I had to look that up b/c I’m not very familiar with Marvel (or DC for that matter) characters but I can see the resemblance. I have no way of knowing whether it was intentional on the part of the artist.

Pre-post edit: I apologize for going full autistic here but I like talking about biology &c.

Interesting that you had those ready to go, tho I’ve done a bit of a deep dive of the topic myself to try and understand it (IIRC I was spurred by an unfortunate series of back-to-back viewings of Elfen Lied, Attack on Titan, and Sword Art Online, which turned me off of anime for a year) so I kinda get it. I think maybe saying “siblings get purposefully disgusted” sounds more intentional than you meant, tho.

Interestingly enough, incest in general is not quite so damaging across the animal kingdom (or plants, but plants are a whole other discussion) as many people think. A healthy population should have enough genetic diversity and lack of those garbage genes which cause defects that an incest pairing won’t affect most offspring. Humans are just much more closely related to each other than would be usual for a population our size – we’ve gone through at least one (possibly more than one) population bottleneck that left us less genetically diverse than we should be – so it’s a lot easier for genetic diseases to be passed on through incest.

In some cases, incest has allowed animals to colonize environments they’d otherwise not be able to. Komodo dragons might be one such example, as they use ZW chromosomes instead of XY – females are ZW while males are ZZ – and are capable of parthenogenesis. That means a singular female can, separated from any male, lay a clutch of “clone” eggs which will all hatch male and thus have a mate to continue the species. This may have been how Komodo dragons colonized the islands they call home.

A counterpart to “Shinji, get thyself in thy golem”

Some communities that would probably welcome this:

• Anime Art
• Anime and Pics
• Militarymoe
• Anime Armor
• Evangelion

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I love it so much. I always love seeing art that re-interprets famous mecha.

I have a huge soft spot for Slime Time because while I recognize it’s trashy and extremely heavy on the power fantasy, there’s a sense of altruism – that is, the main goal of the MC is just wanting to make life better for the monsters whether they’re his subjects or not – that makes it more enjoyable than other isekai I’ve been introduced to. The early arcs around Shizu and then the Orc Disaster Geld were so touching that they made me cry.

(☉.☉) Girl needs a bra (not that I’m complaining)

Well, there is that but I was thinking more like the world of The Weakest Tamer where everyone has a magical “skill” dictated by how many “stars” they have and the MC has a voice in their head that tells them things they may not know (which goes unheard by the audience but seems to chime in like a player through a screen (or maybe just a ghost)), but otherwise has no obvious tells of being a video game world. Unless you count the MC doing inventory management on the regular.

I keep thinking there’s a secret third option because of the ambiguous way the question was phrased – something like how seemingly half of all isekai have gaming-inspired abilities despite not being set in nor based on a video game world.

I’m not entirely sure I understand the question being asked, but I want to say that the first season of Higurashi No Naka Koro Ni (AKA When They Cry AKA When Cicadas Cry) perfectly sets the tone and pacing of a mystery thriller where every answer the viewer gets to their questions comes with two or three NEW questions until you’re left with more questions than answers by the end of that first season.

That said, I have to cop to the aggressive animé-ness of the show, from dressing up its underage cast in fanservice-y clothing to the extreme mood whiplash between arcs, not to mention the entire weird premise (which I can’t really blurt out without major spoilers). Also large portions of the second season are dedicated to actions which I do not understand. My point is, it kinda fumbles in places.

My friends are having me watch Shangri-La Frontier at the moment (we take turns suggesting anime to watch together) and while I’m not really enthused by the story, I will absolutely recognize how very… let’s call it true-to-life it is wrt games and gaming culture. A LOT of little details in the fictional games and how the players interact with them (like the whole kuso gaming community) really proves how well the author knows their stuff.

Also the dub is top-fucking-notch, using terms I’m intimately familiar with from the gaming sphere but have never heard from localized anime before.

Higurashi No Naka Koro Ni… [/jk, in case it’s necessary]

There’s a lot that can go over your head when you’re young. For me it was FLCL and its themes of grooming and abuse along with Mimi being homeless.

I’d never actually watched CCS as a kid and thought “maybe I should introduce my nieces” but then read the first volume of the manga and WOAH, NELLY. [Bullhorn]Step away from the child.

Is that an order, or can I stick to eating chicken & mushrooms?

My memory is a little hazy on the details, but I think there was more to the original story (probably a light novel?) that never got adapted, which is why it kind of peters out at the end. It probably doesn’t get much attention the same way Mushi-shi doesn’t – it’s a slow-going show without a clear-cut plot, and that doesn’t appeal to a lot of the folks who watch anime (esp. here in the West).

If I’d ever finished Mushi-shi I’d have probably included that, too, but I’ve had the worst luck watching it just as sites get taken down or I lose internet for a few days and lose all momentum.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. It’s like the fact that you cannot create a category that includes all “fish” that doesn’t also include humans (or, if you want to exclude humans by way of things like body plan or living on land, then you have to include cetaceans and start excluding things like lungfish).

To use your example, most people would probably say there are actually pretty clear expectations of tone & pacing between “a Netflix show” vs. “an HBO show” vs. “a syndicated television show (from before streaming services)” despite them all being the same on the surface.

Calm down, dude ʕ థ౪థʔ

I can hear this gif.

[gif from The Amazing World of Gumball, with the titular character sitting behind an office desk with a large button sitting on it, before he says, “I think we all know where this is going”]

I have a hard time conceptualizing PSG as an ecchi anime. Between the majority Tom & Jerry style animation and the much larger emphasis on toilet humor over leering at the girls, it just slides under my mental gate for it.