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Pokemon Concierge Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 02:53:24 No.6764 [Reply]

Four episodes of stop motion animation goodness! The scenery is gorgeous and the pokemon are fun to watch.

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Anonymous 05/16/25 (Fri) 05:57:24 No.6819

>>6796
Yeah there's no way that's 3D unless they got 100000000x better in japan.

Anonymous 05/16/25 (Fri) 06:31:32 No.6820

>>6817
>>6818
cute pikachu

also what's up with anime about cakes getting all this super unique kind of animation or style

Anonymous 05/16/25 (Fri) 07:27:43 No.6821

(spoiler)

Anonymous 05/16/25 (Fri) 07:40:08 No.6822

>>6796
not really lost. Just very unproffitable

Anonymous 05/16/25 (Fri) 08:29:31 No.6825

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Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 01:57:02 No.6754 [Reply]

Tried to play the new DOOM: The Dark Refund today and it kinda sucked. I enjoyed the shit out of eternal and to a similar extent 2016 when they came out, but this one I just couldn't get into out the gate. I think it's because of how tryhard the story is when it comes to being 'epic' or 'awesome'. The writing in these games has never been that good but in 2016 and eternal I was mostly able to push them aside and out of mind to focus on the gameplay more. But in this game it's front and center and impossible to really glaze my eyes over (especially since tabbing out brings up the pause menu), they just can't write for shit and I wish they'd realize this. It's not that you can't skip the cutscenes, it's pretty easy to do, but it's just really annoying and messes up the flow if you do and there's still ingame stuff as well that nags on you. The gameplay in this is still fine, arcadey arena shooter and all with secrets galore scattered across the map. Although, I feel like the secrets have been getting less and less exciting since 2016, used to be actual upgrades and early weapons and such but now it's just stupid trinkets and lore items and I don't care for them. I think that eternal was a bit more quick and snappy, though I'll have to go back after a sale and see how this one turns out to be near the endgame when you have all upgrades and such. Also it doesn't really help for me that right before I booted it up I was playing minecraft and another indie game which have very noninvasive tutorials and minimal railroading while this game stops the gameplay every 20 seconds to force you to learn something new or show off some new enemy and I got tired of that real fast.

But above all else what made me decide I had enough and wanted to refund it was while just in a level I was on high quality settings with even DLSS enabled on a 3090 and I was getting sub60 fps. Combined with everything else that pissed me off so much I alt-f4'd out straight to the purchase history screen to request my refund.

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Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 04:21:17 No.6771

>>6770
Actually I haven't gotten around to playing that one yet. Saw so much buzz around it and sorta memoryholed it as something the algorithm was forcing on me, but I should give it a chance.

Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 04:55:47 No.6772

>>6766
that stuff is probably why I didn't finish those games, felt like I was a participant, not the random dude having to survive based on whatever resources I could get, rather the game called me the best and praised me for epic kills. I will skip this one after OP confirmed my suspicions.

Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 05:33:33 No.6773

It doesn't even have a cool Mick Gordon soundtrack because they fucked him over in Eternal.

Anonymous 05/16/25 (Fri) 00:45:32 No.6788

>>6768
I feel like they really should've just revived Quake instead and used it for doing the things they did with modern Doom. I get that they didn't want to iterate on 3 and the prototypes for Doom 4 prior had failed multiple times so they wanted to get 2016 out but it would've been better to let the 2016 Doom stand at where it was and then shift everything over to Quake for these ideas. They deviated way too much from what 2016 even did and 2016 was just way too ambitious.

Anonymous 05/16/25 (Fri) 03:20:25 No.6793

game looks fun as hell without the dumb slowdown, which of all the toggleable options it isn't one

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Anonymous 04/23/25 (Wed) 23:34:51 No.4553 [Reply]

Is this a face, only a mother could love?

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Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 02:09:17 No.6759

>>6758
Yeah, still looks a bit odd because I suck at positioning eyes and ended up making one bigger, maybe someone else can do a better job

Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 02:12:49 No.6760

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>>6758

Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 11:59:33 No.6774

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>>6758
Only did a bad edit of 1. and 2. in this one.
Who even looks at ears?

Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 12:02:53 No.6775

>>6760
Pointy chins for the wins

Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 18:17:37 No.6785

>>6760
uuueeeerrrrrrnnnnnn

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Anonymous 05/06/25 (Tue) 19:21:37 No.6186 [Reply]

la fanservice

Anonymous 05/06/25 (Tue) 19:28:32 No.6187

>>6186
As the fans are horny, anything is sarvisu sarvisu. Bravo, Anno.

Anonymous 05/06/25 (Tue) 22:35:08 No.6193

this does not constitute belly service if you ask the typical kissuer

Anonymous 05/06/25 (Tue) 22:42:43 No.6194

>>6193
I want to give service to her belly, if you get what I mean...

Anonymous 05/14/25 (Wed) 18:00:00 No.6736

Machu was doing fanservice before her anime even aired.

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Anonymous 05/10/25 (Sat) 11:19:10 No.6369 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

can we discuss the elephant in the room now? a bunch of posts about this were previously deleted for "a complete lack of evidence" but there's no getting around it, ZUN uses AI.

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Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 01:19:11 No.6568

Bit of a tangent but God, just look at the night and day difference between the threads on this topic on 4/jp/ and this thread here.
as one of the refugees from 4/jp/ it's depressing seeing this is just the future of 4/jp/ now because the mods literally do not care and learned nothing from getting doxxed

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 06:40:57 No.6594

>>6564
>count grey
this brings me back...

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 20:04:41 No.6614

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>>6594
While it may be dulled with the passage of time, the sharp pain in your side never left.

Anonymous 05/14/25 (Wed) 01:54:03 No.6716

>>6447
I genuinely wish he'd do things like the cat in Okuu's spell card again.

Anonymous 05/14/25 (Wed) 05:20:01 No.6719

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Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 22:00:24 No.6618 [Reply]

One of my favorite shows is getting a sequel soon. I really like this series and think a lot of people passed over it because it was said to be a Madoka rip-off when the anime came out. I've been reading the LNs and they're really good. I think they'd be a perfect series for someone learning kana.

The new season of the anime should be really good because it will cover what is arguably the best two LNs in the series. The only downside is it'll probably be 12 episodes instead of 24. It's a lot of content to cover in 12 episodes. The first season felt really fast paced because of that. I don't want to spoil anything but suffice to say characters are introduced quickly and certain events happen too fast.

Anyone else a fan of Raising Project? I don't understand why this series isn't more popular. It feels like only a few people have seen it. I am hopeful season 2 will do good in the ratings and maybe we'll get some OVAs or something. A proper video game based on this series would be really fun.

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Anonymous 06/11/24 (Tue) 02:00:56 No.6634

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>>6629
They're not really connected. Battle harems were the previous braindead LN template that got adapted way too often. The edgy mahou shoujo trend just fell off over time as Madoka became a distant memory and the genre slowly reverted back to light-hearted stuff like Twin Angel and Ore.

>>6631
She was just playing the game to the best of her ability.

Anonymous 06/11/24 (Tue) 02:51:30 No.6635

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>>6619
I remember not reading the books themselves but hearing about how it really changes after the first round of games where Himekawa starts to take charge and really differ from how she was in the beginning.

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 22:14:33 No.6636

>>6632
Did you end up reading and enjoying it?

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 22:34:37 No.6641

I remember watching the first season, probably liked it seeing that it's in my archives. Might have to rewatch the first before watching the second though, don't remember much of it other than the girl (boy) girl.

Anonymous 05/13/25 (Tue) 06:35:54 No.6674

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>>6619
Raws for the first few volumes would be nice, I'll check them out eventually.
I have the series from tmw ebook collection but I can't tell what am I even looking at...

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Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 22:28:35 No.6639 [Reply]

Can't believe she fucking died.
What the heck. Kamome and Umi-chan were not real people??
If you think about it after the fact, it's not unheard of for a VN's story to go this route, but it still came out of left field that two of the characters didn't event exist?
Were the other characters even interacting with Kamome or is this a Fight Club scenario?
Started the show thinking it was just a SOL VN adaptation, but it's piqued my interest with the latest episode.

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 22:33:30 No.6640

Classic Key BS

Anonymous 05/13/25 (Tue) 01:58:56 No.6661

I know that Summer Pockets is an older work before Key started being less good, but it's nice to know that if they try to stick with Japanese mythology and don't stray too far into modernism, then they're still as good as always

Anonymous 05/13/25 (Tue) 02:32:52 No.6664

I hate Key's supernatural bullshit sideplots and I hate wasting valuable episodes on boring shit girls.

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Anonymous 05/01/25 (Thu) 00:40:07 No.5865 [Reply]

These LycoReco shorts are genius because they're easy enough to sit down and watch for practically anyone and it's just great SoL scenes one after another. What a genius way to get people reinvested into the anime before S2 starts. I think they've done this with other series too but this is the first time I'm seeing one pop into my RSS feed so they must be promoting it a bit extra.

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Anonymous 05/01/25 (Thu) 04:59:41 No.5888

>>5886
You're right but at least that's still a good show for other reasons. Between seasons 2 and 3 I was able to heal and come back and enjoy anew.

Anonymous 05/01/25 (Thu) 12:11:41 No.5891

>>5883
there's no bait in birdie wing, the series effectively ends with marriage

Anonymous 05/01/25 (Thu) 17:51:27 No.5907

>>5882
He was like 75% of what made the show interesting so that wouldn't be a good thing.

Anonymous 05/02/25 (Fri) 11:22:17 No.5984

lyco feels like if gunslinger girls was made today, and that is not meant as a positive
still, it was pretty fun. i guess a lot of people dropped it since one of the main characters is literally a gay nigger

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 22:22:07 No.6637

>>5984
Yeah the reactions to that reveal certainly didn't help thread quality for further episodes. But I don't think LycoReco was going for GSG levels of philosophy, rather it was intended from the start to be a fun SoL mix with a bit of edge here and there.

>>5907
Really? I can't remember exactly, but I think I wrote my huge rant because of him and the plot surrounding him. If I recall it was quite retarded and I derided him for being diet joker or something.

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Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 01:10:43 No.6566 [Reply]

These "look, we own the rights to this stuff too" cameos are getting more common and I don't think I like them much. It's severely forth wall breaking and takes me out of their world.
It's not a serious show or anything, just a show about brown elf boobers (which are nice) but still...

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Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 01:33:35 No.6569

Cameos from a mangaka's other works are fine but yeah ones like this are dumb.

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 01:38:16 No.6570

huhhhh that's one i wasn't expecting at all
they do have some media presence in photoshoots and tv broadcasts but i don't recall them ever running a stream
wildly disconnected anyways, maybe they thought it fit because of the ecchi? it's not like kirara cameos where it's just some normal girls finding their way into each other in a regular realistic setting

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 01:41:20 No.6571

who streams other than peers

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 20:38:43 No.6616

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>>6569
I disagree. I love all SHAFT references.

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 20:55:32 No.6617

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>>6616
I hope at least one animator working on the Ninja anime acknowledges their older works.

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Anonymous 05/10/25 (Sat) 16:13:24 No.6433 [Reply]

As much as I'm enjoying Apocalypse Hotel, I'm not thrilled about how the overall tone has shifted. The first couple episodes had a strong feeling of melancholy as the leftovers slowly declined, but the tanuki sticking around have turned it into a goofy comedy. The last episode in particular seemed to invalidate the passage of time element and basically took away the sense that the robots would eventually end up a state of disrepair. The sense of loneliness and isolation is also gone now that there are always guests to tend to and people to talk with instead of just repeating an endless routine with a bunch of beepboopbots. I really think keeping the shitters around this long was a mistake, it's probably impossible to get back what the first couple episodes had at this point.

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Anonymous 05/11/25 (Sun) 07:20:39 No.6522

If you need help on how to get through the hotel, check out the enclosed instruction book.

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 02:54:54 No.6574

The tonal changes are definitely... Interesting. At first I was expecting something like Planetarian: a steadily falling apart Hotel being slowly worked back to functionality, or something like that. Maybe exploration for parts to keep the hotel running? But then with the first alien it kind of seems like it might go in a Kekkai Sensen or Space Dandy direction with a constant clash of unique aliens coming and going. And now the Tanukis have settled in.

I like the Tanukis. They're fun and Ponko is cute.

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 03:35:11 No.6577

>>6574
>Kekkai Sensen
is there a bigger case of an OP/ED outliving its source? it's incredible how popular sugar step continues to be but i hardly ever see the series pop up anywhere

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 03:55:21 No.6581

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>>6522
Heh...

Anyway, on slightly more serious note, i still enjoy it and feel like every episode has clear focus on something they want to convey, but i can agree that it has changed it's overall tone a bit.
It kind of feels a bit like they've mixed two different plot ideas in one. Robots taking care of a hotel, while lost in unknowns trying to figure out how to go on, it veins of Girls last tour. And a whimsical family of alien tanukis, crash landing on a long deserted Earth and comically trying to adapt to the unknown world they've found themselves in, with the various leftover from the humans.
I kind of like the fun clash it gives, but i wouldn't mind more slower episodes focusing on just the robots again.

Anonymous 05/12/25 (Mon) 04:45:46 No.6588

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>>6522
>>6581
Very nice.

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Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 16:45:55 No.6297 [Reply]

EU V has been officially announced. It wasn't really a secret since they've been openly releasing dev diaries for what could only be a new EU for some time, but now it's out there and a few good boy streamers have gotten to make carefully curated videos of the early alpha gameplay.

I'm a bit conflicted about it. On the one hand it does seem like they're fixing fundamental issues with IV with things like pops and better trade, but on the other it looks like they've taken cues from CK3 and Vicky 3 with the UI and warfare. It also stands to be seen how much content they're going to lock off to fund the next 15 years of DLC. Obviously no one should ever give Paradox money, but I want to believe this will be the first one in a while that gets more than 50 hours out of me.

Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 16:55:38 No.6298

Fuck paradox

Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 18:17:29 No.6302

I know my brother's been huge into Paradox games forever and while there were some issues with CK3 at first he's pretty much fully migrated over to that instead of modded CK2. Although that might just be because CK3 has mods now.

Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 18:29:06 No.6303

paradox dlc policy is absolute asscancer and I refuse to buy any of their games

Anonymous 05/11/25 (Sun) 01:27:55 No.6490

Maybe I'll finally use this opportunity to try out and learn a paradox game instead of giving up like normal.

Anonymous 05/11/25 (Sun) 16:59:19 No.6548

>>6297
Wow it's been over a year since I last played EUIV
Maybe I should give it a DL and sink a few dozens hours into it this week.

Anonymous 05/10/25 (Sat) 18:55:44 No.6444 [Reply]

I am very excited for the second season of Bisque Doll. Not only was the first one great with fanservice, and well animated too, but the chemistry Gojo and Marine had together was wonderful. Definitely a far cry from other "loser otaku with popular gf" anime, Gojo was much more of a reserved MC that can be reliable and more perceptive of Marine than the normal lead is. And Marine was a ball of life that radiated cuteness and sexiness in all of her cosplays. It was nice to watch them grow closer and bond over a somewhat shared passion and each being able to support the other. I hope there's a realization of the tension in this season unlike with the Succubus scene...

Anonymous 05/10/25 (Sat) 19:06:30 No.6445

Our favorite character Gojo struggles around being both straight and efeminate

Anonymous 05/10/25 (Sat) 19:32:43 No.6446

Could be great.
It was a decent enough show. The animation was very high quality at times, although the female-oriented parts like Gojo's torso-eclipsing hands were a bit silly to me as a male. Mixed appeal, I guess. This show will always be paired with Akebi in my mind since they were competing for kissu's attention.

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Anonymous 04/27/25 (Sun) 06:23:22 No.5612 [Reply]

THEY TURNED OBLIVION INTO A MUD COLORED COPY OF EVERY OTHER GAME

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Anonymous 04/29/25 (Tue) 20:14:26 No.5824

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>>5773
>Why would you expect a PC game to have a UI built for phones?
I don't expect it. Even if the deck certification claims that text is readable, Fallout 4 getting it was proof that it can be trusted as much as the Nintendo Seal Of Quality.

Some games are starting to have scalable UIs in PC, which makes sense when you are releasing for PC and consoles (including Switch) and share a lot of the codebase, although it's not usually the norm.

>>5812
That one. I made the mistake of entering the Steam discussions for the game and judging from what I saw, I don't want to imagine how /v/ must be right now.

Anonymous 04/29/25 (Tue) 21:04:23 No.5826

Nexus has 55 pages of mods for it including the all-important Script Extender: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/282
So, yeah, modding will be big for this even without a creation kit. I ended up spending 2 years downloading, editing, and fine tuning mods without ever getting past the starting town in Skyrim so I'm not going to enter that world again.

Anonymous 04/30/25 (Wed) 01:26:09 No.5836

>>5824
They're actually busy getting spammed by shills and trolls making unfavorable comparisons between OG Oblivion and Skyrim. Part of it might be that they already made their allegiance clear with Starfield and this constitutes a step back from that, but I think it's mostly that the original was actually played by a ton of people so they are invested in and can criticize it and its remake in a lot more ways than usual. Usually when the news makes it clear a game is inundated with that shit /v/ just doesn't buy it and the conversations are thus based around trailers and hoping for it to fail and crash the industry.

Anonymous 04/30/25 (Wed) 19:30:22 No.5852

>>5612
My sister was playing og oblivion recently and I kinda liked the sort of dream like lighting and the colors

Anonymous 05/10/25 (Sat) 17:37:19 No.6441

>>5852
I like the original more too. If you can combine the animations from the new one with everything else from the old one you'd have a better game.

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Anonymous 05/06/25 (Tue) 23:57:00 No.6196 [Reply]

This season is so amazing that even the "generic" quasi-harem show Yami Healer with the super chuuni magical doctor is top notch. I don't know how it can be so good. It's unfortunate that the first episode did quite a poor job of selling it, but I'm so glad I decided to marathon episodes 2-5 yesterday.
It's all so cliche and yet it's executed so well with the cute girls being cute and the chuuni moments being stupidly satisfying.

Retardedly perfect chuuni skills: Check.
Cute adopted little elf girl: Check.
Cute mature ghost that goes "ka ka ka": Check.
Stupid fun humor that's occasionally serious when it needs to be: Check.
What a nice show.

Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 02:10:32 No.6275

Does it really get that much better after the first ep? I immediately dropped it after the first ep but the girls were cute.

Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 02:16:31 No.6276

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>>6275
Someone replied to my thread!
Yes, it's a lot better after the first episode once things actually start. It's still ultimately a simple and dumb show, but it's executed well enough. The guy's personality isn't chuuni, but his abilities are.
"Y-you can nullify all my attacks? Impossible!"
"I just know basic spells"
The girls are indeed VERY cute, particularly the little adopted daughter elf that gets jealous of the other girls.

Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 02:33:57 No.6277

FALSE
The only cute girl(s) are the elf loli and the ghost girl.
(I might like like the ghost girl...)

Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 02:42:58 No.6278

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>>6277
The allure of a mature woman, huh? Yeah, I understand.

Anonymous 05/10/25 (Sat) 15:51:57 No.6428

Alright I caught up on the show and the rest definitely is better than the first ep. The writing is very dumb but the characters are likable enough that I can mostly overlook it. It seems like it dropped the whole premise of him not realizing he's actually a super powerful mage, without him ever actually acknowledging it though?
Ghost girl best girl.

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Anonymous 04/23/25 (Wed) 23:48:03 No.4694 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

Have you played any "ero" (a Japanese word meaning 'erotic') games lately?

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Anonymous 04/26/25 (Sat) 14:53:36 No.5558

EasyRPG Player was recently updated and the developers wrote an article about the changed they made.
https://blog.easyrpg.org/2025/04/easyrpg-player-0-8-1-stun/
Could be interesting to try some RPG Maker eroge as they worked on compatibility.

Anonymous 04/29/25 (Tue) 14:55:03 No.5811

i played Holy Knight Olyana after starting it years ago and now i remember why i stopped playing them.
they're too fucking good and make me sperm all the time.

Anonymous 05/10/25 (Sat) 08:05:14 No.6349

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>>4694
Lilitales is great IMO.

Anonymous 05/14/25 (Wed) 20:27:21 No.6745

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>>6745
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