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Controversial? takes on anime dubs. I’m fluent in both English and Mandarin. There is a high chance comedies work better in a language I understand.
Code Geass Dub > Sub (watched the show dubbed first and didn’t care about it, rewatched it shortly after dubbed and it impacted me more)
Jujutsu Kaizen Dub > Sub (I don’t know why but the JJK sub is so ordinary to me, jokes don’t translate well/land well as much as the dub. Also really love dub Yuji)
Buddy Daddies Dub > Sub (dub Kazuki is a standout)
Seraph of the End Dub > Sub (only watched two episodes but the sub bothered me because the voices of the two main characters didn’t match so I switched over to dub and it was much better)
Sk8 Dub < Sub (I just don’t like dubbed Reki 😕）
Attack on Titan Dub < Sub (I feel like the sub is better at emotional moments that involve screaming)
The Buddy Daddies dub is really good and underrated. Particularly the script and Kazuki’s delivery on his lines for all the episodes really elevates the show.
Love this post but please remember same sex marriage is illegal in most East Asian countries. Maybe because I’m East Asian but only queer people would see it that way. I’m sure the animators are aware of the show’ no homo status but to the average Japanese viewer, those two women are not wlw.
Shout out to the married wlw couple sitting behind the Kurusu-Suwa family maybe gay people are real after all
Advice ft. Teen Miri... RUN REI RUN
Rei and Kazuki’s timeline and life event parallels, explained
No, they haven’t lived together for 3 years.
Episode 8 was set on August 10th. Rei turns 26.
Rei left home three years ago, I’d guess it’s around August too, give or take, so let’s say in the summer. He was 22 almost 23. Around the same age when Kazuki lost Yuzuko.
When Kazuki first met Rei, this is how he looked. His hair was past his shoulders. Given that Rei has changed a lot as a person since he left, I think he had shorter hair before, and I doubt that it was long enough to put into a ponytail. To grow one’s hair out to that length, it’ll take at least 6 months.
So Rei left home in the summer 3 years ago + 6 months (2 seasons) of hair growth, Kazuki met him in the spring of the following year. Rei was 23 and Kazuki was 25.
Judging from Kazuki’s clothes, it’s not that warm yet. It supports the theory that they met in spring.
In present time, Miri has been with them for eight months. Let’s back track their time.
First year
Rei left home in summer
Second year
Kazuki and Rei met in spring
Met Miri on Christmas Eve
Third year
It marks 3 years around August since Rei left home
Kyu brought them together for jobs, not roommates. Not on purpose, at least. So when did they start living together?
From Rei’s words here, we know what he thought of Kazuki as a partner and a person, before they became roommates. They had worked on a number of assignments together before Kazuki “started cleaning”. Give or take, they probably had worked together for at least a month or two.
Judging from Kazuki’s clothes again, it wasn’t summer yet. So let’s work the timeline again:
Second year
Kazuki and Rei met in the spring
Worked together for around 2 months before Kazuki barged into Rei’s apartment and started cleaning
Met Miri on Christmas Eve
In conclusion, by the time Miri came into the picture, they'd been roommates for around 8 months. As of episode 8, they've lived together for 1.25 years.
Life parallels
Age 22 turning 23
Kazuki lost his family, the lowest point in life
Rei left his family, the lowest point in life
Age 25 turning 26
Kazuki met Rei and decided that he’ll care for him
Rei met Miri and decided that he’ll care for her
I just think it’s neat when they do this.
I just think it’s neat when they do this.
Kazuki met Rei and started taking care of him
Rei met Miri and started taking care of her
I just think it’s neat when they do this.
Advice ft. Teen Miri... RUN REI RUN
Questions from an asexual person
What the heck is the different between a relationship/having a partner and friendship?
Arent relationships/partners just friends that are aware you like them and theyre okay with it and its mutual?
What the moving too fast? How can I move fast in a friendship? all I want to do is play video games with you once a week. But apparently that’s too much. I feel like the person I am seeing is gatekeeping friendship to me.
Good shit and in-character
I’ll wait by the stairs for you, wrapped up in smoke; laughing alone…
Good time travel show - Chinese too
Link Click has reached more than 200 million views on bilibili ♡
daily link click: 6/11/22
happy pride :)
Chainsaw man fucking sucks but the first chapter was so good. Denji was a decent character but the moment his ambitions (touching girls bodies) was revealed, it ruined his character. Him explicitly viewing the women around him as sex objects is awful. He doesn’t even really care if he dislikes them, he just wants to touch their breasts. The male author can’t help himself and justifies it by having the female characters act in a way that women would not act like and feed into his perversions. Not to mention, the story is MID. It wasn’t even worth the read for the story.
Rin shows Haruka some skills he learned in the land down under~
For Ono♥♥♥♥ We both love Rin so much
the real reason howl kept his castle moving was tax evasion
“There was no evidence that fraud or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of @genicecream granting me the winning title of ‘Hottest Anime Woman’ or either of my previous titles. Thank you. Next question, please.”
{x}
I like the idea that Denji has such bad luck with girls just fucking starts going for dudes. And Yoshida is perfect candidate for him.
Griffith: Does arranging assassinations to protect my life from royalty who have dedicated themselves to murdering me and have in fact already tried to kill me at least once make me awful?
Readers: Yes you disgusting sociopath.
Guts: The fuck are you even talking about, I see no problem with murder why are you even worrying about this.
Readers: A true saint and a gentleman.
Carole & Tuesday
Y’all
Pyotr’s voice actor for his singing voice has a white guy singing with a slight Japanese accent. I can’t link the song dance tonight but notice how he says words like call like carr.
Laurent looking at Edamam-Edamura:
Has this been done before? Also I lived for these small moments between them, even if they aren’t confirmed.
What really takes me out of a good mlm fanfic is when the male characters call each other “bitch” or “slut”. Sorry but I don’t think that’s how men talk to each other. Yes I know I’m saying I’m surprised that I’m not reading mlm fics where characters call each other sissies or the f-slur. Maybe it’s a policy on ao3 or maybe it’s just so the female reader can relate to it too :/
The way i can read smut absolutely straight faced with no reaction but fluff gets me twisting and turning and blushing and lying in the floor for 2 minutes while I process is absolutely absurd and i love it
Persona 5/R both failed it’s central theme. It’s literally wearing the aesthetic of rebellion, fuck the system but not following up on it. I played royal and I cannot believe in order to get the true ending, I have to reject the antagonist.
Minor Plot Hole? - Danganronpa 2
How does Nagito know about the ancient ruins? He was not initially there when everyone gathered around it back in chapter 2 and they never brought it up until Chapter 5 when the remaining survivors were looking for the bombs. That point he had already hidden it there for a short bit.
Headcanon: The entirety of Danganronpa happend just because Junko was going though her edgey teenager phase
Danganronpa Games Hot Takes (Spoilers for all Games)
Danganronpa 1/TTH:
I love the first game because most characters felt like they could be real people and were not too anime. People about their pets and stuff like studying, like a regular 16-17 year old who prob wanted to go to some top schools. The executions in this game WERE THE BEST. I LOVE ALL OF THEM. No game can beat the creativity of the first few executions.
I will say that the English voice acting overall was weak and very stilted. The English voice actors did better in their V3 characters than their TTH characters. Of course, people get better as they go and honestly I think they were just miscasted in their characters in the first game.
Danganronpa 2/GD:
I love the trials for this game. Even though, I may not care for most of the characters in this game, they were put into some creative situations.
Nagito had too much screen time and too smart among other things. I feel like he did the same thing as Kyoko in the first game with not telling the player the hints and that was annoying. I feel like he cant have it all, crazy lucky, has a huge presence in the game and is too smart. It’s like PICK ONE and split the rest with other more deserving characters. The thing is that even though I don’t have favourites in this game because most people are either too wacky or bland, there were some characters that would greatly benefit from having more screen time, helpful trial assistance or just plot armour. Mahiru, Soda, Sonia and even Akane. I find Mahiru to be helpful during the first trial, and if she got more screen time or plot armour, her character would be better because without doing her freetime events, no player likes her. I also include the survivors because I think some characters that should be smart like Soda and Sonia aren’t that helpful during trials. Some of the things Nagito did during investigations should have been given to these characters. Well maybe the ones that make sense to their characters, Nagito can keep the time he broke into everyone’s places to trace their shoes LOL. Imagine if no one told him about the game in chapter 2? and he doesnt have enough time to finish the game before the trial starts? That would give other characters needed screen time among other things like not making him be seen as much as a threat to the player because he came unprepared due to his situations. Also, Akane should just be more than one note and actually contribute to the trials.
Quick tangent, but even though Nagito was out for both chapters 2 and 3, he still knew everything and I don’t think that’s fair. I feel like he needs space to develop as a character to have that buildup for Chapter 5. Not saying that his part in chapter 5 was unbelievable but imagine him almost getting away with it because he learned from his mistakes and whatnot from past trials. He realized that he wanted to commit the perfect crime and get away with it, he needs to understand what he did wrong the first time in chapter 1 and analyse the past culprits to really optimize his plan. I have mixed feelings on this character but I always felt he had too much going for him. Also his dialogue is so repetitive, I feel like thats why so many people hate him because reading his lines can get old quickly with the hope bs.
Anyways, I like chapter 3 but just not so much the trial.
Danganronpa V3:
Okay I could go on about this one, all I’m gonna say is that I think the English voice acting in this game is SO GOOD. I LOVE EVERYONE AND THE ACTORS DID SO WELL.
Miu and Kokichi should have argued and bantered more, if anything I wish Miu fought back like she did when she called Kokichi an Abortion. I love their dynamic because they make the trials more fun and less boring to go through. I feel like they work better as a duo so when Miu died, the trials become less fun and a slob to get through. Same thing with Kokichi, it’s just I love these two characters because they make me laugh.
I sort of liked them together because I can totally see them as friends and like I’m surprised Miu tried to kill him or that people don’t ship them more.
Btw, I feel like for Kokichi, he should have stayed the same character he was like from Chapters 1-3. When chapters 4 and 5 happened, I lost what was happening and did not like how his character developed. I guess he is a really fickle character and he reminds me of Hiyoko/bully character. I never viewed him as that smart. I feel like you don’t need an antagonist character among the group. I get that no one trusts him but I just did not like how his character storyline went. His English voice actor is great thou, I remember listening to his Japanese one and not really thinking much about it.
This game has the worst cast. Love the group dynamics but woah, these characters need to stop saying their catchphrases.
Hannibal (TV Show) is Overrated
What’s sad was that I did like it for the first season but then I started to get annoyed with weird plot holes, character motivations, occasionally off putting music, bad acting and horrible dialogue. I binged it in three days with no spoilers. I watched it right after watching SOTL which in hindsight was a bad move because it created an expectation that was not matched at all. Something tells me that I won’t like the books either because the red dragon plot was boring as hell.
The characters were okay but I thought Will was a better character than the character the show was named after. I know it’s different actors so different interpretations of the character Hannibal but he seemed really lack luster and a little repetitive with all that cooking nonsense and talking in riddles and metaphors. Don’t even get me started on Bedelia’s way of communication through breathy whispers of constant riddles that always sound like questions than statements.
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The one slightly hilarious thing about Bedelia was that she broke confidentiality to casually make a gay joke that only her and the viewers are in on. It was the only human thing she had ever done in the entirely of her character arc.
light yagami is so fucking stupid in like a month they narrowed it down from like it could be anyone in the world.. to it could be anyone in japan to it could be anyone in the kanto region to it could be any student in the kanto region to its honestly probably one of the family members of these two policemen and my god this mans son is so fucking weird whats wrong with him like honestly i think L should have just taken the risk and hit light with a car one day and been like huh funny the kira murders stopped right this policemans son got hit by a car i asked my chauffeur to drive into him funny how that works out
i can’t believe nbc hannibal didn’t get a homoerotic religious foot washing scene but death note did
You smell nice.
Final Fantasy 8 Hottakes (Non-Gameplay Related)
FF8 should have been a horror game
- The CGI graphics remind me too much of a mix of Silent Hill 2 and Parasite Eve - Squall with blood on his face was so striking as the colour red does not appear often in the game - the frame of Squall’s lack of face gave me nightmares when my game lagged during the ending cutscene
- Rinoa’s unique appearance from clothing (love her DIY duster, bodysuit romper thing with the mini skirt) to her face (strong long and thick eyebrows, downturned eyes that look small when she squirts, and her pale face with no colour) makes her look quite...evil? when she smiles, she looks innocent at first but with her strong eyebrows and pale face, something about her reminds me of ghosts and spirits in Asian folklore (also Silent Hill for some reason)
- It might just be how blocky yet smooth the CGI looks in cutscenes but the character designs are unique because it doesn’t look that anime?
- Squall OG design has a really thick neck and angler face which made him look more realistic with the addition of not-anime sized eyes
- I think the lack of warmth on the character models make their faces look so dead which works if it was a horror game
- THE ENDING CUTSCENE! WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT HOW SCARY THAT SHIT WAS? The two things I knew about the game was the frame of No-Face Squall from a watchmojo thumbnail and the ending cutscene (I had no context to the game at that point)
FF8 and Yugioh GX have the same weird setting design
- It’s a weird mix of futuristic (ish) mechanic vibes with socresses and aliens
- Like in GX, its surprising light hearted up until a point where it gets unnecessary edgy with monsters and magic
- It’s actually really hard to describe it but it’s not like FF7′s dieselpunk setting or YuGiOh DM’s mix of Japanese punk rock with Ancient Egyptian settings