PokeNirvash

Good... Six more discussion threads to go.

To trigger you. But seriously, after first seeing that comic, I toyed around with the idea of photoshopping Asta into the last panel because of the whole nun fetish thing. I temporarily scrapped it after I couldn't find an image of him tearing off his shirt while striking a pose - the image of him I used was the closest thing I could find - but after last episode more or less implied he also has a bit of an S&M fetish (see: him asking Sister Lily to water-punch him a second time), I decided to bite the bullet and finally make that image. As for why it's the header, that's because the people who usually make the episode discussion threads are really fucking lazy this week for some strange unexplained reason, and since that screwed over my plan to post it in the thread that, I dunno, Ben would've made instead, I decided to make the thread myself, putting the image in like I would have anyways.

Beats me. As mentioned above, the only guess I can come up with is that everyone else got collective amnesia.

Yeah, I bought out one of Toonami's timeslots for this sweet custom rank. Why do you ask? >_> 11:00 - My Hero Academia #75 - Unforeseen Hope - TV-14V 11:30 - Dr. Stone #22 - The Treasure - TV-PGLV 12:00 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #4 - Dark Territory - TV-MAV 12:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #15 - Mount Natagumo - TV-MAV 1:00 - Food Wars! The Second Plate #4 - The Pursuer - TV-14LS (!) 1:30 - Black Clover #104 - Lightning of Rage vs. Friends - TV-PG 2:00 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind #13 - Man in the Mirror Mirror Man and Purple Haze Purple Smoke - TV-MALV 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #283 - Two Suns - TV-PGV 3:00 - The Promised Neverland #6 - 311045 - TV-14V 3:30 - Attack on Titan #13 - Primal Desire: The Struggle for Trost, Part 9 - TV-14LV Finally, an episode without a female foodgasm.

LAST TIME ON BLACK CLOVER ASTA'S FETISH COUNT: 2 Also, where the hell are the other episode threads? Did everyone just forget to do them this week or what?

How does it feel to be a raging pessimist? I prefer the anime version, personally. Full-body catsuits are one of my fetishes, and fleshtone breasts without nipples just look weird.

Oh yes, that. That was painful and unfunny and prompted me to never watch another episode of Machinabridged. Easily one of their lowest moments.

Interspecies Reviewers is the Madoka of our generation.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh He also ran into Uraraka and got his muttering chewed out by Iida before he even got a glimpse of Aoyama's navel laser.

I'm not too surprised by this, not after they stabbed the audience's back by suddenly cancelling Bojack Abridged. Guess my theory that they were gonna do a shorter-form abridgement of it as a service to the fans as an April Fools' Day video just went up in smoke. Still, it was a good run. A longer run than necessary, but a good one.

Ohhhhhhh. I must've forgotten about that line. Whoops.

So I was browsing /co/ tonight and took a look inside a nomination thread for a little competition they're holding to see which Western animation industry individual is the biggest douche, fittingly named after the South Park episode "Biggest Douche in the Universe". And guess which two anime VAs got "nominated" back-to-back? I disagree with both of these for various reasons - Blum is far from being a douche no matter his political retweets, and I can't just bring myself to dislike Monica no matter her purported actions during the whole Mignogna incident - but for both these posts to be next to one another is pretty interesting, considering they're [as]/Toonami anime dub stalwarts. But mostly, it's because they're the headcanon VAs for two of my favorite OCs and this coincidential sequencing was too good to pass over.

Uh... no? Where'd you get that idea?

So it was more of a high-level metaphorical threesome, then. Gotcha.

RESPONSE FORUM #2: THE OTHER ENTRIES @GunStarHero For the last place prize, your story was pretty fun, even though yeah, I can see why it got last place. But at least you acknowledged the prompts instead of discarding half of them outright like the below entrant. I really liked some of the wordplay in your descriptions, especially this sentence: "The Hellevator began to shake, rattle, but thank the spirits, it did not roll." And the ending was delightful absurdity, the kind of Kill 'em All ending that doesn't make the audience feel like shit. Take notes, Saikano! @SwimModSponges This was definitely a strange one, so strange it didn't even follow half the prompts! (No mention of threesomes, a missing "wow", etc.) But all in all, I can see why your works are decently regarded here. Your somewhat nameless story read like a segment from The Shivering Truth, though the whole scene where the reader gets beaten by their colleagues for the actions taken by the scab covering his shift felt more like a non-sequitur from Xavier: Renegade Angel. I'd pay money to see a claymation adaptation of that in the show. Maybe you could sell your script to Vernon Chatman and hope that accomplishment comes to pass, or don't. Like the outcome of a Shakashuri Blowdown, it's entirely up to you. @Chapzilla_2000 I don't know what possessed me to picture Frank as a guy in his late 20's with facial hair instead of a hairless twink in his early 20's (I blame the name "Frank"), but that's probably the result of the slippery slope that led me to finding this attractive. (I know, I'm not proud of it either...) But I'd have to say this story was the best of the bunch, in regards to adherence to the prompt. I'd say it even surpasses mine, since you managed to fit in at least three different characters and two settings while allowing the story to flow smoothly, unfortunate climax included, and still keep it under the max word limit. What would you say to us doing a collab one of these days? It doesn't have to be immediate - especially with no less than five examinations looming over my head in the coming two-month period - but it's something to think about.

Here's how it's going down: Feb 22, we lose 11PM and MHA breaks for one week while Dr. Stone finishes up. Then Feb 29, MHA returns to replace Dr. Stone and we lose the 3AM reruns. Like when we got KLK, we're back to 3.5 hours by the end of this month. I highly advise that you not use this schedule downtick to rage about the continued lack of Mob II.

RESPONSE FORUM #1: THE JUDGES Let's start with the elephant in the room (though really, it's more a miniature elephant than anything). @mthor, your thoughts are about where I expected (and feared) at least one of them to be based on the feedback from two years ago. I feel my previous effort failed because I focused on too many characters and settings within a word limit that couldn't accommodate all of them in an adequate fashion. I felt limiting the action to two characters and a single setting would be an improvement - given the 5 score and your initial expectations, I feel I succeeded there - so it's somewhat disappointing to hear that the characters were bland and/or predictable. But hey, better boring than terrible, I say. When I wrote Ash's demise, I wrote it as if he didn't know eating the scarab would kill him straight away after a brief surge of power, though considering his inner turmoil, that alternate interpretation could work, and that sort of thing is why I enjoy getting feedback on things, almost to the point of being a junkie for it. (A lot like Ash!) As for my misuse of the word "Scotch" as an adjective, I was inspired to use that instead of "Scot" or "Scottish" by the Garth Marenghi episode "Scotch Mist", or alternately that one summer adventure game on Cartoon Network's website where Edd described Scotch Tape as hailing from Scotland. But most importantly, "Scotch Storm" just sounds cool. Finally, I'll take that Bulwer-Lytton comment as a compliment; I've occasionally browsed through and read previous winning entries as of late, and getting to be one of them would actually be quite the accomplishment, like getting last place in a party ranking on purpose. (92nd out of 100 will have to do, and that's fine by me.) Overall, your opinion is subjectively disappointing, but objectively understandable. So in short, the same as all the negative opinions of things I like, but more "meh" than "boo", which in itself is worthy of respect. Next up, @PhilosipherStoned. Not a whole lot to say here - there's always a relative abundance of words when you're stepping up to defend your work, which is one reason I suck at defending others' work, especially when the opposing party refuses to acknowledge that I can be interpreted as right by others, but I digress - but I appreciate the compliments towards physical and character-based world-building. I fear I might have wasted too many words on the place setting, but when I write, I write to help the reader visualize what's being read to them. This means describing the characters' appearances and their surroundings clearly and concisely enough for them to interpret it both my way and in their own way. Classic literature is terrible at that, which is why I zone out when reading it. My entry wasn't like the anime-styled stories I normally cook up and occasionally write, but my style from that category seeped into here, and I'm glad to hear that it did so enough for me to get your seal of approval. The character development compliments were very nice too! Who says someone has to be either one thing or another? It's perfectly fine if they're both! And of course, @GuyBeardmane points out the core criterion on which these works were judged: the fusion of the required elements. While I can't say I played out numerous scenarios in my head concerning how this shit was gonna go down, the idea of "purchasing drugs in exchange for getting consensually NTRed" was very much prominent, too prominent for me to pass up! The negotiation breakdown resulting from it being a devil's threeway was, I felt, the perfect fusion of those two elements. The "whose line is it anyway" requirement was the toughest piece to place, but once I got into the gist of writing the story, to the point of knowing exactly where I wanted to go, I figured out where and when to place it. The arrangement of the elements was easily the most fun part of the writing process - outside of writing some of Ian's dialogue like a Scot outside Scotland would say it - and I like to believe my success there got me the brunt of the points. The story was admittedly self-contained, but the way I ended it, it could potentially serve as a pilot script for a story series following the Scotch Storm as he deals with the various junkies he deals to and their wide range of personalities, with Ash serving as a key example of just how crazy it gets without pushing too much of the audience away. If I ever get around to revisiting this "microverse", as you so succinctly put it, I might make good on that "pilot" promise. Maybe then we'll finally get to see the Scotch Storm's hidden badass that we all know he has. Also, to the last-minute mystery judge who didn't get their feedback in on time, thanks for taking the time to read my work, and I hope you enjoyed it along the same spectrum the above three did. Thoughts on the other story entries coming even later.

Oh wow... I wasn't really expecting the outcome to turn out this way, but first place and an average score of 8/10? That's something to be proud of. Guess my silver-medal placements in the last two casual online writing contests I entered really paid off! It's a little early in the morning for me to really go in-depth with return responses, but I'll be sure to let the judges know what I think about what they think later today. Until then, thank you for the feedback, and I hope the rest of you enjoy my story to some degree, even if it winds up being ultimately ironic. Oh, and as for hosting Volume 3? I'd be honored to, though it may be a while before I announce the kickoff. Definitely a year at least.

Japanese broadcast on-screen text? Holy shit that's an old video.

That scene was just one of several reasons why Inuyashiki is my favorite anime of 2017.

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 5

The Virgin "Bending the Knee" vs. the Chad Genuflection.

Ryuk for President 2020.