Cute girls doing cute things in a magical university set in a sort of D&D world. Mysteria Friends is beautifully drawn, pleasant enough and I could look at Grea (the half-dragon girl) all day. Having just completed its run, the show looks to be 10 X 15 minute episodes so its not a major investment of time and it seems promising.
UPDATE: That is the most egregiously elaborate special collections area of a library ever. Also: Molting's cool!
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The ones to feel sorry for are their parents, who are unlikely to ever see grandkids unless Anne comes up with a Very Special Spell.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thu May 9 17:56:44 2019 (LGSd2)
2 Just starting out, I'm getting a slightly different vibe from this than everyone else seems to...
The
two times that PrincessAnne mentions that Grea is a Dragon-Born princess
Grea reacts...oddly...indicating that one of those two things might not
quite be true, and I suspect it's not the half dragon bit. Grea is
quite vague regarding her parentage, except to say that she has a human
and a dragon parent. Grea also seems quite lonely, perhaps a bit
autistic and very grateful for a friend. I get the distinct impression
that these two are, at least at the beginning, having different
conversations when talking with one another.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu May 9 21:17:39 2019 (xOgT9)
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It feels weird avoiding spoilers in a series where nothing actually happens. :-)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Fri May 10 10:30:24 2019 (ZlYZd)
Put thy shovel away. You're already deeper than any thought put into this show. Although I can't say anything actually contradicts anything you said, and it's very interesting.
Posted by: Ben at Fri May 10 19:32:09 2019 (4TRZx)
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For more fun, here's the trailer from the original, cancelled attempt at this series five years ago. Apparently, sometime in the interim, they decided not to make it explicitly based on their Rage of Bahamut characters, but abstract it so it can be vaguely canon for all of their appearances.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Fri May 10 21:11:17 2019 (ZlYZd)
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Wait.
What series was that trailer for? 'cause THAT'S what I thought I was gonna be getting here.
I understand there was some scandal with the first iteration as they fired the entire production staff.
OK. Having watched the whole thing, I am quite impressed with its production values.
Never has so much skill been utilized to atmospherically say almost nothing.
I stand by my initial interpretation. Especially after the side-story about the love potion, I'm pretty sure that the two main characters are not on the same wavelength. I get the impression that Gear is just really hesitant for any number of reasons to say no to the princess's announcement .
I see their senior year being very much like Misaka and Kuroko...if Misaka had social anxiety issues.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon May 13 19:50:45 2019 (xOgT9)
As I catch up on stuff not pertaining to school, I note that over the last year or so, I've absentmindedly ended up following 261 artists on Pixiv. This is a result mainly of irresponsible use of the FOLLOW button. I also support 4 artists via Pixiv Fanbox. The focus of these sites range from cute animations to landscapes to city-scapes to historical inaccuracies to first person analysis of the male gaze. You know what exactly none of these 261 sites are focused on? Boys Love.
Now, I do not begrudge the aficionados of such works their preferred content, and I think that its great that Pixiv caters to all demographics in need of...visual reference material for work and school, so this would not normally be an issue. However, I do wonder, why, with 261 bishie-free data points that their algorithm keeps sending me this in my Things I'll Probably Like box.
Shorter version: I really need to cull the number of artists I'm following. Also I'm being stalked by a gay Japanese A.I.
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Frankly, nothing makes me more copacetic about the Evil Google Panopticon that's out to mine every last bit of personal information in order to deliver ads custom-targeted to my unique profile, than... seeing the ads they actually show me. More misses than hits, that's for sure.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Wed May 8 01:30:12 2019 (v29Tn)
The asteroid system will be highly visible to amateur astronomers when it passes, in part due to its high relative velocity. There's info here if you want to take a look at Asteroid (66391) 1999 KW4.
One of our Crack Team of Science Babes has thoughts.
"Fortunately there's no press hysteria yet since NASA did not name this one after some Egyptian god of destruction."
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How did Friday end up on the science babe team?!
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Wed May 8 01:30:52 2019 (v29Tn)
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Red half rimmed glasses and a substantial donation of pocket fried shrimp.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed May 8 09:12:22 2019 (xOgT9)
3NOTE: I'm not sure what an armature astronomer is (perhaps someone using a big telescope trained by electric motors?) but the last sentence has been corrected to make clear that even a novice should be able to see the asteroids in question.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu May 9 05:29:35 2019 (xOgT9)
NOTICE:
I really have no idea what the story is with the cute, travelling...um ...octataur(?)Such questions should be directed towards Lansane, who drew her, and who can be supported via Pixiv Fanbox.
ADVISORY:
Any sophomoric and/or off-color jokes referencing the above image that originate from the E.U. risk being reported to the joke police. CLARIFICATION:
Not legally dead.
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I guarantee that you did 500,000% better on that test than most of us would. However you did.
(Every time I get proud of myself, I try to get katakana and hiragana into my permanent memory. I have tried everything, and it still will not stick for more than a few letters. I had better luck memorizing the Hunter x Hunter font!)
(So I am proud I have about ten kanji down, and amazed that you could take a while test like that.)
(I can read and write Cyrillic cursive, for goodness' sake! Egyptian hieroglyph syllabaries are not that bad, even if I cannot draw them.... What is my functional illiteracy in Japanese about?)
(So yeah, that is the kind of course where a C may not be bad, and curve grading would be appropriate.)
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Tue May 7 17:23:37 2019 (sF8WE)
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I'm supposed to have, at the end of this class, a vocabulary of about 900 kanji. In actuality, I can probably read less than 100 without resorting to a dictionary. I still have trouble with some Katakana from time to time. This has been really humbling.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tue May 7 20:57:46 2019 (xOgT9)
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I really should have bought all those Japanese syllabary blocks for babies when I saw them once in a Japantown bookstore. I need kana magnets and other tactile stuff. Also fingerpaints. And jello stencils.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Wed May 8 18:15:02 2019 (sF8WE)
While I did good on one of my classes, my Kanji exam is on Monday and will determine if I utterly faceplant that class. I'll continue to be scarce until at least then.
Here's something to unnerve and depress you until then.
Bad opening metaphors signal bad times....
I will say that I don't think that we're likely to legislate our way out of this, in part because compelling speech seems to be the exact opposite of a solution.
This warrants thought, but all thought here is currently being otherwise allocated.
************
On a less consequential note, anyone with suggestions for good things to
watch/review starting next week, please put them in the comments.
more...
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Well, if you want something wholesome about not being able to study, there's "Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai", Poor kid who works hard to be a solid B student is offered a complete university scholarship if he takes on tutoring the two smartest girls in the school. But the Literature genius wants to learn science but doesn't grok math, and the science and math genius has serious problems understanding literature, and wants to understand people and go into psychology.
If you want something not so wholesome, "Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai", Daughter of a famous erotic writer, and who thus hates everything about love has to deal with a really ordinary guy who seems to like her.
Posted by: Mauser at Sat May 4 03:16:24 2019 (Ix1l6)
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I dropped both BokuBen and Quints (5T) mangas, but I stayed with BokuBen much longer, FWIW. Unfortunately, it goes nowhere. Don't want to watch either.
I'm enjoying both Senko-san and Bocchi (Hitoribocchi no Maru-maru Seikatsu).
Slime is still dragging on. And I meant to pick up Shield Hero, although the MC is a douche there.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sat May 4 21:40:29 2019 (qPgkn)
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If I went through what he went through, I'd be a douche too. Well, assuming I'm not one already. Though frankly, his attitude is beginning to drag on. I'd have quit whining and just gone off to another country to shag the racoon girl long since. But he's trapped by his sense of responsibility, and the respect of the people he helps, even as he's being a jerk about it.
