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If you've even remotely heard of sneakers or sneaker culture you'd have heard of MainStreet Marketplace and their absolutely amazing reputation of never delivering anything on time and sometimes not delivering anything at all. Check all of their youtube videos, instagram posts, all the comments are just abuses by customers. Raised funding, burnt funding, hundreds of not thousands of orders paid for still pending.

now they probably got money again to start another company making sneakers called Built.

This along with all the dropshipped beauty brands, electronics and consumer goods are what indian consumers pay for, indian VC's fund and then eventually implode because they never built a product or a business they rode a hype train to an exit.

Ecosystem is littered with this shit. More founders need to be called out in their bullshit and their lack of ethics.

Also a massive fuck you, if you are a founder doing unethical shit, you make everything harder for everyone else.

Best Rakugo Performances so far, in my honest opinion so far. Since Kaisei's performance ended.

1. Maikeru's Shinuchi Exam

2. Akane's God of Death

3. Akane's Shiwaiya

4.Shomei's Shiwaiya

5.Shiguma's God of Death

Honourable Mentions: Karashi's False Classic, Koguma's Giboshi, Hikaru's Idol Ghost Story, Urara's Fetching tea

Honestly it's great that the newer performances are so high up honestly, it only means good things for us fans to be very honest.

Put in your top 5 or argue wtv

Explanation:

1 & 2 is a toss up to be honest, Maikeru's was such a plot twist and actually was intensely emotional but Akane's God of Death is an absolutely insane performance, personally I felt like it was farrr better than Kaisei's, like Kaisei's story did hit but not nearly as hard as Akane's. From the crowd reaction to the god of death being creepy as hell, it's possible on the next read I push it above Maikeru's performance. Akane's Shiwaiya actually felt pleasant and peaceful and sure extra spotlight because MC but regardless it was still funny and pleasant. Shomei's Shiwaiya was hilarious and the contrast between him and his Rakugo style probably made it even funnier and Shiguma's God of death the first time we saw the god of death performed and it was intense, but honestly I wanna see Shiguma perform again.

I and a lot of people have pondered what exactly is the third story in Shiguma's Art.

I have a theory which is worth consideration. I've long speculated that the third story is either Tokisoba or a story we haven't heard before.

Here is the argument why it is Tokisoba. All three stories in Shiguma's Art, are mentioned prominently long before they are performed. Shibahama, was the first chapter. Shinigami is mentioned as Shiguma's speciality long before he performs it. Tokisoba was in Isho's flashback.

Moreover if you google or even check the most famous Rakugo Stories in books, five come up repeatedly. Jugemu (a zenza story), Manju (zenza again), Shinigami, Shibahama, Tokisoba. It seems logical that the most recognized stories are given a central role to play in the manga.

I also think they represent three fundamental charecteristics of life: Death, Love & Time.

What do you think?

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Has anyone pitched to or interacted with Boundless VC run by Natasha Malpani. Website looks promising, thesis looks promising but looks can be deceiving has anyone Interacted or better pitched, what was your experience liked. Appreciate anything