Gina Szanboti

And erectile disfunction and cuckoldry. And doggy-style. They may love their metaphors, but they're about as subtle with them as a sledgehammer.

Ha, I just came here myself to say that intro to the OP to Yuru Camp sounds like J-5's "I Want You Back." I expect MJ to break into song every time. "When I had ya to myself, I didn't want you around..."

The kiss in the pic you posted was Ki transferring his power to You to keep him from being dead-dead, like breathing life into him. I don't recall any sex scene between them. But maybe that's because the series goes out of its way to scatter bait around while providing "explanations" for why all the gay stuff is happening but isn't really gay - exactly the kind of shit you're always complaining about. Ki has a female fiance who he'll eventually marry, but Ki's adoptive mother or the clan head or whatever she was was delighted that he got himself a shadow spirit and treated You like his spouse. I'm not telling you not to watch it, I'm just saying I think you'll be throwing things at the screen if you do.

That looks like it could be pretty good. I don't know why Tencent has started letterboxing its anime lately. Is that some kind of concession to 4K (which I didn't think had different aspect ratio from 1080)? Is it to try to make it seem more cinematic?

I think you'd really hate it, mochi. Despite flagrant bait scenes as per your post, they really emphasize that they're just spirit buddies, and not gay. I.e., their lives are literally connected, but in an I-love-ya-bro kinda way. On the other hand, I thoroughly enjoyed it for its unabashed stupidity. It was completely unpredictable (because no one behaves rationally and no plot twist is foreshadowed at all) and easy on the eyes (if terrible animation doesn't make you go blind). I usually got several good laughs an episode, and Ki (the silver-haired bishie) randomly spitting up blood to punctuate his sentences never got old. It's sort of the animated version of those old dime-budget sword & sorcery chop-socky drive-in movies from the 70s, with more sorcery and less socky. Especially toward the end where they sort of ran out of plot, so they kept piling on new perils every scene to try to stretch things out. The last few episodes were like watching little kids fight in a mud pit. One slips and falls and seems down for the count, another one crawls over to take advantage but slips and falls on him, and a third one piles on, only to have the first one squirm out from under and resume throwing mud everywhere, don't rinse, do repeat, several times until everyone is too tired to move. Good times.

I've heard good things about "What Did You Eat Yesterday?" by Fumi Yoshinaga (Antique Bakery). It's about a gay lawyer who's pretty closeted living with his openly gay lover, and his main way of showing his love that he has trouble expressing in words (because of all the things he's constantly stressing over) is to cook good food for him. Lots of actual, good recipes included! It's pretty long (11 volumes as of now - I'm not sure if it's complete yet or not), but there's a lot of character growth and changes if you're patient. E.g., by Vol. 10 he's confronting his unaccepting parents where he's completely incapable of doing so in Vol. 1 (ok, so it took him 30 years, better late than never. ;)). I've not read it myself yet, but as I said, reviews are positive, and I love Yoshinaga's artwork.

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It was also mentioned at the end of the last episode that she has some European genetics in there somewhere. I.e., you're not the only one who's noticed she doesn't look typically Japanese.

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Are you on Firefox on a Mac by any chance? I just found out today that the newer versions are designed not to play .swf and some flash files on Macs. There used to be a work-around, but they plugged that too. All this time I had just assumed it was because all my software is out of date - turns out it's the opposite. You can play it on Safari though.

Well, I just bought everything in the store. Cashed in a gift certificate and still spent a ton. And I didn't even pre-order YOI yet, in case a mega-deal shows up tomorrow. Picked up both Yona of the Dawn sets, Ergo Proxy, Nichibros, Casshern Sins, BBB (I really would've rather had the CE, because I really hate the cover pic on the std box, but couldn't justify an extra $15 for a pretty box and some cards I'll never look at), Ajin, Barakamon, Handa-kun, Haikyuu!!! 2 and Joker Game. >.<" I just hope the PO doesn't lose the whole shipment like they did the last time I ordered a mass quantity.

Kenshin.

It's really sad when you realize that the home Nanachi made for them, the doorway to Mitty's room, and even Nanachi's helmet all look like Mitty. T.T

Does anyone know when the last day of tsri's 30 Days of Christmas is? I need to get to ordering, but I keep thinking they'll throw up a Mega Deal I want at the last minute or something.

hack helped make me what I am today. It was the 2nd series I bought on DVD, after Bebop. Now here I am, thousands of dollars later, perusing rightstuf's holiday sales...

Well, lots of continuations and sequels (Magus Bride, Yowapeda, Saiki K., Overlord, March Lion, Dagashi Kashi, Garo, Gintama, Osomatsu-san, Food Wars, Touken Ranbu). I don't see Violet Evergarden on your list and that looks like it should be really amazing to look at, if nothing else, but the plot looks interesting too. Beatless could be good, depending on if they go for the maudlin or the philosophical. Gakuen Babysitters could be a cute comedy or utter trash. Even if few of the new entries pan out, I'll still have plenty of 2nd cour/season stuff to watch. elfie, I don't know how you got through this season watching only 2 shows. Children of the Whales, Ancient Magus Bride, MMO Junkie, and Girls' Last Tour have all been wonderful, and even Garo is turning out to be pretty decent. I'm also loving the hell out of Blood, Block and Beyond and Hoozuki no Reitetsu 2 (this one's an acquired taste, I suppose) and I hear Houseki no Kuni (the one about the genderless gem people that mostly look like women) is great, though I shelved it to avoid dealing with all the political issues in just talking about it. Weirdly, that's an issue in Kino's Journey as well, but c'est la vie. This version is so mediocre, it doesn't much matter to me.

For clarity, I'm just making a new post instead of making the previous one even longer. If you insert a video link and say "yep, go ahead and embed it," I can't see any way to edit the link (say, for start time) after that. However, if you say, "wait, let me edit that link first," there doesn't seem to be any way to make it embed the video thereafter. I tried deleting it and re-pasting it, nope, still a hyperlink. I tried canceling the post and starting over, but as long as it was the same link as I'd used previously (i.e., the corrected version that I now wanted embedded), still hyperlink. I shouldn't have to clear the cache or cookies to tell it to embed a link I previously asked it not to. Or, if I could edit the link after embedding, I wouldn't have to tell it not to. Let me change my mind, dammit!!

Yes, that helps, and I used that when I quoted in my previous message and this one. However, note the "..." in the quote: This one wasn't too hard since I only cut a few words. But if I want to say, cut out several sentences in the middle of a paragraph, there's no way to just select the text I want in one quote if I want to excise text that detracts from the essence of what I'm replying about. I can highlight it in the quote box to see approximately where the text is that I want to cut out, but I have to super magnify the screen to actually edit the text since the highlighting goes away as soon as you position the cursor, and editing becomes a game of hide and seek. Drag the cursor...now let's see what's behind the curtain as I slowly draw it back! Btw, this is how your post looks on Firefox on my Mac (quote and preview to see how it looks on a desktop? I guess?): And this is how longer names end up:

Rank colors? What are these rank colors you speak of? Everyone's name is white to me. In gigantic font. And when I'm saying a font is gigantic, you know it's yooooj. Like 20pt, which is bigger than a breadbox. 16pt should be the max. Why is quoted text so dark in the reply pane? I can barely see to edit it to the relevant text. It would also be nice if the text within spoiler tags was just hidden, rather than separating it out into a whole line with a big white box around it. I mean sometimes you just want to hide one word or a phrase, and tagging it wrecks the whole layout. Do I need to get rid of the gif in my sig? I would prefer more control of the leading between lines, but that's out of my hands. I like the gif, but if it's too much, I'll ax it. I'm keeping the quotes though.

For the record, what's being dubbed is the 4-episode 2012 reboot (originally slated for 13 episodes, that was never finished), not the two OVAs you got the image from. It's not very good, certainly not as good as the original OVAs. For some reason this is a property that no one seems to be able to translate to the screen in full. Again, the 1992/94 version did a really good job, given the short run time they had to work with (some of the images, like the one above, are stunningly beautiful), but it left out half the story and rearranged some things and glossed over most of the horrors of their society. It also had Kaneto Shiozawa and Toshihiko Seki as Iason and Riki, and you can't beat that. At least the LNs finally got a complete re-release. The translation is terrible though - a lot of it reads like a 9th grader's fan fiction. Maybe Yoshihara really is that bad of a writer, but if she is, I doubt she'd ever have gotten published. Plus the later volumes aren't as awful as the first and had different translators, so I'm pretty sure it's the translation that's at fault more than Yoshihara. Also, I have yet to read a synopsis (outside of the wiki) of this that gets the plot right. The only slaves in the society are the "pets" and "furniture" who are viewed as so sub-human that "slave" wouldn't apply any more than you think of a horse as a slave. Status and job classifications are indicated by hair color, but the Blondies are artificial humans created by a super-computer AI to run everything. Everyone else is tank-grown to fill their niches. The pets are genetically engineered to be sex toys and pretty much have the IQ of a smart dog with language added. Then there are the "mongrels," the descendants of earlier rebels against Jupiter (the computer) who got exactly what they demanded: complete freedom and independence from the city-state of Tanagura. Exiled to Ceres, they have no citizenship papers and therefore no commerce with Tanagura or Midas (which they can't even legally enter), so the economy, like the inhabitants, is totally dead-end and dependent on the black market. There's a whole lot more going on with the politics between Ceres, Tanagura and Midas than either of the OVAs could get into, and it's both fascinating and ugly. Mongrels are not pets, which is why Iason keeping Riki as one is such a taboo, along with his keeping him for so long. You don't bring a mongrel dog to an AKC show, and you certainly don't sleep with it. Furniture are sort of like uber-butlers, and are in actuality castrated , which only a few Blondies like Iason are aware of. Obviously all that is more than would be in a synopsis, but at least they could write one up that got right the plot points it does mention.

The musical intros to both of these sound very similar, even if the whole songs don't.

The problem with Gangsta was that it just stopped abruptly after they'd just started a new arc due to lack of source material (and hiatuses plaguing that too), with no likelihood of it ever continuing. I gave ReLife some love, but 91 Days and Joker Game are worth watching too.

Only two of the guys were really trying to get with Haruhi, Tamaki and later Hikaru Hitachiin. Plus one guy, Ritsu, who wasn't part of the Host Club. Only Tamaki ever had a chance. Both Hikaru and Ritsu fell for her because she was the first person to treat them as individuals (well, Tamaki was technically the first for the twins, but even he couldn't tell them apart, unlike Haruhi), not because they just took a look and got all doki-doki. She was more of a learning experience for the three who were interested (Tamaki couldn't even grasp that he was in love with her - instead casting himself as her surrogate father), than she was a genuine love interest. For everyone else, she was just their friend and cherished colleague. Ouran is a great show, and it still holds up. It's far from a typical reverse harem series, and actually parodies many of the genre's tropes. I recommend anyone but Mochi giving it another shot, because it's still somewhat a product of its time, and I'm sure he'll hate on Haruhi's actual father, who is great, but not gay. (why is the quote feature rendered nearly invisible? It's really hard to edit it down to the relevant part when you can barely make out the text)

That's because it was a completely different kind of intrusion. As I understand it, Crunchyroll got intercepted via Cloudflare (which is unsettling, since Cloudflare is supposed to be the anti-hack proxy gateway designed precisely to prevent this sort of thing), while the ANN hack was because a live-chat rep at Macdonald's phone provider let the hacker transfer his number to a new SIM card without proper credentials, which opened the door to their being able to transfer ownership of ANN's DNS registry, as well as access ANN-related Twitter accounts to send threatening tweets to get @anime and @ANNZac's accounts deleted (Twitter gave the @anime acct. back, but refused to restore Zac's.). Working through the bureaucracy to get the registry back was much more difficult than stealing it in the first place, which may or may not make sense (it should be at least equally difficult to transfer it). So patching up a Cloudflare breach was orders of magnitude easier than rectifying an unauthorized registry transfer to a foreign country (Hong Kong, China).

No, no, I was talking about back in Aug when they did get hit.