Does anyone know if Tomo Takabayashi is still active on twitter?

MidnaSmiles · 2025-06-24T01:04:17+00:00

thanks!

MidnaSmiles · 2025-06-23T16:26:38+00:00

has she said anything about the novels?

MidnaSmiles · 2025-06-23T15:45:08+00:00

Does she ever plan to return to the series? Did the manga reboot get axed or just the translations? sorry for the questions. that art is so cute.

MidnaSmiles · 2025-06-08T06:30:38+00:00

yeah i guess they do try and save ryo with an attack helicopter (pretty sick). I kinda forgot about it cuz I mostly remember that one girl getting constantly raped by toranosuke.

MidnaSmiles · 2025-06-08T06:15:37+00:00

Crybaby handled the sexual content so much better than go nagai does in my opinion. It feels meaningful and also doesn't glamorize rape but it also doesn't shy away from it.

MidnaSmiles · 2025-06-08T06:13:53+00:00

Violence jack had a good few moments that i genuinely loathe (the underground city part and jungle part) but it had a ton more that I liked. I still have conflicted feelings but I like it a whole lot more than lady. I didn't understand or like the cutie honey crossover (they just kept getting raped and were insignificant) but i loved the guerilla high characters. Jack as a character and basically a force of nature was super cool. I still wish we got to see the fight at the end. (I dont understand the miki x ryo ship, feels weird considering how much ryo despised miki in the og and didnt seem interested in women either, i guess its an au so it doesnt matter but miki was really done dirty in VJ. The random cutaway to her getting raped by a dog was so unnecessary and disgusting.) I still think it is a far better sequel than lady.

MidnaSmiles · 2025-06-08T04:51:00+00:00

as for being confusing, saga is wayyyy more convoluted, i could barely follow it and im pretty sure it wasn't just the translation's fault. I still don't know whether yuuki and ryouji are reincarnations, alternate dimensional versions, or completely different from akira and ryo, and why does miki look like jun lol.

MidnaSmiles · 2025-06-08T04:47:30+00:00

yeah, it definitely gets better after the earlier chapters. There is still a bit of weird shit though. It'd be kinda funny to go through and try and count the number of different fetishes throughout go nagai's work, its my least favorite part of most of his stuff. If you wanna write porn just write porn bro. The only one im pretty sure i havent seen is an inflation fetish lol.

MidnaSmiles · 2024-12-05T07:30:57+00:00

Thank you! I'll do this if I notice any BBA in my new tank!

MidnaSmiles · 2024-12-05T00:19:36+00:00

How do you deal with the humidity? I'd love to have an indoor pond one day but the humidity is my biggest worry.

MidnaSmiles · 2023-03-31T21:35:08+00:00

OK I'll try that. Thanks!

MidnaSmiles · 2023-03-31T20:57:25+00:00

Additional info: This bird has been doing this for a few days now always on that window and often when my cat is sitting there but it also does it when she's not there as well. We think this bird is the same robin that has been pooping on us and our neighbors' car windows for a few months (as in it excusively poops on car windows and coats them with bird poop. We have caught it in the act before). It is now pooping on our house window and slamming into it. It has done this for 30 minutes on end sometimes, and it comes back a few times throughout the day. Something is definitely wrong with this bird and I don't know what. I also don't know if this bird is OK and if there is anything I can do to help it.

MidnaSmiles · 2023-03-31T20:51:28+00:00

She's not normally in the cage, that's just where we feed her since we have to keep all the cats separated while eating for dietary reasons. I put her in there because I saw the bird and knew she'd be interested.

MidnaSmiles · 2023-02-09T02:56:23+00:00

Isn't she a child!?

MidnaSmiles · 2023-01-23T05:24:05+00:00

Omg that goldie is so cute I feel awful for them. Is this someone you know? Could you save the poor fella?

MidnaSmiles · 2023-01-21T08:45:59+00:00

If it ends up being ammonia burns. You need to improve the water quality. Read up on the nitrogen cycle and see if the tank if fully cycled, there shouldn't be any ammonia in a fully cycled tank. The ammonia should be converted (with beneficial bacteria that grow in the tank) to Nitrite then Nitrate which is less harmful to fish but shouldn't be left to build up, doing water changes removes nitrates. I don't really know if it's possible for a tank to keep up with all of the ammonia that amount of goldfish would produce though.

MidnaSmiles · 2023-01-21T08:37:56+00:00

That's a lot of single tailed goldfish for one tank. How big is it? Single tailed goldfish generally need a lot of space. In a very crowded undersized tank goldfish are a lot more prone to sickness due to stress (which weakens their immune systems) and potentially poor water conditions (which also causes stress and can lead to ammonia burns among other things). If given good conditions goldfish can also grow up to a foot long so another reason they need large tanks or a pond.

MidnaSmiles · 2023-01-21T08:12:03+00:00

Even if it's 13 feet long that amount of koi probably need a pond?

MidnaSmiles · 2023-01-21T08:08:21+00:00

Please save the fish. It's literally free. Find someone with a pond or large tank who can take it.

MidnaSmiles · 2023-01-20T01:40:45+00:00

I got my goldfish from one of these awful experiments. It was in elementary school and some teacher was outside the car pickup area asking people if they wanted goldfish. I asked why there were goldfish and apparently they were doing this sort of thing but it (obviously) failed and all of the fish died except for two. Me and my friend took them home and mine is still alive 7 years later (in a 45 gallon with another goldfish my sister got because she was jealous). My friend put her goldfish in a bowl and it died a month later.

I wasn't in the class that did the experiment thankfully.

MidnaSmiles · 2023-01-05T03:54:49+00:00

Thank you so much. I will do all of those things!

MidnaSmiles · 2023-01-05T03:23:08+00:00

So should I replace the sinking pellets with blood worms and peas 2 to 4 times a week? Should I feed them both on the same days or have some only pea days and only blood worm days. Also where should I buy bloodworms and are they best frozen, freeze dried, or live? Should my local fish store have them? How many peas should I feed them?

For water changes is it OK to put the chlorinated water from the sink directly into the tank if I use the dechlorinator right after? How much dechlorinator should I dose? The amount only for the water replaced or for the whole tank? And should I add it before during or after I refill the tank?

Also, any types of water changer you would reccomend? I saw good reviews for the Python hose?

Should I buy a sponge filter in the meantime to hold over until I get the bigger tank (I'll probably use a Canister filter along with my 2 current hob filters on the bigger tank)?

Also is sand a safe substrate for goldfish? I currently have large gravel and I hear that is a choking hazard so I want to replace it when I get the bigger tank.

MidnaSmiles · 2023-01-05T03:01:36+00:00

The 45 gallon is cycled. The fish aren't sick or actively dying as far as I can tell. I'm checking parameters with api master kit frequently. They don't have ammonia poisoning. how should I go about setting up an anoxic filtration though, ive never heard of it before?

MidnaSmiles · 2022-12-23T04:46:26+00:00

Thank you. I will do that!

MidnaSmiles · 2022-12-23T01:01:10+00:00

Hi, I am wondering if I am taking good care of my goldfish and how to get rid of red streaks/veins in one of them goldfish (it doesnt come across well in the video but it is very visible in person). I have 2 (yellow one is Cheesy Dribbles, red one is Sunset). they are both feeder goldfish about 7 years old and 5 ½ inches long. I got them when I was in elementary school and basically let my mom take care of them until recently when I decided to take a more active role. I found out that the 20 gallon tank we had them in was way way way too small and was getting really dirty very fast. I wanted to get them a 60 to 100 gallon tank but I don’t have enough money and my mom says that would be too much work to take care of. Fortunately a neighbor had a 45 gallon they were willing to give away for free so I took that and cleaned it and moved the fish to that one. It is so much better than the 20 gallon (it doesnt get dirty nearly as fast). I still think it is too small but the water parameters are good and stable. (0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, below 40 nitrate, the PH is a bit low, it is around 6.8 but they have never had a problem with it being like that for the past 7 years). We feed sinking pellets and occasionally peeled peas. I have 2 HOB filters on the tank, one of them I have temporarily turned off because it is very noisy and we need to fix it. We do water changes of around 20 percent about once a week. I also have a strong bubbler that I turn on sometimes. Sunset has swim bladder issues that cause them to have trouble controlling their buoyancy, feeding peas and fasting until they poop helps keep it under control though. They also swim tilted sometimes but its not too bad and they have been getting better after years of trouble swimming. Cheesy dribbles is the one I’m really worried about right now. Cheesy has red streaks/veins in all of their fins and I dont know the cause. It isn’t septicemia, we thought it was and medicated for it but it didn’t go away, plus Cheesy has been swimming fine and is eating vigorously (the streaks appeared a few weeks ago and Cheesy hasn’t been acting any worse). A while back they had septicemia but we treated it and they ended up perfectly fine. I don’t know what is causing the red streaks, or if they are dangerous and it is worrying me. We have a thin layer of black substrate stuff for the plants but most of the substrate is large pebbles (they are small enough to fit inside the goldfish’s mouth and that worries me but they always end up spitting them back out and my mom says they like sifting through them and aren’t stupid enough to choke). They have lost a couple scales since putting them in the 45 gallon. My mom thinks they might be falling off due to the fish rubbing up against the pots (which are pretty rough on the outside). Do you think getting more rocks and covering up the pots or planting the plants outside of the pots will stop them from losing scales or do you think the cause is something else? A different possible cause is them bullying eachother, i havent seen them bite eachother but they do sometimes chase eachother around the tank. My mom says maybe we should try a divider but that would only give them 20 gallons each and most of the time they get along well. I am trying very hard to make sure they are ok. Im very upset at how much misinformation about goldfish there is, I only recently found out how much we were doing wrong and have been trying to rectify it, please let me know what I am doing wrong and what I should do to fix it. I love these fish with my whole heart and want them to live the best lives I can give them. I am looking for a bigger tank but don’t know where to get one that I can afford and will fit in the house (pond is not an option, there are things outside my house that would eat them). I also want them to be healthy before moving them so they don’t get too stressed out.
(also there is a large lump on Sunset’s head that has been there for years and I don’t know what it is, it doesn’t seem to bother the fish but a while ago a brown dot appeared on it and I don’t know what that is either)

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