Franka and Liskarm gonna have some chemistry copium

If we really don't get any crumbs in the anime I'll just go read their manga and cry over their chemistry again.

Scanning is still reading it I'm just not keen on honing into the details of a show that's 70% slice of life. The only point I tried to say is that you're expecting things the show never promised. The show never really went out of its way to detail how their world works aside from the general gist of things. Chisato surviving getting hit by the car can easily be chalked to her eyesight allowing her to lessen the impact or just even the fact that she's a more talented lycoris than the other just off of their uniforms. Majima could easily balance himself out of a fatal fall. After all that's related to his talent is it not?

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Honestly that's a pretty long reply so forgive me for only scanning but Majima is shown to survive the subway explosion and another point blank explosion. Now he survived the fall. I'd argue that's pretty consistent.

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I mean, I already went into how I disliked the whole story, but the way they set up for a continuation was especially appalling. Majima surviving a fall from, like, literally 1000 feet high is such bad writing. Give me a break! I have zero investment in the plot when it continuously does this.

Nothing against you not liking the show cause that's totally valid but I don't know why you expect realism given Chisato casually dodges machine gun bullets and Majima surviving an almost point blank explosion previously already. Have you seen John Wick? Pretty sure he survived some five hundred feet building fall and you don't see him dodging bullets the way Chisato does. You're expecting the show to give you something it never promised you.

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It's supposed to be a mystery? It just looked like plain jane Deus ex to me, which was my problem with it. They didn't even so much as hint at any kind of issue caused by doing this, nor any limitation on her power. If Madoka's dream effortlessly solved the climax of the entire first book, maybe it would be a little more comparable...

Could be the way we approach media but we were told from the get go that Akari had time powers so when future Akari unsurprisingly showed up I didn't think wow deus ex machina, rather I wondered what got her to this point. The fact that she's here at all trying to change the future with a whole new personality brings a lot of questions to be answered and I don't expect them to be given instantly. That makes it a mystery.

The worst offender, by far, is the time travel twist. They didn't even attempt to address the issue of paradoxes, of how Akari could survive the first time without any future Akari yet in existence.

Future Akari shows up once and you already want the entire mystery explained to you? That's like seeing the dream Madoka has in episode one and exclaiming wow they didn't explain anything about that dream.

shadow8321 posted:

Fairly certain you have to wait out the 3 days of item pickup

What item? I have 2 of that Event Crystal and never once needed to use it. When they introduced it I had all 5 events unlocked already without spending it once.

I believe you're referring to the Information Fragments, which have nothing to do with this. What I was originally talking about is the interval of 3 to 7 days after every event for people to pick up event rewards or buy from the event shop. Have to wait that out (less than 4 days left in this case) for ToW to be available in the Side Story tab.

Ok, I'm confused. When Darknights' Memoir Rerun ended we could play it in terminal immediately and I didn't have to do anything. Hell I could play The Walk in The Park as well. But now that Twilight of Wolumonde ended we can't play it?

Fairly certain you have to wait out the 3 days of item pickup, same for the other events you mentioned.

Is this really a yuri or it just tag because of female characters?

Depends on whether or not you think Madoka and Homura is yuri.

No actual spoiling this chapter. What a scam.

Even doll Schwarz is blushing.

That's the comment I was responding to.

Was just mostly responding to how you said this isn't handled nearly as well. By this time in re:zero, you get game save reset on death and the rest was just mc being cringe. Could just be me looking unfavorably at re:zero though. By the end of s1 I still found him not all that likeable.

Yeah it's a bit long the lines of RE:Zero but in my opinion this is not handled nearly as well. Also Subaru at one point in the first season is a pathetic asshole, but he also progresses past that. He manages to mature as a character as the series progresses, though I don't want to go into spoilers so I'll leave it there. I'd love for the Yandere in this to progress as a character, but as I've said already I have some serious doubts about that happening. Her character feels like an edgy power trip that reminds me of so many other Isekai where the Isekai'd character is awful for the sake of being awful.

Personally don't think they're even in the same ballpark as characters. There's not much to even compare and quite unfair to considering lengthwise, this is about as long as one light novel worth of content and re:zero season 1 was, what, nine volumes worth of content?

And you seem to have misinterpreted my criticism

I didn't. Overconfidence was a short and apparent reason as to why the villain may have acted as she did. Akari was already on the altar surrounded by her underlings in a setting of her choosing. Menou's assistance was underground fighting a dragon. She doesn't think Menou has a rat's ass chance against her (see: overconfidence) so why bother pretending anymore.

At certain point, it will, but I don't think it has yet. :-)

Let me show you.

Because, what was the point of chapter 13, why was it in this story? First, we learn that the Princess is some kind of magical hacker who can trace magical cellphone jamming (which exists, just so) without any foreshadowing that she had ever specced into that build.

This is the second time we really met with the princess and the first time was a purely physical fight. What reason is there for any need of foreshadowing?

So this half of the chapter introduces a new problem (jamming) in addition to the one already introduced last chapter (dragon), then immediately pull a solution for it of nowhere without any progress made on the dragon issue, then caps it off with a cool action scene. That's amateur fanfic-level writing, at best, and lazy delaying tactic, at worst.

If the jamming wasn't there, you would be sitting here claiming it as another 'low IQ' oversight from the villain. The dragon haven't been dealt with because events from both places are happening at the same time and will likely conclude at the same time too or possibly even converge at some point. What's to complain about a cool action scene in an action fantasy manga?

See how I nitpick your nitpick? If you still don't see it as so, oh well.

A story is only as intelligent as its dumbest main villain, and this story's IQ has just dropped faster than Bitcoin after an Elon Musk tweet.

It's easily apparent that the villain thinks Menou doesn't have any chance of beating her. In fact, she tells you that outright. Overconfidence precedes failure. You seem to have a lot of bones to pick with this manga, valid or not. At a certain point, it just becomes nitpicking.

Animated version.

Well it may not be realistic but it's a very easy way to depict a missed shot with little ambiguity.

Still looks dumb as shit and a few well-placed lines would do the job at least as well.
Hell.
Recalling some Mickey Mouse issues from when I was a wee brat, even Disney comics know enough to use that visual effect.

The target is moving. There are three impact effects total showing her moving backwards and side to side to avoid the shots. If shot from an angle, the bullets eventually have to hit the ground at some point. There's nothing wrong with the image.

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Yeah, his response is flat out a combination of relative privation, where he tries to claim the issue shouldn't be discussed because this other issue is worse, and simple hey-look-over-there distraction.

I read that as him biting back for her seemingly insulting question, and I don't blame him. This is after three hours of the same old 'X media corrupts our children' argument, but reskinned with anime and child pornography.

Kurokiri Misao's Flower of My Heart

So looking at the notes on the series page, there's still one un-translated chapter from the re-release? Or am I reading that wrong?

There's a few pages titled Married Life.

By the way, i am so curious about this other work of Nakatani:

She did the cover art, might have contributed to something else in there too. It's a collection of works or something, but multiple artists, iirc (iirc, cus maybe I'm thinking about something else)

Eclair is a yuri anthology that goes on sale today. It's currently a one-time thing, but if it sells well, we might see more. This seems to be ASCII Media Works (publisher for Dengeki Daioh, where Bloom Into You is currently being serialized) testing the water to see if there's any worth in dabbing into the yuri market.

This month's Dengeki Daioh (out today) also features a Bloom Into You cover, a colored center page, and a clearfile extra to celebrate the release of volume three and the start of volume four.

If you have money to spare, consider buying these. I'm too lazy to find the artist list for Eclair so maybe later.

they really don't change much, if it all.

All the caps for KyoAni are from the same angle for the same/similar reaction shot. Do I even have to go on?

Cute.

Why is she scottish? Is just trying to get a heavy accent across? Cute tho.

Sae is from Kyoto, so she speaks with an accent.

How all of this started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMPsd5oL9FA