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What as in those two scenes are taken from the main series and the anime put them in Zero, or just that the ideas are from the main series? I suppose I can agree with that; they have some nice interactions and I can totally see one more inclined to shipping going with that. Inumaki's pretty cute though now that I think about it; his scarf and meek demeanour are pretty cute. I mean that is what you said, it just would be a little awkward to go back and check just that - I'll keep it in mind for the next time I watch it though. I wish I got the chance to gush about my favourite characters, but also I can totally see Nanami being the kind of character that you just like a lot but in a more subdued way I guess? His appearance gives off that sort of feeling to me.
And that's the reason I read all my on-going manga in Japanese! Simply so that I do not have to wait. Oh yeah I always wait for the full chapter to be out as well; there's one series with entirely irregular chapter releases and the number of parts for each chapter varies as well so trying to figure out when a chapter ends is a nightmare, and then Gundam Eight which I just started reading, I was sure that was chapter five's second half but then the newest chapter is the middle part of chapter five?? And of course that replaced the previous one as what's available on the site so I can't check whether it said second half or not. I didn't know official English releases did that too though, I think I had assumed they would just wait for the whole chapter to be out. Speaking of really short chapters though, the most recent chapter of Gachiakuta wasn't even ten pages long but it was a pretty nice little slapstick section; I'd actually really like to see that animated, it was some old guy talking to his grandson (or whoever) who was trying to get him to evacuate as the main character fighting some other guy, both in really powerful forms, keep crashing through the walls and the old guy is paying zero attention to them. That sounds so nice having them all in once place, everything is a different site for me. Ah yeah that's fair, would skimming the previous volume not help though? I tried looking to see if there were new chapters translated on any other sites but I couldn't find anything; one of them I'm honestly not super into but the other I'd really like to read more of, it's one of the few series I'm not confident enough in my Japanese to try - it's the sequel to this, and they're both really good episodic stories but they are of course as depressing as you might imagine. "If she dies, all magic dies with her." oh that's interesting, that sounds cool. It reminds me of Warlic from a game called Dragon Fable; his magic actually generated mana rather than consuming it and if he overloaded that would be incredibly bad news for everyone, the entire second main story arc of the game was something to do with him but I forget the specifics - or really most of it actually. Let's hope the rest of the series has an actual reason to exist then, that could both be really interesting or utterly pointless I feel. I like their greater focus on gameplay than being all fancy like the 3D games are, at least from the few Zelda games I've played that's how I feel. Aquatic Ambience is transcendentally good, as is Stickerbrush Symphony. The gravity-flip one? Metal Storm, stage two is where it gets pretty interesting with platforms that you can only jump through one-way and parts of the stage that move as you flip gravity, each stage sort of has its own gimmick and then it moves on, I like it a lot - there's also some 'classic' NES flashing lights if that's a problem for you. Friend, it is fifty volumes long. Oh I hadn't even thought of that, probably not enough I must admit.
Isekai's cool, but I also tend to think of older-style isekai more than the recent reincarnation stuff, so my opinions are a bit weird; I think with a lot of the more recent ones I do wonder what them being an isekai contributes to anything though, like what on Earth did that add to No Game No Life. Most of the isekai I've read or watched has a female main character as well, so I've definitely avoided the ones people tend to complain about. Ah fair enough. I do not believe it auto-completes those either, unless either me or my browser are doing something wrong. How'd those re-writes go? That's a very vague question, but I suppose I'm asking how interesting of an idea that ended up being, I figure you put at least a bit of a spin on things? Free dopamine in email form! There are a couple of characters that feel like they were made for me so I know a rather similar feeling to that.
I hope you don't mind but I wanted to try and write at least something and share it with you; a reason to actually get to it and all. It might be a little gross at the end? I also tried not to edit it as much as I usually would, because otherwise I'll be here all night, so it's probably not very good either.

That probably means a lot more to you having read the main series, I don't think I remember the line where Gojou refers to his best friend and means Getou from the manga though, same with the two of them talking in the alley at the end. It's really long for an adaption of a single volume yeah, that's probably why I like it so much. I did not but I can't say I'm surprised. I am unfortunately drawing a blank on that part. Yeah for sure, not the fault of anyone working on the film. Ah yeah I noticed Nanami, I think specifically because you had mentioned him before in some context but I don't think it was you saying he was one of your favourites. Ah yeah, I'm glad you somehow caused me to read and watch this^^
Please don't spend too much time on that though. Reading most of them as they release officially in Japanese helps too since they usually say when then next chapter comes out on the website, chapters releasing in parts complicates things a little (unless they release in more than two parts, then I am losing my mind) but I mostly just pay attention to my text file with all of this noted down and it's fine, and the amount of manga certainly isn't an issue but that could be different for someone else I suppose. That's definitely a lot less than I keep up with, and honestly a couple weekly sounds way easier to keep up with than figuring out when the third Friday of the month is but most people probably also don't care about reading them the day they come out, I feel you on the "Where is the next chapter already?" though, slightly different because I want to know where the Japanese chapters are but still, oh actually there are a couple series I was reading fan translations of and I'm not sure what's happened to those with recentish events. Read anything interesting? Reading novels is another thing I need to do more, oh no my time. I've seen videos of it before so I'm like a bit annoyed at myself for that but I bet I'm also over-estimating how well I remember everything, I'll totally get lost at some point, and it'll still be fun anyway I bet; I do seem to prefer 2D Zelda from what I have played, so like yeah fun times abound - I should finish that cool NES gravity-flipping mecha platformer I was playing first though, and maybe Donkey Kong Country 2 as well - oh and if you've never heard the soundtracks to those games I cannot recommend them enough; some of the best music ever composed for a series about lizards stealing your bananas. Like how it took me ages to watch any Macross entry past 7 because I hadn't heard the best things, and like, that was a horrible idea because they all kind of rule - Delta has issues but the music absolutely is not one of them, and I'm totally conscious of not over-selling things to people as well. Oh it's not that long, it was like fourteen volumes or someth- WAIT WHAT, oh no, I'm in danger. I read the length of that horrendously wrong it would appear. I cry at everything, so I'm sure I will too. I told you how much I cried at Violet Evergarden right; I started watching Frieren the day after and not to say that there's nothing sad at the start of that series, but I was so emotionally compromised from the day before that I was crying at everything lmao. I honestly like crying at fiction I think. The history of most things is interesting to be fair, but yeah I'll bet those are especially interesting.
Oh yeah, Boku no Macademia would be an obvious one wouldn't it, seems a lot less likely to upset parents than Jujutsu Kaisen or Kimetsu no Yaiba too. Poor isekai fan lady, I can't say I'm surprised but still; Sword Art Online did immeasurable damage to the reputation of isekai. That's an insane thing to read for me wow, like even if I pretty much did figure that could very well be the case, like I was never really into it but I think I watched the film at a friend's house when I was really young, and I doubt any of us had even heard the word anime. I'm like barely more than a handful of years older than you, and the similarities and differences are pretty interesting; like we somehow both grew up with the Wii but some things like Digimon not being common knowledge are crazy to me. I mean, Pokemon is Pokemon, that goes without saying. Fingers crossed! Yeah, I think I've got that down - I think I am a little surprised that the search bar won't auto-complete tags though; I suppose the solution to this is bookmark the Work Search page so what I want is right there. See, I can envision stuff really well (I think?), like for that first idea, but I have zero idea of what to do with that afterwards. I suppose in this case I could just try and be really descriptive and evocative and describe her run through Dracula's castle, just steal from the game for that, but I totally don't remember the route well enough. That's probably a pretty good idea though, and I can totally look up videos, and it's not like I have to do it all at once either. This is my perfectionism causing me issues again isn't it. There probably would be something like that yeah. Oh I think the last poetry I wrote was probably a haiku as well lmao, well in the English sense of the term - they're actually meant to reference the seasons, otherwise there's a different name for them. Email updates! I'm actually surprised how recent some of the Shanoa fics I found were, but also I bet it'll take me ages to find an on-going one with my obscure and highly obtuse tastes - everyone writing fanfic is a weirdo though, I ain't special so I bet I actually will if I look a bit more.

The Jujutsu Kaisen Zero film is really good!! It doesn't do some things the manga does but it does some things the manga doesn't, so I think I like them about equally. Like it looks great, the music's really nice, I liked all the voice actors - wait a second, what do you mean Yuuta was Ogata Megumi, I can totally hear it though; and nothing was cut for time, if anything they added stuff. I think my favourite part was Yuuta and Inumaki in the shopping arcade; I loved the lighting there so much. I liked the sort of opening scene of Yuuta getting ready as well. I think the text on black backgrounds listing mostly dates had a lot more impact in the manga, and on a related note I feel like the film doesn't have that weirdness the very beginning of the first chapter had and I liked that a lot. Gojou felt a lot sillier in the film, him unveiling his eye when he was fighting in Shinjuku I think it was wasn't as cool as in the manga but he did get a lot more screen time there, as did several other characters. This probably doesn't mean much to you and I'm not quite sure why the film made me think this when the manga didn't, but it reminded me a lot of Shin Megami Tensei; I know the apocalypse hasn't happened here but a lot of the locations are devoid of life and the shopping arcade (the dim greenish lighting there might be why) in particularly was especially dingy, and then they're both sort of urban settings where people fight demons with demons and katanas. On that note as well, I listened to this a lot writing this and it can't hurt to share it, it's a really good piece. Like, there's nothing I wish it did that it didn't really. I think that makes it my favourite adaptation of a manga then, Hellsing Ultimate is really good but it's also basically the exact same as the manga.
I hate as necessary, I like enjoying things a lot more. I'm following seventeen series that I would say regularly get new chapters and I will not be stopping at seventeen, they're all monthly aside from two of them though so that makes it a lot easier, as does the insanity. I think I've been neglecting my non-manga hobbies for far too long at this point, I think I need to rip myself away even just for a little bit, and I was thinking of playing A Link to the Past when I manage to do so - I actually want to play the Oracle games and Link's Awakening more but Game Boy JRPGs scare me. Wouldn't be myself if I wasn't^^ I feel there are also some things that even if they happen on page two are best experienced rather than read about, but I'm like a super stickler for this sort of stuff. Oh, Chihayafuru looks cool, I say entirely because it involves card games with my Yu-Gi-Oh! avatar. I had to check the name of the novels King Gainer was based on, and there's the stuff I said I looked up, but otherwise that was all from memory yeah. Oh yeah on the same note as Mashle, Wistoria feels like it was too. Ah yeah I've heard the Björn Andrésen thing before, it's such a weird and interesting thing that's had such an insane level of influence even to this day.
Yeah, excluding two massive series like that would make things hard, and I can totally see a lot of other popular series not being allowed either. Does Digimon need much of an introduction? I suppose it's a lot more varied than Pokemon is but now that I'm thinking about it the really popular Digimon show is the original, not so much everything that came after, so maybe it does these days? That's Shounen Jump manga privilege. I hope so too. Oh not quite what you said, but reading what you said did make me think that like, if everything is twelve or thirteen that probably makes it a lot easier to organise everything and make sure you have something to air and thus profit. Oh oh oh, it probably helps if I specify that this was like increasing the bass of a song, not bass boosting a sound effect or the like; yeah that one's on me huh. They cannot possibly do a worse job than the current arrangement we're stuck with. There's both a search button and a search bar?!?! Oh, I have spent the last several minutes misunderstanding the Tag Search page until I randomly though to scroll down, that's useful. I think the Characters field on the Work Search page is more what I wanted though, Tag Search seems more useful for like ships? The search bar gives suggestions or whatever right, anyway it says "tip: "uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto angst kudos>10" right now for me and I think I'm in love with this website lmao. I would have laughed so hard if I had happened to be wearing my t-shirt with the fourth Houkage on it but alas I am not. Ah yeah, having a list of favourited tags to easily check seems useful. I'm saying this partly to try and get myself to actually follow through, but I had a couple of ideas: either something descriptive of Shanoa wandering around and presumably fighting some evil creatures or, and this is the far more insane idea, write out the plot of Order of Ecclesia as a poem. No I do not write poetry but I would like to, how do you even begin to write poetry though, I have no idea.

At least the setting of the film is interesting; despite being a live-action Gundam film it's set in the main Gundam timeline a hundred and fifty or so years after anything else is, so there's some interesting stuff going on there with the Earth Federation having collapsed, and the Mobile Suit designs are still done by the usual people so those are still great, but everything else is not the best, and I really do mean that I hate every single character, it's almost impressive. And always really long series at that apparently if you've had people try to get you to read both Berserk and One Piece, but no yeah that's understandable; can't read everything that's considered good, you need to narrow it down somehow. I on the other hand, don't actually have a single clue as to what Berserk is even about but have plans to spend an entire year reading it - and somehow this system works for me lmao. Time is fake, made up, lies all of it! Oh that's cool about it getting an English translation for people learning English. Now that I think about it, I've heard of quite a few classic manga not doing so well and I can't imagine shoujo would be the obvious choice to break that trend, so I'm curious how it's been doing. Actually, to be fair to them, maybe the fancy hardbacks are there so that they have to sell fewer copies to make a profit allowing them to justify releasing it? Feels like it yeah, over-commercialisation of things and wanting that built-in audience of people who like that cliche. Oh this is going to be fun, I think I know a lot of these^^ Alright so, Fujimoto has said that Power was based on Eric Cartman and I've heard his stuff in general has a lot of influence from western films, Yu-Gi-Oh! (which translates as King of Games if you didn't know or forgot) was originally a manga about various types of games till villain-of-the-week Kaiba showed up with a Magic the Gathering inspired game called Duel Monsters and, well I think you know how that went; Overman King Gainer was inspired by a series of French novels called La Compagnie des glaces, Fushigi no Umi no Nadia is loosely based on Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, there are endless series based on Alice in Wonderland, Keyman: The Hand of Judgment is pretty much a noir with a lot of western comic book influences, I might be remembering this wrong but I seem to recall it being stated in an afterword that the original novel for Omoide Emanon (which is from 1983) was inspired by western sci-fi, there's a lot of stuff inspired by Dracula but much like Alice in Wonderland I almost feel like it doesn't count because of just how ubiquitous it is, there's a lot of stuff like Trigun that take inspiration from Westerns, and I wasn't quite sure whether we were limiting this to western influences or just anything outside of animanga but Turn A Gundam takes a lot of inspiration from Taketori Monogatari, Dragon Ball from Journey to the West, and Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman from Urashima Tarou. I also feel like it needs stating again even if I mentioned it with regards to Omoide Emanon, but the influence of western sci-fi is massive; lots of short stories from the fifties and several films as well such as Star Wars and I think Starship Troopers as well (well, that's both a novel and a film so I don't know which it would be); I went to check Wikipedia for this because I think I remember someone saying that Gundam was influenced by it (this is the third time I've mentioned a Tomino series here lmao, King Gainer and Turn A being the other two; can you tell I like his work a lot?) and I don't see anything about that but it does say Kaguya sama wa Kokurasetai was inspired by it?!?!? What on Earth is that manga about? I love it so much - it isn't even in my top ten lmao. I also want to share that one of the other mecha in that manga has a form called God Ultimo Frontal Till Dawn, and some absolute jokester editing the wiki labelled one of the images as "God Ultimo Frontal Till Dawn (Frontal View)". I think, unfortunately, that a lot more people than just the online book community are rather insincere about things.
See, the problem with that is that stuff for kids is actually awesome, like I sort of get it but I feel like if someone tried to sell me on something by saying that I'd think they were a tad insufferable. It's thirty something volumes at the moment, it has had a lot of hiatuses to my understanding, and I don't think it will be another hundred and seventy; it says on here that the anime so far adapts the first twenty seven volumes so there's not even close to enough for that many episodes but I do hope it's like fifty or so; there should be enough material for that and I want to see more long running anime. Hey, how come you get shows that are twenty four to twenty eight episodes pretty often but rarely anything other than twelve or thirteen, I wonder why that is. Oh you can definitely do a lot with twelve or thirteen episodes, like I don't think I'd call Madoka Magica simple for instance, and there are OVAs that do a lot with even fewer episodes; I think it's a lot more an issue of people fumbling it for one reason or another, all that said however, yes I would absolutely love eighteen episode long anime, or really just not doing things in almost exclusively multiples of twelve or thirteen. I mean the term is sure, but not the concept right? That sounds like the boring version of the Wikipedia rabbit hole (hey, remember what I said about Alice in Wonderland being ubiquitous?). Yeah it's Fire Force, sorry for my insistence on whatever it is I'm doing that means I don't use the name that I know will be most helpful, I should maybe stop that. I can't wait for the Greek island of Lesbos to declare independence and take over the world. Yeah I did figure it out, is there a better way to get to tags than searching for something that will make it come up and then clicking on it? Oh bookmarking the page works, I love that so much. Would you happen to have experience or know of such an extension? Oh right I totally forgot about the invite part, yeah let me do that right now so I'm not waiting at a point where it's more inconvenient. Oh neat it even gives you an estimated date, February 9th. There are just some things I'd rather not read about series that aren't like that already lmao. Touhou Project is the actual name of the series, none of the games actually have Project in the title though, they're pretty much all something like Touhou Yumejikuu ~ The Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream, with the Japanese part of that particular game's title translating as Eastern Spacetime Dream, and as you might surmise, I don't think you can just trademark the word eastern, I assume that's the reason at least, but maybe it's just called Touhou Project because ZUN wanted to call it that. You do get fun things like "12.3th Touhou Project" on the initial loading screens though. Our Lady Kaname Madoka who art in Heaven. I guess they have shown me some sort of way though, because I've had some ideas for, well at least a scene I could try and write, there are precisely zero lesbians involved however. I hope I don't invite the Gods wrath down upon myself with that omission, that's never a good idea - especially with the Greek ones.

Neither do I, do not get me started on how badly he upstages the actual main character of the sequel, and yet he is still far from the worst Gundam character - that goes to G-Saviour's main character who ditches his girlfriend for some woman he just met, like at least break up with her first, no I am not cheering for you, I hate every character in that film. Oh yeah, I can actually see that, and I mean I'm the opposite where I know too much about series I haven't or even will never read, it's fine, no need to pay attention to stuff you're not interested in it even if it is a classic. See, it would still be a pain if it was forty for a fancy hardcover that contained three volumes worth because of the up-front cost of it; I think what they're thinking is either people who have already read it or taking advantage of its reputation as a classic, unfortunately they don't really seem to care about people who simply want to try out the series. I hope you manage to find it. Oh thank heavens, but regardless the state of advertising for novels seems dire. It feels like the same thing I've heard some older people who work in animanga talk about, how a lot of newer artists are only drawing influences from animanga and it just results in this inbreeding of ideas. I remember Oobari Masami, a rather noteworthy mecha animator, director, and designer with a very distinctive style, essentially saying that if you want to design mecha do literally anything other than look at mecha, and when I read Karakuri Douji Ultimo which is by the author of Shaman King (and also Stan Lee) I fully understood what he meant because his mechanical designs take a lot of influence from cars so you end up with some of the sleekest, coolest looking mecha I have ever seen, and they look nothing like anything else either. Akitsu God Slow my absolute beloved. Wait, I thought it was called Akatsuki God Slow lmao, that's totally me misremembering because Akitsu is the pilot's name. And I feel like that sort of problem is going to be especially bad if people are actively trying to write specific tropes rather than writing a story that just ends up having those in them, and that sort of advertising is definitely aggravating the issue. Start a college? That's not what I was expecting to hear, what's the story even about then?
I think a lot of people probably do, and especially in your case since it's not usually based on manga which puts it even further outside your field of expertise. I think some of the more recent Digimon shows are aimed at, well an older audience than Pokemon, and those still run fairly long, and then a few years back Black Clover got a hundred and seventy episode anime and now five years later it's getting a second season, so that I would assume is going to be fairly long as well - I remembered a few more long running recent anime, as you can see. Specifically for Gundam I'd consider full-length to be anywhere from thirty nine to fifty episodes; aside from the most recent two every main Gundam entry is somewhere in that episode range with one exception. There are OVAs and the Build shows (which are about people fighting each other in tournaments with Gundam model kits) that are shorter than those but I wouldn't call those main entries. I did mean it specifically in the context of Gundam, but in general I'd consider twenty six episodes full length - I'm definitely more than a little bit behind the times there though. I think I've either miscommunicated something or am missing something; why would it be a foreign term? Knowing what you don't need to look up is honestly a really important skill because if you look up every single word you don't know you're just going to take way too long, put yourself off reading more, and just in general have less fun for a minimal increase in understanding; I mentioned at one point that I re-read what is now definitely my favourite part of Enn Enn and I had a lot more fun with it the second time, and I think that's entirely because I didn't have to look anything up the second time around. Oh crunchy ice/snow is probably pretty fun to walk on. Yuri is finding too many ways and needs to be stopped. I don't think that's it, I think it is just those villagers (that perhaps I have skipped over characterisation for by skipping side-quests; people seem pretty fond of this one character in particular). How long's that one Smash Bros. one at these days? Over four million! LMAO a Kantai Collection one surpassed it at one point and the author responded with "I WILL RECLAIM MY RIGHTFUL THRONE." I assume this is still the longest piece of fiction in the English language then. That's fine, I'm content to stick with AO3 for now, we're talking about the "Edit Your Search" button yeah? Or maybe not since I don't see how to exclude ratings. See, I found these options before but I figured if I excluded things tagged as mature then I'd exclude things other than sexual content as well. Oh no I have found the menu you were talking about, okay so that only shows up if you're searching for a tag - i.e. "Shanoa (Castlevania)" rather than me just typing in "Shanoa". Ah yes, let me exclude the vampire tag when looking up Castlevania, lmao. And then the Additional Tags limits it to what's coming up in the results, very useful. Is there a like option to always filter certain tags, either via cookies or making an account? That did make sense though, thank you. I sure have read some interesting sentences in the descriptions of stories on here, but just going through that menu on the side seems to do a pretty good job of filtering things out - like I feel mostly happy with everything left. I read a short little one that was pretty nice for what it was, and honestly that "almost as long as War and Peace" one seems interesting too, and there's another short one that I'll read after this too. See, it's easy looking through what there is when there are only like seventy results even without filters, maybe I will stick to Castlevania stuff lmao, if I look up Touhou fics I'm finished. I also might have to replay Shanoa's game and do all those side quests, clearly I'm missing something. That's like my third or fourth favourite game of all time, I love it so much.

The Specialist Boy - and then the sequel went and gave him psychic powers. That's not as insane as it seems for the record, Gundam has always had psychic powers in it. Ah yeah that's fair, but no yeah I'm sort of curious how you thought it was that recent given its reputation for being as influential as it is - unless you didn't have that view of it I suppose. The biggest paintbrush I can find, coming right up! Very, that's a tall order for a series you like, forget about wanting to try something out at that price. Please, please, please tell me that there are no published books that say that there's only one bed on either cover, please tell me that's just a conceptual example. I'm with you; these sound like fanfic tags not an actual description, and the cover of a book is not the right place for tags. Oh yeah yeah, I get it now and I would probably say the same yeah. I mean I did only say perhaps, if the rest is worth it then by all means why wouldn't you. I think I'm a bit like that too where what I like about something is far more important to me than what I don't.
There's still some stuff longer than that, I think it's mostly anime-original series aimed at younger audiences I think - stuff like PreCure, but no yeah I mentioned watching Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans a while back and I feel a little sad that that's probably going to be the last full-length Gundam series. If it's something that interests you then for sure! What makes you say that? The other aspect to it is that technique names aren't necessarily vital to understanding what's going on, so I've definitely skipped trying to figure out that sort of thing before. Oh wow that reminds me, the name of someone's weapon in Gachiakuta was six kanji long, all used primarily for their sounds which put together meant something pretty simple, and I just did not even attempt to figure out the meaning of the kanji; like I understand what's going on here and what it does, forget the rest, that is entirely too much effort, no thank you. Wonderful news, let's hope it stays that way^^ Ooh, shrink wrapped snow! I've never heard of that before either, was it slippery or just very pretty looking? More wonderful news, glad to see they learnt from last time. I just had a look and there are actually quite a few stories with Shanoa, but the current question on my mind is how are there so many lesbian ships; who are they shipping her with?!? The random villager NPCs??? There are like four characters in that game that are actual characters, Shanoa is the only woman, and I'm including Dracula in that four. Well I've found one that might be interesting and seems significantly less sexual than a lot of these, but *looks up the word count of War and Peace for reference* What. I know there are better ways to go about this than just typing Shanoa in the search bar though, what's the like, filter out all the smut tag? I mean I say "filter" but I'm hoping for a tag to search for rather than filtering seven others.

I mean he isn't the only one who was genetically enhanced, he just has the extra special enhancements no one else has, and thinking about it I'm not sure what that added to the story. I have heard precisely nothing about Kaze to Ki no Uta, except for what you just said I guess. You didn't, did you not know that it started in 1989? For something that old it's only forty volumes or so. Oh right, that too; I don't know too much about Berserk so I hadn't even really considered that; I more meant if you'd want to hear about it I guess like I'm doing with Yona or when I'm done with it or what, although this is perhaps a bit far in advance to be pondering this. Oh no it's another "the only editions are fancy ones for people who already like the series" oh dear. I know very little about how books are marketed these days but the little I know does seem rather dire; I mean that's the issue I suppose, they're marketed rather than described with a blurb and whatnot. Sorry I'm drawing a blank, is that depending on the character with regards to being a complicated mess or something else I can't figure out? Assuming it is though: yeah, main characters have to do a lot more than others so it makes sense for them to have at least a bit more going on. The girl named Aro should be in either volume ten or eleven and them going through the tunnel is volume twelve; pretty sure you meant one of those two? Hak is pretty great, it makes sense; he's also pretty prominent as well, so if someone were to not like him that's perhaps enough to put them off the series.
It's like a super weird coincidence that so many things I'm interested in have lined up all at once, usually there's nothing at all. Recent shows are really easy for me to watch as well because they're at least half, if not a quarter, the length of everything else I want to watch - also there are very few of them. I spent the last five episodes of Violet Evergarden crying, ten out of ten, I can't wait to watch it again at some point. I don't remember those really being an issue at all actually, it's usually verbs that are more of an issue because they reuse kanji far less than nouns and adjectives do, a new verb is usually a new kanji but looking at a noun I don't know I can quite often figure out at least something. This is a really weird example, but I remember once coming across "bass boosted" in a YouTube video title and I could just tell what it meant never having seem the word before; it was written as like low sound strengthen or something, kanji are fun^^ Oh, cool - actually cooler than cool, ice cold, alright alr- *ahem* Cool phenomenon, less cool slipping on ice. Oh that is one disastrous chain of events, I very much hope that that doesn't happen again. I've been known to like a character or two, yeah. I had actually been half thinking of looking up Castlevania stuff and seeing if there were any with Shanoa, so I guess that's the plan now! I once saw someone on Tumblr say that there are two types of fan fiction: "put that guy in situations" and "take that guy out of situations". Ah wonderful, wonderful. Oh I'm so glad^^

The genetic modification is what the show is about, so that's fair enough but I do wish the main character wasn't such a special boy. Alright so I looked it up, and what I can find is him saying that it does have a few things in common with shoujo in an interview with someone who brought up the idea. I did however find another interview where Miura lists Versailles no Bara and Kaze to Ki no Uta as specific influences, as well as shoujo in general, so there's certainly some truth to it. No what do you mean, 2027 isn't next y - oh no it is. Yeah, again my usual weirdness with regards to reading on-going manga, but I think it was talking about it briefly with someone else I came to learn that Miura wrote three hundred and sixty two chapters of it, and that makes for a nice almost-a-year's-worth, so I decided I'd read all of those, treat it as done for the time being, and then get to the continuation of it later. Ehh, Bokurano is one of my favourite manga I'll be fine lmao, but yeah when I get to it I can let you know about it in whatever fashion you so wish to hear about it in. Oh and I should totally get to Versailles no Bara and Kaze to Ki no Uta before then so that I can notice all of the influences. Oh ain't that the truth, I really need to go back to reading about history and mythology and stuff like I used to. I feel like that's a bit of a problem with assigning tropes to everything; too single-minded of a view of things when things are very often a complicated mess of things. Naturally, but anime is also going to take, I feel mostly safe in assuming at least one recording session for every episode? I'm totally a little bit behind where I want to be both in reading Yona and commenting on things. So like I got to the sword dancing a few days ago unless there are multiple instances of that; I think I like the moment more than the specific panels but they are very striking panels nonetheless. I also have a terrible joke to make about how of course that girl in Sen province didn't end up making advances on Hak, her name is literally Aro. And I also have to apologise for my brain rot because after they all went through the tunnel to drive off Ri Hazara's troops outside of Saika and Gija is covered in cobwebs and Shin-ah has spiders on him all I could think was "average Dragon Warrior is covered in 0 spiders. Spiders Shin-ah...". I will hopefully have something intelligent to say tomorrow lmao. Tae-jun being an absolute hero as well defending the field; Hak is I think my favourite character so far but he might actually be in second place.
That's on me for having zero idea what common knowledge is, but I am a little surprised about not quite Dynazenon itself but I thought SSSS.Gridman at least was really popular, so I figured you might recognise that part of the name. I can't believe I know more about what's currently airing than, well anyone really - there are actually like three or four things airing that I'm interested in which is super rare for me. Violet Evergarden is really good! It's every bit as pretty as you've heard as well! Yeah I remember you saying that, I've still got to do my homework of re-reading the manga and learning all the words I don't know though so I can have a smoother experience watching it without subtitles; watching adaptations of manga I've already read in Japanese seems like the closest I'm going to get to free practice doing that and I totally need it as well. Something like that yeah, I feel like the problem is something along the lines of doing it like that gets it in your mind as everything coming after what comes before, so it all falls apart if you forget even a little bit. Manga confirmed good, if you maybe remember as well that I said that Pandora Hearts is something that I either read a bit of or at the very least wanted to read way back when I first got into manga, so it'll be nice to finally read it. Oh wow Pandora Hearts wasn't even finished yet back then either. Ahaha; there's a character from Bravern called Vanitas who comes up in the search on here before Vanitas Vanitas, that's really funny. Is freezing rain different from hail? But if it's already less than forecast, then that sounds good for not losing power, but then again things can always get worse, so here's hoping it doesn't. What happened with the water though, was it pipes freezing? I mean I am into some really obscure stuff, but I am also into Touhou - and if there's one thing that has fan fiction it's Touhou; I'm just not sure what I'd want to read fanfic of honestly. I feel like Touhou and Gundam at least have a lot of potential for like, fitting totally original plotlines into the setting really easily. That's impressive, but I would expect nothing less of fujos/dans. I more meant it getting casted into the aforementioned abyss before it really gets anywhere rather than afterwards, but I do suppose that even if I were to only ever write the start of stories I'd eventually get good enough at that to get past it. I still really like the idea but there's a lot of details I'd have to work out, and I presume the cast would be virtually all original which does not help either - well I suppose it does help in that I have full control over them at least. It probably comes down to coming up with an interesting detective guy and the all-important sidekick* and then putting them in Situations, and I do have a situation or two in mind. Ah it's just a regular thing, probably not entirely pleasant regardless, but much better than something unexpected and especially if the results were good.

*I have no idea if the etymology of sidekick interests you but I thought it was cool to learn, so here it is: "From side +‎ kick, which in the late 19th and early 20th century was a slang term for the front side pocket of a pair of trousers, known as the pocket safest from theft. Thus, by analogy, a "side-kick" was a person's closest companion.".

See, SEED has genetically modified superhumans but the main character is an even specialer superhuman than the rest of them, so yeah pretty much; being a Gundam show not named after the main Gundam was clearly a mistake. I mean I have heard that Miura considered Berserk a shoujo, now I don't have a source for that mind you, but it amuses me greatly so I hope it's true, and also I mean I want to read both series; and funnily enough I'm reading one this year and plan to read the other the next. Ah yeah. I think I've read a couple things too quickly myself; it's not the best feeling. That's the same with a lot of the stuff I've learnt in recent years, always coming across interesting things but never properly looking into them. I think it's definitely that too (and fittingly enough they're finally starting to get somewhere on that front at the point in the manga I'm at), the two kind of overlap. I think Tae-jun had to have something like this or else what does he do for the story, like we already have his brother to hate. Yeah yeah, cheaper to produce and yeah I think Kusanagi has mentioned them coming both with the volumes and the magazine. Oh that's totally true, it would be a lot more of a one-and-done affair than recording for an anime or a game.
Not quite that long I don't think^^ The last two I finished were Bravern and SSSS.Dynazenon; uncharacteristically for me, recent shows, so maybe you've heard of them; very fun shows for cool robot action; I just started Violet Evergarden as well and that's cool, and then I think next week I'll watch Jujutsu Kaisen Zero. Bravern's the one I got obsessed with the OP of, I link that more as a potential courtesy rather than anything else, so only check it out if you want to. Ah no yeah, finding the lyrics isn't the problem it's just that I feel like only singing along with the lyrics means it's harder to recall them, like I feel like I should mix in not reading the lyrics sometimes or something; I'm thinking about this way too much aren't I. Ahaha, glad to hear it's not just me. I like the banners people make for the challenges, and someone made some really cool Pandora Hearts ones so I might be reading that finally - I was planning to read Vanitas soon as well, so those might overlap, oops. That might be fun actually though; it would make comparisons and noticing how their style developed super easy. That sounds, mildly worrying? I have no idea, I figure though it's one of those things that's not too bad if they happen where you live as long as it's not super bad. Oh that's really cool! Ah, yeah I can see that lmao. I don't even know what I'd want to look up fanfic of, but that does sound like a good idea. Yeah you're right, but as someone who has never really written that's going to be tough to get over I feel; just trying to get something written and not wanting to cast it into the abyss. Alright so, Homura steals a lot of weapons to fight with due to having no offensive magic but access to both time-stop and infinite storage space, and these are like not just handguns but belt-fed machine guns and rocket launchers, so she's clearly stealing from not just the police but the yakuza and the SDF as well, and I thought it'd be fun to write about a detective trying to investigate this impossible nonsense. Friend, you have just given me one of the single best reasons for being preoccupied, don't worry and I hope everything's as fine as you would hope it is.

Oh that's the best description of them, I love it. Oh SEED's main character has all of the plot armour, which is honestly the least of the issues with SEED but I digress. Ah I think this might be it! In one of the chapters I read today Kusanagi mentioned Miura doing a second piece of art of all of them, so that's probably the first one and the one I was talking about before is the second one; thank you! This is some super JRPG looking art, although that's probably more so Berserk's influence on JRPGs than the reverse I would imagine? It's really cool art though, I think it still has the right feel to everyone despite how different it is stylistically. It's definitely the way to go with long series I think, especially if you're like me and don't stick to just one thing at a time, plus it's nice to artificially put back into series that are already finished that sense of having to wait to see what's next. I think I need to find the time to properly read some Japanese history, I know bits of it but nothing proper. Everyone has a crime arc at some point in their life, probably. I feel like Yona only has the master / servant relationship with Hak, and even then it feels like a performance that they're both putting on rather than a genuine thing. I think calling the Dragons her retainers sounds right to me, I know that's not much different of a word but I think it better encapsulates the sort of relationship they have where Yona is the weakest of the bunch and they follow her for reasons not related to her having power. Oh I can easily believe it, he's been pretty great these last couple of volumes. Oh I'm sure it's somewhere for a series as popular as this is. I have to imagine drama CDs are cheaper to put together than we're imagining, because there are some series that don't feel super popular to me that still manage to have drama CDs. There's a really cool spread in chapter fifty nine of Yona coming up behind a tree to talk to Tae-jun, and in chapter sixty there's a great panel of a small tower of kids sitting on a young Hak's shoulders.
Big sleeves! I love drapey parts of outfits: sleeves, capes, jackets tied around the waist, wings kind of go in here, oh Yona's earrings as well, and really long hair too - I think that I'd love to have super long cape-hair but I am absolutely not prepared to take care of that!! Yes! Yes it was supposed to! I hate computers breaking things! Three minutes and eleven seconds was the intended timestamp. I mean that sounds like it's more on when I end up replying than MAL's fault to be fair. Yeah I'd say so! Watching some anime for the first time in ages this last month or so has been great, especially getting to some super robot anime for the first time in far too long - like I do love Gundam and the more serious shows but I've been watching far too many of those and not enough ones full of screaming about justice. And I love singing the opening themes so much, maybe I should look up if there's a better way to learn the lyrics to songs because there must be half a dozen songs I only half know the lyrics to and so I can't really sing them at all without the song playing. I think we talked very briefly about singing absolutely ages ago - do you ever misremember the order of the lyrics and get stuck in a loop like I sometimes do? Like you think one part links into a part that it just doesn't and you end up as the snake eating its own tail. Also this year's Manga Reading Challenge is up and it looks so fun^^ To put it as simply as I can, this time you have to read stuff that satisfies specific challenges rather than having a lot of room to pick and choose, so no avoiding the weirder ones, and that's so much more fun. Oh nice, how's that going? It's far funnier to imagine this as you with a typewriter and them all looking over your shoulder, but that does sound like the correct amount of procrastination according to what Tumblr has taught me about writers - alternatively your writing is so good that it charmed them all, probably that one. I kind of want to write fan fiction myself but I have no idea what I'm doing, maybe I should just write absolute trash and go from there. Oh right, I actually had a really good idea for a Madoka Magica fanfic but there's no way I can actually make the idea work (my idea involves pretty big spoilers for the record). I also half wanted to write my own version of Gundam SEED Destiny because that show had so much potential that it dropped straight into a black hole, but that would be crazy amounts of effort to properly put together.

Pack is definitely the word to describe this collection of misfits, wild animals the lot of them - well aside from Yona, Yun's feral. Yoon has a totally different feel to it even if the difference is just a longer vowel sound, well to me at least, although the more I say it, Yoon is growing on me - it does kind of somehow fit him better; it's not as sharp and so sounds cuter maybe? On the first day of Christmas Yona gave to me one Thun-der Beeeast! I love characters having thematic colours so much. The Gundam SEED bit? Yeah, the protagonist is infamous for doing something really similar but you can at least pretend he managed to escape in time, the other guy I'm talking about is visibly still inside it as it explodes and survives - SEED is erh, it has its issues let's say. Hak being so ridiculous also works better than a lot of instances because he's so devoted to protecting Yona with his strength rather than crushing people, it also makes his antics funnier as well which is very important. If you give Hak a mecha then he just becomes Master Asia from G Gundam - this sort of thing. Oh and that also reminds me of Kusanagi saying that Miura drew art of Yona and Hak, which must have been so insanely cool for her, if you happen to have that relatively to hand then I'd love to see it, otherwise I'll look it up myself when I'm done reading it so I don't accidentally stumble across spoilers. Oh and on that note, it feels weird that I'm already over a fifth of the way through; like it's such a long series how is that possible, slow and steady I guess. I mean that certainly is a possibility, Japan was historically pretty closed off, but yeah one of us would have to properly look it up if we wanted an actual answer. It's always three kingdoms with east Asia huh, and that sounds like it was a fun time hearing about all that from your teacher. Totally, going to be a bit hard to find the time though I take it? - oh and it'd be so cool to hear your go-through of it after I've done mine. I wasn't expecting bandit Yona to be anything more than a one-off, and yet she's still going. And Shin-ah's bit with Yona when she was trying to calm him down was crazy like, intimate? for two characters not in a relationship, I guess maybe Yona's a little bit like a mother to him though? Really cool chapters though, and wow getting to finally see why the Blue Dragon's power was so feared by his village was great with all the visuals and the aforementioned conclusion involving Yona. Tae-Jun being both amusingly pathetic and getting some character development made for a fun few chapters there as well. Also, and of personal interest to me, is that according to some of Kusanagi's comments Hiyama Nobuyuki played Heuk Chi in the drama CD, so a) my favourite voice actor and b) that's Ocarina of Time adult Link if you didn't know. I'd also like to self-indulgently add that the primary reason he's my favourite voice actor is a show called GaoGaiGar where he's screaming about courage all the time which makes him the perfect voice actor for Link. That show aired the year before Ocarina of Time came out so in terms of recording for the game that was probably at the same time, I wonder if there's something to that or if it's just the greatest coincidence ever.
That's a useful skill! That's understandable. I think I'd say it's the other way round; like improved hardware finally allowed the games to properly achieve the feel of the artwork, Ocarina of Time is a super vibey game too so that helps as well with making that connection with the artwork. Oh I'd totally forgotten what the rest of that dress looks like, I remember us talking about this before - yeah it's really nice. Oh I totally had never noticed the like kimono sleeves on it giving it a bit of a mix of western and eastern, that's so cool. I mean it was just that small bit of the video that I wanted to show you, I haven't actually seen the full thing myself but I do really love that part.
Yeah, they definitely have a certain air about them that wouldn't fit a modern school romance story; it needs to be at least a bit fairy tale-esque I feel? I'm total goo myself so I totally understand, so don't worry about it, I'm just glad that the goo has (I hope to presume) subsided at least a bit today then^^

He is very friendly, but he's not as cuddly as Shin-ah. Yoon is Yun I assume, just romanised differently? Medicine pretty boy. Mm, definitely Su-Won though, having the one antagonist dragon's cool - plus then you'd get the black and white dragons, the special colours, around Yona the Crimson Dragon which works pretty well. I've watched Gundam SEED, a guy survives being inside a mecha as it explodes so I've definitely seen worse, Hak's always presented as being absurd - it's fine, and plus, I want Hak to live; besides Akatsuki no Yona doesn't really feel like a super fighting oriented story so people being absurdly strong is doubly fine, and not to mention that Hak's death would turn this into a very different story - I mean I suppose I don't know that he never does but it doesn't feel like he will. Hey, I gotta act like the mecha otaku I am from time to time^^ It was a fun comparison to make though, both just because Gundam and Akatsuki no Yona feel so different that it feels a bit intrinsically absurd of a comparison and because of the massive differences in the type of characters and stories they are. Mm yeah, but my thought process I think was that so has Japan I'm pretty sure, so seeing as it feels rather different it was probably more of a direct Chinese influence? I mean now that I think about it there's absolutely no reason to assume they had the same level of Chinese influence on their cultures but I didn't think of that at the time. Interesting, not that I really know much about Chinese history either but I know pretty much nothing about Korean history. That short little interlude with Geun-Tae and Su-Won was cool, keeping up the contrast between his killing of Yona's father and his otherwise virtuous deeds; meanwhile Yona declares herself bandit chief and picks a fight with some officials, wait there's no way he drove them out with the intent they'd fix things he couldn't do officially is there; I mean obviously don't answer that but that is a very interesting thought I had just had even if I'm not fully convinced of it. Clear Card being longer you mean? Yeah, not by much but it's a few volumes longer than the original. Oh maybe it was, I definitely remember that coming up but I can't remember who brought it up. Hahahaha, alright so, I figured I might as well just check which it was - and yes it was Rayearth, but much like the current conversation the following sentence was about Houseki no Kuni^^ Anyway as was apparently preordained: as long as the names of all the characters in Houseki no Kuni stand out to me I'm sure I'll be able to tell them apart, that's what got me when reading Claymore; being terrible with names and therefore getting super confused who people were talking about.
It feels more cartoony than cute to me, I mean not that those two are mutually exclusive or anything but I think somehow it doesn't feel cute to me. Does that include the CD-i games? Jokes aside, I don't think I'm huge on a lot of the pre-Ocarina of Time artwork done for the games, the actual games themselves I agree with you on though. Oh I do like the art for the Oracle games, but yeah having given them all a quick look the artstyle for the first two games, A Link to the Past, and Link's Awakening isn't something I'm huge on personally. Looking up artwork I did fairly unsurprisingly come across a couple of piece of fanart that are both pretty cute so why not share them I figure. Maybe? I mean really we just have no collective idea what the answer is and I don't think we're going to derive one any time soon. Do you mean in a similar vein to some of the stuff with the machinery in the behind-the-scenes video for dancing Ganondorf? That I'd be interested in, although I might have to put that on hold given my recent interest in perhaps playing them. Styling on enemies is always really cool, it's the entire goal of Devil may Cry and Bayonetta and I love those games - I do however lack the skills to style, I can merely survive (sometimes). This is another really cool example even if it is a TAS.
Either way, a wonderful change! Oh I hadn't even noticed that Akatsuki no Yona's didn't have the box, having been reading it with the English covers and all; I actually really like the original Japanese covers - volume five especially, but I did only look at a few. Ah yeah it doesn't look like they all have that these days, I'm not too surprised - as I said it does look really retro, which has its appeal and advantages, but I'm sure there are a lot of series that it would benefit to have more normal cover art.

Ah my mistake, the exact opposite of a detour before they got to the Yellow Dragon. With the chapter being called "All Together" a few pages in I was like "Wait a second, that's totally him isn't it?" and indeed it was. Zeno's got a really cool design, I was right about that at least. Yeah, between then and now I thought that it could also be yellow, white with no black is a little weird and we already had all of red, green, and blue but that might not be significant at all in the cultural background to Akatsuki no Yona - I know in Japan in the distant past it was red, blue, black, and white for colours, so if this is based on a mixture of China and Korea then it could easily be something where red, white, blue, green, yellow makes a lot of sense. Hak smirking saying that he likes the name dark dragon was really good; the four dragons have special powers but Hak is simply built different as they say. She totally is! Back when I was talking about that one panel of her I was thinking that she was more intense than anything I had seen from Mikazuki in Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans which was really fresh in my mind at the time, and maybe not so much Gundam but I do always think of mecha as being super intense, so for me to think that about Yona is a very high evaluation of her intensity. Yeah, it being gradual feels like it's going to serve the story and her character very well. Ah yeah, it did feel a bit Chinese to me as well, especially with dragons playing a major role, but the names stood out to me a lot more - and for all I know Korea could very well have had the same stylings China did, so I didn't focus on that as much. Yeah Clear Card, seems pretty cool that it got a sequel twenty years later that's actually longer than the original. Was it xxxHOLiC? Nothing else is coming to mind and I think you did mention that third series before, but that's also one of the others I want to read so maybe I'm getting things mixed up. So, so very pretty!!! They're so exactly to my taste, it's great. I'll see what I think of that when I read it then because I've not seen anything from the actual manga itself yet.
Ah yeah, there was that wasn't there. People do seem to have come around on Wind Waker though which is nice, and we got the two DS games in that same style as well, which I'm very happy about because as I've said I love Spirit Tracks. Is that what it was; I hadn't forgotten about collecting it, I mean you do that in the first game as well, but I though it was bestowed upon him as well in that game - maybe I'm thinking of a different one or maybe I'm just flat out wrong, I did watch a playthrough of Wind Waker but that was like fifteen years ago, which is perhaps quite a while ago. Ganon feels like someone who would get incredibly mad if you defeated him by parrying all of his attacks with a pan lid, he's got a lot of pride I feel.
I wonder if series that are published exclusively digitally has something to do with that; I remember Itou Junji talking about that in an afterword in his most recent collection of stories, about how he didn't really have deadlines or page limits because it was published digitally, so maybe it being easier to take breaks with a digital publication sort of spread to physical magazines by popular demand. Any particular examples of ones that look weird? I think part of why I like them might be how they refuse to look modern even if the series is, and I definitely read a few Hana to Yume series back when I first got into manga - including Zig Zag which I need to finally finish now that I can read Japanese! - so like, even the covers for more recent series evoke that same feeling for me of back then; maybe it's something like that.

Gi-Gan is pretty cool, and Shin-ah is too yeah! I've still yet to meet the last dragon but that should be soon, although I could see there being a bit of a detour before the final one, I've also been wondering this entire time if one of them is going to be a woman - white, blue, green, red, and then would it be black? Did they say what all the colours were, I already forget lmao - a black dragon girl sounds like someone who would have a really cool design. And oh wow Su-Won showing up was a surprise, that page of Yona aiming at Kum-Ji was as well; like I was expecting Hak or someone to have been who was giving him chills, not Yona. That was a pretty good moment; she's not suddenly beating up bad guys or anything but she did take his life, which feels significant. Oh yeah, I wanted to ask as well: do you know anything about if the setting for Akatsuki no Yona is based on anywhere in particular? A lot of the character names make me think Korea, but the map doesn't look obviously like the Korean peninsula to me. Yeah we have talked a bit about CLAMP before, I will be sure to do so - and there's the sequel too actually, I've not heard much about that. I've been in love with Houseki no Kuni's character designs ever since I first saw fanart of one of them on Tumblr, I don't think it was tagged but I figured it out at some point. I might just go for one of those two based on how much energy I feel I can muster at the time.
Oh neat. Oh that's super cool too, the Nintendo 64 games and Twilight Princess do have a pretty similar feel to them, way more than any other Zelda games I want to say. Good with animals because he is one lmao. Isn't it genuinely just based on courage? I want to say one of the Links gets it mid-game, Wind Waker I think? Now that you mention it I forget whether Linkle was more of Nintendo or Koei Tecmo's idea. Her story in Hyrule Warriors is her accidentally stumbling into being a proper hero in her own right trying to be the hero of legend, and that's a nice little tale for a fairly silly one-off character from a spin-off I feel. Is the pot lid a weapon and not a shield? Or are we simply telling Ganon that his attacks are weak and not worth a proper shield.
Ah yeah, I have been seeing the mangaka for a few series I follow take little breaks here and there which is nice to see, for some reason I feel like that's a more recent thing but that's based on absolutely no actual knowledge of mine so I'm not sure why I feel that way; I hope schedules become more relaxed for everyone though, it seems tough. Oh I'll have to be sure to get to Library Wars then. The actual volume covers, I've never seen one of the magazine covers I don't think. Woo!

Yeah, they've been together more than long enough and it's not like the two of them being two years older would change anything at all. Anyway, I've got a few more things to say about Yona now! I love Hak's smirk, it's so good. And then the current part I'm at with the Green Dragon and the pirates is pretty good, Yona's been pushing herself a lot, and frankly more than she probably should, so I wonder if she's going to end up pushing herself too far soon or something. You also may already know this, but I always like details like this so I though I'd point out that the names of the main cities of the five tribes all have the kanji for the respective element somewhere in the name, the "fuu" in Fuuga for instance means wind - and on a similar note Ao means blue. Very cool manga so far, it's definitely making good use of the length to let Yona grow at a reasonable pace, and as quickly as our main cast has grown as well none of them feel flat. Ah yeah, that would be nice; the four I think I'm most planning to read next are Cardcaptor Sakura, Houseki no Kuni, Genderless Danshi ni Aisareteimasu, and Shinainaru Boku he Satsui wo Komete; I want to read those first two in Japanese so I think I'll only read one of them for now but I think I will read the other three in one order or another. Even though I think Houseki no Kuni is the manga I want to read the most right now, I can honestly make an argument for any of them; CCS being way easier to read and there being other CLAMP manga that I want to get to as well, Genderless Danshi being nice and short, and Shinainaru being something someone recommended to me so it would be nice to be able get back to them about it.
This game has lore for days it feels like, is this all from the Zelda's Memories thing with the camera? Link's such a weird hero of destiny; he's always some random dork who gets accidentally involved in things and he doesn't really have anything special about him, there is the Triforce (wait why does the Triforce have a rather lengthy Wikipedia page?) but like courage is just a thing people have. Oh on that note, are you aware of what Linkle's whole deal is? She was given that name and has a green outfit because of legends about the hero, and her parents or maybe it was her grandparents wanted her to be a hero - wait did I mention this before, I hope not. Ah yeah, save them for the stronger enemies, like from what I've seen the bow and any old weapon will deal with most enemies pretty well. Oh wow, they really upped some of the damage in this game then compared to the others huh - true!
Yeah, most likely. Weekly manga still weird me out; Gahiakuta has seventeen volumes out and let's say that it's halfway through, that's a whole entire seventeen volumes left to go! But it will only take like another three years! And don't even get me started on how crazy long Iruma kun is (hello please finish I want to read you). It's a super classic though, so I do want to read it one day. Basara very much looks like shoujo Hokuto no Ken to me, so I can thus conclude that it probably rules. Oh and 7 Seeds is the same author, that one doesn't interest me as much personally but I can easily imagine it being exceedingly good; it has that sort of feel to me between the premise and how long it is. Oh, Library Wars sounds incredible too, and yeah, sci-fi according to here. Sort of on a related note: how do you feel about the standard sort of Hana to Yume cover template? I think it's easily the sort of thing that could be terrible *cough* Sega Master System box art *cough* but I kind of really like it. I'm glad that went over well^^ The same studio's actually doing part seven of JoJo in a few months as well, so hopefully that's fun too; and you've got Yona and probably Kagurabachi to look forward to as well, fun times abound!