ReluctantZen

I’m very excited, especially if it’s at the level of Garden of Sinners.

Nah, back to back doesn’t work well either. Too jumpy and incoherent

I know things started to finally move again but I’m at a point where seeing a new chapter incites zero emotions in me

Same. I had put it on hold quite a while ago and recently caught up and it was still on the same thing that never really made sense and made me loose interest to begin with.

So on that note, maybe the Kin clan has been constantly giving Reirin these “gifts”.

I think it’s not the Kin clan in the same way it likely wasn’t the Kin clan that made Leelee do what she did. The 2nd one coming from Shu, makes me suspect the 1st one also came from her and also that she’s Gayou.

It feels like it’s skipping a lot of things this episode… Like, a whole friend group got added off screen and they kept talking about off screen events

Why do people still use Crunchy Roll or centralized media distribution/streaming sites?

Simple: it’s much easier and requires no effort on your end. Also, because people want to pay for media.

You can build a better library with a VPN, some good Torrent sites, and about 2 TB of storage.

This requires quite a bit more effort, especially if you just want to watch on your TV or phone.

Good torrent sites are pretty annoying to find tbh. There are online resources, but they’re harder to find compared to streaming, especially private trackers.

Storage is very expensive. A 2 TB NVME SSD is like 4-5 years worth of annual Crunchyroll subscriptions. About 2-3 years for HDDs.

2 TB might also not be enough if you want the quality Bluray rips.

You’ll have better quality

Only if you download the Bluray rips, sure, but these take up quite a bit of space and don’t exist yet when you’re wanting to watch the current season or previous 2 seasons. Those rips are at best the same quality as the streaming service. And if physical media will really stop, you’re own library will be the same quality or slightly worse than the streaming services, since the source of the better quality is gone. I have my own Jellyfin server (mostly for my own Bluray rips), but I still have a CR subscription for this reason.

won’t get ads

If you use an adblocker or pay for a subscription you won’t on streaming either.

WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO PUT SUBTITLES ON WITH THE ENGLISH AUDIO‽‽‽ IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE CAPTIONS I NEED SOMETHING)

My guess: because the English subtitles will not match with the English dub. I can imagine that would be even more confusing/distracting.

I’ve never watched a single episode of Naruto, so I’m only going off your post here.

Yes, in-universe it is going against societal norms, but by going along with real-life societal norms. That matters. What is the message there?

Having your women be on equal footing with the men in terms of career path only to then have them follow real-life patriarchal standards as a way of “going against societal norms” seems… odd. It essentially reinforces real-life patriarchal standards in that way.

I don’t think you can always view a story purely in its own context. The mangaka created that universe in the context of the real word and his beliefs. He has control over what their universe looks like and how going against the norm looks like. Here it does sound based on less-than-stellar views on women (which was more common at the time).

You might want to keep watching then. At least in the manga (havent seen the anime yet):

I never bought directly from CR, because they don’t sell it here either and are the wrong region for my player, but they do a lot of releasing here through other sellers. But if they don’t sell through their own shop, I doubt they will through others…

That’s the wild thing, they actually get less money that way. There are like 4 cases:

1. You have both a CR subscription and buy the Blurays (that’s me).
2. You pirate the simulcasts and buy the Blurays.
3. You only stream.
4. You only pirate.

Cases 3 & 4 remain the same. Case 2 will not suddenly go to a subscription and case 1 already has a subscription. There is no extra money to be made.

Technically there is a case 5, where you only buy the Blurays, but that seems very much an edge case or only theoretical.

Considering Sony’s/CR’s near monopoly on both streaming and physical, this leaves me very somber for the future. I hope parties like MVM and AllTheAnime can license some of the titles to release physically…

Caught up since I put it on hold a while ago, but I’m afraid it’s still not doing it for me. It’s too messy in what it’s trying to convey.

The first arc was a pretty simple and focused premise and tbh mostly vibes, where 4 pages per chapter were more than fine. In this arc it’s trying to juggle multiple things and actually exploring some more complicated things, all in 4 pages per week.

If the chapters were longer, like this one, I feel like it’d be able to develop better.

Awesome

Is it possible to request a discussion through Rikka of one-shot episodes like bâan? It has an AL page and all.

I know of Ascendance of a Bookworm, but have others done this?

Oh, I’ve not come across that one before

What a wholesome family.

how much Kenzaburo’s previous life experience has mattered.

I agree. He’s not some empty husk of a character either meant for self-insertion

maybe they make mayonnaise or something like that

This trope drives me insane in generic isekai. The only thing they bring from their world is food. Always food. Those types of isekai are so unoriginal they even copy these inconsequential things.

Big fan of the anime, waiting for a good sale on the remaster VN and used to be a big fan of FGO (still am storywise, but not the actual game part). Not sure if a Fate community is necessary (I wouldn’t be very interested) or if it’s even a good idea. The federation stuff can make niche communities pretty hard to find, so it’d be hard to gain traction.

I mean, they are really good. Even if they weren’t my pick for everything, I definitely understand it

I think this outcome makes sense, especially the Frieren sweep

Bit of a down week for me last week, but Dandadan’s latest ep was really good.

Dandadan’s main charm points for me are the chemistry between the 2 MCs and its style. On the surface, I guess JJK and Dandadan are somewhat comparable, but in execution totally not. I dropped JJK at S2, similar reasons to you but I couldn’t get to the end, but am enjoying the hell out of this one.