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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've been reading a couple of the things getting new seasons in January. Solo Leveling is impressively inoffensive in at least the first seven volumes or so. It's a power fantasy where the main character doesn't endorse slavery, isn't motivated by a close female acquaintance being murdered or otherwise, and doesn't immediately start a new fascist society with himself as a dictator within that part of the story. I'm mainly throwing shade, but the parts that will be adapted are just entertaining action fluff, should make for a decent show if it's animated well. The other one is A Sign of Affection, a sweet shojo about a deaf girl finding love with a world traveling hot guy student in her area (click here now). These kinds of stories always have the potential to step on some kind of insensitivity landmine but again, within the first 7 volumes or so, it's just pleasant, cutely drawn, with a nice message. I thought the new Spicy Wolf might hit for January, but re-reading the press releases, it seems it was just stated to be for some time in 2024, so maybe it'll be a summer show. Do we know if Spy x Family will be on break soon, it seems like from Crunchy's press release that Frieren will not be, which is wonderful news.

    Mmmmmmm...

    Depends if he got the shadow powers before or after volume seven.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    I've been reading a couple of the things getting new seasons in January. Solo Leveling is impressively inoffensive in at least the first seven volumes or so. It's a power fantasy where the main character doesn't endorse slavery, isn't motivated by a close female acquaintance being murdered or otherwise, and doesn't immediately start a new fascist society with himself as a dictator within that part of the story. I'm mainly throwing shade, but the parts that will be adapted are just entertaining action fluff, should make for a decent show if it's animated well. The other one is A Sign of Affection, a sweet shojo about a deaf girl finding love with a world traveling hot guy student in her area (click here now). These kinds of stories always have the potential to step on some kind of insensitivity landmine but again, within the first 7 volumes or so, it's just pleasant, cutely drawn, with a nice message. I thought the new Spicy Wolf might hit for January, but re-reading the press releases, it seems it was just stated to be for some time in 2024, so maybe it'll be a summer show. Do we know if Spy x Family will be on break soon, it seems like from Crunchy's press release that Frieren will not be, which is wonderful news.

    Mmmmmmm...

    Depends if he got the shadow powers before or after volume seven.

    The shadows aren't stated to literally be the same as the things he kills to make them, they're more like copies. So it's... debatable, at least early on. It is very funny that my slight praise is in fact debatable though, this genre is just bad to the core.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Apothecary Diaries will be continuing? I'd assumed it was only one cour and would end in a couple of episodes.

    It's a full two cours, which is delightful. I'm not sure how many books there are, at least 5 apperntly, so it seems detemrined to adapt a good chunk. Shangri la frontier is also two full cours (which makes sense, they're up to like... book 3/4 of the manga, and there's 15+ right now)

    J-Novel will have the 10th volume of Apothecary Diaries out in January. JP has 14 novels. The anime is probably only covering the first 2 and is about to finish the first novel so lock your guesses in.

    Our guesses for the number of seasons? I say >7, or "enough to cover the whole story". It's been in the top 4 favorite anime on animetrendz since it first aired 7 weeks ago. Shit's popular, yo.

    (it is deffo covering to the end of volume 2; there's a moment in the trailer that shows a scene from its epilogue.)

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  • evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/seasonal-lineup/2023/12/13/winter-anime-2024-crunchyroll?utm_source=cap_cr&utm_medium=carousel_2&utm_campaign=q1-2024_en&referrer=cap_cr_carousel_2_q1-2024_ENG

    Simulcasts for the Winter anime season are starting to be announced. Crunchyroll is picking up Metllaic Rouge and Solo Leveling, as well as a bunch of other stuff. Apperntly moonlit fantasty is getting a second season, i remember someone here was a big fan of it?

    I'll speak in favor of Moonlit Fantasy. (The anime.) It's obvious wish-fulfillment fan-serviced isekai trash, but fun trash, and one of the better examples of the genre. (I don't remember any objectionable elements, but it's been a few years.)

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/seasonal-lineup/2023/12/13/winter-anime-2024-crunchyroll?utm_source=cap_cr&utm_medium=carousel_2&utm_campaign=q1-2024_en&referrer=cap_cr_carousel_2_q1-2024_ENG

    Simulcasts for the Winter anime season are starting to be announced. Crunchyroll is picking up Metllaic Rouge and Solo Leveling, as well as a bunch of other stuff. Apperntly moonlit fantasty is getting a second season, i remember someone here was a big fan of it?

    I'll speak in favor of Moonlit Fantasy. (The anime.) It's obvious wish-fulfillment fan-serviced isekai trash, but fun trash, and one of the better examples of the genre. (I don't remember any objectionable elements, but it's been a few years.)

    I'm a big fan of the manga. The anime is ok.

    The protag blessedly doesn't want to bone anyone. He doesn't want to slay the demon king or level up or anything really. A breath of fresh air in the genre.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's me, I am the big Tsukimichi fan. Really looking forward to the second season since it's going to be covering some interesting stuff that does better in motion.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I kinda didn’t watch anything this season because of 200 episodes of sailor moon.

    What even were the cool things this season before I need to figure out a next season of things

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I kinda didn’t watch anything this season because of 200 episodes of sailor moon.

    What even were the cool things this season before I need to figure out a next season of things

    Frieren

    And that's all I know of because it's the only one I've watched this season

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Oh Frieren is two cour? Fantastic news

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Took a look at the upcoming list. Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside is getting a second season? I didn't even know it got a first one. This is one of those fantasy stories (it's actually NOT isekai) that utilize some game elements that I like, because they use those elements in a way that examines why they exist in the first place and how it affects the world.

    That one in particular has the concept of everybody being "blessed" with a class/job by the world's goddess, and by gaining levels they can increase the power of that blessing. Standard fantasy gaming world right?

    Well, it brings up an interesting question about the mechanics of that. Regardless of the blessing a person has, there's only one way to gain EXP to level up: by killing something. Doesn't matter if someone has a blessing for Chef and someone else has a blessing for Warrior, they both have to kill creatures of near-equivalent difficulty to their own level. Naturally this means those with combat-type blessings tend to be higher level compared to people without, which in turn influences society to place a heavier favor on combat blessings over the others. Nobles will actually hire people to party up with them and kill monsters so they can increase their levels safely, especially for leadership-type blessings. A lot of regular people without combat blessings may not even increase their level at all during their life.

    Minor story bits here, nothing too specific and all very early on
    But then it throws a curveball into leveling up. By leveling up you increase your blessing's power, but in turn the stronger that blessing becomes the more of an affect it has on the person. There's a child in the story who recently awakened a Warrior-type blessing and as a result of leveling up a bit became more aggressive, more prone to violence, is more comfortable wielding a weapon, etc. It's not to the point of mind control, but the blessing is definitely altering his personality and mind to make him a worse person overall. Meanwhile the people with low levels in their non-combat blessings are pretty ordinary, since their blessing is too weak to influence them that strongly.

    And then there's the really powerful blessings, the rarest of the rare like Hero. Right from the get-go these blessings are strong enough to warp the person holding it in a way that makes them more archetypes than actual classes. The Hero's blessing, for example, removes the holder's ability to feel any emotions so they can't get scared and run away, even if they're in danger of dying. It also removes their ability and need for sleep. And remember how I said the blessings don't rise to the level of mind control? That's not the case for these types. The Hero literally is not allowed to kill anyone in her party regardless of what they've done. Very early on you learn that the current Hero nearly killed the Sage by obliterating his guts in an instant, however her blessing then hijacked her and forcibly used her healing powers to fix all the physical damage. Because the Sage is part of the Hero's Party and that's how things are, regardless of what kind of person is inhabiting the role.

    It's an okay story all in all, but I read it mostly because of how it's doing something a bit different with the usual mechanics like that.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I kinda didn’t watch anything this season because of 200 episodes of sailor moon.

    What even were the cool things this season before I need to figure out a next season of things

    Apothecary diaries and Frien are the big ones. There's also Shangri-La Frontier which is a fun time, The farawat Paladin: Lord of the rust mountains,, undead unluck's having an anime adaptation over at hidive, those are the main things I can think of right now

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    spy x family

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Also, Jujutsu Kaisen's Shibuya Incident, which is a little bit insane, and there's still two episodes left.

    Latest ep:
    Please just let Mahito DIE, his time has long since been up.


    And there's MF Ghost, which just has one viewer, far as I can tell.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x8MtNalbW8

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    That's certainly a mouthful.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Also, Jujutsu Kaisen's Shibuya Incident, which is a little bit insane, and there's still two episodes left.

    Yeah I honestly need to go find a recap or something for s1 i remember only a few weird broad strokes and I guess watch the movie.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Also, Jujutsu Kaisen's Shibuya Incident, which is a little bit insane, and there's still two episodes left.

    Yeah I honestly need to go find a recap or something for s1 i remember only a few weird broad strokes and I guess watch the movie.

    I could summarize what's happened in a paragraph and you'd be good probably. :lol: And yeah, the movie is pretty important.

    The most memorable thing from S1 is probably the main bad guy in the second half and the training arc, since it introduces some of the best characters.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh my goodness how does every single episode of Frieren manage to be so good? It's been years since I've experienced a fantasy story as good as this show has been. It has reminded me how much I genuinely love fantasy. I might have to actually get physical copies of the manga.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Elaro wrote: »
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Apothecary Diaries will be continuing? I'd assumed it was only one cour and would end in a couple of episodes.

    It's a full two cours, which is delightful. I'm not sure how many books there are, at least 5 apperntly, so it seems detemrined to adapt a good chunk. Shangri la frontier is also two full cours (which makes sense, they're up to like... book 3/4 of the manga, and there's 15+ right now)

    J-Novel will have the 10th volume of Apothecary Diaries out in January. JP has 14 novels. The anime is probably only covering the first 2 and is about to finish the first novel so lock your guesses in.

    Our guesses for the number of seasons? I say >7, or "enough to cover the whole story". It's been in the top 4 favorite anime on animetrendz since it first aired 7 weeks ago. Shit's popular, yo.

    (it is deffo covering to the end of volume 2; there's a moment in the trailer that shows a scene from its epilogue.)

    I meant if anime only watchers want to guess how the current mysteries end so in a week or 2 we could come back and see how close they got.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    Oh my goodness how does every single episode of Frieren manage to be so good? It's been years since I've experienced a fantasy story as good as this show has been. It has reminded me how much I genuinely love fantasy. I might have to actually get physical copies of the manga.

    It also deftly balances action, drama, romance, and comedy, often all in one episode.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Frieren was incredible yet again this week, for multiple reasons:
    The animation of Sein and Frieren fighting the plant was obviously great, but I also loved Sein realizing trusting Frieren's very frank words was okay, and then her delivering in absolute style on what she meant. When a 1000 year old elf promises something, she means it!

    Everything with Stark and Fern was cute, but the dancing was breathtaking. It's very hard to get the flutter of clothing like that to look good.

    The emotional beats continue to be excellent week after week, all the same subdued style. Still almost certainly anime of the year, and this was a banner year.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13

    Crunchyroll answered my question. One more episode next week, then a 2 week break, then we're right back in it. Very nice to hear.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Frieren 15
    Stark: "This is hell."
    Fern: "This is hell."
    Frieren: "I'm going to eat cake."

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btSzHO6zyFc

    We have to wait until OCTOBER for Dandadan??

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  • HellboreHellbore A bad, bad man Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Frieren was incredible yet again this week, for multiple reasons:
    The animation of Sein and Frieren fighting the plant was obviously great, but I also loved Sein realizing trusting Frieren's very frank words was okay, and then her delivering in absolute style on what she meant. When a 1000 year old elf promises something, she means it!

    Everything with Stark and Fern was cute, but the dancing was breathtaking. It's very hard to get the flutter of clothing like that to look good.

    The emotional beats continue to be excellent week after week, all the same subdued style. Still almost certainly anime of the year, and this was a banner year.

    One of the animators posted lineart of that scene on their Twitter

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Finishing YYH Live Action, I don’t know if it’ll get a second season (they’ve definitely condensed things such that they have a lot of greatest hits moments from the first half of the series condensed, quite remarkably well, into five hour long episodes (so still about a cour’s worth of content give or take really). But I think they’ve designed it to not just be self contained if need be, but as a way to work within the limits of modern live action TV should they get the green light for more

    What follows is my guess and also spoilers for the adaptation:
    so as you probably heard or noticed, Robot and Netflix’s YYH basically adapts four arcs: Yusuke’s death and revival, the theft of the artifacts, the training with Genkai, and the Rescue Yukina and Keiko arcs. However, the big change is that for the live action, they’ve moved all of Team Toguro into the Rescue arc, plucking them from the Dark Tournament.

    It also ends pretty soundly such that there can be no Dark Tournament as we remember it. Sakyo is implied to have killed himself, Karasu is dead, Elder Toguro’s a head without the rest of his parts nearby to put himself back together, Gui is a giant full body third degree burn and Toguro is ash and walking the spiral path down to the Worst Hell.

    But then there was a lot more Dark Tournament than just Team Toguro, so what do you do with that?

    Well… Yu Yu Hakusho does have two tournament arcs, the latter of which, at least by the manga, is on the shorter side compared to how the anime expanded on it.

    My guess then is if they get enough seasons, Dark Tournament, sans Team Toguro, gets melded with the Three Kings tournament.

    Between those, I could see Season 2 being Maze Castle, which was also skipped right out aside from the Makai insects, Season 3 adapting Chapter Black, and then Season four capping off the series with an amalgam of Dark Tournament and Three Kings’ Makai Budotai as the focus

    This allows for fairly short, focused adaptations of the series, while still hitting all the high points, fitting the story into what may wind up being, well, twenty to thirty episodes max.

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm gonna be honest all my yu yu hasko knowledge comes from wc3 custom maps and I'm tempted to know more but also sometimes that's all I want from a anime

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I will probably end up going deep because the game I'ma finally buy is a ghost decttibe solving his own murder I just can't not like similar hooks on a reincarnation nerd as long as it isn't a isekai what can I say

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    Ghost Trick is good as hell

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    Ghost Trick is good as hell

    It's actually Murdered Soul Suspect which I'm not expected to be good (it's also like 2$)

    I've been meaning to play Ghost Trick I always forget about it so I'm deffon gonna do thay

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hellbore wrote: »
    Frieren was incredible yet again this week, for multiple reasons:
    The animation of Sein and Frieren fighting the plant was obviously great, but I also loved Sein realizing trusting Frieren's very frank words was okay, and then her delivering in absolute style on what she meant. When a 1000 year old elf promises something, she means it!

    Everything with Stark and Fern was cute, but the dancing was breathtaking. It's very hard to get the flutter of clothing like that to look good.

    The emotional beats continue to be excellent week after week, all the same subdued style. Still almost certainly anime of the year, and this was a banner year.

    One of the animators posted lineart of that scene on their Twitter

    wait was that scene all traditionally animated? I thought for sure it was 3D animated. Maybe they traced over 3D animated figures?

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hellbore wrote: »
    Frieren was incredible yet again this week, for multiple reasons:
    The animation of Sein and Frieren fighting the plant was obviously great, but I also loved Sein realizing trusting Frieren's very frank words was okay, and then her delivering in absolute style on what she meant. When a 1000 year old elf promises something, she means it!

    Everything with Stark and Fern was cute, but the dancing was breathtaking. It's very hard to get the flutter of clothing like that to look good.

    The emotional beats continue to be excellent week after week, all the same subdued style. Still almost certainly anime of the year, and this was a banner year.

    One of the animators posted lineart of that scene on their Twitter

    wait was that scene all traditionally animated? I thought for sure it was 3D animated. Maybe they traced over 3D animated figures?
    I've read a comment on CR that the dance looked floaty (and 3D) to them. I kinda got that impression too, but I attributed it to the lack of footstep foley.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    That scene 100% looks traditionally animated to me, I don't get a 3D vibe from it at all personally

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Macross II has already met its goal and then some, not even one day in.

    https://macross2.animeigo.com/

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Re: the dance animation: I just remembered I had this reaction to the chika dance ending sequence from kaguya sama love is war as well, and that turned out to have been done with rotoscoping. I suspect this sequence was as well. The amount of realistic detail and consistency in the movement of the bodies and the clothing is extremely high in the same way.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13


    According to the animator on twitter it was reference vids only, no 3D or mocap. Scrolling through their media tab shows them doing a few of the more detailed guitar strumming scenes from Bocchi as well, so it looks like they're pretty experienced with that kind of complicated hand/limb animation.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Not that I mind, but I'm surprised they let the animators be so candid with sharing frames and WIPs and things like that. I figured they'd be under all kinds of NDAs or thereabouts.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's fairly common for animators to share WIPs and key frames on twitter for sequences they did after an episode airs.

    Since so many studios freelance out work, and there are a ton of animators on twitter (MAPPA famously recruits a hundreds of freelancers by literally just DMing them on twitter, I remember that coming up one or two "MAPPA working conditions suck ass" scandals ago), I presume it's just a good industry practice to let them advertise their work + it also works as advertising for the show.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »


    According to the animator on twitter it was reference vids only, no 3D or mocap. Scrolling through their media tab shows them doing a few of the more detailed guitar strumming scenes from Bocchi as well, so it looks like they're pretty experienced with that kind of complicated hand/limb animation.

    that is SUPER SUPER impressive!
    e: or wait does he mean live reference as in rotoscoping or live reference that he looked at and freehanded?
    Impressive either way but if that was freehanded I'm in awe

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Finished Witch from Mercury tonight. What is this, a happy ending in a Gundam series?

    Also really love looking back at the "controversy" that bandai made for themselves. The marriage wasn't subtext, they had rings on their fingers and everything. Just wild shit.

    Anyway, that was pretty alright!

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