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Failed the quest to convince myself this is still a Danganronpa blog

[ikusabamukuro]

I drew this like a year ago and it sat there in my files until I found it today.... be free

[kaibutsushidousha]

Place your bets, is Hakuno’s companion:

A. A reference to some companion that Hakuno will have in EXTELLA 2 or 3

B. A reference to some companion that Hakuno will have in EXTRA Record exclusive content

C. Ronnie

Sanda didn't mention Hakuno as one of the three characters Nasu was heavily involved with, so C is the only option he could have reasonably known about.

[kaibutsushidousha]

What are your thoughts on Azrael as a character? Any predictions about his character arc?

He's been a consistently great addition to the comedy events, whenever he doesn't make himself wholly absent.

Aside from his joke threats to Olga, his most prominent character trait is being very dutiful. He inserted himself as Chaldea's administrative advisor only as an excuse to fulfill his Grand Servant mission, but since he's burden with that responsibility, he puts on the work to make Chaldea's operations run smoothly, be it by running Olga's errands without protest, or by taking proactive measures liking bringing Goredolf as a substitute director or playing along with obvious distractions so Olga can feel safe to handle missions with U powers.

On the flip side, he's incredibly apathetic to anything unrelated to his duties. That's a flaw shared with his matured self. We even get him in the Antioch Singularity swiftly dealing with Snow Tracks then peacing out because the rest of the Singularity has nothing to do with Hassans or Beasts. Azrael is the same but even more single-minded because he still doesn't have the Hassans to care about.

The one point where the young pre-Hassan feels different from his adult self is the way he seems to have fun with his violence, instead of being purely professional and merciful about it.

I'm not sure about him having an arc yet, because as the friction he introduces to the story can be solved by just proving Olga's innocence, without any need for him to change in any way.

[kaibutsushidousha]

How would you characterize a Sane Fate Heracles? Would there be anything beyond than just "Perfect Hero"?

Heracles is already plenty characterized through Alcides. I consider this to be my best Alcides post, and I think it's the best place to answer your question too.

The main way I think he'd be different from Alcides is that Heracles would be a much less sincere person. He'd still be the same guy who loses because the alternative would be breaking a self-imposed rule, and overall prioritizes the symbolic over the practical. But as the hero who became a hero because he wanted atonement, I feel his untainted version would be much less okay with externalizing anything less than perfect. As much as I think his characterization in Tiger Colosseum is horribly unfunny, I believe the basic gist of it is still usable if you work with the Heracles always behaving as the person people need him to be instead of the person he actually is.

[kaibutsushidousha]

Since when Douman and Kama became friends that she included them in her stick thingy with other people like Jinako, Batty, ect in 11th anni ce?

That fan is for the Lapse Club in the 11th anni's school setting. Kama and Molay make sense as members since they have an express interest in corrupting Fujimaru. Jinako, Osakabehime, and Metatron fit because they are distinctly lazy people.

Douman is probably only there because he's so cartoonishly evil that he felt like a natural inclusion. The choice really didn't give me the impression that ReDrop understands his character. He's surprisingly devoted to his responsibilities. We do have Arctic Summer World as an example of Douman encouraging Fujimaru to ignore the good of the world and have a good time, but that was Ibuki's idea, so it should be her at the Lapse Club instead.

And lastly we have Kazuradrop, the insane perfectionist. The Lapse Club is, in every respect, antithetical to her obsessive ideals of high morals and efficient execution. I haven't the slightest clue what made ReDrop think of including her there.

[simaenagadayo]

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[kaibutsushidousha]

Have you ever felt the need to think about your gender identity or sexuality? Or have you always been comfortable with yourself?

Looking inwards in general is something I don't do unprompted. I exist in the world and that certainly means something to the people in my life, but I never felt like I have any responsibility over their impressions of me. I do have an annoyingly recurring tendency to being liked by people I don't respect in the slightest, which maybe could have been avoided if I cared more about controlling my image (or being a more openly confrontational person, I guess), but it sounds like too much (and too constant) extra work and I have much better things to do with my very limited time.

As for my relationship with gender, I don't think I can be anything other than cis because that requires having solid personal definitions of what masculinity and femininity are.

I was raised under house rules where everything I owned was also my sister's and everything she owned was also mine. Sure, our differences in age and gender gave us very different friend groups in school and consequently very different interests, but we did grow up encouraged to play with each other, freely using each other's toys, so the divide between what a boy can do and what a girl can was pretty non-existent. Some kids around me had strict ideas of masculinity but that was too alien to my home situation for me to be able to take them seriously. It all felt silly, arbitrary, and dumb to child me.

On a very similar note, my mother also tried to enforce some strict standards for a gentleman's behavior, but that was so incompatible with my father's conduct that I quickly could tell it was not that serious, and grew up following my father's example of not giving her arbitrary gender ideas genuine attention.

Living in the current culture turned gender into something I'm capable of earnestly examining and discussing, but my upbringing really grounds me centrally on the thought that the definitions of masculinity and femininity are very arbitrary, and not personally relevant to my experiences, so every engagement starts and ends with an attempt to figure out the other side's definitions. I feel like this "outsider" outlook certainly helps navigate conversations easier than people have personal stakes and opinions on these topics, but conversely, I'm not gaining anything from being in these discussions.

And ultimately, that's perfectly fine with my lack of investment here. Accepting you don't have a opinion on something is always better, both for yourself and for the communities of people with genuine opinions, than forcing yourself to have something to say in something that is just not intuitive to you. I do try to be a listener that understands the language of my trans friends, but I'm under no delusion that I'll ever going to be the guy who has pertinent comments to make.

[noha-komesblog]

wip

[anodymalion]

Also while it’s on my mind, I wanted to write down stuff from a really interesting panel I went to at the con, run by a guy who does anime market research and marketing strategy, about the data behind anime viewership and revenue. I think it’s especially interesting coming on the heels of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards and the discussions I've seen around it (mostly around not being happy with the winners).

I wasn’t taking notes during it, but this is what I remember to the best of my ability; apologies if there are any inaccuracies:

At this point there is more money coming into animanga from overseas markets than from domestic (i.e., Japanese) markets. Companies are aware that for something to get really financially successful, it has to appeal to international audiences.

And most of that overseas money comes from subscriptions to streaming services. Merch / purchase of physical copies / etc make up only a small % of revenue.

Shonen and isekai outperform everything else to a huge extent. So there continue to be lots of these produced.

About half of all recent/current anime views are going to just a few (like, a single digit # of) series. I believe it was: Solo Leveling, Sakamoto Days, Dan Da Dan, Gachiakuta, MHA, and (I think) JJK. Also Solo Leveling by itself gets far more than any other series.

Quote: "Statistically, if your favorite anime from the last year wasn’t one of these, then no one watched your favorite anime"

Note that these are all shonen (except technically Solo Leveling since the original material is manhwa, not manga, but close enough)

Don’t be surprised that these are the series winning awards, even if you don’t think they hold a candle to [insert your favorite anime here] — there’s just so many more people watching these that it’s virtually impossible for any other series to win.

The only series in the recent top 20 that wasn’t shonen demographic or isekai genre was Apothecary Diaries.

Quote: "Thank god for Apothecary Diaries." lol

Crunchyroll has by far the biggest market share of overseas anime viewership, followed by Netflix to a lesser extent. No other providers come close.

The perception among production companies is that Netflix is where people are getting converted from non-anime viewers into anime viewers, and CR is where established anime viewers go.

Average anime watch time among anime viewers on Netflix is 1.5 hours per month, whereas on CR it’s 1.5 hours per day (?!)

Discovery on Netflix is heavily determined by what the Netflix promotes / actively surfaces to users, and that tends to skew towards particular series — likely reinforces that views are going to already-popular series and that new anime viewers are getting funnelled into certain genres.

Netflix doesn't license all that much anime compared to what they could be licensing, so that further skews things. Also, even if a series is licensed to Netflix, if the Netflix algorithm doesn't actively push it to users, no one on Netflix will watch it.

Rating sites such as MyAnimeList tend to be skewed towards a particular type of fan that is not representative of the actual market, and these ratings are meaningless when it comes to actual success metrics. IIRC he said only a few% of very frequent anime watchers actually rate/review things.

He phrased it as "rating things on MAL is not normal behavior" which made me lol

Anime adapted from light novels tends to perform the best compared to anime adapted from other sources (manga, webcomic, games) and original anime. Adaptations from manga is #2; everything else is wayy behind.

Solo Leveling seems like quite an outlier in this regard since anime adaptations from webcomics tend to be among the least popular

The single feature most correlated with success of an isekai was whether the main female character has big breasts and that’s not a joke.

Quote: "If the main female character has big breasts your anime will likely overperform, and if the main female character is a monster girl your anime will likely underperform. Because things aren’t fair."

At one point he was like yes I really do have to go into serious business meetings and present this anime breast data to client companies.

There’s a perception among audiences that pirating animanga that isn’t legally available in your country will prove there’s a demand for it, and lead to it getting licensed in your country, but this isn’t true. Pirating stats don’t actually have much effect on whether stuff gets licensed — because there’s no reliable conversion from people who pirate -> people who will pay to view legally.

Studios get booked for projects 3-4 years out, so stuff for 2029-2030 is getting booked now. There are a lot of reboots/sequels/franchises/reusing-IPs type projects getting booked, just like what western media studios have been doing, because (as with western media) companies want the reliability of IP that is known to be successful rather than the risk of something new.

He concluded that the quality of storytelling in animanga is completely unrelated to whether it is popular, and that, at the current time, the popularity of a series essentially just comes down to 1. is it a shonen, 2. sheer luck. rip

[virtualmosshroom]

[zeravmeta]

holy shonen trinity ranked on their relationships with the government

[krkcts]

・fan art

Fate/EXTRA：岸波白野、ネロ・クラウディウス

[idliketochill]

We reject the sunset.

[shinjiroaragaki]

Playing hundred line with my wife means I can try and come up with a fan design for Turamtammi at the same time YIPPEE

[kaibutsushidousha]

Do you think that humans can eventually become tools in Marisbury's eyes? Outside of Olga and Mash there were a bunch of Seraphix masters that got experimented on. Irisviel and Illya would likely be seen as tools since they are homunculi but what about Sakura Matou?

The Crypters were people he was particularly fond of, but if turning them into bombs will help solve his problems, then he will easily turn them into bombs.

[kaibutsushidousha]

How do you think Marisbury got loaded after he wished for money on the Holy Grail?

Just unquestioned numbers on his bank account, probably?

[kaibutsushidousha]

Sooner or later, every foreign resident of Japan gets the experience of having an old Japanese man staring really weirdly at you, and now, two months into this new life, it finally happened to me, but I was a unique situation unlike anything I expected, and I don't even believe it was a xenophobic microagression because I had a conspicuous face injury that was more likely to have been the cause of the strange attention.

Details under the cut, but it's really nothing serious.

As I announced a few weeks ago, Concrete Revolutio is my favorite anime and yesterday I attended the wonderful fan meeting event in Tokyo celebrating the show's 10th anniversary (huge thanks to the 0 of you who joined me).

I arrived in the city early and was resting at a net café until the big moment. When the time finally came, I got up fast and hit my forehead against the upper table. I think I was still bleeding a little when I got the venue.

At the event, ConRevo's creator and head writer Aizawa Shou took the stage, while the rest of the writing staff were present as regular audience members, sat on an isolated table in the back of the crowd. I had to go to the bathroom at some point, and to get there you have to pass by the table with the writer team. Most of the writers kept paying attention to the show, but for some reason Urobuchi Gen locked eye contact with me through the whole time I was walking by their table. And that was my incredibly unusual first experience with weird Japanese staring.

@impactstab theorized that The Butcher could smell my blood from a distance, and that checks out to me completely.