Snowflake Challenge #5

[coyoteclaw11]

Challenge #5

In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love.

How about a few things I saw in the last year or so that I'd highly recommend?


The Gifted is a Thai series about students with special powers and an unjust school. The story, the characters, and the production quality is just... really amazing, especially considering this is a show that's free to watch on the production company's Youtube. Actually, GMMTV does quite a few good shows, but this one's by far my favorite. Seriously though, it's only 13 episodes, and the whole show had me at the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen next and just what the school administration was hiding. The first few episodes are extra cool because they focus on each character and their powers, and it's almost like each episode follows a different genre perfectly suiting the character it's focused on!


Okay I'm like a couple decades late on this one, but if you haven't seen Natsume Yuujinchou, you absolutely should. It's about a guy who can see supernatural spirits/monsters. His grandmother had collected a book of spirits names, which gives the holder power over them, and Natsume is trying to return these spirits' names to them. More than that, though, it's about the relationships and connections between people. It's just a really soft, wholesome anime.


Fire Emblem is a strategic rpg series in which you control an army on a gridded map with turn-based combat. In Three Houses, you play as Byleth, a mercenary turned professor. This game is somewhat like if a visual novel and chess decided to have a baby. Instead of chess pieces, you get a cast a lovable characters whose relationships with each other and Byleth grow as they fight together, unlocking conversations between the characters. You can play as either male or female Byleth, and the "bi" in Byleth isn't just for show. They each have a number of options for same-gender relationships. There's a lot of replayability in that the house you choose not only decides which characters you interact with, but also the the events that occur later in the game. It's a really good game, and I highly recommend it.

Comments

[sjh2009]

I've never really got involved in anime, I think at the beginning I got the impression that it was all comics, and that's something I associated with kids. But - and this is one of the wonderful things about Snowflake - reading entries like yours which actually explains about the fandom and the things you like about it, makes me want to explore for myself.

I've never got involved in rpg either, but I think that's because I never let myself because I thought it would take up too much of my time. That sounds like fun though!

Thank you for sharing!

[coyoteclaw11]

One of the things I really like about anime is that it's not all made for children (or a weird, raunchy adult show with ugly animation), like cartoons are here. I like animation a lot, so it's really nice having something that can be mature but still nice to look at.

I'll have to concede that you're not wrong about rpgs being a time sink, haha. Thankfully, for me, it's something I enjoy putting my time towards!

[sjh2009]

That's where I've gone wrong, I always associate comics with children. In the U.K. Children have comics, whereas adults have magazines, so I've always associated anime with children because of that.

There's a whole new world to explore, lol!

[bay_alexison]

I've heard great things about Natsume Yuujinchou and looks like such a cute anime. I'll have to put that in my to watch list.

Hey, fellow FE3H player! LOL love your if a visual and chess have a baby description there. Yeah the characters are great and I even began writing fanfics for it mid last year!

(Also saw another post mentioning you want to do the other routes besides Blue Lions. I did all the routes but I want to do BL again eventually lol)

[coyoteclaw11]

Blue Lions is just so good!!! It's not so much that the other routes aren't, but I've found it pretty difficult to replay the academy half of the game when so much of it is exactly the same :,o

I'd like to play f!Byleth and romance Dimitri if I do blue lions again, though. I'm forever salty they didn't just go ahead and make all the house leaders bi instead of just Edelgard and my dumb ass ended up romancing Hubert instead... and then saved over my crimson rose game!!! aaaaaaa I also have to replay crimson rose since Nintendo decided to add Jeritza after I'd already beat it... gdi.

[bay_alexison]

Ah yeah playing the academy phase of the game does get somewhat repetitive. For me I was able to keep things somewhat fresh as I got myself the DLC after I finished my first playthrough. I got to do all the DLC stuff including trying out the Ashen Wolves and their prologues.

I romanced Dimitri on my first BL playthrough and it was great haha. Yeah it would've been nice if he and Claude were also bi. And oh no saving over your Crimson Flower playthrough. I actually have one friend who romanced Hubert on her first playthrough haha (I romanced Dorothea on my CF playthrough).