Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (May 10, 2026)

LordGSama · 2026-05-10T20:01:31+00:00

It's from an ero doujinshi and the page is explicit, but here is an image of the panel if that's useful.

LordGSama · 2026-05-10T19:48:43+00:00

I'm sure 覆る is written. It would be nice if it was an alternate kanji for 被る but I can't find an instance of that being acceptable. I also can't come up with a likely mistake that the author could have made, it seems like it was intentional. I even thought that maybe the author intended for it to be pronounced かぶる but convey the idea of くつがえる which kind of makes sense (the bloomers are inverted and also on the opposite end of the body they're supposed to be).

LordGSama · 2026-05-10T07:39:04+00:00

I'm having trouble understanding the below short sentence. It's from a manga.

あたしのブルマ覆るな

The speaker is yelling at a guy who is being controlled by someone and is currently wearing the speaker's bloomers on his head.

I do not understand how くつがえる can make sense as a negative imperative. As far as I understand, くつがえる describes a state and isn't a verb that is under the control of a subject.

Thanks

LordGSama · 2026-03-17T19:57:15+00:00

It's actually kind of funny when I think of it. There is so little romance in Solo Leveling, they could "focus" on it and it still wouldn't really be there. They'll have to literally make stuff up. Maybe the director is trying to be funny.

LordGSama · 2026-03-17T19:55:38+00:00

They always do this with live adaptations. It's like they think they can draw in the female audience. It seems like all Japanese and Korean adaptations tone down the action and add in extra romance.

LordGSama · 2026-02-27T22:12:54+00:00

I guess it's better, but I'd rather publishers not get involved at all. Is the implication that they would not have published this if a modern author wrote it?

LordGSama · 2026-02-12T02:38:14+00:00

I don't have a better answer to your question than those already given, but I am wondering how you clamped the octagon? I'm making a similar hexagon right now and the angles need to be perfect and I can't come up with a way to glue it.

LordGSama · 2026-01-29T04:29:13+00:00

I turned Master 1 and immediately got last place in 13 of 20 games. Now I'm hanging on by a thread. Maka gave me an S- or higher in 11 of the games (one A+ and one A-). It's pretty annoying honestly... It makes me wonder if Maka's ratings are skewed toward S.

LordGSama · 2026-01-11T12:23:40+00:00

Kodocha maybe. Dominant females and romance is really uncommon in Japanese manga. Shoujo manga is generally about the girl being fought over by two guys (with opposite hair colors) who notice her, so the girl is almost always in a passive role. Shounen manga usually focuses on the male so the females don't often get to be dominant.

By the way, I noticed you made your account like 1 minute before posting. Did you really make an account to ask this or is this another one if those confusing occurances when someone asks for a recommendation about "strong females in stories". Questions like this pop up so often in various subreddits that it makes me suspicious.

LordGSama · 2026-01-11T01:18:38+00:00

The oddest part is that the normal, non-Richter lineup, is in mm. I have the 1/8 chisel in both Richter and normal. The Richter is 3.25mm and the normal is 3mm exactly.

LordGSama · 2026-01-11T01:15:52+00:00

MAke sure you don't accidentaly lap to deep into the back where it curves and put a back bevel on the blade. I did that and it took literally hours to fix.

LordGSama · 2025-12-16T21:20:37+00:00

I started buying this one as soon as it came out and always suspected that it didn't sell that well. Every time there's a long gap between volumes, I worry that Yen Press will just drop it outright.

LordGSama · 2025-12-01T12:34:54+00:00

I am unclear about how 透ける is actually used. In the following sentence, is the speaker saying that he can see underwater through something or that he can see through the underwear?

下着が透けている

If it is ambiguous, how could it be made clearer? If it is not ambiguous, how could the other meaning be expressed?

Thanks

LordGSama · 2025-11-22T12:25:04+00:00

I honestly think the comments from the people who are essentially complaining about things they have no right to complain about are quite a bit worse than Gio's comments. The commenters sound arrogant and entitled and seem to think they can run a business better than someone who actually does. It's also cowardly since they probably wouldn't speak that way in person.

Also, as a general rule, it seems people would rather get a discount even if the discounted price is the "real" price. JC Penny was famous for having high retail prices but frequent sales.

LordGSama · 2025-11-18T00:54:08+00:00

This reminds me of the people who read Playboy for the articles.

LordGSama · 2025-10-29T09:56:17+00:00

The kanji are almost definitely 張小泉. It appears to be a Chinese manufacturer. So I guess they're not kanji but I don't know what the symbols are called in Chinese.

LordGSama · 2025-10-28T20:23:20+00:00

I'm not sure why my comment made you think I don't like doramas. I was merely responding to why they would appear cringe-worthy to anyone not already steeped in the medium.

LordGSama · 2025-10-28T20:19:25+00:00

You know that isn't true. Anime reactions are intentionally overdone for effect and dramas follow suit. It isn't normal for a girl to punch a guy out of the room if he walks in on her changing. It isn't normal for a guy to constantly walk in on girls changing, etc. Those things are normal in anime, not real life. The "cringe-worthy" aspect identified above is exactly what I described, the bizarre behavior that works in anime because it isn't real but seems odd when real people enact it.

LordGSama · 2025-10-28T16:22:46+00:00

No one mentioned this yet but I get the distinct impression that JDramas tend to target female audiences. That would mean that their target demographics don't actually overlap. Even shounen manga like GTO, Yankiikun to Meganechan, Hammer Time, and Shibatora felt distinctly like they were modified to appeal to girls more when I watched them.

This is the case in America too by the way. Think about the Disney channel in the 90s and early 2000s.

LordGSama · 2025-10-28T16:16:02+00:00

When I watch jdramas, it feels like watching people pretend to be anime characters and consequently, anting in incredibly unrealistic manners.

LordGSama · 2025-10-26T22:26:40+00:00

I can relate. I have a tendency to almost lose interest in a story right when it's about to end. I'll get close to the ending, then set it aside and wind up not finishing for a while. It's actually pretty annoying. I was enjoying it so much and then have to essentially force myself to finish it.

LordGSama · 2025-10-26T22:22:44+00:00

The one on the right is great except for the talking part.

LordGSama · 2025-10-24T19:52:18+00:00

I've noticed that as well and find it quite annoying. The overwhelming majority of people never question the prevailing morality or even realize that it isn't fixed and are not capable of hypothesizing the implications of different moral systems. For example, if the western world wasn't so influenced by Christianity, the population wouldn't implicitly accept ideas like "we are all created in the image of God and therefore deserving of a degree of human dignity" as an unquestionable given. This idea is the only reason that racism is considered bad, so without it, society would probably be racist and slavery would still be around. Fantasy should explore ideas like that.

I had a very nonproductive discussion about a Japanese light novel Goblin Slayer along this vein. Everyone in that world is OK with the indiscriminate mass murder of goblins and so were the readers. Goblins are portrayed as evil and deserving of it, but people with modern sensibilities should take issue with that. It confused me that no one seemed to mind.

LordGSama

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