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May. 28th, 2026 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thawreckaI started watching Champignon Witch because I heard good things about it, and there was something compelling about it in spite of the tonal weirdness, but I just finished episode 8 and the kid Luna is raising is now in love with her and NOPE NOPE NOPE. Not looking for the Bunny Drop experience. Someone on FFA said they knew the kid was a love interest as soon as he became the narrator, so I do feel like I should have seen it coming, but either way I'm dropping that one with a vengeance.
April fic stats meme now in May apparently
May. 27th, 2026 08:38 pmthawreckaFic stats meme:
I normally do this in April, but I completely forgot last month.
Top five stories by hits
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 10,419 hits
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 3,933 hits
Visit (1,792 words) Harry Potter - Harry/Hermione - 3,595 hits
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 3,320 hits
Infinite Jest and Wisdom (975 words) DC Comics - The Joker/The Riddler - 2,471 hits
That MLC threesome fic has skipped up to second place, wow! The power of porn, I guess.
TBH, I have been considering deleting my HP fic from AO3, and if I did number 5 would be Thousand Autumns fic I wrote for an exchange last year.
Top five stories by kudos
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 978 kudos
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 401 kudos
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 374 kudos
The Mission (1,499 words) Naruto - Sakura/Lee - 241 kudos
Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man (1,416 words) Thousand Autumns - Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao - 241 kudos
Discovery has gone up literally 50 kudos since last year, LOL, how. That fic is 11 years old! I'm honestly kind of impressed now. I'm also shocked at how well that Thousand Autumns fic has done, finally unseating Bleach fic I wrote in the late 2010s from the fifth position. I'm surprised, because I don't think it's one of my better written exchange fics, but I must have captured something believable about the pairing and there must be a lot of thirst for that pairing right now.
Top fic stories by bookmarks
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 272 bookmarks
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 119 bookmarks
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 116 bookmarks
Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man (1,416 words) Thousand Autumns - Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao - 41 bookmarks
What Comes After (1,712 words) Bleach - Byakuya/Kenpachi, Yumichika/Ikkaku - 34 bookmarks
The Ace Attorney fic got another 30 bookmarks since last year! Also, wild how well that Thousand Autumns fic has done in literally a year. I feel like that fandom is small, but the people know what they want.
Top five stories by comment threads
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 59 comment threads
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 30 comment threads
Third Option (355 words) Legend of Fei - Li Yan/Yang Jin/Ying Hecong - 19 comment threads
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 17 comment threads
Little Waves (12,982 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 15 comment threads
The Ace Attorney fic gained another 12 comment threads in the last year!!! Crazy business. For the most part everything else there is very stable; I have not received a lot of fic comments overall in the last year. I'm kind of intrigued by how in the long run Little Waves, which is about an mpreg abortion (among other things) in a wuxia world, has slowly accumulated comments. Within the first week of posting that fic I assumed it had totally bombed, but slowly it found an audience, and I'm really glad of it. I felt like I tried different and interesting things in it, and TBH the Fang Duobing/Di Feisheng sex scene has a tone that I think makes it some of my best/most mature work.
General thoughts
You know, sometimes I think I should get into a megafandom or something so I can get some sweet sweet megafandom kudos and unseat some of my older fic, but then I see how batshit the megafandoms of the past year are and I'm like... nah, I'm good. I do feel like my more popular fic is increasingly dominated by M/M now and, idk, it's weird. Maybe I should get into an F/F megafandom 😂
Top 3s for the last couple of years under the cut:
( Read more... )
I normally do this in April, but I completely forgot last month.
Top five stories by hits
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 10,419 hits
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 3,933 hits
Visit (1,792 words) Harry Potter - Harry/Hermione - 3,595 hits
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 3,320 hits
Infinite Jest and Wisdom (975 words) DC Comics - The Joker/The Riddler - 2,471 hits
That MLC threesome fic has skipped up to second place, wow! The power of porn, I guess.
TBH, I have been considering deleting my HP fic from AO3, and if I did number 5 would be Thousand Autumns fic I wrote for an exchange last year.
Top five stories by kudos
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 978 kudos
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 401 kudos
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 374 kudos
The Mission (1,499 words) Naruto - Sakura/Lee - 241 kudos
Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man (1,416 words) Thousand Autumns - Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao - 241 kudos
Discovery has gone up literally 50 kudos since last year, LOL, how. That fic is 11 years old! I'm honestly kind of impressed now. I'm also shocked at how well that Thousand Autumns fic has done, finally unseating Bleach fic I wrote in the late 2010s from the fifth position. I'm surprised, because I don't think it's one of my better written exchange fics, but I must have captured something believable about the pairing and there must be a lot of thirst for that pairing right now.
Top fic stories by bookmarks
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 272 bookmarks
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 119 bookmarks
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 116 bookmarks
Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man (1,416 words) Thousand Autumns - Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao - 41 bookmarks
What Comes After (1,712 words) Bleach - Byakuya/Kenpachi, Yumichika/Ikkaku - 34 bookmarks
The Ace Attorney fic got another 30 bookmarks since last year! Also, wild how well that Thousand Autumns fic has done in literally a year. I feel like that fandom is small, but the people know what they want.
Top five stories by comment threads
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 59 comment threads
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 30 comment threads
Third Option (355 words) Legend of Fei - Li Yan/Yang Jin/Ying Hecong - 19 comment threads
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 17 comment threads
Little Waves (12,982 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 15 comment threads
The Ace Attorney fic gained another 12 comment threads in the last year!!! Crazy business. For the most part everything else there is very stable; I have not received a lot of fic comments overall in the last year. I'm kind of intrigued by how in the long run Little Waves, which is about an mpreg abortion (among other things) in a wuxia world, has slowly accumulated comments. Within the first week of posting that fic I assumed it had totally bombed, but slowly it found an audience, and I'm really glad of it. I felt like I tried different and interesting things in it, and TBH the Fang Duobing/Di Feisheng sex scene has a tone that I think makes it some of my best/most mature work.
General thoughts
You know, sometimes I think I should get into a megafandom or something so I can get some sweet sweet megafandom kudos and unseat some of my older fic, but then I see how batshit the megafandoms of the past year are and I'm like... nah, I'm good. I do feel like my more popular fic is increasingly dominated by M/M now and, idk, it's weird. Maybe I should get into an F/F megafandom 😂
Top 3s for the last couple of years under the cut:
( Read more... )
My week in anime
May. 24th, 2026 12:48 pmthawreckaMore anime watching:
• I gave Snowball Earth an episode, because people have talked it up, but it's just not for me. I didn't vibe with the tone, I think? I thought I would like it, given how much I like both Kaiju no 8 and various Gundam series, but it was just a mismatch.
• This week I watched the entirety of Zenshu, a 12 episode series from last year about an animator falling into the world of her favourite depressing children's film after she eats seafood that's gone off. I can see why this is so well regarded. It's so pretty and a lot of thought has been put into the story. I love the magical girl transformation sequence for when she sits down at her desk to draw! The kids fantasy movie she falls into visually feels very influenced by 80s animation (some parts are a clear shout out to He Man, for example), but also given it's a rocks fall, everyone dies scenario you can see why in universe it was not successful, LOL. This is such a love letter to fix-it-fic and self insert romance, LOL. There are parts that didn't work for me quite as well, but it was overall delightful. I think my favourite was Destiny deciding she was going to get super buff.
• 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy is fun, though a bit too neat for my tastes. Rishe's life is not actually carefree, and by the ending they are not actually married yet, but I did enjoy the tension created from her getting engaged to the guy who killed her in a previous life and started the war that got her killed in all the previous lives. The re-living the five years from being dumped by a previous fiance to her death repeatedly mostly means she's levelled up in skills and stats; I did kind of want more from her previous lives woven into the story. But it's a fun bit of fluff. Her outfits are mostly hideous, in an amazing way. There's various handsome men who come into her life to be interesting and handsome, and that's enjoyable.
• I'm finding the pattern with episodes of Go For It, Nakamura-kun!! is that the episodes that people tell me draw more heavily on the manga are a lot funnier. In terms of laughs it's sort of uneven for me, but always cute. The episode that made me laugh the hardest is two weeks ago with the closer friendship battle and the creepy clothes sniffing. It's so cringe in the most delightfully awkward teenage way, and the art is so lovely. Though my actual favourite bit from any episode is Nakamura and Hirose becoming officially friends in Yokohama Chinatown, which is just so sweet.
• I'm also keeping up with Marriagetoxin, though I don't know that I have a lot to say about it. Lovingly animated. I'm looking forward to continuing to ignore all the discourse.
• Witch Hat Atelier is pretty and enjoyable, but I'm also finding the increasing hype and the fandom around it super annoying. I would like manga fans to be less aggressively trying to spoil anime watchers, I would like the people obsessed with the discourse around it to stop telling me about it, I would like the people who think it should be gatekept for political reasons to STFU about that...
• I gave Snowball Earth an episode, because people have talked it up, but it's just not for me. I didn't vibe with the tone, I think? I thought I would like it, given how much I like both Kaiju no 8 and various Gundam series, but it was just a mismatch.
• This week I watched the entirety of Zenshu, a 12 episode series from last year about an animator falling into the world of her favourite depressing children's film after she eats seafood that's gone off. I can see why this is so well regarded. It's so pretty and a lot of thought has been put into the story. I love the magical girl transformation sequence for when she sits down at her desk to draw! The kids fantasy movie she falls into visually feels very influenced by 80s animation (some parts are a clear shout out to He Man, for example), but also given it's a rocks fall, everyone dies scenario you can see why in universe it was not successful, LOL. This is such a love letter to fix-it-fic and self insert romance, LOL. There are parts that didn't work for me quite as well, but it was overall delightful. I think my favourite was Destiny deciding she was going to get super buff.
• 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy is fun, though a bit too neat for my tastes. Rishe's life is not actually carefree, and by the ending they are not actually married yet, but I did enjoy the tension created from her getting engaged to the guy who killed her in a previous life and started the war that got her killed in all the previous lives. The re-living the five years from being dumped by a previous fiance to her death repeatedly mostly means she's levelled up in skills and stats; I did kind of want more from her previous lives woven into the story. But it's a fun bit of fluff. Her outfits are mostly hideous, in an amazing way. There's various handsome men who come into her life to be interesting and handsome, and that's enjoyable.
• I'm finding the pattern with episodes of Go For It, Nakamura-kun!! is that the episodes that people tell me draw more heavily on the manga are a lot funnier. In terms of laughs it's sort of uneven for me, but always cute. The episode that made me laugh the hardest is two weeks ago with the closer friendship battle and the creepy clothes sniffing. It's so cringe in the most delightfully awkward teenage way, and the art is so lovely. Though my actual favourite bit from any episode is Nakamura and Hirose becoming officially friends in Yokohama Chinatown, which is just so sweet.
• I'm also keeping up with Marriagetoxin, though I don't know that I have a lot to say about it. Lovingly animated. I'm looking forward to continuing to ignore all the discourse.
• Witch Hat Atelier is pretty and enjoyable, but I'm also finding the increasing hype and the fandom around it super annoying. I would like manga fans to be less aggressively trying to spoil anime watchers, I would like the people obsessed with the discourse around it to stop telling me about it, I would like the people who think it should be gatekept for political reasons to STFU about that...
fic: words i cannot say (shane/ilya)
May. 23rd, 2026 05:57 pmsvgurlThis is what I wrote for the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
unsent_letters_exchange. :)
Title: words i cannot say
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Pairing/Characters: Shane/Ilya
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 3122
Summary: Irina loved to write letters. Ilya followed in her footsteps. It was easier, after all, to write than telling Shane Hollander how he felt.
unsent_letters_exchange. :)Title: words i cannot say
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Pairing/Characters: Shane/Ilya
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 3122
Summary: Irina loved to write letters. Ilya followed in her footsteps. It was easier, after all, to write than telling Shane Hollander how he felt.
gift work (luke/lorelai)
May. 22nd, 2026 09:40 amsvgurlunsent_letters_exchange had its collection reveals last week and this is what I got! :)Title: Sealed with a Kiss
Author:
Fandom: Gilmore Girls
Pairing/Characters: Luke/Lorelai
Rating: G
Word Count: 2535
Summary: Luke discovers that he knew Lorelai much sooner than they thought, though they never actually met back then...
I love the idea of Luke and Lorelai communicating pre-canon and this was so cute and sweet! :D
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May. 21st, 2026 10:53 amthawreckaI watched all 18 episodes of Moonrise, an anime on Netflix, this week, and this could have been so good if it was good! But it was not good. Imagine if this had any solid narrative focus whatsoever?! Imagine if this put focus on the actually interesting things about the story?! It's about Jack, a rich kid who has been blamed for a terrorist attack, who gets forced into the military while a suspect and has to go to the moon with a bunch of other people to investigate things, and also his tragic backstory in a lab with a childhood friend he's never forgotten, and also...
Well, anyway, I liked Salamandra, she's so dreamy. More super strong buff ladies in everything, please. And the relationship between Phil and Jack was interesting whenever it got any screen time whatsoever.
But all the jokes were bad and there were so many of them. There were too many characters. And like, it's a space opera with a superpowerful AI that everyone follows and also everyone on the moon is oppressed and also there's genetic screening that decides what jobs people should do and also prisoners are made to work in the army and also there are genetically engineered people with cool space powers and also there's some sort of space jellyfish thing and characters constantly playing a pokemon go ripoff, and it's like... that's too much. Put some back.
Also, the ship tease with Rhys, a woman who even when times were good constantly nagged Jack and didn't respect him, was just tedious.
I guess as far as Gundam/GITS knock offs go it's not the worst I've seen? The flashback to Phil cutting off his arm and grafting it onto Jack's bloody stump was so so good, imagine if their relationship and Jack realising that Earth was the bad guys had been the actual focus of the story, it could have been good!
Well, anyway, I liked Salamandra, she's so dreamy. More super strong buff ladies in everything, please. And the relationship between Phil and Jack was interesting whenever it got any screen time whatsoever.
But all the jokes were bad and there were so many of them. There were too many characters. And like, it's a space opera with a superpowerful AI that everyone follows and also everyone on the moon is oppressed and also there's genetic screening that decides what jobs people should do and also prisoners are made to work in the army and also there are genetically engineered people with cool space powers and also there's some sort of space jellyfish thing and characters constantly playing a pokemon go ripoff, and it's like... that's too much. Put some back.
Also, the ship tease with Rhys, a woman who even when times were good constantly nagged Jack and didn't respect him, was just tedious.
I guess as far as Gundam/GITS knock offs go it's not the worst I've seen? The flashback to Phil cutting off his arm and grafting it onto Jack's bloody stump was so so good, imagine if their relationship and Jack realising that Earth was the bad guys had been the actual focus of the story, it could have been good!
I did the thing
May. 20th, 2026 08:17 pmashelterofpagesSo, people in different places have mentioned starting a crowdfunding thing to help with my glasses. Which, I hadn't initially considered but well, I decided to do the thing. If I wasn't trying to both move and get glasses, I might not have done it, but here we are.
Here it isn
( the text from the GFM )
Anything, including sharing the link, would be amazing. And, honestly, just being able to have this space to flail about all this has been really helpful, so thank you all for reading and commenting. It's meant a lot.
Here it isn
( the text from the GFM )
Anything, including sharing the link, would be amazing. And, honestly, just being able to have this space to flail about all this has been really helpful, so thank you all for reading and commenting. It's meant a lot.
Kaiju no. 8 fic
May. 20th, 2026 02:02 pmthawreckaFist Bumps and Hook Ups (2466 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Anime)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Izumo Haruichi/Kaguragi Aoi
Characters: Izumo Haruichi, Kaguragi Aoi (Kaiju No. 8)
Additional Tags: First Time, Getting Together, Missing Scene, Teammates to Lovers, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, During Canon, Nonnies Made Me Do It
Summary:
Expanded from this ficlet I wrote last year.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Anime)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Izumo Haruichi/Kaguragi Aoi
Characters: Izumo Haruichi, Kaguragi Aoi (Kaiju No. 8)
Additional Tags: First Time, Getting Together, Missing Scene, Teammates to Lovers, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, During Canon, Nonnies Made Me Do It
Summary:
Haruichi hangs out with Aoi and slowly trips his way into a relationship.
Expanded from this ficlet I wrote last year.
:heavy sigh:
May. 19th, 2026 07:56 pmashelterofpagesThe subject line requires some context.
For those who don't know I'm blind/low vision. I can't see out of one eye, and I have very little sight in the other one. I've always been this way, but over the years, my vision deteriorates because one of my issues is glaucoma. In 2023-2024 I was having really bad pressure issues and I lost more sight in less time than normal because no one was listening to me when I said there was something wrong.
(Why yes, I'm still bitter about this. I was bothering doctors for a year and a half, and they only listened to me when my eye pressure was at 72. On the chance you don't know, your normal pressure is supposed to be around 10-15)
So, I've been dealing with adjusting to more vision lost the last few years. It's not been great, but I'm doing it. Today though, I went for a low vision exam. Basically they're people who can look into specialty lenses for glasses and stuff like that. As it turns out, there is a lens that can help me get more sight going in my left eye. Yay!
To get those glasses, it's going to cost me $1300.
I do not have this money. I was so, so excited all through the visit and then we got to cost and I just wanted to slowly tip over.
The specialist is going to reach out to local clubs to see if we can get some help covering them, but fuck it's so much money. And no, my insurance isn't going to help me at all.
They take CareCredit, which I do have and that'll cover some of it, but as you might remember, I'm trying to put money aside for a move. So that's going to be harder than it was before because I'm taking on one more payment.
And maybe it's a bad choice to take on more debt while I'm trying to move, but also I really want more fucking eyesight.
So yeah, very much a heavy sigh.
For those who don't know I'm blind/low vision. I can't see out of one eye, and I have very little sight in the other one. I've always been this way, but over the years, my vision deteriorates because one of my issues is glaucoma. In 2023-2024 I was having really bad pressure issues and I lost more sight in less time than normal because no one was listening to me when I said there was something wrong.
(Why yes, I'm still bitter about this. I was bothering doctors for a year and a half, and they only listened to me when my eye pressure was at 72. On the chance you don't know, your normal pressure is supposed to be around 10-15)
So, I've been dealing with adjusting to more vision lost the last few years. It's not been great, but I'm doing it. Today though, I went for a low vision exam. Basically they're people who can look into specialty lenses for glasses and stuff like that. As it turns out, there is a lens that can help me get more sight going in my left eye. Yay!
To get those glasses, it's going to cost me $1300.
I do not have this money. I was so, so excited all through the visit and then we got to cost and I just wanted to slowly tip over.
The specialist is going to reach out to local clubs to see if we can get some help covering them, but fuck it's so much money. And no, my insurance isn't going to help me at all.
They take CareCredit, which I do have and that'll cover some of it, but as you might remember, I'm trying to put money aside for a move. So that's going to be harder than it was before because I'm taking on one more payment.
And maybe it's a bad choice to take on more debt while I'm trying to move, but also I really want more fucking eyesight.
So yeah, very much a heavy sigh.
um... Hi?
May. 18th, 2026 12:16 pmerinm_4600Yeah.. I'm not even going to believe any excuse I can come up with, so, y'know.. we'll just leave that there.
This is also the first time I've written the post of DW firstthough, in my defense, I had the site open to reply to a comment. I will probably open up LJ and copy/paste there, first, for continuity. Or not. Also I hate that I still can't renew my LJ. I don't like the icons that are defaulted to the unpaid account. GrrArghBooHiss.
Anyway.. life is life; things have occurred. No one has died, so I guess there's that?
Anywhoozle... ( a few long-winded updates )
I think that's everything, for now...
I hope you're well and I love all your faces, regardless of the radio silence. But, as always, I'm always around. Who knew old habits can, in fact, die hard?
(copy/pasted from LJ, the old way)
This is also the first time I've written the post of DW first
Anyway.. life is life; things have occurred. No one has died, so I guess there's that?
Anywhoozle... ( a few long-winded updates )
I think that's everything, for now...
I hope you're well and I love all your faces, regardless of the radio silence. But, as always, I'm always around. Who knew old habits can, in fact, die hard?
(copy/pasted from LJ, the old way)
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May. 17th, 2026 10:56 amthawreckaI finally finished my Yu Yu Hakusho rewatch:
- Yikes, the sexism. It's pretty bad. Yuusuke groping Keiko and flipping her skirt up in public early on is pretty awful.
- My other main takeaway is that everyone wants to kiss Yuusuke. Kurama definitely wants to kiss Yuusuke. Hiei maybe wants to roll around shirtless in the dirt with Yuusuke. Kuwabara wants to make sweet passionate bro love to Yuusuke and pretend he's still straight afterward. Everyone in the last arc all ooh he gets my blood fired up. Yeah, I'll bet.
Anyway, I don't actually ship anything, but I do think Kuwabara's crush on Yukina is pretty cute.
The first time I watched I didn't get why Kurama/Hiei was popular at all, and this time I saw it a little, but I still think they're only mildly shippy, but Kurama is definitely shippier with Yuusuke, and probably even more shippy with Kuwabara than with Hiei.
- LMAO, Kurama getting mistaken for Kuwabara's girlfriend.
- That Hong Kong action cinema influence is so obvious.
- So much of this is that Japanese anxiety about juvenile delinquents that was all over stuff in the 90s and early 00s and that you don't really see in new series. Also, anime just doesn't look like this anymore, so it's not really a surprise it's not as popular as it used to be.
I do think the Dark Tournament doesn't actually get interesting until the semi-finals and there's a lot of dull bits I hadn't remembered. That's probably why newer viewers are underwhelmed by what is always hyped up as the ~best tournament arc ever~. It's okay. Kurama v Karasu is still pretty good, and there's a bunch of great stuff at the end.
- Kurama is still my favourite, just like the first time I watched, but I would say Botan is my second fave now.
- Yikes, the sexism. It's pretty bad. Yuusuke groping Keiko and flipping her skirt up in public early on is pretty awful.
- My other main takeaway is that everyone wants to kiss Yuusuke. Kurama definitely wants to kiss Yuusuke. Hiei maybe wants to roll around shirtless in the dirt with Yuusuke. Kuwabara wants to make sweet passionate bro love to Yuusuke and pretend he's still straight afterward. Everyone in the last arc all ooh he gets my blood fired up. Yeah, I'll bet.
Anyway, I don't actually ship anything, but I do think Kuwabara's crush on Yukina is pretty cute.
The first time I watched I didn't get why Kurama/Hiei was popular at all, and this time I saw it a little, but I still think they're only mildly shippy, but Kurama is definitely shippier with Yuusuke, and probably even more shippy with Kuwabara than with Hiei.
- LMAO, Kurama getting mistaken for Kuwabara's girlfriend.
- That Hong Kong action cinema influence is so obvious.
- So much of this is that Japanese anxiety about juvenile delinquents that was all over stuff in the 90s and early 00s and that you don't really see in new series. Also, anime just doesn't look like this anymore, so it's not really a surprise it's not as popular as it used to be.
I do think the Dark Tournament doesn't actually get interesting until the semi-finals and there's a lot of dull bits I hadn't remembered. That's probably why newer viewers are underwhelmed by what is always hyped up as the ~best tournament arc ever~. It's okay. Kurama v Karasu is still pretty good, and there's a bunch of great stuff at the end.
- Kurama is still my favourite, just like the first time I watched, but I would say Botan is my second fave now.