^It's not the sex, it's the scars.

^I was pondering if I should say it, but I wasn't sure if I should ruin people's theory crafting lol

honestly, should have been nagisa x shizuma x tamao

^^ Never have I disagreed with someone on this forum more. The anime is the best version of the series and is still one of my favourite yuri anime

And personally I can't get into this ship. It feels so Class S-y to me whilst Shizuma x Nagisa feels like they actually accept being lesbians even after graduation

^^ You're one of today's lucky 10000. This is too close to the composition that has spawned many, many, many, many variations since to be a coincidence.

Whee, more long posts!

Now I've never properly played gachas outside of PGR and the discontinued SMC, and I despise defending the genre in general, but to expand upon FluffyCow:

Next time you're on the bus or train, look at what people do on their phones. If it isn't antidemocratic brainrot asocial media, it's games, and yikes are those horrendous. Everything's full of ads, multiple psych PhDs worth of manipulation and both P2W AND P2P mechanics at once.

Now compare this with popular gachas. You get to play 99% of the game for free, have a continuos stream of new content, side-activities/minigames and story. Do you really mind that there are skins 60 chips each? That in order to be in the top 100 global leaderboard (which is just bragging rights) you need to spend the price of a car? Ever more so since so-called "triple-A" games just do the same thing but with a 100 chips fee up-front. They've normalized lootboxes in SP games for crying out loud!

Most of the big-name gachas allow you to drag along just fine F2P with daylies/weeklies (=habit forming), and lacking the chance to play proper games (which nowadays means the better indies), which many people do, it's the next best alternative. Especially since I believe that the supermajority of gacha players doesn't engage with their, err... idiosyncratic communities at all.

All I'm saying is that you could call these "Alkahest x Medici" or whatever and tag it Doujin: Reverse:1999 and I'd never guess it's actually Pop Team Epic fanart.

But then this is Kawacy we're talking about. Gorgeous all around.

I barely remember the anime since it's been so long, but when Strawberry Panic comes up it feels like I always see "skip the anime and read the source material". I'd internalized that as the consensus viewpoint from those familiar with the series, so it's refreshing to see the opposing view.

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^lmao

According to Wikipedia, the couples in Strawberry Panic were voted in by readers of Dengeki G's.

I'm assuming there's multiple uploaders with different interpretations of Mizuki so the different tags is from there. It's one thing that Mizuki was 'widely accepted' by the fandom to be enby before Mizu5 but the posts after that? Some consistency would be neat.

^ Calling these dens of scum and villainy "idiosyncratic communities" is a very "politically correct" way to call them :p

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Yeah, the cartridges without games are only a product of misunderstanding what the presentation spoke of. The prices are a touchy subject, but in regards to the games being no longer physical, that's just a plain old lie

^ I won't say the price increase doesn't suck, especially if you live in a place where, say, wages are stagnant. It was going to happen at some point, though.

^Can't even look up Momoi (in English or my native language) because the racist creeps that like the game claimed her as one of them

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Well then, the readers were wrong :V
But seriously, I vastly preferred this pairing to the official one (which to ME reads as the archetypical Class S relationship, but hey, what do I know!). Oh well. It is what it is, I guess.

Oh, and the novels are the best version. V:

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Mizuki is clearly trans, but it's unclear if they're a trans girl or non-binary trans-fem.

^Man I wish more recurring parodies had specific tags, so you don't have to go through multiple pages of the Parody tag to find something.

Btw why is this tagged parody? Parody of what?

^^In a perfect timeline, gacha, lootboxes, battle passes and the like would all have been outlawed. But we live in a timeline where big companies have more power over the law than their customers.

But yeah, a F2P gacha where you can just choose to not pay for anything is definitely better than a game you have to pay for AND THEN has the guts to charge for lootboxes.

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Yeah Adawal, apologies I just heard that the information of the physical release being switch 1 carts with codes for switch 2 wasn't accurate. Seems we really need to let the dust settle and to see what happens, because all the information going around seems to be a mixed bag of accuracy unfortunately. Also Galim for pricing it's hard to say? A lot of great indy games with more value than your average triple A game are still 30 and under, it feels like a lot of the increase to 70 dollars was testing the waters to see if they could get away with people still buying the games at that price, which I heard had some mixed results, and then 80 / 90 dollars for Nintendo really seems to be pushing the limits of what people can accept.

Dr Robotnik clone "Neither of us will be virgin"?

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Yeah indy games are usually what I can afford and usually have the tech to run. It doesn't help that a lot of triple a games tend to not only need better hardware, but they're also often poorly optimized further increasing the need for more powerful hardware. So I enjoy some indy games, and then dip into the free waters of gacha. Plus I watch some streamers play through games I can't run, which has always worked for me dating back to old days of youtube lets play videos, since console exclusives and so fourth have always limited my ability to play various games I might take an interest in. I digress though, I'm really getting off topic of the art now lol

^Gamers™ ruin everything that they touch.

It doesn't help how much Blue Archive is attracting lolicons. Gamers and Lolicons (not using harsher word). Paraphrasing Yahtzee "Marriage made in R'lyeh"

Let's be real, that scene was on purpose.