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Ah, another month, another calendar from AA.

September is here!

This month, we've received a brand-new calendar illustration from Akira Amano.

Feel free to save it and use it as wallpaper or the like!

This month, volume 18 of KamoRon is releasing on the 4th!

(Next month, the final volume 19 will be released, making it two consecutive months of publications!)

Please check it out!

This is kinda bittersweet.

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I've cried enough tears for a lifetime over you.

Machida Keita as Takaoka Sho 🥁 GLASS HEART (2025)

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Praying that Taku will voice Naoya Zen’in.

Someone suggested on X that Taku Yashiro (Tsugaru Shinuchi of Undead Girl Murder Farce, Spitz Feier of RKDD) could be in running to voice Naoya Zen’in. I hate that character so much i was so glad when he was finally defeated. But if he were to be voiced by Taku, then I’d probably consider him to stay a bit longer.

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Aahhhh!!!!!

First Look at JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 3: The Culling Game Arc (January 2026)

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All Night by Parov Stelar

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Angst fics can help people come to terms with their own grief, begin healing, or give people that good cry that they need.

Smut fics can help people affirm and accept their sexuality. It can help them explore their sexuality in a safe way. They can also just be fun, and having fun is a drastically undervalued way to improve your mental health.

Dark fics can help people face their fears or process their trauma. It can make them feel safer and more secure. It can help them find their courage.

Fluff fics can give people rest and respite and comfort. It can give them hope that soft places exist and that maybe there is one out there for them. It can bring up their mood, which, if they have depression, can be a life saver.

And every fic people write makes someone feel less alone.

Point being, just because a particular thing doesn’t serve you, doesn’t mean it lacks value.

This is not to say that we have to consume all fic uncritically. Of course not. It is just to say that entire “genres” aren’t trash or lacking value just because they don’t serve you.

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the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

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Lanterns

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Kuroshitsuji S4 | Ep5 | “God Only Knows,” the cornered rats who may bite… Sapphire Owl House!

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I am curious how will Netflix adapt this manga. Will they go all out with sexual tension and everything? Will Keita Machida, who has been working out all year and gaining muscles, give in to those scenes? Aaaahhhh!!!

I mean, “Cherry Magic” is so tender and soft and innocent. The lighting and atmosphere are reminiscent of Banana Yoshimoto’s novels. I find it absurd that Kurosawa’s fantasies were even criticised as inappropriate when Adachi could still see them in his mind. That’s why they’re called fantasies right? They remain in Kurosawa’s head and the reason they are cringey. (I mean, his taste in partner look loungewear/sleepwear is not Adachi’s taste.) It is just the audience can see them.

Anyways, Enemies to Lovers, here we come!

DECEMBER 2025 Y'ALL!!!!

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Parallelisms (Part 2). A continuation of Part 1. Sometimes the creators do this as an homage. The same way they incorporated the song “First Love” by Hikaru Utada from Takeru Satoh’s TV series with the same title on the fourth episode (“Play It Out Loud,” penned by Mari Okada). Or possibly as a pattern, a context, to tell the viewers what they want to convey. (“Glass Heart” EP 8: Matrix; “Cherry Magic! The Movie”)

The “Glass Heart” episode deals with Sho and Naoki’s fallout and the story of their meet-cute, err, first meeting. Then we are relegated to the situation at the studio where we see the two recording a song. Akane finds out from Genji-san that Naoki is at the end of his tether, hasn’t eaten or drunk, vomiting food, burnt out. He’s forgetting his basic needs due to his desire to find the definite guitar riff that for him Sho is unfortunately not delivering. This comes after productions have denied them to do some concerts. It sounds like a couple who is about to break up. Hence, the dialogue:

Sho: How far off are we talkin'?

Naoki: About as far away as the space between us.

Sho: Where does that put me in comparison to where you are?

That’s a strange way of describing their situation at the moment.

When Sho reasons that he cannot bastardise Naoki’s composition and treats it like just another song, Naoki lashes at him. He wants Sho to find his sound, the reason Naoki has fallen for him. Remember that these people when they talk about love and admiration it encompasses the way they live and breathe their music, especially when they talk about themselves. Artists like them, their understanding of love is beyond physicality because of the way they exalt their art. (Reminds one of the story between Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Though it was reported that many of Clara’s diary entries and letters about and to Brahms were destroyed by her for reasons unknown.)

On the other hand, upon rewatching “Cherry Magic! The Movie,” this is where Adachi tries to spread his wings by undertaking an assignment away from Kurosawa. (The anime adaptation has reached this stage.) It has left a strain on their relationship as both of them are afraid of being far apart from each other. Then something happened that became a catalyst that would guide them into their relationship.

It might only be my delusions talking, but often the way the “Glass Heart” creative crew has made it is so obvious.

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Look what beautiful gift Yana gave the staff of the last two seasons.

So beautiful and lovely.

If you want to see the original post, you can find it on her Instagram.

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Show them.

Bon Appétit Your Majesty (폭군의 셰프 2025)

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— BON APPETIT, YOUR MAJESTY (EP.03)

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