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I guess at least she's not as annoying as most prominent female characters in shounen, E.G not just a tsundere or a crazy yandere, but shounen has a ways to go in terms of more diverse personalities in their female characters. Emma isn't a bad protagonist, but she reminds me of all the male ones we've already had. Nothing new really.

She's definitely not anything new, but at least she's not there for fanservice and actually makes decisions for herself. As far as the universe she's in goes, I think she's a good protagonist for it. I do get what you mean, though.

I still don't really like Emma's thoughts in the series. Like... She can seem to be a bit too optimistic and well... Naive. Which is what I don't like about her.

I’m into it

Nah, more like Baseball Titan

I mean he's that too. He just wants to play baseball, dammit!

FLCL was the Sarazanmai from back in 2003... I actually feel it falls in the exact same category. Kinda funny because I was discussing this exact point with @Gens last week.

Main difference is FLCL allows influence to come into it from multiple sources. FLCL was a fountain of pure animated creativity, having guest directors, ect. Sarazanmai is the result of one guy's weirdness. The only thing it really has in common with sarazanmai is the "wow this is weird" factor.

FLCL will always be my favorite anime but I am enjoying watching Sarazanmai for the sheer weirdness and the butt jokes.

Hey now, he'll also be getting annoyed at everyone for being stupid! Don't forget that!

I'm debating picking it up

It has a giant monkey throwing rocks, what more could you ask for?

I’ve seen the anime but I’ve withheld from reading the manga afterwards because I heard the author was on some sort of hiatus at the time and hadn’t updated the series in an abnormally long amount of time. To be far it’s been like two or three years since I finished hxh so that actually might’ve changed?

I've been struggling to finish the last 10-12 episodes for a couple of years now so let's see you read the manga and watch the anime before I get to it.

I hate to say this @automotivated but HxH's latest arc is a huge drag that's still going after a few years. Literally, it's slow-pacing and bogged down with egregious exposition dumps, even for HxH's standards. Togashi tried something new with the story, but I don't think it was executed well. The anime's as good of an ending as we'll get for a while, it cuts off right before that arc starts.

(Nobody on AP btw, this is a Twitter thing lol. AP is good.)

My decision not to use Twitter is validated every time I look at Twitter.

As someone who's been on Twitter for 12 years: you are completely and utterly correct

Think cool thoughts! Things will improve.

Hey, I think mine is fighting in the same war! Hopefully the two become war buddies and exchange some cigarettes before making it back safely.

Still 25C here... halp...

Tell me about it. We went from polar vortex cold to a warm spring about to be summer day this week.

A few days ago it was -2F, then 63F yesterday, and 35F tomorrow if where lucky. Weather is weird indeed.

There are gays from every nation. I'm sure one will appeal to you soon enough.

Hey, they don't have to actually BE gay. It's just a bonus! A very, very nice bonus... (But for real, even if the series itself wasn't a BL it's still enjoyable, lol)

Who knows when you'll be trapped in a death game tournament where you'll be asked about what Escherichia coli is.

You gotta always watch out for things like that.

@Zed60K or whether or not there's really a formula for estimating the surface area of an elephant...

I hope you didn't faint while you were getting a blood test x.x