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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think I read some of Tales of Wedding Rings ages ago. Last I remember was they went to some magic country where the buildings are kind of like spires in the, I want to say desert canyons?

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Really happy about Apothecary Diaries getting a second season announced already. What i'm curious is where they're going to go with it - do they just adapt vol 3 of the light novel, or do they adopt Vol 3 and 4 across two cours? The anime has been taking big cues from the manga adaption, and the manga is only just adapting Vol 4 - It's a few chapters into vol 4, and literally hitting the fireworks factory that takes up the rest of vol 4 with the latest chapter.

    Either way, I'm glad I got introduced to this series and it's such a big hit. Do wish I enjoyed the light novels more, but there's just something about the writing style that doesn't c lick for me. Whatcha gonna do?

    Thankfully, apperntly they're selling like utter hotcakes currently. So good for the creator!

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Delicious in Dungeon 12
    For those who haven't read the manga this is the moment where it goes from good to really good

    Also: And they were roommates!

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    y'know it's funny, the local video rental shop I rented Robotech from back in the 90s also had a copy of Do You Remember Love, I don't remember if it was subbed or dubbed but they had it and it was localized somehow.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's a very badly localized dub you can find on YouTube if you go looking, yeah.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I remember watching the dubs of DYRL and Macross Plus at least once each on the Sci Fi Channel back in the mid-00s, when they had their own little anime block

    I also remember watching Samurai Seven and Vandread via that block, very Mecha forward

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oda why don't leave us like this!!!

    I hope he has a very good break and learns to take care of him self but it's a humdinger of a cliffhanger you jerk!

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    see317 wrote: »
    Hello Anime thread, can you suggest any sci-fi isekais?
    I don't mean "Fantasy world via VR gaming" like SAO or similar, but actual giant mecha/star ship settings that real world people wind up in? It seems like it'd be a natural place to take the theme, but I haven't come across any. Granted, my anime experience is limited, but figured I'd ask the hive mind what I should be looking for.

    Something where Bob, the general mecha enthusiast main character, gets run down by a horse drawn buggy and wakes up in Gundam or Evangelion (with the serial numbers filed off) or some other grim "War is hell... but, hey, cool robots" kind of setting?

    There's no way to say what series it is without spoiling a twist, so, uh, spoilers for a kids show Gundam spinoff?
    I haven't gotten around to watching it yet, but I've heard that Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise is decent? It's much more of a kid's show than your typical Gundam thing, but it also has a mid-first-season twist that the gundam VRMMO they're playing isn't actually VR, and instead they're getting their minds summoned to an alien planet.

    Mind you, the original series (Gundam Build Divers) is very much just a VRMMO thing.

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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    In newest Jujutsu Kaisen manga chapter, author oficially entered shitposting phase
    byt throwing into the meath grinder that is Sukuna, Miguel, a character that HAS NEVER APPEARED IN THIS MANGA BEFORE, NOR WAS SHE SHOWN PLANNING THIS FIGHT WITH OTHER CHARACTERS

    Now, imagine you are that one person that reads Jujutsu Kaisen, but DID NOT read or watch Jujustsu Kaisen 0.

    And then Miguel enters the fight.

    "Who the fuck is this dude!?"

    This is something that someone writing a parody of JJK would throw in, for a joke, and here we see it in the official, main manga. Gege truly and utterly lost the plot.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Delicious in Dungeon 12
    For those who haven't read the manga this is the moment where it goes from good to really good

    Also: And they were roommates!
    Yeah, there's a certain scene that has generated quite a bit of Rule 34 attention for very obvious reasons (and that's where I'm leaving that particular line of inquiry.)

    But, I still like that Marcielle goes "Fuck rules, fuck taboos - I want my best friend back, damnit."

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Anzekay on
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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Asthariel wrote: »
    In newest Jujutsu Kaisen manga chapter, author oficially entered shitposting phase
    byt throwing into the meath grinder that is Sukuna, Miguel, a character that HAS NEVER APPEARED IN THIS MANGA BEFORE, NOR WAS SHE SHOWN PLANNING THIS FIGHT WITH OTHER CHARACTERS

    Now, imagine you are that one person that reads Jujutsu Kaisen, but DID NOT read or watch Jujustsu Kaisen 0.

    And then Miguel enters the fight.

    "Who the fuck is this dude!?"

    This is something that someone writing a parody of JJK would throw in, for a joke, and here we see it in the official, main manga. Gege truly and utterly lost the plot.

    The last couple of chapters have just been fucking bizzare, including suddenly talking up a bit character who's characterization up until now has been "Competent coward". It's just farcically bad at this point.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Asthariel wrote: »
    In newest Jujutsu Kaisen manga chapter, author oficially entered shitposting phase
    byt throwing into the meath grinder that is Sukuna, Miguel, a character that HAS NEVER APPEARED IN THIS MANGA BEFORE, NOR WAS SHE SHOWN PLANNING THIS FIGHT WITH OTHER CHARACTERS

    Now, imagine you are that one person that reads Jujutsu Kaisen, but DID NOT read or watch Jujustsu Kaisen 0.

    And then Miguel enters the fight.

    "Who the fuck is this dude!?"

    This is something that someone writing a parody of JJK would throw in, for a joke, and here we see it in the official, main manga. Gege truly and utterly lost the plot.
    I'm not surprised at the new arrival or Kusakabe getting clapped, it's par for the course, and no one dies anyway.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    One Piece ch. 1111
    Real curious why all the beings who were alive at the time of joyboy are all apologetic to him. When they finally show us the void century it’s gonna be wild. Like considering all the lost tech that on egghead I feel like we’re functionally in the dark ages of this world.
    Luffy gnawing down a baseball bat like a beaver and painting it in seconds to repel an attack was a good goof.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Neveron wrote: »
    see317 wrote: »
    Hello Anime thread, can you suggest any sci-fi isekais?
    I don't mean "Fantasy world via VR gaming" like SAO or similar, but actual giant mecha/star ship settings that real world people wind up in? It seems like it'd be a natural place to take the theme, but I haven't come across any. Granted, my anime experience is limited, but figured I'd ask the hive mind what I should be looking for.

    Something where Bob, the general mecha enthusiast main character, gets run down by a horse drawn buggy and wakes up in Gundam or Evangelion (with the serial numbers filed off) or some other grim "War is hell... but, hey, cool robots" kind of setting?

    There's no way to say what series it is without spoiling a twist, so, uh, spoilers for a kids show Gundam spinoff?
    I haven't gotten around to watching it yet, but I've heard that Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise is decent? It's much more of a kid's show than your typical Gundam thing, but it also has a mid-first-season twist that the gundam VRMMO they're playing isn't actually VR, and instead they're getting their minds summoned to an alien planet.

    Mind you, the original series (Gundam Build Divers) is very much just a VRMMO thing.
    re:rise is good but it takes a bit to get rolling. i think knowing the twist before the characters do helps to get you sort of invested in it enough to get through until it starts cooking

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Drascin wrote: »
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Apothecary Diaries spoiler talk
    What about the meaning of the wilted rose she gave him then?

    Anzekay on
  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lars wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Apothecary Diaries spoiler talk
    What about the meaning of the wilted rose she gave him then?

    it was explained in that scene
    a wilted rose can still be beautiful. An allegory to her mother, the wilted rose/diseased courtesan.

    Anzekay on
  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lars wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Apothecary Diaries spoiler talk
    What about the meaning of the wilted rose she gave him then?

    it was explained in that scene
    a wilted rose can still be beautiful. An allegory to her mother, the wilted rose/diseased courtesan.

    Since
    Lakan can't see faces, he sees her as he remembers her, right?

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    .
    Lars wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Apothecary Diaries spoiler talk
    What about the meaning of the wilted rose she gave him then?

    it was explained in that scene
    a wilted rose can still be beautiful. An allegory to her mother, the wilted rose/diseased courtesan.

    Since
    Lakan can't see faces, he sees her as he remembers her, right?
    He sees faces he cares about. He saw Maomao remember.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lars wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Apothecary Diaries spoiler talk
    What about the meaning of the wilted rose she gave him then?

    it was explained in that scene
    a wilted rose can still be beautiful. An allegory to her mother, the wilted rose/diseased courtesan.

    Apothecary Diary spoilers
    I know that part, but the above post said Maomao had intended for him to choose Meimei instead of her mother, but the rose seems contradictory to that.

    Anzekay on
  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lars wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Apothecary Diaries spoiler talk
    What about the meaning of the wilted rose she gave him then?

    it was explained in that scene
    a wilted rose can still be beautiful. An allegory to her mother, the wilted rose/diseased courtesan.

    Apothecary Diary spoilers
    I know that part, but the above post said Maomao had intended for him to choose Meimei instead of her mother, but the rose seems contradictory to that.
    It's left pretty open - though it is also mentioned that Maomao had actually hidden a letter in a compartment of the box, that Rakan never did find, so we never get to see what he else had Maomao intended to tell him.

    All we have is Maomao's musings to herself that "well, the person I really wanted to send off was big sister Meimei" but not being entirely displeased with how things turned out, that then get interrupted by Jinshi, iirc.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Drascin wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Apothecary Diaries spoiler talk
    What about the meaning of the wilted rose she gave him then?

    it was explained in that scene
    a wilted rose can still be beautiful. An allegory to her mother, the wilted rose/diseased courtesan.

    Apothecary Diary spoilers
    I know that part, but the above post said Maomao had intended for him to choose Meimei instead of her mother, but the rose seems contradictory to that.
    It's left pretty open - though it is also mentioned that Maomao had actually hidden a letter in a compartment of the box, that Rakan never did find, so we never get to see what he else had Maomao intended to tell him.

    All we have is Maomao's musings to herself that "well, the person I really wanted to send off was big sister Meimei" but not being entirely displeased with how things turned out, that then get interrupted by Jinshi, iirc.
    Yeah I kind of didn't understand that angle
    Since wasn't she trying to get MeiMei and that other official hooked up? Or was that a different courtesan?

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Drascin wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Apothecary Diaries spoiler talk
    What about the meaning of the wilted rose she gave him then?

    it was explained in that scene
    a wilted rose can still be beautiful. An allegory to her mother, the wilted rose/diseased courtesan.

    Apothecary Diary spoilers
    I know that part, but the above post said Maomao had intended for him to choose Meimei instead of her mother, but the rose seems contradictory to that.
    It's left pretty open - though it is also mentioned that Maomao had actually hidden a letter in a compartment of the box, that Rakan never did find, so we never get to see what he else had Maomao intended to tell him.

    All we have is Maomao's musings to herself that "well, the person I really wanted to send off was big sister Meimei" but not being entirely displeased with how things turned out, that then get interrupted by Jinshi, iirc.
    Yeah I kind of didn't understand that angle
    Since wasn't she trying to get MeiMei and that other official hooked up? Or was that a different courtesan?
    That was Pai Rin to Rihaku, iirc.

    Maomao has three big sisters - Mei Mei (who was in love with Rakan), Pai Rin (who is hoping for a prince but who Maomao judges will be quite willing to settle for a strapping lad who knows how to treat her like a princess, ie, Rihaku) and... dammit, my brain is failing to give me the last name, the one that Maomao figures is probably going to take over the brothel once Granny dies

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So there's this stupid show next season called something like "My Relaxed Life as a Former Hero When I Discovered That I Had Cheat Powers Only After Reaching Level 2," and it's all the stupid isekai rpg world harem dumbfuckery you'd expect. Oh, I don't have cheat STATS, I have cheat LEVELING. That demon wolf of legend is actually a hot teenage girl who now calls me her master. So on and so forth. Garbage, but not out of the ordinary, especially given that there are like 10 other cheat power isekai things just like it that season alone.

    But then you look at the studio and staff. JC Staff, directed by Iwasaki Yoshiaki, male lead is Hino Satoshi, female lead is Kugimiya Rie, the princess is Kawasumi Ayako, and it keeps going down the cast list. It's a fucking 20 year staff/cast reunion for Zero no Tsukaima. Not the same light novel writer, obviously (died to stomach cancer ten years ago), but it's like looking at pictures of pugs from 50 years ago and comparing them to now, but with the bastardization of trashy fanservice fantasy.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oh hey I've read that one, I think? The one I've read the guy isn't a former hero, he's a merchant who got summoned from another world. It's alright, avoids a lot of the trashy isekai tropes like slavery and harems, but it is definitely a power fantasy sort of deal.

    Also holy shit Re:Monster is actually getting an anime. Now THERE'S some isekai trash, and I mean that in the most vile way. Slavery, rape, an absolute monster of a protagonist (and not just in appearance), it's probably worse than Redo of a Healer.

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  • shadowaneshadowane Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    This weeks Solo Leveling ended in the middle of a whole thing and since I thought it was the last episode of the season, I thought it was really annoying. Quickly realized there is at least one more episode so hopefully they don't end it on an annoying cliffhanger.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Drascin wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Thoughts on Apothecary Diaries 24 (The finale)
    Maomao's game with Lakan in the last episode seems to me like she was testing him, to see if he would try and win regardless of if she might be poisoned, just so he could have a claim of ownership of some kind on her, or whether he would let her win and do something good for someone else. And so sending him to the Verdigris House was the next stage of that test, whether he would take the easier route and buy out Meimei, or if he would take the more difficult route and reunite with Fengxian. Maomao seems like she's caught up in so many conflicting positive and negative emotions about her parents, she shuts herself off as much as she possibly can, but she still on some level wanted to believe that they were good people who deserved to be happy together.

    I do find it hilarious that succeeding in that...
    ...winds up hoisting her on her own petard. Because throughout the series, she notes how she's just a commoner, and thus her life is cheap - but at the same time, it provides her a degree of protection from court intrigue and serves as a barrier between her and Jinshi. But with Lakan doing right by Fengming, this legitimizes Maomao - she's now no longer a commoner, but the legitimate daughter of the emperor's chief strategist and member of a noble family.

    That is, she's now of rank that Jinshi taking her as his would no longer be seen as wrong.

    In the manga I read, at least, the even funniest thing is
    that that was not, in fact, even Maomao's plan. She never actually expected him to find her mom, she assumed they'd keep her properly hidden. She was more angling to give Meimei a chance at happiness with the man she'd ended up falling in love with while seeing if Rakan would actually follow through or flake out.

    But Meimei and Rakan both had to go and be honorable and noble and now it's a mess of conflicting emotions and her own position is weird and ugh.

    Basically, "task failed successfully".

    This manga really enjoys driving home the point that people are complicated!

    Apothecary Diaries spoiler talk
    What about the meaning of the wilted rose she gave him then?

    it was explained in that scene
    a wilted rose can still be beautiful. An allegory to her mother, the wilted rose/diseased courtesan.

    Apothecary Diary spoilers
    I know that part, but the above post said Maomao had intended for him to choose Meimei instead of her mother, but the rose seems contradictory to that.
    It's left pretty open - though it is also mentioned that Maomao had actually hidden a letter in a compartment of the box, that Rakan never did find, so we never get to see what he else had Maomao intended to tell him.

    All we have is Maomao's musings to herself that "well, the person I really wanted to send off was big sister Meimei" but not being entirely displeased with how things turned out, that then get interrupted by Jinshi, iirc.
    Yeah I kind of didn't understand that angle
    Since wasn't she trying to get MeiMei and that other official hooked up? Or was that a different courtesan?
    That was Pai Rin to Rihaku, iirc.

    Maomao has three big sisters - Mei Mei (who was in love with Rakan), Pai Rin (who is hoping for a prince but who Maomao judges will be quite willing to settle for a strapping lad who knows how to treat her like a princess, ie, Rihaku) and... dammit, my brain is failing to give me the last name, the one that Maomao figures is probably going to take over the brothel once Granny dies

    Huh I didn't get that
    MeiMei was in love with him at all. All I remember she was like "I'd take you if you chose me, but have you seen what's behind door B?"

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Oh hey I've read that one, I think? The one I've read the guy isn't a former hero, he's a merchant who got summoned from another world. It's alright, avoids a lot of the trashy isekai tropes like slavery and harems, but it is definitely a power fantasy sort of deal.

    Also holy shit Re:Monster is actually getting an anime. Now THERE'S some isekai trash, and I mean that in the most vile way. Slavery, rape, an absolute monster of a protagonist (and not just in appearance), it's probably worse than Redo of a Healer.

    Oops. Former Hero CANDIDATE. Well, same difference.

    And yeah. That looks far more egregious and worse. There's a lot of really toxic looking stuff next season unfortunately, not just the isekai wife harems, which are kind of generically whatever to me at this point. I'm done with that fight. But quite a few 'romances' that are "my magical girlfriend that fell from the ceiling is my slave" or "being an obsessive weird stalker is actually super romantic". And then there's the one that takes place in an omegaverse. And boy, am I not sure how to feel about that.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    shadowane wrote: »
    This weeks Solo Leveling ended in the middle of a whole thing and since I thought it was the last episode of the season, I thought it was really annoying. Quickly realized there is at least one more episode so hopefully they don't end it on an annoying cliffhanger.

    Someone in the Crunchyroll comments suggested they're getting two consecutive cours, but I'm not sure if that's based on something or just copium.

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  • shadowaneshadowane Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    shadowane wrote: »
    This weeks Solo Leveling ended in the middle of a whole thing and since I thought it was the last episode of the season, I thought it was really annoying. Quickly realized there is at least one more episode so hopefully they don't end it on an annoying cliffhanger.

    Someone in the Crunchyroll comments suggested they're getting two consecutive cours, but I'm not sure if that's based on something or just copium.

    That would be nice. Not much has really happened this season.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Speaking of, it seems mind-blowing that the JP version of Solo Leveling apparently gives all the characters Japanese names despite being explicitly Korean?...

    They have the proper names everywhere else, sure, but you'd think Japan would have matured on that front by now.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Neveron wrote: »
    see317 wrote: »
    Hello Anime thread, can you suggest any sci-fi isekais?
    I don't mean "Fantasy world via VR gaming" like SAO or similar, but actual giant mecha/star ship settings that real world people wind up in? It seems like it'd be a natural place to take the theme, but I haven't come across any. Granted, my anime experience is limited, but figured I'd ask the hive mind what I should be looking for.

    Something where Bob, the general mecha enthusiast main character, gets run down by a horse drawn buggy and wakes up in Gundam or Evangelion (with the serial numbers filed off) or some other grim "War is hell... but, hey, cool robots" kind of setting?

    There's no way to say what series it is without spoiling a twist, so, uh, spoilers for a kids show Gundam spinoff?
    I haven't gotten around to watching it yet, but I've heard that Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise is decent? It's much more of a kid's show than your typical Gundam thing, but it also has a mid-first-season twist that the gundam VRMMO they're playing isn't actually VR, and instead they're getting their minds summoned to an alien planet.

    Mind you, the original series (Gundam Build Divers) is very much just a VRMMO thing.

    It’s still Fantasy World, but Knight’s and Magic is a [EDIT]programmer[/EDIT] who gets Truck’d then is reincarnated in another world with vague-ish memories of his past life as a mecha otaku and so the thign he sets out to do is to become The Best Mecha Designer in the world since their magic allows for magic mecha:

    https://youtu.be/a0cFqmF3I1w?feature=shared

    Also he turns the then standard wands of the world into Gun Wands because, again, vague memories of life in his previous life

    EDIT: ah right no not Salaryman, he was a programmer, which is what helps him with working with magic in the setting because he’s able to conceive of a way to engage with the world’s system of magic in a way analogous to computer programming

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Speaking of, it seems mind-blowing that the JP version of Solo Leveling apparently gives all the characters Japanese names despite being explicitly Korean?...

    They have the proper names everywhere else, sure, but you'd think Japan would have matured on that front by now.

    Same thing happened with Thunderbolt Fantasy; the English subs use the Chinese names for, you know, a story set in fantasy ancient China, but you can hear them clearly using the Japanese equivalent names (I’m assuming its based on the kanji readings?)

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
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    This week on Delicious in Dungeon: It's not over.

    https://youtu.be/JP5TDxEMdwY

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    glad nothing else happens and it's just a nice wrap up cooking show from here on out

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  • shadowaneshadowane Registered User regular
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    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Speaking of, it seems mind-blowing that the JP version of Solo Leveling apparently gives all the characters Japanese names despite being explicitly Korean?...

    They have the proper names everywhere else, sure, but you'd think Japan would have matured on that front by now.

    I'm watching the sub and everyone has Korean names. Not sure what you are talking about? Pronunciation?

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