#manga wise anyway

[spectral-kitkat]

This is CURSED!!!

[hinamie]

I'll give them shelter like you've done for me

[fisheito]

I started reading beastars so now HE's reading beastars .wait

THEY'RE reading beastars

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i still haven’t written out my 261 metapost but i can’t stop thinking about the stsg subtext in that chapter . the parallels between geto slaughtering the village and gojo slaughtering the higher ups…. the fact that gojo does it right after declaring that he has to “catch up” to geto

[randomnameless]

tbh, I stopped caring about houses that much when I found out that it's an otome/dating sim game with srpg gameplay sprinkled on top. In other FE games, you either gather supports by pair ups or by having units standing against one another. And mechanics like cooking in Fates were done to get some more stat boosts. And even if the avatarization of the game started with New Mystery, Robin and Corrin feel more like customizable characters than an avatar for the player.

In houses, Byleth is like every typical dating sim protag, that does not speak and the few times they do is by having the player choose options that may raise heart points with a character or lower them, you have to find lost items and when you give them back you gain heart points, you have to give them gifts to gain heart points and cooking now doesn't give you any beneficts in battle and only works for, you've guessed it, getting heart points. And let's not kid ourselves, tea time is like the "dates" in otome games, in which you can spam gifts till you raise the affection to the max. The only thing that distincts those points from the otome ones, is that those are necessary for proficency and for unit classes.

Heck, we even have a ring to give to the chosen blorbo in order to get a special custom made cutscene, when in pasts games getting an S support gave you a broken unit to deploy and a little blurb of text during the credits. And of course, calendar/day systems are also common in these tipes of games too.

People complained about awakening and fates for turning the franchise into a dating sim, but 3Houses is literally one in and of itself, and yet is praised as peack FE experience and as peack srpg.

(I could also argue that is because of this otome nature why the characters are "tell don't show" with their given trauma, unlike in pasts games when it was "show don't tell" (Nino, Reison, Camilla, Leif, Soren...))

Well,

When you put it like that, it becomes obvious that the other games (FEH, Engage) mentionning Fodlan are stuck on the uwu monastery part of the part 1 and not the, y'know, events happening that will lead to part 2 because as you said, the SRPG aspect is just "sprinkled on top" lol

However, the "pair up your units and build their relationships!" has been a non gameplay mechanics for decades now (FE4's was a gameplay mechanic, it had no support convos - FE6 added the support convos and gave a small gameplay boost but it didn't commit and we had no endings, FE7/8 had endings, FE9 had convos but FE10 removed them and yet had endings depending on the pairs, etc etc) even without avatars.

Then we entered the avatar era and if it added the "my waifu and my bae" shenanigans, FE13/14 were still more centered on the story aspect that on the "dating sim" aspect, as in, even if you could raise affinity with a character by doing X or Y, it wasn't really coded in a minigame - came FE16 which you analysed perfectly : tea time, gifts, eating, S-support CG, etc etc.

That being said, FE is a RPG, meaning it has characters : you play FE for the solid gameplay but you also build characters, and imo the best way to develop and write characters is to interconnect them with other characters, and/or with the plot/lore.

Sure, Arden functions as a wall/tank. But through the 5 lines he has, you learn that he is part of a group of knights, has friends who often tease him but is relied upon by those people and takes pride in that, he'd also like to find a wife someday and has self-esteem issues.

Is he as developped as, say, Xillia's Alvin? Hell no! But they're characters from two different genres, Arden has those 5 lines that puts him above any "generic" armor.

(I find it interesting how UO and in a way, FE11, gives you the opportunity to play with generics instead of playing with named characters, in UO generics will turn out to be better since you can change their growths, but they're generics. Do you want the RPG of the Tactics/Strategy aspect?)

So, I'd say that support conversations are important, I love Saias and Ralf to bits, but I'm sure I'd love them more if they had more lines. And since support through battle can be a chore (hello FE GBA and trying to get Bartre and Karla's supports when she joins 2 chapters before the end!), I initially welcome any way to grind those supports faster lol.

However, it can quickly spiral in, well, the otome mechanics we have in FE16 - if you want to build support then why not have an entire mini-game for that, and meals and chorals and whatever else?

It's all about finding balance between developping your characters without turning your game in a dating sim or what I'd call "playing the sims and pairing those dolls with those other dolls you like".

Still, let's not kid ourselves, nowadays the "dating sim" aspect of the series is, while decried by some, very popular - and FE is first and foremost, a series that has to sell.

3H is not peak SRPG not peak gaming experience or even in FE gameplay that'd be FE5 but I can't ignore the fact that its dating sim aspects might be part of the reason why it's still very popular.

[zbdjjsjwjajba]

‼️BIG FUCKIN BSD SPOILERS‼️

but maybe it isnt idk actually

skk edits on pinterest r really funny now bc ull look in the comments and there'll be ppl saying "guys read the manga! u wont ship them anymore :)" whatever whatever

as if skk didnt kill each other in the queerest way possible

girl did dazai not drown chuuya while having flashbacks to their time together and then have his stupid little happy moment (which we all know was a lie bc thats dazais character?? hes a liar???)

and then when it was chuuyas turn to shoot dazai in the fucking noggin it was bc chuuya was under control and dazai was (again) having his stupid little gay dialogue moment (idk what asagiri is gonna do w the chuuya control thing if theyre gonna keep it like the anime or what)

AND EVEN IN THR EVENT THAT CHUUYA WAS TRULY A VAMP URE TELLING ME ITS NOT POETIC THAT DAZAI TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF SO MANY TIMES AND FAILED EVERYTIME AND WHEN HE DOES FINALLY DIE ITS AT THE HANDS OF THIS MOST TRUSTED PARTNERRRR????

anyway whatever ure gonna have to trust me when i say im not that major of a skk shipper in the first place,,, i can just see where the skk ppl r coming from bc these bitches r queer as shit

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

just learned that people are like legitimately pissed that mackenyu buffed up for season 2 ???

[frobby]

im super late to the party but honestly from what ive seen twisted wonderland is a better disney love letter than wish could have ever dreamed to be

[bishonenspit]

Major Klaus Heinz Von Dem Eberbach - Emperor Waltz Sect. 9 colour spread for Viva Princess (1987) - Yasuko Aoike 60th Anniversary Artbook: Contrail

[softgreylo]

If i had a nickel for every time i watched a story do a 180 at the last second to kill off a lifelong grooming victim whose survival and/or redemption had been heavily foreshadowed, thereby ruining the themes and coherence of the entire narrative to create an ending that angered the character's fans and haters alike, i'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice

[sharpsuite]

Honest thought, but I think Ann probably adapts back to life post-borderlands best, at least between my muses. Obviously the death games were a shock - but Ann worked in forensics with the police. Her whole job is based around crimes that people commit and the high risk nature of her work. She's not TYPICALLY in physical danger. But forensics work often ends up destroying evidence by the very nature of the processes that samples have to be put through like DNA analysis. It's high risk, sometimes you only have ONE SHOT at getting something right. The point with this is that Ann still works in a similar kind of environment. She doesn't have to go back to filing papers or more MUNDANE jobs because hers still revolves around the dark side of human nature. It's not a drastic jump - and now she has friends and people she connects to that can help break her workaholic nature. They are a reminder when her work makes her think how awful humans can be that there's ALSO so much care and love in the world too. It is relatively easy for her to readjust - plus while she modified her morals and willingness for certain facts in the borderlands, she never really COMPROMISED on them. She was true to herself the whole time and stayed consistent in her time there.

Chishiya ON THE SURFACE seems to adapt back just fine. But he has a hard time. He also has an extremely hard time trying to CHANGE compared to most of the others. He was at least verbally the least committed of the people who went back. He used qualifying statements " I don't want it, i think. " and in the hospital "I think I can live a more useful life now, or something like that. " ( Which, on a side tangent, is interesting because he parallels Mira's speech when she's LYING - after each lie she says ' or something like that. ' ) He can go back to working, sure. He does just fine with it. The problem is his boredom and lack of care. Most of the main cast had more EXTERNAL reason for hating their lives whereas Chishiya's lies within the nature of himself. It's a lot harder to change that, especially because Chishiya kept himself distant from the vast majority of others and so his bonds are relatively weak compared to Ann's for example. Plus the adrenaline rush or simple entertainment of the games isn't something Chishiya finds within his line of work. So yes, he SEEMS to be doing fine but he's at a much HIGHER RISK of straying as well as failing to change compared to Ann.

[smilesrobotlover]

Do y’all think about how Four’s dad in the manga thought his son was dead and do you think about how Four thought he killed his father when they had to fight do you think about that or are you emotionally stable

[arielluva]

scrolled through my blog to find this panel edit i made and i think i need to release him into the world again

[mintjeru]

color wheel challenge 💕 pink kinomoto sakura from cardcaptor sakura

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[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

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[dare-g]

One anime I thought I'd like but stopped was Nana the thing is that I think I'd enjoy the series and at some point I'll get around to reading it but the anime just felt like I was wasting too much time I was only 10 or so episodes in and so much footage per episode was flashback and I just wanted to see more story