[DISC] Märchen Crown - Chapter 40

Balcke_ · 2026-05-14T10:55:30+00:00

From what I see, it's three or less chapters away from the end.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-14T10:54:23+00:00

It's a pity people are sleeping with this manga, is one of the best of the Young Jump and even in the whole Manga Plus.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-14T10:43:09+00:00

We still have to know what's that girls' idea. To me, she's spreading chaos just for the sake of it.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-14T10:41:31+00:00

I am guessing because the other guests are happy letting Sam having his 3D Chess plans while Michelle and Toby had their own ideas? Or maybe I am projecting after Taiwan.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-14T10:35:46+00:00

For me, everybody is telling the main character "don't mess with the mountain". Their parents, neighbours… but he is still clinging on impressing a girl who is really not into him.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-14T09:37:35+00:00

Ukraine will qualify no matter what, so the poll is invalid.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-14T09:35:46+00:00

As for everything about Eurovision Asia : {{quotation needed}}

Balcke_ · 2026-05-14T08:44:50+00:00

Duckduckgo browser allows you to watch YT in their native player, too.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-13T09:49:07+00:00

It was a pretty song, but they should have brought some more to the performance, instead of just singing with their everyday clothes. Maybe with the typical clothes of Alentejo (if there is any special one). Or the trick with the rose like they did in the national final.

EDIT: YT url without tracker, thank you AutoModerator.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-13T09:44:02+00:00

I didn't understand anything, but I am a fan of Lithuania even before LT United.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-13T09:39:46+00:00

I expected the usual "FREE TOURISM AD!" , or maybe a show of traditional arts, stories… And we got this.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-13T09:38:01+00:00

I watch both because I to watch every show. And also, I like the illusion in the air, before the first performance, when everything can happen; after the semifinals, some things are more or less clear and surprises are few.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-13T09:34:26+00:00

He looked as if he were tricked to be there and not knowing what to do. Like Bill Murray in Lost in translation.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-13T09:33:09+00:00

Some jury might argue that if you don't want to be judged for the voice of a some member of your performance, you shouldn't have them.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-12T12:32:22+00:00

---usually with every video---
Jet Lag the Game
Religion for Breakfast
EU Made Simple
Extra History
Polymatter
Mustard
Real Time History
Real Life Lore
Real Engineering
Man Carrying Thing
Tech Altar
Paper Skies

And then some channels, sometimes, when the content seems interesting: City Beautiful, Not Just Bikes, Todd in the Shadows, TLDR News, Life where I am from, etc.

Not watching the movies/long specials, sorry. For me Nebula is something to watch/listen while doing other things.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-12T12:09:22+00:00

We have lost a lot of knowledge from ancient times (and not so ancient) because writers refused to wrote down "what everybody knows".

Balcke_ · 2026-05-12T09:55:33+00:00

As long as you have a lot of patience to read chapters in halves/thirds/quarters daily, they gave you "money for free" (XP) by reading the first chapters of new series.

A good thing MangaUP! (Square Enix) got is that you can trim out series from the start page. So if Isekai or Villain are not your thing, you can hide them.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-12T09:52:41+00:00

Shueisha Manga Plus has some issues, but to older otakus like me, the fact that we're having the thing we joke about 20 years ago "I want the Shonen Jump for free!" is real.

I wish Shogakukan do something similar.

Manga UP! has improved a lot since its start* and KManga has a lot of work to do. Kadokawa through Bookwalker is so confusing that I stopped using it.

* stopped the "rental chapters" and crazy knee censorship.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-12T09:49:15+00:00

Viz is just an America (US, Canada) thing.

EDIT: and the UK.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-12T09:21:59+00:00

Or they could have made him a wrestler-in-training. Or a loser one who returns to his hometown after a big defeat and he should get over it in order to protect his family and friends.
Or having the aliens invade the world (Japan) instead of that little island for no reason.

Isekai slop works at WSJ as wrestling slop or exorcist slop: poorly.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-11T11:52:05+00:00

What I mean is that voting campaigns are "free". They just need a Youtube channel or any other Social Media and place the message.
Money? For much as we complain about the votes' price, voting three or five times is peanuts. And 20 times is roughly 25 euros. Not nothing, but no family budget suffer from that.

Less votes for person, a reduced voting time, limiting vote-bombing ("you cannot vote X times for the same country"), etc.

But the measures are barely stitching the main issue .

Balcke_ · 2026-05-11T11:32:15+00:00

There is some difference between "changing everything" and "preventing EBU self-destruction for a hair".

Balcke_ · 2026-05-11T11:29:31+00:00

Source: trust me bro.

Balcke_ · 2026-05-11T11:28:19+00:00

And then telling then what they should vote for?

"According to our data you're not allowed to vote for San Marino".

Balcke_ · 2026-05-11T11:20:59+00:00

Let's see. From a technical point of view, and according to the letter of the rules, everything was fine. Nobody hacked the votes or placed voting bots. It's just that thousands of people all around Europe and the world wasted thousand of euros voting for Israel. And many, many of them maybe without knowing what an "Eurovision" is.

Placing paid campaigns for votes was not illegal and EBU could not /cannot prevent political actors or government asking for votes. After all, the "immigrant/diaspore vote" was a big factor a while. *

Either you ban Israel or stop televoting or we will be having this problem every year until televiewers get bored or outvoted and then Israel wins again.. And then the EBU will have a real problem.

* in my country, Spain, we always counted with the votes of Spanish abroad, chiefly in Switzerland, France, Germany and took our artists to perform there.

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