Oh dear -- I just looked it up because I didn't want to talk completely out of my ass and I just learned it originated on 4chan as a bit of a derogatory term. Somehow the racist overtones never really sunk in, I'd just heard it once or twice to refer to written Japanese and thought it sounded funny.

Forgive me for being close to "that guy" but since I'm learning moon runes I thought I'd offer a rough translation. （°々°）More an opportunity for me to practice so take it for all the pennies it's worth.

I think translated literally it would be "where are you looking?", and assuming that's the case, a more natural translation would probably be "What are you looking at?"

No shame to the art on display but I cannot with all these V-tuber premiers and """graduations""" and avatar changes. Is this another Gura skin or something?

Actually deeply appreciate giving the character and origin in the post -- Idolmatster is WELL outside my knowledge base and would not have known otherwise who tf it is (let's ignore the part where I could follow the source link and see the tags). <3

I know I've heard a lot of people complain about manga and novel titles and heard hearsay that the current trend was driven by a platform which didn't have any sort of tagging system (thus necessitating putting a breakdown of the story in the title itself), but I'm curious how much of this is driven by the same problems we're having with Western media titles -- namely, now that we're in a media production golden age, a lot of the simpler, snappier titles have already been taken by litigious, soulless bastards (a good example is the video game Prey).

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Copy/pasting someone else's scores both because I have trouble doing this exact thing and because the Venn diagram of my tastes to the average anime fan has nearly no overlap^‡^, hopefully it helps.

Ancient Magus Bride: 1/1/1. Can be enjoyed by people that don’t even know what anime is, barely any sexual content to speak of, extremely high production values.

Konosuba: 6/7/2. Requires a moderate amount of knowledge of anime tropes, specifically the isekai genre and JRPG tropes it’s lampooning. Contains an above average amount of sexual content, though it is not the focus and is generally reserved for comedy rather than genuine fanservice. Generally high production values and is very enjoyable.

Non Non Biyori: 3/0/2. Requires a surface-level knowledge of Japanese culture, but nothing too deep. Contains absolutely no sexual content whatsoever and could be shown to your grandma. High production values for a “girls doing things” show.

^‡^as a for instance, I practically loathe Konosuba and yet here it's rated at a 2 on the shit scale

How many c's do have to tag on for that front from behind?

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I've really liked the weeb-ass-shit scale for cases like this ever since I learned about it.

Three 1-10 scores:

• Weeb: the amount of familiarity one needs of Japanese culture or anime tropes
• Ass: the amount of T&A/panty shots/comedic groping/etc.
• Shit: an inverse quality scale

That, I feel, is entirely subjective. Like, Lain might experiment with the medium and not be good for a kid, I imagine an adult with a love of sci-fi or niche films might find it much more tasty than a typical battle shounen.

I don't know any associated lore w/ Blue Archive so I don't know if her grip strength is like, part of an in-joke here. For me, the only alternative is genAI involvement which, IMO, isn't impossible but it doesn't seem to have anything else that jumps out at me as genAI-made. I do see what you mean, tho.

I'm not up on the lingo enough to fully understand what you mean, but as long as you like it... <3