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After having watched the Violet Evergarden movies (aside from the recap movie because, like, who cares about recaps? LOL.), I honestly don't want them to ever make another Violet Evergarden sequel. (I even say as much in my tags for Violet Evergarden the Movie, LOL.) The conclusion is just so good that I can't imagine any potential sequel could do it better.

Frieren was on my plan-to-read list for ages before the anime was even announced. It just sounded like the kind of story I'd really vibe with. (Funnily enough, Frieren was the anime that I watched immediately after I finished Violet Evergarden.) But... Yeah, I'm afraid Frieren just didn't live up to my expectations. Even having the same composer as Violet Evergarden and trying to hit similar emotional beats, the show just felt like it was trying too hard IMO. I usually love stories that deal with themes of mortality and the temporariness of life, but I just felt nothing for the majority of Frieren's runtime. Plus I really don't like Himmel as a character, which is a problem since so much of Frieren's story relies on liking Himmel. :P

Nah, I didn't watch Talentless Nana for A-P. (In fact, I actually recommended it to someone-else on A-P for their Secret Santa event, LOL.) Yeah, Talentless Nana isn't very well-known, and most people who did watch it don't seem to like it much. Personally though, I've always loved the series since I watched the anime, and I love it even more after catching up to the manga. (Heck, I took my current name and PFP from a character from the manga.)

Honestly, I prefer blind-watching a series. I didn't know anything about Lycoris Recoil or 91 Days before watching them, and I came out of the experience with a good time. I didn't know much about Magical Girl Site either, other than that anime fans really hate the series for being edgy. And yeah, it is one of the edgiest shows I've ever watched, but its protagonist is really likable (and is probably getting on my favorites list when I next buy a MAL subscription), the plot is actually interesting and the villains are so comically edgy that I can't help but love it.

Yeah, Baccano!'s another anime I watched since we last spoke, and it's also one of my new all-time favorites, LOL. Not quite good enough to get into my favorites list on MAL, but still a very good time. :3
91 Days actually reminded me of Baccano! quite a bit. The vibe and artstyle are definitely the biggest similarities IMO, although the secondary antagonist Fango also reminded me a lot of Baccano!'s Ladd Russo.

Lycoris Recoil is, like, SO good. I could gush about that series all day. It is probably the most "welcoming" of the all-time favorites that I mentioned. It doesn't have the offensive dark comedy of Ghost Stories's dub or basically every single taboo under the sun like Magical Girl Site does; it's just a fun action show with really lovable characters, amazing fight scenes and an incredible soundtrack and animation.

I don't use the word "flawless" often, but I do genuinely believe that Violet Evergarden is a legitimately flawless story. It's probably the only anime that I've ever watched where I can't think of a single thing that I wish it did differently. It's not my favorite anime of all-time or anything though. Flawless as its story may be, the series's highs just don't quite compete with those of my all-time favorites. (Man, I've used the phrase "all-time favorites" a lot in these messages, huh? LOL.) Violet Evergarden episode 10 is legitimately a masterpiece though. I legit almost choked to death from how hard I was trying to hold back tears, I was genuinely gasping for air for a solid 5 minutes after watching that one. Now I know where the phrase "choked up" comes from. X'D

I didn't mention them in my previous messages since they are actually on my MAL favorites list right now, but if I'm giving recommendations, I absolutely have to mention Summer Time Rendering and Talentless Nana. You could probably convince me to bump up my score for Summer Time Rendering to a 10/10 because it is just a really solid series. Words alone cannot do that one justice, but it feels like a story that was just tailor-made to check off all of my exact tastes. Action, sci-fi, romance, time-travel... Man, what can't STR do right? And Talentless Nana? I had watched the anime when we last spoke, but I had not yet read its manga. And now that I am actively following the manga every month... Talentless Nana is so good. One of the few series that I have awarded a 10/10. If "Death Note meets Among Us meets My Hero Academia" ain't enough to sell someone on the series, I don't know what is. And the sheer amount of twists that I genuinely didn't see coming that the author packed into the story is insane! Even in-spite of the fact that I just compared the manga to three different series, I have truly never experienced a story quite like Talentless Nana. But that's enough gushing from me, this reply is probably already long enough without me derailing into yet another tangent... XD

The most useful part of a MAL subscription, at-least to me, is that it allows you to add an additional ten anime, manga, characters, people and companies to your favorites list. Of course, once your subscription ends, you can no longer add any new series to those lists, just reorder the ones that you already have. Hence why I'm waiting to buy another MAL subscription before editing my favorites lists. :P

Yeah, I have watched quite a few anime since we last talked. My favorites list is almost complete different now, LOL. (Well, it isn't that different right now, but that's just because I'm waiting until I next buy a MAL subscription to update my new favorites. :P)

Since we last spoke, I've joined Anime-Planet and have participated in their last two seasonal anime bingo events, which has filled up my list quite substantially over the last couple of months. As basic of an answer as it is, Violet Evergarden was probably the highlight of the anime I watched for my bingo cards. I see that it's on your list, so I don't have to explain how great that show is, but boy do I wish that I checked it out way sooner. What an emotional rollercoaster.

I also binged 91 Days about a week ago. It's easily the best anime I've completed this year. (Although that isn't saying much since the year's only just begun and I've only completed 2 anime so far this year, LOL.)

I didn't really watch them "recently", but I don't think I had seen Lycoris Recoil, Magical Girl Site or Ghost Stories when we last talked, and those have become three of my all-time favorites. Definitely adding them to my favorites list when I next get a MAL subscription. I also finally finished all of Symphogear after leaving the series on-hold for about 4 years. The quality of each season varies a bit too much for me to call it one of my all-time favorite anime (season 2 is absolute garbage, LOL), but it's a pretty enjoyable show for what it is. :3

Glad to hear you've been good. I'm doing pretty alright myself. :3

Feel free to call me whatever. Kuroni, Moe, Jade... I'm fine with anything really. :)

Yo, it's been a while since we last talked. (I was still probably using the name Kuroni_Kuru back then, LOL.) How have you been? :3

Happy birthday! 🥳

Happy birthday! :3

Happy birthday! :D

Mainly indie ones. I recently finished this game which featured these picross-style puzzles as a major part of the gameplay, and it thankfully didn't penalize me for any mistakes (so I was able to basically skip the later, harder ones by just filling them up willy-nilly with no regard for mistakes). Earlier I had finished this game, which was mainly exploration and light platforming, but the landscapes were pretty cool. Right now, I'm playing this story driven platformer about this girl and her grandma, and after that I might play The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, which I bought a while back, but still haven't played. I also bought Fallout 4 GOTY recently, but I'll probably leave it for later as I don't feel like doing modding rn (as Bethesda games basically require in order to have better interface, gameplay e.t.c.).
What helped quite a bit with my gaming was the fact that I managed to get a new laptop with higher specs recently, as this allows me to not only play games I couldn't before (not only AAA games, but also some indie games have way high system requirements nowadays), but also be able to run programs without them taking ages to respond (with my previous pc, even right clicking on a file on the File Explorer led to a 'Not Responding' situation for a few seconds, and Word also took ages to open and also had a 'Not Responding' for a few seconds if I accidentally clicked on a word underlined in red). So now at least the programs respond properly and I don't have such slowdowns anymore - at least for now, as I'm pretty sure the way tech advances, I might need an even higher specced thing in a few years to run stuff properly.


The fact that MAL is able to make changes at all means that the state of the code might still be workable at least, which isn't exactly a guarantee for older sites. As an example, there's this site I buy games from sometimes, called GOG, whose main site is all modern looking and stuff but the forums have remained the same since the site was first established in 2008 (iirc). So it has an old as heck interface, real small letters (even MAL's are bigger), many features are missing and many existing ones are bugged (the search doesn't work properly for example), there are even times when the General Discussion page is inundated with spam. The reason for this, as some support staff has said to people complaining about this state of things, was iirc that the code for the forums was written by someone who left the company since and it's such a spaghetti mess that they can't touch it lest the thing implodes. At this point it would probably be better if they nuked the whole thing, but then there wouldn't be a way to save the old content on one hand, and on the other hand the forums in general are low priority for them, since only a minority uses them, so why bother using resources on them. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that at least MAL is rather better off than some other places, as the fact that changes even take place means the codebase, while old and potentially hard to work on and change, might not be that unworkable after all.

I'm sure layers probably feel more natural to the people who have been drawing over pencil sketches for their entire life, but I have never once outlined a physical sketch before drawing it, so it's quite a new concept to me, LOL. :P

Sure, I can DM them. I doubt they'd exceed MAL's character limit, given how short they are XD

Yeah, I reported them. The other mods seemed understanding at-first, I even heard from others that they actually disciplined the other mods in-question, but IDK how much of that I can disclose, but they quickly just decided I was annoying and made a server-wide rule that all reports should be filed to a bot rather than a human. Last I checked, before leaving the server, the mods never respond to any reports filed to the bot
My passion's definitely still there, although most of it right now is dedicated to other works. I'm hoping to get back to webnovels soon, though!

Yeah, Steel Ball Run was great too! I definitely think it has the best chemistry between the main JoJo and the main ally, and the supporting characters are really good too! I think JoJolion did have better fights, though. Probably the best in the series, IMO!

Still got some scars that I doubt will ever go away TBH. But other than that, kudos. Certainly better than the previous operation that I had which didn't even cure what was wrong with me at the time, LOL. XD


Paint.net. I've been using it for quite a few years (since before I even joined MAL), but that was usually just to touch up my art. Only really started diving into its features more at the end of last year and throughout this year. Opacity, color-blending and especially multiple background layers are kinda daunting at first for someone like me with 0% practice with digital art, but I eventually got the hang of it. (Now if only I was a better artist in general, LOL. Then my art might actually resemble the figure of a human, LMAO.)

It's moreso that I'd rather do other stuff (e.g videogaming, reading webtoons/manga e.t.c) in the free time that I do have available, as while my moods in regards to what I'd rather do in my free time change from time to time, I've been in the "not in the mood for binging (anime, but also live action) series" for a while.

Well, Pokemon is among the biggest videogaming franchises after all. And yeah, Captain Pikachu is pretty cool, and despite not being the main Pokemon of either of the 2 main protagonists (but rather the one of the professor-adjacent captain of the airship they live on), he's featured quite a bit (he's a Pikachu after all).

Yeah, I had tried those too, but their shade of black was iirc very similar to the one MAL ended up using, so they weren't doing it for me either. MAL's Light mode is fine for me though - if anything, it's less bright than the equivalent one of A-P (which is why I use the Dark theme over there in the first place), so in a sense A-P might have the better dark mode, but MAL has the better light mode.

I don't know about the not having enough money part, as iirc MAL is currently owned by some company (though who knows how much money they allocate to this possession of theirs) plus the whole MAL Supporter thing must net quite a bit (considering the scale of magnitude of the userbase this site, even if as few as 5% of users had MAL Supporter, that would still net quite a bit imo). If anything, I'd think that the volunteer-owned and run A-P probably has a rather smaller budget in comparison, and this despite the Patreon they have (again due to the scale of their respective userbases). And A-P hasn't been hacked in such a way in recent memory iirc (if ever), so... Personally I think it's just inertia and having difficulty changing older code without doing something as drastic as rewriting the site from scratch (something that could be logistically complicated in terms of carrying over user data and that would also cause a lot of user reactions too), so they're largely stuck with older code that might thus be more vulnerable to hacking.

Yep, I'm doing well, thanks for asking! Got some surgery recently, and I'm feeling the best that I've felt in over half a decade. :3


I didn't really "decide" to get better or anything. I guess it's just because I finally moved away from Microsoft Paint, LOL. :P
I'm not sure how much I can show since a lot of them are drawings of other peoples' characters that I wouldn't want to post without their permission, but I suppose I can grab a drawing I did of my and Laika's characters real quick.

I s'pose I can also get a more recent drawing of my slimegirl. :3

Hi! Hopefully your studies went well! And I'm glad to see you back, I definitely hope we can talk more this year! ^u^

Hopefully you were able to find whatever you were looking for in my novels on Scribblehub? If not, I'm intending to reupload the Two Beings prequel around Christmas this year. The rest (the short stories) are probably lost to the sands of time, but I can DM them to you or something, if you still wanna read 'em, lol

Yeah, I left Honeyfeed due to the toxic environment, especially on their Discord server, unfortunately. I also found-out that 9 specific users, 4 of whom I thought I could call acquaintances and 1 of whom was a member of Honeyfeed's staff, were spreading false and damaging rumors about me, just because they didn't like my novels, so...
I still think the website itself has the most convenient and easy-to-navigate layout of any webnovel site I've tried, but it really isn't worth dealing with the community itself, IMO

Yeah, I definitely enjoyed the manga! Part 8 is actually my favorite manga overall now, and my third-favorite JoJo part! :D