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Spring 2025 Anime Season 名無し 04/16/2025 (Wed) 19:37:15 No. 1341 [Reply]
i missed making the last few threads for reasons. 4/a/ is dead and it seems like discussion is scattered. other altchans shittalk currently airing things too much for me to want to talk about them there, so i'm posting a thread here. what're you all watching? post about it here.
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I usually never watch more than 3 airing shows at once and there's always some 4 cour baby anime thrown in the mix so it doesn't really count. This is new
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>>1341 i haven't really been watching much of anything honestly. kinda thinking of watching the dark elf anime, but are any of these actually good? which do you recommend the most out of them?
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I'm enjoying the Shaft ninja show a lot.
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>>1342 I'm enjoying the second season of Shoushimin. I miss the single episode mysteries of the first season, but I'm enjoying the build up of the larger mystery so far.
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>>1341 It's been a while since I watched this many seasonal shows.

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post your favorite 2hu please 名無し 01/28/2024 (Sun) 10:44:09 No. 839 [Reply]
I like marisa
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yukari my beloved
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I don't have a favorite 2hu...
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>>1406 Well, which one appeals to you the most? Any designs that stand out? Personality? Sex appeal? Cool factor? Stuff like that. Could also run through a sorter https://tohosort.frelia.my/
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I love everything about Remilia so much. Except maybe her purple hair, I think Flandre's blonde would look better on her.
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>>1433 I think I've seen a theory before where Remilia is naturally blonde but her hair got dyed somehow. I thought there was a lot more art like that but for some reason this is the only one I can find.

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ren-chon 名無し 04/27/2025 (Sun) 11:01:34 No. 1389 [Reply]
Last night I dreamt I got to play with Ren-chon all day I felt satisfied like I had never before Even though I woke up at like 8 I lay in bed until half 11 thinking about how happy I felt and how miserable the upcoming day was going to be even though it was all warm and sunny does anyone else here like Ren-chon?
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Had similar dreams a few times. Don't remember what they were about. At least one was probably about me being happy with my waifu, waking up to the 3d reality felt like plunging from heavens to depths of hell. You'll weather it. There's no escaping the redemption. Suffer and move on.
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I didn't dream about En last night
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Hopefully I can reproduce the conditions that led to happiness tonight
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Still no sign of her...
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you can only take a glimpse of god sometimes in this mire of pure evil, conserve the memory fondly and be ready to wait years until you can take a bit of happiness again

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Anonymous-san 08/15/2023 (Tue) 17:41:03 No. 249 [Reply]
Love Tomoko. >When she would pretend to be asleep at her desk since she had no friends to talk to >When she would eat alone in the toilets because she had no friends to eat with >When she would be alone through out most of summer break as she had no friends to hang out with Ahaha, yeah, I did that all the time when I was in school...
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>>249 I love her but her manga should have ended years ago
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>>1386 A common problem with these types of series. Feels like the story goes in circles until I eventually drop due to boredom. I wonder why mangakas feel pressured to continue
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>>1397 >i wonder why mangakas feel pressured to continue pic rel
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i feel like other characters never quite encapsulate the loser girl lifestyle like tomoko does
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When will she lose her virginity?

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Does anyone miss 2000s otaku culture as well? Neidhardt 03/07/2024 (Thu) 20:44:34 No. 883 [Reply] [Last]
you know? moe magical girl anime, dakimakuras, akihabara fetishism, the "i hate 3D girls" kind of otaku ...kinda like takumi nishijou from chaos head
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>>1423 i think the only people who say shit like this are those who didn't get attention from women growing up. you can have normal friendships and relationships with women and not worship them. it's a strange reflection of deal with it.
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>>1424 you can't. you'll always come and ruin everything because women live rent free in your head. having a woman excludes a possibility of being dedicated to anything else, so you're naturally incapable of sustaining any meaningful hobby. that's why there needs to be a clear separation between loners who care about what they do and sex havers who care about farming validation. i don't mean to disparage you or whatever, there wouldn't be any problems at all except that you ruined everything we ever valued
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>>1425 >women live rent free in your head. having a woman excludes a possibility of being dedicated to anything else, so you're naturally incapable of sustaining any meaningful hobby. respectfully, i think you're projecting, hikarin.
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>>1426 i speak facts you have nothing to prove them wrong, because it's pure facts
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名無し 05/03/2025 (Sat) 16:31:18 No. 1407 [Reply]
i humbly ask for someone to help me (as a newcomer too) to get into otaku culture. i want to step it up as i'm also trying to learn japanese now. what qualifies (or qualified) someone as an otaku? i've mostly been an outsider in the technology and vidya sense and that's what i usually stick to in the imageboards i've been, but i've never really got into watching a ton of anime or manga besides some old stuff like SEL and monster. (nice place btw)
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You're actually interested in animanga, vidya games, vns, ect. You're not into them because you're an otaku, you're an otaku because you're into them. >>1408 I personally don't think you could call yourself an otaku if you've only watched one anime...
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>>1414 That's like your opinion dude
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>>1415 Woah man why are we like talking like stoners dude
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>>1416 >>1415 woah dudes lets like... all be chill and stuff okay....peace and love bros...
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thank you for the replies anon i guess i was just feeling down cause i basically ever only watched depressing stuff and i need some change of air (also sorry if this thread came out weird but i wanted to reply to that other otaku culture thread and i accidentally made a new thread

VOCALOID / UTALOID / ANYLOID 名無し 04/17/2025 (Thu) 03:34:30 No. 1346 [Reply]
poast your favorite music based on any voicebank software. what have you been listening to hikarin? what is your favorite song? favorite 'loid?
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>>1346 Linking a pretty recent fav https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWqgfDzVQ7E And speaking of loids I loveee inanimate utaus they're all so creative
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>>1356 i have this set as my alarm
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https://youtu.be/UMm-1xNg3n0 i remembered this song earlier today. i listened to it so much when it came out. still a top for me.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XchbMh5lBGs i heard this one on the 39chan radio... i like it a lot...

How can I learn Japanese 名無し 12/07/2023 (Thu) 14:11:27 No. 683 [Reply]
my fellow man's of culture in /jp/... HOW TO LEARN JAPANESE? I think some here already can read and understand some basic level of japanese. I don't want to do grammar books because most of them are... A bit of waste of time? I dunno. And I am veeeryy lazy to do anki cards. I was learning the kanji radicals but I stopped by one day and I lost my streak currently I only know Hiragana. I really wanted to learn because there is a lot's of japanese media that simply isn't translated, and I can't enjoy because: >oopsie your nihongo level is N minus 6, owari da Anyway, how do you guys learn? Don't recommend me Duolingo. I HATE this partyvanrd.
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>>683 >step 1 memorize the kana brute force memorize the kana this should only take a day or two a week max https://djtguide.neocities.org/kana/ progressively add another kana column until you have no trouble recognizing all the kana if you still have trouble write down each kana 50 times >step 2 learn some grammar grammar has 3 parts: Sentence Structure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5PD1lORiwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyVZlaEqU24 Particles https://imabi.org/table-of-contents-%e7%9b%ae%e6%ac%a1/ https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/GqYvdEhgKNOcBDSZnDDGsWGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwcTI9qvO-U&list=PLg9uYxuZf8x-FpkArMEoVVfw10TDT9I1h Verb Agglutinations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIPhvGxp43c

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>>683 Sharing experience : I had one half a year break when I was learning and it took 1.5 weeks to catch up. If you feel like you literally cant go on anymore you can try taking a break but keep thinking about japanese so that your brain will automatically motivate you to pick up again in some time, i cant promise it will work for you but thats the tactics I use for everything i learn I also used https://jpdb.io/ instead of anki because it has cool features sch as going through each word of a videogame or an anime chronologically
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>>683 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA_RcUI8km1NMhiEebcbqdlcHv_2ngbO2&si=-Lnu0SCwBnNQuCxE i enjoy TokiniAndy's videos going over Genki 1 grammar. he explains the concepts in a way that's easy for me to understand. good supplementary material me thinks.
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>>729 >>1381 my fucking god i can't even imagine putting this much effort into something. all i did was read a few guides on the internet and then just started figuring out the grammar and vocabulary piece by piece through reading and listening. took me a while to be able read much but i could never do shit like memorizing anki cards or studying kanji because i fucking hate studying. though i started doing all of this when i was young and not long after i really started caring about anime so maybe it's different for people who started learning as an adult because of brain stuff. i do want to have a fun discussion about japanese grammar with you so please talk to me about anything you find interesting. also explain the n levels shit to me because i don't get it.
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>>1384 Your japanese level is measured from n5 to n1 n5 is the first and most basic and then n1 is cooler then an average native I think. U need to take an official test somewhere to determine what level u are and get a certificate so u can put it in ur resume or something Your learning way is pretty cool when it works because it means you probably percieve the language similar to japanese people. I wonder if you can understand bits of chinese text though?

名無し 04/22/2025 (Tue) 05:34:23 No. 1370 [Reply]
TENSHI TO AKUMA TO TENSHI TO AKUMA TO TENSHI TO AKUMA GA TENGOKU JIGOKU NO TENGOKU JIGOKU NO TENGOKU JIGOKU NO
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>>1370 sounds like one of my subconcious outspoken "vocal tunes" normies won't get it sorree
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normies on my hikarin chan?
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>>1372 It's more common than you think!
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>>1373 whyyy

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名無し 04/19/2025 (Sat) 14:00:13 No. 1365 [Reply]
Is there a bigger love than these 2 have


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