• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        The Shibuya arc was more jarring than bad. The culling arc is just stupid. Lots of random nobodies popping out of the woodwork with no leadup and stomping all over the main characters. It felt completely undeserved.

        It falls into this very general “cuckold fetish” that some anime and manga have, and for the record that’s my temporary name for it. It’s not limited to NTR, but rather that it’s a fascination of some Japanese storytellers to build up a protagonist only to undeservedly tear them down by nobodies. Nowadays, whenever I get a whiff of that I’ll drop a series because I know it just gets worse feom there

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      5 days ago
      1. Akshually it’s post-Shibuya 🤓☝️
      2. The Culling Games is pretty lit, my double GOATS Maki and Higurama being unleashed
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          5 days ago

          Ok, you can like different things 😭 I didn’t say it was the pinnacle of story telling. For me it went downhill after the

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          MeguKuna body swap

          but I liked my two favourite characters getting a lot of screen time, and Yuta finally entering the main story for the CG arc.