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At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.

You must unlearn this.

You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.

If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.

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OMG, I’d suspected the Maison Ikkoku fansubs I’ve been watching for the past few eps (since only a few subbed eps are on YT and I’m too scared to look for stuff anywhere besides archive.org) were Old Internet for a bunch of reasons and I was RIGHT. The next time I get pissed off about awkward translations or missing entire lines of dialogue, I’ll have to remember I’m watching HISTORY

(video is 10 years old and the video description indicates it’s a nostalgia upload. It def seemed 90s-early 00s internet chic)

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Maison Ikkoku is the most romantic anime of all time 🥰

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Shoutout to anime staff for leaving out the line where Yotsuya’s jealous Kyoko didn’t trip and fall onto him, then animating the hell out of this

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She ships it

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I just won't stop , the treasure's with me. I said it before, I was born to be

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OMFG, I'd read years ago about people speculating that Yotsuya was the same character as a similarly-designed short story character who was a secret agent, but this whole time I'd been imagining like an actual spy drama with a character who happened to look similar...I Google it now (Rumic World story "Dust Spot" / "Dust Spurt" / apparently published in the US as "Wasted Minds") and— X'D

This is ALL I can find online short of actually reading scans on a sketchy website. Literal garbage man standing on and sitting in garbage. Why am I surprised

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Still checking the Maison Ikkoku manga after watching each episode and (assuming the anime dialogue was taken right from the manga) I can't beLIEVE Viz localized out Ikuko calling Godai "big brother" (in the new translations anyway, she just calls him "Godai"),

but shoutout to this one fansubber for hearing "Godai-oniichan" and translating it as "Godai-the-devil" X'D

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I've rarely if ever heard any Ranma songs besides what was actually used on the show, but I just picked up the 2-disc set of all the TV theme songs + a selection of character songs and there's a lot of cute fun stuff on there. Including this, which, as far as I can tell from the translated title "Miracle Limbo Dance," is dialogue and singing of the entire cast having a limbo competition XD There's also a 10-minute track of dialogue and singing featuring all the various characters celebrating Christmas.

(For the seasoned collector, it looks like this CD set has the entire "1991 Song Calendar" album + a few tracks from the "Hot Song Contest" album + a few "DoCo" tracks)

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this may be the greatest thing in history, or at least this month

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Urusei Yatsura, Rumiko Takahashi (1978)  

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Look I know we all say squad goals a lot but until I get a squad whos down to help a depressed ghost, dress up like monsters and call ourselves the creature squad then IDK MAN

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Urusei Yatsura // Rumiko Takahashi

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Shout out to AnimEigo’s 100% official DVD menu screen for Urusei Yatsura: Only You

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urusei yatsura, chapter 273