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@melancholiholic.bsky.social

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She/her 23 ace 日本語を勉強しています Visual novel enjoyer | Made some video essays | Artist sometimes | Bachibro | Higurashi Sotsu apologist https://melancholiholic.straw.page/

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · Jan 10

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I'm Melancholiholic, or Mel for short! Stories & storytelling are my passion. I enjoy writing, reading, writing about reading, and there are rumors of me being an artist too.

Visual novels are my muse.

Learning JP & annoying about it (it's too much of my life not to be).

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Things I often yap about:

When They Cry
Chainsaw Man
Sonic the Hedgehog
Your Turn To Die
Yakuza/Like a Dragon
Final Fantasy XIV
Kagurabachi
Rewrite

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 3h

JPDB rates the difficulty to read it in Japanese really high so it'll definitely have to wait

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 3h

Out of morbid curiousity maybe

A large part of it is very good but it's built on promises and completely soiled by failing to deliver on said promises in every way

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · Jan 3

Sonic is so cool I wish I could run

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe I'll check it out sometime... not really motivated to after what became of the main series lol

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 4h

Let me know if you ever want advice or recommendations!

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 5h

The pattern is actually a compound word with noun + verb that ends with su in noun form which makes it shi. If you look at it in Japanese:

鬼隠し
綿流し
祟殺し
暇潰し
目明し
罪滅し
皆殺し
祭囃し

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 5h

Don't even get me started with the mess that is AFO and Shigaraki. Instead of having a legitimate reason to resent the society that abandoned him, Shigaraki was raised from BEFORE BIRTH to be a super evil inherently bad guy and never had any agency from the beginning

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 5h

All Might learns that there's more he can offer the world than the destruction of his body for others. In the final battle, he goes out to destroy his body for others.

I thought the story was about how villains are a product of the society's ills. In the end they all get killed and nothing changes.

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 5h

It'd be hard for me to know where to begin. The worst of it is that it completely let go of its central themes, or what I thought were. Deku has to learn to value himself more as a person. The little dialogue we get in the last battle amounts to him still treating himself as a weapon.

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 5h

MHA is probably the biggest disappointment I've ever experienced in terms of stories. I genuinely thought there was something great there, I followed it intently for years, only for it to crash and burn and cast off nearly everything I liked about it, undermining every theme I cared about

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 5h

One of my favorite types of posters is actually the anime fan who is hyped about anything that comes out. One Piece season 50 gonna be fire. Every isekai is peak actually. Obscure shoujo ai let's goooooo

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 18h

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 14h

#MelPockets

Shiki Route completed.

This is a weird one. I'm not sure how to feel about it.

Last but not least is Shiroha

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 16h

Key protagonists have that supernatural rizz

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · Oct 29

Fate stay/night if Shirou had aphantasia

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yul @djall.bsky.social · 6d

umineko: if you read stories with love in your heart, they will give back so much more to you.
also umineko: if you write a story with a plot hole you will be imprisoned in a room all alone for all eternity and no one will hear your screams and you will suffer forever and ever and ever and

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 23h

Doing alright, have fallen back into my oversleeping habits though, not that I really escaped them much

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Clare @shigarakitomura.bsky.social · 1d

New akiangel artwork by Fujimoto

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

I have to get more silly

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

They don't, pronouns are a lot less common in Japanese so the translator often has to make the call

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

31. Megabonk

Vampire Survivors but 3D and it's worse. The gameplay style is basically inherently fun, but man does it feel unfair more than it does satisfying. In Vampire Survivors you can see the enemies closing on you, here you just die immediately before you even understood what happened

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · Nov 9

#higurashi

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

No lol

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

Metal Sonic is in it