A bad one that makes no sense to begin with due to the aforementioned fundamental differences between the subjects, even leaving the obvious offensive potential aside. Might as well have been trying to make some kind of point about breathing by comparing it to making sandcastles.

Breathing is like making sandcastles. We learn it as kids and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

There, what's the problem? The point of analogies is to isolate certain characteristics you then make a statement of. When you compare space to rubber you compare something that's utterly different and incomparable, but rubber's flexible, and so's space, and that's what you want to talk about.

Of course on closer examination you'll quickly realize that rubber is not, in fact, in any way like space. But that wasn't the point; the point was to illustrate a specific statement. Nothing more.

It's just a comparison; an analogy. Jeezus. If you say "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process" that doesn't imply that animal cruelty is the same as humor. Don't read what people write to maximum offensiveness and then be surprised when you are offended.

All they implied is that the past doesn't necessarily define what's currently going on. So she might be bi, or she might have found she's actually a lesbian. Who cares? Well, obviously, this discussion does, but ...

Good stuff. "Stop giving me the shaft look."

I kinda forgot ... but why's that school doing this whole swordfighting again?

It's a pyramid scheme. One delinquent gets two loli disciples, two loli disciples growing up into delinquency get four loli disciples, four loli ...

Why would you go to Japan without learning Japanese???

Why not? My brother worked there for a year and didn't speak a word. It's no big deal unless you go to some sort of rural "here be only old people" place ^^;

The only solution to this problem is that the other guy starts crossdressing too.

Don't ask me why. I just know these things.

It's such a weird thing, frankly. I mean, alright, people are shitbags and it's pointless to understand them, but what's the appeal that beats doing this over, I don't know, Internet porn? Is it a power thing? That it's forbidden? That it involves a "real" person?

... and most guys are gonna be instinctively turned on. So it's on you to take leering if you are gonna go full out with it, but you shouldn't be physically harrassed or rape over it.

That still sounds an uncomfortable lot like victim blame. Verbal harassment isn't fine either.

The premise works because it's not super apparent how old a character is with the standard moe art style, so it's easy to suspend your disbelief.

Also: Asians. Even realistically they'd barely look any different. #notastereotypeatall

I just hate - even after 150 or so chapters of it - how the series went from "a select few people have seemingly weird powers that few people acknowledge and nobody can explain" to "everyone has some special power and everyone acknowledges this and treats it as perfectly normal". It makes all of Nodoka's early development complete nonsense ^^;

I still REALLY don't get what the endgoal is supposed to be here.

And the guy is now "suspected gay" because he didn't take advantage of a drunk "girl" in the toilet? Jeez.
Also; the yuri scene - they are together, protagonist rushes off elsewhere, then somehow runs into them again at some other place? How's that working? Did he just randomly sprint in a circle? Did they teleport? Follow him? ^^;

Thing is, imo, the time limit was the only thing that made these games half interesting. The new ones largely feel like bland copies of each other with mediocre game systems that occasionally are made up for a little bit by the silly story and characters but largely ... not.

Best Atelier series is probably Iris. Followed by Mana Khemia. And I'm not saying this to be some sort of gaming hipster; but if you make a series with how many dozen games now and just never actually improve much of anything, well ... ^^;

The urge to destroy sandcastles is universal and not demonic at all.

Maybe he was vaguely genre-aware and thought that if he had to get raped, it'd better be by his girlfriend, not by the doctor. And their assistant. And everyone else who was currently anywhere near the clinic.

I don't get it. Cut off the head and they have literally the same body. How is one acceptably girly and the other not? The typical giveaways like Adam's apple etc aren't present in manga anyway, unless the artist goes deliberately for it ^^;

Trans means "opposite". Not unknown or uncertain.

Actually trans means over, beyond. Contra means opposite.

Ya, that blackmail backdrop to everything that's happening now ... you can't just unread that sort of thing and pretend it's just a lighthearted romantic slice-of-life now that we are apparently basically done with that ^^;

We're still doing that swimsuit stuff? Is it about to be canceled? Is the author desperate? Is the editor harassing them?

I was thinking on buying it, got Disgaea 5 instead. Idk the gameplay looks fun, but looks like it has a boring/gereric story, I guess my gut didn't fail me. I might give it a shot on another sale.

D5 is the first time I really was disappointed with the story. Before, even though Disgaea wasn't ever story-focused, they were so over-the-top or had some surprising twists or at least humor that worked for me (SARDINES!) ... and since we are on Dynasty; they also, maybe, a little more justice to the female characters than jRPG often do. Like Fuka and Desco in D4. D5 has none of it. Super-generic protagonist. Super-generic sidekicks. Super-generic, super-cheesy story. It's actually ... awful.

Gameplay though; still just awesomely bonkers :D

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"Got out of hand" ... or rather, got something in hand, eh?`

... well, that didn't quite work, but the sentiment holds true.

Everything else aside, I hate this narrative method of skipping into the future and then going back and tell the tale from there. Rarely it's cleverly done and interesting; most of the time it's just "great, now I've got to slog through the story until we reach that point of the plot again since everything until then is kinda spoiled now..."

Yeah, there's just something about this ... like the first "confession", and when she makes all those points about why Moe needs to stay away. Just casually ignores the [We're both girls!] option.

Well, it features underage characters masturbating in the shower. I'd say that scene quite clearly is there as reader appeal. Similar to how a Comedy doesn't necessarily mean that it's funny for the characters involved, it's funny for the audience ...

Retarded plot is retarded.