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Yes I've been busy beavering away at the main school translation. I should make it clear that's the common part of the main school route. The bulk of the translation is unique heroine path text, and that's what's not listed there, and why the total is only 6%.

Went and saw Mary and the witch's flower in a deckchair cinema with the family. Unfortunately the only screening scheduled was the English dub. However when it started playing it was in Japanese with subtitles... for the first 10 minutes until they realised their mistake and started screening it again in the dubbed version. This once again showed me in the space of just 5 minutes of dialogue how much artistic license they take with translation where whole lines were completely changed - not just the nuance of the original, but they said completely different things. I've seen this before for big screen releases where they dumb down the dialogue and make it more explicit because they think English speaking audiences are stupid and have to have everything explained to them. (On Kiki's delivery service, I even noticed they added dialogue in parts where she's flying on a broom quietly saying nothing in Japanese for example.) But anyway Mary and the Witch's Flower was a nice enjoyable rendition of a British fantasy novel called The Little Broomstick, and to their credit, they dubbed it with British accents which was somewhat of a relief. It was fairly predictable and a little childish but appealed enough to my inner child to enjoy it enough with the kids almost as much as Maquia that I reviewed a couple of posts ago. The important thing about this film is it's the first successful film from Studio Ponoc which was an attempt to break free from the curse of living in the shadow of Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki films from one of its old staff and did an admirable job. 8/10

Clover Day's.

As the man who spent 10 years on the To Heart 2 translation project, I salute you, though there's a reason I spent it on To Heart 2 and not To Heart. The main reason ppl love Multi is it's one of the very early VNs that Yui Horie voiced, though she's never ever done a H scene, and she IS the best VA ever.

I didn't say it was awesome, just that it was satisfying enough, which is all that's required to be recommended here. It was still overall a fun watch. It could have done with maybe yet another season or perhaps it would have actually dragged if they did that since they didn't have more material? Who knows. To me it seemed they only had a simplistic idea for the ending and executed it. I didn't feel they had more material even if a lot of viewers wanted more. Sometimes if you get what you ask for, you'll be disappointed. I still gave it an 8/10 overall.

Added Darling in the Franxx.

VNs missed the boat as they would have had to have taken off in the non-instant entertainment era. People don't read any more; that's why VNs will never be popular in the west.

Vanilla with a bit of chocolate. I don't mind a bit of anal.

By the way it's sprites, not CGs that are affected. If they never got the nude sprites from Lose, they will have to get them anew.

An oldie but a goodie. I've been looking for a gif of this Thank you Kentucky Fried Movie for this gem.

Last season was awesome for sequels. This one, not quite so, except for titan I guess... Here's hoping there are some surprises because nothing is grabbing me by the balls at this stage.

Watched the film Maquia - when the promised flower blooms, the other day. It's a story about long-lived (eternal but mortal?) humans and their relationships with regular humans but is obviously far more than that, without spoilers. While I was watching it I thought initially it was only pretty good but as it progressed it grew on me more and more till I thought it was very good and quite moving by the end. I also haven't been able to get its story out of my head the last few days showing the story was quite strong. 8.5/10. The only catch was that the long-lived humans are the magic 15 high school age for their entire lives which was quite amusing given every other anime everyone is that age too.

...Have you seen Maquia? Similar concepts, but with actual long lived humans and other humans. I haven't been able to get its story out of my head for days it was so moving.

Tada-kun wa koi wo shinai had a happy ending so it should have made it to my ultimately satisfying anime list but the show itself and its characters were so bland and meh that it didn't rate highly enough in my eyes to get there, while Umamusume pipped it at the post

Sensitively written love stories and characters that instantly turn into the protagonist with superhuman physiology that torments the heroine during H scenes and... well actually just about everything in the H scene that is in complete contrast to the rest of the story and character development. Considering how much I love H scenes, it's sad how rarely it blends in with the story and characters.

Lose, who have blocked all outside access to Japan, have a few pages that still work, and this picture tells 1000 words. For @Stormwolf, the true route I guess would be the infamous second last character, Hachiroku.

Except for the bath scenes I mentioned which are quite innocuous, although clearly meant to titillate indirectly, but have lots of story dialogue. It may be worth waiting to see if the all ages version has these removed completely as Derg and I have been discussing and if so, go for the adult version and just don't bother bringing up the hard core scenes separately.

That's a hell of a lot of dialogue they'll be deleting then...

I wonder what they'll do about all the nude bath scenes that are part of the main story everywhere for the all ages version? Bathing suits?

That's because they are racehorses, though the only thing horse about them appears to be the ears and tails...

I've added Uma Musume Pretty Derby. Even though I'm embarrassed about even saying I watched it given its childish premise and execution, I did enjoy it, and it meets the criteria for this list.

I made it that far I figured I'd go all the way. I ended up watching the 2 movies and 12 OVAs as well. Still nothing happened, but at least I can say I've seen it all now.

1. I dunno lol. 2. You... skipped... Ruuko? I'm not your friend anymore D: