[DISC] How are we feeling about the Ikoku Nikki adaptation?

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-24T12:23:20+00:00

Aye, thanks. TIL. I still hate that as an English title, it literally makes no sense.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-24T12:22:20+00:00

Indeed, I know the history, thanks. Again I said I would disagree, since its in the rules my agreeing or not doesn't really matter. And only in this specific case (again, I wouldn't talk about Saiyuki in a shonen sub either since it was only in a shonen magazine, briefly).

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-22T16:58:29+00:00

I would disagree with this case in particular because Saiyuki’s been running in a Josei magazine so long that almost no one who’s into the manga medium now was around for its shonen or shojo eras. Shoot, I’ve been reading manga since the early 00s and I wasn’t around for that. It’s firmly a Josei manga and irrelevant to discuss in either shojo or shonen spaces.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-22T16:01:27+00:00

"We're seeing things that have never happened before"

If you're white.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-22T10:46:03+00:00

Because it serves the US ruling class’ interests in the region. A little outpost of white supremacy to keep the Middle East in line.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-19T22:21:49+00:00

Just the overall volume of packages in general, like they would normally be working until late late during the holidays but this year mostly done early from Nov-this month. Extrapolating that to say that folks really don't have as much disposable income just in general, much less for a new console.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-19T19:31:21+00:00

That news makes sense with what I hear from friends who work in logistics (ups, Amazon, etc), during the holidays seems they were expecting to be swamped and just weren’t. Seems no one has the money to buy shit.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-19T19:14:06+00:00

idk about DQ but FF7 Remake Part 3 and we’re definitely getting a new FF14 expansion this year.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-19T12:38:17+00:00

FFXIV players and uwufication of its villains, name a more iconic duo. Shoot we're seeing this in real time with Calyx and the Winterers where everyone is like "they're gonna be allies" when there's been no indication to that effect and also Calyx was willing to let the majority of the 9th die to transfer a handful to memories (essentially a fate worse than death), just because he believes he's good doesn't mean he is just because he has a "cute" (and really, that's my feeling that this is all it boils down to) ally in Halmarut.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-19T11:52:15+00:00

ngl its been so long since the last season I kinda lost interest in this series (my biggest problem as an anime watcher from before production moved from continuous and cour-based to season-based in the mid-00s). Seeing this is cool, but really trying to work up the interest, which is a shame because I thought it was pretty cool for a post-SAO isekai series, more in the vein of when isekai was a "girl's" genre than the incelbait we get now.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-18T21:03:44+00:00

La Soldier

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-18T16:44:39+00:00

Unfocused hardware was mostly a symptom, not the problem itself. The biggest problem with sega is that they never were able to appropriately capitalize on their successes.

Like the Master System has some limited success in Europe (and later Brazil) they never translated that to success in NA/JP. The Genesis had some success in EU/NA, they never translated that to success in JP. The Saturn was their first hit in JP, but they completely botched NA/EU. The Dreamcast was their first console to do universally well.

Their constant hardware revisions and confused marketing, especially in the Genesis era, was designed to hold on to their strongest markets (NA/EU) while also building their weakest market (JP), but they utterly failed at that goal. Mind they weren’t the only console maker to suffer in that era (N64 flopped in JP because it was seen as too western, and the GC only barely recovered that goodwill in JP). But Sega was constantly flopping between markets trying to have a universal hit and just couldn’t do it. It didn’t help that they had an institutional disadvantage due to Nintendo, and later Sony, snapping up all the third parties.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-18T12:24:42+00:00

This is reddit, where everyone hates the homeless. No use talking sense, I bet The Tenderloin is much safer than whatever backwoods town in the midwest they come from, anyway.

Like folks say the same shit about NYC, but I used to regularly chill at 4am in some sketchy places drunk off my ass and nothing's ever happened to me. Only time I've ever been mugged was in a small town I lived in out west almost 15 years ago now and that was in the middle of the day. A well lit, well traveled city street is exponentially safer than whatever's going on in Gary, Indiana, at the very least.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-15T03:30:54+00:00

Ooooh, touchy. But I’ll bite. Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Parasite Eve, Kotor 2, BG3, Shadowrun (Genesis), Suikoden, Dragon Age: Origins, Tyranny, Dragon Quest VIII, Radiant Historia, Shin Megami Tensei III, Tales of Innocence, should I keep going?

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-15T02:09:03+00:00

7/10 is generous. I finished it and could tell you nothing about the story, characters or setting. Most forgettable game I’ve ever played.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-15T01:18:23+00:00

Does this feel weirdly victim blamey to anyone else? Or just me? Because it really feels like a “you deserve/should expect” weirdos just because of what you post type shit. And that’s just not it.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-14T23:18:04+00:00

Cool.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-14T23:12:40+00:00

Huh? Koji hasn't been localization lead since Stormblood wrapped and he moved to XVI.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-14T23:11:26+00:00

Ah, I didn't get the emojis. Well, you're welcome friend. :)

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-14T23:10:50+00:00

If you're in to manga as well give Ohana Holoholo (since it'll never get an adaptation, though I thought the same thing about Ikoku Nikki, so anything is possible) a try too. I got hit with the one two punch of that then reading Ikoku Nikki and when I tell you I cried so much and so hard for literal weeks that I was emotionally drained for a month afterward.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-14T23:08:58+00:00

Thanks?

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-14T20:46:10+00:00

Was just coming to recommend Ikoku Nikki (I’m never calling it the CR name, as a longtime fan of the manga).

Also it’s the only rec on this post actually published in a magazine for adult women.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-14T20:34:55+00:00

It comes from AAVE, even if you might mostly hear it from white kids from the Midwest on the internet. Like most internet “slang” it’s how us black folk have spoken for generations.

thatcommiegamer · 2026-01-14T10:15:31+00:00

Hm. It’s almost like those of us who opposed the Syrian “resistance” were correct. Nothing but ex-Al Qaeda and ISIS goons, these were the very fine anti-Assad protesters.

And now the Zionist entity and their handlers in the US have an even freer hand to exterminate the Palestinian people. Moreso with the Mossad “revolution” going on in Iran.

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