Recent content by PhoenixDen

Oh, fellow HEMA guy. Yeah, it's unlikely they did anything but ape a manga/historical legend angle to it and flimsily justified it. Even if it was just 'footwork', not positioning your feet in a good ready stand is...bad footwork. They're basically exchanging actual technique for raw power in...

What I think he's TRYING to say is essentially 'up the tempo of your attacks little by little, and if your opponent can't match that increasing tempo, they'll continue to fall behind in reaction time bit by bit until you eventually get to a speed that they simply cannot react to and thus you get...

Normally, physics don't work that way, I'm pretty sure, but this is a Japanese fantasy manga- they don't really care about that shit.

Making a great movie takes good writing AND good direction. It's always painfully obvious when one or the other is lacking.

She doesn't even look that different.

Ai Fi seems to be in a depressive funk. It's kinda annoying he hasn't noticed.

...Didn't think I'd have a Roman History lesson in the comments, but I'm not against it. That was neat to learn!

No, I know about the Web Novel version, I was asking how did the LN/Anime change Alicia, since the WN version was a straight up villain, and the manga version seems a sweet girl for now. I haven't seen/read either. Unless I misunderstood something.

Wait, the anime changed Alicia, too? Howso? I'm fine with spoilers.

In addition to what was said above, the simple, plain truth of the matter a lot of folks don't want to admit is that Japanese is, by all rights, a language that cannot and almost should not be directly translatable into English. The grammatical rules are so different to English (and several...

Think Non-chan might have to accept her fate.

When you see it...

Tsun.

Ijichi is 100% the better girl for him, as she's more put together, and even still has something of an interest in his hobbies while probably actually being a better influence, but she's a gyaru, so by default she'll probably lose to the more traditionally pretty one who's more involved in said...

Specifically, for romance/MCbowl manga in which the girl that wins is NOT the First Girl. I was recently reading 'Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa Inai!?' and someone mentioned in the comments that there was a similar manga where the girl who 'won' in the end was changed thanks to fan outcry. I dunno...