Once the singularity is here and we shed our fleshy vessels in favor of perfect robot bodies these silly notions won't be relevant no more anyway, might as well discard them now.

But does your perfect robot body have female or male bits or both?

Whoa, some (somewhat) serious non-binary manga? Where's this coming from?

But that male lead strikes me as 700% stereotypical lead in comparable stories so that makes my interest plummet to unfortunate levels ...

This was a good re-read. Yeah, there just aren't enough longer romance series ... but then, like this, they are kinda fake-long. Dragged out through side-characters and side-issues and whatnot. Could have been so much better with a stricter pacing, although some scenes really are awesome; so it's all forgiven in the end.

What was godawful was the brother's romance (and not because it's het, just because it's godawful. Bad enough to say it twice, easily).

Talk about a bocched surprise ...

Western fiction needs to learn the lesson from manga. Totally.

Yeah, well, or you could read Planetarian and be depressed for the rest of your miserable life ^^;

Strike dystopia, add utopia ...

Oh look, a bit of plot.

That's right, kids. Pedophiles are only the other people.

The tongue is too short, clearly ;)

I've seen all of those - or read the manga - with the exception of that heroine thing and Further than the Universe (and the new FLCL but I have no intention of sullying good memories). Well. Flip Flappers I've only watched after the comment here but it's precisely the sort of thing that I wasn't asking about - genki girl meets bookish girl ... I mean, it wasn't that bad. But also kinda meh.

Same for Izetta. I was positively surprised by a bunch of characters dying but it's still this very "anime gurrrls doing things"-like production.

What hit the spot better was Devilman Lady, actually. I mean, it's older, but I must have missed it back in the days when I watching more ;) Features an adult, bi-sexual heroine who (among other things...) clearly has something going on with a high school girl. And her ally/enemy is MtF. It's precisely does not that stupid one-dimensional character trope rubbish ("oh look, another tsundere!") but has (...by anime standards) nuanced, realistic characters that slowly develop over the story.
Alas, it's pretty crappy. Particularly the action scenes are just rubbish (and there's a lot of them). And the end is kinda "let's just completely go off the rails 'cause this is an anime!" sort of stuff. But, still. At least it tried!

I'm currently trying Red Garden but the pace of that thing is driving me up the walls. Look at how ... nothing happens. And still nothing happens. Let's go to the other girl. Oh, nothing happens. Well, what about this girl? Also nothing happening. Let's have some more nothing happening ...

Anyway, thanks for trying. It's appreciated :D

Yes, Tenko's profile said that there are 4 sisters. I think concerning the actual statues it's a bit more ambiguous; there's 4 "types" according to the author but the shrine in question has a whole bunch more fox statues.

It would have been a more plausible contemplation of his relationships to penises if he'd written a bit more about, you know, men and their junk. Not just cute highschool girls swimming around in cocks.

It's still just fiction, not a "How to ..." essay.

What does Hana mean, "become a criminal"? By anyone's standard she already is a criminal ...

Also, she's fine with having her pictures used to summon evil forces from beyond the universe; or place curses on people? I mean, clearly that's what dark purposes are ...

Lots of incest these days. Well, I'm not complaining ...

Mh? Someone whose thoughts she can't read? Or has similar powers?

Also: not enough sensei.

Also also: Suzuki, Suzuki, Suzuki, Suzuki. ... Honda, Honda, Kawasaki?

By and large it just makes me go "wtf is going on here?"

(I mean, sure, Witch picks up orphan kid to experiment on / poison, but somehow the kid develops a serious case of Stockholm Syndrome ... but the details later on are pretty sketchy ^^; )

Mhyeah, the trash factor is still going stronk with this one ^^

Anime? This would be great as a live action series ...

Samuel has a pretty small dick.

Nio is the reincarnated soul of the planet Shiva destroyed. Saddened by the constant destruction of the humans vs demons war the planet suffered every day, slowly being corrupted into a dreadful, all-destroying force. Until it was mercifully killed by the demon lord (there might have been a soundtrack with an impressive chorus playing). Now Shiva's out to protect her from renewed conflict by giving her a better life ... as a harassed pet ... and future waifu ...

There might be a flaw or two in this theory but it sounds Japanese enough to be plausible.

Is that the father or a brother?

He looks a bit young, doesn't he? Whoever he is, he has the face of a homophobic, emotionally abusive prick. But giving that he's young compared to the mother, if he's actually her father ... maybe he'll just go "high five, age gap best gap!"

If there's one thing I hate about romance tropes ... well, I hate a few dozen things about them, but if there's one thing that I hate extra bigly, it's those cheaply written, stupid misunderstandings. I don't want to exaggerate, but every author using them to advance their plot should be shot immediately.

I see they are still hard at friendshipping each other ...

This is the right amount of trash to be fun.

I wonder when the first hero will turn up ...

Marriage proposal, no.
Proposal to become her sweets making slave for life, yes.

According to my manga and anime research being a wife and being a cooking-cleaning slave is the same anyway, so ...