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i've read that you're planning on dropping mal. why would that be?

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Not now, but eventually.
Growing responsibilities (work, girlfriend, and so forth), combined with me not really having much interest in anime anymore. I've been there, done that. I've lived the Japan life and went through crazier stuff than most of the kids in these shows. Outside of the more mainstream titles, like Sangatsu no Lion, Osomatsu-san, and the new Cardcaptor Sakura -- all of which I thoroughly enjoy -- I really have to force myself to watch anime these days.
So, perhaps next year some time I will try to take a step away and focus on other things. But I do plan on hitting a thousand anime completed and a hundred reviews before then, because arbitrary milestones give me a boner or something.

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It is true that people read porn magazines and Hentai on train in Japan?

People don't really read magazines anymore. Everybody on the train is just looking at their phone - though what they're looking at could very well be porn.

Do you still plan to stay in Japan forever??and do japan really have one Kawaii culture??

I'm heading back to Canada in a couple months again, maybe permanently this time, since the girl has been pressuring me into marriage and kids, and Japan is a terrible place for that if you are a foreigner. I'm also just kind of bored with Japan in general. I've spent 2.5 years of my life here and seen both the best and worst the country has to offer.
Granted, I would have liked to live in Kansai once (rather than just visiting the place), but there's more countries to experience.
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That 4/10 for Sunshine S2 didn't look so good, haha. What did you think of it?

Yeah, so, Love Live Sunshine isn't too great.
Whereas the second season of the original series had entire episodes dedicated to each character, which made them fully fleshed out and interesting, the girls in Sunshine have nothing of the sort, with most of them just having a single gimmick to define them. Yohane suffers from a terminal case of chuunibyou, Ruby makes squirrel sounds or some shit, Mari speaks random and terrible English, Hanamaru says 'zura' for whatever reason, Dia has a mole and screams 'buu-buu desu wa!' at the top of her lungs, and that's about it. OK. Thanks!
And then the melodrama. Oh god, the melodrama. It just never ends. That's the entire show. There's no fun, slice-of-life moments to bring a smile to the viewer's face-- hell, there aren't even any training segments that I can remember, whereas the original constantly had them on the roof practicing or them exercising outside, which actually made them feel like idols. Here it's just melodrama. Start to finish. And minivans flying into outer space.
There isn't much good music in Sunshine, either. Maybe there's something better from Aquors' catalogue outside the show, but "Aozora Jumping Heart" is the only one I remember or would ever bother to listen to again, and even that doesn't hold a candle to songs like "Snow Halation".
I gave it a four but even that feels a bit generous in retrospect. Just a big disappointment after what was showcased in the original. Hopefully the third series is better, otherwise I'm gonna drop that sucker and stick solely to the original.

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why do you hate code geass

I did hate it, and as of a week ago, I don't! (Or at least not as much as before.)
It's fun, dumb entertainment, with a focus on the "dumb" part. The recap movies, though severely flawed themselves, have made me take a more forgiving perspective on the series.
Or, it might just be with the pass of time-- I had not watched anything Code Geass for 10 years until now-- I felt a sort of nostalgia for how anime was and probably will never be again. The mecha genre? Code Geass represented one of the last of its genre. Lelouch's lies, betrayal, and twisted morality, along with the killing of major characters, wouldn't really exist in anime today, either. So maybe when these kinds of shows were the norm in the 2000's something like Code Geass didn't feel like anything too special. But now in 2019, almost two decades separated from the series, maybe I'm starting to think Code Geass wasn't bad so much as it was merely OK.

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Why did you rate White Album 2 (3/5) in Japanese Level?

Lots of casual speech and more gramatically complex (and ambiguous) sentences which most learning material wouldn't prepare you for and which beginners wouldn't be familiar with.
But that list is extremely old (probably not updated since 2016), and doesn't really reflect my opinions as well as it used to. After a while everything just becomes 'Japanese' or 'not Japanese' and so difficulty levels kind of cease to exist, or are at least much more difficult to differentiate.

I want to play visual novels but I wonder they have hentai scenes or not according to vndb.org almost every visual novel has sexual content tags that somehow related to hentai, I want to know that visual novels really have hentai scenes?! (for example Soukou Akki Muramasa really has blowjob in it?)

No, all visual novels are family-friendly.

You said you plan to drop anime,that I can understand,but why you don't simple migrate to manga,like every Japanese person does??

True that. I feel like manga is this vast, exciting medium I've mostly neglected for an entire decade and I have no idea why.

Why did you start learning Korean? Did you gain interest in some part of Korean culture (k-drama, k-pop, etc.)?

I figured it was time to learn a new language since I pretty much achieved all my goals with Japanese and Japan as a whole. European languages seemed like a waste of effort, and South Korea is to me the most interesting culture in Asia after Japan, so there's I went. Korean dramas are also cool.

Sooo... how's life treating you? Are you finished with school? How's the salaryman life? And how long until you'll stop watching chinese cartoons?

I'm mostly done with school now and have more or less shifted into working life. I miss being a student. Also, Japanese working culture sucks a big fat one.

Just out of curiosity,you still see people with manga magazines on train in japan??

Yep. Not nearly as common as people playing games on their phones, though.

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