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this is what i assume labubus are
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
i haven't been openly uma-pilled on here yet but look. come on.

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Ruri Rocks is the most informative "hobby anime" I've seen by a wide margin. It's either an academic or a huge minerology nerd writing this manga because I'm wowed by something every episode and sometimes get genuinely overwhelmed by some of the intricacies.

And I learned a new English word today.
September 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
A GAME THEORY
September 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Side note: Very found of the show's naming sense. Ruri and Nagi. Yoko and Shoko. and the episode's capstone reveal of Ruri and Shoko's names having essentially the same meaning. It's really cute.
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
And then Nagi is also mentoring Yoko at the same time, pushing her to answer the kids' questions more.

I continue to be impressed with this series' naturalistic characterization (even if Shoko's backstory is the generic "nobody understood me as a kid" formula that feels a little silly in contrast)
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I meant to reply to you when I finished Ep. 3, but I remembered at Ep. 7, which is pretty fitting considering it establishes Yoko and Shoko's own mentor-mentee relationship in its own way. Both share a similar demureness and bookishness and pick up on each other's fixations and insecurities.
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
So it mostly has to content itself with directorial subtleties.

The show tries so hard man. Sometimes it finds lasciviousness in hair falling just a slightly different way. Sometimes it just gives up and does straight up ass shots.

It's kind of glorious to watch.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
At the end of a day, you have a kid who's just now had her eyes opened to a world she never realized was there, and an young adult who wants to help foster and preserve that (literal) childlike wonder.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
All the while, she can't help her own nature in getting self-absorbed in her work, sometimes to the detriment of Ruri's interest. She's an imperfect mentor, but is learning in strides.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In understated ways Nagi expresses an deference to the unknowns of her environment, her legacy of her field of research, and the hard work of her colleagues - all values that in indirect ways she is trying to pass onto Ruri.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
... is to have them reach the conclusion themselves.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
And returning to an earlier point, when she tries several different ways of explaining to an petulant Ruri how she can tell the "gold" she found is pyrite, you can see her figuring out in real-time that the best way to mentor a kid...
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Maybe Ruri reminds Nagi of herself when she was younger.

It's all subtext, but you can tell that she feels some sense of endearment.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Once again, Nagi's thinking like a researcher - if you're going to do the job, do it thoroughly and carefully - while Ruri is thinking like an impulsive hobbyist, worried more about all the other gold hunters who might take this site if they leave. So she goes in, maybe a little bit recklessly.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Another example: later on they go gold panning to make up for the last expedition, they find this pothole that Nagi thinks may have collected a lot of placer gold.

While Nagi is thinking about whether she needs to go get more proper equipment for the job, Ruri's first instinct is to go right in.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
- no you didn't find gold, and it's not worth money
- but yes this is a valuable discovery anyways

And at the end Ruri still doesn't entirely get it. Because she cares about what's rare and shiny, while Nagi cares about what's new and exciting for her research.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Just based on the first two episodes, Ruri Rocks out of all shows is doing some astounding characterization work.

The premise at this point unfortunately doesn't give the show more to do than have Nagi expound about rocks to Ruri the whole runtime, but it manages to find true gold in that dynamic.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I *badly* need someone to remake this meme but with Kou and Anko
September 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
AFTER EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED ANKO STILL HAS NO FUCKING CHILL

woman of our time

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September 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
only putting this up to get around discord's file upload limit
August 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
this series has a lot of the kind of characters that you could just use for the scene they were created for and never return to them, and that would be fine -

but this season keeps bringing those characters back in, which makes me so unreasonably happy
August 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
tag yourself
August 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
oh there we go, gotta leave something for the normal fetishizers in the audience
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
i do fully subscribe to the "all artists are perverts" theory, and tbh Alien Nine's premise is 100% something I would write a version of in my own stories.

but uh, the OVAs are definitely throwing things at me that garners an
August 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM