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Currently caught up with Black Butler, which as a whole I'm rather enjoying due to the whole Ciel-Sebastian dynamic. Found some new volumes as of late, and got motivated to pick up the stuff online because stuff was getting real and I couldn't wait. Please tell me there's someone else here reading it who's caught up, I need to know that someone else knows how real stuff is getting right now. The suspense of having to wait is too much.

I'm fairly sure this is one of those things that you're really meant to chalk up to coincidence. And trust me when I say that reality has greater insanity going around in it than someone having a headache whilst a woman is in his shower, and his brother ALSO has a woman in his shower. The fact that Maou disappears in some of the routes where Kyousuke also settles down is just because he ALSO chooses to settle down. Or maybe something goes wrong with his plan, I'm not entirely sure since it's been a while since I read the VN. I like the plot point as a Red Herring at least, a better executed version of it than at least one other version I've seen in literature.

Raise your hand if you read that and thought of the old Revenge of the Sith line.

How many fire emblem games have you played and what are they? I have played two, first Awakening and for my sins I played Conquest a good chunk of the way through. Curse that Ancient Wall of Japan level for being too hard for me to lazily finish. Also started Shadows of Valentia before I....lost interest due to a variety of petty reasons. Celica and desert levels ranking highly amongst them. Also dammit Python you're a terrible archer why do you here. Favorite character(s)/Kingdom/music/plot/map/chapter/event/skill/weapon/etc Gotta love Stahl, Kellam and Lon'qu. Also surprise Walhart from what I've seen. Female wise, I'd go for Panne, Noire and Sully. And who can forget Henry and Basilio? From the Conquest side, the Nohrian royal family gets a shout, with Owain, Laslow and Owain's daughter whose name escapes me now. Which was your first Fire Emblem game? Awakening Best Waifus/Husbandos/etc... Tharja because I appreciate the quiet dark mage type, Panne is great because of her mannerisms. Husbandos if I had to choose are Chrom and Henry. How do you play the games? (Casual, Classic, Phoenix, Lunatic, Hard, Normal, RP, Male/Female, etc...) Casual, Normal, RP, Male, always go for magic for the Avatar. Really need to finish my Hard Casual playthrough at some point. Pick a Boon/Strength and a Bane/Flaw Magic and Luck. Who needs fortune when you have fireballs? What is your favorite game in the series? Awakening What do you like about the Fire Emblem series? Really, the cast of characters you can run into and seeing them interact with supports. Also, clutch critical hits which save you from dying. Praise Nuffle! Who was the first character you got killed? Nobody because filthy casual mode where nobody dies, muahahahaha! What do you dislike about the Fire Emblem series? A retrospect dislike is how whilst great, the supports feel.....like a hard jump in terms of character interaction. Just hang people close together, then get three scenes and boom, all out of main storyline interaction is done. Less a specific dislike and more a foolish yearning for more, but hey it's the best I got. Well that and moving a unit out of the way for strategy, then realising you've opened a path to your backlines that slaughters your mages. Or maybe that's me? What are you hopeful for with Fire Emblem Switch or Fire Emblem Warrior or a good idea for a new spin off (what would you like them to do different?) I got nothing, sorry. Do you have any suggestions for people looking for games like Fire Emblem? All that springs to mind is XCOM really....depends what you mean by like. For a solid fantasy setting with characters, Dragon Age works kinda well.

Go go Michiru Tsundere! Though the truth is kinda depressing, her idiotic antics somehow really endear her to me. And I legitimately don't know why.

Can I be late to the party and give a shout-out to Monster Hunter World? Man I'm only just getting started after dealing with Zorah Magdaros. Got a healthy backlog of stuff too. FFXV, Dragon Inquisition: Game of the Year Edition, and I should probably start looking back to some FighterZ what with the delicious Bardockoli now available as DLC....and on that green note.

Michiru's route I would say is not quite as sad as Sachi's (also I love Michiru for reasons, shout-out to all you other people). If I can try and outline this in specific terms, Michiru's is more generally depressive but Sachi's route has a distinct moment of concentrated sadness that kinda disperses throughout the rest of the route and provides some sad context. Here's hoping I've helped a bit. Amane's route is kinda sad when you get to the chunk (you'll recognise it) but happy for most of the rest, especially the good ending, and Makina's route is......well let me say this, avoid the bad ending. As I've characterised it to friends, it feels like the bad ending was written first whilst the writer was depressed, and then wrote the happy ending after his co-workers realised what he'd written and sneaked some anti-depressants into their food or some such.

Because it's the only trilogy that I've actually played the entirety of, the Galaxy Angels trilogy has to take the place almost by default. Still certainly worth playing through since the gameplay actually required some thought, and does actually get very tough later on in the trilogy. That, and there are some good romances which don't ever go down the H-scene route since I think it's a kid's game (I mean this literally, not in a derogatory way). Just nice to have a game without h-scenes that didn't apparently mean I was missing out on actual story content, though on that note I'm at some point going to finish the Grisaia trilogy from Steam. Go localisations, even the censored ones.

Just to come in from a completely blind angle, if you don't mind something a little more.....well, the only word I can think of is childish, but if you don't mind a visual novel for a younger audience and are okay with some gameplay segments, then you might want to give Galaxy Angels a try. The first one's pretty easy, but the gameplay does get harder further into the series. If you want a challenge that'll make you carefully consider your options, you might not find it here, but it is a rather nice visual novel trilogy, if I do say so myself, with a rather nice set of characters and a fairly decent plot.

I'll give you that one, but given how they're similar but have different takes on the whole 'trapped within a virtual MMO setting', comparisons between the two are inevitable, despite the large number of differences they have when compared to each other. And it is always useful to know about it in case you want to watch something that falls into the category of 'different execution, similar/same premise'. And it is one of the few anime (that I know of at least), that you can actually compare to SAO, the other one seeming to be the DotHack franchise, although i haven't really had a look at that one.

Just to seemingly spit into the ocean here, here's my view on SAO. It is a good anime. The first arc is nice, and it has its good moments. Kirito as a protagonist though isn't exactly deep. If you're looking for an interesting and flawed character or a Chessmaster and such, look elsewhere. Second arc is decent, although not as good as the first. Basically, if you want a nice anime to kill some time with and like very nice visuals and fight-scenes, as well as a competently written storyline, then SAO should occupy your time. The new season, which covers a new MMO, Gun Gale Online, while still airing, is very good so far, with some more interesting stuff in it. Although, to paraphrase GRArkada: 'At times, Sword Art Online felt like the characters were trapped in a generic fantasy world, rather than a game.' So to sum up, if you want a nice anime that doesn't need you to draw a flow-chart to understand the plot and has some cool looking visuals and fight-scenes, as well as being competent most of the time, then Sword Art Online is the thing for you. If you want something with a bit more depth and a nice Chess-master style character who can probably rank up there with Light and Lelouch in terms of brainpower and manipulating people into doing what he wants, as well as certain parts being more interesting and detailed, then check out Log Horizon. And I feel weird being the one to say this, but people, Zenophilious asked if Sword Art Online was something worth watching. That does not mean you can start a war over whether it's shit or not in this thread. You give the person your opinion, then you leave it that, preferably without either fanboying over it or trolling people who say it was good or over-exaggerate parts of it. Don't throw shit at people who don't like it as much as you do. I made a thread for stuff like this a long time ago, provided it hasn't been deleted or buried somewhere. Go find that, and debate about how you see it there. Not in a thread someone made to find out if the anime is worth watching. That is just not gentlemanly, people. *Braces for potential backlash*

I thought it was an alright ending. I agree that Elsie deserved more context as to what the hell she was, that was rushed. I was expecting a Harem ending honestly, what with harem endings being referenced earlier and with Keima being the God of Conquest. I actually don't mind that he picked Chihiro, 'cause let's be honest, if he'd picked one Godess he would have pissed the rest off, and like he said, not choosing someone would have made it go on alot longer. And with the apparent health issues taken into account, I can say that I think it's better to end it like this than to either continue it, because then you run the risk of not being able to finish it yourself. And let's be honest, any anime like this with multiple love interests, SOME fanbase will be pissed because you didn't pick their Waifu. And on a final note, I suppose he picked Chihiro because, unlike the others, she actually had feelings for him BEFORE the conquest, not because Keima made her love him. I suppose that's why he picked her, because she stood out from all the others, and he could tell her love was something he had no hand in creating.

Thank you and congratulations, first to Tay and then Flutterz. Have fun in Canada. Seriously, good work.

Forgive me for crashing the party here,

Well, I just went and googled some of these, but they are pretty nice quotes. "Accept that your life will be painful, bite back your grief and find the power to stand again" - Nakiami, Bounen no Zamned "Anyone can make a mistake, If you feel bad about it, will that sin disappear?" - Akoes, Casshern Sins "Moping around with sadness and sorrow.......what will come of it? Even dead people can do that. However, I'll live and stand on my own two legs. If we are going to die one day, wouldn't it be better to have no regrets?" - Ciel Phantomhive, Black Butler "It's not possible to save everything. Prioritize your goals." - Uryuu Minene, Mirai Nikki