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Ghost in the Shell
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joined Jul 30, 2013

So every time she gets embarrassed the world gets one step closer to doom? Guess that explains the last US election. By the amount of progress on the doomsday scale that was I'd estimate Ponymatsu got at least to second base...

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

I'm really glad that I'm not the only one who didnt get what was going on

Popular girl is used to having girls like her, but not confessing to her? And when a girl throws out her flowers and calls her a peach blossom, its all good? I guess? Cool

Actually, the way you describe it leaves the story making more sense, in that the other girls have all admired her but left it at that. This girl actually put it into words, and felt jealous regarding her paying attention to other girls' gestures and calling her a peach blossom which as mentioned above is symbolic of devotion. So put together, this girl is actually serious where the others were superficial, so she can't just treat it lightly.

That's roughly how I understood it as well. The "beautiful" girl didn't seem like a nice person to me, though, because I furthermore actually took offense that the other was serious. As in "how dare you make me have to face actually sincere feelings". I've actually seen people act that way and they were typically real assholes (like "I should not have to be bothered by the feelings of people I don't personally love and they should feel bad for telling them to me").

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Wait, I thought Moby Dick was about
him
and his...

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Oh, hey, come here my dear readers. I have something to give you. Yes, step closer. Gimme a sec. Here you go:
rams searing hot needled right into your hearts
There you go... -Author, probably...

Ghost in the Shell
Wicked Girl discussion 08 Sep 15:40
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

We can only hope that Maho never finds out. Or at least not before she has matured enough to be able to handle such a blow. Cooldudeshitlord is right, her "edgyness" was only a protective wall or mechanism that resulted from her being an abandoned kid. I can only imagine the damage inflicted should she find out the one person finally taking care of her only liked her for her misery...

Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

And what are they gonna do with the babies if she plans on keeping her pregnant permanently?

Scientific experiments... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk

Ghost in the Shell
Lily Love discussion 04 Sep 15:23
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Also, please don't just focus on the "having kids" part. That is usually a pretended argument people who are homophobic make (and there's nothing wrong with that word, neither is it fake, see the explanation KaliYugaz gave). In the end it is an irrational aversion against somebody else's perceived "being different". An aversion to accept the world as it is even, in the case of homophobia. Which makes him a perfect asshole, because he wants the world to suit his own quirks, which he ironically claims Mew of (dismissing her sexual orientation as a "choice" and "childish foolishness" is a classic self-betrayal to avoid facing the simple truth: Him not liking the concept of homosexuality is his problem, so he would have to overcome it, but that's hard and requires effort, so it's easier to blame others as being "fake").

Oh, and of course I know that even if his family shunned him for it (which I think would be an adequate reaction) it's unlikely he'd just change. Still, I think it would be the better action Mew's mom and brother could do. The father is actively hurting the family as a whole. not just Mew. Mew is completely innocent here, so I think it would be morally right to give her all the support she could get. And demonstrating him that it's not up to him alone to decide who is and who isn't welcome in the family by turning his own strategy against him would definitely support her.
Besides, I couldn't stand being with a significant other who is that vile. Tolerance of gays is a quality that anyone wanting to be even a friend of mine must have.

Ghost in the Shell
Lily Love discussion 03 Sep 17:51
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

A knuckle sandwich... that brightened my mood a bit, after being so enraged by this a-hole. Note Mew was in her school uniform when he told her these horrible things first.

To be honest I am a little disappointed with the rest of the family. If I were the mom or the brother, I would shun my dad for mistreating my daughter/sister that bad. Seriously, I don't think that those people change their mind just by being "shown that it works", they also need a lesson in how it feels to be treated like shit by your own family. They need to learn that if they don't accept their children, they are losing their family.

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

The face on that dude's dick XD

Erm, if you mean the panel where his hand gets crushed, that's the handle of his knife. It's falling from his hand and the "mouth" and eyes are the bolt and wooden structure on the handle.
Though I do admit it looks like a scared face. Would fit the situation, too, though his dick would be really placed weirdly then...

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Seriously why does everyone seem to be letting Rena off so easy, she manipulated someone who genuinely loved her for years upon years, going back to when Maho was a small child all for the sake of taking something that was tied to her very soul, then left her alone on the beach after betraying her completely.

I guess it's a "let's wait and see how much her conscience tortures her before we decide" thing. At least that's it for me. I guess she originally planned to simply trick the girl, but over time developed feelings for her. But when she finally got the chance to do what she did her conflicting feelings made her "freeze" on her path and she went through with it. I hope she will reconsider somehow and realize the princess wouldn't have wanted this anyways.

If Rena was a guy this site would be calling for her to be castrated.

Yup, you're right with that. People tend to be a lot less forgiving with guys...

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

I'd say that was pretty fitting: Go-damn game...

Also look at the very first page:
They're in need of translators indeed. :D

Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Sounds like a cultural thing, but if the actors and other artists involved in the making of these series consider an international career they should learn to do it properly. I mean, to be able to essentially "fake" an emotional state and act accordingly is pretty much the definition of an actor. Actor...
(And by "faking" I don't necessarily mean that they don't feel the emotion they aim to display. A good actor has ways to actually feel it.)

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Page 3: "Hello-?"
My brain: "It's me. I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet..."

And I'm not even a fanboy of chart music (Adele can sing, though).

I liked this a lot. Actually, I've always liked the anime as well, cause like several others here, I wouldn't say it contains cheating in a strict sense. It's more a case of abuse (on the brother's part). Aaya has always been a bit on the weird side, and yes, the part where she holds Kii prisoner is fucked up, but what do you expect with her growing up in such difficult circumstances? I've always felt the series is supposed to show how her love for Kii heals her (something that is a rare thing in RL, but can happen).

That being said I'd say the doujinshi on the reader so far are meant to take place after the anime. This would mean they came back from that other planet and Aaya somehow lives on her own or with Kii-chan. That or the author simply doesn't really care about continuity and gives us only loosely connected episodes or AU stories. Which would also be fine.

Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

I liked that "Yayoi" had an adult touch. I mean, even though she looks like a student, she's been there for 30 years. Nicely done.

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

at pag. 24 there's akina's brother X his friend in the cover of a manga in the second frame

There's a reason for that. ˭̡̞(◞⁎˃ᆺ˂)◞*✰

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/shinozaki_san_ki_wo_ota_shika_ni_ch20#19
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/shinozaki_san_ki_wo_ota_shika_ni_ch20#21

Bwahaha! Thanks, I totally forgot about that side remark... So I guess that senpai of them managed to really put out that doujinshi (instead of just distributing it among friends). Or he knows that Usaba girl... hm...

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

at pag. 24 there's akina's brother X his friend in the cover of a manga in the second frame

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/shinozaki_san_ki_wo_ota_shika_ni_ch25#24

I was really wondering how nobody pointed that out yet. It really made me laugh, so it's a BL doujinshi featuring characters from the manga it's shown in... well done.

Also, Master Usaba rocks!

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Nevri

Author explains it in afterword http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/cloth_eating_girl#28

I read that, but I don't understand it as if the original zombies weren't supposed to eat clothes at all necessarily. Just that the author had doubts about explaining it now that the story became shorter. Meaning in a longer version she would have offered a better explanation why these cloth eaters were zombies.
But maybe you're right and in the first draft they were supposed to be "real" zombies.

last edited at Jul 15, 2015 2:53PM

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

This was awesome.
Just... why do they have to call them zombies? There's really not much zombies and panty-eaters seem to have in common, especially in terms of danger... Guess the backstory for this is a political one... like the government, for fear of too many cute, lewd shenanigans happening with them around, wants to lock them away. And since that seems mean, they call them zombies, so people are more afraid and go along with it...

Immediately founds the underground resistance group "Freedom for Cloth-Eateing Individuals"

Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

im about to flip all the tables in the world, just trying to write a damn sentence. how can you stay calm? im about to blow a vein , its difficult putting my thoughts onto paper and im just finishing my 3rd cups of coffee

That's actually pretty simple. If it's your first draft, write it messy. Get the wording all fucked up. Not grammatical? Fine! All you need to do at this point is get down the gist of what you're trying to get across. Doesn't have to be pretty or even good. Hell, most first drafts are crap, why should yours be different?

Then when you've finished and given yourself a couple of days to breathe, go back and fix it on your second draft when you've had a chance to get some perspective. You'll almost guaranteed be able to write something better at that point. But for now? Let it be crappy, as long as the intent of the scene is clear.

Exactly that. Just write something, try to avoid letting your eyes fall back to the previous sentences and keep going.

At least for me, things get better once you consistently keep at it for a shorter while. Then when I go back and rework it, I find I have to rewrite most stuff in the beginning, but the latter parts were actually okay-ish.
The trick is to not expect everything go onto the paper as you have it in your head at first.

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

I do not under stand what is happenning on page 14

Er... pretty much the last word of the story's title...
I think it's meant to be sort of a "stills" impression, various shots from their long love-making.

Ghost in the Shell
REAL Lesbian Manga 17 Jun 11:03
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Surprised it didn't come up yet, but what about http://dynasty-scans.com/series/collectors ?

Tbh I can't recall if the closet thing was never mentioned, but the series is in general about a more realistic relationship. And, depending on what time frame is depicted, they're definitely open about it (but not necessarily "in your face").

Ghost in the Shell
Citrus discussion 12 Jun 11:11
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Note that inbreeding in itself does not cause any damage to the offspring. The problem lies in recessive genes that, if expressed in the phenotype (i.e. if the out-cancelling dominant gene is not present) give the resulting child a disability.

With direct siblings the risk of that is 25%, but only IF such a gene is present in the first place.
What the chances for that are probably depends on the gene in question, I have no idea. I've often seen people believe that kids of an incestuous couple are more or less bound to be disabled, but that's not true at all. Also keep in mind every kid has, statistically speaking a chance to be affected by a genetic defect.

And whether the state has to ban having kids based on risks as that is always a very nasty question, as it very quickly leads to concepts of "human breeding", discrimination and such (would a disabled couple be forbidden from having kids? will couples need a "gene certificate" allowing them to have kids?).

IMO, most incest laws are stupid, cause they're trying to address issues that are already covered by other laws in the first place (like abuse, child protection laws and so forth).

But to come back to Citrus: I doubt the average Japanese person would have such a big issue with adopted siblings falling for each other. My guess is they'd consider that as a typical soap opera plot just like other people, too. In Citrus that's just played for drama, Yuzu is especially fretting over it. If a real person, Japanese or not, would actually get into such a situation, they'd probably say "fuck it, I didn't adopt her" and try to talk it out.
Nobody would be so stupid to believe just because your parents married it automatically makes you and your step-siblings exactly the same as real siblings.

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

Okay, just came here from your "disable download limits" thread. I strongly assume nobody of the responsible people has seen this yet, or I guess they would have contacted you.
I'm not on the staff, so I suggest you contact them through some other means (i.e. IRC).

Generally speaking I think you're not that familiar in how you usually mirror a site, right?

Your efforts in all honors, but I think you're a) breaking your neck the way you approach this and b) run in danger of being shot down for not doing it with permission.
Of course the latter point is kind of moot for a site that hosts scanlations, but I guess you're trying to be helpful, not mean. :)

First off, mirroring isn't typically meant to be done by a user via saving stuff themselves and then uploading it somewhere else. That might actually be illegal (see above, though, and I'm no expert there). It would be a lot easier if the site's creator just uploads it a second time to a different host. Both sites are then usually synched using one or more means of automation.
That is actually how the wayback machine works. It crawls the net (using the same bots that for example google uses, too) and saves the html it sees. Every site can easily (via convention) forbid this. Also, WBM, as I see it, intentionally leaves out certain files (the downloads are probably intentionally not saved).

I am also wondering how you intend to approach the upload to WBM. As far as I see it, there's no means to just say "here, I have some site data from there and there, take it". And there's a reason for this, that way anybody could alter the backup and fake things that never were. The Archive crawls for the sites on its own, all you can do is basically ask it to store a site, but it will not demand you download anything. Again, there's definitely a legal reason for this (and a practical one, too).

TL;DR: Try to get a hold of a higher staff member. Casusby, MrEngenious, or omniscient0 (check the suggestions for improvements thread)

Ghost in the Shell
Citrus discussion 22 May 11:31
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

If it stands for "Fuck yeah, your German is da best!" then I guess so... if not then... hm...

well, you have dynasty to enjoy Citrus for now, at least. :) Or you could try to read the German version to improve your German, but something tells me you're probably not exactly enjoying our language... (completely understandable).
A manga might not be suited for training anyways.

Ghost in the Shell
Gits_avatar_klein
joined Jul 30, 2013

http://monmusu.tv/

PV is out.

It looks good, although I've imagined the voices of the girls different.

Agreed. I always imagined Miia to sound a little bit "smokey", more... hm... seductive. Guess that's just my image of a lamia.

I wish it had yuri, btw...