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Yeah maybe it was because I was right in the center of Hollywood, but I felt like I was living in a typical Netflix drama at school. The jocks being the cool people that run the school, bullying the weak. I was part of the quiet and weird part of the student body too, but people were usually nice to me because of my status as a foreigner. To be fair that’s sort of the role I played for most of my life. It has its advantages and disadvantages. But in the end, as mentioned before I enjoyed my time it the US. It was truly a fun time, and the people were such a pleasant surprise. Sure there might be assholes around, but you got those everywhere. There’s just a lot of people that live with their heads up their asses, which unfortunately is becoming more and more common. Egotistical people everywhere…

Yeah, I’m going with my brother to the gym which is really cool. We can motivate each other which pushes us to keep going. He’s been visiting the gym for a while now and has already lost over 20 kg which is so insane. I’m so proud of him. And it also gives me hope that I can do the same. I’ve always struggled a bit with how I looked like and feeling unwanted, so I think that would be very important for my feelings of self worth.

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Hope your day is filled with joy, laughter, and all the good vibes 🎁✨

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Yeah, as fun as the gameplay still is, at times, RNG there is... painful... Have fun watching those. 👍

The duality between Shiki and Araya, despite not having as much person-to-person interaction, is especially great when it comes to further exploring sociopathy, linear or non-linear. The reason why I brought up WA2 in this scenario is because of the main characters having their own lenses of changing reality while being equally deeply flawed human beings. I still think Gon is a good character overall, with decent enough development, and great chemistry with Killua, but yeah, we've seen better. I will say this: Gon is a great character in Greed Island, where he does a lot of major stuff. Mhm, and I think that he also helps us understand the story of Hunter x Hunter.

Dragon Ball is odd. I deeply respect its legacy and influence, but I can't bring myself to compliment it as much as other titles like HxH and JoJo, among others. I might look back at it, though, to see if my view on it changed. Absolutely spot on. It's always fine to make a character for entertainment purposes or other things, but if you want to be complimented by critics, you need to at least try a little harder on general quality. That's where a lot of protagonists in anime, manga, and ESPECIALLY visual novels, not just Shounen. You only have a protagonist when your story needs one. Otherwise, what's the point of keeping them when they're narratively pointless? And even then, there are compelling arguments where a main supporting character has more protagonist energy by virtue of comparison.

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Yeah actually, I am half Mexican so I was surprised by just how many Mexicans and other latinos were there LOL. That was like one of the major surprises for me. I was also surprised that American high school was somehow exactly like all the Netflix shows make it out to be. I got to spend 3 years in American high school and it was among the most chaotic, weird and oddly fascinating school system I ever got to witness first hand. I was also surprised by how nice Americans were. Maybe this is an LA thing or something but like 99% of the people were kind, outgoing, fun and super nice.

Yeah, I started going to the gym recently and trying to lose some weight. A few 10-15 kilograms less would be really nice, I think.. I intend to start slowly and starting to ramp up more.

The pity system in Uma Musume is... weird, to say the least. The carats may seem generous, but you get a lot of fuck yous, even if you're rich. Not to mention, there are two playable elements, one being trainees, whom you improve during race training, and the other being cards, which boost said trainees in various aspects. RTTT and BoaNE are Road to the Top and Beginning of the New Era, respectively. Both are short stories and spin-offs, but are still very important to the Uma Musume anime series.

Not to compare, but anime like White Album 2 and half of TYPE-MOON titles do a great job portraying the nature of sociopathy as they fully show their characters who are a part of that subject what they fully are. Hell, even non-anime titles like Undertale and some Fromsoft titles around do that very well. Hunter x Hunter hardly comes close to that, and it's kind of a shame, because it's one of the most important aspects to its story. Gon is a strange case, where he has one of the most unique ideas of any Shounen protagonist, yet is only important when his own series needed a prominent main character. Yeah, I feel like it's no wonder Killua gets far more praise compared to Gon. He unironically gets more action and gets more depth to explore his background and personality, whereas Gon is more of a deuteragonist than a protagonist. It still baffles me that Leorio doesn't get as much credit as the other main characters, when I feel like he has done the most of the main four throughout the whole series.

Having a goal of being a messiah or a champion or whatnot can be pretty fun, but if you want to make it work, you have to try to put passion and effort behind it. I'm not one to judge a demographic entirely, but I can see why Shounen falls quite short. They tend to be among the most successful anyway because of their accessibility, which I wouldn't blame tbh. But seeing a lack of very unique content nowadays makes me kinda worried about the future of the industry.

i ate a lot of good food, and bought a copy of elden ring for myself

it was a great day

To me, Kita would be infinitely better with just a little bit of concentrated observation. That's where, again, the Uma Musume game came into play. I did say that Spe is better in the game than in the anime, and I believe that logic goes tenfold for Kita. Even then, though, I doubt you would have an easy time playing that game, given how fundamentally flawed the Gacha rates are. "If UmaMusume continues with another horse, I hope that perhaps they can focus on someone like Haru Urara for instance since her real life counterpart never won a single race, so it would be interesting as a story concept." Unfortunately, Urara is classified as a side character. Luckily for you, though, Uma's anime was still brought back into the light with compelling side stories like RTTT and BoaNE.

The reason why I thought Oguri and Shiki were similar was because of their stoicism, their ability to express their view on reality and philosophies, getting a heads up from their mentors, and their contrast to their friends. Also, finding clever ways to approach victory through their own thinking, but that's a massive stretch.

That's exactly how I feel nowadays. I deeply appreciate Togashi's influence and decisions. But to me, his method of differing from your typical Battle Shounen, while it still works, gets a little out of hand at times. I think the problem stems from how it tried a little too hard to grab a viewer's attention with a unique gimmick. That's not to say it's bad, but don't force yourself on such an attempt. Also, I felt like its interpretation of sociopathy is the weakest aspect of Hunter x Hunter. Again, it's well-intended, but it didn't bring enough foresight to tackle what it really means to the eyes of the story. That being said, when it comes to being a Battle Shounen that differs from a typical Battle Shounen, I would still take it over Bleach and The Promised Neverland any day.

My problems with season 3 are that, although the plot is centered around the 2017 Japanese race event, it hardly, if ever, tackles said event. As I mentioned, the season is filled to the brim with comedy, which is not something we would see in an Uma title, regardless of how many shitposts are birthed from the fanbase. Even if there's a compelling argument for Uma being a comedy-centered story (in which it still isn't), the jokes in season 3 are nearly Demon Slayer-levels of bad, with the worst offender being scenes of Bakushin ramming onto Kitasan's breasts. Kitasan being a crybaby is exactly the biggest problem with the season. Not only does it become a forced method of convincing us to get invested in her emotional scenes, but it virtually cuts out her importance. Her ideologies and/or impact were never developed nor brought up, which is even more upsetting when you bring up the sheer complexities of other leading Umas. Even ignoring all of that, her relationship with Nature is very shallow, like the former needed the latter as her own baby milk just to enlighten things up.

Cygames, despite how flawed and faulty they are as a company, does a fantastic job with writing stuff. Hell, they even nail well with adaptations, as seen with CinGrey's anime, so it's no shocker that they would miss a single spot. A little off-topic, but the more I look at Oguri in her own series, the more I feel like she shares some similarities with Ryougi Shiki, 'ahem' as bold a view as this may be.

To me, my growing appreciation for longer series would be FMAB and JoJo, in spite of their flaws. On the subject of Hunter x Hunter, the more I look at it, the more I feel compelled to lower my score for it. While I still think it's solid, at the same it, it wasn't as much of an exceptional title as I would like to admit. And to be honest, the Chimera Ant arc isn't the only arc eligible for the series that suffered pacing issues...

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Spe felt more fleshed out in the game than in the anime because the former had more focus on her character, and by extension, fulfilled her title of being a general quite well. Funnily enough, Teio is the opposite in that department. Her character in the game is more of her being a kiddy brat, which isn't bad, but loses out on the charm of what Teio really is established as. The only reason why season 3 was even remotely bearable is because of Nice Nature.

Mhm, and fingers crossed that Cinderella Gray actually ends well ('cough 'cough My Hero Academia and Oshi no Ko 'cough).

Don't worry about it. LoGH is slow-paced, but that's really the intention behind it, and it has more than enough room to focus on story, direction, and characters on tackle on.

Yeah, the fact that Food Wars tries too hard to be like a seinen or shit is baffling.