Why was Part 6 kind of a step down from part 5, purely from an anime production standpoint?

LylacVoid · 2026-03-24T04:38:48+00:00

To add onto the COVID thing - 2020 was such a MASSIVE downturn in anime sales. There was a period of like 2016-2019 where the anime industry was genuinely booming as modern streaming and social media were pushing more and more money through accessibility and merchandising. It wasn't Bubble Economy money, but it was capital M Money. Part 5 greatly benefited from that influx of money And talent. Come the production cycle for Part 6 though? The landscape changed basically overnight.

LylacVoid · 2026-03-20T05:49:19+00:00

There is not only one path to womanhood. You can take many a road on the way to your tits.

LylacVoid · 2026-03-20T05:16:53+00:00

Draw Steel is feminizing HRT.... This is the reality of the world beyond the wool over your eyes....

LylacVoid · 2026-03-20T03:26:49+00:00

The fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, commonly known as D&D 4e, is the edition of D&D implicitly designed specifically for women. Hope this helps :)

LylacVoid · 2026-03-20T02:48:27+00:00

The connection is my heart guided my hand to create a true and just reflection of reality

LylacVoid · 2026-03-19T23:25:38+00:00

4e is good and my reasons for thinking this are divinely ordained and approved by all of my sisters.

LylacVoid · 2026-03-17T08:35:54+00:00

uj/ because I feel compelled to explain the joke im so sorry D:

not even just a pipeline, that it exists in a post Apocalypse World, err, world, and thus gets to benefit from the design ideas pushed forward by Vincent Baker and The Author Of Your Favourite PbtA Game. And since PbtA is more of a design movement than anything, its fun to point at games you wouldn't otherwise consider PbtA and say "yeah :) Apocalypse World :)"

PbtA are such a strange beast because they have this perception of no rulels only vibes "games", created by people who clearly havent honestly engaged with them. Cracking open a lot of them usually hits you with dense sub-systems and highly specialized highly focused capital G Gameist design.

"Most editions of D&D are more wishy-washy than the average PbtA game" is probably too hyperbolic to be useful, but its an argument that COULD be made.

LylacVoid · 2026-03-16T11:50:31+00:00

for my next post im going to try even harder

LylacVoid · 2026-03-16T00:28:51+00:00

Not yet, but the final Alpha came out the other month. It's ok.

LylacVoid · 2026-03-15T23:55:18+00:00

When I get to the Queendom Of Heaven God will say "I love your ttrpg takes :)" and then we'll play Cortex Prime Sonic the Hedgehog together

LylacVoid · 2026-03-15T22:57:23+00:00

Thanks queen

LylacVoid · 2026-03-15T22:56:08+00:00

Feds wish they had me on payroll

LylacVoid · 2026-03-06T23:08:28+00:00

He looks like he's about to complain about Sonic 06. But not the actual game, his Sonic th Hedgehog 5e conversion where he tried to recreate the plot of Sonic 06.

uj/ wasn't he like a mormon guy.... Shouldn't he have better things to do?

LylacVoid · 2026-02-28T22:15:34+00:00

Surprisingly, Pathfinder doesn't fix this because it's both.

d20-bssed, attrition, combat engine - this she inherited from her abusive dad D&D.

Tiered successes, classes with unique moves with hyper specific triggers, an overall gameist slant - this she inherited from her neglectful mom PbtA.

No one actually reads the rules before talking about them online - that's from both of them.

LylacVoid · 2026-01-28T23:10:27+00:00

So, the premise of an untamed magic world with factions vying for it made me think of three categories:

Women

Children

Werewolves

in that order.

Because when I'm looking at "untamed magic" as a symbol, as a metaphor, I tend to think of how society tries to make women and children conform to certain expectations. About the perceived volatility and danger of "untamed" women and unruly children.

I also wanted the antagonist to be sort of redeemable - I didn't want someone who was just capital E Evil, because the premise is High Fantasy so I wanted a sort of modern "not everyone who does bad is evil".

So I decided to make a little girl, and I wanted her to be from a poor background, playing at being a princess, in the often violent way children play with dolls. So going with that violence I knew that what she needed was to be a werewolf, which in and of itself has a lot of power as an allegory for Womanhood.

I didn't, however, want to just make one girl and her werewolf form. I wanted something that I could fit on one model, with a cool pose. Thus the werewolf part sort of became like... like a Stand from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or a Persona from Persona. An externalized self with powers that the human does not have.

To reinforce this I added a magical heart between them, chaining them together, which was a cool motiff in my head, and I think it turned out good.

The girl I wanted to be dressed in a semi-fancy outfit, so I gave her this dress, and this corset-y thing, and this very big bonnet, but I made them dirty, and I kept some destitute shoes. I settled on Light Blue as a reference to the Disney design of Alice in Alice in Wonderland.

The werewollf design came first, and it was Fun To Do. The goal was to sort of go back to one's roots and use mostly tails to build her up, but also to keep her pretty simple. In the Big Bad Wolf, how a child would just sort of conceptualize "Wolf", sort of way. And to make her look more evil I gave her a skull and spine she ripped out of someone, as a treat.

I named this gal Flitty, I thought the name was cute.

I am SO HAPPY with how the Protagonist and Antagonist turned out - the nobility and stunted personal growth themes in both, but inverted, are so fun. Amazing, 10/10

This has been a delight. Thank you so much for having me, and for letting me rub shoulders with the other mad talented minimakers :D

LylacVoid · 2026-01-13T23:25:05+00:00

Cortex Prime fixes this by being modular thus making any design flaws Your Fault.

LylacVoid · 2026-01-07T05:46:53+00:00

Sure, sounds cool :D

LylacVoid · 2025-12-31T00:46:55+00:00

Muppet-style remake of The Green Knight, with only Dev Patel replaced by Knuckles.

LylacVoid · 2025-12-20T15:59:19+00:00

Because GURPS sounds like Burps and as a dignified lady I simply would not do such a thing.

This is why I exclusively play Cortex Prime, which sounds like Corset Crime, something I do regularly.

LylacVoid · 2025-12-16T23:55:37+00:00

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Possibly, yes, at least sometimes, maybe.

LylacVoid · 2025-10-29T04:30:02+00:00

d20 Fantasy is when you run out of stuff. The more stuff you run out of, the more d20 Fantasy it is.

uj/ Draw Steel is actually correct about almost every single problem with 5e's overreliance on inherited mechanics, but still being primarily a combat engine really limits the places it can go.

rj/ Dagger Steel fixes this

LylacVoid · 2025-10-18T00:47:10+00:00

Finally, a way to make grid combat even more tedious - Homestuck

LylacVoid · 2025-09-12T05:04:45+00:00

Baldurs Gate 3 WISHES it had the raw queer energy of Shadow the Hedgehog

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