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Ok, so I have watched a decent amount of romance Anime, but Haimiya is the first romance manga I have read without an anime adaptation ( I have also read one Manwha without an anime ).
Judging by the sales this manga has, I would guess it’s all but guaranteed it will get an adaptation with time and once there is enough content for it. ( IK it will probably still be a few years until then I’m not impatient ).

What I was wondering was what the chances are of getting a good studio for said adaptation, such as electric circus (blue box) or Cloverworks (MDUD, TFFTBWD). IK a lot of romance manga struggle to get high quality adaptations, or adaptations that adapt the entire source material, however Haimiya sells really well, and is probably the best selling romance right now behind TFFTBWD ( since Blue Box just ended ) from what I have seen on some charts, though I might have missed some.

So yeah any answers will be greatly appreciated!

P.S. I honestly don’t care if we don’t get a great studio or anything, I would be plenty happy with just an adaptation I general so, just wondering lol

Ok, I feel like I should know the answer to this as someone who loves 86, but honestly I'm not sure.

I know that in the LNs it's "Reina" because it sounds like "Lena", but they changed it to "Regina" in the anime. Is this BECAUSE it sounds too similar to Lena that it would be difficult to distinguish? Because I feel like that's kinda the point of the name lol.

My 2 Hot takes personally:
Death Note OP 2 (What's Up People?) > OP 1 (the WORLD)
AOT OP 4 (Red Swan) is the worst AOT opening.

ICL I feel like i know quite a lot about comp val, and have been watching for a few years now, but realised i somehow didn't know the answer to this lol. Maybe it's a dumb question, or it's team specific but i wasn't sure so ty for any answers.

Anime only - I'm a little confused as when she introduces herself, she says "mere saints" which would imply she is at least a king, however she fights equally with Nina and Eris, who are both Saints, granted pretty high level Saints. So is she like a low level King then?

I'm sure this post has been done a thousand times over and my takes probably aren't going to be revolutionary but I wanted to share them anyway.
Spoilers obviously:

Itsuki - Not much to really talk about TBH, I think it's cool that Fuutaro was actually able to form and start a completely platonic bond with her though, instead of just having all 5 fight over him.

Ichika - She dug her own grave, I liked her at the start but once she started to play dirty, even as far as the bath with Nino it went downhill. I REALLY hate when people do things like she did in romance stories, which is probably a common take but it really irked me unfortunately. At least she ( kinda ) made up for it.

Yotsuba - I think she is a pretty solid character, and the foreshadowing/reveals were pretty cool overall. I think my issue with her being the winner is that we aren't really given much of a bond between her and Fuutaro throughout the story, apart from at the very very beginning. It felt to me like the author wanted to make a really big surprise of who the winner is, that he left her out to dry for most of the story, so it doesn't really feel as satisfactory as it could have been. We are only ever able to infer that she likes Fuutaro, it wasn't even confirmed until quite close to the end which is unfortunate. I would have liked her a lot more if she just had some more time to brew.

Miku - Probably my 2nd pick for winner, she was my favourite as a person/character, and I think whilst her character development was pretty straightforward and not that deep, it still felt rewarding, and it made us feel very connected to her. It's a lot easier to feel connected to a quiet but nice and kind person. She also did the least wrong apart from Yotsuba too.

Nino - I think she would have been the best winner. Whilst I like Miku a bit more, I found her dynamic with Fuutaro to be a lot better. Their personalities are the best match out of the 5 IMO. Idk what a lot of other people think in this community, but I have a strong feeling people kind of ignore Fuutaro when picking who they want to win, which is fine if you just want your favourite, but I just think the chemistry between the 2 was the best, and by a decent margin as well. She's not perfect but her development is really solid, and a bit more complex that some of the others as well.

Overall I think Miku and Nino benefit from having a lot more interactions with Fuutaro on screen, and if Yotsuba had more time then I would have less qualms about her winning. But I think this goes both ways, we don't see many hints of, if any at all of Fuutaro liking Yotsuba, whereas we do see him blush/have reactions when he interacts with Nino for example. Ichika is pretty irredeemable despite having such a strong start which is just unfortunate.

Anyways Raiha is the best character in the series.

Please share your thoughts too!

Honestly this might be pretty obvious considering the nature of the writing in this story, but I honestly just thought that there is a very good chance it's a coincidence as well. I don't really remember when but I heard the 2 words pretty close together in a sentence at some point and couldn't help but notice how similar they sound in japanese.

I have admittedly a very long watchlist right now, but I would love if you could recommend me some anime that are based around the events of a war, either the impact of it with heavy references, or set during one, I have noticed that a lot of my favourite anime all have this as a common theme so if there any others that would be great.
The war-based anime i have seen are:
86
Vinland Saga
Violet Evergarden
Bleach TYBW ( kinda ig )
Sentenced to Be a Hero

I'm not really looking specifically for an action heavy anime, though if it is one, then that's fine. The most important aspect for me would be how good the writing is, I would prefer that it has some strong writing

This song is so good, and I don't think I have seen even a single soul talk about it before, so I wanted to make this post to hopefully get some other people to appreciate it too!

Hi not sure if this type of post is allowed in the sub after checking all the rules, so if its not, mods please just remove, though it would be helpful if you could point me in the right direction because I have struggled to find any other subs that this sort of post would fit in 😄

This will contain spoilers for the entire manga of Blue Box, as well as the manga for Ramparts of Ice so don't read unless you have finished them, or don't mind being spoiled.

I want to start this off by saying that this will NOT be ALL negative in the slightest.

I just finished catching up to the Blue Box manga after I watched season 1 of the anime a few days ago, and I don't think I have ever been quite as torn on a manga as much as this, almost to the point that I struggle to come up with a good score to give it. In my personal opinion, Blue Box had the potential to be one of the best romance manga out there, I found it super refreshing how it's able to blend in the romance with the sports. The sports part of the manga was the first sports I have personally encountered in any manga/anime so going in, I wasn't sure how I would feel about it, but I came out realising that is was very fun and compelling, though I don't have anything to compare to, so I have no ideas how it measures up to other sports manga in that sense. Another thing that I found Blue Box to really excel at was the way it managed to craft and develop all of it's characters, most of the characters feel very human and natural, and each one has very interesting motivations behind how they act, and are fleshed out really well. Some of the characters even go through some very admirable character development in addition to this. I don't want to go into too much detail as I'm not really a reviewer and this is just a short rant anyway.

But this brings me to why I said it had so much potential, but obviously didn't reach that ( at least for me personally ) and that's the love triangle and the drama around all of that storyline, both with Hina and Ayame later on in the manga too. I know that love triangles are pretty much universally hated anyway, but I don't want this to come off of as me just complaining about it, because I do think that love triangles can have potential to come off as good story telling, but for me in Blue Box it just wasn't good. The original love triangle that happens with Hina, Taiki and Chinatsu is much worse than the one later on in the manga. The reason I feel this way has many reasons, one of them being that Hina felt like a very fun character in the story, and it was very refreshing to have a completely platonic relationship between a male and female character in a romance manga. Taiki and Hina's relationship early in the manga was very fun to read and it was all kind of just thrown out of the window for something we knew wasn't going to go anywhere in the end anyway. Maybe because I already knew going in who the main couple was that I felt this way, but even then, it starts out with Taiki telling us that he likes Chinatsu, and we are shown that this will probably never change. Another reason I hated it so much was because it relied so heavy on plot contrivances to push forward the idea of the triangle, and cause potential drama, whilst also being very predictable in the way it does it. For example, characters overhearing conversations, or seeing other people at misleading times, this can be ok one or two times, but it happens SO often in this story that it just didn't feel at all realistic, which is one of the things I liked about Blue Box, how real it felt compared to many other romance manga. The worst of this for me was when Taiki was roped into playing the prince in the play. I could see this happening from a mile away, even before Taiki had the crystal ball conversation with Nishida, it felt so predictable, and there was no real reason for it to even happen in the first place, it only happened to cause drama, which admittedly didn't have as bad of an outcome as I was expecting it to. The last reason that I have for hating this love triangle is that it ruins a lot of character moments ( at least for me ) with Hina, especially later on in the manga. In the first love triangle arc with Hina, not once did she overstep anyone's boundaries, she was only ever honest and didn't, to my memory, try to meddle with Taiki's relationship with Chinatsu for the worse. This is a good thing, and pretty rare for a love triangle as far as I know, but this is then all ruined, as well as all of Hina's character development when she decides to kiss Taiki. I quite liked Hina as a character even though I always thought the story went the correct direction with Chinatsu, but this singular moment made me lose a lot of respect for her, and I think is by far the worst decision in the entire story. Whilst her motivations make sense, it doesn't feel in character for her to go through with that, no matter the circumstances, ESPECIALLY as she knows Taiki and Chinatsu are in a relationship, and as I mentioned before, it just ruins most of, if not all of her development. It also makes some moments just not hit quite the same as i feel like they should do, for example in chapter 224 where Taiki talks about how he has 2 great best friends. This happens BEFORE he is able to have a proper conversation with Hina about what she did, and honestly feels weird, even if we know Taiki will probably forgive her ( which in my opinion he shouldn't but that's not part of this discussion ).

As fore the love triangle that involves Ayame, Kyo and Takasago, in my opinion this was handled much better overall. The reason I say this is because it actually felt meaningful for the character development for Kyo, but even more so Ayame. I don't think I need to explain what the character development with her actually is but it meant that the triangle didn't feel too forced, and there was a reason behind it existing. It also did not rely on any of the contrivances I mentioned earlier, it only served as a way to push Ayame and Kyo's stories forward. The problem is that it still doesn't feel quite right, and the main reason for that, in my opinion, is that it's the second love triangle in the story. The former hurts the latter, even if in a vacuum the latter is a pretty solid depiction of a love triangle, and that's a shame. This love triangle reminded me a lot of the one that happens in The Ramparts of Ice between Minato, Koyuki and Momoka. That one being my favourite love triangle depiction I have seen, and it shares all of the similar story beats, such as developing Minato as a character, giving him the final push to realise what is truly right for him, in the same way it does for Ayame.

This all feels really disappointing because for me Blue Box is a VERY good manga when you have no love triangle problems happening. The relationship between Taiki and Chinatsu is one of the highlights of the story for me and makes it a very good romance, I just can't help but imagine how much better it would have been if it just focused on them and the other characters without relying on unnecessary drama. As I mentioned before the characters are all very strong, and much more developed than you would expect from a romance, and its combined with the sports aspect of the story almost seamlessly which is very impressive. I still really enjoyed the manga overall, and I will be keeping up with it weekly now until it finishes, I just really needed to get this off of my chest to be honest.

I would really appreciate if other people could share their opinions with me as well as I'm all for a discussion, whether you agree or disagree. Also I appreciate if you actually read this, I only really made this to get a load off of myself after catching up with it 😃. To the Blue Box fans, I really do understand why you love this manga so much, and I don't hate it at all either trust me.