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Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 10:53:03 No. 10972
It's time.
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>>10972 america my beloved. anyway, guess we're the only ones here huh?
>>11238 I'm here too. Hero X got as homo as much as a chink show can.
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>>11238 I am here as well. Checking out every altchan but none but the obvious one (if you lime /cm/ at least) were tolerable so far if you want to discuss anime so I am checking this here too. >>11250 TbHX made me download Link Click and it's good as well so far. I hope people won't sleep on Hero X, it's really damn good so far even without the gay.
And here I was hoping you homos died with 4chan
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Welp I will use the extra time to finish some of my hundreds of fanart WIPs. /a/ was pretty shit since 2018 (and I mean shittier than after its earlier newfag influxes) it can use a detox.
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>>11493 Gayfags are more engaged than otaku. My favorite series has 50000 fanarts from fujos and gayfags.
>>10972 It's here. Finally I can feel at home on this new /a/.
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>>11464 I know but this is the "obvious one" I talked about. I don't want to name it for safety reasons.
>>11411 Link click is pretty good, S2 I found it kinda iffy because I really didn't feel the plot but I liked the mass lively homosexual season 3 again. I do mean the massively part.
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>>10972 Holy crap you beat me to it! We live!
>>10972 Finally a proper thread with the right filename and filetype and made on the correct day? It's truly time again.
>>11818 4chan died for the greater good, getting our It's time back.
Some are in fujochan.
I made a Bravern thread on /m/ https://8chan.moe/m/res/155.html
And once again Mokumokuren is a traitor!
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I'd been wondering if any homodachis made it over.
>>12373 I know it's meant to be a hook but notHikaru's smug face on Yoshiki's shirt looks fucking cringe.
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>>10972 Classic Stars turned out to be very gay.
>>10972 lmao
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2027 probaly
>>11525 >>11587 If you're all biological women it's understandable from a fetish standpoint at least All gay homo fags will be put to the sword however, Inshallah
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he cute
Nice to see you guys made it over here in time. Shame about most of /a/. I can't believe some people actually went to the sharty.
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Did you enjoy the cast of males?
One thing that's good about this board: threads stay up for much longer.
>>12698 >I can't believe some people actually went to the sharty. I don't think they did. I went over there with the intention of spamming gay porn at them, which is how I learned that they have to get janny permission for every single image post. Their /a/ was completely dead.
>>12823 They're also really paranoid about anything lolishota related. They seem like 16 year old uber normalfags who got into chan culture solely because they heard about le ebin raids on old /b/.
>>12823 From my understanding shitposters and newfags went to sharty, disgruntled anons went to kiwi, and animefags either came here or went to another altchan
>>12857 Apparently a lot of /a/nons are just ghostposting on Desuarchive. Stubborn bastards. You can't even imagepost there.
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What are your favorite men this season? Is anybody watching seasonal stuff? Seems like To Become Hero X is kinda popular among fujos and gays. >>11850 Was worth it. I loved posting there in the past but the last years I only checked the catalog twice a day and ignored everything but the it's time thread, few threads of series I watch that aren't bullshit and maybe an occasional meta threads at 2am. Feel like you couldn't discuss anything with female characters anymore. They always attract at least one shizo.
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>can post NSFW thoughts?
>>12936 These game CGs?
>>12823 I went there first but the shitposting is worse than on 4chan and the "raisin" censoring and permissions annoy me. They also take time to allow anime images but not gore and porn image spam? What's the damn point? Anyway, I guess I will only use 8chan.moe and FC from now on.
>>12920 I haven't watched seasonal anime in years... maybe I should get back into it, though. Any recommendations?
>>12936 Fantastic. It was always stupid to ban 2D nsfw on an anime board anyway. Spoiler are better. Can choose whether or not you want to see it. Speaking about it how do you spoiler tag text here? Test The thing I miss the most is an addon like 4chanx or hotkeys like ctrl+s for spoilers.
>>12698 I took one look at that site and my eyes glazed over. It wasn't even the soyjaks, it was the nonsense slang they use in every post that I didn't even want to try to parse. Trying to be charitable: I bet this is how an '80s BBS/Usenet boomer would have felt looking at 4chan in 2005.
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>>12936 Love it. Probably need to be mindful of what you post though, I've seen anons banned for low quality posts (although that hasn't stopped /dbs/, it seems)
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If 4chan dies for real then I made the last 4chan homothread ever. Bizarre. Almost as bizarre as a Steel Ball Run anime.
>>12920 It's a shame NICE is both dead and stuck in a Chinese show, because I could buy him being homosexual and so repressed because society expected perfection from him he killed himself, considering the last episode.
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>>13140 >lose your nen >become the forever bottom
>>12920 >Feel like you couldn't discuss anything with female characters anymore Remember omnipandering? Yeah, me neither. Anime is both too mainstream and segregated now, so even when we get something that appeals to everyone it doesn't get the following and discussion it used to because people can't handle anything that isn't 100% fabricated to satisfy them, so they just spam the same three memes inside their safe space. However, I'm a little pissed 4chan died now of all times, To Be Hero X, Shoushimin and Apocalypse Hotel all seemed like they were going to have nice threads.
>>12988 >Speaking about it how do you spoiler tag text here? Read the manual here: https://8chan.moe/.static/pages/posting.html
>>13270 I miss omnipandering and characters getting tons of straight and homo stuff and no one caring.
>>12868 Doesn't stop them posting loli porn still. I was tempted to find an ASCII converter and put some pecs in there, but the discussion topics are so all over the place there's not much time for anyone to respond to anything. Last I looked they were still arguing about Ack again. >>13151 Time to write a fic where homo is okay and Nice is so perfect that even in a gay relationship he produces an heir to put on the cover of all the housewife gossip magazines (they kidnapped a baby) (the baby changes between photoshoots) (there's now a rumor that Nice had triplets) (nobody's anatomy changed but he is irrationally horny behind closed doors because that's what people think). >>13270 Yeah, I'm missing Apocalypse Hotel and Land of Monsters discussion, plus a few other manga I was catching up on. Altchan threads never feel quite the same because they'll likely be up for multiple episodes.
homodachi, I'm glad I found you! there's no good places to discuss manga thanks to the homodachi who recommended this last thread btw, it was cute and bittersweet
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>>13428 >4chan is kill on a Chika Loves His Brother week
>>13270 >>13428 oh yeah, from the places I tried most were dead or were more focused on anime even if they were active it wasn't just the same, idk >>13493 Ryota Killed His Brother had another wtf chapter and there are no anons to witness it
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>>13270 Yeah too much stuff seems painfully segregated. You either get pure wish-fulfillment pandering for otaku and zero gay or 100% gay fluff romance SoL with no drama, storyline not related to romance or any hets because it's a gay show so everything is gay, just as the otaku show isn't allowed to contain any development an otaku might not like, like a girl without a crush on MC for example. I was so hopeful in the past when stuff like KlK blew up despite having tons of male fanservice as well. Hope the exceptional shows will at least leave their imprints to tell people that you can actually make money despite not fully dedicating a show to a super specific flavor of autists.
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To be honest /a/ already felt dead to me for a good while. Before the mods hid the IP counter (for good reason) it was between 11 and 70 posters in the threads I visited and 90% of them only came to make a single post near the beginning of the thread and left again, reducing the active posters to a handful at best. If you were unlucky one of said handful was a mass posting shizo that tried to control the narrative and replied to everybody enjoying their time there.
>>13428 >I was tempted to find an ASCII converter there you go, bruva lachlanarthur.github.io/Braille-ASCII-Art/
Do we have a backup plan in case /a/ never comes back? Like a discord or an irc chat?
>>13891 Not really. I would also prefer FC and 8chan.moe over chat rooms. Think these two places are fun as long as they're somewhat active.
>>13903 FC is more focused on 3d shit and it's not worth pretending to be a woman to post there.
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>>13926 You mean you have to stop yourself from typing <muh dick on an anonymous image board? Truly an impossible challenge.
>>13891 This is the backup plan.
>>13926 I barely ever saw actual 3D shit on FC. The most active threads are anime, cartoon, game and fic related. It's not like the femcel board lowcow where you get banned at least once a day for being a man. Either actually or even just allegedly.
>>14011 50% of the discussions about fujochan are muh men and muh 3d shit. I know you're a retard from there, but the whole point of 4chan is that we're all anons so we can focus on discussing shit. >>14031 This is literally their biggest topic
>>14011 Why does an anonymous imagine board need gender rules.
>>14011 >You mean you have to stop yourself from typing ><muh dick on an anonymous image board? Truly an impossible challenge. Yeah? Why would I post on a board where I constantly have to filler what I say to not offend some retardos. Sorry your dead board is not gonna be a good replacement for a topic where the genders were mixed.
>>14167 Better yet, don't encourage a man to use the website. 8chan is fine.
>>14181 I'm going to use it just to spite you
>>14181 I'm with either. Who knows, maybe 4chan comes back tomorrow and everything said now will be irrelevant.
It's not the first time someone tries to shill FC to homo threads. It's always the same discourse, it doesn't work as a replacement for homo threads.
>>14198 Mods said on IRC it'd take 2/3 more weeks, but knowing how competent they are it could easily take longer.
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>w*men This is why I need 4chan to come back.
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Now that that's all out of the way... What homoships you guys been into lately? Sell me on them.
>>14210 Same thing, 2-3 weeks people go back and all the discussion will be irrelevant.
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>>14066 Oh yeah I hate that thread and wish it would get locked already. I don't like tranny stuff either but when I visit a media related board I want to discuss said media and have fun. I couldn't care less about trans politics. The problem with such threads is that you can post there and fit in even if you hate gay stuff. It's an open door inviting yume, //pol/fags and other people that aren't interested in the board theme and only hang up there for the trans threads.
>>14145 >Why would I post on a board where I constantly have to filler what I say to not offend some retardos. I hated that part of 4chan too!
>>14118 >>14219 The duality of /a/.
>>14279 Spotted the tranny. Being offended by a single anti-tranny thread on an entire site dedicated to something else gives you away.
>>14279 >The problem with such threads is that you can post there and fit in even if you hate gay stuff. It's an open door inviting yume, //pol/fags and other people that aren't interested in the board theme I don’t know how much I buy people going to the site just for one thread if they aren’t already into fujoshit. There’s better alternatives for any of the people you just listed. We’ve had past homo threads with bitching about similar things so if it works as a containment zone for that shit then I don’t really give a fuck
Anyway, people should go to where they want. Some people probably went to crystal cafe too. When 4chan comes back and you'll forget about it all. So stop whining about the place you dislike and will never use and get back to homoposting
>>14118 It's kinda useless for fujo content because 90% of the fans will be women anyway and the other 10% are gay dudes that will post the same stuff as them.
>>14198 Do we even want to return? This homothread is honestly much better than most of the ones of /a/ we have gotten the last decade.
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Is the Ousama Ranking anon present or is he/she lost?
>>14445 I don't know, If you're only on /a/ for homo thread I guess 8chan or fujochan is better. If you use /a/ for seasonal anime and manga I guess /a/ is better but we don't know how active /a/ will be when/if 4chan gets back.
>>14228 Still the weird ojisan from Elusive Samurai and a bunch of Transformer antagonists that are only half-/a/. I love the gay wedding crasher villain from Hero X too so I see potential there. Probably Char/Challia as well, have to see how that develops.
>>14289 /a/ doesn't ban you for being a woman though. It just doesn't want know 3d shit. >>14445 >Do we even want to return? This homothread is honestly much better than most of the ones of /a/ we have gotten the last decade. It has 50 replies and half of them are about some other chan meta posting, wtf are you on?
>>14279 Found the tard who came to FC to bitch about people hating pussy vash
>>14412 I won't be back to 4chan though. I can't tolerate the timer (which tends to reset randomly every now and again). I'll be staying here. >>14228 >What homoships you guys been into lately? Tsurumi x his harem.
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i'm getting blueball'd two weeks now
>>14540 I never get the timer. You've probably got a setting on something that's clearing your cookies.
>>14342 No I also hate it when there is pro-tranny talk. I am just so fucking tired of tranny shit and I hate that I cannot enjoy my hobbies anymore without half of the userbase talking about that shit. I never even met a tranny in my life, it's not even much of a thing in my country. And I don't care about US issues.
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>>14228 >cocky yandere asking to be rape corrected vs just wants to kill him I like their dynamic.
>>14469 Yeah this is the only reasons for why I still use /a/. There is no other place to discuss seasonal anime and the occasional cartoon I enjoy like once per year. Though I discover more and more series that are rather hard to discuss thanks to mass posters or waifu wars or something.
>>14540 I thought I was just too stupid for the timer. It always resets at least once after reaching 0. I don't like to post with phones so I barely get the timer but it's still annoying when you're afk and just casually want to say something or keep a thread alive but can't because you have to wait half an hour. >Tsurumi x his harem. Based as fuck, me too.
>>14627 Nope. Other sites don't get cookie-cleared, only 4chan. It just hates private windows, I guess. >>14683 Disney murdered another show. UNFORGIVABLE >>14650 Will watch this when it comes out. Don't have much time to read manga now, sorry.
>>14745 QRD on the new DMC? My one friend hates it for despising DMC fans, whatever that means, I didn't watch it.
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>>14219 >pic Would anyone use >>>/cm/ if I created it? Should I allow nudity as long as it's "tasteful"? The original was slow as hell, but sharing cute pics with anons was comfy and relaxing to me.
>>14988 There's already >>>/sm/ here. It's mostly porn, but there is a sfw shota thread that's basically the /cm/ shota thread.
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Sakura's boyfriend is here
>>15007 Man I need something like that but for old men
>>15007 I'm aware of /sm/, and I may even claim it since it's abandoned, but /cm/ wasn't only for shota. It allowed all types of boys and men, something /sm/ doesn't for obvious reasons.
>>14899 It's watchable. That's it. >>15007 Shotacons get an entire board for themselves? Unbelievable.
>>15030 Man how is it? I wanted to watch s2 but now that it's out I can't bring myself to start it. >>15060 I am all in for it. The idea behind /cm/ is great but 4chan's /cm/ became painfully stale. Maybe a new start would reanimate it. It would be cool to post nice fanart while talking about a specific series or a specific type of series.
Post crack ships
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I am retarded how do you watch threads on here? Nothing happens when I click onto the eye-symbol. I can't believe I am a newfag right now. But maybe not so bad to get your past reset and start anew.
>>15511 On PC, click the eye at the top of the thread to ad it to the watcher, then click the eye on the top bar to open the watcher. On the mobile layout, press the 3 bars button or swipe to the right to open a panel with the other buttons.
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>>14228 I used the oekaki. Please observe how after being riled up into aggressive behavior the Ohse enters a delirious state beyond reason. He doesn't deserve this pleasure, but he's short of breath and he feels like he might die if he keeps at it, so it's all good. Fumiyan is a greedy slut black hole. He loves provoking and manipulating the Ohse so he can keep the Ohse for many years to cum. >>14745 Private windows don't retain session cookies, that's what they're there for. You might be able to use a cookie manager to reinstate the cookie every time you open a session but I don't know if it'd match properly.
>>15583 Thank you a lot. It didn't change the color so I thought my clicking had no effect. That makes things easier.
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>>15583 Helpful, thanks. Too bad the watched threads pop-up doesn't stick when refreshing or moving pages.
>>13514 >Ryota Killed His Brother had another wtf chapter and there are no anons to witness it I just posted the chapter >>15568. I figure with how much slower it is here, if 4chan is still down two weeks from now, we can reuse the same thread.
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Holy shit the MoeOS8 style is cool. Looks nicely retro.
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So many cute boys this season!
I miss good CLAMP so much. What happened?
>>15784 sauce of the middle one?
>>15935 I wanted to ask the same because I like the middle guy. But I fear it's that mystery not-kyoani show and I already dropped that because I am racist against cake fans and feMC was talking about nothing else. Nice male design though.
>>15888 The hags got old and washed.
>>15935 >>15952 HanaKana's husband
>>15935 >>15952 Your Forma
>>15989 >Onoken as middle dude Time to watch it
>>16080 How is the development in that show? I was very interested after watching the trailer but the first episode felt kinda lazy and generic (contentwise, not the adaption itself) so I feared it would be another typical arc-based mystery with convoluted 6D chess.
>>15888 Tokyo Babylon remake was canceled because of plagiarism issue and now they are stuck making characters design for Cardfight Vanguard anime. I wonder what happened with the new Rayearth anime project which was announced last year.
>>16110 It is generic.
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>>16193 Think it will take time. Rayearth is a longer story so I assume it will be two cours to be a full adaption. It's for the better if it takes time, a well animated show needs three years at least so I don't expect it before 2027, but maybe they started long before the announcement so who knows? I am looking forward to it. Rayearth is one of my favorite CLAMP series and there is the very low chance that they might adapt other CLAMP works if Rayearth should do well.
>>14650 >yandere Uhhh can I have sauce on the series? Search engines ain't giving me shit.
>>16907 Kagurabachi, assuming that you and him are talking about the pic in his post.
>>16908 Hottest part of this is the zipper noises.
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I'm planning to read Kemono Jihen again now after letting its plot advance for a couple of years. Do you know if Kabane and Shiki are still cute and retarded?
>>17413 Nice. I was hoping to claim /cm/, but this is good too.
>>17019 Yeah I am, thanks. My friends keep recommending that to me but I'm wary about picking up another WSJ manga.
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>>17413 Also if you are the owner here's a banner for your board.
>>17525 It's a fun action manga with huge homosexual energy. Also a fair amount of fan content considering how early it is.
>>15595 >Private windows don't retain session cookies, that's what they're there for. You might be able to use a cookie manager to reinstate the cookie every time you open a session but I don't know if it'd match properly. I mean, the timer re-sets when I DON'T close the window. >>16193 It has new merch as of April, so it's happening for sure. https://8chan.moe/m/res/94.html >>17413 Thanks! Somebody set it up 2 days ago.
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>>11464 last time i checked there (before the hack happened) all they talk about were outdated things i'm not interested in. i feel like if i bring up something newer than south park i'll be the most out of place anon there (don't know about now though). on the other hand, i also tried manga forums with mostly fujos too, and all it did was just remind me how out of touch i am with most posters there.
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>>11250 >homo as much as a chink show can. believe it or not a bunch of chink shows are pretty gay at a glance. it's really weird when you remember they sometimes put fujoshis in re-education camp when their gay novels become too popular.
>Been enjoying slogging through LuckyDog1 with my subpar Nip, decide to check on the English translation MangaGamer announced was finished a year ago >They deleted the tweet and there hasn't been any updates since I cannot fathom why their handling of this game has been so careless. It's the top rated VN in the genre and it's been 7 years since they announced it.
>>18502 >They deleted the tweet It's still there, Xitter is just retarded and won't show you tweets from nsfw accounts without logging in.
>>18300 Yeah this was my issue as well. Most anons there stuck to the same four old series that were popular among fujos, namely Hetalia, HxH or Homestuck and I never liked any of them and nothing recent (as in, series from the last 7 years) seemed to get any replies. Doesn't help that many there only watch things for the homo involving MC and nothing else, so they don't start running series since they might be bait and they usually don't care about good homo involving side characters. I rarely love MCs so I cannot relate.
>>18803 >Hetalia, HxH or Homestuck pure cancer
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>>18496 This is so weird. Because I also heard that Danmei are insanely popular globally. And their cartoons have a higher chance of providing gay fanservice than anime these days. Most anime with a shred of gayness will also have scenes with one of the characters lusting after women to make absolutely clear that there is no gay but that they beg gays and fujos to watch it anyway. They want to have their cake and eat it. China has a homophobic government but they know what makes money. The US isn't much better than Japan btw. Their series rarely contain gay and when they casually have a well-working chemistry between guys they make sure to confirm online that they're not gay at all and that fans are annoying and deluded like with Arcane.
If the downtime of 4chan lasts another week I won't be able to go back to an one-image post board. Showing multiple images at once is so much better, especially for image-centered boards like /cm/ and the likes. Instead of one dude making 10 consecutive posts to spam his image folder content he would just make two posts for the same images.
>>18835 >Most anime with a shred of gayness will also have scenes with one of the characters lusting after women to make absolutely clear that there is no gay but that they beg gays and fujos to watch it anyway. Link click did just that too, at least Cheng xiaoshi shows a healthy interest in women. Lu guang is a different matter.
>>18835 Straight or at least bi men are just hotter than pure fag men and the chinks and nips know it.
>>18993 Dicking them into full homos definitely makes for better doujins.
>>18993 It makes them feel shallow to me unless the women they are into are tomboys. What makes gay shit interesting to me in the first place is that it's between two equal dudes chasing the same goal or sharing a similar mindset. Women (at least in fiction) are totally different from men most of the time so if a guy is into women it makes him bland in my eyes. Just a guy that gets attracted based on the looks, boring.
>>19045 But you just described a person based on looks instead of personality >likes make features vs >likes a personality independently of sex
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wait a minute i just realized the maximum file size here is 50 mb. holy shit the absolute potential of this. i can now post full clips without needing to bother with ffmpreg bullshit. >>18803 >Hetalia, HxH wait what. last time i checked it was mostly western media. so, this made me visited it again and wow >now mostly talk about anime/manga >didn't see any south park related image >there's a fucking gookhwa thread although i only got this from just skimming the place, it's kind of impressive that dead site actually had a slight cultural shift. still surreal seeing posts from 6 months ago and post just a few minutes ago in one thread. >>18834 yeah i keep thinking i need to move on from this one of these days but i just couldn't find anything new to fixate on. and it seems a lot of anons here have the same problem too (since a lot of things i see here are either from a long time ago or literally the current season). why is it that recent things have trouble gaining cult followings, a lot of recent anime now doesn't seem to stick past the season they aired in.
I don't think a single person predicted this one. Rikai we had horseshoes and unicorns on his break costumes, Fumiya lounges about the couch occasionally giving disinterested glares like a cat, Saru is Saru. Then suddenly polar bear for the lizard/dino fanatic. Guess he's hoping for global warming.
>>19700 Sex with Mogura.
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Complete non canon fanart made this my favorite medalist ship. Self grooming is GREAT
You can reset your ID by switching the VPN node.
>>17136 They are.
>>18962 it's said it will last two to three weeks
>IDs Yeah, this site won't replace 4chins for me.
>>22283 I get the idea behind IDs, but in practice they end up doing the opposite. Annoying shitposters are the ones most likely to go through the effort to circumvent IDs. And then they'll be able to use them as an additional tool to deny their samefagging.
>>19259 That's true. But the problem is that heterosexuality in such series is never depicted as personality-based. Most of the time it's just one dude wanting to get laid and chasing any kind of woman who isn't a grandma.
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>>18962 It would be nice if /a/ would at least allow two images per post when it comes back. It would make dumping manga a little less time-consuming.
>>22329 Yeah I get it but I am not a fan if it's used for a slow board like this one. I fear that I reveal too much of my taste and identity that way if I post my favorite characters and your in the same thread. Makes it easy to connect the dots and realise that the, let's say, Jotaro fan is also the Vinland Fan and the guy that dislikes traps or something. Would be a different thing if was 200 IPs posting with multiple Jotaro fans including some that dislike Vinland. But with few users you quickly learn to tell the different posters apart and we stop being anon. I am lazy shitter so I will probably not bother switching the VPN node.
Yen Press has apparently re-licensed DNAngel for the west. Hopefully they'll do the new sequel as well. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-04-18/yen-press-licenses-yankee-and-carameliser-magical-midlifer-monster-colored-island-more-manga-novels/.223679
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Man, the summary for this was more engaging (and a bit different) from the manga itself.
>>22866 Let's be real if you post the same stuff regularly or even have a certain way of typing people'll know it's you even without IDs. Speaking from experience from 4/vg/enerals
>>20757 god tsukasa is so hot
Gyro cock.
>>22283 Same. Back to fujochan with me.
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Lied a cute. His bare shoulders are slutty
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fujo watch
Any idea where blog went? >>20757 >No fic on AO3 Sad
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Which manga have you read? And which ones are trash? >>22283 Bitch at the retard who runs this board >>>/a/23599 and see him do nothing. At least /m/ is still intact for now. >>22329 >>22866 People brought up on Plebbit and social media don't get this.
>>25341 >Any idea where blog went? Lolcow
>>25353 Eww why?
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More details on this tomorrow.
>>25360 Nice, thanks for the heads up.
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>>25360 >Love Making >Happy Kiss What's next? I'm betting on something hug related.
>>25360 All these mascots and they still can't top the best one. >>25344 Damn, I haven't read or even heard of any of these.
>>25344 I only recognize 14 and even then I'm not sure.
>>25344 Only Saezuru Tori, I rarely like actual BL since it's written and drawn like romance shoujo.
Oh my...
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>>24727 What do Irumafags think about this new Nishi ship?
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>>27962 She laid it on really thick with these two. I wonder if Razberry is gonna have his own fujobait underling like Levi and Iruma
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Kek did everyone get scared away by the IDs?
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>>30028 You still have me.
>>30028 I don't really care but I mostly lurk anyway.
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>>30028 I'm here but I don't feel like posting about multiple series if there is ID. But you know... this series have many fujo fans and ships they like. Such as: Adam and Thorne, Gustav and Tadaomi, 13 and Adam, Marcos and Atari.
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Any FKMT fags on 8chan?
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>>31348 I thought this was a romcom but I checked and >author of sket dance and kanata no astra Fine I will watch your show for this sliver of fujobait.
>>31397 Eh it doesn't have much bait but lots of cute boys though. Not much romance either IMO and since he turned Nico into a loli it's just a comedy manga.
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>>31397 Wait what the Astra mangaka did Witch Watch? Sadly it looks like it isn't for me so I will skip it. And looking him up now it seems like he didn't really do anything else besides these two and Sket Dance. Hope he'll make a plot-heavy series again one day. Astra was one of the very few recent sci-fi I genuinely enjoyed. >>31380 Glad you are here as well, anon. Now the Ousama Ranking anon is the only one missing. Hope they enjoyed the last two chapters.
>>25360 Kusano got promoted from Ranmaru to a senpai series
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>>25360 >airing in Summer Damn Summer is stacked.
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>antagonist's name is Straight They will beat him with the power of gay
>>31724 kek what the fuck name is that
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Cute antagonists.
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Maybe villains are het-coded now. Reminds me of pic related.
>>31908 >a fucking gopher
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>>31779 Wait until you see the silver haired guy's name.
>>32823 >nyutou My sides are in orbit, str8to is funnier though. Is there a joke with the short guy's name too? Nekoma doesn't seem very funny by itself.
>>33042 >short third* guy I don't know why I typed short
Did they skip/change that kino double page I always saw posted? Or is that later?
>>30028 When the thread doesn't have a time limit I don't feel as motivated to post unless I have some kind of update. I'm not so good at thinking of things to say. I've been reading stuff with plenty of bait, but I know you guys don't want to hear about it, especially not on a semi-permanent thread where it will linger for months. It's much easier when the thread's transient and it won't matter the next week. All I can report right now is that Ohse is top moe and suddenly I feel disappointed that they won't make plushies of the animal onesies and just keep making ugly miniatures for gachapon and crane machines. At least make ones of the break costumes some time! The fandom is oversaturated with merch now and people are getting pickier with what they'll buy.
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Hotel owner ojisan is moe. Also, the antagonists in Kowloon seem to be bisexual/gay. There is a post sex scene.
It took a while, but Hana Doll's finally getting subbed. It's kind of funny how it has almost the same exact premise as Classic Stars with people getting surgically implanted to become idols, but this show is clearly going to be more dramatic and brooding about it while Classic Stars is more lighthearted. Chise is the best boy so far.
>>36257 That is a terrible font
>>35216 >I've been reading stuff with plenty of bait, but I know you guys don't want to hear about it I want to hear about it.
>>28516 I feel like Razz will be double teamed by Alice's loli cousins instead. But he has been fairly gay with Iruma so far so I could be wrong.
Think the slow pace is fine, I enjoy it here. It's chill. Also, the ability to post multiple pics makes it possible to show screenshots and crops of various anime and manga at once, reducing samefagging if you want to discuss more than one scene.
Take me back
>Set in 19th Century California, the story follows Brad, a handsome young bounty-hunting playboy who's one day saved from certain death at the hands of supernatural forces by The Dark Hunter: a seemingly immortal man who works for the Viper Detective Agency's Special Investigation Department. Has anybody read this? Premise sounds nice and it has two male leads. Seems like it only exists as raw and with Chinese TLs though.
>>38982 Of fucking course I forget the image, like always when I make such posts. Sorry for samefagging.
>>31724 If the white haired aired dude doesn't fuck him first.
How we feeling about the NagiReo break up?
>>38986 Was it on mangadex at some point but removed later? Because I just checked there and could only find chapter in chingnese.
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>>37997 Well he noted that both Ameri and Alice are really good looking(and also that Iruma is a sucker for good looks with both genders), so I assume he's at least a little bit bisexual.
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>>37997 Well he noted that both Ameri and Alice are really good looking(and also that Iruma is a sucker for good looks with both genders), so I assume he's at least a little bit bisexual.
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>>41826 LET'S RAPE HIM
let's go
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Where do people go to discuss BL VN now that /jp/ is down?
>>38982 The art is nice but I can't get over how they sometimes look like fucking Jojo characters. I'm through the first volume, the setup chapters are kind of boring but the initiation test for the protag to join the gang is fun. Gonna keep reading but I feel like it probably got axed since it doesn't feel like a 2 volume story lol.
>>43875 https://fujochan.org/bl/res/3281.html Someone started a gacha thread for the joseimuke refugees https://fujochan.org/ot/res/9596.html
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Anyone else shipping doomed Hero yaoi? If this series is a success I hope that we'll eventually get some extra comic featuring (real) Nice and Wreck. Alternatively it might be interesting seeing Nice and Nice 2.0 interact somehow.
>>46040 >I hope that we'll eventually get some extra comic featuring (real) Nice and Wreck Me too. It's such a waste how they clearly put a lot of thought into this character and very likely the other heroes too, just for them to get just a few episodes of focus. They made all those PVs, so I want to believe.
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>>12936 I love cute males and I must post them.
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Technoroid season 2 when? I need to see Franky♡not animated!
>>42959 ojisan seksu
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the brat is stylish
>>17395 who are these characters? the white haired shota is cute
>>48719 is the long-haired character a guy...please say yes and give me sauce if so...
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>>48771 yes the sauce? Kaijin Fugeki's lastest chapter. since there's no chapter dump, rip 4chan, you can read chapter 37 here cubari.moe/read/imgur/HI5qzwp/1/1/
>>42959 Imagine sniffing his hairy unwashed cock...
>>48853 thanks
Does anyone know where are the people from 4chan /y/ moved to? 8chan /y/ is a barren desert. >>46842 The game is dead so probably never
>>48853 >since there's no chapter dump, rip 4chan Excuse me >>43847
>>49104 NANI?!? >thread was made 20 min after I last checked the catalog okay, that's funny
>open twitter >Draluc is telling Ronaldo to play Mouthwashing blind Bonnoki, please, think of the fanart you'll incur when recommending video games by proxy.
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Being idol is suffering
Any good new homo manga or LN series? Been a while since I've read one.
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Soon.
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>>46626 To be honest this is how series should be made. Make it feel like the characters have a life and things happening to them even if the camera isn't recording what they do, hint things on top of it and make the world feel rich so that the fans keep asking for more or let their fantasy run wild to fill the gaps. It's the polar opposite of the annoying over-explaining that a lot of fiction is suffering from. Considering the ton of lore they have packed into the trailers (instead of just assembling footage from the series) I have hopes that they will release additional short videos or comics to elaborate on certain things if the series turns out to be popular.
Why is his body so sexual?
redeemability status?
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>>55748 Somehow I forgot this was a red board.
>>30028 Yeah. Even when posting from Tor it's a hassle to change the node every time.
>>30028 pretty much, and things were just starting to pick up too. sad
>>57120 Bump-locking threads that triggered the mod didn't help either.
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Antagonists are always the best boys. >>57181 Some don't provide much fuel for discussions so it makes sense (like birthday and meme threads). But no idea why anybody would do it to a broad topic as "historical manga" or series-themed threads, assuming that this is what the anchor symbol means. I don't see it on my catalog version.
homobros dropped this site like a pallet of bricks
>>58957 cowards
>>58964 Are you gonna stick around doc?
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>>57608 Like him more than I thought I would. The design made me think that he was just a weak sidekick but he actually comes off as mature and non-stupid. Curious about his future development, think he's one of those characters that can turn out to become badass and earn Challia's deepest respect. >>58964 I don't really get the issue with IDs, considering how slow the threads are. Most anons will have a new ID next day or if they go afk and mobile anyway. Not a fan of it but I am not a fan of samefags pretending to be many either, so it has some advantages at least.
>>58977 yeah, why not?
>>57608 /m/ agrees. >>58957 The ID thing turns this board into Reddit. It's a sad fact.
>>59034 Nothing really, was just curious
Are you watching #COMPASS this season?
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I'm still struggling for the right words to express my fear here. Maybe just read the 200+ youtube comments that happened day one of the preview going up because it seems everyone is feeling it. The next CRSM update is a fucking Carichuma song and the thumbnail is speedo bodybuilder posing? Please, have mercy on us. Anyway Children's Day radio show coming soon. I never sent any questions in because the best I could think of I saw other people saying they'd already sent (and probably in better Japanese, too). I'm not staying up late or waking up early for the livestream, after AnimeJapan I've learnt my lesson of expecting anything. There's a fair chance that Osomatsu-san production has delayed S3 to late summer anyway.
>>60526 >compass 2.0 >2.0 do I have to watch the ONA?
>>60645 They're very short backstories of certain characters and doesn't affect the anime too much. These are the guys the ONAs are based on if you want to see it. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSZ9gA5Ha-00zvoXHVgl5wWU0JIBh-5SM&si=K8Gr55yIxj6SLNx_
>>60852 Their backstories seem miles better than what the anime is doing. Wish they went completely original like the Bahamut anime rather than the literal game mechanics.
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Anybody else shipping the Kowloon faggots?
>>60911 I love women mangaka for making heterosexual males uncomfortable.
>>60926 Female mangaka (and a few rare bisexuals like Noda and probably Obari) are the only hope for homofags. Everybody else will at best write a good m/m chemistry on accident but tear it apart the moment they notice that people are shipping them.
>>60869 The next episode should be a Blue Brothers story episode based on their story. So maybe we can expect a bit of story episodes as well.
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So judging by the interview of the director of Hero X we will get a good bunch of scenes with original Nice and therefore the gay friend-enemy as well. This will probably provide a good chunk of shipping fuel.
>>60957 Obari doesn't do manga.
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The grey halfchan captcha are even more annoying than the usual ones, can't even use the auto-solver add-on with that. Just another reason to stay here.
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>>62348 It's a shame everyone went back considering the jannies are still retards that don't care about the place's issues nor want to fix them. Anyways, I found this on a MAL award list or something and it's already on chapter 68. I'm surprised since most BL doesn't longer than a dozen of chapters or so.
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>>62365 Yeah I don't get it either. The homo thread isn't even up right now, so I guess that most are just posting into shounen generals or something because I have yet to find a single 4chan thread to discuss anything since it returned. Besides a few weekly seasonal threads, that is, but those are at best vaguely homo related considering that even in case that a show has actual homo potential you cannot mention it because it triggers the underaged basement crusaders.
>>62550 >The homo thread isn't even up right now The homo thread is still up. But I am also surprised at how few people stuck around.
>>62550 >because I have yet to find a single 4chan thread to discuss anything since it returned sad but true
From the previews, maybe better gay material next episode.
>>62590 Damn, you are right. Didn't know there was another one. First thread I have seen after the board came back again did die after a bunch of shitposts. Well I guess anons will use the faster moving 4chan thread while it lasts and hopefully return here to discuss things in peace in the slower threads. That's at least what I do.
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bros...
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>>64356 I am here. The /a/ thread has too much shitposting for my taste and despite being livelier there seem to be less dialogues.
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Where is everybody posting when there is no homothread on halfchan /a/? Please don't say FC I am not a fan of that and nobody there is watching seasonal series anyway.
Having the power to post videos with audio is very dangerous. The radio show ended up being super short (about 9mins), but had a few funny details, like they had to host a late night talk show at noon because of Rikai. Iori was the usual Iori but I'm starting to really appreciate his actor's delivery and how emotionally volatile he can be. He throws a tantrum at one moment, switches to a perfectly sensible instructive tone, then gets aroused the next. The song/MV is about what was expected, except far as I saw nobody guessed they'd involve real children. That's going to be strange to explain when they grow up. Still no news of S3. This comment on the radio made me chuckle, but there's a bunch of joke theories now. Everyone is coping hard. I hope Gumbo's release date being in September doesn't indicate just how long we have to wait for new episodes, but it's apparent now that it'll just be group songs and the manga exclusive songs compiled. No new breaks. No Tora. There's only so much disappointment I can pave over with brainrot, but I'll try.
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Wish the gamer menhera had had more screentime, that anime was nice. And I loved that they used actual crappy pixelated CG for the in-game scenes. >>65427 Even after skimming through that video I have no idea what this is supposed to be about. If I google gumbo I get some cool recipes for stew though.
>>65438 How does one have a weeb hobby without knowing kana.
>>65438 Ah shit, I got so used to speaking into the void that I forgot to name the series in my ramblings. It's Charisma, a visual audio drama about a group of mentally ill men living in a houseshare. This music video was their Children's Day release, and the first time the Karichuma kiddy version of the characters did a whole song, so they're all putting on their cutesiest voices. Gumbo is the name of the third album that's on preorder at the moment. Usually they release albums at the end of a season, so this new compilation album is an outlier and putting fans on edge during the long hiatus. We have no idea what they want from us now: we're getting random songs, media appearances, another cafe, and endless merch, now this radio thing where they asked for letters and barely read any. We just want to see the Charisma boys fight off the American scientists and fully include S2's new character in their antics. >>65610 To be fair, as someone who has to search "カリスマ" a lot, it's not a good, specific word for websearching. You get a shitload of random unrelated results and confusing answers. That's why their social media accounts use "charisma__house", since it was impossible to get a recognisable username otherwise.
I wish I was able to enjoy the current Gundam more. It is certainly decent and it looks fantastic. But it's still missing that certain something to make it non-forgettable and I wish the other faction would do something instead of commenting streams for a minute per episode and coming to the same conclusions about the MCs and their robot. >>65610 Know Japanese but admit I don't like chibis and tbh hate that type of voices and music so I instantly closed the video when the audio started lol Looking it up thanks to >>65686 I realize that the art style and designs are actually pretty cool (I assume they usually aren't chibis). Don't like idols, celebrities and music multimedia projects though, so it's probably nothing for me which is why I didn't know it before. I am even too autistic to get the point of Miku.
>>66036 >Don't like idols Man, everyone says this like clockwork. I just like comedies with deeper emotional connections between characters, and Shu Matsubara seems to hit the right notes for me since I liked Osomatsu and Classicaloid before this. Charisma is honestly his stronger work though because it's been allowed some long term character consistency, contributing to the overarching plot. Admittedly I didn't like the music when I first looked it up, but I didn't realise it had in-episode context, and the character songs weren't meant to be stand alone pretty whatevers. Since the magical boy transformations are paced about a 45-60mins apart they make good stopping places narratively, there's a build up and then character development each time, so it's like having an ED at the end of an arc since the actual OP/ED on episodes is just a few seconds of SFX and voice over. The gag songs also feed you information about the plot and characters - but it was way more orderly before the current hiatus. That's what makes it strange since S3 should start with fourth wall breaking Fumiya's verse giving a summary of what the season's plot is, but they're releasing these songs with no obvious spoilers so everyone's going nuts trying to find connections with S2's post credits scene. >I didn't know it before Homothread did discuss it when it was announced, some months before the first episode came out. Everyone ripped it to shreds and concluded it was shit based on the designs. Now there's an anon who says something about "eyebrow fetishes" because they don't like Ebimo's art style. I guess I can thank fish for that since she reposts High Card screencaps every week. I know there's no point in it since the one other Charisma anon isn't here, but I'm just going to indulge myself in laying out a theory about the hiatus. I think Evil Line is trying to squeeze money from Charisma after seeing its popularity, but because there's no gacha or disc sales to speak of, and the manga is all limited print run, they're trying to rely on the only thing they've got: youtube views. Gag songs trend easily and net them around 2-4mil views, and for every thousand views there's going to be at least someone who ventures onto the show itself and buys some of the copious arcade merch they've been spamming lately. Overall music tagged uploads are far more cost effective to them than 3-12min long episodes, because those don't get you streaming money these days. Amahiko's character songs alone probably make them more revenue than 107 episodes of story, which is why they've done daft shit like making an 8hr long video of the entire series. But the algorithm favours interaction so shitposts with tons of "I'm scared" and "what is this" comments are the most successful. There's a real chance S3 will be divided into longer episodes so the algorithm and revenue are more rewarding, but would they get the same hundreds of joke comments on the day they're uploaded? Won't the "thank god it's finally here" talk wear down and stop after a couple episodes? Releasing unrelated songs will still be more tempting to corporate who've let them do stupid freebie shit until now. Last week they released a promo clip of Charisma on stage at the King Records Super Live or whatever it's called and it's amazing how unprepared the audience is. I wish I could hear what's going through the heads of the staff when Charisma is just Charismaing like usual but in front of hundreds of uninitiated music fans. They need to really think about how they're selling this, because the only reason the music has drawn people in beyond the video game references and memes is because it uses popular folk songs and nursery rhymes as earworms. The true joy is knowing the characters and hearing them talk about themselves, and the Pizza Party song forgot that in favour of Tetrix and more silly animations. It was too blatantly an advert for a cafe selling pizza. Get your shit together, Evil Line, and give us those backstories. The Anime Japan bits weren't bad in retrospect, but it says something that their biggest appeal was forcing HypMic actors to perform live strip teases, whereas the HypMic stages were dull as standard. Anyway, Death Game best song followed by Death Summit and Den Den Death Fight. What do you mean biased? This is just the truth until Torahime gives Prof Nakagami his best break up song.
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>>66716 I'm here (I think). I just mostly lurk and consider myself a niwaka fan with Charisma so I don't really comment on it but I do enjoy seeing your posts about it. It's possible that Matsubara was and still is busy with S4 of Osomatsu so it probably got prioritized over Charisma. S2 got kinda plot heavy and they might be having trouble with an overarching plot for S3 because of that? Did nips like even like Torahime? I know I did but I'd been worried that they might think his addition is breaking the original group or something. He was technically spying on them for some time. Anyways, I think the music shit is just easier for them to do, so they're doing it to keep the series alive until they can release S3. Waiting at least 2 years for another season doesn't seem strange to me if they didn't have plans for it to be popular. If they're releasing songs at all it means they've been to the recording studios quite often, so maybe they've already started recording parts for S3? Who knows. I'm no where near as fanatic about Charisma as you are (I don't care much about the music stuff tbh) so that probably attributes to why I'm not so rushed to see S3. But I think they just need more time.
>>66918 I had a premonition I'd embarrass myself and yet I still dared to rave like a loony, fuck. Thanks though. I'm afraid I'm going to do it again. >busy with Osomatsu I mused on that a while back, it seems like the most sensible conclusion, but the more comments I see from Japanese fans the more I feel like the timing of these new releases is either poorly planned or actually going somewhere. If you put it in context: S1 ended in October 2022, and S2 started in March 2023, that's going by song releases that tied into the story, and gives you about half a year gap. During that gap they did a concert, and released a CD and a bunch of merch, with live appearances from the voice actors announcing S2's release date. In particular they did a couple days at AnimeJapan to promote the date. S2 came with so much activity, the episode releases weren't always consistent, but there was a stage play and a concert during it. After it finished in April 2024 we got another concert, and two more stage performances. Nobody found this unusual, everyone treated it like the previous gap. We were fine waiting while they fed us other things. Then as we near a year since S2 ended they start to release plushie range after plushie range, and increasingly ugly keyrings. A song is announced, everyone gets excited theorising that Torahime might be on the song because they promised him a birthday party. Song comes out, it's a promo for a pop up shop and cafe, has no Torahime, has no individual verses for the boys, it's lacking. We get more plushies but this time they're sitting. Then even more TINIER plushies in gachapon. The voice actors appear at AnimeJapan, everyone in the stream comments is expecting a S3 announcement just like S2's promos. They announce an even MORE expensive plushie set, limited run from the King Records online store. And a song for a pop up shop and cafe. The stream live comments were full of disappointed comments about S3. The fans were dormant, happily doing their own things, and then they got riled up with the hope that something was coming. I'm guilty of it too because I've been reading so much of the discussion and watching wave after wave of artists trying to fill in Torahime's silhouette with what his fullbody outfit might be. It really seemed like they were gearing us up to have our eyes on the channel, but instead we just got told buy more stuff. And not even by Fumiya! Let him talk directly to us and we'll be placated, Ono Yuuki wasn't even on day 1 of the AJ stage. They could have released the S3 opening song and then left us hanging for a month or two and it'd be fine because at least everyone could speculate. You're right though. The fact they're releasing anything at all means they've been in a recording booth and their contracts are active. We shouldn't be worried about S3 not coming this year, and I've seen many say they expect it to take longer to organise because the cast is expanding. I'm personally waiting to see what Charisma Torahime is (the S2 credits just said he was "Charisma of ???" and he does sing! Sing more, Tora-san!), and I expect Kida to play a role since he was the only other named and voiced grunt in Nakagami's unit. Personally, I'm being pissy because I want story, I want my speculations confirmed. Every season gets us closer to knowing why Fumiya is the way he is, and if they stay true to the pattern it's going to take several eps or even the whole of S3 before we actually get more on him. There's so much fanart and doujinshi that I feel get him wrong, and I need S3 to hit those artists with a 2x4 of truth. Also, if I can fit more words in: Torahime was really popular towards the end of S2, his love confession was a big deal, but as the hiatus has gone on he's suffered a massive drop off. There's a couple Korean artists who had dedicated twitters for art of him, posted every month if not week, and they just up and went silent around February, right after his birthday. People just don't have enough to keep them going on him right now, they're falling back on characters with more info and costumes. Nobody on the eastern side wants to assume what a Torahime break would look like. Right now the big trends are: kindergarten Charismas and "what if one half of the ship was baby" due to the latest song; the new birthday onesies and speculation on future onesies; and a continued revival of the first break costumes thanks to Culture Festival Live stage ending with all the breaks at once ("Feast of the Gods"). The S2 break costumes will probably be back soon as the Jamboree Tour concert bluray is coming out, and while Amahiko's VA was struggling with his breath, Ohse and Iori's VAs were incredible. Fumiya's VA as always stays in character the whole thing, he's ridiculous. The live ver of Rap Battle Break he steps up on one of the stage lights or something and maniacally asks the audience if this is what they came for, is this what you wanted, before turning his back to the audience and laughing. So much good art of Fumiya's evil laugh came out of that. This is what happens when you got nobody to talk to. Gomin, everyone. Shinimasu. Have some apology Tora.
>>66716 I just explained why I will probably not watch it, I didn't intent to start an argument or accusation. Not sure why it's an issue that I don't like idols. Idol stuff is popular as shit just like at Idolshit7 or what's its name or Enstars and the gorillion k-pop fangirls. I fail to see how everyone hating it. It's probably just that 4chan attracts different types of fans. That stuff is very popular on twitter and FC AFAIK. >Everyone ripped it to shreds and concluded it was shit based on the designs. I said the exact opposite, so not sure why you implied otherwise. I like the designs but no the genre/setting. I don't care about celebs and pop music in real life either. It surely helps if someone likes the particular music genre. Not liking it means listening to awful sounds and voices all the way through while watching something and I don't like hiphop and pop or whatever that genre is called (or Miku). E.g. since it's popular to hate on metal and metal regularly being reduced to black metal alone, imagine all the songs being black metal instead (though I would prefer that over pop despite not being a big fan of it). That said I simply prefer drama and action or sci-fi and history over star stuff etc blah ANYWAY what I wanted to say is that am looking forward to Re:Birth after seeing the trailer for it (I fucking hate "Re:" titles in anime). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiqUhC4_hSg Cautiously optimistic since it looks like a passionate original action series by David.
>>66952 >>66954 Torahime is too moe. I will miss the faceless mob character look if he gets a proper design.
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Holy shit, this site works again. I swear it's been weeks trying to load anything. Anyway we've missed Saru's birthday, and I guess he said "don't celebrate" because instead they announced another fucking stage production. This one has Nakagami cast in it but no Torahime, so presumably they're moving onto adapting scenes from the fugitive half of S2. I really hope they make room for the laboratory scene and Fumiya's betrayal. I need to hear stage Fumiya try his best to cackle evilly, I don't think he has it in him, his voice is kind of pathetic. They're going to be doing so many costume changes if his break is adapted, but thankfully keeping Torahime for a future stage means they don't have to do both. I'm a little excited to see how RBB Fumiya will behave around the others, since his saint mode was so distant and prim (and it had shoes). Gang AU is fairly popular so artists will get stirred up no matter how he is. They threw us another song with only a week's notice, reusing assets, and slapping AI backgrounds on several parts. I guess this is padding out the compilation album with literally anything. Its saving grace are the deliberate lingering camera shots on the tiny towel skirts flipping about, and that a well known EDM animator did Ohse's section. Also La Bamba is, without fail, catchy. There's some conspiracy theories going around that Pizza Party's lyrics actually explained that we have to wait until winter for S3. People trying to match the phrases in the nonsense verse to the songs we've had since and saying we're getting a song for spring, summer, and autumn. I did feel like the new song saying normalfags can stop worrying is telling us to stop commenting where's S3. I'm happier now there's more stage to look forward to because it always adds to the characterisations and it's great to see the break costumes from new angles, but I'm still mad at the continued onslaught of pointless trivia songs and plushies. There's just plain ugly merch flooding the market, and the few decent ones are prizes and collab popups only. The Sabira cafe opened, and it's nice that they got to use new ebimo art for everything, but it's still only the two sets of images reprinted on tons of things - and from the photos it seems some characters got shafted at the photo point because TERRA had to be so goddamn wide and take up most of his side of the display. You already got the best vocals, stop stealing all of the spotlight! >>67062 Oh no, I wasn't trying to accuse you of anything, I was just disappointed because I've had people bring up idol series a few times, and as far as I'm aware Charisma isn't an idol series nor does it look much like one. When I think of an idol series it usually involves teenagers in the music industry, performing on stage and managing their stardom. Charisma is a gag comedy with bullshit science fiction elements, about a group of social outcasts who end up on the run from government agents because, by living in close proximity, they uncover a power that "could solve the global energy crisis." Disliking musicals is pretty normal, which is why I was trying to emphasise that the music is less frequent than in regular non-musical anime. That was stupid of me, it's not like I was going anywhere with that and obviously parts of the plot are conveyed in the lyrics. I'm sorry if you felt the information I was giving was about you, that wasn't my intention. I was frustrated with the threads from 2021, but I didn't think that would sound like I was including you (evidently, you weren't there or didn't post at the time). Just that it served as an explanation for why discussion has been limited in the years since the series began, since people wrote it off early. Homothreads don't pay a great deal of attention to what's active in Japanese fandom, and Charisma is a very hard sell despite its accessibility. Japanese comedy is divisive, and I understand the west is put off by the characters being adults. It's just doomed to fail beyond Asia. >>67202 It's gonna take a long ass time for me to get used to it, that's for sure. I half want his charisma to be "mob" because it's part of his appeal, but at the least they could keep his eyes hidden save for a few rare sprites.
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