#ml simpleman

[sunsetosirias]

For the episode recommendation I would like analysis of Simpleman. Episode where Marinette drooped babysiting responsibility onto her grandfather just to follow around Adrien. Not only she was supposed to look after Manon, but this time also Alya's sisters and Nino's brother. She left four energetic children in care of elderly man she barely meet, that lives alone and in home full of antiques.

Cheers for the ask /gen. Simpleman will be added to the recommendations, just know it may take some time to get to.

I remember the fandom despising this episode both when it first aired and even to this day since it's yet another episode purely written to spite the audience.

It's also another episode that clearly shows Marinette is a bad babysitter since she dumped the responsibilities she agreed to on someone else when she wants to do something else that catches her attention. It reminded me of the salt fic trope of Alya (and sometimes others) pawning their babysitting duties onto "poor selfless Marinette" and when she calls the children's parents to tell them she can't care for them it exposes the other characters and they get raked across the coals for taking advantage of Marinette's selfless kindness, when in the reality of the show it's Marinette pawning her babysitting duties onto others in a way that denies them a chance to say "no" to her dumping the responsibilities she agreed to onto them. I know payment for babysitting doesn't come up in canon but does Marinette split the payment with the person who helped her as an apology with the promise she won't blindside them again, or does she keep the full payment to herself without mentioning money to the person who helped her?

[character-fan19]

Optimizing Viewing Experience for Love Square Shippers

You guys have previously seen me make a post on the love square screen time records based on the data I collected on how much screen time each love square ship has in each episode and special and in each season exactly and now we're going to be putting that data to more practical use and using it to figure out what are the best seasons, episodes and specials for shippers of certain sides of the love square to watch when binging through Miraculous.

Adrienette

You don't need to know the exact screen time for Adrienette in every season to know that season 5 is the best season for Adrienette shippers to watch. Not only is it the season with the most Adrienette screen time, but it's also the season where Adrienette finally becomes canon which is yet another plus.

For episodes that feature particularly large amounts of Adrienette screen time you can look to "Gamer" (6 min 28 sec) in season 1; "Riposte" (4 min 14 sec), "Gorizilla" (4 min 11 sec) and "Frozer" (4 min 10 sec) in season 2; "Oblivio" (9 min 3 sec) and "The Puppeteer 2" (4 min 27 sec) in season 3; "Mr. Pigeon 72" (2 min 23 sec), "Psycomedian" (2 min 19 sec) and "Simpleman" (2 min 8 sec) in season 4; and "Determination" (4 min 46 sec), "Transmission" (4 min 49 sec) and "Protection" (4 min 19 sec) in season 5.

In terms of Miraculous World specials, you're best bet is the New York Special which has 7 min 40 sec of screen time which has the whole storyline of Marinette trying remain friends with Adrien.

Ladynoir

Really you can pick any season since Ladynoir dominates all of them but the best season for Ladynoir shippers would be season 1 which not only has the most Ladynoir out of all the seasons but also has that classic Ladynoir dynamic I've seen certain Ladynoir fans crave in the later seasons: fighting villains and just being a dynamic duo in general, Cat Noir making the puns and Ladybug getting annoyed with him, those kind of stuff.

For episodes with particularly high amounts of Ladynoir check out "Stormy Weather" (6 min 7 sec), "Mr. Pigeon" (6 min 10 sec), "Horrificator" (6 min 8 sec), "Kung Food" (7 min 3 sec), "Animan" (8 min 28 sec), and "Volpina" (6 min 7 sec) in season 1; "Prime Queen" (8 min 19 sec), "The Dark Owl" (8 min 14 sec), and "Mayura" (8 min 32 sec) in season 2; "Reflekdoll" (7 min 19 sec), "Timetagger" (6 min 22 sec), and "Cat Blanc" (6 min 35 sec) in season 3; "Truth" (4 min 4 sec), "Psycomedian" (5 min 40 sec), "Furious Fu" (4 min 57 sec), "Kuro Neko" (7 min 23 sec), and "Strikeback" (4 min 14 sec) in season 4; and "Evolution" (7 min 50 sec), "Multiplication" (7 min 36 sec), and "Passion" (7 min 4 sec) in season 5.

In terms of Miraculous World specials, you can go for the New York special which has 6 min 29 sec of screen time and gives us some good Ladynoir angst with Cat Noir betraying Ladybug's trust and feeling so guilty about that he gave up his Miraculous.

Maricat

For Maricat, the season of you're choice would be season 4, even though most of the screen time there is concentrated in "Glaciator 2". This season even has the episode with the most Maricat screen time in all of the show so far, that is, "Glaciator 2".

Episodes with particularly high amounts of Maricat screen time include "Evillustrator" (2 min 17 sec) and "Gamer" (54 sec) in season 1, "Glaciator" (3 min 29 sec) and "Befana" (36 sec) in season 2, "Weredad" (3 min 57 sec) and "Kwamibuster" (44 sec) in season 3, "Sentibubbler" (1 min 24 sec) and "Glaciator 2" (8 min 14 sec) in season 4, and "Elation" (5 min 37 sec) and "Protection" (48 sec) in season 5.

Ladrien

For Ladrien shippers, the best seasons for you guys to watch are seasons 2 and 3, moreso season 2, where Ladrien was at the peak of its screen time until it dwindled into nothingness in seasons 4 and 5.

For episodes with a particularly large amount of screen time we have "Simon Says" (1 min 22 sec) and "Volpina" (1 min 23 sec) in season 1, "Riposte" (3 min 42 sec) and "Gorizilla" (3 min 58 sec) in season 2, "Oblivio" (1 min 40 sec) and "Desparada" (5 min 35 sec) in season 3, "Strikeback" (37 sec) in season 4, and "Passion" (17 sec) in season 5.

Conclusion

Well, that's it. Hope this was helpful to some love square shippers who want to binge through Miraculous.

[aerequets]

a little louder bestie

[marrys-dream-world]

like, yeah, we talked about it before but adrien’s fondness towards marinette when she’s not making any sense at all and the way he only interrupts her when he feels like she’s being unfair to herself (”no, marinette, i’m the one who should be thanking you”)... adrinette is so, so soft.

[a-drienette]

she’s such a dork, i love her

[gentil-minou]

Marinette doodling Adrien is the cutest ever.

Especially

That's a Chat Noir pose if I ever saw one

[coffeecomicsgalore]

Chat Noir about to tell the sickest story of the century.

[quijotine]

mari my love

mari hon

walk me through your thought process babes

lol no but for real look at this bebe her ability to do conditional diagrams is UNPARALLELED i mean:

PLEASE SHE HAS A PLAN WHERE THEY RIDE ON A BIKE AND ADRIEN ENDS UP GIVING HER FLOWERS

SHE HAS A PLAN WHERE FIRST THEY GO FOR COFFEE AT A TERRACE THEN THEY TALK AND CUDDLE PLEASE I'M SO SOFT MARINETTE IS SO FULL OF LOVE ADRIEN IS NOT GOING TO KNOW WHAT TO DO AND HE'S GONNA BE LIKE 🥺 ALL THE TIME.

NO AND I REALIZED SOMETHING ELSE:

the funny dialogue in the wing scene. she messed up what she was saying in this previous scene

she anticipated that adrien would thank her 🥺🥺🥺 and she was so excited that she messed up her plan

"and because he's so well-mannered and polite and kind he's going to say 'oh marinette, how can i thank you?' and that's when I will say 'oh Adrien, I would love for you to take me to the movies to watch The Umbrellas of Duvil' and he'd say 'Oh what a coincidence, that's my favorite film!' And we'll go on the 3:30 showing because that's when we have at least a 5% chance of stumbling across the ice cream car. And we'll eat a lovers' ice cream, and then the film will start and--"