I knew I liked them for a reason other than they fit a criteria of women I'd like to date, they get attacked from both right and left like the gamers, men and autists..

Going on from this video from Dev, there seems to a weird attack on them from the more 'manosphere' right where they are saying it's gay to like tomboys (because it's emasculating going out with a woman that works out or likes to help in men roles)

This is weird as on the flip side we have the very known left angle where they basically see tomboys and to a degree femboys as not fully transed and we need to cut their tits off to make them men

Both sides are equally retarded..

It's weird as on the one side, I think they're attacked by the left because tomboys prefer the company of men beyond a purely sexual relationship so are more inclined to be on their side and on the right I'm guessing it's because they aren't the submissive trophy wives they're supposed to be??

It's a weird horseshoe, just let the tomboys hang out with men and quit trying to doll them up or maim them..

Yep that time of the year, you know how it goes, I'm one guy so haven't watched everything and some things just aren't for me so feel free to mention ones I miss, go into detail about the ones I mention or if you think Disney and DC do it better currently, without futher adou:

Actually I read the Manga

My Instant death ability is overpowered: I'd actually stick to the manga for this one. The anime isn't bad but they've skipped A LOT that misses out how truly broken he is like killing an interdimensional monster that can ear realities or literally killing judgement day that heaven surrendered.

The good shit

Shangri-la Frontier season 2: Holy shit do FZMZ know how to make a good intro. The majority of this season is just ONE boss fight but fucking hell does this boss make a FromSoftware look nice! Still highly recommended

Mashle Season 2: so happy this is back, especially with an MC who's solution is basically apply punching till the problem is solved. While the outro is good I DARE YOU not to not to bop to the intro!

Solo Levelling: THEY DIDN'T FUCK IT UP! In fact they seem to be adding here and there to improve it, similar to Bleach TYBW. I would add the intro to your gaming playlist if you gotta get your grind on.

The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: this one caught me by surprise, fantasy in a world of magic and labyrinths, a low ranked adventurer finds a secret path, runs into a dragon, dies but comes back as an undead. It's really good, got great pacing, character development and a solid intro and a very somber, melodic outro

Classroom of the Elite S3: welcome back to a series with more head games than an ex with schizophrenia. Even the intro tries to put you in your place!

Aquired taste

Tsukimichi Moonlit fantasy S2: the goddess in this makes me appreciate Aqua more... not only did she ditch our boy on his looks, she then kidnapped a girl with a princess complex and a bully victim now thanks to his power rapist tyrant to be heroes instead! Fortunately our MC is getting more powerful naturally he might be able to bitch slap her personally soon..

Villainess level 99: I may be the hidden boss but I'm not the demon lord: another villianess story but told if WE were there as you know we'd power gain the SHIT out of an isekai world!

Banished from the Hero's Party S2: I liked this series for it's slow pace but deep character development and in season 2 we see how Ruti COULD have ended up if she didn't have her brother!

First impressions, didn't really have time to consistently watch but gave episode 1 a view

Gushing over magical Girls: Our girl lives in a world with magical girls protecting her city, dreams to be one, when a magical mascot offers her powers she accepts only to turn out it was for the bad guys and she has some S&M/bondage kinda powrs! There is an uncensored verson...

Brave Bang Braven: I'm kinda annoyed I DIDN'T watch this consistently, its like if JoJo went mecha! Over the top bravado, over the top fights, a soundtrack the CHARACTERS hear playing constantly, it's just fun.

That's my list as already did over 3000 words lol, Honorable mention to Blue Exorcist and The wrong way to use healing magic, just ran out of time so on watch later list.

On the it's alright side, The Strongest tank's labyrinth Raids and Hokkaido Gald are super adorable. They aren't bad, but it's something you can watch in the background than dedicated viewing.

Anyway, enjoy discussing your favourites or any I missed, I'm going to catch up on Brave Bang Braven as I feel like I did it a disservice putting it off!

Making this mostly because I saw this trailer which is the third game this year I'd actually WANT to play and this video from Arch on how because the games being made are all grey goo (sorry, 'quadruple A') they are losing not just to indies but DECADE old evergreen games like GTA V.

Between the constant woke stories and characters, the piss poor game mechanics and the insistence to be 'live service games' I can't tell if it's deliberate sabotage or they were so reliant on ESG that they forgot how to make a game FOR PROFIT.

And a lot of these games COULD be fixed with mods but thanks to the war on non-narrative modders, a lot of them remain a pile of shit. It's why Fallout 4 still has an active playerbase and Starfield is largely forgotten.

I think 2024, we will see at least ONE major studio fall and a ton of cope articles saying 'gaming isn't as popular' while these guys might make the next hit allowing us to drive a Toyota into medieval knights..

I got inspiration for the title from this as given the structural issues within companies due to mismanagement, DEI and ESG pandering this might become a series in 2024..

There was a post preciously on this but in the past 2 days even more shit has happened that this train wreck deserves to be looked at more. To save the word limit I'll give 3 types of breakdowns to choose from for the current situation:

The more outsider friendly explanation of Critikal

The more indepth and updating videos of FalseeyeD, Rev says desu and Khyo

The spastic and autistic yelling of 4chan narrated by a parrot

That out of the way the latest dealings seem to be that there are third party sycophants attacking Doki to defend Nijisanji. It's hard to know if they're doing it for free like Reddit jannies or if they are paid actors in some respects whether literally or figuratively (by access). They're getting destroyed by community notes alone so not a big deal. But something that made this blow up again is that Doki had TWO suicide attempts with the second stopped after her parents spent hours searching for her along with her termination came 2 hours after her lawyer contacted them regarding the 'infamous' document.

I think minimum, Nijisanji EN branch might go, collectively they've lost over 200,000 subs, their stock price is down by more than 15% while Doki is over 550,000 subs in just a week! The more damming statement was from their CEO himself where he admitted they haven't managed the EN branch at all. I don't know how much this'll affect the Japanese branch which is their main money maker but they'll not be able to rival Hololive again after this (unless it turns out Hololive does human trafficking).

The biggest surprise is how many sponsors, game makers and merchandise companies have left contracts or refused to work with Nijisanji after this, some even hinting at future collaboration with Doki instead.

We've heard A LOT this year (and it's only been a month!), we may need to conscript for a war with Russia! Not enough people are joining the military so we may need to look at conscription! If you don't give your mortgage to Ukraine we may need to conscript you and those you love...

In my opinion, it's all bullshit fear mongering. The last time America did conscription during Vietnam, It caused a LOT of 'friendly fire' incidents against officers or those in higher ranks above the conscripted while the loss of Vietnam basically made conscripting unwilling Americans political suicide. Since then the normies are either too jaded to be patriotic to the elites under the guise of 'national defense' to be conscripted or too weak that they'll likely turn on anyone trying to force them to fight so send them to war against Russia....they'll just mass surrender to the Russians giving them all their equipment too.

Just feels like an extremely desperate play by wielding conscription as a threat as then everyone realises there currently isn't enough military TO conscript the current populations and even then how many of them are loyal enough to the elites to conscript civilians?

3 episodes into Solo Levelling and looks like they haven't screwed up the adaptation (unlike Crunchyroll's webtoon attempt) and the rumours that Omniscient Reader may be getting an anime too, seems it's the new goldmine for source materials (as reference, Manga=Japanese, Manwha=Korean)

Thought it'd be something light plus it's good to know unlike Hollywood, Anime doesn't need constant reboots to make new media.

Starting with most likely to get an anime:

Mercenary enrollment/Teenage Mercenary: this one seems like an easy choice, popular, got great characters and lots of action scenes to work with.

Solo farming in the Tower: with success of campfire cooking and Isekai Nonbiri Nouka people really seem to love chill stories like this.

Reincarnation of the Suicidal Battle God: this one also seems a good choice for all the action and the edgy story

Reality Quest: I can see this being picked up for the wish fulfillment angle of bullied gamer becomes badass through a gamer quest mechanic similar to Solo levelling.

Manwha I'd like to see get an anime:

The Knight King Who Returned With a God: I'd like this as it's actually a positive take on faith plus the main character is a cross between King Arthur and Doom Slayer.

Devil Returns to School Days: this one is more for how fucked up the mc is and story can get, kid is put into a coma for years thanks to bullying attack, listens all that time to the his world crumbling around him and regresses to just as the bullying starts to get revenge. Would love to see this animated especially what happens to the person that instigated the bullying on him.

Return of the Mad Demon: as before, would love to see this animated just for how crazy the MC is and how funny his actions can be.

Ones I have reservations being turned into anime:

Lookism: it's a great fucked up story that is just getting more fucked up, wait let me check......yeah it's cults again and a suicide, still fucked up but i don't think it'll translate well in an anime.

The Greatest Estate Developer: this one is for two reasons, 1. Is there is a difference between the original web noval and the Manwha adaptation which i think is WAY funnier and 2. I don't know if they'll capture the emotions as well in animation between the funnier parts and the more somber parts, if it were to be done I think they'd have to approach it a little like Stein's Gate.

unOrdinary: set in a world where many have powers, it's a good story but I worry they'll have to skip the character developments that take A LONG time to adapt it.

So that's a few I'd like to see in the future, hopefully Solo Levelling is such a success we see more of these adaptations done justice, we now just need the Japanese to fuck more so we can get more animators!

What a way to start the New Year, hopefully this isn't a repeat of 2011 but looks like they had 30 earthquakes in quick succession, a tsunami has already hit the northern areas but seems lessons have been learned and people got out quick. And props to the engineers as this is the footage in my feed right now, they really know how to build to resist earthquakes.

Update: as of now around 60 quakes have been recorded, the largest being 7.6 magnitude.

Update 2: had this video from Hero Hei showcasing more footage including a scary one of the effect on rivers. One thing that is disturbing is people are posting fake or non existent addresses hampering rescue attempts. It's unknown if this is malicious, panic of the event or people getting mixed up as there are apparently people just reposting clips of old events like 2011 but should be taken note of.

Take the time today to enjoy yourselves, whether that's with family, friends, pets or just watching some classic Christmas films if the above not an option.

I know this is low hanging fruit (like the assests of many of the women causing the issue) but thought it would be a light subject to bring attention to and wait for the incoming train...

I was watching this video about the current state if Twitch after the TOS debacle. It's so bad that they are naked with literal black bars covering them and the just chatting page is full of thots.

So I did an experiment with my own Twitch account, went onto just chatting and sure enough, lots of topless thots on display and twerking streams BUT a significant thing to mention, this was it filtered to Recommended for you and their viewer figures are abysmal being on average 700 viewers. Sargon gets more viewers than that when he streams. There does seem to be a higher viewership with the Asian thots but then they also seem to not just stare at the camera like a cow chewing grass all day.

I then switched the filters to view count only and bam! All topless and twerking thots erased, it actually became more male dominated with podcasts, IRL streaming at a certain location and Vtubers.

So this is the part that puzzles me, why PUSH the thot content when it isn't as popular as someone just walking around, is drawing the attention of app stores (since you're meant to be 13+), advertisers and more troubling payment processors like Mastercard and Paypal for Chaterbate rejects? This WILL eventually cause some kind of withdrawal by advertisers maybe even app stores which will draw in Amazon who wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice Twitch to ensure THEY aren't affected.

Do the want Kick and Youtube to surpass them in streaming or are they all grossly incompetent to manage anything? I don't really care as I'm preparing popcorn for the car crash but it's was funny finding out that sex DOESN'T ALWAYS sell, depends on the source a lot of the time.

I just finished watching the 3 episodes of Reacher and the final season of Jack Ryan. Which leaves me more confused at the state of show production at Amazon.

Reacher so far has been great, he's not ever belittled or sidelined for a woman to take the spotlight (in fact his nickname is 'the big guy' and a running joke is not to mess with him as he'll hit you like a freight train)

Jack Ryan was more questionable in the beginning, first season was good in proof of concept though that UAV pilot sidestory was unnecessary, 2nd season was weakest with Venezuela. 3rd season really improved from secret Soviet Union plots, using NATO to bait WW3, coup and false flag nukes. 4th season that I just watched would probably be something everyone here would like since the bad guys are NGOs using their fame as cover to run drug, exploitation and terrorist operations with the help of corrupt US officials in Government and CIA. Then we have something like Invincible too which haven't caught the second season yet but heard it's good.

Now I try to counter that with something like Rings of Power or the Wheel of Time and now you get where I'm confused. How can a company that can bring an audience to niche franchises flop SO hard with established well known franchises? The reason I'm MORE concerned than ever is because of this that there finally seems to be movement on a 40k production with Cavill as a producer but if the same people that did Rings of Power are involved, this might be used to bring in the worst thing imaginable: Female space marines..

Is it just which team is working on it as it sounds like after Rings of Power, that team has been largely demoted or how the contracts for adaptation are in place? I've not watched Netflix ever since Cuties was on there but they seem to be sticking a lot closer to the author's intentions with things like One Piece and Quiet on the Western front and been more successful for it so is that the main thing to look out for?

Sorry for long post just TDLR; trying to know how Amazon makes stuff so I know if 40k gets Rings of Power treatment or is actually good.

Well it's the end of the year, as everything else in Western media crashes and burns, Anime really is hitting it's stride. There was SO much quality this season that I don't have any to say were awful because I didn't have enough time to watch everything I WANTED to watch.

Quick disclaimer from that, this is only of things I've watched, so if it's not mentioned I haven't caught up or watched it like Jujitsu Kaisen, I'm far behind on it that I only mention it here. Without further ado:

The 'Actually I read the Manga list':

My Daughter left the nest and returned an S-Rank Adventurer: comparing this to what I read, it's a very well done adaptation. A former adventurer who loses his leg to a demon, finds a baby in the woods and raises her as his own. NO usagi drop, completely wholesome daughter/father relationship with lots of positive male role model vibes. Great intro too

Returner's Magic Should be Special: a regression story not an isekai, at the point of losing our MC regresses in time to change events. I'm slightly disappointed with this adaptation, not for the slow story as there's A LOT to cover, 12 episodes not enough but some of the animation and especially CGI is VERY budget.

I'm in love with the Villainess: starts off standard isekai villianess trope, only the mc who's getting picked on has two qualities, she's gay (she says so herself in ep3) and has masochistic tendencies so bullying turns her on! Would recommend as not your average yuri and the intro is a great duet of the two main leads

The standouts for me this season:

Shangri-la Frontier: GOD THIS ANIME IS GOOD! From the op that goes HARD, the comedy, action, all of it. A trash gamer addict decides to play a 'god game' MMO and gets accidentally wrapped up in a hidden quest line. Just watch it especially if you're a gamer!

Eminence in Shadow S2: such a good return to form, comedy and action on point and Delta is my waifu this season, for her personality.....and MASSIVE 'plot'

Frieren Beyond Journey's End: this one is fantastic but heavy, a party finishes their quest against the demon lord and we follow the elf and how fleeting things can be when you naturally live a longer life. Recommend if you have a partner or pet to have them close to cuddle for the first episode alone.

Dr Stone: New World cour 2: They REALLY hit it out of the park this cour, fantastic villain, great character moments, Senku being a mastermind badass and some good terrifying reveals, highly recommend.

100 girlfriends that really (x5) love me: this took the place of Girlfriend, Girlfriend of my dumb comedy for the season, guy who's been rejected 100 times prays to god for love, unfortunately, God's an idiot and he's been soulmated with 100 girls and if any are rejected, they might die early. Funny moments and we even have Oyakodon already!

Goblin Slayer S2: great opening it's NEVER going to be as brutal as the first episode but it's still quite up there, plus Priestess commits her first War Crime!

Death Mount Dead Play cour 2: It's unfortunate but I feel like this dropped off for many watching this wgen we have more reveals and action, recommend it if you've forgotten about it.

Spy Family season 2: it starts slow, more slice of life but kicks up to form with the Ship arc, highly recommend it still

The Faraway Paladin: Lord of Rust Mountain: REALLY good especially if you are into D&D for how their magic system works, highly recommend it just be aware it likes to build suspense a lot so slow paced.

The Rising of the Shield Hero S3: It improved A LOT over season 2 and we now have new reasons to hate Bitch/Slut again

That'll be it for the list, Honorable mention for The Apothecary Diaries as I want to watch it but never got round to it. Feel free to add any Anime I missed below, at least I got plenty of time over Christmas vacation to catch up on a few!

December isn't just about Christmas or if you're in the upper hemisphere freezing your balls off because you forgot to wear gloves and a thicker coat, also looking back at the year and taking stock.

Starting from the least woke and more extremely bad management, we have Chinese vtuber agency AuroraliveVR that operated like gangsters (so typical Chinese company) and they've lost 41 English vtubers leaving them only 2 which seem out the door too.

Then there is Project Veritas this year where I'd say less woke more corporate in that they didn't want to go against Pfizer same as Fox with ditching Tucker Carlson because he was digging too close to the truth.

Now to the wokies, the big highlight is Budweiser for just how publicly they failed and actually got the conservatives to act effectively in boycott, Target also deserves a mention. Disney for how they seem to be constantly slipping down the hill into obscurity. WB that owns DC might be close but ironically the Hogwarts Legacy drama seems to have given them a life raft when they needed one. Another mention is Creative Assembly that seems to have summoned their Sega masters to bitch slap them after their waste of money on woke projects.

There's too many to list from OpenAI, Unity, Amazon and the disaster that was Rings of Power, which notable ones do you think did the most self inflicted harm this year?

If this was just one or two idiots doing this, I might have passed it off as just idiots. But we're now at our 6th or 7th time that my pattern recognition is kicking in...

Another streamer this time YouTube getting in trouble with Japanese authorities for essentially promoting fare dodging on trains and then issuing a weak ass apology after.

This is happening WAY TOO often with streamers of all people where they are live broadcasting their harassment and even crimes. There is definitely encouragement to do this in Japan but I can't work out if its just idiots going 'I can get attention by being a prick in Japan' or if there's someone higher up directing these idiots there as a way to attack Japanese social cohesion.

Oh, and the biggest idiot of them all, update on him he's getting FUCKED by the authorities there, they are holding him for the maximum detention time then applying new charges to hold him longer. He's getting deported but HE has to pay for his own deportation otherwise he is held at the detention centre till he gets the funds and may be sent to a prison work camp to pay off the debt he owes in compensation for his harassment.

Just something I've been thinking about, you'll get the doomers saying 'WW3 is going to happen, they're going to replace us, we're going to be forced in to slavery' like the plans of the elites can't be stopped.

Something that's both hopeful yet depressing on seeing a simple solution, what would happen if normies just used numbers and stopped, no violence, no purges, just stopped.

For instance, what if all normies stopped joining the military that recruitment went to near 0. How would governments react knowing they have NO force to rely on? Education has long been infiltrated, what if normies just stopped using them, all did home and community schooling? Well teachers unions would be destroyed overnight, probably see LGBT go down drastically because they no longer have stable indoctrination centres. We know the left can't create anything so they'll simply die off with nothing to feed on.

The only one I can't see this tactic working on is mass migration, not because illegals will take up the roles normies stop doing, more because they're still there in your country taking up space. It's slightly depressing that these 'grand plans' can be foiled by simple noncompliance, like a lot of humanity are lemmings walking off a cliff...

Needed a breather post with the shit happening in real word and the debates over fictional content over the weekend. So why not promote stuff most of us can enjoy.

Previous recommendations are in the link, recommend them too ESPECIALLY Real Man on chapter 154 as if you EVER had to attend meetings at work, that will be one of the most satisfying chapters you can read:

It got an anime but I read the manga first (inserts snooty voice):

My daughter left the nest and became an S ranked adventurer: this is a very wholesome story set in a fantasy universe about an adoptive dad and his admiring daughter, no usagi drop, very big positive male role model vibes throughout.

I'm on love with the villianess: mc wakes up in the body of an otome game protagonist that has 3 princes and a villianess noble who bullies her. One issue, she's a yuri masochist so what the bully get really flustered as our mc goes 'more mistress'

For car lovers: Countach: man finds out his gf's a fickle slut as he dumps him for a guy with a ferrari. At his lowest point, his mom calls to tell him she's found a letter from him as a kid addressed to himself. When he reads it, it reminds him of his dream of owning a Lamborghini Countach and thanks to the letter and a rich donor, he gets one. This one is for car fans as you'll DEFINITELY enjoy the series especially seeing the Countach drifting in Japanese mountains.

Christian story: The Knight King who returned with a God: starts off an isekai with our guy born into a fantasy chivalry land, becomes like King Arthur but after the constant waves of demons and monsters becomes the Doom Slayer as last man standing slaughtering them for hundreds of years to then find a portal back to Korea but keeps the King act to achieve his goals. Enjoyable series showing the greatest power of them all: EXTREME RACISM (he really hates orcs)

Medical stories: Dr Player: a fantasy world where all medicine relies on healing magic, our mc has the weakest amount of this magic and an illegitimate prince so lowest if the low. He awakens a game like screen and knowledge of OUR medicine and uses them both to get ahead. Got a nice fusion of our medical knowledge and magic and enjoy the skills he gets especially 'how to deal with assholes' skill.

Perfect Surgeon: guy gets an AI fused into his brain on accident and with it sets out on the goal to be the best doctor/surgeon possible. Focuses heavily on the internal politics within medical field.

Wholesome: A story about a Grandpa and Grandma who returned to back to their Youth: short few pannel stories of a sweet old couple gaining their youth back and their interactions after, also one of the grandaughters REALLY likes grandpa now..

Isekai: Mezametara saikyou soubi to uchuusen-mochi datta no de, ikkodate mezashite youhei toshite jiyuu ni ikitai: set in a completely Sci-fi universe so quite unique for isekai, got space battles, bounty hunter work and an AI controlled vaction planet where robot maids give you the best service of serving you drinks to protecting you with laser guns from a planetary assault.

Release that Witch: a lot of content for this available, mc wakes up in the body of the lowest ranking prince who's a bit despised for being a letch, in a world where witches exist and are hunted. He stops the execution of a witch he wakes up to see and uses her power (fire manipulation) on a plan to use his industrial knowledge of our world to gain more power here. Is a more empire building kind of story.

Revenge arc: The Strongest Brave Who Craves For Revenge, Extinguish With The Power Of Darkness: TLDR; it's really fucked up! What have we got, a brainwashed goddess turned into a masochistic slave for the mc, cannibalism, human experimentation, LOTS or tourture yeah if you want a revenge story against people you'll have no issues with how much they're tortured, this is it.

Motivational: Reformation of a Deadbeat Noble:Starts with a dream/story of a man coming to a village, swinging his sword in practice for decades until his death. Cuts to our MC waking up in his bed, having spent years in self isolation after the death of his mother with the sudden urge to do the same. Slow build but payoff comes through with revelations and perseverance of mc.

Fights galore: Lookism:it went from intrigue about the two bodies of the mc, to finding out more about the backstory of characters, to fucked up cults and underground businesses to mostly how the fuck are they still alive!?! fights. Still highly enjoyable.

Weak Hero: set in high school, features an MC that as the title suggests, looks weak and frail but uses his intellect and tricks to absolutely tourture bullies in fights, very well backstoried characters throughout

Bitches be crazy: The Case In Which Streaming In Another World Led To The Creation Of A Massive Yandere Following: MC is isekai'd to fantasy world with near infinite mana which he uses....to become the worlds first streamer. He garners a very DEDICATED audience including a priestess, saint, Demon lord, assassin etc all gone yandere for him.

Reincarnation Colosseum - Using the Weakest Skills in Order to Defeat the Strongest Women and Create a Slave Harem: our guy gets Isakai'd to another would by a bitch priestess, judged worthless and thrown into a colosseum where if you lose, you're turned into a womam and made a sex slave by the winner. Luckily our MC is a gamer so knows how to use the system to get his revenge. Cultured comedy.

That's the lot of my recommendations, take a gander and see if anything clicks with you guys.