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I'm guessing that Loop 18 was when Rayman completeley abandoned his hero's quest and Albus was chosen to finish it.

So, the hero Rayman was originally a bog-standard warrior hero just like Albus. He may or may not have managed (it isn't clear from the flashbacks) to complete his bog-standard quest with a standard hero's party just like Albus, but at the cost of his beloved Risa. So he Revolved to try to save...

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Oh, Fiona and the gang seriously fucked up, didn't they? In the previous timeline(s), Albus started his quest after the hero Rayman had succeeded in his quest of curing the Red Blight. Or rather, Rayman's quest allowed Risa to finish the cure after he'd "died". Except he didn't die. He just...

The butterfly story is a classical Chinese philosophical parable from Zhuangzi. However, the teacher is either deliberately or ignorantly misrepresenting the actual conundrum. The end question of the parable is "Is Zhuang Zhou dreaming of becoming a butterfly or is a butterfly dreaming of...

Crazy mineral formation in industrial sites is very common. You'd be surprised by the kinds of pretty colored debris found in the runoff gunk after chemical cleaning of a coal plant's furnace.

When the vtuber phenomenon started, it's true that they were just youtubers with a virtual persona. Some of the original vtubers were actually invented personalities, not much different from Hatsune Miku. However, Hololive then came in and revolutionized the genre. What Hololive did in the...

OK, so I think I guessed right last chapter. The true hero in this world is always the one whom the Demon Lord's ancient friend (the original hero) gives Revolve to. So Rayman is also a true hero; it's just that his quest was unrecognized because it got deleted from history. Like Albus he kept...

The anime chara designs are really weird when compared to the source material, but at least the rest of it is very well-animated. It's almost like there's a competition this season between Ruri and Sono Bisque Doll.

I wasn't talking about powerscaling. It's about the narrative beat of the story. Ravages is an adaptation of RTK, so there are only so many opportunities to create a "final boss" type of character that requires multiple heroes working together to beat. The story frame is set. You can't have Lu...

Historically all Three Kingdoms adaptations always falter in the era between Chi Bi and the end of the Brotherhood. This one manages the transition quite nicely to this halfway point. But there's still a bit of a gap to go. Luo Guanzhong himself kinda lost interest in the story at around this...

A rival has appeared! But whose?

AAAAA!!!! NONONONONONONO!!! DON'T PUT THE SHIRIKODAMA BACK IIIINN!!!! WTF YOU DOIN????!!!!

I think what we're seeing here is two heroes' journeys getting compressed into one. In the previous reality where Albus was the hero, the Red Blight was also present but not recognized as the Demon Lord's attack because at that point his revival hadn't become known. At that early stage, the hero...

That isn't the original context. This term is used to describe people who try to depict their day-to-day (or social) life "artistically" or "spiritually" but comes off as forced or pretentious. The way this was explained to me once is to imagine someone trying to write about themselves like...