Hime-sama Goumon no Jikan desu Episode 7

Goumon means torture, right? That's my vocabulary lesson this season. But they very advisedly have it in scare quotes in the title. Really, with all the food and other treats, it should be Temptation instead.

This time the Beast Master brought some kitties. But they're insidious! The princess is kneeling on the floor with a cat on her lap, and her legs fall asleep, but she dare not move, it might wake up the cat!

But the rest of the episode is an outing, to go to the Demon Lord's Daughter's pre-school Field Day. How utterly wholesome!

And the Demon Lord's wife isn't so hard on the eyes either.

Posted by: J Greely at February 21, 2024 06:04 AM (oJgNG)

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It is possible to edit an audio track in Shotcut. The place where it gets tricky is getting it back out again. It is not in the export submenu. If you dig, there's a Audio properties panel that has a menu button on the bottom of it that will let you save the audio clip. But if you accidentally close the panel, it can be hard to get back.

Maybe it would be simpler just to reinstall Audacity.

(The Use Case: Using MediaHuman's YouTube to MP3 downloader on a music video, and trimming off the intro, and useless stuff off the end like three year old concert announcements.)

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I've actually been really good this season at keeping up with everything I are watching, so on the weekend, I get some progress on the back catalog. In this case I finished off Yuusha, Yamemasu or, "I'm quitting heroing". What started off as the hero, shunned by the humanity he saved, going over to the demon army to offer his services took a very different turn as it finally came out that he was a living bioweapon 3000 years old, with an indelible program to protect humanity, but then a feeling of purposelessness when he brought peace. He knew from observing Echidna when he defeated her invasion, and from working for her in disguise, that the Demon Queen was actually a good ruler and could make peace between the demon and human worlds. So his power core ("Philosopher's stone") would be in good hands and used to uplift the demon world once he forced her and her generals to kill him. Otherwise he might find himself compelled to nearly destroy the world just to imperil it again so he could follow his program to save it.

So yikes, he's got a suicide plan, but he can't just do it himself. Of course, he's made such good friends of them all, they can't really do it until he really forces their hands. And just when they have him laid out after a two episode battle, they come up with a disgustingly facile solution to his order, and everything is good again.

Then I discovered I only had the first half of the OVA, but I found the other half, which just has the main cast go to a haunted onsen resort.

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So the fifth installment of Molesting Magical Girls has dropped, and it's mostly background on the blondes on each side. But not before they unleash some of Frieren's "Potion that dissolves only clothing" on Tres Magia, which has the excellent side effect of leaving them glued to the wall. But then they do NOTHING to them! How can you win for the side of Evil that way?

As the girls get cleaned up from their latest humiliation, they flash back on when Buttercup, I mean, Sulfur joined the group. Magenta and Azure were already a duo when the new transfer student comes in, and Magenta becomes her annoyingly persistent New Best Friend(TM) whether she wants it or not (and she doesn't). After school, while on patrol, the two detect evil, and go flying to the rescue, only to discover Sulfur is one of those newfangled Self-Rescuing Damsels, and is beating in the skull of the monster with a broken cinder block. (Why don't we see any of these gimp goons any more?) Magenta makes her pitch and Sulfur isn't really interested, but apparently revealing her secret identity clinches the deal.

It's a lot harder to do the backstory of a character who never talks. So that's short, and it then picks up in the present day where Magenta is playing with kids far younger than her in the playground. Like the base predator she is, Magenta then tries to break the ice with the kid all the other kids say only plays alone with her dolls. Pulling out a little keychain doll, she eventually engages NeroAlice in some roleplaying (Which again, is pretty hard to do with a mute character). Well, when you have the power of the Evil Dollhouse, Roleplaying takes on a new dimension. Magenta leaves, Alice fires up the dollhouse, and Magenta, detecting evil, returns to the playground. She's confident that she can avoid being trapped by just not going into the dollhouse, but the appearance of a giant shredded teddy bear with scythe-like claws (clearly on loan from Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka) behind her puts that plan out of commission.

She awakens alone in a crib transformed into a baby, and Alice comes in as her mom. The illusion is complete and compelling and it takes Magenta quite a while to remember herself. And yet, when she breaks free, she somehow convinces herself (now back in her teenaged form) to continue playing the baby for NeroAlice. That's the WTF filling in what has already been a pretty big WTF pie. Alice feeds her from a bottle until she needs to pee, and changes her diaper. Infantilism is NOT one of my fetishes, but it seems that there's a checklist requirement in any ecchi production that a girl must be made to pee at an unwanted time. When the session ends, and Alice disappears through the gateway, Magenta is left in the playground, sans-pantalones, JUST as Azure and Sulfur show up.

So not a top episode, but a partially necessary one. The first half anyway.

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'Tis Time for Torture, Princess may be as dumb as any 4-Koma joke strip, but it IS turning out to be funny.

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Oh no, he's posting about the Hugo awards again.... (Link to my wordpress blog)

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I've noticed that I haven't had to reboot my cable modem since I moved it. Actually, I think it's been behaving pretty well since New Year's. Anyway, that's a vast improvement over having it drop to 12 Mbps every day and a half or so. It's been maintaining a nice, stable 230 Mbps every time I've checked.

Still slowly rearranging stuff in my Living Room/Office, but working off the new desk is a lot more pleasant than the old setup. Alas, there's no place for the DVD shelf that I built way back in my Vancouver, WA apartment days ('92-'96). It's held up well, but there's no wall space left. But there is a narrow bookcase that can nearly accommodate all of its contents. And if I rearrange stuff on the wall of bookcases I have between the Living room and Dining room, I could manage it without double-stacking.

Desk 3 and the coffee table are still covered with random junk, and three old Macs and a beige PC case occupy the center of the room, but the fireplace is exposed. I bought a pair of plastic 3-drawer storage units that fit nicely under the desk, but I haven't put anything in them because I can't decide what goes where yet. That's the same kind of organizational paralysis I have that explains the dozen empty comics shortboxes in the storage room and the huge stacks of comics in the den that have been that way for years.

I also bought a BD drive for Purah. Haven't put it in yet. It will be interesting to see if it works with MPC-HC natively or not. Also got a Bluetooth Playstation controller. Interestingly, the button assignments are different if it's plugged in to the USB cable. It came with no software but Windows apparently has drivers built in. But there's nothing that lets me assign keys to the buttons, so compatibility with games I currently play is iffy.

Posted by: Mauser at January 27, 2024 12:16 AM (nk1Z+)

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Hime-sama "Goumon" no Jikan desu - 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess

Food Porn anime is a genre unto itself. And frankly, it's not one I'm particularly interested in. It heeds to have something else going on for me to even think about it. Food Porn in the middle of a Tournament arc? Hard Pass. This one's slightly different, where the warrior princess and her talking sword are captured by the demons, and their captor, the Hellhorde's Grand Inquisitor, Torture Tortura tempts her with delicious food. It's a thin joke, and they run through it three times in the first episode with Toast, of all things, Takoyaki, and Ramen. Although they do promise something else in the preview.

This:

There's something about a demoness in semi-business attire. (I'm rather fond of Helltaker fan art too). And she certainly seems to enjoy her work.

Posted by: Mauser at January 17, 2024 06:55 PM (nk1Z+)

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Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari - (lit. Wedding Ring Story, but romanized as "Tales of Wedding Rings" Note the plural.)

It starts off like a bog-standard Isekai, the kind nobody actually makes any more. Young Satou is chasing stag beetles in the woods when an unearthly beam of light appears, and out steps a pretty blonde girl and her wizardly grandfather. She asks his name, and introduces herself as Nokana Hime (and according to the localizers, says "You can call me Hime", which he does.) Then she advises him to never speak of this event and says he'd be better off forgetting it ever happened.

Ten years later they're inseparable, all his classmates think she's his girlfriend, and she happens to live alone in the apartment next to his (While his parental supervision is also conveniently absent, but they haven't done anything.) She's also developed into quite the Gyaru, and I do mean developed.... It's the last day before summer break, and she asks him to meet up to go to the festival. They play games, eat food, and find a nice secluded spot to watch the fireworks, and he thinks that she's taking this time to confess to him, and she turns to him, and says...

"I've decided to move. Tomorrow."

As he drops her off at her door, he still can't quite manage to blurt out his confession as she keeps rambling, trying to let him off easy, then she dashes inside.

Alone in his room, he finally recalls when they first met. Looking out his window, he can see the beam of light off in the distance in the woods, and runs to intercept her. She is surprised he actually remembers where she came from, and admits "Moving away" was a lie, that she's from a different world, and that as a princess, she's going to get married. It's the third time she's tried to let him off easy, and he's just too thick.... After she goes though the beam, he thinks for a moment about how he doesn't have to think about it, and dashes through the beam as well, and appears in the middle of the wedding.

Although apparently he isn't the only wedding crasher. A huge demonic beast smashes through the window, clearly intent on killing Hime. Only hovering in place long enough for some important exposition to take place. The two rings Hime has been wearing on a chain around her neck the entire time are The Ring of Light, and the guy whom she marries bears the power. And at the last second, rather than completing her vows with the prince she was scheduled to marry, she runs up to Satou, plants a big kiss on him, and they are enveloped in light, and are now wearing the rings. The prince accepts this well enough to toss his sword to Satou, since he's the one who has to fight the demon now. Satou, who doesn't know which end of the sword to grab luckily catches it by the hilt, and it suddenly transforms into a bright, flaming sword, which slices the demon in half with one swing. Satou passes out then.

This is followed by awkward scenes in the royal bedchamber when he wakes up, and the bath, during which he manages to say the wrong thing several times. Fortunately he is saved by the Alarm Bell as more monsters attack.

If it weren't for the opening credits, you'd never know this wasn't a straightforward story where the guy goes to another world, saves the kingdom and gets the girl. But this shot right here tells you exactly what's going to happen.

Dark-skinned, white-haired, catgirl warrior. Yeah, you sussed it out. That's why I'm planning to watch this sucker. Hey, at least he makes honest women of them all... see the rings?

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