More countryside horror in 4 hours

>countryside homo

>>280713982 (OP)
>brokeback mountain

>>280713982 (OP)
She's cute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V38A7mT3lhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e08arFlLU-U

Why do we never get cool yuri like this? I wanna see a freaky ass monster lesbian bitch

>>280714314
That's the irrelevant one.

>>280714459
No, you get Wonder Egg Priority instead.

>>280714459
Literally airing later this year, stupid

>>280714459
October

>>280714459
they are cute regardless

>>280713982 (OP)
Why didn't they make her hair white

>>280714467
Bummer

>>280714441
Does it have English subs?

>>280713982 (OP)
>>280714314
More countryside chicks? Best anime of the season if we get at least one scene of them every week.

>>280714632
This would’ve been 100x better

>>280714722
Yes

>>280714740
Thanks! Will watch!

How popular is this anime in Japan really?

Yoshiki will end up with the tomboy in the end so I do not care about this shit.

>>280714938
Yoshiki is literally gay, I doubt it

>>280714938
Baseless headcanon.

i wanna cum all over yoshiki's cute gloomy face

>>280715112
Asako....

>>280715008
Post the page where it explicitly says he's homosexual and not bi.

>>280714738
No, it would have been less interesting.

>>280714938
Unlikely since in the last chapter he's pretty much crossing the line and mixing with Hikaru

>>280713982 (OP)
So all characters are just gay?

>>280715911
Just one gay here

>>280715936
>SMILE & OPTIMISM STATUS:

>>280715936
built for being pounded while bitch-crying in the fetal position

>>280715352
>explicitly
Are you autistic? It's not explicitly stated but pretty heavily implied, he gets upset when it's suggested he'll get a gf and overtly denies it

>>280716184
So there's no confirmation.

>>280716212
the confirmation is in the same panel where the author drew herself looking straight at the reader and calling them out on their lack of reading literacy.

>>280716320
You mean the tweet where she says the aroace aspect is the proper interpretation and not the homosexual one?

>>280716487
>the aroace aspect is the proper interpretation
she said the aroace element is equally as important as the homosexual element.

>>280716566
Wrong

>>280713982 (OP)
>male characters are all pretty male models who basically end up being the chad rapists in shoujo manga
>females are all plain and frumpy
Hmmm....I wonder what demographic this manga is aimed at?

>>280716487
>>280716566

>>280716730
But she's talking about Hikaru in these, Yoshiki is still gay

>>280713982 (OP)
Just like in my Japanese Persona video games.

>>280715008
>>280715893
It doesn’t really matter. That white haired fag will definitely be dead by the end of the show.

Muh cute tomboy gf

>>280717434
Cute Yoshiki wife

>>280716664
Can't you read?
>>280716730

>>280717813
You got btfo'd there's no recovering

Hikaru reminds me of Frieren, a show with barely any substance that's massively overhyped only because there's nothing else interesting to watch

>>280718104
Contrarian award

>>280718153
not really, most fujos will tell you it's overhyped

>>280718267
Sorry it's not super fast paced for your ADHD Cocomelon brain

>>280716730
>>280716759
>aroace
not real

>>280717324
He was never alive in the first place. Such concept don't apply to things beyond the laws of physics.

>>280713982 (OP)
I hope the big girl doesn't die

>>280718104
>there's nothing else interesting to watch
You're saying that the same season Takopi it's airing. The same season as Ruri no Housek and City. The same season as DanDaDan and Gachiakuta. Dude, c'mon.

>>280718367
I don't want to be a bummer but the last chapter she only survived because blind guy sacrifice himself to save her she it's getting very deep into this.

Is the schizo in these threads the same as the shit-eater in the EluSam threads? It kind of feels like it desu

>>280718338
Okay, let me rephrase my reply. Ahem, that white haired fag will definitely be annihilated from existence by the end of the show.

ONE MORE TRY

>>280716682
>females are all plain and frumpy
Good. They're cute.

>>280718593
I'm glad it's not just me

>>280718937
Nah, he'll win

Anyone knows at what time the episodes drop?

>>280719415
It's airing right now
https://www.livechart.me/summer-2025/tv?sortby=countdown

Hot

This show is like a contest of how many visual metaphors of ptsd and nohomo you can cram in per minute of screentime.

Are Erai-raws rips good? Are their releases encoded in h264 or h265 or AV1? I haven't watched anime in years and only started getting back to it this season. I noticed there are a lot of h265 and even AV1 encodes now.

>>280713982 (OP)
>Netflix finally got people to watch BL
You gotta admit that's impressive, everyone thought it was not possible.

>>280719941
Oh, they're still using AVC/h264, thank god. I guess I'll wait for Erai-raws rips, it should be out in 15 minutes, right?

Torrents are out.

>they didn't zoom him on the feet during this scene
LITERALLY RUINED

>>280721110
At least you got this.

>>280721110
>>280721315
mmmh tummy

Aroace monster casually throat-fucking his bff, nothing weird here.

What a player.

I CAN SENSE YOU HAVING GAY SEX

>>280721546
>ara ara, is it okay spending your precious free time at a café with an old divorced lady like me?

Very gay.

Give me sex if you want me to stay with you, SUBSTITUTE.

CAN'T LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE IF LIVING IS WITHOUT YOU~

...
This is even gayer than the last episode.

>>280722021
>>280722075
things aromantic freaks say all the time, btw

It's all your fault, Yoshiki. You need to take responsibility.

>>280722173
They also feel jealous of any rando aunt inviting you to lunch.

OH NONONONONONONONONONONONONO

schizo take: real Hikaru liked Yoshiki in a platonic way, but the monster is the one who fell in love

I don't think it's possible to do a better adaptation of this manga than this

>>280716184
I mean there was also that whole scene where he and not-hikaru talk about another gay guy in the village. He looked particularly pained when he explained to not-hikaru that the guy wasn't "sick" like the villagers called him

>>280722524
But that's what's happened?

Was it rape?

>>280722589
>this feels good
not rape and giwtwm

mfw I have no face

The ABSOLUTE MADMAN of the director included an unprotected gay sex scene. Such guts.
Mods, please don't ban me for this.

>>280721110
I thought the exact same thing. I will never forgive the Japanese.

>>280722589
No, only dubcon.

>>280722688
MR ADVERTIZED, GET DOWN!

Fujo shippers.

>>280722524
Not a schizo take. We’ll find out what's true when the series ends.

You can't no-homo this series, nope.

>>280722910
Author: is that a challenge?

>>280722589
>the fear of being entered and violated being replaced by feelings of unexpected pleasure

After-school classroom not-rape is such a hentai staple.

Jesus Christ it's peak. Waiting for a new episode every week is actually going to suck ass.

Gosh they're both SO CUTE. I just can't understand how you can turn out homo with these two around.

>>280714767
this is so much better than Dandadan though, what's up with that?

>>280723275
#BornThisWay

>>280723308
Dandadan Shounen Jump+ manga.

>>280716730
>>280716759
Do I even want to know what aroace is? Sounds completely made up.

>>280723383
*is a

>>280723308
DDD has wider appeal

Would you hate your bro if he had given you a boner?

When do they get a gf

>>280723674
>>280723718
>>280723759
>>280723798
Thanks for the webms!

>>280721110
>>280721315
I'm kind of glad they didn't, desu

I'll spoil the manga ending for you.

>>280722589
>eyes rolling back in pleasure
Damn. They made it lewder than the manga again

>>280723952
Np

>>280722589
>>280724277
it's been hysterical watching some mentally deranged people go through the mental gymnastics to convince themselves that this is totally not gay

>>280724364
I wish the author didn't pay any attention to the western freaks on social media.

>>280724364
That's just how good friends bond.

>>280723386
It means he's super ungay but also unstraight.

>>280723718
you forgot his beautiful teef

>>280724599
cute snaggletooth

>>280722075
"Liking you" sounds very gay to me.

>>280723386
>Do I even want to know what aroace is? Sounds completely made up.
portmanteau of aromantic and asexual
someone who doesn't have any interest in romance nor sex.
people like that exist but trying to apply that definition of an alien is just silly.

Yoshiki needs to correct this brat and teach him a thing or two

>>280724751
It honestly sounds like the mangaka just didn't quite know what it meant and misused it by mistake.

>>280724755
please understand how tall of a task that is for a sub bottom

>>280724751
>people like that exist
They don't. Wanting to hold hands with your 2D husbando still counts as romantic feelings.

>>280724775
The mangaka didn't use it at all, the post was in Japanese and was mistranslated by a tumblrite. Here's the original:

https://bsky.app/profile/mokmok-len.bsky.social/post/3lbebb3l6ms2w

>The opinion remains unchanged that readers should think freely about the Summer genre of Hikari's Dead, but I believe that it should be a story that is close to those who have been left behind in love and sexual terms, so I describe it as "youth horror."
>I believe that the key is the "fear of not being able to become "normal" and having no place to belong" that is common to a variety of people regardless of their attributes.

>those who have been left behind in love and sexual terms

>>280722524
Plain obvious take more like. Real Hikaru never made any advances like this and was just a goofball.
>>280721628
Sex-haver radar.
Honestly though if the problem is mixing, just stop shoving your arm up your bro, right?
Also ignore the town going insane all the "distortion" or whatever spreading
Feel like this could all be resolved by Nonuki-san going back to living on the mountain, but Yoshiki visiting him a lot. Just make Yoshiki a shrine maiden.

>>280724907
>>those who have been left behind in love and sexual terms
... Robotfuckers? Monstersexuals? Only-gay-for-anime-characters?

I can't wait for all the retarded seasonal anime reaction bro streamers who probably picked it up because it's "horror" to drop it because it's too gay.

>>280724912
>just stop shoving your arm up your bro
BUT HE ENJOYS IT

>>280724688
Hikaru is just so not gay that he doesn't understand how gay anything he's doing is.

>>280722524
>>280724912
Not a manga reader so probably talking out of my ass, but from what's we're seen in the show I feel like the more nuanced view is that we don't know how Hikaru felt, and not knowing is part of what's killing Yoshiki's inside. Like sure, there's probably a 99% chance that Hikaru only saw him like a friend, but the uncertainty of knowing how he would have reacted after being confessed to is the point.
Now feel free to tell me to kms if Hikaru's feelings are made unambiguous in later chapters.

>>280725047
>ywn fondle Hikaru's marinated raw chicken

>>280724907
This makes infinitely more sense than the other translation and actually lines up with the episodes so far.

Gayest line of the year

>>280725144
lines to run away from really fast

>>280713982 (OP)
Weakest episode so far due to having less suspense and horror but I'm really liking the anime so far, I'm reading the manga simulationously and noticed that none of the hunter scenes were in the manga, do they happen later or are they anime original?

the summer hikaru creamed my ass

>>280725010
maybe they'll drop it, but this is right shitty yt video essayists' alley so you won't escape I'm afraid

>>280725365
The anime rearranged some stuff for pacing purposes.

>>280725448
Thank you, I was confused

>>280725448
Yoshiki already accepting notHikaru as his own entity already feels really fast.

>>280714459
Yuri will always be pathetic, just like it is as a fetish

WE'RE JUST

TWO LOST SOULS SWIMMIN' IN A FISH BOWL

>>280713982 (OP)
So is this an Alma Karma from D. Gray-man situation where the female lover reincarnates as a guy so they go the gay route in the present but one of them brutally dies to prevent faggotry?

>>280725427

I can understand watching otome, because at least the main girl is usually cute and the romance is traditional, even though it's from the female perspective. But if you watch this homoshit and enjoy it, you're either female or gay, there's no third option.

>>280725584
No, all signs point to Hikaru being genuinely non-human. No past lives shit.

>>280725534
YEAR AFTER YEAR
KICKING AROUND THE SAME OLD GRASS
WISH YOU WERE INSIDE MY ESOPHAGUS

>>280725610
The direction is just THAT good.

I don't remember Hikaru's mom's face being shown in the manga.

>>280725610
what about small town mysteryfags

i'm so glad this anime exists. we needed a protaginist who sucks cock and eats ass and gets fucked in his ass with cocks and eats cum

>>280725690
I know he's not a human I meant the memory of the true Hikari's ancestor with the head of a girl that has similar eyebrows to Yoshiki.
Although I guess monster Hikaru could simply be obsessed with that bloodline rather than reincarnation.

>>280725610
Are you really so much of a closeted faggot that the concept of enjoying horror seems alien to you?
Like honestly this might be the only anime I've ever seen with good horror direction that's actually meant to be horror instead of pure mystery like Boogiepop or Lain. Most anime these days either botch horror or just do thriller like Promised Neverland.

>>280725769
But the protag doesn't get to do any of that and that's why he's so distraught...

>>280725742
It's kinda weird how both his mom and dad have tons of moles, I was about to make a joke about inbred mountain villages but she's an outsider isn't she.

>>280725769
Bravern aired not that long ago.

>>280725871
Wait shit, that's HIKARU's mom, right.
So she might Yoshiki's dad's cousin or something

>>280725871
considering the placements I thought they were freckles rather than moles

>>280725871
They look more like freckles to me.

>>280725610
dude I'm just waiting for the fighting scenes

>>280726035
here's your fighting scene.
they also wrestle in the bath later.

The summer Hikaru died? Moar liek GAYASS no Uta amirite?

>>280725498
BL is treated 10x more like a fetish in Japan though.

>>280721110
tummy > feet

>>280727061
I don't disagree, but there suppose to zoom in on neck, tummy AND feet

>>280725610
>If a gay man watches a series with an implied straight romance, that means he's straight or female

>>280727144
If it zoomed in on the feet I just know people would make a big deal about "Yoshiki being a foot fetishist" and would never shut up about it

>>280713982 (OP)
The fag shit really drags down everything else. Even if you "don't have a problem with it", it pushes everything interesting about this show aside for more homo scenes. It's fucking annoying. The only good part of this episode was the meeting with the old woman at the restaurant. That's the only part where the horror and suspense shone through. Same with the long neck monster in an earlier episode, that spook was fun. Then the fag ate it and fun was over. The drawn out watermelon scenes and UGUU I'M SOWWY UGUU shit is so fucking boring and cringe. Gays really do ruin everything.

>>280725832
>Like honestly this might be the only anime I've ever seen with good horror direction that's actually meant to be horror instead of pure mystery like Boogiepop or Lain.
For only about 5 minutes per episode when it's not UGUU YOSHIKI UGUU shit though. It's frustrating.

>>280725610
Do you only watch things you can self insert into? People like you are so insecure, you may as well be a scared fag.

>The ecchi shit really drags down everything else. Even if you "don't have a problem with it", it pushes everything interesting about this show aside for more fanservice scenes. It's fucking annoying. The only good part of this episode was the meeting with the old man in the car. That's the only part where the horror and suspense shone through. Same with the kfc in an earlier episode, that spook was fun. Then panty shots and loli and fun was over. The drawn out waitress scenes and UGUU I'M SOWWY UGUU shit is so fucking boring and cringe. Men really do ruin everything.
Its like poetry, it rhymes

>>280729206
People need to learn to get over themselves desu.

>>280722910
>>280724277
I haven't watched this series but this feels like schizo yuri on ice

>>280728952
>go to Chinese restaurant
>complain when you get Chinese food

>the summer hikaru drained my balls

>>280729319
Imagine the monster blowjob, wish it felt like slime absorbing fluids but most likely feels a rotting cock beak absorbing your life force sadly

>>280728889
As if "neck fetishist" or "tummy fetishist" are any better.

>>280729715
The neck/clavicle area and stomach are perfectly normal places to be aroused by. Feet are just gross

>>280728889
>>280729715
>>280729749
Feet are literally THE most common male fetish unless you're an autistic literalist and count everything outside of genitals "fetishes" like boobs. I don't get it, they're gross, it's stupid, but men like them.

>>280729794
t. a deluded footfag thinking they're normal

>>280714632
>genderbent male characters
Not opposed to it every now and then, espcially when they're males with feminine hair. Little to be done with this guy from twin star.

>>280725610
Maybe I just like the animation and direction and scary vibes?

>>280725610
This post was written by a closeted homo

>>280730041
Imo its more fun when you get to be a little creative with their hair, add some of their personality with it.

>>280729206
>>280729242
>>280729292
>Could've been an interesting show for multiple kinds of audiences
>Could've had something going for it independent from any gay romance
>NO THE FAGGOT SHIT HAS TO BE FRONT AND CENTER IT HAS TO BE THE ONLY THING THE SHOW'S ABOUT
LGBTs have a psychotic crabs in a bucket mentality, don't they?

>>280730334
seethe, chudfuck.

>>280729944
I'm not a footfag. I'm attracted to men's hands, scent, and armpits (not uncommon for fujos). But all of these things are less common than men liking feet.

>>280730334
Unlimited Bait Works

>>280730334
The show's just not made for you man, get over it

>>280730334
You made the trannies seethe with this one.

>This tulpa wearing Hikaru's skin is a walking reminder that his friend is gone from this world.
What a fucked up situation. He's trying to delude himself into thinking that at least this way Hikaru is still here, but at some point, he has to face reality.

>>280730507
His reality is that he's catching feelings for it too because it's kind of cute how hard he tries.

>>280730334
>waah why does higurashi have loli pantsu it could've been for multiple kinds of audiences

Man. this show is good.

>>280730416
Is fixating on hands really that rare for men?

>>280730573
You really don't think it's that plus the fact that well he at least looks like and is similar in a lot of ways to the boy he was in love with? I don't think it's "one or the other."

>>280730867
Well yeah, men's hands being used on a woman are way way way more important than the reverse, it's not comparable.

>>280730867
Hands are whatever.
Legs, neck, hair, that's the stuff that isn't just tits/ass.

>>280730334
>>280728952
get filtered, retard.

Someone post the funny face Hikaru made.

>>280731144

>horror anime
>growing up in a small village where gossips travel fast as an incredibly insecure closeted homosexual who's too scared to come out, let alone to confess to your best and only friend
>dude why do they have to shove homosexuality in the show I'm so fucking stupid I couldn't derive a single narrative theme even if the author drill-fucked my skull with it

>>280731502
There's one other homosexual mentioned in the series, and he fucked off to the city and never came back.

>>280731225
When the AIDS kick in

>>280731547
I don't think AIDS would work on an interdimensional alien ghost

>>280730334
Don't see you seething under ecchishit for the same reasons.

>>280731607
>interdimensional alien ghost
AIDS is precisely engineered to kill minorities, also refrain from calling him an alien next time he is an undocumented immigrant

Wait a moment.........
is this yaoi?????

>>280731759
It's yaoi in the same way Madoka is yuri. Like obviously yes but it's not explicit

>>280714459
>monster lesbian bitch
Shounen...

>>280731710
TRVKE

Yeah I think I have a thing for horror village stories, as long as the character writing is mostly good I think I'm able to enjoy it even if they fuck it up in the finale

>>280724364
They're literally acting like a married couple on the rocks in this scene and the schizos are still in denial.

Another solid episode. If it weren't for the shot of the dying sunflower at the end, which doesn't seem to foretell anything good, I would say it ended on a hopeful, positive note. Yoshiki is making the first steps in acknowledging *Hikaru* as a new person instead of a substitute for his old friend, and *Hikaru* is trying to cope with all these new feelings. I like this shot since it basically boils down the entire conflict to a single shot: they can only move on by connecting and trying to understand one another, and not by verbally or physically attacking each other.

>>280731952
it's extremely comfy so far
though I'm kinda hoping it diverges from the manga to give this 12 ep story it's own shocker ending

>>280732037
Too bad new-Hikaru is already a murderer so there's no hope for this to end well.

>>280732053
I doubt they will since unlike Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi this manga is really popular and has yet to have a really bad ending like Promised Neverland. Although I guess Shadows House was popular yet the Anime diverged for some reason.

>>280732108
The old hag had it coming

>>280713982 (OP)
I love rustic girls

>>280732004
The show is 100% gay. It's so in your face that you can't even call it subtext. And there's nothing wrong with it. If anything, I think it's hilarious that the only show with gay characters is a serious coming-of-age drama masterfully directed, while every modern yuri show is basically a lowbrow romcom + a gimmick aimed at shippers.

>dad tells hikaru to marry his crush before the mountain takes her
>he's 14 so he thinks of his best bro in his death throes and fuckin lets the mountain take him so yoshiki doesnt get got
>ends up torturing his closeted faggot bro as a molester skinwalker
>yoshiki torn between accepting real hikaru being dead and getting touch and love from skinwalkerkaru
owch bros
enjoying the series so far, sad tomboy chan isnt blonde

>>280732108
He clearly has a hunch, but I wonder how Yoshiki will react once he learns that Hikaru2 definitely killed the old lady. In this episode, the show basically compared him to a newborn child, but at the end of the day, his supernatural hands are already tainted.

>>280722524
you're a tard

>>280716759
>>280716730
someone build a wall around american internet, its spreading

>>280728889
But it's true, what kind of guy stares at his friend's bare feet.

>>280733313
The same guy who stares at his friend's sweaty tummy and neck and collarbones, presumably

>>280733331
so he gets aroused by bare feet

>>280733382
I think he just gets aroused by Yoshiki

>>280733430
he wanted to kiss Hikaru's sweaty neck, tummy and FEET.

>>280733430
>Yoshiki
sorry, meant Hikaru*

>>280730416
>But all of these things are less common than men liking feet.
Source: your footfag ass

>japanese: look, I can eat watermelon like they do in manga!
>english: look, I can eat watermelon like they do in comics!
why are localizers like this, I'm pretty sure anyone watching some subbed fujo anime knows what a manga is

>>280733743
Tbh I wouldnt be surprised if Netflix thought this would go like GWitch despite that being yuri Gundam and this being yaoi horror.

>>280733743
Is this a similar situation where anime in Japan just means animation? Is manga just the catch-all term for comics in Japan?
In which case it would be retarded to complain that translators translate manga as comics.
Similarly it would be retarded to complain that anime is translated into cartoons.

>>280733852
they indeed use manga to refer to comics as a whole, and for that matter, they also use comics to refer to manga, but the "mangagui" style Hikaru demonstrated seems like a manga thing specifically

>>280726177
>they also...
plz share that part of the manga...!

>>280734153
no, it'd be a spoiler

>>280731759
More like yaoi bait

>>280725774
I'm not gonna spoil you but no.

>>280734836
you just soft-spoiled that anon by shooting down their theory about the future direction of the story tho wtf

HE'S AN ELDRITCH ABOMINATION NOT YOUR HUSBANDO

>>280735318
I'm touch-starved bwo I'd settle for nearly anything

>>280735345
Even the touch of marinated raw chicken?

>>280735345
>settle
NGMI, the eldritch horror is the good part

Here's to Dara-san's translation being continued. We're two volumes behind. There's body horror and a pair of trap and tomboy siblings for those interested.

>>280731653
Anime in general is mostly escapism for men, foids arleady have it good enough out there and live on literal tutorial mode difficulty and now they dare invade our spaces and call out muh ecchi.
Kill yourself you subhuman normalfaggot freak.

>>280735510
you have dozens of straightoid slop shows to pick from this season, just go watch those you absolute retard

>>280716040
it happened during this week's episode and he liked it

>>280735510
Ugly mug epic fighter is airing this season, go to those threads.

>>280714459
Because it devolves into bully and torture instead of actual horror.

>>280736159
The show looked interesting and i was willing to ignore blshit but some ppl are retarded and need to be called out

>>280736391
Tbh you just kinda sound retarded and mad. Go back to the escapist shit that fits you like Epicfighter and whatever quit the party is out this season.

>Complain about shitty escapist isekai
>Turn around and immediately jerk off about how anime was made to be all shitty escapist isekai and others should gtfo
>Turn back and cry about how there's nothing to watch but shitty escapist isekai.
A depressing cycle.

>>280736576
>retard completly misses the point
When did i mention shitty low budget isekai? Back then foids and normals havent invaded our spaces isekai wasnt even mainstream.

>>280736843
cry some more about, that'll surely fix whatever problem you made up in your brain.

>>280736914
Twist my words all you want but its you getting butthurt over me mentioning a simple fact that now anime space is overrun with normals and foids

>>280737022
and I hope you get completely overrun
cry more

>>280736843
>Back then foids and normals havent invaded our spaces isekai wasnt even mainstream.
Back when it was strongly driven by shojosei? You want to go back to that era?

>>280737123
Hell no, and Fushigi Yuugi sucked

>>280737061
Ofcourse you would hope that wouldnt you lmao jokes write themselves.

>>280737123
Shoujo always existed as a nieche

>>280737155
no shame here, total straightoid death, get fucked and stay out of our industry you fucking loser, we won you lost lmao

>>280737204
b-b-b-b-BASED

>>280737204
>straightoid
I had an idea who am i talking to but you just confirmed it lol thanks for that, now all your opinions are invalid you aids ridden faggot.

>>280737204
This.
Hetshitters let women become like this. They let women off the leash and they get what they fucking deserve.

>>280737252
Go back to r9k, loser.
>hurr durr I determined that your opinions are invalid because I'm mad that women won't fuck me, which makes my opinion matter

>>280737144
So the Vision of Escaflowne, which went harder into the "beautiful boy" aesthetic and had a female MC as a self-insert to appeal to female fans? How is older isekai that not "foid-oriented" prior to being super mainstream?
>>280737165
Depends on which era.

>>280737252
don't enter a fag show thread if you don't want to interact with aids-ridden faggots, dumbass.

>>280736843
Lolicons from the beginning of the loli era admit that they're the ones that invaded desu. Shoujo and bl is older than moe.

>>280737462
True.

hikaru seethe is a contemporary phenomenon i'm glad to have witnessed

>>280737022
You would never have survived old /a/ that loved Code Geass and Ouran High School Host Club. You're the foreign invader here, faggot

>>280716682
I'm sorry for you if you think this passes for model tier. The boys are kinda cute, though, but so are the girls. They just don't have big boobs

>>280738483
Indeed, one of the charms of this anime is the characters have that kind of "6/10 would roll in the hay with" small town comeliness to them, except Hikaru who looks quite a lot hotter in the anime I think.

>>280730416
>armpits
Armpitfags are even grossers.

>>280731225
>this is my rape face

>>280732108
Did he really murder her? Or did she kill herself from going crazy after SEEING HIS FINAL FORM?

Fuck, to think that this is the most depressing series in a season with a child suicide anime

>>280737204
>our industry
Imao delusional faggot

>>280739129
If you're not worried about the state of the industry then stop bitching about the one or two occasional gay shows popping up every once in a while.
Just gtfo of our thread.

Just stop replying to the troll. Report and ignore.

>>280731952
I started rewatching Shinsekai Yori and Shiki recently, the setting always works for horror.

please someone make sweaty hikaru mp4

I hope they return to that forest to hunt and eat more youkai.

>>280713982 (OP)
Hello Fujoshis, Fudanshis and Fujins!!! (˶˃ ᗜ ˂˶) ·
Did you enjoy todays episode? (づ •. •)?

Glad to see that even when their relationship has some bumps Yoshiki and Hikaru always end up together ˖ ࣪‧₊˚⋆٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و

I think Asako is super cute, even when she doesn't do much on the story I'm always happy to se her on this series, hope we get some nice fanarts of her ( ˶˘ ³˘)

I know most fanarts specially this episode are going to be about Yoshiki and Hikaru but come on! This girl also need love! ( ˶˘ ³˘)

I wish I had a gf liker her when I was a teen, that would have been awesome (˶˃⤙˂˶)

>>280739886
Asako looks like she doesn't shave and has a hairy anus

I didn't like the OP at first but the full version is growing on me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4flRaFrBqFU

Has anyone ever talked about the moles on MC's face?

>>280740085
They are very erotic.

>>280740085
Very lickable

>>280740085
A mole underneath the eye is said to be an omen of somebody who will cry a lot.

Was Hikaru's dad shown in the manga? I don't remember

>>280713982 (OP)
Someone please tell me the little hamster survives the whole story

>>280740771
Hamsters only live to the ripe age of 2, so s/he doesn't have long left...

>>280740771
Isn't it over 10 years old now or something? Don't worry, there's still plenty of chapters left for Tanaka and the hamster to die.

>>280741331
Isn't he a special hamster? Feels like the glowie had him for a long time. Years already.

>>280740465

>>280723275
>>280723312
I like the chinky left bitch

>>280741359
Nyo...

>>280740560
He isn't in the first few chapters and that's all I read so far.

>>280723275
Water in the village turning teenagers gay

>>280723275
>>280723312
>>280741563
Is this legit yuri?

>>280740465
How about benefit the lip? Will that person be a good sucker?

>trying to groom a gay eldritch abomination
It's not going to end well...

>u gay son

>>280741695
They'll eat a lot, apparently.

>>280741711
This adds to the excitement.

>>280741726
It's not like he ever denies it.
In fact, he regrets it very much because Hikaru was into him too.

>>280741731
I have one on my nose and i sneeze a lot, they're onto something

>>280741574
Probably not but the author posted fanart of gbitch so she's on my shitlist

Holy fuck they are going grim dark with this homo shit.

>exploiting the alien because of his naivety to real human behaiviour
Is that what they are implying here?
This is getting kinda horrifying in a way I wasn't expecting.

Plus the coming to terms with obvious feelings is a bit odd for anime. Normally it's just yaoi cliches, but they really run you through the mindset of the Yoshiki and how much he wants to exploit Hikaru.
But also his horror in the process... because he knows he's doing a bad bad thing. He's basically grooming him at this stage.

But then again, he's unsure if Hikaru is grooming himself though. It's like being manipulated by oyashiro through the body of a person you desired. Or like Silent Hill.
This is messed up. Really fucked up.


And it almost made me forget about the short 1-2 sec shot that was done in revolting CGI of the front of the school. I nearly vomited.
But frankly, that's the only CGI I saw this ep, which is kinda rare for anime today. I hope it avoids it more. Then animation is good otherwise, especially the monster parts.

>>280741574
Probably not. They're childhood friends and the buzz cut dude likes the twintails girl.

>>280723718
There's some super cool effects going on in this anime. Some surreal animations to highlight the feeling of the character at the time. Normally it's more subtle, but this anime really doesn't hold back and it's very Paprika.

>>280724156
I have a feeling the original source might be pretty generic. There are a lot of shows and manga about the love interest being a monster.
But this one, at least how it feels in the anime so far, is... very strange. I feel like I'm watching a crime or a traumatic event with this one.

Yoshi doesn't feel normal himself. He's a bit of a twisted motherfucker himself and Hikaru might be exploiting that here. Like God testing a sinner. That's kinda fucked up.

I wonder if the manga is like this at all. Is the director taking a bit of liberty here? I kinda like this direction if so.

>>280742101
No, the anime actually does a good job in adapting the manga's atmosphere, which is just creepy and wrong.

>>280724364
Well the characters in the show are pretty deranged themselves.
>Hikaru, a monster possessing a corpse that is obsessive over yoshi, but clearly hiding their real goal
>Yoshi, a person that is clearly a little bit perverse himself and probably not against exploiting this situation with Hikaru and his perception of Hikaru as a naive being in Hikaru's physical, sexual (with emphasis) body
>crazy old lady
>crazy lady with a similar experience
>crazy lady at the checkout that just doesn't shut up and knows EVERYTHING about Yoshi
>the demon hunter dude


This anime is cooking with crazies, but they're very well done.
I want to know what that lady's husband did to her kid and why she just knew Yoshi was having a problem. Very sus.

>>280742101
It does a pretty good job adapting the manga’s atmosphere and even makes it feel heavier.

>>280724328
Yoshi looks so fucking sinister here. Like he wants to exploit him.

>>280742151
It's not Yoshi that needs saving from Hikaru

>>280724912
>Also ignore the town going insane all the "distortion" or whatever spreading
We have this SoL yaoi bullshit thing going on with two beings trying to exploit each other and then there's this whole descent into madness that's already crept in huh.
I don't know what to trust in this show. Everything is lying right now, including the main characters to each other.

And the director is clearly avoiding revealing too much. It's kinda blueballing, but he feeds enough to keep me going.
It's certainly not endless eight kek.

>>280714459
>Why do we never get cool yuri like this?
Because yuri is trash

>>280714738
>This would’ve been 100x better
Only if you're an incel

>>280717324
No, and you're the only fag here

>>280725144
Clear intentional euphemism there.
They're not fucking around with this ay.

Normally the fuck around with homo shit for fujo fans, but here is truly an issue in the story. Something that is clearly fucking with Yoshi and this monster, making them do impure things. Intentionally seedy.

>>280714459
You're drowning in water and complaining about being thirsty

>>280728952
Never going to understand this plot.
The homo shit is intentionally overpowering. Yoshi is sinister as fuck with what he's thinking with Hikaru now. So is Hikaru.

So it has to be suffocating, otherwise it just would come off as fujo fanservice.
It's reminding me of some french films I used to watch.

>>280730136
No I like the sinister, creepy gay grooming each of them are doing to each other.
It's disturbing. It's great.

Normally anime never ever touches controversy like this.

>>280742286
Finally showing faggots as the mentally ill freaks they are, yeah.

>>280731502
If it was hetero, it wouldn't work. You only get away with how Yoshi and Hikaru behave nowadays on film in a homo way.
Otherwise it comes off as exploitative and insensitive to the female character.

Kinda sad that ay? They have to exploit the gay when talking about such disturbing subject matters and two people in a situation subverting one another. It's definitely asking questions on whether the actions are appropriate and it's very very unsure and makes that clear that it knows it's sitting on the fence at times here.

Normally with a monster gf anime/manga it's just a generic relationship and they heavily tone down the naughty sexual subject matter or just rely on cheap fan service to not disturb people too much (as weird as that sounds kek).
This one doesn't, it's going full monty. I need a cold shower after this.

>>280742273
>otherwise it just would come off as fujo fanservice.
It still is, really.

>>280732004
>They're literally acting like a married couple on the rocks
Worse, they're more like two predators trying to consume each other but also holding each other back.

It's a little like Bakemonogatari with Arararagi and Kisshot.
That's what this feel like, but more in homoerotic way.

But unlike Bake, something is not right with the town and you wonder if Yoshi is being "tampered with" here. Araragi seems to feel like he has more of his own unique free will, but in Hikaru it's very clear that Hikaru's own will is being fucked with and merged with the monster and that something is "infecting" Yoshi, especially after Hikaru tried to "go inside" him. Did you see the sinister look Yoshi had after that scene in the final scene in the bedroom? He's been changed and it's not just love or his will, it's the monster manipulating him.

But is this a pitcher plant situation?
Or is the monster really just trying to get along with him?
I think it's the former. This monster is FUCKED up and terrifies the fuck out of me with how he's manipulating Yoshi.

>>280742273
>It's reminding me of some french films I used to watch.
I can't remember if it was the book of film version but the author did recommend Le grand cahier, which might fit what you're talking about.

>>280742036
>>280742151
>exploiting the alien because of his naivety to real human behaiviour
This has potential for a Pinky and the Brain dark comedy spin-off.

>>280742286
>Normally anime never ever touches controversy like this
Kuroshitsuji II.
Overtake.
Banana Fish was way worse in that department, but all the rapists/simps of the MC were villains, so it doesn't count? Then again older manga tended to be bolder in their scenarios, character backgrounds etc. - the only thing 'bolder', more 'shocking' nowadays is loli/shota fanservice.

>>280738703
Yoshi feels like an actual groomed child in this situation and the monster has him around his finger ay? He's convinced it's his own fault and his own intentions that are leading him down this path.

That's messed up.
He even thinks, right in this shot, that he has control here. He's already forgotten that the monster just injected his poison into him. Or maybe he just doesn't care because he's been that mind broken already.

Creepy.

>>280742333
It only works because yoshiki is the more feminine one actually.

>>280742440
>Banana Fish was way worse in that department, but all the rapists/simps of the MC were villains, so it doesn't count?
But don't forget the invincible hunk big brother that could've defeated every villain singlehandedly but just let the MC get raped into oblivion for muh honor. So stupid. He gets away with it both in story and in fandom because he's stylish. That's it. What a piece of shit.

>>280742441
Can you stop spamming your retarded headcanon

>>280742440
A lot of anime used to be real fucked up with this shit. A lot of old eroge especially.
Black Butler barely did this as sinister as this. This feels more like Perfect Blue honestly. Yoshi is disassociating and losing his mind.

It's quite bold what they're doing here. It's not just mere Fujo cliches, you see this more in male/female eroge/hentai from the 90s and 00s.
There's some obvious ones on the tip of my tongue but I've forgotten them. I'll try to find them again. They did the "monster" cycle of abuse on the victim thing. They weren't positive relationships though, they were very very negative and disturbing and the horror came from seeing the MC or the victim "give in".

I guess there is a pretty obvious hentai trope there too. Never see it much outside of hentai today though. Used to be more common in non-eroge anime but I guess people are a bit touchy on this shit nowadays.

>>280742507
The monster literally goes inside of him.
It is monster, not a human being.

Worse than Kisshot.
I like the foreshadowing here btw.

>>280742357
Nah this is the homo equiv of perfect blue to me.
You're just immature.

>>280742544
Stop spamming your headcanon it's nowhere near as exciting as you're making it out to be

>>280739721

>>280742036
>>280742441
>Hikaru in the light
>Yoshiki partially in the shade
HIKARU IS INNOCENT AND PURE

>>280742484
>could've defeated every villain singlehandedly but just let the MC get raped into oblivion for muh honor
Like father, like son. A white trash family.

>>280742556
Let him speculate. It's interesting to see anime-only opinions even though they'll eventually be disappointed like most of the manga readers.

>>280742571
>Not blushing
Damn Yoshiki is straight actually

>Fujos realise how sinister the relationship really is
>start to panic and condemn it as head canon

They really think this shit is a mere sex joke.
It's infecting him. Subverting him. Poisoning him.

It's no mere sex joke.

>>280742616
No you're just an animeonlytard that doesn't know how boring the actual explanation is

>>280742616
But that's the good part!
>Yoshiki is projecting his crush hard but at the same time kinda likes the new hikaru and that's killing him
>Hikaru is extremely conditioned by the original's feelings but at the same time is developing some emotions of his own towards Yoshiki
And it's all so toxic.

>>280742582
>HIKARU IS INNOCENT AND PURE
Sorry, Hikaru is.
But the monster isn't. It's a lying psychopath.
But then again, so is Yoshi... in the monster's eyes.

Who is this bitch though? She seems sinister too. Why does she know things about him?

>>280742649
Did you miss her explanation? She did the same shit with her husband.

>>280742616
Lol I wish it was like how you described, I wouldn't have dropped it

>When animeonlies come up with better plot than the author
GRIM

>>280742629
Well I hope they take liberties from the manga then. Fuck mere boring Fujo shit, I want this to be horrifying trauma, more like how a monster would really manipulate a love interest in order to control or eat you.

But no... you're probably right and it's going to be boring anime bullshit like always. Sigh.
Can't have Silence of the Lambs or something like that.

>>280742649
The scene where they have a date in a restaurant was fucking hot lowkey. Is there a way for a younger guy to date a frumpy milf IRL?

>>280742657
That's not what I was talking about. How does she have a sixth sense about Yoshi's circumstances? How does she know he's in that situation.
She just smells the wind and goes "oh no" and then tries to contact him and get involved.

>>280742697
I hope people do art of him fucking the milf.

>>280742713
She's supernaturally attuned.
Not that weird.

>>280742660
I am worried it is just going to be lame ass fujo shit and not what I described. We'll see I guess.

>>280742717
She just has one of those lewd bodies. Like Deku's fat mom from MHA.

>>280742717
You're going to trigger the faggots

>>280742751
Who cares, Yoshiki is bi anyway

>>280742740
>Older wife comforting young pretty boy hick and helping him get away from his murder monster bf
>Helps him forget with her experienced body
Might comm some porn

>>280742756
>bi
>zero interest in non hikaru people
>actively into his male body
Yoshiki is a huge fag.

>>280742720
Oh it's maaaaaagic.

Like she doesn't even see Yoshi or Hikaru and knows to go to a place straight away.
I mean, I guess Higurashi did that too, but I feel like it was far more effective.

She should have been far more creepy.
Just appear suddenly and startle Yoshi then rave on like a lunatic about why he's in grave danger.
Instead it's just a lunch at the local Denny's kek. Kinda wasted potential there ngl if they're gonna pull the maaaaaagic sixth sense bullshit. It's meant to be horror, right?
It had a nice jump scare in the forest with the yokai or something, but not with this lady? Strange.

>>280742697
Dude I nearly fell asleep in that scene and was like "ok so they're gonna have a casual break at IHOP and then talk about their possessed love ones?"
It was amusing though.

I'll let this scene pass though because there was a lot of other good stuff. Maybe something is cooking with the lady.

>>280742793
Haven't you seen the ghost hunter? Same shit.
She can "feel" these things.

>>280742789
No confirmation, he fucks the milf

>>280742789
Well he seems like it, but is that the monster infecting his brain?
Although personally I think Tsukihime did this better.

>>280742835
Yoshiki wanted to fuck hikaru before he died.
He's just consistent, he finds hikaru's body sexually arousing.

>>280742783
Yeah, I enjoy how she looks like an actual older woman design instead of a scaled up standard hot girl.

>>280742816
Ok, then why make this a casual friday lunch at IHOP and not her being fucked and freaking out about Yoshi's dire situation?
Why is she reception lady calm?

I'd like to think there is a reason, but I don't think there is. Kinda lazy writing ngl. Pointless even.
Unless something happens later that explains the reason for this scene when the other scenes seem much more necessary and executed crisply.

Maybe a last minute edit?

>>280742864
Because she "gets" it and the last thing you want to do in those situations is scare away the kid.
She's a nice old lady giving advice to a kid who REALLY wants to go against said advice.

>>280742859
It's incredibly erotic when contrasted with yoshiki

>>280742849
I feel like his going through a cycle of grief and the monster is merely exploiting it. The monster is not Hikaru. It is a monster.
It might do shit similar to how arcueid affects Shiki. I guess we'll need more evidence of this though.
But he did trick Yoshi into thinking it was all normal at the start of ep 1, remember? We already know it's heavily fucking with his head.

To me, Hikaru is more like pic. That's the vibe I get.

>>280742881
Yawn.
That is super fucking convenient for the plot and very very boring.
I wish she was messed up, like a person would normally be given her background.
Or at least in a state of stupor and trying hard not to disassociate from reality like people would in this situation.

Hell, with covid we've seen people do that with MUCH less bullshit.

>>280742953
Is it confirmed she's not messed up? Her story implied she's seen and done some shit. Just because she isn't acting goofy in the middle of Denny's doesn't mean she doesn't have a freaky side.

>>280742969
You have to be kidding me if you think she wouldn't be disturbed and on edge after that incident given how there is currently another monster on the loose that she apparently knows about.
Instead, she's talking like it's a normal everyday thing in life. It's bizarre to me. Normal people wouldn't act like this in such a situation.

They'd be off, like an abuse victim or in a state of trauma. Disturbed.
There's no way they'd be an average granny meeting the kids on a sunday arvo after such a fucking experience.
It sounds like this happened rather recently too.

>>280742571
They actually increased the gayness, what the fuck?
I thought this would be some plausible deniability type shit that I could recommend and watch with friends without everyone thinking I'm gay
Now everyone thinks I'm gay!
Fuck Netflix

>>280743063
People process trauma differently. Not everything is a melodramatic panic attack for the gram. If anything just as many people grow numb to repeated horror. If you want to talk realism.

>>280743070
It's missing the focus on his feet from the manga.
It went feet>tummy>neck so Yoshiki is less of a deviant.

>>280743070
I don't mind that, as long as it turns into a nightmare and becomes passionate to the point where it becomes a disaster or pure evil.

>>280743096
After covid, I do not believe that one bit. Most people were and still are in a stupor post covid. Some avoided it because they already had a very traumatic background. Normalfags generally didn't though and that's why they're reinforcing state bullshit despite the state bullshit trying to murder them.

Oh it's a metaphor for Hikaru, would you look at that?
Explains why the old granny died too.

>state extermination of the elderly
This is definitely happening in most states right now btw. My relatives have been dropping like flies and my home state feels like it is a demon possessing someone I cared about but lost while it tries to convince me to just accept the replacement.

>>280743224
What exactly was so traumatizing about covid? Yeah sure if you were a hypersocial normalfag and not a shut-in NEET it probably fucked you up a little but most people barely even mention it 5 years on.

I really like this kitsune looking slut

>>280743362
We know, Yoshiki

>>280743362
I like the giant tomboy

>>280743337
>What exactly was so traumatizing about covid?
Oh get fucked dude. We have never had systematic abuse and death from it on that scale since maybe the Khmer Rouge, let alone a global one.

People couldn't even meet loved ones on their death beds, remember?
It was FUCKED.
Oh and then it was just exploited to shut down and censor information on the internet.

You're worse than Hikaru with the cycle of doubt, son. I've never heard something more disgusting than a mouth breathing retard suggesting that covid was a normal thing.
No wonder you fucking think the lady that just had a literal Changeling experience was acting as she should be in that fucking restaurant.

You're disassociating from shit yourself.
It's like how people are only just now dealing with the Epstein bullshit, 10 years or more after revelations. They just pretended it wasn't there for a fucking decade.

>>280743494
This is not /a/-related.

>>280713982 (OP)
this episode was pure kino

>>280743697
this whole show has been kino
I have a very good feeling about it

>>280743762
yep, it's somehow even better than the manga

>>280713982 (OP)
should i watch this? i like the horror but not homo shit

I'll drop this, it's just not delivering on the mystery horror, while overdelivering on the gay.

>>280743794
Yes. It's quite scary.

>>280743794
No. It's quite gay.

>>280743689
Stupor and disassociation is in the anime and we are talking about that.
You just can't read and you are just triggered by real world events ironically because of the subject matter we are discussing right now. People will ostracise "bad thoughts" because it's stressful to them. Their minds are conditioned to push away the stress.

Ironically though, this makes me stressed that they are being complacent. I'm just wired like that. Most people are not.
But then again, I've had more traumas than mere covid. Some people have had even worse and they become completely unresponsive to the point where they cannot even talk.

I expected the lady to be more like that btw. Or at least like me, nervous, on edge, probably in a state of panic. Instead she talks like an npc on sedatives, the thing I find the most creepy about people today around me. They talk like they're not even there.

To me, that's what this shot looks like here >>280742441
I've seen that look before. My Dad had it 2 times, once with a baby, the other with his dying mother on her death bed. That's the look.
But there's also a sexual undertone and the dialogue suggests he's probably convinced he can exploit the situation. So it's more sinister.

>>280743794
Ask your buttbuddy.

>>280743811
>overdelivering
Not such a thing.

>>280743794
It is extremely erotic for shock value I think. Just warning you.
But it is pretty good so far. I have an issue with the lady in the IHOP scene, but we need more information.

>>280730334
Yes, LGBT is a mental illness.

I decided to read the manga after episode 2 and it's insane just how much it falls off. The art is still gorgeous, sure, but the relationship between two MCs and MCs themselves got so boring, I really couldn't bring myself to care much for all the exposition fest.
It really feels like watering down the main focus (MC's feelings towards the fake friend he used to like), whether it was done to applease homophobic larger audience or not, has killed manga's strongest point and vibe.
Also I checked the comments under the chapters of current episodes and one of the most popular ones were like "I don't understand why this is tagged shounen ai, they are just good friends so far, it's friendship" and now I don't know if I'm the insane one or is it everyone else.

I wish they didn't skip Hikaru's paranoia at Yoshiki seeing the old lady.

>>280743793
I'm rereading the manga along with the anime and sure, the anime is doing an exceptional job but the manga is still better because of the art and paneling.

>>280743794
>i like the horror but not homo shit
Give it a try but I doubt it. Your problem will end up that you'll only enjoy eoughly 25% of each episode where the horror and suspense are relegated and want to skip the other 75% of every episode where it's goofy gay tomfoolery.

>>280743904
So is anti-lgbt.
They're both cults.

People just don't engage on their actual feelings now. Instead it's whatever either side indoctrinate in their head.
Having been abused by both sides, I hate both.

>>280744012
Lmao

>>280744116
Anyway, that's why I find Hikaru fucking disturbing and the fact that monsters have been doing that to others in the anime is also disturbing.
I hope that continues and is exaggerated. If it's just fluffy fujo crap, I will burn down this director's house by drone strike.

>>280743921
Surely those comments are being sarcastic.

>>280743921
I'm convinced the author had no plans for it being popular and could only think of dragging it out longer by focusing on the village lore.

>>280743063
you sound weak bro, or really young

>>280744442
And yet you can't talk about it. Pathetic.

>>280743921
I think most people feel the same way, the manga lost all focus a long time ago and now it's just plain boring. It's entirely carried by the first volume and shock value art.

>>280743494
Who in the fuck cares about Epstein, you moron?
Everyone who isn't delusional understands the utterly draconian nature of the lockdowns, but to frame it as trauma on the level of genocide is absurd. You sound histrionic. Sounds like you were going insane because you couldn't have a pool party with Brittney and Brad.

>>280743494
>People couldn't even meet loved ones on their death beds, remember?
This didn't happen to most people. Stop assuming all the bad things that happened to you happened to everyone.
>Oh and then it was just exploited to shut down and censor information on the internet.
This is fucking nothing.
Covid was a nothingburger for most people. You just got unlucky.

>>280744452
what do you mean

>>280743794
It's like someone watching Madoka because they like magical girls but hate yuri, it's part of it.

>>280740085
The author of this story probably has the same fetish as Fujimoto.

>>280744782
I watch Madoka because I hate magic, women, and yuri

Da Samal Hikalu dai...

didnt hikaru author also write that story about a kid who copes with getting raped by his best friend's dad by demanding payment and ends up the town bicycle on a small island and shacks up with a fugitive teacher who is suicidal after trying to rape a middle schooler with long hair
cant remember the name, small town stories are so comfy

>>280745142
What? This manga is her first serialisation.

>>280743794
homo shit is the scariest part of every episode

>>280745220
Was the neck ghost gay too?

>>280743794
The MC is obviously gay but its a part of the plot.
I don't think that the story would work if one of them was a girl without cringe fanservise cliches.

>>280745263
that was some freaky shit

>>280745380
Too bad it jobbed immediately offscreen. It was a neat design.

>>280745211
i guess the art and atmosphere were similar, the teacher is full of distorting black goo like hikaru and the setting was very idyllic. wish i could remember the title

>>280745142
>>280745211
Very funny interaction

>>280745487
Probably based off the rokurokubi?

>>280745689
Are those always female? The forest one looked male.

>>280745142
>>280745584
Well now I need the name, you can't just drop a description like this into nowhere

>>280745211
I'm always fascinated by the authors that come into their first serialisation with a gorgeous art from the get go. Like they fought so hard to be published despite having so much qualification already.
Meanwhile renowned authors like Fujimoto can be allowed to publish dogshit like CSM part 2

Have only watched the first 3 episodes and I really like it so far. Animation is really good and the direction is great.
>horror
I feel like the horror aspect is fine but it’s not anything life changing. Maybe we haven’t delved into it really yet but it’s not hitting me that hard
>homo
Homo aspect is very very good even if Yoshiki is a bit of a pussy, really interested to see how their relationship develops. I’m 99% sure that they probably don’t get together but the bait is delicious

>>280745761
i'll go ask in /y/ and get back to you next april

>>280745729
Usually they're women, but there are a few instances of males in legends too.
What makes you think the forest one was male though? It looked pretty generic to me.

>>280745889
>>280745761
No need, I think I found it, it's Shintan Kairou

>>280745896
Because women can’t be scary, anon

>>280745934
hey that's it, thanks bro

>>280745896
>Usually they're women, but there are a few instances of males in legends too.
Thanks. Didn't know that.
>>280745972
They scare me stiff.

>>280743456
>tomboy
>plays volleyball
Man she must have a great ass and toned, strong legs, likes yakuza movies too literally perfect wife material

>>280722524
>>280725083
Hikaru definitely liked girls so if it's a question of whether or he was bi and liked Yoshiki. Signs point to no. I'd only want to know because there's a chance 'Hikaru' also adopted the original Hikaru's feelings for Yoshiki when it took Hikaru's body and memories. Whether that plays a factor in 'Hikaru's' attraction to Yoshiki is relevant to the plot and Yoshiki's own understanding of 'Hikaru', as there's a question of whether its feelings for Yoshiki are its own or adopted from Hikaru.

>>280745934
>MC going feral at the sight of the kid's ass
Unintentionally hilarious. Won't finish reading it since it didn't grab me but I don't think it's very similar to Hikaru.

>>280745829
Sometimes they're assistants who technically aren't first-timers
But the reality is that the internet has made lessons and tools freely available and a lot of kids draw at a young age.

>>280746224
Hikaru is aroace

>>280743921
>I don't understand why this is tagged shounen ai, they are just good friends so far, it's friendship

>>280742286
Its not as rare in bl manga nowadays, though many are either more heavy handed or a bit too bizarre (unadaptable) I think it has to do with the amount of distance between the audience/author and the material, there's not as much need to protect and relationships can feel wrong at every level.
It'd be neat to see another get into horror, many are good with presenting moody, paranoid atmosphere.

Hikarushill finally fell asleep i see

This is bl, but it’s more of the soft yuri type one so I am fine with it
Dunno if anyone felt the same
It definitely gave me the same feeling the first time I watched yuri tho

>>280740085
He has the perfect amount desu, so fucking hot.

>>280750794
Not really, if it was yuri they would have forgotten about the scary thing that just happened and would have a girldate for an entire episode where they go kyaah as one of them steals a bite of their ice cream.
I have some Yuri manga I still feel miffed about

>>280747742
it was a good night kiss

>>280750952
but this is full of moments like that too

>>280751081
It's a completely different vibe, it still manages to continue the off atmosphere instead of whiplash of moe punching me in the face.

>>280742953
>I wish she was messed up, like a person would normally be given her background.
we already saw a character like that. Hikaru killed her at the end of the first episode because she was too messed up to keep her cool.

Anyone else enjoying this? Is like the best horror anime in the last 10 years.

>>280751897
Yeah, it's great. The anime really improves on the manga and gets the atmosphere just right.

New chapter dropped.
Shit's about to get fucking wild. For a while it felt like more Western horror/"Ghosts used to be people, therefore you can negotiate with them" but I'm glad we're getting back to J-horror/"You can't fucking trust these things no matter what" roots.

>>280743921
Yeah you summed up my feelings. Add to that that it's hard to care about the secondary cast, even though the mangaka wants you to (except maybe tanaka who is interesting)
It fell into the trap of over explaining things which watered down the horror

Can i enjoy this if im not a faggot

So this is basically Stephen King's The Outsider in an anime form right?

>>280724364
That's jusy bros being a bit gay with each other.

>>280754557
if you have to ask, no

>>280754557
if you like the horror part then yes

>>280743794
To be fair Horror, in general, is a very sexual adjacent genre and sometimes homo stuff for 2deep4you symbolism

>>280745211
NTA but maybe it was a doujin/indie work published under a pseudonym?

AKB48? On my spooky countryside horror anime? It's more possible than you think

This dilf is too smug and in severe need of correction

>>280755289
he got corrected on that mountain alright

This is the face of a pussy-eater.

>>280755434
bussy*

So is this guy Hikaru's ancestor?

Yoshiki is a battered wife.
>>280753042
She could've fixed it by having the horrors actually get worse but instead she started lore dumping

>>280753042
The premise baited a darker setting but it went down a safe route of fixing the village. People just expected a lot more messed up shit to happen.

Sleepy time for the shill?

>>280755340
WHAT HAPPENED ON THAT MOUNTAIN STAYS ON THE MOUNTAIN

>>280754557
If you're mature enough to understand you're a different person than the characters on screen, with your own thoughts and feelings, and don't involuntarily self-insert into whatever you're watching, you might even appreciate how the gay ties naturally into the horror.

Like imagine you like someone of the opposite sex and find out one day he or she became a skinwalker at some point: that's freaky on its own, right?
Now imagine the anxiety of realizing you're gay and repressing your homosexuality in a small rural town, where you don't know if people will accept you or hate you - and your only real friend, who you were also attracted to, has been replaced with a skinwalker
And because he was your only real friend, and there's no one else who you trust will accept you for who you are, and you're already at the edge of mindbreak because you know your best friend has died, you start to accept the skinwalker as a replacement for your friend: because as an imitation he at least naturally understands your feelings having consumed your best friend's memories.

If you can deal with the MC being gay without having a knee-jerk homophobic reaction, you can appreciate that it being a horror story about being gay is the point.
And it's really well done horror with that premise

>>280756706
Really hoping this show diverges from the manga and goes Berserk 1999 tier by the end

>>280757412
>>280750646

I know the term "obsessed" gets thrown around here a lot, but you're like a jilted ex lover.
You're completely obsessed with hating this series and you're mentally unwell.
You should really consider suicide.

>>280759168
It's funny because he supposedly wants Hikaru to stay the fuck out of Sam threads, but there's very little incentive to do so if he's just gonna shit up both threads.

>>280759413
It's weird how he chose this series to latch onto and sperg over.

>>280759039
I self insert in my ecchi animu but ofcourse for this type of animes im not gonna self insert obviously nigguh

>>280745142
No, but she did write a short story about a guy with anger issues who kills his girlfriend in a fit of rage and calls his best friend to dispose of the body after which they play games and confess to each other while the police busts down the door

>>280713982 (OP)
so this is like a metaphor for toxic relationships?

fujos, do tell: who tops it this?

>>280762160
They have both entered each other

>>280713982 (OP)
Ugly

>>280731852
why was that deleted?

I really enjoy the OP but I don't think the QUEEN-esqe vocals match the tone of the show.

>>280713982 (OP)
are they lesbians or do they secretly like one of the homos?

>>280764114
I skip it every time because it's so ill-fitting that it makes me cringe. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea for a horror anime?

>>280764302
they're stinky fujos

>>280742405
It's just assfucking, it's not THAT scary

>>280742246
>vampire
>monster
Vampires are the Crystal Pepsi of monsters. A lot of lore all to end up being as vanilla and tasteless as possible.
Most vampire stories don't even use all their charm points like tranformsation, mind control, and their various weaknesses. In the end they're just blood-horny humans who are averse to garlic and religion.

>>280742036
What would you teach a sweet, innocent Hikaru? I would teach him how to cook so I have something to eat after work. Lovingly of course.

>>280764781
I'd want to prioritize the "killing is bad even if the victims are monstrous geriatric freaks" lesson asap. Then idk i can teach him how to bake bread or whatever.
Week 2 he can start learning about enemas.

>>280764307
Sony does this to every anime no matter the genre.

>These lines
Was it intentional? Does "seed" have the same sexual euphemistic connotations in Japanese as in English?

>>280742556
Even the headcanon wasn't very exciting.

>>280761343
And this

>>280764114
>>280764307
>anons don't see the vision
You'll love the OP by the end of it.

>>280765129
tane is indeed used for semen, in fact impregnation is often called tanezuke (seeding)
but you're probably reading too much into it here

>>280765129
sometimes a watermelon seed is just a watermelon seed, anon

>>280765477
>tane is indeed used for semen, in fact impregnation is often called tanezuke (seeding)
>but you're probably reading too much into it here
Thank you for the clarification. I see come up in hentai wall-text a lot and always wondered if that's was source-accurate or scanlators taking liberties.

>>280764656
>Most vampire stories don't even use all their charm points like tranformsation, mind control, and their various weaknesses. In the end they're just blood-horny humans who are averse to garlic and religion.
And this is why Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san is actually the most authentic vampire manga/anime ever created.

The thing that's really fucked up about this mindset >>280742405
Is normalfags have also been groomed to look at heterosexual relationships this way.
>BUH this toxic MAN -GROOMED- that woman into taking his cock - he's a RAPIST - it doesn't matter she consented
There's no consideration in this mindset for a woman's feelings, whether or not she wants the man herself, and sought him out
No consideration for cases in which both parties, whether it be a man and a woman, or two men, want each other

No, it's just all toxic, all grooming, all the time with these people.
It's becoming a future where people are developing an inability to love each other.

>>280765811
People have grown very fearful of subversive control and manipulation especially in the age of social media where everything is a hustle/grind and people compartmentalize their relationships/behaviors to a much higher degree. I think (probably correctly) that the idea of pure free will is on the outs, and environment and circumstances are seen as more dominating. For those that haven't read the manga, I wouldn't blame them for thinking either that the elderitch horror that is this "Hikaru" might have mind control or hypnotically suggestive powers over Yoshiki or feel like Yoshiki is going to replacement-goldfish this entity as essentially the dutch wife of his dead BFF.

>>280766224
I'm not going to argue in favor of the skinwalker, or that the situation in this show isn't incredibly fucked up and toxic, but to call Yoshiki a predator...?
That's fucked up. That crosses a line for me.

>>280755289
Like most gay DILFs