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  1. I have no idea, lol. I like coming up with gimmicks, but I don't always have a story to fill it with.

    Perhaps it would be easier for them to be able to remember everything that happened.
    Then it could be in kinetic novel form from the view point of the MC as he reminisces over the previous runs as he comes across the various challenges in his final run.

    Or perhaps he doesn't remember, but each run leaves behind a memento which he happens upon.
    He doesn't realize what it is, but the readers are shown in a flashback what the memento entails.

    Or, or, maybe it could be a back and forth between the MC on his last run, and his friends back in the real world, as they deal with the reality of having been gone. They spend time with each other, coming to terms with what they went through, and telling the stories regarding where the MC happens to be in the form of flashbacks, and praying for the MC's safe return. Maybe the MC will somehow get to see them in his last moments (assuming he fails), and his friends will shed tiers after instinctively? becoming aware of his loss. Bit cliche and overdramatized, perhaps, but this is probably the way to go.

  2. Started Seinen by Ishida Ira.
    I feel like there was something of a mysterious? mood to the beginning of Shounen, which I liked, but that isn't really there any more, perhaps due to Midou Shizuka no longer being a major player in the story (at least, not yet).

  3. What I find pretty amusing about your experience is that Michiru's route seems to be pretty widely considered to be one of the worst routes in the entire VN, aside from Yumiko's, due to the bullshit pseudoscience involved, the erratic behavior of a few of the characters compared to the other routes, and the overall ridiculousness that's ever-present after the halfway point and the "big reveal".  The story of Michiru's route was actually retconned in Meikyuu, so I think that says something about the quality of the route itself, or at least the general Japanese fan reaction to it.  Amane and Sachi's routes are generally thought of as the best, with some people swapping out Sachi's for Makina's.  Would you mind explaining why you didn't like either of their routes?

    I think you may be misinformed. Last time I did a quick search for Michiru in Japanese, I found 0 mention of any retcons, and 0 complaints about the "pseudoscience". These opinions, from what I've seen, seem to only come from people who only played the English version, and I myself remember no retconning in Meikyuu. I also dare say that Michiru is the most popular girl among the crowd in Japan, supported by the fact that she's the only character to have a spin-off title in her name.

    *In fact, in a popularity poll, she was 2nd behind (who else) Kazuki.

  4. Why you haven't yet watched everything Miyazaki is beyond me. He's the go-to for anyone looking into anime films.
    A few of his that has yet to be mentioned: Whispers of the Heart (also occasionally known as Valley of the Heart, If You Listen Closely, etc.) and the recent Kaze Tachinu

    Mimi wo Sumaseba (Whispers of the Heart) is not by Miyazaki, it's by Yoshifumi Kondo (animation director on most pre-1995 Ghibli movies and long collaborator of Miyazaki and Takahata; sadly he died a premature death in 1998 before making any other movie, despite being thought of as 'the next Miyazaki').

    I do wholeheartedly recommend everyone to watch it though. I think you'd like it Tiago, it has romance and it's relatively light-hearted. And also extremely beautiful.

    I meant to say Miyazaki/Ghibli. It's close enough >_>
    Technically, it's not all wrong since Miyazaki did have a lot to do with the movie.

    I do adore this movie, though.
    My favorite Ghibli movie, though I think objectively speaking Mononoke might be the best.

  5. Why you haven't yet watched everything Miyazaki is beyond me. He's the go-to for anyone looking into anime films.
    A few of his that has yet to be mentioned: Whispers of the Heart (also occasionally known as Valley of the Heart, If You Listen Closely, etc.) and the recent Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises).

    I know you said no, but I have to second The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
    And since you don't have either that or Summer Wars under your belt, I imagine you don't have Sennen Joyuu (Millennium Actress) either.

    I just watched Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda today and I liked it, so I'd recommend that, as well.

    Also know you said you wanted anime only, but I must recommend The Man from Earth.

  6. 耳年増 is definitely a common stereotype in Japanese media.

    Personally, I've never really cared.
    I'm almost surprised to find people seem to be more often against the all-virgins thing, as I personally find the "first time" thing rather desirable.
    Not to mention it makes NTR that much more satisfying.

  7. Finished vol 1-14 of Kimi to Boku.
    Can a couple freaking get together already -.-
    Disappointed in the art style change over time. It starts looking suspiciously similar to Hourou Musuko's art, and I don't like it.
    Don't get me wrong; I liked Hourou Musuko and don't mind the art there, just the style is unnerving when applied here.

    Finished vol 3 of Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san.
    It spent 4 consecutive flash pages showing the MC crying over ramen.
    4. That's 8 pages of a girl crying. Over ramen.

  8. I should be translating Majikoi A-1, but I am on an amazingly extended period of zero motivation.
    So here I am with yet another under-appreciated and untranslated light novel.

    One Day, A Bomb Came Falling

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        One Day, A Bomb Came Falling is an SF Anthology by Furuhashi Hideyuki, who won the 2nd Dengeki Award with his debut light novel Blackrod (Which is also an amazing light? novel).
        Here, SF is better interpreted as "sukoshi fushigi" rather than "science fiction". It features 7 normal-boy-meets-not-so-normal-girl stories.

        The End is something that can come about unexpectedly, on a day just like any other.
        That day, the self-proclaimed newest-model bomb that came falling reminded me of Hirosaki Hikari, a girl I liked in High School; a fact that made my heart flutter.
        --"One Day, A Bomb Came Falling"

        "One Day, A Bomb Came Falling", the title and first work of the anthology, tells the tale of Nagashima, a 2nd-year ronin  who is playing hooky on his cram school's roof when a girl that looks a lot like Hirosaki, the girl he liked in high school, comes falling from the sky. She claims to be a 50 gigaton-class bomb, has a "Heart-Pounding☆Doomsday Clock" on her chest that advances whenever she has romantic feelings, and will explode when the clock reaches 12:00 AM. She came seeking Nagashima to help her detonate so that she can leave a beautiful mushroom cloud (and obliterate Japan in the process).

        This year's cold gets you in the brain.
        Just this morning, the news warned of a terrible "Fool Cold" that was getting around, telling us we should gargle and wash our hands frequently, but...

        --"Grow Bigger!"

        In "Grow Bigger!", a common cold can cause you memory regression. Kogure's much taller childhood (girl) friend catches one, and seeing as her mother isn't capable of picking her up immediately, he is tasked with taking her home. A much harder job than it sounds given their height difference and the fact that she loses a few years worth of memory with each sneeze!

        In the past, I never believed in heaven or hell.
        But now, I know that these places truly exist.

        Where are they, you ask? Well...
        --"The Night of the Loving Dead
    "

        As the title may suggest, this story is about "zombies". In the world of "The Night of the Loving Dead", the dead don't stay dead for long. These former-deads, "repeaters", as Mamoru calls them, spend the rest of their un-life reliving one particular day of their life. In the same vein, Nagi, Mamoru's very own "repeater", comes to him every night and whispers to him,
        "E h e h e , t h a t ' s r i g h t , w e ' r e g o i n g t o t h e a m u s e m e n t p a r k t o d a y !"

        "Toto-kami-ja"

        "Seat Number 0"

        "Third Period with Madoka"

        Long ago, there was a huge war, and a lot of people died.
        It was about 60 years ago, that's four times as long as I've lived -- So, a thing long past, just the way Oda Nobunaga and Tyrannosaurs Rex are.
        Hara Michiko is just like them, a person from long ago.
        Unlike Nobunaga and Tyrannosaurs, however, she isn't on show at some museum. No, she's a living girl, breathing even this very second.
        --"Long Ago, A Bomb Came Falling"

        "Long Ago, A Bomb Came Falling" is a mirror of the first story, and the closing story to the anthology. In their equivalent of World War 2, Japan is bombed with a "Time Wave Bomb" rather than an atomic bomb. It completely obliterated everything within an 100 m radius, and wrought havoc over the 10 km radius beyond that, leaving one lone survivor at its center - her, Hara Michiko. At the epicenter of the explosion, rebounding time waves caused a 5 m high cylindrical space of "compressed time" where everything moves at 1/60,000,000 of the speed outside it. The main character, the grandson of the man in charge of the Memorial Park where she remains standing, spends his days thinking about her and nights staring at her.

     

    I'll fill in the rest later.

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