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Anonymous 10/07/24 (Mon) 16:36:53 No.134016 [Reply]

ｷﾀ───(ﾟ∀ﾟ)───!!

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Anonymous 10/07/24 (Mon) 23:01:18 No.134026

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>>134022

Anonymous 10/07/24 (Mon) 23:21:37 No.134027

>>134026
god I love gif peanut butter

Anonymous 10/07/24 (Mon) 23:25:05 No.134028

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It used to be called jiffy penut butter before the reality shift

Anonymous 10/08/24 (Tue) 04:38:33 No.134033

>>134028
They should run the large hadron collider more

Anonymous 10/11/24 (Fri) 05:49:41 No.134098

jiffy weenus nutter butter

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Anonymous 10/07/24 (Mon) 08:40:32 No.134011 [Reply]

I'm going to reread Higurashi from the beginning after completing 7/8 of the original arcs then stopping several years ago - I don't remember why. However the console arcs seem complicated and I'm unsure of the order in which I should read them. Going with how the series was originally released, I feel I should read the original 8, then Rei, then the console arcs in chronological order.

Please, give me your advice.

Anonymous 10/07/24 (Mon) 08:54:42 No.134012

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Hmm, well, at the very least the original 8 first makes sense. Rei right after the original, yeah. You should also watch stuff like Kira which has stuff not in the VNs and is kind of like Rei so you should probably watch it after that. The console stuff... I actually kept procrastinating forever and never got to those. Maybe I should get around to that around Halloween since I did get a nice setup going for my bed.

Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 03:34:20 No.134045

Do you remember when you stopped reading it originally and why? Once I got to a certain point it was impossible for me to put it down.

Anonymous 10/10/24 (Thu) 23:21:17 No.134089

>>134012
Thank you, I suppose that makes sense. I think I'm just going to do the release order more or less; I read a very brief synopsis of the console arcs and it sounds like they are intended to be read after you've completed the main story. I read the first little part of Matsuribayashi up to and including some of the puzzles and just finished rereading Onikakushi; it's funny what I notice now with that extra knowledge compared to before, and I think I'm starting to get why the series is so well spoken of apart from just the story being engaging.

>>134045
My last saves in Minagoroshi were from around this time 3 years ago, so I don't remember too well. I didn't start Matsuribayashi after that, only starting it a few days ago. I have something of a problem where, when I near the end of a game, series or story that I'm enjoying I'll slow down my progress of it because I don't want it to end, which ironically ends it for me. If the console arcs and other content are as long as the main 8 however, I think it will take a while to get through everything.

Do either of you know if I can watch the 2006-2007 anime after reading the main 8 arcs? I recieved it many years ago from a friend via file transfer and I remember he said something about the anime being out of order and containing spoilers for later VN content.

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Anonymous 05/16/24 (Thu) 01:06:23 No.124495 [Reply]

I am considering going on a carnivore diet. Nothing fancy, prolly just ground beef, eggs, and dairy products every day. I've tried more "balanced" diets before and I never felt any better. Lately I've been very depressed and started putting on weight, so I'm interested in seeing what life will be like cutting out carbs almost completely. I understand there are some risks because there hasn't been much research on these types of diets, but I don't really care about anything right now.

/blog

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Anonymous 10/06/24 (Sun) 17:59:30 No.133984

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I eat pasta and rice almost every day and I'm not fat. How do Americans explain that?

Anonymous 10/06/24 (Sun) 18:12:09 No.133985

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>>133848
ULTRA processed is what you should avoid more accurately. It basically means modern industrialized supermarket food.

Anonymous 10/10/24 (Thu) 14:52:12 No.134064

https://www.raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/vegetables.shtml

Falling into the Ray Peat rabbit hole. I wonder how much of what he says is legit and how much is bullshit. One of his big things was eating food that would promote longevity, and yet he died at like only 82. I was surprised that he says lard is bad, apparently because (at least in the United States) pigs are fed a lot of corn and soybeans nowadays, so a lot of the toxins in those end up in the pigs' fat as well.

Anonymous 10/10/24 (Thu) 18:24:15 No.134069

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>>134064
My immediate issue are his citations range from 30 to 80 years old. Nutritional science has advanced a lot since then. It's true that food companies managed to change the accepted wisdom for decades and people that were saying stuff 80 years ago were proven right (like fat not being the enemy), but things have changed a lot. Many different organizations, government and private, research things constantly and the internet has connected the entire globe. Things look very iffy in an extremely active field like dietary nutrition when someone purposely avoids any information found in the past 30 years. Or is this a page from 30 years ago?
>© Ray Peat 2006.
Oh.

I think the "seed oils are toxic to the body" thing comes to the wrong conclusions. If you're getting too much of it, it means you're eating lots of junk food and everyone knows that's bad for you for a host of reasons. You're eating lots of fried food, or super processed stuff with an ingredient list that takes an entire page. Are potatoes unhealthy because of potato chips? Many things are bad in excess, and sure, many "seed oils" are one of them. But, stuff like this is telling people that it's the seed oil itself and not that an extreme amount of it is used in junk food. Lots of people sing the praises of eating flax seed, but if you listen to this guy then you're ingesting poison.
Hydrogenated oils are definitely something to avoid outright. Although, this guy says seed oils are so bad that you should take the option of hydrogenated oils. Yeah, oil taken directly from corn is toxic as opposed to than corn oil that has been sent to a factory to have hydrogen bonded to its atoms to produce an artificial oil stable at room temperature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenated_oil
I was told hydrogenated oils were bad in a nutrition class back in like 2003 so the information was out there.

He also says fish oil is bad, so you shouldn't eat fish. Someone tell the people in Asia that soybean, sesame and fish oil is killing them prematurely at age 98. Since his fish data is from "fifty years ago" he's unaware of the actual danger of fish caused by environmental pollution accumulating in larger fish.
I'll read the vegetaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Anonymous 10/10/24 (Thu) 18:37:49 No.134072

>seed oils
i like the term /fit/ uses for them
https://desuarchive.org/fit/search/text/%22sneed%20oil%2A%22%20/

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Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 05:16:25 No.134049 [Reply]

How do you tell if you're dehydrated? Managing water intake seems like one of the most important health retention tips.

Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 05:48:47 No.134052

You can tell by the colour of your urine, if it's dark then you should drink more.

Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 06:01:53 No.134053

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just drink water, there's literally no downside

Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 06:42:05 No.134054

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I know I'm dehydrated when I'm thirsty.

Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 20:06:56 No.134060

i'm just always drinking water

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Anonymous 10/06/24 (Sun) 18:35:32 No.133986 [Reply]

I'm 33 years old, and from elementary school up until now I've had a huge crush on Kinomoto Sakura and I think I will keep loving her until the day that I die.
Is there something wrong with my brain?

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Anonymous 10/07/24 (Mon) 06:18:08 No.134010

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>>133986
Having a crush on Sakura is a sign of a healthy, working mind. She is, in a few short words, as cute as it gets.

Seriously, everything comes together perfectly with her. Cute voice, a cute, believable personality, and she's just also very cute in appearance. It's hard to describe without repeating the word cute a bunch, but you also seem to already understand in your heart anyway, so I don't need to try and get you to do so.

Anonymous 10/07/24 (Mon) 14:12:38 No.134015

kaiju

Anonymous 10/08/24 (Tue) 04:22:36 No.134031

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>>134015

Anonymous 10/08/24 (Tue) 04:43:49 No.134034

>>134031
Cute stompers.

Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 08:50:20 No.134056

>>133993
I just bit this shab.

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Anonymous 10/08/24 (Tue) 19:55:13 No.134037 [Reply]

So who is to blame for this atrocity on art?
https://www.cbr.com/uzumaki-producer-episode-2-quality-drop-reveal/

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Anonymous 10/08/24 (Tue) 20:14:48 No.134039

5 years of hard work, huh...

Anonymous 10/08/24 (Tue) 20:56:01 No.134040

working hard or hardly working, son?

Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 04:01:26 No.134046

They only had to do four episodes.

Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 04:16:07 No.134047

>Episode 1 was directed by Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushishi, The Flowers of Evil) and animated by studio Fugaku. However, Episode 2 was directed by Yuji Moriyama and animated by studio Akatsuki.
That kinda speaks for itself, I think

Anonymous 10/09/24 (Wed) 04:44:54 No.134048

>The Flowers of Evil
Nice to see Mr Rotoscope has evolved to survive into the modern era by tracing 3d models instead of 3d pigs.

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Anonymous 10/05/24 (Sat) 07:40:34 No.133940 [Reply]

I'm a latin american BR working remotely "with" U.S. companies, not "at" them. Essentially, I'm a middle manager between Latin American contractors and U.S. clients. I make $50k a year in what's basically a NEET job, just doing 1:1s with developers, clients, and handling invoicing. I barely work 2 hours a day.

You’d think I have it pretty good, being from a third world country and barely working, but then I look at the FAANG managers and directors I deal with and they're making anywhere from $250k to $500k a year. With that kind of salary, I could retire in a year in my country.

How do they even get into these positions?

When I check their LinkedIn profiles, most of them started as directors or program managers right off the bat... Meanwhile, I had to start as an intern. Honestly, I feel like where I’m at now is as good as it gets if I want to keep this a NEET job. But if you think differently, enlighten me

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Anonymous 10/05/24 (Sat) 14:35:50 No.133952

>>133947
>They're hiring foreign because you're basically making a lot more after currency exchange
I mean, yeah, 50k a year is like top 1% salaries here in BR considering 90% of brazilians make under 1k a month I'm doing pretty well for myself I would say... but I can't help but be jealous of the fortune 500 managers I work with that make up to 500k a year

Anonymous 10/05/24 (Sat) 16:20:56 No.133953

>>133940
1. Just because it's the first thing on their profile doesn't mean that's where they started, there's no point cluttering your resume with a decade of low-level grind when you're looking for high-paying project management positions.
2. That pay is exceptional for the first world too everywhere except a handful of extremely high cost of living areas and I could retire in a few years off that, even with the government stealing half of it.
3. They are probably doing a lot more actual work than you and you're probably happier watching anime all day. Or they're lucky enough to have found a team that holds them up and hasn't collapsed under their weight yet.
4. If you get into a company early you can get an important-sounding title right away and, as long as the whole thing doesn't collapse around you, you'll be set there for life.

>>133943
Parties aren't strictly necessary, but it is key that you get people to like you socially. This is a lot easier in an office because just taking a few hours a week to chat with the people around you will impress you on them as someone who is good at their job and easy to work with. Parties do supplement this, though, and let you create those connections outside of your immediate sphere. You can also do this with friends outside of your professional sphere. Once you have some rapport with someone, just make sure they know you're looking for something more and hope they run across something you'd fit into. Or, alternatively, find something they're having a hard time with and come up with a way you could be the solution.

Anonymous 10/05/24 (Sat) 16:34:00 No.133957

>>133952
Move to the US and you will be fucked living the way you probably do in BR because in the US you have to pay for basically everything yourself. No government subsidization of your quality of living. So not only do you need to be payed equivalent between BR vs US, you also have to make extra to compensate.
That's why you are hired in the first place compared to a local US worker.

FYI I'm CAN payed in USD so US-CA exchange rate and standard of living are fairly good. I get paid about same that a mid range dev would be payed in Canada for the price of a high-junior level. And I would not want to move to the US on my salary if I were consuming at least 60% of my month to month. Because I would have to pay for health insurance and then I have to get a car. And living in US appartments is shit so I would need to buy a house

Anonymous 10/05/24 (Sat) 16:44:12 No.133958

>>133957
>Move to the US and you will be fucked living the way you probably do in BR because in the US you have to pay for basically everything yourself
That's already my situation here in Brazil. Government social services are shit, and the "free healthcare" is abysmal. Additionally, I’m a hikikomori and use zero (0) services provided by the government.
To be honest, I invest 90% of my salary in safe stocks and crypto with the hope of becoming financially independent and a real NEET again someday. At this rate, I’ll probably be able to retire in around ten years, by that time I'll be in my early 40s.
I also don’t want any additional responsibilities if it means commuting and putting actual effort into my work, so I guess the U.S. is off the table for me for now.

Anonymous 10/05/24 (Sat) 16:49:52 No.133959

>>133958
You might be right then. Because Canada has a lot of benefits and I can mouche off of family if need be. If Brazil maybe only has the family benefits then dunno.

The main thing to be considering here is that you can't just blind jump into a country, especially the US, and you need a job lined up.

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Anonymous 01/03/22 (Mon) 21:00:52 No.82826 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

media screenshot/video thread for stuff you don't necessarily want to make a thread for

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Anonymous 03/07/24 (Thu) 14:48:23 No.120793

>>120659
>footfag
gross

Anonymous 10/04/24 (Fri) 02:18:07 No.133883

File:[SubsPlease] Make Heroine….webm (2.55 MB,1920x1080)

so many faces

Anonymous 10/04/24 (Fri) 02:19:04 No.133884

>>133883
Yanami ラブ

Anonymous 10/04/24 (Fri) 08:50:45 No.133891

>>120659
As expected of Meister Rozen!

Anonymous 10/04/24 (Fri) 17:43:46 No.133894

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The Memories of Phantasm gets shit, but I really liked it. It's fun and their renditions of the music have this almost nostalgic way of getting you immersed with Touhou.

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Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 12:54:45 No.133650 [Reply]

Just saw a

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 13:25:23 No.133654

hadukichang kawaii！

Anonymous 09/28/24 (Sat) 02:48:13 No.133679

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I for one, am glad to be her servant

Anonymous 09/30/24 (Mon) 00:02:04 No.133740

>>133738
saw it

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Who likes to draw pantsu? Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 05:22:18 No.133639 [Reply]

Hello again. I made this request twice last year but no one had the time. I'm making it again hoping someone wants to be the hero we need.

We are working towards this year's Christmas present for anon: A "restored" version of Onimai that will have many improvement's over last years' release. A revised English translation, corrected color, many scenes that were "censored" on the BD restored to the TV version and many other things. One thing I _really_ want to include is a restored panty shot from episode 2. But so far I haven't been able to get anyone willing to edit/redraw these 30 or so frames. I am dumping these frames again with corrected colors/chroma today in the hopes that someone will rise to the challenge.

This archive has all the frames (and a few on either side) of the censored pantsu shot. It's the typical modern day "black void" pantsu shot being used in most modern anime. We would like to restore it to what it was intended to be. If you're willing please let us know. You have a chance here to insert your own little easter egg (perhaps a cute picture of a rabbit?) on the pantsu.

Link to archive: https://files.catbox.moe/c9u1al.7z

They are in uncompressed .bmp RGB32 format. I ask that you please do not change the color space and return them in the same image format if possible. If these are not workable for you let me know and I will try to dump them in whatever image format you prefer. Whatever you send back is going to have to be re-inserted into the episode itself and converted back to YV12 color space. I've attempted to properly convert them to RGB32 for you. If I fucked up do let me know. They are 123MB in .7z compressed archive and will uncompress to about 500MB. Please be mindful not to rename any of the files. As the number is linked to frame numbers on my end!

There are only about 20-30 frames total that need to be edited. The rest are duplicates or appear before or after the pantsu would.

Thanks for your attention!

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Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 13:01:01 No.133651

>>133647
>The panty shot was censored in production to appease the mass market because that's a big no-no now.
Well hopefully with how much of a sales success both it and Mahoako were we'll start to see a resurgence of those shots since obviously the market wants them and is willing to reward good productions that don't shy away from what's supposedly 'mass appeal'.

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 13:21:10 No.133652

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It occurred to me that showing the difference between the BD itself and my corrected color version might be a good idea. Pic related is straight from the BD. Next post will have the modified version.

>>133651
I am hopeful the industry might go back to its roots but I know better than to bank on it. We saw with both of these shows that the western distributors couldn't help themselves. With Onimai they censored several scenes and ruined their translation on purpose (and even went as far as bragging about doing it). With MahoAko they simply refused to carry the show at all. Which goes to show they don't give a damn about money.

The crazy thing is outside of the American market they were willing to carry both. Onimai got a proper translation in all languages but English and only mild censorship in some regions (much less than the American version at least). MahoAko was carried everywhere and even got a dub in several languages that I've heard was decent but I won't judge something in a language I can't speak. It also got very mild censorship in select regions.

What I find odd is with shows like this the people claiming to hate them and demanding censorship is the same group that insists it be involved in the western distribution. It's like asking a bunch of hardcore devout Christians to get a death metal album and a season of something like South Park ready for release. It makes no sense and the only reason such people would want anything to do with a show like this is to push an agenda.

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 13:25:18 No.133653

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>>133652
Here is the fixed color version. Note that this isn't anywhere near what I would release. Most of the filtering I use has been displayed to allow for quick seeking to search out errors. So it isn't a perfect merge. With my usual filter chain for this show I can only process about 4fps with the CPU pegged at 100%. I need to clean up the noise and correct some minor errors in the WEB sources I'm using before taking the color from it. But this serves as a good example. In other words. All the noise, banding, blockyness etc. from the low bitrate WEB releases hasn't been corrected. It has also been overlaid on the artificial injected grain on the BD.

You may not be able to tell the difference on a monitor that hasn't been calibrated correctly. Basically, colors look less vivid due to some filtering they applied before sending the masters out for BD pressing. It's most noticeable on shades of red/pink.

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 13:30:58 No.133655

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>>133652
When it comes to things like this, I always just hold faithful that the free market will sort things out. No matter how much investment money an agenda gets, capitalism always comes out on top. With somebody somewhere eventually asking why there's an unprofitable money sink which has no current or future monetary purpose, and with the amount of money being lost across the board I think those questions will come sooner rather than later.

Anonymous 09/28/24 (Sat) 04:10:36 No.133683

i'll help once i learn how to draw

Anonymous 09/27/24 (Fri) 00:57:57 No.133664 [Reply]

PANNY CHAN!!!!!!!!!!(USER WAS BANNED FOR FALSE ADVERTISING (NO PANTIES ON WEBSITE))

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Anonymous 09/27/24 (Fri) 04:59:36 No.133670

spermed website

perthlord 09/27/24 (Fri) 08:43:46 No.133671

>>133664
I might blow my brains out because of this post, thank you!

Anonymous 09/27/24 (Fri) 11:22:08 No.133672

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What did I miss?

Anonymous 09/27/24 (Fri) 15:53:42 No.133673

>>133672
just an ad for a bread-tan site

Anonymous 09/27/24 (Fri) 23:01:02 No.133677

>>133672
A disappointment.

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Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 05:45:43 No.133641 [Reply]

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 05:57:24 No.133642

patchy eat

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 13:45:37 No.133656

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Eating a whole pizza in one go is basically like eating an unwrapped burrito, nothing wrong with that.

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 16:00:52 No.133658

what an absolute dweeb

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Spice and Wolf Anonymous 04/10/24 (Wed) 18:48:32 No.122873 [Reply]

Kissu people are talking Spice and Wolf quite a bit lately in relation to the remake, so I decided to watch the original. I'm still in the process of marathoning it, but I can definitely see why people like it so much. I avoided it because of the merchant stuff which I HATE, but the parts unrelated to spreading human misery are very good!
"Why did you make the thread before you finished it?" you might ask. Well, because my neck hurts from laying in bed watching it for 6 hours and I don't want to go into spoiler territory in the OP.

Anyway, I figure a centralized place to talk about the show and manga and whatever else might be a good idea since people are so eager to talk about it (including me now!)

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Anonymous 05/12/24 (Sun) 04:17:26 No.124300

oh shit i deleted the post like a tard.....

Anonymous 05/12/24 (Sun) 08:32:50 No.124312

's why i call them deletards

Anonymous 06/27/24 (Thu) 07:02:33 No.129248

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I haven't posted in this thread in a while, but the remake is going pretty well. I like how you see furry Holo more, and the music is of course fantastic.
I don't think the recent episodes changed much from the original, but my memory for this stuff isn't the best. The purple lighting was an interesting style choice, but not one I would have chosen. It of clashes with the muted colors, but that's probably the intention.
The cute moments are still good, but the romantic stuff really isn't here yet so I can't judge that part. Her voice is still amazing.
I liked the second part more so I guess the true test is yet to come.

Anonymous 09/24/24 (Tue) 03:51:41 No.133540

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I have to say that the second half of this been a bore to me. Lots of economic/merchant stuff that bores me to death. However, the second to last episode had some nice focus on Holo again.
But, there's some MAJOR news!

SEASON TWO!
https://anilist.co/anime/181951/Ookami-to-Koushinryou-MERCHANT-MEETS-THE-WISE-WOLF-2nd-Season/

The past few episodes have been different from the anime (never read the LN) so it already seemed like it was going in a new direction, so now a second new season is going to bring forth lots of new anime content! PLEASE FOCUS ON HOLO AND NOT STUPID MERCHANTS!

Anonymous 09/24/24 (Tue) 15:27:57 No.133544

There is the spice part of spice and Wolf...

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