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I wouldn't care about horny. That would be fine.
It's the assault stuff. Like.. I can't look past that.
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I watched it last night at long last and I was already going in with low expectations because of the kinda creepy romantic pairing but the transphobia just lowered it to an all new level
They had buses decked out with Zombie Land Saga imagery (and recordings of the voice actresses for tour guides), the governor of the prefecture appeared in several videos dressed as the manager from the show, bicycles you could rent emblazoned with the different characters, and there is generally just merch and posters everywhere.
Also nearly every location, business, and event in the show is real.
Here's a Japanese video (with English subtitles) of someone touring a lot of the locations:
They include a lot of traveling between places that you can skip through, but you get to see the bus I mentioned above and a lot of locations. The exterior of the chicken restaurant from season one looks the same on the outside, but the video shows that the interior is now wall-to-wall Zombie Land Saga merchandise.
I can't remember if it's in that video, but even minor areas like a nondescript park they hang out in one night in the first season is a real location. Also the house they live in for the show is a museum in real life, I think.
Comixology Unlimited gets you all 44 volumes, for what it's worth.
That said, I was pretty frustrated to find out that when I got to the end of those 44 volumes, they only cover the first 12 bottles -- the final arc is in 'Drops of God: Mariage', which is apparently about food and wine pairings and goes on for 26 more volumes which aren't translated yet. (officially or unofficially).
It's still a pretty fun read to that point, there is a lot more ridiculous descriptions of wine along the way, but if you want to have the story completely resolved, it won't do that.
Bartender Lead character is a bartender; each issue, someone comes in with a problem of some sort, which he can fix by serving them just the right cocktail. The plot and location moves around a bit, but fundamentally that's it all the time. (also had a live-action adaptation, _and_ an anime adaptation). Completed; fun, pretty light-weight, informative if you want to learn a lot of details about exactly the right way to stir ice.
Natsuko's Sake I've mentioned this one before -- woman leaves her job as an ad exec to go back to her hometown and make the ideal sake that her brother wanted to make before he died. Very detailed about how sake making works; but also about organic farming, how much you owe to your family, small-town politics, Japanese taxation policy if I remember correctly, a smattering of romance here and there, etc. Completed, though it was a bit of a let-down that, until the last few chapters, I really was not sure at all how some of the big plot points were going to work out, but they all just went the obvious way in the end.
Sleepy Barmaid Starts off feeling like Bartender with a female lead, but turns into a more character-driven story fairly soon. Worth a look, though not completely translated at this point (by a long way).
Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana Girls in college get drunk together. An awful lot of romantic undertones, not _quite_ got anywhere yet, but pretty fun to this point.
Alcohol and Ogre Girls Girl who really likes making drinks meets up with ogre girl who is only powerful when drunk. Has more vague romantic undertones, but is mostly about magic / history / curse-breaking, etc.
Grand Blue Sure, you could claim it's a romantic comedy, or that it's about diving, but it is also very much about alcohol.
Oishinbo has a bunch of chapters about sake, but it's really more about food so I'll get to that one in the list of manga-about-food I keep meaning to make.
Nomi Joshi - Three friends, all women aged 29, who get together and socialize regularly and indulge in their common passion: drinking. Follows them as they visit hot springs, beer gardens, bars and more to sample different drinks, pair them with delicious side dishes, and chat about work, their family, how to keep warm while wearing skirts, etc.
Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte Kara - The "slightly sweet tipsy couple comedy" manga centers on the 28-year-old senior public relations company staff member Chisato Mizusawa. The story follows Chisato's daily life as she enjoys her husband Sora's cocktails. Chisato has secrets that only her husband knows.
Having only read a bunch of the manga, I just love how much of a near religious reverence the author has for alcohol
I'm kinda disappointed they changed her motive for this particular event from the webcomic, since it alters her character dramatically
That's three so far for the season.
Cancelling shows like it's 2020.
If you like Bartender, you'll like Sleepy Barmaid even more (imo).
Unicorn's theme was amazing (even if the show didn't connect with me very much), but good gravy this one here is just so very good.
I originally decided to click on it because Kinosaki's got a top tier smirk in that preview image, and they did not disappoint.
What it actually is:
suletta... forgetta
Suletta… deeply regretta
I warned you, but you had to dig too greedily and too deep
and now there are lacus clynes everywhere
Second Gear.
Listen there was no greed in this
Just a somber, dutiful march into hell
Relevant Shigeru Mizuki (GeGeGe no Kitaro) manga is relevant:
getting the sense that japan is botching covid control at least as hard as the US is now
If memory serves, they have been the whole time; the LDP shit the bed on it about as badly as the Trump admin did (their vaccine rollout especially was a clusterfuck), plus the clusterfuck of the way emergency pandemic response systems are set up (i.e., a mishmash of decentralized authority to the prefectures and localities and issues where the national-level powers, despite having special authority in such emergencies, are limited)
It's such a good reveal.
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
It really is such an interesting piece that has a ton of emotional motifs in it. On the face of it it is a grand bombastic piece, basically screaming 'the heroine is here!' But then it has a bunch of different undercurrents like a swirl of different supporting characters. One is sad, another nostalgic, another ominous... and then they all get blown away by a reprise of the bombastic vocals again.
But then again Gundam almost always has great emotional music going back to the series' beginning. You've got classic pieces like this:
Char's theme is basically split into two parts: it starts incredibly ominous and with aggressive explosive trumpets before seemingly lightening up and becoming almost whimsical. But underneath the whimsy is the same aggressive high tempo core.
Or this, from G Gundam, King of Hearts
Just a cheesy great emotional roller coaster. The Hero getting back up to launch one last attack. But with just a hint of sadness that it had to come to this
Or from Zeta gundam, the theme for Camille and the series as a whole:
Just so bitter. You hear this for the first time and you know that nothing good is gonna happen to Camille's rebel group. But the song just keeps angrily trudging along to no conclusion.