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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In a better story(where Chizuru is the main protagonist) the phone smut story would actually be a funny bit to run for a chapter. This guy seems all normal but he forgets his personal belongings are stacked with ero-stuff like a pin up girl in his wallet and he's trying and hide it from her

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If only they did...literally anything with that concept beside make her a two faced evil ex girlfriend

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It really is something else when a hack author makes an accidentally interesting character because Kazuya's right; She doesn't like him, but she DOES have a deep vested interest and insecurity about him moving on from her because of her own hang ups and that's interesting and even relatable

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People really have learned nothing from Sly 4. They want something so bad they don't stop to consider for one second if it's actually something that should even happen at this point. I get wanting a franchise you love back but some trains have just left the station and they aren't coming back

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And don't even get me fucking started on how Ruka's only real take away was that Kazuya did, in fact, want to sleep with her. This is like a somehow more inept version of that age gap plot from Girl Meets World

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like the misogyny needs no explanation but the suggestion he only barely as enough self control to resist a underage girl coming onto him like and than he should be praised for that is fucking insane. This story treats the male cast like slobbering sex mongrels. i'm offended by the characterization

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Him refusing to sleep with her is still deeply uncomfortable due to how much he emphasizes he does, in fact, want to sleep with her and how he's only *barely* containing himself and only not doing so to be considerate of her feelings which simultaneously feels both misogynistic AND misandrist

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The problem, then, is how the story treats Kazuya's refusal to take advantage of a underage girl when given the chance despite being horny as like some grand gesture that speaks to what a great guy he is. That's not impressive, story. The only impressive part is how he makes doing that still gross

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He's the adult here and it's on him to be responsible for the both of them. Her judgement cannot be trusted in this situation due to her being far too obsessed with him and too young to really appreciate the consequences of what she's trying to do, something that does happen in real life sometimes

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The story clearly frames him giving into these desires as the wrong choice (why it personally believes that is more dubious but that's besides the point) and that him exercising self control and rejecting her while still trying to comfort her is right one

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kazuya struggling with the moral dilemma of whether not to sleep with this underage girl who is extremely emotionally vulnerable just because he can an choosing not to is like...almost an interesting idea? In a story actually interested in *going there*, that could be a very interesting plot beat

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is one of those MC privilege situations where because it's characters we're supposed to like doing this it's meant to be humorous and cute but if one of Kazuya's cornball friends was in this situation I promise you the story would be *so* quick to point out the issues here.

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's the same reason why series or movies that aggressively relies on irony as it's main method of humor become tiring almost instantly: making it clear you do know better yet continuing to indulge so flagrantly in the thing you're making jokes about is obnoxious. Be better or stop bringing it up

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it's worth noting that in japan being an orphan is much more frowned upon socially than a place in a place like the US for various reason which is what I *think* this is going for. Not sure it works since she still had grandparents to raise her and she wasn't in the system, but it's..something?

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every time someone talks about how awesome Chizuru is

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's also on Roblox as an official license!

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The only purpose she seems to have in the story is to give Kazuya *some* play by having a girl who actually likes him but also have her not be a real option because she's annoying and, more importantly, underage which *kind of runs into issues with the first thing for multiple reasons*.

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ruka just...doesn't work. She fails as a rival to Chizuru because Kazuya has to be forced to be with her, she fails as a foil to Kazuya because no meaning connection is made with their behavior, and she fails as proof of Kazuya being a good person, because *he still acts like a creep around her*

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This manga really is just a shitty version of Scott Pilgrim, oh my god

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The idea that this story is about how Kazuya is a person everyone around him has effectively given up on and Chizuru is the one person willing to hold him accountable and forge a real relationship is actually a great set up for a romance story unfortunately THAT'S NOT THE STORY YOU WROTE, YOU DUNCE

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Which...shit, if there was ever a perfect way to describe Kazuya

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's honestly fascinating how the series actively refuses engaging with anything about its premise or characters despite acknowledging such depths exists, which honestly makes it worse than it if it were PURE goonslop It's like seeing someone who *could* get their life together decide not to

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You need to understand this dialogue only exists to glaze Chizuru in the same way guys ogling her in public when she's with Kazuya does, the only difference is that it's an old woman doing it. It's all in service of drilling in that she is god's gift to man and Kazuya is lucky to even be around her

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is like Scott Pilgrim if it sucked

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Running the gambit of the sorts of people who hire from these services could open countless doors for all sorts of stories ranging from hilarious to heartfelt to harrowing instead we get the guy who would be at most a one chapter example of how bad these customers can get for a whole series

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

she is genuinely the most interesting character in the story once you know her whole deal and even then she's kind of a d-tier as a whole which is actually high praise when you remember that almost every other character is tier h

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lowkey more JRPGs should use rap music for their battle themes, they go together shockingly well

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Praying for a non-zootopia world where Sora becomes an animal person because I know they would just make him like a lion or something and that'd be lame, i need bug sora or frog sora or fox sora or mouse sora or *something

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Charlton! 🎃 @charltonart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Here is my critique of Green Deltarune fanart

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Solaire 🔜 GATEway FATE 🐏 @solairelunaire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

a great dissection of why a lot of fandom drama doesn't only boil down to "these people are thinking too much about [insert series here] and need to touch grass." there's another layer to the way folks get obsessed (for parasocial/self-important rewriting/clout reasons, etc) that gets glossed over

by asneakyfox on tumblr:

one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts.

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The CryptKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Kratos somberly reckoning with his violent and aspiring to be a better father while his dead wife is doing double jumps and air combos in another realm is so fucking funny. imagine if Laura Palmer was doing DOOM shit in the Black Lodge

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BOOrink 👻 @brinkofgaming.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I don't care about a delay on DQ 12 as long as we get Dragon Quest 13 on PS6 as the prophecy foretold 😤

Panel from SandLand where they find a PS6 and Dragon Quest 13

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Derry Cowe 🏳️‍⚧️ @derryonair.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If I had to give my honest guess Yuji Horii said DQ12 was going to be a more serious title however with COVID, the death of his close games, he just couldn’t make such a serious game So development restarted to create a game that’s more hopeful and full of joy

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william_ leonard @williamleonard.net · 09/04/2026

oh god this was a terribly good idea #hndr_fa

NOZOMI: "—oop, sorry."
KYOSHIKA: "ah do graciously ACCEPT your apology..."
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KYOSHIKA: "—but mah HOLY JEZEBEL SIX-SHOOTER calls to mah honor's DEFENSE! WE SHALL DUEL AT SUNDOWN!!"
NOZOMI: "don'tcha have one booked with TAKUMI already...?"

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Izra @izra.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

hey. how you like that new Ingrid from street fighter 6? btw they're just exchanging long protein strings. if you can think of a simpler way i like to hear it

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We've reached a critical mass of societal moral policing and justice addiction where it's not just about things that themselves are problematic but anything someone can contort and twist into such, even if no reasonable person would ever think that way. A lot of people need to be told to log *off*

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

*note: these tweets are from Takumi stan accounts

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

That...probably explains why Waluigi has never gotten a game or been in Smash as a character

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

June 19th as the date for the final episode? Juneteeth? the end of slavery in the US? Now I might be reaching but if that's at all true Gooseworx? I see you. I understand you know ball.

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King of Tropes @kingoftropes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This might sound weird but it feels like people have developed something similar to a genuine substance abuse problem regarding online discourse. They're so used to call out posts and dunking on actually bad people/things that they'll go after the most innocuous says/does to get the same hit

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