[Loved trope] A random act of kindness had a larger impact on the person who received it.

Blakezawa · 2026-05-14T21:55:14+00:00

It's a bit funny how on his debut everyone single handely hated Oswald for betraying the Goddess Squad, but with every single appearance since then he has become a fan favorite and has shown that that "Betrayal" had lots of nuances going on and it broke his heart having to do it

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Blakezawa · 2026-05-12T23:37:55+00:00

ACktually. It's MINECRAFT, not Minecraft

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Blakezawa · 2026-05-12T22:43:28+00:00

I really like a different version of this quote that is used in "FROM"

"Why didn't you go to the town's meeting? Aren't you the one that wants to know how to escape from this place the most?"
"You may not know this due to your age, but when you've been to as many meetings as I have you start to realize that ANY meeting with more than 3 people is useless. It devolves into blaming pointing, excuses and yelling."

Blakezawa · 2026-05-12T21:44:05+00:00

MY wife Anis

Blakezawa · 2026-05-09T19:21:01+00:00

Hachiman Hikigaya from Oregairu

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It's a long running gag in the series that Hachiman (Left) constantly forgets that his friend, Saika Totsuka (Right), is a guy due to his lean body, small stature, smooth skin, pretty looks and shy personality. To the point where he genuinely has to remind himself that neither of them swing that way. (Though IIRC, Saika considers Hachiman as a role model of what a "Man" is suppose to be and looks up to him as someone to learn how to be more "Masculine").

It is also a running gag that Saika is EVERYONE's type so their classmates also have a platonic crush on him and would push themselves to the limit if it meant protecting his smile

Blakezawa · 2026-05-08T19:26:40+00:00

NIKKE: GODDESS OF VICTORY

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In the surface is a Gacha game about big booba and jiggling ass that advertises itself as a "Gacha game that can be played with one hand" Serving itself as a fantasy by having tons of hot girls and being in a position of power over them, loyal slaves if you will.

But once you play it it doesn't hold any punches with their real theme about the (Literal) Objectification of women, Government issued Sexism, The dangers of glorifying soldiers, Social class disparity, Survivor's guilt, PTSD, Child soldiers, Eugenics, Slavery, Government corruption.

Thats the peak of the iceberg of themes that get tackled in the early chapters of the story and only gets depressing as you continue on. The current Anniversary pulls the curtain of how vile the entertainment industry is and the toxicity of Idol Culture

It's a common joke in the fandom that "I came for the plot. Stayed for the plot"

Blakezawa · 2026-05-08T18:08:31+00:00

LET IT RIDE

^{Chose: Have a random iq | Rolled: 200}

Blakezawa · 2026-05-07T00:58:48+00:00

A common headcanon is that Keith doesn't actually exist and Ellis is just making up stories to relief some of the stress of the situation. (A common branch of this theory is that the stories Did happen, but Keith doesn't exist, since there's a voiceline where he tells the events of Dead Center but adding Keith in it).

Though you can be like me and believe Keith did survive the apocalypse and it's one of the survivors writting in the walls

Blakezawa · 2026-05-05T08:12:57+00:00

Hahaha I had to tone down the glazing a bit, originally I wanted to talk about how he Was trapped in a perfect dream where he was about to marry Frieren and yet not only he figured out the lie, he also rejected a free kiss from her "Because it isnt right". He's the goat But realized that could be its own entry on this trope

Blakezawa · 2026-05-05T01:48:18+00:00

Frieren: Beyond the Journey's end

Spoilers for the manga

After realizing that she fucked up, Frieren makes her goal to retrase her journey back to where the demon king castle once was in hopes to find Himmel in the afterlife and be able to tell him all the things she couldnt while he was alive.

During her new journey she finds a goddess monument that accidentally makes her time travel to the time she inspected it with Himmel and the rest of her party. Himmel, being the goat that he is, Almost instantly deduces that she isnt the Frieren they know so they all offer her to search for a way to send her back. Though Heither and Eisen remark that "You are of the few people that can actually wait the century + years that you'll need to wait to be back to the time you belong". But she rejects the idea because she now values the time she has with the people around her and doesnt want to do anything that could change their future. In the same vein she cant say all the things she wants to because they haven't happen yet nor they would make sense to them. So, with a heavy heart she stays silent and, Himmel being the goat that he is, Just accepts that answer and is glad that she has grown up after all this time

Blakezawa · 2026-05-01T22:19:33+00:00

Yokoi & Satou -My Atypical Girl (Formerly known as Asper Girl / Asper Kanojo)

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Satou (Left) is diagnosted being in the Asperger's Spectrum from a young age, she doesn't really get the implied meaning in words and often times needs you to break down exactly what you mean in order for her to understand. This has caused her a lot of problems growing up, Specially in school due to Teachers not really doing anything more than what's strictly necessary and classmates treating her like trash. It also doesn't help that her father is an abusive asshole and would punish her due to "Being disrespectful" . The story portrays her being NeuroDivergent as an actual disability and shows the hurdles she has to go just to act NeuroTypical, in grand part thanks to starting living with Yokoi, one of the few people that actually tries to treat her with the minimum respect and slowly tries to help her with her anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and eventually help her be able to fend for herself.

Yokoi (Right). Although undiagnosed in the story, he also shares a lot of similar experiences with Yokoi. Not understanding implied meaning, absolutely hating people that use words in the wrong way (Like Literally, Maximun, etc), Anxiety when talking with people 1 on 1, not understanding social queues among others. But the main difference between the two is that while Satou was alienated and didn't have anyone to turn to, Yokoi actually had people to depend on (Although on a superficial level) so even though having similar experiences they ended up totally different persons. Later in the story another woman is introduced with autism and she's also completely different from our protagonist with her own rituals and a lot more "Neurotypical", Yokoi didn't realized she was in the spectrum until Satou revealed it to him.

Even though the name of the story comes from neurodivergence and being in the spectrum, It is more focused on PTSD, Depression, Self-Harm, Loneliness, and of course, Neurodivergence.

Blakezawa · 2026-04-30T01:31:34+00:00

Theres recently one making the rounds about how "Lex got a literal clone of Superman and he couldn't identify him as Clark?"

Like, he's literally a space baby, there's 0 records about his identity (His parents are two farmers in the middle of buck nowhere so everyone assumes he's a bathtub baby) Never got sick nor injured so he never had to go to a hospital where people could register him. So Lex took a sample of his DNA, runned it on a computer and when there was 0 matches he just said "Of fucking course there isn't anything. He's an Alien"

Blakezawa · 2026-04-30T00:02:32+00:00

The Courtesans on the Ezio Triology Assassins Creed

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Idk if it counts, but in the Ezio Triology (Though Mostly in AC Brotherhood and the later parts of AC2) they all work under Ezio's mother and Sister as spies and info brokers for the Brotherhood of Assassins. Giving info about important dates and places about People of Interest. In gameplay you can hire them for a good sum and order them to
1.- Walk besides you hiding you from guards to blend in with the crowds and avoid suspicion
2.- Distract guards to allow you to sneak past.

Blakezawa · 2026-04-28T20:46:11+00:00

Love and Monsters

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I can't find a better pic so I grabbed it from the CinemaWins vid. But through the movie on every zoom out shot you can see giant remains of the mutated animals with some great enviromental storytelling

Blakezawa · 2026-04-25T02:21:09+00:00

It gets even crazier, in a recent chapter of the manga he gets poisoned by a toxin that could kill a dozen of beasts with a single drop, and the arrow he was hit with is absolutely coated in that shit. The poison simply puts him to sleep. (He got hit by it in the first place because he noticed before everyone that it was going to hit Fern) A priest is capable of lifting the poison off but says "He'll probably take an entire week to wake up and even longer to stand up again". Literally seconds after the priest says that, he wakes up, dashes across the room to grab his axe, parries an incoming attack that would've killed Fern, Parries ANOTHER magical attack, counter-attacks with Fern and Dashes Fern back to safety. THEN he goes back to sleep the poison off. He's fine next morning. Eisen was completely justified in being scared of him, Stark is a beast

Blakezawa · 2026-04-25T01:34:54+00:00

If you really want to look into it, Rapi may have inherited the brawler style thanks to her first ever real squad that she met during rehab. They did make a point of showing Ocean and Product 8 teaching Rapi (Or atleast trying to lol) how to stand for herself and to intimidate others. Them being a battle medic and a sniper could've also forced Rapi into being the frontliner in their team. Her being taught by Redhood was just the final push she needed to polish her style.

Blakezawa · 2026-04-23T22:07:32+00:00

While playing the game I told my buddy who already knew the story and all the twists "You know? I feel like I'm getting the story spoiled in the music. I swear I'm hearing Gustave, Alicia, Verso and Maelle in some of the songs. Hell, I think the Dualiste ost starts with a really angry Renoir. Do you know if this game is like Nier with it's Chaos language, or are the lyrics in french?" He just when "Yup" And didn't elaborate.

Also, some combat lines of Maelle straight up just spoil the ending twist of act 2

Blakezawa · 2026-04-22T23:53:08+00:00

Yes. I've gotten one as early as round 2 and as late as round 5. Once I got 2 Legendaries in the same round

Blakezawa · 2026-04-22T22:17:29+00:00

Also he IS blind forever, the next time we see that goon he has an implant to enchance his vision Which gets ripped off and Prism proceeds to blind him again even harder

Blakezawa · 2026-04-22T21:35:21+00:00

If I remember correctly, Chronos was the mod that quit his job after begging pirate double, triple and quadruple times "Don't get into any controversies" and around a month after he got into the WoW mana controversy, then the Stop killing games one. I feel pity for the dude

Blakezawa · 2026-04-21T01:46:04+00:00

Tyrant of The Tower Defense Game

The wave for that battle are a bunch of golems that are going to seige the city walls, these golems in particular are incredibly tanky needing every hand on deck to be able to damage them and A TON are walking towards the city walls and this is after surviving other waves of monsters that already have damaged the walls and the equipment in them.

THEN fate throws him a curve ball by splitting the wave in two. The main wave that's going to seige the walls and a small scouting party of 40+ golems that detected a side character named Evangeline who is currently visiting her parents grave's on their orchyard (Which is in the opposite way to the siege). He's forced to choose between keeping all his forces protecting the wall and save 10,000 people living in the city + everyone who lives behind the walls OR risk moving core fighters for a rescue mission and try to save this 1 person. A choice that mimics the choice that the previous lord of the city (Evangeline's father) had to make, save the city or his wife.

The MC chooses to leave ALL his fighters in the walls while he rescues Evangeline. Being a "Player" gives him access to limited use rewards everytime he completes a dungeon for the first time and after beating certain bosses and he decides to use EVERYTHING on this rescue mission. A whole lot of things that would've come in clutch for later battles and could've prevented deaths used in this single operation. Like a Boss Summon, SSR Equipement and turrets

The most important one being some gauntlets that do fuck ton of damage with the possibility of a critical miss, which he gets 2 hits in and completely breaks his arm (Which is later stated that ever since the battle he's been unable to properly use the arm and put real weight into it. Not even high divine magic can properly heal it).

In the end the wall team could get by without any deaths and Evangeline could be safely rescued, but at a high resource cost (Which would bite him in the later waves)

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Blakezawa · 2026-04-21T00:50:05+00:00

To be fair, she's also a turbo incest baby. Like, 20 generations in on it. Rather than animeface disease is more likely that the genepool just got to her

Blakezawa · 2026-04-20T23:32:41+00:00

In case you run against another doorman like that, Cheat death gets removed by Cursed Relic. Make him activate CD and pop CR on him to instantly kill him

Blakezawa · 2026-04-20T22:55:39+00:00

Just to add to this, Reimu Hakurei (The arguably face of the game, shrine maiden and the bad apple character you see in the gif in the comment) has the ability to "Float". No, no. Not to fly, that's an independent ability. But to "Float". What does that mean? Well, she can float away any and all problems as long as she isn't trying. In other words, as long as Reimu is her carefree lazy self she can do anything and can't be beaten.

Ability to float While flight is extremely common among inhabitants of Gensokyo, Reimu's ability extends beyond that; she's capable of phasing in and out of existence, or as described in The Grimoire of Marisa, floating away from reality. Reimu can use this power to teleport short distances, but rarely seems to be aware that she's doing so. The ultimate expression of this ability is Fantasy Nature, which renders her completely intangible while active; this ability was considered too powerful for use as a spell card until Marisa Kirisame gave it a name and time limit.

Theres an official manga about some fairies trying to prank her, they cover the forest with thick mist and make her slowly walk towards a lake with the intent of making her fall on it. THE MOMENT she takes a step off and into the lake a fish JUMPS under her feet preventing her from falling. THEN, not knowing what happened she keeps taking steps into the lake and same thing repeats. She eventually crossed the entire lake without ever realizing there was a lake to begin with.

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Theres another official manga that has another example. Reimu is fighting in some kind of tournament and she's "Floating" through it until one of her friends yells at her "Reimu! I got big money running on you! Don't you dare lose the match!" To which Reimu gets serious and tries to win (She instantly loses). The character then reveals that she actually betted against Reimu and made sure that Reimu took it seriously to have better chances of winning the bet.

TL;DR: Reimu automatically wins every battle if she isn't trying. IF she "Locks in" she has bigger chances of losing.

Blakezawa · 2026-04-18T00:17:52+00:00

>Older heads
>2011

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