512x386 resoltion video, tiny text and difficult to hear yukkuri voice, takes 25 mins to download, 0 viewer comments 😩 This is why I haven’t been on Nico in months.The video is based on a poll from Animesuki, so I would’ve preferred it if this was a written article too. Or at least a youtube upload in 720p. Also the poll only handles animes from 2006-2009 which is a time when I wasn’t as invested in animes as I am now because distribution was still a bigger issue back then.

I never got into Ouran, but I intended to while I was in Japan back in 2008 because a good friend strongly recommended it. I bought the first volume in Japanese, started reading the first chapter, didn’t like it as much as the other things I was reading at the time, and then put it on the Eternal Backburner. So just from secondary knowledge, I'll say that my favorite character is either Tamaki or Honey-senpai. If there’s no hot babes in a show, as a rule of thumb, you can be sure that my favorite will probably be a blond twink.

Always good to hear dubs of American shows (except Steven Universe), the switch between male and female speech worked especially well in Japanese.

But man, it’s been a hisashiburi since last time I’ve used Nico Nico Douga. It loads like cheese and has overall become even less userfriendly than before...

I’ve tried to keep up with US politics throughout my Ultry Busy Period, but I didn’t get the chance to pay as much attention to the Japanese reaction to it.

From what I’ve gathered, Japan is very worried about Trump because he could threaten the current power balance in East Asia. Some polls mention an 84% on the negative side.

You know it, my dude. I still like the ponies, but I’m so out of the loop with MLP. I haven’t even watched anything after the season that ended with the big DBZ fight. How many new seasons are there now, two? Three??

Anyways, I kinda wanna discourage questions like “what does Japan think about XYZ” because I won’t know the answer without research, which is very tedious and often with disappointing results, and I’m still very busy with my actual master’s thesis. But I’m super close to making that big breakthrough! So maybe remind me again in Febuary.

I’ve already copypasted all the 1600 tweets into a notepad that contain the word サンセットシマー and I’ll translate/compile a bunch of those that reflect the general opinion about her. I think that is the best way to find a satisfying answer, especially now that Nico Nico Douga comments have become a real pain to retrieve.

Nah, everything I've bought is basically just a trophy. I might flip through it once, but then it goes back into the vault. Maybe when my living arrangements change, I'll have the space to display my treasures in a more appropriate way. Then I'll pick em up more often and go "Ahhh, Yuri & Friends '96, such a mature flavor 😙👌". But for now, knowing that I own all these rare lewds gives me enough satisfaction already. And I'm glad that I literally paid tribute to the artists I admire.When I want to party, I grab my materials online. That's also how I decide what I want to buy next time I'm in Japan. Is there even a more convenient way to know what's on the market? But lately nothing's really hitting the spot. You can only look at your favorite artist so often until you get bored of em, yknow. I've tried to commission some artists to get exactly what I want, but I'm actually too self-conscious about what I want, so out of embarrassment I just gave them money and stopped contacting them.Eventually I’ll have to draw my own lewds, but I'm not good enough yet and I currently don't have the time to hone my skills... maybe 2017...

Hmmm, am I a fan… 🤔 Hold on lemme check.

48 tables by my count (monster girls and the likes not included). That’s almost two aisles, or four table rows all for themselves. Almost as much as the otokonoko section even! With the East Hall 1-2-3 having 2,081 tables, that’s 2.3% of that hall. Or 0.85% of all three halls combined on that day.

0.85% of Comiket Day 3 is furries.It’s a small neighborhood...

Mayoineko books are always a mixed bag, and a rather expensive one at that too, so I kinda wasn’t feeling it on the other publications they offered that day. But you can’t really go wrong with the beautiful shape of a horse!! 🐎🐎🐎 Flipping through the sample, I was sold when I saw there was even some dolphin on horse action while an otter dressed as a nurse holds their hands. Nekubila (who basically drew Trixie getting fucked by the Boar God from Princess Mononoke), Nezumin, and Chimosaku should be no stranger to avid poni smut fans either, and they delivered some good stuff. But there were some gorgeous submissions by other artists that I didn’t know before as well. All in all a good purchase.A few more artists besides Rikose and Sindoll caught my eye, but in the end I chose not to spend my money on them. Not even on the bikini babe book with 2 Doxy pages. He tweeted about how he hated not being able to attend Comiket this year, so if that wasn’t him at their table... who was that other foreigner???

It’s just a lot of effort to sit down and do the whole thing, especially when real life is being overwhelming, both physically and mentally. But I’ve refound the motivation to polish my Japanese skills some more, so once everything’s settled down again, I should get back into it.Just don’t put too much pressure on me.

At least your questions are easily answered!8 = hachi. Syllables that start with H can also be turned into B or P, so "8″ can also be read as pachi (for example in the name “Shinpachi”). Pachipachi is the onomatopoeia for clapping, so when you see lotsa 888888s, that’s when everyone is applauding.Hachi and pachi aren’t the only ways to read the number 8 by the way, and there is a whole system that lets you read numbers as syllables. It’s kind of like a very well known code language. It’s most commonly used to turn dates of the calendar into funny holidays, like recently Bunny Day on August 21st (8 = ba, 2 = ni, 1 = i) when everybody was drawing bunny girls, or to write out telephone numbers such as 481640 (shinpai muyou = no need to worry) for the hotline in a hair loss prevention commercial, just as you would with stuff like 1-800-CALL-SAUL.“wwww” is a little different because it’s derived from the way computers type in Japanese. The syllables that are just one vowel (a-i-u-e-o) get turned immediately into their kana form. But all the consonants first appear in roman letters until you add the vowel that will form the syllable that you aimed to type. So one way to write acronyms in Japanese is to just write the consonants (ktrk = kita kore = “here it is, the thing”). In ye olden times, people were still forced to write the kanji for laughter in brackets (笑) to demonstrate a hearty chuckle at the end of a sentence. But then they realized they could just press the w-key for as long as the laughter lasted and people would still understand that good times were had. And since a row of wwwwww kinda looks like a line of grass, they coined the phrase “grass is growing” when something funny happens in an online video or on the chans.

I don’t really see the appeal of tentacle-based monsters and I could go without the prego and drugz stuff, but otherwise ShindoL and Fatalpulse are my bread and butter. If you’re looking for something similar, I can only think of Amahara Teikoku off the top of my head. But they only deal in Final Fantasy Tactics and don’t have the artistic finesse. Maybe Hana Hook, but they just aim for the ultimate of NTR and bring the mental aspect to the extreme.I consider John K. Pe-ta’s, Nezumin’s and Radiohead’s works far more extreme anyway. Not necessarily in a bad way though!Usually I try to stay away from any real guro or scat, even though some artists like Combat Monmon, Niku Ringo and A-10 slip it in sometimes… that’s when I look out the window into the distance and whisper “why”. That’s also why I don’t really make a mental note of titles and artists that deal in nothing but this. But if you were to show me something EXTRRRREEEME, chances are I’ve already seen it wActually wait, one of THE most extreme things I can remember is Mai-chan’s Daily Life. Definitely not my cup of tea, but I can acknowledge the idea behind it.

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Nah, not everything. The tankobons and 23 of the dojinshis were from Mandarake. Only 52 of the other dojinshis were from Comiket. I’ve spent under ¥20.000 at Mandarake, and a probably around ¥25.000 on Comiket. Which is $160/€145 and $200/€181 respectively. D’you think that’s too much...?Bear in mind that I specifically saved my money for this purpose. This is 7 years of thirst.