You mean the hacker that went by pompompurin and your username being Jia Tan?

I have finished all of Minami-ke, for now. It’s not the best thing ever but it grew on me. Season 1 is decent, season 2 is the worst in my opinion. Season 3 is decent again and season 4 felt quite comfy. In 2025 season 5 will come out after a gap of more than 10 years. It will join Hidamari Sketch as a rare slice of life with 5 full seasons. Both classic SOL that started in 2007. I also finished all of Gochuumon wa Usagi desuka. It is just a very good show, I hope for another season one day.

Is this dear sisters or dear friends? I remember she came to the door in dear sisters. Nadeshiko called her “Himako”. I thought that was very cute. All of the Oomuro sisters have names ending in “ko”: “Nadeshiko”, “Sakurako”, “Hanako”. By calling her “Himako” Nadeshiko included Himawari in the group of sisters, seemingly as an honorary sister of the family.

The one in particular that you brought up is how much the girls don’t want to be too muscular, but rather just slim.

I haven’t seen this show but isn’t this just realistic? Most woman just don’t want to be ripped or bulky. The real danger is woman thinking they are definitely going to be all buff if they work out, and thus not working out or doing sports. And not doing any of that is not good for your health. Woman should know that gaining significant muscle mass is already hard for men, let alone woman, so they can work out safely without worrying too much. As long as you don’t hop on the juice and/or devote your life to the gym.

I mean, her role is to absorb damage for the party, muscles are kind of a prerequisite.

It’s a show with magic and stuff, so I don’t think that holds. Reasoning the other way around, if it would hold, then given her appearance Darkness shouldn’t have the physical ability that she indeed has.

Interesting to hear. All my trousers have a single button but that’s it. When I get a job I’m gonna have to wear buttoned shirts probably. My clothing pet peeve is smooth textiles on my skin. I like texture so I do like denim. As far as I can tell adult men don’t wear overalls in urban areas where I live, and I don’t have one either. I used to have one when I was a kid though. I think it looks cute on kids and girls like on Chinatsu here.

I won’t get sick of you or anyone else that interacts with decency :) If I didn’t want people to interact with posts, each other and myself I wouldn’t have started these communities.

And for the overall, is it a physical discomfort or a mental one (e.g. not feeling covered up)? You have multiple comments about characters not looking comfortable in their clothes. You can always comment if something is bothering you.

Overalls are a staple comfy garment! And why stop commenting (assuming you like to comment)?

Chobits sound interesting, I’ll add it to my watch list.

A doujinshi is a self-published work by an amateur author. When it relates to an existing IP, it is a derivative work that is usually tolerated by the industry and IP/copyright holders. Many authors started out as doujinshi authors. I’m pretty sure Namori herself started out that way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujinshi This would mean that usually an “official doujinshi” is not really a thing that makes sense. Confusingly, an official doujinshi seems to exist: https://mangadex.org/title/fdbf786d-6075-45d5-b211-2a58786392f9/yuri-yuri . Some of the volumes are done by Namori herself and others are done by other artists (how it usually goes).

A slight shyness or sense of discomfort can be seen as a form of moe in Japanese related media. Namori doesn’t seem to be afraid of using it. It is not to everyone’s taste. I enjoy it when it is slight like in this picture, but it can go way to far very quickly. For example, the famous Akari-Chinatsu scene in the anime I find very uncomfortable.

Haha, so cute Akari’s odango coming through.

Gintama and City, hopefully 2025 is the return of good anime. Gintama and Nichijou are my only 10/10 anime so hopefully these new titles are really good.

without moe i would have yeeted myself off of building already lol

happy moe day

I have been watching Sayonara Zetsubou sensei lately. Also Pani Poni Dash! is an interesting watch.

• Hidamari Sketch
• Lucky Star
• Non Non Biyori
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
• Gochuumon wa Usagi desuka?
• Tanaka kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge

Hidamari Sketch is very underrated and is much less well known than it’s contemporaries like Lucky Star, but it’s basically the comfiest thing ever. Any CGDCT/SOL could work for this (Nichijou, Yuyushiki, Kiniro Mozaiku, K-ON!, …) but I specifically chose shows with a slower tempo.

I don’t know of a source explaining why he chose this artist name. It does seem to be his real name according to the japanese wikipedia article (本名: 新井 圭一), however the kanji do not dictate the use of ゐ over い. So it’s most likely an artistic consideration (as does happen often with artist/stage names). He chose to use a hiragana version over the usual kanji version to begin with, which could also be done for style.

I watched a whole show (shikanoko) this season. So yea banger season, almost never happens lol.

She’s gonna have to mop the floor with Sakurako after this.

Interesting mix of western and eastern calligraphy in the title. They do connect strokes within characters and also between characters (especially in kana shodo), but those flourishes are definitely western.

The best I can make of it is through deepl: it maps ぽやぽや to “carefree”, “carelessly” or “pampering”. “すぐ” precedes it meaning “immediately”, “at once”, “right away”. Taking in the context: it is done on paper and not digitally, and that there is some whiteout at the bottom. Also the hair colour goes outside the lines. All this combined makes me think that it means that the drawing was done “from a loose hand”, meaning with some pace and without excessive construction like a detailed sketch. I don’t think it is done completely without sketching though, as the top left strand of her right (our left) twintail there seems to be a sketchline the inked lines.