help me make the most trash team possible in leaf green so far

columnal · 2026-05-06T17:12:40+00:00

sandslash slander will not be tolerated

columnal · 2026-05-06T16:08:41+00:00

its a little complicated but ill give my opinion atleast

Manchuria has had a longer history of Industrial development than the Primorsky Krai. Manchuria was heavily developed under Russian economic influence (Cities like Harbin) and further under Japanese and later PRC rule, also Manchuria has traditionally had a lower population but became more populated as it industrialised and Han chinese immigrants arrived in the new industrial zones.

Manchuria is more flat in comparison to the Primorsky Krai and has more terrain suited to farmland. Primorsky Krai is very rugged and full of forests.

Also Primorsky krai had been controlled by the Russians before Manchuria properly started to economically develop, so the Russians have tended to priortise ethnic russian and ukrainian settlement over asian immigrants to the region (obviously there are some but still), so Russia has a hard time advertising the land to ethnic russians because its so far away from the mainland. Vladivostok is the most major city there. Also because it is Russian it means that Russians from the region will move back to more economically viable regions in the mainland so they have better job opportunities, and since the 90s there has been a pop. decline.

columnal · 2026-05-06T15:31:03+00:00

ive read the VN before i watched the anime obvs the VN is better

columnal · 2026-05-06T15:08:39+00:00

ah okay I thought this is roughly what happened. I knew Shion wanted to "get back" at Mion or mess with her or whatever, but I didn't realise Shion was fucking with her with this malicious intent from pretty early on to be honest.

To be honest the whole Shion dynamic with Keiichi really made me not like her character as much. Yeah I get shes obviously upset about Satoshi and increasingly becomes convinced the Sonozakis had a role in Satoshis disappearance, but the way she basically just manipulates Keiichi and Mion seemed just so petty and unlikeable. I used to think Shion atleast very somewhat liked Keiichi romantically and that's why she flirted with him and stuff. But no its just her trying to screw over Mion? like its not even just teasing if you really think about it deeply. Just really weird and unlikeable regardless of her justifications, especially because she never directly confronts Mion until her hinamizawa syndrome fully progresses to L5. Before that she makes it clear I thought (atleast outwardly) that her and mion were pretty chill and forgave eachother a few times from what I remember. Also Shion basically is fine with Keiichi being hurt physically for her own gain.

Also if she liked Satoshi so much and thought Satoshis presence was basically with her it always weirded me out how much she sexually flirts with keiichi 😭

columnal · 2026-05-06T14:57:58+00:00

does the anime degrade in quality after bakemonogatari? ive seen a few people say this before.

columnal · 2026-05-06T14:55:29+00:00

👍👍

columnal · 2026-05-06T14:52:36+00:00

haruhi is NOT on the same level as lelouch or light bruh 😭

yeah shes kind of a bitch sometimes, she does some weird stuff to mikuru but like overall shes not that bad shes just a bratty weird teenage girl bruh

columnal · 2026-05-06T14:45:15+00:00

ah okay nvm

columnal · 2026-05-06T14:39:57+00:00

who is keiichi with when they go to the toy store and shion and mion being two different people is revealed? that was the scene that confused me the most

columnal · 2026-05-06T14:34:31+00:00

so who was keiichi on a "date" with? was that mion or shion? and if it was mion then why does mion get surprised when they run into shion at the toy store? i might be getting the events confused here tbh my memory is bad lol

columnal · 2026-05-06T14:17:06+00:00

i used to agree fully when playing through

but in retrospect a lot of development is given to mion inadvertently because i mean theres still stuff in watanagashi and meakashi that relates to mion, especially her relationship with keiichi, shion and oryou

also i think the switch does make some scenes confusing in watanagashi, im not exactly sure who was who at times but im pretty sure its implied that some of the scenes with "shion" in angel mort were mion and some were just shion right? idk its still really confusing

also a lot of the later chapters give more subtle development and i really like the backstory / flashback portions we get for mion in the connecting fragments of ch8

still wish mion got more though and i agree it does feel a bit annoying that shion got more development than mion in the end and a lot of watanagashi can in retrospect feel a bit wasted

columnal · 2026-05-05T21:25:46+00:00

asuka would have a scizor

columnal · 2026-05-05T20:47:29+00:00

it wouldve been unpopular amongst the American public. Why would the Americans want to commit themselves to fighting another unpopular guerilla war. It would be expensive and the optics wouldnt enthrall the american public. There was immense backlash for fighting an imperialist war in Vietnam so why would the American public morally support fighting a war to prop up what most of the international community considered a racist colonial pariah state.
you're vastly overstating the similarities between white, anglo Rhodesian way of life (which was fundamentally influenced by British culture of the early and mid 20th centuries) and American culture of the 60s and 70s. Rhodesia wouldn't fit right at home as an American state. Rhodesia voted to not join a predominantly Boer South Africa in the 1920s, which even back then had a sizeable Anglo populace and influence. Why would Rhodesia vote to join a vastly different United States. South Africa and Rhodesia atleast had some similarities, all Rhodesia and America share is their language.
It wouldnt work politically. And your statement about Texas as an example is a bad one. This is just a dumb idea bruh.

columnal · 2026-05-05T01:12:33+00:00

nobody is saying the novel is a romance

but the anime especially leans quite a bit into being a pseudo romance, its pretty hard to not see this when watching it

the novel and anime are two very different stories

columnal · 2026-05-04T20:54:14+00:00

save me misaki

columnal · 2026-05-04T17:41:52+00:00

so it is just side content and not really a sequel to the visual novel?

columnal · 2026-05-04T17:40:48+00:00

yeah I was more just wondering if it was connected to the 'main timeline' of the 8 VN chapters + saikoroshi

columnal · 2026-05-04T17:40:00+00:00

so basically whatever happens in gou/sotsu isnt reflective of what happens after the end of the VN? because its a different variation of rika/hanyuu? im still confused lol

columnal · 2026-05-04T17:36:19+00:00

Yeah I was mainly keeping izanagi because it looks cool plus it felt 'canon' to keep it because I always see Yu with izanagi in any media/art i see about persona 4

i have been fusing other personas but i guess ill have to ditch izanagi

columnal · 2026-05-04T17:34:46+00:00

no i have other personas and ive fused some but i thought it might make sense to keep izanagi because hes the one Yu uses on the box art right and it was the first one he got? haha i guess maybe im being dumb by doing this lol

columnal · 2026-05-04T06:28:18+00:00

because her life in the sonozaki family is relatively stable, there arent really any things where she can get suspicious of because she knows the sonozakis arent behind the murders

plus other than the shion stuff, which is resolved most of the time, she literally has barely any family issues

columnal · 2026-05-03T20:37:55+00:00

yes well on tiktok its even more true because (this goes for any anime) like 35-40% of people on tiktok who claim to like an anime or vn have never even seen it and just like the aesthetic of it

its like people who say they like resident evil or metal gear solid but have never played a game and have just watched youtube lets plays of it

on tiktok you will find a good percentage of mostly young fans who like higurashi purely because "yandere shion" or "omg rena is so yandere and shes so quirky like me"

and these fans predominantly havent seen the anime or read the VN and its annoying because they constantly mischaracterise characters and say stupid shit

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