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Just mostly school. Now I'm on Thanksgiving break. Next week is Thanksgiving as well and I will be doing Friendsgiving with my friend this Sunday and than going to my grandparent for Thanksgiving.

Yeah, I felt like it wouldn't, since objectively anime is more fun than studying or working, but even though that's the case, the moments where I actually get to rest and enjoy are much more fun than they would've been before, they're more special. Yeah of course, but what makes it special is that not every anime can get close to such a level. Completely agree man, not everything you watch needs to have the best animation out there, a deep story that makes you reconsider your values with incredibely writen characters; sometimes watching a random anime that you'll forget about a week after finishing because you weren't even paying attention is actually what you need. That's an interesting way of seeing it, and I don't completely disagree, since sometimes with time some mangas just go in a direction that you don't find entertaining at all. But at the same time, don't you think that sometimes you might prefer a newer manga out of excitement for a new original story, and not because you'd enjoy it more? Because I feel like you might leave a manga with 200 chapters because you don't enjoy it as much as you did at first just to pick up a manga that will be less enjoyable when it reaches chapter 200, but seems great when it has like 30.

I guess that's not impossible, specially since surely not every kid was able to get an education back then. Yeah, but it's on the USA, so as long as the news spread through the country they'd be alright. It sounds bad when you put it like that, but there's time for the two, to become wiser, and to increase your MAL stats lol. I mean, not even a little bit? I'd use them, even if it was on small things.

At the end of the day, money talks, which is a shame, but it's also what allows us every once in a while to get something as good as Sousou no Frieren with such fantastic animation. Same here and I don't even watch as much anime as you, but yeah, they wouldn't just copy the same thing twice, at least not as close in the story. I mean, that's their job, they're the ones making the video lol.

Like right now for example, they're doing a break while they post an edited version of a previous saga from some years ago, which probably will allow the manga to progress a lot compared to the anime if new chapters keep being writen at the same pace. Yeah, like you'd watch the old ones, but you'd really have to run out of interesting things to do to watch the new ones, since it doesn't even have the same characters.

I have only been to private school, so I'm not sure how public school work. With public school, I know that the money does come from taxes. It also depends on the school district. Some school district are excellent while others might not be due to location.

I'm glad you expressed nostalgia when recalling those moments. Personally, I always enjoyed playing the Titans expansion more than the classic version of Age of Mythology. What captivated me was the inclusion of more NPCs in the civilizations, as they added depth to the experience, along with an impressive level of detail in the content, which made the game much more appealing and immersive compared to the base game. The variety in strategies and the possibility of playing with the Titans brought a fresh air that the classic version lacked.

As for Age of Mythology: Retold, I find it impressive how they managed to fully remaster it, adapting it to modern standards while preserving its essence. The graphical evolution, combined with the small gameplay improvements, makes it a must-play for nostalgic fans and new players alike. However, I also share your fondness for urbanization games, although I must admit that when I dedicate too much time to them, they often become monotonous and repetitive. This can make me lose interest, especially after exploring all the game mechanics and finding no new elements to keep things engaging. Hahaha.

Do you know SimCity? I remember playing a version adapted for smartphones, but I’m not entirely sure if I actually played it or if it was a similar game. My memory is a bit blurry. Now that you mention it, another game that comes to mind is The Sims. That one also hooked me at some point because it allows you to create a character and simulate their daily life. From working, building a house, making friends, and starting a family, to attending events or simply managing a daily routine. Basically, it recreates human life with many possibilities. Have you ever played it? I’ve only tried it a couple of times, and I must say I was particularly fascinated by the house design and decoration aspect since it allowed me to imagine how I’d like my dream home to look in real life.

Regarding the strategy games you mentioned, I was referring to the first installment of Cities: Skylines. I consider it a masterpiece in city design and resource management, but I’ve noticed that the second installment has received very negative reviews. For now, I’m not interested in purchasing it. In fact, I’m still debating whether it’s worth buying the first game. Even though I’m attracted to it, I fear it might eventually fall into the monotony I mentioned earlier.

As for Call of Duty, it’s also one of my favorite franchises. I remember playing it a lot in console rental shops, as I don’t own a console or the game myself. Among the titles in the series, my favorites are Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Call of Duty: Black Ops III. I particularly liked them for their smooth gameplay and intense campaigns. What do you think about Fortnite? At first, I must admit I didn’t like the Battle Royale format much. I felt it was too competitive and required a high level of dedication to excel. However, I have to confess that the recent collaborations with anime series really got me hooked.

By the way, did you manage to start your own business, or did you only gain theoretical knowledge that you applied to a job related to your studies? Personally, I’m applying mine now that I’m selling on the beach, but in case something unexpected happens with my sales, I think I might work at a bank. I was researching job openings in human resources, and I found that they hire business administration graduates, which is what I’m studying.

About Kin-iro Mosaic, I remember the first episode quite well, but the following ones are a bit vague. Hahaha. I only know that when Karen and her childhood friend transferred to the same school as Shinobu, the series started focusing on the typical school slice-of-life genre. Although I find it a light and entertaining series, I didn’t focus too much on remembering every detail. The same thing happened to me with My Hero Academia and many other series. For example, the first episodes, which usually present the protagonist's origin, identity, and motivations, tend to feel a bit dull to me. I think it’s because I’m already too familiar with the main plot structure of many series that start by introducing the protagonist's background. However, as the plot progresses, it really manages to captivate me. I must say that Season 4 was truly impactful, especially the battle between Deku and Kai, the leader of the Yakuza, who was developing bullets capable of permanently erasing quirks. Watching Deku use 100% of his power thanks to Eri’s support was an incredible experience. However, my favorite season was Season 6. The heroes’ raid on the Nomus’ base and the battle against improved versions of them was impressive. But what truly left me breathless was Tomura Shigaraki’s reawakening, unleashing devastating chaos with his Decay ability. On the other hand, Season 7 felt less exciting to me. I understand they tried to diversify the plot by exploring the villains' tragic pasts and inner conflicts, but it didn’t engage me as much as their battles with other villains. I remember that when I started watching some anime series, I used to empathize with and understand the characters' feelings and emotions as they were expressed throughout the plot. However, lately, I’ve been becoming somewhat insensitive and uninterested in other people’s feelings. I’m not sure if it’s some sort of sociopathy or repression of my own emotions. I hope to return to being empathetic and understanding of emotions and feelings.

Finally, about Gabriel DropOut, the fragment you sent me seems pretty funny and amusing. She graduated as a model angel but ended up being quite misanthropic and antisocial, while the one who was supposed to play the role of a mean demon turned out to be more understanding, considerate, and empathetic with her social circle. LMAO. I meant Kin-iro Mosaic—sorry for the mix-up. I remember the main plot revolved around Gabriel, who came to Earth intending to help people but ended up becoming cynical, lazy, and carefree after starting to play video games on her laptop. Hahaha. This drastic change in her personality and social interactions was interesting to me. I wonder if her cynical attitude came from bad experiences with other players or if it’s part of the antisocial and asocial behavior she developed while spending too much time gaming on her computer.

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That's fair enough, and it's actually something I was thinking about recently; like I have the same amount of fun now that I'm doing things I'd probably consider less fun than a while ago, when I was sure what I was doing was peak because it was far more entertaining. I think it's as you say, we'd get used and accept it as the "new normal", we critisize shows for being bad but if someone from before TVs were invented saw those shows it would be one of the best moments in their life. Fair enough, but I do believe that an ocasional 7/10 Isekai makes you apreciate the good ones more. I guess that's right, if you're constantly starting new mangas and animes it'll get to the point where you'll have to stop reading a few to keep up with the new ones, because even if animes end when the season is over so you can focus on the new ones, mangas don't.

Yeah lol, but whatever random reason you can think of is valid. I mean it would grab people's attention that's for sure, if not for fooling them into thinking they're watching actual football, at least for the drama it generates. I mean, why check the dictionary when you can watch Anime right? True, if he has a family or someone precious to him he might just hide his powers but live an easy life because of them.

I'd argue it isn't the company who cares but the workers themselves, so surely in a small one where the "higher-ups" don't really expect the anime to make millions everyone cares about making a great anime, otherwise they'd work somewhere else (although there is a possibility that's the only job they found but don't like it). Oh I think I get what you mean, there was something similar in the first season wasn't it? Like I remember the MC acted in a show and the author of the manga it was inspired into was watching it from her workplace. I mean, it's quite an easy job to rank the best 10 mangas of a type if there's not more than ten lol.

Yeah, and they wouldn't have to make the episodes longer while waiting for new chapters to come out. I mean, it's an example, they just post episodes weekly, not in seasons, that's why I said that if maybe a season per year they didn't upload episodes waiting for the manga to progress, they'd fix the pacing problem at least a little bit. I think Pokemon is the kind of show you watch every once in a while just to feel nostalgic and watching a simple story where you don't even have to pay attention to the screen, so it's nice to watch them every once in a while.

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It would be amazing though if there was an infinite amount of animes that automatically came with an extremelly objective rating, we would forget what the word boredom even means. Although to be fair, Sousou no Frieren for example, is so special because it's an exception, animes aren't usually that good; maybe if every anime was as good, we wouldn't even apreciate it in the first place. True, besides a few exceptions, if you don't remember a manga after a few weeks of losing your list it wasn't that important anyways, so it's of help, but not a must.

I mean, it has to be right? I don't know, maybe it's something related with the creator of the sport. Like his friends told him no one would want to play that sport because everyone was playing football (soccer) and he decided to give it the same name to get people's attention lol. There's gotta be something in the dictionary, but that's for someone with too much free time to look up lol. Well, let's be optimistic, there's a chance he'd still be an introvert who doesn't go out, even with powers.

True, it's a business at the end of the day, if they can make money, they will, they'll only care about the watcher's opinions when it makes them more profit than not caring. It could be, we just have to write a great manga to find out. What's the name? I could check it out. Well surely there's a YouTube video with like "Top 10 reverse vengeance mangas" or something like that, so that you don't even have to look it up.

I feel like if they made less episodes the pace would be much faster and every episode would have more content and be more exciting. But what I mean is that they never stop making new episodes, if they only made episodes in the spring and autumn season, focusing on other projects on the other two, they could fit more story on each episode, since the manga would keep advancing every season. Yeah man, but even if I somehow ran out of animes I wanted to watch, there's always stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon, I believe they have like 2000 episodes combined.

Hmm yes sounds realistic, pacing & plot ^^ some people watch anime just for characters or action scenes and don't really care for the story but I want everything to match nicely xD like it doesn't have to be super perfect but that it makes sense, like if there is plot change so I think it should flow naturally and not be too sudden like unpredictable or too random
Yes true 😅
I think If I'm on bad mood or similar so I don't really try any new at times and rather continue that I'm already watching/guaranteed good so then it doesn't affect some potential series that could be good
Oh nice, during summer I started to watch them too when they started to air :3 unfortunately no I haven't started any new, I got my two previous seasonals now watched and I have 4 left of them so I'll complete them and probably then binge watch later the new seasonals ☺️ but I think in winter I'll start to watch actively the seasonals again

I was personally thinking about a pretty big number of animes, an unrealistic amount considering how fast animation studios can work, but I wasn't really thinking about infinity, as you say, we can't even comprehend infinity. Yeah, you don't have to go through the annoying process of adding every single one, but you have the option to do it.

I know there's a moment where they kick the ball, maybe that's the most important part of a match and that's why they call it football, but who knows? It just depends on the perspective I guess, it's not an exact measure like height or speed. Yeahhh, and I guess if it was an evil Sung-Jin Woo he wouldn't want friends so it'd be useless either way.

That's what I always thought, that the author gave the animation studio the rights to his manga to do what they want, and they don't change it because the fans of the manga would get mad and not watch it. True, like he's too stubborn with the way he wants things to be done delaying the animation process a lot. At the same time though, I do think it's nice to combine them; animes are fantastic, but sometimes it's great to see how detailed some mangas are drawn, to imagine in your head the situation on a book, or to be more inmersed by playing a videogame and literally being the MC. Once you start reading the manga you might as well continue it lol. It's a matter of looking for it if we really want such a story.

I mean, I feel like if there were seasons in One Piece, it'd have a lot less episodes. Like maybe it'd air out through three consecutive seasons, but then it'd stop for another one to allow the manga to advance and have more things to animate, I think they just drag out what they have to make more episodes. They do increase the length of the fights with cool stuff too, it's just that they do other boring things. And a lot of them have over one hundred episodes, like the Dragon Quest one.

Yeah, if it's present through the whole show it might drive some people off. Exactly, that's what I was thinking about, an infinite amount of Isekais would mean that like 5 or 6 of them would tackle the same really specific topic, like an MC who's on a wheelchair and can't walk, so at least one of them is going to be a 9/10, which means you'd have to be inmortal to eventually run out of good Isekais. Yeahh, but I guess it's better than losing the full list when you only remember the title of half of them.

Americans don't for some reason, they use that name for a game played mostly with the hands lol. Although I guess it depends on what someone sees as talent. Like in football, a talented player might be the one who has the more skills naturally, not the one who is the fastest even without training, because of his leg genetics. I mean, Sung-Jin Woo has friends, we can be his friends if we try maybe.

Now that you mention it like that, it would actually make sense if the author has some power when deciding things in the animation process, like making people redo something because it's not like he wants it to be or something, which could realistically slow the process down, so I guess I don't blame the people who might think the author has a part of the blame. To be fair, there's people in MAL who've watched like 400 days worth of anime and still have like 20 seasonals to watch every three months, you surely can find a few you enjoy more than a 5% of the time even after watching tons of animes, without even have to try other forms of entertainment. Come one, there has to be another way to make such a concept into a nice story, not just a lame generic love story lol. Both ideas seem fun, at least original, and I don't think there's any anime that has explored any of the two (that I know of obviously).

I mean, the best thing would be to make seasons, but that would mean making less money from arguably at least one of the three most famous anime franchises in the world. But still, even if you can sort of cover it with cool fights, it has a lot of moments where; I don't know if you know the meme where a car is about to crash and they show it from a lot of angles a lot of times but they don't show you how it crashes, well, it's something like that, where they show you twenty seconds of Luffy charging the attack before it actually hits. It hasn't happened to me so far, but it's not like I look for any specific genre, but more for an anime that chatches my atention in one glance, and my ptw list has over 400 shows, some of them with multiple seasons, so hopefully I don't have to watch boring shows until a few months from now.

Lots of parents blame teachers for their own poor parenting decisions. One of my friend is a teacher and the hardest part is dealing with the parents. She can never allow to expressed her concerns for a child's behavior to a parent without them getting offended or aggressive. You would think that, as a parent, you would also be concerned, especially if it involves constant aggressive or non-consensual physical contact towards other students. Not only the parents but the administration doesn't seem to want to help teachers either.

Or maybe they'll just skip the serious part if they're there for a laugh I guess lol. Well, I guess it depends, because think about it, if there's countless Isekais, there's bound to be more than 500 that are 10/10 with new ideas and power systems, and if you see like the most liked here on MAL, you can decide pretty easily which of them are worth watching even after 500 Isekais. I mean, I guess that's not really a bad idea, you can technically upload a video to the network, and it shouldn't be deleted there even if you lose your phone; but yeah, maybe it would be exagerating to do that.

Yeah, like a once in history genius or stuff like that, maybe like Messi in football (I was going to say soccer but I remembered you're not american and know the right way to say it lol). That's a good question actually, do your genetics count as talent? And I guess it depends on what you think talent is, and I'd describe it as the things that give you an advantage but you can't control; so in my definition of talent genetics would play a part on it. It would be like an evil Sung-Jin Woo lol.

True, if you have no idea how an anime is made and how all the process goes (like me lol) maybe you can think that the author is really involved throughout the serialization and blame him/her for the mistakes of the studio. But of course, that's nearly impossible with how many shows, books, mangas, videogames, podcasts, youtube videos, and all those other things you can entertain yourself with nowadays, even if you've watched 2000 animes and none of the others seem interesting, well, you have like a million films to watch, there's gotta be a lot for you personally to enjoy, for example. I don't know, I guess it would be cool (and I'm not sure if there's been an anime like this that I've watched) to see a plot focused on revenge, but where the MC isn't the one who seeks revenge, but the target of that revenge. Like maybe it's a guy who did a lot of bad things and now escapes from one of his victims who got power and became an important person in the gobernment or something, it'd be cool to see the other perspective. Well, it's not like you have to say it's a revenge manga until you add the revenge aspect to it. Me too lol.

I mean, I supose; they make weekly episodes instead of making a season every once in a while when there's enough content, so it's kind of what they have to do (in their defense though, there's a lot of content on each chapter, plus the fights aren't that long, so you can increase their duration while making it epic to watch. Still, the pacing is, for most people, really bad). It could be, I've watched a lot of anime, but most of them are really good rated or famous animes, so it makes sense to think that I might not have watched enough shitty shows to apreciate the good ones.

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I don't know, I guess it makes sense that if the serious situations aren't something that happens all the time it makes them more special and memorable, and people might take them more seriously. Me too obviously, I don't see myself bored until I've watched at least another 500 Isekais lol. Yeah, that would be nice, and it would take a load off your shoulders if you don't have to wonder if the site is still online all the time.

I guess maybe in the future we'll see a documentary on Netflix or something where a guy stomped everyone at something, even the most talented people in the world, I don't know, maybe it happened in chess for example. Yeah, and I believe the winner in Olympics isn't far from the second or the third one in some disciplines, like running. Like maybe the first racer completed the race 0.2 seconds faster than the second one, because at that level I feel like talent is just a guaranteed aset and what decides everything is their habits, who had the most precise training, the best diet, or stuff like that. Well, unless he becomes some supervillain, we'd be alright, but even if he became a supervillain, someone else would become a hero, it could be us lol.

That's fair, if the adaptation of your manga has problems, it could also affect your image or the manga itself (like people might think you're to blame for the mistakes with the adaptation or something along the lines). It probably just comes down to how many shows you haven't watched that you'd like to watch; if there's still thirty or so shows you'd love to watch, it'd be a waste of time, but if there isn't really any other show that you're excited about, you might as well continue with this one that has at least something you enjoy. True, it was made in less than two hours, but unless the story is about something else than revenge but has a little bit of it at some point, it has to be at the start, otherwise, what will the story be about? I mean, it'd be nice to have a manga that's a slice of life for like 100 chapters and then the girlfriend of the MC gets killed and he swears revenge. It'd deffinitely be surprising and since you know the character from a long time you REALLY want him to avenge his loved one.

That's the thing, it's not like Naruto, where half of the episodes are fillers. It has some fillers here and there, but the problem is it's pacing. It adapts around a chapter per episode, so you can imagine what it's like. Man, I think it's great that you see it like that, it's a perspective that still allows you to enjoy the show, when some people might have dropped it because of the animation, I should try to apply that way of seeing things more.