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 No.132386[Reply]

How's public transport around your area? We've talked about it before several times but it was more about theory/principles rather than the tangible state of affairs.

Recently a globetrotter train ota came by and his blogging did some bazuru locally, which I found fairly fun to read. His sasuga over old Toshiba-kun still working, saying a stop is otogibanashi no you na, his empanada food blog, and the comparisons he makes to other countries or the stuff he points out, very neat. You can read it here:
https://nitter.poast.org/taisetsukuzure (he's getting accosted)
There's a noticeable difference between the 80s Japanese cars and the modern Chinese ones, not just that each has its own runic inscriptions but that there's a tech difference of thirty years, like the fancy rail line map with lights, or Nagoya 5000's having a degree of asbestos. There's a ton of different batches operated concurrently, it's all over the place and a major pain in the ass financially and technically:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Underground_rolling_stock
A subway line I usually take runs Mitsubishi Eidan alongside Spanish CAF 6000, and the most prominent difference for me is that the latter's seating consists groups of four inward plastic seats while the former has the usual long line of a single padded seat running across the side of the car that I find far more comfortable. Spanish ones also have funny doors that you have to open manually and individually by pulling a mini lever rather than all opening when stopping. It seems to be suited to something for fewer people to take compared to the typical crowded image of Japanese transport.

Stations likewise come in all shapes and sizes, like pic which is the one Taisetsu-san really liked from La Plata. Subway lines can have large tunnel walkways connecting each other and mini-malls, or even a genuinely connecting to an actual mall, and a lot of murals and paintings, very cool stuff. Though the smell can be horrible.
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 No.149909

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Public transport in Hong Kong is really good, so I'd like to talk about it!

The primary way of getting around is the MTR, which is our metro/subway system. Stations are dotted around the city and that makes getting around really fast (assuming where you want is near a station). The MTR Corporation owns a lot of the land around their stations, which means they make money from renting out places and that keeps the cost of tickets down.
It doesn't serve the entire city, but if you're on the north part of Hong Kong island, most of Kowloon, and certain areas of the New Territories, there should be a station not too far away. Most trips will be <$15 (about $1.90 in US dollars), if that.

Busses are a good alternative if your departure/destination isn't served by the MTR, and sometimes they can be more convenient for some trips. They're double-deckers and air conditioned, and usually arrive every 5 or 10 minutes. In rush hour, if they're full they will just skip your stop... Busses have a flat fee, depending on the route. I think I pay around $8 or $12 usually.
There are also the green minibuses, which serve even more niche areas. The drivers go really fast and play fast and loose with the stops. You need to yell in Cantonese for them to stop. I'm too afraid to use them.

The northern part of Hong Kong Island is served by the Hong Kong Tramway, which is an old-timey double-decker tram. It's pretty slow but it's only $3 ($2 if you pay with a Visa card). Great if you're not in a hurry and it serves some destinations better. It's also fun to ride and take in the views.

There are also some ferry services, which serve the outlying islands and let you cross Victoria Harbour. The Star Ferry is the most famous

You can pay for everything using an Octopus Card, which is a contactless smart card that you use to pay for basically everything here.

I used to live in a small city in England served by a really crappy, expensive bus network so experiencing the polar opposite after moving has been Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.149911

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I live right next to a train station, 5 minutes down the road is the tram line, where this legendary song was made
https://soundcloud.com/richard-feng-372617570/109-tram-song idk if anchor works with soundcloud
everywhere has a bus stop too, pretty much the only time i needed to use my car is when i worked outside of the city and now for my current job, PT is comfy
>idk if anchor works with soundcloud

 No.149912

>>132386
pretty limited
there's an rather marginal bus service in my town that only comes by the stops every hour or so and while there is a train station you have to drive to the edge of town to use it

 No.149913

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>>132386
It's alright, though the last time I used it I got screwed over because I missed the stop I needed as the bus's route display was broken and I didn't know the area well
I ended up having to pay like 30 euros for a 10 minute taxi ride to backtrack

Somewhat unrelated but here's a picture of a wexford bus (wexford being a specific region of ireland) that ended up in nepal for some reason

>>149909
Octopus card is funny sounding

 No.150234

Tokyo rail network is extensive but handled by multiple companies, with checkpoint between them for switching train without leaving the station. Would be a major pain to do fares if not for the contactless ic cards.
Also heard that Japanese trains would often separate mid route for different destination.
Only rode shuttle buses in Narita airport and they are awfully slow, with driver himself announcing every operation of the vehicle. I imagine other buses in the city are the same.
>>149909
Green minibuses are nothing. Try the red one at night.
Also Octopus card was very good, never knew I would miss its ability to go negative value til my pasmo card become one(1) yen short. If HKer didn't rightfully give up after '97 it would not be cannibalized by unreliable QR code reliant, slow network chink network payment system for over nearly three decade.




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 No.145072[Reply]

Are any anime adaptations of VNs worth watching in particular if you haven't read the VN (but promise to one day)?
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>>145072
Shuffle! is the only one I've seen that surpasses its source material.
The Galaxy Angel anime is great too but it's so different from the VN that it barely counts.

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>>145072
I didn't read a lot of VNs but anime adaptations never appealed to me. The only one I watched until the end was the Planetarian one. It was fine but I still preferred the VN.

 No.150194

There's just too much lost in adaptation. They're better watched after reading the source material.

 No.150230

Amagami and Clannad work well in my opinion for adaptations of route based VNs and they both do it in the exact opposite ways. Amagami uses about 4 episodes for each girl's route, and Clannad mainly uses Nagisa's route as the through line for the entire show with plot points taken from the other routes and adapted into the story. The pros of the Amagami style is allowing each girl their own time to shine with the MC within their own episodes and their own conclusions. With Clannad we get the experience the main ideas and themes wrapped around one romance, but still get the experiences of the other routes without disrupting that.

 No.150288

Moved to >>>/amv/4683.




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 No.149609[Reply]

Anyone playing kakuge here?
I've been playing UNI2 recently. It's very fun, I like the focus on defensive mechanics.
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 No.149853

>>149823
Shit, this guy has cool Kohaku combos too

 No.149885

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>>149823
As a hobby for making friends, fighting games kind of suck because new people or friends who are trying to get into them won't want to play with you as you'll just kill them, and better players will just kill you or are clique-y discordfags, in my experience anyway.
It's a shame because I really do love fighting games, they're just a tough genre to get anyone into.

 No.149914

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>>149885
People on here have been pretty open to playing fightan gays whenever and with whoever. Most of the time the difficulty I’ve found has been in finding new players to join in on the sessions.

 No.150169

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Love me some fightan games.
Been playing UNI2 lately. Also getting back into Soku since someone made a mod that adds strive lobbies (but actually functional.) Might pick up CotW too, the betas were pretty fun.

>>149823
Fighting games suck for making friends unless you have a consistent local to go to. It's pretty easy to make friends with people you see in person every week but the online fightan experience is more or less like this >>149885

 No.150286

Moved to >>>/amv/4669.




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 No.67883[Reply][Last50 Posts]

I want to nakadashi *girl* has become a popular phrase on imageboards (mostly 4chan). But it's a mix of Japanese and English. If I was going to say "I want to cum inside Holo" fully in Japanese, how would I go about doing that? In the English sentence, nakadashi is a loan word and it is the action being done, but in Japanese I don't think 中出し is a verb. Can it be verbified by adding する to it? And then you conjugate it to say you "want" to do it. So the end result would be 私はホロで中出ししたい which would translate to I want to cum inside Holo. Am I correct?

Japanese is fun to learn.
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 No.149634

>>149605
That's what I get for posting with no sleep whatsoever. I didn't even read the word right, he clearly wrote 向かう (向かう intransitive 向ける transitive) not 向こう (noun).
They're definitely related words, but this was just embarassing. I want to dig myself a hole and hide in it.

 No.149643

>>143938
>You can watch anime without subtitles and game shows all day and it won't make much difference.
This simply isn't true. The more you read and listen, the more you will internalize grammar and collocations, understand how native speakers think and externalize their thoughts, acquire vocabulary, and so on.

>>149625
Like that guy said you don't have to be in Japan to communicate with natives. Go pick fights on comment sections for Japanese videos, get a 浪人 and shitpost on 5ch, find some people to play TRPGs with on shitcord. But really, I'd tell you to just watch anime and play VNs.

 No.150104

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Furiganaize Firefox extension (I'm terrible at recalling the spellings of the kanji I read)+takoboto dictionary app (to quickly lookup and mine highlighted vocabulary) for Android are lifesavers for me since I can't comfortably watch or read anything anime or manga while on the j*b.

 No.150151

>>150104
>I'm terrible at recalling the spellings of the kanji I read
You'll get better if you keep at it without furigana so you get that recall practice.

 No.150179

>>150151
Yes he shouldn't be furiganizing things.
Maybe you could make the argument if there was an extension that did it only for wago; I could see that being useful to not get overwhelmed with learning all the readings for the verbs et cetera as a beginner but for kanji in general, furiganizing would only be hampering your ability to start learning the readings, it's the equivalent of the yomichan-ing everything before actually trying to read trap some people fall into.
But he is saying at work so maybe he just means that he can't give it full attention at work, which fair enough. Respect for studying japanese on the company time.




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 No.143543[Reply]

this thread is for chinese media, entertainment, 2d cultural stuff and probably information regarding the language.

a goal is to spread interest in chinese culture and media similar to how /jp/a/ and 4chan spread interest in otaku culture. i'm pretty much the only person on earth who wants this so we'll play it by ear and see what interest others have in it.

post questions or other feelings if you feel like it. i'd prefer to not have political stuff instead focus on the 2d cultural stuff so music, donghua(anime), manhua(manga), and webnovels. other chinese stuff welcome too i guess.
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 No.149328

>>149325
yeah, just consuming gadgets and cars and stuff. But that would all get translated into local languages anyways. Only reason I can think of is jobs

 No.149606

>>149323
>consoom
go away

 No.150051

>>149323
I enjoy their web novels more than Japanese ones. Japanese characterization is meandering in comparison.

 No.150148

>>149316
>>149317
thanks a lot again

 No.150366

Decided to keep this thread on /qa/ since it seems to heavily involve language instead of talking about specific games or whatever. Let me know if you disagree.




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 No.148040[Reply]

Have you ever visited Japan? What is your favourite place?
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 No.149663

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>>148197
>Tokyo is way too dense for me with people everywhere
This is true in some places, but what has really surprised me the couple of times I've been is that it's entirely possible to find quiet streets and neighborhoods as little as 5 or 10 minutes walk from busy central Shibuya. I do agree that rural places are more interesting than cities, but both have something to offer depending on what you're into. You really do need a rental car for anything outside major cities unfortunately.

>>148800
In my experience, travelling with other people is only good if you're of the same mindset. I have travelled alot since I was very young and found that with my mother and cousins they're very easygoing, but when travelling with family friends there's a sort of pressure to spend time together at the cost of seeing the things you're interested in; it's not really worth it. If you've watched or read Yurucamp, it's comparable to Rin's solo camping. You can go anywhere and do whatever you like without being beholden to anyone.

 No.149684

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When's the /qa/ meetup for Comiket 106?

 No.149872

>>149684
As always on the last day of comiket at 4 pm at the red saw.

 No.149892

i went back in 2018 with some mates, we visited tokyo, kyoto, osaka and hiroshima. i really wanna go back again!

 No.150114

I've been a year ago, and I am currently thinking about going again.
How is the weather in September? Is it still death heat or are things already getting more moderate? Especially out in the Kanazawa/Nagano direction.




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 No.144444[Reply]

There comes a time in every Onii-chan's life where he thinks about sexual relations with his imouto. He asks the question, "Should I?" or "Is it ethical?". Take some advice from best girl Kirino who says, "Yes!". Incest is always morally correct and in fact your imouto wants you right now!
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 No.149346

>>149214
>ask her if I can have a taste
>french kiss her as soon as she takes the popsicle out of her mouth

 No.149966

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You know what they say about best girls?

 No.150000

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>>149966
They always win!!!
That's what makes Kirino best girl!!!

 No.150006

>>150000
scripted
MODSSSSS

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 No.72689[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Have you played any "ero" (a Japanese word meaning 'erotic') games lately?
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 No.149839

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>>149824
the only one I know of is Isle of TS Monster Girls, it's got a couple things like kigurumi transformation and rebirth

 No.149859

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>AV Director Life: Capture Me at My Worst
My GPU going crazy playing this...
Very good game from these guys. Better than their Left-For-Dead clone

https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ01325945.html

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 No.150280

Time to head to /amv/ old thread of mine!

 No.150294

Moved to >>>/amv/4694.




 No.114027[Reply][Last50 Posts]

What music has /qa/ been listening to lately?
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 No.149706

I love Thanatos

 No.149720

I love Love Solfege

 No.149727

groovin' underwater...

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 No.20137[Reply][Last50 Posts]

I'm a VR now.
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 No.149500

>>149394
>Which app is this?
Virtual Desktop

 No.149502

>>149405
Have we had something this good in the past? I would've thought one of the vtubers of current I've seen spammed would be using it if that were the case. And I don't think I've seen any vtuber model this good>

 No.149504

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>>149502
this isnt even particularly good? the blendshapes look pretty scuffed most of the time, pic related
the blue haired manuka in https://youtu.be/v3jyl9DcWQI?si=VT-4sm-goN410xQS&t=23 has way higher quality tracking, off the top of my head, and Ive seen better tracking inside of VRC first hand for years now so Im just surprised this is what ends up blowing up in non vrchat circles
but I suppose thats just how social media operates

regarding vtubers I do remember some green 3d one being posted a few years back and being genuinely impressive and surely by now there has to be other indies that have paid for professional face tracking
remember that the big popular vtubers are often corpos that pay the absolute bare minimum for a passing model and would never ever splurge on something like face tracking fidelity

 No.149595

>>149504
That's not scuffed at all.

 No.149783

>>149504
i didn't know we had another vrchatter in here, WHO ARE YOU!!??




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 No.102927[Reply][Last50 Posts]

I tend to nag people to post their cat pictures here so it's only fair that I post some of my own. Here is the (late) kitty I had when I lived with my parents. I had her since I was eight years old and she lived to around 15 years.
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 No.148619

>>148616
My mom's insane desu.
A while ago there were 7 cats here when my brother's cats had stay. Just getting it down to 5 is a relief.

 No.148627

Amazing meowers. Please feel free to post pics and vids of them at your leisure

 No.149742

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She comes to my desk to ask me to open the window a lot.

 No.149744

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Cat found a nook between boxes in the closet and she has been sleeping in there lately.

>>149742
Maybe she wants to sit on the roof

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 No.144829[Reply]

This is nice board
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 No.149711

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I miss [s4s].

 No.149712

>>149703
Ah you mean that one, I don't really like the people who post there (/_\)

 No.149713

>>149708
It's Anonymous and there are "59_other_users" (so, 60 total) right now.

 No.149714

My week felt incomplete without saturday skribbl.

 No.149715

>>149712
that's understandable which is why i was hesitant to post the link to it in the first place
i think people who wanted to be on it already are, probably




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 No.67182[Reply][Last50 Posts]

/qa/! It's time to show off your MS paint skills! Try drawing a character and seeing if others can guess at who it is. Starting off with an iconic one so that the first picture isn't impossible...
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 No.148341

>>148337
The tournament winner here, that drawing is hilarious, good job
I really like the little vacuous kosh

 No.148347

>>148337
Epic tournament loser here, excellent way to showcase a small slice of the torment we suffer each race.
Minor details that could be polished aside, this is still really funny and the bottom panel is definitely my favorite.
>>147407
Good shading on that Hiners, really makes the thing pop.

 No.148373

>>147407
The shading really does make a ton of difference. Your vibrant coloring is also something I like about your art.
>>148341
>>148347
Tenkyuu. I wanted to split the attention between you two since it was a point difference in scoring between first and second.
>Minor details that could be polished aside
Anything in particular you've noticed? Hands are one thing, but I'd like to try getting koishi to look down at the ant line without making it look like she has even worse down syndrome.

 No.148381

>>148373
>it was a point difference in scoring between first and second
That fact still makes me feel crazy...goddamn what a tourney that was.
As for that detailing, one thing that might help with the perspective of the girls you draw is giving their head shapes a little more definition. I usually work around this by making sure my base sketches for the head/faces are already oriented just how I'd like them. It's just a matter of piecing together the final head shape from those horizontal/vertical guidelines of the face before adding any major details like the eyes and mouth. Even one thing being slightly off can upset the whole balance so it's good to know where you're placing everything beforehand, even roughly.
Stuff like texturing and proper hand anatomy are indeed whole other cans of worms so otherwise I would suggest making sure the linework has a nice flow to it as well. Your Sanae and Clownpiece are pretty good but Reimu's head looks just a little funny with no chin in comparison for example.
You got the fundamentals on clear display, it's just a matter of further practice by reasonably pushing yourself via those ambitions. Also I honestly though Koishi was just looking at leaves blowing in the wind lol, but an ant line makes sense.

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I believe in a sign of Zeta.




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 No.143270[Reply]

Let's talk about mecha here anons

The 2026 Ghost in the Shell Show Teaser: https://youtu.be/rk27MbUoBQ8?si=mgKmuI7bG4A4M3DM

Anilist mecha 2025 Category: https://anilist.co/search/anime?genres=Mecha&year=2025
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 No.149351

>>149278
>best way to get the story
It's the only one, rather. But you should still watch the OVAs after reading the manga, they're all excellent.

 No.149593

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>>149278
Yes. The "closest" faithful animated adaptation of the mangas is New Getter which is a reimagining amalgation of OG, Getter G and Shin Getter. It's still largely original and deviates a lot from the stories but I think it's a great introduction to get the idea of what Getter is about, plus a pretty good tribute to the author.
I recommend to read all the way til Shin. Arc isn't bad at all but what happened to it is the equivalent of Dragon Ball abruptly ending when Goku turns Super Saiyan because Toriyama suddenly had a heart attack and never gave notes on how to end the story.

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 No.150277

New /amv/ board so we're moving stuff there!

 No.150278

Moved to >>>/amv/4478.




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 No.113881[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Finally started my "buyfag" life; albeit not anywhere near the level I've dreamt of, with only second hand stuff so far.
What anime goods have you bought /qa/?
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 No.145267

160cm almost too long for a daki. I bought 2 more for some others which just cleared customs. Illya and miyu

 No.149616

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New art. This one is glittered

 No.149617

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Same artist. More standard

 No.149620

>>149617
Really cute chest on her. Also the artstyle looks like it fits really well with glowing in >>149616

 No.149640

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Am waiting on a couple of huge ones to finish the set. Almost done decorating.

Two other acrylics for my computer area.




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