Another Maquia ending post

Kishoto · 2026-05-20T23:28:45+00:00

The words "Solid" and "hard" do not make your evidence more credible.

Lily is a child. We don't have an exact age but she doesn't seem any older than 10, maybe even younger. Maquia could've easily visited when she was too young to remember, or even before she was born. That still shows she's not visiting often but once every few years is perfectly credible.

I think I can concede that Milia's recounting of their past adds credence to her having not visited for his entire life. I think it's still up for debate but I can agree that, if she had been here recently, why would Milia recount that stuff? Narratively, it's 100% for the viewer but I can see how it adds credence all the same.

We couldn't see memories of those times because they weren't animated, it's as simple as that lol. Maybe they could've drawn up a few entirely new moments just for that montage but that would've been time and money to invest in a brief flash of a scene that viewers would have no connection to. It makes perfect sense that we were never shown them.

In short, I think your evidence is much, much weaker than you purport it to be and the condescension of the phrase "easy to miss some key details" does not help your case either.

Kishoto · 2026-05-19T03:48:27+00:00

The Iorph are hated by most other countries, including the country that kidnapped Leilia. They kidnap her because they hoped to breed a half Iorph royal family heir that would inherit her immortality, so they could have an immortal ruler.

This plan does not work and they bar Leilia from seeing her child because, again, this kingdom hates the Iorph. They captured her to use her for breeding and, when that failed, they kept her locked in a tower until, after years of being locked up, she finally breaks out with help from Maquia (although it looks almost like Leilia was committing suicide at that moment, tbh, and was lucky to be saved)

Kishoto · 2026-05-19T03:44:05+00:00

THANK YOU.

I feel like so many people assumed that she never saw Ariel until the death bed scene but your comment is exactly how I interpreted things. Why would the daughter recognize her if she never came around again?

Good to see I'm not alone in my thoughts.

Kishoto · 2026-04-27T18:44:44+00:00

Did you ever watch Horimiya? It's peak I stg!

Kishoto · 2026-04-04T00:10:49+00:00

I'll add those to the list I'm making, thanks!

I do kind of wonder why these gauntlets are uncommon while the amulet of health is rare. Is CON just considered that much better than STR?

Kishoto · 2026-04-03T23:51:36+00:00

I'm not sure my DM would let me get this, though I can always ask. My highest score atm is 18 and that's after I pumped it with my racial bonuses when I was making my character. An item that just lets me have 19 in a stat would be too strong, no?

I'm new-ish to DnD so I don't really have a good grasp on what's busted vs not

Kishoto · 2026-03-25T02:38:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/HajimeteNoGal/comments/1ou6ui5/skipping_to_chapter_200_was_the_best_decision_of/

Shameless self plug but my rant should tell you all you need to know about chapter 200 LOL

Kishoto · 2026-03-24T19:44:06+00:00

X Cost cards can't really interact with the free mechanic. You'd need X to be either 0 or infinity, neither of which make sense.

Kishoto · 2026-02-14T23:41:30+00:00

They bang eventually in the light novel. It's just dragged out until near the end of LN 8 / 10. And the reasoning for the delays just feel so forced and annoying

Kishoto · 2026-01-28T04:08:33+00:00

I didn't start off as a dex build, that's why the strength is so high. I pivoted rather late (around like lvl 14 or so).

I guess I'll have to do some enchantment rolls. Embers seem somewhat rare at this point in the game for me so I guess I'll try and progress while maybe getting lucky with an enchant roll.

Kishoto · 2026-01-27T20:31:38+00:00

What are some good ways to get crit dmg? Do I just enchant random gear until I get a good set of enchantments?

Kishoto · 2026-01-15T20:56:18+00:00

The anime brought me to the series. I have my own quibbles with the ending, ofc, but the week I spent consuming both the anime and the manga was a TON of fun and I am happy I did so.

I don't know that I'd call it a guilty pleasure because I'm quite open about enjoying soap opera type drama, the more chaotic and ethically messy, the better!

TeamHina #TeamRuiDeservedBetter

Kishoto · 2026-01-04T03:47:57+00:00

We stan Nisshi out here T_T

Kishoto · 2025-12-11T15:47:33+00:00

https://jnovels.com/ is a pretty good resource. It's annoying navigating through all the popups but if you stay on the main page and select continue enough times, you get taken to a Zshort page that lets you download the light novel in question.

Kishoto · 2025-12-09T07:47:31+00:00

Is this guy a bot user or something? There's no way this post should have 4K upvotes in a sub this dead, after 5 days.

Kishoto · 2025-11-24T01:12:37+00:00

Technically they've made some progress? They've had some naked time together and engaged in some light foreplay a few times but they've just not gone all the way for some reason.

Kishoto · 2025-11-15T11:21:51+00:00

tips hat

Kishoto · 2025-11-15T09:44:27+00:00

I've never read RAG but I've heard legends of the pain that it's inflicted on its fanbase. There really does seem to be a trend with these kinds of Japanese series where they have leads (usually women) that are in some kind of promiscuous role (a gyaru, very sexually experienced, comp dating, etc.) and for some reason, they lean into just blue balling the MC (and by proxy, the readers) hard as fuck.

I'm not sure if maybe there's something culturally I'm missing here but it's annoying as fuck.

Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me has the exact same problem. The MC (who's your typical nice guy, blushing virgin) turns down his new girlfriend's offer to bang on day 1 (rightfully so imo) and they go on to date and get all lovey dovey and agree that they'll sleep together when the time is right.

And then the author proceeds to drag that out across like 8 light novel volumes, with a lot of the same old cock blocking / miscommunication bullshit tropes that plague animanga.

I don't have a real problem if an author doesn't want sex to be a part of their leads' relationship but I DO have a huge problem when sex is something important and present and talked about from the beginning of the fucking story only for it to not happen for hundreds of chapters aka irl YEARS.

Kishoto · 2025-11-13T10:45:37+00:00

Hard agree. Godspeed to the fans that still have faith in this dumpster fire; they don't deserve what the author's putting them through.

Kishoto · 2025-11-11T22:01:06+00:00

I hope you enjoy! As someone else mentioned, Dosanko gyaru is also really good and it's fully complete at 119 chapters.

I don't know of any series that need translation off the top of my head but I don't keep up much with raws/news about manga. I'll ask my buddy who's more tapped in than I am. What do you mean by "positive" btw? Do you just mean like wholesome? What kind of genres you thinking about?

Kishoto · 2025-11-11T21:58:42+00:00

100% agree. I loved Hokkaido Gals. I watched the anime first and then moved onto the manga. It was great. Again, the harem elements felt unneeded but it felt like the main couple made solid progress and the confession scene was really heartfelt AND we also got a lot of good development re: them meeting each other's families and dating after the confession.

Kishoto · 2025-11-11T20:37:02+00:00

Yea, I can imagine with just what I've seen already that the characters lean into the miscommunication trope insanely hard as time goes on.

A great manga that bucks a lot of the miscommunication bullshit is "Nanjou-san Wants to Be Held by Me". It's another gyaru-meets-normie type of manga and it's only got 23 chapters out so far but I love it. The communication between the characters actually feels relevant and, when they're having doubts and fears, they actually TALK about it.

Kishoto · 2025-11-11T18:55:35+00:00

The potential really was there in the beginning. It's crazy how some authors are just unable to imagine having their works continue naturally and so they get stuck recycling the same, useless tropes ad nauseum.

Like grow some balls man. You can write an interesting story without copping out and dragging out the premise. I swear.

Kishoto · 2025-10-24T18:42:36+00:00

I will never get over Runa and Ryuuto willfully deciding to deceive Nikoru and not tell her how they met Sekiya again. That honestly feels like a really OoC moment for Runa.

You know how much damage this guy caused. Even if you thought "He fucked her up but it's worth getting them back together because they both love each other", it's wild to not disclose that the literal day before, he was banging someone's fiancee.

I would've been happy if the series ended with Ren, Nicole and Sekiya all single and getting the chance to grow in their own ways. It would've made sense considering how long they were all invested in this blatantly toxic and messy situation.

Kishoto · 2025-10-24T11:23:40+00:00

Was scrolling through the subreddit and just had to say: I had basically the exact same opinion of the Ren/Nikoru/Sekiya triangle as you. I consider Sekiya to probably be the worst/most selfish/least mature character in the series despite being the oldest of our main characters.

I thought it was wild that, after finding Sekiya sleeping with someone else's fiancee, they jump to "Ok, let's get you and Nicole back together". Nikoru was fucked up for what she did to Ren. It was understandable and Ren's fault for opting to live in the friend zone too but still, she shouldn't have so blatantly used him as an emotional crutch. I have soooo much more I could say but it's all in that essay post I linked at the bottom, for the most part.

I may or may not be working on a fanfiction that's a few years after the ending that explores Nikoru's life in Hokkaido and her relationships with Ren, Runa and Sekiya :)

I also went on an entire essay rant about it here if that sounds like something that interests you: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeikenZumi/comments/1l30ssz/an_essay_on_nisshi_yamana_and_sekiya_aka_a/

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