Grrl Power #1092 – The fondest farewell
(whoops, I was up past midnight posting this, and my dumb ass still scheduled it for “the next day” AKA Friday.)
I think some of you were looking forward to Sydney’s meandering speech, and maybe it’s a missed opportunity, but she got nervous standing up there staring out into a mostly black audience and suddenly felt like an evil oil company that had come in and fucked up a bunch of African real estate, so it went something like, “Um, well… Maxima had already fought that guy to a standstill once so he was seriously dangerous and I just enacted the first solution I came up with that wouldn’t directly incur additional loss of life and I just realized the national language here is Portuguese but everyone’s been speaking in English and now I’m wondering if that’s some new initiative and oh look! Is that catering! I declare food! Time to eat!” // leaps off stage.
Succubi don’t really use the word “romantic” a lot. They understand love, which is important as they know most species conflate sex and love, and of course they understand seduction. They just don’t ascribe “romance” to when a succubus and her master are slamming one out behind the nearest collapsed building. But Parfait’s evidently watched a fair bit of anime, and while the emotional complexity of most anime kind of tops out at about a 9th grade level, the themes are there. (While I used to be a huge fan of anime and still theoretically enjoy quite a bit of it, I’ve come to the conclusion that 90% of anime contains only two emotions – whispering and screaming – so I don’t seek out any anime that contains any kind of drama. Comedy is fine, as is action as long as it doesn’t try and take itself too seriously.)
Parfait is also young and naive and pumped full of a steady diet of Earth pop-culture and fresh out of succubus finishing school. Older succubi might scoff at the term “romantic” and see it only as something to be used as a tool in the arsenal, but they’re not all that cynical.
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The new one should be up… maybe today? Tomorrow at the latest. Nude version is done, I just need to get at least one clothed version done. I’m sorry for the repeated delay and I couldn’t tell you why it took me so long. Well, there’s a bonus comic like I do sometime and that was basically a full comic page even though it’s only flat colors, and the drapes took a lot longer than I thought they would but still. To mollify you temporarily, here’s a double-sized version of that final panel from the previous page.
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For Anime that is something different, try “Parallel World Pharmacy” or “Banished from the Heros Party, I decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Country”. I also liked “Witch Craft Works” for the way it played with some of the tropes.I think “Maoyu” is worth watching for the way it twists the demon lord battle.
You want a serious and mature anime? Grave of the Fireflies. I wouldn’t call it a fun watch, but boy is it great for shutting down the people who think anime is all magical girls and tentacle sex.
Berserk and battle angel alita are classucs that i would recommend to anyone at any time.
For Parfait next trick she will perform the classic succubus magic trick of reaching in deep and pulling out a rabbit.
Funniest isekai i can think of rn is konosuba.
Alternate title for this page: “Fondled farewells”
If you want an anime that is more than just whispering and screaming, try Violet Evergarden.
Where did Parfait’s collar go? She lost it since page #1058…
maybe it fell into her cleavage of holding?
Yeah, a lot of anime does the ‘power fantasy’ thing and runs it into the ground. Not that books don’t run it into the ground just as well, I can’t keep myself interested in things that advertise romance/harem aspects as a central point.
If you are looking for something different in anime, while short (only one season so far), I can recommend.
In the Land of Leadale.
It is an Isekai, but with a twist *I won’t spoil the big twists*, but the premise is this girl dies while hooked up to the game (she was on life support and the power went out), and wakes up in the game; but it is 200 years after the game ended, and she is now her Elf avatar…and the NPCs she made remember her and think of her as their mother…including having memories of her from before she played the game *mystery not explained yet* (as in memories of being raised by her), She was basically an Admin/Mod in the game as she could do little else but play this VR game.
So yes she is OP, however she has no desire to save the world, or go on adventures, she actually just wants to live a quiet life out in the country.
There is another with a similar theme, but in my overly long rotation of anime only seen the first episode so far (Been Killling Slimes for 300 years and maxed out my level)…first episode this girl is an immortal with and just hanged out around this one town helping people and as an everyday exercise killing a few slimes…so…she is only just realizing how powerful she has become and people and other things want to challenge her as word gets around.
But like I said only watched the first episode of that so far, but can fully recommend In the Land of Leadale.
*Actually it inspired me to think over having my own adventurer Rhulan who is now insanely OP settle down and just live life in one spot, but her children are off having their own adventures and dragging her into their messes and drama on occassion.*
Her modness is a bit more complicated. The part where she can hand out penalties comes from her finishing the quest to break the level limit, which includes a character test. The handing out of skill scrolls and the tower comes from naturally learning all skills.
uhg, there is only one thing in the universe worse than sweaty boob cash. And it ain’t cat puke in your shoe…You don’t wanna know. I was told and I didn’t want to know and I ain’t tellin’ ya what it is.