A long time ago you could find everything on big torrent sites… but now I don’t find anything. I have my ereader and I’d like to find me some good source to read manga in French…. But it seems that the only thing that I could find right now are online, not downloadable, scans… Are there any new source that I am not aware of ?

What is Onigashima Paced?

Onigashima Paced is an edited version of episodes 982-1085 from One Piece. I removed as much non-canon content as possible while maintaining the flow of the scenes intact, with extensive editing to ensure the cuts aren’t jarring. Other changes include: following the manga order, removing spoiler titles, removing eyecatchers, shortening openings to 1m30s. 104 episodes have been condensed into 52, without missing any canon content.
Yes, it’s heavily inspired by One Pace. Since they’re far from completing the Onigashima Raid I took it upon myself to do it. However, there are differences with One Pace: I didn’t edit the subtitles (more about that later), and I don’t have a Quality Control team. Even then, I’m very proud of the result. You may notice some very occasional junk in the first 21 episodes, but from around episode 22 forward it’s smooth sailing. I highly improved my editing over time. I can confidently say you won’t notice a single cut after episode 21.
I've made a couple of comparisons in the past which you may remember: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Technical information:

The episodes are hardsubbed mp4s (sorry), and I’m using the english subtitles made by HatSubs. HUGE thanks to the HatSubs team, their subtitles are infinitely better than CR’s and it really makes the experience a lot more enjoyable.
The project is divided into two arcs: Onigashima is 48 episodes long and adapts episodes 982-1078, chapters 977-1051. Note: Episodes 982 and 1015 are unedited, apart from removing the eyecatcher, title and next episode preview. I also changed the 1015 opening to the special episode 1000 opening, because it adapts chapter 1000.
End of Wano is 4 episodes long and adapts episodes 1079-1085, chapters 1052-1057. I included episode 1084 as an optional episode in End of Wano even though it’s filler. Just because it’s pretty good. You can skip it though.
The numbers at the start of the file names refer to the manga chapters adapted. For example, [1012-1013] Onigashima 28 - Anarchy in the BM adapts chapters 1012 and 1013 of the manga.

How to watch?

All episodes can be watched through the Google Drive folder, or you can also torrent the whole thing. Both links are in the spreadsheet linked below (I always recommend downloading, because Drive compresses the video quality when streaming). I won't link the drive or torrent here to not risk the post getting deleted.
The approximate percentage of saved time is 45,31% (1120 saved minutes from 2472). For more information about every episode and project statistics check the spreadsheet.
This project took 14 months to complete. Thanks everyone that supported me through the process. Enjoy!

So I wanna download (again) Junjie Ito mangas. I used to wander in z-library but things are not as easy as before. I'm done with discord.
I check some torrent sites but it still sucks.

Edit: I FOUND IT. It's called Zetman.
Gosh, this is going to sound like so many seinen mangas, but I hope someone else recognises this.
Seinen manga where the main character was a guy who could transform into some sort of alien humanoid with strength and speed powers, but there was some sort of side effect, where it was not good for him to transform. His enemies were monster-like. He had a lady friend he wanted to protect. There was also an old man friend. The guy I think was an orphan or lived in the slums.
One plot point was about how he had a sort of alien heart that allowed him to transform. At some point, he met another person who had similar powers.
Artstyle: I recall the early chapters had a very detailed art style.
Seinen. The overall tone was a bit dark.
The transformed aesthetic looked a bit like the old Guyver manga.
Boy I hope somebody knows what I'm trying to find!

Ryo Saeba

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"You pulled off a shrewd plan, I applaud you for that. But you made one mistake. You showed me the tears of a woman. And now you have to pay the price for it."

Anyone who has spent considerable time in Tokyo, or Japan as a whole for that matter, may have heard rumors about the blackboard in Shinjuku station. They say that if you have a problem and can't go to the police, all you have to do is write a note with the letters XYZ at the end and wait for the mysterious City Hunter to come and find you. However, pretty much anyone that's done this will tell you that the City Hunter isn't exactly the man you might expect.
At the incredibly young age of three years old, Ryo Saeba was traveling with his parents when their plane crashed in a country in Central America that was in the middle of a civil war. Being the sole survivor, Ryo wandered the jungle for days until he stumbled upon a village of guerilla fighters that were battling their country's government. The guerillas would only accept warriors that could fight with them, so Ryo joined their ranks in order to survive. They taught him everything they knew about fighting, weapons, and warfare until Ryo grew to be one of the most dangerous men on the battlefield. However, the government forces eventually overwhelmed them, chasing the guerillas out of the country. Now an adult, Ryo made his way to the United States and opted to become a sweeper, a mercenary/bounty hunteprivate detective that performs off the books jobs to clean up the filthy criminal underworld. Partnering with Mick Angel, another sweeper and one of his best friends, Ryo formed the team known as City Hunter.
At some point, Ryo left the US and returned to Japan, the country of his birth, where he kept the City Hunter name for himself and continued doing sweeper work with a new partner, ex-detective Hideyuki Makimura. Ryo's reputation spread rapidly, becoming known as one of the most dangerous men in the criminal underworld. So what's the problem? Well, he does have one weakness: Beautiful women. Despite his upbringing, Ryo is a goofy pervert and womanizer that would only accept jobs from the prettiest women around if he had his way. For awhile, he had Makimura to keep him in check, but his partner would meet a tragic end after refusing a job from a powerful drug syndicate, giving Ryo the dying request of looking after his little sister Kaori. Initially planning to help Kaori get out of the city, Ryo was surprised to find that Kaori wanted to take her brother's place as Ryo's assistant/partner and continue the work he thought was so important. Together, they became the newest iteration of City Hunter, sweeping the streets of Japan of evil and assisting any beautiful women that requested their services.
While his methods may be questionable, rest assured that the City Hunter always sees a job through no matter what criminal organizations, serial killers, or assassins stand in his way.
Note:

• Surprisingly, City Hunter was never given a full official English translation until early 2022. While chapters have been releasing steadily since then, this translation is still far from complete. This thread uses all available pages of the official translation, but afterwards will be forced to rely on fan-translations.
• Kaori hitting Ryo in the head with hammers whenever he acts pervy is a running gag throughout the series, which results in some of his better durability feats. While it may seem best to write these off as gag feats, there's plenty of evidence to suggest these feats are actual aspects of the City Hunter world and should be taken literally.
  • The hammers are acknowledged by unrelated bystanders as too heavy to lift^Ch99
  • A hammer plays an integral part of a serious scene, with it's handle being destroyed leading into the villains kidnapping Kaori^Ch120
  • Kaori literally destroys their bath to prevent Ryo from getting intimate with a woman which affects the plot of that chapter^Ch145
  • Kaori is legitimately strong in her own right so these feats aren't unprecedented^Ch187
• The most notable feats in each section will be bolded.

Strength

Striking
Vs Enemies

• Knocks out a biker far larger than him with a single punch to the stomach^Ch8
• Knocks out three Yakuza members with a camera^Ch45
• Incapacitates a large biker gang, including a member who was twice as tall as the others^Ch75
• Sends a large man flying down an alley and later knocks that same man out of a window^Ch121

Destructive Output

• Breaks a baton and sends a mob member far larger than him flying back^Ch6
• Smashes through a wall with a wooden mallet^Ch69
• Sends a man far larger than him flying back, destroying the set of a dance recital^Ch71
• Knocks a pair of thugs through a wooden door^Ch166
• Defeats a group of mercenaries offscreen, one of which was shown to have had his head smashed into a small crater in the ground^Ch174
• Kicks down a metal gate after shooting the lock^Ch175

Lifting/Throwing

• Lifts a student off the ground, smashing his head through the ceiling of the lecture hall and leaving a sizeable hole^Ch15
• Isn't slowed down at all as he carries his ally while fleeing a torrent of bullets^Ch21
• Catches one of Kaori's hammer swings^Ch47
  • The majority of Kaori's best hammer feats can be found in the Durability section for scaling
• Catches a punch from behind and throws the attacker hard enough to knock over some tombstones^Ch81
• Throws a knife hard enough to embed it in a wall^Ch95
• Stands up while a giant spikey metal ball is tied to his back^Ch162

Jumping/Charging

• Leaps through the ceiling of his apartment in terror^Ch65
• Dives with enough force to smash his head through a stone wall^Ch94
• While tied to a giant spikey metal ball, he lifts it up and uses it to crash through a wall and stop the man that was attacking his client^Ch162

Other

• Uses garrote wire to decapitate a man^Ch4
• Digs his fingers and toes into stone to avoid falling into a spike trap^Ch53
• Bites through the tip of a spear^Ch93
• Flicks a pachinko ball hard enough that it knocks a knife out of a thug's hand which is embedded in the handle of a wheelchair^Ch102
• [Anti-Feat] Was unable to free himself after getting his dick trapped in the doors of a train^Ch104
• Bites and stabs his toes into a stone wall so that he could climb it despite being tied up^Ch109
• Easily catches the stab and breaks the wrist of a serial killer^Ch131

Speed

Travel

• After killing a suicide bomber he charges a short distance to knock him away before his body can fall to the ground^Ch5
• Pushes a woman out of the way of a speeding truck and then proceeds to briefly outrun that truck^Ch14
• In the time that it took a thug to enter a building and break into a girl's appartment, Ryo traveled all the way there from his appartment (the exact distance is unclear, but the reflection of the girl's telescope appears to be at least several blocks away)^Ch102
• While bra-lusted, he runs straight through a mine field and emerges unharmed^Ch154
• Instantly crosses a large warehouse to where his opponents were standing^Ch159

Reactions
Melee

• Sidesteps a biker's punch^Ch8
• Grabs someone so that they take a bat to the face for him when the swing was mere inches from his head^Ch35
• Easily dodges and catches a serial killer's stab^Ch130
• Ryo narrowly avoided Mick Angel's attacks after he had been injected with Angel Dust^Ch182
  • Angel dust increases muscular power beyond its limits^Ch184

Aim Dodging

• Leans back and narrowly avoids a point blank pistol shot from Miki, an ex-mercenary^Ch86
  • He later jumps around a store so that she was unable to land a shot on him^Ch86
• After Miki hypnotized herself to shoot him immediately after he said a certain key word, he was narrowly able to react in time to knock aside her gun^Ch88
• Avoids Koumori's aim long enough to get thrown his own gun and retaliate (Koumori is another professional hitman)^Ch124/118
• Narrowly avoids Umibozu's shots at various points throughout their duel^Ch148
  • Ryo previously described Umibozu as a sniper of the highest caliber and one of the most dangerous guys in the business^Ch53
  • Umibozu is an incredible shot in his own right, hitting numerous perfect shots while blindfolded^Ch145
• Jumps to avoid nearly point blank machine gun fire from a professional assassin called the Black Lizard^Ch153
• Engages in a gunfight with Mick Angel, during which he climbed the outside of his building without getting hit^Ch175
  • Mick claims to be the number one sweeper in America and Umibozu corroborates this, saying that Mick is likely Ryo's equal in skill^Ch175
• Avoids the fire of several well trained soldiers at once^Ch191

Projectiles

• Moves Kaori out of the way of some thrown daggers^Ch6
• Dodges and reacts to various thrown, metal-edged playing cards^Ch23
• Reacts to a revolver round, moving his erection an instant before it was blasted off^Ch53
  • This comes with the caveat that Ryo already knew Umibozu was watching him to make sure he didn't act up, and he realized his mistake before the shot was fired^Ch53
• Catches a thrown knife with his teeth^Ch90
• Seemingly deflect trap arrows while sprinting down a booby trapped hallway^Ch93
• Chops two trap spears that were launched at him to the ground^Ch154
• Shoots through a knife after it was thrown at him^Ch162
• Narrowly reacts to darts fired from a mechanism on Mick's wrist^Ch188

Other

• Protects himself with a table before a grenade can explode in his face^Ch112
• After triggering a car bomb it's revealed that he managed to avoid it^Ch167

Combat/Attacking

• When a drugged up opponent attacks him from behind, Ryo draws his gun and shoots him to the ground and, by the time he staggered to his feet, had already moved behind him to strangle him^Ch4
• Leaps high into the air, moving fast enough to seemingly vanish to his attackers^Ch8
• Repeatedly stabs the space between his fingers at high speeds without cutting himself^Ch10
• Moves faster than a soldier can track, appearing behind her after dodging her punch^Ch20
• Even while his opponent has a gun trained on him, Ryo throws a bra over his eyes and scampers into the ceiling before he can recover^Ch21
  • This man could react fast enough to catch knives thrown from a short distance away^Ch20
• Flicks a series of pachinko balls at some thugs at high speeds^Ch46
• Steals Reika's bra off her person before she can realize what happened^Ch59
• Beats up a group of Yakuza in a few seconds^Ch72
• When a disguised police detective has a gun trained on him, Ryo grabs and throws a scalpel into his hand before he can pull the trigger^Ch103

Quickdraw/Shooting

• Has multiple examples of shooting opponents who were already aiming at him
  • High ranking mob member^Ch6
  • Foreign prince that could react fast enough to catch knives thrown from a short distance away^Ch21/20
  • Professional killer^Ch119
  • A well trained soldier^Ch190
• Quickdraws a shotgun to destroy his attacker's whip mid-swing^Ch9
• Using a mounted machine gun, he takes out a squad of terrorists before any of them could fire a single shot back^Ch19
• Beats his opponent in a quickdraw even after giving him a head start (this opponent also claimed to be more skilled than ordinary soldiers)^Ch19
• Quickdraws and fires before a Yakuza hitman had even grabbed his weapon, moving so fast that the hitman didn't believe him to be human^Ch23
• Notices a series of scalpels falling from the sky and shoots them out of the air before they can hit his client^Ch38
• Uses his gun to disarm six thugs in a split second before any of them could pull their triggers despite having their guns trained on him and then immediately does it again^Ch76
• Beats a hitman in a quickdraw, disarming him and destroying his belt to drop his pants before he realized what happened^Ch90
• Defeats Koumori, not just in a quickdraw but actually managing to hit him in the face with his gun before the other man pulled his trigger (Koumori is another professional hitman)^Ch124/118
• While Umibozu had his gun trained on him, Ryo managed to pull his gun and fire in the same time it took Umibozu to only pull his trigger^Ch149
  • Ryo previously described Umibozu as a sniper of the highest caliber and one of the most dangerous guys in the business^Ch53
• Shoots multiple hidden explosives in an instant^Ch159

Agility/Mobility

Acrobatics

• Vaults over a countertop and tackles a cashier to the ground to avoid a torrent of gunfire^Ch30
• Flips out of the way of an incoming truck from a seated position^Ch74
• Performs several back handsprings to distance himself from an explosion^Ch154

Jumping

• Leaps from a stage and gets tangled in the lights^Ch68
• Repeatedly jumping across a street while traversing rooftops without any sleep the night before^Ch94
• [NSFW] After falling from a rooftop, he leaps back up to retaliate against his opponent^Ch95
• Leaps up to a second story platform where his opponents were standing^Ch159

Climbing

• Rapidly scales the side of a building^Ch94
• Performs pullups by sticking his fingers into holes in the ceiling^Ch102
• Clings to the side of a window^Ch102
• Climbs down a wall like Spider-Man^Ch109
  • He has done this on several occasions^Ch173
• Scales the outside of his building during a gunfight^Ch175

Hanging

• Dangles from a rope by his feet like a spider^Ch68
• Clings to a windowsill by his toes^Ch98

Propping/Wedging

• Props himself in the top corner of a room^Ch65
• Wedges himself between two ceiling rafters^Ch82
• Hides from Kaori by going into an alley and propping himself high between two buildings^Ch102
• [NSFW] Props himself between the wall and ceiling of a shower at an impossible angle^Ch161

Other

• Drops onto a moving car from a tree branch, maintaining his balance with apparent ease even when the car crashes into a light pole^Ch16
• Uses a rope to swing onto a stage and save an idol from a rabid mob^Ch24
• Runs along walls while avoiding booby traps^Ch93
• Saves a man from a collapsing floor^Ch114

Durability

Blunt

• Kaori embeds him into the ground and then smashes his head through the side of a building^Ch52
• Gets sent flying through a door and embedded in a wall^Ch68
• Kaori hits him hard enough to make a crater bigger than he is^Ch78
• Kaori smashes an entire bed over his head, partially sending him through his apartment's floor^Ch79
• Kaori knocks him through the wall of a bathhouse and he isn't bothered at all^Ch85
• Umibozu slams him into a wall hard enough to crater it and he immediately recovered^Ch87
• Takes blows from Umibozu on multiple different ocassions, with Umibozu being strong enough to crush the top of a car and and split a wooden table in half with his strikes^{Ch147/90/55/146}
• Immediately gets up after Kaori smashes him into the pavement^Ch104
• Umibozu rips a lamp post from the ground and throws it at Ryo's face hard enough to bend it^Ch146
• Kaori knocks him through a stone wall^Ch151
• Kaori craters him into the roof of their building^Ch175

Piercing

• Getting swarmed by piranhas and has no visible damage after^Ch112
• Gets slammed by a giant spiked ball trap with no visible puncture wound afterwards^Ch151

Explosive

• Gets caught in a trap where multiple grenades and dynamite packs explode on top of him, blasting a hole in the side of his apartment building^Ch87
  • Here is the destruction from that blast from several other angles^Ch88
• Is hit with a pointblank explosion that destroys a wall in his appartment^Ch102
• Repeatedly shoots through a plane from the inside, causing it to blowup so he can escape^Ch119

Falling

• Jumps from his apartment and crashes onto a car below, heavily denting the top of it without injury^Ch32
  • We see in a later chapter that Ryo lives on the fifth floor^Ch67
• Gets dropped from the fourth floor of a hospital, crashing into the pavement and forming a fairly large crater^Ch38
• [NSFW] Falls from a rooftop and craters into the street^Ch93

Electrical

• Kaori electrocutes him twice with a defibrillator and he immediately gets up (though the third time causes his heart to stop)^Ch47
  • Afterwards he was revealed to have been temporarily crippled by the attacks^Ch47
• A door trap electrocutes him and soon after the same thing happens when he touches barred windows^Ch53

Endurance/Survivability

• Saeko kicks him in the face with heels, puncturing his forehead^Ch19
• Has sex with forty women over the course of two weeks, leaving him visibly drained but still able to continue^Ch21
• Capable of fighting effectively even with a broken leg^Ch38
• Gets flattened and pops back into shape^Ch69
• Kaori hits him with a spikey metal ball and a spike goes straight through his head^Ch97
• Drank extensively for two days straight without sleep and was still able to operate at normal efficiency^Ch159

Other

• Gets trampled by a crowd of rabid idol fans that had previously burst through several walls^Ch24
• Gets crushed under a large weight^Ch67
• His Super Mokkori pushes him up against concrete with enough force to crack it^Ch86
• Is standing on the roof of a several story tall abandoned building when Kaori accidentally triggers the explosives she'd filled it with, causing the building to collapse and he survives^Ch175
• Pray for his recovery...^Ch185
  • Oh god not again...^Ch185
• After getting injected with a tranquilizer, he was able to defend a surgeon immediately after, claiming a Yakuza's animosity negated the tranquilizer's effects^Ch186

Cock

Yes, you read that right. Ryo's penis, his erection, his boner, his mokkori. It's frankly capable of some pretty incredible things and seems to have stats that are completely independent of Ryo's other physical abilities. So much so that it's probably best to have an entire section of the thread dedicated to it. I'm not sorry.
Physicals
Strength/Growing Power

• Bursts through bullet proof glass^Ch21
• [NSFW] Supports a 100kg weight^Ch28
• After getting placed in a steel chastity belt, Ryo eventually gets a boner so strong that it breaks through^Ch32
  • Though this does leave him in a... rough state^Ch32
• Bursts straight through a wall (though he was unable to free himself afterwards)^Ch40
• Traps Ryo's head between it and the roof of a car like a vice^Ch46
• Knocks a door off its hinges^Ch73
• Pushes against a store's wooden support beams with enough force to crack concrete and eventually destroy several of the wooden beams^Ch86

Speed

• Moves to avoid a bullet from a revolver when is was an inch away from hitting him^Ch53

Durability

• [NSFW] Is electrocuted when it touches a mannequin that had been attached to an electrical outlet, and after the initial shock Ryo recovered mostly fine^Ch24
• Withstands getting smashed through a wall twice^Ch45
• Caves in Ryo's face when his head is slammed into it by Kaori, implying its durability is higher than that of Ryo himself^Ch48
• A rapist breaks his ankle trying to kick it^Ch48
• [NSFW][Anti-Feat] Gets trapped in the door of a train^Ch104
  • This was revealed to have seriously injured him^Ch104

Abilities
Detecting Women

• His boner let him detect that his assailant was a pretty woman even when he couldn't see them in the dark^Ch12
• Ryo acts up after accidentally walking in on his client who had disguised herself as a man, despite not actually seeing through the disguise himself^Ch77
• [NSFW] Acts as a "beauty detector" to lead him towards beautiful women, but it has been fooled by dirty magazines before^Ch104

Other

• Even if you don't use your eyes Ryo is canonically packing heat^Ch38
• I just... I... uhhh...^Ch45
• Can repeatedly retract it at will and at a moment's notice^Ch45
• [Anti-Feat] Seeing a princess in a leotard did nothing for him, with Ryo describing it as if she has an aura that blocks his horny power^Ch65
  • He later describes this aura as "the repulsion of a girl who didn't know what love was", which disappeared when the princess began to fall for him^Ch65
  • The princess' handler later describes it a "noble aura" that not even Ryo can break through^Ch65

Intelligence

General Knowledge
World Knowledge

• Claims to have every criminal case from the last ten years memorized^Ch10
• Does heavy background checks and memorizes information on women people he's working with^Ch60
• When a woman describes how her sister was shot during a fight between Yakuza, Ryo was already familiar with the situation^Ch102

Weapon/Chemical Knowledge

• Recognized the scent of chloroform in a room despite it being ventilated from it's earlier use^Ch41/40
• Disarms a car bomb^Ch51
• Immediately recognizes an old scar as a bullet wound^Ch102
• Disarms a bomb^Ch119
• When a fire alarm is set off, he quickly recognizes that the smoke is closer to that of a smoke bomb than an ordinary fire^Ch136

Deduction

• Recognizes that his assailant was using old guerilla warfare tactics and that he was about to be driven directly into a minefield^Ch12
• Determines that a room must have a secret passageway based on the kidnapper's rush^Ch41
• Figures out that a man was actually poisoned rather than dying of sickness just by looking at his picture^Ch92

Other

• Disables a mansion's alarms^Ch95
• Determines a woman's measurements with a glance^Ch104
• Tricks his client's uncle into revealing his true motivation for stopping her business^Ch109
• Managed to steal classified information from a police detective's computer using unknown means^Ch118
• Seemingly capable of basic lockpicking (though he may have just kicked the door down)^Ch132

Planning

• Lures a serial killer into attacking him in his room, only for it to be revealed that he had placed a mannequin under his covers while he was hiding under the bed itself, which also allowed his ally to get a glimpse of the mystery killer's face^Ch2
• When a mob boss believed he had led him into a trap, its revealed that Ryo had planned for it, stuffing his car's tailpipe with nails to shred through the enemy force and stealing an armored truck full of drug money^Ch6
• Came up with a plan to fake a man's death by literally shooting him, wounding him to the point where he could still escape before his body was supposedly destroyed in a car explosion^Ch10
  • While the escape route was partially ruined by Ryo's assistants, he managed to stall the man they were trying to fool long enough for the plan to be successful anyway^Ch10
• Impersonates a sergeant so that he can slip a sleeping agent into her entire squad's dinner, then proceeds to impersonate the man their squad was working for and order that they quickly eat their dinner, which leads to every guard being knocked out so that Ryo could engage with the boss unimpeded^Ch20
• Intentionally chose his apartment because there is only one location someone could potentially snipe him from that was over a kilometer away, which allowed him to predict where a Yakuza sniper would set up^Ch60
• After the head of the police narcotics division admits to various crimes to a woman who he is about to eliminate, Ryo announces that it was all captured on a secret microphone he hid in the room^Ch61
• Knowing that his old partner was trying to kill him he used a mirror to trick her so that he could appear behind her^Ch113
• After briefly handling a thug's gun he's revealed to have placed a bug on it so that he will track down the woman Ryo was looking for for him^Ch121

Quick Thinking

• When a man takes a girl hostage in front of a large crowd, Ryo shoots through his own hand to slow the bullet down so that it takes out the assailant but doesn't break the glass behind him^Ch2
  • It's later confirmed that he made sure to avoid the bones in his hand, making this an accuracy feat as well^Ch2
• Uses the sparks from a bullet to briefly illuminate a pitch black room so that he could see his target^Ch3
• After noticing that he was surrounded by a group of Yakuza, he goads a massive man into attacking them so he and his client can make a quick getaway^Ch23
• In order to accomplish his mission of causing a truck to crash without revealing his identity as the City Hunter, he pretends to assault the woman he was with so that she would push him away, sending him tumbling towards the truck so he could clandestinely shoot its tires^Ch74

Mental Fortitude/Pain Resistance

• Doesn't react to the pain of shooting through his own hand^Ch2
• Resists the urge to emote after getting shot twice in the ass with arrows^Ch25
• Breaks his own leg to get himself admitted into a hospital^Ch38
  • Doesn't react after using that same broken leg to foil a hitman which was later said to have broken his leg even further^Ch38
• Bluffs that he swapped an assassin's hidden gun camera with an ordinary one, being so convincing that the assassin both surrendered and wet himself in fear^Ch51
• Was able to deny his urges when a sexy lady was flirting with him in order to keep up the appearance that he was engaged to his client so that her suitors would leave her alone^Ch106
• Doesn't hesitate when a bullet grazes his cheek, continuing his fight^Ch175

Gear

Firearms

• Colt .357 Magnum^Ch2
  • Has a second magnum he keeps in an ankle holster for if the first one runs out of ammo^Ch6
  • Comes with a scope for longer distance shots and a silencer which was effective enough that he didn't draw attention after firing in the middle of a crowd of people^Ch28/10
  • While it theoretically only holds six bullets he has fired more than that either without reloading or by seamlessly reloading between shots^Ch28
  • Strong enough to fire straight through a plane's exterior (also another example of firing more than six shots in rapid succession)^Ch119
  • Was modified by a legendary gunsmith to be more accurate^Ch124
  • Shots partially destroy various gravestones^Ch147
  • Fires straight through a stone wall into the opposite wall^Ch175
• .44 Magnum^Ch19
• .41 Magnum (he considers this to be a "one of a thousand" gun with far greater accuracy than other firearms)^Ch19
• M36 Revolver^Ch7
• M686 Revolver^Ch90
• Rifle^Ch1
• Pump-Action Shotgun^Ch6
• Machine Gun^Ch26
• Submachine Gun^Ch114
• Sniper rifle^Ch27

Ammo

• Full metal jacket bullets for his Colt Python that ricochet off of solid surfaces and produce sparks when they do^Ch3
• A golden .500 Nitro Express that Ryo claimed can move a 2 ton object a whole foot when fired from over 100 meters away, which when fired into a target's ear sticks to the inside of their skull without piercing through^Ch1
• A .30 M1 Carbine Jacket that fires and spins slowly enough that it can shoot through a man's stomach without damaging any internal organs, resulting in a wound rather than a fatal shot^Ch10
• Rubber bullets^Ch28

Other Long Ranged Weapons

• Bazooka^Ch37
  • Blasts large craters in the street^Ch37
  • Kaori later used one to blast sizeable holes in concrete^Ch114
• Twin RPGs^Ch191
• Crossbow with short arrows, making them impossible to pull out^Ch2
• Various throwing knives lining his inner coat^Ch11
• Pachinko balls which he can flick with pinpoint accuracy^Ch102

Melee Weapons

• Garrote wire^Ch4
• Hidden ankle blades^Ch5
• A glove with a metal attachment that gives a secondary blow to whoever he punches^Ch6
• Brass knuckles^Ch25
• A hidden knife in his belt buckle^Ch142

Explosives

• Nitroglycerine, which Ryo claims an entire spilled bottle would blow a pair of kidnappers to smitherines^Ch16
• Remote explosives which he uses to destroy a lab^Ch37
• Dynamite that when used repeatedly eventually resulted in a yakuza clan's headquarters to be completely leveled (the headquarters was a fairly tall building)^Ch84
• His partner Kaori has shown to pack grenades which she would've gotten from his armory^Ch168
  • This is true for flash bangs as well^Ch172

Espionage/Tracking/Surveillance

• Small microphones to bug targets^Ch6
• Police radio^Ch6
• Homing transmitter^Ch42
  • Ryo has dozens of them attached to people of interest around the city, all of which he can track using a device in his car^Ch80
  • Their signals are fairly weak, having a range of only one kilometer^Ch80
• Gear that allows him to listen in on Umibozu's phone call^Ch174

Chemicals

• A ring laced with fast acting poison^Ch5
• A fast acting sleeping pill which he stores in his tooth^Ch20
  • Says that someone he used it on would sleep "at least till tomorrow" (the time of day he used it is unclear but it would presumably be at least 12 hours)^Ch113
• His secret weapon PATCH-WORK PATTERN PANTALOONS (a pair of boxer briefs that are filled with packets of various chemicals, including anesthetics, truth serum, and sleeping agents)^Ch20
• Instant acting sleeping powder^Ch64

Other

• Bullet proof vest (along with fake blood packs to be extra convincing)^Ch6
• Ear plugs^Ch109
• Lighter^Ch142
• The inner lining of his coat is lined with a special chemical that, when burned, causes a massive cloud of tear gas to emit from it and the outer coat is packed with plastic explosives and a detonator^Ch142
  • He also keeps various hidden weapons in the lining of his coat, such as a dismantled revolver, a miniature time bomb that he uses to blow up a criminal organization's ammo depot, and most importantly condoms^Ch141/142

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I can not think of anything except for bulk manga torrents, but they are extremely hard to find and only 4 Terrabytes in size.

Greetings beautiful GiftofGames community! It's me! I'm once again here, hopefully not bothering anyone, asking for a chance to get Elden Ring in my hands.
As the title says, this is my ninth attempt requesting for Elden Ring. I imagine that by now there's a chance that some of you've probably read my older posts and in a way, know me a little. I always talk a little bit about Elden Ring, and even if it's a game that you at least must've heard of it, I just in case talk a little about it because, who knows? maybe someone gets interested in it and find a new game to play for themselves.
Elden Ring is an open world fantasy arpg developed by From Software, you know, the people that brought to us the Dark Souls trilogy, Bloodborne, Sekiro and more. The game came out in 2022, it won the Game of the Year Award. I think it has many of the distinctive things that you would expect from a FS's game, it's very challenging, it has great bosses, it has an amazing art direction, but in this case, I think the game is even more special than it's predecessors. Why? I think the studio has been polishing a formula by developing these kind of games. It began with Demon Souls, continued with Dark Souls and so on, and I believe that the experience gather trough the years has been crystallized in a perfect form with this game. This game is huge, it's as I said before an open world game, something new coming from them, very different from their previous and more linear games. It has a massive amount of bosses, a combat system that has an incredible number of possibilities. There's so much builds to choose from, so many weapons and attacks, you could choose to be a warrior with a shield and a sword focused on strength, a samurai with a blood katana, you could go dual weapons or even use Gut's sword, or maybe become a caster focused on intelligence, shit, there's even hybrid builds too, oh, you can also use a mount called Torrent.
And about me? Well, as you can imagine, I'm doing this post because I can't afford the game. Who am I? My name is Emiliano, I'm a father and a husband. Me and my wife we both work and study and just try to do our best. Truth is that it's getting hard and some cuts have been made, I'm trying to do overtime whenever I can but lately that money just goes to pay older bills. In this context, there's just no way I can afford the game. And trust me, I know it's very expensive, I know this is a long shot, I know that it's harder to receive a game if you don't request it for steam but hey, if it doesn't hurt anyone I'll just ask here to see if I find someone that can help to play this game.
As I said in previous posts, there's a lot of influences from Berserk's manga in From Software game, so here it is a cool video I found that show some of them. Maybe it could be considered spoiler, so the decision to watch it depends of you. Here it is Berserk references in Elden Ring
I leave here my PSN ID. Thank you for reading all this, I hope you have a nice day and sorry if I bother you in anyway. Have a good day!
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I am going under the idea that I have been given the go-ahead to do a franchise revamp. Execs have their initial demands but have agreed that so long as those demands are met, I am given a fairly free hand.
Execs demands:
* Give enough characters and set-pieces for merch: Examples being action figures, models, shirts, art prints, phone cases, art books, etc.
* The series pitch also must include a pitch for a mobile game with the chance at a 'proper' game.
* Human on Human violence cannot routinely be bloody because they want to keep options open between streaming, youtube, and or traditional TV. Now and again blood can be shown but each instance HAS to be cleared before use, and 'violent acts' such as impaling, dismemberment, etc also fall under this rule.
* There has to be more female characters from the onset. to hopefully attract a more diverse audience.
* There can be implications of same sex relationships/attachments but they are not allowing anything to be explicitly shown.
These are demands and constraints i must abide by.
Step 0: Establish a lore bible. The inferno armors. Messenger. The Ancients. The nine armors. Talpa, the demon realm, and all that? ALL of it must be established in enough of a fashion here to work off of. No seat of the pants 'oh hey we need filler. lets make a character up.'
Step 1: Establish seprate Manga and TV Timelines. They will have similarities. You won't see DRASTIC character diffrences between the two, but the how may change. This allows more freedom so that each can best take advantage of the medium's strengths.
Step 2: Establish 30 episode series for TV/Streaming. This is broken up into three ten episode seasons and three tie-in feature length movies.
Step 3: Hire Light Novel writers to write several books as the manga itself and tv series are being made. Release this along wit hart books as first wave to generate buzz. This is the foot in the door to see if the franchise can escape the ghost of 'you're just saint saya at home.'
Step 4: Charm Offensive. Get interviews and 'in progress' pieces released on youtube and through magazine interviews that I intend on keeping to the core identity of the franchise, but I want to make it clear that changes must be made so that the english/world wide release doesn't feel like a slap together cash grab. There would be invitations for any of the original VA's (english or japanese) that are still around and want work to have cameo roles.
Step 5: Only now would I release the main series. there would be a dual release schedule at first. The opening movie as well as the manga and use the manga's continued release after this to keep interest while the TV series is in production, and when Season 1 is released the manga is on hiatus. Second movie comes out with the manga's next arch starting, which continues until season 2 of the show starts. Same thing. Season two starts and the manga goes on break until the third movie except now with season 3 the manga keeps going until both finish. Big media blitz.
Step 6: Games. Mobile game is.... let's face it it's going to be a gatcha game. I don't like gatcha but they CAN be done in a quasi least unethical manner. Think Azure Lane except you're forming a squad to hand otu beatings through story scenerios, building a base of operations (Mia's family farm) and recruiting allies (gurenteed event characters plus pulls earned from playing the game. Scenerios get added as the series progresses.
Movie 1
War of Inferno : Rise of Talpa: Depict Japan as being ravaged by these two God-like beings clad in armor. One White. One Black. Each wholly dedicated to destroying the other. There is no morality here. No God no Evil just Destruction. Show the origin point of Talpa. Show him wearing that black armor. Depicgt him as a disgraced Daymno seeking to atone for not just starving out a rival but by sending tainted rice as 'aid.' Show that he was seduced by a corrupt almost demonic advisor (badmandon?) who whispered that it would be better in the long run.
Show him travel the land. Always wanting to do right, but also taking the easy way. the shortcut. Show that his actions arne't wholly selfish but they are each a step along the path as he travels wit ha monk to face these two entities. Show the monk binding the two warriors in place and demanding that Talpa draw their power into himself, whichh e does via his general's baton. Show him struggle against the weight of the power. Show the ancient one pleading with him to let the power disperse. Then another voice. a worse voice. His advisor whispering in his ear that he can USE this power to end the wars. Ascend to the throne of Emperor and that then.... Only Then will there be Peace.
There are tears as Talpa is bowed down. forced to kneel with apparitions of advisor and monk standing before him. Their voices growing fuzzy... Except for something they each say. 'Listen to your Heart.'
Talpa's faceplate closes and smoke pours from the cracks in his armor as his mortal body burns away. The demon warlord turns to the Ancient One. 'There shall be Peace. By my hand. By my Will. Be it of Plenty or the Grave.'
Movie Ends with the Ancient one at a temple shrine. Now tasked with tracking Talpa down and cleansing his evil from the world as atonement for letting it start.
'As long as the sun rises in the east and as far as the wind blows. You will remain until this task is done.'
Season 1:
Black Sun.
Season 1 of Ronin Warriors gets followed here. We establish that the dome of black explicitely envelops Japan. the world at large is cut off at the start. Have the ronins less trying to evaccuate because at series start it's already too late but instead are trying to save anyone they can. Initial calamyty shown from yulia and Mia's perspectives as green armored horsemen are snatching people away left and right.
Show Ryo stepping up to defendthe pair from what seems to be a leader of the raiding band. Give hte other four ronin something ot do and ways to be awesome by way of showing more than just Mia and Yulia surviving. Show them fighting defensively which is why they arne't being overly flashy.
When Ryo wins Anubis appears. Soft clapping as he picks the captain's weapon up. 'I applaud your tenacity wildfire. As ever and always you continue to impress my lord.'
Looks from the others. Momentary wondering if Ryo is just someone that wanted to get the mooks out of the way to take the glory. Then have that thought immediately crushed by Ryo confirming. 'And i tell you now what i said then. So long as you serve Evil we're never going t obe on the same side!.'
All of season 1 follows that. Similar beats but expanding thigns out. Show that the ronin that arne't getting the spotlight are still DOING something. Show that Yulia is more than just the annoying load. Little moments like Yulia managing to sneak through abandoned buildings as a fight is happening to get some book Mia's father needs, or medicine, or even to help set traps for patrols of talpa's goons looking for survivors. Show the kid is crafty.
Pepper through a few of the more fun oddball dubisms here and there 'Your mama wears army boots!' comes to mind. Never do it in a way that feels insulting. don't call attention to it being a callback just show that 'we' recognize the silly is still part of the franchise and should be given its due. Plus comedy helps keep everything from being ultra depressing
S1 has that progression of not just the ancient one confronting Anubis, but also Yulia, Mai, and even the ronins questioning why he is so loyal to a master who shows none in return. Show that even as one of Talpa's generals Anubis was a athinker andthat was why he got results.
We need to show the other three generals as more than just 'gimmick of the week' types. Each are dangerous in their own rights and crafty, but show that Talpa had intentionally made sure that they never thought beyond the moment, beyond the imemdiate to avoid the four of them uniting against him. Show that anubis had been allowed to be the group's thinker because it was assumed his aspect of loyalty would keep him andthus everyone else in line.
Show Anubis's moment of breaking that loyalty with Talpa by showing Talpa's DISLoyalty to them. In a moment of success in scattering the ronin. Making them theoretically easy targets. Show talpa rage and bellow. Show that forall of Talpa's talk of 'taking the hard road and being strong enough to do what must be done' he isa vane egotist who only wants power for himself and the world must bow to him and him alone. For Talpa there is only what he wants, or treason.
S1 ends the way it did before. the summoning of Inferno. yet wit hthe added context of the movie we know this... isn't nessicarily a good thing.
Show the ronins at Mia's family farm. Show the barrier lifted and most of those taken returned. Show anubis in the ancinet one's robes walking to Mia's house asking for sanctuary. As he had been cast out of talpa's court he was not pulled back into the nether realm when talpa was destroyed.
Movie 2:
Secret of Inferno:
Much as i loved the Inferno OVA? I'm kinda going in a diff tangent here. Mukala still comes to Japan because of the white inferno being summoned. Show that he is a person though and not basically a meat suit (most of the time.) This is where we get the lore of the White and Black inferno armors. That they were both elemental beings that in times past were worshipped as Gods and were sealed by the Ancients in times long past and long before the initial confrontation with Talpa. This is where Hariel is name dropped as being the samurai that wore the white inferno armor during Talpa's initial outing.
Mai gets kidnapped but have her have more agency here. She wanted to gain more information and trusted that since live bait works best and Mukala seemed mostly intent on battling Inferno she could best be useful here. anubis would intuit her plan by how little she struggled and would mainly serve as the ronin's counterbalance. Given he's relatively fresh from centuries of mind control he would be the one to recognize and help mitigate it.
The big takeaway here is that the inferno armors at the endo f the movie briefly combine. There's a few frames as Ryo and Mukala seem to each wear sets of fused armor as a reaction to the ronin all using their virtues as well as Anubis using the ancient's staff to purge the mental domination form the pair. At the end the inferno armors are believed destroyed and Anubis admits to Mukala that he would like to train with him and his fiance as there are no Ancients left on earth that he has any knowledge of. 'Talpa may be gone, but as this day has proven there are other threats out there. Perhaps other armors. Other spirits.'
S2:
Ancient and Modern
Instead of immediatley having 'Oh Teh Noes Talpa is back!' have an entire season as quasi breathing room. Sage's getting kidnapped and mindwhammied from Legendo Inferno happens here. Show Naria and Mukala working with Anubis to re-learn the Ancient's craft. Though have Naria still keep to the garb and traditions of her people. Show Mukala as generally agreeable to be around and holding no personal animosity for what happened.
Touchstones of this season:
Show the human governments 'discover' a way into the neather realm (in reality they're being let in by Badmandon and a cadre of mid-level flunkies.) This gives us a bit more chance to explore the how of Neather Realm workings. that while the empty armors literally are just animated suits, there is a semblence of a feifdom there with people and customs and the whole nine yards.
have the guy with the elemental sword happen here. Big him up as the guy that's unifying talpa's holdings. he doens't have the elemental blade here but there is a shadowy female advisor whispering into his ear. A lithe acrobatic woman who is hauty and arrogant 'but if I were to take charge where would that leave you my dear captain? I am content being the right hand rather than the throne.'
The big to do are those mortal realm forces that want to ally with the neather realm. They were drawn here because they have evil in their hearts and are being manipulated.
On the whole this season is far less flashy. there's armor fights but it gives more time for anubis and his fledgling attempts at rebuilding the ancients even as he effectively hides from his past.
The big setpiece fight is an attempt made at turning Mukala back into a berserker. complete with black inferno armor (there being differing details showing that it's a 'false' armor much like rec torrent from the series.) He starts to fight. Except it's clear he isn't the one driving or that he's more than just someone being badly puppeted. Giving Ryo an idea where like with Talpa all of them pour their armors into a single person. except it's into Mukala and the false inferno shatters.... giving him the actual black inferno.
Cue confusion followed by him destroying the supposed science gizmo allowing access to the neather realm. The ronins are booted back out. As are several others who had been mindcontrolled into ging through but the scientist is left there.
As the advisor leads him to an ornate throne room pale blue flames light on either side of the central path til a central fire forms revealing a gargantuine ghostly visage of talpa's head:
'You have done well lady Kyra. You have done well indeed.'
Movie 3
Message
I want to do something with the Message OVA but damned if I know anything about it other than they get new armors after discarding their old ones. Apologies I've got nothing here.
S3
Past and Prologue
This is largely going to be S2 from the original show, except tightened up.
Instead of four episodes of ronin getting kidnapped Episode 1 shows four of them getting kidnapped in a coordinated strike. Ryo evading capture because he was with Mukala and the pair are able to fend off the assault. Most noteably during the capture sequence Rowan's 'yo're a Girl' gets elaboration. Kyra raising an eyebrow and Rowan elaborating. 'Iwas expecting fanged demons not...' cue fight.
Anubis and Mai searching through records they took from the neather realm pointing them to the jewel of life. Naria offering insight based on her own studies, causing Anubis to comment that she may well be a better canddiate to lead their order than he is given her background in healing and lore.
Rescue mission into the neather realm. This time with Mukala tagging along and when the battle of the elemental sword happens both white and black infernos briefly manifest and the way the batle is structured would lead one to think victory was almost an accident as the pair were focused on removing the interloper more than each other. Both armors are quickly banished but the experience leaves both warriors unsettled.
Cue talpa musing about the inferno armors being how he gained power originally and it may be they again give him power to grant himself a physical form.
With the ronin away there's an attack on Mai's farm. Mai able to fend off the foot soldiers and Yulia smart enough to hide and run for help. Mortal authorities try to assist and are able to hold their own until sekmet shows up. Which is also when Anubis shows up to deflect an attack that would have killed a police officer. 'This is beyond your ability to be more than in the way.' 'OK yea fair-'
and Anubis forcing Sekmet to reveal tht Kyra isn't his replacement. He's talpa's attempt at taking the power of the ancient's bloodline as his own. As Sekmet leaves, the portal/door is slower than usual to close giving Anubs time to wedge it open long enough to go through.
Along with Maia, Yulia, and Naria.
This is when we have that drag out fight where Anubis again takes up the ogre armor. Naria briefly takes the ancient's staff and the jewel yulia has basically protecting from the rank and fodder.
Biggest divergance from the endo f the old series is Ryo and Makala both stating that if he wants the inferno He can have it... ALL of it... and both hold him in place even as he drains both inferno armors away. Kaira is clensed by Anubis giving her his armor, which banishes badmandon's influance from her, and anubis survives because Naria giving medical attention. However it isn't clean. Anubis again has the ancient's staff but at the end he leans on it as a true walking stick instead of a rainment of office.
last shot of the series being Kayra stating that when Anubis feels his order is ready she wishes for them to come. replace the corrupted priests and clense outworld in full and that the ronin will always have places in her court andh er favor if they ever need.

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(WARNING: If you happen across this post, know that this is Part 2 of my review for the movie, Spy X Family CODE: White. Please read Part 1 before proceeding from here. Thanks!
Part 1 is here: https://www.reddit.com/SpyxFamily/comments/1c8u3uu/a_review_extremely_detailed_synopsis_of_spy_x/ )
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With the assumption that you have read Part 1, let us continue, shall we?

------SHIT GOES DOWN (FIGURATIVELY & LITERALLY)------

ANYA GETS KIDNAPPED. Anya gets the liqueur and tucks it safely in her bag! Well. That was easy. Too bad the lackies come by and kidnap her, since she has the microfilm in her tummy. Bond tries to come to her aid, but is shoved off and away, and knocked out by a random empty soda can...? Though not before he manages to tear an insignia patch off of one of them. Loid and Yor then scour the city looking for Anya, only to find Bond. After Bond fails to pantomime what had happened, Loid discovers the insignia patch in the doggo's mouth, deduces it to be from Snidel's military corp, and resolves to merge his two missions into one: Take down Snidel AND rescue Anya for Strix!
LOID & YOR STEAL(?) A "DISPLAY" PLANE. Anya is brought to Snidel and his Airship lifts off since they now have possession of the microfilm. Only problem, its rummaging around in Anya's bowels... So all they have to do is wait for her to poop. Too bad Anya claims to be SO adorable that she has never pooped in her life, which is an obvious lie that she immediately takes back while under scrutiny. Unfortunately for her, she just so happens to need to poop right then and there. Not wanting to let the bad guys win (especially because they said that they'd kill her after she pooped out the microfilm), Anya tries, to no avail, to play off her bowel movements as cold shivers and other such lies. The lackies are then tasked with overseeing Anya's pooping.
Meanwhile, Loid and Yor are fueling the display plane out in front of the restaurant, which they somehow were able to get permission to do with the help of Fiona...? Don't question it. Loid plans to fly off, board the airship and complete his mission. But one minor complication: Yor feeling the need to do things as a family, decides to sneak on board the display plane as it lifts.
Also, Fiona infiltrates a navigation tower and takes it over, in order to aid Loid as radio support. He compliments her for her efficiency, and she does a dere-dere schoolgirl skip-a-roo around the control room before getting back to work.
THE POOP GOD COMETH. Anya at this point is dancing away the need to shit while arguing with her lacky overseers. Her face turns every shade of color and there are as many meme-faces in the scene as there are frames. She really is just an absolute meme in this. In the best way possible. She tries to hold in her poop so badly, that she at one point faints and literally has a fever-dream about the God of Poop.
I DO NOT exaggerate. This girl has a straight up religious experience lmao: The Poop God comes down from Poop Heaven, pats Anya on the shoulder as she is emotionally swept up by his almighty presence, and he calls her a warrior for holding it in for so long for the sake of World Peace. But she's done all she can, fighting the good fight, and it is now time for her little tush to quite literally relax itself. She then follows him through the air by propelling herself with her own farts, across the ocean, past a bunch of statues of the Poop God peeing into said ocean, and straight into a gigantic, golden, flushing toilet bowl. Only to snap awake. Drooling. Eyes glazed over. As though she had just taken a metric fuck-ton of LSD. It was by far the most ridiculous and well-animated sequence to come out of this entire franchise.
Anyway, the lackies get frustrated at their progress, or lack thereof. And so they inform Snidel, who just tells them to cut her open. They roshambo to see who has to do it. Please hurry, mom and dad. Speaking of...
LOID & YOR INFILTRATE SNIDEL'S AIRSHIP. Loid radios the Airship pretending to be a plane low on fuel, and requests permission to board. Snidel orders his men to shoot down the plane. They question his order, but he justifies it believing that since they have the microfilm, war might as well have started. So they fire at Loid with all they have, including guided missiles. Which still fits the setting's 1960's timeframe since the first IRL guided missiles were invented in the late 1930's.
Running out of options, Loid decides to rush the Airship and crash into its roof. He infiltrates from there. Yor kicks out their plane's cargo door, which is still on the exterior side of the Airship, and so she decides to find a way in from the outside. Snidel and his men spot Yor on the exterior cameras, sprinting around on the roof of their aircraft. In shock, they begin trying to shoot her down. She of course dodges every bullet! She even manages to get a soldier to drop a grenade, using her coat as a projectile. The explosion causes a fire that spreads Snidel's forces thin. Which makes infiltration amongst chaos much easier to manage for both mama and papa!
Furthermore, Loid's plane crash stunt happens to create a quake throughout the aircraft. Which knocks the lackies away from Anya and she manages to escape them, comically holding her asscheeks closed as she does so lol. After a Scooby Doo-esque chase sequence, Anya manages to successfully hide inside of a bathroom stall, which she immediately and tearfully uses. Victory for Anya and the Poop God! However, the lackies manage to track her and take her to the bridge of the Airship. There, they inform Snidel that Anya had pooped in one of their toilets, so the Colonel orders them to search the shit tanks for the microfilm. He then has Anya bound and gagged, and kept in a room beneath the bridge.
Snidel orders his men to put out the fires. And to deal with the woman, he unleashes a soldier call the Type F...
MY THOUGHTS SO FAR. If the last section of this review was on peak wholesomeness, THIS section is on peak comedy! I did not regret it ONE BIT seeing the absolute awkwardness that is Anya flying around using her own farts. I mean, I'm still going to ask why that was even a necessity to animate in the first place! But it was no less glorious haha.
I will also say that this section had the better portions of pure animation. The portrayal of Poop Heaven was vibrant and colorful, Anya shiver-dancing and transitioning from meme-face to meme-face was expertly characterized, and the lackies were chock full of emotive reactions to our baby's antics. I mean, there is a pretty bombastic anime battle later on, but the animation quality is expected to go up for those flashier, action-oriented moments. For a COMEDY moment to be animated so well, requires excellent character acting skills from the animators. Because let's be real here. If Actors have to play the characters for a film, then Animators are the Actors for an animated film. So whoever at Wit/Cloverworks was responsible for the storyboarding and layout of the Poop God scene of this movie deserves every drop of praise coming their way. Well done, Wit/Cloverworks! You knocked another banger out of the toilet-bowl-shaped ballpark with this one!

------PAPA & MAMA DO WHAT THEY DO BEST------

At this point, Loid and Yor are on their own missions, which will eventually converge. Of course, cool spy and assassin shit happens as a result.
LOID COMMITS IDENTITY THEFT (WHICH ISN'T A JOKE, JIM). Loid Solid Snakes his way through the Airship and comes across an officer. Who he jumps and poses as. He then asks around for where the girl was taken. Told that Anya is being held at the bridge, he goes straight there. After one small but VERY IMPORTANT detour...
Loid happens to walk past the two lackies on their way to the septic tanks and notices that one of them has a missing insignia patch. Putting the pieces together, he determines that these two where the ones who had kidnapped Anya. So he does what any loving father would do: He beats the ever loving shit out of them. After delivering righteous justice upon the wicked, Loid, disguised as an officer, enters the bridge. And the real battle begins...
YOR VS BOWLING & TYPE F. Meanwhile, Yor finds her way inside of the Airship via the cockpit of an exterior machine gun. She then wanders about and encounters a group of solider putting out the fire she started. As they attack her, Yor grabs a fire extinguisher and rolls it like a bowling ball at them. And like pins, they fall over, unconscious. Yay! She then steals two of their knives for some extra self-defense. Double Yay!
Yor opens a door to the hangar bay, only to discover that is is completely on fire. She walks in anyway and is confronted by a tall juggernaut of a man. The Type F. Oh No! Sensing his killing intent, she rushes him down, dodges every bullet shot her way, swiftly closes the distance, and plunges a knife square into his forehead. Yay! However, not only is her opponent a tall juggernaut of a man. He is a tall, METALLIC juggernaut of a man. So the knife had no effect and in fact broke... Oh No! As his military coat burns away due to the surrounding fire, it is revealed that he has mini guns and rocket launchers for arms and he begins firing at Yor. Double Oh No! Yor takes out a second knife, which the metal giant mocks. And the real battle begins...
MY THOUGHTS SO FAR. I really, REALLY love the part when Loid beats up those lackies. Its so fucking touching. Because bro could have just let them walk. In fact, it would have been the smarter play to just let them go, as to not rouse suspicion. But he didn't. He COULDN'T. You know why? Because Loid is actually a loving father. When you put your hands on his daughter, your life is forfeit... And that notion fills my heart so damn full!
Also, I think it's neat that these lackies get their shit kicked in by both Yor AND Loid at some point throughout the runtime. It's quite a fitting comeuppance for those two, as we never see them again afterwards.

-----THE FRIGIS CRISIS'S CLIMACTIC CONCLUSION-----

LOID VS SNIDEL: THE REMATCH. Loid enters the bridge but Anya is nowhere to be found. He is rebuffed by Snidel and is told to leave. But he can't. Not until he knows where Anya is. Luckily, Anya can sense Chi-chi's presence through his thoughts. So she bonks her head against the pipe she is tied to. The reverb from below reaches Loid and he connects the dots. Loid feigns dropping a button towards a nearby by hatch to the room below. As he walks past Snidel, the Colonel comments that he smells like a city boy. Remembering the same smell from the tourist at the restaurant, he and his men begin firing at Loid, who manages to get behind cover. Though unharmed himself, Loid's disguise is now ripped up and useless. He discards it and returns fire.
Snidel then pulls out experimental poison gas grenades, puts on a gas mask, and prepares to toss it at Loid. Anya reads his intentions and begins to chew through her binds to save her Papa. She does so just as the gas is released. And in a streak of luck, Anya trips face-first into a console that opens all the windows in the bridge above. This disperses all the poison and saves Loid!
As the gas dissipates, Loid moves through it to tackle Snidel in a scuffle. Once it fully clears, Snidel's men a baffled at the appearance of two Snidels in a struggle. Loid determines that if he can't fool Snidel with his disguises, all he has to do is fool his men. So in reality, he had used the chaos of the windows opening as an opportunity to make a Snidel disguise. The two Snidel's each claim to be the real one and order the men to shoot the other. They don't fire out of confusion. Frustrated, the real Snidel pulls out a knife and strikes at his imposter. However, Loid quickly disarms him and chokes him out. This convinces the soldiers that Loid was the real Snidel. He orders them to take the "imposter" away and they do so obediently. With no one but himself aboard the bridge, he removes his disguise and lunges down to where Anya is being held captive.
YOR KILLS A LITERAL WALKING WEAPON... WITH LOVE. We cut back to the hangar where Yor and Type F are engaged in fierce combat. After dodging a seemingly endless torrent of bullets and rockets, Yor grabs a nearby fireman's axe, and caves in the Type F's chest. He still lives however, the axe doing nothing but exposing the ammunition chassis structured within his body, as though he is a weapon outside AND inside. He comments that waiting for him to run out of ammo is a pointless strategy. With options wearing thin, a tired Yor looks around for a solution, and finds one in her pocket! She asks the man to stand down as she is only here to get her family. But he refuses, stating something along the lines of all three of them being the first victims of a new war between East and West.
Yor recklessly rushes Type F once more. She slashes about from every angle, doing no damage and growing even more tired. But she suddenly pulls back. He mocks her seemingly futile methods again. But then notices a peculiar shade of pigment lined at her feet. The line trails to HIS feet, all around him, and even up his body. The pigment trail ends at the exposed ammo chassis in his chest. Yor then reveals that though a knife was in one hand during her attack, Loid's gift to her--a container of lipstick--was in her other. She tells Type F that 50% of Lipstick pigment is made up of oil (Not sure how Yor knows that since she's so much of a girlfail). She proceeds to light her lipstick like a match and drops it onto the trails she drew. This instantly lights it all up, and the Type F perishes. Blown up from the inside due to the ignited gunpowder housed all throughout the interior of his body.
Yor Wins.
Fatality.
Flawless Victory. (Like literally, she never got hit once.)
THE FAMILY, REUNITED. We cut back again to Loid freeing Anya from her prison. She embraces him and the Cherry Liqueur falls out of her pack. Papa smiles, finally realizing why Anya left the hotel on her own (he didn't know because her earlier note was poorly written). Anya reads his mind and smiles back, knowing that she had made him proud. We don't actually hear his thoughts though, which is a neat touch!
This is when Yor finally arrives, to the surprise of Loid. He asks her why and how she got there. Being such a poor liar, Yor lies by telling the truth. She admits to sneaking aboard with Loid, saying that as a family, they should do things together. A love-blinded Loid buys it as usual. But now its time for more lies lol! Because Yor wonders why the military was after Anya so badly. Anya senses her Papa's hesitance in explaining things (As it might expose his identity as a spy), so the little girl "corrects" her Mama. Saying that they weren't military, but chocolate thieves that she had taken chocolate from. Loid connects the dots, surmising that the microfilm was hidden in the chocolate she had apparently taken from them, and adds to the lie by stating that cold regions are prone to chocolate theft because it is believed that chocolate keeps people warm...(?) An air-headed Yor buys it as usual.
CRISIS AVERTED THROUGH THE POWER OF FAMILY, BABY. But things turn against Anya since both Chi-chi and Ha-ha start scolding her about taking things from dangerous people. To which she very guiltily apologizes for, which also draws out small smiles between Loid and Yor. But then, the family realize that the airship is exploding and dropping altitude! And what's worse, is that they are headed towards a populated area!! Loid rushes to land the aircraft to save the day. When questioned by Yor how he knows how to pilot an airship, he lies that he had piloted one as a part time job when he was as a student. Yor looks at her husband's back and marvels at him, even praising him for how cool and amazing he is.
Like an absolute chad, Loid gets to work. He attempts to pull the rudder and steer the ship out of the way of an oncoming clocktower. But the ship is too busted up and the rudder is seemingly jammed... What's worse, is that a piece of debris falls and hits Loid in the head, causing him to become bloodied and woozy. But then, Yor grasps one of his hands and Anya does the same to his other. Now with all three of them at the rudder, the Forgers use their combined might to pull it and steer the Airship clear of the buildings and civilians below. Through the power of family, the rudder turns several times over. Dragging poor Anya around and around and making her eyelids and cheeks flap about due to the velocity. Final Meme-face achieved.
The aircraft veers just past the side of the clocktower and crashes into a nearby lake. This puts out the fires and stops the impending explosion. As the sun rises, the Forgers are dunked in water and share a tender moment of laughter over "Waku-waku Splash" time. Anya sneezes and the microfilm, that was stuck between her teeth this whole time, falls out. Loid spots it and retrieves it. Mission success!
MY THOUGHTS SO FAR. The Cherry Liqueur moment, of all things, got me. It got me good. Loid's subterfuge, Anya's tenacity (and luck), and Yor's combat prowess are all pretty cool and fun! But at the end of the day, I care ultimately about this family's growing love for one another. It makes all of the above worthwhile. Substantive. MEANINGFUL.

------BACK HOME, TOGETHER AS FAMILY------

YURI AGAIN. The next day, Yuri hears about what had transpired over the radio, though it seems the public is given a vague version of events. He wishes for his sister's safety, knowing that she is there, and then proceeds to lament over why the SSS have to take care of the paperwork for an incident in Frigis. He is told by his superior that the military needs to save face and remain unblamed, or else face international scrutiny. Yuri then correctly suspects to himself that WISE was somehow involved, and that the only saboteur who could pull off such a feat would have to be none other than Twilight himself. Whom he curses under his breath.
HANDLER IS A REAL ONE. Loid returns to WISE HQ to report on his mission. He hands Sylvia a souvenir from Frigis. It is a wine bottle. She pulls back the label to find the microfilm adhered to it. With a proud smirk, she informs Loid that he is no longer being replaced by Deppler for Operation Strix. When Loid asks why, Sylvia hands him a candid photo of Deppler cheating on his wife. She states that Deppler's wife had discovered his infidelity and was disowned by her side of the family as a result. This disqualified him for Operation Strix because his father-in-law was his in at WISE, AND Eden does not accept broken, incomplete, or otherwise ineleganto families (which is why Yor still has to keep playing the mother role even after the Eden interviews).
After another look at the candid photo, Loid notices that the woman seducing Deppler has a striking resemblance to his Handler. They both give each other an knowing look, implying that Handler had sabotaged Deppler for the greater good. Strix continues as is and its because Handler is a FUCKING. REAL ONE.
CONTEST POSTPONED (WOMP WOMP) & ANOTHER ADVENTURE PERHAPS...? Anya and Yor are seen back in Berlint at a park with Bond. Loid soon joins them and he thinks to himself that though the replacement issue has been dealt with, he must still strive to get Stellas. Anya reads the thought and is joyfully relieved that the family won't be disbanded. She excitedly claims that she'll win the contest for sure and earn a Stella. Our favorite family of goobers then walk into the sunset together.
The next day, the students at Eden prepare for the competition. Becky and Anya talk about what they each are going to make. Sy-on boi chimes in with insults, but soon turns red when Anya says that she'd be happy if he tasted her Meremere dessert. Damian retreats in a very typical, tsundere fashion, and Becky marvels at her best friend's boldness. But then a small explosion offscreen occurs and fills the classroom with smoke. (That kid is getting a Bolt for sure...)
Anya comes home pretty sullen, and tells her parents that the Meremere won't work. She hands them a note that the contest is postponed and, due to scheduling issues, the judge will now be the vice principle. Loid shrugs this off as a minor set back, stating that the VP's favorite dessert is a Berry Pudding from the south. And so he plans for the Forgers to take yet another weekend vacation to this tropical, southern region. "For the mission" of course. Bond then has a vision of the entire family at the beach.
Roll Credits.
POST CREDIT SCENE. Frankie finally makes it to Frigis! But Loid had already gone home...
Bummer. He got neglected by Loid and lost his shot with a cute girl for no real reason. He better charge the dude extra for the trouble. I seriously though that he was gonna come around at the last minute and help out during the climax. But nope. Franky gets shafted. He honestly doesn't deserve this....
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, its still funny!
MY FINAL THOUGHTS. Wow. This movie rocked!
Despite a few falters (a slightly drawn out set-up exposition, un-needed Yuri scenes, retreading character arcs from the source material, and perhaps slightly over-relying on character conventions), it was an enjoyable outing, whether consumed as a piece of Spy x Family media or as a standalone movie. There are definitely better movies. There are definitely better animated movies. There are definitely better anime movies as well. But this captures the spirit of its own source material so perfectly. That spirit being Endo's fascinating ability to weave together seemingly incompatible genres together in such a way that it creates a unique, fun, and refreshing experience.
What Endo had created in SxF is lightning in a bottle. And this movie does the best replication of this bottled lightning that can realistically be done within a condensed, feature-length timespan. And sure, that just ends up creating one giant Spy x Family episode... But is that REALLY something to complain about? Because here's the thing: I have NEVER, in all my years of watching anime, reading manga, and overall being part of the anime/manga community, seen a fanbase SO rabid for more content. Maybe its the slowburn pace of the story? Maybe its the bi-weekly release of chapters? A combo of both factors, perhaps? Or something else entirely...?
Regardless, Endo has gotten us HOOKED on his story. And at that point, the only thing needed in order to satisfy us... is simply more. Sometimes, even if its only more of the same. And that is what this movie is. A feature-length delivery of "more of the same." That might sound like a major flaw to anyone else. But for someone who is as invested in the story of the Forgers as myself and many others... Its exactly what we are craving. Especially because it was so well-executed for being merely "more of the same." Endo and Co. knew the assignment and pleased the fans. That's all you can ask for when it comes to movie adaptations, really.
As a fan, consider me pleased!

I suppose evangelian is a biological mech you get inside. I’m more looking for armor though.

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So I've been using HakuNeko to download manga but I've realized that the quality is less than those of rips on sites like nyaa and whatnot. I realized that Mangasee compresses the images to save on space and bandwith, but I still want to be able to download the orginal mangas.
So my questions is, are there any connectors on HakuNeko that have original quality, if not is there an alternative to HakuNeko; as in other programs or sites, and if not either of those would I just need to torrent to get highest quality mangas?

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Debido a la longitud de algunos capítulos, ahora también el fanfic estará disponible en Archive of Our Own, por si desean una experiencia mas ininterrumpida.
Ojala Reddit no me hubiera hecho dividir el capítulo así (de nuevo), pero ni modo.
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Transcripción de Memoría de Sujeto: Syra, Estudiante de Historia Universal en Brightspire y Miembro del Programa de Intercambio Humano-Venlil
Fecha [calendario humano estandarizado]: 17 de Septiembre de 2136
Me encuentro escuchando a mis compañeros charlar sobre sus experiencias iniciales con los humanos que les fueron asignados. La mayoría parece haber tenido encuentros positivos pese a los malentendidos culturales, lo cual me alivia.
Sin embargo, Ruvam aún se muestra algo receloso, juzgando con dureza las costumbres "depredadoras" de los humanos. Como higienista, supongo que su preocupación radica más en prevenir cualquier posible riesgo o conflicto que pueda surgir durante el programa.
Por mi parte, siento que he logrado abrirme un poco más con Daniel luego de lo ocurrido. Si bien su apariencia me desconcertó al principio, él ha demostrado ser respetuoso y atento conmigo. Anhelo poder conocerlo mejor y que él también comprenda más sobre mi gente.
Escucho con interés las explicaciones de Daniel sobre esas peculiares expresiones humanas llamadas "memes". Era realmente fascinante cómo su especie se burlaba de sí misma mediante movimientos y gestos exagerados con un propósito meramente lúdico. Quiero decir, nosotros también tenemos tendencias en nuestras redes sociales, algunas de ellas también graciosas, pero no creo que sean igual de surrealistas e irónicas que estas tendencias de su internet.
Miré de reojo a mis congéneres venlil, percibiendo sus gestos de perplejidad ante tal concepto. No pude evitar una sonrisa interior al imaginar sus reacciones si supieran lo que Daniel tenía planeado mostrarme después en privado. Si estos simples "bailes" virtuales ya los desconcertaban, no quería ni pensar en su expresión al ver los videojuegos humanos en toda su esencia. Y no sé qué cosa me tendría preparada Daniel.
Pero Daniel parecía ni haber desayunado, porque cuando me levante, no lo había visto en el comedor para humanos o tan siquiera en el comedor común, todos con sus máscaras claro está, pero no había reconocido la silueta de Daniel por ningún lado.
Me detuve un instante, sopesando cómo encarrilar la conversación hacia un rumbo más ligero. Algo me decía que mantener a Daniel demasiado tiempo inmerso en esa dinámica de grupo tal vez podría incomodarlo. Decidí intervenir con tacto.
—Oye Daniel, acabo de caer en cuenta —dije con una leve inclinación de cabeza en su dirección—. No te he visto en el área de comidas esta mañana. ¿Has desayunado algo ya?
Pude percibir cómo su postura corporal se relajaba levemente ante mi cambio de tema. Era como si hubiera estado conteniendo la respiración hasta ese momento.
—Ah, pues... no, la verdad es que no he desayunado aún —reconoció en un tono ligeramente avergonzado—. Con todo el ajetreo de preparar mis cosas para el día, se me pasó por completo.
Asentí despacio, moviendo mis orejas con gesto comprensivo. Era evidente que Daniel todavía se sentía un poco fuera de lugar en este entorno alienígena.
—Entiendo, no hay problema —repliqué con naturalidad—. Oye, ¿por qué no vas y echas un vistazo al área de comidas? Estoy segura de que aún debe quedar algo de comida disponible. Es importante que te alimentes bien ¿no es así?, especialmente ahora que estás en un ambiente tan distinto al de tu planeta.
Pude notar cómo Daniel se removía en su asiento, dando la impresión de estar considerando mi sugerencia. Antes de que pudiera responder, decidí darle un ligero empujón más.
—Vamos, ve a comer tranquilo —insistí con gestos amistosos de orejas y cola—. Mientras tanto, yo aprovecharé para preparar algunas cosas por aquí. Ya me alcanzarás después, ¿de acuerdo?
Daniel estaba en silencio de nuevo.
Intervine de nuevo, insistiendo una vez más.
—Escucha, si lo prefieres, podemos reunirnos más tarde en tu habitación para que me muestres esos videojuegos que mencionaste,— sugiero con un tono casual. —No tiene que ser ahora mismo si no te sientes cómodo. Tomate tu tiempo, ¿de acuerdo?
Mis compañeros venlil me observan con distintos grados de curiosidad y extrañeza. Supongo que mi súbita insistencia por hacer que Daniel se tomara un respiro podría interpretarse como sobreprotección. Pero en realidad, sólo intento poner en práctica lo que aprendí sobre él en estas semanas.
Parece que a veces, los depredadores como Daniel necesitan su espacio personal y un ambiente más tranquilo para abrirse. Presionarlos demasiado podría ser contraproducente. Así que por ahora, decido darle esa apertura que necesita.
Aparte, no quiero que la pase mal por si lo confrontan de nuevo con lo del incidente.
Esta vez, Daniel asintió con más soltura. Podía imaginar la expresión de gratitud oculta bajo su máscara oscura.
—Sí, tienes razón, iré a ver si todavía puedo conseguir algo —concedió mientras se ponía de pie—. No tardo mucho, lo prometo.
—Claro, no hay prisa —respondí con un ligero ademán de mi cola—. Ve con calma y relájate un poco. Te esperaré aquí cuando hayas terminado.
Mientras lo observaba alejarse rumbo al área de comidas, me di la vuelta para encarar de nuevo a mis congeneres venlil. Una parte de mí deseaba disculparse por haberlos apartado de su animada discusión, pero decidí no darle demasiada importancia. Lo importante ahora era asegurarme de que Daniel se sintiera cómodo nuevamente.
—Bueno, creo que le ha sentado bien un pequeño descanso de tanta... conversación —comenté en voz baja, generando algunas reacciones de entendimiento entre ellos.
Nurvo movió sus orejas con un gesto meditabundo.
—Sí, he notado que los humanos parecen necesitar más de esos... momentos de introspección que nosotros —reflexionó con tono analítico—. Debo reconocer que Daniel se muestra bastante más reservado que su contraparte y compañera mia, Ashley. Lo cual es ciertamente raro para un depredador de manada, o quizás es algo más común de lo que creíamos en su especie.
Lithí emitió un leve resoplido divertido.
—Pues Mike es todo lo contrario —intervino con un entusiasmo casi jovial—. No para de hablar y bromear todo el tiempo. Al principio me desconcertaba, pero ya voy comprendiendo que se trata de su... estilo particular.
Pero mis congéneres seguían mirándome con una mezcla de curiosidad y extrañeza por mi repentina insistencia en que Daniel tomara un descanso. Supuse que debía explicarme mejor.
—Escuchen, sé que puede sonar un poco sobreprotector de mi parte —comencé con tono mesurado—. Pero creo que a veces los humanos requieren de esos pequeños respiros y momentos de tranquilidad. No es nada en contra de Daniel, simplemente intentaba evitar que se sintiera abrumado.
Nurvo asintió lentamente, moviendo sus orejas con gesto comprensivo.
—Entiendo tu punto, Syra —concedió con calma—. Los depredadores parece que suelen mostrarse más reservados en ambientes que les son ajenos. Darle ese espacio probablemente haya sido una decisión acertada.
Ruvam, en cambio, resopló con su característico tono escéptico.
—Pues mi compañero humano, Garrett, es todo lo contrario —intervino con un leve fruncir de cejas—. No para de hablar y hacer bromas incesantes sobre cualquier cosa. Al principio creí que se trataba de un mecanismo de defensa, casi un desafío. Pero con el tiempo comprendí que simplemente... es su forma de ser.
No pude evitar reír por lo bajo ante su comentario. La descripción de ese tal Garrett me recordaba mucho a los relatos de Lithí sobre su compañero humano Mike.
—Suena muy similar a Mike, mi compañero —confirmó Lithí con una leve sacudida de su cabeza—. Creí que sería más circunspecto y cuidadoso al interactuar conmigo. Pero desde el primer día no ha parado de bromear y contarme historias extrañas sobre su planeta.
Lithí agitó sus orejas con un gesto casi juguetón mientras imitaba la postura relajada y expresiva de Mike según su interpretación. Era evidente que, si bien desconcertante al inicio, mi amiga había logrado adaptarse bien al estilo de su compañero humano.
—Oigan, admitámoslo —intervine con una leve sonrisa—. Tras este primer mes de interacción virtual, todos nos hemos dado cuenta de que los humanos poseen una... increíble diversidad de personalidades, ¿no es cierto? Algunos son más tranquilos y reflexivos como Daniel, mientras que otros parecen no poder estarse quietos ni un instante.
Nurvo se rascó la barbilla de forma pensativa, asintiendo a mis palabras.
—Es verdad, debo reconocer esa gran variedad de conductas en ellos —meditó con tono analítico—. Ashley, mi compañera, se ubica en un término medio. Es alegre y conversadora, pero no al punto de la excentricidad que describen Ruvam y Lithí. Supongo que es una muestra más de lo impredecible que puede ser su especie.
Reí quedamente al imaginármelo. Por alguna razón, la imagen mental de Nurvo interactuando con una compañera humana extrovertida pero mesurada me parecía bastante acertada.
—¿Y a ti cómo te ha ido con tu compañero, Syra? —inquirió Lithí con un destello de curiosidad en sus ojos—. No has compartido mucho sobre tu experiencia hasta ahora.
Percibí que todas las miradas se posaban en mí con renovado interés. Rocé la punta de mis orejas con cierto deje de timidez al sentirme el foco de atención.
—Bueno, con Daniel ha sido una experiencia... singular, la verdad —reconocí sin saber muy bien por dónde empezar—. Como ya les mencioné, tuvimos un pequeño percance en nuestro primer encuentro debido a un malentendido cultural. Pero luego de eso, he llegado a apreciarlo bastante.
Hice una leve pausa, ordenando mis ideas antes de continuar.
—Es reservado y cauteloso, sí. Pero al mismo tiempo se muestra muy curioso y atento por aprender sobre mi cultura —expliqué con un tono más animado—. Y debo admitir que esa perspectiva tan distinta que tiene sobre muchos aspectos me parece verdaderamente fascinante. Es casi como si viéramos el universo desde dos ángulos completamente opuestos.
Ruvam entornó los ojos con su habitual escepticismo.
—Aun así, no deberíamos bajar la guardia con ellos —advirtió con severidad—. Recuerden que se trata de una especie depredadora y...
—Cielos Ruvam, ¿es que nunca te cansas de repetir eso? —lo interrumpió Lithí con un ligero resoplido—. Ya entendimos tu punto sobre la supuesta naturaleza "depredadora" de los humanos, ¿de acuerdo? Pero Syra lleva razón, no deberíamos encasillarlos tan rápido sin siquiera intentar comprenderlos un poco más.
Por primera vez, noté un leve gesto de molestia en las facciones de Ruvam. Era como si empezara a sentirse algo frustrado por nuestra aparente desestimación de sus advertencias.
Decidí intervenir de nuevo para aligerar el ambiente y evitar un malentendido mayor.
—Escuchen, no tiene caso seguir discutiendo esto —dije en tono conciliador—. Todos estamos aquí por la misma razón: tender puentes y aprender sobre una nueva cultura alienígena. Así que, ¿por qué mejor no compartimos nuestras experiencias personales en lugar de juzgar?
Mis palabras parecieron tener un efecto calmante en el grupo. Poco a poco, la tensión fue disipándose y los ánimos se suavizaron nuevamente.
—Tienes razón, Syra —concedió Nurvo con un asentimiento tranquilo—. Dejemos los prejuicios de lado y concentrémonos en comprender, que es el verdadero propósito de este programa.
Ruvam resopló por lo bajo, aún sin mostrarse completamente convencido. Pero al menos pareció dispuesto a dejar el tema de lado por ahora, quien sabe, también él debe bajar la guardia al menos un poco, y ser menos duro con los seres humanos, por algo se ha inscrito al fin y al cabo.
Lithí aprovechó el nuevo clima distendido para retomar la conversación con su habitual entusiasmo.
—Bueno, pues si estamos compartiendo experiencias, déjenme contarles sobre la vez que Mike intentó enseñarme uno de esos libros humanos…, ¿o saben que?, contemos nuestras experiencias con nuestros humanos asignados de intercambio, ¿qué les parece?—comenzó con un brillo casi pícaro en sus ojos.
Los comentarios animados no se hicieron esperar. Pronto nos vimos envueltos en un intercambio relajado de anécdotas y perspectivas sobre nuestra convivencia con los humanos.
Decidí comenzar por algo liviano, para romper el hielo.
—Bueno, inicialmente tenía... bastantes reservas sobre interactuar con un humano —admití con un leve asentimiento de cabeza—. No voy a negarlo, mi primera reacción fue de miedo y desconfianza hacia la supuesta naturaleza depredadora de su especie.
Lithí asintió con aire comprensivo mientras Nurvo movía sus orejas en señal de atención. Incluso Ruvam pareció relajar su expresión escéptica por una vez.
—Sin embargo —proseguí con un tono más animado—, debo reconocer que Daniel ha logrado sorprenderme gratamente durante este último mes de conversaciones virtuales. Ha demostrado ser un individuo sumamente respetuoso y cauteloso, muy interesado en comprender nuestra cultura en lugar de imponerse.
Sacudí la cabeza con un leve resoplido, recordando mi inicial aprensión.
—Debo admitir que al principio no sabía bien qué esperar —reconocí con franqueza—. Toda la vida me han educado para ver a los humanos y otras razas "depredadoras" como seres agresivos e irracionales, guiados únicamente por sus instintos más básicos, en especial, todos tenemos esta concepción gracias a los Arxur y el daño que nos han hecho a lo largo de varias generaciónes.
Hice una leve pausa para que mis palabras calaran, percibiendo los gestos atentos de mis congéneres.
—Pero Daniel... Daniel me ha hecho cuestionar muchos de esos estereotipos —afirmé con una leve sacudida de cabeza—. Es reservado y reflexivo, sí, pero también extremadamente curioso por nuestra forma de vida. En todo este tiempo que hemos conversado, nunca me ha juzgado ni tratado de imponer sus puntos de vista. Al contrario, se ha mostrado genuinamente interesado en escuchar y aprender de mí.
Lithí movió sus orejas con aire divertido ante mis palabras.
—Vaya, has tenido suerte con tu asignación —comentó con un deje de humor—. Mi compañero humano, Mike, es literalmente lo opuesto a lo que describes. Un torrente inagotable de palabras y actitudes desconcertantes. Aunque no puedo negar que también ha demostrado gran apertura hacia nuestra cultura.
No pude evitar reír suavemente ante sus palabras, contagiada por su jovialidad. Decidí aprovechar para compartir un poco más sobre Daniel.
—En el caso de Daniel, creo que una de las cosas que más me ha impresionado es su insaciable curiosidad —expliqué con un brillo en mis ojos—. No se limita a hacer preguntas básicas sobre nuestras costumbres. Realmente busca ahondar y comprender los porqués detrás de cada aspecto de nuestra civilización, por muy pequeño que parezca.
Sacudí mi cola de un lado a otro, recordando algunas de nuestras conversaciones.
—Es casi como si viéramos el universo desde dos ángulos completamente distintos —observé con una leve sonrisa—. Y eso lo encuentro verdaderamente fascinante. Ver las cosas con esos ojos tan distintos a los míos... me ha abierto perspectivas que jamás imaginé.
Nurvo asintió despacio, moviendo las orejas con gesto pensativo mientras asimilaba mis palabras.
—Comprendo lo que quieres decir, Syra —intervino con su habitual tono sereno—. Mi compañera humana, Ashley, también ha demostrado una mentalidad muy distinta a lo que estamos acostumbrados. Pero al mismo tiempo, me ha sorprendido su capacidad de adaptación y respeto hacia nuestras normas.
—Esperen, ¿me están diciendo que algunos de ustedes han tenido experiencias así con esos... depredadores? —la voz incrédula de Ruvam rompió el ambiente distendido.
Pude percibir un leve deje de preocupación en su expresión. Decidí intervenir antes de que esto se convirtiera en un malentendido mayor.
—Tranquilo, Ruvam —dije en tono conciliador—. Nadie está diciendo que los humanos sean perfectos o carentes de defectos. Simplemente estamos compartiendo nuestras propias vivencias personales con ellos hasta ahora.
Hice una pausa, escogiendo mis siguientes palabras con cuidado.
—Creo que la verdadera naturaleza de los humanos es mucho más compleja de lo que nos han enseñado —reflexioné con franqueza—. No podemos simplemente encasillarlos como meros "depredadores" y ya. Tienen una gran diversidad de personalidades y formas de pensar, igual que nosotros en realidad.
Nurvo asintió con gesto aprobatorio, respaldando mis palabras.
—Syra tiene razón —concedió con tono mesurado—. Sería un error limitarnos a esos viejos prejuicios sin siquiera intentar comprender en verdad a esta nueva especie alienígena. Esa es la razón por la que nos ofrecimos para este programa, ¿no es así?
Ruvam resopló por lo bajo, aunque pude notar que al menos parecía meditar sobre lo que habíamos dicho. Lithí, por su parte, aprovechó el momento para retomar la conversación con renovado entusiasmo.
—¡Bien dicho! —exclamó con un alegre movimiento de cola—. Y ya que estamos compartiendo experiencias, déjenme contarles sobre la vez que Mike intentó enseñarme uno de esos libros humanos llamados... ¿"mangas"? ¡Fue de lo más extraño!
Nos quedamos en silencio.
Lithí aprovechó la pausa para continuar con su animada anécdota.
—Como les decía, Mike intentó enseñarme uno de esos “mangas” que tanto disfruta leer. ¡Fue de lo más extraño al principio! La forma en que esas ilustraciones humanas representaban las emociones y expresiones... ¡casi parecían caricaturas exageradas!
Lithí movió sus orejas de forma expresiva al recordar.
—Pero luego Mike me explicó cómo esos rasgos eran una convención artística para acentuar los sentimientos de los personajes. Debo admitir que al principio no lograba entender del todo ese concepto tan ajeno a nuestras formas de expresión visual. ¡Hasta que captó mi atención esa historia sobre un humano con poderes de... fuerza aumentada o algo así!
Hizo una breve pausa para tomar aire antes de proseguir.
—Ay, lo siento, es que me emociono cada vez que lo recuerdo. ¡En fin! Resulta que Mike tuvo la brillante idea de utilizar uno de esos juegos de simulación que tanto les gustan a su especie. Así fue que empecé a comprender mejor los códigos visuales y narrativos de esos “mangas” tan peculiares.
Lithí sacudió la cabeza con un leve resoplido.
—Ciertamente fue una experiencia desconcertante al inicio. Pero a la larga, pude apreciar la creatividad detrás de esas expresiones artísticas tan pintorescas. Y fue gracias a la paciencia y entusiasmo de Mike al compartir su cultura conmigo.
Su mirada se posó en mí con un destello de interés.
—Oye Syra, ¿y tú qué experiencias interesantes has tenido con Daniel hasta ahora? Apenas has profundizado en eso y la verdad, me muero de curiosidad por saber más.
Percibí las miradas expectantes de Nurvo y Ruvam sobre mí. Tomé un leve respiro antes de compartir mis propias vivencias.
—Bueno, como ya les había comentado, mi primera impresión de Daniel fue... cautelosa, casi escéptica por decir lo menos. Debo reconocer que los viejos prejuicios sobre la supuesta naturaleza depredadora de su especie me generaron muchas dudas al inicio.
Hice una breve pausa, ordenando mis ideas para expresarme con más claridad.
—Pero poco a poco, a medida que profundizamos en nuestros chats, fui descubriendo facetas de Daniel que desafiaban por completo esos estereotipos preconcebidos. Debajo de esa apariencia externa, encontré a un ser sumamente reflexivo y empático, genuinamente interesado en conocer y entender mi cultura sin juzgarla.
Sacudí la cabeza con un leve resoplido.
—En cierto modo, fue casi como si abriera mis ojos a una perspectiva completamente nueva del universo. Una forma de percibir las cosas que jamás habría imaginado posible en una especie a la que siempre nos han enseñado a temer por su supuesta naturaleza depredadora.
Rocé mis orejas de forma pensativa al rememorar algunas charlas más profundas con Daniel.
—Por ejemplo, en una de nuestras últimas sesiones de chat, me habló sobre las distintas corrientes filosóficas que existen en su mundo. ¡Imagínense! Abordamos conceptos como la existencia, la condición del ser, la ética, entre muchos otros tópicos que jamás habría pensado discutir con un humano. Y lo más sorprendente fue darme cuenta de que, en el fondo, nuestras perspectivas no eran tan distintas en lo esencial.
Hice una leve pausa para que mis palabras calaran en mis compañeros.
—Creo que esa experiencia me abrió aún más los ojos sobre lo compleja que puede ser la naturaleza de los humanos. No son simples 'depredadores' como nos han enseñado, sino seres con una vasta gama de ideas, filosofías y formas de pensar que van mucho más allá de los simples instintos básicos.
Nurvo movió sus orejas con un gesto analítico al escuchar mi relato.
—Interesante observación, Syra. Es evidente que tu compañero humano ha dejado una impresión duradera en ti a través de esas conversaciones tan enriquecedoras.
Su mirada se posó en Ruvam, como instándolo a compartir su propia experiencia. El higienista ambiental resopló con su habitual aire escéptico.
—Bueno, si quieren mi opinión, mi asignado es en realidad un tanto... peculiar, por decir lo menos.
Sacudió la cabeza mientras emitía un leve resoplido.
—Como dije antes, se trata de un humano llamado Garrett. Y desde el primer momento, no ha parado de hablar, bromear y lanzar esos extraños chistes y comentarios que tanto parecen disfrutar ellos.
Lithí rio por lo bajo ante la descripción, intercambiando una mirada cómplice conmigo. Era evidente que el estilo extrovertido de Mike no era un caso aislado entre los humanos, por lo visto.
—Al principio pensé que solo se trataba de algún mecanismo de defensa o provocación para desorientarme,— prosiguió Ruvam con una sacudida escéptica de su cola. —Pero conforme fueron pasando los días, me di cuenta de que en realidad... así es su forma de ser habitualmente.
El higienista emitió un resoplido que casi parecía divertido, algo inusual en su semblante generalmente adusto.
—Debo reconocer que, más allá de lo desconcertante que pueda resultar a ratos su conducta, Garrett ha demostrado una mente curiosa y un genuino interés por comprender mi profesión y los protocolos de higiene que manejamos en el distrito de Brightspire.
Por un momento, Ruvam pareció quedarse meditabundo, como si estuviera sopesando revelar algo más. Finalmente, se encogió de hombros con un gesto resignado.
—Ah, y casi lo olvido... Ese humano disfruta de una afición de la jardinería. Al parecer, cultiva distintas especies de plantas comestibles y ornamentales en su planeta. Una costumbre que, sorprendentemente, me ha resultado bastante... fascinante de conocer sabiendo de su naturaleza, si lo pienso con detenimiento.
No pude evitar soltar una leve risita ante su tono casi avergonzado al compartir ese último detalle. Era curioso ver cómo hasta el más escéptico de nosotros había logrado encontrar facetas interesantes, por muy peculiares que parecieran, en la cultura humana.
La mirada de todos se posó en Nurvo a continuación. El estudioso de leyes ancestrales aclaró su garganta antes de comenzar a relatar su experiencia.
—Bueno, mi compañera humana, Ashley, ha resultado ser todo un caso interesante también,— comenzó con ese tono mesurado y analítico tan característico suyo. —Contrario a la imagen del típico “depredador” irracional, ella demuestra un intelecto agudo y una sed de conocimiento que realmente me ha dejado impresionado.
Nurvo movió sus orejas con un gesto casi aprobatorio.
—Ashley se ha mostrado sumamente receptiva e interesada por aprender sobre nuestras leyes y códigos milenarios que rigen a la Federación. Lo cual, debo admitir, me ha permitido disfrutar las charlas sobre mi área de estudio mucho más de lo que esperaba inicialmente.
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I have just finished listening to 我真没想重生啊 I really don’t wanna be reborn. The novel takes inspiration from Lei Jun of Xiaomi. Geographically, Jianye / Nanjing, the capital city of six dynasties beginning in 3 AD, was used instead of Lei Jun’s university Wuhan. Wuhan and Nanjing were the two most important cities on the Yangtze river for the Republic of China. Lei Jun’s parents were both teachers, who nurtured his interests in electronics, their understanding also helped him to develop good connections with Chinese in Beijing, Hongkong, Taiwan and USA, shaping his fate with voices from the future.
The 90s was the time when Governments truly relaxed regulation and encouraged private enterprises. For Vietnam’s 1st tier and China’s 2nd tier cities, it was the golden time for small startups that have close relationships with medium businesses to rise as the trusted brands for local niches. Medium businesses managers exchanged overstocked ingredients and influences for prestige and kickbacks as small businesses managers employed migrant workers and produced quality products and services. MP3 in 1995, mp4 and p2p torrent in 2000 were revolutionary tech for cheap electronics and entertainment. Medium businesses that rode this wave could accumulate massive capital and tech for high tech products such as Online Video Platform, E-Commerce and Cellphone.
In 2019, Lei Jun was recognized as an "Outstanding Builder of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", which caused the United States Department of Defense to add Xiaomi to a list of companies that support China’s military in January 2021. 我真没想重生啊 is an entertaining textbook for doing business in China, covering everything from building personal relationships in home, university and factory, gray tactics and local protectionism. His double dating with 2 contrasting female main are amusing psychology plays, however, I cannot analyze without spoiling.
It is easy for one to buy quality foods at good prices because everyone buys foods often. However, it is not easy to buy expensive things, such as cars, houses, education and health care services, commoners don't buy these products often. Without repetition, there is a need for a cost-efficient and impartial 3rd party to enforce justice. The 3rd party must benefit from justice, thus, they are often a government organization, a company that employs many vulnerable employees, a competitor. Chen Han Sheng, the MC, gained power by smoothly playing 3rd party. He manipulated his way to be a leader in various governmental organizations, helped as well as cheated vulnerable employees to destroy bad characters.
The book ends with him intentionally staying away from Real Estate, Finance, Healthcare as low tech and huge profits often lead to political deaths. He is involved with founding new schools for his and his powerful friends’ children. He lets his children skip classes to chill in nature, but he is not ready to talk with the school principal about changing the courses.