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gorlbossing

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horsey aiba (design by @glittergoats)

bonus Aiba name trivia by Uchikoshi under cut

#aitsf #aini #aiba #mizuki okiura #mizuki date #dy art

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🗝👁 Special Agent Kaname Date 👁🗝

#kaname date more like kaname swagte

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parasite

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yuri so good they had to make one of them haunt the narrative

#i think i haeve covid

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[ID: Digital portrait painting of Kaname Date from Ai: The Somnium Files. He is facing left and looking at the viewer with a neutral open mouth expression. Part of his face is obscured by hair blowing in the wind, leaving his glowing left eye visible. The piece is done in dark purples and black with strong orange lighting. End ID] The Witness

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So this is just my take, but the key to understanding Kabru Dungeon Meshi is understanding that the Touden's party was one of the top parties in the dungeon.

You eventually learn the mission they were on when they encountered the red dragon, and it involved going as far into the dungeon as anybody had gone before. Their party lineup was two top-level mages, Marcille and Falin (okay, Marcille's practical magic skills are kind of questionable, but we're told that Falin was extremely talented within her areas of specialty) Two excellent fighters: Shuro and Namari, and Chilchuck, who considering that he runs the guild, is likely one of the most experienced half-foot trapsmiths working on the island. Laios is party leader, and while he's not the greatest fighter, he's quite good, and his obsessive knowledge of monsters means that he can guide the others. You see how Laois's knowledge helps the party already, now imagine if they had a support caster, a dwarf whose almost certainly a much better fighter than Senshi, and another tallman who is almost certainly a much better fighter than Laois all working on that knowledge.

So with that in mind, lets revisit Kabru and his obsession. Kabru knows people, and can read them very well. He's also got a wider perspective on the nature and danger of dungeons due to his backstory. Kabru isn't here to get rich delving the dungeon, he's here to Solve A Problem. He's a relatively recent arrival to the island, that or his mismatched skillset means that he and his party are much slower to progress through it than the Touden's party. Either way, he spots the Touden party as The Party To Watch when it comes to conquering the dungeon. Laois, as party leader, is obviously of particular concern. So, Kabru turns all his insight onto Laois and he gets...nothing. Laois cares about money from a pragmatic standpoint, but isn't especially concerned with it. He's easily conned. He's not driven by hatred, greed, or ambition. There's some curiosity there, but it's not the driving curiosity of an obsessive academic, Laois is an enthusiastic hobbyist who has figured out how to make his particular interest into a valuable skillset. Kabru is looking for the protagonist of an epic fantasy tale, and he finds...just a guy. A guy who didn't feel at home anywhere, and found a place and a life where he was welcome and valued. A guy whose skillset and companions puts him first in a race he doesn't even know he's running. And if you're Kabru, that's infuriating and fascinating in equal measure.

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you don't get it okay... you don't understand......... .

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old ass tweets that I want to resurrect here for the sake of people knowing about them again

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Reminiscence

Background practice, drew Mizuki too :) Full also on Pixiv

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kodaka games: big tiddy girl: do you wanna touch my boobs 😏 protagonist: uhhh…no…? *blushing*

uchikoshi games: big tiddy girl: do you wanna touch my boobs 😏 protagonist: hell yeah! protagonist's female partner: i will have your head on a stick if you even take so much as one more step towards that woman big tiddy girl: here's my cat his name is boobs

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Y'all saw how the two kinda made up after all the fighting, right?

Laios saw his sister beg him for help after being transformed into a terrifying monster.

Shuro hasn't eaten or slept properly in days or even weeks.

They were both stressed and tired and things boiled over. But as soon as the fight was over they made up. You saw that, right? Right??? Shuro literally gave him a little trinket to call him for help.

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Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

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Round 1, Match 21

Uru Somezuki and Saito Sejima (AI: The Somnium Files) vs Illumi, Killua and Alluka Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

Poll Runner's note: I've decided to put the Somnium Files character portraits under the readmore, along with their propaganda, to avoid spoilers.

Propaganda under break. Spoilers for AI: The Somnium Files, AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative, and Hunter x Hunter

Illumi, Killua, and Alluka

They're from a family of assassins, and Illumi is EXTREMELY abusive. He tells Killua that he's incapable of having friends because he and their father raised Killua to be an assassin and only judge whether people were able to be killed. He even threatens to kill Killua's new friend unless Killua gives up on their friendship and stops trying to become a Hunter (since this is happening at the Hunter Exam). Even after Killua leaves his family, Illumi's voice rings in his head telling him to run away from situations, something that weighs EXTREMELY heavily on Killua.

Getting into more spoilery things: It's later revealed that Illumi placed a magic needle inside Killua's head which is where the voice came from, trying to convince Killua to abandon his friend to die and save himself in the process, which is somewhat implied to be in preparation for him to ultimately come back and be an assassin for the family

AND ALSO the two of them have a little sister Alluka, who Killua desperately wants to protect but who Illumi wants to kill because he sees her power as dangerous. I'm not going to go into the details of the power, but Illumi also misgenders Alluka constantly and barely sees her as a human being. Ultimately Killua even says that if Illumi keeps treating Alluka like that he won't consider Illumi his brother anymore, with the undercurrent that family members aren't allowed to kill each other, which means Killua is threatening that he can and will try to kill Illumi if he keeps mistreating their sister!!!

As for their other siblings, Milluki is shown whipping Killua as punishment after Killua stabbed Milluki. Kalluto and Killua have never interacted onscreen but Kalluto is trying to get his brother back, which may or may not be Killua? Meanwhile Killua doesn't seem to care about Kalluto at all… ouch.

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Somnium file spoilers under Alluka

Uru Somezuki and Saito Sejima

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Two sons of a corrupt politician who both ended up being serial killers despite being raised entirely separately from the other. Their little sister, raised in yet a third environment, grew up to become a Twitch streamer. The two genders: serial killer and gamer girl.

#ok look. #the aitsf siblings are awful people but they arent really bad sibling #cause they never interacted with each other #and yes #aitsf spoilers #technically saito did kill his sister jn half the timelines #but he didnt know that she was his sister it was just on accident #HxHsiblings though? oh boy

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the world's most punchable detective arrives on the scene!

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This didn't do well on tiktok so i thought id share it here!