Endmaker

Holy twist 🤯

Of course Hebichika is Hikaru’s mother

Relevant: Japan’s favourite chord progression and why it works

So Viola’s motivation was simply envy? It’s kind of weak ngl.

I’d say I prefer Ave Mujica with its twists.

See: Draw This, Then Die! (or the manga it is adapted on)

It could be recency bias but this is one of my favourite episodes of this Tanya season.

We all know diplomacy is going to fail, but I enjoyed the drama and process leading to the outcome.

Their suffering feeds my sadistic streak 😈

What demographic labels did people gave to each of these?

Ah yes, the classic fallen angel / magical girl trope.

Why is this giving off Madoka vibes…🗿 maybe the goddess would be revealed as the big bad towards the end, and our main cast would revolt against her.

don’t change according to reception

I cannot remember the title off the top of my head but I remember reading about at least one manga that changed the magazine it was serialised in to reach a different audience segment.

Doesn’t seem very meaningful for us.

Disagree. I found it useful.

After watching a substantial amount of anime, I noticed - based on my AniList stats - that I enjoy seinen anime more than those of shounen and shoujo. (You can guess which demographic I am a part of.)

This made it easier for me to seek out anime that fit my taste - though it certainly is a self-reinforcing loop.

I’d still check shounen / shoujo anime out; they simply have a higher bar to clear.

XKCD: 10,000

the target audience for these series is almost always either boys or men

It makes sense once one think about it. Straight dudes would rather look at girls, and vice versa.

If people think …, they need to watch more media

AFAIK the target demographics are determined not by the eventual audience, but by the publishers. So if they think it would appeal to shounen, it gets classified as shounen.

think Frieren’s most important parts are the fights

Personally, I can see why Frieren gets classified as shounen even after discounting the fight scenes. I find that the characters’ thinking lack a certain depth / maturity / dimensionality of seinen and josei anime.

Kind of a boring answer but surely Frieren has to be up there.

Attack on Titan is definitely seinen, not shounen.

I was surprised when I first found out too. I tend to associate politics with seinen 😅

Gushing Over Magical Girls.

It knows to embrace its identity as an ecchi anime.

The witch’s death

That was anti-climatic. There was no plot twist of any sort.

At least my backup guess turned out to be right. Oh, plus a prediction from a while back. These tropes all pan out the same way…

I hope things are not as simple as Lisa is making it out to be. They still haven’t shown us the witch’s motivations. It still looked as if the king wronged the witch in past, from my POV at least.

Lastly, I’m so glad this anime is taking the yuri route, unlike

I wonder what happily-ever-after would mean for an interspecies lesbian couple though.

Rudy hugging Roxy

I like Aisha’s reaction 😏

😏😏😏

Prince refuses to help.

This prince is fucking useless. It’s your own mother who’s in peril. Shouldn’t you be the first one to step up and draw the bow?!

The only character who may be more useless is the ever-absent emperor. I can understand his absence regarding the Reirin-Keigetsu fiasco, if he’s dealing with issues that are more pressing (i.e. national issues, duh). But now that his wife is dying, he better have a bloody good excuse.

Also, now that I think about it, the maidens / princesses and the prince are half-siblings, aren’t they? Since they should all share a common father: the emperor.

Why is Reirin the only one to call the crown prince nii-sama, but the maidens don’t? Maybe that’s why the prince turned out like that…🗿

They changed the angle of the breastfeeding scene. It’s way more explicit in the manga 🗿

For comparison:

Banner nomination: yes mommy 🍼

Come to mommy.

@rikka@ani.social

Stream of thoughts:

When I entered “literature department”, it autocompleted with “can’t find a job”.

anime_irl 😭

Nishi hugging Yamada red-faced

Nishi definitely felt Yamada’s boner there 💀

Suzuki’s commute route to university

Kumaneko Uni

Panda University. Yeah, it’s literally bear-cat (kuma-neko), but it’s panda.

break up?

Is there a good story that ends with the couple breaking up, and left it at that? That would certainly be daring, and different.

Moonlight’s passing

Ishigami’s reaction to tearjerker

It probably applies to all creative fields, but as a programmer, this episode speaks to my soul.

Ooh nice I like your theory.

chainsawman “he just like me” meme

Shu hasn’t limped the entire show, has she?

IIRC she did. In fact, it was shown to us in this most recent episode, right before they revealed her cursed leg.

What I cannot remember is if there’s an earlier instance of her limp.

The Story of a Girl Who Can Read Minds appeared on MangaDex front page, and has a fun premise, so I gave it a shot.

It’s certainly entertaining, so I’ll be following it for now. Hopefully it will be able to keep the fun factor up.

Also, listen to “Gayou” and tell me that’s not Noble Consort Shu’s voice.

One thing I cannot remember is: did we see Gayou limping? That would be the biggest giveaway.

The Kin Consort seems too inept

The Blue Consort (sorry, I forget the clan name) feels similarly inept

Maybe we (they) are all inept villainesses 😔

It can be like the twist from

where all of the suspects are murderers.

(Though in this case, the consorts and maidens are acting independently.)

Lara: I’ll find true love with him.

Narrator: She will not find true love with him.

seashell

I wonder what the upcoming plot twist would be.

Here’s a wild guess: the Lara whom we are following isn’t the same Lara from 200 years ago. She has the same appearance and memories, yes. But all we (and she herself) know about her are second-hand accounts from the witch and her “sister”. As to who / what she really is and how she came to be… hmmm. That’s where this conjecture falls apart.

I guess it would simply be the awakening of Lara’s father then