/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>785645

>this OP

Comfy ruined forever, somebody needs to stop your sinful hands

>>785646

She stores her excess bravery in her majestic bun.

>>785645

>Second image

The eyebrows can't be contained by mere mortal tools.

>>785657

>Special guest character designer: Dobson

>>785646

Japan really is that safe. I can't actually think of any other place that I would go solo camping without a gun. Then again if it's campsite it'd be pretty safe though. I would be more worried coming up behind a giant van that has no way of seeing me in a scooter.

I hope Rin gets over being a loner after this camp is over so we can finally see full group interactions, although RIn's parts are kind of cute and comfy, they kind of got outshone by the three other's fun interactions.

If only I had the money, I'd commission a professional illustration of Rin giving a bunjob.

>>785722

Please do not lewd Rin.

>>785738

Why does she have a heat pack down there?

>>785740

>Thick veins

I hope I shouldn't have to explain the presence of the Iliac Arteries (I might be wrong it's been ages since I looked up anything worthwhile on anatomy)

>>785742

You know it was a joke right?

>>785746

Yes, but I just wanted to see how it felt posting >Thick veins.The rest was just fluff.

It felt lewd, by the way.

That was so relaxing and sweet, i am fully healed.

LISTEN TO THE MELODY

>>785708

<gun, not also a big knife

knife has almost unlimited ammo

>>785699

Asenshi subs are out now.

I had the widest shit eating grin throughout the episode.

>>786284

You're experiencing an emotion called "happiness."

>>786672

I don't understand why she did it. I mean sure, it's a funny stunt. But I'd first get confirmation that the other person is at their phone and attentive before doing it, and then I wouldn't do it for more than 20 seconds at the most.

>>786680

I want to pat her bun.

Question for you happy campers.. HorribleSubs or Asenshi?

>>786770

Why is that even a question?

You pick HS for speed and reliability of delivery. Not for quality.

>>786806

Do you ever actually watch the Asenshi version?

>>787053

Once the BDs come out I'll be adding at least the second one to my wallpaper rotation.

>>787136

tfw you try to adapt the pasta but then the comfy sets it and you cannot be bothered to finish it.

>>787239

To be fair, you have to be very comfy to understand Yuru Camp.

>>787265

If nothing else, you will get really comfy after watching Yuru Camp.

I gotta wonder if the rise of all these comfy/mealtime shows is a result of modern society's tendency trade quality socialization with quantity, with a growing number of people wanting back the some of the aspects of the old times where traditional family meals and meaningful relationships with the people you care about was the norm.

>>787824

The first thing you should try to look up is who consumes these shows.

Is it normalfags or the usual suspects, that have never had much social interaction in the first place, (but are now slowly being driven out of their favorite corners of the internet by an influx of newcomers)?

>>787824

Looking at it from the other end, I have on at least one occasion broken out of an antisocial mood and enjoyed time with other people because I related what was going on to comfy anime.

>>787824

Keep in mind the fact that it's Japanese society. I don't think what you described applies to most places outside of maybe the more metropolitan Tokyo area.

I think it's more likely the result of the great herbivore male movement creating people who'd rather spend their time on hobbies or more obscure interests than pursuit of 3DPD women. That and Japanese people generally being pretty open and earnest about their autism.

>>787867

>the great herbivore male movement

Why are you describing it like a concerted effort?

>>787818

!

>>787898

I'm not. A movement doesn't have to be deliberate.

>>787824

Anon, all of the healing anime aim at basement dwelling otaku. None of them want more interactions with the standart 3D person.

People just want to be healed from their stress, they acumulate by interacting with trashy 3D people.

>>788541

>150km is no joke on a scooter when it's near freezing.

That reminds me of

>A nine mile walk is no joke, especially in the rain.

>>788577

>Suddenly /x/

She's always been reading spooky books

>>788583

I am unable to make webms, but I was talking about the flying light.

>>788595

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.13191,138.0402928,3a,75y,358.11h,90.92t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMl7TJOJ6VWgOO-EN0donPtSPIRj5dQvL88N4OK!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMl7TJOJ6VWgOO-EN0donPtSPIRj5dQvL88N4OK%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya323.7-ro-0-fo100!7i4050!8i1927

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Bonus hut

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>>788622

Glasses without her glasses and with her hair up was super lewd and I didn't even realize who it was at first. I'm sorry hairbun but you cannot surpass this.

>>788723

> why people put milk in the soup.

Thats how cream soups are made without using high fat cream?

>>788725

You don't do it. Cream in a salty food only make things worse.

>>788726

How about Carbonara as well as cream sauce you fuck?

>>788947

>made for little girls

I very much doubt it. It's clearly marketed towards the same demographic as most high school SOL anime.

>>788947

Did you really think announcing that you're a crossboarder casual was a great idea?

>>788726

Motherfucker have you never eaten lasagna before?

>>788789

>carbonara

>using cream

You're really tossing my tortellini here, anon.

>>789171

A béchamel sauce is not cream, though. Fucking philistine.

>>789404

Rin is so damn cute when she's putting things in her mouth.

>>789402

>Forehead-chan

She reminds me of Wu from Fate/GO. Obviously missing the personality but the rest is there. Onsen scenes I don't normally think of as lewd but this has kicked open the flood gates.

>>789404

I wonder how they do that.

>>788876

That was a wonderful garden. But is strange to see the city behind that.

>>789479

To compare her to Wu is insulting. Wu actually looks good with the forehead, whereas this one just looks like she had an accident at the barbershop. Those overly short bangs don't look good.

>>789402

>not liking the glasses

I wouldn't want to share a tent with someone like you.

>>789537

But I do like the glasses anon!

I just didn't realize that underneath that nerdy octopus head was a hidden babe.

Would cum on her forehead and glasses/10

>>789579

>I just didn't realize that underneath that nerdy octopus head was a hidden babe.

She was already attractive, just a different kind of attractive. Now we see she can do multiple types. Its just the hair being up in a pony tail that makes all the difference. This is why hair service should be near the top of the list of fan service approaches.

>>789404

I'll have you know that deep fried eggs surrounded by sausage with breadcrumbs on the outside are fucking delicious!

>>789993

We were born to be the last generation to die of old age before life-prolonging medicine becomes common place.

We were born to fill the gap between glorious earthbound empires and humanity's quest for the stars.

We were born to bear the burden of feminists taking over the world before mankind as a whole loses itself in individualized virtual realities.

But we were also born as the generation that gets to enjoy the greatest achievements of mankind's innovation and engineering, before the robots take over and wipe us all out.

In the end, life is what you make of it.

>>790058

Mars is not a star.

>>790088

Well Aria takes place on Mars and that seems extra comfy.

>>790097

>tfw will never spend a night with the best teach of your new world in a abandoned train

This is camping?

>>790088

You would have to start the reactor first.

>>790088

>>790058

Terraforming is an extremely longterm thing. My guess is that mankind would sooner start on a Dyson ring than on making Mars inhabitable (outside of a few domes).

>>790275

I figure around the 30th millennium Mars should be inhabited and terraformed.

>>790275

Wasn't the idea at some point to develop a kind of terraforming machine that could build more copies of itself out of the martian iron ore, which would effectively mean an exponential colonization of the whole planet?

>>790162

Will we be seeing eachother at the party, afterwards?

>>790283

Self-replicating terraforming machines have long been dreamed of by science fiction authors, but they're immensely hard to make. We'll probably need to achieve human-level AI before we'll be able to make a machine which can repair every possible fault and work around every possible problem.

>>788602

Nice.

>>790520

>the bongs

>when it's bad it's Scottish

>When it's good it's Brittish

Every fucking time.

>>790129

More like hobo'ing, really.

>>790520

>scotch egg

It definitely is one. I have no idea how I've lived all my life without ever hearing or seeing this. Going to make some tomorrow.

Anime once again comes through for me.

>>790520

>One of the few foods

When will this meme die?

The entire meal of breakfast is either British or being done wrong.

>>790520

>This was Japan's economic plan all along.

Well, sasuga Nippon. You got my poor balls in a vise-like grip.

>>790718

You know, it's just not the same without the shainii days.

>>791076

Don't forget the LISTEN TO THE MELODY

>>791097

Nevermind. Just got to that point in the remix. At least they got that part right.

>>791137

Do you think your local store owner would be angry if you glued a little image to one of their shelves?

>>791144

Meybe blu-tack or doubled sticky tape, a less permanent adhesive.

>>791901

I agree completely. It almost feels like a waste watching each episode as it airs, because you'd be better off keeping it in a stash for when you need a life-saving dose of healing.

>>791928

Makes me want to fix up my scooter... Too bad there's nowhere in a reasonable distance that's worth riding to.

>>792022

Aside from the seaside they all look pretty good. I wouldn't go to the seaside because it would be so damn windy and cold.

>>792025

Not very hard at all, all you need is some kind of grill, but it seems there's all sorts of fuckery regarding starting fires in Japan.

>>792032

They write themselves.

>>792072

It would definitely suck in the winter. Summer would probably be fine except you'd have to contend with sandflies and whatever local bugs live at the beach.

>>791901

>How have they perfected the comfy formula so effortlessly?

What do you think is more comfy, Yuru Camp or Flying Witch? I can't decide.

>>791901

>you will never be the classy ojii-san

>you will never fill the yurus with your expertly sizzled meat

It's an existential kind of dread.

>>792144

The inevitable crossover when Rin and the Outing Club decide to go camping in the Hakkoda mountains during their vacation.

>>791901

>Do they have professional comfy scientists working on this or something? How have they perfected the comfy formula so effortlessly?

It's a Kirara adaptation.

The Kirara manga are literally trying to perfect CGDCT.

And a majority of CGDCT, which receive anime adaptations are published in one of the Kirara magazines.

Their editors are professionals, when it comes to creating comfy series.

>>792142

Not to mention you'd have to worry about the tide unless you find a sand dune that has a somewhat level top.

>>792198

comfy as fuck. It kind of reminds me of the kingfisher inn from the legend of heroes series.

>>792072

>I wouldn't go to the seaside because it would be so damn windy and cold.

I'm not super well versed in Japan's weather system, but I want to say even their colder regions don't get down to the frigid, biting cold that you'd get in someplace like Canada or lakeside Chicago in the winter.

>>792022

Seaside because I can piss into the ocean and there's nothing that anyone can do anything about it.

>>792242

You can also wash your dishes in the water after cooking which is super nice.

>>792282

>on Rin's chest

Does she have the abs to stop the blade without getting cut?

>>792282

>you will chop fresh vegetables for a tasty hotpot on Rin's chest

You forgot never. Also is forehead flatter than Rin? I would argue you can do things on the forehead and chest at the same time with her, but then theres the hairbun.

>>792288

Aoi is made of sex

>>792296

>saving pictures that look like they were drawn by a fucking 12 year oldChris-chan.

But why?

>>792315

She drives.

>>792313

They don't though, you nigger.

>>792282

When did Shimarin~ get to an onsen ? I can't remember at all

>>792356

It was only included in episode 6, it wasn't a "this happened last episode" flashback, it was a "this happened between last episode and this" flashback.

>>792356

You can see her in the onsen during the credits of last episode.

>>792356

>>792360

>>792362

Two stills was all we got. I wonder why they would do such a terrible thing to us. It seems really unfair and strange, considering they didn't hold back at all showing the other three.

Just to make us suffer I'd wager.

>>792373

They're all going to be shitty rape ones and you know it. Possibly also violent.

>>792373

If you think ugly homeless men cutting into their tent at night and raping them is good.

>>792376

Well, that's the problem with almost all the characters being girls, I suppose. If only someone had a brother or something.

>>792032

I want to see this scene drawn by kawasaki tadataka

>>792381

More like if only more artists appreciated the idea of the girls doing lewd things to each other.

>>792379

>>792376

Silly anons, we all know they're going to feature the yurus doing lewd yuri things and finding new ways of keeping themselves warm on those frosty nights in the tent.

>>792383

There are already plenty of artists who appreciate that stuff, but some readers aren't keen on it.

>>792384

Yes, and FranXX is going to be just cute vanilla stuff between MC and 02.

Definitely! It'll definitely be daijobu!

It's going to be NTR and mind break because we can't have nice things never ever

>>792282

>Absolute shit taste.

I don't see you offering reasons for it, faggot. Enjoy being swept away by a tide.

>>792369

But doesn't it make you just want to see it all the more?

>>792456

This warms my heart so much

>>792461

Rin's bun contains infinite doki. I want to pat her bun

>>792289

>forehead.png

This is not fair. One onsen scene was all it took and now I cannot stop looking at her. Its not love. I just want to do lots of reproducing things in the woods with her

>>792284

>abs

>on the chest

You've gone too far, >>>/fit/.

>>792397

I'd pitch a tent for onee-chan if you catch my drift.

>>792506

>Even ass blast freezing Hokkaido.

Hokkaido seems like a paradise. Beautiful scenery, mild summers, mountains and hills and forests, and actual winters.

t. canadian

>>792022

River/lakside and forest are inherently the best places to camp. Comfy, shaded, lots of fuel and places to tie up a hammock, protected from wind, and then the trees make it get dark earlier so there's more time for telling spooky stories around the campfire

Lake/river also have fishes

>>792601

I'm sure she wouldn't mind hammering your stake into the dirt.

>>792397

I want to kiss her forehead.

>>792929

>streaming

Yuru Camp is toping preorder charts. Feels good for AOTS to actually sell well for once.

>>793723

Last time was Kemono Friends. Before that I can't remember.

>>792663

Episode eight.

Maybe.

>>793740

Depending where you are late Spring can be absolutely beautiful, with everything at the peak of their bloom

>>793750

I'm a fan of early-mid spring, when it's nice out in the day, but the nights are cold enough to keep the casuals at bay.

>>793723

S2 maybe ever

>>793747

>Kemono Friends

Nothing 3DCGshit can be AOTS. Only 2D allowed.

Damn this anime is way more comfy than it has any right to be.

>>792022

Obviously woods are the best place to set up camp. Only downside being that it's super-fucking-dark at nights.

>firewood is available

>trees are regulating the temperature

>it's not particularly windy

>you can secure your tarp & tent to trees

>>793811

I think there is only so much you can do with this anime until it starts repeating itself too much.

>>794290

I really don't think we need them to go full Bear Grylls

>>794290

Rin would carry a Marlin Papoose. She likes light, efficient and functional things, that can be disassembled and tucked away neatly. Furthermore, the .22 caliber would suit her since she is a tiny little cutie pie. She'd also have a tacticool tanto knife just because..

Forehead would have a lever-action rifle that she'd smug about all day because she'd think it's really cool (which it would be, of course). Cowtits would have a Mossberg 500 and a bowie knife. Nandeshiko would have an SKS that she would have a lot of fun with.

>>794293

What about Saitou?

>>794291

>full Bear Grylls

You mean "camping" while constantly accompanied by a film crew, where half the shit is staged and he spends some nights in a hotel?

I could never understand why anyone even watched Bear Grylls when Les Stroud's show was better in every way.

>>794037

True, KF has the distinct honor of being AOAT.

>>794295

She'd probably cluelessly jolly on over with an old M98 .375 H&H that her grandpappy used to use on african hunting expeditions.

>>794290

The select best out of my select best crate of SKS's, SVT's or Nuggets.

>>794409

I don't know where you live, but if the water supply is that bad, camping can't be a very nice experience.

>>794415

Even the cleanest streams with fresh snowmelt can have animal piss/feses. The few times I thought "oh a little couldn't hurt" I would end up spending the next day or two laying in my tent in pain with explosive diarrhea. One time was in the middle of a solo backpacking trip. Never fucking again.

>>794409

I do that all the time. I have never been sick from washing my cookwear out in a stream.

>>794423

That's a pretty vague statement from an anonymous poster on an anonymous imageboard that even has country flags turned off. At least say about which continent you're talking about.

>>794432

North America.

>>794409

You're also supposed to look upstream as far as possible, nothing would be worse than drinking from a river that has a carcass upstream. Best case for just drinking straight would be finding a natural spring but that's not going to be common unless you know the place you are at has them.

>>794470

Yeah, I was just about to say it's carcasses that you really have to worry about contaminating a water supply.

>>794409

>being this much of a pussy

You suburan faggots are the worst kind of people, I swear.

I actually thought your post was going to end up bitching about the detrimental effects of dish soap on the environment, which would have made sense, but god damn; You fucking suck, dude.

>>794418

Did you not eat enough dirt as a child, or do you live in africa or something?

a few drops of lake water is not going to kill you, nor will a few drops dried onto your plate. And this is referring to northern Ontario where all the lakes are full of giardiasis. Obviously drinking straight untreated water is a good way to shit yourself for the next 48 hours, but washing, swimming, etc will only kill the weak.

>>794557

>>794605

>Look how hardcore I am, I deliberately risk giving myself parasitic infections!

>>794687

No, which is why it's pathetic to pretend it makes you a badass.

This is a simple choice between dirty water and clean water, and apparently people are dumb enough to pick dirty. It's not like we're dealing with deep wilderness. They're campgrounds; these places provide access to water for this very purpose.

>>795143

>If you don't give a shit about anything, you're much less likely to get diseases.

That's not entirely true.

You pay with short-term health hazards for long-term protection. This means you can train your immune system while you are strong and healthy, and when you are vulnerable (because you are sick), you emphasize your short-term protection so you don't get finished off.

>The common cold is so deadly to nips

No, that's a meme. The common cold is no deadlier to Nips than it is to Americans. However there are two things which make the statistics look otherwise. First, the Japanese are older on average than Americans, and older people are more likely to die of cold than young people. Second, when somebody dies of natural causes, the Japanese will often just jot down "cold" and skip the autopsy, just like their police is often too lazy to solve murders and likes to write them off as suicides (or, if they can't do that, they just grab the first person they can find and force a confession out of them).

>>795153

>unreachable by the mortal men

that's why only immortal 2D girls are capable of it

>>795155

Fuck yeah. When I was living out of a tent recently what kept me going was cheap beer and anime torrented at the library.

>>795153

Has science gone too far?

Has it not gone far enough?

>>795155

>Captain Rum

>Spiced Gold

That's some good fucking taste right there

>>795154

>this year

Anon this might be one of the Comfiest shows of the decade.

>>795177

You are only setting yourself up for a comfy Sputnik shock.

Wait, so the MC of every Yuru Camp doujin that's going to be made is Rin's grandpa? They really write themselves!

>>795218

Or a faceless camper.

>>795218

Implying it won't just be the "can't win against the cock" guys camping next to them.

>>795153

That scene is dangerous to people with a heart condition and should be illegal.

>>795260

Fund it.

I see we reached peak comfy and we're not going to get any comfier.

this isn't comfy

>>795155

I want to touch her booze.

>>795432

Yuricamp doujin when?

>>795434

Can't be soon enough.

>>794768

This.

Don't drink the fucking water.

>>795688

I think it's supposed to be a guy. Voiced by a woman.

>>795688

I think it's a tomboy who will be revealed to be a girl later on down on the line. If she ever reappears that is.

>>796046

Once this show has ended I'm gonna be left a hollow, burnt-out husk.

Time to die go pitch a tent in Gensokyo.

>>796052

It's selling well, so even once it's over there's a reasonable chance of a second season unlike Urara.

>>796046

Scared Rin is adorable.

Also the onee-chan stuff struck a bit too close to home for me. It was nice though.

>>796056

>Urara-posting

WHY MUST YOU HURT ME SO?

Every time I think I've forgotten, you come around reminding me how cruel life is. Now I have to listen to the OP while curled up in the fetal position.

>>796103

>WHY MUST YOU HURT ME SO?

For the same reason I sometimes post the day's page of Tomo-chan.

I keep hesitating to watch because I doubt that I'm comfy enough to enjoy it right.

>>796268

Thank you for spoilering this obscenity.

>>796336

They're gonna land on the west coast and march in to claim a silent tomb of tea and kotatsus.

>cold day

>heater

>blanket

>cookies

>Yuru Camp

Was almost perfect.

>>797744

There was a lot of quality this episode.

I think the comfy is starting to effect the animators.

>>797804

Because it dulls the pain.

>>798074

I hope some otaku figures out when the google street view car is going to pass through there next and runs into the street with a cardboard cutout of Nadeshiko.

>>797004

Tochigi - Utsunomiya and Sano

Gunma - Takasaki, Maebashi, Isesaki and Ota

Ibaraki - Tsukuba,Hitachi, Mito, Hitachiota

Tokyo - Minato, Chiyoda, Chuo

Shizuoka - Fujinomiya, Fuji

Now, the real challenge, how do we pass this idea and data on to the 11s?

>>798086

Meant for >>798079

No idea how I screwed that up

>>797744

This one was definitely a budget episode, which is fine by me because there was no camping.

I'm seriously going to cry when this ends. It has something I've been wanting for years.

>>799864

I agree; Rin is pretty much perfect.

Don't forget to mention the ultra-fuckable bun, the cutting board chest and the wonderful and rare trait of being able to handle herself innawoods.

>>799883

To be fair, it's Japanese innawoods which will be a completely different experience from, say, Siberian innawoods or Scottish Highlands innawoods, and winter when bears are asleep and hornets are dead too so there's nothing but the dreaded Japanese Cold to worry about.

>>800365

It's probably safer than in the cities where Truck-kun roams.

>>800381

There is little more dangerous than the wild Truck-kun on icy roads.

It's kind of comfier to post in this one that doesn't bump anymore. But no, man cannot live by comfy alone.

>>800566

Well, yeah, but that's what porridge is for. Comfy and Porridge are all one needs in this life.

2/

This is the cause of the miscommunication:

>>When Akira asks her what she's doing, she begins to say "Haru is gone" but doesn't finish. To me, this indicates that a) she has a hitherto unseen degree of affection for Haru and b) she has reservations about her attachment to him.

>Yes, but which is it? Maybe it’s intended to mean one or the other, or both. Or maybe it’s a reference to a development in the VN which was depicted and thought out more thoroughly.

I made this statement about the scene as a segue into then arguing my more general opinions about Sora’s character development in the anime overall. It was just a bad, not to mention incorrect, example to use. So now I will make the same argument again, without that misleading and incorrect ramp:

So, referring back to that scene you mentioned with Sora and Akira, we know that Sora has some indecisiveness or internal conflict about her relationship with Haru. However, the nature of these feelings, why they’re there to begin with, and then their subsequent development throughout the plot, are poorly developed, and left unspecified, respectively. This is what I’m trying to get across when I say that that the scene conveys vague information, and this is what I mean when I say being is a lack of “clear and coherent development.” To be more specific, and continuing to use that single scene as an example: We know or suspect Sora has feelings for Haru. Well, why does she? This would be the depth, the “why.” The anime does provide some reasons. We know about the dead parents. And there’s the childhood kissing flashback scene. In regard to the parents: this isn’t something we see and feel for ourselves in this story. That emotional content is not given to you, to the viewer, on your biological RAM (to use the analogy I mentioned previously). There’s really not alot there. So, as a viewer, we’re in a position where we have to go, ourselves, into our minds, and fill in alot of blanks, alot of emotional content, alot of meaning. And then, in regards to the childhood kissing scene: This was a good scene but I just feel like it’s not enough. There needs to be more detail, more characterization, for it to really feel meaningful. So, it’s just one, quick flashback and a piece of infodump in ep 1 (and the credits slideshow). And that’s essentially everything we’re building Sora’s character from. It’s not very engaging. I’m not arguing that there needs to be more explicit verbage. There just needs to be more character content. I just want more. I want to be more engaged with this character. (Digressing: at this point in the story, they’re still primarily just archetypes. There’s not that sense of what I would “depth” to the characters, that illusion that “this is a real person.” I think there is a lacking distinction that needs to be made between “personality” or “archetype,” and depth.)

And then, moving past the prior character development, we can also look at the subsequent character development, which is, even, much weaker than the prior. If we look at Sora’s character development in regards to this indecisiveness or internal conflict from that point forward: she changes very drastically as a character, for apparently no reason. That scene depicts her as indecisive, and then a few route-episodes later, she and Haru are engaging in seminal coitus in front of shocked acquaintances, and this doesn’t bother Sora at all. Why? We don’t know. It’s not specified. It’s just there for no reason. Because it’s convenient for drama or fanservice or whatever. So this is a lack of meaning; this is a lack of coherency. This is just a flaw or a failure in the writing.

>So, it’s just one, quick flashback and a piece of infodump in ep 1 (and the credits slideshow). And that’s essentially everything we’re building Sora’s character from.

>and this doesn’t bother Sora at all. Why? We don’t know. It’s not specified. It’s just there for no reason. Because it’s convenient for drama or fanservice or whatever.

So when I say “vague and meaningless,” these are the specific things that I’m referring to in the anime. I hope that clears things up.