I watched a whole show (shikanoko) this season. So yea banger season, almost never happens lol.

It seems plausible that Drew left because of the church stuff, but it is not confirmed so conclusions must not be drawn on this part of drama. I am curious to hear from the man himself what made him go. Maybe he will make his own pen content in the future, I would check it out if he did. On the church connection, seems dumb to me that they would include such an unnecessary and damaging detail. America is a pretty wild place I guess. I don’t think European and Japanese companies would commit to a “what is going on in our personal lives” section of a business podcast.

She’s gonna have to mop the floor with Sakurako after this.

Interesting mix of western and eastern calligraphy in the title. They do connect strokes within characters and also between characters (especially in kana shodo), but those flourishes are definitely western.

I suck at ball sports, she’d probably beat my ass even though she is so small lol.

The best I can make of it is through deepl: it maps ぽやぽや to “carefree”, “carelessly” or “pampering”. “すぐ” precedes it meaning “immediately”, “at once”, “right away”. Taking in the context: it is done on paper and not digitally, and that there is some whiteout at the bottom. Also the hair colour goes outside the lines. All this combined makes me think that it means that the drawing was done “from a loose hand”, meaning with some pace and without excessive construction like a detailed sketch. I don’t think it is done completely without sketching though, as the top left strand of her right (our left) twintail there seems to be a sketchline the inked lines.

I have had mine (Kuretake No. 13) for over a year and it never dripped on me. The more I write the shorter the brush becomes and the tip loses its point a bit. However I can still get hairlines and when I don’t it’s usually a skill issue. After a year of daily writing the tip does split sometimes. You just have to reset its shape once in a while on the edge of your paper or on scrap paper.

Mine only does that the first day when I write after filling it.

Enjoy!

I have come to the conclusion that if you can write it you can read it, but often not the other way around (seems to be in accord with the other comments here). So I learn how to write kanji, and with that comes the ability to read kanji. You can use a website/app where you draw on the screen (I use duolingo’s kanji section). I really like actually picking up a brush/brushpen(with actual bristles) and practicing on paper. However in that case personally I focus more on the handwriting and stroke order than on learning the meaning, but it still helps.

Lots of Akarins including sleepy Akari 🥰.

Our blond gremlin turned 13 yet again lol

This post image actually doesn’t show up for me. Lately that happens sometimes. Maybe my browsers is blocking it (hardened firefox). The two links is because the post is a direct image link and the body refers to the page it lives. It was my interpretation of their TOS that the latter one was necessary. For the post image I use a direct link so when you click on it it enlarges instead of opening a new page.

What do you mean? Does the image host do some weird stuff?

I thought so, they are probably just milking the popular title with this new stuff.

Crazy, Fairy Tail above nokotan. Sometimes I forget how action brained the average anime fan is. I watched all of FT before this release and I remember nothing from the last 50% of it. I guess they fought a lot or something lol.

As a slice of life guy I don’t really watch long anime anymore. Years ago, Jojos was the last one over 100 ep that I saw. The longest slice of life anime I have seen is the terrific and absolute classic “Hidamari Sketch” coming in at a bit over 60 eps.

She is learning.

There seem to be a bunch of versions, I have no clue which ones are real, edited, actually used, remakes, etc.