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DuskyPredator



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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2024 3:14 am Reply with quote
Gina Szanboti wrote:
What for? They don't need to breathe (except to speak) so they don't need to circulate blood for oxygen. Osmosis, diffusion and magic probably takes care of that and the nutrients from ingested blood. Wink

Circulation of blood can have bodily function. Especially related to pushing your homie onto the couch and getting on top of him.
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camseyeview140



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PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2024 1:00 am Reply with quote
the dub of this is carrying this mediocre anime. If this was supposed to be the big 70th-anniversary celebration, I would be kind of insulted that this project is what ya get.

It's silly, but it also wants to have this melodramatic realness about it that doesn't quite work.

It's also a fairly cheap-looking show with visuals that don't help at all to make you feel engrossed in this will they won't they romance at all.
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Gina Szanboti



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PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2024 4:18 am Reply with quote
Beach episode! Oh noes! How will she deal with swimsuit?! Turns out Juri (who is presumably a boy) literally has it covered! I guess since he claimed the sunburn excuse first, she had no choice but to wear the ugly 1920s style one-piece, which actually covered less skin than Juri's outfit.

Nape of the neck isn't the most efficient site for drawing blood...is the omegaverse creeping into this story too?

That damn bird better be someone's spy, or just be someone (do they turn into birds during the day and bats at night?). It was flitting around in the background of every scene, so if it's just some random bird, I'm going to be really put out.
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DuskyPredator



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PostPosted: Tue May 28, 2024 3:34 am Reply with quote
Episode 8

I more and more think this show works especially well as accidental comedy. Such be the whole boy disguise falls apart, then she has to appear as a girl that gets all the attention from boys, and not even recognise without makeup or anything by her roommate. And at the very end of the episode he ruffler her hair in boy mode, which kind of made me lose it how that wig works.

The right comedic dubbing of this show could probably be very good.
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DuskyPredator



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2024 4:02 am Reply with quote
Episode 9

*hand together and fingers to lips meditation like*

Did anyone have on their bingo card for this show that Mito actually spoiler[gets her body turned male]? I guess all this after an episode of a guy handsomely whipping his shirt off so she can wear it instead of her dirtied, trying to make her take her clothes off to change, and the three of them sharing a bed.

Why didn't she just take off her wig if she was attending as a girl? To be honest I am not fully complaining on that, because this show is the best when it is ridiculous.

Wouldn't be wild if this doesn't actually get fixed, and from this point on Mito spoiler[just has a male body]? Also wondering as the hair is such a dead giveaway, if the magical spoiler[process made it short now].

One of the funniest comments I came across simply said "happy pride month", which for some reason just seems like the funniest response to this episode.
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Gina Szanboti



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2024 4:44 am Reply with quote
Ruka is way more sheltered than I thought. He's apparently never seen a zipper before. I mean, it's not like it was hidden in folds of cloth or under lace or anything.

And how was he born? He reminisced that when he first became a vampire he didn't know anyone in the human world. Does that mean he wasn't a vampire from birth? If not, how does he not know anyone human? How did he become a vamp? Anyway, no better place for heart to heart revelations than the lumber aisle of a Home Depot!
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Gina Szanboti



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 24, 2024 12:17 am Reply with quote
Well, that was an ending. Not. I'm pretty sure that was the finale, so I guess the introduction of the obligatory sinister transfer student was a "go-read-the-manga" flag.

I thought Ren had a plaster on his cheek because of getting into a fight, but his face was flawless for his wedding. So why does he wear the same bandaid like a signature fashion look? And I guess he doesn't actually go to that school except when he wants to be around Mito? So did he drop out of school to go on his road trip, or has he always been older than everyone and was just creepily hanging around high school students? Very Happy

Dusky, your question actually got answered - her hair magically changes length depending on her sex! Maybe this explains why she wears a wig instead of cutting it? If she cuts it while female, it just instantly grows right back! Kinda sucks to not be able to change your hair style if you wanted.

Anyway, that was a buncha nonsense that couldn't even figure out its own lore to maintain any sort of logical continuity. Fun while it lasted, wouldn't recommend it, probably wouldn't watch another season should it get one.

Oh, one more funny note about hair and gender. I was recently watching a donghua in which the lead was temporarily disguising herself as a man, in an era where all the bishie men have extra long hair, gathered up in a high ponytail - you know the look. At one point, the tie on the tail breaks as she's falling off a balcony and her hair fans out unfettered. And because of not-ponytail, everyone instantly knows she's a woman! So even worse than long-short hair being as passable a disguise as Clark Kent's glasses, apparently when both men and women have long hair, a scrunchy will do the trick! Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 24, 2024 5:57 am Reply with quote
Gina Szanboti wrote:
Dusky, your question actually got answered - her hair magically changes length depending on her sex! Maybe this explains why she wears a wig instead of cutting it? If she cuts it while female, it just instantly grows right back! Kinda sucks to not be able to change your hair style if you wanted.

Anyway, that was a buncha nonsense that couldn't even figure out its own lore to maintain any sort of logical continuity. Fun while it lasted, wouldn't recommend it, probably wouldn't watch another season should it get one.

Oh, one more funny note about hair and gender. I was recently watching a donghua in which the lead was temporarily disguising herself as a man, in an era where all the bishie men have extra long hair, gathered up in a high ponytail - you know the look. At one point, the tie on the tail breaks as she's falling off a balcony and her hair fans out unfettered. And because of not-ponytail, everyone instantly knows she's a woman! So even worse than long-short hair being as passable a disguise as Clark Kent's glasses, apparently when both men and women have long hair, a scrunchy will do the trick! Laughing


I kind of have a soft spot for the ridiculousness, being a long haired amab person myself, with an attraction to short haired women. I suppose that a lot of gender stuff confuses me, so I find it silly funny.

The whole show is kind of silly, such be what parts are gay if any. I guess at least their friends are a likely gay couple, with glasses dude being bi. I suppose that I can think back to Pretty Boy Detective Club, which last also did the crossdressing and stuff.
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