Peter Grill
No, it's not a feminist fantasy for what to do with the leftovers from all the men they want to castrate. It's a half-length, explicit-ish Harem comedy that isn't terribly funny, and really badly censored (But there ARE uncensored feeds out there, not that I care.)
So the Aforementioned Peter Grill lives in a fantasy world full of all manner of humanoid critters, and he's just won the Ultimate Warrior Gladiator Fight that prove he's the bestest in the world. And he's all Ataru-like "Now I can get married!" His fiancee, the daughter of the human warrior guild leader (Who doesn't like him one bit) is naive to the extreme - She thinks babies come from a couple praying together and the stork drops off a kid.
There are plenty of OTHER women though who know exactly where babies come from, and a little something about genetics, and winning the Strongest Warrior in the World tournament has painted a gigantic bull's eye right around his wing-wang.
So unlike a lot of other Harem comedies, at least there's an explanation for why the haremettes all want the lead. And also unlike a lot of Harem comedies, they all get what they're after too. So if getting laid thanks to blackmail, magical priapism curses, main force, etc. is your kind of thing, I suppose you might like this.
But find an uncensored feed, because the white glowy shit all over the screen is NOT our hero's seed.
I was not interested in this when I first read the description. Boy has the hots for a teacher. Boy also gets dragged off from a meet-up by flat aspect shy girl who takes his virginity and wants nothing more to do with him afterwards. Surprise, they're sisters, and when their mom marries his dad, they're his sisters now too.
I was fully expecting a typical harem/incest fetish/lousy comedy where Hijinks Ensue.
That was not the case. It's played straight, and the characters are a lot more dramatic than I expected. After sampling the first episode, I watched the first three straight through.
Of course, there's still time for it to go horribly wrong, but I will definitely be finding out soon.
Gleipnir
The description text on AnimeChart didn't really catch my interest too much. I mean, a guy turns into a giant mascot suit? There's a REASON I ditched Furry Fandom when it stopped being about Art and Comics.
But people I follow on Twitter raved about it, and I finally started checking it out. I'm 3 episodes in and it is tremendously mind-fucky. It's much more about poisoned wishes that cost you everything you held dear, and what a monster you become as a result, and our hero is the victim of someone else's wish.
And the episode 3 cliffhanger was so jaw-dropping, I had to post before I watched the next episode, because DAMN!
(Now if I could find a translation that includes the OP and ED. Why are so many circles falling down on this these days?)
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Episode 4 resolves the cliffhanger in a reasonable way. They find the cause of all the weirdness, and he gives a purely honest explanation that really sucks the mystery out of it all and gives it a REALLY Shonen goal (Except this is emphatically NOT a shonen show.) Hopefully episode 5 improves.
Posted by: Mauser at May 05, 2020 06:21 PM (Ix1l6)
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And by episode 5, the Shonen plot reveals itself. Wander the woods collecting Power McGuffins, collecting allies and fighting depraved bad guys. They already showed the first Boss.
What a shame.
Posted by: Mauser at May 06, 2020 03:31 AM (Ix1l6)
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Got to the "End" and while they managed to dodge the shonen plot (Mostly) what they replaced it with was neither very clearly worked out (lots of stuff with erased memories partially coming back and erased again) nor particularly satisfying. Was it left open for a second season? I guess. But the result is very, very incomplete to me.
Posted by: Mauser at June 28, 2020 07:45 PM (Ix1l6)
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at July 12, 2020 07:52 AM (5iiQK)
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Plus Radio Comics managed to fall so far behind the bell curve that they were producing more expensive, lower quality comics with no circulation and doomed themselves to extinction, kinda like being two technological levels behind the bots in a world conquest game. And Elin insisted any criticisms I'd made in the past were only to destroy her.
Seriously, $4.99 black and white comics on Newsprint, you're gonna need a REALLY dedicated audience for that, but the material she was running in her anthologies was bottom tier, even for the fandom. She had one guy doing massive 12-pagers for every issue of Genus that made you wonder if the guy had ever actually SEEN a woman. But she kept running it like Kim Thompson with Gnuff because he produced that volume on a regular basis. As if meeting Schedule was the ONLY thing that kept comics on the market. I mean, if your editorial policy kills a Furry Erotic comic, That's pretty bad.
Plus Furries are Cheap. They'll pirate their favorites into extinction. Even Anime fans at least buy the merch or DVDs of things they torrented.
And thanks for the links.
Posted by: Mauser at July 12, 2020 05:38 PM (Ix1l6)
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Pixy! The comment editor ate my blank lines between paragraphs!
Posted by: Mauser at July 12, 2020 05:38 PM (Ix1l6)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 13, 2020 09:34 AM (LZ7Bg)
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Blew my mind, actually. For at least the first week it stayed around #3000 overall on Amazon Kindle. And it's been tapering down only slowly, it didn't even drop below #10k until the 26th. And that's with 3 4HU books being released this past month (every other week!). As a co-author, I can see a sales rank graph, but not the actual sales numbers the publisher sees (I can see THAT on Kiwi - it's sad).
First payment, 5% of the royalties (which is a really good split for an anthology with 15 authors!) is due in September.
Posted by: Mauser at June 14, 2020 02:44 AM (Ix1l6)
Going Pro
Now that the contracts are signed, I thought I would announce that I'm going to have a story (titled "First Steps") in the next Four Horsemen Universe Anthology, scheduled for May 1st, called "The Gates of Hell." I'll post links as soon as it's live.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at March 19, 2020 06:38 AM (5iiQK)
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Now that's recognition worth thousands of comments on blogs.
But now you're entering the combat arena.
This sort of reminds me about the scene from Eromanga-sensei, where Elf Yamada proclaims her superiority over Masamune on the basis of selling in hundreds of thousands (IIRC), while Masamune was only making tens of thousands. Her arrogance catches up with her very soon, when Muramasa appears, who sells by a million. There's a long stair to climb!
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at March 22, 2020 09:57 PM (LZ7Bg)
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Oh, I have LOTS of experience with low sales (See "Kiwi" over on the sidebar). But the 4HU is one of the top selling MilSF series, with over 50 books already. It's such a broad setting too that lots of fantastic authors can play in it without stepping on any toes.
Posted by: Mauser at March 23, 2020 09:10 PM (Ix1l6)
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Two weeks to go! And I've already had a chance to proofread the file. (I was only meant to do my part, but I read the whole thing.)
Now, a lot of these stores are continuations from the other anthologies. And some of the author's write side-stories from their mainline books. But it's a really broad and fun universe. I've read all of them anyway, so it's been really fun to stick my toe in that sandbox.
Posted by: Mauser at April 18, 2020 05:54 AM (Ix1l6)
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BTW, I made Kiwi free the weekend The Gates of Hell came out. People, probably bots, sucked up 54 copies, which is more than I sold in the last few years.
0 reviews have resulted so far.
Posted by: Mauser at May 10, 2020 05:17 PM (Ix1l6)
Ishuzoku Reviewers
AKA Interspecies Reviewers is Rude, Lewd, and Fucking Hilarious.
The premise is simple. There's a human adventurer and his elf buddy, and an angel they rescued who is stuck on earth until his halo heals. The human and the elf have an argument over their respective tastes in women. The Human comes out of the Elf brothel and his buddy is like "Eeew! She's 500 years old!" While the Elf hangs out with a 50 year old human woman - he loves them because they're all under 100. They turn to their buddies at the bar, a beast man and a halfling to settle the score, but it clarifies nothing.
And thus is born a quest, to try every single kind of girl in this fantasy world. And post reviews.
And they make bank on the reviews.
Sure, you've seen similar things with one page comics on the benefits and detriments of different kinds of Monster Girls. But the difference is, this is hilarious. Every episode I have to pause a couple of times because I'm laughing out loud.
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I found the first three episodes amusing, but how long can they "keep it up"?
-j
Posted by: J Greely at January 30, 2020 12:27 AM (ZlYZd)
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Various crashes have stopped me before finishing the second (Just how gigantic was that female demon politician?) but I hope to catch up this weekend. I haven't even gotten into the new Madoka series yet.
Posted by: Mauser at January 30, 2020 07:39 PM (Ix1l6)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at February 01, 2020 03:10 PM (LZ7Bg)
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Yeah, which is going to catch a lot of circles flatfooted with no place to crib the subtitles from. Even those with uncensored video have been using the censored subs.
Posted by: Mauser at February 01, 2020 10:23 PM (Ix1l6)
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Well, someone seems to have subs for episode 4, although I'm not getting any peers for it yet.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at February 02, 2020 12:05 PM (ZlYZd)
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I'll have to look. I was getting Anime Plaza, which had the uncensored video and Funi subs. I have having to change circles partway into a series, it messes up my filing system. (I only have about 1500 unwatched things... :-)
BTW, it's good to see that people DO read and comment. It was pretty dry there for a while.
Posted by: Mauser at February 02, 2020 07:39 PM (Ix1l6)
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Turns out my download problem was that my torrent client started inexplicably binding only to a useless IPv6 address, and not to the IPv4 address that I had forwarded through the firewall. Fixed that, and three minutes later I was watching the episode.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at February 02, 2020 10:19 PM (ZlYZd)
Now I'll be able to crash 10 times faster!
Amazon just delivered to me a 2 TB SSD. I'm of two minds on how to migrate. I have on old 2 TB hard drive that I used as a test, installing the OS clean on it to see if that would reduce crashing during WOWS battles (Mostly successful) or my main boot HD which naturally has all my stuff on it, but I guess has a dirty system.
Makes me wonder how I can cross the streams. But I know that things like the Registry, and file ownership will rear their ugly heads. (At least once I've had to take over a whole drive's worth of files.) Ah, the days of pre-OSX Macintosh, where you could change the system folder just by telling the machine which one to boot from, and you could drag and drop the OS anywhere....
And then I might even look at going Windows 10. Maybe.
And I think this post has pushed all of my comments off the front page.
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For now I've just cloned the 2 TB drive, since it has the cleaner windows install on it.
The last time I migrated files between OS installs though, I ran into issues where the account ownership wasn't the same, even with the same account name, and that required messy permission editing.
Posted by: Mauser at January 25, 2020 10:29 PM (Ix1l6)
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