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I was wondering if this kind of appatments/house exist in america and europe, or it's japan only. You know satou from welcome to NHK lives in this kind of house too. could you please give examples (links)?

I miss it when I first discovered Japan on the internet. now I'm old and will never go to japan 日本

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZzhg8LJPU&pp=ygUWS2F3b3J1IGRpZXMgZm9yIHNoaW5qaQ%3D%3D
What did you think of this scene wizards?

I'm looking for a new animu to watch, I've listed some of the stuff I highly rated, maybe there will be something others may be interested in listed below, but I would greatly appreciate any recommendations based on what you think I might love.

Animus: Serial Experiments Lain, Akagi, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, Psychiatrist Irabu, FMA:brotherhood, neongenesisevangerion, steins gate (prob gonna watch steins gate: zero if nothing seems better), Gilgamesh, Death Note, Ping Pong the animation, Baccano! , NHK…

Those are the best I can think of at the moment.

I want to discuss something that has been bothering me about anime. There is a certain subset of anime that is essentially a way for losers to fantasize about being popular and powerful normalfags who get all the succubi. The typical format is a fantasy harem show where the MC is some loser with a typical self-sacrificing nice guy routine. He saves some succubus from X danger and kills himself so he gets isekaied as a noble with overpowered magic powers and his memories intact. In the show he keeps up his usual nice guy act, often being quite milquetoast and useless, but he gets plot armored into all the succubi liking him and other positive things so his nice guy routine is rewarded to the max. The other thing is that the succubi are usually underage for some reason.

I think there is something vaguely fucked up about this whole situation. First off, these corporations are targeting people who are clearly mentally unwell and lack confidence in life and they are catering to their fantasies in ways that are pretty fucked up. I mean if you have no confidence and are attracted to little succubi, that should not be encouraged or normalized because it's fucked up. Men who lack confidence seem to view little succubi as less threatening because they share their ignorance about social customs and the world, even to a greater extent than the man in question, depending upon how low he goes in age. The more fucked up they are mentally, the younger they seem to want. It betrays a desire to be able to control the situations and perceptions of the succubus and not be humiliated.

But let's set aside the pedo aspect for a second, even without that, this shit is fucked up. The whole point of the show is for weak and broken people to self insert as the MC so they can fantasize about a situation that compensates for all their inherent weaknesses (which the MC is shown to share in spades) and delivers to them the perfect normalfag life where they are at the top of the social pyramid. They are the most powerful, most popular, with the harem of the most attractive succubi. Is this really something that wizards should be watching and fantasizing about? Isn't is just kind of, pathetic? Real life will never plot armor you into any of that shit, if your fantasies revolve around things that you will never have in real life (but which do exist in real life, ie power, wealth, hot succubi etc), won't you just end up wanting to fucking kill yourself?

On this livejournal (https://pieta-au-lait.livejournal.com/1542.html) it says:
>Ingwaz - In the Elder Futhark, this rune is named after Ing, the god who is consort of Mother Earth (Nerthus) in Norse mythology. This rune appears in episode 17 when the little succubus Minori is making her "mud dumpling" and Robin realizes that the succubus is going to become a Witch.
But this rune was also being drawn as a square with four strokes, and in Japanese the pronunciation of "four" and "death" are the same ("shi"). What do you think? Also the mud dumpling is called a dorodango and people make them on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1-DZwdOp1g

The way Aiko and Punpun’s story ends left me empty. I knew it wouldn’t be happy, but I still hoped. Guess that makes me stupidly optimistic. Reading it reminded me that people like me don’t get redemption arcs—we just keep stumbling through the same mistakes until it all burns out.

Everyone knows about this anime. It's basic, practically normie tier. But you know, sometimes you got to go back to basics. Besides, DBZ is nearly 30 years old now, so it's pretty old anime.

What was your favorite part of DBZ?
Why do you think DBZ got so popular?
What made it have the staying power it had?

There are so many stupid scenes that stick with me nearly two decades later. Piccolo and then Vegeta's redemption arc. The concept of 'super saiyan.' Krillin trying to do whatever he could even though he was insanely outclassed nearly all the time. Tien's last stand against Cell. All the goddam yelling, grunting, and charging up for 90% of every single episode. All of the "this isn't even my final form" tropes. It seems so campy and tropetastic now, but in retrospect, I think it was because this was the anime that set into stone most of those tropes.

It was a pretty solid part of my childhood, so I just found myself remembering it, I guess.

I had convenience store onigiri today. You can't tell by just looking at it, but the rice and seaweed are separated by a layer of plastic. You pull down the tab at the top, and then pull the pieces of plastic off from the side and it puts the rice and seaweed together

Newfag to the medium, I’ve seen the normie stuff like cowboy bebop and evangelion, tbh I’ve never been much of a TV show guy, the only shows I really like are the sopranos, breaking bad/bcs and the venture bros

Recommend me some kino please