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>>3791
gonna watch the last ep on stream in a bit, can't believe it's gonna be over ;_;

Very beautiful and heartwarming show.
I like how they included some nice changes and original content and how they managed to fit it all together.
They OST is simple but fitting. I appreciate tracks that make use of dynamics as they can evoke powerful emotion at moments. I'd love to listen to the full thing.
https://youtu.be/Y6vYpZO9MJc
The complains I have about it is that at times it looked inconsistent, and I feel 12 episodes is not enough for all these characters.
Overall this adaptation managed to exceed my expectations and I must say that I'm quite saddened that it's all over.
I hope there will be an eventual second season or at least an OVA covering the Tokyo trip.
What were your thoughts on this show sushis?

Feel free to post about your favourite characters and episodes too

>>3806
I loved it, one of the best fanservice shows I've ever seen in that it focuses on so many more aspects of cuteness and attractiveness than just tits and ass. It was also an incredibly beautiful show, both in showing off its beautiful characters and in terms of animation, OST, backgrounds, and atmosphere. I found it interesting how many tricks they used to make the show look so good, and how well most of them were hidden. There's more CGI here than anyone would notice at first glance, and while I have mixed feelings about that in general, there's no denying they did a great job with the visuals.

I also really liked the character designs. Some people found them off putting but I found them really expressive, attractive, and fitting for the tone of the show. They feel supernaturally cute in the way that anime girls should.

I agree that my biggest complaint about the adaptation was that it suffered from character bloat. I'm lucky in that my favorite girl (Usagihara) got lots of screentime, but I still felt like I wanted to see more of everyone else. I mean, Akebi's pink-haired friend had what, 3 very short scenes? Same with the tiny blonde girl. My second big complaint is that Akebi as a character felt a little *too* perfect. It was never enough to bother me in the moment but looking back I roll my eyes a little at how all the other girls basically worship her, especially when they did such a good job at characterizing the side characters and giving them believable flaws, aspirations, and personalities.

>>3807
My favorite episodes were the one where they hang out in Usagihara's dorm, the fishing episode, the one where Akebi gets stuck in the rain with glasses girl, the people-watching ep with the bug girl, and the one where they hang out at the mall. I think I liked this show best when it was focused on the friendship aspect of the characters.

For fanservice the best episodes were the one where they all strip in the gym, the lewd selfie episode, and of course the swimming competition.

For emotional impact the episode with the guitar girl, the chubby tennis girl ep, and the finale were the best

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>>3806
Akebi's OST is now available! (CD-1 as of now)
https://hikarinoakari.com/akebi-chan-no-sailor-fuku-bonus-cd-vol-4-original-soundtrack-1/
https://youtu.be/yJwwa_BJ2NY

I played Katawa Shoujo, I have known about it since 8 years or maybe 9, but never picked it up until now. This is because I often stumble across something on the Internet that makes me think I could enjoy it, but then it slips my mind a few hours later. Luckily I have encountered it again and had free time too, so I finally gave it a go. After having seen all scenes and endings I have no idea what to think. Media that makes me think and feel is my thing, quite a few things gave me stuff to think about, made me cry, helped me coming to terms with something and much more. Until now Va-11 Hall-A was what touched me the most, but Katawa Shoujo, damn.

While the game itself has hentai, it can be turned off. I had it on because I entered it blindly, afterwards I got the feeling that it is out of place though. On the wiki someone called the hentai even awkward and the game being better without it. Sooner or later I will surely play it once more to see for myself if this is the case, I imagine this being true, because the hentai didn't add anything of value at all. The characters will talk about the h-scenes now and then after they happened, but during the scene itself nothing of value is being added and it is enough to know that they took place. Furthermore the stories are so touching that wanking to them feels straightforward wrong. My guess is this is why I considered them out of place, even though they get mentioned a few times and even drive the story forward in a few cases.

The strong points of the game are the characters and the stories about them. Every route hits hard, I was especially left with a lot of feels after Rin and Hanako. So much about it were exactly things that I have already thought about, that I went through too or I am still going through now. Hanako's statement of having given up on friendship even made me flinch, then this is something I did subconsciously too. After all those years with countless of experiences, feelings, decisions, ups and downs, somewhere along this I grew tired of reaching out. Tired of making people like me. Tired of sustaining a friendship. Tired of the exchange of giving, taking, hanging out, talking. Just like her I yearn for more. What good is it when they live their life and you yours, you still sitting there, being alone, only sharing an evening or a day now and then. Yearning for something deeper, closer, more intimate. With more interactions with each other, more affection, tied so close to ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3605
This whole ride lead to old ideas emerging again, ideas that I have forgotten like many other things. Learning Japanese, traveling, learning how to draw and making a game. Unfortunately I know absolutely nothing about Japanese, drawing and creating a game, while traveling is nothing my introverted character wants, even though a part of me is curious about things. Thinking about what I could do opens up the question why I want to do so. Why learning Japanese? My motivations are being able to enjoy things that have not been translated and otherwise not having the need for translations anymore. It also helps regarding traveling, because Japan is one of the locations that would interest me. Why traveling? Now and then I see and hear things that look simply beautiful and create the urge to see for myself, I also hope to learn and experience new things that can help me to grow as a person. Why drawing? So I can draw what I want, not having to search around to find things I like. This could also help for creating art for a game. Not to forget that it would also be a huge personal success for me, because I have trouble doing activities that involve fine motor skills. At last it could also help to leave something behind in the vast Internet, somewhat like a legacy, in a place that helped and hurt me alike. Why developing a game? With how much games gave me they also nourished the thought of creating one. To give something back of what I have received, to participate in this whole beautiful mess I love and once again to somehow leave something behind. As a last point I could create a game how I want it, which interests be a lot to see if people would like it. Thinking about this makes me tend to lean towards drawing and developing a game, but who knows. I am tired right now and tipsy. And I miss my cat. And would lowkey sell my asshole for a hug.

Overall I recommend Katawa Shoujo to everybody, I think with the stories it tells it can offer everybody something, to some more, to some less, but I am convinced nobody will be bored and just press space bar to be over with it. A Advice I can get is to avoid the bad endings at any cost, they hurt like nothing else I have ever experienced in a game. Keep a save before every decision too, in case you mess up and to go back and get every scene.

>>3606
Without meaning to be adversarial; I started reading Katawa Shoujo some months ago, and stopped partway through shizune's route. I found the mc to be boring and unlikable, the music sounded repetitive; had an elevator music feel to it most of the time iirc, somehthing that annoyed me particularly were the shoehorned comedy interactions with kenji which were interspersed often, lame & uncalled for.

Given; My interpretation of it caliber might be misled via having accidentally gone down shizune's route, which seems to be considered the worst and was one of those less appealing to me; I find rin to be a wonderful character even though I had so little dialogue with her when I read it, the sort of rare constitution I wish was embedded in a piece of art I would care for, I would definitely go with her route if I were to try reading it again (I have since learnt reading other vns that I should take the choices more seriously). Also should be mentioned that it's a non-profit doujin game and in that sense it's impressive I guess.

On a separate note, I relate to your yet unrealized aspirations; I have been meaning to learn japanese since I was 12 and have only this year started properly yet slowly learning it; Japan is probably where I would most like to travel to, though I have various apprehensions relating to it. Not to mention drawing etc. sorry if this writing seems robotic; i'm not used to articulating myself.

>What is your favourite vn?
Little Busters was a great time, good fun and big feels. The VN is by far better than the anime. I was really frustrated when it came out, knowing that this will be the first and only exposure to the story for many people.

>what have you been reading lately?
Subarashiki hibi

>>1714
>What is your favourite vn?
Aiyoku no Eustia. Nothing really comes close, best world- and character-building I have ever seen in a VN so far.
>what have you been reading lately?
Natsuiro Recipe, it's nothing special but comfy. Standard slice of life romance but in a Non Non Biyori setting.

Wasn't Thunderbolt Fantasy a Wuxia thing

>>2640
from what I've watched it's decent enough, but Gen Urobutchi wrote more than the shows you mentioned

>>2645
Season 1 is a fairly standard Wuxia, though S2 goes off the rails and is super fun to watch.
>>2646
Yeah, I just mentioned those because they'd be the most familiar to those who don't know about him.

Greetings, would any of you happen to be familiar with the title _"the Enigmatic Gale"_?
https://youtu.be/4L2d8g9fcJI

>>4153
are we still watching Grand Blue and Yurei Deco and stuff?

>>4162
We also watched Yurei Deco, LycoReco, Teppen, Yofukashi no Uta, Vermeil episode 3, Sorairo Utility, Tezuka's Jumping, all of Gunsmith Cats and GA Geijutsuka Art Design episode 4.

Kuro strolling through GA

>>4164
thanks!

Stream tomorrow! 17:00 EST/14:00 PST, on https://cytu.be/r/SushiStream! We're gonna finish Shakunetsu Takkyuu Musume, because it seemed like everyone was up for that and I wouldn't wanna interrupt the hype.

If you missed some episodes and want to be up to date for tomorrow's stream make sure to catch up on the first 6 episodes! We'll be watching starting from episode 07.

And of course we'll also continue the seasonals we've been following. Hope to see you there!

And the last webm because I won't spam the thread too much. I don't think mp4s are actually supported in spite of sushichan claiming otherwise as well unfortunately, I tried uploading some but they got rejected.

>>3708
Gunbuster and the amount of booba in it was great

Attractiveness jutsu!

>>4038
absolutely crushed

>>4037
I love this so much

>>132
Seeing this again as summer hits feels exquisite.

>>4037
Absolute classic. Honestly, I can't watch stein's gate without thinking about this.

>>3966
>It's oddly satisfying to me that the girls are treating Sonia as just part of their friend group now.
big agree, I really loved these last two episodes for her

>>3963
>>3964
>>3965

I'm gonna read Romance of the Three Kingdoms just so I can enjoy this show better.

Orca'd

3x faster than the standard driver

I just found out about this genre / subculture called 'solarpunk'. I think it's an attempt to push back towards utopian sci fi, but taking cautionary inspiration from cyberpunk, and taking inspiration from clean energy, hippie peace and love and just general techno utopianism.

I'd like to see an anime that pushes the boundaries of 'nothing actually happens' slice of life comfiness. The stories would follow a few friends doing random things to amuse themselves, maybe learning about the world and its technology, traveling, or building things. But mostly not having any responsibility or really having to do anything at all because the world has become so easy to get along in.
I'm thinking like in K-on friends hanging out vibe, but in K-on there are a lot of traditional "here's a problem how do they overcome it" type plots. For the plotlines I'm thinking something more like how in Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou most of the stories are Alpha just doing things because she wants to, mostly without any kind of conflict that would drive a more traditional story.

>>3932
Slice of life in unusual settings is my absolute favorite genre, good taste roll

I really want like something about mermaids but like really deep sea, no interaction with actual humans, just slice of life/borderline no story anime in the deepest part of the sea with really cool fish and squids and stuff

maybe something like Arakawa Under The Bridge but a bit slower paced? idk

>>3978
Woah that could be really cool and calming. It could have relaxing underwater sounds and distant whale calls. What would deep sea mermaids look like? could they have bioluminescence?

No Sachiko no buy.

>>3832
>https://project-imas.wiki/Sachiko_Koshimizu
>Height: 142 cm
what the heck Sachiko is tiny

>>3833
Imperialfag conversion: 4.65 ft.
Yeah that's short.

Sachiko a cute

>>3507
probably "Kuramori".

y-you should watch the anime….

>>3508
Alright, this is embarrassing, very embarrassing even.
I have watched the anime, twice even. Once in 2014 and once in 2020. Even worse is that a few minutes ago I suddenly had that realization and yes, it is Kuramori. Unfortunately I am too late to redeem myself here, sorry for being slow and thank you for your kindness.

I just love how uniquely Yoshitoshi ABe draws…you can always tell at a glance when he drew something.

>>3541
Yeah he has a very distinct look to his art, I like it a lot. I really wish I was well-spoken or educated enough about art to put my finger on what makes it distinct. They feel grounded/real in a way most anime art doesn't. It's something about the color palette, the scratchiness of the lines, and the relatively unexaggerated proportions and expressions I think.

This message at the start of Ryuushika Ryuushika is very nice