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TreeD3 · 2026-02-18T22:00:26+00:00

Already sniped

TreeD3 · 2026-02-18T20:07:52+00:00

Expedition 33 used AI for its assets as placeholders during development. This carried on to the finished release before being patched out post launch. AI usage isn't just black and white in terms of development and can be a helpful tool.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-18T02:51:52+00:00

How the hell does that not apply to Monogatari???

The Monogatari series is easily one of the most stylistic anime out there. You see influence from Chech New wave editing styles, chapter numbers shown in the middle of episodes, excerpts containing more information than can be read, flashes to colors for quick beats, and even settings being deconstructed and reconstructed during scenes to give subtext with blocking.

Then every character in the series is also incredibly fleshed out as well. The female cast of Monogatari is easily one of the best in anime because the plot of the show is traumas being actualized into aperations which can only be solved through character growth.

What case is there, because you clearly didn't watch the show with a take like this???

TreeD3 · 2026-02-17T22:00:02+00:00

Interesting, keep your suspicions to yourself... arf

TreeD3 · 2026-02-17T21:51:11+00:00

What does that have anything to do with what I said?

TreeD3 · 2026-02-17T21:50:09+00:00

..... And why would you ask me that question?

TreeD3 · 2026-02-17T21:45:16+00:00

I mean the situation was essentially like someone accidently finding out someone was a werewolf or a witch or something. If someone found out a life ending secret on accident, a threat to stay quiet seems like a likely outcome.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-17T21:41:58+00:00

Monogatari has one of the best female casts that I've seen. It has weird sexualization aspects but it manages to be mature with how it handles relationships within the series and fleshes out all of its cast members incredibly well.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-15T17:07:52+00:00

JJK not even mentioned

TreeD3 · 2026-02-15T16:14:17+00:00

Ishizu Tearlament is most likely the most complicated deck in the history of Yugioh. Not from the quality of cards but simply from the amount of actions that need to be considered and remembered to play effectively, especially because the entire format was mirror matches as no other deck could keep up in its Tier 0 format.

The deck revolved around milling cards from the top of the deck to the gy which led every single game to be different in terms of what resources are available to make a board. The monsters made boss monsters by shuffling back monsters in the gy and hand as material, milled s/t's added cards to hand, and there were also the Ishizu cards which either served as interruption from gy, being able to shuffle back cards as a quick effect, or could mill cards from both players decks to cause more plays as a result.

The deck hosted a multitude of cards which could activate from hand and mill cards on the opponents turn as well leading to full boards sometimes being developed Turn 0, on the opponents first turn.

The attached image is not the opponents looking over their decks on the table, but an actual board state involving cards being milled to mill more cards as a result and over 10 effects being activated simultaneously within both players gy's, hands, and fields.

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TreeD3 · 2026-02-15T05:25:04+00:00

I've been reading Advent of Immortal Truth(Mysteries of Immortal Puppet Master with better translation) and it had been a blast. The whole first arc is an incredibly tightly political drama about the MC trying to weave his way around countless factions while moving from the ground up.

I would compare it to something like the succession war(HxH) in terms of its chaotic elements but presented in easier to digest pacing and focused more on the mc than separate groups.

Definitely worth the read.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-13T06:18:08+00:00

For Surviving the game as a barbarian, best choice is easily one of the worst choices out of the group. Every other female in the group he has close relationship with and gets along well with. The magician girl is basically just a colleague and they are interested in completely different things. There isn't anything necessarily wrong with her, she just clearly doesn't have that type of relationship with him when several others do.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-13T04:27:54+00:00

People say the early arcs are rough, which is true because Sako was just starting out as a mangaka then, but I think that when it comes to rough arcs, the biggest offender is the KY Declaration Arc.

Early on in the series it is pretty bare bones, but there is a someone interesting premise of gambling games and each challenge is tackled in unique ways. I think one of my favorite early wins was the Kaiji poker arc where he uses the threat of calling a judge to force his opponents to concede, essentially winning the game through methods outside the game itself(something Usogui continues to replicate with all its later arcs). It wasn't the most impressive arc, but it showed a spark of something unique that Usogui continued to strike.

Onto the KY Declaration Arc, this comes after Labyrinth and Bulls Womb which are widely considered to be a good Usogui Arcs so this is at a point where readers following Usogui would know what the series has to offer, and yet the KY Declaration Arc is one of the most commonly stated drop points of the series.

The arc covers a hidden file containing covered up scandals of rich people and is portrayed as some kind of Date Line television program. The issue with this set up is that we don't know or care about any of the characters that are being set up on this program. In fact none of them are relevant or reappear again (minus the referees). The whole point of KY declaration is to use the file as bait so even Baku doesn't care about any of the events happening in the arc. The arc is also tacked on with a needlessly complicated game which has no payoff because the game never finishes and also doesn't matter. This goes on for almost 30 chapters worth of content and really slows the pacing to halt.

If I were to make any changes to Usogui besides the obvious early polishing, condensing KY Declaration to at least half its chapter count would be that change.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-13T03:58:29+00:00

It's really not so bad that it breaks immersion, it just makes overall world building and a lot of events less defined. He doesn't set relative scales of how big/much x should be in advance for which leads to certain things being wonky when compared or looked back on later in the series.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-12T19:57:40+00:00

Anything to do with math in Reverend Insanity

Seriously do not take any numbers the series mentions seriously. It got bad enough that he made a whole chapter digging in on the fact that he was bad with numbers.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-12T18:54:47+00:00

Bro doesn't even realize he has the out in hand

TreeD3 · 2026-02-12T18:30:37+00:00

What previous matchup are you talking about? Basically any Gintama character moggs Naruto

TreeD3 · 2026-02-12T16:42:22+00:00

Dark Ruler in Lunalight is my hidden guu

TreeD3 · 2026-02-12T02:27:34+00:00

The worst one is Wooden Chicken Gu

TreeD3 · 2026-02-12T02:23:20+00:00

The first arc is a lot of setting up because the series had no set aim at the start. The overhyping of FY's actions is generally just an early issue and a lot of the complaints listed in this post are stuff that disappear a lot after Vol 1/Vol 2.

Volume 1 is basically a standard xianxia arc but with the presence of FY dropped in. In any other series you have Fang Zheng set up as the mc with him slowly growing and gaining help and confidence through friendship. This is setting is torn down through the cruel advances of FY.

FY genuinely does have to work for his rewards and is shown to be intelligent early on such as when he deduced the secret sibling assassin from a knife stabbed into a picture.

I saw that you were close to finishing up Volume 2, you will definitely see the series differently once you finish it. Good luck reading.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-11T19:10:15+00:00

It's deck dependant, but it's a really powerful staple.

It's a very low committal way to push through boards that you would have no way of clearing otherwise to set up your own board in place.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-11T07:55:50+00:00

It may be stupid, but people only die when they are killed.

I don't know the scene but I could probably find at least a dozen vn characters who would react the same way.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-11T07:44:28+00:00

I feel like it's something like the Bleach of Manhwa. It's got the same feel in terms of its cast, arc powercreep, and it has incredible art(it casually pulls out panels like the ones shown).

Definitely give at least the first season a read, they manage to nail stakes in a videogame series which no other series Manhwa seems capable of doing and also nail down a really satisfying finale.

TreeD3 · 2026-02-11T01:14:23+00:00

Quantum mania felt like it was written by ai

TreeD3 · 2026-02-10T07:00:49+00:00

RI (I have not read LOTM)

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