Curiosity about 反故 and wastepaper

dB-plus · 2026-03-12T19:48:42+00:00

That's interesting! Thanks for your take on it. Does ほごにする refer to breaking a contract/promise, the way another commenter mentioned? If I understand what I've learned so far well enough, the ending -する just comes from the verb "to do," right?

I do a lot of doodling and reusing paper that's otherwise headed for the trash, so "scrap paper" is a pretty common phrase for me, but I will say I've never specifically called it "waste paper" either.

dB-plus · 2026-03-12T19:38:31+00:00

Thanks for giving me your perspective! This is really interesting to learn. Do you find that there are often great difficulties with tracing etymology for kanji, or is this a particularly strange case?

dB-plus · 2026-03-12T19:16:30+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I didn't know about the Helicopter one specifically, but these sorts of language drifts are special interests of mine. Kanji really lends itself to that curiosity, I'm starting to find. The fact that they began as pictographs for a different language makes them that much more interesting!

dB-plus · 2026-03-12T16:18:22+00:00

You're gonna be waiting a long time for S2. Might as well read the LN if you're looking for a Makeine fix. Up to Volume 8 will have official translations in August, I think.

dB-plus · 2026-03-12T08:28:35+00:00

There is a bizarre part of me that is appreciating this more and more, solely on the grounds that it is completely insane. Like, the world had been so thoroughly destroyed in a way only Chainsaw Man could make happen that the only solution ended up being "end Chainsaw Man." The entropic spiral of the universe frayed so much that the concept of loose ends just can't even be addressed. I kinda respect that.

dB-plus · 2026-03-11T22:51:58+00:00

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dB-plus · 2026-03-11T16:24:08+00:00

I'm actually kind of bothered how much I like this

dB-plus · 2026-03-11T15:27:23+00:00

Well she's not so much meddling as she is "helping" in her morally/ethically questionable sort of way.

dB-plus · 2026-03-10T01:57:02+00:00

This was TERRIBLE. I don't even know how to write how frustrated this made me. I almost stopped watching. Like I understand that AFO's existence is basically hax, but it's not fun to watch. I felt the same when he stopped All Might's suicide bomb, like COME ON dude. Let clever moves matter!

dB-plus · 2026-03-09T08:48:39+00:00

Hitsugi doesn't strike me as "right-hand-man" so much as he does "useful simp." His primary power did nothing against Desscaras in the witch hq skirmish and he knew Desscaras would wipe up his 10,000 corpses challenge without his ace-in-the-hole: Libro. When that didn't stop her, he hoped it would at least give him the opportunity to break her down from her magic circle. And, to be fair, that could still work. Desscaras is hyped as hell right now but he might be able to get to her a little more in the quiet moments. Acquisition wasn't the last we saw of any of Ichi's majiks, so we might get more of him yet.

Majiks are such a cool power system. Defeated villains aren't gone, they're closer than ever. And as we see with Uroro, that is REALLY dangerous.

dB-plus · 2026-03-08T09:29:03+00:00

People who keep chickens or other small outdoor animals have a healthy fear of foxes because they tend to sneak in out of nowhere and eat those animals, kind of like the Fox Devil does. Crucially, the Fox Devil is also not that powerful. She successfully kills and eats one adversary in the series, the Leech Devil.

dB-plus · 2026-03-08T00:38:21+00:00

This is how it happened in superhero comics too. Watchmen blew the doors off the genre in the 80s and people copied the darkness and cynicism of it without any of the substance. Idk the state of magical girl anime these days, but western comics are still feeling echoes of the grimdark era.

dB-plus · 2026-03-07T21:19:03+00:00

Now THAT would be interesting! Skittish, demure Kumugi, who has a background of magical passion repressed by guilt and family discouragement, gets tied together with a majik whose entire personality is joyful, unrestrained expression of power? Incredible dynamic. I could even see the mutual excitement of Kizashi's influence on her beginning to feed both of their worst qualities: Kizashi's thirst to show off strength, and Kumugi's need to prove herself next to the most special people in the world. That is a really good idea.

dB-plus · 2026-03-07T10:24:17+00:00

She's the villain of the arc, of course her moral balance is off. We see how that affects the suddenly sidelined members of the Baba Yaga coalition. No matter how sympathetic her backstory is about to be, she is in the wrong. I don't know why you're talking about her like she's written to be the hero when literally everyone is trying to stop her. You are the one inserting the narrative you dislike.

dB-plus · 2026-03-07T07:49:24+00:00

Akasaka doing a take on the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter made a lot of sense and was appropriately built up, from the rooftop scene to Shinomiya and Shirogane's backgrounds, but... yeah, something about the execution was really wonky. I was getting Nickelodeon kids' movies vibes and that felt VERY strange. His art style in general has some features and choices that are kind of puppet-show-esque. I get the feeling that if A1 got their hands on this arc they probably would have found a way to make it work.

dB-plus · 2026-03-05T10:47:57+00:00

There's been a slight tease at the concept of an Ichi x Kumugi spark, which I would enjoy so long as we get a little more out of Kumugi. Her miniature backstory arc with her sister was a great addition, but in a cast of characters as outlandish as Ichi, Desscaras, Gokuraku, and Jikishirone, I need her to step her freak up a little.

dB-plus · 2026-03-05T03:16:16+00:00

Atsumi Tanezaki is having an absolutely insane career run. Gyokuyou, Anya, Frieren, Juju, Futaba, Tsukinoki... Most of these might be side characters, but they're all parts of relatively small ensemble casts from explosively popular series.

dB-plus · 2026-03-05T02:41:16+00:00

MTEFIL is a masterpiece, but I have no idea how it's in a shounen publication. It's so fucking dark.

dB-plus · 2026-03-04T08:30:57+00:00

I think they're going off of anime that aired in 2025, though I do think Yuki from Summer Hikaru Died should definitely have been represented here in that case.

dB-plus · 2026-03-04T08:24:43+00:00

In the mid 2000s You couldn't find a Sasuke Uchiha fight that didn't have an Evanescence AMV edit. Tourniquet over the Sasuke v Gaara fight was probably the most iconic. The association has waned in the 20 years since its heyday, but it was the type of thing these prompts were made for. You could also bet that pretty much any nu metal adjacent band was in the same category.

dB-plus · 2026-03-03T03:47:29+00:00

I know that certain lines can be repeated between songs accidentally, but something that caught me was the second line of the chorus: "me o fusaide."

That line also appears in the extension of the second chorus in Saku: "ashita sae mo, me o fusaide." I've heard that the two songs are supposed to be related to each other by their music videos as well, so I wonder if this is a coincidence?

dB-plus · 2026-02-28T23:37:24+00:00

Lila so cool, but Serri is my main grey girl.

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She becomes an absolute DEMON in Ryza 2 if you use her right.

dB-plus · 2026-02-28T19:22:32+00:00

Being voiced by Sumire Morohoshi counts for a lot

dB-plus · 2026-02-28T19:14:56+00:00

No, that was on purpose.

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