#to use the weeb ass shit scale:

[crazyw3irdo]

anyway has anyone else watched re:creators cause that fuckin ruled

you ever watch a show and are just like “holy shit that was so good, now that i’ve seen it all i can’t be spoiled i can’t wait to see what other people thought of it!” and search up its tag and then there’s like. 10 posts about it

[curlicuecal]

Hi, I'm just curious what svsss is ? I see you post it a lot and it looks interesting but i have no clue what it is

It's a c-novel called The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System! It's by the same author as the book that The Untamed tv series is based on, if you've seen that one around. :)

General premise is a guy falls into a shitty porny webnovel in the role of the main villain, and most of the humor and drama comes from the fact that, as a former reader, he is absolutely convinced he knows the genre he is in. This is a stallion novel, and all the dudes around him are completely straight, and he is completely straight, and the antihero protagonist is also completely straight and is gonna conquer the world and have a hundred wives and definitely revenge-murder him.

SQQ is actually starring in a gay romance. He will probably never notice this.

Anyway, this book is funny, and stupid, and kind of problematic, occasionally heart-breaking or sweet or profound, and very fun! I recommend it!

Actually, the other day we were talking about the Weeb Ass Shit scale, where weeb is how much niche genre-specific knowledge something is using, and ass is how gratuitously smutty it is, and shit is how much dumb shit happens and I was like, oh! SVSSS is a perfect 10/10/10! :D

This either sounds terrible or awesome to you.

[swampgallows]

You recently reblogged a post of the "waifu bait" twitter post, and mentioned not watching modern anime. I tried looking up anime on your blog and you said you liked Tokyo Godfathers, so I trust your taste lol. Can you recommend some other anime you liked? Preferably movies, but this doesn't really matter.

OMG thats very sweet of you haha. my anime tag is actually "animu" but a lot of it is just aesthetic posts/gifs. i find i still gravitate toward anime from the late 90s - early 00s but not for lack of trying. what i like most about anything animated is the animation itself so i place a higher premium on anime that isn't mostly static intricate paper dolls with mouth flaps or is at least nice to look at. i prefer slice of life over action or mecha/sci-fi in any kind of media, so while i've heard really great things about ghost in the shell, gundam, etc. i've never seen them.

i also have a very low tolerance for most shonen ("h-his power level... it's over 9000!" playground battle tactics) and most sexual tropes/fanservice ("onee-chan let's compare chest sizes!" type shit). it's probably more accurate to say i like some japanese animation rather than "anime", if that makes sense. essentially anything rating fairly low across the weeb-ass-shit scale.

recs under cut cause it got long!!

= movies, in chronological order: obligatory ghibli favorites: my neighbor totoro (1988), kiki's delivery service (1989), only yesterday (1991). only yesterday is a little more obscure than the other two but ghibli films have pretty much a universal seal of approval so i doubt a pitch is necessary. onward!

little nemo: adventures in slumberland (1989): hey does this count as anime? i hope so. one of the pivotal founts of nightmare fuel from my youth (beaten only by brave little toaster, perhaps) this film has eluded seemingly everyone i know in my age group and i'm not sure why. while it's not nearly as inappropriate as its early 20th century source material it may have fallen to scarcity due to its "pg" content, like tobacco use and several frightening scenes, a la the failure of disney's the black cauldron. regardless, the animation is fluid, the songs are cute, the backgrounds are beautifully painted, and there at least a handful of shots that will flash in your mind before bed.

princess arete (2001): hits a lil close to home since it's about a girl named arete trapped in her room and yearning for autonomy, to create things with her hands, and to participate in the outside world. a bit slow paced and quiet but i think it adds to the atmosphere and immersive isolation, and it does pick up near the end a bit.

interstella 5555 (2003): obligatory. more of a feature-length music video than a film but still has a cohesive narrative. hope you like french house!

MIND GAME (2004): my feelings about mind game are fairly similar to my feelings about burning man: grateful i had the experience, but once is enough. i personally don't care for "trippy" stuff, but the animation itself does have some great visuals, switching up different styles and even incorporating live action footage and rotoscoping for an experimental "patchwork" feel. nishi, a down-on-his-luck loser, grapples with purpose and the meaning of life after a handful of near-death experiences, including being swallowed by a whale; anything "biblical" after that is all knowledge-wise. like princess arete, this one's also by studio 4C but is intended for mature audiences (lots of sex. and a rape, as a warning). if you liked tekkonkinkreet (another 4C production) or paprika (satoshi kon), mind game is worth a shot.

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= series, in chronological order:

oishinbo (1988-92): almost like a shonen, but with gourmet cooking. as part of their cultural division, a japanese newspaper tasks two journalists, yamaoka and kurita, with creating "the ultimate menu" to broaden japanese culinary horizons. yamaoka is the estranged son of a highly venerated food critic and engages in a persistent rivalry with his father to both prove his expertise and to challenge the rigid traditions. kurita is an average working girl of the 80s providing the audience perspective as we learn the elaborate methods of the gourmet cooking world alongside her. nostalgic for its music, setting, and style, this was a big comfort anime for me, though despite its several seasons it never wraps up the story of the manga. also kurita has a unique outfit almost every episode, which is a nice detail. i only found out about it because of @/80sanime!

tenchi muyo + tenchi universe (1992-95): harem anime crossed with a feudal japanese space opera of sorts. i first saw the show on toonami as a kid, and what hooked me instantly were all the different personalities of the girls. if you're familiar with the cartoon the owl house, it's said that eda is HEAVILY inspired in personality, character design, and even voice by one of the main characters, ryoko hakubi, a space pirate hiding out on earth from the galaxy police. mostly comedy with obligatory hot springs and beach episodes, but has spaceship battles and magical sword fights too.

neon genesis evangelion (1995-6) + the end of evangelion (1997): i should not have watched this as a 12 year old. although i think anyone of any age who watches end of evangelion walks away permanently changed. (due to the nature of the series, it is unclear whether the "rebuild of evangelion" films are remakes or sequels, but i personally don't recommend them either way.) if you are somehow not familiar with evangelion: teens pilot giant robots against extraterrestrial threats called "angels". things become... much less about giant robots.

azumanga daioh (2002): this was one of the first series i had ever seen (western or japanese) about girls being friends that wasnt preoccupied with getting boyfriends or being "girly". still has the occasional fanservice tropes, but mostly comedic or quickly over with. since it was adapted from the 4 panel comic strips, it retains a lot of the short-form humor as quick vignettes or gags. not as exaggerated and boisterous as nichijou but similar, and way less insipid than k-on but still has sentimental and cute moments between the girls.

ashita no nadja (2003-4): nadja, an orphaned dancer in london, is on a quest to find her mother. she travels across (mostly) europe with the dandelion troupe, a group of entertainers with their own fraught backstories. she is intent on helping everyone she meets, sometimes to her own detriment, and learns lessons along the way about who she can trust, how a person's past can change them, and that not everything can be fixed with a smile and a song. meanwhile there's a kind of tuxedo mask thing going on between a pair of twin brothers, and nadja struggles with romantic feelings for both of them. overall very much a feelgood "girl cartoon", but i liked the dance sequences, the animation quality, and the evolution of nadja's character. i got to vicariously travel and dance alongside her, and i liked cheering on someone with a good heart working hard to make her dreams come true.

paradise kiss (2005): MAN i should watch this again. reserved overachiever high school student Caroline stumbles into the world of underground fashion and street culture as a model, blowing open the confines of her previously sheltered life. while she finds a home in ParaKiss she also has to confront the dark sides of fame, the fashion industry, and the strain it puts on their relationships. as a fairly introverted raver with model friends i related to a lot of it. also for queer points, george is bisexual and isabella has been praised as positive representation by trans women, especially for a series from the aughts. also WHATTT THE FUCK PATRICK SEITZ VOICES GEORGE IN THE DUB??? OHHH MY GOD okay anyway

the ancient magus bride (mahou tsukai no yome) (2017-2023): stunning animation, and a series i've yet to catch up with purely because i end up crying virtually every episode. it's a bit of a wish fulfillment thing (teenage girl discovers she has special powers and is whisked away from her abusive home life to a medieval fantasy world where she is betrothed to a tender monster-man) but has a lot of great worldbuilding and poignant storylines. it's ghibli-esque in a way but with more of an overarching melancholy and sense of foreboding compared to the average ghibli film. and just to get it out of the way for some inexplicable reason a few of the side characters have HUMONGOUS hungolomghnonoloughongous

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ive seen quite a bit of anime in my day but these are the ones i actually remember watching and enjoying. like i recently watched all of slayers and most of slayers next, and while it was satisfying in a 90s nostalgia way i wouldnt necessarily recommend it. also there are some very highly acclaimed films and series that i haven't gotten around to yet (full metal alchemist brotherhood, cowboy bebop [I KNOW IM SORRY], the animatrix, etc.) hopefully this is enough to go off of for now!

[skeppsbrott]

Since tonights semi-final is kinda dull, I decided to finally write down my Eurovision scoring system. It is quite similar to the Weeb Ass Shit scale, except I don't have a good name for it.

The basic idea is that an Eurovision performance can be Good in three distinct ways:

Danceability - how much does this performance make me want to be at Euroclub a late May night shaking my ass alongside three hungarian gay guys? Does this song make me wanna get turnt? Would I be surprised and delighted to hear this song at the club? Do I have the choreography vaguely memorized?

Meme Factor - how likely am I to use screenshots from this performance as reaction gifs? How likely is it to show up in my late-night Eurovision youtube binges with fellow fans? Is it the kind of thing that makes me call out "oh you've GOT to see this-" to my non-fan friends?

GTA (Give me the Aux) - can I in good faith argue about the quality of this song with a nonbeliever, or even use it to convert them into eurovisionism? Might I hear it on the radio or in a classy concert venue? Would I attend a full-length concert of the artist?

A song doesn't have to hit all categories to be good. In fact, they are usually quite distinct qualities, but they all lift each other. A season without GTA won't be able to sustain broad interest or the legitimacy to attract a budget or high-quality songwriters/performers. A season without meme factor will be unmemorable. A season without danceability is a drag to watch.

In any given year you'll probably have different favourites for the different categories. This year, Käärijä ranks high in all categories for me, but is beaten by Loreen and La Zarra in terms of GTA. Let 3 (Croatia) is a shoe-in for meme factor. Alessandra (Norway) scores high in both Danceability and GTA, but falls short on Meme factor.

With this system, it is easier than ever to argue with your friends about whether that ballad, or that outlandish rock group, is in fact good or not. You may have three different winners in a given year! Go forth and argue!

Let me know your winners and all time favourites of respective category <3

[11x13kyle]

i recommend south park episodes to people using a modified version of the Weeb Ass Shit scale

[myhamartiaishubris]

"What kind of Chinese Propaganda Shit are you watching now?"

Ladies, gentlemen, and variations thereupon, may I present to you the c-drama response to anime's Weeb Ass Shit scale. This scale is brought to you with help from @vyther15.

The C/P/S scale, broken down:

Chinese - This is how much Chinese context you need to understand the show, or how much the show relies on the tropes of c-drama. Pretty much all period/fantasy dramas score at least a 5 or higher, while contemporary dramas vary depending on things like current events, Internet jokes, and metatextual cliches.

Propaganda - This one's a little more difficult to define. On the surface, it is what it is on the tin: how propagandistic it is. Any drama set in the Sino-Japanese/Chinese Civil War period is guaranteed at least a 7 on this front. However, the Propaganda scale also measures how dutifully the show toes the censorship line. A show like Rattan, where the modern-day magic is loosely handwaved as aliens, but we all know it's magic? Around a 4. This also applies to shows like Joy of Life or My Heroic Husband, where a simple framing device is used to bypass the transmigration taboo. Shows that don't toe any lines but also don't really bother with propaganda sit at a solid 5.

Now, where this scale gets really interesting is the BL adaptations. You see, unlike all its other counterparts, the Propaganda scale can actually dip into negative numbers. The more boldly it flaunts censorship rules, the more negative. Word of Honor sits squarely at -4. To breach the -5 bound, it needs to be pretty explicit (take that word for its literal meaning, folks), i.e. Farewell My Concubine's canonically gay protagonist, which is pretty difficult to get these days.

Where this scale gets really wonky is when you get simultaneous positive and negative (or at least really close) numbers. The Message, for example, is about a (non-explicitly) lesbian couple fighting the Japanese. Scores about an 8(0) on the P scale. Technically this evens out to a 4, but the bracket system helps clarify the different applications of the meaning.

Shit - This one's exactly the same. The shittier something is, the higher its score, up to 10. Of course, this is also the most subjective of them all. What scores an 8 on the Shit scale might only score a 2 on yours.

Now go, be free and rank shows.

[orcabouttown]

I have received my trimonthly like that has reminded me I have this blog, so I will do what I set out to do on day one - inform the masses about meat I have consumed and weapons I like.

Currently doing a vegan thing, so let’s call this Exotic Weapon Thursday!

Ever wanted to combine offence and defence seamlessly? Ever wanted to feel like you had a tibia made of wood? Ever thought, “I sure would like to massively overcomplicate my next battle with this clunky but aesthetic accessory.” ?

Then you, my friend, need the tonfa!

See, on the weeb ass shit scale I’m not actually a huge fan of the katana. Sure, neckbeards gave it a bad name and dramatised the shit out of it, but it is still a solid weapon so to speak.

No, for me the ultimate weeb ass weapon has to be the tonfa, solely due to the origins.

The traditional origin story of the tonfa can be attributed to the struggles of the Ryukyu islanders - approx. 400 years ago Japanese samurai invaded the Ryukyu chain of islands and confiscated all weapons of the islanders to ensure subservience.

Why they did this I have no clue, maybe the people on those islands had cool shit.

So the islanders improvised weapons from mill handles, essentially just prying them off the mills and turning them into batons. Simple but effective huh?

Let’s examine the actual usefulness of the tonfa.

Aesthetic? Yes, it looks cool as shit when twirled around and gripped, like a super long dick.

Effective? Kinda. You can block like a son of a bitch, sure, but attack? A blunt object, swung with ineffective force in a lethal showdown?

Cringe.

Worth the time? Well, as Thorin Oakenshield demonstrated with the aforementioned shield, the tonfa model can have its benefits. It makes for a good improvised shield in tight quarters, where deflection can buy crucial seconds in a battle.

As an offensive weapon I can’t recommend it, frankly the only offence it’s capable of is how it makes me feel to see it used as a weapon.

Now, that’s my time, I’m off to fry some Quorn nuggies and rewatch The Raid, and if you’re reading this frankly you’ve clearly struck the bottom of the barrel. I say push on through, just remember to stay hydrated and have a healthy snack of your enemies entrails.

[scharfkugel]

What would you rate Tsukiheme on the weeb ass shit scale?

I've been debating playing it, to get deeper in melty.

This is tricky to answer because I think it depends on what your standard/measurement is for weeb-ass-shit. Someone who watches lots of mediocre shonen/ecchi/etc. anime probably has a very different idea of what classifies as too weeby/cringey than someone who's only interaction with anime media is like, Spirited Away and Pokemon lkfdjhsd. I'll put a read-more now because I'm about to write a fair bit about a VN that not everyone who follows me is interested in.

But assuming you're like me and have seen at least a small amount of anime shows/games/manga ranging from mediocre shonen to artful drama, I'd give it a solid 3/10 on the weeb-ass-shit scale. Unlike its sequel Kagetsu Tohya, Tsukihime is much more focused on its darker plot and only has occasional attempts at comedy, which is where I'd say the few cringey/eye-rolling moments happen.

The typical cringey moment looks more like the protagonist saying something really stupid to a girl (maybe a comment on her weight, maybe asking her cup size) that makes you roll your eyes 360 degrees rather than something like, the school conducting a fair with a beauty contest that has a teacher enter it wearing a stripper outfit, then proceed to tease a student by moving her boobs into his face (real scene from Code Geass btw, didn't make this up lolol).

Fair warning though! Even if Tsukihime doesn't have that specific scene, it is still an eroge, meaning there are sex scenes/nudity/other explicit sexual content in it. These scenes are all serious and part of the darker plot, but at the end of the day if you aren't comfortable with seeing (or just reading about if you use the censored patch) explicit sexual acts then I would recommend against reading it and maybe wait for the translation of the remake version to finish instead. It maintains the 18+ rating while rewriting the story to remove the explicitly sexual elements of the story.

[taxfraudhousewife]

might i rest in your hands a while and soak up all your light

might i drink the sweat from your palms and the blood from your hangnails

only for a moment

might i hear you scold me for giving up

might your words be fierce with fire and put fire back in me

if i read and learned and hoped and prayed

would i even find you

some internet people are saying the whole israel thing is driving the masses to revert

seemingly normal internet people talking about how they read the quran

it makes me think the price will be high

equal if not more

i know there’s not a finite number of muslims that can exist at the same time

still isn’t there

what if in a hundred years the masses revert

in exchange for forty thousand palestinians

what if it has to be more to buy the masses

what if there really is an order to things

no i am not converting to replace your weight in the islamic equilibrium

thought about it considered it realized i’m being fucking crazy

if you were here if i converted you’d be pissed off at me

say you’re not muslim jesus and you don’t hear my prayers

still the thought of buying future muslims with current muslims is terrifying and fills me with dread

that an order exists and it’s cruel and inconsistent

i hope it means nothing

it does mean nothing unless you can buy current lives with future ones

maybe they mean your god will reward someone (???) for enduring (???) genocidal carnage

by making more random muslims (???)

that’s a can of worms

one that leaves me incredibly grateful i’ve only learned how to worship men

at least plain ol men can’t be blamed for allowing (????) ethnic cleansings to happen on their property

at least on that big a scale

i’ve been kind of a muslim weeb lately

it’s a joke but now it’s getting weird

you’d think its weird

like i keep saying inshallah in russian sentences

and every time i think how if you could hear me you’d roll your fuckin eyes

and call me stupid

i don’t know why i’m obsessed

you muslims are curb stomping my heart

i broke up with the iraqi girl

i think your god made us to torture each other

it was november and i wanted to ask you what to do

half of my decision was prompted by israel

i think the other half was just what happens when you’re far away

only i could watch a genocide and feel sorry for myself

when the bombs fell the shrapnel tore open a scab on my lip

i couldn’t stop the bleeding (never could)

all i could taste was burning skin and wet steel

unwelcome alcohol and terrible adults

i longed for the comfort of you

and sought it in her

you fuckin muslims know how to chew up a fuckin heart

you muslims you men you humans

starting to think IM the problem

you men and girls and dead will turn me inside out and tear me to shreds

it’s down my throat back in my chest where it belongs except it’s different this time

it just hurts without the righteous angry enthusiasm

it’s just going crazy in my room at night

i’m so angry

but in the bad way like the way i’m not supposed to be

in the way that the angry boy who won’t answer the phone is always simmering

did you used to be that too

what did you do how did you stop being a boy how did you man the fuck up

cause i can’t

i miss you dog

i’m trying so hard to be like you

you’re everything i could ever dream of being

you’re so fuckin cool

i can’t replace you in the islamic equilibrium

no one can i know it doesn’t have to be me

i wished it hard

but still if i can’t be like you then what the fuck is anything

deadass i think a lot of happy hopeful thoughts when i think about you

i think you’d like that

got me dreaming about glorious revolution and shit

and garlic nang and you in your truck in the wild west

my toga is so fuckin cool

i sing it to myself

to mushu i tell him your toga asaan was a smart ass guy

he was a socialist and he read books and shit

would it be crazy if i named my first born after you

would i be setting them up for failure with a name like that

it’s crazy and stupid and not a name for me to give

i know

still i relish the idea of people asking why my heir has such a strange name

and telling them he’s named after an esteemed and accomplished anti imperialist activist

cause i can’t say you were good cause that’s basic and i would cry

i’m not man enough to replace that goodness

you can’t replace a guy who saved actual lives and also drank too much nyquil

if you were here i’d bully you for it forever

i’d never shut the fuck up i still never shut the fuck up about it

just incase you can hear me bullying you

you fuckin harami ass i see you now

i hope to giggle with you over our addictions one day

i hope to try hashish with you i hope to watch you hit a fifty nic disposable for the first time

to drink too much with you and ask you what you think of nine eleven

i don’t need to ask everything but at least that

and maybe a summary of what you were really getting into

[willowish]

So I watched all 4 series/seasons of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and I'm gonna map out my thoughts on all of them and rank them on the Weeb Ass Shit scale

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: 8.5/10 overall

Weeb 2/10 - Other than being a magical girl anime, there's not much you need to know about Japan or anime, and magical girls are more common in western cartoons now, so it ranks low imo

Ass 4/10 - There are panty shots and, unfortunately, a hot spring episode, both of which are made worse by the main character being 9, but the worst part imo is the magical girl sequence going out of its way to show her regular clothes coming off before the new outfit goes on. Lots of magical girl anime have Vague Nudity during the transformations, but this feels extra weird

Shit 2/10 - I would say there aren't many major plot holes or instances of bad writing, I really enjoyed the story, and it used the 13 episodes it had wisely, getting straight to the point. Not telling the viewer Nanoha's fake, non-magic explanation of why she's going away is the only thing that jumps out as lazy writing, but it doesn't really matter anyway since she explains for real in the end. There are a few one-off remarks about Nanoha's family that I initially was like "ok, not gonna explain that?" but then I remembered this is technically a spinoff of Triangle Heart, so those were probably added for Triangle Heart fans, not new viewers

Season 1 was an intriguing story that drew me in pretty quickly and one that could honestly stand on its own. I remember finishing episode 13 and thinking "what could possibly come after this, that seemed like a solid story to me!" It may seem odd to think "I don't really need a follow up season on this good anime," but the alternative comes up later. I think this was my favorite season, partly because Yuuno was a main character and he's my favorite. Pity me.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's: 8/10 overall

Weeb 3/10 - I don't have many specific examples, but I feel like this season had more anime tropes/Japanese culture in it. The only example I can really think of is Hayate bathing with Shamal and Vita, but I made a mental note after watching that the weeb ranking was higher

Ass 4.5/10 - Same panty shots and weird transformation sequences as before, as well ad aforementioned bathing. There was also another scene where a monster with tendrils or whatever grabbed Signum and her boobs got squished by it. You know what I mean.

Shit 3/10 - This was another really solid plot, and again it used its allotted episodes well, but I feel like it wasn't quite as good as season 1. Plus it had Hayate's paralysis heal after the Book of Darkness was destroyed, which is a dumb trope, but I don't dock more points for it because the book was causing the paralysis to begin with, and it didn't vanish overnight at least.

I didn't like this one as much, especially at first, but I really liked Nanoha getting more involved with the Bureau and official magic business, and I somehow didn't see the twist at the end of Graham and the Liese twins being part of the problem. Loved the peak 6 years ahead at the end where everyone's older, and Yuuno getting teased about "making process" with Nanoha was cute (and painful in retrospect, RIP Yuuno idk why the writers shoved you aside so hard). I once again thought "that was a great story with a solid wrap-up, what more could there be?" and yet there was more.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: 7/10 overall

Weeb 3/10 - Anime battles, power levels, pupils aiming to surpass their mentors, pretty standard anime fare that's easy to understand, if you saw Dragonball as a kid you get it pretty much, and we're not in Japan anymore Toto, so don't worry about that

Ass 5/10 - Same stuff as before, including a weird, OOC scene where Subaru wakes Teana up by... groping her boobs. It was so out of place I almost had to make sure it was the same anime. Also, a 6 year old girl transforms into an adult woman à la Black Lady, and watching a grown woman in a vacuum sealed bodysuit with boob socks cry and act like a 6 year old is SUPER weird. At least Black Lady didn't act like Chibiusa...

Shit 4.5/10 - Wouldn't it be dumb if you named an anime after the main character, then divided focus between her and a new cast of characters so she's barely the main character anymore? Yeah, it was dumb. I like the idea of showing how Nanoha has matured by having her become a mentor to a new generation, but removing the focus from her so much was... idk, not what people were watching for? Also taking the really cool sci-fi magical girl anime to a more politic/bureaucratic place with power struggles in the Bureau was A Choice, but there were still plenty of cool fights, so it's fine

Remember Yuuno? The writers did for 2 whole lines of dialogue. Anyway, petty grievances aside, this season grew on me slowly. I didn't like Subaru and Teana much at first (loved the episode where Nanoha blasted Teana with a huge magic beam then Signum punched her later lol) but they moved up to Fine by the end. I passively wondered why all of the combat cyborgs were women, then they dropped the "all of us have a genetic copy of our creator in our wombs in case he dies" shit and I wished I was dead. Weird shit aside, I liked it overall, and, ONCE AGAIN thought "yeah, this would be a satisfying place to end this tale!" and I was right that time.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid: 3.5/10 overall

Weeb 5/10 - This is An Anime alright. Training camps, hot springs, sports tournaments, we've got some prime examples of Anime here

Ass 6/10 - I'm tempted to rate this higher, but I feel like if 10 is hentai then any higher than this is too much. But there's a lot more sexualized bullshit here. I was literally 28 seconds into an episode and Fate's clothing got shredded, SPECIFICALLY on her chest, during a mock battle. We've got double the kid-to-adult boobification sequences, and we've got a 14 year old nun with battle underboob. Can't forget sexual harassment of a 10 year old at the hot spring!

Shit 7/10 - Don't watch this. You know how I praised the others for being complete stories that used their 13 episodes well? NOT VIVID!!! The first half of the show was just putzing around and introducing Einhart, a convoluted character with a dumb concept and confusing motives (she explained them many times and I still don't know wtf she wanted). The second half got into the only thing that was kind of interesting, the magic/martial arts sports tournament thing, and THEY DIDN'T FINISH BECAUSE THEY RAN OUT OF EPISODES!!! They got to episode 12, didn't even try to finish, and used the 13th 23 minute slot as a RECAP EPISODE to, idk try to drum up interest for a season 2? Didn't happen, because the show was ASS, so if you cared (I don't, I considered not finishing after every single episode) you can just read the manga I guess I'll say it again, don't watch this. First of all, if Nanoha being the protagonist only part of the time annoyed me, imagine how much I loved her being a background character. Also, you know how magical girl anime are about fighting to save the world and stuff? And how one of Lyrical Nanoha's draws was the really cool sci-fi magic battles and the repeated reminder that Nanoha was putting her life on the line as a 9 year old, making the show somewhat darker than other magical girl shows with protagonists that young? What if we made it a slice of life sports anime where a group of kids tries to get stronger and win the sports tournament against tough foes! Fucking yawn. When you go from a kid learning how to output strong magic without killing herself to a bunch of kids playing the water and practicing "cutting water" you have to wonder where you went wrong

Unrelated overall thoughts:

It's probably not intentional, at least in the way I'm interpreting it, but the gender in this show is pretty delicious sometimes. LOVE when Intelligent Devices refer to their female users as sir, specifically Bardiche calling Fate sir is very good to me. Also a big fan of Olivie being called a king instead of a queen. A lot of girls in ViVid have typically male names, like Einhart, Harry, and Victor. Also Otto is a trans man, he told me himself.

As you know, Nanoha is well known for having two hands- one for Yuuno, and one for Fate. The show directly implies Yuuno likes Nanoha and less directly implies she also likes him. The show also makes Nanoha and Fate really gay, but not "overtly" (other than both being Vivio's moms) because homophobia. Which is more canon? Both. Why? Here's a diagram.

As we can see, Vivio, Nanoha's child (I know she's adopted, that's not important here shhh) represents both Yuuno and Fate. We can also see that Nanoha loves blonde people.

As for the movies, I think season 1 was the better telling, but I honestly preferred the 2nd movie's telling of A's plot. Something I HATED!!! about both movies was the WEIRD lighting/shading choice for Nanoha's/Fate's chests that emphasized their nipples??? SO weird, I literally did a fucking double take every time that showed up.

TL;DR Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is good! Ignore ViVid

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

Weeb Ass Shit

I think the first place this method was introduced to me was the youtuber Gigguk or someone on the Trash Taste Podcast.

I love it because it's both a multi-part pun and a really useful way of rating an anime.

It's a 3-part scale:

Weeb: How much cultural knowledge do you need (or need to get invested in), in order to enjoy this show? Hikaru no Go would have a fairly high Weeb rating, Princess Mononoke would have a moderate one (knowing things about the Emishi sets a lot of context, even if you can appreciate the whole thing without it), and most productions made in the US where there are arguments about "is this even anime" tend to have a low Weeb rating.

Ass: How much fanservice is present in the show? Importantly this isn't a question of whether it's appropriate to the story or makes it good or bad. It's just a good thing to know. Sometimes I'll rate a show high on Ass if it has some not-obviously-sexual thing that is nevertheless definitely someone's fetish, such as if the main cast is getting almost-devoured by monsters every episode or two. They don't have to make "ahn!" sounds while escaping for the audience to recognize that the artist is into vore.

Shit: How shit is the show, mostly independent of Weeb and Ass. This is tricky, because it's not totally independent; Astarotte's Toy, or I My Me: Strawberry Egg are very Shit and it's largely because they propose an adult caregiver getting into a sexual relationship with a minor as a good and reasonable thing. And I'm sure there are similar bits where slice-of-life comedies get so into Weeb Reference "Humor" that they're the anime edition of the Scary Movie franchise; no plot of their own, and no actual humor to enjoy because "that was a thing you saw elsewhere" isn't an actual joke. So it's possible for Weeb or Ass to contribute to how Shit something is. But I try to judge how Shit it is without treating it worse because it is very Weeb or very Ass.

That's it! I just wanted to share a neat rating system with a funny name. All three help a reader or listener temper their expectations about a show and while Shit comes close none of them explicitly say watching them will be a bad time. I might include a rating separate from the others, if I were doing a review show, that was literally just "how good a time did I have with this" to give people a quick idea. Sometimes that's all people are after. But I feel like these 3 could give someone with tastes different from mine a sense of which shows I hated that they'd love and vice versa, making them more useful than the standard "I Give This 5 Stars" idea.

[tossawary]

I finished Volume 1! I started taking pictures of relevant passages instead, rather than immediately typing up posts, so I can go back, transcribe them, and add notes when I'm on my laptop again. I'm trying to be better about alt text / image descriptions, so I'm banning myself from just posting shitty phone pics. (And they are indeed quite bad phone pics!)

My intention is to also put these posts in my queue, so my Scum Villain reread posts across all volumes may take up the next week or so! On to Volume 2!

I kind of want to make a "rent-lowering antics" joke about my blogging, but no, as I'm rereading it, I do think SVSSS is genuinely good, if also very, VERY silly in places. It scores high on the "Weeb" factor of a scale like the "Weeb Ass Shit" scale. I know SVSSS is not Japanese (obviously), but I think the "Weeb" bit can be translated to a more general "requires some knowledge and enjoyment of specific cultural elements, tropes, fandom nonsense, etc." meta factor to still make use of this very practical scale of reviewing.

Rereading SVSSS again! I need to brush up on my lore and characterization, which will hopefully get me over a particular form of writer's block I'm having right now. I will be using the "tossawary rereads svsss", "tossawary svsss", and "spoilers" tags, as per usual, in case people want to block any posts out or go through them.

[unshrinkingviolets]

Keep in mind that these are all mid 20th-century warships belonging to the principal navies of the Allied and Axis powers

This is what happens in the anime Azur Lane: Slow Ahead!

Ep1

USS Laffey might be an alcoholic

Kriegsmarine destroyer Z-23 sunk with pillow

Ep2

USS Baltimore has to play basketball and volleyball simultaneously while wearing an underwire bra because of reasons

Prinz Eugen in a slutty Iron Cross apron teaching HMS Javelin to make chocolates

Prinz Eugen licks chocolate off USS Laffey's face

Ep3

IJN Akashi invents cats

Ep4

HMS Rodney (oppai)

Z-23 captured by USS Minneapolis in leg snare

USS Laffey same VA as Kanna Kamui?

Aloe vera bukkake

Ep5

Admiral Graf Spee is shy, wears oversized sweater

Dunkerque - gourmand, gay, wants the Commander (who never appears in the show btw but everybody wants to fuck her)

Ep6

Bismarck (oppai) has it bad for Tirpitz

The Kriegsmarine: Blondes with Big Tits

HMS Javelin, Gay Disaster, can't dance

HMS Formidable eats spicy cupcake

Battleship tonnage/displacement denoted by cup size apparently (not going to do the necessary research to confirm this)

Ep7

IJN Taihō wants the Commander to fuck her so bad it makes her look stupid

IJN Mikasa does not know what online shopping is and is generally Boomer Memes

Ep8

USS North Carolina - secret bunny suit enjoyer (she makes her sister USS Washington wear one also? North Carolina class incest bait apparently)

USS St Louis and USS Honolulu have some kind of D/s thing going on

Just sister ships squishing their boobs together

Ep9

HMS Belfast tea ceremony

Another, smaller, HMS Belfast

Master/servant dynamics involving children or whatever

Ep10

There's like, birds doing maintenance work, just lil canary-looking things in hard hats

Aircraft carrier fan service

Ep11

IJN Mutsu wrecks a powerboat

IJN Nagato afraid of roller coasters

Ep12

USS Laffey has both amnesia and chronic sleepy bitch disorder

Kriegsmarine destroyer Z-23 used as body pillow

Turns out you if you sleepwalk you can just shove your face in people's cleavage and it's fine

THE END

Also there’s an OVA but I have no interest in watching it. This anime is 10s across the board on the Weeb Ass Shit scale.

[underestimated-heroine]

Fourth General Reference Post!

(sorry if I reblog, it's only to keep from losing this to the sands of time! Also anyone's free to reblog or save this as is the mode on Tumblr Dot Com. Links go to my blog because it's the best, easy way I have to make sure I don't lose posts to deletion.)

General

"Farmers in Third World Countries Live in Destitution" is propaganda framing

If you bring a book to a bar no one likes you tweet & redemption

Criticizing anon hate

Megamind Ridiculous Criticism

Please don't call my girlfriend a morosexual

I'm a stuckasaurus tiktok

The antidote to negativity

Barbie movies link

Reddit AITA Vriska Baby Name

It's me boy I'm the PS5 vine

Writing security/intelligence systems

Knitting Fandom Tech Bros

Structural violence

The moon is my mom

Memphis Citizens Flight Attendant Story

Ooh she thique

Wuickly

Thank u for ur addition

50s Nuclear Dad Pics

"you didn't need to use this many tags I'm not going to lie"

All About Image Descriptions

Chicken Nugget the Butterfly

Man Eating Rice, China 1901-1904

Every Villain is Lemons

Hop Any P@ywa11

Zelda BOTW clip

The US has a higher Gini Coefficient than Russia

Crazed Fan Art Actually Drawn By Original Artists

The "labor shortage" is bullshit w/story

Zoomers don't shave your brows

Weeb Ass Shit Scale

Sites to Make Moodboards

If you have trans kids make a safe folder

Bird wants to chew books but MUST dance

Mustelid German Grocery Store

What fetishization means

RPatz "Playing Batman Was Grueling"

A Lot of Christian Rock is Bad

Thought witch hazel wasn't real

Don't Write without engaging with the source material/genre

JK Rowling name based on your ethnicity reddit thread

Internet culture retconned their harassment

Mizaki Chan cursed post

Firemen rescuing cats

Vaping prose ancient texts

Taking down tanks in an urban setting

Fuming Mums

Why TERFs are Educating Young People & AIDs history

Top Ten Worst Anime Tiddies

Jamil on Cancel Culture Video

TikTok "I hate you"

Important post on the redfish graphic and Ukraine

Hope

Cop Crashes Dirtbike Video

The Chemical Worker's Song

David Allen (Irish Comedian) Bit About Christianity

Supernatural fans know exactly where to find gifs

San Francisco Tenant LGBT+ activist history

This Forest is Old As Balls Legolas

Cartoon Bomb Son

Skweezy Jibbs

Myam myam myam njam njam meep! (Cat video)

Magic Soup Recipe

Better New Batman Tweets

Miyazaki Ableism Zombie AI

The bigger the issue the smaller you write

Koko Foundation wouldn't hire someone deaf

Nude breasts on the TV

SO MANY drawing references

How to have a good internet experience

Personal

Kitty Loves Me but she doesn't want to deal with me

Image text gods

And then they struck me

If I die delete my howrse account

Bashes to bashes

Seabiscuit's legacy

@ healthcare receptionists (workers)

My sister's response to 'red sniper dot is my shadow'

I don't care if you only like my posts.

quit conflating criticism with oppression

If the Queen's really Dead

Howrse Bed a Unicorn

I'd survive cave of two lovers

Should I make the joke ask

J's children story

Stop softly implying anyone you don't like is a pedophile/rapist

JKR "didn't know" with her penname

Husband in the Clown Wars

Wouldst Thou Like To Live Cuntily

Hope you guys don't realize that YA novels are written by adults

Prince Zuko is disagreeable

All crashes happen within the last 8 mins of a flight

Poop Revenge Reddit

Calling all interests fandoms

Twilight Princess My Vag

Murder of Crows and so on

"Delete TikTok it Can't Get Better Than This"

Mutual love affair

Don't push people to smoke weed

[iamthedukeofurl]

Shokugeki no soma is definitely not a 4 on weeb factor or a mere 6 for the fanservice that metric did nothing it’s literally high schoolers overreacting at food by getting naked and moaning and it’s presented in a very otaku manner

Okay, I've been getting dragged on this for years. Let's address this 1) The post was written years ago, more recent seasons of Shokugeki have gotten worse. 2) while I didn't explain it, my rating of "A mere 6" was very carefully chosen.

A rating of 6 is the tipping point between "This show contains The Thing" and "This show is About the Thing". 6 is the point where you need to be Very Okay with the thing to tolerate the show, even if you don't actually enjoy it. 6 is "You should know what you're getting into". Yes, Shokugeki No Soma's "Foodgasm" scenes are deeply "Ass". However, outside of them, the show is fairly restrained as things go. Most characters dress in actual clothing, there's an absence (at least to my recollection) of the otherwise obligatory excuses to show female characters naked. The plot Neither involves the protagonist perving on female characters, nor female characters throwing themselves at the protagonist in some sort of juvenile harem fantasy. Food wars is a "mere 6" because, as extreme as the fanservice is, you can ignore it for 30 or so seconds each episode and still follow along the rest of the plot. Food Wars is "A Mere 6" because Worse Things Are Out There. There are shows where the protagonists frequently sexually harass other characters, and this is supposed to be seen as a lovable fun trait. There are shows that can't bring themselves to dress their characters in anything resembling actual clothing, so any given screenshot is full of inescapable fanservice. There are shows whose casts are "One boring self-insert man and various flavors of girls who Really Really Want To Bone Him", and what plot happens, has to happen between reminders that These Girls Want To Fuck This Guy. An Ass Rating of 6 tells you that "This show requires a high tolerance for Fanservice, even if it bothers you a little bit". Above that you get to "Fanservice doesn't make you uncomfortable at all" or "You actively enjoy fanservice in anime". The function of the scale is less to DESCRIBE an Anime, and more to give a sense of what you need to TOLERATE to enjoy it. In this I’ll admit that Food Wars was perhaps a bad choice of example because it’s use of fanservice (Extreme, brief, a non-diagetic) is pretty non-standard as things go, but I stand by my rating, because I put myself at about a 6. Fanservice makes me mildly uncomfortable, but I can tolerate it. I’m far more bothered by the ever-present, if less explicit fanservice in other shows because it takes effort for me to look past it.  The proper use of the scale is to say "Here is the concept of the show? Do you like that concept? Okay, now to enjoy the experience of actually watching that concept play out, you need to deal with X amount of Anime Nonsense/Japanese cultural references (Weeb), Y amount of pointless dumb fanservice (Ass) and Z amount of the show not actually being that good (Shit), and if you're good with all of that, you can enjoy seeing this particular story play out!"

[genius11rare]

I salute thee

my two categories of anime rec are “it’s okay if you don’t really like anime, you’ll probably like this” and “this will not make any goddamn sense to you if you have not wasted years of your life on trash”