#touhai

[crehador]

who is fansubbing touhai. congratulations on being the funniest person alive

[chaztalk]

Best New Anime of Fall 2024 Poll (1/5)

Vs.

How I Attended an All-Guys Mixer

Touhai: Ura Rate Mahjong Touhai Roku

The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians

A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School

Ranma 1/2

Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.

Voting ended onJan 7, 2025

[crehador]

brother crab's fall 2024 first impressions: touhai

alright after one ep i guess i can see why this one didn't find an english licensor (yet) lol

it's not. terrible. i feel like maybe it'll pick up a bit more once we meet the rest of the main cast. the animation is unspectacular to say the least, the budget's just not there, but i don't need everything to look super slick and polished so i could live with that

mc's backstory is pretty much what you'd expect it to be, going heavy on the dark/gritty/crime elements. can't complain since that is what it says on the bag, but i'm hoping the actual mahjong itself will remain the focus of the series

i'll stick with it for a few more episodes at least, see if anything changes

[crehador]

got impatient so i just watched the raws to finish touhai and god. god. wild and ridiculous show all the way through but deeply entertaining as well. did not think i would but wound up enjoying that quite a lot

[crehador]

touhai's really been growing on me lately specifically hatakeyama so 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

[crehador]

Can we get the extended post on yakuza fiance that you mentioned in the review masterpost?

I also picked up both touhai and yakuza fiance for yakuza reasons and had similar issues as you mentioned. I had some hope in the beginning but at the end I was just watching to complete the show and to hear Akira Ishida lol

for sure! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ there will be some spoilers under the cut (both for yakuza fiance and touhai)

so i want to first stress that i didn't hate the entirety of yakuza fiance or anything, i really enjoyed yoshino as a character. she's fantastic. and there were moments that were just so much fun, like her whole thing of making the guys switch and mend each other's shirts. genuinely good and original writing imo!

but the general, i guess... grittiness and sense of danger that should have been there just sort of didn't land for me? that's not to say the characters aren't in tense, dangerous situations. they often are! but so often the things that happen and the things the characters do to make them seem dangerous/edgy just felt a stiff and formulaic to me

like instead of actually coming off like he's a yandere freak about yoshino, kirishima often felt to me like the... i don't know, the concept of a yandere freak? there was something about his freak that just didn't feel entirely authentic to me, i guess

one example of what i mean is the whole thing with yoshino's kidney. this happened fairly early on so my memories are a little hazy, bu iirc he said something to make her feel like she owed the family a debt, and since she refuses to owe anyone, she sold a kidney to pay him back immediately

(baller move by yoshino btw. i truly have no complaints about her, love her)

but then some time later yoshino's cousin (or some sort of cousin-esque relative?) shows up and it's revealed that her family deals in black market organ trafficking, so kirishima knows she probably helped yoshino with the supposed kidney sale

i remember kirishima and the cousin getting a chance to talk alone, and i think he said something like... he was looking for yoshino's kidney just to know where it wound up? maybe? but then realized when he saw the scar that she definitely didn't have an organ taken from her

anyway, point being, i remember feeling that the whole exchange had so much potential. like the cousin was delightfully unsettling too, she could have easily been more of a freak about yoshino also. give us some yandere vs yandere action please!

but mainly i felt like if kirishima really committed to the bit he could have been like "yeah i was looking for her kidney because i wanted to have it transplanted into me so that a part of her would always be with me and if she's not a compatible donor for me i could at least eat it. her kidney :3" like man come onnnnnn if you're going to be a sicko be an actual sicko! they don't even have cannibalism <- shrek meme voice

kei from touhai on the other hand, like... i would not say touhai is objectively Better because it is such an absurd, ridiculous mess lol. but it commits to the bit in a way yakuza fiance, to me, just didn't. kei isn't just some kid poser being tossed around in the yakuza world, he's out there like... actual committed to losing a toe to play mahjong, disemboweling himself and all. deeply concerning child but he delivers on the premise of the series

i guess i also have higher standards for yakuza romance in general because the bar of excellence for me is saezuru, which is conceivably BL (and i mean it certainly is) but has such a genuinely great yakuza plot too. like it's tense, it's tragic, it's romantic, it's heart-wrenching, it's haunting, it's beautiful

(disclaimer: i have not caught up with recent chapters so idk if my feelings will change once i do, but i highly doubt it, this has been the bar for like. many many years lol)

(disclaimer 2 electric boogaloo: tw for like. everything. in saezuru. just all the things all the tws)

so anyway. sorry this got really long and rambly lol, the basic tl;dr is just i feel like kirishima's freak did not feel authentic. i don't mean that as in, he's faking it. i'm sure some of his personality is bravado, but i don't think he's a complete sham

it's just there was an almost... shallowness? to the story? like i just couldn't shake the sense that the writing kept doing what it thought would seem edgy, without actually wanting to. idk ultimately, to me, it just felt like a series with no heart

yoshino's amazing though. needs to be said again lmao

[tetrix-anime]

Megami Magazine January 2025 Issue (#296) - Touhai: Ura Rate Mahjong Touhai Roku

[yfu]

Chapter 1 of Haou Densetsu Lion is available on mdex.

You can read it here.

This Tohai spin-off has to do with Dojima's backstory. It's extremely funny and gives you more of an insight into him as a person, as well as all the trials he's gone through. He is an excellent character and one of my absolute favorites after reading Tohai Hitobashira hen.

I did one hell of a hack job in about 6 hours. I literally just translated this because I really want to fuck Dojima.

I hope someone picks this up! Or if you want me to finish it, then please supply Haou Kessen Lion volumes 1-4 to me. Please. I beg you. I cannot guarantee that I will finish even vol 1 of Densetsu.

As another note, I haven't finished reading vol 1 of Densetsu, so I don't know if the chapter names are correct (I did double check some). But it's one hell of a ride, as expected of anything related to Tohai.

Edit: Thanks to feedback from Whitelion!