[9:01 PM] hellraiser: she can probably borrow the fuccs from Mokyu
[9:02 PM] hellraiser: cuffs
[9:02 PM] hellraiser: damn
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Random chat logs
[1:30 PM] hellraiser: I thought it was a girl on the promo art
[1:30 PM] hellraiser: and somehow knew it's male the second I saw it in the anime
[1:30 PM] erejnion: yeah
[1:30 PM] erejnion: eyes
[1:31 PM] erejnion: even as a kid he has almost as small eyes as the samurai
[1:32 PM] hellraiser: makes sense
[1:32 PM] hellraiser: Tezuka would've drawn it with huge eyes and eyelashes
[1:32 PM] hellraiser: to mess with people's dicks
[1:32 PM] erejnion: yeah
[1:30 PM] hellraiser: and somehow knew it's male the second I saw it in the anime
[1:30 PM] erejnion: yeah
[1:30 PM] erejnion: eyes
[1:31 PM] erejnion: even as a kid he has almost as small eyes as the samurai
[1:32 PM] hellraiser: makes sense
[1:32 PM] hellraiser: Tezuka would've drawn it with huge eyes and eyelashes
[1:32 PM] hellraiser: to mess with people's dicks
[1:32 PM] erejnion: yeah
Sunday, 12 April 2020
Re: Best Girl
What I am saying… isn't pairing him up with Best Girl a waste? Wouldn't it be much more interesting to pair them with the two other characters instead?
See, Best Girl and MC are both… more passive with their own lives. They lack a solid base in terms of what they want to earn money with. They know their inner worlds but are more passive with dealing with the outer world. The other two in comparison are more solid in dealing with the outer world, while a mess with their own feelings - obsessing and avoiding in a manner that reminds me of Nadeko. Doesn't this make them pairing up like that a more boring outcome that will not allow them to learn and to compensate for each other's shortcomings? Going for what is there in the start… no, way before the start, even… instead of a braver grownup x grownup and teen x teen end, or a homo and homo end.
And, most importantly, why am I writing paragraphs of consideration how should a manga end when it has already ended years ago and I can just read it? How did this adaptation even happen if the original run was from 1997 to 2015?
P.S. Jashinchan is great. By the way, Jashinchan is the canon spelling. You don't say Jashin-san, you say Jashinchan-san.
P.P.S. Best Girl is a miracle of the universe.
Saturday, 11 April 2020
Spring 2020
Monday
Princess ConnectFruits Basket
Shironeko?
Kitsutsuki Tantei Dokoro???
Tuesday
Houkago Teibou NisshiWednesday
Brand New Animal????Thursday
KakushigotoThe Eight Son
Fugou Keiji???
Friday
Wave, Listen to MeAppare Ranman
Sakura Taisen????
Saturday
BakarinaYesterday
Kaguya
Arte?
Gal?
Sunday
Shachou?Tuesday, 31 March 2020
You'd think the first sentence would be the punchline
https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=333233
Yes, you read that correctly. This sentence is just the beginning! Every following paragraph is even funnier than the previous one!
Read on if you want a detailed breakdown how every single statement is ridiculously off-the-wall wrong and opposite to reality. But I recommend first going through the entire review by yourself, because it's an absolute comedy gem, the likes of which we rarely ever see.
I must confess that I am writing this review as a virgin (I'll let you decide whether I'm a Male or Female).You'd be wrong.
Yes, you read that correctly. This sentence is just the beginning! Every following paragraph is even funnier than the previous one!
Read on if you want a detailed breakdown how every single statement is ridiculously off-the-wall wrong and opposite to reality. But I recommend first going through the entire review by yourself, because it's an absolute comedy gem, the likes of which we rarely ever see.
Friday, 20 March 2020
Thursday, 12 March 2020
People know me well
[12:00 AM] erejnion: I really liked one particular scene, but... spoilers
[12:02 AM] hoolibas: that one
[12:02 AM] hoolibas: You'd have to be more specific, but yeah
[12:04 AM] erejnion: actually, I'm talking of just four frames
[12:04 AM] erejnion: lessee... https://twitter.com/erejnion/status/1237850587363856389
[12:06 AM] hoolibas: hahahahaha
[12:06 AM] hoolibas: the scene I thought you were referring to
[12:07 AM] erejnion: oh my
[12:07 AM] erejnion: you know me well
[12:02 AM] hoolibas: that one
[12:02 AM] hoolibas: You'd have to be more specific, but yeah
[12:04 AM] erejnion: actually, I'm talking of just four frames
[12:04 AM] erejnion: lessee... https://twitter.com/erejnion/status/1237850587363856389
[12:06 AM] hoolibas: hahahahaha
[12:06 AM] hoolibas: the scene I thought you were referring to
[12:07 AM] erejnion: oh my
[12:07 AM] erejnion: you know me well
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Re: what do pro-piracy advocates actually think
On the side of the companies, they do what the shareholders know to be true and tried methods. Which in fact just artificially prop up an old and dying model. We won this fight in the music space, and now the music market is more accessible than ever.
On the side of the consumers it's loose and uninformed moral arguments that are propagandized by the companies and then regurgitated by everybody else down the line.
On the theoretical side it's about safe investments: second seasons and third seasons of successful franchises, reboots, shows that rely only on name recognition and nothing else, and so on. USA's market has relied on licensing for ages, and is exactly that: few truly new shows. This sort of titles, especially the unimaginative ones, are the ones that are actually hurt by piracy, as is confirmed by all studies on the matter. Major hits and niche titles generally don't see a difference, or see a positive effect from piracy. Japan instead has relied on BD sales, merchandise, and, well, whales. This means that shows that would be hurt by piracy never did well there anyway, or were not produced at all. One season is enough to sell the source material and the merch. However, Western people find that model hard to understand. Americans specifically are used to their own slow moving entertainment that does 10+ seasons of every even mildly successful title, until they've driven it into the mud several times over. So they can't comprehend an industry that isn't hurt, or is even helped by piracy. Thus the moral argument: "because this is how the American legacy industry works, surely that's the only possible choice for the Japanese industry too!"
If there's something that the pro-piracy side does not understand, it's that the Japanese industry is actively moving towards the American model of milking everything under the cash flow from overseas licensing deals. The pro-piracy side remembers what was 5-10 years ago. It's still not there. There's hope. If the American market moves towards selling the source material by using the anime, this movement of the Japanese industry could be reversed too. Besides, the actual creators will fight tooth and nail for their freedom too.
On the side of the consumers it's loose and uninformed moral arguments that are propagandized by the companies and then regurgitated by everybody else down the line.
On the theoretical side it's about safe investments: second seasons and third seasons of successful franchises, reboots, shows that rely only on name recognition and nothing else, and so on. USA's market has relied on licensing for ages, and is exactly that: few truly new shows. This sort of titles, especially the unimaginative ones, are the ones that are actually hurt by piracy, as is confirmed by all studies on the matter. Major hits and niche titles generally don't see a difference, or see a positive effect from piracy. Japan instead has relied on BD sales, merchandise, and, well, whales. This means that shows that would be hurt by piracy never did well there anyway, or were not produced at all. One season is enough to sell the source material and the merch. However, Western people find that model hard to understand. Americans specifically are used to their own slow moving entertainment that does 10+ seasons of every even mildly successful title, until they've driven it into the mud several times over. So they can't comprehend an industry that isn't hurt, or is even helped by piracy. Thus the moral argument: "because this is how the American legacy industry works, surely that's the only possible choice for the Japanese industry too!"
If there's something that the pro-piracy side does not understand, it's that the Japanese industry is actively moving towards the American model of milking everything under the cash flow from overseas licensing deals. The pro-piracy side remembers what was 5-10 years ago. It's still not there. There's hope. If the American market moves towards selling the source material by using the anime, this movement of the Japanese industry could be reversed too. Besides, the actual creators will fight tooth and nail for their freedom too.
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Re: Arifureta
-the harem
I think they keep the bunny as a fuckbuddy, but the rest of the girls get BTFO'd as bad influence to the children.
-poorly developed trope filled characters, the characters are largely defined by their tropes
The "500 year old vampire loli" archetype is way different from the "confident missus that manages the girls around her husband in order to make him happy" archetype. So, which one of the two archetypes is Yue?
-incredibly inconsistent protagonist
We didn't even see him before the fall. You can say that he doesn't get enough development, but not that he's inconsistent.
-bland story and worldbuilding
The effort at least is non-zero, which puts it above the average for an isekai. This mostly speaks for the low quality of the worldbuilding in the isekai genre. There are some works that put lots of effort in, but the average isekai doesn't really care for the world. Instead, it cares for the main character themselves.
-unnatural dialogue
All of anime is with "unnatural" dialogue.
-awfully executed comedy
Saaa.
-atrocious cgi
Yup. This is the joke. You are not supposed to take the battles seriously.
TL;DR: Arifureta is a comedy, yet you did not like its comedy. This is all you need to say, the rest of the arguments aren't quite there.
I think they keep the bunny as a fuckbuddy, but the rest of the girls get BTFO'd as bad influence to the children.
-poorly developed trope filled characters, the characters are largely defined by their tropes
The "500 year old vampire loli" archetype is way different from the "confident missus that manages the girls around her husband in order to make him happy" archetype. So, which one of the two archetypes is Yue?
-incredibly inconsistent protagonist
We didn't even see him before the fall. You can say that he doesn't get enough development, but not that he's inconsistent.
-bland story and worldbuilding
The effort at least is non-zero, which puts it above the average for an isekai. This mostly speaks for the low quality of the worldbuilding in the isekai genre. There are some works that put lots of effort in, but the average isekai doesn't really care for the world. Instead, it cares for the main character themselves.
-unnatural dialogue
All of anime is with "unnatural" dialogue.
-awfully executed comedy
Saaa.
-atrocious cgi
Yup. This is the joke. You are not supposed to take the battles seriously.
TL;DR: Arifureta is a comedy, yet you did not like its comedy. This is all you need to say, the rest of the arguments aren't quite there.
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