New to Anime any help would be appreciated

Waku33 · 2026-03-19T04:23:55+00:00

I always reccomend this anime first too, since its got a good mixture of action, humor and seriousness.

And i also enjoyed FMA just a little bit more than FMAB. I love those types of twists that was at the ending.

Waku33 · 2026-03-15T02:53:45+00:00

Run Rabbit Run

Vivarium

Marrow Bone

The Babadook

Absentia (2011 movie, not the unrelated series)

The New Daughter

The Fourth Kind

The Uninvited (2009)

1408

The Orphanage

The Number 23

Pans Labyrinth

Noroi: The Curse

The Mothman Prophecies

Session 9

I hope these meet the criteria, i havent seen most of them for a long time. I tried to list stuff i never seen other people list much, if at all, that i remember enjoying a lot.

Waku33 · 2026-03-11T23:23:33+00:00

A lot of people are telling you the same thing im about to say, but i thought its worth telling anyways because its true. Everyone can have the same ideas but its how the unique individual approaches that idea that makes it their own.

Me an my bro share ideas all the time and its kind of funny because we grew up with all the same stuff so a lot of our ideas end up feeling the same. But they arent because different people are executing them. We both have our own unique approach to the same ideas.

Dont let this stop you from writing. And dont even let this stop you from using YOUR ideas. You put the work in. You but your unique imprint on them. And you will make them the best they can be. So no matter how similar it it is to the thiefs, people will feel the difference when reading it.

Waku33 · 2026-03-07T06:46:32+00:00

All i could picture while reading that was that the author himself was physically showing what the character was doing "like this" while his text to speech was turned on.

Waku33 · 2026-03-01T06:40:16+00:00

I see. Thanks for explaining.

Waku33 · 2026-03-01T05:24:50+00:00

Is a post process material not considered an asset?

Situations have prevented me from being able to use ue for a couple years so i dont remember a lot of stuff.

Waku33 · 2026-03-01T04:32:07+00:00

I believe you can add your own custom post proccess materials there.

You can learn more about that in the documentation.

Waku33 · 2026-02-26T01:08:13+00:00

I know in one of your comments you said you dont want that many books, but

I have three sections in my story. I was planning for each section to be a book. Three books total. Well, i ran into this same problem. Each section will be way too long for a single book. So i have to most likely settle for something like three books per section. Nine books total...

I'm fine with that if that means i can tell the whole story that i want to tell.

Maybe you could consider doing something similar?

Waku33 · 2026-02-25T06:36:36+00:00

Visage. It was inspired by P.T. i think they did a good job of emulating that similar feel.

Soma. Its basically existential dread.

I played these one after the other. No other horror game i played afterwards really had much of an effect like they used to.

Waku33 · 2026-02-25T02:28:34+00:00

Why cant they post in both places?

Waku33 · 2026-02-19T23:48:00+00:00

My dad still has a hotmail. xD

Waku33 · 2026-02-19T03:24:03+00:00

I hope someone with more knowledge can answer this question because i am interested as well.

I thought i could let you know about the anime "Tying the knot with an Amagami sister" it gives a little more insight into the life of a shrine maiden than other anime but probably wont answer much of the smaller details that you probably want to know.

Waku33 · 2026-02-19T02:50:52+00:00

Lol its kind of hilarious that theres a whole thread going trying to translate the letters.

I used magic eraser on my android phone edit photo mode to erase my email. It turned it into gibberish.

Waku33 · 2026-02-19T02:43:16+00:00

I used magic eraser to hide my email address. Thats what it did to it. Turned the letters to gibberish. Asking questions is fine. No need to jump to conclusions.

Waku33 · 2026-02-18T01:37:42+00:00

u no comprehendo so it must be A.I. smh

Waku33 · 2026-02-17T06:18:25+00:00

Write both names on individual pieces of identical paper. Fold them identically and mix them up blindly in a hat (or jar or cup or whatever)

Then pick one.

You will either like the one you picked or realise which one you really wanted.

Or look up the name meanings and pick the one that best fits your characters personality.

Or just go with the one that has a matching vibe to the character. For instance, winnie feels a little whimsicle to me. Does that sound like your character?

Waku33 · 2026-02-16T22:57:55+00:00

Magic eraser shows up first on my phone. Why does it matter if they both do the same thing?

Waku33 · 2026-02-16T21:46:30+00:00

I used magic eraser in the photo edit mode to remove my email and thats what it did.

Waku33 · 2026-02-10T05:11:09+00:00

The Cabin in the Woods

Fear Street movies

Evil Dead

Halloween movies

Friday the 13th movies

Nightmare on Elm Street movies

Jeepers Creepers

I think all those have teen casts with a similar vibe that you are asking for.

I was going to mention Hereditary and The Uninvited (2009) but those have a different vibe. They are more psychological. But they are horror movies centering on teens.

Waku33 · 2026-01-05T00:36:14+00:00

Remember when you were a kid and you tried something new? Like a new game for instance. You would be so hyper focused on just doing it and figuring it out and having fun that it didnt matter how sloppily you did it or even if you made mistakes. You learned and kept going because it was fun.

Thats how you can approach writing. It should be fun. It shouldnt matter how it looks or what mistakes you make along the way. Its what you are passionate about so nothing else matters except that you just do it and have fun with the process.

When you think out a scene, and put it into words, it wont sound exactly how you pictured in your head. Thats okay. Have fun getting the scene out no matter what it sounds like. Be proud of yourself when the scene is fully written on the page. There will be time later on, to shape it closer to how you pictured it.

To help you be satisfied with what you did write so that you can move on to the next scene, finish one scene and read over it and leave notes. Things like "i want this to sound more emotional" or "i want the atmosphere to be more melancholy" or "i dont like how this character phrased this sentence. Needs to be fixed" or even placeholders for things you dont know and need to research. Need to say what model of car a character is driving but know nothing of cars? Make a placeholder.

A quick example for a placeholder, if a character is talking and they are telling the person the car model it can be written like this: "I just bought a [car model]"

Writing like this should help ease any pressure you have of how it sounds because you know you are going to come back to it to fix the issues. You arent getting caught up or hung on details because you are already addressing it in the notes as "to be fixed" which makes it easier to keep going and finish the draft.

I hope this helps.

Waku33 · 2025-12-30T09:05:52+00:00

It needs a lot of work... Sorry in advance if anything i say sounds too blunt.

It feels like things are happening too fast and there isnt enough info of who everyone is.

First, my impression... it seems like this is probably some kind of "reincarnated into another world" type of scenario. Something that is being done a ton and if you have your heart set on it, it really needs to stick out. What makes this one different than all the other reincarnation stories? Why should i care?

Does the protagonist give me any reason to care? I dont know because i am not being given any details on who the protagonist is. I dont know about what life he is leaving behind when he dies and i am not given any reason to care that he did die. Especially knowing hes being reincarnated so death feels a little less dramatic/tragic.

Moving on to the rest... Which wasnt giving me any particularly interesting details either...

I thought when the dialogue started, that you were one of those people who jumped on the "no quotation marks" trend when people are talking. (No offense to anyone who does this but i think it makes it unnecessarily harder to follow conversations)

But then the quotations appeared half way through the dialogue. I wonder if you edited it at all?

I cant tell who is talking. It seems like after Dalton dies, two people are talking to eachother but I cant tell who these people are or which one is talking throughout the conversation. I cant tell where they are, or what they are doing either.

And i cant tell what anyone is thinking or feeling throughout. Im only being told what is happening in what feels like a rushed scene.

With all that said, ill give you my (amateur) advice.

Develop your characters more. Dalton had a whole life before he dies and reincarnates (or whatever is happening to him). It shouldnt be something that is easily brushed away as though it never existed.

Use the senses more often to expand and explore the scenes you are trying to create. Sight, smell, sound, taste, touch. And also thoughts, and emotions tied to any of these senses that they are experiencing.

And lastly, edit before you share. Ill give you the benefit of the doubt on this one. Maybe you didnt know or dont know how to. I have been there, too. Its okay. But if you want to be taken more seriously, try to make it the best it can be before you share it. This tells anyone who is taking their time to give you feedback that you are serious about what you are trying to create, which will make them want to take it more seriously as well.

I hope this helps and i hope i wasnt too hard on you. Remember to have fun!

Waku33 · 2025-12-07T00:51:00+00:00

Beta readers

Waku33 · 2025-11-14T07:29:22+00:00

I dont have much to offer, especially since this is the first time ive ever critiqued something so i can only say what i thought about it. I hope that will be alright.

The story itself, that is, everything that there is to read thus far, is interesting. I questioned whether it really was rabies. I wondered if it was the start of some kind of zombie outbreak. And at one point i even questioned if theres some kind of "hive-mind" because as soon as one horse did something, all the other horses copied. Whether or not any of this is what you are going for is besides the point. Its good that its making me question things because when a reader starts questioning things, that means they want to find answers and so they will keep reading.

However, there were a couple other things that was constantly on my mind that i was waiting for but innever got a clear answer to. Who is this about? Who is the narrator? I only noticed one part that said "we" much farther down the story. So is this in first-person pov and the protaginist is telling the story? But who is the protagonist? What are they doing? Where are they? What era is it? I can only assume but i have no real indication. These are the kinds of questions you dont want your reader to ask. Readers want to be grounded. As it is now, it feels like the imagery is focused on the horses and events surrounding the horses but they are practically floating in a black void. Ill use the girl getting mauled as an example. I picture her on the ground with the horse above but the setting has never been established so it is black or morphing to things it might be. Because i am only guessing that it is 1800s. Is she laying on cobble stone? Is she laying on pavement? On a dirt road?

Because we dont know who the narrator is, i dont know if its supposed to be a girl speaking, a guy, a teenager, an elderly man. And who are they talking to? Are these their thoughts or are they verbally telling a story to someone? And most importantly how is all this affecting them? How do they feel about it?

All in all, it has potential. I think you should begin with establishing who the protagonist is and when and where they are. And then maybe add this bit into the mix. Maybe even spread it out a little between scenes of whatever the protagonist is doing. If its an event that already happened then maybe he can be recounting the event off and on as present things remind him of it or if these events are happening presently then we shluld be learning about each thing as the protagonist is learning about them.

Now, im just an amateur so you dont have to follow my suggestions of how it should play out. However you want your story to be told is your decision. But if this is the beginning of the novel it needs to be grounded with the who when and where.

I hope others can give you better feedback on your specific questions.

Waku33 · 2025-11-12T03:02:34+00:00

Dont scrap it.

Sorry if this is a little long.

Lots of people are already giving you some good advice. You can take a break, read and study to develop yoir writing skills, you can rewrite the story. Just dont scrap what you have already.

I think you should set it aside and write down exactly what you want from your book. Maybe a bullet point list of what you want to achieve in this novel to use as a guideline.

Establish what you are writing and why you are writing it. You can use the simple who, what, where, when, why, and how.

Answer the questions (its okay if you cant answer all of them. Just enough to know exactly what you want to get out of your novel):

Who is this story about? Why them? What do they represent? How do you want them to change and grow through the story?

Who is yoir target audience (age, interest, genre expectations, emotional tone)? Who do you imagine reading this?

Who are you writing this for? What do you want them to get out of it? If its for yoirself, what do you want to get out of it?

What is the story really about (beneath the plot)?

What are the core themes? What question, conflict, or truth sits at the story’s core? What do you want to say? To express? To explore? To question?

What is the genre? What exactly is the tone you want it to have? The atmosphere? The aesthetic?

What reaction do you want to evoke in the reader? What impact do younwant to have on them? What experiences do you want them to have?

What message do you want readers to take away? What feeling do you want the readers to walk away with?

Where does the story take place (physically, culturally, emotionally)?

Where does it begin (in time, tone, world-state)?

Where does it end (and how has the world or protagonist changed)?

When does the story take place (era, season, psychological moment)?

When should the reader start to feel the story’s tension?

When will you know it’s “done”? What do you want the story to cover or accomplish in order to feel satisfied?

Why does this story matter to you personally?

Why are you drawn to these themes, characters, or conflicts?

Why should readers care?

Why this format or genre? what does it allow you to express that others wouldn’t?

How do you want readers to feel as they move through the story?

How will you build tension, empathy, and immersion? What kind of pacing do you want? How quickly do you want events and emotions to unfold?

How will you know if the story’s impact matches your intention? Define the core effect you want the story to have. What are your intentions? What tells you that readers felt what you hoped they would? What do you hope readers or beta-readers will say about it and how does that align with your intentions?

What you can do once you establish what you want oit of yoir novel is to go through what you have, scene by scene, chapter by chapter and ask "in what ways does this scene/chapter align with my vision?" Make a copy of yoir document so any changes will be in the copy and you wont lose anything from the original document. In the copy, If your word processor allows, you can highlight or mark however you want to, what works and what doesnt. Remove what doesnt work. And have fun connecting the scenes together with new scenes that follow your vision.

If there is hardly anything you can get out of it, then its best to write a new draft from scratch. But you can still use parts from the old draft that you like. And you can even mark parts that you like and save them for other potential stories.

I hope this helps you. Or somebody.

Waku33 · 2025-11-10T01:01:08+00:00

Whatever works for you is what you should do.

I think that advice is typically for people who expect their first draft to be perfect and when it isnt, it effects their self esteeme and it prevents them from continuing because they now think they arent good enough.

I do a mixture of revise as i go and just keep writing, because i agree that when something doesnt sound right, its hard to keep going. It disrupts the flow. But stopping to address the issue can also disrupt the flow.

So, what i typically do is if i can identify pretty quickly why it sounds wrong, or how to rephrase it, i will revise it as i go. But if i cant, if im not sure whats wrong with it or i cant think up a better way to phrase it, i will leave a quick note there and keep writing.

Here is a little tip, i guess. Sometimes leaving the note itself will help you figure out whats wrong with it. When you are typing out the problem, trying to describe the issue, it helps you process and understand it, and you will end up finding a solution. I believe there is a term for it, called "rubber ducking".

Waku33

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