How do you go from this...

...to this?

>>280003209
Fairy magic.

Huge downgrade tbqh

>>280003412
Hear hear!

So, did anyone buy/check out the BD's? Any changes compared to the broadcast version?

>>280003589
>we got a dakimakura before a figure
bruh

>>280003634
Patience, the figure might still happen.

>>280003697
they don't usually wait for the interest in the franchise to begin waning before releasing merch

>>280003726
Why would it begin waning now? The BD was released like a week ago.

>>280003782
exactly, it was the final thing they had left to release and the interest is going to diminish from now on

>>280003817
Meh, ADHD zoomers chasing the current thing wouldn't have bought a figure anyway, and OG fans would buy it whenever it comes out.

>>280003922
>whenever it comes out.
if ever

>>280003589
The Blu-Ray has the AT-X version (fully uncensored)

>>280003589
Why would they put a fully clothed character on a hug pillow?

>>280005602
it's for the western audience

>>280003199 (OP)
>>280003209
The power of plain white rice.

>>280005602
A fully dressed elf is still lewder than an undressed human.

>>280005805
true

>>280004376
Does it still have the barbie anatomy?

>>280005943
Have you seen the AT-X version? It has Barbie boobs

>mfw motherfuckers deeply care about booba in a wholesome non-lewd show

>>280006172
>deeply care
Who told you that?

>>280006312
I see this whining every time this show comes up.

>>280003817
Excuse me? The LN is still ongoing, the manga is still ongoing, the interest isn't going anywhere. If anything, the show was an ad for the manga, meaning the audience could've grown and there's actually more interest now as opposed to less.

>>280006172

>>280006547
anime audience >>> manga audience

>>280003199 (OP)
Why is she locked to cardinal directions? Is she controlled using a d-pad?

>>280003589
Why is every isekai using that fucking font

>>280006750
How new are you?.. 90% of modern day anime is solely made as an advertisement for its source material. Welcome to Japan Ms. Elf is no exception, it's only a great example of the rule. It has a shit ton of characters and plot lines that are abruptly interrupted in order to pique your curiosity and push you towards buying the manga or the LN to find out what happened next. It's the oldest trick in the book.

>>280006829
This font? I haven't seen this one anywhere else, it looks unique to me.

>>280006830
Is that proven to actually work? It feels like in japan people already the manga/LN anyway, it's the reason why anime even happen. And in the west most people can't be bothered to read a manga. They would rather sit through 100 hours of fillers or wait for years and scream about spoilers instead of sitting down for a weekend with the manga to catch up.

>>280006830
for every chump who sat down and read through the entire manga there's gonna be dozens who binged the cartoon because they were bored or curious

>>280006812
hearty kek

>>280006906
I don't have the exact sales figures for the LN, but I know it went purely digital at some point, meaning the sales weren't good enough to justify paying for physical storage space.
>And in the west most people can't be bothered to read a manga
Words can't describe how little Japanese media conglomerates care about the West and how little money they make there. The West is like pocket change that's left in your pockets after you buy something important. If you're lucky, there's going to be enough to pay for the bus.

>>280006947
And those chumps who binge anime don't generate money for the IP owners at the same rate as the manga readers, not to mention at a far less steady rate, meaning that manga is more lucrative than anime. Same goes for light novels.

>>280006812
Because four key frames are cheaper to draw than forty key frames.

>>280007101
neither the readers nor the watchers make a lot of money for kadokawa
they just pirate

>>280007197
Surely they generate SOME money, because otherwise publishing (and animation) wouldn't be profitable and no one would do it. And when it comes to the amount they generate, manga wins because it creates a constant and reliable stream of income, like a live service, whereas an anime is a big one-off payment. Furthermore, manga sales go directly into the publisher's pockets, whereas in anime's case they have to share the profit with middlemen as represented by TV channels. Because the publisher holds the IP in 90% of the cases, it's easy to see why they see manga as much more important.

Also, Elf-san is not published by Kadokawa. Bizarrely enough, it's published by Japan's Warhammer franchise holder...

>>280003589
>elf_invites_to_bed.jpg

>>280007101
>Words can't describe how little Japanese media conglomerates care about the West and how little money they make there
This is changing big time rn

>>280007391
The Western market is definitely changing, but Japan is still lagging behind and pretending that nothing has changed because, well, it's Japan. Also any products made with Western sensibilities in mind are guaranteed to flop in Japan (see pozzarus)

>>280006830
>It has a shit ton of characters and plot lines that are abruptly interrupted in order to pique your curiosity and push you towards buying the manga or the LN to find out what happened next
I disagree. They gutted the manga to make the story as self-contained as possible. The ending felt more satisfying and conclusive than that of most originals these days. If you told me that the entire manga was adapted, I would've believed it.

>>280007908
The entire Labyrinth plotline was interrupted right in the middle of a huge exposition dump.

>>280008055
Good, nobody cared about that crap. It's a romcom, not a shonen.

>>280003199 (OP)
el gremlino de la frazada...

>>280008126
Don't pick up the manga if you didn't like it, then. It's 60% isekai and the percentage only keeps growing in every volume.

>>280008278

>>280008126
it's both

>>280008615
No it's not.

>>280008682
getting cocky, are we?
https://mangadex.org/title/1aaa0a4b-78bc-4f39-aa20-145766f83092/welcome-to-japan-ms-elf

>>280008755
>random tags put in place by mangadex shitposters unrelated to the publisher
Yeah, I'm convinced.

>>280008755
I'm just surprised it survived the great purge.

>>280008804
stop embarrassing yourself, every source says this

>>280008869
the reverse isekai section was miraculously almost untouched as a whole

>>280007292
Crossover when?

>>280009031
Reverse isekai once again confirmed for best genre.

>>280009250
more like it's a very tiny genre with not many mangas

>>280009092
NOW

>>280009415
Why isn't such a cool genre more popular?

>>280009751
probably because the japanese prefer familiar things
might as well as why most fantasy is isekai and most isekai is naropa

>>280007391
Why would media made for japanese speakers accommodate other languages? That's like thinking that Bollywood caters to english speaking audiences

>>280009031
>every retard on the internet mindlessly copied the mangadex tags, so they must be true!
Uh-huh.

>>280009851
Wtf is naropa?

>>280010015
a portmanteau of shosetsuka ni naro, the largest fanfic website in japan, and europa
it stands for the kind of setting typical for naroshit: the japanese stereotype of medieval europe with the aesthetics of 19th century europe, it's what the people here call native isekai

>>280008126
>It's a romcom, not a shonen.
Romcom is a genre, shounen is a demographic you retard. Do you think something like this was created for women? You're probably a newfag ESL that can't pick up on context clues and doesn't realize that battle shounen is often shortened to just shouenen because of other ESL retards misusing words.

>>280009950
Because India has a larger population than all of the Western world combined, so it doesn't really need any other markets, its movies can be more profitable than anything released by Hollywood even if they never leave India. Japan, on the other hand, has only 120 million people. That's only as large as Germany and Poland combined...

>>280010332
and that's before even mentioning that a battle shonen can be a romcom as well

>>280010362
>India has a larger population than all of the Western world combined
And poorer

>>280010461
And more dumber

>>280009851
>japanese prefer familiar things
At last I truly see...

>>280010461
That makes them more likely to go to the cinema, not less. Rich people have large TVs that they can use to enjoy movies at home. Many Indians don't have a TV at home at all, but they all can afford a cinema ticket once a week.

>>280010528
Aren't like a half of tech company CEOs in America Indian?

If Frieren could spin like this, she would be the cutest elf of all time

>>280010332
>ESL
>ESL
>ESL
Show me on the doll where the ESL hurt you. I thank the lord every day that I'm an ESL. In my worst horrors I can't imagine being an American, let alone a bong.

>>280007292
So you can basically walk into a Japanese GW and buy Mariabelle's manga there?

>>280010636
>Aren't like a half of tech company CEOs in America Indian?
Why do you think your windows OS is getting worse with every iteration?

Quality thread

>>280011145
Oh, that's a very easy question. Globohomo minimalism and streamlining of everything. I don't believe Indians had anything to do with it.

>>280011027
No, that's not how it works. A Japanese GW shop is still a comparatively regular GW shop, except it's operated by Hobby Japan because running a business in Japan is a nightmare for western company due to cultural differences in... everything. HJ also owns WotC's distribution rights in Japan (D&D and MtG), so there's that.

>>280011388
Isn't D&D a small niche game there?

>>280011443
Yep, it's mogged by Sword World, just like Warhammer is mogged by Gunpla.

>>280005602
Standard practice to have one side dressed, and the other side less dressed or undressed.

>>280010768
be careful with your wishes

>>280011564
I'd question where you know such details from...

>>280011564
but she's dressed on both sides?

>>280011779
The lack of shoes is important.

>>280011646
Jesus, even her spinning is autistic

>>280006172
>wholesome non-lewd show
lol lmao

>>280011717
I like looking at art and fan art. Nearly every time I see a dakimakura advertised, it has a different image for front and back, and the back image is more suggestive.

>>280011779
That'd be the "less dressed" option. She removed her cape and skirt. I'm assuming she didn't remove more because removing more would leave her only in panties or nothing at all, and she's a proper young lady who wouldn't do something so indecent, unlike some other elves.

>>280012246
das it mane, now we're talking

>>280010417
Inuyasha is a romance alright, but I wouldn't say it's a comedy.

>>280012246
>she's a proper young lady who wouldn't do something so indecent
About that...

>>280012866
Human and elf mating rituals...

>>280003199 (OP)
cute retard

>>280011501
>Warhammer is mogged by Gunpla
How can a game be mogged by display figurines?

>>280013957
In both cases, the real attraction is building and painting plastic dudes. What you do with them later is irrelevant. And Gunpla dudes are just better. If mecha wasn't so niche in the West, Warhammer would be finished.

What elfkino are we going to watch in the summer season?

>>280003589
Oh right, they came out on the 14th I even put a pin on the date to remember but haven't checked.

>>280014495
there's none, but you might want to check out mynoghra just in case

>>280014732
Grim

>>280011717
You should be able to infer such a thing from lurking for a couple years.

>>280014732

>>280016139
That's a slime

>>280016820
your mother is a slime

>>280012866
I wish elves were real...

>>280003209
To this?

>>280003199 (OP)
Elf naked under he clothes
nooo, must focuuuus