Cyrus Draegur

oh wow this show

it was super cute

holy cow i didn’t even SEE her!

ULTRA INSTINCTCAMP! ABSOLUTE TERRITORYABSURDITY! INFINITE POWERWAIT NO DEFINITELY POWER!

Bravern RADIATES enough deep fried corniness, cheesiness, and ham to feed a midwestern american state fairground for seven consecutive years per episode.

I love every second of it.

Especially how the other characters are just barely self-aware enough to be internally (and sometimes externally) screaming WHAT THE FUCK, like they’re experiencing a persistent fever dream, bad trip, or mass-hypnosis.

It’s nearly my favorite part when Bravern looks DIRECTLY into the camera, yells BANG BRAVERY, and BRAVERN ZUBASHES EVERYTHING and how that literally happens almost every episode.

My ultimate favorite part, though, is in episode 5, when:

THAT LINE GOES HARD
…
it is implied that several things are going hard in that scene though XD
and that’s goddamn beautiful.

pretty sure she’s the same magical girl as we saw the previous time. You can tell because of her outfit: she’s still wearing the pelt of the fairy creature that infused her with power as a scarf, just as she described previously.

One thing about Sasaki-san is that a defining part of his identity as a person consists of his traditional roots: he is humble, diligent, and loyal. He is loyal to his nation, Japan, and the Bureau is serving that nation. It is an extension of his homeland’s will, and he respects the service it performs for Japan. Their goal is, as stated, the regulation of psionic paranormal phenomena. Events have demonstrated the necessity of this mission. It is solely through his calm, rational professionalism that several potential conflicts have been de-escalated. Sasaki-san is the essential ideal agent of such an organization, at least in terms of his ethics and interpersonal skills. Everyone benefits from cooperation and he generates cooperation like it’s his actual superpower. I admire it quite a bit!

looks like the lid is shut at least, so, she’s probably using them as padding. And she’s perhaps monopolizing the bathroom for privacy, as I have seen many people do when they have the burrowing instinct of a feral animal.

Would it even BE Power if she were not at least partially a filth-gremlin?

i’m grateful for the sauce but i’m sad that there’s so little of it ;_;

Oh shit yeah that’s right! Myne didn’t even have super advanced physics knowledge but she’s still upending her world XD and she had to figure it out herself from scratch, only based upon trial and error and the drive to keep pushing no matter how many times she fails! She REALLY digs deep into the nitty gritty about figuring things out, too - no convenient shortcuts!

I was always just a teeny tiny bit sad that she didn’t happen to have known, at the time, the basics of how soap works. Her shampoo, I can’t imagine it can do a particularly great job of cleaning without at least a trace amount of a alkaline solvent of some kind (usually we use lye) which is where “soapiness” comes from.

Soap is molecules that are electrostatically polar on one end (like water is) with a non polar chain (a lipid tail that is hydrophobic) on the other, so it sticks to grime AND water at the same time, allowing the water to pull the grime away (whereas the grime otherwise repels water)

One doesn’t have to know the chemistry of saponification to understand that if you mix a strong alkaline with an oil, it makes soap. And… like … she has a wood stove right there. Wood ash is where humanity historically used to get our lye.

But no, I LOVE Bookworm, it’s STILL a lovely story and I will keep following it, of course!

Gate made me feel patriotic about a country I don’t even live in XD

honestly i admit i dug this show and i’m glad to see it back

the truth is that i LIKE when an isekai character employs basic physics to brutal effect

bro materialized a several ton slug of tungsten in low earth orbit and just fucking DROPPED it on a target. A several kiloton pure kinetic strike. it was goddamn beautiful.

the only other show i loved this much was that pharmacist one where he had the ability to alchemically conjure drug compounds and was in the process of revolutionizing his world’s comprehension of healthcare and germ theory.

My brain is too mushy to do it myself right now, but I wonder what the result would be if we were to consider the alphabet a base-26 number system and added the numbers that correspond to those letters.

actually, fuck it lets go

me (13),(5)

you (25),(15),(20)

5 + 20 = 25 (y)

13 + 15 = 28 (carry)
28 - 26 = 2 (b)

25 + (carried) 1 = 26 (z)

you + me = zby.