#this scene.... it's even better than in the manga

[divineandmajesticinone]

BLUE PERIOD ブルーピリオド (2024) "When my artworks are criticized, I totally lose my footing."

[shirtlessanimeboy]

Taiki takes his shirt off after Chinatsu points out that it's inside out, and his shirt flies up during a match, from episode 4 of Blue Box.

[astralhope]

Yuma's unshakable trust in Astral makes me cry every time

[loregoddess]

if you had told me, say five-ish years ago before I had encountered these two stories, that there was an anime called Cowboy Bebop and a manga called Trigun, and that one was a space western and the other was a space noir story, and then told me the one with "cowboy" in the name was not the space western, I would have thrown something small and harmless at you

[zoobus]

I’m not that knowledgeable about femdom specifically but the difference between jp/kr is so real. Like the female characters in general feel so different… there are so many female characters in manhwa, even random side characters, that are scary and mean (hot), rlly strong/confident personalities, that I just do not see in jp manga. Also have no idea why + smt I’ve been puzzled about. Feel like it can’t just be a translation thing.

It's difficult to fully articulate since 1) who am I to comment on the state of writing for books in languages I do not speak and 2) as a non-native, I'm only ever aware of what stories other people choose to translate and the majority of comics are probably not being translated.

...But with all that acknowledged, yeah. I know exactly what you mean. And I don't know what to make of it either. It's so noticeable if you grew up on manga where even now there's still quite a bit of "waow...a conventionally attractive woman who's 167cm tall, wears pants, and is good at her job...how intimidating..." in work aimed at women

Of course you can find strong/confident personalities in manga and of course #notallmanwha but it's crazy how frequently I'll come across a manwha that sucks ass but still manages to sprinkle in cool, unique, imposing, memorable, cruel, unpleasant, unsettling, etc female characters, who are like that on purpose. What is up with that??? And how do we make that the norm everywhere

[sskk-manifesto]

(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡

[chai-en-kaadhale]

every other day i think about the no.6 anime being more popular than the light novel and i want to cry

[cosmicrhetoric]

you will never catch me defending the way one piece women are designed post timeskip but i will say what made me make peace w/ it in my brain was fem law. i knew that happened bc the internet blew the fuck up when that ep dropped but when i finally got there and saw it i was like. ah. okay. i understand now. the honkers simply come before all else. it's like a prereq now so if nami or robin or (sorry for saying it. but the wano close up) zoro aren't in the episode someone has to pick up the slack. there was so little chance to sexualize someone in an episode detailing the fight scene of thee ultimate fan fave side character vs thee big bad of the series that oda was like uhhhh and also law has huge tits now. you're welcome.

[sableeira]

confession time: soukoku give me the worst case of secondhand embarrassment ever. they are so cringe. you can’t take them anywhere.

[moltengoldveins]

thinking about The Characters

[m1ckeyb3rry]

GUESS WHO FINALLY CAUGHT UP W THE BLLK MANGA 🤩

[kingofanemptyworld]

“I’m Hinata Shouyo, from the concrete”

forever the rawest line in hq, nothing else compares for me

[intomybubble]

I'm just about finished with My Little Inferno, and the ML (the LI) is so pathetic omfg. I feel like I'm reading Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudsai due to the main leads both being fucking losers (the FL in Dame na is in a dead end relationship and is practically a sugar mommy who ends up in debt to support her BF which almost leads her to being sold into prostitution. Her attitude isn't great either). Like if I could get a hot guy to fall head over heels in love with me even after he witnesses me puking, pissing, and crying myself out of fear and getting hassled by old bullies (if only I were a BL protag bc he'd think I'm cute), I would think something is wrong with him and that I probably made it in life. The ML isn't particularly... useful. The only thing he has going for him is being cute and short, and being needy towards the LI. The LI makes for a good house husband.

Based on the cover art for the manga, I would've thought it was really dark (like Killing Stalking or Blind play) but its mostly just about cyber crime and embezzlement and sorta the yakuza (mostly mentioned, briefly seen). To an extent, this series sorta reminded me of Semantic Error, but only because of the computer stuff though. Otherwise, I sorta like the slice of life aspects. I think the crime stuff is sorta underbaked. I wish there was more risk or something to make things tense bc the only thing was ML's mom getting get info stolen and getting $300k in debt.

[orcelito]

Honestly manga Midvalley and trigun 98 Midvalley are basically two different characters

Yea I wanna punch manga Midvalley constantly, but I also find him interesting & a compelling character. The times I've seen 98 Midvalley he just looks so sleazy lmao it makes me REALLY wanna punch him

Tough choices

[bestdressedchuuya]

As much as I'm enjoying going through the anime, I will say it's got some MASSIVE pacing issues compared to the manga. Everything takes sooooo much longer to get through, and yea I know that's a given when going from reading chapters to watching episodes, it's inherently going to take longer. But it's soooo obvious when they stall for time by dragging out scenes way longer than they need to be or adding scenes that are completely unnecessary and it really gets on my nerves sometimes. Like with Impel Down, how the hell did they manage to take 25 chapters and drag it out over 27 episodes?? It's really quite something

[teatitty]

I've only watched Kuroshitsuji in its first season, so I really don't know anything, but I would assume that comments like "half a century" are worded like this, because they are not exact. Creatures who exists as long as Shinigami do may not even realize so much as 20-30 years a difference, if that makes sense. I literally don't know anything else, so I hope this makes sense and is not completely rude or stupid of me to add.

I would normally agree with this and I honestly don't blame you for thinking this because the manga is so vastly different from the anime even when the anime started properly adapting the canon, but timelines and dates have always been incredibly important to Black Butler's lore and mysteries and Undertaker himself has very close ties with Ciel's family and dead father, Vincent [there's even been implications he may have loved Vincent in a romantic fashion] so despite being one of the oldest Shinigami we've met so far [and we don't even know exactly how old he is] Undertaker also puts a lot of importance on dates and years, even going so far as to keep a chain of lockets all inscribed with death dates on them and those lockets are the things he treasures most in canon

So for him to say it's been "half a century" since he was last called a Shinigami is actually a huge deal for us readers and gives a big clue as to what was going on with him back then! Deserters are rare, and the most we know about what happened are during Campania when Undertaker whips his scythe out [heh] and says he took "great pains to keep it" and then later on when Othello tells us that he "destroyed half the headquarters" when he deserted [my theory is this was him getting his beloved scythe back] because Othello is the second oldest Shinigami we know of that I can remember and he was around during that time

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if that 20 year gap was him being hunted by other shinigami for his desertion and it wasn't until he'd successfully gone "underground" that it all stopped. We're also being constantly reminded that the london/british branch is understaffed, which may be a clue that Undertaker might've killed a shitton of fellow Shinigami when he destroyed the headquarters