Veya posted:

In complete and total fairness to Ayaka, her humor style makes singnificantly more sense in Japanese than in English, where wordplay/pun-based humor is far more common and enjoyed than in English... she is still not great at it, but it makes more sense there, and even as it was, you can see something reminiscent of Monty Python's Spam skit, with humor being drawn out of repetition, just not nearly as well executed.

Oh don't get me wrong. I love word plays and puns. I liked the ones Seika made in her episode story just fine. They were actually funny. Ayaka's... I don't even understand. Maybe it's matter of poor translation, but if they're meant to be bad even in original, I think I still have appropriate reaction to them. The pure cringe ;v

It just means that series status is cancelled, but scanlation status is completed (as in all existing chapters are translated). As opposite when it's marked as dropped, meaning scanlation group doesn't translate it anymore, but that doesn't mean manga itself is axed and in fact often there's more of it just not translated.

EDIT/ Ninja'd

EDIT 2/ Ok I apparently didn't even know the actual meaning of those tags.

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rainbow8 posted:

A statement which erases the real differences between people.

Does it really matter when those differences are arbitrary in the first place? As far as I can tell focusing too much on differences and insisting on forcing people into labels did more harm than good so far. Also can you really say it erases anything, when everyone being a bit extroverted and introverted is a fact?

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Everyone is ambivert. Nobody is fully extroverted or introverted. It's a spectrum.

Still I can't help but feel annoyed that series about cross-dresser yaoi couple goes for 6 volumes, while yuri vampire harem gets axed with only 3.

Veya posted:

For Sana's (...) the second one was about trying to keep the story going

I figured waiting for fad to fade was bad one, because 1. it would probably take a long time for it to fade and 2. if it even would fade in the first place. Also is it me or keeping "goingon" mysterious would actually be more beneficial to everyone in the long run, as it turned into tourist attraction on the level of Nessie etc? Definitely it lead to many people making more money.

learns Seika is going to perform new comedy sketch with Ayaka
can feel the cringe already

Ironically as much as Ayaka's just plain suck and I don't really like her as a character, jokes Seika came up with on her own are actually good.

I have to say as with (most) mysteries, the answer to what "goingon" is, was much less interesting than actual build up to it xP

SuperText posted:

Funnily enough, I didn't think to reroll myself, given the free 4★ granted to all new players.

I actually don't remember who my first 4★ was. Forgot we got free one in the first place. I'd probably not bother to reroll anyway.

Veya posted:

it was also the only bad ending I got naturally when going through the event, I managed to avoid every other in my first run thru, I was almost disappointed that I couldn't avoid all of them... if only I hadn't thought that Sana needed to be a little more assertive...

Rotfl yes. I managed to avoid all bad ends except for 1 during Mito event, but since then I actually try to get bad ends first, so I can then focus fully on the story. So I was really surprised when I picked Sana staying quiet thinking it'll obviously lead to bad end to only then see that plot is clearly progressing further. At first I was worried that they'll go with something like they shot her down so badly when she tried to be assertive that she lost all confidence in herself, so the fact it actually backfired and she was so eager to find goingon (seriously, what is even that word?) she actually started discovering new animals was hilarious xD

That's probably me! you can see my personal message("MadoHomu OTP")

Yea and I remembered you said you had 4s Homura and Madokami, so that checked as well xP

my Memoria selection in my Support list is completely and utterly biased towards ships

Sounds reasonable xP

I think i followed you on a whim(whims are the only way I get anything done...) and I just forgot entirely to mention...

Np. I just repeated myself mainly because I added that to my post later, so wasn't sure if everyone saw it and thought you might have missed it.

That particular ending made me wonder if there is fanart of Sana dressed like part 4 Jotaro somewhere out there...

Since I never saw anything JoJo related (outside of all the memes) what reference it's exactly?

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I thought you still saw how many slots there are available, even if they're empty, but I guess that's only for your support.

I roll for Skadi, mostly for meta, since I ignored Merlin last time and ended up regretting it, because game expects me to have him, so I'm not going to make the same mistake with her. And outside of Ibancer and Ushi, I'm trying to get Medb again during interlude campaign, she has been avoiding me like Tama since launch. Will try also to get Abigail cos I don't have any foreigners, so having at least 1 for annoying zerker nodes would be nice. Honestly once summer drops, I'll be rolling pretty frequently, which will make saving incredibly hard, especially if I'll keep having my luck rank EX- or sometimes even straight E.

Also if you'll give me your ID I can add you to friends.

I followed you, but you said

Sakura Cartelet posted:

2s Moemura

but you have her only on 1 slot. False advertisement!

Also while checking followers I saw Veya, which I assume is our Veya. I already said before, if you guys want me to follow you back, you must mentioned it in thread, cos I'm not checking my followers that often and I can still miss you if you use different nick than on forum.

As for the event. I have to say some of those bad ends are seriously hilarious xD My personal favorite so far is Sana becoming known biologist x3

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@Sakura Cartelet gj!

Copypasta from. Well your luck did not reach me as I spend 70 tickets to roll Nitocris with 50th and Atalante with 65th. What is a rate up, am I right? Thrown 1 10 roll and luckily got Mocchan in middle of it, but there goes all my tickets I was saving and hoped they'd last me campaign, summer rerun and skadi. Ngl I was hoping for np2 Tama, but I mainly wanted np2-3 Mocchan, ideally 3, but of course DW showed me middle finger. I seriously hate gacha games. Well once I get Ibancer, she'll replace Tama as my go to single target lancer anyway. I was going to roll on first day first and then swap to her rate up later, but nope those roll successfully convinced me to wait for her rate up to not risk getting np2 Ushi and then only spooks.

Simple search option would go a long way.

I mean messages here will get lost in few days and most people don't check this thread, especially for FGO conversations (also less clutter). It's true I mostly find it by typing dynasty and fgo into search bar and it's still in my history though.

Can you ship something that's canon?

I see FGO thread was finally forsaken? Well your luck did not reach me as I spend 70 tickets to roll Nitocris with 50th and Atalante with 65th. What is a rate up, am I right? Thrown 1 10 roll and luckily got Mocchan in middle of it, but there goes all my tickets I was saving and hoped they'd last me campaign, summer rerun and skadi. Ngl I was hoping for np2 Tama, but I mainly wanted np2-3 Mocchan, ideally 3, but of course DW showed me middle finger. I seriously hate gacha games. Well once I get Ibancer, she'll replace Tama as my go to single target lancer anyway. I was going to roll on first day first and then swap to her rate up later, but nope those roll successfully convinced me to wait for her rate up to not risk getting np2 Ushi and then only spooks.

Told you, you guys are going to love hate this new cliffhanger. Let's see if schuyguy's prediction will come true.

And if you mean christmas, she wanted to go around stealing life from people and gave 0 fucks if it hurt them or not. Only because Rumor she was fused with happened to be mixed with positive, santa like, Rumor, everything she did ended up on positive note, but she was actually furious at those outcomes. So I'm not really sure how "positive" it is. Only positive thing she did was saving Mifuyu at the end, and it was more of "her body is too precious to be lost" than caring about Mifuyu as a person.

Mayjaplaya posted:

(And, going a bit off-topic here, while I did watch Death Note and I enjoyed it, I don't quite understand why L is one of the most fangirled characters in the history of anime...)

Well he's the kind of archetype character that really appeals to girls? I assume yuri fans and in general, lesbians, are more immune to his charm though.

While it's true that "adults" are expected to act mature, it ignores the fact, that contrary to common believe, just because you're certain age, that doesn't mean you're mature. Sure, with age usually comes experience and with experience comes expected maturity, but everyone experience different thing. Adding to that different personalities and you have plenty of "adults" that didn't or didn't have chance to mature properly and they might still not do a lot of things that "adults are expected to". The point is maturity is a very complex concept and many adults still fail to act mature all the time.

About 14 years old not acting "mature enough". That's actually medium's fault (manga/anime) where majority of stories feature 12-16 years old being put in situation where they have to act like adults and are often given power/responsibility of a adult and in general are presented as a functional adults, so it gave many people false impression that that's how those kids should normally act and that's what you should expect from them, so then when rare works that actually portray them acting more their age show up, people are thrown off and annoyed that kids act like kids and are immature or irresponsible.

it was being updated, but group scanlating it dropped it when it was licensed.

About Villainess. So I checked first chapter of manga long time ago and now check first episode of anime. So what I don't understand is why she's going out of her way to make every love interest not fall in love with mc from the game? I mean, the reason she dies is always because she's bullying everyone and actively sabotaging them, so if she's just a nice person, there's no way they'd still kill her, even if they hooked up with mc from the game? Is she supposed to be stupid?

EDIT/ Ok, I guess anime answered that for me. She's incredibly stupid.

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I was looking for something else and saw I had this saved to check out later. Not sure how good it is cos I didn't read it, but it has single mom.

Sounds like this, but next time use this thread.

Sakura Cartelet posted:

If they killed Tsuruno off and saved Mami later on then I think it would make the writing worse off than it is already.

If I had killed of Tsuruno, I'd most likely kill off Mami too.

I really like to see an alternate story mode told from the POV of the Magius and the Wings of Magius that portrays them more sympathetically instead of the hamfisted Magius are the "bad guys" and Iroha and company are the "good guys" that we got in the game.

Yea. I have issues with how Magius are portrayed in the game too. Of course you could still have them doing clearly bad things, but at least you could present it more as a necessary sacrifice and ends justify the means and not make them so 1 dimensional villains. But of course to fairly and accurately judge them, I need to see the ending of the story first and finally learn the entire plot. Depending how it goes, I really feel like trying to rewrite story to make it better.

riverFlower posted:

them being theoretically separate people doesn't bother me

They're not theoretically separate people. They're separate people.

Since Moemura has gone through different things

Except she didn't.

And the diverging point seems to be the timeline where OG Homura is almost killed by Mami and MR Homura isn't.

The diverging point is that when Homura made contract with Kyuubey, instead of trying to warn others about the truth, she decided to keep silent about it.

Although it sounds like you had expected MR would take place in the OG universe and follow the same rules with same character thought processes, which I think I dropped any expectation of the moment the little Kyubey showed up.

The basic premise of the game was advertised as one of Homura's earlier timelines, but as soon as you play the game and see her seeing Ui telling her to go to Kamihama, you know it can't be, because if something like that happens in Kamihama and it affects even other cities (less witches etc.) which then even affected characters (Mami and Kyouko went there, because of that) you know it couldn't be something that only happened in that timeline and in others it was just in the background and Homura never encountered it. But I heard they make it make sense later, so I was patiently waiting, when will finally story explain how it's possible and then turns out the explanation is a hand-wave in episode stories of 2 limited characters. And honestly that explanation is so ridiculous I can't believe it. And here I thought Magius somehow managed to block out Law of Circles in process of trying to find a true solution to becoming a witch, and that's why it's like separate universe that Madoka can't interact with and everything got so messed up, not because it's completely different universe where magical pebble randomly appeared before Iroha and she got so brain-dead watching it that she met Kyuubey for the first time. We have such complex story and we get explanation in 2 parts in 2 separate episodes stories and all it amounts to is like few lines of dialogue to explain entire thing. MR's Homura constantly going back in time and creating new timelines "created" that pebble, how exactly, even authors don't know. Then when OG Homura finally goes to learn why MR's Homura timeline is so different than hers and how it happened, it turns out when she woke up after making contract and decided to tell others that Kyuubey is deceiving everyone, MR's Homura decided to not tell them, because it would be bad idea. And that's were two universes started to diverge, at least only looking at MR's Homura's life. MR universe is different from timeline 2, but only somewhere, somehow later after repeating many timelines Homura happened to "created" pebble and Iroha, who never contracted before, did thanks to it and that's how entire MR story got kick-started. Some awesome writing that is. And it's still not even told in the fucking main story, where any explanation how this entire mess started doesn't exist. I was sure Homura's event will be where we finally learn the explanation (cos I thought the universe was created because of cutting of Madokami) or at least we'll get to see her interacting with cast from MR, but because everything has to fit tightly to timelines and to story, we can't have cross-over event like that where we just go loose, so instead we got shitty retelling of anime, where we learn nothing new about old or new story. I guess it's my fault for getting invested and actually expecting some yuri damn explanation after 9 chapters.

why is this spoilered

I think we're actually meant to avoid spoiling anime as well as we should avoid spoiling the game. We kinda go back and forth with what we mark as spoilers and what we don't, so it's kinda hard to tell at this point what information I'm supposed to hid.

but I'm fine with them being two different stories.

If they had to resort to making it as a different universe, they should have just made it as a alternative take on original story, which I'd be more than happy with. What annoys me is that they try to explain it, but the way they do are very flimsy and barely make any sense.

Eg. I'm torn between being happy they saved Tsuruno so easily in chapter 7 and wondering if there wasn't another just as satisfying plot that could have been written.

Honestly, killing her off would leave much stronger impact and really would sunk in that Magius are bad and need to be stopped. I'll refrain from commenting more, because until I'll have full picture of the story, it's really hard to understand what they're going for exactly.