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I've noticed that some manga available from Yen Press in print aren't available digitally, like Karneval and Are You Alice?. I've always been curious about both series (especially since watching the Karneval anime), but I don't know if I'd be willing to go in on the manga without checking it out first (despite loving the anime, I never really connected with the devils and realist manga).
Meanwhile:
Magical Girl Recruitment Down Due to Anti-Magical Girl Anime Propaganda
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why not?
But I mean, that's why we love you.
Update on the Pri☆Chan situation. IRL Daia is now using the first blonde Daia avatar, whilst the AI V-Tuber Daia uses her blue haired avatar. So it seems they will be separate characters from now on.
Also, wouldn't it be more of my thing to fall in love with a very obscure character?
As for the second question; no? I mean, it could be an obscure work, but not an obscure character. Two very different things. I mean, your favorite iM@S is Chihaya.
skywalkerflying circus athlete is Saki.There will be yet another Date A Live anime (the fourth), which is quite impressive I'd say.
Their recent policy of making it so that you can only blow TOM points on half your order's subtotal...I can understand how that might make business sense, but unfortunately, between that and the fact that I'm running out of things to buy, makes the membership less valuable to me.
I literally only bought from them four times over the year, and each time beyond the first, I had to rummage through their store looking for what to get. I searched a variety of names of different anime series, game series, and musical artists, and eventually built up a wishlist that consisted mostly of things that were long out of stock. The few things I did wishlist tended to never really get to a price at which I'd want to pick them up, though by piling on a variety of discounts -- TOM points from my membership and from writing reviews, store coupons, and discounts on the items themselves in many cases -- that justified my picking them up. But when it got to the point where I basically had to take an entire day to think through a TOM order, the "transaction costs" to me are just too darned high.
And so is shipping, honestly. I might have stuck around if they had an option like "wait until the next shipment to consolidate all shipping into the store's own bulk shipping and then get everything sent from the US warehouse instead, even if waiting takes several months". And that would also reduce the number of shipments and thus the number of boxes (and thereby being more environmentally-friendly).
I have some CDJapan points that are gonna expire soon. Chances are low I'll blow them on anything, unless the site also gives me a coupon that provides a better than 10% discount.
I have yet to make a Mandarake account. Been too busy.
Pro-tip: only honestly put things on a wishlist if you intend to buy them at full price and are saving up for them. Otherwise, they'll remain wishes for a long time (especially as they sell out, though I know things don't really sell out on TOM).
I don't want to ignite another retail debate but you understand how this would be bad business sense right?
When I was young I used to take these very seriously but then it turned out most of the points that expired were birthday points or like 20 points off an order from whenever I'd accidentally forgotten about.
My advice is find one site and stick to it. I only really do online business with CDJ and Amazon UK nowadays because it helps keep my mind focused. I mean, I use AmiAmi for exclusives (Pretty All Friends goods most recently) but otherwise I only use/browse the first two (unless I'm on a window shopping kick on eBay or Saks Fifth Avenue).
Meanwhile:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I guess I need to finish reading the Bleach manga now.
I know BigBadToyStore had this feature when I bought from them. But I think they were unique in actually holding things for several months. HobbyLink Japan had a similar feature but held things for way shorter time.
Anyway, I kinda love that Mash seems like a manifestation of Nasu's preference for Sakura over the other Fate/stay Night main heroines. Since she's the girl with human experimentation in her backstory and weird hair color who can't stop saying "senpai". But also her powers are from a hero much better than King Arthur.
They're only "wishes" in the sense that they're on a "wishlist"; for me it's more like a watchlist.
> (especially as they sell out, though I know things don't really sell out on TOM).
They do. I've run into out-of-stock items, and seen items with limited availability, and even bought the last item, a bunch of times now.
Sometimes they indicate how many of an item they still have left. Sometimes they don't. I've unwittingly bought the last item without the indication that it's the last item, at least a few times now.
> I don't want to ignite another retail debate but you understand how this would be bad business sense right?
I guess i can see how it could be a logistical nightmare when scaled up then managed inappropriately.
> My advice is find one site and stick to it. I only really do online business with CDJ and Amazon UK nowadays because it helps keep my mind focused.
For otaku stuff, I have TOM (which is now basically tapped out), CDJ (which is probably close to being tapped out), and Mandarake (unexplored). Amazon (and I guess Amazon.co.jp which I've yet to screw with) always exists as a backup, but I'd rather not buy from Amazon if I can avoid it.
I never noticed this. Though I don't know much about Mash's backstory but I bet it's like not as bad as Sakura's. I think. Probably.
Nobody's is, really.
Amazon JP is a rabbit hole you don't want to go down. Especially with older singles from secondary sellers...
I watched the second episode of Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future. Others (exactly one blogger) have said that this is the best part of the whole Pretty Rhythm series (possibly making it the objectively best part of the whole Pretty Series) but... I don't see it. This image perfectly captures the protagonist's attitude at every point in the whole show.
The other characters are fun, but it tends for the very basic sort of humor. If it gets better, it has to really, really get better.
It is one of the few kid's anime where like... 5/9 of the main cast are Korean, so that's unique.
Also, I can't ever really disapprove of Pretty Series;
So she's a fire-breathing dragon. Hot.
I mean she's really really obnoxious and noisy and selfish.
So in Magia Record, which is about circumstances as important as life and death (as much as they can be when you trade your soul away via a pretty rock to a cat type physicist alien species and become an animated golem)...
Instead of explaining her circumstances after being caught out, she throws a quiet hissy fit, refuses to tell them anything and then allows them to go see more crazy people, Who will explain whatever Yachiyo did in what is going to probably be the least positive light possible and this may let them recruit at least one of her friends. And she is just cool with this.
To be fair, they go too far in the past to cover whatever Yachiyo's Doppel did just yet, but they do speed through "turns out you're golems now earmarked for saving the world" and then slowly (finally? in episode like... 12/13?) introduce the concept of Doppels. Though Iroha has doppelled twice and I'm sure she's vaguely aware of her mysterious power she doesn't know much about.
In terms of the way the Doppel powers are explained, I think this is certainly a Madoka Magica story for our times. In the first Madoka story, the girls accept their fate as a result of their actions. In this story, Satomi Touka (if she's being honest) is attempting to break them free of their fate and amassing a group of girls to do so whilst using some very very questionable measures, yet presenting herself as unequivocally good.
Also, Yachiyo is in college (which explains how she owns a boarding house maybe though even for "college" she doesn't seem particularly old) and a model and somehow nobody thought to ever mention this before episode 11. It seems weird to have college-age magical girls but hey, this is Kamihama (or whatever it's called) where they can't accidentally self-combust into monsters if the love of their life picks their terrible friend over them.
In episode 3 of Princess Principal (episode 2 in canon order),
They can't just go onto the airship because they're undercover as students at a school, and because like... they have exactly these two spies in the whole of the Kingdom side, they have to get Charlotte to spin some story (which is a bad story, like apparently this airfield is where they once sent somebody off and unless the translation is bad this is the extent of her cover) to visit the site.
Through some feat of idiocy, Ange and /Beatrice/ get stuck on the mission, and throughout Ange tells Beatrice that if the Princess' (Charlotte's) lady-in-waiting-but-not-actually (I actually don't get this, they never formally say Beatrice is Ange's lady in waiting but she acts like she is and really Charlotte should have one) is caught doing spy things the Princess will be suspected.
Nobody seems to think that if the printing plates are stolen off the ship by a teenage girl right after the princess leaves that will also cause lots of suspicion. In fact nobody ever does suspect Charlotte of anything until the very end of the show for other reasons.
[20:14:48] [GMH] for some reason i'm suddenly imagining what if i'm living on a ship
[20:15:01] [GMH] what if where i'm living is a ship
[20:15:19] [GMH] and then i put on the Arpeggio of Blue Steel OST
[20:15:51] [GMH] and now i'm thinking about how the AIs in that story are about changing from thinking in terms of strategic antagonism to developing personal relationships
[20:16:07] [GMH] and that's kinda the story's theme about what it means to be human
Welcome to my life!
To be entirely honest, the first time I came across the main twist
I am not a fan of how the ACCA: Regards OVA is just fanservice for a series that doesn't require it, but it really entered trolling territory when they had a very vague plot that is very explicitly revealed to be nothing to be concerned about and then just point it out:
I understand that the OVA was based on a stage reading, so that's why there are lots of tangents just showing off random characters' eloquence (especially with how well everything is timed to the music) but at almost 50m that is was a lot to take in.
And we most certainly do not require a prequel OVA.
(going by recent posts in other threads, my posts will look really, really weird if imgur ever goes down).
Was that even a twist? I thought it was mentioned a number of times already, long before the big reveal about how that one key piece of the underlying setting mechanics worked.
What I meant was when they talk about how the planet was a space colony, they mention the mechanics of how the energy on the planet works and I was like...
okay, that's an idea.
I think mainly it was because this is something everyone should have known, but they didn't, and then they had to explain why nobody knew.
I still don't love it but I at least no longer think it's extremely out of left field.
This is always the best sort of advice.
Talk to Congress.
Also, the Prism is all around us and in all of our hearts, which is sort of the same as being surveilled at all times!