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I'll be 80 in 2050 if I'm still around. I'm not going to start holding my breath waiting any time soon...

Hundred continues to be grinworthy. All that tropeworthy goodness executed to a T. Just what the doctor ordered. Love it. EDIT: Kabaneri just keeps delivering. Another awesome episode with #5

Nope. I'd regret it forever that I didn't know English. English is a stupid language that can never be mastered except for by native speakers such as myself and it's still the most important language to know on the world scene.

I think you're seeing something different than you think you're seeing there. To me it's just

I loved NagiAsu and watched it almost in one sitting. It was just as good on a rewatch when my wife watched it too where I saw the relationships from a totally different perspective thanks to the knowledge of hindsight.

Finished AmagamiSS and the 2 specials. It was pretty good. Not exceptional but enjoyable enough as an anime rendition of a VN. I'll save SS+ for another time. With my wife we finished Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou and The Devil is a Part Timer which she really enjoyed and now we're watching K-on which she doesn't mind. Now for old shows myself I'm currently watching Magical Warfare, No-rin and Cardcaptor Sakura, all of which are okay (they're on Animelab which I'm a subscriber of so it's a no-brainer to watch them.)

Absolutely. The worst shows bring random inexplicable plot devices in at random intervals to explain things away that you can never even see making sense in retrospect. That's the usual sign of bad writing and there are thousands of shows that fit into that category... this season included.

Agreed. Things are starting to fall into logical place kind of predictably but not in a bad way. The execution is excellent.

The osananajimi girl I grew up alongside that I pretended to dislike and we didn't see each other through our early teen years - when we met up again I fell for her and we got married and lived happily ever after. It does actually happen...

Well the progress of this took an unexpected turn. While I still stick to my original summary that this game is not as good as the first, it turns out my main problem was I just didn't like 2 of the heroines in the game. I played Sana's route and it was kind of boring and then Kaoruko's who I actually didn't like and ended up skipping through a lot of it. After that I decided to turn to the cousin route, Fuuka, and I was pleasantly surprised. One unusual thing about this game is you need to actually go through each girl's route 3 times to be able to get most of the important scenes for them. When you finish a route it asks you if you want to save the girl's goodwill towards you for the next time you play through the game. The idea is that you can play the game through again and it takes a relatively different storyline if you choose different scenes to play with the girl. In principle it sounds good but the reality is once you've played through a heroine's route once she is not that interesting for the second time around so I ended up skipping all the scenes I'd already played and tried to get H scenes that were still locked - and you can't get them unless you play them multiple times. The nice thing is you can configure it to just choose "skip" for scenes you've already played through, but you still get the heroine's goodwill towards you for playing that scene. Each scene has a list of girls and whether they appear in that scene or not which gives you an idea of if they'll develop goodwill towards you or not. The other thing is that you get to choose when to confess to the girl of your choice and you may have to confess more than once for the girl to respond favourably, depending on just how much goodwill she has towards you. On multiple plays, you may not even need to confess to her at all, she may confess to you or you may end up together after a particularly good storyline scene. How early you can confess improves on 2nd and 3rd play throughs. Now what made Fuuka's route interesting was I actually liked her, and by the time I played her route I'd played all the regular common scenes so I could just skip through them (which doesn't even play it at fast speed, it just acknowledges that the scene has been played). But more importantly, her H scenes were not really that contrived by eroge standards and rather hot. Finally each heroine route has one major drama to deal with and hers was totally and completely unexpected to me. The annoying thing is this game would earn a completely different tag on vndb but since it's the end of her route it would be a major spoiler so you won't even know it's there till either you play it or you have it completely spoiled. Major spoiler tag in the unlikely even any of you will ever play this. I still hold that there are too many random scenes that aren't really relevant once you've chosen the heroine's route but then you only need to choose the 'love' choices and ignore the rest but then they all seem a waste and it feels strange reading scenes that are neutral with the girls once you've apparently got a girlfriend. Nonetheless after the first play through this game actually gets better and more interesting.

This is because the Japanese are a foodie nation, they're obsessed by food. To give you some background... no, forget that, I'm sick of it too. MASH SKIP BUTTON NOW.

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Removed from spoiler tag since it's no spoiler, but I'd have to agree it's one of the best. Not sure on the no competition though when you factor in Kabaneri which has also been great. The real test is to see if they can both maintain intrigue to the end instead of falling over as other shows have done. So far so good for both of these shows but it's too early to tell. At least after episode 5 we get the answer to the question of

Blushing as any real gentleman would when he first experiences pussy. No bromance here.

I can't tell if you're joking or not. It looks like you misunderstood. I was talking about the show 12-Sai.Chicchana.Mune.no.Tokimeki and the character Takao from it...

Takao from 12sai is more of a stud than Sakamoto.

I told you all straight up after episode 1, Sakamoto is shit. Y'all got hardons from the bromance when there's nothing really amusing or sustaining about it. /me takes cover

Great, so that's what the artist intended. I don't really care as I want my pr0n if I can get it. Artist/audience/Japan/west disconnect, whatever, fuck the mosaics.

Nope, it's my job to keep recommending ToHeart2 wherever it suits

ToHeart2, Tama-nee fits that description exactly. School setting and all.

Season 2 of Ushio + Tora is going ahead leaps and bounds compared to season 1. That last episode #5 gets full marks from me.

That's why I always plan my routes as best as I can based on the common route, leaving the best for last. If there are 4 routes and I rank the girls 1 to 4, the order I play them in is 3,4,2,1. I do 3 first because if I do my least favourite one first, I might get tempted to start skipping long before I get to anything I enjoy. Leaving the best for last allows me to savour the game story more and understand everything surrounding the best heroine by the time I do her route.

Welcome and good luck! Learning Japanese good enough to be TLC is a long and arduous, yet very rewarding, process and I wish you all the best and hope you'll give back to the community you've just joined in whatever way you can.

I don't think I fit into any of those categories. I am a translator but your example suggests a wannabe translator. This is the person who knows only a little bit of Japanese and doesn't realise that translation is about nuance, thinking translation is about conveying grammar and vocabulary. I'm not even that good a translator but no way would any translator who's done any amount of work pick on such a difference

I've played some of Chuablesoft's earlier works and they're hit and miss. Sugar+Spice was great but SS2 is boring and they reused everything from the first. This one looks quite original though. They do some things that are original compared to other companies and I do like their style when they get it right.