Thread #969239

Hi hey hello
Maiddragon night!

*Kageki Shoujo!!
^{Episode 4-6}
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon
*Mahouka Koukou no Yuutousei
^{Episode 5-6}
Night Head 2041
Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu

well tonight's list looks fairly easy

bang
night head
tsuki
kobayashi

no bang

hmm
does kirara still watch mahouka with us

Yeah
I was thinking about that too
Honestly if you don't really want to do two episodes of Kageki in a row tonight we could probably just do four shows

yup
i think we'll either do two eps of kageki or just one of kageki and just call it a night
we'll see how we feel

This week's a bit weird since we didn't get Hero Academia
And Love Live wasn't airing for two weeks because Olympics
So we've had a few shows that weren't contributing to the pile

our anime list became very manageable very quickly

Eva 4.0 is soo, is it not
soon

Yeah, I think hard copy release for it should be soon
Do you want to watch it?

We should organize a viewing party for it, with whomever wants to watch.
I imagine kirara and some others may want to watch it as well.
I don't mind doing it at a time that is outside of regular anime hours.

If you can make a weekend show-up that would be really easy
Otherwise, yeah, a weekday afternoon
I know Samu would be really up for something like that too

I could be present ofr
for
a weekend showing, yes

Cool, I'll start sniffing out when it's likely to be dropping
Once that's more concrete it'll be easier to pinpoint a good day and get the word out
It also gives me a chance to go watch 3.0

It was quite some time ago, but we all watched 3.0 together here.
I didn't expect it to be so long before we'd get 4.0.

hi hi

>>969255
To be fair, Anno didn't expect it either
The film kept getting delayed hah hah

I must have missed out on the 3.0 viewing for one reason or another
I know I'd seen the first two movies previously, since I own the hard copies

Can't really figure why I wasn't good for 3.0
Maybe I just wanted to be a dead person at the time

I'll ask Ika and Moon and Lobster if they want to watch with us.
I don't know if Ika will respond and Lobster probably won't since she hasn't replied to my are you alive emails.

>>969258
I could doubly ping Ika on Discord but yeah, who knows if I'd get a response, hah hah
It's not impossible but I think at best it'll be a polite no thank you
Moon's still around on /moe/ though plus I can get in contact elsewise, so that's easier

did i watch 3.0 with moe?
i vaguely remember things about it but i don't really remember the movie
it must have been so long ago

oh you should ask ika then since you have a more direct line
I just have ika's old email

>>969261
it was a very long time ago yes
eva 3.0 came out in 2014

oh 2014?
if i watched it with moe or not, i was probably shitfaced anyways
that year to me was rum and everclear
i remember almost nothing else

that was back during the glory days

night head

that's true, I had a lot more free time back then
I do hope that time is cyclical so that we can relive those halcyon days

okay
let's start

Back when we had free time to be unrepentent weebs
Now we all have jobs and real life responsibilities

back when bang treated everyone like shit and did nothing useful
god i hate that little piece of shit
thank god tragedy befell him

>>969264
It would be nice!
Most of my short-term plans and schemes these days are "how can I acquire more free time"
If even one of them works maybe I can stop being so tied up
Hopefully you can figure out something that will give you some leeway too

One of these days I'll properly deal with my Downloads folder
It's really getting unruly

I just download all my anime into a big blob folder
and delete the oldest stuff as the folder grows too large

I usually trim out the stuff at the end of a season that I didn't find too memorable or wasn't a big hit for me
But there are some things I like to archive
The problem arises when I get too distracted to do it properly and it just ends up sitting there for years
I still have some HorribleSubs shows that I haven't processed.

i sort everything and purge it every month or so
i keep shows i might want to go through later but usually end up deleting them at the end of the season
if i had more disposable, i'd get hard drives and archive it all
but i only have what i have

my life and my laundry are never as organized as i would like
but my images of anime girls and my anime are very nicely sorted

I've got a lot of storage space so it's not a big concern
Although the current HDD I use for all my bulk storage is starting to get pretty full
I did buy a new 6TB drive during the holiday sales but I haven't had a good chance to install it
Plus a like decade-old 4TB external which is normally where I send all my archived anime to

i'm guessing this lady and her son are going to be a lot more important than i first thought they were

Funnily enough at the moment the mother is the more relevant one than the psychic boy
Since she's a direct connection to this Shouko girl who seems to be at the heart of things

Oh that shrine
That's the shrine that was on the property of the white-haired brothers' old house

This guy in the green jacket is dressed real goofy
But he's voiced by Sugita so worth

Damn that's a nice bedroom
I want that bedroom

Well that's a bit dramatic of a way to prove a point
You could have just lifted one up and did a flight show with it

he's kind of a dramatic guy

>It won't happen again
[x] Doubt

Being a psychic seems pretty hazardous
Especially of the empath variety
Having to deal with the noise of everyone's thoughts, even thoughts of people from the past, sounds like a nightmare

Oh right these guys were the Libertarians
Although in an actually completely totalitarian society their dreams of freedom don't seem as goofy

Uh

what the fuck

did they put a thought camera in hius brain
why do i feel like the scary lady knows way more than anyone else
who the hell has shoko
is masayuki gonna do a thing again
what the hell is happening

It kinda feels like the cop brothers might be more than just imprinting on the psychic brothers

this is getting pretty crazy with all the powers lately

my big brain guess is that they're from different timelines
and that july 25th is important because it has something to do with the two timelines merging or something
involving some crazy psychic secret government stuff
and what the hell was that giant metal core surrounded by minority-report-lookin precogs

tsuki

okay
lets start

I want to see more of Tomoe
Where is Tomoe
Why did she get put on a bus

>>969295
The one snag about being different timelines is that the psychic brothers are kind of slipped out of their normal time
They should be in their late-forties/mid-fifities
So if they're the same people but different timelines then their parents are caught up in that timeslip too

night head is the big surprise for me this season
i was really expecting nothing but am getting something
>>969297
i'm thinking either some kind of time recursion or the cop brothers are actually from the past too and their memory is all fucked by the government

Yeah it's not impossible
I think there's a few things they'd need to establish or iron out but I can see how it clicks

oh yeah this business guy was really mean for no reason

You got to be mean to get ahead in business!

yeah well being mean to a guy who is courting demigods is not good business

Well this context kind of makes it make more sense

you really want to be kinda like inoffensive and nice when running a business
unless it's to competitors

>>969303
yeah last time they skipped to that line

wait is he wearing mana-suppressing rings on every single finger
wow

The OP really does make it look like some wild stuff is going to happen

By my understandings this is another one of those long-running isekai series
Kinda like Mushoku Tensei
There's a big scope the series can look at for teasing what happens
Although with the time we have in one season who know if we'll get to big things

Another //A big problem with long-running isekai or fantasy series in Japanese light novels is they usually take a long time to ramp up to interesting things
You can spend an entire season of content on what's basically the prologue

Testing!
You can't expect to join an established organization of good reputation without proving your quality

I would like to watch a long running isekai but it seems like they often just get 1 cour and that's that
but the LNs
buy
that is

Which is doubly difficult because LNs are either in Japanese only or take like five years to release ten volumes

>>969311
And when you think of some of the long-running isekai we've seen, you get stuff like Slime, which spends a lot of the time on just dialogue

Is he a quick learner or is he just cheating

Seems like the average intelligence for people in this world is fairly basic

i never thought about the fact that a freshman in high school would be a high-level mathematician in most isekai worlds

Oh I guess this is another situation where he's kinda boosted because earth is hard mode

I think it's more that modern education really just puts you leaps and bounds ahead of the average medieval fantasy person's education

for most of human history, the extreme majority of humans didn't learn algebraic processing
even nowadays, it's still not quite the majority, actually

Even elementary school arithmetic and literary comprehension puts you way ahead of most commoners from what would be this techno-cultural time period

oh I guess he's okay even if he had different materials

T O M O E

She's really enjoying living out this weeb fantasy

Wouldn't you?

man crab meat is probably the thing i miss the most from before being allergic to shellfish

That is an INSANE amount of crab

They do have a lot of people they can feed at least
So it won't go to waste

oh no
tomoe is back and is now a rugged warrior
she won't fit in now that this place is an intellectual archive

wow they're publishing his memories
I'm not sure I'd want that

It seems functional
Like they want to have access to the technology the MC's seen in his memories
But yeah, I imagine there's a lot of other stuff that wouldn't be great to have other people free to peruse

desuwa

Even with the mask concealing his horrendous visage he kinda strikes a memorable appearance
Partially because of the mask anyway

banana drink

wearing a mask makes him really weird
yeah

The tiny Tomoe is Iroha from Yahari
And Cocoa from Rabbit Horse
Her seiyuu really stands out whenever I hear it

man i kinda wanna eat a tomato now

just like bite into it?

you haven't done that?
though i usually cut it into wedges with salt and pepper
but
i've definitely eaten tomatoes straight up before

I haven't
Honestly I don't really like tomato on its own
Or even like, as slices in a sandwich
But mix them into a dish or process them into sauce and they're great

it really only works with good tomatoes though
which can be hard to find honestly
there's a couple places i go to get good tomatoes
but the ones from the grocery store for 90 cents a pound tend to be pretty whatever

Oh I guess what Mio was watching was a drama from Japan
And she's really hooked on the plot now

I like them on sandwiches in and in sauce and stuff
but have never eaten one straight up

Cute spider minion

HENSHIN
So Tomoe is a weeb for historical drama and Mio is an otaku

oh she likes kamen rider type stuff

Also some anime that might be a bit on the niche side
He said his dad made him watch it, so it's a bit hard to pin the genre

Brutal

If he really wanted money he could use those transcriptions of anime and period dramas they're both hooked on to make book and sell them to the people of this world

i kinda wonder why you'd stay in hotels when you can portal to the demiplane and back

lots of setup this episode but it was still decent

>>969348
Maybe it's nice to be a traveller and not have the responsibilities of being a lord of a pocket dimension

>>969350
yeah but he had to sleep in a chair because he was being tempted by demi-thots
i would have for sure just portaled to my kingly estate

Sleeping in a chair is a part of the romance of adventure and travel!

i'm gonna slice a tomato from the fridge real quick
brb

The trumpet they use for these next episode endcards reminds me of classic samurai dramas

kobayashi time

oh i paused before anything shows
i have black screen still

okay
let's start

Wow well that's an interesting first two seconds of the episode
Super interesting, even

My videos auto-play but most shows these days have all the Funimation or whatever other credits roll
So normally I don't see anything of value

>>969357
Correct

episode 6, right?

these are actually tomatoes from a producer i haven't purchased before
from a greenhouse in canada

if these tomatoes aren't amazing it's your fault tilde

okay nvm these tomatoes are pretty good

See? Super interesting

I was actually expecting something like that but from the other dragon with huge boobs

They had to bring back the OG SUGE DEKAI once in a while

lucoa hasn't been around much

It's a bit surprising since Lucoa and the shota's relationship is like, the mangaka's biggest fetish
He loves his abundantly buxom onee characters and tiny shota boys
Maybe they show up more in the manga

....

it broke...

RIP cat

I had a feeling that's what would happen to that t-shirt

>Expecting a Mayan Aztec goddess to not like bitter things

Lucoa has a bit of a boyish voice
Like not actually masculine, but it's lower and throaty, without really being sensual
If I just listen to the voice without imagining or seeing the character, she sounds more like a tomboy to me

You are a child

mfw

Takiya and Fafnir have a pretty funny relationship going on

Hah hah this animation switch up

fafnir has a really weird dragon head
reminds me of that rot dragon from monster hunter world

Reminds me of like a Dark Souls dragon too
His head is kind of like the gaping maw of that dragon that has a mouth-belly
Er a belly-mouth
Only this time on hi s head like a normal mouth

vaal hazak

Hah hah wow
Shouto's teaching muggles how to magic

isn't he just gonna be like
that's a cool marble

Possibly
Fafnir is a pretty strong dragon it seems
But Shouta is also a competent magic user
He was able to summon and contract Lucoa after all

that's a really crazy question

>>969374
oh right
that boss was the first boss that really beat me up

Takiya actually looks pretty stylish when he's not in full otaku mode

>>969379
I can't remember if I had a hard time with it the first time I fought it
But if I fought it more than once, the last time I fought it, I mopped house with it
It was a good lesson for me in how grinding out in Dark Souls makes the game much easier

was it ever explained how fafnir gets money for all those goods?

Hm, maybe
It's been a while since season one

Fafnir is odd since he kinda still seems very aware that these circumstances are fleeting and that he's ultimately a dragon
but he's leaning into it anyway

I can understand him pretty well
If I was long-lived or even immortal I'd probably do my hardest to lean into every fleeting moment
Because otherwise the centuries of waiting would probably wear heavy on me

Time for a date with the most dangerous human

suki-pah

Oh wow it's me

dead soccer ball

they hit a drug addict

what the fuck

>>969389
I understand they're easy to mix up Rika but I think that was an artist

You should feel blessed to even use Kanna's spare chopsticks Saikawa

Man the Kyoto riversides are such a lovely place to walk

is saikawa gonna be okay

Elma you absolute clown

I've only ever visited Kyoto in the spring/winter
Going in summer when everything is green and vibrant would be lovely
One of these days
I'm going to defeat the dreaded Japanese summer heat
It won't stop me

Hah hah Kanna

HUGE
MELONS

always sad to see this one end

thanks for anime bang

>You'll lose connection
>Advice: File a claim with the administrators. Be thorough. Get your free gems.

thanks for anime!
i might rewatch the first season sometime soon

kageki shoujo 4
okay
lets start

Hopefully we get a bit of feel-good after the heaviness last episode

she hurt that poor very generic otaku's feelings

Yeah, turns out the otaku isn't just a pig he's feeling remorseful for being the catalyst that got her kicked out of her idol unit

It's sweet of him that he wants to apologize, but really it's probably not much his fault
She had a lot of emotional baggage going into the idol business that made her poorly suited to being an aidoru
Japanese idols have a lot of contact moments with their (mostly) male fans so anyone who will literally freeze up and go into trauma from touching one is poorly suited to being an idol
Any possible reaction would have caused her to go haywire

they're evencalling him stalker-san

He's dressed exactly like the otaku from ore no imouto dresses
i wonder if that's a reference
or just like it's the generic otaku outfit

play after thos
this story
maybe he is a stalker

>>969410
It's both a generic otaku outfit and kind of a stigmatized badge of honour
Like, otaku, still nowadays, but really much so like a decade and two back, were really regarded as creeps
Especially anime otaku
The stereotype was they all dressed in baggy flannel and had backpacks full of all their lewd goods, had scruffy hair and bad glasses
And eventually when there was kind of the cultural rebound and otaku started taking back their pride, a lot of them said "you know, if we're going to be regarded as gross for wearing what's comfy, we might as well embrace it"
So the outfit became something to wear out of pride rather than just being comfy and easy to wear

very very close to the same outfit

Yeah, she adopts the outfit for similar reasons
Like, she's gorgeous when she's dressed normally, right
But gorgeous and otaku, especially back in like the 00s, wasn't really a thing. Isn't really a thing
So to be true to her otaku self, she wears the uniform of being an otaku

This blonde KanaHana girl is a SNAKE

speaking ore oreimo it's crazy how huge the OP is for that
I still hear it all the time, sometimes even at music events and stuff

It's a smash hit
There's a lot of songs that even from irrelevant shows, are big in the anisong or even broadly Japanese music scene

Like if you remember that show about the two science college students who were obsessed with scientifically proving love
The ED for that show, Turing Love, is really, really popular
There's a lot of Vtubers who have done covers of the song

>Baka mitai
Dame da neeee

Maybe it's just how integrated Twitter is in the Japanese social scene but it's weird to me that someone you're close to or family with needs to indirectly talk with you over Twitter posts rather than, y'know, just talk over text or phone calls

S N A K E

I do kinda like how impervious Sarasa is to the scheming of these other girls

wow they even chased her
that would be scary for someone who didn't even have issues

Yeah
I wonder how realistic this kind of aggressive attempts to hit on girls is in Japan
You see it a lot in anime

otaku kinda saves the day kinda

He held the fort long enough for the real cavalry to arrive

Hah hah Sarasa

His way of finding her is kinda creepy though

He is definitely a bit of a creep
But he's using his creep powers for justice
As someone who does kind of have creep impulses from time to time I can understand him a bit

well it seems like he did a good job this episode

People are going to make mistakes, it's just an inevitable part of being human
What's important is how you try to recover from making mistakes
I think that parable goes for both him and Ai here
Not to particularly blame her because she's got very real reasons for her actions
But losing control in a public space and calling him gross in the first place is part -is a mistake in its own right

Ah.
I guess they couldn't leave happy enough alone

This is the girl who was "instructed" to lose some pounds last episode
And she seemed not great this episode
So this is, well, the natural development for something like that

At least the Sarasa/Ai arc wrapped up happily
I'll take that win

yeah overall it was a good episode
I do think this is a good stopping point, maybe i'll get some extra sleep tonight
we're doing pretty well on the list so we should be okay

There might be a new show worth watching coming out this weekend
Some original series from Production I.G. that I think is like, a historical fiction about Asian pirates
Plus with Hero Academia airing again, we probably won't have to worry about being barrel-bottom like we've been the past couple days

And either way tomorrow we've got a full course of some of the best shows of the season

can't wait
thanks for anime!

Yup!
Have a good night, Rika