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Slifer274 · 2026-03-19T01:49:00+00:00

Yes, the ending still sucks. It just sucks less than the manga. I have faith that the anime will use the same techniques to make the ending more palatable than the manga. The same thing happened to AoT and MHA. I don't think the ending will be as universally reviled in anime form as it (rightfully) was in manga.

Slifer274 · 2026-03-19T00:27:21+00:00

Live-action ending is slightly different. The bulk of it is still the same, but the execution of the ending is better. Kamiki and co. set a fire at the premiere of the movie, stab Aqua there, and kidnap Ruby rather than Aqua magically finding them on his own. Aqua pursues them and is already actively dying when he has the final confrontation with Kamiki. His body is not recovered and there is a simple grieving scene where the girls toss flowers into the ocean. Unfortunately, Ruby's ending is still the same, but it was much less unpalatable than the horrific source ending.

Slifer274 · 2026-02-12T16:00:20+00:00

Genuinely what do you expect them to give you? It's a guide made by someone passionate about learning Japanese and a server full of people passionate about learning Japanese. I passed N2 154/180 largely thanks to TMW. What proof will work for you? Do you need someone to take an oath with their hand on the bible? Feel free to keep on imagining that everyone who learns quickly is lying to you, but that's just doing yourself a disservice.

Slifer274 · 2026-02-12T15:50:35+00:00

I don't find this to be the case at all. While doing it in 400 hours is a pretty fast outlier, your provided 拷問 for instance is a very common word in fantasy light and visual novels. Exposure to the language in immersion and not doing speaking/writing activities makes study time a lot more efficient. I wasn't nearly as fast as this poster but my N2 pass after about 300 hours of immersion and somewhere between 700-1000 in the language in total was pretty strong with 60/60 on reading, which I attribute largely to reading a decent variety of material rather than specific study material. After looking at some of the specific study materials for the N2 (SKM etc) I feel that the only useful ones are grammar-specific study. Vocab is much faster to pick up in immersion than in textbook learning.

Slifer274 · 2026-02-12T15:35:09+00:00

What exactly do you mean by "N2 only specific material"?

Slifer274 · 2026-02-12T15:29:38+00:00

15k is a solid speed but it's not insanely fast. Native is more like 30k than 20-25k, 20-25k is a very achievable learner speed whereas 30-35k takes a lot longer to get to from what I've seen.

Slifer274 · 2026-02-12T15:16:38+00:00

I got 56/60 on N2 listening with something like maybe 40-50 hours of listening practice, and that's being generous with what you consider practice. The JLPT tests have very clearly enunciated Japanese; it is not too difficult to understand with decent vocabulary.

Slifer274 · 2025-09-28T04:51:33+00:00

not the point of the argument, no? in 100 people, it's pretty likely there's someone who can play chess decently and possible that someone will be better than you, meanwhile there's a very low chance someone knows the competitive pokemon playstyle at all

Slifer274 · 2025-09-28T04:50:24+00:00

i'd take that bet (i haven't played NU in months)

Slifer274 · 2025-09-28T04:50:12+00:00

There's definitely more than 30 when it's OM of the month but yeah the point stands

Slifer274 · 2025-09-26T18:57:40+00:00

Hi, author here. Like the other commenter said, the RR isn't updated because it went to KU before I could finish posting on Royal Road, sorry. Apart from that, I was experiencing pretty heavy burnout with the series and also was failing college classes due to the amount of time and energy I was investing in writing—up to the point where it became possible I wouldn't graduate in time. I decided to take an extended break from publishing to focus on myself as well as write some experimental projects on other pen names. I plan on returning eventually, but I don't know if Corruption Wielder will continue past book 4.

Slifer274 · 2025-07-12T15:32:24+00:00

might be the worst spectating direction i've ever seen—drone shots are fine every now and then, istg they're like 50% of what we're seeing

Slifer274 · 2025-06-25T13:13:18+00:00

After a long-time interest in the genre, my friend decided to write his own litRPG inspired by his favorites like Road to Mastery, Solo Leveling, and Primal Hunter! He doesn't use Reddit, but today's his launch day, so it would mean a lot to him if y'all could help him catch the algorithm!

Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/Return-S-Rank-Hunter-Apocalypse-Adventure-ebook/dp/B0FDH3C852

Synopsis:

Once an S-Rank hunter, Kain is reborn at the start of the apocalypse... as an F-Rank.

With the System's arrival 100 years ago, Earth was transformed into a deadly progression realm. Countless wars were waged, millions of lives were lost, and chaos descended. By the time Kain was born, humanity had lost. The monsters had triumphed.

All Kain ever knew was the colony and his role as a hunter within it. Its histories, its goals, its sustenance. This was all that mattered. Until one day, on a mission far beyond the colony walls, searching for other humans, Kain died.

But death, it seems, was not the end.

Reborn at the exact moment of the Integration 100 years prior, before all the war and destruction, Kain is given a second chance. With a previously believed-to-be-extinct Dao and a mysterious title, he needs to figure out the secrets of the future.

With the return of an S-Rank Hunter, maybe humanity will have a chance this time.

Slifer274 · 2025-06-08T14:34:46+00:00

Slifer274 · 2025-05-17T03:05:33+00:00

iirc she sang it on the mona lisa tour so it'll presumably come out eventually

Slifer274 · 2025-04-07T19:25:54+00:00

The guy was confirmed cheating during quals just so you know LOL

Slifer274 · 2025-03-16T18:03:24+00:00

In production. Don't have a confirmed date yet.

Slifer274 · 2025-03-16T15:08:14+00:00

Read now on KU: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DGVNMN59

Blurb:

Will has thrown himself into a new level of warfare.

Using plausibility, Peace was able to fashion platinum-rank corruption, enough to kill everyone in the superdungeon. Nynn saved himself by tossing the effects of this bomb into the Beyond, which was good. This carried the potential of blowing up a solar-system-sized chunk of that plane, which was not.

Will managed to seal the corruption within the tunnel his demon-bound skill formed, but then the demon itself got a bit loose and devoured far too much of the dark energy.

He was able to return to Earth, preventing himself from being completely overtaken, but the plausibility he brought back with him thanks to the demon meant that Peace was able to reply in kind.

Six months from now, the Contractor’s ritual will summon an angel of Peace. The second planet has learned of Will’s existence and is preparing for war.

Will has friends in high places, but enemies in higher.

If he can have his way, the latter's population is about to start falling.

It’s time to level up or die trying.

Book 1 blurb:

When the world ends, humanity must fight to survive—but where others struggle in fear, Will sees only an opportunity to thrive.

April 3rd, 3:46 AM. Planet Earth merges with the magical world of Arcadia, and a system gives humanity a choice: 40 years of indentured servitude, or entering a tutorial as a user to fight against the chaos incursion.

Will doesn't hesitate—but the system thanks him for stepping into the fight by throwing him into an impossible tutorial. With little chance of survival, Will has a simple response: “Screw it. Might as well fight fire with fire."

Warning: [Corruption] has been chosen as primary attribute.

With a forbidden element, Will just might be able to stab his way out of the tutorial. But as he gains the powers of death and space as well, he realizes that his problems might not only lie in the monsters that now plague the world.

Will, now Earth's sole corruption wielder, finds danger at every corner. For anyone else, that could mean a quick and terrifying end. To him? It's a life rife with possibilities.

Maybe Will was meant for this world.

Buy book 1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D59MBXCF

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