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I think you'd be surprised actually; I'm sure most people start speedunning games they already know but I'm pretty sure some people do look up how to speedrun a game and start like that, and whilst some speedruns are simply playing the game well, a lot of stuff in speedruns does bypass actually needing to know how to play. Oh wow that is fast. Yup, the one where you can keep jumping up into the sky. I thought it was just for like clothing, I'm learning a lot. Ah no disappointment, as I said it's a weird thing to ask there; I've only played one to the end and a bit of another but they're fun and pretty charming, plenty of hints if needed as well, I also wasn't really going anywhere with this either. Final Fantasy XII is one of the largest games I've ever played so it's not that bad, that and Xenoblade Chronicles both took me about a hundred and fifty hours, and I was spending those thirty hours doing side quests and accidentally finding all the summons - my mistake, all the summons but one: Zodiark is the worst thing I've ever come across in a video game, an unavoidable AoE random chance instant kill dark spell that ignores dark reflect is straight up nonsense, one of the very few times in recent years that I've been annoyed at a game. Sure does, I suppose it makes sense since my favourite genres are the ones where you fail at something eighty times before you (properly) succeed.
Most manga are multiple volumes but most books aren't (I'm pretty sure?) so it makes sense to me, feels like it's a lot easier to buy a lot of manga than a lot of books because of that. Oh I love trinkets, Miscellaneous Things are great. Yeah you could improvise with a lot of things there, other books laid on their side even. I'm more insane than committed I feel. I'm very curious how that would be possible to accidentally do, but yeah I was reading through all of his stuff with the exception of two things: a Light Novel he did illustrations and a chapter at the end for since I wanted to read Fate/Apocrypha first, and something very recent of his that I couldn't find - all around pretty good if you've ever been interested in his stuff. Wonderful news! That sounds like a lot of snow I feel, I don't think I've ever heard a number put to it over here but weather tends to be pretty mild here, so there's probably not any need to.
Oh by the way, since I guess this is as good a time as any to mention this, I started adding notes to things on my list since I enjoyed reading the ones on yours months ago^^ Mine definitely aren't as entertaining though, but that's just how I am. I've also totally got my work cut out for me going back to add them to everything since so far I've just been adding them to series I finish. I think the point of this was to offer my thanks but I can't say I'm entirely sure.

I see, had to look up the DLC but I totally understand now. I think it's consumables that become really powerful in speedruns because you know where exactly to use them and how often you can afford to use them, and so they don't just end up saved for later and never used. Oh SRPG speedruns sound interesting, do they have permadeath on or off for speedruns, because I can totally see crazy nearly-loose-the-battle strategies being really good if that's off. That sounds incredible, I need to look that up - couldn't find that specific height gain glitch but I did find one involving a horse minigame. Reminds me of the glitch in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric where pausing the game would reset Knuckle's double jump, like that's all you had to do lmao. I'm learning that slay is a lot more versatile of a word than I had previously thought. I know this sounds like an utterly insane thing to respond to that with, but have you ever played any of the Professor Layton games? Also now I want to mention the time that I forgot about a small detail that was a puzzle solution in Final Fantasy XII and ended up going on a thirty hour detour trying to solve it, in the end my friend just told me the solution because it was kind of silly and I was never going to figure it out. Thinking about it I'm starting to think that maybe I just have a very high threshold for considering myself stuck.
One generally would so do yeah. Oh the risers is a neat idea, I've heard of double-stacking before but not that. Glad to hear you have options and can keep getting cool books^^ I've been doing the opposite funnily enough, I've read a lot of really long manga this year - if you ignore the thirty eight single volume manga that I've read this year, and twenty two of those are by Itou Junji, then the average length of all the stuff I've read is 9.95 volumes, and I've read seven that are over twenty. Finally, something useful (?) coming from my excessive note taking, and I totally just realised that I missed one oops, make that thirty nine and twenty three by Itou. That's wonderful! And once you connect them all it's even better than you thought it was! Stories are so cool, not as good as music but they might be number two.
Oh wow, I can't imagine that's the easiest thing to get done but I'm sure it's worth it in the end. Oh well good to hear it wasn't something more serious at least then, and even better to hear that it's passed.

Oh my mistake then, how does this Happy Home Catalog work then? I'm only vaguely aware of how New Horizons works, lots of quests to unlock things right; so is it instead of unlocking it and waiting for it to show up in the shop you can just buy it? I still remember fighting the Elite Four in Emerald and Wallace (well technically he was the champion I guess) being an immense problem for me due to him having a grass type move to destroy my Swampert, which was like my only relevant Pokemon, so I'm pretty sure I just kept at it until I could brute force it. Yeah it seems pretty cool; I don't think I've ever used an X item myself and I bet there's a lot of moves and Pokemon you use in speedruns that I would otherwise never use as well, so I almost think JRPG speedruns would be some of the few that I'd be interested in because of weird strategies like that, having said that though not figuring it out yourself is lame so maybe not, it might still be fun to be able to rush through a Pokemon game like that though. I'm sure there was a lot you could do with it other than that, what a weird glitch. Oh I don't agree at all; having to menu fast to save time sounds like a nightmare because it's so optimised and any hesitation at all is a straight up loss of time. I admittedly haven't watched any of their new stuff in years, but they're great for weird programming quirks and esoteric nonsense. That's definitely happened to me before, usually when I've tried everything and I can't bring myself to look it up, but it takes something really difficult to put me off difficulty wise these days, and puzzles don't generally stump me. That's only an issue if it's not fun.
It's like all physical hand-to-hand combat aside from their finishing move, so it's probably pretty easy to imagine. I'm sure there's a bunch of advice floating around for efficiently storing things to save space but at the same time there is only so much one can do, nice to have that to look forward to then though^^ Eight volumes is a good length for a series I feel, that's plenty of time to tell a fully realised story without having to be too focused about it. Maybe I've just read too many four or five volume manga that got axed though. It's normal for most of the manga but like yeah, the ending being so weird really affects the mean number of chapters here. Oh yeah looks like it, I can certainly see a group like CLAMP being able to do longer chapters by splitting the work, and especially early on in their career. Oh that's lovely of her to have done for you. Oh I bet there is, especially in a series that long. It's so cool realising how well planned out a series was when things start coming together later on or on a re-read.
That's wonderful to hear, and I can totally sympathise with ignoring your body because you want to do things when you really shouldn't be. Oh cool, I think there was a bit of snow over here a few weeks ago but it didn't stick; seeing everything covered in white is pretty nice whenever that happens. If you're feeding that many people I'd bet that the turkey is the only thing that can fit in the oven. Perhaps yeah, allergies would certainly explain something unexpected but it is also the time of year for getting sick as well.

That wasn't in the game from the start!? That was in both Wild World and New Leaf, so I assume it's been in all of them except New Horizons. Exactly! Pokemon is like the series where you lose the most from resetting and they never added multiple saves, I'd love to do some specific things in them or even just replay them the same way I did years ago - by brute forcing through it with my starter. I know speedruns actually use X items and have repels up, if not constantly far more than anyone would on a first playthrough, and remember an X item is plus fifty percent in that stat, so they're destroying trainers with way higher levelled Pokemon than they have themselves, and then combine all that with optimal strategies and that's saving a lot of time - and if that's not enough then there must be some major skips in there as well, I actually do want to check out a run so I'll have the answer eventually. That reminds me of how in the original Japanese version of Diamond and Pearl you could use surf on the Elite Four doors to get out of bounds and get event Pokemon without the event items. So in summary: they're both godtier and have cheats. Oh some speedrun tricks are so finnicky I'm not surprised to hear that. Oh I bet I would; I love pannenkoek's Super Mario 64 videos if you know who he is. Getting stuck in video games never really bothers me unless I'm grasping at straws, dying to the same boss for hours doesn't bother me; I a hundred percent agree with you when it comes to Mega Man though; those games are way more fun if you know what you're doing to the point that they're one of the few times I've just straight up looked everything up my first time playing them.
It makes a lot of sense if you've seen the show; the original PreCure is pretty violent, I remember hearing they got complaints it was too much for the target audience which I do somewhat understand, but at the same time he did do a really good job directing it; that show is great. Oh no! I can only suggest the obvious solution of more efficient storage, perhaps stack more things vertically so that you have more floor space to put - well one of those glass figurine cases might be excessive, but you get the idea. Ah right, got it. Excluding on-going series is probably excluding a lot of them to be fair, but yeah - I think perhaps popular series running a lot longer than others and being, well, popular gives the wrong impression of how long series generally are. Yeah, fifty pages wouldn't be unreasonable for an extra long last chapter or two. Insane chapter lengths for an insane manga! The weirdest I've ever come across is Teizokurei Daydream, which not only only has twenty two chapters in a ten volume manga but the final chapter goes on for about three volumes and has other chapters in the middle of it; I really have to imagine it wasn't originally published like that but even then it is pretty cool that it's so weird. All aboard the Yona express!! Having all the volumes for a manga that long, especially when it's your favourite (or one of? I forget), must be so cool. And yeah, a full re-read once it's done would be really fun; I bet there's so much stuff you would notice now.
Ah yeah definitely stay warm, especially if you've been a bit sick, I don't actually know what temperature it's been over here though - just that it's cold. Oh wow yeah that is a lot of people, and with stuffing as well which I wasn't thinking of, yeah you wouldn't have room for anything else, I totally understand now. Don't worry, I figured you'd be busy with events but getting sick is most unfortunate - doesn't sound like it was too bad though at least.

It probably does help to have a lot of the furniture items available to you to pick from which I certainly never really had, I imagine trading helps a lot there though. I mean totally yeah, but that particular site feels like a weird place for it to me. They should but I doubt they ever will. I know you're joking but any% is under three hours, I wonder how many major skips are in that because there's no glitchless category listed - honestly it'd be really cool if it's just playing really well. I love glitches and weird programming quirks but I'd never want to speedrun something myself; I wouldn't want to learn stuff like boss quick-kills and have to intentionally play worse to play the game normally. Just playing a game through as fast as I can is something I'd like to do more of though because that's fun, and plus replaying stuff in general I want to do more of.
Oh wonderful, I'll give this a look for sure, thanks^^ That's a very good point, and also an excellent opportunity to bring up that the original Futari wa PreCure and the original Dragon Ball plus most of Z had the same director. I just want some cool inexpensive toys of stuff I like dammit. Alas, I am still yet to experience much of getting to talk about series. Wow that's a long time, I figured it would be Yona though. Ten volumes is long-form? I'm never quite sure what to think about the matter because to me I think about twenty volumes is when something feels long to me, but I also very much understand that the vast vast majority of manga do not reach ten volumes, let alone twenty - I looked on here once and there are something like two hundred completed manga that are twenty volumes or more, out of something like a hundred and sixty thousand that are on the site in total. You said that was the first long-form manga you read but the first manga I read, which was Death Note, was longer than that; and then I went on to read a few volumes of Bleach and then Soul Eater as the second thing I ever read in full, so perhaps that's part of why I feel differently about things. Ah, a bit on the shorter end then; yeah seventy would be very long for Yona then. I think the two most recent volumes of Made in Abyss contain about five chapters between them, although that is partly due to there being a couple of side chapters in there as well. I know right, it's also really interesting because Made in Abyss is super fantastical but Kamigami no Itadaki is incredibly realistic; it's really cool how people's inspirations can come across in such varied ways. It sure isn't going anywhere that's true, I think I like the idea of reading it in the new year - Dawn in the name, new year; sounds like a good fit to me!
Oh same here; I like the cold too but this is a bit much for me at the moment. Evidently that depends on how you cook the bird then because the way I know of is the chicken and the roast potatoes being done in the same roasting pan, so I guess the turkey in question is bigger than the chickens I'm used to.

I've seen some super duper cool rooms in Animal Crossing games, like really nicely themed and put together, and then mine are all a random assortment of things that I had. That feels like a mildly weird place to announce updates but I've never used the site so what do I know. They absolutely do not, not even on the Switch; it made sense back on the DS and earlier, maybe even on the 3DS but they have no excuse with the Switch, and no using multiple profiles doesn't count. Ah yeah, I don't remember about Pokemon specifically but needing to grind early in JRPGs feels pretty common. Apparently yeah!
Oh if the name ever surfaces in your mind then please do let me know. Yeah, what I've tended to notice is contemporary stuff is more on the toy end of things and later stuff is more of the collectible nature, or in other words cheaper and more expensive respectively. Oh that's a thought, yeah I suppose most of the fans of Sailor Moon these days probably are adults; it doesn't feel like it's had that constant presence over the years that something like Dragon Ball has had, but at the same time I feel like most people do know what it is so I'm not actually quite sure. On the other hand though, I think merchandise in general is aimed more at adults these days. Yeah, but at the same time you get to re-use them every episode so it works out to put in crazy amounts of effort, perhaps they wouldn't be re-used as often in Crystal as in the original though. I think for me aside from one or two series it's going to be years before anything I'm following ends, and I'm hoping that it's years for those two as well. Oh and on that note, I think I finally get the full appeal of following a series as it publishes: the latest chapter of Gachiakuta was full of delicious lore and nutritious speculation; I've never had so much fun with a mere seventeen pages^^ What's the longest you've been following a series by the way, and also how long has it been with Akatsuki no Yona out of curiosity? I mean seventy pages isn't that long compared to the usual monthly chapter length, it is insane to jump up to that for a weekly manga though yeah. Made in Abyss has multiple chapters that are over a hundred pages if I'm remembering things right but it also has a very irregular schedule, and a manga called Kamigami no Itadaki seems like all of its chapters were as long or short as they needed to be - one being over a hundred pages long and it's absolutely fantastic and one of the best chapters I've ever read. Wait hold on, I was looking at the page for it to get the link and apparently it inspired Made in Abyss, that's really funny that I mentioned them both then. I could totally do it in December if I wasn't trying to fit in so many other things, but I totally need to force myself to take it easy after this as well. The series of random chances that lead you to who you are are so insane if you consider it for any amount of time.
Yay warmth! Mashed potatoes!? Oh that's weird to me, neat. Like genuinely, I would have never even considered that as an option.

Ah yeah, I like Animal Crossing too, although for me it would depend on it it was more like New Horizons or the older games - a lot about New Horizons didn't interest me, and if anything I actually want to revisit the older games and play those some more. Oh no I haven't, I don't actually have a source of video game news these days, that's super cool. I've never replayed a Pokemon game myself because I'm never going to reset my savefile, although I suppose there are things I could do about that. I don't remember Pokemon ever being grindy but I suppose I'm either wrong or managed somehow else - oh no yeah, I remember crashing into the Elite Four in Moon over and over until I got the levels to beat them lmao. I'm pretty sure my twelve hours was including the Delta Episode, but if there was anything else then I don't remember it.
Oh that sucks if you don't mind me saying, if someone is tired then they're tired - and if it's due to illness then that's all there is to it, people really want too much from everyone and it sucks. Oh were there, that's cool - I need to see if I can find pictures of some of them then. I've got a plushie Usagi myself actually but I'm always interested in merchandise that was contemporary to the series rather than coming later because there's a definite difference between the two. I'm not like super well versed in it myself, but I do have a very definite interest in it so what I don't know directly I probably have a decent idea of from having looked into things. Yeah that's what I've heard, the early animation is a bit wonky, and whilst I've not seen them, transformation scenes seem like one of the better places to use CGI - I feel like the contrast between 2D and 3D is what brings out the worst in CGI so if it's kept separate like that I would assume it to look a lot better. On the other hand though, you're really going to use CGI for your stock footage? Some of what I consider the most aesthetically pleasing CGI in anime is from a show from 2000, and it being kept entirely separate to the 2D plays a huge role in that, although admittedly my aesthetic preferences likely also play a role in that. Oh, Usagi aside Crystal has different voice actors to the original - that's going to be a shock to me, I think I even read Mamoru's lines in the manga in his voice (and he's just one of my favourite voice actors in general) and I really liked Haruka's voice actor as well, like I'm not saying anything about the quality of their voice acting (especially when I haven't seen Crystal) but changes in voice actor are always really jarring to me. More lore! It also just works really well for a series that doesn't have much room for lore in the games themselves. Yeah that probably would be quite a shock wouldn't it; so far there's only ever been one manga that I followed chapter by chapter that has ended, and that did surprise me a little but it was also a short single-volume series that was always meant to be that way (not that I knew that at the time) so it was more it saying "final chapter" that surprised me than the story wrapping up there. I think that final chapter was also longer than the rest as well, and another manga that I just finished reading has a few seventy odd page chapters at the end in what was otherwise a series with your usual weekly manga chapter lengths - so maybe that'll happen for Akatsuki no Yona, I don't think longer final chapters are that rare at any rate. Ah I see, if it's December then there's no chance but if it were January or even later then there's a good chance I could get it all read for perhaps even the day the final chapter is out; still, I do believe that I shall read that rather soon regardless, that'll be fun. I saw it on here by pure chance; here's a link since it's a bit out of the way at this point to find. There's an entire series that I'm reading because I happened to see a thread for it on the right panel of the forums page, random chance is crazy sometimes.
I've not got much going on but things are alright, it's been really cold recently but thankfully it's been a lot warmer these last few days. Ah, have fun with those then! I'm not really one for celebrating much myself but I very much hope you have fun with both of those, lots of good food and all that jazz. Do people have roast potatoes with turkey on Thanksgiving? I always associate those with roast chicken and turkey is probably similar? Anyway I love those, had some yesterday actually.

I mean that's better than my five hours of Awakening a decade ago. It's probably not super my kind of game either but I think I could see myself playing it, more of a not the usual type of thing I gravitate towards than something I don't think I'd enjoy. It's not just the plot, I can remember maybe three locations in the game - the roller skates, trainer customisation, breeding changes, and megas were all incredible ideas though. I mean evidently so, but I did check HowLongToBeat and it gives "rushed" as seventeen hours and an average of about twenty five, so my twelve sounds like it was absurdly fast - I don't remember doing anything special either.
Woohoo! That's understandable but just remember to listen to and look out for your body; it's no good making yourself feel bad in order to not feel bad. I think I can see why; mahou shoujo is ancient and it also provides plenty of opportunities to sell toys which is always good for getting anime made without the need for a manga to have proven that there's interest. I think it's also maintained its popularity better than mecha so you still get a lot of it made, even if (probably due to Madoka) there's a lot of darker mahou shoujo these days - there's still an absolute truckload of PreCure though and I cannot wait for Princession Orchestra to finish, that show sounds amazing. No I think you're right there, this is definitely the exception - I've heard Nanoha goes that route as well though; she ends up liking it so much she makes it her profession. Oh and I guess its their job in Symphogear as well. I think there's also more mahou shoujo than you would think where they are simply literally a magical girl rather than the usual transformation affair though. I've heard mixed things about, well mostly the earlier seasons of Crystal, but I do still plan to get to it someday. I'm not quite sure how I feel about the manga, I certainly don't dislike it, not even close, but it's both rather different to the anime in a sense and also I might've overwhelmed myself reading it in Japanese as quickly as I did, so that might have affected my enjoyment of it somewhat. No disagreements on Takeuchi's art though, and I love all the outfits they get at various points - I love shoujo manga outfits so much. They're so insanely cool!! Ah right, gotcha. I was mostly joking about it being cheating, besides they all add to and change things from the real life stuff so it's still fresh. One of the characters has an attack named after a sword owned by the real life equivalent of one other character that I think is very much the one they wear in game, and there's a bunch of stuff like this and it makes me giddy. The main games all have text files with lore for every character in the game as well, it's great. Ah, you'd rather read something shorter first then I guess? Spooky body of work! Oh Last Quarter sounds interesting, the cover art's really cool too; I'll have to get to that at some point. Oh that's an idea, I think something of that sort could work and a publisher could for sure do it as well. Oh wow that came out of nowhere, I say as someone who hasn't read it at all, have fun and remember to go insane responsibly. Is that the December or January chapter then, or is it more irregular than that? I miight try and read that soon then around when it finishes; that's a lot of manga but it'd also be fun to talk about it while it's still fresh. Hotaru no Yomeiri is finishing soon as well I saw, which is actually mildly annoying because I finally came up with a really good time to fit it in but it'll probably be over by then which ruins the whole thing if it's no longer on-going, curse my particularness.

It sure is. Yeah I think that's the one, toothpaste hair main characters as well. That does sound likely. Wait my bad, I was unclear again (I think) - the art for the Arslan Senki novel was Amano Yoshitaka, not the manga. Oh it's the Full Metal Alchemist author, didn't realise they did Gin no Saji as well - not that I've read any of these mind you. Yeah, I hope it's good even if I'm not entirely sure that I'd like to play it. I used to be super into Pokemon from Diamond where I started up until Omega Ruby but super fell off after that for whatever reason; I think it was because after ending up playing both Y and Omega Ruby almost entirely for IV breeding and stuff I kind of lost interest in new games, I never beat Moon on release even if I never disliked it by any means; I know it was your generation so I don't want to be too harsh on it but I can remember almost nothing about Y, and arguably even less about Omega Ruby plus I beat that one in like twelve hours.
Hopefully that works out as it should then, and oh my that's unfortunate on both counts to say the least. Ah yeah, don't take on too much work for sure. It sure is! I think mahou shoujo is one of those types of series where there's noticeably more of it anime wise but there's still a decent chunk of manga out there - I actually gave the tag on here another look through after that and there's a lot of stuff that looks really cool, and most notably Magi-Lumière finished a few months ago, so I can fit that in whenever I want now which is nice. It's so hard to recommend the original Sailor Moon anime because of how long it is but it's so good; the manga's art is great and the plot is a lot better but all the character moments in the anime really make it for me. Oh that reminds me, I forget why but I wanted to ask if Crystal adapts that story that takes up a whole volume that's focused on Luna. Oh I've been meaning to read Sakura hime Kaden for a while now, I'll let you know once I read it I guess? But the definition of mahou shoujo can be pretty loose, so probably. The cover art always reminds me of this one Touhou character. Touhou lore is so good by the way, is it cheating when the character is based on real life? Probably but I don't care. Ah yeah I remember talking about Cardcaptor Sakura a while back, as I think I said then I need to get to that one as well - I had been thinking about starting with that one but we will have to see! Oh wow she's written a lot of manga, and it's super unusual for someone's most popular work to be their most recent, that's cool. Ah yeah probably, manga's also tricky given everything's multiple volumes so how many copies do you want of each volume; you don't want too many but you don't want to keep people waiting too long either. I may have forgotten to specify that I was talking about a Japanese word there, oops. But yeah essentially it does mean that, and I just really like that that's just the word for that even when it's being used for an online site - I guess the same is true of window shopping in English.
Yup! I have no idea if there's any need for me to say this but I remembered something I read online about how you have to remember that your best isn't always the same and that's worth keeping in mind I feel.

I think I actually know the answer to this off the top of my head, let's see: There's the original Fate/stay night and its sequel Fate/hollow ataraxia and prequel Fate/Zero. There's also a spin-off manga about Emiya (the main character) cooking which is presumably of irrelevant canonicity but is meant to fit into stay night, and Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya which is a mahou shoujo spin-off of stay night presumably set in an alternate universe but the characters are all mostly from stay night from what I know. Then there's Fate/EXTRA, Fate/EXTRA CCC, Fate/EXTELLA, and Fate/EXTELLA LINK that all share the same (different) universe - I thought that LINK wasn't a sequel to EXTELLA but according to Wikipedia it is (I wanted to check the correct capitalisation and everything and happened to read that). Fate/Apocrypha is its own thing in its own universe and I'm pretty sure the same applies to Fate/Grand Order, Fate/Samurai Remnant, and Fate/type Redline, but Redline I think is set in the early twentieth century so it could very well exist in the same universe as another. Then there's Fate/Prototype which is a short little animated thing based on the original version of stay night which if I'm remembering correctly was an otome game, and Fate/strange Fake which I actually don't know anything about. That is as far as I know off the top of my head, Wikipedia has reminded me of the existence of Lord El-Melloi II-sei no Jikenbo which I am almost certain is set in the same universe as the original Fate/stay night, as well as Carnival Phantasm but that's based on a gag manga called Take-Moon and is more of a general Type-Moon thing than just Fate, and a few fighting games based on Fate/stay night. I think that's everything but Wikipedia doesn't list type Redline so it could be missing others. Sorry, I know you said you were curious but that was really self indulgent. I'm sticking with what I said, there's both more and less than you think there is; there's the Fate/stay night and Fate/EXTRA universes, and then everything else is its own thing with the exception of Fate/kaleid liner being an alternate version of Fate/stay night's universe, so it's almost pretty simple. Yeah I know; it's popular but like at this point a lot of that is Grand Order so the rest is also weirdly un-popular?, and I'm pretty sure people like me who like it mostly for the mythological aspects are pretty rare as well. Ah yeah, they did something weird with Engage mechanically right, so it'll be cool to see what they do next. Oh wow yeah the Breath of the Wild Great Fairies totally have a similar feel to them, just not as intense. The novel for Arslan Senki is really old, it started in 1986, and so I can totally see it being popular enough in Japan for them to want to make a musou based on the manga adaptation of it that started in 2013, especially with Amano Yoshitaka (the Final Fantasy artist) art - wait no way he did the art for Vampire Hunter D as well? Oh I can totally see that now that I know it, that's cool. It's probably a case of Arslan Senki having lacked an English translation and so you never hear of it in English. Yeah that was the name. Honestly all the Pokemon spin-offs are really good (especially the typing one) so this'll probably be really cool, especially with a premise like that.
Hopefully next year isn't so busy for you then^^ Oh, I don't even know, there's still stuff I need and want to read for this site's Manga Reading Challenge, and there's some stuff I've wanted to get to for ages in there so that'll be cool, but honestly as much as I like the excuse of that to find new stuff or get to stuff I've been meaning to read for ages, once I'm done with that I sort of want to just dive into my specific interests again - I think a bunch of mahou shoujo stuff (well I'm sort of reading two right now actually) might be what I read first but we'll see, making plans and sticking to them too rigidly is definitely something I want to stop doing. Ah yeah, it's probably a case of once they have a relationship with the original publisher even if it's not an exclusive one they already have their foot in the door to do more, and more works by the same author is a great way to market to people as well. Seeing what's popular in Japan or just what they think will be popular in their country I guess, or there's a good bit of people wanting to bring a specific series they like over as well I think. Funny you say that, I've heard that Crunchyroll used to be a pirate site - I have no idea how that worked out though. Pirates always have better service unfortunately, legitimate platforms are usually managed by people who want to make money not a good website - and often they end up treating everyone like a potential pirate and making the experience worse and making people want to pirate as a result. Ah yeah I remember you telling me about that, it's a really cool idea. I mean how would they make their money then, or wait are you saying they have a limited number that can be borrowed - I think that idea only works with something local like a library or else they'd just be constantly checked out. I think the closest you'll get is what we have now with initial / recent chapters being free or letting you read the first however many pages of a book. Oh that reminds me I saw one site for manga that used the word for reading a book whilst standing up in the shop for that, that was pretty cute. Ooooh, that sounds super cool.
That's wonderful to hear^^ Ah, the holidays - I hope it's not too bad for you, don't forget to take the rest that you need.

I feel like there's somehow both more and less Fate than one would think there is. Yeah, weapon variety is certainly not an issue entirely the fault of the people making Fire Emblem Warriors; they kind of got dealt a bad hand there. Yeah, they're definitely rather terrifying - Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are both more than a little unsettling now that I think about it. Yeah, that's very fair and makes perfect sense. I went and looked it up, and there are actually fewer musous based on other series than I thought - wait hold on they're making a Pokemon spin-off where you play as a Ditto transformed into a human??? I'm also surprised to see that Gundam was the first series to get a musou based on it, although I suppose I can't tell you what my first guess would have been.
I see, brain curses to go with their weaponised curses. Ah, I've got about fifty things that I want to read as soon as possible so I'm in no rush - I took way too long with a lot of stuff this year and so things have just been accumulating. Oh nice, that's wonderful! If you can read Japanese all you have to do is open a single magazine that isn't Jump and you'll find stuff no one has heard of in English, and then on top of that I think publishers probably try and package series together when licensing them out. I think also in the earlier days of English releases a lot of the people behind them had a lot of passion for it, and that's an easy way to end up at obscure series. I'm bad enough with names when I can read them! I couldn't even remember what the main character's family name was in the last series I read in Japanese. I still like my CDs. I don't think I've ever heard anything good about Crunchyroll as it happens. I don't know about specifics, but it does seem that letting people read a limited amount of stuff for free is a pretty popular choice for drawing people in, so something like that would be likely. I think the Internet Archive has some kind of digital library thing going on where you can check books out. I think you're a lot more likely to get that kind of thing from libraries than publishers but I think people are trying to get digital lending of books to work a lot better, so that'll probably happen eventually. Ah, a bit annoying having to re-order it but it looks like that actually ended up being a benefit, not bad!
Don't worry, don't worry, I appreciate your messages all the same^^ I've actually been meaning to say that for a while as weird as it kind of feels to actually say; thank you so very much for all the conversations we've had and will have, it's all been really fun. Good luck with work!

Fate/Extella Link's a game yeah, if it's the same as the first it's about half visual novel and half musou, I haven't actually gotten around to it yet because I wanted to hundred percent the first game first - and then there's the Fate musou actually done by Koei Tecmo, Fate/Samurai Remnant, that I need to get as well! A soul-devouring genre for sure. I bought it for twenty! No one's buying it for that price to play it is what annoys me the most, it's not actually worth that much it's just people flipping it and then flipping it over and over to make money. Ah yeah I was looking at it on here and it says the episodes are about that long. Yeah, I think in musou games characters are generally pretty diverse, it was a pretty big complaint about Fire Emblem Warriors that they weren't. He knows what he did. The camera is actually zoomed out as well with that weapon because the Great Fairy is the appropriate size. Yeah, I think the one I had the last time I played was the Skyward Sword design and I think the first weapon tier was as you might expect the Ocarina of Time design. The story mode took me about ten hours, I'd need to go back to it and play it on hard as well for heart pieces and Skulltulas but even then it's a tiny part of the game. Three Hopes is apparently a lot better than the original Fire Emblem Warriors, so that's good, and I mean they're pretty simple games - you mow down enemies and capture territory, I'm almost certain you have the full idea of what they are. In my experience the actual gameplay, the fighting, never really gets hard but the decision making can actually be pretty tough because you can just lose if you don't correctly prioritise defending your territories. I think Hyrule Warriors is the only one that is anything like that insane but I'm not too familiar with most of them, I know most of the Gundam ones have a bunch of what-if crossover scenarios but even then I don't think they're that long of games.
He's got trauma too? The Ban similarities continue to accumulate. Ah yes of course, that makes perfect sense then. I'll give it a miss for now, honestly apart from anything else it'd probably be really fun to talk about if I did ever read it, so it's very much still under consideration. Techniques have to have cool names though so you can write them in big letters on the page. It's sadly completely lost in the English translation but Hero san to Moto Onna Kanbu san's main villain has some really cool ones that all play around with reading her name X as different things. Tokyopop published some ridiculously out there stuff, I'm still surprised at some of the stuff that has an English release thanks to them, although I do suppose the less popular series would have been cheaper to license. I caught Mahou Shoujo to Mayaku Sensou (magical girl yakuza drug wars) right as it started and so I've been reading it on the Shounen Jump website too, and then there's all the other things I read on sites in Japanese as they come out - all the Yakuza family names and everything made me switch to reading it in English after chapter one, and now that I think about it given all the stuff I haven't given up on that's impressive. I don't like subscription-based services on the basis of you're left with nothing to show for your money the second you stop, Spotify is the worst for this and it doesn't even pay artists well either. Part of that is how I do things though I suppose; like if you read a lot of what's currently publishing or airing then paying for a subscription probably isn't that bad, but if you go for specific things like I do then you'd be better off just buying that thing and getting to keep it I feel. There being forty different platforms is just the icing on the cake, and you know why - they want their money. Bear with me a second here; so I'm not quite sure how this works because I've never made an account, but how all the Japanese sites work is that usually the most recent two (keeping in mind a chapter released in two parts counts as two) and the first or first few chapters are free and then the rest cost points - what I don't know is how the points work, I don't know if you have to pay for them or if you get a certain number every so often for free or what, although I do know that some sites will give you points for checking out certain new series which is a neat idea. I think that one big simulpub service could perhaps work but only if it worked off of some kind of points system like that, with your subscription giving you however many points; the idea being that you effectively sacrifice being able to read everything from one publisher in order to be able to mix and match from multiple without paying a huge subscription fee, and that would also be how each different publisher collects their share of subscription fees. It's not a perfect idea either, they'd never all play nice like that and they definitely like it when someone subscribes for a single series, but it's the best I could come up with. Oh no, that is most unfortunate. Asking the post office might work yeah, I'm really not sure - it might take longer but get you it without the hassle of trying to get a replacement. Sounds wonderful then, go get and enjoy those books!

The best kind of stuff! I think they have gone up but they're still reasonable yeah. That reminds me of how I bought the special edition of Fate/Extella Link because it barely cost more than a regular copy of it, at least both of us got something cool out of it rather than just paying way too much. I wish that were the case too, English language Vita games are ridiculous - nobody is paying two hundred for Dangranronpa 2 to play it seeing as it's a game that is on every platform in existence. Sounds like it has to be that then, I'll have to fit that in at long last then after I watch some other anime I want to get to first. Sixteen is a pretty good number now that I think about it, I think Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star has about that many and that never felt lacking to me, so both it at launch and Age of Calamity aren't doing bad. Oh, my favourite idea in that game is one of Link's weapons; a handful of characters have different weapons which are essentially different movesets, and one of Link's is a Great Fairy. What this entails is that the Great Fairy sticks Link in a bottle and does all the work herself whilst carrying him around in the bottle. It's really funny, and also the different weapon skins you get are for this weapon just entirely different Great Fairy designs which is super cool. I mean those numbers seem pretty good unless you made a typo? Alright so there are two main modes in this game, Legend Mode is story mode and then Adventure Mode is where things get insane. The first map in Adventure Mode is the map of the first Zelda game, each square of the map is a mission you have to do with things like character restrictions or extra challenges added, the missions themselves vary from fairly standard to stuff like trivia questions where you have to kill the enemy that's the answer to the question, and you also get items from clearing certain missions (bombs, the bow, hookshot, raft, etc.) and these are either needed to be able to do the mission at all or for extra rewards. As for the rewards, clearing missions can get you the aforementioned items, new characters, new weapons for characters, costumes, higher tier weapons which come with new skins, and there's also more minor rewards you find during the missions; Skulltulas, heart pieces, and fairies. There are ten different maps in Adventure Mode, including Master Quest versions and ones based on different games, and I've done most of the first and like half of two others - so yeah, there's a lot of stuff to do, and for a musou it's about as varied as it could be and you get a tonne of unlocks as well; it's really cool.
Yeah, he was pretty relaxed until Getou showed up, glad to know that I can in fact read then. What do you mean gay baby jail makes sense lmao. Prison Realm is a fairly mundane name all things considered, somehow though it reminded me of an episode of 60s Spider-Man called Dimension Five which is both a fairly insane connection for me to have made and wow that's an old memory. Eh, I can't say for sure but it sounds to me like the sort of thing that doesn't need explaining much. That makes me wonder how much luck I would have had trying to buy physical copies when I first got into things; I feel like a lot of random stuff got English releases in the 2000s but I think I would have been just a little bit too late to that. Things do seem really good these days for the popular series and magazines at least; you can read a lot of stuff for free at the same time it releases in Japanese if you catch a series when it's new, and that is genuinely really cool but the thing is that that barely even scratches the surface.
Wonderful news! Oh that's annoying, hopefully then yeah. Understandable, and it's definitely better to have it for when you end up wanting to read it than not. Only in a sense; that money's days are numbered. That's true, but at least personally I'd rather spread out the waiting for the next volume somewhat evenly by taking the ones that are already out slowly.

The one I had been eyeing, the Diamond and Pearl Collection as it's apparently called, is still pretty cheap yeah - crazy cheap for four films actually; I never saw any of those ones and it'd probably be pretty fun. Nah, it was definitely a side thing and not the main series - it probably was Generations I think I have to assume. Oh no, my bad; I was only re-watching it on VHS back when VHSes were relevant, I do still have a VHS player though. Ah, interesting. Oh right, yeah that'd be an issue with making it canon then. I was going to look up how many characters base-game Hyrule Warriors and quickly remembered that I never unlocked them all, so I'm going to abandon that inquiry - it's all what was DLC on the Wii U version, and there was a lot of it I'm pretty sure but at this point in time Hyrule Warriors with all the DLC is pretty much competing right next to Age of Calamity and so even if it's unfair in practical terms it absolutely wins. I have like a hundred and twenty hours on that game and barely feel like I got much of anywhere in it, in reality I am like a fifth of the way towards doing everything though.
Was he arrogant in Zero as well and I missed that or not, either way the more I learn about Gojou the more I think he's just Midou Ban if you remember me bringing that up ages ago - arrogant bad boy, eye magic that needs covering, spiky hair, and the same style of glasses. Got it, him being that type of character actually further explains his popularity to me as well. Personally I've been thinking gay baby jail ever since you mentioned the box. Oh I would straight up not have most of my interests if it wasn't for fan translations; anime, manga, and tokusatsu would all be gone and I wouldn't have started learning Japanese either. There's just too much manga, there's a lot that has no translation as it is and it would be even worse if it was just official releases. Not to mention that I happen to know that WataMote got an official English release because of the fan translation showing that there was interest in it. I'm as clueless as you are my friend, I think my standards are just crazy low sometimes.
Yeah, reading is one thing but having to synthesise sentences yourself is just impossible if you're trying to pay any attention to something else.
Ooh, have fun. Oh wow there are a lot of volumes of Case File Compendium, but it looks like only three of them come out a year so I wouldn't rush it personally. I do understand wanting new cool stuff though, and a walk's always pretty fun too actually - I appear to have talked myself out of my initial stance on the matter; do what your heart tells you to I suppose, either way sounds fine right?

A few years ago I actually thought about getting the DVDs for some of the ones I never saw but I never ended up following through on that. That reminds me, there was some Pokemon anime other than the main one from a few years ago I think it was that I remember hearing was pretty good - I'd have said it was Generations but at least going by the synopsis on here it doesn't sound like what I was thinking of. It's been so long that I can't really remember but I think the Lucario film was my favourite (I'm not huge on anime Pokemon cries but the Regis' cries in that film were really really good), well it was either that or the Manaphy one. On a related note I have absolutely no regrets about getting Pokemon Ranger just for a Manaphy, those games were cool. Ah that sounds really cool! My first anime was Transformers Armada, which I re-watched by way of having some of it on VHS^^ I actually re-watched that in full last year and it's really good which I wasn't really expecting. No one will want to do anything if they can just cuddle the spooky worm. In that sense is Legends Arceus considered a Legends remake of Diamond and Pearl then? I mean I think you probably might as well make it canon, they're both set in the past of Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom right? So I feel like you could gloss over inconsistencies pretty easily in that case as long as they weren't anything major, and being set apart in time also makes it not matter as much whether it's canon or not, so why not. But at the same time why would you focus on that, so yeah that does sound pretty weird especially if Age of Calamity was supposed to be an alternate thing, but then again maybe it's just marketing? Yeah that does help. It's a classic Chinese novel about China's Three Kingdom's period, where as the name rather implies there was a lot of infighting after the collapse of the Han dynasty. I've not read it myself for the record, or played Dynasty Warriors, but it's pretty well known - like it's up there with Journey to the West. I guess I'm also forgetting that I'm including all the DLC when I talk about Hyrule Warriors, so I'm perhaps not being entirely fair but even then I think it still wins, especially since the Switch version includes all of that. Having a lot of characters from the one game is pretty impressive though.
This is my favourite description of a character's popularity that I've ever seen hahaha. I think I agree with you on Nanami but you're forgetting that he looks like a respectable individual, whereas Gojou ticks all the bad boy boxes that people like. If he's got a similar level of relevance in the main series as he has in Zero then I completely understand, but at the same time I totally get why merchandise and the like would include him with the main characters given how popular he is. I need to know more about the silly little box but at the same time I don't because it's funnier that way. There's also the fact that fan translations made up a much larger proportion of things back then as well, especially for the stuff I was reading. That's very fair. I guess most of what I read wasn't action focused so reading single pages at a time wouldn't have been as bad, but I did also just remember that I read JoJo with single pages as well so past me was clearly a fool. Hopefully I will, I barely get the chance to get shirts and stuff of series I like so this would be really cool to find.
Ah yeah, writing is probably the time when I'm most vulnerable to my music distracting me as well.