Is anyone here into stage plays? Original ones or adaptations from other otaku media? Have you seen any live? If so, what was the experience like?
2 Name: Anonymous2026-03-01 18:27
I bought a Ginga -Nagareboshi Gin- Kizuna Hen (The Ties of Friendship) Blu-Ray at Prisma(hypermarket-chain) for 5€ when they were getting rid of all physical DVDs and Blu-Rays. I don't know if there was a physical release for the second part Ginga -Nagareboshi Gin- Gajo Kessen Hen (The Battle of the Stronghold) it's listed on blu-ray.com but I haven't seen it being sold anywhere. It seems only available digitally. Both had theatrical releases but the second part was limited so I assume they knew it wouldn't sell enough for a physical release(I mean I found the first part in a clearance aisle). I don't think they released either in English and I haven't seen any releases of it on western torrent sites of either raw or Finnish, I've been thinking about ripping it but I don't think you can rip with a PS3 which is my only Blu-Ray player((soft-)modded is region-free btw). Here's a small excerpt of the second part, partly subtitled in English https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TSVbQOk5ppo There was a Finnish fan-made musical from 2011-2012 it used to have English subtitles on YouTube but they used YouTube's annotation feature for them so they were lost when YouTube killed that feature and don't seem to be archived anywhere. I assume they released these recording of a stage play in theaters and Blu-Ray for the first because of the Finnish stage play or in general because Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin's popularity in Finland or possibly it was inspired by it, the mangaka of Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin: Takahashi Yoshihiro was there to see the 2012 version in Animecon. https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLwu9dolC68Vi0tI6D2Uey83NW_I_hHm6P
3 Name: Anonymous2026-03-05 02:07
i've been to a lot of irl stage plays. none were anything remotely otaku. some shakespeare, many single set productions. you really ought to see them in person rather than watching a recording tho. i can understand if it's literally the only way to experience it, but the immersive nature of them can only come across in person. the camera does all the pov decisions for you, so you can't look across the stage yourself and that matters more than you'd think. like even tho none of the productions were anything terribly special (community theatre level for the most part), they are still generally better than watching a decent-good level movie at home.
4 Name: Anonymous2026-03-05 02:47
I’ve seen the hunter x hunter stage plays and I didn’t like them. They were long as fuck too.
A more friendly name would be liver, kidney or blood. Your child watches this show because of autists on the internet and suddenly they want to make BREAD!
Senren Banka just crossed 1 million copies sold. Pretty impressive for an eroge nowadays. Would be curious about the breakdown across platforms and languages.
>>23 as i heard, for some reason senren banka somehow lucked into getting pushed very hard in steam's algorithm, I'd be willing to bet that had a lot to do with it. Well it's also pretty good which helps.
27 Name: Anonymous2026-02-26 11:21
>>26 interesting. I guess this partly explains how Yuzusoft is the only VN studio that currently operates a year-round store in Akiba.
28 Name: Anonymous2026-02-27 19:56
speaking of yuzusoft, anyone read limelight lemonade jam and can confirm if kamige?
Ainu are the original Japanese. Ainu music inspired the great composer Akira Ifukube, known for his work on the original Godzilla. Ainu culture, beliefs and existence seem to be forgotten. There is very little information about Bronisław Piłsudski's field study on Ainu. To fix this problem and feed my endless desire to know more about Ainu, provide resources, information or just interesting facts about the weird bearded Asians who believe they were born from zoophile intercourse between a woman and a bear: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hokkaido/legbea.html
2 Name: Anonymous2026-01-22 22:30
www.aynuitak.org its endangered so go learn it then
3 Name: Anonymous2026-01-25 23:47
<3 Who we are? Eurasean Ainu! What we want? Repatriation to our holy land of Hokkaido ! What we want to practice?! Our native indigenious heathen religion.
just started dipping my toes into hololive! normie pick, but i really love korones vibes. whos your favorite girl? any recommended english sub channels?
>>6 seconding kiki ch, very cute and autistic (in a literal sense) https://www.youtube.com/@KikiCh-/ she does zatsu and retro games (including more obscure stuff like PC-98 games) and has her own thread on /vt/ which she frequently interacts with
Any of you all read the megatokyo webcomic? It's still ongoing. I think Digi used to read it, although I don't know if n0 has read it.
What are your thoughts on it? I am wondering if to read it but I have heard the story gets convoluted later on. The art stays at a similar level too... it doesn't get much better enough. However it seems to have some dedicated fans.
i know that i didn't read very much of it. I started reading webcomics in like 2006 so i did hear about it and tried to get into it. something about it felt off and it didn't click. similar with penny arcade. i did like cad at the time tho and kept reading until well after loss ... so idk if im the best judge for web comics? I have felt like i should give it another go at some point. going back through more than a decade of comics is potentially a fun weekend
3 Name: Anonymous2026-01-17 06:07
I read it back in the day, then got bored at some point. Honestly, I don't know anyone anywhere who stuck with it into the 2010s despite just how popular it was before.
4 Name: Anonymous2026-01-19 13:48
>>2 lots of people kept reading CAD after loss (me) I had read a lot of webcomics for a long time after I should have dropped them (I used to read QC lol) eventually though, the lack of quality became too hard to ignore
kinda off topic so sageing i still read qc, I guess i'm too invested in the soap opera of it. i dunno. it definitely was more interesting when there was heavy drama and tangled relationships. but i've become too interested in the clairexmartin ship to stop i guess. The also still read dresden codak and EGS, but DC releases so much slower I check it fairly infrequently. i haven't read xkcd since near 1000, except through osmosis.
i feel like with CAD loss was like a brick that broke the window for many people. I didn't personally see it as super impactful or insensitive at the time, i wasn't into forum culture back then so i didn't see the reaction to it in real time, just heard about it after the fact. my assumption is it caused many to drop it. but i guess both many people kept reading and many people dropped it can both be true. cad was pretty popular.
have any fansub groups ever put out machine translation of anime? i know that in the WN scene there are groups at the bleeding edge of the pipeline who do, but usually that's an input to better translation later on and that informs the manga translations and then that gets turned into an ai recap video, but for anime it seems if machine translation is used at all it's internal to the groups. altho, perhaps the anime fansub scene is too small anymore, since pretty much all new shit on mal just uses the CR sources.
3 Name: Anonymous2026-01-17 08:58
anime subs informing the manga tl? nowadays the manga is usually fan TL'd first well before an anime is even announced...
4 Name: 22026-01-17 09:44
Webnovel->manga is what i was saying. ya manga is pretty much always fanTLed before anime exists. been that way for... like a decade now? i'm sure plenty of manga with webnovel versions don't reference the WN TL at all. but it feels like there is some amount of information passing there.
Koi Kaze. I would suggest that denpas watch it if you have not already.
27 Name: Anonymous2026-01-04 21:16
>>26 It's the first non-slop incestslop I watched. It's the only one of its kind with TCOAAL coming close to it.
28 Name: Anonymous2026-01-16 03:09
Koi Kaze is very good to watch at first, but after they become official couples, I'd lost my interest. For me the greatest pleasure is to watch them avoiding facing the love for each other. It's pretty good, but I don't very much like the brother.
29 Name: Anonymous2026-01-16 08:01
The last I watched is Alexander Senki. Honestly I was bored despite the bold artistic directing, and I am not sure why I was bored.
30 Name: meat2026-01-16 15:50
been watching nana with my partner as of recent but the last anime i finished? i'd say probably yuyushiki a few years ago
>>12 Watch however much you want at the pace most comfortable for you! (^-^)
22 Name: /u/nicorn freak2024-08-27 06:33
>>19 It starts off pretty strong up until all the members get introduced and the Tokyo Mew Mews name becomes canon. Afterwards the show plateous quite a bit and becomes very formulaic up until about Ep 30 or so, and by the end it's really picking up again in terms of writing. Zakuro and Mint do most of the carrying, but the rest of the cast is pretty great too. Even the annoying squeaky dog toy Pudding grew on me and I almost dropped the show just because of her.
>>18 MahoAko is the thing that finally made me go back to watch magical girls — starting with Tokyo Mew Mew — which... is sure going to be weird to explain if I get back in touch with my friends again. But Magia Baiser is my magical girl savior/idol, she is a mirror to a younger me I wish to be- and en route returning to.
23 Name: Anonymous2024-09-29 18:44
Doremi made me become a mahou shoujo fan a few years ago after me mostly being into mecha shows. Some parts of Doremi were a bit of a drag or pissed me off a bunch (it's just gonna happen with ~50 ep seasons), but as a whole work, Doremi is amazing. I ended up watching most of Precure after, there are like 4 seasons I haven't seen. I really need to finish GoPri, it is amazing. Not really a fan of Wonderful Precure right now, but I haven't dropped it either.
I still haven't watched Tokyo Mew Mew. I've been meaning to, I just haven't...
Have you seen any live? If so, what was the experience like?