[ SECRET POST #3130 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3130 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Will.i.am and Miriam Margoyles on the Graham Norton show]


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03.
[One Direction]


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04.
[George Takei, Bruce Lee]


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05.
[Tales From the Borderlands]


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06.
[The 100]


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07.
[Sense8]


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08.
[Genshiken Nidaime]


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09.
[Lawrence of Arabia]


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10.
[Doctor Zhivago]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 015 secrets from Secret Submission Post #447.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

08. http://i.imgur.com/Z8Lj2JJ.jpg
[Genshiken Nidaime]

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know this manga, some context please? I find this amusing but have no idea what's going on.

[dahli]

From the little I know, the harem protag is having feelings for his dude friend who cross-dresses.

Also, it's an harem manga.

[(Anonymous)]

A harem manga having the protagonist end up with a dude? That would be... the best way to end a harem manga.

[dahli]

Now that I think about it... yes, yes it would be awesome. I think there's "I'm the Main Character of a Harem Manga, but I'm Gay so Every Day is Hell for Me" out there, though.

[vethica]

Genshiken isn't a harem manga, unless Nidaime took a wildly different direction.

[dahli]

Ah, my bad, then. All I know is from what I've heard from /a/, plus all those harem manga where there's a cross-dresser who never scores.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, it's a slice of life about otaku college students, not an harem.

One of the plot points of the latest volumes is that there are four people who are interested in Madarame (the character in the secret), but it's not the main plot. And in any case, the focus of the story is Hato (the cross-dressing guy) and Madarame's feelings for each other. The other 'harem' girls are secondary characters. It's pretty awesome, it's the first time I read a non-BL manga about two guys falling for each other.

[(Anonymous)]

This actually sounds pretty interesting, I might have to look into it. Thanks!

[diet_poison]

You're the second person who wrote "an harem" so I have to ask - do people say "harem" with a silent H? Is it a regional thing?

[meadowphoenix]

Maybe it's like "historic"?

[diet_poison]

honestly I still do a double take when I hear people say "historic" without pronouncing the H (and it sounds really wrong)

[meadowphoenix]

It sounds like vernacular to me, like how some dialects drop the "h" or like a slurred word.

But that's not actually what I meant. I mean that "historic" with aspiration can have either an "a" or an "an" and be grammatically correct.

[diet_poison]

...really? o____O

why? what is the point of "an" if it is allowed to precede non-vowels?

[meadowphoenix]

...Well grammatical exceptions are a thing in every language, so I don't know what to tell you.

[dahli]

Oooh I see. Okay, I think I'm gonna add it to my 'to read' list and hope for the best. I gotta admit I got really bitter after No Bra's ending and Yahari is not helping with that bitterness.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not a harem manga.

It's a slice of life manga about otakus. There's a harem plot going on right now, tho it hasn't been that harem like.

[dahli]

I see. My bad, then. But like I said up there, I'm gonna add it to my reading list.

[(Anonymous)]

What the hell is wrong with that guy's face?

[(Anonymous)]

A horrible grilling accident.

[dahli]

I've been holding back from reading this because I don't want to be disappointed in the end. But dammit I do want THAT to happen because it would be adorable.

[(Anonymous)]

TBH I'm tired of those reactions, since pretty much most of Genshiken related discussion right now is just homophobic denial and some "this's problematic" in tumblr.

(Meanwhile I want to talk about Madarame and Hato's development and maybe squee about the last chapter because [SPOILERS] despite it was supposed to be about Angela, it ended with Madarame averting his gaze from her and ("coincidentally") looking at Hato's direction.

I'm still scared of getting my hopes up tho, but each new chapter seems like an additional proof that yes, they're going to get together sooner or later.)

[diet_poison]

As a person who reads very little manga, it took me a minute to remember that you're supposed to read from right to left. So I read this secret and I thought the guy was happy until someone gave him chocolates and was confused as to how that was supposed to be shippy.

[atelierlune]

I feel unmoored by a lot of Nidaime, but I really want Madarame to have happiness.

[(Anonymous)]

Congrats, you got me to Google this, and the relationship between them definitely isn't just confined to the one box of chocolates moment in these panels. Looks interesting.