No.742905
Living the NEET Cake life.
Very nice, we all know where this is going, but it's nice to watch.
No.742909
The NEETness, I feel it as my own. Truly times of bliss.
No.742911
The game parts look very nice, now the question is how the relationship drama parts look like. I'd like to say that not to serious, but these aren't high school students anymore.
No.742918
I know Japan treats 30 year olds like they have one foot in the grave already, but does she really need all those lines around her eyes?
No.742924
Decent enough so far, but I wish the MMO part was a bit more self-aware. I don't think anyone, least of all a 30 year old NEET cake, has that kind of wide-eyed fantastical view of MMOs. They do have some gameplay-related gags and references in there but for the most part the game world is less like a game and more like an isekai she isn't stuck in.
No.742937
No.742942
>>742918
They're not age wrinkles, more like "stares at a computer monitor all the time" wrinkles.
No.742945
>>742905
I want this woman.
>>742918
>I know Japan treats 30 year olds like they have one foot in the grave already
Which is funny in that they age better than Westerners.
No.742974
Comfier than expected, gonna be a fun ride.
>only 10 episodes
Why this, Japan?
No.742977
>>742974
You can get a lot done in 10 episodes. It's also better to leave the audience wanting more than to overstay your welcome.
No.743034
This show was so comfy. This is the example of the blissful life of a NEET. I remember this life. It was nice.
No.743039
>>742977
>Let's just create another 10 episode anime that will end abruptly because why the fuck would be spend more money to make a 21 episode anime when the DVDs, Manga and Figurines will sell the same.
I fucking hate the 11 episode anime meme that is currently happening in Japan. Back in the 2000s most animes were 20 episodes and had a good beginning and ending. Nowadays everything is too fucking rushed and the endings are generally fucking retarded. Not only that, once an anime is popular the studio just creates a super low budget season 2 (again with just 10 episodes) with an extreme amount of pandering just to moneygrab even more.
Biggest reason why I don't like modern anime. I don't even really have anything against the animation style or types of stories but these short anime are legit garbage.
No.743043
>>743039
I agree that the anime produced just to sell LNs/manga is a bad practice, but I'll take these short and concise shows over 50 episodes of filler and pointless bullshit. The fact of the matter is most of these shows don't have plots that are complex or epic enough to warrant that much screentime.
No.743051
>>743043
50 episodes is pushing it for the majority of anime, I agree. 20 episodes feels like the sweetspot where the story can be properly told and the filler isn't too much (filler isn't even necessarily bad, it can be very enjoyable). 10 episodes are just too few in my opinion. 10 episodes is alright if it's just an experimental anime I think 10 episodes is fine, otherwise it's way too rushed.
No.743086
Just watched the first episode
Amazing
No.743090
>amen
>adorbs
Can't wait for those donuts. Unrelated to this, I want to enable a NEETcake.
No.743106
>>743090
A Neetcake is basically just a housewife
No.743107
>>743106
Except that a NEETcake isn't married and doesn't do anything a housewife would usually do.
No.743110
>>743107
So you want to enable her but not be married to her?
No.743115
Getting real sick of this trend man, along with what >>743039 is feeling. At least this looks like a comfy ride for reformed NEET's, unlike the irredeemable Umaru.
No.743132
>elite NEET
>getting bullied by the MC
I never ask to be a NEET.
At least now she know how is play in hard mode in life.
No.743162
No.743165
Fuck this gave me some feels I didn't want to tackle remembering all of my old MMO friends... the feels of November will be upon us soon.
No.743181
Am I the only one who thinks the ED fits better for the OP and the OP for the ED?
No.743183
>>743181
I thought both were nice. They could fit either.
No.743185
>>743110
It'd probably be like Umaru except with more cuddling.
No.743203
Christmas cakes are best cakes and MC is a A CUTE.
This was better than I anticipated. Wasn't even going to pick this show up until I read this thread, honestly. But it's pretty cute, and well-drawn, and the in real life scenes are fun to watch. Hopefully there's more of those because I don't think it would be too enjoyable if they focus on isekai shit too much. The only good thing about the isekai shit is that, much like neetocake, I want to lewd Lilly-chan.
No.743215
>former NEET quits job so she may once again become a NEET
So someone finally made an anime about /a/.
No.743262
>>743204
>you will never be that daki
No.743282
No.743308
I liked it a lot. Very comfy. Shame that none of the MMORPG:s that exist in real life are any good. Once again 2D proves to be superior.
No.743319
>>743308
Maybe the 2D MMOs are also shit but they actually roleplay in them making the game seem better than it actually is?
No.743323
>>743319
That's what I've always figured. Some of them even mention microtransactions and stuff so clearly it's the same kind of shit games we have in 3D IRL. The scenes that take place in the MMO are like what's going on in your imagination when you play a tabletop RPG.
No.743342
>title of the game is "seafood online"
Nani ?
No.743367
>>743323
I wish I could take an already made MMO with pretty graphics like BDO, TERA, ect and just rework the game to make it fun. I don't know why but no mmo's are fun. I only had fun once while playing TERA and that was when I encountered a boss that hadn't been nerfed (forgotten maybe?) and required me to aim, dodge and think of my sequence of attacks... and it was hard enough I actually needed help and so another player partied up with me to beat it.
No.743376
>>743215
>Quit
It looks like she was fired
No.743379
>>743376
I doubt that. She literally says she chose the NEET life.
No.743383
>>743376
Couldn't find much of the manga but it lays much heavier on her past.
Fired or quit is just a matter of semantics.
No.743384
>>743376
If she was fired I don't think that they would give her flowers as a going away present.
No.743385
>One episode released
>24 hours later there's 40 replies
I guess I'm watching this show.
No.743386
How long before she is working in her apartment wearing only her underwear making paper flowers to pay for her debts?
No.743389
>>743367
I'd say the best roleplaying experience I had so far was in Dark Souls. Not having a chat really helps.
No.743390
>>743383
But where is she getting her money from? How can she splurge on overpriced gaming™ peripherals and microtransactions while being a NEET? Did she just save up her money? Is she being supported by her parents? Is it just a 2D world abstraction?
No.743391
No.743397
>>743383
I've been on again of again NEET for 8 years now. I find myself wondering why everything I try fails, but I answer the questions all too soon. The bigger question is why I keep trying to finish my bloody degree to get on the corporate tread mill now that my health is shot, and I'm getting wrinkles at 27. Guess the answer is to make my struggles mean something, and to please my parents. Meaningless suffering~
No.743402
>>743390
We're talking about eleven years of a constant OL career and she looks pretty frugal from her small, featureless apartment to her eating habits. It's not all that unreasonable to think she saved up for quite a bit of time. Maybe she even owns her apartment, I don't know how common that is in Japan.
No.743405
>>743390
I wondered about this too, either she has lots of savings from working for 10+ years without having to worry about family-related expenses, or she's getting money from someone. Or it's just one of those anime mysteries like where Kenshiro keeps getting new shirts from.
No.743410
>>743390
If you save up like crazy for 11 years of work then you can live off it for a while. Maybe she rents some cheap-ass place that the previous tenant was murdered in and eats nothing but convenience-store food.
No.743411
>>743390
Well, it could be a temporary thing. "Until all the money runs dry" kind of thing.
I'm doing this right now.
>Wageslaved for many years after highschool
>Steady, decent-paying job and career
>Dropped out to become a NEET for as long as I can
This is why I had a massive crush on MC already.
No.743424
So what's with the flowers?
Is it like a jap thing that you get some farewell gifts if you quit your job on good terms?
No.743449
>>743181
They do sound interchangeable. They're both pretty great tracks.
No.743458
>>743376
>>743424
She probably quit, hence the flowers for a "going away" gift or something like that. Do people do that in Japan?
No.743472
>>743424
That plus her statement about becoming a NEET on her own terms is what makes me think she quit, and wasn't fired. They don't give flowers to people who get fired.
No.743519
>>743472
You forget Japan doesn't like to fire, it's more you're demoted and pushed out the door.
No.743685
>>743383
>that second pic
...Hold it.
I might have just gotten myself spoiled, but is this >implying the MC is playing MMOs as a male character? And she's surrounded by female (and a couple of male) PCs who may or may not be actual girls IRL? This is a total fantasy.
I'm sold.
No.743687
>>743685
It's not much of a spoiler, but yes the MC is a woman who plays male character. Go watch the first episode
No.743689
>>743685
Everything you just said happened in the first episode.
No.743818
>>743685
You're such a fucking retarded faggot, anon.
No.743941
>>742905
This should not be allowed. It almost feels like it's trying to get viewers to live the NEET/Hiki life, and that's not cool. I've fought against my instinct to be a shut-in for a long time, and I'm not starting back again now. Fuck this piece of shit show. Dropped. s
No.743944
>>743397
Go discover the meaning of life nerd. If you can't do that then go help the rest of society do so through propogation of the species or development of beneficial technologies, dweeb.
No.743949
>>743397
Don't live life by what your parents want, or what society wants, but don't give up and shut yourself inside your room. There will be things you will have missed out on and you'll regret it. I also finished my degree late, and it sucks, but it would be worse if I had nothing and had to work shitty labor jobs instead. At least this way I can do what I want, like travel or have hobbies. I'm about to be 27, and I only wish I had realized that not giving up is the number one priority much sooner. Don't let the hiki/NEET lifestyle fags convince you. I know this is bordering on blog, but you'll regret it if you give up on yourself. Your aim should be to be happy, but this requires effort sometimes.
No.743956
Fuck man, the first episode was kawaii as shit. I don't think I've seen such a perfectly done first episode in a long time.
No.743987
>>743941
What's the matter anon, is this anime triggering you? It shouldn't be allowed huh?
Perhaps Tumblr is more to your taste and you should strongly consider fucking off of /a/ and/or killing yourself.
>>743949
>shitty labor jobs
>implying tradesmen don't make shitloads of money and have plenty of free time
>implying you get to have hobbies or travel
No.743989
It'd be pretty sweet if I could retire at the age of 30, but I think I'd have to do some illegitimate work to make that dream real
No.744034
>>743987
NHK stopped being a funny conspiracy and is now reality. No, this shouldn't be allowed to go on. Being a hiki/NEET is not a good thing.
No.744064
>>743941
See you next week.
No.744065
>>744034
>implying being hikki/NEET doesn't bring you to natural truths you'd never had realized before.
>implying NEETs don't get angry and frustrated when confronted with NHK
>implying NHK is not digging their own grave
In any case, each one of us have to choose to come out of the life or not. While it shouldn't be idolized to be a deadbeat, there's certain stories that can only be told with this plot.
And don't hate NEETcake. She worked in corporate hell for 11 years. Cut her some slack. She's about to embark on a journey towards those natural truths we found here if this were real. One day she's trying to find out if someone knows where x rare drop is, and next thing she knows she's found the chans.
No.744071
>>744065
I don't hate cake-san, but I don't think it should be portrayed as a comfy existence. Being hikki is fucking hell and I know because I've lived through it. I wanted to kill myself for a long time. I still do, and the only thing that stopped me is that I was too much of a pussy and I wanted to finish the current anime series (which as long as anime exists will exist for me). So I couldn't die, and I couldn't live. Hikki life is limbo. It's not a life at all.
No.744074
>>744071
>Hikki life is limbo
And being 3DPD is hell.
No.744076
>>744071
I've been NEET/hikki myself, and I can say with certainty that life was comfy exactly portrayed in this anime at times. Yes, there were the bad times as well, but if you've never experienced this cake's life, then maybe you did NEET wrong.
Or maybe you lived with your parents, which is something I never did.
No.744169
>>743142
I was going to shoop one with rule 34 of her but surprisingly I didn't find any.
>>743397
Touhou is that you?
No.744271
>>743383
This is the final form, twice ascended, of net gaming. Pure fantasy, where everyone's specifically and especially something they're not. 'Trap' suddenly means people who are actually exactly how they present themselves online.
>>744253
>>744255
>>744258
Blind men can't see the light, while those who cover their eyes in fear refuse to.There's a difference.
No.744574
Since they already met unwittingly offline, this is going to be based primarily on offline interactions isnt it? If so I don't like where its going. Having the entry level gender bender romance in the game is much better.
No.744649
>>744574
Imagine: this is actually the 2nd cour of Gamers!
No.744692
What I don't get is why a guy would make a cute girl character that he clearly put some effort into and then just start flirting with someone using a generic ikemen male character. Then again, he does look like kind of like he might be that way inclined, but if that's the case why did he be driven to make a cute girl instead of a guy he would find attactive like morimori did? Only straight men are capable of making cute girls in MMOs, it's a fact.
No.744694
>>744692
Maybe he wants to be the little girl and be tenderly loved.
No.744797
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>>744065
>and next thing she knows she's found the chans.
>Show focuses on her interactions with anonymous
>last few episodes are about the happening and how various boards act upon it.
>she gets escorted by a /k/
squad taking anons to base etc
>anime ends with /pol/ taking over
would watch 10/10
No.744831
>>744801
>bitching at me for a direct quote from someone else
No.744838
>>744831
Don't you dare
>
me, young man.
No.744975
>>742905
This honestly got my attention much more than I thought it would. I like the concept just from hearing the other characters speak more than Mori herself. One would have to read into it a little bit, but there's an overall really neat implementation of modernism, focused almost entirely around the idea of fragmentation. I'm actually excited to see if it ends up just being about character interaction or a Japanese creating their own sweet spot between work and doing their own thing.
No.745629
Reminder that this is what an actual 'Cake' looks like without their 2D filtering properly applied. Don't fall for their dirty tricks!
Spoilered for your safety.
No.745631
This is a feeling I'm all too familiar with.
No.745634
No.745639
>>745634
There's nothing but CR rips
No.745643
I'm not even sure what to feel anymore.
No.745645
>>745639
Learn japonese or leave my board.
No.745658
ERITTO NEETO DESU!
I want to care for, and tenderly love this NEET and her unkept eyebrows and lower lip mole.
I really like this show anons.
No.745667
Best show of the season already and only 2 episodes in
Do you think it'll become sad or stay upbeat? I got a tone from the little bits of comic I could find online that it has "depressing" streaks of her flashbacks to not-neetdom
No.745669
No.745682
>>745631
I'm surprised she even cared. "Elito Neeto" my ass. She's still a rookie.
No.745685
>>745682
I think that's just something that happens if you're closer to your thirties and have spent a number of years being a "productive member of society". Personal experience for me anyway.
No.745695
>>745688
The arigatou gozaimasu scene was cute as hell.
No.745699
>>745682
I, for one, am loving that the main character is a NEET who doesn't shun real life like a fucking edgelord faggot. Unlike other NEET protagonists, she's clearly excited about going on a date instead of pretending she's above it all.
One a side note, this is the first show where I've known enough Japanese to start getting the puns, and I fucking love it.
No.745701
>>745699
>I like that the main character is a failed normalfag who claims to be a NEET to fit in when in fact they are 3DPD in soul
Get out.
No.745702
>>745701
>3DPD
That's a nasty thing to say about such a pure cake, you fucking asshole.
No.745704
>>745702
She's not pure at all, she wants to become a normalfag.
No.745830
>>745704
Nobody wants to become a NEET, it's something you just sorta fall into and can't get out of.
No.745864
>>745830
>Nobody wants to become a NEET
You must not be from around here.
I really like this show so far. I was skeptical about the whole real life vs MMO thing and was worried that they were going to turn it into just another romcom with only a vague connection to whatever the supposed theme of the show is, but now I wouldn't mind even if that happened. As long as there's no huge unpredictable fuckups, I can see this being one of the best shows of the season.
No.745871
>>745599
I'm a bit surprised how good the animation is. No CGI yet either.
No.745875
>>745830
Nobody wants to be a NEET without money, you mean. Only a fraction of a percent of people actually have jobs that they'd do if they didn't need the money.
No.745877
>>745830
>Nobody wants to become a NEET
Speak for yourself, normalfag.
No.745884
>>745830
>Nobody wants to become hopelessly poor, it's something you just sorta fall into and can't get out of.
Fixed that for you, literally the No.1 aspiration of normals is to work hard enough so that they can get their 401k and become NEETs ASAP. They just call it "retirement".
No.746026
Holy shit, that dream sequence.
I feel like I'm watching Metropolis again.
No.746029
>>746026
I didn't like that part much because the symbolism didn't really make a lot of sense. It's not that hard to think up of some symbolic imagery around that whole idea of being a faceless cog in the corporate machine, yet the best they could do is a bunch of salarymen with masks marching off a cliff, which isn't clever and doesn't really express anything. If it was me doing that sequence I'd have something to represent individuality, personality and free time being stripped away from regular people, and more importantly the idea of being judged harshly for not being part of the collective, which is even stronger in Japanese culture than in the west.
No.746035
>>746029
Sure, the imagery was uninspired, but it was still well-done, animation and presentation-wise.
No.746038
Damn, that was nice. I can't wait until next week.
No.746049
I like how the in-game enemies are drawn super cartoony and the way emotes are shown, it shows just a bit more of the game's graphic limits comapred to some other mmo animes. Keyword a bit.
No.746055
>>743039
10 episodes is fine if you're not working with an epic. It's small enough to get people dedicated to watching it, and it can generally have a whole plot or two (sometimes three) from multi-chapter mangos/LNs phased through without rushing or slowing down with filler episodes. Doubly so if they move towards 45 minute opening and ending episodes instead of the general 20-22 minute episode for the rest of the season. The issue is that producers like to take the epics that need 3-4 episodes per volume/plotline, and try to condense it down into 1-2 episodes so as to cover more material. As a producer, I'd rather only air a volume every 3-4 episodes and only get through the first couple volumes since that would give me more material to immediately pick up and make another season from assuming I wasn't working with a 12+ volume series that necessitates a volume every 2 episodes.
No.746061
>>743390
>How can she splurge on overpriced gaming™ peripherals and microtransactions while being a NEET?
Build your own PC and you can get shit dirt cheap. Gonna build a budget desktop this winter that'll be able to handle an HTC Vive and maxed graphics on most games for about $700 and just hook it via HDMI to my TV. Building it as my little siblings' birthday present. A couple hundred in microtransactions isn't that much if you brought in good wages up until that point.
I know if I hadn't had to give money to my family for when they inevitably fucked up at various times, I'd have saved up about $20k in the last four years just from working at well under market wages in my profession, and not having anything (other than beer, eating out once in a while, and a couple other luxuries) to spend it on thanks to my mother teaching me to be a coupon clipper/extremely frugal with my money. I only make about $20-$30k/year. She grew up on a farm with virtually no money as a child/experienced near-starvation multiple times, so she's always been extremely careful with her money. Apartments are expensive here (about $10,800/year for a single bedroom), but I could see a corporate schmuck bringing in a decent chunk of change to live off of for a few years if they worked for 11 years with lots of overtime likely factored in to explain why she didn't have a family or other hobbies before quitting her job. It's actually one of the things I'm looking forward to when I cut off all contact with my family next year to join the military since I'll have virtually nothing to spend my active duty mil wages on going in as an E3.
Polite sage.
No.746064
>>746061
>nips
>a nip woman
>a nip cake
>a nip cake who buys LED-covered edgy gaming peripherals
>building her own PC
No.746597
>>745884
>>745875
>>745864
>This
If it looks like a romcom, it probably is.
The game and social commentary is just a backdrop.
No.746676
>Get a mild concussion.
>Here, have an IV Drip!
Japan, why?
No.746677
>>746676
It wasn't for the concussion it was for her deadly japanese common cold. If she didn't have that IV she would've died.
No.746691
>>746662
You're extremely easy to manipulate into feelings then. Develop some critical thinking. I agree with this guy, it was extremely weak for the concept it was supposed to be. >>746029
No.746711
>>746691
I say again, it was good not for the light commentary, but for the presentation as a whole.
No.746714
>>746676
They probably found that she was dehydrated and decided to give her fluids.
No.746732
>>746714
I'd give Eriito Niito my fluids if you know what I'm saying.
No.746769
>>746662
>sending the reddit masks into the ovens at the tower of babel.webm
No.746784
>>746769
>Also notice this
My nigga
No.746790
>>746676
Because if someone is dehydrated and unconscious, that's how you give someone fluids. And everyone is always dehydrated, because people blow ass at drinking the right about of fluids.
No.746858
>>746691
But you know anon, one of the reasons some folks watch animu is to be able to let themselves get all emotional over shitty scenes in chinese cartoons.
It's nice, you know. There's enough critical thinking to be done everywhere else.
Mind you, I also found this particular scene to be daft as hell.
>>746732
Planning on giving her the ol' throat IV, eh anon? The ol' pit stop milky fill-up, is it?
No.746961
People seriously like this show? I love trash but this is too retarded and yet it feels like it's actually trying, which is really sad.
It's like it's written by a bunch of people who have never played a video game or interacted with anyone online before. I'm not even sure the writers live in the same world as the rest of us based on the way their characters interact and react.
>oh no I sent an email at 2am
>oh no it's 5am and I don't have any IRL commitments whatsoever
>gee wiz I hope he doesn't learn that I'm actually a girl IRL xd
>oh fugg I hope she doesn't learn that I don't have a job and I'm not a student
>oh no what a bad person I am for telling a lie in a video game about who I am IRL
No.746966
>>746961
It sounds like you hate fun?
No.746970
>>743402
>oh no I sent an email at 2am
This comes from Japanese culture, additionally she thinks he is cute.
>oh no it's 5am and I don't have any IRL commitments whatsoever
After working for over a decade and just switching to being a NEET, your brain would still be reacting the same. Not only that, but she might of just been freaking out because she knows that Lily-san doesn't usually stay up that late with her and she knows Lily-san has work the next day.
>gee wiz I hope he doesn't learn that I'm actually a girl IRL xd
She's been living a lie about being a guy for like a whole year to her guild.
>oh fugg I hope she doesn't learn that I don't have a job and I'm not a student
See above, it would likely hurt her relationship with Lily-san.
>oh no what a bad person I am for telling a lie in a video game about who I am IRL
There's a difference between lying to random strangers online and to your close guild mates.
No.746972
>>746966
No I am in fact a major proponent of fun but it has to be self-aware enough to not take its worst aspects so seriously.
>>746970
>There's a difference between lying to random strangers online and to your close guild mates.
Well this is what it comes down to. I don't feel like their relationship is earned. You share details of your personal life with close guild mates after you've really gotten to know them, and I must have skipped the training montage because they were acting like long-term online best buddies partway through the first episode.
No.746975
>>746972
>online best buddies partway through the first episode.
Yeah, I would agree in saying that the first episode kind of rushed the story along. The whole episode takes place over several months.
No.747103
>>746975
I agree with this, they should have a montage of time going by, for example by showing the mountains of trash increasing in height
No.747219
Things got dark pretty fast
No.747222
>>746677
>It wasn't for the concussion it was for her deadly japanese common cold.
Fall asleep at the computer, catch the dread Japanese cold. A dry, rain-free bed is the only place you might safe.
No.747262
If only I could find a MMO and some friends as comfy as the game/characters in this anime.
No.747264
>>747262
Started up FFXIV again looking for that experience after watching.
Now I remember how they did everything to make sure nobody experiences that kind of bonding or comfy.
No.747280
>>747219
I really liked the wageslave Tower of Babel metaphor.
No.747423
>>747222
Why do the Japanese all have this 1700's old-wives'-tale outlook of colds? Is this just in their media or do they really think like this? Or maybe it's true for them because they are just that weak.
No.747429
>>747423
It's because Japan's drug regulations prevent them from having any of the over-the-counter cold remedies available in the west, so getting the Japanese cold means being an absolute fucking mess for the duration of the illness. This is exacerbated by the fact that you can't just call in sick from work, you have to go there in person and ask for leave to go to the doctor, and then pay 5000 yen to have the doctor write you a sick note, and after all this, you're only getting maybe 3 days off work maximum, and I think they're your vacation days. There's also a sort of commercial terrorism committed by companies that sell face masks and "immune-system boosting drinks" that want you to think everything will make you sick. There's also the fact that everything in Japan is so clean that being exposed to the slightest filth might make you sick.
No.747481
>>747423
Laugh all you want, that stuff is no joke. In the short time I was in Japan with a working holiday visa some years ago, a staff member at the company that hired me was found dead in their room due to overworking while sick with a cold. Maybe the Japanese are just built differently, but the average diet for lower middle to middle class Japanese (which aside from their rice, is almost always made from low quality mass produced ingredients padded with watery cabbage and excessive deep frying; almost no significant nutrition, just carbohydrates) and everything mentioned in here >>747429 death from a minor illness is a real possibility.
No.747484
>>747481
>makes death from a minor illness a real possibility.
Rewrote that line and forgot to fix it.
No.748727
I'm surprised by just how much I'm enjoying this after all.
No.748742
>>748727
Same here, Anon. At first I was just watching this for the cute NEET cake. I was only putting up with the in-game guild crap. But now I'm really enjoying all of it.
No.748751
So what are the chances Sakurai-chan isn't actually Lily-san and it's all a ruse that'll get revealed as a big twist later on with a lot of drama where Erito-Neeto-Cakeo will have to decide between the two?
Also what the fuck was with that chopsticks scene? Was there something lost in translation or was the guy just drunk?
No.748762
>>748751
>isn't actually Lily-san and it's all a ruse
This is only acceptable if there's yuri
No.748764
>>748751
It's possible. He has to be one of the guild members though, since he was able to read the chat at the end of the episode. The whole thing with Sakura staying up late and elbowing Moriko would be a pretty big coincidence though.
No.748766
>>748751
>Also what the fuck was with that chopsticks scene?
>he doesn't know about The Honest Woodcutter
It gets referenced in anime and manga all the time. Next you'll tell me you don't know about A Dog of Flanders either.
No.748787
>>748766
>The Honest Woodcutter
You mean the story where the spirit of the river asks the woodcutter if he dropped this golden or this silver axe or something? If so, I didn't catch that, my bad.
>>748769
gib moni
No.748829
>>747262
Mabinogi is the closest thing you'll get I think. In fact I think the game they play is loosely based on it
No.748847
No.748850
>>748836
You just needed a I report u in there and it would be perfect.
No.748877
>>747481
>>747429
>>748847
Allow me to clarify. I wasn't asking why they see colds as deadly and serious; I know they can be. I'm asking why they think spending time in physically cold temperatures or in rain will cause a cold. I don't think I've legitimately heard someone say "Don't go out in the rain or you'll catch a cold" in real life in 10 years. Maybe in the American Midwest they still say that, but not where I live.
No.748887
>>748877
But they're right, what are you on about?
No.748893
>>748887
I'm not denying that a physically cold body is slightly more at risk due to not being able to put as much energy into the immune system, but thinking that a disease caused by invasive microorganisms can also be caused by being cold is retarded. A person, alone in a room, sleeping without a blanket will not become sick. The reason winter is cold and flu season isn't because the cold weather helps the organisms spread, it's because people get closer together and stay indoors to avoid the cold in the first place. Why do you think hospitals are kept cold? Cold restricts the growth of bacteria, it doesn't promote it. Read a book, nigger.
No.748896
>>748893
Yeah but with how many viruses and bacteria we're confronted with and surrounded by every day in any situation you might as well say that the cold causes colds because the requirements for it are always given (there will probably always be one or a bunch of infectants within your body). It's just semantics at that point.
No.748902
>>748896
At that point you might as well say going outside will get you sick. Mucous membranes and skin exist for a reason. My point is that being cold or even out in the rain only increases your chance of getting sick by such a negligible degree that the whole saying is null. A character sleeping without a blanket and getting sick from it is cartoonish. Going back to my initial question, I was curious if that was just seen as something that happens in cartoon but not real life (analogous to pepper being anywhere near a character making them sneeze or banana peels being super slippery in Western cartoons) or if that is actually believed by the majority of people.
No.748944
>>748877
Japan is culturally America from 50 years ago, but with weird shit thrown in. That should explain 70% of your questions about them.
No.748977
>>748769
>>748836
I'm having PTSD flashbacks of my high school days playing RO, good job.
No.748988
I have to say, I really like the OP visuals.
No.748990
>>748902
http://archive.is/duHe7
According to this, lower temperatures let the virus outpace the immune system, making you more susceptible to catching a cold.
Don't be so quick to dismiss something just because it's wives-tale knowledge. Out of the three languages I know all of them somehow associate the word for the disease with the idea of cold. People may not fully understand why something happens but they can easily make these kinds of correlations over time, and when they're this consistent throughout almost all cultures there's probably some truth to them.
No.748996
>>748990
>>748902
>>748896
>>748893
>>748877
>>747481
>>747429
>>747423
>>747222
>catch a cold
>body temperature becomes warmer
What did they mean by this?
No.748999
>>748996
Please don't encourage them. I want to be able to talk about the show.
No.749024
>>748996
It means your body caught the cold you were surrounded by or rather that it the cold has invaded your body. Your body then becomes warmer to drive out that cold again.
No.749049
>>748990
>that study
All that says is that cold viruses prefer temperatures slightly colder than body temperature. As in, inside the nose as opposed to inside the mouth. Viruses still hate cold weather.
>make these kinds of correlations over time
Exactly. Correlation, not causation. Even the article you posted admits that winter is cold season because people are huddled together. It's no surprise many cultures associate cold weather with and even blame cold weather for flus. But now we know better. Almost every culture also believes that mankind was shaped by the hands of a creator god, but now we know about evolution. That's what happens, science and society advance.
>>748999
Don't worry, I'm done now.
No.749065
>>749049
>Almost every culture also believes that mankind was shaped by the hands of a creator god, but now we know about evolution. That's what happens, science and society advance.
No.749107
No.749112
>>749107
In ye olde free-to-play MMOs, gold-hungry girls (or traps) would publicly say something like "press 123 for gf" and then take their pick from the local players who chatted "123" in return. Then the players give the "girl" free shit in return for the privilege of having an internet gf, etc. Of course this led to players spamming "123" unprompted, any time they saw a female avatar, because they saw other people doing it and didn't understand the meme.
No.749130
>>748836
>Haven't played an mmo in about 10 years
>Had to look up what BR? was
The times they are a changin'...
No.749146
>>749130
Brazilians still plague toaster-F2P, it's just that none of us here play those games because they're shit and we're not poor middle schoolers anymore.
No.749152
>>749130
Man, they have been a problem in MMOs for way over ten years.
Only free to play ones though, obviously. If you played any F2P game in the early 2000s, you ran into "BR?" at some point.
the only thing that's changed is that more BRs play paid games now so sometimes you also find them in not F2P games.
No.749153
>NA has BRs
>Europe has Russians
Does Japan have an equivalent? Are they themselves the BRs or Ruskies of Asia?
No.749154
>>749152
They also appeared in private servers of non-MMOs like WC3
No.749156
>>749153
I'd say South Koreans but the truth is that Americans are pretty annoying and they cross server more than SKs do.
No.749159
>>749156
Yeah but we're better than the people on the servers that we come to. What makes Brazilians so hated is how awful they are while making you play with them.
No.749161
>>749159
>Yeah but we're better than the people on the servers that we come to.
No.749194
>>749159
I'm pretty sure the Brazillians think of themselves that way too. And you have to remember, Reddit swarms these games hard the moment somebody makes a how-to guide. There's a reason many Japanese companies are skittish about letting foreigners play their games.
No.749295
>>749153
>Does Japan have an equivalent? Are they themselves the BRs or Ruskies of Asia?
MMO communities in SEA are recreating the conflict of WW2 with the tables reversed, and JP servers fending off invasions from other countries.
MYs are the BRs.
Chinks are the Russians/Slavs.
Flips are the Americans.
No.749314
No.749436
This eritto niitto cake is too adorable. Her and her ugly green socks are making my heart doki doki.
I'm still surprised at how enjoyable this show turned out to be.
No.749438
>>749194
>I'm pretty sure the Brazillians think of themselves that way too.
No one in the world is as bad as brazilians, and they have to fucking know it.
No.749444
>>749438
Would Brazilians be worse if they knew that they're the worst or would they be worse if they didn't know that they're the worst?
No.749448
>>749444
>implying you could communicate with one
No.749450
>>749436
>There are people who don't have エリート ニート ugly green socks
It is with utmost disdain that I write this post and question the value of posting alongside people who watch less than 10 anime per season and go outside for anything other than buying alcohol.
No.749453
>>749438
I`m brazilian and what I've seen is that there are a lot of kids who think they're hot shit, a lot of people who embrace the shitty online BR stereotype and make an active effort to perpetuate it, but also a lot of people who hate the bad reputation BRs have online because of all the retards.
>>749448
You can't communicate with online game monkeys, obviously, but you've been communicating with me and other crypto-BRs here for years and you don't even know.
No.749454
>>749450
Those socks aren't even green anon.
No.749483
>>742909
>small cake with single candle
>shitty deep fried chicken
>oversweetened canned juice
Man, it wasn't supposed to be like that.
No.749485
>>742924
Well, it's set up that she hasn't played MMO for a long time and the last one was a simpler one. It's like jumping from Ragnarok Online and Lineage straight to WoW or FFXIV.
No.749497
>>749483
She's living the dream anon. Drop all your responsibilities and live the dream alongside her.
No.749510
No.749511
No.749538
>>743397
>I met this guy from a wealthy family of lawyers
>All he did was study to please his parents and approved all tests with flying colors
>The day of the graduating ceremony he gives his title to the parents and says "I hope you are happy" and walked away
>Next thing I know form this guy is he is an electrician, makes good money and plans to open a greenhouse bussiness because he likes nature and a less stressful job was disowned by his family and they don't even want to know their grandchildren, but he gives zero fucks
No.749541
>>744797
Spoil that shit, muy ais
No.749598
Need to catch up again; haven't watched the last two episodes due to work.
Used to be a NEET, for about a year and a half. But I had to quit once I realized there was a HEMA club near me and my inner chuuni won out. Now I'm a fucking electrical engineer, because I needed money for more longswords. Funny how that works out.
No.749619
>>749483
>shitty deep fried chicken
It's a the Christmas tradition
>bbc.com/capital/story/20161216-why-japan-celebrates-christmas-with-kfc
No.749692
>>749649
At last I truly see.
No.749741
>>746790
>people are always dehydrated
I remember one time in elementary school where a kid passed out because the teacher wouldn't let him get up and get any water.
No.750363
>>746055
Not disagreeing but I think there's still something sour about Slife Anime with just 10 episodes. 20 episode animes just simply develop much better and are overall more enjoyable, because the studio can take its time to properly introduce the characters and plotpoints.
The absolutely biggest thing I fucking hate about 10 episode anime is when they do A MOTHERFUCKING CLIFFHANGER AT THE ENDING OF THE ANIME BUT THE ANIME NEVER ACTUALLY GETS A SECOND FUCKING SEASON SO YOU END UP WITH AN UNFINISHED PIECE OF SHIT.
One of the absolutely worst example of this that I can think of is Barakamon, it is geniuenly a very enjoyable anime but it falls short because it didn't have enough episodes to introduce and resolve plotpoints and because of a retarded (semi)cliffhanger ending that never got resolved EVEN THOUGH IT GOT A FUCKING SECOND SEASON PREQUEL.
Anime was a fucking mistake
No.750368
>>750363
Read or die had plenty of episodes but the longer it dragged on the more ridicules and nonsensical the plot, characterization and themes became. I felt like it had something special going on, but; instead decided to be all style and none of the substance I assumed was coming. My point it that you're right. All the examples you gave are both familiar and numerous bullshits that are at the core of anime. However; I fundamentally disagree with your assertion that:
>20 episode animes just simply develop much better and are overall more enjoyable, because the studio can take its time to properly introduce the characters and plotpoints.
Anime must be judged on an individual basis and as such; I find your opinion to be arbitrary and lacking in understanding. A studio can deliver a fantastic anime in the space of 10, 20 or even greater/lesser episodes, it is dependent entirely on the circumstances and what the studio want's to achieve in their work. Some anime isn't even episodic and there are many greats of this nature that coexist within the industry. Quality narrative can be delivered in a few a sentences and anime can be great, or terrible, in as many frames as desired. Treat your caps lock with more respect too please.
No.750373
>>750368
I'm not saying that all anime with 10 episodes is trash, barakamon is one of my favorite anime (even though of the stated flaws) and it only has 12 episodes. The issue I see is that the majority of anime that we see nowadays are10 episodes even though they would be excellent with 20 episodese. I respect the artistic vision of a studio when it decides that it is best for a simple or experimental anime to have 10 episodes, but the truth is that the decision to push 10 episode anime is 90% of the time a solely financial one. They receive the rights for a well known name from a manga or novel and then push an average 10 episode anime because they know DVD, figurine and manga sales will mostly be the same.
Great anime like welcome to the NHK would surely be 12 episode anime if made in the [current year]
And I know that RoD isn't perfect but I think we can both agree that the OVA was great
No.750377
>>749741
Jesus Christ, where was that? California?
No.750382
>>750373
>but the truth is that the decision to push 10 episode anime is 90% of the time a solely financial one.
A truth is a truth when there is evidence for it to be one, rather than it's applicability to your opinions. I'm sure you can back that statement up with reliable statistics though, right? It wouldn't be a preconceived notion based on your personal experiences, no? I don't deny that it happens, but I wouldn't delude myself on an arbitrary percentage of it's occurrence.
>Great anime like welcome to the NHK would surely be 12 episode anime if made in the [current year]
What a time to be alive. Until you mentioned the date, I had dismissed your argument, but now I see it to be truth since it really is 2017. Shocking.
>And I know that RoD isn't perfect but I think we can both agree that the OVA was great
Yeah that OVA was pretty good. I also thought the openings were very well done; it really did have something special.
No.750386
>>750363
Fucking god damn Maoyuu Maou Yuusha.
No.750416
>>750382
It is an easily observable fact. Dismissing my point for simply not posting "statistics" (which don't exist) is ridiculous.
I was kind of just making a joke with [current year] but I do believe that many of the most popular and best anime that were made 10 or 20 years ago would not be as popular or as good if they were made today for many reasons and i think the biggest reason would be that it would be rushed anime.
Its just a trend that I observes happening in the Nip industry that I simply dislike.
No.750452
>>750416
Tiger Mask W surprised me by having 38 episodes.
I thought it was going to stop by 24 or something like that.
No.750527
I just realized: she named her character 林 because both her first and last name have 森 in them.
No.750615
>>750527
You figure that all on your own?
No.750637
>>748742
Yeah, I too was expecting the mmo bits to be crap but they're pretty fun.
No.750690
>>750615
Y-yeah, I also noticed that right off the bat. What are you, some kind of baka, >>750527 ?
No.750734
>>750363
Has nobody else noticed how disturbingly flat that sandwich is?
No.750866
>she cuts her hair
No. No I didn't want this at all. This is the worst possible outcome.
No.750867
>>750866
I didn't even notice that. I'm holding out hope that that isn't her. Her hair was especially great this episode.
No.750869
>>750867
She fantastic just the way she is, she doesn't need to change. Christ anime get it together.
No.750885
Koiwai is a massive bro. Going out of his way like that so that Sakura can go and have a second chance at Moriko.
No.750970
>>750866
>cut hair
DON'T DO THIS TO ME ANIME. DON'T YOU DARE RUIN THE ELITO NEETO
No.750973
>>750869
Drawing long hair takes too much time, gotta go.
No.751005
No.751054
It happened, and it only took 4 episodes. I was expecting this to get dragged out to the ~8th episode.
No.751071
>>751054
I guess there will be no twist after all. At least the characters aren't so utterly retarded they won't notice anything. Maybe instead the MC will take longer to realise things and will create drama this way.
No.751086
>>750866
This is the very worst anime meme. Pls stop.
No.751114
>>750869
>she is hot as neet
>even hot as wage slave
Why she is so perfect, /a/?
Is the old hag want a young dick?
No.751117
>>749649
Holy fucking shit
No.751129
This anime makes me feel lonely. It's too bad that traditional MMO's are practically dead and gone nowadays.
No.751178
>>751129
MMO's these days are just single player games where you see other players.
No.751360
>>751054
It is because this is a top shelf show where we might actually get a satisfying conclusion. AND THEY'RE GONNA DO IT IN A TEN EPISODE COUR!
>>751114
She is hands-down the most charming best girl I've seen in quite a few seasons.
>pure cake that needs to be loved and cared for
>shy and lonely just like you
>beautiful long hair
>kawaii mole
>likes a good biru
>knows the hardships of wageslaving/worked hard to save up money/self-made NEET
>would probably just want to cuddle and play some games with you all day and hold hands and go for walks
>エリット．ニット
Moriko proves that you can have your cake, and eat it too. See what I did there?
No.751362
>>751360
>Moriko proves that you can have your cake, and eat it too.
I liked this part.
But
>See what I did there?
ruined it, friend.
No.751367
>>751362
Whatever, it's not like I funpost for you or anything, b-baka!
No.751383
>>751360
>beautiful long hair
Not for long.
No.751503
>>751484
Where do you think you are, anon?
Yes, there are lots of us here. I share your pain, anon.
No.751504
>>751484
Can't talk about such things here anon even if you have plenty of friends here.
No.751511
Pretty sure im the biggest NEET in this whole board
No.751512
>>751511
Thats some big talk. Tell us how you think you can hold such a title.
No.751515
>>751512
14 years as NEET , can you beat that?
No.751516
No.751589
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>>750885
This better be what happens I swear to god
No.751644
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No.751732
>>751054
>The anime focuses on their relationship slowly evolving
>Instead of banking on the "will they/won't they" dynamic
No.751975
Just finished the first episode since anons kept talking about it. The reactions were great and I feel MC's suffering, but the episode was overall pretty bland/felt like it could fit into a 12 minute time slot. Gonna follow the rule of 3, but does it get better or is it more of the same?
No.752031
>>751860
>digit checking
Go back to >>>/v/ you unbearable fuck.
No.752037
>>749130
The good old days
No.752051
>>752037
This still happens.
No.752094
>>751975
It's a kawaii romance, if you don't like episode 2 I would say you can probably drop it.
No.753007
>>751515
How do I achieve NEET longevity?
I've been for 4 years and I feel like it's going to end soon.
No.753008
>>751360
>エリット．ニット
It's エリートニート.
No.753124
>everyone wants a slice of cake
Looks like the haremhag has all her cocks in a row.
No.753712
>>751515
How the fuck do you even manage to NEET for that long? Gibs?
No.753796
New episode. It's pretty Coincidental.
No.753809
>She cut her hair
Goddammit, she looked so much better with long hair.
No.753838
>>753809
Yeah, man. What a disappointment.
No.753846
>>753838
Should've just put her in that hairstyle she had as an OL. What a waste.
No.758088