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[SquatchHammer]

Now I am on the Library Girl arc and something made me feel different. Not like overall personal difference but a specific difference.

I understand the whole wifu thing and what kind of character attributes that are someone's personal favorites but what I am feeling is not like that.

Little miss librarian girl is my kind of cute, tiny soft spoken but extremely intelligent while being imaginative, there's something else I can't put my finger on. At first, I thought it was sexual attraction but there's nothing that matched it. I know there is some sympathy for her inability to speak with people and to be honest with her opinion to others but it's not that since I know that aspect.

It's almost love but I highly doubt that. A good writer does make characters that seem like real people but it's not the same as dealing with real people.

I don't know, it's not freaking me out but it is disturbing that I feel something that I can't identify.

[Frumple]

Different people cry from different things.

They totally do, but I usually spot the likelihood to some degree, far as I've noticed. It's entirely possible it's just been long enough I don't remember the material well, or that the anime tugs different strings, s'just as far as I remember the manga it didn't present on that dimension much or at all. More absurdity/humor, iirc, with most unfortunate bits of the situations downplayed or played off. Ain't  nothing wrong with it or anythin', just a bit of a surprise to me.

[Reelya]

Now I am on the Library Girl arc and something made me feel different. Not like overall personal difference but a specific difference.

I understand the whole wifu thing and what kind of character attributes that are someone's personal favorites but what I am feeling is not like that.

Little miss librarian girl is my kind of cute, tiny soft spoken but extremely intelligent while being imaginative, there's something else I can't put my finger on. At first, I thought it was sexual attraction but there's nothing that matched it. I know there is some sympathy for her inability to speak with people and to be honest with her opinion to others but it's not that since I know that aspect.

It's almost love but I highly doubt that. A good writer does make characters that seem like real people but it's not the same as dealing with real people.

I don't know, it's not freaking me out but it is disturbing that I feel something that I can't identify.

This sounds a lot like the Japanese concept of moe. Actually, I'm pretty certain that if you described this to a Japanese otaku, they'd just say "oh, you've got moe" (pronounced moh-eh).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_(slang)

Moe used in slang refers to feelings of affection, adoration, devotion, and excitement felt towards characters that appear in manga, anime, video games, and other media. Characters that elicit feelings of moe are called "moe characters." The word has also evolved to be used regarding all kinds of topics. Included in the meaning of the word is the idea that "deep feelings felt towards a particular subject" is used in cases where a simple "like" is not enough to express the feeling. The common feature in all feelings of moe is that the subject of such feelings is something that one cannot possibly have a real relationship with, like a fictional character, a pop idol, or an inorganic substance. It can be considered a kind of "pseudo-romance," but it is not always seen to be the same as "romance."

[SquatchHammer]

Now I am on the Library Girl arc and something made me feel different. Not like overall personal difference but a specific difference.

I understand the whole wifu thing and what kind of character attributes that are someone's personal favorites but what I am feeling is not like that.

Little miss librarian girl is my kind of cute, tiny soft spoken but extremely intelligent while being imaginative, there's something else I can't put my finger on. At first, I thought it was sexual attraction but there's nothing that matched it. I know there is some sympathy for her inability to speak with people and to be honest with her opinion to others but it's not that since I know that aspect.

It's almost love but I highly doubt that. A good writer does make characters that seem like real people but it's not the same as dealing with real people.

I don't know, it's not freaking me out but it is disturbing that I feel something that I can't identify.

This sounds a lot like the Japanese concept of moe. Actually, I'm pretty certain that if you described this to a Japanese otaku, they'd just say "oh, you've got moe" (pronounced moh-eh).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_(slang)

Moe used in slang refers to feelings of affection, adoration, devotion, and excitement felt towards characters that appear in manga, anime, video games, and other media. Characters that elicit feelings of moe are called "moe characters." The word has also evolved to be used regarding all kinds of topics. Included in the meaning of the word is the idea that "deep feelings felt towards a particular subject" is used in cases where a simple "like" is not enough to express the feeling. The common feature in all feelings of moe is that the subject of such feelings is something that one cannot possibly have a real relationship with, like a fictional character, a pop idol, or an inorganic substance. It can be considered a kind of "pseudo-romance," but it is not always seen to be the same as "romance."

Ok, I thought I was just going a little crazy there, nah this is perfectly WHAT IN THE NANI FUCK IS GOING ON?!?! I have romantic feelings for a anime character. Ok now I know I'm crazy. I didnt know that was physically possible?!

[TamerVirus]

You have obtained a waifu

[Sirus]

Moe is a powerful force.

[Karnewarrior]

It's not because of the MC that's doing it but for the girls that have the issues that surround them gets me wet.

Even though it seems like MC doesn't like to admit it, he does ever so slightly fall for the girls that he has to target for the souls.

girls that have the issues that surround them gets me wet.

[SquatchHammer]

Dammit, the one time I wasn't trying for sexual innuendo. Also dammit, the first time I fell for someone in less than 30 mins is only angry pixies on my phone. I'm a hopeless romantic.

[SquatchHammer]

Well, I am watching an anime right now called Konakon. There's a scene where one of the characters used the quote "If there's no bread, then eat cake." for a reference in where the main girl had lost her bust to be completely flat and the MC is trying to help it grow back again. Found out what the other girl meant by cake and well.... let just say that's the first time I heard that way of talking about that....

Dont get me wrong, it is a cute anime but that completely threw me even though main love interest has more thirst than Nasa scientists going after Mars.

[Reelya]

You mean Kanokon? That's one of the perviest animes. Wait for the "swimsuit" episode.

EDIT: i was trying to think of something in this vein that's recommendable. To Love Ru is probably the best one overall.

Also another one that doesn't get much mention:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/22865/Rokujouma_no_Shinryakusha

A guy moves into a tatami room, and there's a ghost girl in there. Then, a princess from a subterranean civilization burrows through the floor. Also, an alien girl invades the flat. And a magical-girl turns up and starts living in his closet.

[SquatchHammer]

If you want pervy, I found one that I am waiting to see the home release version called Why the Hell are you doing here, Teacher?!

[Reelya]

Yeah I did see a little of that, that one's censored to hell and back. But it's not the most perviest thing, they censored nipples through clothing and panty shots. It's the censorship itself that makes it seem more risque than it really is. I mean: one of the censored shots was nipples through a shirt and sweater. That's low-level. It's not even in the ballpark of perviest TV anime. The censorship is so in your face that what they're really selling is that the final version is watchable, and they dribbled out a late-night TV version which had slightly less of the censorship, but still censored fully clothed shots. This is a deliberate marketing trick. What's under the censor logos? Nothing you haven't seen done on TV already.

You gotta set the bar somewhere, so I'd say Highschool DxD is the standard for "very pervy" (by TV standards) and anything over that is the "extremely pervy" stuff. Highschool DxD had exposed breasts right from the start of the intro credits, and did that on the original broadcast, no censorship at all. It redefined what they could get away with. There was an arms-race after that to push the envelope further, however I think that's dropped off now: there are only really a handful of pure ecchi shows that have survived and had multiple seasons, and being too lewd can turn off potential viewers.

[SquatchHammer]

I was watching a series called Recently, My Sister is Unusual and at first I thought it would be a cute little anime but noooooo.... that little angel is one horny celestial. Jesus Christ, she is the worst I've seen so far.

One of the moments that I nearly woke everyone up at my place is the seventh episode. They did the male version of the naked apron moment and something else I dont want to spoil but it was so out of left field I had to laugh into my pillows for a good fifteen minutes.

[Reelya]

Yup, I did have that one in mind. I binged a bunch of bad animes recently and that was one them. Along with Mayoi Neko Overrun, "I Don't Like You at All, Big Brother!!" and "My Sister is Among them". Out of these and that "sister is unusual" one, "My Sister is Among Them" is actually by far the best show. And for that one, the synopsis is that a rich heir has to find a wife at an elite school, but one of them might be his sister, so he's worried he might accidentally bang his sister. And ... it's still the best show of these four by far, which probably says more about the other shows than that one.

I started watching Ranpo Kitan - Game of Laplace and it's a weird experience. It's one of those "wrongly arrested as a serial killer" kind of things except in this one I couldn't care one bit if the hero gets stitched up for the murders. He's an emotionless creep who hasn't batted an eyelid at the "Ed Gein's house of horrors" type of stuff. He's the sort of guy who'd calmly go "oh look, he made your mother's head into a lamp. how interesting". And when he got arrested he just thought that was interesting too, rather than freaking out, since he likes mysteries and "games". I'm not sure if the character is meant to be a complete sociopath or if it's just bad writing / voice acting, but either way i couldn't give a shit if he goes down for the murders he didn't commit. He's a creepy fuck who couldn't care less about the murder victims, just thinks their horrific deaths are interesting, so if he totally ended up in prison I'd just think that was interesting too.

[pikachu17]

I'm not sure if the character is meant to be a complete sociopath or if it's just bad writing / voice acting, but either way i couldn't give a shit if he goes down for the murders he didn't commit.

You don't care that the actual murderer gets away?  I mean, just being creepy isn't a crime anyway.