#fmab is one of my fav animes :D

[killjo-q]

Been watching FMA again and I've always wanted to draw Olivier

[alphonseelriic]

Good week to you Sofia!

I'm so proud of you for doing well on such a hard final and feeling good about it! Congrats! 😄

Omg that sounds like a perfect summer day tbh, being able to hang out outside wayyy late (definitely not enough space for that where I live and neighbors would probably complain 😭 lol!). Please enjoy your pool and family again this year! Do you have any favorite foods, seasonal or otherwise? To fill those long tables I imagine. 😉 Thanks for sharing a bit of your culture!

Omg same tho, I always kinda envied people who knew exactly what they wanted cus I surely did not either lol and kinda stumbled into my field today too, for better or worst lol. But that's great, you took reading and found something you could see yourself doing! As long as your enjoying what you do and have plans for what's next, I think you picked just fine! And oh! Text correcting, that's different!! Feel like I should ask then, what's your favorite book? Any favorite quotes? 👀

Hey, me too about anime fueling me to the manga!! Thats how I got into the few I have read lol. SxF IS SO GOOD, Im also the one who is entirely in love from the anime haha. I'm glad to hear you were able to find such characters to relate to!!

And you have such lovely fav colors too, they really fit with how warm and kind it feels talking to you!! ❤ (sorry these asks are so long btw, trying to cut down 😭 but I love hearing all your responses and have more to say!)

But to ask the importance, which scenes in FMAB, Haikyuu, SxF or MP100 (feel free to pick a few or just one) are your fav? 👀

- Animanga 🎅

Hi hi secret santa 💕 hope you had a great week too!!

Awww tysm for the congrats :') I took my last exam (for the time being) this tuesday and now I'm finally free for a while 😎 feels really rewarding indeed heheheh

Yeah it's honestly a perfect plan for me too!! I understand :/ here we usually choose the house of whoever family member/friend has the most space lol but I'm sure things get harder for people who live in small neighborhoods or apartments 😔

Oh this is a hard question for me bc I love food HAHAHAH I'm pretty sure my favorite christmas meal (more of a snack tho) is panettone, my mom's homemade one with chocolate chips specifically :') Some dishes and snacks from my country that I really like are empanadas (almost any filling, but fried ones with meat are top notch), locro and alfajores :D Other random food I like a lot are ravioli and salami sandwiches (or salami anything tbh). You're welcome!! I love talking about it ❤️ I would also love to know what your favorite foods are!! If you don't mind telling me ;)

Awww thanks so much for the reassuring words!! I honestly really enjoyed going through this path so despite the doubts and insecurities I still don't regret it :') Congrats on finding a field that fits you!! And don't worry about it taking a little longer for you, we all live and discover ourselves at our own paces❣️

Oohhh boy, this is gonna be a long list hahaha Some of my favorite books are:

Pride and prejudice -Jane Austen (I want to read more books from her, haven't had the time yet)

Wuthering Heights -Emily Brontë

Anne of Green Gables / Emily of New Moon -Lucy Maud Montgomery

Howl's moving castle -Diana Wynne Jones (inspired the ghibli film!!)

Lengua madre -María Teresa Andruetto

La sombra del viento -Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Metamorphosis -Franz Kafka

Pax -Sara Pennypacker

Fairy Oak (book saga) -Elisabetta Gnone

The Secret Garden -Frances Hodgson Burnett

These are just a few, I don't have much time to read for myself ever since I started uni unfortunately :( I have to read so much for it that it kinda sucks out all of my will to read in my free time lol

It seems our taste keeps aligning when it comes to anime/manga ;) aww you're so sweet 🥹 talking to you is just as lovely!! I'm so glad to have you as my secret santa 💕 please don't apologize for the length, I love these long messages!!

Oohhh another really interesting question 👀 some of my favs are:

[spoilers below]

FmaB: when Ed comforts Winry after she failed to kill Scar, when Al finally gets the chance to get his body back but has to refuse it bc it's not strong enough to keep fighting for the ones he loves 🥺 Ed and Winry's final scene in the train

Mp100: when Mob helps that girl restore her notebook with the story she wrote, when Mob and Reigen made up after their fight and Mob tells him he's a good person :')

Haikyuu: when Tsuki scores a point against Shiratorizawa, most moments where Hinata gets his crow wings, when Yamaguchi makes a successful serve against Aoba Johsai in S2 (there were probably many more but the show is kind of a blur in my memory rn, I should probably rewatch it someday)

SxF: most shenanigans between Anya and Damian, when the family welcomes Bond for the first time and he finally gets a home, whenever Yor saves Anya from trouble (but honestly I enjoy all the little moments in this show..)

Hope that works!! I can think of more if you want ✨ until next time 😘

[haleigh-sloth]

So I know FMA and Black Butler are manga women have written... what other ones are there? In your recent post I saw you have another favourite manga made by women excluding FMA, what is it?

I personally enjoy reading female authors depending on the story. Of course I can’t speak for them all, but I notice they don’t over-sexualize characters, even the men in their stories. Not saying it’s all male authors who do this, but they seem to over-sexualize characters more in their stories then women? What always gets me is when men say they don’t know how to write women but yet some women do it so easily... I feel men overthink it. We are opposite genders, not an alien species 👽 Like, just write a character and just label it a women?

Gonna answer all of these together.

First anon-yeah, idk dude like just create a human being and make them a woman. I’m not a writer tbh so I can’t say much more than that—but that seems pretty simple enough. I’m gandering that he just has no interest in incorporating female characters into his story unless it’s to draw them super sexualized in a very detailed way—because he sure as hell puts a lot of detail into it when he does this 🙄🙄🙄 I haven’t really made much commentary on this issue of his because it’s just...A Thing™️ that happens in manga and it is definitely NOT okay, and if we all really wanted go into it-our conversation could last for days about women in general being over sexualized in manga, and also just not being written into the story properly or utilized as an actual character—BNHA is absolutely not the only manga with this issue. I’m not excusing Horikoshi by any means but I’m just almost desensitized to it at this point. Isn’t that sad? Anyway.

So FMA is written by Hiromu Arakawa. Surprise surprise—FMA is one of the greatest stories of all time—in art, story telling, characters, and most importantly (to me) the ending is fuckin STELLAR. I say it a lot—top tier ending. I really hope we get one like that for BNHA.

In that particular post I mentioned my two fav manga of all time but I’ll list a couple more because they’re also written by women—but they’re Shojo so they may not be up you guys’ alley.

Fullmetal Alchemist is my top favorite manga of all time. I read that story in middle school—I didn’t leave my couch for three days and I was up all hours of the night because I couldn’t put my laptop down. And the anime FMAB is amazing also. At least once a year I get in a mood where I need familiarity and I just rewatch FMAB from beginning to end and I fall into the rabbit hole again for several months lol. It just has a very special place in my heart and it will never be replaced. This last panel reduced my 12 year old little to tears.

My second favorite of all time may end up getting replaced by BNHA depending on how it ends—but as of right now it’s still D. Gray-Man. D. Gray-Man is written by Katsura Hoshino (who I recently found out has the same birthday as me 🤭)

D. Gray-Man is still ongoing and it’s coming out on a quarterly basis due to the mangaka’s carpal tunnel. I started this one in high school it was my hyperfixation pretty much all throughout—but due to her health the chapters started slowing down and then eventually went on a very long hiatus. But now they’re coming out regularly—just sparingly. But D. Gray-Man is a very VERY good story—like breathtakingly so. It’s been ongoing since 2004. Almost 20 years and I’m still following it—and I’m gonna see it through til the end even though I’ll probably be like 30 lol. Possibly older. I recommend it but just know the chapters are currently coming out slowly. But Hoshino’s are is just—

Her artistic talent is unreal. Her coloring style HEAVILY influenced mine. The coloring style is very present in my current drawings. And Arakawa’s drawing style influenced mine as well.

I have a very very deep love for both of these stories. You have no idea.

Ahhh two more manga that were written by women but also are shojo so it’s not quite the same:

Fruits Basket and Ouran High School Host Club

Fruits Basket is good—I’d recommend it highly. They also are about to finish the anime remake that I’ve been wanting for over a decade. Written by Natsuki Takaya

OHSHC is definitely not for everybody. It’s very slice of life kind of? It’s a love story. The most interesting part about it are the two main characters—the love interests. Everything else about it is just fun light hearted stuff—no high stakes or anything. There is a climactic moment but it’s not life or death or anything lol. I recommend this if you’re just bored and need a fun read. I re-read it like once a year also because sometimes I just want a good love story—and this one is it. So is Fruits Basket. OHSHC is written by Bisco Hatori.

Also—thank you for reminding me that I need to get into black butler. I watched it but I always prefer the manga so I need to get into that one. Also another story by Hiromu Arakawa is Silver Spoon. I watched the anime and it was good so I’m gonna read it to get the full story. It’s not high stakes either so it’s more of a breather story but it was still enough for me to binge watch the anime. So yeah—those are my two favs of all time—written by ladies. Thanks for letting me ramble about my favorite things guys!

[sidsinning]

Top 10 anime’s ?

I'm not one to have definitive rankings tbh

Too much to think about

All I know is my #1 is Gintama

Then I can name some general favs in no particular order

FMAB

The Devil is a Part Timer!

Mob Psycho 100

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4

Ouran High School Host Club

Card Captor Sakura

Akatsuki no Yona

D. Gray Man

Fruits Basket

[buurnt-toast]

Currently thinking about the watercolor painting i did last month of the elric house for my art project😭❤️❤️ fmab is one of my absolute fav anime ever it means so much to me and this was like my 2nd time using watercolor so I’m really proud of it for being a beginner :> my teacher also liked it :D

[ms6no]

i’m looking for cool mutuals!! here some info about me lol

i’m 13 so don’t be creepy

i’m arab!! i need arab mutuals :(

i like demon slayer, tokyo revengers, blue period, a bit of blue flag, dr stone (the manga of course) tbhk and MAYBE soon, fmab!!

i play bang dream! (i recently made a japanese apple id so i have both international and jap ver!) i also recently download project sekai, enstars and twisted wonderland as well as animal crossing pocket camp!!

i also play genshin impact (i’m not in the genshin fandom tho dw), cookie run kingdom, as well as tears of themis! my current fav is luke :D

and if this matters, i main razor lol (i have c1 zhongli too so i’m hot$)

i really do like lots of mangas!! (a bit) i’m gonna read more but that’s for later. i’m also not one of those weird demon slayer fans (since it’s my fav) plus i really love zenitsu to all my zenitsu kinnie out there i love y’all ‼️

im also funny so PLEASE BE MY MUTUAL&):&$:

i also read btw and somewhat like bungou stray dogs i just didn’t read it lol (I HAVE A FEW OF THE BOOKS TOO LIKE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT AND MOBY DICK)

i have mangas too as well heheh

please let’s be friends :((

[queenrojpag]

heya itz! how are you doing? i am glad i was able to recommend you some good animes, i hope you enjoy them :D they are some of my top fav animes ^^ which are your other fav animes? and characters? omg those quotes are so good, i like them too! specially the todoroki one when he says heroes can cry too omg it was pure sweetness! my favs of hawks and dabi are: dabi - "hoped that my own family at least would recognize me, when i have such a respectful name... come dance with your son in hell." hawks - "I just wanna enjoy myself. Seriously. Do some leisurely patrolling, put in a few appearances, say "Aw shucks, no trouble today," and get a good night's sleep! That's my ideal life! I wanna make this world one where heroes have time to kill." i just love them sm, i don't ship them but gosh they give me feels!! so thrilled to see more scenes and fight from those two in the next chapters :D hope you have/had a great day itz!! - lots of love from your bnha secret santa~~

Hi!! I'm fine and you? some of my other fav anime are: devilman crybaby, gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun, fmab, anohana, kiznaiver, re:zero, steins gate, hq!!, shin sekai yori, shingeki no bahamut, kaguya-sama love is war, wolf's rain, kanata no astra, snk, konosuba, kill la kill, shiki, ergo proxy, yoi, gundam ibo.

And some characters: Eren, Mikasa and Armin (snk), Shigeo (mp100), Kanda and Alma (dgm), Subaru (re:zero), Nina (snb), Ash and Eiji (bf).

Those quotes are really good! If I had to choose a favorite quote from them, I would choose those too! and yes, can't wait for the next chapters!

Hope you also have a good day! 💕💕

[hokusu]

Hellooo! First of all, I'm happy that you and Anto are organizing this secret santa event, you're awesome! & now... ho ho ho, here is your secret santa. I hope I'm able to bring you some joy with my gift and our convo :) Sooo SNK and Eren+Levi have a special place in your heart, right? Did you always like this ship? If you want to tell me about other anime/characters pls do!! I just want to get to know you better + hope you have a nice day/night :) - From Your Secret Santa!

Hi!!! So excited to see this message in my inbox! Thank you, we hope you will enjoy this event! 🖤 I so look forward to getting to know you too and am sure your gift will be amazing!!

Yess, SNK used to be the only fandom I was in lol but I've been branching out to the other animes I enjoy too. But yup I love Eren + Levi's personalities & traits but their dynamic together & angst is what stole my heart since I started SNK in 2013. :'D but please don't feel obligated to use them in the gift lol I love a lot of other anime/characters too. To name a few~

BNHA - I'm kinda obsessed with Hawks right now and I love him, esp. with Dabi. I haven't been as excited for a ship since Eren/Levi lol.

Banana Fish - I just finished this last night and I'm in pain, so the interest is fresh but Ash Lynx easily became one of fav characters!

FMAB - Roy & Ed; Haikyuu - Kageyama is my fav!! But I have a soft spot for Nishinoya, Oikawa, Kuroo and Hinata as well; Given - I kinda like and ship almost everybody in this story which is rare, but they’re all beautiful. Akihiko is my fav tho!

There are more, but these are the main that comes to mind besides seasonal anime I watch. Let me know which anime/characters you're interested in and we can talk more about it since this is getting long oops. :’) Have a lovely day/night~

[maagicmiss]

Why do you don't post my hero acadamia drawings and posts ? I liked them

Aw that’s sweet ! I’m glad uu liked them :’)

And I guess I just…. It’s not I dislike bnha but for me it’s a slice of life with typic shounen actions thrown in it. It’s funny and stuff and sometimes very emotional (I had goosegumps at the AFO/OFA fight and at Endeavor’s one) but like,,,

After you get the festival shit and you see them plays eletric guitar. woaw. so impressive i’m screaming it’s crazy i love that what a plot twist and compelling story…..

I think it’s the lack of real plot that make me roll my eyes lmao The manga is about Izuku becoming Number 1 and that’s all. Like. What’s the plot ? You can see Hirokoshi is a bit improvising as he draws it and it’s fine if you like that kind of story !! I’m not saying ti’s shit or that nobody should love it !! I still read the manga but it’s just not the same. I’m really not interested in it anymore cuz I know i could skip an arc and still understand what’s going on.

Personally I LOVE story who’ve been thought from the begining to the end, with really neat plot and amazing characters !! My fav anime/manga are FMAB, Erased, Mob Psycho and ofc SNk. All of them follow the story from point A to point B and it’s amazing. They are perfectly crafted story with plot twists and deep characters and I could watch them over and over ! Mob Psycho is sure set in our the modern world but it doesn’t take away the fun story and more than fantastic and original animation :D

Anyways, I’m not gonna diss bnha for years and paragraphs ahah Just knows I kind of moved on and I’m not really inspired by it anymore but I could still draw bnha fanart x) Who knows ?

[sapphire-and-ice]

Hey I saw you said you used to watch anime a lot- I did too bit I kinda got out of it and now I'm trying to get back into it. Anything you remember that you'd recommend?

I’m probably not the best to ask tbh! I watched mostly popular ones that everyones seen, Black Butler, Hetalia, FMA/FMAB, OHSHC etc. I’d recommend No. 6 (my personal fav, and the manga is even better) and Magi (and by extension, The Adventures of Sinbad)!  But i literally haven’t watched anime regularly in like years so D: 

[todokori-kun]

OMG I’m so sorry for this late reply, now you probably won’t see this until you get back ;-; I hope you have a great time, though! :D

(I’m also away from home right now- at Jeju island! The view is so beautiful <3)

And ok, ok: Remember our Saiko/Urie ship that NEEDS to somehow overpower Mutsuki/Urie? I just remembered one of the reasons I started shipping it in the first place…there was an omake where Saiko’s jokingly asking the Qs to state her ‘good points’ (this is after Shirazu’s death and I think Mutsuki was either with Torso or on their own during this period so it’s basically Saiko, Urie, and the new Qs (Hsiao, Higemaru, Aura)). Hsiao surprises everyone by commenting that Saiko is unexpectedly sexy and cute. Higemaru tells her that’s gross, which makes Saiko pouty…she then sees Urie passing by and asks him “What about you, squad leader?”

Urie just smiles this really gentle, warm smile and

“Yonebayashi’s good point…on days like today, when my work has left me exhausted, whenever I look at you I feel relieved.”

(And Saiko smiles back and she’s blushing omg)

And new chapter of TG Re and Touken just keeps getting more and more ‘WTH’. Touka just told Ken she’s pregnant? And Ken’s freaking out a bit, but guess why? Because to him, Touka’s casual attitude means that she’s given up on trying to rescue Yoriko despite the fact that she’s found out what’s happened to her (Touka’s choosing her child over her friend). I think he's hurt that Touka has been forced to make that choice.

But why is he not thinking about his mom. Or Akira. Or Arima. Or the Qs. Why is he not having traumatic flashbacks. I mean, not only has Kaneki never had a 100% healthy relationship with a parental figure, he’s never been a good parent figure himself either (admittedly he’s only ever been one to the Qs but look what he did to them). Why is the Yoriko situation the only thing he’s worried about? Why is he so cool about the kid? I feel like he should be super insecure and terrified and maybe not even want a child…is that just me?

(Also wow, Ken truly is the next Arima. Re is going to be a tragedy after all, isn’t it)

I lowkey shipped Tatara/Eto…then of course Tatara just had to go and die and Eto disappeared. Typical TG ship. As for Eto/Noro, the fandom would bash that kid so hard for being op XD (but wouldn’t it also be a bit creepy? Noro seems to have been the one who raised Eto and he must have been around Yoshimura’s age…though admittedly I’d ship that too if the whole backstory about Yoshimura giving baby Eto to Noro suddenly disappeared. The height difference is cute ok)

Running Titans are like me running from my problems. For another hilarious manga thing, have you ever read that one omake Ishida drew about the time he went to Tokyo for a party and ended up at the hospital? It just proves that Ishida is the King.

Omg? That’s actually pretty cool XD

And tysm. Seriously, it’s not just the OCs, I talk too much about everything and you always listen and answer so really, thank you.

Looking forward to our next convo :D <3

P.S:

Idk how this happened but I’ve started shipping both Tatsuo and Naomi with Shuu. Like, either Tatso and Shuu are a thing, or Tatsuo is totally not in love (MAGNIFICENT BASTARDS DO NOT HAVE HEARTS OK) so he matchmakes Shuu and Naomi to make his baby sister happy (and he is so not dying on the inside everytime he sees them together. He finally did something right for his sister but  w o w does it hurt seeing Shuu look at her like that). Or they’re an OT3.

I’m sorry this is so weird. I even have headcanons for all the ships OTL what is happening XD 

Think I forgot to add this but ALSO:

I’ve started Fullmetal Alchemist! :D I was planning to never actually watch or read it because I hate the process of getting into new fandoms (like, I have so much to read and watch already, do I really need another one??? That was what I told myself with YoI but then everyone was talking about it and I just couldn’t resist) but then. One of my favorite reaction channels reacts to FMAB…and after they stopped reacting to animes I know for a while, I got bored and decided to try the FMA reactions. Why not?

“I mean, it’s not really my thing and the characters don’t seem like the type I’d enjoy (Ed seems like a typical shounen protagonist and I’m probably going to dislike him), but hey, it should be good enough, right?”

12 Episode Reactions Later:

Edward Elric you are my new favorite person

Alphonse you adorable bby you remind me of my own little sister and that makes me cry

Didn’t expect to like Winry but she’s actually pretty cool

Everytime Lust appears ‘I’m too hot- HOT DAMN’ from Uptown Funk keeps playing on repeat in my head, she makes me helpless

Lowkey ‘crushing’(not quite the right word but hey) on Scar. You ship with sweethearts like Shuu then I go and swoon over wanted criminals

And finally, Hughes…I knew you were going to die because I heard a lot about FMA on tumblr and your death scene is legendary in the anime/manga world. But can I just say.

WhY diD YoU haVe tO SaY gOoDbyE

(And as for Nina, I also knew what was going to happen to her but just…let’s ignore that. Yeah.)

The channel didn’t have reactions for all the episodes though, and besides, it’s hard to hear the actual lines over the reactions sometimes, so I’m currently reading the manga from where I left off with the anime :) I’m only in the middle of volume 5 so far but it’s great!

Congratulations! After suffering from Hamilton, TG Re and the MCU, you have finally managed to drag me into a fandom!

(It’s just one success though >:^) and I’m busy thinking of a new fandom for my revenge…fear me)

FMA UPDATE: Scar is no longer my only problematic crush/fav. There’s also Greed. Not Greedling (I only just read through the real Ling’s first appearances, I’ve never seen Greedling in action before and I only know a few minor things about him), the original Greed, the guy with the cool sunglasses.

I’m sorry Queen Luna, you shipped me with a perfect pure cinnamon roll and this happens OTL

I’m really, REALLY sorry for spamming you now but hey, actually starting looking up FMA on tumblr and OOPS I’m stupid as heck OTL Why did I think Daddy Elric and Father were the same person omg (probably a mixture of similar character designs and fake spoilers I read long before I read the manga lololol)

*Waltzes into the room*

sO WHaT’d i mIsS??

Not much, apparently hahah Just Evans getting into a new fandom and coming to hunt me down. The usual, basically. 

OK BUT BEFORE I PROPERLY REPLy, I JUST HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT MY LAST TWO WEEKs, BECAUSE THEY WERE A MIX OF HELL ON EARTH AND HEAVEN ON EARTh, LIKE DAMN

Kkkkk, so firstly a bit about the systematics of the camp (I can already tell you I’ll start ranting, sorry ^^;;;). There are 3 separate programs, Resident Cam, Teen Adventure and Teen Sailing. Resident is when you stay in the camp the whole 2 weeks and have 5 activities per day that you choose yourself. You also do other amusing stuff, mostly in the evenings.  Adventure is when you go around Croatia and experience random adventures, like paintball, rock climbing, bridge jumping and so on. Sailing is when you spend 1 week in the resident camp, and you spend the whole week learning how to sail smaller boats and when that weeks is over, you board sailboats and sail around costal Croatia for a week.

I did Resident 3 times, Adventure 2 times and Sailing Once (this year). It was also my last year in the camp, since you can go there as long as you’re younger than 18. Next year, I’ll be 18.

Aaaanywho, the reason why I consider it hell on earth is because it was FULL of rich snobs and I was dying. There was this one girl in particular who seemed to hate me for absolute no reason and she was such a huge bitch. She also reeeeaally liked having the undivided attention of boys on her and would do some quite drastic things to achieve that. For example, sitting so that her elbows were pushing her bewbs up, or randomly yelling, in english ‘Oh no, my bra unclipped!!’ even tho she had friends from her country who would’ve understood her had she said it in her language. 

OTHER THAN THAT, I saw dolphins and sea horses!! IT was so cute *^*

OHOHO and at one point, we went bridge jumping. And there were some guys hanging from hammocks from the bridge. I saw them, but didn’t think much of it. And then one of them got up to actually jump. My brain ‘AND I WAS LIKE DAMN BITCH YOU FINE’.

One of the most attractive guys I have seen in my entire life. Pretty much everything I (physically like). Slightly longish hair kept in a bun. Blonde. Blue eyes. Tall, but not a giant. Muscular. And as if that didn’t have me drooling, once they were done, he. Put. On. Glasses.  CALL THE POLICE AND THE FIREMAN.

Seriously, literally helpless.  ‘Then you walked in and my heart went boom’.

Now onto the actual reply ^^;;;;

WHAT WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN I DEMAND LINKS I NEED IT HNNNNNNNGH Ishida is pure evil. Like, he gives us that, but doesn’t make it canon??? TOUKEN IS CANON AND IT HAD AS MUCH INTERACTION AS A SEA URCHIN HAS WITH AN EAGLE OR SOMETHING. 

The internet here is sucky so I haven’t caught up with everything yet =3= Soon, hopefully.

But that does seem very OOC for Kaneki :/ Is it just me, or did everything start going downhill when Touken appeared? If someone told me ‘kaneki finds out Touka is pregnant, guess his reaction’, my answer would be ‘hysterics, screaming, old traumas surfacing, potential thought of the Qs, deFINITELY NOT CALM’.

If we ever doubted Re wouldn’t be a tragedy, we were truly naive. 

Tatsuo, Shuu and Naomi are the definition of Satisfied if that happens. I know my sister like I know my own mind You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind If I tell her that I love him she’d be silently resigned He’d be mine She would say, “I’m fine” She’d be lying. 

Dude, if you thought FMA would be ‘just another anime’, you were NAIVE!!  It’s actually the first anime I’ve ever watched (or second, depending on whether you count ATLA as anime) and it’ll always be on my top ‘to recommend’ list, because it’s an actual masterpiece. Edward is just so cute, I want to hug him, especially before his growth spurt.  Al is the purest cinnamon roll, he deserves protection.  Shoulda known you’d go with Scar... I must say, though, Greedling and Mustang are the top for me.  Well, for FMA it really doesn’t matter a single bit if you read the manga or watch the anime. I mean, the manga is a tad bit better, because you understand some references, like Yoki’s backstory, but you can also know it from watching the older, original FMA anime. 

Idk, I don’t like Greed all that much. Didn't have enough time to develop, and Greedling is a tad better imo ^^;;

Naaah, don’t worry about spamming me! I was really happy to come back to so many messages from you ^^

[icharchivist]

I was tagged by the sweet @undonesam​ and amazing @kigamin​, thank you <3 

1. Favorite anime?

atm it’s definetly Hunter x Hunter and I can’t think straight about anything else, but in general Fullmetal Alchemist and D. Gray Man are always up there. 

2. Worst anime?

oh my I rarely watch anime if i’m not recommanded to watch them so I managed to avoid a lot of bad stuff. But when I started watching anime I fell on some harem anime like L/ove H/ina that made me deeply uncomfortable.

3. Do you read manga that goes with the anime?

Usually ye, I’m actually more the kind to read than to watch anime. For some mangas (dgm and fma for exemple) it’s actually hard for me to watch the anime adaptations at time ahah. Anyway I usually prefer to read the manga so if I start an anime and like it, I will check the manga, or read the manga first. 

4. Most favorite genres?

lmao I agree with Kigamin, hxh is it’s own genre and this is a good one. Usually I admit I like adventure stuff, I usually easily get into quite light stories that tends to get somewhat darker as it goes by. I like also thinkpieces, the kind of manga that have you push some thinking in general.  I’m really into characters driven stories, especially when you focus on multiple characters. 

otherwise I like light comedies, mostly in the romance or sport genre. 

5. Least favorite genres?

harem, ecchi, loli/shota, all this kind of stuff. I usually get easily turned off if there’s too much fanservice or gross elements.

6. Favorite character?

oh my. At the moment it’s Kurapika. Like ,,, i’m too invested for this shit I love him ways too much. atm he’s all I can think of. 

But Lavi from dgm and Ling/Greed/Greeling from FMA are always quite in the top and considering I’m not as involved in those mangas than in hxh, it’s quite telling that those two remained this high in my favs after all those years. 

7. Least favorite character?

depends if you mean “character that I hate because of their actions”, in which case, Shou Tucker from FMA is a really, really good starting point lmao

or “character I don’t especially like and isn’t that much of a bad person but I just don’t like them” in which case, Nea from DGM. And okay, he’s technically a bad person, but considering how everyone talks about him I get r e a l l y pissy because I just. Can’t stand him lmao. (I’m starting to have the same feeling with Mana D.Campbell too). The problem with those two characters is that /I know/ they’re going to be developped more and I’m looking forward to their development because for now, they’re at the really begining of what’s interesting in their storylines, but considering the hiatus and all (although no blame to Hoshino-sensei), I don’t feel much for them and I’m just kinda hicky to see them everywhere. (especially with how quickly people loved Mana while there’s still a major ignoring of the Earl so far and that I think I’m going to yell if I see one more “it’d be cool of the Earl became Mana again” no, fuck you.)

8. Qualities you like in a character?

Suffering.huuh jk jk, but idk. 

I usually kinda like the fun and/or teasing character with a Tragic BackStory or kinda dark motivations but who gets kinda torn between the happiness they could have, esp thanks to others people, and the duty they put upon themselves? 

It really depends. I love characters that often asks to go a bit deeper to read. I love to analyse characters and see complex characters. But usually if the character is a smart mouth who often teases others characters or try to make them feel better, I tend to love them.

(like, I fell for Kurapika when he was teasing Leorio, he hits about all the others mark, smartmouth, sometimes cheer people up, kinda tragic, complex, following his duty even if it hurts him while he can be happier with his loved ones. A bit the same with Lavi, he’s always teasing, quite a smartmouth, he sometimes cheer people up, he’s really worried for people, but his duty as Bookman holds him back and he’s torn between how he wants to help in the war for his friend and his duty that require him to not have a heart.  Ling is a bit less torn about it all but he’s really all about his duty, he’s a smartmouth too, he really puts people in big situations by teasing them, and he usually know what to say to motivate people (like Greed). That’s kind of the patern I’d see with my favs)

9. Short or long anime?

huuuuh mostly I prefer long stories so usually long, but again, I rather read the manga if the medium is too long, I rarely have the attention span to watch a long anime. (ie why it’s a miracle I watched hxh2011 in 3 weeks.)

10. Anime or manga?

Usually Manga (if it wasn’t obvious by now o(-( ).  Anime often uses Fillers or cut scenes and both makes me hicky when it goes against the canon’s characters development or kinda screw with the timeline of the manga.

And the thing that usually makes me the saddest about it is that also, I love to see the art progression of the mangaka during the manga. Some changes are spectacular and I love to compare the artstyle, and, rightfully so though, an anime usually try to be coherent in their artstyle but  y e. That’s my major grip against the DGM’s anime because the artsyle is either surreal or so beautiful in the manga and the anime doesn’t really manage at either o(-(

11. How do you choose the anime you watch?

Usually it’s intense recommanding from people I trust. A few times it could be because of my tumblr dash (I watched gsnk like that)  but usually I need someone I really trust to insist I should watch said anime. (and I’m legit the worst at that, it’s been 6 years a close friend wanted me to start hxh, 1 year that another close friend insisted as well, I started it last December after all this time, so it’s telling of how bad I am with it).

12. Skip or listen to intros/outro?

Always watch and listen to them. A Good anime is an anime I’m trying to sing along the intros/outros of. Besides you never know which anime could hide easter eggs or bonus in or after those!

13. How do you cope with friends or family don’t like you watching anime?

huuuh friends are chill, they know me and they know I get really invested in stuff, sometimes they laugh a little because I’m really getting in too deep but they actually even sometimes push me to talk about it. I have a friend who started some of the animes I kept talking about because of that, it was sweet.

Parents and family is not really good tho. I kinda want to act like “I don’t care” and all, but my family tends to over-tease me on it all, and it often gets downright racist in arguments, so it makes me especially uncomfortable. I’m someone who often wants to talk about the things that I love and I know I can’t really with my close family, which is why I’m so loud on there. If I mention anime or honestly anything I like (or hell, if we end up accidentally zapping on said stuff on TV and I don’t do anything), I get a two hours long teasing that gets kinda hurtful at times and again, when it comes to anime, with a racist edge to them or a “that’s why everyone is violent” lecture. 

I suppose this blog is my coping of it all I guess? lmao.

14. Do you stop an anime midway if you don’t like it?

Ye. I mean I stopped midway in animes I actually liked but had no energy to pick up and I’m not sure I’ll even pick them up. Hell, I never finished watching say, FMAB or both anime of DGM because I didn’t feel like it. So if there’s an anime I don’t actively like, I’ll drop it. I don’t like forcing myself to watch stuff.

wouhou that was long. 

Anyway I tag @ttachibana, @killuabs, @kimievii, @nadejdaro, @unnoticed-and-necessary, @caruchan- aaand @mariyekos

if you want to ofc :D

Take care!

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(1/2) One of 2003 FMA's OP is Melissa :). All FMAB OPs and EDs are great but my favorites are Hologram, Golden Time Lover, and Rain. Yes yes DS has a very cool animation (as expected of ufotable with the unlimited budget works), and Violet Evergarden has some of the most beautiful art out there (I'm looking forward to the movie <3). For animation I'd go with Violet Evergarden, Made in Abyss (for the scenery and background art), and ufotable's Fate Series... - santa #2

(2/2) (whether it's Zero, Unlimited Blade works, or Heaven's Feel). I haven't seen Promare. I think I should :D. My fav OSTs are Shinsekai yori (by Shigeo Komori), and overall I always love Yuki Kajiura's work (like with Madoka Magica and Heaven's Feel). I'm into slice of life too, I haven't seen the titles you mentioned D: but I notice that people are saying Non Non Biyori and Kakushigoto are great. My favorites are Barakamon and My Roommate is a Cat. What genre do you enjoy most? :) -santa #2

Hii Santa dear, so sorry for this late reply! Been a bit swamped with holiday things and being forever tired, but Happy Holidays!! Hope you’re able to have a lovely few days. ^^

I listened to Melissa earlier and omg the nostalgia of hearing it!! Deff feels like the anime music from back in the day haha but I do love it and remember that song! Agree!! My favorites are Period, Rain, and Again! :D

I have yet to see the first Violet Evergarden movie, but I too look forward to the 2nd one. Omg I love Made in Abyss too (I was not ready for how dark that anime became though tbh?? lol, also they have great OST). Oops, I haven’t seen all of Fate, but I really should. As for the other ones you mentioned liking :O I’m going to listen to some of their OSTS then!

Ooh Barakamon is so good! Have you seen Handa-Kun too? Also, Kakushigoto kinda reminded me of those two in a way. For anime I tend to throw myself into most, it’d probably be Shounen. But I really do love a good slice of life? I’ll need to check out the one you mentioned. ^^ To name another one, Sangatsu no Lion has stunning art/osts and story!

Also sports anime...I swear I don’t really go in thinking I’ll love it and then I become so invested, it gives me life. So yeah I guess those are my most enjoyable. What’s your favorite genre? :D ❤ ❤  

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Anime Tag Game

Tagged by @roxi4! This was fun thinking about (pretty sure I also forgot some animes lol) but thank you!! ❤

1. Last anime you watched?

For non re-watches, I last finished Tower of God and am also watching K-ON.

2. Last anime you binged watched?

Bleach. Rewatching!

3. Recommend an anime and state your reason?

There’s 2 I love and really want to rec since it’s kinda underrated.

Sangatsu no Lion -  Most touching, realistic, sad turned hopeful story ever and it’s just a ton of beautiful feels. Also the anime is stunning as hell from the art to the colors to the best OP/ED songs and seriously I cannot recommend this enough! This show deserves all the love and the rewatch is just as good!!

Chihayafuru!! - I’m pretty sure I recommend this anime to anyone ever looking for an anime because amazing?? Combine the intensity of a sports anime (but in card game form), the most beautiful characters + development, better romantic aspects than most rom’s I’ve ever seen & all the aspects you can love in an anime tbh lol. Bonus for the great songs and beautiful animation too.

4. Anime you have not finished watching yet?

Too many... I literally start way too much, binge it all, have to wait and/or then get distracted lol. Mostly seasonal anime. Also need to finish HxH actually oops.

5. An anime you do NOT recommend and state your reason?

Sword Art Online. Forever upset that it looked good when it came out and then went down hill after 5 episodes...

6. List your top 5 favourite anime?

Shingeki No Kyojin

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

Chihayafuru

Sangatsu no Lion

Haikyuu!!

7. Of your top 5 anime, list 2 of your favourite ships from each show?

SNK - Eren & Levi ❤

FMAB - Roy & Ed mainly, but I also ship Ed & Winry on screen.

Chihayafuru - Taichi & Chihaya, Arata & Chihaya

Sangatsu no Lion - Not really a shippy show, but maybe Rei/Souya?

Haikyuu!! - Kageyama & Hinata, Iwazumi & Oikawa

8. Of your top 5 anime, list 1 ship that you do not like?

lol I don’t really “hard” dislike any ships tbh, but I also rarely multiship.

9. Of your top 5 anime, list 1 crack ship?

I don’t really know lol.

10. Of your top 5 anime, list your favourite character from each show?

SNK - Eren Jaeger & Levi Ackerman (I’m cheating, but while most ppl love one more than the other, I wholeheartedly love them both equally??)

FMAB - Roy Mustang

Chihayafuru - Taichi Mashima

Sangatsu no Lion - Rei Kiriyama

Haikyuu!! - Kageyama Tobio

11. List 3 of your husbando/waifu and what anime they are from?

Gonna skip this bcus I hate those terms, but just consider all my favs my babies.

12. Favourite anime genre?

Slice of life probably. Also love a good ‘ol shounen obviously lol.

13. Weirdest anime you have seen?

Maybe Arakawa Under the Bridge cus it’s pretty weird lol.

14. Subbed or dubbed?

Subbed always.

15. Fanart or Fanfic?

Both deserve all the love.

16. Protagonist or antagonist?

Both depending. Love me a good antagonist.

17. Funniest anime you have seen?

Working!! or Saiki Katsuo which I highly rec both!

18. Saddest anime you have seen?

I’m not sure?? Sangatsu no Lion has some really sad parts. But also maybe Violet Evergarden? (Also we all know SNK breaks my heart all the time).

19. Anime character you dislike the most?

Uh.. Floch maybe from SNK?

20. Recommend an anime movie?

Promare!! I always rec this movie since it’s super fun to watch, has awesome soundtracks and honestly just puts you in a good mood. 

This is so long, so sorry in advance lol and no pressure to do this at all but tagging @evilwvergil @yuuki-ko  @tatakaeeren @jaegerists @jaegeriz @kenmai & whoever wants to do it, feel free to say I tagged you :D

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(1/3) I haven't seen the 2003 series but it's on my watchlist too. only listened to the OPs and EDs, and they're as great as FMAB's :) My tendency to prefer watching/reading depends on the series and the genre. I agree with you that actions may benefit from the animation and the soundtrack. Which anime do you think has the best animation, and anime with best soundtrack? I think I watch anime more than I read manga & LNs, as I normally start from there and then decide whether I should pick up

(2/3) the source material :)) though sometimes it's the other way round. Tonikaku Kawaii is as ridiculous as it gets!! Things in the first episode didn't sit right with me but the proceeding ones are surprisingly enjoyable, and it's full of fluff :D so I think it's a nice watch for the weekend after a long exhausting week. Hope I'll like Jujutsu Kaisen too, since been seeing positive response. I'll most likely start next Monday after I complete binge watching Clannad.

Oh no dear Santa #2, I think Tumblr lost your 3/3 msg D:

Trying to remember what the OP/ED were for the 2003 FMA, but I can’t remember...I think I may have heard them at some point? But yay that it is just as good. Every time I listen to FMAB soundtrack I’m still in love like the first time. Which OP or ED is your fav? :D

Best animation oh man, I think I notice how pretty backgrounds/art/details are more than animation lol so idk if I know a “best”. But hmm, Demon Slayer definitely up there (lol unlimited budget works), and also Violet Evergarden and Promare I enjoyed so much. Andd I’m loving the Mappa Animation in the final season of SNK (and in JJK). ^^ For OST, I’m also gonna have to also go with SNK lol. Hiroyuki Sawano is godly and he picks the best singers and all of those tracks always hits SO hard with SNK scenes. Actual perfection. What about you? :O

Agree! I love a good laid back, funny/fluffy/relaxing show. Actually slice of life is one of my fav genres! I don’t know if you’re into more of those little plot/daily life anime but Non Non Biyori, Kakushigoto, and Working!! are some of my favorite :) asdfsfds I haven’t seen Clannad either lol. 

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It's Santa #2 :) FMAB and the manga are one of my faves and I plan to watch the others next year. Been hearing great things about them based on reviews and what has been showing on my dash. And thanks for the feedback, I will keep your tendency in mind ^^. Glad you like Noragami too, at this point I think it's very unlikely to get a third season but the manga gets much more interesting after what the anime ended at. It manga has a very neat art as well (1/2)

(2/2) I like Haru too, though I misunderstood him at first. 😅 This fall I'm currently currently watching Tonikaku Kawaii and Kamisama ni Natta Hi, and will start Jujutsu Kaisen this month. How about you? 😊

Heyy dear Santa #2! ❤  Happy to hear we share FMAB as a fav! ^^  I actually haven’t fully watched the original FMA (tho I know it’s different than the manga with a totally different ending), but I hear good things about it too and I’m planning to one of these days! Did you watch/like that one too?

Ohh I’m so bummed to hear Noragami won’t likely get another season D: maybe one day I’ll pick up the manga too lol (I’m actually kinda terrible and don’t read a ton of manga bcus I like to see the action animated. 😅 Jokes on me for being into SNK & BNHA mangas tho lol). Do you tend to prefer watching or reading?

Oh!! I saw a couple of Tonikaku Kawaii, it’s so ridiculous how they got married but it’s funny lol. Such a light watch, I need to catch up on last few episodes. I haven’t heard of the other one you mentioned tho, so I’ll have to look it up. Haha I’m watching Jujutsu Kaisen :D (I hope you like that one too?), Haikyuu, & SNK this season. ^^ Can’t wait for Winter season too, so many good titles coming back/out! Are there any anime you’re looking forward to?

Thanks for dropping by again and feel free to ask anything else if I can help with giving you ideas! Hope you’re staying warm this winter ❤ ❤