Lunkli

Self-insert power-fantasy isekai where the main character doesn't exist. The entire story is framed as if there were a guy there doing cool things but there's just no one there. Just shots of a forest, as if to imply that he's supposed to be walking through it. A dragon attacking a town, then the next panel is a view of the dragon from above and has a bunch of action lines, implying the guy's supposed to have jumped up to drive his sword down into its head. The following panels are all framed like there's a celebration, but actually everything's on fire. Because the hero doesn't exist.

Back from Japan (Finally got a legitimate copy of Miaki's Your Story!) and four pages worth of updates to catch up on. Guess I won't be starved for content and be forced to resort to reading the first few chapters of and quickly dropping a bunch of rom-com slop for, like, a day or two!

Somehow, I'm in the top 50 US players in Rhythm Typer. (At least for now.) I think that this is a sign that not enough people are playing the game, so please feel free to knock me down a few pegs. Otherwise, I might start to think that I'm actually fairly decent at rhythm games.

Highly recommend anyone reading this to go and read Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It if you haven't already. (It's free!) It's a slightly(?) surreal mystery VN set in a town that doesn't exist about a Soviet schoolgirl that wants to confess her love to the universe itself. It's reminiscent of stuff like Serial Experiments Lain and Shimeji Simulation, so if you like those sorts of things, you'll probably like this too. It's very good.

Imagine a magical girl anime where the main girl, Muzumuzu Maimai-chan, slowly gets drunk on the power of it all and has to have an intervention before she destroys the world. Then for the rest of the series she's sitting on the sidelines suffering from withdrawal, smoking cigars and drinking cheap booze while cursing out the rest of her team.

I wish for nothing more than for A Lazy Guy Woke Up as a Girl One Morning by Kobayashi Kina to get an anime adaptation so that we can witness Igarashi's greatness in motion. If that would happen, my soul could find fulfillment... Too bad it was cancelled after only three volumes like three years ago.

"[Yiânte] tells us to imagine a game conceived by a fallen angel wherein one newly selected man or woman (The "Participant") is tortured for thirty minutes every hour. You, an innocent bystander, are stationed before a switch that can at any moment be used to end this game. Doing this, though, will grant the current or most recently selected participant an additional thirty minutes of torture.

"Supposing that to cause harm is always immoral, at what point would you activate the switch, if ever?"

—Pâsqai, "Yiânte's Angel" (From Classical Thought )

"When someone dies of an incurable disease, it's a tragedy. Yet when they live for even a day longer everyone sheds tears for their suffering."

—Anka Ynro, "#000315" (From In-Global, Issue 34)

"Running in circles gets you nowhere but the start of the trail."

—Mauyallan Proverb

"If you count from zero to nine, have you not already read everything from one to infinity?"

—Anka Ynro, The House in Hyzelfir

"Indeed, could it not be said that a forgotten past is no different from an unknown future? If an apple placed in a box is forgotten, then whose right is it to say that a pear may not be drawn forth? In much the same way, has a forgotten tragedy truly occurred?

"Though of course, the impact of such a tragedy could never be truly forgotten. A broken heart is broken, even if none remember from where the cracks came."

—Anka Ynro, On Glass Mountains