It's weird because now i don't remember anything from my dreams. Also does anyone know how to lucid dream? I heard apple juice does the trick but it actually did nothing when i tried it the other day. (drank 2 large cups of juice and ate two apples)

>>887
The guy survived up until now, but at what cost? I assume that dude walked off a cliff or something so congrats anon on, winning.

I don't understand what i'm dreaming about, at first it was getting a free husky at one of those pet shelters but then it was about owning a new pet rabbit and for whatever reason i was trying to convince the rabbit to fuck the local wild rabbits. Then something happened where i was at an office space out of nowhere but i don't know what happened there.

>>925
I think you wanted to play pokemon IRL and you are currently looking for an office job.

Dream 1
I was a kid again, it was the middle of the night. I pull out my laptop dispite not having allowed non supervised access, This is gay since all i really wanted to do was play a game or watch some harmless video, but i forgot i was being recorded. There's a camera next to me and it has nightvision but the way it records isn't a direct stream, it's kind of like a deer hunting camera. So i fiddle with it to access the memory and delete the recording of me getting the laptop, but as i was doing so i get a bad feeling, coming through my window. It turns out there's a guy decked out in a totally black outfit, wearing a balaclava on his face, and holding a camera in his hands. He was recording or taking pictures of me, My instant thoughs at that time was "pedophile?" and i called my parents to investigate or call the police and they took their sweet time even doing anything.
Woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep.
Dream 2
I was sick as fuck and i had to take medicine, I think my parents wanted to talk to a few people about something important, but they had to stop at costco first. The usual bullshit goes down but i have to go back to the car to get medicine since i took jack shit, As i made it to the car an older asian lady asked what model the car was, and the features and such was on it, she wanted to buy a car like it. I took a pill of the medicine and stuffed the rest in my pocket. I showed her the features like the usual stuff, like "this stuff folds downwards" and she oooed and awwed like a young child would after seeing something new.
My parents returned by that time and we left to the meeting place. Can't remember the subject matter but apparantly it was serious shit, like climate change and population control, a costco worker was there and the asian lady who was asking me about the features. The meeting place was like a waffle house, but knockoff. All of a sudden, security officers, police officers, and a few doctors and nurses arrived, not to eat or something, they asked what was going on and have us a drug test pill and shit, they asked if we where planning terrorist actions and if we where causing a disturbance. Pissed me the hell off, the nurse amd cops where laughing, although my parents and other people in the room besides the authorities where oblivious to the seriousness of the situation. I talked to a nurse as to why she was laughing and she got flustered and then pretty much told me that, this was on purpose and i'm supposed to be arrested because clearly on drugs, that i have drugs on me and the drug testing pill is making me sleepy and agressive because of it working and it even colored my tongue blue as a side affect, and besides the drug usage everyones going to get arrested for terrorist actions amd disturbing the peace. I was pissed off so i ratted to some guy who was chilling, eating a burger and he basically said AW HELL NAW and talked to a few other people who then confronted the police about me getting set up.
I then woke up right now, kind of angry for some reason.

Saw storecat again (cat who works at the local hardware store)
She was tucked into her catbed, she had a mini pillow under her head, and she was sleeping, holding a stuffed animal (rabbit)
She moved her head in a super retarded position to sleep better, imagine being payed to sleep on the job, lucky.
Apparantly she tried escaping by climbing into a stroller, they caught her at the last second because her tail was sticking out.

>>4187
The cat's life seems eventful. I also sleep in retarded permissions to get to bed.

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>>4194
This is hardcore.

I was working in a shed and i was leaving and i spotted an orange cat stalking something and when he noticed me i decided to chase after him and he climbed over the fence, and he looked back at me before jumping off.
Very suspicious

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https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9373403 [Play] Elements arranged in order of melting point
>I suddenly felt the urge to list the elements in order of how easily they turn into a liquid, so I went ahead and did it. I didn’t bother with the finer details, like whether helium actually has a melting point or the questionable values for radioactive elements.
BGM: https://w.atwiki.jp/hmiku/pages/4629.html

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Mama, um... what are they doing?

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>>3904
sugoi chinpo!

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Putting this here to not allow foreign influences to ruin my love for this song.
From Billy's 40th Birthday collaboration, using a medley of Touhou-related music:
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This just got in the mail this morning. A step back in time. Did you know that the video in the middle is no longer available in its original sm ID?

>>3872 at the top it says:
>In 2008, a flood of ridiculous videos emerged, and our magazine’s pick for the No. 1 ridiculous videos is the Wrestling Series by the ガチムチ兄貴 (Gachimuchi Aniki)
>Because of how seriously they commit to such absurdity, it became popular on "Nico Nico Douga." The reason our magazine awarded this series the grand prize lies in the fact that an obscure American gay video became a widely shared meme on Japanese video sites and gained a lot of attention, or rather, turned into complete chaos (lol).
>Additionally, there’s no way other media outlets could properly introduce such a popular series, and that's part of why we chose it. By the way, the editorial team is all straight (not gay), just so you know.

the box in the bottom left asks the questions of how to enjoy the pants wrestling videos
>The classic way to enjoy the wrestling series videos is by adding misheard subtitles. It’s a staple pattern for these videos, and strangely enough, as you watch, it really starts to feel like they’re saying those lines. It’s truly fascinating. No distortion here!
Examples of mishearings:
>Now we even the score. -> ナウい息子♂ (Naui Musuko) -> Naughty ♂ Son (penis)
>Oh my shoulder! -> お前、人のモノをっ… (Omae, hito no mono o…) -> You, took my thing...
>That's not right, man. -> 仕方ないね (Shikata nai ne) -> It can not be helped.
>Two can play it! -> 新日暮里 (Shinnippori) -> New Nippori (the location this fictional series takes place)
>Huh? How do you like that, huh? -> あぁん？あんかけチャーハン？ (an? Ankake chaahan?) -> Huh? Thick and saucy fried rice? (making fried rice is usually like a joke for masturbating)

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A parody of that show that made 2channel popular in Japan (Densha Otoko).

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>>4210
Since it was based on a true story here are the original Densha Otoko posts: http://milkyway7075.g2.xrea.com/trainman1.html and the original clip for comparison. The english subs that came with the show aren't great... stuff like using "yes" for ｷﾀ――(ﾟ∀ﾟ)――!! is just stupid and also yeah that's Nasubi (Tomoaki Hamatsu).
I was honestly only reminded of this today because the maid working at my house broke a $325 Hermes plate that was a birthday gift for my mother.

>>4183
Probably going to go back soon to buy resident evil village for 10, i felt mixed because to be honest i only played RE4 so i was kind of out of the loop but fuck it, sounds pretty metal of a story.

I am sick of the readings for my courses not having anything to do with what we are going to be talking about in class.

>>4197
Why do they do it?

>>4197
That happened so many times in High school and University. It is almost as if the teacher acts as if they are the most important class. When the homework they give is useless I try to find workarounds because a lot of teachers think they have more important classes.

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Ever since thriller bark the quality of one piece went down hill, Just the typical shit you'd see in any shonen anime, which sucked because it actually had fucking potential. It makes me wonder about what's going on with the authors headspace considering the tonal shift. I liked the bit about
Sabaody Archipelago and slavery and the over all super fucking dark tone but god damn, then theres an episode or two or three or just stupid shit like fan service thrown in there and its just another blemish.
And i heard too that after the timeskip shit was supposed to be DARKER, but for the sake of what? shit writing?
Maybe it's just me but i'm reminded of
Berserk where it's super fucking massive and the first couple story arcs up to golden age are fucking outstanding then after it kind of just melts into typical shonen shit, what the hell happened there?

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I met a kind praying mantis once at a rv park, it was pretty big and allowed me to pick it up, was very calm and honestly it seemed curious about me.

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>>554
I've already shared my opinion that the earliest episodes of Trigun are some of the weakest and the show would objectively be better off if you cut the first two or so out, but I think that episode 3 is genuinely good and episode 4 is a direct 1:1 adaptation of something that happens in the manga. The problem is that episodes 3 and 4 don't really have a good place in the plot nor' do they have any significance to later characters so they're best suited for the beginning, but neither of those episodes nor' episode 5 are really good for getting the proper gist of the characters.

When the manga opened with the events of episode 5 I was somewhat confused because things were extremely hastily explained and it felt like the author was trying to rush things, which is my biggest problem with the manga in general: the paneling is awful and it makes the events feel too fast, and it makes it too hard to understand what's happening.

I just finished Maximum 33 of the manga series, and while I'm certainly enjoying the experience a lot, I simply cannot understand what is happening or what the author is trying to convey in half of the panels. I LOVE the art style, and the page spreads are absolutely breathtaking, but in average fashion I simply cannot grasp what things are supposed to be. Not only that, but the vagueness of dialogue boxes and who's speaking them (speech bubbles not having directions pointing to whomever is speaking, or extremely vague arrows), as well as the fact that the manga switches between the past, future, present, dream sequences and schizo moments extremely quickly and on a very regular basis.

(Spoilers for the manga on this section)
There was a whole sequence in which the Hornfreak uses his frequencies to blow up something that was in the sky during a big villain moment. Apparently this was a betrayal of one of the Gung-Ho Guns, but nowhere in any previous panels or chapters did I see one of the Guns using some kind of flying machine? Zazie the Beast was using bugs to spy on people previously, and it was implied and somewhat shown that he was controlling a Sandworm off in the background, but the Sandworm doesn't fly and it's very clearly something artificial that Hornfreak destroyed.
So... what was it? I don't know. I've reread the section and examined all of the panels and as far as I can tell he just blows up... "something" that affects Zazie, and counts as a serious betrayal.
Maybe I'm just going insane, but it's a really cool and badass moment that was wasted because I just cannot understand what is happening half of the time.

Characters like Wolfwood just kind of show up and the fact that he's suspicious and mysterious is literally shoved in your face the same fucking book you meet him in, which really dampens a lot of his cool scenes and moments later because the fact that he is suspicious isn't treated like something the reader should wonder about. There's no hints or foreshadowing, there's no clues to find or questions to answer-- it just sort of happens.
The same could be said for a LOT of the mysteries that the anime presents. It's more straightforward, but I like being able to wonder and ask questions about the media I'm consuming as I'm consuming it. The manga showing you all of its cards the second it gets them isn't good writing.

This means that moments lose impact, lines lose weight, scenes become somewhat empty. It becomes too easy to sort of glaze over the blur of movement lines and random incoherent shapes and objects during some sort of fight scene and lose track of what's actually happening. It's a flaw of the paneling and the sheer detail in extremely small panels, as well as the fact that it's in black-and-white and when everything becomes wooshy motion lines, it gets hard to follow stuff.

All of this paired with the already breakneck pace of the manga makes it so that there's no real intrigue or mystery or anything of the sort. Sure, I can't tell what's happening, but not in the good way. This is something that the anime fixes for the most part, as the fact that there are episodes that serve to worldbuild and expand on character traits, backstories, etc. means that it's a lot easier to follow the story when things start to get really thick.
Is the manga bad? Absolutely not, and I think it has a really healthy relationship with the show, as they both have reasons to watch/ read them separately, as well as part of the same "franchise" so-to-speak. The manga is certainly more in-depth and is hugely more mature, gory, and vicious, but it's hard to follow a lot of the time and I think there are a lot of things that the anime does better, narrative-wise.

>>555
To expand on my thoughts about the Nebraska fight, I believe it's hugely improved by having a good amount of buildup in my eyes.
Up until that point in the show, a viewer could excuse the fact that Vash doesn't kill out of a purposeful choice that is a core character trait of his; it is a "kids show" after all. It played on television aimed at younger boys in Japan and is catering to that audience.
The viewer could also be excused for assuming that Vash was just going to be silly and stupid for the entire show as well. He's only serious a few times in episodes 3 and 4 and otherwise acts like a complete retard-- admittedly it's something I dislike about those episodes but it's an intentional misdirection. Vash himself is a very serious character but he pretends not to be in order to protect the people around him. Episode 5 makes it very clear that while he might be "happy-go-lucky", he takes his responsibilities and capabilities deathly seriously.

Alongside the fact that it's not made extremely clear until that moment that Vash refuses to kill on purpose, it's an extremely cool fight that shows just how deep and how ironclad his beliefs are.
Cool moments like that that put on display a character's true nature deserve some buildup, and I think that having an episode or two before that moment would have been perfectly serviceable. It gives the viewer time to really learn and understand the character dynamics in a deeper way than the manga offered. Even all the way to Maximum 34, where I'm at, the Insurance Girls don't feel AT ALL as developed here as they are in the manga. They're important yes, but they don't feel as personal nor' do they feel like they're part of the "main cast". Once again; it's a flaw of the pacing.

4 episodes before the Nebraska fight is too much in my opinion but I've already stated pretty clearly in my previous posts that only the first two are "questionable" in their quality. Episodes 3 and 4 are directly ripped from the manga and 99% of the second half of the show is also ripped from the manga as well. Different, random parts of it are changed but the primary concepts are kept intact.

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I finished the manga last night. I'm sort of mixed on it. Expect a shitload of spoilers ahead so DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED BOTH THE SHOW AND THE MANGA.

I LOVE the art. I think the art rivals legendary mangas like Berserk on a regular basis. There's a shitload of Akira inspiration which means there's a lot of extremely high detail scenes of buildings getting destroyed and everything looks fucking amazing. I wish I took more screenshots because the sheer volume and quality of all of the two-page-spreads was fucking shocking and I want to show them off. The art alone is worth reading the manga, and it NEVER slows down or stops being good.
Unfortunately due to the extremely small panels this leads to a struggle to understand what's happening in certain scenes, and sometimes pages required a re-read from me because I just wasn't following the actions of the characters. Alongside that, the speech bubbles are oftentimes not pointed at any particular character which means that a lot of the time you have to use context clues to even have a chance to figure out who's speaking. Even then, sometimes I was just forced to guess because there was just dialog in bubbles and nothing else.
I feel like if the panels were bigger and the speech bubbles were handled better, the manga would be MUCH more readable. The lack of tails in particular made it a super bad chore to read at times.

The story is extremely good as well. I still feel like the anime handled the plot with much more grace and elegance, removing a lot of superfluous details and things that aren't exactly "necessary" to the experience while still maintaining the themes, messages, and core concepts of the plot. It ties everything together better, there's nothing stupid happening, nothing. It's nice, concise, and gets the job done.
However, the manga provides a much more "full" experience and includes a LOT of things and details that flesh out the characters and world much more. Despite that, I still consider them almost equal.

Wolfwood's arc is much more well done in the manga and I actually cried when he died, which is the first time ANY manga or comic has ever welled up any kind of emotion in me. I wasn't really a fan of Livio/ Razlo at first and I still think it's kind of... ehhhh in my eyes but I think that character was handled very well overall, and I liked how his story ended.

There's a lot of stuff in the manga that's kind of stupid. The whole "Wolfwood is actually several years younger than he appears to be" thing is kind of... meh? It's silly, unnecessary, and it doesn't fit his character in the slightest, but this plot point is used to such emotional effectiveness I can't help but feel like it deserves a pass.
Wolfwood and The Eyes of Michael all being basically superhuman teenagers that drink super-mega-ultra-giganigga-retard-powerful healing potions that make them so durable they can basically get shot as much as they want without dying is also fucking silly and retarded. It feels like some bullshit the author came up with to excuse Wolfwood getting the absolute shit rocked out of him in almost every fight and still surviving. I would have much preferred if the healing potions were something unique to Wolfwood, and that's what made him special in comparison to all of his peers.
I also think that the scene where Vash learns that Wolfwood is a Gung-Ho Gun was cut extremely short and it should have had more impact. It could have and should have been done in an extremely different order in order to bring more weight and context to Wolfwood's final scenes.
It's such a great idea for a perfectly good reveal that would be unfathomably amazing to read that felt like it was done as an "oh yeah there's this too" moment because the author literally forgot about it.

The biggest problem I have with the manga however is the ending; which was kind of a stinker all things considered. I don't like the "rest of humanity" showing up last second, because it feels like the stakes were just sort of fucked with for no reason, and the story wouldn't ACTUALLY be changed if that entire plot beat was removed entirely.
Not only that, but the asspull reveal that the rest of humanity has ALREADY SETTLED on other planets and that No Man's Land is just a backwater shithole that nobody really cares about made the whole experience just lame as shit. Not only that, but apparently Plants turning into basically normal people with magic powers is something that has already been extensively researched and figured out is ???????

Both of those things in combination with the setup of the ending being sort of stupid overall lead to a kind of weak baby fart experience that was only upheld by the sheer excitement and weight of Vash's personal ending. The stakes were fucking pummeled into the ground beyond comprehension when both of those things came to light and it almost retroactively ruined the entire manga for me-- fortunately it's extremely easy to ignore.

All of that being said, I still very much enjoyed the manga and it's going into my "recommend-to-everybody-I-meet" list but I think that the show is a much easier and more 'clean' viewing experience. Shit started to drag on at the end because the final battle is literally like two whole goddamn books which is kind of silly too.

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>>545
Started reading the manga because its faster to read something, and it's a pain in the ass to watch anime at an inconvenient time. Liked the opening of the manga a bit better, kinda more funny. Also some of the diffrence in art style tripped me up a tiny bit bit but it's all good.

>>591
I just finished trigun, I think i agree with the whole "hard to make sense of what's going on" in some of the action sequences, i like how everything got darker, and more bizarre as the series continued, i mean there's major changes made between trigun and maximum and it was pretty good. I wish i took more screenshots because most of the panels are actual art. There are so many cool sequences.

Hiyler was a wealthy man

>>1508
He stole money from nerds.

>>1509
He funded his career with how much money he stole from these nerds.

Hitler has many wives

>>1514
This is actually true and I should know, I'm at least 3-7 of them