Cyrus Draegur

Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader. Friendly neighborhood shameless degenerate. Winged caniform synthetic biped techno-lich. Mostly Harmless™. Poly-Panro-Demi It/They/He

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023
  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
    toAnime@ani.social•Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern • Brave Bang Bravern! - Episode 10 discussionEnglish
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    4 months ago

    ULTRA INSTINCTCAMP! ABSOLUTE TERRITORYABSURDITY! INFINITE POWERWAIT NO DEFINITELY POWER!

    Bravern RADIATES enough deep fried corniness, cheesiness, and ham to feed a midwestern american state fairground for seven consecutive years per episode.

    I love every second of it.

    Especially how the other characters are just barely self-aware enough to be internally (and sometimes externally) screaming WHAT THE FUCK, like they’re experiencing a persistent fever dream, bad trip, or mass-hypnosis.

    It’s nearly my favorite part when Bravern looks DIRECTLY into the camera, yells BANG BRAVERY, and BRAVERN ZUBASHES EVERYTHING and how that literally happens almost every episode.

    My ultimate favorite part, though, is in episode 5, when:

    spoiler

    Isami tells Smith, in the MIDDLE of an impromptu boxing match, “Our enemies don’t make a damn bit of sense. The only way to beat them is with something that makes even less sense, and that’s Bravern.”

    THAT LINE GOES HARD
    …
    it is implied that several things are going hard in that scene though XD
    and that’s goddamn beautiful.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
    toAnime@ani.social•Sasaki to Pii-chan • Sasaki and Peeps - Episode 11 discussionEnglish
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    4 months ago

    One thing about Sasaki-san is that a defining part of his identity as a person consists of his traditional roots: he is humble, diligent, and loyal. He is loyal to his nation, Japan, and the Bureau is serving that nation. It is an extension of his homeland’s will, and he respects the service it performs for Japan. Their goal is, as stated, the regulation of psionic paranormal phenomena. Events have demonstrated the necessity of this mission. It is solely through his calm, rational professionalism that several potential conflicts have been de-escalated. Sasaki-san is the essential ideal agent of such an organization, at least in terms of his ethics and interpersonal skills. Everyone benefits from cooperation and he generates cooperation like it’s his actual superpower. I admire it quite a bit!

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
    toAnime@lemmy.ml•“The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat” Season 2 AnnouncedEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Oh shit yeah that’s right! Myne didn’t even have super advanced physics knowledge but she’s still upending her world XD and she had to figure it out herself from scratch, only based upon trial and error and the drive to keep pushing no matter how many times she fails! She REALLY digs deep into the nitty gritty about figuring things out, too - no convenient shortcuts!

    I was always just a teeny tiny bit sad that she didn’t happen to have known, at the time, the basics of how soap works. Her shampoo, I can’t imagine it can do a particularly great job of cleaning without at least a trace amount of a alkaline solvent of some kind (usually we use lye) which is where “soapiness” comes from.

    Soap is molecules that are electrostatically polar on one end (like water is) with a non polar chain (a lipid tail that is hydrophobic) on the other, so it sticks to grime AND water at the same time, allowing the water to pull the grime away (whereas the grime otherwise repels water)

    One doesn’t have to know the chemistry of saponification to understand that if you mix a strong alkaline with an oil, it makes soap. And… like … she has a wood stove right there. Wood ash is where humanity historically used to get our lye.

    But no, I LOVE Bookworm, it’s STILL a lovely story and I will keep following it, of course!