd actually do it for our first date. Kiyo-kun also caught a Fly Head that was trapped inside a Taito Station claw machine (He not only won the prize plushie it was trapped in, but figured the trick to get the plushie out, it was amazing!)

𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕒 𝕡𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕪'𝕤 𝕖𝕩𝕔𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣. 𝔾𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕕 𝕤𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠𝕠 𝕞𝕦𝕔𝕙 𝕠𝕟 𝕙𝕖𝕣.

Hey, it's a fair concern! And it kinda pushed me to go somewhere different in our second date. Just a cat cafe... on Shibuya.

Yeah, only later I found out it was there. Obviously, I was worried; Yuuji-sensei barely visits this place after the 2018 incident, him and many others in Tokyo Jujutsu High in fact. Kiyo-kun however didn't seemed bothered. The place was pretty neat, lots of adorable kittens, a peaceful atmosphere... but I was famished while there, that place sadly only served treats to the cats. I was often checking my phone, verifying costs, looking over the window, thinking where we were located in... also didn't help that I had no sleep the previous night.

Kiyo-kun soon noticed everything, and so did the cats. I was so embarrassed for seemingly ruining the date that I made my way to the nearest bathroom to calm down. He talked to me through texts, that's how I found he noticed my concerns (he's so perceptive...), and soothed me on the money and location subject; he said he'd told me if something was too much to afford, and even if Shibuya did scar everyone in many ways, he was glad to be alive.

After a short while, I came out of the bathroom, one of the staff ladies was concerned, but I just told her I haven't slept well. And for bonus cuteness, one of the kittens was VERY attached to me, it followed me and waited me outside. We couldn't take him, of course, but we did took a picture. On our drive back, we passed by the Miyashita Daiichi Pedestrian Bridge... where he was stabbed by a curse user. He did admit he barely remembered what happened, just the pain and the lights out... Perceptive as always, he stopped nearby, and we made our way to the exact place he was on the day. I hugged him from behind as he looked over the spot he was back then... he lifted one of my hands and kissed it.

𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕕 𝕒 𝕝𝕠𝕥 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥. 𝕁𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕤𝕒𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘. 𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕕 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕖𝕒𝕥, 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕨𝕒𝕪?

FamilyMart. I went DOWN on the dorayaki and taiyaki. Best dorayaki I ever ate, btw.

Third date, however, surpassed both of these two.

He sort of mixed the two previous dates' ideas, took me to Gyosen Park, where there's a natural zoo with a petting zoo and the Heisei Garden with calm, beautiful sceneries and a teahouse.

I'm not usually someone who visit zoos, but I love petting animals just as much as shikigamis. I really thought to myself one moment that I could cuddle with bunnies all day, but then-

𝕃𝕖𝕥 𝕞𝕖 𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕤. 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦'𝕕 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕂𝕚𝕪𝕠-𝕜𝕦𝕟 𝕛𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕠𝕦𝕤.

...Yeah. It wasn't the case though; he was enjoying it just as much. We not only pet all the animals in the petting zoo, but also helped feeding them. There were lots of animals in their natural exhibits I had only seen on TV, like prairie dogs. Guess he also wanted to visit this place for the longest time.

As we made our way through the Ukita Park afterwards, I wondered if I should say something, despite my obvious excitement showing all the time.

He told me he failed to get a reservation at the teahouse on Heisei Garden, that it'd be a perfect place for a picnic. Since we still had time, I wondered if we could check the place anyway.

And he agreed. We made our way back to actually see the place. I WAS feeling a little tired (again, we DID walk all the way back), so we stopped a few times to take pictures of the beautiful flowers. We finally sit down nearby the pond, taking in the scenery and the calm around us.

And... that's when we kissed for the first time. We felt comfortable and warm nearby each other, and it just happened naturally.

𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕣𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕔.

When we finally left, I admit, it was HARD to say bye. I knew we would see each other again the next day, but...

Anyway, there it is. My first dates with Kiyo-kun... and even if not as extravagant as they were, we still go on them when we can.

[vesselmade-a]

akiba was an interesting place. to itadori there was plenty of stimuli almost as though it were a whole other world. it was a place full of pop culture – video games , manga and even the occasional cosplayer passing by. yuji couldn't hide his excitement. fushiguro look at that ! and this ! even with the noise of the city he seemed to be much louder. his curious nature led him to every store and by now he had two bags of items he'd bought so far. like a wide-eyed child he just couldn't stop. though he was happy to have company today even if he was oblivious to the others apparent mood.

❛  do  you  ever  stop  talking ?  ❜ / @jikoku

“ now , fushiguro , that's not the kind of attitude to have on our day off. ” he fiddles around a moment , taking out a pair of toy glasses he'd bought earlier and slips them on. he flashes a wide smile and looks over to his friend. already distracted again his eyes go wide. he seemed to be unable to keep his wallet shut today as he spots food. “ hey ! we should go eat a kebab ! oh , wait , maybe sushi. ”

[magideskai]

Peace [ピース]

A peaceful magical girl with a biased, yet positive view of Akiba culture. She appeared with her partner Veil in Akihabara, but doesn’t know what her purpose is. She seems to have some strong beliefs, but refuses to talk about them. Maybe Anarchy and friends are the final piece to her puzzle…

CV: Sumire Uesaka

Additional notes under the cut.

Our first game only character!

In game, Peace is supposed to be a tankier support. She restores health and gives your party defense boosts with her skills. Her design seems to have some Cleric and Paladin motifs also, so it’s not much of a surprise. She is given to you for free after finishing the story’s second chapter.

The last line more literally translates to “Anarchy and friends are important in helping her find her purpose”, but I couldn’t pass up the pun.

Peace = Piece = Puzzle piece.

Sumire Uesaka has a lot of voice roles, but some prominent ones are Hayase Nagotoro, Jataro Kemuri from Danganronpa Another Episode, and Lum in the 2022 Urusei Yatsura reboot. She also sang Pop Team Epic’s self-titled opening song.

[sifasdt]

SIFAS Daily Theatre Classic: 2021-07-16

(Transcription after the break.)

[Image transcription:]

SIFAS Daily Theatre for 2021-07-16

Let's Cruise Through Tokyo

You: Uwaaah~, this is the best~~!! Kotori: Fufu, actually, I just found out about this thing recently as well. I thought you might also be interested in it, You-chan. You: I am interested, super interested! I can't believe we can sightsee around Tokyo on a boat! Kotori: I'm glad you're having fun. Ah, You-chan, we're going to go under this bridge soon! You: Yeah! Alright, we're going under now~. 3, 2, 1, there, we passed through~!! Kotori: Ahaha, you're so silly, You-chan. You: Ehehe, cause it's a ton of fun, you know! Kotori: Ah, there, that's Akiba. You: Eh!? You can see Akiba from a boat, huh! Kotori: Fufu, I thought I'm used to seeing Akiba, but seeing it from a boat feels so fresh ♪

[End transcription.]

[leafiebeanie]

sooooo, in lieu of the kny x oishii milk collab that's happening now, seeing kyo posing with the familiar packaging sparked a milky memory from a few years back ( ´ ▿ ` )

leafie's story time under the cut 🤭🤭

i was visiting jpn for the first time near the end of winter and the early beginnings of spring 2018 (so around late jan to early feb), and i've heard good things about japanese milk right

so first thing i did after landing in japan and checking into the hotel, i went to buy some milk from the konbini—first one i went to was family mart.

i got the oishii brand milk (true to its name, it's super tasty and i miss it every time i want to drink milk)

and you'd think that i would drink it immediately after buying it bc i was so excited to try it—but i had the brightest idea of drinking it after i took a shower. yknow, like how i saw them do in some animes (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

so i popped the milk in the fridge and went to take a hot bath

now, i'm a very forgetful person, and if it's out of sight, it's literally out of my mind (⇀ ↼‶) truly gone like my mans who left to buy milk from the milkstore and never came back jkjk

after my shower, i decided to look up places to go the next day and started making some plans with my family. then i went to sleep bc the eight hour flight had me tuckered out—man, it was lights out as soon as my head hit the pillow xDDDDD

i had a great night of sleep, all while my milk sat forgotten in the fridge 😅😅

and so you might think, okay well, surely you drank it when you remembered it the next day after another hot shower, right?

no

we had to check out of the hotel the next morning bc the actual hotel we were gonna stay at was further from the airport and closer to town

my milk was left behind in the fridge, unopened and forgotten 🥲🥲 (sometimes i wonder if the hotel staff found my milk and drank it themselves, but i doubt they would—bc common sense tells you it's extremely dumb and reckless to be drinking something that someone else left behind even though it looks like it's never been opened, bc there's always a chance that it's been tampered with)

anyway, sentiments for my forgotten milk aside, of course i have brilliant memory and remembered it only after we had checked out of the hotel and were halfway on the train to the next hotel (눈_눈)

i cursed myself for letting my milk slip away from me—but no matter, i can always get more today, or so i thought

so, when my parents were busy checking us into the second hotel, i went off to get another oishii milk packet from another konbini—this time i went to lawsons

and this time, i was determined to remember to drink it, but i was also stubborn and still wanted to drink it after i took a hot bath

obviously, i could've just bought two so i could just drink one now, and then the other after my bath later, right?

no

leafie is dumb and stubborn (not a great combi, let's be honest), so please keep that in mind as you enjoy the rest of this silly memory xD

and it was around noon, i think? or early afternoon when we got our rooms—and it was the perfect time for exploring town, so i tossed the milk into the fridge and left to akiba

believe it or not, all the excitement i had for the milk was gone bc i was busy being even more excited (ง ื▿ ื)ว about getting to explore akiba and harajuku (but regrettably, i was travelling with family, so i could only glance at the entire troves of bl mangas and doujins longingly for a whole 1.5 seconds bc it would be suspicious if i stared too long (ノ_<。)ヾ(´▽` )

but i digress, anyway—the sun sets so early in japan, like woah, it got dark so soon and most of the restaurants were closed when we were finally to eat (and while i am a foodie at heart, i somehow don't get hungry at all while i'm travelling ( ´ ▿ ` )), so we just grabbed a quick bento from the konbini and passed out on our beds soon after we got back to the hotel

side note: the orange juice from family mart is so so so so so so fresh and good omg, i miss it almost as much as i miss the milk tbh

so day 2 passed just like that, with a day well spent and feet well walked, and wallet slightly lighter than when i left the hotel that day (my coin purse grew heavier though, as i collected the loose change from breaking 1000 yen bills)

then come day 3—i was going to be in japan for slightly over a week, 9 days; so you might think, oh c'mon leafie, surely that's plenty of days for you to drink your goddamn milk!

again, no

day 3 was harajuku day, and boy was it raining when we got there

wearing two fuzzy jackets and two shirts were, understandably, quite a lot of layers when you're gonna be walking around a lot, plus the humidity from the rain and my tendency to sweat buckets—you can imagine that i looked like a wet rat that had just crawled out from the sewers x'DDD

my bangs were plastered across my forehead, i looked like a mess, and i wasn't used to the weather (i live in a tropical country where its either sun or rain xD), sweaty inside but cold outside :(((

but then it snowed a little at night!! though it wasn't like big big snowfall where you had fluffy snow everywhere, it was my first snow!! and it was fun just watching little ❄️ snowflakes ❄️ drifting down from the skies under the dim streetlamp

i'm sure you can already guess—i was too engrossed with the snow to remember my milk, all alone in the fridge

but i went to bed happy that night ☺️☺️

and then day 4 was... well, we don't talk about day 4, my family had a little argument bc some wanted to go back to harajuku for more shopping and some wanted to see new places

in the end, we went to the aquariums to see the fishies! took a few pics with the uhhh, bug looking creature that lives at the bottom of the ocean

it's a bit unsettling, but it was cute nonetheless

i sort of wish that i bought the stuffed toy version from the gift store tbh—i got a seal instead

this is starting to be more about the trip than the story about me forgetting my milk, so let's reel it back in and skip to day 9, the final day of my trip

note that i STILL haven't drank my milk despite having had 8 other days to do so 🤦🤦🤦

the return flight was in the evening, but we had to check out of the hotel at noon, so basically we spent the rest of the day at haneda airport

i had just reached the airport when i realised that yet again!!! i had forgotten my milk, left it in the fridge of the hotel and then checked out _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):_

knowing that this was really my final chance to taste the milk, i ran to the konbini and bought the milk for the third time now, and this time! this time!!! i drank it straight away

andit was so good!!! so tasty, ive never had a milk so good before in my life—really made me regret not drinking it earlier—i could've had one for each day i was there!!!!! but nooooo, i just had to be stubborn and forgetful hahahahhahaha (눈_눈)

and that's the end of my little milky story

so guys, if you want to drink the milk, just do it! (b ᵔ▽ᵔ)b

don't be me and say that it has to be done in the perfect manner bc you will miss that opportunity xD or almost miss it, really

[gloop898]

2023 Media Thread - Master Post

Anime / TV

X - Witch From Mercury Season One

X - Akiba Maid War

X - Bocchi the Rock!

X - Chainsaw Man

X - The Legend of Vox Machina Season One & Two

X - Symphogear

X - Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

X - Yuru Camp

X - Symphogear G

X - Kill la Kill

X - Onimai: I’m Now Your Sister!

X - The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady

X - The Muppets Mayhem

X - the muppets. (2015 tv series)

X - Yuri is My Job!

X - Witch From Mercury Season Two

X - Loki

X - Adventure Time

X - Adventure Time: Distant Lands

X - Fionna and Cake Season One

Games

X - Lonely Mountains Downhill

X - Splatoon 3

X - Hi-Fi Rush

X - Tunic

X - Prey (2017)

X - The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

X - Cruelty Squad

X - Kirby’s Dream Land

X - VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

X - Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

X - Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope

X - Carrion

X - Metroid Prime Remastered

X - Star Wars: Episode 1 - Racer

X - Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk...

X - Pikmin 4

X - Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

X - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

X - Lethal Company

Movies

X - Puss In Boots The Last Wish

X - The Shape of Water

X - Nope

X - The Super Mario Bros. Movie

X - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

X - Get Out

X - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

X - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

X - Sunshine (2007)

X - The Grand Budapest Hotel

X - American Psycho

X - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 + Vol 3

X - Godzilla Minus One

X - Jingle All the Way

Yuri Manga

X - Onimai: I’m Now Your Sister! Ch1-Ch70

X - Eyeshield 21

X - New Game!

X - Futari Escape

X - Slow Start

X - Don’t Become An Otaku, Shinozaki!

X - 2DK, G-pen, Alarm Clock

X - Ohana Holoholo

X - Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon

X - Kami Eshi JK to OL Fujoshi

X - I want to be a cute anime girl Ch1-Ch314

X - Ouji-sama Nante Iranai

X - Sougou Tovarisch

X - Mimi Mix

X - Poor Poor Lips

X - Tonari no Robot

X - Opapagoto

X - A Timid Woman Longing For Her Delivery Girl

X - Let’s Love Girlfriends and Secrets

X - Hana and Hina After School

X - Adachi to Shimamura (2016 Manga)

X - Blue Friend

X - Skip and Loafer Ch1-Ch53

X - YuruYuri Ch1-Ch198

X - Yoru to Umi

X - An Easy Introduction to Love Triangles (To Pass the Exam!)

X - The Witch’s Marriage

X - Hino-san no Baka

X - There’s Weird Voices Coming from the Room Next Door!

X - What Does the Fox Say?

X - Shoujo Manga Protagonist X Rival-San

X - The Sheep Princess in Wolf’s Clothing

X - I Won 300 Million Yen, so I Started Raising a Freeloader Pretty Girl

X - About a College Girl Who Gets Picked Up at a Mixer by an Older Girl

X - Gabriel DropOut Ch1-Ch97

X - Vampeerz

X - Oshi V ga Oshiego de Watashi ga Mama de!?

X - Uta-kata, and Minus Literacy

X - Yume Miru Prima Girl!

X - Yuunagi Marbled, and Ami-chan’s Diary

X - I Wanna Quit Being a Hitman!

X - Love/Death, and Nicochuu

X - Goblin Is Very Strong

X - Soulmate

X - Sakura Trick

X - Kimi to Shiranai Natsu ni Naru

X - I Love Amy

X - Senpai, Does It Taste Good?

X - Ms. Vampire Who Lives In my Neighborhood

X - Sekai de Ichiban Oppai ga Suki!

X - Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko-senpai ni Koishiteru

X - The Model & The Plain Manager

X - Haru Tsuzuru, Sakura Saku Kono Heya de

X - Catulus Syndrome

X - The Nuisance Daily Life of Robot-dependent Girl

X - KiLa KiLa, Steps, and Game;

X - Omoino-Kakera, Itoshi Koishi, and An Absurd Relationship

X - Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~

X - Netsuzou Trap - NTR

X - All of Humanity Is Yuri Except for Me

X - Our Teachers are Dating!

X - An Aside Told to You

X - Mononoke Sharing

X - Chasing After Aoi Koshiba

X - Yurigurashi

X - Inside Mari

X - Sexual Education 120%

X - Hana to Hoshi

X - Todo no Tsumari no Uchouten & Ame Demo Hare Demo

X - Holy Girl Paradigm

X - Sorairo Girlfriend

X - Iono the Fanatics

X - The Girls' Arcadia

X - Stella☆Record

X - Bad Thinking Diary

X - Ibara no Namida

X - Fragtime

X - Ghosts of Greywoods

X - Sadistic Beauty: Side Story A

X - Oddman 11

X - Atashi no Senpai

X - Blooming Sequence

X - Girl in the Birdcage

X - The Ends of a Dream

X - Rock it, GiRL!!

X - Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii

X - Shino to Ren

X - Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels

X - Yuri is My Job

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X - Chainsaw Man Ch1-Ch97

X - Musuko ga Kawaikute Shikataganai Mazoku no Hahaoya

X - Kimi to Pico-Pico

X - Welcome Back, Alice

X - Dungeon Meshi

X - Himegoto - Juukyuusai no Seifuku

X - So I'm a Spider, So What? Ch1 - Ch66.1

X - Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! Ch1 - Ch85

X - My childhood friend MUST become a girl!

Other

X - Infect Your Friends And Loved Ones

X - I'm Glad My Mom Died

[mariautistic]

Haven't been able to sit down and watch akiba maid war so i guess after i pass by the cbc near my work I'll go to the park nearby to sit down and watch at least episode 1

[the-elusive-soleil]

Shadow of the Dragons: House Call

It was a slow evening at the Salamander, in the middle of the week. There were only a few people scattered throughout the common room, most of them passing through from out of town. Lilah was out on a job, Marcienette was off doing whatever she did to pass the time, and Kosef had business at the far southern end of town and wouldn’t be back till late. Madam Akiba and Mr. Trippingly were talking something over at a table in the corner, but it wasn’t as though she could go up to them and make casual conversation. Ishtal was just starting to consider calling it a night and returning to her room, when Mr. Trippingly started coughing.

He’d been coughing every so often all evening, but this was different: there was an awful wheeze to it, and a slight desperation to his inhales, and he didn’t seem to be able to stop for long. Madam Akiba, who had been twitching at every cough so far, went completely rigid with tension at the first bad fit, and then she was out of her chair, crouched beside him.

“Trip, breathe for me, breathe,” she murmured. “Is it a bad one? Do you need me to get—?”

Mr. Trippingly might have given a jerky nod, or it might have just been the motion from a new round of coughing.

Kleev was already hurrying over, with Tem not far behind, and Ishtal decided that she’d better go as well—as far as she knew, she was the only other Dragon in the place. By the time she reached the corner table, Kleev was helping Mr. Trippingly onto his feet, supporting him with an arm around his back.

“Come on, let’s get you into the back room,” she said softly. “It’ll be all right, it’ll pass, we’ll get Rafael here and everything will be fine.” She twisted her head to look up at Madam Akiba. “Aren’t you going to go?”

Mr. Trippingly’s shallow breathing devolved into coughing again, so forceful that he seemed barely able to stand, let alone walk. Madam Akiba scooped him up as though he were a child—which, in proportion to her, he almost was—and made for the back room in great strides, the others trailing along. “I can’t,” she said distractedly. “I can’t leave him when he’s doing this badly. There has to be someone else who can go.”

“I can’t,” Tem spoke up. “Someone has to mind the bar and the customers, and Kleev’s needed with Trip until we can get Rafael in.” Kleev had already darted off, presumably to fetch something urgently needed.

Somehow, Madam Akiba’s and Tem’s eyes fell on Ishtal, who felt pinned to the spot. “You can go,” Madam Akiba said, in a tone that brooked no disagreement. “We need someone to fetch a doctor for Trip, a particular doctor, mind you. Rafael Chuzhimir, he lives on the corner of Baileguail and Razum, third floor, apartment fifteen, tell him Trip’s having a health crisis and it’s the lungs.”

Ishtal committed the directions to memory, even as she pointed out, “I’m not supposed to go out alone after dark right now, the Krakens…”

“Then you’ll just have to run very fast, so if they’re out there, they can’t catch you."

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