>>7066
OH WAIT she didn't do it. I guess there's a bit more humanity to her than we thought, or well it could always be seen that Konoha was the more human of the pair. Still, there's something to be said about the evil in seeing that hit and doing nothing because you benefit from the system which gets a poor girl killed for obviously kuso reasons.

>>7067
This detail is weird. It's not in the manga, which directly jumps from the offer to the fliers, and I think it would be an odd way to detract from what is otherwise a clear implication. Konoha is indeed also the one who killed Aiko's dad in the first episode (after Satoko follows her to school, and decide to try their first joint assassination). It's understandable for her to perhaps express some measure of regret, but to completely pass up on the offer AND have the implication of her accepting be subverted by a brief anime-original shot would be rather strange, in my opinion. It's unclear what's Konoha's actually feeling at this point.

>>7028
I think it was more serious than comedic and we're clearly seeing Konoha gain a conscious.

Damn the dead can't even rest in peace

So good

This and Tales of Destiny's.

best intro for best zelda

かっこいい as HELL.

This was the best tekken intro in terms of music I think

>>7223
I would never believe anything that is well known in the fanbase, after all, things that are supposed well-known in the fanbase is why you couldn't talk about Eva even prior to the final film. People say a lot of things in interviews as well and I don't believe a single one of them. This also parallels the experience of talking about Eva very nicely, "but Anno said in an interview once", I don't care, Anno has said a lot of things. Same principle applies here.


>However, in the film we've only see 5 timelines (4 time loops). So if we go with the "only what is shown in the film counts" idea, then Homura's total loop time is about 6 months.
That is not correct at all. This might be confusing, but just because something isn't shown, doesn't mean it didn't happen. It is clear that a lot of time passed, because Homura changes quite a lot as she keeps trying.

I'd have gone with Rebellion being the 15th attempt by the way, based on another piece of side material, hypocritical as it may be. But it's technically also in the film, so it's fine.
I guess I was off the mark with your intentions, after all.

>karmic destiny and madoka's power growth
>the canon status of spin offs
I wouldn't really consider these to be too important, because neither of these things is significant in the context of Rebellion or Madoka as a whole.

>>7207
>>7209
>that's why Rebellion should have been the end of madoka magica, that is Homura's struggle for Madoka is over, the new movie is a cash grab.
Urobuchi's original 2009 script was modified, and by the anime's finale they had deliberately changed what was previously a conclusive ending into an open one to allow for continuation. Rebellion also has a brutally open ending, as they still wished for continuation. Both of these things are clearly stated in these interviews distributed at the time of its release:
https://feral-phoenix.livejournal.com/685568.html
Here's my summary of the events: Homura spends a considerable amount of time fighting in order to have survive, and only manages to find a resolution when she ascends into Madokami and remakes the world, making most people forget her. For Homura this is less than ideal, as shown by how upset she got during their final exchange, but she soldiers on despite her longing for Madoka. Later, QB sets up a trap for Madoka in the new world, successfully baiting her in a weakened form while allowing Homura to become detached from the Law of Cycles and approach witchhood. She chooses to wield this power to oppose him, and exploits the opportunity to take over and splinter Madoka, separating her incarnation from the Law, remaking things once more. Sayaka remembers this and threatens Homura. There's nothing controversial here, and it should be obvious to anyone watching both the final product that it was not made to have a clean conclusion. Nothing like the original ending of Higurashi, which does conclude things well and appropriately.
>"BUT WRAITH ARC SAID" or "BUT IN MAGIRECO"
These can be written off due to not being written by Urobuchi and thus secondary, but with Kaiten he returns as writer of the screenplay. An interesting comment from him:
>Urobuchi: Honestly, I think some will beautify it and some will reject it completely. These days, static characters who don’t change are popular, and if characters ever change even a little bit there’ll be people who’ll call that out-of-character and get angry. In thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>7228
>No product of a franchise in the animanga industry stands alone.
That's like your opinion and stuff.
You are fully comfotable with writing other things off, so why not write everything off, except for the film that was made?

>>7229
You fail to understand.
It's not "every single thing has connected lore and it should all be taken into account", it's the fact that the industry lives off fan engagement, which it fuels by drawing out plotlines as long as possible and pumping out side material to further entertain the community with more things to chew on, which people then use to speculate and build fan scenarios. That's the basic modus operandi, to reject this reality is simply ignorance. But trying to account for every single spinoff out there leads to incoherence, because they often include reinterpretations or flat out retcons, so the most effective thing is to engage with side material written by the same authors and at the same time as the main material. Therefore, a booklet being given out to people going to watch the movie (which is the source of >>7215's pic) and a concurrent interview are considerably more valid and useful for understanding a work, and this is done deliberately, by design.

>>7231
Well, I disagree. The booklet is not in the film. The interview is not in the film. The things that are in the film are in the film.
I say this in, perhaps, a slightly exaggerated way, but my point is that you don't need supplementary material to fully understand what is happening. To borrow from Urobuchi's interview, you fully understand everything if you just watch Star Wars Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3. There is no need for the animated TV show to explain what is happening in the Star War or the sequels which show what happens after that Star War. Three films and the things that are in the film are more than enough.

You don't need a single bit of supplementary material, all you need are functioning eyes. Just look at the screen and everything is clear.

>>2722
but then someone will wonder what VN it is and check and get the surprises in the VN ruined because they definitely haven't read it and they won't want to afterwards.

the route unlocking of VNs is neat. Especially when the creators are kind of meta about it.

SubaHibi has been great so far, i just finished Jabberwocky I, but i can't get around feeling like IMOI was so absolutely grand, that nothing is going to top it from here on

Tommorrow i will decide if i want to do the fanfiction ending or "which dreamed it" next

Visual novels used to be my favorite medium of storytelling. They combined visual and sound effects with a level of interactivity that movies and books are missing(and thus they bore me). Unfortunately, the golden age of vns is over. Almost all the famous titles were made in 2000's and are still popular. I've read almost all of them. I have nothing left to do, but to engage with fanbases over stuff like umineko, muv luv or whatever until I die because it's unlikely we will ever get vns that good or that popular again.

That being said, VN style storytelling lives on in jrpgs and gacha games so perhaps saying that VNs are dead is overstatement, they evolved into video game direction rather then novel direction.

>>5967
>0:55
how the HELL did you get that part down so well

>>7193
Unfortunately there was no such skill involved. That mod uses abc music files to play. If you've played Starbound it's exactly how the instruments in that game worked.

>>7185
this reminds me of where the two goats are kept in the old man's house in alps no shoujo heidi

>>5960
this crack doesn't work anymore

>>7195
Fellow Heidi friend, I see it too.

¥ PLAYAN
Sokoban, other puzzles and brain teasers I can find online
¥ WATCHAN
Random webms and/or the 1964 Beckett
¥ LISTENAN
Imaginations from the Other Side
¥ READAN
Kissu and Wap
¥ FAPPAN
Already blew it twice to random Asian 3dpd this morning, need to rest and finally switch to ecchi only
¥ EATAN
Beef jerky
¥ DRINKAN
Cheap mystery scotch

¥ PLAYAN
peach in slippi melee
¥ WATCHAN
neo ranga, just finished escaflowne.. pretty good, just some poor writing in the second half. entertaining all the way through at least, and well animated. definitely for teenage girls though.
¥ LISTENAN
anime soundtracks, particularly alien 9 and .hack//sign
https://youtu.be/EOy0ep8iAds?si=2sTh6wm121GidF-U
¥ READAN
kissu, 4/a/ and dead dead demon's destruction.
¥ FAPPAN
pic related
¥ EATAN
cereal, vegetable soup and salt & vinegar chips
¥ DRINKAN
water, beer.

¥ PLAYAN
PSOBB and hopefully finish ADIA
¥ WATCHAN
Excel Saga and ACCA
¥ LISTENAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZMCyTexPw
¥ READAN
Q-ko chan
¥ FAPPAN
Not sure yet, probably nothing tonight
¥ EATAN
Fries and Chicken Tenders
¥ DRINKAN
Iced Tea

I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING!!!

It's Saturday night for me, but:
¥ PLAYAN
'Jong
¥ WATCHAN
Catching up on Doctor Who
¥ LISTENAN
Nothing in particular
¥ READAN
Manga (Ookami Otoko wa Kyou mo Uso wo Kasaneru)
¥ FAPPAN
Trying out the new NAI update
¥ EATAN
Tomato and cheese on toast
¥ DRINKAN
Beer

Basically I just want a customizable RoTK/NA game where you can create the maps, create the provinces, pick from a massive selection of touhou or fate or azur lane.
Basically I just want an ERA-game but better.
>>7128
cute when tarded kuon!

So recently I've been looking around my little story idea notes for whenever I want to make a game on my own and kinda organizing ones that can fit the same general theme into a single idea and I kinda really like it, though probably won't start development on it until I'm through with getting to a comfortable level in Japanese.

What I want to start off with is some sort of unassuming game more of the platformer variety centered around a young girl with a city on the brink of chaos. The platformer thing taking place inside of a dream realm of sorts where something will take place, not quite sure what, but it will have an effect on the outer world. And you go about fixing the problems of the city and its residents via this system and some puzzle solving of sorts. Along the way unlocking movement upgrades and other such things as you progress and possibly tied to an outfit system which can be toggled in the MC's closet. Then at the end it's a somewhat happy ending but after a day of postgame you'll find that it all gets destroyed along with yourself by a demonic creature. I want this primary game to be short and not too difficult so that it's easy for people to complete and potentially rush through and also so that it gets them thinking about why that bad end in the postgame occurs.

The trick to all this I want to be in a little crawlspace door in the MC's closet that you'll get a glimpse of in some way while interacting with the clothes in the closet. If you remove enough of them to uncover that door it'll reveal the entirety of the crawlspace which if you are in the early game will lead you to a dark and creepy room if you click on it where you can find an extra item that may or may not help out a bit elsewhere but also you'll be able to progress through it early on if you can navigate your way through the dark. If not you'll probably be pressed to come out because of the darkness or die in the process of going in too far, this being a shock to the player because it will be the first sign of hostility that the game has shown so far. Which I hope for the more astute player would be a good curiosity hook to come back to it later. And I'll have a light upgrade in the dream realm that'll transfer to actually working inside of that crawlspace which should set off some bells in the players head that there's something off about the area.

Going through this area should be a bit cruel and labyrinthine that eventually leads to the first Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>7196
>not quite sure what, but it will have an effect on the outer world.
How about a rogue Persona/Psychonauts dreamworld incursion, and getting people to change that way? Jumping from one to another. And then the nightmare realm is introspection (although for that to be 90% of the game it'd require the MC to be seriously fucked in the head).

Fallout NV but it`s Touhou

It's one of those series I've really wanted to get into since the Dreamcast days, but still firmly in the procrastination backlog territory. I just never got around to it, I guess, despite hearing lots of great things over the years.

for me, it's Kobayashi Yuu

>>7190
That's another good one.

>>7191
natibu hatsuon dessss

I don't really follow seiyuu for the most part, but whenever a voice stands out to me in recent anime, it's often Tomoyo Kurosawa, Chiwa Saito or Yume Miyamoto. Maybe I have a thing for lower registers and more naturalistic acting.
I also recently learned that Osanai's seiyuu also voices/sings Tomori in MyGO/Ave Mujica and it's kind of blowing my mind because their characters are almost polar opposites despite the surface level ASMR gimmick they share in common.

And the more I listen to Megumi Hayashibara as Nyaoha/Nyarote/Masquernya in Pokemon 2023, the more I realize how much of a prestige job it is to be cast as a mascot character in that show. Imagine your job description is "Cover the full range of human emotions by meowing for 100+ episodes. A multi-billion toy line depends on this. No pressure."

>>6824
>>7190
Recurring SHAFT seiyuu are almost cheating, except they're consistently good, so maybe they should get to make the rules.

>>5854
It's definitely better than I was expecting. I thought it would crash and burn after the crazy first episode, but it's staying pretty grounded and telling good stories. I'm glad they give each case at least a couple episodes so we can dig in to the emotions of the situation before the action resolves things.

It really says something that it can pull a "humans are the real demons" and not have me immediately drop the show.

>There are too many good shows this season.
There really was. The saturday streams are loooooong.

This really is a fantastic show.
Ostensibly it's a show about a demon hunter, but he's more of a detective and you hear get a lot of story in each episode. I'm such a sucker for this kind of thing. Episode six was a climax to a plot that had been going on for a few episodes and it was done in such a beautiful way. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it just felt right and rewarding to see it play out.
Even episode 7 where there was no demon at all was satisfying to hear the man talk about his younger days and a friend that was in love.
I'm not sure what it is that determines whether or not I can tolerate or enjoy a situation where people simply talk, as there are many shows where my mind drifts away but a few shows where I stay at full attention. This show is definitely the latter.

Man, what a great show. I really need to think of a better way to describe this kind of show that I like, it's the format akin to Kino's Journey where there's a central character but other characters steal the focus for an episode or two when it's their time for their story to be told. The surprise of the episode 8-9 wouldn't have been a surprise if I paid more attention or had more Japanese mythological "common sense".
I do know of the Japanese concept that well-used objects gain a soul but it just wasn't in the foreground of my thought processes of what could be going on. I have a feeling I'm missing the subplot with the prostitute, or rather that it's making reference to previous things in the story that I've forgotten.
Seems like there's a major story change with episode 10...

i think lain is one of the most amv-worthy anime, it has a wonderful aesthetic.

fun nhk amv

>>7163
not him but is the higurashi anime worth watching? i started it but never finished the first season years and years ago, and have read chapter 1 of the vn. if im too lazy to read the vn and can watch anime at a much more reasonable pace, would the higurashi anime be a terrible decision or should i just wear my big boy boots and read the vn?

>>7171
Install 07th-Mod and read the VN.

>>7172
that comes with the nyaa torrent yeah? i think ive already got it then

>>7144
I hated Revy but I kinda liked the action.

I got disappointed in, and dropped:
Dunbine halfway through (slog)
Dragon Ball GT somewhere halfway through (slog)
IBO Gundam first episode (ham fisted)
GQux first episode (ham fisted)
Kill la Kill at 1/3 through (ham fisted)
Diebuster (speedwatched since halfway through. Nothing behind it but a nice OP and came of Gunbuster)
Eureka Seven 1/5 through (ham fisted slog. Loved Ao though)
Konosuba at first season 1/3 through (didn't made me care about the humor)
No comment:
Slime isekai at first few eps
Some bara furry MC native Isekai
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>>7171
>not him but is the higurashi anime worth watching.
I've only read the VN and never watched the anime of it

... Spoilers?
That leg looks brutal, wouldn't have expected that form the first episode I watched and dropped. Is this another anime inspired by Madoka?

>>7167
I don't think that Madoka is the catalyst for darkness in media... Curses in stories like Raspberry's have been around for thousands of years. But I did sort of expect this at some point, her tear collection wasn't really getting anywhere and there needed to be a sense of urgency pressed onto her.

>>7168
The tears went the way of an isekai title gimmick a few episodes in, then it was just befriending witches for a while and now its her getting fucked up by dark magic. The series regularly decides it wants to be something completely different.

The unsolver of the solvable

>>7087
The biter of the unbitable

>>7084
You wouldn't be happy about a problem being fixed if it doesn't feel like it's fixed, jackarse...

>>7107
I wouldn't be happy about a problem feeling like it's fixed if it isn't fixed, girlfag.

>>7107
The problem is if it's actually a problem in the first place.