I'm glad their postman didn't keep that cosplay jacket for Halloween!
I've never watched Attack on Titan, so I don't know how it's supposed to look, but for some reason I was expecting it to be the length of a normal jacket and not in the style of a cropped cardigan.
"a perv who murders people", aka the point where I tapped my chin and acknowledged to myself that I was definitely
not going to be among the target audience for this video. (I can at least say I was not traumatised or horrified, so there's that.) I appreciate that they included the warnings, though.
Phil: She looks quite nice and happy.
Me: Phil, she looks bored and apathetic af. What are you talking about?
Their jumpscare reactions made me laugh.
Definitely angel fluff, guys; he's the dreamy senpai. Also, he's a teenager; why do they offer such creepy facial hair?
(One thing I really love about anime/manga is the creativity of the school uniforms. They're so inspired and gorgeous. I mean, lbr the guys' are almost always rather plain, but the girls' uniforms--yes! I really appreciate that.)
+1 point for Phil talking about something from his past.
I wouldn't have thought of it, but those uniforms
do look very 'Three Cheers' MCR!
Dan: You stalk that senpai, that's what life is all about.
Me: Speaking from experience.
Cheeky stab banter is cute.
I don't use emojis when I text, but I agree with Deppy here; visually this chat is very boring to look at. I wouldn't mind a little monkey emoji to spice it up.
+1 point for Phil talking about something from his past again. Why did no one want to kiss young Phil on the hill behind his school? smh (Of course, I say that, but if I had gone to his school and been in his year, I would not have because I wasn't interested in the idea of kissing anyone.)
The bit about choosing panties and every single panty shot are strong reminders of one or two of the reasons why I was glad to leave the world of the otaku behind, tbh.
Dan's valley girl voice is among my favorite things. (But then, my love for the valley girl voice is a long-lived guilty pleasure from childhood. I used to be quite good at it, actually. A guy friend I had in high school would have entire conversations with me speaking valley girl. It was bliss. ... And that's one reason why I was a weird kid.)
Did Phil just say "wear metal panties if you want"? Phil, you are taking me to strange mental places, and in this case I'm not sure how I feel about it.
If I'm remembering correctly, isn't there a custom in Japan that has to do with boys giving girls the top button of their blazer at, like, the end of the school year or something? Oh, wait, just checked--it's the second button from the top that boys give to girls as a way to confess their feelings. I wonder if that button in her shrine is the second from the top, and she somehow managed to steal it.
Phil: On the gums, of all the things you could have said.
Me: Same.
Apple part: Always for Phil reining Dan in, tbh. Thank you, Phil, for this important service.
The bit about senpai's mom and the potential cost of that bento box is tbh my kind of thought process in a nutshell. But I'm also wondering how in the hell 1) yandere girl got senpai's bento box in the first place (if I had something nice like that I would make sure it was somewhere secure before I'd walk away from it) and 2) how in the world she got his toothbrush. Did she break into his house? I mean, I personally would not be carting my toothbrush out and about with me. What levels of creep are we implying here?
Loved Dan's very vivid illustration of what likely happened with that can.
Dan: You can't climb into the bed, so this game is less creepy than Pokemon Moon and Sun where you can just climb into everybody's bed.
Phil: That's so weird. "I can still sniff the scent as if it was there."
---This is so true! For anybody not playing the game, there's a part where, if you're the type to investigate every single corner of the game like me, there's a room with two little kids (think they're little girls; it was a while ago, I can't remember for sure) who are very visibly younger than your character. Your character is 11, so these are young kids (probably preschool age, considering the preschool battlers you encounter have avatars about the same size. They've got bunk beds, and you can climb into the top one (like I did by accident) and your character will lay there for a moment and contemplate the scent of the sheets. Like, there are some dodgy moments with beds probably belonging to characters who are some questionable amount of years older than your character, if they aren't the same age, but that was the point where I sort of stopped and thought, 'This is really, really creepy.'
I love the bike segment. (Though I think this part makes it really obvious that the game's still a work in progress because of the uniform. The town is really creepy, being so empty. Is
everyone in school? Even the parents? There are no cars anywhere. It's just eerie.)
I'm amused at the "Longest wheelie" record at the bottom; I thought this game was all about the senpai and keeping the rival away from him, but I'm suddenly having some minor flashbacks to old school Tony Hawk skater games. (I loved those, and now I'm sad because we don't have any of them.)
Seriously, I love this bike segment. IMO, it's the best part. Love the riding right into the water, backing up the bike, this part while trying to get out of the yard--
Dan: You can't catch me, I'm the--*stopped by the little wall, twice*--oops.
--the bit with the stairs, crashing into the tree... Best part. If I watch this video again, it would be for the biking segment.
I love how the gaming club poster doesn't even get a place on the board. It's my favorite of the bunch, I think.
The blonde in the girl group is pinging some kind of gyaru radar in me, and I don't know why. I wish I could actually see her face to know if said gyaru-radar is correct.
(Another one of the things I've always loved about anime/manga is the wide variety of hair color and the crazy, impossible, wonderful hairstyles, especially on girls. I wish real life genetics involved melanin that wasn't in the spectrum of yellow/red/brown/black. Hair dye just doesn't match up when you know your roots are going to grow back in your natural color.)
Dan: I just wanted to tell you that behind this person's giant blue head, you look great.
Me: Same, but wrt the potential gyaru-girl.
Their derpy moment at 16:55. These are always such small, nothing moments in videos, but they're still cute and amusing every time.
Again, I'm going to reiterate how tedious I find the panty shots happening here.
Why are there so few students at this school?
Phil: What did you do???
Dan: We got our reputation back. Everything is
fine.
Me: Your priorities are amusing, but you left dead bodies right out in the hall and shut yourself in the scene of the crime with the knife still in your hand.
Me: Wyd dragging the bodies into the hall??? What purpose does that even serve??? It'll lead everyone right to you!
Teacher: Stop right now! *tackles kid*
Me: Wow. Bamf!teacher alert. Taking down a kid, who just killed a bunch of other kids two seconds ago, like it's nothing, no fear whatsoever. I would be shaking in my boots. Wowee. (Clearly she's an action hero in her spare time. I would watch the hell out of secret-action-hero!teacher simulator.)
Their faces immediately after being apprehended by bamf!teacher are amazing tbh.
Phil: I said we should find the mop.
Me: The teacher was right there; clearly you would not have had time to mop even if you'd had one.
"Okay, so if our initial plan was to be really nice to everybody, learn psychology, and impress senpai by being a lovely person, I think going to the occult club and picking up a ritual knife, stabbing ten people, and then getting tackled by a teacher, probably isn't the best way we would could have done that plan."
Why am I quoting this? I don't know. It's a good, concise summary of events, and for some reason I find that pleasing. Thank you, Dan.
he went there.)
I wrote that entire post, skimmed through it, posted it and logged out, and then came back ten minutes later and read it again, and realized this is confusing, and maybe offensive, phrasing.