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8 years and 3 days since I joined this beautiful community!!!

I agree completely, yuru camp is on my list now (@-v-@)

UPDATE: I finished Evangelion on Thanksgiving night, not gonna put a review or spoilers here just figured I'd mention it.

This is Barking Riverside station. I rather liked the symmetry of its layout.

Hanging about with some old armor! Up until a few years ago these were running but over time parts got hard to find and now they are out front a mil surplus company near me. They used ride the one below with the rubber track feet in parades with people dressed up in period gear. Sadly no pictures of it running that I know of.

hiii /ᐠ - ˕ -マi'm froggy, and im also new to the forum too! nice to meet ya! I love cats, like so much. Sadly, I'm allergic, but my brother has a cat named shamus and I always attack him with pets whenever I go over! (its worth the sniffles I get after). My dream was fulfilled when I went to a cat cafe in Shibuya or Shinjuku (I forget which) and feed the kitties there! They were so cute when they followed me around because I had food. The highlight was when I hung out at the top floor and there was a small manga nook where I read with a cat in my lap )>u<( ^^ Buddy Daddies was so wholesome, I also recommend it as well (0o0)

Another farming level ~ 6 to go until I max the farming skill out.

the last anime watched are One Piece

Best compilation I've seen so far. Gotta say, after the pretty wild first test this one went much, much better. Not perfect of course, but that's fine at this point. Gives me hope they might someday actually get 'Ship working as intended. That would make the next couple decades so amazing! It was only 13 years between the Wright Flyer @ Kitty Hawk and the first commercial cargo (mail) delivery after all, and only ~30 until the Boeing 247, the first commercial airliner.

Greetings and welcome to Anime Forums!

October 14th (Saturday) 12:00a FLCL Shoegaze: Far-Fre (Far Friend)* 12:30a One Piece: Big Names Duke It Out! The Heated Block B Battle!* 1:00a One Piece: A Deadly Blow! The Astonishing King Punch!* 1:30a Naruto Shippuden: Hagoromo and Hamura* 2:00a Naruto Shippuden: A Fabricated Past* 2:30a My Hero Academia: The Lovely Lady Nagant October 21st (Saturday) – FLCL Grunge Marathon 12:00a FLCL Grunge: Shinpachi 12:30a FLCL Grunge: Shonari 1:00a FLCL Grunge: Orinoko 1:30a Naruto Shippuden: The No. 1 Most Unpredictable Ninja* 2:00a Naruto Shippuden: Ninshu: The Ninja Creed* 2:30a My Hero Academia: Friend October 28th (Saturday) – FLCL Shoegaze Marathon 12:00a FLCL Shoegaze: Furu-Bari (Full Barricade) 12:30a FLCL Shoegaze: Gene-Bato (Generational Battle) 1:00a FLCL Shoegaze: Far-Fre (Far Friend) 1:30a My Hero Academia: Deku vs. Class A 2:00a My Hero Academia: A Young Woman's Declaration 2:30a My Hero Academia: No Man Is an Island November 4th (Saturday) – Daylight Saving Night (2:00 AM → 1:00 AM) 12:00a Attack on Titan The Final Season: The Rumbling / Sinners 1:30a Attack on Titan The Final Season: The Rumbling / Sinners November 11th (Saturday) 12:00a Demon Slayer: Mugen Train Arc: Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku* 12:30a Demon Slayer: Mugen Train Arc: Deep Sleep* 1:00a Dr. Stone: New World: The Kingdom of Science's Counterattack* 1:30a One Piece: The Fighting Fish Strike! Across the Deadly Iron Bridge!* 2:00a Naruto Shippuden: Ashura and Indra* 2:30a IGPX HD: Time to Shine* thank you, Toonami

Just finished the first series of Yuru camp, for the 3rd time! This is a wonderful slice of life series about a group of high school girls who enjoy camping, and cooking. It has beautiful artwork and animation, and excellent background music as well as a great cast of characters. Rin is such a great character, as is Nadeshiko, put them together and they steal the show! The series has a good storyline and there's some nice subtle humour in both the dialogue and visuals. I mentioned that this is the third time I've watched the series, that's three times within 11 months, so yes, I really like this series.

Rewatching Inuyasha, all the way up to episode 90 now. Anddd still watching Yashahime as well.

Created a stealth assassin build in Fallout 4. Wanted to try a different play-style from my black-ops build. Instead of using guns to sweep through areas, now I get up close and personal with blades and melee weapons. It's pretty challenging in the early game, but the more I level, the better the damage multiplier and stealth perks I can choose from. I find that it's a pretty balanced build though, because if I'm ever discovered by enemies, my character doesn't have a high endurance level, so they can be killed pretty easily without being properly armored if dealing with a lot of enemies at once.

A few shots toward the end of this year. Winter seems to be on the way and we gotta deal with the white stuff soon. Gotta enjoy the warm weather why we can Tornado From a few months ago. Wasn't very strong but very intimidating. Saw it as I was coming over a hill on my way home from work. Some say the bathroom is haunted. Lobby of the Ohio Theater at Playhouse Square Cleveland Ohio Lastly a nice sunrise before we drop into eternal darkness with daylight savings time. Dark when going to work dark when I leave.

I've been practising my anatomy a lot these past few days, and really been trying to focus more on the overall structure of the muscles and torso. The first drawing is one I doodled in English class today, the second one I just finished. I messed up the perspective but overall I'm proud ^^ just a quick warning for a shirtless woman (I'm not 100% if I can post this, so, uh, yippee ig)

So, December has come around again. But what makes this December special is that is it marks the first anniversary of my subscription to Crunchyroll and a having a broadband service fast enough to stream video without buffering every few minutes. One of the big pluses is being able to watch series a few weeks after it aired rather than a few years after it aired, always assuming it even got a UK DVD/Blu-ray release which quite a few series don't get. Over the past 12 months I've watched a huge amount of new anime, some of it very new and some of it rather old but new to me. Quite a lot of the series I've watched I'd never even heard of before I subscribed to CR. The series I watched were a fairly mixed bag, some I thought weren't bad but weren't all that good either, some were quite decent, and others were so good I wanted to watch them again (and I already have for some). But out of all the new series I've watched this year the ones that really stood out for me were, in no particular order: Yurucamp. A Place Further Than the Universe. Chihayafuru. Hyouka. The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten.

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I've heard about that before! Its understandable in some cases, but in this fictional manga, the girl cousin was in high school and the main character was in college when they fell in love (mostly one-sided on the highschooler's part). Although, technically, it was during the epilogue where they were both married adults that it revealed that they were together. So it was a slap to the face when I read the epilogue after such a good read because there were other love interests besides the high school cousin. It kinda came out of nowhere, but then I remembered all of the subtle hints throughout the manga that the highschool girl was interested in her cousin. I didn't think that the mc would return those advances when she became an adult, or whatever happened between the time when the mc graduated from college (last chapter) and the epilogue.

Welcome Hope you find things to interest you here & decide to stick around. Same, I tend to follow 15-20 series weekly & then binge watch 5 or 6 series while the seasons transition. I see Spy x Family on your profile page, so maybe try Buddy Daddies https://myanimelist.net/anime/53411/Buddy_Daddies

Welcome to the Insanity! Enjoy your time here, just watch out for *ducks flying Mi-go*. Dammit! Who keeps opening THAT door?? *chases after the escapee while yelling* Anyways, welcome!

Dinkum Just got the game over the weekend and spent about 4-5 hours on it total. It’s fun — gives Mine Craft and ACNH vibes. A bit slow in the beginning but after that it’s pretty fun. DDLV Spent a few hours on this over the weekend. Tearing apart all of the biomes and redecorating them to get ready for the new DLC. I’m stoked!!

I'm still playing Final Fantasy VIII Remastered on Switch: After collecting more Elnoyle, Trauma, and Jumbo Cactuar cards I've started actually playing cards in Balamb Garden. Since it's still before the Fire Cavern where Squall acquires Ifrit, Quistis is waiting by the Front Gate of the Garden. She'll be waiting quite a while. lol I've collected 2 good cards: MiniMog and Quistis. They definitely make playing cards a lot easier, but for the moment I'm still going after some easy pickings as far as which NPCs I play cards with. A lot of low level cards can be refined into really good items, like Gayla and Tri-Face. That's basically all I'm doing in the game right now since I've collected the 2 of strongest cards I can get at this point until I start playing cards outside of Balamb Garden. To get Zell's card from Ma Dincht though I need Zell in my party, so I clearly can't get it just yet. Using the MiniMog, Quistis, 2 Trauma, and 2 Jumbo Cactuar cards as my total hand in Triple Triad really gives me an edge. I don't like constantly hearing the Triple Triad theme though, so I'm just listening to the music from my iPod while I'm playing the game for now until I'm ready to progress the story.

This time Yura! 逆さ髪（さかさがみ）の結羅 - Yura of the Reverse Hair Kirinmaru 麒（き）麟（りん）丸（まる） The Beast King 獣王, Kagura 神楽 This one features her attack Dance of the Dead しかばねまい. Bankotsu 蛮骨 Barbaric Dragon ばんりゅう

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Hey so I want to have an open conversation about something I think people maybe overlook or try not to think to heavily about, which is what I did for a long time but recently I can’t anymore it’s like my mind unlocked info and now I can’t turn it off. We all know anime has a lot of fan service right? Well usually I can ignore it cause it’s usually just a high-school girl with big boobs and her panties are showing, stereotypical. I’m talking about the other issue. The sexualization of very young girls and or young looking girls. For example, I’m scrolling on a website to read a manga and I come across one with a girl in elementary school flashing her panties and I’m like what is this? I just ignore it but I do want to ask how is it so widely accepted? I know most people see it and go oh god but we also like don’t riot or try and take it down. It’s considered freedom of expression or the argument is “the author isn’t a pedo he likes anime lolis”. It got me to thinking though when manga artists who do draw sexualized anime girls( specifically very young ones) are they using a reference in their head? Do they have a reference of a real life little girl and use her to draw, or is it more they use reference of a made up adult but just makes them smaller in their head, or do they use other loli characters as reference so on and so fourth or do they make up the anime girl completely without any reference whether real or fake. I just couldn’t get it out of my head if they’re using real children as reference to draw whether they use fotos of images in their head of real kids they’ve seen. Even big time anime’s or mangakas will draw young girls flashing their non existent cleavage or showing panties, one good example is Shirō from no game no life. she’s literally 11 but so sexualized. It’s so prevalent in other shows and mangas and they tend to be created by men as well. I love anime and manga, I really do, but I just wanted to get opinions from other people who see this happening as well, how do you cope? Or are you also not coping well. Do you have any more knowledge and insight from artists who do draw loli characters? Are they not using real kids and reference. The problem here to is there will be artists who are creeps and do use real children, I guess I’m talking about the majority of the community that draws that kind of stuff, what do they use as reference if any. Thank you for listening to me ramble, I just feel like this is an important topic and want to talk to other people who either feel the same way I do or who have different opinions or thoughts. :)

Finally got around to detailing my city's walls. I'd wanted to get away from the traditional stone-brick look so I started with white concrete but the huge expanses of flat white walls made it a bit more of a challenge than I was prepared for. I've never been great at making things look good either. It did look a lot better once I got the crenels / merlons on the top and the embrasures in the walls however. I bought a bunch of normal lanterns from the town's librarian and liberally placed those on top as well, then crafted up a bunch of soul lanterns to hang under the merlons. All that distracts enough from the otherwise blank exterior that I think it turned out ok. This being minecraft I'm sure I'll continue tweaking things as new ideas occur to me but at least for now I'm calling it "done". It's functional and looks halfway decent. I also went back to the "Complementary" shader, which resulted in a cool visual while collecting stuff from my allay habitat.

Fall 2023 Nominees Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess (honestly not a fan of the anime, but do like the song)

Yes, that's what I was asking. The movies do try to expand the conclusion a bit more. It seems to me that they've spent the past 20 or so years releasing movies to try and find a proper conclusion to the story.

In Final Fantasy VIII Remastered on Switch I've collected 100 Death Stones from refining 10 Elnoyle cards I got as a rare result from using Card on Bite Bug. Just in case, I've stocked 10 Elnoyle cards for refining into more Death Stones later on in addition to the 10 I've already refined. It turns out if you have 100 cards of the a monster and you use Card on it you get only the rare card result. Not all monsters transform into a rare Card though, like Fastitocalon-F. Unfortunately sometimes Card doesn't work though when that's the case, but that's what the Life magic is for. ^^ One thing about this game I love is the infinite supply of magic you can Draw or refine from items in this game. I've collected 5 Jumbo Cards as the rare transformation of Glacial Eye via the Card ability, too. Right now I'm working on getting 5 Trauma cards from Caterchipillar as the rare result from using Card on it. It's taking a lot longer since Caterchipillar can cast Berserk sometimes with Ultra Waves when its HP is low. You need to reduce a monster's HP first in order to use Card on them to turn them into Triple Triad cards. It's worth it though since the card has some considerable numbers on it, especially this early in the game. ^^ I save after each Caterchipillar encounter so I don't gain any experience points until I absolutely want to. lol Maybe I'm too intimidated by it, but either way, I'd rather not find myself in a situation I regret getting into only to find that I have no way out of it. ><

Finally got back to watching High School DXD. I am early in season two so it is interesting to see a more serious plot play out now. The Holy Swords are cool, Rias is finally fighting seriously, and I can see why Xenovia is so popular now. The pacing of showing off Sacred Gear abilities is all over the place, but I think part of that feels noticeable to me since I took a break for a few months. I just finished the episode revealing Durandal so I am excited to see what happens next as this has already been a multi-episode fight.

Holiday here too but I'm the designated driver responsible for getting this half of the family to the other half for holiday dinner. That's about 1.5hrs one way (depending on Los Angeles freeway traffic) plus dinner itself and a bit of socializing afterward means I'll probably be getting back late and tired so no games for me today. I do have tomorrow off as well tho so maybe some more minecraft or kerbal space program then. Fingers crossed.

Not much time for games lately but I did spend a couple hours exploring an underwater cavern/cave complex in minecraft. Actually it started with finding & looting an ocean ruin looking for suspicious sand & gravel but one of the ruined buildings was down at the bottom of a nearby canyon. One end of the canyon dove underground then opened up into this huge cave complex. Interesting scenery. Got a lot of glow ink sacs, a bunch of copper and iron ore, and even a few diamonds. A few copper bars from the numerous Drowned as well. Unfortunately no more tridents. No armor templates from the ruins either.

Mixed feelings, kinda like a more cartoonish version of Chainsaw Man (more like Soul Eater or My Hero Academia especially visually). I plan to keep watching through the end of the year, then decide about continuing (listed as 2 cours)

Cowboy Bebop

I have still been working through Dark Cloud this weekend. I am close to completing Muska Lacka and will be able to do so tomorrow as long as I do not get stuck on the boss. I received new weapons for Toan and Ruby as well so we are going to be doing good damage in the next area as well.

There's an old saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" . But in one sense I can see where you're coming from. I see posts on here saying how wonderful a series is and I wonder why anyone would want to watch it. I guess it's a case of each to his, or her, own.

Yesterday evening I rewatched the Yuru Camp Movie, which was excellent those girls certainly enjoy their camping, cooking and hot springs! I was also interesting to see them creating a camp site rather than visiting one. I know I've said this before, but I really like it when a movie of a series continues the story rather than does a rehash of the TV series, that always seem to me to be a waste of good a movie production budget. Anyway... After I'd watch the movie I went back to Crunchyroll's home page where I spotted that they'd added Makoto Shinkai's latest film Suzume to their list that very day. So of course this evening I just had to watch it. After Your Name I found Weathering With You a bit of a disappointment, not that I thought it a bad film I just felt it somehow missed the mark. But Shinkai is right back on form with Suzume, it's an amazing film with an engaging storyline, beautiful artwork and animation and a good cast of believable characters. I'm definitely going to get the Blu-ray release of this film.

Welcome to AF Daxter! Have a great time here!

Back to Diamond 2 in Rocket League. Was solo playing today was a struggle and had to carry a few games.

I've been playing Old School Runescape again some more, working on woodcutting and hunter. Going for 90 woodcutting I guess, and 80 hunter at least.

I've started a new game in Final Fantasy VIII Remastered on my Switch. Right now I'm just reading the different sections of the Study Panel in front of Squall when you have control of him in the classroom. I'll get Quezacotl and Shiva, too, but I'm curious what all the different sections in the Study Panel say, so I'm just browsing right now. It's been a while since I started a new game in this, or even played it. I haven't finished it in a long time. A very long time. The last time I played it I used the in-game cheats to make it easier to progress through, but this time I think I'll avoid doing that. A truly enjoyable game is a challenging game.

Welcome Hope you find things to interest you here & decide to stick around

Welcome back to the forum! I must've joined after you left though because I really haven't been here that long, but I've never seen that username before. It's great to meet you! ^^ I hope you can collect all the anime you want to.

Agree with @Animedragon for Rin Shima from Yuru Camp as favorite female character Honorable mention to Amelie (Ameri) Azazel from Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun Favorite Male Character: Saichi Sugimoto from Golden Kamuy For a more detailed explanation https://animeforums.net/topic/14147-favorite-anime-character-deep-and-interesting-topic/?do=findComment&comment=112284

Nice job with the Halloween pic. It's got a cool creepy factor to it.

Made an allay-assisted melon / pumpkin farm. (Also ate some s.)

Please note that the plugin I list doesn't prevent thumbnail ads on the front page, and that video ads are just skipped really fast after popping up on screen. This can be jarring depending on your own personal preferences. In recent news, YouTube has decided that all adblock plugins are no longer kosher. The bastards have gone out of their way to block their video player for any users detected using them. In my testing, it also prevents usage of tracker blockers such as Privacy Badger. This marks yet another degradation of legacy sites most of the world uses on a more than regular basis. YouTube is known for implementing horrible decisions for years, this being the latest in a long line of them. Being a website made in the heyday of mid aughts tech boom, and created in a much less corporatized internet ecosystem, this just marks another die off of legacy users to the site. It also marks a recent trend in legacy web 2.0 sites, which make zero profit from decades of being run under the idea that, one day, hosting thousands of terabytes of data will eventually be profitable. YouTube as a company never made money, from its beginning days to its entire history under Google ownership. These sites thrived through angel investors keeping the doors open under the idea that, because they have such a large userbase of so many people, the site would (eventually) be profitable. A slowdown in receiving investor money in recent years (due to a loss in faith in big tech as a whole) has caused these sites to go into full panic mode and do anything to make as much money as possible in order to bring the investors back. Twitter charging a dollar a year, and Reddit pay walling their API access are further examples of corporate sites ruining user experience for the sake of squeezing a few more dollars out of their user base. Those inclined enough have made work arounds which (at the time of writing) work to prevent further ad bombardment. I, personally, have taken to using RemoveAdblockThing, a plugin for tamper monkey. I also use a plugin which reimplements the dislikes counter. Like I said at the start, however, it only quickly skips through any ads video that pop up, and does not remove thumbnail ads. https://www.tampermonkey.net/ https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com/install This method is the one that works best with me for now. I tested several other methods around and found this one to be the simplest to implement, and results in the most consistent blocking experience. I highly recommend doing research on the topic and finding a method that works best for you, personally. The early implementation of this has left a lot of room for bypassing this, and it will only become more difficult to do so over time.

This magnificent locomotive came thundering through my local station at the weekend hauling a steam excursion from London to Winchester. It's a Southern Railway rebuilt West Country class no.34046 "Braunton". She was built in 1946 at the Southern Railway's Brighton Works and withdrawn from service in 1965 and sent to the scrapyard. She was purchased in 1996 by a heritage railway society and after a major restoration project steamed again in 2007.